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- Episode 6 - Mental Health + College Admissions (Ben Small x Kira Pollard)New SPECIAL EDITION Episode Today!!I sit down with my g @kira.pollard to talk about our mental healths, and how to maintain good mental health, throughout the college admissions process 🏫👨🏫👩🏻🏫.TOPICS COVERED:🏫🧠 Our journeys through the process thus far🏫🧠 What we found particularly difficult throughout the process:🏫 planning—managing and spacing out our time🏫 deciding on ED school🏫 (brutal?) intra-school competition🏫 patience—waiting for a decision🏫 (of course) much more!🏫🧠 Strategies that helped us overcome these difficultiesMake sure to listen to Kira and I laugh, vent, and then laugh again in this silly, validating conversation!Tune in!! 🎙🧠 Listen and subscribe to the Your Life Sucks podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts! 🎙🧠 5️⃣⭐️ The podcast on all platforms🧠 Follow - Instagram @theyourlifesuckspodcast 👍🧠 DM for all inquiries 📞21 min
- Episode 5 - Balancing Emotional Paradoxes (feat. Elise Belcher)Hi all! 👋👊After I catch you guys up on my life these past few weeks, we hear from Elise Belcher. She discusses her recovery from depression, an toxic relationship, and an eating disorder and her advocacy with Zero Reasons Why.TOPICS COVERED:🧠 Elise’s genetic predisposition to depression🧠 How an unhealthy relationship caused her 9th grade depression to worsen🧠 Why and how Elise found comfort in food, and the definition of Binge-Purge Anorexia🧠 Elise’s long, difficult recovery🧠 How opening up about her mental health with friends gave her new insight into mental health stigma🧠 How Elise found Zero Reasons Why, and her, often intense, work with themBe sure to follow @zeroreasonswhy_ on Instagram to find all their content/resources and @elise.belcher to see all her work! 💪I hope you guys love this often brutal, insightful discussion as much as I do.Tune in! 🎙🧠 Listen and subscribe to the Your Life Sucks podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts! 🎙🧠 5️⃣⭐️ The podcast on all platforms🧠 Follow - Instagram @theyourlifesuckspodcast 👍🧠 DM for all inquiries 📞27 min
- Episode 4 - Building Resilience through Mindfulness (feat. Isabelle Robledo)Today’s episode features Isabelle Robledo: she lives in an RV! 🚐 (that might be the only thing I took away from the conversation 🤨 😉). We chat about her world travels and how she’s build resilience and self-confidence through her incredible life experiences.TOPICS COVERED:🧠 Isabelle’s non-conformist family’s decision to move into an RV🧠 How non-stop traveling & living in an RV/nature shaped her psyche🧠 Why she began to feel ostracized amongst friends🧠 The actual definition of mindfulness🧠 How Isabelle used mindfulness to realize her strengths and fully appreciate herself, her family, and her lifestyle🧠 Isabelle’s business- why she started it & what classes she offers🧠 Teenage psychology theoryYou can find Isabelle on Instagram @keepitmindful.kids, and find the rest of her content & services athttps://linktr.ee/Keepitmindful.kids .You guys don’t want to miss out on this unique, fascinating conversation!Tune in! 🎙🧘🏽♀️🧠🧠 Listen and subscribe to the Your Life Sucks podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts! 🎙🧠 5️⃣⭐️ The podcast on all platforms🧠 Follow - Instagram @theyourlifesuckspodcast 👍🧠 DM for all inquiries 📞22 min
- Episode 3 - Trait Neutrality + Unlearning (feat. Rina Rogers)GUYS!! 😳😳😳If you’re looking at this podcast and thinking “Will I be into this story?” the answer is YES ✅. Rina has been through so much, and there is some struggle or message in this conversation that resonates with everyone. Thank you, Rina, for sharing your story. 🙏 🙌TOPICS COVERED:🧠 How Rina’s ADHD led to social incompetency (with funny anecdotes from me!)🧠 Why Rina’s psychiatrist put her on bipolar medication and the medication’s effects🧠 Rina’s depression in 8th grade and why she chose to recover🧠 How Covid caused Rina to find meaning in her own structure🧠 11th grade anxiety and a new medication🧠 How Rina has used her (awesome) new CBT skills to boost her self-worthYou can find Rina on Instagram @rina.rogers.Tune in! 🎙🧠 Listen and subscribe to the Your Life Sucks podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts! 🎙🧠 5️⃣⭐️ The podcast on all platforms🧠 Follow - Instagram @theyourlifesuckspodcast 👍🧠 DM for all inquiries 📞29 min
- Episode 2 - Turning Mental Struggles into Mental Strengths (feat. Nick Cousin)In this action-packed chat, Nick Cousin and I discuss his anxiety, depression struggle with his identity, and his detachment from reality. 😯😧😳TOPICS COVERED:🧠 How Nick’s family life/poverty contributed to his acute separation anxiety🧠 Nick’s depressive symptoms🧠 Nick’s years-long dissociation from reality🧠 How an embarrassing event caused Nick to take back his life🧠 How Nick gives everyday his best and transforms his mental struggles into strengthsBe sure to follow Nick’s account @acrossrainbows on Instagram for LGBTQ+ mental fitness content. 🏳️🌈🧠💪Tune in! 🎙🧠 Listen and subscribe to the Your Life Sucks podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts! 🎙🧠 5️⃣⭐️ The podcast on all platforms🧠 Follow - Instagram @theyourlifesuckspodcast 👍🧠 DM for all inquiries 📞20 min
- Episode 1 - From Anorexia to Advocacy (feat. Alexis Smith)
Today (well, actually, 2 months ago) I sat down with mental health advocate Alexis (Lexie) Smith to talk about her recovery from her eating disorder and her mental health advocacy.
