<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Neshama-Marcella-Pixley/dp/1536236616" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Neshama</a> is more than a book about a girl who sees ghosts—it’s a lyrical meditation on identity, intergenerational trauma, and the courage to stay true to your soul. In this moving conversation, acclaimed author and educator <a href="https://marcellapixley.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Marcella Pixley</a> reflects on the origins of her novel-in-verse, the inner world of her spiky protagonist Anna, and why young readers deserve stories that validate complexity and bravery. We dive deep into inherited wounds, ancestral strength, Jewish identity, forgiveness without erasure, and how middle-grade literature can make even the hardest truths palatable. Marcella also reads some of her stunning poetry—and shares what’s next. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!<ul><li><a href="https://journeysdream.org/how-to-subscribe-rate-our-podcast-5-stars/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Here’s How »</a></li></ul> Join the On Your Mind Community today:<ul><li><a href="https://journeysdream.org/podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">journeysdream.org</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/JrnysDream" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/journeysdream/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a></li><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/JourneysDream" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIDljjH8QK84WZ0toBpKWaA" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">YouTube</a></li></ul>

Neshama is more than a book about a girl who sees ghosts—it’s a lyrical meditation on identity, intergenerational trauma, and the courage to stay true to your soul. In this moving conversation, acclaimed author and educator Marcella Pixley reflects on the origins of her novel-in-verse, the inner world of her spiky protagonist Anna, and why young readers deserve stories that validate complexity and bravery. We dive deep into inherited wounds, ancestral strength, Jewish identity, forgiveness without erasure, and how middle-grade literature can make even the hardest truths palatable. Marcella also reads some of her stunning poetry—and shares what’s next. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How » Join the On Your Mind Community today:journeysdream.orgTwitterInstagramFacebookYouTube

<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Neshama-Marcella-Pixley/dp/1536236616" rel="noopener noreferrer">Neshama</a> is more than a book about a girl who sees ghosts—it’s a lyrical meditation on identity, intergenerational trauma, and the courage to stay true to your soul. In this moving conversation, acclaimed author and educator <a href="https://marcellapixley.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Marcella Pixley</a> reflects on the origins of her novel-in-verse, the inner world of her spiky protagonist Anna, and why young readers deserve stories that validate complexity and bravery. We dive deep into inherited wounds, ancestral strength, Jewish identity, forgiveness without erasure, and how middle-grade literature can make even the hardest truths palatable. Marcella also reads some of her stunning poetry—and shares what’s next. Love the show?&nbsp;Subscribe, rate, review, and share!<ul><li><a href="https://journeysdream.org/how-to-subscribe-rate-our-podcast-5-stars/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Here’s How »</a></li></ul> Join the On Your Mind Community today:<ul><li><a href="https://journeysdream.org/podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer">journeysdream.org</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/JrnysDream" rel="noopener noreferrer">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/journeysdream/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a></li><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/JourneysDream" rel="noopener noreferrer">Facebook</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIDljjH8QK84WZ0toBpKWaA" rel="noopener noreferrer">YouTube</a></li></ul>

