Neff Inspiration

497 Ria Flanagan: The " Happiness Is An Inside Job Playbook"

Ria Flanagan (she/her/hers) is the Clinical Supervisor at Rise Up Recover, LLC. She also provides Workshops and counseling services to individuals struggling with the effects of addiction, trauma, and mental health issues. Her experience includes working with people struggling with addiction, trauma, and co-occurring issues: PTSD, depression, anxiety, sex addiction, Love addiction/Love avoidance, pain management, combat trauma, betrayal trauma, codependency, intimacy issues, couple's coaching, grief counseling, and process addictions. Her perspective is to view the person from all angles and address family of origin issues, spirituality, and mental and physical health. Ria is an eclectic practitioner using diverse modalities including Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Somatic Experiencing (SE), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), Post Induction Therapy (PIT), Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and uses a person-centered approach, meeting the client where they are and providing a safe space to move forward into recovery. Her new "Happiness is an inside job playbook" helps everyone to gain deeper insights into ways of becoming a better human. 
Before opening Rise Up Recover, Ria worked as a Clinical Director for PHP, Residential treatment, IOP, and a Detox Center and has experience providing therapy to first responders, nurses, doctors, CEOs, artists, ex-gang members, and military. Ria is comfortable working with many individuals to provide support and tools to thrive. Ria is an AZ Board Certified Clinical Supervisor, Rainbow educator, and advocate, providing services to the LGBTQ+ community. Ria collaborates with other organizations as a consultant and educator. Her recent collaboration was with Ethical Narrative, uniting documentary film and experiential process to deepen the viewer's experience. She is publishing her first book, Happiness is an Inside_Playbook, through Balboa Press.
Learn about Betrayal Trauma
 Learn about Love Addiction and Love Avoidance
 Learn about recovery from Childhood Trauma
https://www.youtube.com/@happiness_playbook
 https://www.instagram.com/happinessplaybookseries/

496 Austin Davis: How Does The Current State of America Influence Teenage Drug Addiction?

My name is Austin Davis. I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor in the State of Texas. As such, I’ve worked in the mental health field for over a decade, and have helped rehabilitate over 5,000 teenagers since I founded Texas’ largest teen-oriented treatment center in 2017, Clearfork Academy.
I’m currently the CEO for said facility, and author of the book “My Kid, My Crisis”, which explores a variety of experiences of families that have faced challenges related to substance abuse and mental health issues with their teens. This interview dives deep into how the current state of the United States influences teenage drug addiction. 

3 Top Tips
1. How does isolation contribute to teenage substance abuse
 2. What caregivers, health professionals, and educators do to support troubled teens
 3. What to look for in a good treatment plan for your child

Social Media
"Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clearforkacademy/
 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW9obDBg7ElpdXichEyOS9Q
 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clearforkacademy/?hl=en
 X (Twitter): https://x.com/Clearfork616
 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/clearforkacademy "

495 Jennifer Westcott: Wholeness Means Embracing Brokenness As Part Of Life

About Jennifer Westcott
 Hi I'm Jen. I am a therapist, artist, mother, wife, friend. I am a woman devoted and passionate to making therapists the best they can be, the most supported and human and kind to themselves. the reason I believe so strongly in this is through my own journey through healing and encountering both great and awful therapy! As the mental health field becomes more needed than ever, it's essential to support therapists as HUMANS. We already know how to get supervision, we already know how to get training, but there are not nearly enough places to talk about the human experience of being a therapist; how it affects us and how we affect it.
 I grew up in an alcoholic, dysfunctional family that looked really good on the outside with professional parents and kids who were 'bright' and went far...but inside the family were secrets of incest and alcoholism. When I was 36 years old I suddenly remembered being sexually abused by my mother. I nearly went completely mad and definitely went quite mad. This started my journey to healing and sobriety and I continue to trudge daily. The help I needed took me to many therapists' couches, psychologist appointments, psychiatry appointments, alternative healing circles, and 12-step meetings. Through this inside experience, I became PASSIONAtE about what helps people and what doesn't. I changed my complete approach to being a therapist after being a client and NEEDING HELP and getting it, and not getting it. My job as a clinical supervisor and private therapist became an experiment in 'what helps' clients heal from trauma and addiction and I tried a LOT OF THINGS and still do! What I've learned for sure is this: therapists who are authentic, real, and human help clients profoundly. How then do I support therapists to KNOW their own stories and wounds and USE this knowledge to have a healing impact on their clients? How do I support therapists in breaking out of the mold they became trapped in during their graduate program and remembering the sacredness and marvel of human healing? Creating Therapist Sanctuary is my attempt to do this and to hold up therapists in the sacred and meaningful work they do. Also, shout out to my old mentor Stuart Smally from 90's SNL who 'was not an actual therapist but a member of many 12-step groups'. Stuart; I love you.

