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There's lots about life to react to. How in today's world can we create a safe space and feel safe? How can we live life and make things okay? Logic doesn't always help us FEEL better. When we feel better, then we feel safe.
 
In this episode, I openly share a moment of when feeling "a fear of the unknown" and process by showing listeners how to stay present and be self-reliant, process, and move through to arrive to a safe space and feel safe.
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"When we have secure attachment we're more resilient." ~ Dr. Meg Van Deusen
In Episode 42, we welcome licensed clinical psychologist, author, and mindfulness practitioner Dr. Meg Van Deusen where she discusses the importance of building secure attachment in turbulent times, how secure attachment is a foundation for resilience, and how from mindfulness compassion and non-judgement are the basis for secure attachment.
"Secure attachment says 'everything is going to be okay' and 'we are there for ourselves no matter what',"
~ Dr. Meg Van Deusen
Dr. Van Deusen's book, Stressed in the U.S. : 12 Tools to Tackle Anxiety, Loneliness, Tech-Addiction and More, looks at how current cultural stressors have increased our stress levels, changed our stress levels, and weakened our resilience to stress. Dr. Van Deusen shares that "every minute provides an opportunity to change your life in some positive way."
To learn more about Dr. Van Deusen's work, book, connect with her at:
Web: MegVanDeusen.com
Book: Stressed in the U.S.
Twitter: @DrVanDeusen
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"You don't know what words are going to change someone's life." ~ Jesse Zook Mann
In Episode 41 of PTSD and Beyond, we interview guest Jesse Zook Mann. Jesse is an Emmy-Award winning TV producer and the host of the Mental Radio Podcast which is Educating patients about all of the ways to heal from, recover from, and thrive with mental illness.


 "Everyone can make progress." ~Jesse Zook Mann
We hope you enjoy this episode and that you find words that create a space for the possibility for recovery.
For more information about Jesse Zook Mann and his work, connect with him at:
Podcast: Mental Radio
Web: https://mentalhealthmedia.org/
Twitter: @ZookMann
Insta: ZookMann
 

"Reconnect, it is there. Reconnect with who we are." Dr. Glenn Doyle
 
Licensed psychologist and author, Dr. Glenn Doyle's interest in self-help started as a youngster. Picking up books to learn ways to help yourself led him to the awareness that each book was was a seed written by a "paperback mentor." Those seeds were planted in the brain; encouraging him to to find answers. 
What did he find? What were the lifelong discoveries that prompted Dr. Doyle's well know quote, "building better live better lives, day by day, in the real world.?"
In this episode, Dr. Doyle shares his encouraging discoveries about self-help and ways to help ourselves and reconnect with ourselves.
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To learn more about Dr. Glenn Doyle, contact him:
Web: www.realisticlifechange.com
Twitter: @DrDoyleSays
Book: Wish I'd Known That
 

What do we do when we're knocked down? How does pausing, creating space, reflecting, and reigniting our spirit act as the set-up to the comeback?
The final episode of a 4-part series covering Dr. Jim Afremow's work - The Champion's Mind and The Champion's Comeback, Mark Gruesbeck, M.A. and I dive deeper into the comeback.
We share snippets of comments from others in their feelings that part of the comeback is the return to coming home.
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How do we face our storms?
How do we face and overcome the war within ourselves?
 
This week's PTSD and Beyond Podcast guest is mental health public speaker, author, podcast host, PhD student, Sam Swidzinski.
Sam's life goal is to be a part of the movement to improve clinical and functional outcomes across the globe for all with mental illness as well as to teach others to do the same.
Sam shares his lived experience with mental health challenges as well as his work with Winning the War Within (book and Podcast).
 
To learn more about Sam Swidzinski, Winning the War Within Bipolar, Winning the War Within Podcast, or to connect and follow -
 
Web: samskihealth.co.ukInstagram: Winning the War Within Twitter: @SamSwidzinski  YouTube: Sam Swidzinski