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No Need to Explain with the Mental Health Mamas
We ALL have mental health.The Mental Health Mamas are on a mission to normalize the conversation around mental health. Are you well? Do you have good strategies to take care of your mental health or do you need more support? We are here to walk beside you and help you hold some of the hard stuff as we all find our way through this messy and imperfect world.Join us as we share a bit of what we’ve learned along the way, talk openly about mental health, work to help you feel less alone and gently remind you to do your best to take care of yourself while also taking care of your people.With the Mental Health Mamas, there’s No Need to Explain.
Episodes
138 episodes
The Story Behind His Success with Guest Akeem Shannon
Akeem Shannon joins Tina and Serena this week to talk about his journey with mental health. Akeem is an entrepreneur, a pitch pastor, dog dad, and motivational speaker and talks very candidly about the windy path that took him to being in...
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Season 4
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Episode 19
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26:30
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Resilience: a Journey Through Trauma to Intentionality with Guest Somiah Lattimore
Join Tina and Serena this week as they are joined by Somiah Lattimore, entrepreneur, investor, community builder and for our purposes a survivor of childhood trauma. Please listen in to this story of resilience, one in which the Mental He...
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Season 4
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Episode 18
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40:31
Parenting with Pride with Guest Heather Hester
This week the Mental Health Mamas welcome encore guest Heather Hester talking about her brand new book Parenting with Pride: Unlearn Bias and Embrace, Empower and Love Your LGTBQ+ Teen. Excellent guest! Excellent book! Listen ...
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Season 4
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Episode 17
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20:33
Get Out of the "ShouldStorm" with guest Alison Escalante
With the hustle culture comes anxiety and the ever dreaded "ShouldStorm". This week Alison Escalante joins the podcast to talk about parenting, the ShouldStorm, her antidote and so much more. Listen in!Visit Alison's website...
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28:38
Personality: Changeable or Static? with guest Shannon Sauer Zavala
This week the Mental Health Mamas dive into an in depth conversation about personality and our personalities are more malleable than we think. Our guest is clinical psychologist Shannon Sauer Zavala founder of Compass, Intentional Persona...
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Season 4
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Episode 15
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24:05
The Importance of Rejuvenation with guest Tessia Watson
The Mental Health Mamas are back this week with guest Tessia Watson, mum and author of the new book Rejuvenated Mums Make Happy Kids. In the episode, Tessia discusses the importance of finding your true self after motherhood, having a res...
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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32:31
Storytelling Drives Connection with Guest Erin Rodgers
Join the Mental Health Mamas this week as Erin Rodgers entertains us with her storytelling talent and her self deprecating humor, normalizing autism, ADHD and mental differences. https://www.storystarcoaching....
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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37:07
Does Mommy Really Need a Drink? with guest Celeste Yvonne
This week the Mental Health Mamas talk with a mom whose story and honest postings about her dealing with her own sobriety touched so many people that she made it her life's work. Listen in as she talks about her book, It's N...
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28:30
Unpacking Our Past: A Key to Wellness
This week Tina and Serena are joined by Melissa Crook, host of the F.E.E.L.S, podcast joins us to talk about her journey and how she helps others find wellness through feeling all of the feels.Visit Melissa Crook's website: https:...
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28:52
Seeing Disabilities as Super Powers with Guest Alex Gilbert
This week the Mental Health Mamas are joined by Alex Gilbert, career coach for adults with learning disabilities and/or ADHD. Tune in to hear how Alex used her own experience with ADHD and Dyslexia to help other and why she believes disabilitie...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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26:03
New Year, New You?
New Year, New You? We like you just the way you are! Tune in to hear Tina and Serena talk about their frustrations with New Year's Resolutions and why they're not making any this year.Visit our website for more content:
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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22:13
Is it the Most Wonderful Time of the Year for Everyone? with guest Lisa Sugarman
In this just-before-the-holidays holiday episode the Mental Health Mamas are joined by an encore guest Lisa Sugarman. Lisa is a Boston based author and shares her pivot since the death of her father, a death by suicide, not a heart atta...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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30:31
Live Your Life One Footstep at a Time with guest Shaun Coffey
Join us this week as we interview Shaun Coffey, Certified Recovery Specialist on a mission to normalize men's mental health. From his personal childhood trauma, military experience and years of homelessness, his compelling story of welln...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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24:23
Boundaries for People Pleasers with Guest Kara Regas
Are you a people pleaser? Do you struggle with perfectionism? Do you have trouble setting boundaries at work or at home? You are in the right place! Listen in this week when our guest Kara Regas talks us through some sce...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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40:31
Sunflowers Bend but Rarely Break with Oksana Kukurudza
We continue our theme of immigrant culture and assimilation this week. Immigrants have family history and culture deeply rooted in their country of origin. Our guest this week is Oksana Kukurudza whose parents were Ukrain...
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32:51
Alone in a New Country with Anita Resch
At a time when immigration to the US is at an all time high, the Mental Health Mamas take a peak into the life of Anita Resch. When her country was not affording her family the opportunities they desired for their family, her husband got ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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15:19
We Face it Together: A Unique Approach to Addiction Peer Support with guest Kattie Lail
The Mental Health Mamas continue our theme of connection as a key to favorable outcomes as we hear Kattie Lail's compelling story of overcoming addiction. As Kattie shares her story we are feeling all of the feels! Listen in to hear...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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32:07
Link Before You Sink: The Power of Connection with Guest Jenna Righi
Continuing the theme of connection, connection being the antidote for lonliness, Jenna Righi joins the podcast this week. Jenna is the founder and creator of Link Before you Sink, a mission driven, handmade jewelry business that w...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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18:39
Lonely in a Crowd: You Are NOT Alone
In their season opener Serena and Tina talk about the US Surgeon General's report on the Epidemic of Loneliness, feeling lonely vs being alone and the prevalence of loneliness in our nation, even before the COVID 19 pandemic. And, as alwa...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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27:25
Season 3 Closer with Serena and Tina
Join Serena and Tina as they wrap up the season with a mishmash of topics from the season as well as comments on current events. As you will find in any episode with these host, they are real, feeling all of the feels!Vis...
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Season 3
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Episode 43
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26:24
HRV Technology for Greater Awareness with Guest Rohan Dixit
Listen in as we talk with Rohan Dixit, founder and CEO at Lief Therapeutics, a company that has developed a wearable device to help with self-regulation. Lief measures your heart and breath to track your stress levels in real-time, using...
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Season 3
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Episode 42
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25:32
The Bench Project with guest Beth Romanoski
Connection is a very powerful tool in our mental health wellness toolboxes. This week, Tina and Serena welcome guest Beth Romanoski to talk about a project that began very organically in their family to get them through some hard times...
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Season 3
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Episode 41
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24:20
Talking Chronic Pain with The Pain Game Podcast host Lyndsay Soprano
Our guest this week, Lyndsay Soprano, takes us on her journey with chronic pain. Lyndsay has lived with debilitating chronic pain for seven years and the conversation delves into her approach to life but also her tips for living your ...
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Season 3
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Episode 40
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39:51
Mama Systems: From Overwhelm to Peace with Guest Laura Hernandez
Have you ever felt totally overwhelmed by all of the things? Do you feel like you are depleted and exhausted, just surviving and not thriving? Our guest this week is Laura Hernandez, a mama of 10, shares details of her coaching p...
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Season 3
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Episode 39
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18:01