3 Top Tips
Permission for therapists to be more vulnerable, making them love what they do more
 deny the culture of putting our 'best self forward', let's put our most wounded self forward too!
 Therapists support and hold each other up better than any cheesy self-care method that doesn't even work and that we try doing alone in the bath.

Social Media:
https://www.holistichealingcounselling.com/
 https://www.youtube.com/@therapistsanctuary
 https://www.instagram.com/therapistsanctuary/
 https://www.tiktok.com/@holistic_healing4
 https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-westcott-ba897023b/

 

494 Adam Peters: Path To Purpose - How Veterans Rediscover Their Mission

As a strategic Veteran, Adam Peters brings a wealth of experience and a unique perspective that resonates deeply with podcast hosts and their audiences. Adam’s journey from military service to entrepreneurial success is not just a personal story of resilience and transformation; it's a powerful narrative that offers invaluable lessons and inspiration for listeners. It shows the challenges that many veterans experience on their path to finding renewed purpose and rediscovering their mission.
After serving his country, Adam faced the daunting challenge of transitioning to civilian life. He realized that many veterans, like himself, struggled to find purpose and direction post-service, often feeling lost and undervalued. This experience ignited his passion to support fellow veterans, leading to the creation of The Stronghold community. This vibrant network is dedicated to helping veterans navigate their transition by providing resources, guidance, and a sense of belonging.
Adam's expertise spans several crucial areas:
Veteran Entrepreneurship: Adam empowers veterans to channel their skills and experiences into successful entrepreneurial ventures. He shares actionable strategies and insights that help veterans transform their military discipline and leadership into business success.
Leadership Development: With a strong background in leadership, Adam offers valuable lessons on developing leadership qualities that are essential in both military and civilian life. He provides practical advice on how to lead with purpose and resilience.
Holistic Wellness and Plant Medicine: Adam advocates for holistic approaches to wellness, including plant medicine. He discusses the benefits of these therapies in addressing mental health challenges and promoting overall well-being, offering listeners new perspectives on healing and growth.
Mental Health Advocacy: Understanding the mental health struggles many veterans face, Adam emphasizes the importance of mental health awareness and support. He shares personal experiences and practical tips for managing mental health, making his discussions relatable and impactful.
Resilience Building: Adam's story is a testament to resilience. He shares techniques and mindset shifts that help individuals overcome adversity and build a resilient, purpose-driven life.
For podcast hosts, featuring Adam Peters means offering your audience a profoundly engaging and inspiring narrative. Adam's story provides a blueprint for overcoming challenges, finding purpose, and thriving in adversity. Listeners will gain:
Practical Insights: Concrete steps and strategies to apply in their own lives, whether they are veterans or civilians looking to make meaningful changes.
 Inspiration: A powerful, real-life example of resilience and transformation that motivates listeners to pursue their goals.
Unique Perspectives: Fresh and holistic approaches to mental health, leadership, and personal development that can benefit anyone facing life's challenges.

3 Top Tips 
1. Transitioning from Military to Entrepreneurship
2. Building Resilience and a Growth Mindset to rediscover their mission
3. The importance of finding a Supportive Community for Veterans

Social Media
X: https://x.com/thestrategicvet 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pete.peters.39 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pete0585/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thestrategicveteran/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChSuB5bX_E-zXvi5yJ6R5vQ
Website: Https://thestrategicveteran.com
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-strategic-veteran/id1743039436
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3U8FOupOu070V00PXR4DSd?si=a34badf3303943dc
Podbean: https://thestrategicveteran.podbean.com/

 

493 Owen Marcus: Beyond Stress - Transforming Men & Lives Through Emotional Physiology

Owen Marcus started helping men because he realized he needed help with his relationships. His 30-year journey from leading men’s groups led to writing a book, a documentary film on his work and starting three businesses that adapt the science behind stress and trauma therapy, attachment theory, and leadership development to train men to succeed in all their relationships.
His work has been featured in Men’s Health, New York Times, The Today Show, ABC News, NPR, and more. Leading therapists such as Esther Perel and Sue Johnson have endorsed this work because of the sustainable change it produces. 
His passion for the work and the men it severs comes through the unique stories he has from decades of doing the work. Both men and women leave inspired and with a new frame to view men and how to help them. 

