A Mental Health Break

#230: Community, Relationships, and Healing with David McMillan


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It is time to take a deep breath on A Mental Health Break. We have an incredible guest heading your way with David McMillan. Here are some areas he touches on:

  • Why sadness takes courage and a brave person to admit their sadness and show vulnerability
  • What does quantum physics have to do with relationships? 
  • Need for belonging
  • How newtons law of homeostasis is related to mental health 
  • Being a part of a community
  • How shared events create history

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More about this week's guest: 

  • Dr. McMillan is a clinical community psychologist with 40+ years of experience providing people with tools and insights they can use in their personal relationships, communities, and society to heal divisions and find ways to work together.
  • He developed and authored the Sense of Community Theory, the most influential research on the psychological sense of community, with 10K+ literature references and 50K+ reads annually.
  • Dr. McMillan is also the author of several highly-rated books, including Create Your Own Love Story, which uses the four elements of his Sense of Community Theory- membership, influence, integration and fulfillment of needs, and shared emotional connection- to describe relationships and offer steps to take to make them stronger, more enduring, and more soul-satisfying.
  • His 38-year marriage to Judge Marietta Shipley inspired him to write Create Your Own Love Story 

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