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Meet Your Mental HelperGrief, Life Transitions & Authentic Therapy | Sheryl Woodhouse, LMFTIn this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Sheryl Woodhouse—Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Lake Forest, California, specializing in grief, loss, and major life transitions. She helps adults and families navigate trauma, identity, and relationship challenges by integrating authenticity, practical boundaries, and body-based support for meaningful change.Discover how Sheryl approaches survival, self-worth, and real-life healing—and shares practical insight on nervous-system regulation, boundary-building, and taking “baby steps” through change. This conversation highlights thoughtful, real-world perspectives on therapy, growth, and mental health.Timestamps00:08 — Intro + Sheryl’s kidnapping survival sto...
2026-02-0752 minMeet Your Mental HelperCompassion Fatigue & Nervous System Resilience | Natasha D’Arcangelo, LMHC, LPCIn this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Natasha D’Arcangelo—QS, LMHC, LPC and Florida Qualified Supervisor based in Orlando, Florida, specializing in compassion fatigue education and resilience support for professional caregivers. She helps clinicians, nurses, educators, and other helpers navigate burnout and secondary trauma using practical nervous-system regulation and evidence-informed frameworks.Discover how Natasha approaches compassion fatigue, why self-care alone isn’t the solution, and how caregivers can use simple tools to interrupt stress responses in real time. This conversation highlights thoughtful, real-world perspectives on therapy, growth, and mental health.00:00 — Welcome...
2026-02-071h 02Meet Your Mental HelperAnxiety & Fear Reframed | Matt Young, Life Coach & Hypnotherapy (RTT), NLPIn this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Matt Young—life coach with qualifications in Hypnotherapy (RTT) and NLP based in London, UK, specializing in anxiety, fear, and helping people break emotional patterns that keep them stuck. He helps clients navigate panic, phobias, and performance-related fear using an integrative blend of mindset work, subconscious methods, and body-based strategies.Discover how Matt approaches reframing anxiety as an experience rather than an identity and shares practical insight on perception-driven fear, emotional imprinting, and why “state first, strategy second” changes everything. This conversation highlights thoughtful, real-world perspectives on the...
2026-01-3051 minMeet Your Mental HelperTrauma, Loss, and Becoming a Therapist | Morgan Olivia deAmezola, LMHCIn this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host James Weisbecker interviews Morgan Olivia deAmezola—LMHC and Qualified Supervisor based in Miami, Florida, specializing in trauma-informed counseling and recovery-oriented care. She helps adults navigate grief, addiction, and life disruption using lived experience, compassion, and clinical insight.Discover how Morgan’s unexpected path into therapy was shaped by loss, family rupture, and trauma, and how those experiences inform her work today. This conversation highlights thoughtful, real-world perspectives on therapy, growth, and mental health.00:00 — Introduction00:45 — Becoming a therapist by accident01:20 — Family rupture as a turning point0...
2026-01-281h 04Meet Your Mental HelperPsychosis, Neuroception, and Trauma-Informed Care | Camryn Bryan, Peer Support SpecialistIn this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Camryn Bryan—peer support specialist and graduate student therapy intern specializing in first episode psychosis care. Camryn works closely with individuals navigating psychotic symptoms, community education, and stigma reduction.Discover how Camryn approaches psychosis through a trauma-informed, nervous-system lens, including neuroception, regulation, and recovery-oriented care. This conversation offers thoughtful insight into psychosis, identity, and compassionate mental health support.00:00 — Camryn’s role in first episode psychosis care02:00 — What psychosis actually is04:00 — Psychosis as a traumatic experience07:40 — Substance use and psychosis11:50 — Why early educatio...
2026-01-2259 minMeet Your Mental HelperMen’s Mental Health & Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP) | Daniel Maxwell Rubin, LMHC, LPCIn this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Daniel Maxwell Rubin—LMHC, LPC based in Wilton Manors, Florida, specializing in men’s mental health and intensive outpatient care. He helps working professional men navigate depression, anxiety, addiction, and isolation using a clinically-driven IOP model focused on personalized treatment and strong therapeutic support.Discover how Daniel approaches intensive outpatient programs (IOP), why he believes many higher levels of care miss the mark, and what makes gender-specific treatment effective for many men. This conversation highlights thoughtful, real-world perspectives on therapy, growth, and mental health.00:00 — Welcom...
2026-01-211h 04Meet Your Mental HelperCouples Counseling, Individualized Therapy & Real Supervision | Patrick Thomas, LCSW-SIn this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Patrick Thomas—LCSW-S and founder of Impact Counseling Services based in Phoenix, Arizona, specializing in individualized therapy, couples counseling, and clinical supervision. He helps individuals and couples navigate anxiety, depression, relationship stress, and major life challenges using an approach that emphasizes practical growth, mentorship, and real-world application.Discover how Patrick approaches counseling with the goal that every session provides a meaningful takeaway, how he frames couples work beyond blame, and why strong supervision matters for the future of ethical therapy. This conversation highlights thoughtful, real-world perspectives on...
