Reinventing Mental Health

In this episode of Reinventing Mental Health, host speaks with Zoe O’Toole, publishing coordinator at Children’s Health Defense, about her path from co-founding Thinking Mom’s Revolution to working on CHD’s books focused on medical freedom, pharmaceutical corruption, and vaccine issues. Zoe explains how Thinking Mom’s Revolution began as a group of parents of autistic children, produced a collaborative book, and grew into a major Facebook presence before censorship sharply reduced its reach and the organization later closed, though the website remains.

She discusses books including Turtles All the Way Down and Cover-Up, and highlights a proposed, unfunded project to reform healthcare by proving cost-effective outcomes for chronic illness to change what insurance covers. The conversation also covers insurance payment barriers, toxic load and physical drivers of mental and neurological health, and ways to contact Zoe.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/

Mary Parker, LPCS, explains how emotional dysregulation commonly affects children, teens, and adults with ADHD, even though it isn’t a core diagnostic criterion, emphasizing the need to separate emotion, behavior, and the regulation skills between them. She describes how impulsivity can show up emotionally, how shame and relationship patterns can reinforce reactivity, and why “rejection sensitive dysphoria” is widely discussed but not a formal DSM diagnosis and may overlap with anxiety, trauma, depression, autism, and repeated criticism. Parker offers practical strategies such as using fewer words during high activation, teaching skills after calming, and for adults, not communicating at the speed of emotion.

She reviews counseling and CBT-based approaches, cautions about limits of qEEG and mixed neurofeedback research, highlights body factors (sleep, food, stress, movement, hormones, medication), suggests a 7-day tracking exercise, and urges evaluation for serious or safety-related symptoms.

https://a.co/d/024PEb9m

Recorded live in the treatment room during the 10-pass ozone session, not in a studio. Audio is rougher than usual and drops out in a few spots.

At Natural Three ozone facility, the host of Reinventing Mental Health undergoes high-dose 10-pass ozone therapy with Shelly Larson after household mold exposure and ongoing symptoms, while Shelly explains the Zotzmann machine protocol studied by Dr. Lobodny (10 passes at 70 gamma, ozonating 200 mL of blood each pass). They discuss why sensitive patients or those with chronic co-infections (e.g., Lyme, EBV) may start with 1–3 passes to avoid die-off and detox “crashes,” and the importance of hydration and timing antioxidants after oxidative therapy. Shelly outlines ozone’s antimicrobial, detox, anti-inflammatory, and immune-modulating goals, mentions heparin use, and reviews supportive options like zeolite binders, glutathione, IV nutrition, NAD, memberships, pricing, and additional services such as sauna and rectal ozone.

Guest:
https://naturo3.com/
https://www.instagram.com/naturo3.tx/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556311861072

Mary Parker, LPCS, explains the “after-school crash,” when a child holds it together at school but falls apart at home, and urges parents to replace assumptions of manipulation or simple defiance with curiosity about capacity, context, and executive-function fatigue. She describes how a school day demands constant inhibition, working memory, attention, transitions, and emotion regulation—especially for kids with ADHD—so by afternoon their reserve is depleted. Mary outlines why school behavior may look better due to structure, consequences, safety at home, and basic factors like hunger and tiredness, and recommends a 20–30 minute “landing period” focused on fuel, movement, and connection, plus co-regulation before correction. She offers homework troubleshooting questions (including medication timing with clinician guidance), discusses mixed evidence for neurofeedback for ADHD, emphasizes sleep and other body/environment contributors, and suggests tracking sleep, food, transition time, movement, and immediate triggers for one week to find patterns and decide when family strategies, counseling, or school supports are needed.

Book: https://a.co/d/0ellODwB

Mary hosts Denise Michelle, the “Self-Love Alchemist,” a transformational coach and hypnotherapist trainer with a 25-year background in healing arts, practical psychology, yoga, and spiritual entrepreneurship. Denise shares how her personal healing journey through mental illness, sexual abuse, addiction, anxiety, and depression shaped her mission to support “leaders of love” through self-love mastery, self-care, and self-healing. The conversation explores how subconscious patterns often form between ages 0–7 and can be driven by younger parts of ourselves, and how hypnotherapy, somatic work, and nervous system regulation can create lasting identity-level change. They also discuss reclaiming play and fulfillment through simple, present-moment “baby steps,” including reconnecting with childhood joys, creativity, music, and visualization.

