In the Balance

Lisa Jason is weaving her art and her life into song and performance ~ using the pain, the sorrow, the love and the joy ~ "It's never too late to be vulnerable. Everything is important when it comes to you."

"Don't get locked into what you think you want ~ keep your eyes open for opportunities!" Elisa Pupko tells us how Treasure Trunk Theater, her camp program for kids, came into being.

Katharine Hargreaves wants you to live your own individual definition of freedom. She stands ready to help you design your freedom by helping you design your world ~ "My superpower is designing the conditions and holding the space for transformation to happen."

Dr. Kimya N. Dennis is a prolific writer, college professor, community organiser, and a believer in interconnectedness and breaking down barriers. Her work combines the worlds of criminology and sociology, looking at cultural differences and encouraging a multidisciplinary approach for all doctors and mental health professionals where diversity is discussed every day instead of in workshops and seminars.

She wants to shatter the myth that "only white people have mental health issues," challenging our stereotypes, assumptions and beliefs about suicide, mental health and depression at every level - from the individual, all the way up to the organisations and institutions who are training the future health and wellness practitioners of tomorrow.

Taryn Kennedy, Associate Producer & Director of Online Media for In the Balance talks with Susan in our continuing series Meet The Team. "I want to have no regrets, I'd rather try and fail, than not take a risk."

Switching it up for our listeners ~ In the Balance podcast creator and interviewer Susan Lambert is interviewed by her podcast producer Walker Vreeland!

Part two gives truth to the saying 'therapists are people too!' as Susan tells her personal story of becoming a therapist. Tune in and get to know the woman whose voice you hear every week on the marvelous podcast series In the Balance.

Switching it up for our listeners, In the Balance podcast creator and interviewer Susan Lambert is interviewed by her podcast producer Walker Vreeland!

In part one Susan takes us into the world of therapy ~ what happens in "the room," her thoughts on balancing insight work with how-to strategies and the extraordinary opportunity inherent in therapy ~ to have a "pure, private, sacred relationship that's all about the client's wellness."

After writing White Walling: Art, Race, and Protest in Three Acts, Aruna asks - "How do I now organize a professional life knowing what I know? How do I operate ethically in terms of building a sustainable life that's also one of purpose?"

"To admit 'I'm not okay' gave others the permission to admit they were 'not okay either'" ~ Leslie M. Browning shares her journey from feeling broken to finding the other side of brokenness, and the realization that healing is an ever going procession.

How To Get Run Over By A Truck is a "brave and funny memoir" of a harrowing accident that changed Katie McKenna's life ~ listen in to hear her story of transformation from Old Katie to New Katie.