Anxiety Book Club

In this episode, I speak with with Sanjana Sathya, co-founder of Thrizer, a platform for therapists and their clients to help them use out-of-network benefits to pay clinicians who don't take their insurance

https://www.thrizer.com/

Mardou has a new book, and we discuss its contents. Find more about mardou at ifscomics.com or order the book at https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714479/past-tense-by-sacha-mardou/

I talk with my guest Haley Weaver about her illustrated memoir, Give Me Space But Don't Go Far: My Unlikely Friendship with Anxiety. We talk about anxiety, coping mechanisms, family, sports, moving across country, drinking culture, and how swimming and drawing can be soothing. You can find Haley on instagram or substack.  Also mentioned in the episode:

• National Alliance on Mental Illness

Mental Health Innovation: Unpacking the Business of Mental Health Tech with Steve Duke

In this episode of the Anxiety Book Club, host Josh Malina talks with Steve Duke, founder of the Hemingway Group and author of the weekly substack, the Hemingway Report. They delve into the complexities of scaling mental health innovations, the importance of business strategy for mental health startups, and why some promising companies fail. Steve shares insights from his personal journey with OCD, the role of brand in mental health, and the latest trends in mental health technology and innovation.

Find Steve on LinkedIn here and check out his substack here.

Did you know that you have a nerve that runs from your brain stem to nearly all of your organs, that helps you shift from fight to flight, to freeze? Well, my guest this month, Dr. Stephen Porges, originator of the Polyvagal Theory, certainly does. Together we discuss the importance of this nerve in your mental health, or ill-health, and how autonomic nerve system regulation undergirds much of the way we feel. 

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In Episode 51, I speak with Anson Whitmer, co-founder of the men’s mental health app, Mental. We talk about Anson’s graduate research, depression in men, mental health culture, how the mental health app can provide a comfortable space for men, the multitude of things that effect mental health, what bonding looks like in men, the usefulness of cold water, Anson’s personal interest in mental health, rates of suicide in men, the future of AI coaching, the AI infrastructure of Mental’s coaching models, and more.

https://www.getmental.com/

In this episode of the podcast, I chat with Oren Jay Sofer about his brand new book, Your Heart Was Made For This. Oren is a teacher of buddhist mindfulness and author of the previously featured Say What You Mean, which appeared on the podcast as Episode 23. In this episode, we discuss:

• Oren’s motivation for writing the book

https://www.orenjaysofer.com/

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In this episode, I am joined by therapist, author, and professor Mary Pipher to discuss her memoir, A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence. We discuss her early childhood, participation in activism during the Vietnam War, her tenure as a therapist, her relationship with nature, light and grace, her focus on her family and, more recently, on non-attachment.

https://a.co/d/gpozZHG

In this episode, I speak with Dr. Martha Sweezy, IFS therapist, author and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. We discuss her book, Internal Family Systems Therapy for Shame and Guilt. These topics are covered:

• The multiplicity hypothesis of IFS

In this episode, I talk with trauma specialist Dr. Frank Anderson about his book Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems. We discuss:

- What is complex post traumatic stress disorder?

- How widespread some kind of trauma or overwhelming experience is

- The usefulness of empathy vs compassion, especially in clinical settings

- The importance and non-importance of distance between client and clinician

- The difference between IFS and other modalities with regard to the clinician’s mental capacities, or “therapist parts”

- The multiplicity hypothesis of internal family systems 

- The difference between grasping the tools of IFS while learning the model and grasping the core message