Before You Kill Yourself: a suicide prevention podcast.

AJ Coleman joins us to discuss his new book: A Widower's 8-Step Guide to Coping with Grief and Thriving Against All Odds. Sponsor: Is there something interfering with your happiness or is preventing you from achieving your goals? https://betterhelp.com/leo and enjoy 10% off your first month and start talking to mental health professional today!!  1-on-1 Coaching : If you want go from feeling...

We discuss: What's the most challenging part of being a military service person? What are the barriers to those in the military to seeking help? How to improve gun safety How to build a fulfilling a life outside of the military What are "Behavioral Activations?" How "Upstream thinking" can improve your life Why "moral injury" is just as painful as a physical injury Dr. Anestis bio: Michael David A...

We discuss: What we really mean when someone says, "I hate you!" How to master complex emotions True definition of resilience Somatic therapy How to find our "North Star" What is "emotional inflammation?" Mandy's Bio: Mandy Harvey is a leader in the field of trauma healing as well as an in-demand inspirational speaker. She specializes as a healing guide for highly sensitive, overachieving, and chr...

We discuss: corporate loneliness why isolation can come with escalation how leaders become vulnerable how to kick people out politely overcoming alcohol addiction what is "healthy loneliness?" not wanting to be a burden how to go from suffering to supporting BIO: Nick Jonsson is the co-founder and Managing Director of one of Asia's premiere networking organizations, Executives' Global Network (EGN...

Leo discusses: how small talk can lead to big talk what the game of pool (billiards) can teach us about life and getting unstuck Sponsor: Is there something interfering with your happiness or is preventing you from achieving your goals?  https://betterhelp.com/leo  and enjoy 10% off your first month and start talking to mental health professional today!!  1-on-1 Coaching : If you wa...

We discuss: The reason to keep living from Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead." SPONSOR: Is there something interfering with your happiness or is preventing you from achieving your goals?  https://betterhelp.com/leo  and enjoy 10% off your first month and start talking to mental health professional today!!  1-on-1 Coaching : If you want go from feeling hopeless to hopeful, lonely to conne...

We discuss: learning your value through story invisible pain how to be surrounded by love being militant about sleep making friends by seizing the awkward recognizing our range of emotions why no one wants to connect with someone who is perfect Sponsor: Is there something interfering with your happiness or is preventing you from achieving your goals? https://betterhelp.com/leo and enjoy 10% off yo...

Leo discusses: how to reconnect to ourselves practicing self-compassion what we can learn from regret to help us recover Sponsor: Is there something interfering with your happiness or is preventing you from achieving your goals?  https://betterhelp.com/leo  and enjoy 10% off your first month and start talking to mental health professional today!!  1-on-1 Coaching : If you want go fr...

Retired Navy Seal, Dave Berkenfield joins me to discuss: how to focus and find purpose after retirement losing his brother to suicide roll of speech pathology in mental acuity and improving memory views challenges as elephants or rabbits turning hope into action dealing with loneliness the "hole in your gut" what to do when it gets "real quiet" weight of peer pressure and performance cocktail for...

Leo discusses: signs and alternatives for loneliness why every relationship is a "threesome" how to evolve and not just grow Sponsor: Is there something interfering with your happiness or is preventing you from achieving your goals?  https://betterhelp.com/leo  and enjoy 10% off your first month and start talking to mental health professional today!!  1-on-1 Coaching : If you want g...

New York Time's writer, Yvonne Liu , joins us to discuss her new memoir: "I Talk To My Mother in the Clouds." We discuss: surviving breast cancer mild bipolar diagnosis management emotionally immature parents burden of being a model minority orphaned in Hong Kong seasonal affective disorder imposter syndrome perils of "black and white" thinking BIO: Yvonne Liu is a freelance writer based in Los An...

Trauma expert, Danny Greeves, joins me to discuss: Small T vs Big T traumas power of "thought balloons" calming and grounding techniques questions to calm our body why calming down doesn't start with words interrupting vs soothing techniques why our predictions are based on the past Emotional Memory Imagery Hypnosis Resentments vs appreciation what's "on our way" vs "in our way" why human beings a...

