The Mental Health Marriage
With mental illness, the spouse often gets left with the burdens of the family, and is left very isolated. All the support can go to the spouse with the disorder, when we as the partner, need just as much love, understanding, and support. This podcast is my way of trying to provide a small piece of that, and to share each other's stories and offer helpful advice, support, and community.
Episodes
29 episodes
Creating Emotional Safety with Sam Tielemans
Sam Tielemans is a marriage and family therapist in the Las Vegas area, and also the host of the podcast "Couples Healing from Pornography Addiction". Sam speaks with Em about the unique challenges couples face when one has a mental healt...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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40:33
Kimberly Part 2 and Jasmyne: When your Parent has Bipolar
I continue my conversation with Kimberly Simpkins, author of http://www.simpkinsfamilychronicles.com who is also releasing her own podcast with the same name which you can find on any platform where you listen to podcasts. We also get to talk w...
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Episode 28
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36:16
Kimberly Simpkins Part 1
Author of the blog Simpkinsfamilychronicles.com, and fellow member of the Mental Health Strong Leadership summit, Kimberly Simpkins shares parts of her 20 year history with her husband Scott, who has Bipolar type one. Kimberly wants others to h...
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Episode 27
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46:00
#26 The Cycles
Em here announcing our Mental Health and Marriage Summit for October 2, 2021. Sign up at mentalhealthstrong.com , or email me at mentalhealthmarriage@gmail.com.In this episode, I give you an update on huge life transitions and what that doe...
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Episode 26
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15:37
Further Down the Line with Temple: Part 2
Author of "Whoops, I married a Bipolar" Temple Leffingwell talks with Em about the Pandemic, dealing with our own mental health, and the heartbreak that comes when you do everything you can and you're not seeing results yet. She wants to offer ...
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Episode 25
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39:00
Further Down the Line, With Temple Part 1
Author of "Whoops, I married a Bipolar", Temple Leffingwell joins Em to talk more about things she wishes she had known in navigating the treatment of Bipolar for her husband of 8 years. This is part 1 of a long conversation about the emotional...
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59:02
Stick it to the Stigma
Guest Tara, author of "When Hope Speaks" talks to us about her 3 year marriage to her husband who suffers from Bipolar disorder. On top of everything they face with mental illness, they dealt with 8 years of infertility before their daugh...
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Episode 23
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52:48
Mental Health Strong with Erin R.
Erin Ramachadran speaks to us about her book "Mental Health Strong". She uses her experience from 13 years of marriage to her husband who has OCD, Depression, and other mental health conditions, to provide guidance and support for those of us w...
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Episode 22
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1:00:06
Self Coaching Through Coronavirus: Beth Bush part 2
We are all having all kinds of thoughts, therefore feelings happening related to the anxiety of a global pandemic. Having a spouse with a mental health issue can just add more anxiety to the pot. Beth coaches Em through some of those scary thou...
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Episode 21
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1:03:14
Beth Bush and the Life Changing Power of Self Coaching
Not only is Beth Bush is a certified life coach through The Lifecoach School, but she also has been dealing with her own feelings and struggles being married to a man who has Bipolar 2. Hear her story, and the life changing break through's she ...
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Episode 20
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1:00:03
Anxiety, Depression, and Finding Community Part 2
The 2nd half of my conversation with "Ruth", whose husband has gone through bouts of Anxiety and depression, which cause work, marital, and life issues. She shares with us their plan as a couple for his treatment, and her own coping strategies ...
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Episode 19
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34:30
Anxiety, Depression, and Finding Community Part 1
Em interviews "Ruth" who has been married to her husband for 15 years. He has dealt with years of anxiety and depression, and she has learned many ways to make it through the tough times and has some great insights to share with us.
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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37:18
Winter and Mental Health
Winter is upon us! And for those of us with mental illness, or who have a spouse with anxiety, depression, or any other mental illness, this is a tough time of year. We need to fortify ourselves with every tool in our belt to help us get throug...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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19:14
Bipolar is not an Excuse for Infidelity
Guest "S" tells of her 24 year marriage to a man only recently diagnosed as both Bipolar 2, and ADHD. She has been through a lot, including infidelity, financial struggle, having a child who is also Bipolar and all the other ups and downs that ...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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1:02:55
The Human Condition and Spiritual Journey
Guest "K" shares how loving someone with Bipolar really opened the gate into his own Spiritual Journey. He has found better lenses and tools to view our experiences and make sense of this life. We talk about the power of myth and the Hero's Jou...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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1:01:02
Healing is a Slow Process
When we want to hand our mentally ill spouses over to their Doctors or their Therapists and say "Fix Him/Her", we need to understand one thing: It's a slow process. You can't drop them off at the hospital one night and have them come home in a ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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24:24
Surviving the Bipolar Storm with Hope and Grit
Meet special guest Michelle: she has been married to her High School sweet heart for over 20 years, has two boys, and yet only in the past 2 years has her husband been diagnosed with Bipolar 2. We discuss how she took a pretty much broken marri...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:01:07
Whoops, I Married a Bipolar: Temple Cartmill
"GET A GENE SITE TEST" and other great advice from the author of the book "Whoops, I Married a Bipolar". Temple shares her story with Em and they discuss deeper things like the spiritual roots of mental illness, and how to heal your own pain an...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:21:31
Wanting too Much, and Not Enough
Where is the balance between wanting a better life, and appreciating all the good things that you do actually have? This is something I struggle and wrestle with constantly, and maybe it's the pendulum of these two conflicting ideals that ultim...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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27:38
Falling in Love Again
Dealing with a mental illness for the first time, or over the span of a long relationship can leave it's scars. Sometimes we wonder if our mentally ill spouse is even capable of loving us, or of being in a relationship at all. But re framing th...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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27:03
Finding Beauty in Pain
In this interview, we hear from "L" who is the wife of a man diagnosed as on the Bipolar spectrum, whose biggest struggle has been severe bouts of depression that have led to a suicide attempt and hospitalizations. How do you come back from tha...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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48:22
Military Family deals with Bipolar, and decides EVERYONE needs therapy
Interview with "T" who is the spouse of a man recently diagnosed with Bipolar two, whose symptoms are mostly obsessive behaviors and irritability. We talk about how she deals with this, the struggles of sometimes parenting alone, her own strugg...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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58:30
It's Going to be OK
Are you dying to hear those words, and believe them? With so many situations out of your control with the mental health issues of your partner, you sometimes, or even all the time, just need someone to give you a giant hug, and tell you that it...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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19:48
Taking Back Your Power
Feeling helpless? Powerless? Desperate? You are not alone, and the host will share with you some helpful things you can do to take back your power, own your own happiness, and take steps to creating a more stable life for yourself and your fami...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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23:56