3 Top Tips
My ROC Formula: slow down to Relax, Open up to vulnerability, and reach out for Connection
How we disconnect from our own experience or others is not our fault. Those coping mechanisms are survival strategies that have outlived their usefulness. 
We have a growing epidemic of drug use, suicides, loneliness, and despair in part because men as they get older don’t have real friends. We have found easy and fun ways for men to develop some of the deepest friendships of their lives. We are not therapy, addiction recovery, or suicide prevention services, but we have several men come out and say, if it wasn’t for this work, they would have killed themselves. We have created a scalable way for men to help men. 

Social Media
http://instagram.com/meld.men
https://www.linkedin.com/company/meldmenscommunity/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/owenmarcus/
https://twitter.com/meldmen
https://www.facebook.com/meldmen

492 Theodore Henderson: Learn How Light Is Repairing The Brain

Theodore A. Henderson MD, PhD is president and founder of Neuro-Luminance Inc, which is bringing revolutionary treatments to bear upon traumatic brain injury, depression, Alzheimer’s disease, post-COVID fatigue syndrome, and other brain disorders. He holds three patents and three patents-pending. Dr. Henderson is president of the International Society of Applied Neuroimaging. He has published in neuroimaging, psychopharmacology, dementia, photobiomodulation, and traumatic brain injury. He has over 70 publications in top research journals and has been cited in over 900 scientific papers. His recent book, Brighter Days Ahead is featured on Amazon. Dr. Henderson will help you rethink brain disorders like depression and brain injury and introduce you to exciting new treatments which actually activate the brain’s own healing process. 

I am Dr. Theodore Henderson - psychiatrist. My work is focused on innovative treatments for psychiatric and neurological disorders. These include ketamine infusion therapy (more on this below), multi-Watt infrared light therapy, antiviral therapy, and anti-inflammation therapy. My approaches shake up the foundations of what cause psychiatric illnesses. Gone are the chemical imbalance theories. It is infections, inflammation, and degenerative disease that cause most psychiatric conditions. 
I recently published a book, Brighter Days Ahead: Leaving Depression Behind Through Innovative New Treatments. In it, I explore ketamine in some depth - but more as a model for how the brain responds to depression and PTSD.
I explore other innovative treatments, including multi-watt infrared light therapy (LUMIT) - which powerfully activates neuroplasticity. I would love to enlighten your audience to LUMIT as a new treatment approach. Literally, using light as a treatment. There is nothing purer than light. 
LUMIT treatment is curing...yes, curing...Long COVID. Patients who could not climb a flight of stairs or think, who had to take a leave of absence from work, who tried many other treatments with no benefit - are now back to working, hiking, running, and living their life.
We have seen amazing improvement in PTSD, traumatic brain injury (TBI), depression, and anxiety symptoms in our patients using LUMIT therapy, whether they are veterans, first-responders, or civilians. Also, I feel the role of viruses in depression, anxiety, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Parkinson's disease, and other neurological conditions is grossly underappreciated and ignored by Medicine.

3 top tips
- depression is not a chemical imbalance. It is degeneration of the brain. Fortunately, it is reversible.
- traumatic brain injury can be healed. As long as the brain cells are alive, they can be reinvigorated, reactivated, and repaired. Light is the treatment.
- Long COVID has a treatment. Light is the answer. 

www.neuro-luminance.com
https://www.youtube.com/@NeuroLuminance
https://www.tiktok.com/@doctheodorehenderson/

Mention the show and get your first treatment for free!

491 Jeremy Grater: How to embrace vulnerability as a strength

Motivation doesn't show up. It's created.
Each person is the cause of and solution to most of their own problems.
Vulnerability is a strength.
Life is messy but you don't have to clean it all up at once. Sometimes it starts with just clearing a path.

