Be Crazy Well

Connecting with people to help, heal, and serve the world Suzi has the pleasure of chatting with Bruce Kittle, Life & Performance Coach and Community Outreach & Co-Host of Hidden Pearls Podcast. Bruce works 1-on-1 with veterans, athletes, and others to help them mindfully discover and express their authentic self through meditation, mindfulness, breath work, yoga, affirmations, visualizati...

Are you a human being or a human doing? What are your principles? Suzi talks about basing decisions on principles and not thoughts and feelings. If it doesn't support your principles don't do it. Our most hurtful betrayal is not what we do to others, it's what we do to ourselves when we abandon our principles and the person we deserve to be. Don't cheat yourself out of being the best you.  Write d...

Grief, Guilt and Multi Generational Transmission of Trauma Suzi talks about grief, guilt and multi-generational transmission of trauma to create a different way to move through the pain. Suzi talks about regret and how it can play into guilt and grief. Sometimes guilt shames us to the point of inaction or can push us to be ambivalent about living. To change how we face the storms in our lives we m...

Suzi continues her Veteran Affairs Healthcare System Series with Dr. Joe Mason, former psychiatrist at the VA CBOC clinic in Charlottesville, Virginia. Suzi and Joe discuss some of the problems within the system such as medication, therapy and tackling the challenges to provide adequate effective care to the veteran community. From these issues they talk about possible solutions that could help to...

Suzi continues her conversation with Retired Colonel Loren Weeks about being your own healthcare advocate and creating the team you will need to move forward in ensuring you are given the care you deserve. Asking questions, seeking truth and understanding how the system works and making it work for you. Music credit to Kalvin Love for the podcast’s theme song “Bee Your Best Self” Tune into our CHW...

Send us a Text Message.  Suzi is joined by Retired Colonel Loren Weeks to talk about some of the issues and possible solutions within the VA Healthcare system. Some of the questions are:  Why is the Veterans Affairs Hospital system not mapped out to serve veterans as efficiently as they are served when on active duty? Why is it that when veterans go to a VA hospital no matter where the location, t...

Send us a Text Message. Suzi reconnects with Cathy Turner Murphy, Veteran spouse, daughter of a Vietnam Veteran, a virtual wellness coach, business mentor, caregiver advocate and fulltime RVer, about healthy living and contracting with another non-profit to work with the VA.  Finding solutions to help our veteran and veteran caregivers connect, be supported and validated through partnerships and c...

Join Suzi in her series dedicated to a new mission: Creating a new way of “healing” between veterans and the VA. We are going to dig into new ways the VA staff and veterans can create true wellness teams. The moment clinician and veteran meet, connection is the most important aspect of creating an effective and respectful wellness team. As clinicians, we must listen to those we serve. Veterans are...

Suzi follows up with Janelle Marina Méndez, a Marine veteran and human rights CEO of the Military Sexual Trauma Movement, founder of MSTM a Facebook support group for survivors of MST created in 2018 and human rights leader, about her Stellate Ganglion Block (SGB) treatment. After 30+ years of layered trauma, Janelle has found a solution and way to manage and move forward in conquering her PTSD. J...

How are you doing differently? Are you being or are you doing? Suzi ponders on the effectiveness of veteran resources and whether they are truly helping people to be well or are the numbers more important than the quality. Is peer to peer support more effective? When a person can relate to others who have been there and clearly understand the struggle, is this form of therapy more effective? Music...

Today Suzi is joined by friend, People Operations at Merging Vets and Players and military spouse, Lisa Parameter to talk about being your own person and creating the life you deserve.  As a military spouse for more than 20 years, Lisa utilized every skill in her playbook to navigate the many adventures and wide array of cultures living in numerous locations across the country and overseas. Her re...

The ancient Masters didn’t try to educate the people, but kindly taught them to not-know. When they think that they know the answers, people are difficult to guide. When they know that they don’t know, people can find their own way. ~ Tao Te Ching translated by Stephen Mitchell Suzi dives deeper into being a know-it-all and letting go of having to always have the answers. The one size fits all dia...

