Mental Health News Radio

Join Dr. John Huber of Mainsteam Mental Health and Kristin Sunanta Walker of Mental Health News Radio with host Ryan McCormick of Outer Limits of Inner Truth podcast to discuss what our closest friendships tell us about our own mental health. They also discuss which summer jobs are good or bad for your mental well-being. This is our weekly short show on what's going in the news that affects mental health!www.mhnrnetwork.com

Immigration in the world. Immigration in the United States (a country created by immigrants). It's in the news and the news is not good. Join Dr. John Huber of Mainsteam Mental Health and Kristin Sunanta Walker as they discuss the impact this can have on children, their parents, our society. This is our weekly short show on what's going in the news that affects mental health!www.mhnrnetwork.com

Jed Baker, Ph.D. is the director of the Social Skills Training Project, a private organization serving individuals with autism and social communication problems. He is on the professional advisory board of Autism Today, ASPEN, ANSWER, YAI, the Kelberman Center and several other autism organizations. In addition, he writes, lectures, and provides training internationally on the topic of social skills training and managing challenging behaviors. He is an award winning author of five books, including Social Skills Training for Children and Adolescents with Aspergers Syndrome and Social Communication Problems; Preparing for Life: The Complete Handbook for the Transition to Adulthood for Those with Autism and Aspergers Syndrome; The Social Skills Picture Book; The Social Skills Picture Book for High School and Beyond; and No More Meltdowns: Positive Strategies for Managing and Preventing Out-of-Control Behavior. His work has also been featured on ABC World News, Nightline, the CBS Early Show, and the Discovery Hea

Andy Grant - what to say about www.theandygrant.com - work with him. Every journey with him is unique to the person that signs up to travel that particular road. Join him and our host Kristin Sunanta Walker as they talk about energy, Akashic readings, The Good Men Project, early childhood trauma, depression - and more. Yes more!Andy Grant(noun) 1. transformational energy coach. 2. founder of Real Men Feel. 3. best-selling author.  4. Akashic Records reader.See also: husband, world traveler, actor, speaker, teacher, lifelong learner and suicide prevention activist. Andy believes in living a life you love and creates books, workshops, and programs supporting that. Contact Andy at andy@TheAndyGrant.com

Join Melanie Vann and lead consultant and psychotherapist Rahim Thawer as they talk about authenticity and acceptance in the LBGTQ+ community. Rahim will be presenting at the In My Mind Conference in New York hosted by DBGM. Rahim brings a nuanced cultural perspective and an interest in issues around intersectionality to his clinical and organizational practice. His work experience has encompassed program coordination, community engagement, resource development, mental health consultation, post-secondary teaching and psychotherapy.www.affectiveconsult.ca

Whew! What a show this one was with Dr. Edward "Ned" Hallowell and our host, Kristin Sunanta Walker. Even our editors were inspired after listening to this one! When Dr. Hallowell was eleven, a voice out of nowhere told him he should become a psychiatrist. A mental health professional of the time would have called this psychosis. But he took it in stride, despite not quite knowing what “psychiatrist” meant. With a psychotic father, alcoholic mother, abusive stepfather, and two so-called learning disabilities of his own, Ned was accustomed to unpredictable behavior from those around him, and to a mind he felt he couldn’t always control. The voice turned out to be right.Because I Come from a Crazy Family, tells the often strange story of a childhood marked by what he calls the “WASP triad” of alcoholism, mental illness, and politeness, and explores the wild wish, surging beneath his incredible ambition, that he could have saved his own family of drunk, crazy, and well-intentioned eccentrics, and himself.www.drh

Stephanie Holmes joins us again but this time to discuss a controversial topic but one that she helps many people with on a daily basis. Understanding the crucial differences when it comes to a personality disorder as opposed to Autism Spectrum Disorder is one of her specialties. Stephanie is a board Certified Christian Counselor and Certified Autism Specialist.She believes counseling begins with the an understanding that we are physiological, psychological, and spiritual persons. Because of this belief, Christian principles are blended with compatible psychological techniques and theories in order to promote psychological, relational, and spiritual growth through counseling. Counseling is a process that promotes positive change, but the overall decision to change and apply various techniques is the sole choice and responsibility of the counselee.  I provide counseling services for individuals, couples, and families.Read her excellent article on the subject here.www.counselorstephanieholmes.com

Zachary Phillips is an Australian born writer, podcaster, vlogger, school teacher, mental health advocate, motivational speaker and martial artist. He uses these platforms to promote mental health awareness, personal development and self-discovery.Coming from a troubled past, he began writing as a form of therapy. After finding that sharing his story helped others to move on and heal, he decided to release his first book "Under The Influence - Reclaiming My Childhood" to the public. It provides a personal and brutally honest account of the destructive dynamic that a drug affected and mentally ill father can have on his child.His second book "How To Get Your Sh!t Together" is a synthesis of all of the different tips, tricks, systems, habits and ideas that he uses to overcome anxiety, defeat depression, move on from trauma, get organised, find meaning and follow dreams."I hope that my work will help to reduce the stigma around mental illness and provide some guidance to those facing similar circumstances."www.z

Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, Ed.D., Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been treating clients for more than 35 years. He is the Chief Medical Officer of Soundmindz.org a popular mental health site. He is also a member of the American Psychological Association and the Massachusetts Psycho-logical Association. Currently in private practice, Dr. Ciaramicoli has been on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for several years, lecturer for the American Cancer Society, Chief Psychologist at Metrowest Medical Center, and director of the Metrowest Counseling Center and of the Alternative Medicine division of Metrowest Wellness Center in Framingham, Massachusetts. In addition to treating patients, Dr. Ciaramicoli has lectured at Harvard Health Services, Boston College Counseling Center, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore as well as being a consultant to several major corporations in the Boston area. Dr. Ciaramicoli is the author of The Stress Solution: How Using Empathy and Cognitive Behaviora

Ninety percent of women and young girls say they do not feel represented in the fashion industry or in media, and that the imagery they consume on a daily basis makes them feel “disgusting” and “less than”. The exciting new documentary Straight/Curve examines the industries and obstacles responsible for this body image crisis and showcases the dynamic leaders fighting for more diversity of size, race and age. Straight/Curve:Redefining Body Image is available to rent or buy NOW in the US from this link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/straight-curve-redefining-body-image/id1327611767. Go to http://www.straightcurvefilm.com to find a link to get the film. We have also created a Conversations & Activities Kit, available to download FREE from our website, so you can have the sometimes tricky conversations about body image in the safety of your own home with your kids/sisters/friends/coworkers. The Kit comes with discussion questions and fun activities for all ages.Jenny McQuaile (Director/Producer) joins us

Marc D. Feldman, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Adjunct Professor of Psychology, the University of Alabama (UA), Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, he is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in the professional literature. Dr. Feldman is an international expert in factitious disorder, Munchausen syndrome, Munchausen by proxy, and malingering, and his credits include five books including Dying to be Ill.www.munchausen.comAndrea Avigal is a recovered Munchausen syndrome patient and one of the authors of Secrets Unraveled: Overcoming Munchausen Syndrome. Why would anyone deliberately try to create illness or injury? That’s the startling subject of the extraordinary new book, Secrets Unraveled: Overcoming Munchausen Syndrome, co-written by a psychologist and his remarkable patient. Munchausen Syndrome, or Factitious Disorder, is a rare and intriguing condition where the person repeatedly and secretively tries to create illness or injury

You live and learn, often from nefarious people. Join Stephen Kavalkovich of Rescue the Rescuer and Kristin Walker as they discuss the widely downloaded YouTube video about people with evil intent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl1-hi43QT0&feature=youtu.be1. They mislead you - lying, mixing untruths with truth in order to confuse.2. Victimhood - they could be sitting in prison for lying to authorities or worse, far worse but somehow their life choices become your fault.3. They are not sorry - Not for you. Only for themselves and that they got caught.4. They love controlling people - Lying takes a tremendous amount of effort and is used to control information to best serve their needs. Sociopaths want a roof over their head, food to eat, and place to hide from bills such as child support, and a ton of praise by willing and unwilling partners as well as the public.5. Always denying things - Gaslighting and word salad. You'll notice that people go to war for them in defense. This chaos is created on purpos

Pavel Reppo - Founder & CEO of Mindfullwe is a social entrepreneur. He has a thirst for travel. He is in recovery from OCD and believes in the power of community care in offering poignant mental health services. He is happy to share that mindfullwe's story started from a single email to global mental health guru, Vikram Patel. Mindfullwe offers people living with mental illness a range of simple to complex treatments in a step by step fashion upon the severity of the illness. We train ordinary people to support patients via an approach called task sharing. We collaborate with primary health care workers and receive oversight and supervision from mental health specialists..www.mindfullwe.org

Thomas H. Dahlborg is an Industry Voice for Relationship Centered and Compassionate Care AND Servant and Relationship Centered Leadership. An author, consultant and advisor, he is also a nationally recognized speaker, partner and collaborator. He is passionate about changing the healthcare system to a healthCARING system. Tom has more than 28 years of extensive leadership experience building relationship centered, patient-and-family focused, empathetic, compassionate care models; analyzing and meeting patient and family expectations; optimizing strategic partnerships, ventures and teams; innovating leadership, and bending the cost curve. Through the Dahlborg Healthcare Leadership Group, Tom is currently addressing health disparities and improving health equity by collaborating with the Daniel Hanley Center for Health Leadership to ensure the voice of patients and families are successfully incorporated into these improvement efforts. Also in collaboration with the Daniel Hanley Center for Health Leadership, To