Jeremy Grater lives in British Columbia. He’s spent the majority of the last decade experimenting with a variety of wellness tools to improve his mental health, lose 70 pounds and share what’s helped along the way. He’s also been in the broadcasting and podcasting business for about two decades. Jeremy is a certified REBT Mindset Life Coach.
More info at https://www.thefitmess.com/about/

490 Christopher Mack: I'm In Recovery, Now What?

Christopher Mack has been in recovery for the past 24 years. I found that their is a dynamic to recovery and healing, and speak to groups and individuals about the evidence and process. I have worked on Skid Row in LosAngeles for the past 21 years which is the largest recovery community in the world. People are recovering from all types of trauma and challenges. I have co-written a program to assist others in finding their own recovery and ultimately their authentic selves and freedom.

3 Top Tips 
Indicators and Evidence of your Recovery....How are you doing?
 Simple tools that are available for everyone to assist in recovery.
 How we must Feel it to Heal it!

Social media
www.dynamicsofrecovery.com
 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9tkReSLmQN5ryef5Q-D-Tw
 https://www.facebook.com/dynamicsofrecovery/
 https://www.instagram.com/websterwanda/?hl=en

489 Martin Bodek: Zaidy's War: 4 Armies, 3 Continents. One Man's Impossible Story of Endurance

Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Martin currently lives in NJ with his wife and three children. He is an avid marathoner, Wordler, vexillologist, and halvah aficionado. He is a technologist by day, and a writer by night.
A freelance writer on Jewish interest topics for three decades, his work has been published in The Huffington Post, The Denver Post, The Washington Times, The Jewish Press, Country Yossi Magazine, Modern Magazine, The Jewish Link of NJ, The Jewish Book Council, scoogiespin, israelinsider, bangitout, jewcentral, Jew in the City, Aish, and Shepherd. His work was translated for Germany’s only weekly Jewish newspaper, The Jüdische Allgemeine. Zaidy’s War was translated into Yiddish and serialized in Der Yid. He is the co-creator of TheKnish.com, a popular Jewish news satire site, the beat reporter for JRunners, the surname columnist for jewishworldreview, the cufflink columnist for The Jewish Link of NJ, and is part of the Word Prompt rotation in The Jewish Press.
The Emoji Haggadah, The Festivus Haggadah, The Coronavirus Haggadah, and The Shakespeare Haggadah generated much praise and media attention, and were covered in The Jewish Week, The Jewish Link of NJ, Jewish Vues, Vos Iz Neias, Jewish Book Council, northjersey, The Forward, Jewish Journal, J-Wire, Vox, The Jewish Press, The Jewish Fund, The Jerusalem Post, The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, The Jüdische Allgemeine, Moked, various blogs, eater, nj1015, New York Shakespeare Instagram Live, The Cindy Grosz Show, and The New York Times.
Zaidy’s War, the memoir of his grandfather’s unreal WWII experience, launched Martin on an international, multi-venue public speaking/podcast/Zoom talk/book club tour that remains ongoing.

3 Top Tips 
Survival, endurance, repairing of the world.

Social Media 
https://martinbodekbooks.com/
https://www.facebook.com/martinbodek
https://x.com/MartinBodek

10in10 Logan Hufford: Sexual Addiction: I can show you the way out

Logan is a born & raised Alaskan, married to his gorgeous bride Carrie, who herself is a 4th-generation Alaskan; and together they are raising 4 amazing but crazy little monkeys.

Their life is a simple one - they love their family time, their dogs, and exploring the beautiful Alaskan wilderness.

Logan and his wife Carrie each lead Recovery groups, doing what they can to give back by sharing the gifts that God has given them.

When he has time, Logan is a lover of sports - playing basketball as much as possible, and enjoying the NFL (Go Colts!)

Since January of 2021, Logan has been blessed to be able to use many of the tools he’s learned in Addiction Recovery, as a Dave Ramsey-endorsed personal finance coach. He’s honored to help folks find freedom & healthy living, in a different venue than just specifically recovery

3 Top Tips 

1) To beat your addiction, you NEED accountability & connection. I can show you how to build that

2) Building trust in a marriage is incredibly hard after betrayal. But there is a way.

3) Pornography is not a minor issue, or a harmless form of entertainment. It is a bridge to a much darker place.

 

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/share/3k4ptv9Pq2izsAok/?mibextid=dGKdO6