Talking Your Way to Change: A Mental Health and Psychology Podcast

Interview with Dr. Quie about her book Raising Will: Surviving the Brilliance and Blues of ADHD. Dr. Quie is clinician, writer, and advocate for children and families coping with ADHD.  She talks about how important it is for parents to find the support they need for walking with their child who has ADHD. 

In this interview she gives us a glimpse of what it is like for the child with ADHD. 

Dr. Quie shares in her memoir how she navigated school, family life, extended family life, and how music became the platform for launching her son into adulthood.

If you have a child with ADHD this book has the potential to be therapeutic for you.

What science can tell us about strengthening our marriage and preventing divorce.  This episode explores John Gottman's research and clinical application of what he calls "Turning Towards" bids for connection. 

https://www.gottman.com

The COVID-19 Pandemic has led to the need for sheltering at home and practicing social distancing. We are physically separated from loved ones and our interactions with others have greatly reduced. These decreases in our social interactions are likely to lead to more loneliness. However, Americans were lonely before the pandemic.  Shasta Nelson who wrote Friendships don't just happen identified 5 circles of connectedness: contact, common, confirmed, community, and committed friends. She distinguish these circles by the level of intimacy, frequency, and consistency of contact. Let's discuss loneliness and what we can do.

 Holt-Lunstad, J., Smith, T. B., Baker, M., Harris, T., & Stephenson, D. (2015). Loneliness and social isolation as risk factors for mortality: A meta-analytic review. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10, 227-237. 

Cigna 2018 Loneliness survey: https://www.cigna.com/assets/docs/newsroom/loneliness-survey-2018-fact-sheet.pdf 

Nelson, Shasta (2013). Friendships don’t just happen: The Guide to Creating Meaningful Circle of Girlfriends, New York: Turner Publishing Company. 

Rubin, Gretchen (2018) The Happiness Project, Tenth Anniversary Edition: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean my Closest, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun. New York: Harper. 

Vivek H. Murthy (2020) Library of Congress. Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World. New York: Library of Congress.

Having an insecure attachment style is exhausting and limits our potential for satisfaction and stability in our friendships, romantic relationships, and careers. Although these working models tend to be constant in our lifetime they are malleable.  This episode offers 6 action steps.

Attached. The New Science of Adult Attachment and how it can help you find and keep love.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/tests/relationships/relationship-attachment-style-test

https://www.attachedthebook.com/wordpress/compatibility-quiz/ you can take to work towards having an earned secure attachment. 

Discussing the HeartMath Institute's mission and description of breathing techniques. 

The HeartMath Institute was founded in 1991. This institute was formed to empower individuals, families, groups and organizations to enhance their ability to cope with life by using tools that enable them not only recognize but access their what they term “intuitive insight” and “heart intelligence.” You may not know but our hearts have their own complex nervous system, which is called the heart brain which talks to our head brain.

https://www.heartmath.org/resources/heartmath-tools/

I have dedicated my career to working with people individually as well as larger audiences through training, event planning, fundraising, social work and in public health. The time is right to start to launch this Podcast. I want to reach audiences that are isolated during this COVID-19 pandemic. I hope the information I provide will spark some self-awareness and that hearing about healing processes might enable people to reach out and get the professional help they need. I want to fight the stigma that surrounds mental health.

What are kids thinking about the coronavirus pandemic? “An epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people.” It seems likely that social scientists will study this generation of children today to better understand how pandemics impact their development. During this pandemic I have been thinking a lot about how our needs inform the decisions we make and this shapes our beliefs systems and the children who are watching us struggle with this new unrelenting reality. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm9CIJ74Oxw

https://copingskillsforkids.com/calming-anxiety

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/science/facts-about-coronavirus/

https://www.timeforkids.com/g34/coronavirus-questions/

This episodes offers the basics of attachment theory and classifications of child/parent and how this workign model is taken into adulthood in romantic relationships. 

Raising a Secure Child: How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore Paperback – February 6, 2017

Attached. The New Science of Adult Attachment and how it can help you find and keep love. 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/tests/relationships/relationship-attachment-style-test

https://www.attachedthebook.com/wordpress/compatibility-quiz/

Choosing a psychotherapist is complex and often overwhelming process. This episode helps explain the different treatment approaches that exists and gives examples of typical clients.