Leo discusses: How to build your life force Why "Ove" wants to end his life Lessons on how to thrive from plants Sponsor: Is there something interfering with your happiness or is preventing you from achieving your goals?  https://betterhelp.com/leo  and enjoy 10% off your first month and start talking to mental health professional today!!  1-on-1 Coaching : If you want go from feeli...

We discuss: growing up with a mother who has narcissism growing up hypervigilant and feeling "robbed of my childhood" overcoming two eating disorders living through a suicide attempt daily habits to improve your life how to make friends and small talk why she felt like a "shell of a human being" being free of imposter syndrome how to call a friend when you're in pain why you shouldn't date people...

Author, Clyve Rose, joins me to discuss: how to cope with divorce why dating apps feed loneliness what we should ask instead of "are you ok?" romance vs love strategies to feel calm and relaxed why we shouldn't go to therapy BIO : Award-winning romance writer Clyve Rose has been writing historical romance fiction for the best part of two decades. Her novel  Always a Princess  is a BookFe...

We discuss: how to handle emotions of rage, hurt and inadequacy how to replay experiences to self-soothe What the show and novel, "Sweetbitter," can teach us about visions and dreams how to give yourself hope for the future Sponsor: Is there something interfering with your happiness or is preventing you from achieving your goals? https://betterhelp.com/leo and enjoy 10% off your first month and st...

Retired aerospace engineer, Chester L. Richards, joins us to discuss: why you and what you do are worthy and worthwhile struggling with loneliness key to successful marriage how he healed his depressions surviving a war zone in Africa how to take refreshing vacations grieving the loss of his wife surviving a heart attack being the focus of love why he avoided alcohol lesson learned from the movie...

Leo discusses the six ways to improve lateral thinking and demonstrates why it's just as important as vertical thinking for mental health. Sponsor: Is there something interfering with your happiness or is preventing you from achieving your goals?  https://betterhelp.com/leo  and enjoy 10% off your first month and start talking to mental health professional today!!  1-on-1 Coaching :...

Our dog trainer, Megan, joins us to discuss: sources of our anger and aggression skyrocketing anxiety how to focus instead of fixate codependence why therapy works for depression, but not anxiety diving into vulnerability how she lost 70lbs why eating to feel better Book mentioned: shorturl.at/fvx34 Sponsor: Is there something interfering with your happiness or is preventing you from achieving you...

Sponsor: Is there something interfering with your happiness or is preventing you from achieving your goals? https://betterhelp.com/leo and enjoy 10% off your first month and start talking to mental health professional today!!  Leo discusses: why it's important not just to grow, but also evolve how to get your needs met in your relationship why the needs are more important than that needs of y...

When Joseph Kajy took opioids for the first time at the age of 15, he thought he had found his life’s calling. From there, his world altered into a grim whirlwind familiar to many a drug addict. He woke up every morning with either one of two questions on his mind: How will I get money for drugs? When will I do drugs? Behind him, he left a trail of destruction that included 37 felonies, two prison...

Kim and Luis are here to discuss their book, " Emotionally Resilient Tweens and Teens: empowering your kids to navigate bullying, teasing, and social exclusion." BUY BOOK : shorturl.at/EPQY5 We discuss: why bullying is more about controlling behavior how to get your tween/teen to open up how parents, coaches and kids and work together what are "entitlement monsters?" how extroverted kids respond t...

Dave Wright is a comedian and entrepreneur. We discuss Difference between depression and anxiety Stigma of dyslexia Antidote to anxiety managing PTSD Sponsor: Is there something interfering with your happiness or is preventing you from achieving your goals? https://betterhelp.com/leo and enjoy 10% off your first month and start talking to mental health professional today!!  1-on-1 Coaching :...

Former Canadian Football player, Antonio Longino, shares his journey of thwarted NFL dreams and managing panic attacks to finding purpose in bringing others together. We also discuss: being the youngest of 9 feeling overwhelmed with responsibility why everything is personal how is brother helped him write a book from prison why there are no gangsters in college why it didn't start with you Sponsor...

Producer/Director, Lukas Behnken takes us on a journey from hatred to forgiveness, freedom and success while discussing his new documentary, "I Hate You But It's Killing Me. DOCUMENTARY : https://www.ihateyoubutitskillingme.com Sponsor: Is there something interfering with your happiness or is preventing you from achieving your goals? https://betterhelp.com/leo and enjoy 10% off your first month an...