#208 Today's guests are Alison Malmon and Lauren Cikara of Active Minds, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization promoting mental health awareness and education for young adults. Active Minds has a vibrant network of chapters and award-winning programs at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, K12 schools, workplaces, and communities nationwide. Alison heads the organization as its Founder and Executive Director, while Lauren acts as the VP of School Mental Health. In this episode, we discuss:

+ The personal tragedy that led to Alison starting Active Minds

+ Why people often struggle to talk about their mental health

+ Ways to open up & connect with others about mental health

+ Mental health struggles that occur on college campuses

+ Advice on how to support a teenager who is struggling with their mental health

+ How to get involved or join a chapter with Active Minds

+ Policies that schools & our government should start implementing on mental health

Active Minds' Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/active_minds

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+ A.S.K. program

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Welcome to the new Mental Health Minis series! Every other Monday, we will feature a 5-minute mini-episode with content from a past She Persisted episode. This week’s guest is Thais Gibson— a best-selling author, counselor, speaker, and founder of The Personal Development School. In this mini-episode, you'll learn the types of attachment styles and five ways to form a more secure attachment style.

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Welcome to the new Mental Health Minis series! Every other Monday, we will feature a 5-minute mini-episode with content from a past She Persisted episode. This week’s guest is Tara Bixby—a therapist, anxiety coach, and host of the Courageously.u Podcast. In this mini-episode, you'll learn why we feel anxiety and ways to reduce your anxiety.

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#207 Today's guest is Dr. Steven Hollon—the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. His work focuses on the etiology and treatment of depression in adults, with his research showing that cognitive and behavioral interventions for depression can be as efficacious as and more enduring than antidepressant medications. In this episode, we discuss:

+ Why Dr. Hollon became interested in studying depression

+ What percentage of the population actually struggles with depression

+ Ways we should be thinking about the current mental health crisis

+ The process of self-reflecting on depression & what people get wrong

+ Evolutionary mechanisms behind our symptoms of depression

+ Effective treatments for depression other than antidepressant medications

+ How changing your thoughts and behaviors through CBT can affect depression

+ What makes someone more likely to have repeated episodes of depression

+ Why adolescents can be more vulnerable to depression

+ Two crucial things you can do to stop a depressive episode

+ Trusting adolescents to make positive changes for their mental health

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+ Dr. Hollon's Research

+ Mind Over Mood

+ "What we got wrong about depression..."

+ Seligman & Maier on learned helplessness

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Welcome to the new Mental Health Minis series! Every other Monday, we will feature a 5-minute mini-episode with content from a past She Persisted episode. This week’s guest is Alexis Neiers—an author, mental health advocate, addiction center owner, and host of the Recovering from Reality podcast. In this mini-episode, you'll learn what people with substance addictions and their loved ones need to know about the nature of addiction.

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#206 Today's guest is Dr. Mark Zachary Rosenthal—a clinical psychologist and an Associate Professor in the Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences department and the Psychology & Neuroscience department at Duke University. He is also the director of the Duke Center for Misophonia and Emotion Regulation (CMER), where he pioneers research on misophonia, emotional functioning, borderline personality disorder, virtual reality, digital health, and behavioral therapies. We are also joined by Grace Heppes, the Outreach and Education Coordinator for CMER. In this episode, we discuss:

+ How our body generates emotions & the purpose of our emotions

+ Reasons that certain people have dysregulated emotions

+ Why dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) is so unique & its key principles

+ A hack for finding a qualified, DBT-based clinician

+ The connection between suicidal ideation & emotion dysregulation

+ What misophonia is & how people's views of it have changed over time

+ How people react to misophonia triggers & why this ties to emotion regulation

+ The realities of living with misophonia

+ Tools to help people struggling with misophonia

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#205 In this week's solo episode, I discuss what I wish I'd known when struggling with anxiety. Through my lived experiences with anxiety as well as my psychology coursework and academic research, I've collected a lot of tips on how to manage anxiety. In this episode, I share these tips with you, including:

+ A quote about anxiety that changed my entire perspective 

+ The best way to attribute your anxiety 

+ A DBT skill for stopping a panic attack or thought spiral

+ The evolutionary purpose of anxiety, including social anxiety & panic attacks

+ How to tell whether your anxiety qualifies as a mental health disorder 

+ Using cognitive behavioral therapy principles to help with anxiety 

+ Benefits of using exposure therapy for your anxiety 

+ DBT skills to use for your anxiety in the long- and short-term

+ Why anxiety can actually be a GOOD thing 

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#204 Today's guest is Dr. Mariel Buqué— a first-generation Black Dominican psychologist, a world-renowned intergenerational trauma expert, and the author of the bestselling book Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma. Her mission is to help reduce the recurrence of Intergenerational ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) within communities of color. In this episode, we discuss:

+ What generational trauma is & how it works

+ If generational trauma varies by sibling 

+ How being born with generational trauma can affect you 

+ Ways to prevent generational trauma from negatively impacting you 

+ What it means to break the cycle of generational trauma

+ Breaking generational trauma cycles despite pushback from your family

+ Supporting others who are breaking their own generational trauma cycles

+ Navigating the intense emotions that come with cycle-breaking 

+ How to lower stress & boost safety when doing healing work 

+ Where to start when beginning to break generational trauma cycles

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+ Break the Cycle

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Welcome to the new Mental Health Minis series! Every other Monday, we will feature a 5-minute mini-episode with content from a past She Persisted episode. This week’s guest is Sami Halvorsen— the host of The Teen Life Coach podcast and the founder of Knowing Up. In this mini-episode, you'll learn the importance of building confidence and how you can start boosting your self-confidence today.

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Welcome to the new Mental Health Minis series! Every other Monday, we will feature a 5-minute mini-episode with content from a past She Persisted episode. This week’s guest is Dr. Ayelet Ruscio— a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who studies mental disorders, with a particular focus on anxiety and mood disorders. In this mini-episode, you'll learn how to manage stressors that could be contributing to your depression.

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