Lighthouse Mental Health Initiative

Finding you: An Evoke Therapy Podcast

https://evoketherapy.com/resources/evoke-podcast/

Finding You: An Evoke Therapy Podcast is based on the Webinar series hosted by Dr. Brad Reedy. These broadcasts offer parents and other family members the tools, insight, and support they need to navigate life’s challenges. This free resource offers anyone the chance to improve their relationship with a child, sibling, parent, or spouse struggling with mental health or addiction issues. Broadcast weekly, Dr. Reedy offers a new way of thinking about what it means to take care of your own mental health and to support others. Browse and choose from hundreds of titles. Listen, subscribe and share these valuable resources with others. You can also download them to listen on the go.

Parent to Parent Podcast

https://www.dtownctc.org/parent-to-parent-podcast

REAL LIFE TIPS TO RAISE RESILIENT KIDS

Welcome to a podcast from Communities that Care of Greater Downingtown. Every other Monday Chrissie and Bethann will meet with experts and other parents to discuss topics related to raising healthy kids–everything from drug and alcohol use to mental health to supporting independence. Each episode will give listeners concrete, hands-on tips that parents can use right away with their families, plus real life stories and support. Hosts Chrissie Dziembowski and Dr. Bethann Cinelli have a combined 40+ years experience working in health education with youth, parents, schools and communities.

Someone Gets Me Podcast

https://someonegetsme.podbean.com

Someone Gets Me speaks to the gifted visionary who lies inside of you. Hosted by Dianne A. Allen, this podcast was created for those gifted and talented people who lie awake feeling alone inside. You are no longer alone. I created this podcast because we’ve all been there – feeling not understood, feeling not seen, feeling like people don’t care. You will hear from gifted people who have gotten over the chasm and have taken the leap to really create something special.

YANA-You’re Not Alone Podcast

The You’re Not Alone Podcast with Zach Westerbeck

Welcome to the You’re Not Alone Podcast! I interview the most passionate experts and individuals with lived experience in the field of OCD. My mission is to help you take back your life. Living with OCD is not a life sentence, it’s an invitation to become the next best version of yourself.

The Neurodiversity Podcast

https://neurodiversitypodcast.com

The world needs neurodiversity. The gifted brains, unusual talents, and fresh perspective of neurodivergent people drive innovation and change things for the better. The Neurodiversity Podcast introduces you to these brilliant, quirky, amazing people, and brings you thought-provoking conversations with leaders in psychology, education, and technology, as we work to broaden the definition of normal.

Toxic Person Proof Podcast

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1162856

Starting over after a toxic person encounter? The Toxic Person Proof podcast is about helping the world’s most amazing women remember how amazing they are after enduring pain at the hand of a toxic partner, parent, coworker or friend.

Cutting Toxic Family Ties Podcast

https://drsherriecampbell.com/cutting-toxic-family-ties-podcast/

Toxic family is real. Toxic parents are real. Smear campaigns are real. Toxic in-laws are real. You are not alone. On this podcast, you have a voice.

On this podcast, Dr. Sherrie Campbell will help you learn more about your family dynamics, unconscious patterns that drive toxic human behavior, and ways to deal with your trauma.

And most importantly, you will embark on a journey that will help you know yourself and love yourself more.

Dr. Sherrie is a nationally recognized expert clinical psychologist with over 25 years of clinical training and experience. She has been featured in major media networks such as CNN, Time, USA Today, and The Huffington Post.

Self-Healers Soundboard Podcast

The Holistic Psychologist Podcast Page

The SELFHEALERS SOUNDBOARD is a global, community-based healing experience created by Dr. Nicole LePera and Jenna Weakland. Each week, we host raw, unscripted, open conversations about the things we are REALLY dealing with on the journey of facing our pasts and becoming our best Selves. Together, as community, we create resonance with “strangers” around the world as we collectively witness our own triggers, habits, traumas, and inherent wisdom. This is, and always will be, an ad free experience.

Just a Mom Podcast

https://www.thejustamompodcast.com

At Just a Mom, we share stories of real parents who have walked the lonely, scary road of parenting a child with mental illness.  You’ll hear from mental health experts and learn more about effective programs and resources.  In all of this, we want you to know that you are not alone, and there is hope.

On Our Minds Podcast

https://studentreportinglabs.org/on-our-minds/season-1/#episodes

On Our Minds is an Edward R. Murrow award-winning, student-led and student-produced podcast about the biggest mental health challenges young people face. In each episode, two teen reporters guide you through stories by high schoolers from PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs about the teenage experience that connects, educates and inspires listeners of all ages.

The Audacity to Be You: Learning to Love Your Horrible, Rotten Self by Brad Reedy Ph.D

            Reedy talks about how all our relationships are connected to the relationship we have with ourselves. He shows how the foundation for intimacy with partners, our ability to parent effectively, and the meaningfulness of our lives can be tied to how well we have unraveled our unique childhood history. “The Audacity to Be You: Learning to Love Your Horrible, Rotten, Self” is a simple but bold exploration into what makes us human and why happiness and connection are elusive for so many.

