PTSD and Beyond

EP 105: Normalizing Mental Health for Healthcare Workers with Dr. McElroy

Who takes care of the healthcare workers when the healthcare workers are taking care of everyone? Healthcare workers are facing burnout at alarming rates and this is leading to mental health challenges. "Normalizing talking about mental health is so no one needs to suffer quietly," says Dr. Imani McElroy, MD, resident physician at Massachusetts General Hospital.

In this PTSD and Beyond Podcast episode, Dr. McElroy talks about the emotional strain and outcomes facing healthcare workers. The extraneous hours associated with the pandemic are dangerous and the need to normalize mental health is a rescue to those who rescue us.

Dr. McElroy points out the importance of peer-support, mentors, and the need to reach out. Give a listen.  Share with others and folks in healthcare.

To connect with Dr. McElroy, reach out here:

Web: LinkTree

Twitter: @IEMcElroy

Episode 104: 9/11 and Post-Traumatic with John Feal

"Don't accept 'no' when people are suffering, "

John Feal, 9/11 Survivor and Advocate

On the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, we are honored to have John Feal join as guest on this week's PTSD and Beyond Podcast. John shares his story, journey, and mission to advocate for 9/11 survivors including addressing the need for lobbying members of the U.S. Congress and Senate to provide additional funding to 9/11 responders.

The founder of the Feal Good Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for first responder rights and educating elected officials and private entities on the serious challenges first responders face in their everyday lives.

"You die one time...You live every day," John Feal

Give a listen to this very moving and emotional episode. Share. Download and be reach out to John at:

FealGood Foundation

Twitter: @JohnFeal2

Episode 103: Questions, Curiosity, and Mental Health with George Styles

What is it about questions that makes us wonder? How is it that curiosity can support mental health? What questions can increase mental health?

Today's PTSD and Beyond Podcast guest is Twitter Question Creator Extraordinaire George Styles! George talks with us about how questions are a way to understand and a way of knowing.

"Mental health is everything. Asking the question, 'why do it that way?' We can get lost vs. knowing here we're going with things," George Styles

When we seek to understand from a place of curiosity, questions can arise that supports mental health as well as validates, creates resilience, and is the first thing we want to do and the last thing we want to do each day.

Connect with George Styles at:

Twitter: @GeoStyleGeo

Web: The Styles G

Episode 102: Modern Day Mental Health & the Prescription Pad with Dr. Roger McFillin

Modern day mental health services typically involves 2 primary modes of treatment:

~ 10-20 minute assessment

~ Prescription

~ Psychotherapy

 

I can attest, that was my lived-experience. The staggering number of prescriptions being written from GP's to Psychiatrist has dramatically increased in the past 25 years. However, if effective then wouldn't most people receiving mental health services feel better and live better lives?

"The drugs create more disability and misdiagnosis. For some a lifetime of impairment," Dr. McFillin

Today's PTSD and Beyond Podcast guest is Dr. Roger McFillin, Psy.D., ABPP who's conversations, advocacy, and private practice champions the voice of talking about clinical trials, ethics, and exposure of the realities of those he treats and some facing a lifetime of impairment due to drugs.

 

To learn more about Dr. McFillin, follow him:

Twitter: @DrMcFillin_PsyD

Web: Center for Integrated Behavioral Health

Instagram: Center for IBH

 

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Episode 102: Harassment in Healthcare Dr. Ryan Marino

Hospital workers are on the front-lines caring for patients and saving lives while at the same time experiencing brutal attacks.

 

PTSD and Beyond talks with Dr. Ryan Marino to cover this story, bring light to the current climate, and have a conversation on how society as well as hospital administration can support healthcare workers who already under great stress and are leaving in record rates.

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Episode 101: PTSD and Trauma Memory with Dr. Pamela Hall

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Today's guest is Dr. Pamela Hall, author of PTSD Unplugged and forensic clinical psychologist working with the Veteran's Administration and Qualified Medical Examiner for the State of California.

 

Dr. Hall shares with listeners her experiences helping Vets deactivate trauma memories and what happens when trauma memories are activated. She puts things in a language that makes sense and is anchoring in the 5 senses. Dr. Hall says, "With Stigma, people don't get better and people can be and get to a better place - you're in charge of the effort."

Listen. Download. Share. Subscribe and connect with Dr. Hall at:

Web: LAForensicPsychologist

Twitter: @PamelaHallPhD

Instagram: @PamelaHallPhD

 

 

Episode 100: Cellular Memory, Consciousness, & Trauma with Ariaa Jaeger

"The longer it lingers, the deeper it sets in the cells," Ariaa Jaeger

Activist, humanitarian, spiritualist, and recognized in 2017 and 2018 as one of "The Top 200 Most Influential Authors in the World," Ariaa Jaeger joins PTSD and Beyond to share with us how trauma is a cellular memory and consciousness imprint on our body as well emotions.

Ariaa brings light to ways to address, care, and heal as nothing is hard set and everything is fluid. She also brings a spot-light to being comfortable in the discomfort and ways to recognize how to bring motion and movement that shifts from comfort in discomfort to comfort in fluidity.

To learn more about Ariaa and her new book, The Souls Way, connect:

Web: Ariaa.com

Book: The Souls Way

Twitter: @AriaaJaeger

Instagram: @RealAriaaJaeger

Facebook: facebook.com/ariaajaeger

 

Episode 99: Trauma and Metahabillitation with Dr. Joyce Mikal-Flynn

Surviving a death event requiring 22 minutes of CPR to come back to life, Dr. Mikal-Flynn joins this week's PTSD and Beyond Podcast to share her story as well as her work in trauma care.

Dr. Mikal-Flynn is an expert in resilience and her unique system of recovery, Metahabillitation, to guide survivors toward post-traumatic growth (PTG) which is highlighted in her book, Anatomy of a Survivor: Building Resilience Grit & Growth After Trauma

 

To learn more about Dr. Mikal-Flynn, contact her at:

Web: Metahab.com

Instagram: @dr.jmf

Episode 98: Men’s and Minority Mental Health with Paul Williams, LCSW-C, LICSW

"We can be in disagreement and still be connected," Paul Bashea Williams, LCSW-C

Relationship Recovery Expert, author, and licensed counselor, Paul Bashea Williams shares with PTSD and Beyond is passion on the importance of mental health, relationships, motivation, and parenting.

 

In this episode, Mr. Williams explains how a long-term relationship influenced his experiences and helped to guide the beginnings of his now life purpose and career. Modeling vulnerability, Mr. Williams states, "we give a voice and found a voice where we listen in conversation." Starting the conversation and continuing the conversation about men's health, minority mental health, relationships, and community are all part of our conversation! Mr. William's goal is to influence healthy relationships by having understanding, comprehension, consideration, and compromise of how people interact with one another.

Hailed by Men's Health Magazine as a top therapist to follow, Mr. Williams is the founder of "What's Good Bro? A Brotherhood Mental Health Check In," as featured on HBO, author of "Dear Future Wife: A Man's Guide and a Woman's Reference to Healthy Relationships," and see on ABC, BET, Fox Soul, and Let's Talk LIVE! To connect with Mr. Williams and learn more about his book, work and practice, follow here:

Book: Dear Future Wife (TM)

Website: BasheaWilliams.com

Twitter: @BasheaWilliams

Instagram: @BasheaWilliams

 

Episode 97: Share My Story with Janin

Originally from Poland and now living in Australia, Janin shares their story of survival, awareness, and growing beyond trauma.