Marcella Pixley - Author Of Neshama

What’s on your mind? Are you or a loved one struggling with mental health challenges? Do you have a specific personal or professional interest in mental health? Perhaps you are looking to build mental and emotional resiliency. The On Your Mind podcast by Journey’s Dream brings together professionals in the field who are successfully supporting people through mental health challenges to a place of true and lasting well-being. Here you will find hope and inspiration. You will walk away with practical tools and pathways to innovative, effective solutions. Connect to a community who believes you can be well and will support you moving from a place of fear to a place of opportunity.Every week, our host Timothy J. Hayes, Psy.D, will be joined by practitioners, thought leaders, and experts in the field of mental health who offer solutions, actual next steps, and tangible tools. In addition to professionals, the podcast will feature individuals sharing their own inspirational stories of transformation and recovery. About Journey’s Dream –Anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive–compulsive disorder, suicide, psychosis, eating disorders, behavioral disorders, trauma. These are just some of the mental health challenges experienced by people of all ages, races, and social classes. The non-profit organization, Journey’s Dream, was founded on the belief that restoring wellness involves more than recovering from symptoms and that mental health challenges can be opportunities for personal transformation. Journey’s Dream is a portal to a world of mental health solutions, including:- Practitioner Network: access to a global network of professional who practice functional medicine and integrative mental health care, and who believe that mental illness can be temporary. – Digital Solutions Portal: a collection of tools, programs, and resources that have been used to bring about mental wellness.- Mentoring Program: a community of skilled mentors and peers who have experienced healing following trauma and mental health challenges.- Public Education: At Journey’s Dream we are passionate about changing the narrative around mental illness; shifting the conversation from one of fear and struggle to one of hope and solutions. This is achieved through the On Your Mind podcast and blog, three books published by our founders and local/national speaking engagements.- Optimal Being Program: The founders of Journey’s Dream have invested more than $1,000,000 of private funding to develop, implement and refine a state-of-the-art, multimedia experience called the Optimal Being® program. About Our Host —-Timothy J. Hayes, Psy.D., is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Crystal Lake, Illinois. With 44+ years of experience supporting individuals and families, Dr. Hayes integrates mind/body techniques into a client-friendly model that emphasizes how people possess within themselves the resources necessary to deal effectively with a wide variety of problems and challenges.Through therapy and support groups, Dr. Hayes has helped countless individuals and families. Offering “cutting edge” mental health services, he integrates some of the newest and most effective approaches into a results-oriented therapy style. Dr. Hayes employs such tools as EMDR (trauma reduction technique), Depth Oriented Brief Therapy Training (Coherence Therapy), Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET), the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), and the Bio-Energetic Synchronization Technique (BEST).In addition to his role as therapist and parenting expert, he speaks professionally on a wide variety of topics related to mental health, relationships, and the mind/body connection.

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What’s on your mind? Are you or a loved one struggling with mental health challenges? Do you have a specific personal or professional interest in mental health? Perhaps you are looking to build mental and emotional resiliency. The On Your Mind podcast by Journey’s Dream brings together professionals in the field who are successfully supporting people through mental health challenges to a place of true and lasting well-being. Here you will find hope and inspiration. You will walk away with practical tools and pathways to innovative, effective solutions. Connect to a community who believes you can be well and will support you moving from a place of fear to a place of opportunity.Every week, our host Timothy J. Hayes, Psy.D, will be joined by practitioners, thought leaders, and experts in the field of mental health who offer solutions, actual next steps, and tangible tools. In addition to professionals, the podcast will feature individuals sharing their own inspirational stories of transformation and recovery. About Journey’s Dream –Anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive–compulsive disorder, suicide, psychosis, eating disorders, behavioral disorders, trauma. These are just some of the mental health challenges experienced by people of all ages, races, and social classes. The non-profit organization, Journey’s Dream, was founded on the belief that restoring wellness involves more than recovering from symptoms and that mental health challenges can be opportunities for personal transformation. Journey’s Dream is a portal to a world of mental health solutions, including:- Practitioner Network: access to a global network of professional who practice functional medicine and integrative mental health care, and who believe that mental illness can be temporary. – Digital Solutions Portal: a collection of tools, programs, and resources that have been used to bring about mental wellness.- Mentoring Program: a community of skilled mentors and peers who have experienced healing following trauma and mental health challenges.- Public Education: At Journey’s Dream we are passionate about changing the narrative around mental illness; shifting the conversation from one of fear and struggle to one of hope and solutions. This is achieved through the On Your Mind podcast and blog, three books published by our founders and local/national speaking engagements.- Optimal Being Program: The founders of Journey’s Dream have invested more than $1,000,000 of private funding to develop, implement and refine a state-of-the-art, multimedia experience called the Optimal Being® program. About Our Host —-Timothy J. Hayes, Psy.D., is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Crystal Lake, Illinois. With 44+ years of experience supporting individuals and families, Dr. Hayes integrates mind/body techniques into a client-friendly model that emphasizes how people possess within themselves the resources necessary to deal effectively with a wide variety of problems and challenges.Through therapy and support groups, Dr. Hayes has helped countless individuals and families. Offering “cutting edge” mental health services, he integrates some of the newest and most effective approaches into a results-oriented therapy style. Dr. Hayes employs such tools as EMDR (trauma reduction technique), Depth Oriented Brief Therapy Training (Coherence Therapy), Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET), the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), and the Bio-Energetic Synchronization Technique (BEST).In addition to his role as therapist and parenting expert, he speaks professionally on a wide variety of topics related to mental health, relationships, and the mind/body connection.

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