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Do you truly know how far you have come when it comes down to prioritizing your mental health?

Are you taking the time to give yourself credit for all you have overcome?

This is something I still struggle with and I wanted to share how I acknowledge the work I put in so far. Going from struggling tremendously when I was newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder to creating a plan to live well is something to be proud of!

This episode will teach you:

1. Clarity on why it is a challenge to celebrate your progress 

2. What to do daily to show grace for how you got to where you are now

3. Why we need to celebrate ourselves more for putting our mental health first

Learning how to celebrate my progress and the years of work I put in to living well with bipolar was not easy. 

This episode will show you the impact that giving yourself the credit you deserve has on your mental health!

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Are you clear on all the things that drain your energy?

What about the things that give you energy?

If you think of yourself like a cell phone running on low battery and about to die.... it needs a charge and so do we!

This episode will teach you:

1. How to identify what depletes your energy and boosts it

2. What to do to give yourself more of the good

3. Why we need to understand how these factors impact our life outlook

Getting clear on what adds and subtracts from my energy was the game changer that taught me to properly care for my mental health.

After years of running away from the topic and diving into the work... I get into how this has helped and how I hope it helps you!

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For some people, sports and physical activity can be a healthy outlet for coping with the difficulties around mental illness. For others, it can become a way of repressing emotions and can create a toxic cycle of ignoring the difficulties of life.

What if you shifted that mindset from constantly pushing your physical limits to ignore what’s brewing inside, to instead, putting your mental health first?

On today’s episode, mental health advocate and high performance coach, Bonnie Mosby, shares her experiences of transforming her own disordered relationship with sport from being unhealthy, toxic and hyper focused on perfectionism, into one that’s a lot healthier, and one where having fun plays an important role.

Bonnie was diagnosed with bipolar type 2 disorder and social anxiety following a traumatic brain injury that abruptly ended her decade-long professional rugby career. After years of hard work and being dedicated to truly understanding herself, she now uses those experiences to support and encourage others committed to forging their own paths.

She wants nothing more than to bring sustainable strategies to the table, as she rocks the world with how she approaches high performance training, whether that be in a sport, at work, or within oneself.

Tune in to hear more about how radical acceptance and new hobbies—like owning dozens of houseplants— can help your mental health.

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If you are a creative or an athlete with invisible disabilities and mental illness, looking to build a support system, head to Bonnie’s website and make an appointment with her!

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This podcast was created to provide as many options as possible to help treat bipolar disorder and mental illnesses in a way that works for you. One facet of that is your diet. What you eat changes the way your body functions. Particularly with a ketogenic diet.

A keto diet drastically changes the way your brain and body functions. It has the capacity to help stabilize bipolar disorder and has been proven to be most effective for depressive episodes.

Since this is a promising treatment for bipolar disorder, we wanted to talk to someone who is highly qualified in mental health and nutrition. So today we welcome, licensed mental health counselor, who is trained in functional nutrition and the use of a ketogenic diet as a treatment for mental illness and neurological disorders, Nicole Laurent.

On today’s episode, Nicole schools us on how effective a keto diet can be to help stabilize bipolar disorder, and where to start. She presents us with advice and tools to help you get started.

Tune in to hear an information packed episode that will get you thinking about how your diet affects your mental health.

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If you are interested in starting a ketogenic diet and don’t know where to start, head to Nicole’s website!

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Just as nuanced as each bipolar diagnosis is, so are the treatments. Different treatments work better for different people. Medications that would help one diagnosis may not have the same effect on another.

This is why we have to explore the different areas of treatments that could be beneficial to stabilize bipolar. Sometimes the most unconventional methods have the greatest effect. Such as scream therapy. Sound intense? Well, intensity may be what it takes to release and move the pent up energy when it has nowhere else to go.

This is something our guest on today’s episode experienced when dealing with unstabilized bipolar disorder. Pent up energy caused by dysregulation, releasing in harmful ways. He learned tools that worked for him to release and help manage bipolar disorder in unique ways.

Jason Schreurs, mental health advocate, podcast host of ‘Scream Therapy’, and author of the book ‘Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey Through Mental Health’, joins us on today’s podcast to teach us about how scream therapy changed his life and tools he has learned along the way to help keep his bipolar disorder in check.

Tune in to hear more about how scream therapy may be beneficial for you!

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It’s no secret that living with bipolar disorder is no easy feat. It can take over your life and cause chaos in ways you can’t imagine. The ambiguity of the disorder, along with the long and difficult road to healing can be one of the toughest battles a person can fight. Not only for the individual, but the family surrounding them as well.

Yes, it’s tough, but healing IS possible, not only healing, but a beautiful thriving life. However, it takes a village, but the point is it’s possible, something we forget when speaking of bipolar disorder, and any mental illness for that matter. So, what if we flipped the script on how we talk about bipolar disorder? What if we spoke about it, not as a life sentence, but something that can be overcome with more empowering language. Can there be a bright side to bipolar disorder?

Our guest on today’s episode is trying to do just that! Michel Le Roux has been living with bipolar disorder for 40 years and has stabilized it for 22 years. His life’s work is now to help others living with bipolar disorder and create a new narrative around it. He tells us his story of how he realized he had bipolar disorder and the journey to healing. Dropping out of school, losing his job and family, only to gain it back with a brand new perspective and a purpose to help others.

Michel’s story is empowering and may help you or someone you know living with bipolar disorder and any mental illness.

Tune in to hear a story of triumph and finding humanity in healing!

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Have you ever considered photography to be therapeutic or healing?

What about capturing images of your experience or the experience of someone else to illustrate what living with bipolar is like?

Photography is a great way to showcase different moments of bipolar,  whether it be the lows, highs or day-to-day routine....  it is a  beautiful tool that captures vulnerability.  

Joining me this week is the amazing Kimberly Kizzia, professional photographer and mental health advocate living with bipolar 1 disorder. Tune in to hear the work Kimberly does using her photography to help herself and others. Kimberly speaks all about her experience being diagnosed at 18 and the journey to wellness,  advocacy and what has and has not worked along the way.

For more Kimberly:

Instagram-  @tippingthetightrope

Twitter- @KimberlyKizzia 

https://www.kdkphotography.com/