Episode 3 of this special edition of the Recovering YOUth podcast! Emily is a profound 15 year old diagnosed with clinical depression and navigating quarantine to the best of her ability. Listen in to connect and feel into her experience. It is worth your time!

Season 2, Teen 2! Enjoy another perspective of a teen out in the world experiencing the current pandemic. Another amazing youth finding that love and compassion and seeking connection over disconnection are going to be the way to not only survive this but thrive once we are able to re-enter the world. Such an incredible experience to hear the voices of our youth! 

Welcome to Season 2 of the Recovering YOUTH Podcast! This season we are speaking with those teens in the world that are in the midst of their first pandemic and self-quarantine and asking them to explain their experience and how they are moving through it! It is going to be a phenomenal season! This episode brings us the optimistic and graceful Bri courageous enough to be our first guest this season. Her insight, wisdom, and truth will move you and I am sure you will have no problem connecting with her experience! Enjoy!!!

In this episode, Dr. T speaks with a young woman from St. Louis who tells her story about substance use, mental health, and finding joy and happiness as a 22 year old in recovery. Jordan is powerfully open and honest. Her story and ways of reuniting with her inner child will inspire all who listen. Enjoy!

In this episode, Dr. T and J$ speak with their very first mom for an incredibly powerful episode. Brooklynne is a young woman who speaks freely and openly about her lived experience and finds a way to maintain raw authenticity and incredible open heart. This is not an episode to miss!

In this episode, Dr. T and J$ speak with a young man, Kevin, who wants to get his story and experience out into the world so that he can help young people know that they are not alone and that there is help out there. Kevin is excited to be real and connect! Enjoy!

In this episode, Dr. T and Jesse speak with a young woman just out of rehab who is working on maintaining recovery and trying to understand what that even means. In this conversation, we hear the real confusion that exists when we are given a certain means of recovery and it does not really align with the expressive, empathic being we are. So much is being said in this conversation. I hope you hear the story and the story between the lines of the story. Enjoy!

In this episode, Dr. T has a conversation with a young woman around trying to exist when you are unable to truly connect with those around you. It is hard to talk about the real things when the world around you believes that drinking and sex will solve all of the problems. Take the time to listen as Sophie really just opens up and shares her experience. This is a perfect episode to ask the question "what can I do that would make this experience and life different?" 

Dr. T and Jesse have a conversation with a young woman, Leana, who has just entered back into what we might call the "real world" and she is trying out her legs. Her story covers what depression means and looks like to her, how that has changed, what has affected in, and how to interact with people who might be struggling with depression. The insight of the youth who experience the phenomenon is priceless. Take the opportunity to understand mental health a little better.