2026-01-151h 14Meet Your Mental HelperGottman Relationship Tools for Lasting Connection | John Weiman, Relationship CoachIn this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews John Weiman—relationship coach based in Baltimore, Maryland, specializing in Gottman-informed relationship support and practical connection-building tools. He helps couples and partners navigate conflict, emotional distance, and communication breakdowns using structured methods and real-world rituals of connection.Discover how John approaches relationship repair, honoring your partner’s dream, and shifting criticism into communication that can be heard. This conversation highlights thoughtful, real-world perspectives on therapy, counseling, anxiety, trauma, coaching, and healing.⏱️ Timestamps— 00:03 Intro + why this episode is about making relationships work— 03:00 Honoring your partner...
2026-01-151h 08Meet Your Mental HelperAnxiety, Trauma-Informed Care & Burnout Recovery | Ashley Pettway, APCIn this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Ashley Pettway, APC—an associate-level therapist in Georgia who provides virtual therapy and mental health education through Sage Mental Wellness Center. Ashley’s work focuses on anxiety, trauma-informed care, burnout, and the ways systems and identity shape mental health.Ashley shares how her early life experiences, disability advocacy work, and trauma-heavy clinical settings shaped her into a thoughtful, culturally responsive clinician. Together, Jim and Ashley unpack what clients often misunderstand about therapy, why progress can be subtle and still meaningful, and how validation creates safety for peop...
2025-12-3159 minMeet Your Mental HelperInternet Addiction, Autism & Digital Dopamine | Nathan Driskell, MA, LPCIn this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Nathan Driskell, MA, LPC — a therapist, author, and public speaker based in the Houston/Cypress area of Texas, specializing in internet addiction and high-functioning autism. He helps teens, young adults, and adults — along with concerned parents — understand how technology, neurodiversity, and anxiety intersect so they can create real, sustainable change instead of staying stuck in online escape.Discover how Nathan uses behavioral strategies, desensitization work, structure, and deep psychoeducation to guide clients through internet and gaming addiction, sensory overload, social anxiety, and the unique challenges of high-functioning autism. He sha...
2025-12-201h 04Meet Your Mental HelperEMDR-Inspired Transformation & Imposter Syndrome | Faith Foo, EMDR Therapist & CoachIn this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jiminterviews Faith Foo—an EMDR therapist, EMDR-inspired transformation coach, andlicensed counselor based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, specializing inhigh-functioning professionals, leaders, and creatives. She helps ambitiousclients move through trauma imprints, nervous-system overwhelm, impostersyndrome, and performance blocks so they can grow in ways that are sustainableand aligned. Discover how Faith uses EMDR-informed methods, futuretemplates, somatic awareness, Imaginal Nurturing, and performance psychology toguide clients through anxiety, burnout, and deep self-doubt. She sharespowerful stories of partners, executives, and high performers who learned toembody success in their bodies—not just understand it in...
2025-11-221h 01Meet Your Mental HelperSomatic Healing, Emotion & Body Code | Leslie Gould-Barkman, Somatic TherapistIn this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Leslie Gould-Barkman—a somatic therapist, certified Emotion & Body Code practitioner, energy worker, and Akashic Records reader based in Western Massachusetts, specializing in somatic healing and energy-based approaches. She helps adults healing from trauma, stress, and chronic patterns navigate mind-body symptoms by integrating somatics, Emotion/Body Code, and quantum-informed intention for meaningful change.Discover how Leslie uses sensation tracking, pendulation, muscle testing, and meridian work to guide clients through anxiety, overwhelm, and old beliefs. She shares practical insights on finishing the body’s “interrupted” processes, moving from charge t...
2025-11-141h 12Meet Your Mental HelperInner Child, People-Pleasing, Health Anxiety, Gen Z after COVID | Francesca Francis, BACP-Registered Integrative TherapistIn this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Francesca Francis—a BACP-registered integrative therapist based in the UK, specializing in children, young people, and adults. She helps clients navigate identity, self-worth, people-pleasing, health anxiety, and post-COVID social challenges by integrating person-centred therapy, CBT, creative/play-based methods, and storytelling for meaningful change.Discover how Francesca uses inner-child work, grounding metaphors (like “tight jeans”), and practical cognitive tools (like “phone-tab” thought swipes) to guide clients through anxiety, low self-esteem, and boundary-setting. She shares insights on naming younger parts, rebuilding in-person confidence after years online, and writing as express...
2025-11-0753 minMeet Your Mental HelperFinding Meaning in Discomfort: Existential Therapy and Myth with Michael ShumwayIn this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, we talk with Michael Shumway, a licensed associate counselor based in Tempe, Arizona, who specializes in existential and Jungian therapy with a mythopoetic approach. Michael shares his journey from working at a boys ranch to launching a counseling career focused on helping young adults and couples navigate life transitions, anxiety, and relationships.We explore:• How philosophy, theology, and storytelling shape Michael’s approach• Using existential anxiety and classic myths to guide personal growth• The difference between “good” anxiety and distress• How discomfort, ad...