TOPICS COVERED:
🧠 Lexie’s perfectionism and how it caused her eating disorder
🧠 The differences between Anorexia and Orthorexia Nervosa
🧠 How Lexie’s hospitalization and feeding tube changed her relationships and daily life
🧠 Lexie’s coping techniques
🧠 How Lexie breaks down mental health stigma and now helps people who are suffering with EDs
Lexie is bright, introspective, and driven, and this made for a great, productive conversation. 💪🧠
Follow Lexie’s Instagram @everyounceofstrength and find her podcast called “Every Ounce” on all podcast platforms.
Tune in! 📞🎙
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21 min - EQL - Juana Kirzner
In this Empowering Queer Lives episodes, 15 year old Juana Kirzner and I talk about her path to discovering her pansexuality and the dangers of queer social media dialogue.
TOPICS COVERED:
🧠🏳️🌈 Juana’s realization that she might not be straight
🧠🏳️🌈 Who Juana has come out to (and why she has not come out to her parents)
🧠🏳️🌈 Her advocacy with BBYO’s LGBTQ+ task force
🧠🏳️🌈 How social media caused her to doubt that she was truly pansexual
🧠🏳️🌈 Much more!
Tune in! 🎙
🧠 Listen and subscribe to the Your Life Sucks podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts! 🎙
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🧠 Follow - Instagram @theyourlifesuckspodcast + @jewishqueeryouth 👍
🧠 DM for all inquiries 📞
17 min - EQL - Rivka Schafer
For our second EQL episode, Rivka Schafer speaks about their path to discovering their queerness and the hate they faced upon coming out.
TOPICS COVERED:
🧠🏳️🌈 Their “Oh, I might be gay” epiphany in sixth grade
🧠🏳️🌈 Their bold, impulsive grade-group chat coming out
🧠🏳️🌈 Their middle school’s support - and later opposition - to their queerness
🧠🏳️🌈 How the kids in their grade dealt with them being lesbian
🧠🏳️🌈 Switching to a non-Jewish school and the culture shock they experienced
🧠🏳️🌈 Why Rivka decided to return to a Jewish high school for their sophomore year
🧠🏳️🌈 Rivka’s volunteer work for Keshet
🧠🏳️🌈 Much more!
Tune in to this heartbreaking and inspiring discussion! 🎙
🧠 Listen and subscribe to the Your Life Sucks podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts! 🎙
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🧠 Follow - Instagram @theyourlifesuckspodcast + @jewishqueeryouth 👍
🧠 DM for all inquiries 📞
23 min - EQL - Ben Small
Well, this went longer than expected. 😯
I sat down with my cousin Sam for the intro episode of the Empowering Queer Lives mini series to talk about how my sexuality has impacted my mental health over the past couple years.
TOPICS COVERED:
🧠🏳️🌈 Introduction to the Your Life Sucks Podcast and Jewish Queer Youth (JQY)
🧠🏳️🌈 Why I started this mini series
🧠🏳️🌈 The “Oh, I might be gay” epiphany in 8th grade
🧠🏳️🌈 Coming out to myself
🧠🏳️🌈 Anxiety attacks over coming out to my parents
🧠🏳️🌈 Why I waited 1 1/2 years between coming out to my parents and coming out to the world
🧠🏳️🌈 Coming out to the world - the most emotional week of my life
🧠🏳️🌈 How coming out has changed my thoughts, emotions, and behaviors
🧠🏳️🌈 Much more!
Tune in! 🎙
🧠 Listen and subscribe to the Your Life Sucks podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts! 🎙
🧠 5️⃣⭐️ The podcast on all platforms
🧠 Follow - Instagram @theyourlifesuckspodcast + @jewishqueeryouth 👍
🧠 DM for all inquiries 📞
53 min - Episode 25 - Sadie SuttonToday I chat with Sadie Sutton, host of She Persisted Podcast 🎙🗣, about her mental health and how her struggle led her to start her podcast.TOPICS COVERED:🧠 Sadie’s depression and anxiety in 8th grade and her hopeless outlook on recovery🧠 Sadie’s unsuccessful attempts at long-term recovery at home🧠 Her family’s decision to send her to an long-distant inpatient mental health hospital and why she decided to change her mindset on recovery there🧠 DBT, and how she used it over 1 1/2 years of intensive recovery🧠 Sadie’s current life and passionsSadie helps destigmatize mental health each day by teaching teens how to live their healthiest lives 🧠💪. She’s also insightful, eloquent, and made for a great pod guest!Tune in! 🎙🧠👏REFERENCED IN THE POD:Your Life Sucks Podcast’s Instagram (for more on DBT skills and teenage mental health stigma):https://www.instagram.com/theyourlifesuckspodcast/?utm_medium=copy_linkShe Persisted Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/she-persisted/id1463051730She Persisted Podcast’s Instagram (for more on DBT skills and teenage mental health maintenance):https://instagram.com/shepersistedpodcast?utm_medium=copy_linkMcLean Hospital’s 3East Program:https://www.mcleanhospital.org/treatment/3eastGeneral Info about DBT:https://behavioraltech.org/resources/faqs/dialectical-behavior-therapy-dbt/🧠 Listen and subscribe to the Your Life Sucks podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts! 🎙🧠 Follow - Instagram @theyourlifesuckspodcast 👍🧠 DM for inquiries or to be a guest. 📞29 min
About Your Life Sucks
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Raw discussions about mental health, created for teens, by teens. Hosted by Ben Small. Follow on Instagram @theyourlifesuckspodcast.