Posts Tagged ‘mental health caregivers’
(Ep 22) Mental Health in The Family: Author Marin Sardy Shares Insights
World Mental Health Day is on October 10. Every year, this day raises awareness of mental health issues, and this year, in particular, the theme of “Make mental health for all a global priority” couldn’t be more on point. Mental health in the family and mental health as a society is suffering more than ever.…
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Your Mental Health Matters: Stop Pretending You’re Fine
As caregiver to my mom and sister, both of whom were diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, I got good at pretending I was fine. From the outside looking in, I played the role of someone who had it all together. On the rare occasion when somebody would ask me, “Are you okay?” or “What’s the matter?”…
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I’m with Crazy: A Love Story (Ep 16) Dealing with grief: Self-care and living your own life
I don’t know about you, but something’s been feeling a bit “off” for a while. From Thanksgiving until New Year’s, the holiday spirit has eluded me; hence, why no Christmas episode. A call that came to me out of the blue made me realize what was going on with me. I’ve been burning the candle…
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I’m with Crazy: A Love Story (Ep 15) Thanksgiving: Celebrating Dysfunctional Families with Friends
This episode of my podcast is so fitting for Thanksgiving week. My crazy soul sister Sylvia, one of my dearest firends, shares her story of having grown up in a dysfunctional family, surrounded by madness, and the syncronicities and commonalitles and plain old divine intervention that has come into play throughout her life. This really…
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I’m with Crazy: A Love Story (Ep 14) Mental Illness Awareness Week: Resilience, Strength & Self-Care
I am so thrilled at this episode airing during Mental Illness Awareness Week. Long-time friend Patty and I met serendipitously, before we realized just how much madness we shared in common. Both of us grew up with moms who were diagnosed with a mental illness. Both of us tried to do our best as siblings…
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I’m with Crazy: A Love Story (Ep13) Interview with My Therapist Shattering Stigmas, Sharing Secrets
What a gift to be able to sit with my long-time therapist (and life saver) Lynn and ask her question I always wanted to know. All of what she said is gold. Here’s just a bit of what you’ll hear: “You know, what’s amazing to me is this is the first time I’ve ever had…
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I’m with Crazy: A Love Story (Ep12) The Power of Place – Rockhaven Sanitarium and Wonder Women
Today’s podcast is with “Wonder Woman” Joanna Westerholm Linkchorst. Joanna is the spirit behind the effort toward saving Rockhaven Sanitarium. Rockhaven is a place that was built in 1923 by a woman RN named Agnes Richards who found a better way to care for women with mild mental & nervous issues. Joanna, as founding member…
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I’m with Crazy: A Love Story (Ep5) The Gift of Change
I wonder, how often do we set expectations of others, of experiences, of ourselves? How many times do we romanticize scenarios, places, people, our histories? How many times do we suffer because we’re wishing that things were different? We’re not accepting what is, especially when there’s nothing that you can do to change what is.…
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I’m with Crazy: A Love Story (Ep4) Death of A Sibling: An Unexpected “It”
My baby sister, her life was pretty much a struggle since birth. She was hospitalized with pneumonia at the age of two. She was pretty much learning disabled, although we really didn’t know it though. In those days, it wasn’t like an official label. She was just ‘slow.’ She was bullied all throughout school and…
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I’m with Crazy: A Love Story (Ep3) New Year’s Revelations: Losing & Finding Your Way
New Year’s seems to always be about “resolutions”: This episode of “I’m with Crazy: A Love Story” shares some revelations instead. It’s about a year of realigning my internal compass, and no longer pointing it outward. Rather it’s redirected to within. I tell the story of my Papà – my human GPS – losing his…
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