On Your Mind

By Timothy J. Hayes, Psy.D.Alternative Health Health & Fitness Mental Health Education Self-Improvement

On Your Mind episodes

November 03, 2020Functional Medicine: Treating The Root Cause Of Disease With Dr. Aarti Soorya
Many people have been through the wringer of moving from one doctor to another just to find a cure for their diseases, thinking that the answers are in the allopathic world. If you found yourself in the same position, then maybe the answers you are looking for lie elsewhere, particularly in functional medicine. In this episode, Timothy J. Hayes, Psy.D. interviews Dr. Aarti Soorya, a board-certified physical medicine and rehabilitation physician who combines her conventional medical training with leading-edge concepts and integrative functional medicine. With an approach that includes treating the root cause of disease through lifestyle interventions, nutrition, and mindset, she shares with us how we can tap into these three to find the healing we seek. She talks about the importance of connecting the mind to the body, the power of breathwork, and having a healthy diet. Don’t just numb away the pain. Listen to your body and be ahead of the curve with functional medicine. Learn more in this conversation.

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35 min
October 27, 2020Planting The Seeds Of Wellness With Jen Rapanos
Fostering the emotional and mental well-being of youth, Well-Bean is a wellness center that offers child and adolescent psychotherapy, yoga and mindfulness classes for the youth and their families, teacher training and professional development, parenting workshops, and other resources. Jen Rapanos, Well-Bean’s Founder and owner, has always been drawn to social justice work and loved working with kids from a young age. In this episode, she joins Timothy J. Hayes, Psy.D. to talk about how she was inspired to build Well-Bean and how they’re planting the seeds of wellness starting with our children.

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34 min
October 20, 2020Claire Powers - Becoming Heroic
Claire Powers is a self-proclaimed student of heroic living. After waging a war against her own mind through battles with depression, anxiety, an eating disorder, and alcoholism, in a pivotal moment she chose to live her life differently. From that moment of desperation, she humbled herself to do whatever it took to learn how to fall in love with living. Claire is here with Timothy J. Hayes, Psy.D. today to share how she rose from suicidal to heroic and how she’s using what she learned to empower other women to do the same in her new start-up, Becoming Heroic.

Claire is opening the doors to her inaugural coaching program, Foundations of Heroic Living, in November 2020. To get on the waitlist for this program or learn more about Claire and her story, go to www.becoming-heroic.com. You can find Claire on Instagram @becoming_heroic where she shares the lessons she continues to learn as she strives to break through mental, emotional, and physical barriers to becoming the hero she seeks to be.

