Mental Health News Radio

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.

In America today it’s common to observe individuals or groups of people frequently expressing shock & outrage over what other individuals or groups of people have said and done. The term “I am offended” appears to be a phrase we are hearing more often than ever before.When someone says “I am offended” they are outwardly expressing their negative internalization of information. Being upset, happy, or sad is always an individual choice and everyone can respond to information differently.When someone says “I am offended” they are letting others know they are hurt and in a way they are seeking an external solution to an internal problem. When large groups of people who are outraged protest against whatever individual or institution has upset them, they may be seeking to remove the external stimulation and even punishing it for existing in the first place. Unfortunately, unless a persons internalization process towards a particular external stimuli changes, they will continue to be hurt and be negatively affec

Great discussion with some of our network podcasters about what MHNR Network is and why we do what we do! Join host Kristin Walker, Network Founder and Host of Mental Health News Radio.Stephen Kavalkovich, Director of Network Development at MHNR and Creator and Host of Rescue the Rescuer.Matt Pappas, Editor on MHNR, Creator and Host of Beyond Your Past.Stewart Michaelson, Creator and Host of Join the Nation Recovery Radio.Joseph Fusaro, Editor on MHNR, Creator and Host of Hysteria Radio.www.mhnrnetwork.com

Martha Juchnowski, Rn is a healing facilitator and creator of Source Harmonics, an approach to healing using intuitive spiritual counseling and integrative energy work to guide the individual to discover the healer within and their sacred highest self. She will be a podcaster on Mental Health News Radio Network in the near future. Today she joins Melanie Vann and Kristin Walker on our most popular podcast: Empowered Empaths.The great thing about Martha is that she says it like it is and the "it" she says is tailored to help facilitate the most healing her clients are able to process at any given moment. She has helped hundreds reach new levels of transformation and is what a true healer must be: a steward, a facilitator of the healing that exists within each of us.www.mhnrnetwork.com

From our incredible time at the annual Converge Autism Summit presented by Springbrook Behavioral Health, we interview MaryAnn Bennett live! This is a woman who is organized, present, inspiring, and just gets "it" done. Whatever IT is, Maryann will make it happen and it will be done so well that she makes it look easy. Springbrook Behavioral Health is a world renowned behavioral health organization working in the field of Autism and Substance Use Disorders. Mental Health News Radio podcasts live from their conference which is one of the highlights of our year. Join our host Kristin Walker as she interviews Maryann about what it actually takes, the mastery behind putting together an incredible healthcare conference.https://convergeautism.com/

Arnold Zeman, certified by the renowned Coaches Training Institute as a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and by the International Coach Federation as an Associate Certified Coach. Together with his coaching skills, he applies the emotional self-healing of Focusing, an evidence-based process of mind-body awareness. Coaching and Focusing have been transformative in his learning to relate to his own anxiety in a positive and accepting way.He joins host Kristin Walker as they discuss what focusing is and how it can be used to help those suffering with mental health issues. www.arnoldzemancoach.com

A powerful show with two of our favorite guests. Host Melanie Vann discusses with Dr. Dave Vigerust and Christina Veselak how our genetic makeup and nutrition influence our mental health. It doesn't get more informative than listening to these two share their wisdom.Christina Veselak is a licensed therapist in Denver, CO, and owner of Garden Gate Counseling. She specializes in EMDR therapy, somatic psychotherapy, amino acid therapy, and integrative nutrition for depression, anxiety, insomnia, PTSD treatment, drug and alcohol addiction, food & sugar addiction, relapse prevention, and hypoglycemia. Dr. Dave Vigerust, MS, Ph.D is the Chief Scientific Officer of MyGenetx.com (One of the fantastic organizations that sponsors Mental Health News Radio). MyGenetx is a CLIA certified and CAP accredited advanced healthcare Molecular and Clinical Laboratory. They are a primary resource for transitioning and implementing precision-guided medicine. Personalized Medicine is at the forefront of what we do. Testing peopl

What a lovely person Dr. Carolyn Coker Ross is and doing so much in the world to help others. We traveled around a bit during our discussion which made it all the more interesting. Our ending focus was on binge eating and how much it isn't about food. Join Dr. Ross and our host Kristin Walker for an enlightening show and we hope to have her on again!Dr. Ross completed her undergraduate degree in Modern Foreign Languages at Purdue University. She then went to the University of Michigan Medical School. She is a nationally known author, speaker and expert in the field of Eating Disorders and Integrative Medicine. Her most recent book is “The Overcoming Binge Eating Disorder and Compulsive Overeating Workbook.” Other books include, “Healing Body, Mind and Spirit: an Integrative Medicine approach to the treatment of eating disorders” describing her own journey to healing and the miracles she found along the way. Dr. Ross has also developed a line of supplements as a result of her research, which are designed to su

A topic we know all too well here at Mental Health News Radio: Eating Disorders. Working with men and women with this challenging disorder was a speciality of our Program Director, Melanie Vann. She joins host Kristin Walker on the show to take a deep dive into binge eating, anorexia, and bulimia. To find out more about Melanie, visit her podcast as www.memiorsofmadness.com. To find out more about Kristin, visit her podcast network at www.mhnrnetwork.com.