Staying connected. Staying Engaged. Staying Together. In todays' episode Suzi reconnects with James Ferguson, Marine Veteran and founder of Warrior Reunion Foundation, to talk about the importance of wellness practices and staying connected. James talks about his time in service, his leadership and those that served alongside him. James reflects on how the importance of supporting each other led h...

Are you independent? Co-dependent? Or Interdependent? In today's episode, Suzi explains the difference between independence, codependency and interdependence within a family or relationship. Being dependent is when a party is reliant on another party for survival. In contrast interdependence is when two or more parties are reliant on each other for survival. Interdependence relies on those within...

Continuing the conversation of Military Sexual Trauma (MST) and what we can all do as a society to do better. Suzi talks with Janelle Marina Méndez, a Marine veteran and human rights CEO of the Military Sexual Trauma Movement, founder of MSTM a Facebook support group for survivors of MST created in 2018 and human rights leader. Suzi and Janelle discuss her time in the military, history of military...

Wading through the emotional landmines planted by trauma before, during and after service. Buried emotional landmines from trauma can result in bursts of reactive emotions that are burrowed deep within. Oftentimes we refer to these as triggers and the response might be "Why did that happen? It just came out of nowhere!" Suzi explains how these reactions never just come out of nowhere. Learn how to...

Today's episode is a great collaboration of two our podcast hosts talking about veteran healing. Suzi talks with Mike Kim, aka Mike Kim Veteran, a psychoanalyst, ex-monk, Iraq War Veteran, Retired VA Lead Supervisory War Readjustment Counselor and Retired VA Vet Center Team Leader/Director, about his journey and mission of wellbeing. Tune in to this great conversation and discussion. Be sure to ch...

Suzi talks with Adam Popp, U.S. Air Force veteran about where he was and what he had to do to be where he is now to Be Crazy Well.  Bio Adam is a 12-year combat veteran of the Air Force with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team leader. In 2007, while working to disarm a roadside bomb (IED) in Afghanistan, Adam was injured by a secondary IED resulting in...

Learn to be congruent in your thoughts, feelings and actions. Always not only act the truth but tell the truth. We are more apt to lie to ourselves than to others. Suzi talks about why we lie and how it begins at a very young age. So why might we choose to lie? Maybe it is about wanting power or fear of being punished. Maybe we lie because we don't want to hurt someone's feelings? Or we lie becaus...

Rebuilding a foundation of trust can be one of the hardest journey's for anyone to tackle. Today, Suzi talks with two incredibly strong and courageous women who created a safe place of healing and trust so they could live and thrive in a life they knew they truly deserved. Suzi is joined by Luz Helena Thompson, a Marine Corps veteran and Trina McDonald, a Navy veteran, both founders of the Veteran...

In this episode, Suzi talks about how a person oftentimes can be trained to take care of others before oneself at a young age, but this can be an unsafe practice. It's kind of like thinking you can rescue other people if they fall into the deep end, but you can't swim. And yet you're the first one that jumps in the pool. Working with combat veterans, Suzi has become familiar with the super power t...

Do Different to Be Different! Create the person YOU want to be! Create the person YOU deserve to be by creating a true partnership. Start with your own individual wellness practices. " Punished by Rewards" Author: by Alfie Kohn  Music credit to Kalvin Love for the podcast’s theme song “Bee Your Best Self” Tune into our CHW Streaming Radio and the full lineup at cominghomewell.com Download on Apple...

In today's episode, Suzi talks with Shonn Richardson, a 28 year retired U.S. Army veteran about making choices to create a solid foundation for her family. Shonn, the daughter of a Vietnam Veteran, understands the definition of service as it began as a child and grew into a life of servitude. Listen in to Shonn's journey about her time in service and managing the challenges of being a mother while...

Oftentimes many may think a concussion comes only from an impact such as sports or an accident, but there are several other ways a person can sustain a concussion. In today's episode, Suzi talks with Scott Wert with the Concussion Legacy Foundation (CLF) about physical and emotional concussions. It is important to understand the symptoms, long term and short term along with how to help with the on...

What it means to Be Crazy Well ~ Authentic! Self Reflective! Creating the life you want to live and the person you want to be! In this episode, Suzi focuses on childhood trauma and how it affects those that choose to serve. What does the trauma bring to the table, how will it affect abilities while serving and once a service member has transitioned out? A whole person consists of everything that h...