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36 min
September 15, 2020Reclaiming Your Life Back From Mental Illness With June Converse
Suffering from mental illness can take a toll on your life. For some, as it manifests later in their lives, it can be detrimental to their career, faith, and personal relationships. How can someone emerge from that dark hole and reclaim their life? In this inspiring episode, Timothy J. Hayes is joined by author and blogger, June Converse. Here, June openly shares her story of living with bipolar disorder, telling us of the mental breakdown she had in 2012 that cost her so much in her life. She talks about how she emerged, ready to reclaim her life, with the help of writing and using fictional stories to show the chaos of mental illness. Now, she invites other people to do the same, revealing her writing process and the ways she is prioritizing taking care of her body.
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37 min
August 25, 2020Exercise And Nutrition: HolisticExercise And Nutrition: Holistic Ways To Heal Depression With Jodie Skillicorn, DO Ways To Heal Depression With Jodie Skillicorn, DO
There are so many ways you can heal yourself that does not include the use of medication. Diving into a more holistic and natural way to help you with your mental health, Timothy J. Hayes, Psy.D. sits down with Jodie Skillicorn, DO, in this episode. Board Certified in Psychiatry and Neurology and the Diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Integrative Medicine, Dr. Skillicorn takes us through other alternatives to healthy living with nutrition and exercise. She provides great scientific research and insights that help us understand why exercise is important, even just going outside. On the food we eat, Dr. Skillicorn then shares some methods we can work our way to proper nutrition, taking the entire journey one step at a time, slowly but surely. Plus, she also discusses toxins and how we can reduce them in our system.
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August 18, 2020Why Psychiatric Drugs Are Killing Your Brain And How To Get Out Of The Bind With Dr. Peter Breggin
You can’t talk of modern psychiatry without talking about psychiatric medication, which has become the cornerstone of the practice over the decades. The problem with psychiatric drugs, however, is that they do more harm than good to the brain and withdrawal can be a real challenge if you’ve already started taking them. Many psychiatrists wouldn’t let you know that, though, as you will learn from Dr. Timothy J. Hayes’ guest for this episode. Known as “The Conscience of Psychiatry,” Dr. Peter Breggin has been fighting psychiatry’s reliance on neurotoxic drugs, as well as other ethically questionable practices like lobotomy and electroshock therapy, advocating for therapies that focus more on care, love and empathy. He has authored dozens of scientific articles and more than twenty books, including medical books and a number of bestsellers. He shares the meat of some of these works in this conversation, together with his overall opinion of the psychiatric profession as it stands today.
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50 min
August 11, 2020Hope For The Day: Inviting People To The Conversation Around Mental Health With Jonny Boucher
Mental health issues are very much affecting so many people around the world. However, the problem is the way we start our conversations around it—talking about it in response to and not ahead of it. In this episode, Timothy J. Hayes, Psy.D., brings someone who has been empowering the conversation on proactive suicide prevention and mental health education. He interviews Jonny Boucher, the founder of the non-profit organization, Hope For The Day (HFTD). Here, Jonny shares the importance of mental health education with us, letting us in on the events they are doing to invite people to the conversation rather than isolating them. Listen in to this important talk, sparking up conversations that help people understand that it’s okay not to be okay and, most importantly, to ask for help.
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38 min
August 04, 2020The Art Of Mastering Thoughts, Sensations And Emotions With Kathryn Nicolai Of Ethos Yoga
Everybody deals with stress, anxiety, and a myriad of other issues that turn us against our own minds and bodies. Kathryn Nicolai gives people the weapons to defeat these inner monsters every day at Ethos Yoga in Holly, Michigan, where she works to help students connect sensation and emotion in an empowering and productive way. Using yoga and other mindfulness-based techniques, Kathryn prides herself on being able to help people find peace and equanimity by being present and aware of their thoughts, sensations, and emotions. In this conversation with Timothy J. Hayes, partake of Kathryn’s immense wisdom on the way our minds work and how you can control your thoughts and sensations instead of being reactive to them. Grab this opportunity to start improving your self-image and making peace with your own mind and body.
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38 min
July 28, 2020Holistically Nourished: Naturopathy, Herbalism, And Mental Health With Rebecca Culley-Healey, ND
Mother nature is a well-spring of healing solutions for many of our health problems. Unfortunately, not many people are aware of this and would reach out for medications instead. Moving us into the world of naturopathy, Timothy J. Hayes, Psy.D. interviews Rebecca Culley-Healey, ND, the owner of Hawthorn & Violet Naturopathic Services and Herbal Apothecary—a unique herb store that offers over 200 organic dried herbs, tinctures, and other natural health products. In this episode, Rebecca takes us into her areas of special interest, herbalism and genetics, and shares how strong of an impact the variety of plants from our natural environment has on our bodies. She then talks further about gut health, how it affects our mental health, and some of the holistic approaches we can take to take care of our overall well being better. Sometimes, the health solutions we are looking for may just be in our backyard. Follow along with Rebecca as she imparts her great knowledge about the plants and herbs that will keep us well-nourished and more.
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47 min
July 21, 2020Holistic Healing: Breathwork And The Emotional Freedom Technique With Jodie Skillicorn, DO
The body has a strong ability to heal itself, especially when given the resources and support to do so. However, time and again, with our solutions to healing, we tend to reach out for medications that often only provide temporary relief. Dr. Jodie Skillicorn, a diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Integrative Medicine, believes otherwise and helps patients take back their own health through simple but effective lifestyle changes. In this episode, Timothy J. Hayes, Psy.D., interviews Dr. Jodie to share about the practical tools she uses with people who are asking for help, overcoming the anxiety, fears, and stories we tend to tell ourselves. She takes us into breathwork and the Emotional Freedom Technique, an acupressure treatment for anything that bothers us physically, mentally, or emotionally. Follow along to this discussion to hear what Dr. Jodie has in store for us that could help manage the stress, tend to that inner child we never grow out of, and lovingly heal ourselves and our bodies.
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About On Your Mind

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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.