Neff Inspiration

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

487 Marcy Langlois: You Truly Can Overcome Anything and Live an Incredible Life

Born with a cleft lip and palate, Marcy's childhood was marked by an excruciating series of surgical procedures—23 in all before the age of 18. Because she looked and talked different than other kids, she was relentlessly teased and bullied. Her journey into adulthood was marked by challenging, traumatic, and downright tragic waypoints: coming out as a queer woman, involvement in a multiple-fatality car accident, and a devastating descent into addiction and chronic illness.
Though she got off to a rough start in life, Marcy has discovered one thing: that no matter what obstacles are in your path, Living Beyond Your Limits is not just a dream—it's infinitely possible.
She is a trauma survivor and chronic illness warrior 20+ years into my sobriety journey who shares tips and tools accumulated from a lifetime of work to help others live beyond their limits. 

3 Top Tips 
1. How to change your thoughts to be able to change the trajectory of your life using a simple formula that I call, cancel.
2. How to overcome anxiety by practicing embodiment.
3. How to use nature to heal anxiety and depression.

Social Media 
https://marcylanglois.com/
https://www.tiktok.com/@marcylanglois
https://www.facebook.com/speakermarcylanglois
https://www.instagram.com/marcylangloisofficial/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKl_GSHXhRLLaav2Ws-UqFg
https://courses.marcylanglois.com/1-on-1-vip-mentorship

486 Pat Roos: Surviving Alex - A mother's story of Love, Loss, and Addiction

In Pat’s words: 
My new book, Surviving Alex: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Addiction (Rutgers University Press, May 2024). It would be useful to talk about my goals. And the two questions that drove my narrative: how to survive something trauma like this, and what might we have done differently? It's most useful to focus on what "we" more generally could do, beyond individual families. 
I was a professor of sociology at Rutgers University when in 2015 my husband Chip and I suffered the tragic loss of our 25-year old son Alex from a heroin overdose. Then, and earlier during his active addiction, we were baffled and confused, not to mention heartbroken, by the insanity and chaos that turned our lives upside down and inside out. My training as a sociologist led me on a quest to better understand what happened to my family. Building on my professional and academic perspectives, I wrote a sociological memoir, Surviving Alex: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Addiction, published in May 2024 by Rutgers University Press.
I spent much of my sociological career investigating systemic patterns of inequality by sex and race, focusing on how subtle mechanisms of inequity get reproduced. After Alex’s death, I realigned my research and advocacy interests, turning grief into activism. In Surviving Alex, I use the same skills to examine extant explanations and treatments for the ever-growing overdose epidemic and find them wanting. Weaving together the personal and the sociological, I learned about the broader set of factors implicated in mental health and substance use disorders. Instead of focusing on individual-level choice and brain disease arguments, I direct my attention to the larger social context in which those individual-level actions occur. Ultimately, I hope to inspire a moral community of action to realign public health policy to address the overdose crisis.
In Surviving Alex, I describe the two roads families travel in the carousel ride from hell that is addiction. The ideal road—what all parents want for their child—travels a straight line through an idyllic childhood, high school and college graduations, career success, a family of one’s own. A second road—one that parents dread—heads directly into the storms, depression, anxiety, mental health disorders, substance use, and in the worst case, death. These two paths are not at opposite ends of the same continuum, but rather roads that run parallel to one other, and frequently intersect. I describe how Alex walked each of these roads, veering toward happiness, success, and sanity at some points in his life, and toward anxiety, despair, and addiction at others. I make clear that “good families” travel both these roads, arguing that addiction happens to people from “good families.” Indeed, as I underscore, addiction can happen to anyone.
I integrate existing research and writing on addiction with the information I gathered over the years we lived with Alex’s mental health and substance use, and with the trauma associated with his death. I talked with important people in Alex’s life, including his friends, therapist, teachers, police officers, family members, and others who met him along the way. As Alex’s medical heir, I collected intake and medical information from the institutions in which he resided, providing a wealth of information from social workers, doctors, psychiatrists, rehab staff, and jailers to flesh out my personal narrative and interviews.
Ultimately, I imagine a world steeped in compassionate, paradigm-shifting harm reduction methods, as opposed to the punitive, choice-based approaches that currently exist. I champion more holistic approaches that value the humanity of those contending with substance use and mental health disorders, leading to more effective public and private policy strategies and reductions in the corrosive effects of stigma. We need to build stronger bridges from the harm reduction policy world to the lives of families facing addiction, meeting those who use substances where they are. There is substantially more to the explanation of the overdose crisis than bad choices made by those in the throes of addiction. Understanding the larger, systemic picture is key to understanding how to fix the problem, and the kinds of roles that government and private partnerships can play in developing solutions. 

3 Top Tips
1) Move beyond conventional explanations to combat addiction, focusing on health-based as opposed to punitive, criminal justice approaches.
2) Implement harm reduction strategies to produce holistic, compassionate approaches to addiction.
3) Promote multiple paths to recovery and reform ineffectual treatment systems by introducing medicines for substance use.

Social Media 
email: pat@patroos.com
web page: patroos.com

485 Laura Mangum Broome: How to Move Beyond Adversity and Flourish in Life

Laura Mangum Broome is a Resilience Coach and Author of "Flourishing After Adversity." In a five-year period, Laura overcame breast cancer, the loss of her oldest son, a heart transplant, and a sudden divorce after 27 years of marriage. Adversity makes you bitter or better. Laura chose better. From her experiences, she developed a 3-Step Resilience Framework to help others transform pain into purpose and rediscover joy. In her spare time, Laura is a volunteer mentor for youth aging out of the foster care system and transitioning into adulthood. She lives a joyful life with her family in San Antonio, Texas.

3 Top Tips 
1. Focus on what's in your power to move forward toward your goal. (I can't do that, but I can do this.)
2. How did I overcome past challenges? What superpowers stand out?
3. I can find at least one good thing is this difficult situation (at least it's not worse). What are other things in my day (week, month) that I'm grateful for?

Social Media
Website: https://www.icope2hope.com/ (free resources available and contact information)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/icope2hope/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-mangum-broome-96473539/

Special Offer:
Free Resource: 20 Key Strategies to Strengthen Resilience and Embrace Change
Link: https://www.icope2hope.com/20strategies

484 Steve Wilson: Teetering on a tightrope - My bipolar journey

As an energetic normal boy of nine, Steven W. Wilson would not have guessed that the most horrifying day of his life was lurking just months ahead.
From that terrifying day when he was at the theater, to his suicidal ideations, his attempt to kill his father and his subsequent hospitalization, Teetering on a Tightrope sweeps the reader headlong into the abyss of bipolar disorder. Wilson propels the reader into his sometimes out-of-control mind, inability to perform sexually and overwhelming anger. Despite all that, Wilson gushes about the monumental times when he was in a state of normalcy and could enjoy life's golden moments, all centered around his family and friends. Teetering on a Tightrope shows that those who suffer from bipolar disorder can experience a full and productive life.