Guest:
BridgeTheLove.com
www.Instagram.com/denisemichellexoxo
www.facebook.com/denisemichellelove
https://www.facebook.com/groups/theselflovetribebtl/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisemichellelove/
https://twitter.com/DeniseMxoxo
https://www.pinterest.com/denisemichellelove/
https://www.youtube.com/c/DeniseMichelle
https://www.tiktok.com/@denisemichellexoxo

Mary Parker, LPCS, explains why ADHD is often misunderstood as laziness when the real issue is difficulty regulating attention and activation, especially at the starting line of tasks that are vague, boring, repetitive, or lack immediate feedback. She contrasts the ability to hyperfocus on interesting or urgent activities with the struggle to initiate everyday responsibilities, highlighting the hidden executive-function steps involved in “simple” requests like doing homework or answering an email. Parker cautions against oversimplified dopamine narratives, emphasizes avoiding shame as a productivity tool, and offers practical strategies such as shrinking the first step, externalizing information with lists and timers, and easing transitions with warnings. She also discusses how qEEG brain mapping can inform neurofeedback planning without diagnosing ADHD, notes mixed research on neurofeedback, and underscores the role of sleep, stress, and nutrition in how difficult functioning feels.

Book: https://a.co/d/01vPddUu

On Reinventing Mental Health, the host interviews Jacob, a PhD biochemist met at the Austin Immortality Conference, about his global peptide and small-molecule labs, medical-grade production standards, and a fully telehealth experimental biohacking clinic that analyzes biomarkers and treats difficult, treatment-resistant conditions. Jacob shares his personal history with anxiety, OCD, and panic disorder and discusses compounds he uses and makes for mental and physical health, including Dihexa (a small molecule), Noopept, picamilon, recombinant BDNF, Selank/Semax, and memantine, with emphasis on BDNF/NGF, synaptogenesis, and glutamate/NMDA modulation. They address limits and bias in mainstream clinical research, the role of lifestyle and genetic/CYP testing, peptide contamination risks and quality testing beyond “purity,” and hormone optimization (including kisspeptin and clomiphene). Jacob also describes an experimental hair-regrowth serum and shares his clinic website: https://humanperformancellc.com/

Mary Parker explains the channel’s intentional quiet period, emphasizing it provides education—not medical advice—and shares updates on building the practice and broader network through conferences, writing, and restructuring. The practice has added a medical side by partnering with Altro, whose licensed physicians handle evaluations, prescribing, labs, monitoring, and follow-up, enabling access to GLP-1 medications, peptide therapies, and hormone optimization with physician oversight; the host clarifies neither he nor his counseling team prescribes and discloses Altro is a business partner. Neurofeedback will become a larger focus with more qEEG brain mapping and individualized training, while noting it is not diagnostic and evidence is mixed. The show is rebranded as The Infinite Potential podcast with a unified website, new books, renewed publishing schedule, new formats, more video, and companion articles, built around an integrated mind–brain–body model.

https://www.youtube.com/@theinfinitepotentialpodcast

https://rumble.com/user/infinitepotentialcounseling

https://www.altroapp.com/infinitepotential

The speaker explains that “toughing it out” after life challenges can leave suppressed childhood emotions unresolved, which then project forward and draw similar situations, events, and people into your life, repeating the same emotional patterns and intensifying over time until a major crisis seems to come out of nowhere. They note that relying on conscious strategies like affirmations may not work because the issue resides in the subconscious mind. The core message is that people tend to repeat past patterns unless they face and release them, but regardless of how difficult or hopeless things feel, there is a way out and hope remains for creating the life you want.

Mary interviews Vanessa Morgan of the Self Heal Center about her background in natural medicine (medical herbalism, acupuncture, homeopathy) and diagnostic approaches including EAV testing, blood lab evaluation, tongue/pulse assessment, and dark-field microscopy. Vanessa describes how, during COVID, she began exploring homeopathic snake venom remedies after hearing reports of snake venom peptides found in COVID-positive samples and noticing symptom overlap with acute COVID, long COVID, and vaccine injury, emphasizing spike-protein-related toxicity. She shares clinical observations of improvements in patients using specific venom remedies, discusses broader correlations between snakebite effects and the COVID experience (fear, isolation, paralysis, censorship), and highlights post-COVID issues including clotting, immune dysfunction, reactivated pathogens, mental-emotional distress, and significant hormonal and fertility disruptions. Vanessa explains how Chinese medicine frames these patterns and provides ways to reach her via selfhealcenter.com and Substack.