Rhoberta Shaler, PhD, The Relationship Help Doctor, offers urgent and ongoing care for couples and companies globally. he Sis an expert on Hijackals® – people who hijack relationships and then relentlessly scavenge them for power, status and control.Kaizen For Couples™: Smart Steps to Save, Sustain & Strengthen Your Relationship, her tenth book, is the summary of a lifetime of insights developed from working with real people confronting the real life challenges of living and loving together. It offers workable solutions to twenty-first century relationship issues and a new proven model for living the loving relationship you most want. Her latest book, Escaping the Hijackal Trap, was published in 2016 and her next book, Stop Tolerating Abuse: Speak up, Stand Strongwill be out later in 2018.Her weekly radio show on BBSRadio – The Relationship Help Show – focuses on Handling Hijackal® Havoc – in depth discussions and interviews to help you manage with relentlessly difficult people with  whom you may be in re

With 25 years post-graduate training and advanced level certifications, Wendy Behary is the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and The New Jersey Institute for Schema Therapy.She has been treating clients, training professionals and supervising psychotherapists for more than 20 years. She is also on the faculty of the Cognitive Therapy Center and Schema Therapy Institute of New York, where she has trained and worked with Dr. Jeffrey Young since 1989. Wendy is a founding fellow (and supervisor) of The Academy of Cognitive Therapy (Dr. Aaron T. Beck). She was also the President of the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST) from 2010-2014.Wendy Behary has co-authored several chapters and articles on Schema Therapy and Cognitive Therapy. She is the author of “Disarming the Narcissist…Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed” (New Harbinger Publications—2008 & 2013). Now translated in 10 languages. Wendy has a specialty in treating narcissists and the people who liv

After 23 years in high stress executive roles Tracy Martino decided it was time to expand her career, to discover her truth, and understand her purpose. This process took 8 years as she researched NeuroLeadership, Neuroeconomics, Heart Intelligence, communication and human performance. Her discoveries inspired me to create her program, Executive Returns. Tracy has been motivating and leading groups for 26 years on subjects of leadership, success, personal growth and communication.She is on a mission to combine the Leadership Industry with Neuroscience to help individuals and organizations create behavioral changes that will increase trust, engagement, and transform performance.She is a member of the NeuroLeadership Institute, National Association of Professional Women and local chamber groups.  Recently, my expertise resulted in membership to the National Association of Experts, Writers, and Speakers and an opportunity to co-author, “Cracking the Code to Success,” with Brian Tracy.https://tracymartino.com

Join Dennis Ortman, PhD with host Kristin Walker as they discuss his book Depression Anonymous: The Big Book on Depression Addiction.Modeled on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, this book serves as a guide to help those look at depression differently. Viewing your anger as an addiction, Dr. Dennis Ortman guides you through the time-tested Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous to find healing and growth. He shows how the Steps offer practical wisdom to use the natural energy of your anger wisely and well. The Steps provide guidance for your personal journey through your hostile moods so that you can discover your true self and release the Power within you.Dennis Ortman, Ph.D., has been a clinical psychologist in private practice in the Detroit Metropolitan area for nearly 25 years, specializing in treating those with addictions. Before becoming a psychologist, he was a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Detroit for 14 years. He received a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Detroit-Me

Winnie M. Li is a writer, producer, and activist.  And frequent backpacker who has somehow managed to spend the past 15 years, engaged in film and literature in various parts of the world. Taiwanese-American and raised in New Jersey, Winnie studied Folklore and Mythology at Harvard, specializing in Celtic Languages and Literature.  In 2000, she was selected as a George Mitchell Scholar and earned her MA in Anglo-Irish Literature at the National University of Ireland, Cork. While in Cork, Winnie began volunteering for the Cork International Film Festival.  Shortly afterwards, she moved to London to work for Ugly Duckling Films / Left Turn Films, a small independent film production company.  Eventually as Head of Development there, Winnie was involved in producing six award-winning feature films and two shorts, one of which was Oscar-nominated® and the other Oscar-shortlisted®.  In 2010, Winnie began working with the Doha Film Institute (DFI) in Qatar, where she served as Programme Manager for the 2nd and 3rd e

A lot has been happening this week. More public figures are have died by suicide which lets everyone realize that it does not matter what is in your bank account, how much wordly influence you have, or how successful your life is according to certain standards. Join our three hosts for a conversation around the language and understanding of suicidal ideation, as well as, depression. Three different perspectives. Three different life experiences. Some of the three have attempted, contemplated, or never thought of suicide. Sit down with host Stephen Kavalkovich of Rescue the Rescuer, Melanie Vann of Memoirs of Madness, and Kristin Sunanta Walker of Mental Health News Radio for this last minute show.