2025-05-281h 01Meet Your Mental HelperWarrior Mindset: Confidence, Leadership, and Resilience with Chief Master Mike KassebaumIn this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, we feature Warrior Coach Chief Master Mike Kassebaum, an eighth-degree black belt, champion martial artist, and longtime instructor. Chief Master Kassebaum shares his journey from student to master, how martial arts transforms lives, and what it takes to develop true confidence and resilience—on and off the mat.We discuss:• The mental side of martial arts—why it’s 99% mindset, 1% physical• Goal setting, growth mindset, and learning from failure• How martial arts builds leadership and public speaking skills for all ages• The power of c...
2025-05-281h 00Meet Your Mental HelperMindfulness, IFS, and Navigating Life’s Transitions | Becky RobertsIn this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim Weisbecker talks with Becky Roberts, founder of Becky Roberts Coaching. Becky is a mindfulness and somatic wellness coach, artist, and longtime educator. She specializes in supporting women navigating life transitions—whether facing grief, empty nest, career changes, or anxiety. Becky shares how she integrates Internal Family Systems (IFS), mindfulness, and creative practice to help clients access their inner wisdom, calm anxiety, and move forward with clarity.Key topics include:• Navigating change, loss, and new life chapters• Accessing your inner wisdom and self-compassion• Ho...
2025-05-2859 minMeet Your Mental HelperBreaking Limiting Beliefs & Unlocking Intuition: Mindfulness, Reiki, and Creative Coaching with Kayla Allen, ACCKayla shares her journey as a blind personal development coach, her unique approach to overcoming limiting beliefs, and how she blends mindfulness, somatic coaching, energy work, and creative arts to help clients thrive.Discover how Kayla uses reiki and chakra alignment, crafts and tactile art for the blind and visually impaired, and practical techniques to develop self-trust, intuition, and resilience. Learn how mindfulness, gratitude practices, and embodied self-awareness can help you break through blocks—whether you’re facing self-doubt, new life challenges, or seeking greater creativity and confidence.Key topics include:• Overcoming limiting belief...
2025-05-2857 minMeet Your Mental HelperHealing From Narcissistic Abuse & Rebuilding Self-Worth: Trauma Recovery, EMDR, Intuition, and Animal Communication with Jane Young, LMHCIn this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim Weisbecker talks with Jane Young, LMHC—licensed clinical mental health counselor, board-certified coach, EMDRIA-certified EMDR consultant, and professional animal communicator. Based in Massachusetts and Vermont, Jane shares her personal healing journey from narcissistic abuse and discusses the latest approaches to trauma recovery, including EMDR therapy, energy psychology (EFT), clinical hypnosis, and intuitive development.You’ll learn how gaslighting and toxic relationships impact self-worth, how EMDR uncouples negative beliefs, and why building intuition—through practices like HeartMath and animal communication—can accelerate recovery. Jane also offers insights on using co...
2025-05-281h 15Meet Your Mental HelperMartial Arts, Mental Health, and Real Growth | Dr. Greg Moody, PhDOn this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, Dr. Greg Moody—eighth-degree black belt, counselor, author, and entrepreneur—shares how martial arts can transform confidence, reduce bullying, and help kids (and adults) thrive. Based in Arizona, Dr. Moody’s groundbreaking research proved martial arts builds self-esteem and reduces bullying—especially for neurodivergent kids.We discuss:Martial arts for autism and ADHD: Why it worksHow Dr. Moody blends engineering, therapy, and businessBullying myths vs. reality—what every parent and therapist should knowSocial media, attention, and the “growth mindset”...
2025-05-2753 min
The Illustration Department PodcastNancy StahlIllustrator, and forerunner of the digital illustration age, Nancy Stahl, talks to Giuseppe Castellano about how she started her illustration career in 1971 with two hundred dollars and two years of art school.They also discuss the pleasure and pain of working in gouache; what it was like to be one of the first illustrators to “go digital” in the 1980’s; and why a company called Adobe invited her to try out a new program called, Photoshop.To learn more about Nancy, visit nancystahl.com.Illustrators mentioned in this episode include: Rick Tulka, Michael Deas...
2020-07-0750 min
Design Details318: Death of the Designer UnicornIn this week's episode, we answer a listener question about why product teams aren't comprised of more "unicorns," and we discuss a Twitter thread that questions whether being a hands-off design leader makes you less of a designer. And as always, we share a couple cool things, including a strangely amazing band and an ultimate guide.
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2019-10-1657 min
The Peace Revolution PodcastPeace Revolution episode 087: Privacy & Surveillance / The Future of Freedom vs. The Architecture of OppressionPeace Revolution episode 087: Privacy & Surveillance / The Future of Freedom vs. The Architecture of Oppression
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