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- When Life Gives You Lemons with Tay Dome
What do you do when life absolutely pummels lemons at you? This week Maryellen chats with Tay Dome all about her mental health resource, Lemons:
- Why Tay created Lemons
- The stigma around mental health
- The goal of the foundation
- Connecting people to the resources they need
- Self-diagnosing from social media
- Men’s mental health
You can follow Tay on Instagram @taydome and learn about Lemons by Tay on Instagram @lemonsbytay and www.lemonsbytay.com
To learn more about Operation Happy Nurse visit www.operationhappynurse.org
To get the lemons bracelet, made with Erica Woolston, visit https://ericawoolston.com/collections/ew-x-the-lemons-foundation/products/ew-x-the-lemons-foundation
If you haven’t already, please follow, rate, and review the podcast, and follow us on Instagram @okayishpodcast. To submit questions or stories (anonymously if you’d like) visit okayishpodcast.com!
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
28 min - With my mind on my money, and my money on my mind
This week Maryellen talks all about various financial topics:
- How to take a step back from financial feelings to make good decisions
- Normalizing money decisions
- Helping yourself become better prepared for uncertainties
- The different forms of financial abuse
- How problem debt and mental health are connected
- Relationship patterns with your money
If you haven’t already, please follow, rate, and review the podcast, and follow us on Instagram @okayishpodcast. To submit questions or stories (anonymously if you’d like) visit okayishpodcast.com! Follow Tara on Instagram @taramariemurphy.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
39 min - Psychiatric Emergencies
TW: self-harm, psychiatric emergencies
This week Maryellen talks all about psychiatric emergencies:
- Why psychiatric emergencies are important to talk about
- The mental hygiene law
- The importance of safety relating to psychiatric emergencies
- The problem with current resources
- Systemic issues within health care
If you need assistance locating long-term mental health resources, talking through a problem, or exploring mental health treatment options, call 211 to speak with someone who can help.
Additional resources include the help hotline: 1-800-273-TALK or suicidepreventionlifeline.org.
Always call 911 first if you or someone you love may be a danger to themselves or others.
If you haven’t already, please follow, rate, and review the podcast, and follow us on Instagram @okayishpodcast. To submit questions or stories (anonymously if you’d like) visit okayishpodcast.com!
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
23 min - Trauma Isn't Just from Tragedy
This week Maryellen talks all about trauma:
- What is trauma informed care?
- The mental health movement
- Dissociation due to trauma
- EMDR trauma treatment
- Structural dissociation theory
- How sleep helps us process trauma
If you haven’t already, please follow, rate, and review the podcast, and follow us on Instagram @okayishpodcast. To submit questions or stories (anonymously if you’d like) visit okayishpodcast.com!
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
27 min - We’re Doing Happiness Wrong
This week Maryellen talks all about happiness:
- What is happiness?
- What does happiness look like?
- Comparison having a direct effect on our happiness
- The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky
- How our outlook affects our happiness
- Toxic positivity
- How we’re doing happiness wrong
- How we’re really bad at predicting our own happiness
Be sure to check out The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky.
If you haven’t already, please follow, rate, and review the podcast, and follow us on Instagram @okayishpodcast. To submit questions or stories (anonymously if you’d like) visit okayishpodcast.com!
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
24 min - A Therapist’s Take on Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
This week Maryellen talks all about the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial:
- What is an abusive relationship?
- How watching this triggers people and what to do about it
- We will never know what really happened
- What Borderline Personality Disorder looks like
- What Histrionic Personality Disorder looks like
- Is this an abusive relationship?
- Men can be victims of abuse, and this abuse can sometimes look different
- Can a relationship be abusive to both parties?
If you haven’t already, please follow, rate, and review the podcast, and follow us on Instagram @okayishpodcast. To submit questions or stories (anonymously if you’d like) visit okayishpodcast.com!
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22 min - Are You Setting a Boundary or Being a Jerk?
The week Maryellen talks all about boundaries:
- How boundaries first came about
- Definition of boundaries
- Types of boundaries: physical, emotional, sexual, financial, etc
- Knowing when to set a boundary
- How to set a boundary
- What to look at before you set boundaries
If you haven’t already, please follow, rate, and review the podcast, and follow us on Instagram @okayishpodcast. To submit questions or stories (anonymously if you’d like) visit okayishpodcast.com!
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
26 min - Destigmatizing Shit! with Emily and Stephanie from Cycle Chats (Part 2)
Emily and Stephanie are the hosts of Cycle Chats, a podcast that destigmatizes what it means to be a woman. In addition to sharing some hilariously honest couch confessionals, they join Maryellen for part 2 of their conversation where they destigmatize and discuss a wide-range of topics, including:
- Differences between men and women
- Men and mental health
- Social media and mental health
- Toxic positivity
Listen to Cycle Chats where ever you listen to podcasts, check them out on Instagram @cyclechats and visit www.cyclechats.com
If you haven’t already, please follow, rate, and review the podcast, and follow us on Instagram @okayishpodcast. To submit questions or stories (anonymously if you’d like) visit okayishpodcast.com!
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
27 min - Destigmatizing Shit! with Emily and Stephanie from Cycle Chats (Part 1)
Emily and Stephanie are the hosts of Cycle Chats, a podcast that destigmatizes what it means to be a woman. They join Maryellen today to destigmatize and discuss a wide-range of topics, including:
- mental health
- self-care
- anxiety
- traditional gender roles
- Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
- some people are just assholes (not necessarily gaslighting you, a narcissist, or a sociopath)
- the importance of awareness
If you enjoyed this conversation, be sure to tune in to part 2 next week. Listen to Cycle Chats where ever you listen to podcasts, check them out on Instagram @cyclechats and visit www.cyclechats.com
If you haven’t already, please follow, rate, and review the podcast, and follow us on Instagram @okayishpodcast. To submit questions or stories (anonymously if you’d like) visit okayishpodcast.com!
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
33 min - Diet Culture: What the Literal F
This week Maryellen breaks down the toxicity of diet culture:
- What is toxic diet culture?
- How do you lose weight in a healthy way?
- Why diet culture is so bad?
- Serotonin/gut health misinformation
Be sure to check out Maryellen’s other similar episode: Never Tell a Woman She Looks Pregnant & Other Things Not to Say to People.
Plus, be sure to check out Tired as F*ck: Burnout at the Hands of Diet, Self-Help, and Hustle Culture and The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy by Caroline Dooner.
If you haven’t already, please follow, rate, and review the podcast, and follow us on Instagram @okayishpodcast. To submit questions or stories (anonymously if you’d like) visit okayishpodcast.com!
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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About OKAY-ISH
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Sometimes, we're not thriving and girl-bossing our way through life... we are just trying to make it through the day as best as we can. OKAY-ISH is all about getting honest when it comes…
to mental health, therapy, and the shit show we call life. Host and mental health counselor Maryellen Dance is on a mission, not to help you be perfect, but to get you feeling okay-ish. You're in for honest, raw, and emotional insights from a licensed specialist, as she covers topics ranging from co-dependancy and narcissism, to anxiety, sex, media, and more. Plus, she gets real about being a therapist, dating as a therapist, and "turning the therapist off" when it's time to unwind. Join us every Monday! You're not going to want to miss it... those cancellation fees are no joke.