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self  by Alice Miller

            Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents’ expectations and win their “love.” Alice Miller writes, “When I used the word ‘gifted’ in the title, I had in mind neither children who receive high grades in school nor children talented in a special way. I simply meant all of us who have survived an abusive childhood thanks to an ability to adapt even to unspeakable cruelty by becoming numb…. Without this ‘gift’ offered us by nature, we would not have survived.” But merely surviving is not enough. The Drama of the Gifted Child helps us to reclaim our life by discovering our own crucial needs and our own truth.

The Knight in Rusty Armor by Robert Fisher

            The knight’s journey reflects our own, filled with hope and despair, belief and disillusionment, laughter and tears. His insights become our insights as we follow along on this intriguing adventure of self-discovery. Anyone who has ever struggled with the meaning of life and love will discover profound wisdom and truth as this delightful fantasy unfolds.

The Journey of the Heroic Parent  by Brad M Reedy Ph.D

            When a child is hurting, it can be the most painful challenge a parent will face. With compassion and perspective, Dr. Brad Reedy offers hope and wisdom for children who struggle and the parents who love them. The Journey of the Heroic Parent will take you on a journey to a happier, healthier relationship with your struggling child – and yourself. Through lessons learned, mother, father, and child will achieve greater understanding, love, and humanity – no matter what the outcome.

The Parallel Process: Growing Alongside Your Adolescent or Young Adult Child in Treatment by Krissy Pozatek

            Using case studies garnered from her many years as an adolescent and family therapist, Krissy Pozatek shows parents of pre-teens, adolescents, and young adults how they can help their children by attuning to emotions, setting limits, not rushing to their rescue, and allowing them to take responsibility for their actions, while recognizing their own patterns of emotional withdrawal, workaholism, and of surrendering their lives and personalities to parenting. As such, The Parallel Process is an essential primer for all parents, whether of troubled teens or not, who are seeking to help the family stay and grow together as they negotiate the potentially difficult teenage years.

Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir by Marsha M. Linehan

            In this remarkable and inspiring memoir, Linehan describes how, when she was eighteen years old, she began an abrupt downward spiral from popular teenager to suicidal young woman. After several miserable years in a psychiatric institute, Linehan made a vow that if she could get out of emotional hell, she would try to find a way to help others get out of hell too, and to build a life worth living.  She went on to put herself through night school and college, living at a YWCA and often scraping together spare change to buy food. She went on to get her PhD in psychology, specializing in behavior therapy. In the 1980s, she achieved a breakthrough when she developed Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, a therapeutic approach that combines acceptance of the self and ways to change. Linehan included mindfulness as a key component in therapy treatment, along with original and specific life-skill techniques. She says, “You can’t think yourself into new ways of acting; you can only act yourself into new ways of thinking.”

The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children

by Dr. Shefali Tsabary

In Dr. Shefali Tsabary’s conscious approach to parenting, however, children serve as mirrors of their parents’ forgotten self. Those willing to look in the mirror have an opportunity to establish a relationship with their own inner state of wholeness. Once they find their way back to their essence, parents enter into communion with their children, shifting away from the traditional parent-to-child “know it all” approach and more towards a mutual parent-with-child relationship. The pillars of the parental ego crumble as the parents awaken to the ability of their children to transport them into a state of presence.

Someone Gets Me: How Smart and Intensely Sensitive People Can Thrive in an Insensitive World by Dianne A. Allen, MA

            Are you more sensitive and intense than others in your family? Are you often not understood by others, leaving you feeling alone? Is your sense of humor quirky? Someone Gets Me is the perfect book for you. You will find a quiz to help you see how intensely sensitive you are. Each chapter gives you a specific focus for navigating an insensitive world along with Points to Ponder that support your ongoing awareness and growth. In these pages you will learn about your gifts, intensities, sensitivities and how being intensely sensitive can be used in your favor. Use the ideas herein to support your growth and ongoing transformation. Share the ideas with your friends and family and enjoy more satisfaction and happiness

The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations for Codependents by Melody Beattie

            Melody Beattie integrates her own life experiences and fundamental recovery reflections in this unique daily meditation book written especially for those of us who struggle with the issue of codependency. Problems are made to be solved, Melody reminds us, and the best thing we can do is take responsibility for our own pain and self-care. In this daily inspirational book, Melody provides us with a thought to guide us through the day and she encourages us to remember that each day is an opportunity for growth and renewal.

National Suicide Hotline

Call or Text 988

www.988lifeline.org

The Trevor Project helpline for LGTBQ+ Youth

866.488.7386

www.TheTrevorProject.org

Crisis Text Line

Text HELP to 741741

www.Crisistextline.org

Life Path Systems Crisis Hotline and Mobile Crisis Team for Collin County

877.422.5939

www.Lifepathsystems.org

Need help finding a therapist?

Call the Mental Health Navigation Line

972.525.8181

www.Herefortexas.com