70 episodes
A New Dawn Dawnette Brenner
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4.8 • 14 Ratings
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We are Mental Health advocates! Podcast guests share their stories to humanize mental illness in our efforts to erase the stigma on a global scale and improve lives. Be mindful, listen, subscribe & rate us.
Our goal is to break the walls and barriers for people so they can unmask themselves.
New episodes updated every week. #mentalhealth #dialogue #talk #podcast #suicideprevention #health #endthestigma #podcast #bipolardisorder #depression #realpeople #bullying #experience #bullyinginschools #school #bully #mentalhealth #raiseawareness #sicknotweak #nothingwasted #Angelssuicideawareness #NAMI Advocates #schizonphrenia #PTSD #MPD #anxiety #Selfhelp #livinginsilence, advocacy, mental health
You can comment on each podcast, provide feedback and let us know how it helped you at https://www.anewdawnaa.com/ under the "Episodes" Page. Thank you and stay strong.
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Season 1: Episode 46 - (TW) Victor's lifetime of abuse that led to a - "Class of Characters" History of DID
Victor provides us with the history of the horrific abuse he faced growing up and provides the scenario and basis for his multiple personality disorder and multiple, ‘characters,’ surfacing in his life.
I have included the order of documents to be read, as he sent them to me:
1. My essay entitled “IsHopeAStrategy-IDontKnowYouTellMe”-Rev1 – explains my experiences for the last 55 weeks
2. Email to my circle of care “A quick note” – perhaps a long one too – explains my experiences, the consequences and reflections
3. My essay entitled “IamSorry-thedoublesidedrazorblade”-Rev1 – explains my position of hearing “I am sorry” Please understand I know it is a form of empathy, yet after the continued fight with the Ontario Canada MHA system over the last 5 years… I have heard this statement too many times.
Below I have included links to his podcast interview and published essay about living with DID, as he sent them to me.
1. Podcast Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDOjA-mW7i0
2. Published Essay: https://weareunsinkable.com/living-with-dissociative-identity-disorder-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/
Characters: “Entities during dissociation”
Harris - Destructive, own email address, emails circle of care.
Victor -
The Poet - Manager and communicator of all personalities. Dissociative poetry author
Little Victor - 1st traumatic experience
Little Victor - 2nd Suicide attempt 4-10 years old
(Suicide Attempts) other suicide attempts have one identity for each
X - He has no idea who he is
The Beast - Pure violence, animalistic and beats up self
Management - No idea who this is.
Many more, he states he has about 13 entities that present themselves at various times.
Twitter: @VictorJanzen -
Season 1 - Episode 45 - Doug - Canadian "THC Potent Drug" beware
Abby, another victim of THC Potent Drug from smoking daily for a short period of time. Thankfully her father intervened. Doug, her father, reached out to share her story as a worried dad and mental THC awareness advocate for parents. Listening to him discuss the the experience they had with hospitals to gain admittance and help for drug induced or mental health impaired individuals. If you’ve ever experienced this, it’s heart wrenching on all sides, especially with someon over age. Abby was 18 years old and this also happened to me with my son and my sister.
If you find any part of this podcast helpful or meaningful, reach out or comment. We all need to share our stories. Doug reaches out and helps kids on a regular basis. He’s spoken to me about a few and he cares deeply.
Abby was having psychotic episodes due to the THC potency. She was given anti-psychotics.
Doug can be found and is active on Twitter:
@no2potentTHC
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Season 3: Episode 2 - John revisits us with an update and we discuss mental health, "covid coma" and his Road to Mental Wellness.
John, from the Road to Mental Wellness, joins us for a second update on how he's been. He discusses his new podcast and enlightens us on where he is with his book.
He focuses on 'men's health,' and how we can find commonalities between the genders or even those that are binary.
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Season 1 - Episode 44 - John of "The Bipolar Battle Podcast" shares his story and talks about how to "embrace your journey"
John of "The Bipolar Battle" podcast and mental health advocate on Twitter joins us with his story. He describes his family as coming from the thought of 'mind over matter,' to get over struggles. He's living with Bipolar disorder and emphasizes the idea to 'embrace your journey,' as you live with mental illness.
If you would like to follow him you can reach him on Twitter.
Twitter: @BipolarBattle
Website: thebipolarbattle.com
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Season 1: Episode 43 - Luke from the UK - Channel Islands, discusses his Mental Health story
Luke from the UK shares his journey of mental illness. Please check out his blog at Discusslife.net.
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Season 1 - Episode 42 - Sharon Bak- Emergency Management Field Officer, Social Worker & Mental Health Advocate
Sharon is a mental health advocate, Emergency Management Field Officer, OFMEM, social worker, disaster responder, volunteer and also a speaker. She lives with PTSD, CPTSD, MDD and OCD and childhood trauma revealed itself in her early twenties. She tells her story beautifully and reveals how 'brushing under the rug,' doesn't help when it comes to childhood trauma. Her story, like many here, is one of hope, survival and recovery.
She writes in her blog, PTSDstoriesfromtheedge.com and you can find her on Twitter and Face book. Listen, comment and reach out if you'd like to tell your story.
Podcast link: Link
Site: PTSD Stories from the Edge
Twitter: @SDBak
Facebook: (coming soon)
Customer Reviews
So relatable and real... Thank you!
Thank you, thank you! These are identifiable stories and I now know I'm not alone. I look forward to your weekly podcast and I love the you are so "real" and I feel like I'm listening to my best friend. Your heart is so passionate. These podcasts are helping me and I'm sure others as well.
A Really Lousy Podcast with a Really Lousy Host
There are *a lot* of mental health/illness podcasts. Some are great, many are OK, and some are just bad. “A New Dawn” falls deeply in the “just bad” bucket. The host is perhaps the worst part. She has constant difficulties speaking clearly and putting together thoughts logically or fluidly. Her radio voice is so poor that she usually stumbles and struggles with her own tag line! She knows almost nothing about mental illness—she certainly has no degree or even training in psychology, psychiatry, counseling, social work, etc. etc.—except for being related to some people with mental illness, which she loves to remind listeners of in a naked grab for attention and sympathy, but she seems to have learned almost nothing from those familial experiences. She is condescending with guests, talking to them as if they were fragile children. Her guests do their best to get their stories told and sometimes do succeed, despite the host’s interference. But the interviews retread the same tired, introductory mental illness subject matter over and over again, because the host doesn’t—and doesn’t seem to know even how to—vary the interviews or adapt them to the specific guests’ experiences and lessons learned.
In short, please do not waste your time with “A New Dawn.”
Dialogue to Raise Awareness
These episodes on this podcast created by A New Dawn #Anewdawnaa speak openly and honestly about mental health; no fluff. Her guests are real and she's caring and shares her experiences as they arise. Everyone and anyone should listen to these #podcasts. She's doing wonderful things. I'd love for her to create a show around this for more exposure.