Before You Kill Yourself: a suicide prevention podcast.

Brian Stokes joins us to discuss his journey through depression and suicidal ideations using ECT and Ketamine. 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...

Leo Flowers answers the five following questions: What's the best Himalayan Sea Salt? Should you drink the himalayan salt water in the morning or later in the day? It's the holidays! Why do I feel the need to buy for all! How do I cope with isolation and loneliness? What cbt techniques do you suggest for a person to use when feeling anxiety rise during a conversation or encounter? Sponsor: Is ther...

Leo Flowers discusses the four factors that may contribute to increased suicide risk on New Year's Day. Article referenced: https://shorturl.at/NX127 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 :...

Topics today are random: HereAfterAI Does alcohol burn off when we cook it? Is Activated Charcoal beneficial for you? How to cook game meat Javier Milei and the upside of profanity Narges Mohammadi and values that are worth fighting for Why people seem flaky Sponsor: Is there something interfering with your happiness or is preventing you from achieving your goals?  https://betterhelp.com/leo...

We explore comfort: definition of comfort quotes about comfort why we don't want to get to comfortable causes of psychological discomfort mental health benefits of comfort book and song recommendations to bring us comfort COMFORTING SONGS Bob Marley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNBCVM4KbUM Bill Withers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtC1W-6hwIU Louis Armstrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Dr. Jessica Revill joins us to discuss her book, "Find Him Among the Living;" (Kindle & Amazon) about the suicide of her son who had autism and what we can learn from it. She also has a podcast, "Prisoner of the Mind with Dr. Jessica." We also discuss: reactive depression vs endogenous depression masking and camouflaging our emotions why we're all a "flavor of humanity" neurodivergence and lea...

Leo shares how he slowly clawed his way back out of living out debt and tips you can use also. 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...

If you're struggling to make decisions, feel lost and untethered, then discovering our values and principles can be our compass to the life we want to live. 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 Flowers discusses how our perception of pain, pressure, lack of belonging and feeling like a burden can be linked to salience.

Leo Flowers shares a random episode about sources of electrolytes, how to find your voice and emotional corsets. 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...

Leo Flowers discusses contributing factors to teenage suicides and actionable steps we can take to combat them. 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 feelin...

Leo Flowers discusses feeling excluded, left out and the do's and don't of coping with the experience. 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 hopeles...

Bernard, author/licensed behavioral health specialist/motivational speaker, joins us to discuss his mental health journey and his new book, "The Only Thing Wrong With You Is That You Think Something Is Wrong With 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...

Leo discusses how to cope with moments of feeling humiliation.

We discuss why sobriety isn't goal, being our bestfriend is. 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 connected and like a burden to...

We discuss practical and applicable to navigate tension, with our family/friends, around the holidays. 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...

Leo discusses nourishing ourselves during the holidays instead eating more, drinking more and engaging more. We also discuss seasonal affective disorder or SAD. 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...

Stevon Lewis LMFT, joins us to discuss: antidote to imposter syndrome "need to do" vs "could do" importance of documenting our success how to cope with inadequacy and perfectionism why can't "both be true?" Is more better? Is it not ok to be ok? Why we should embrace our limits TRue definition of humility Humanizing your partner instead of demonizing our partner improving self vs exposing self Bio...

Author, Heidi Bartle, rejoins us to discuss: How she navigated her recent suicidal phase Frustration with "another way my body is broken" Assembling a team of healthcare friends Benefits of EMDR Power of neutral thinking and doing things halfway Sponsor: Is there something interfering with your happiness or is preventing you from achieving your goals?  https://betterhelp.com/leo  and enj...

Carmen Margaziotis, joins us today to discuss: Why blockage is just a lack of awareness How getting quiet is the antidote to stress and self doubt Why feeling tired is linked to unprocessed emotions Difference between seeking a reward and seeking a release When we say, "I need space," it means "I feel flooded How to be comforted by others and ourselves How to move from stress to neutral to forward...

We're mixing it up this week with a 20 minute guided meditation to help you sleep! 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 connecte...

How do we navigate chronic pain and reframe our value? 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 connected and like a bur...

Sherrell Moore joins us to discuss: pros and cons of meditating Why we don't dream anymore how to disrupt ruminating thoughts why "triggering" isn't neccesarily a bad thing "Negative loops of meditating" How to bear fruit from meditating Coping with osteoarthritis Joys of having a childlike mindset How to ease into sleep Website : https://www.sherrellmooretucker.com/ Qoute : "What comes up, wants...

Leo Flowers discusses a few strategies for feeling whole instead of empty. 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 connected and li...

Dr. Mary Lamia joins us to discuss: Why a hug is so profound How to sit with shame instead of numbing/avoiding it How shame is a death to the soul Why nothing is always How to reconnect, restore, repair and find resonance Identifying our needs/wants Suicide Prevention Summit :  https://shorturl.at/aAEG1 Sponsor: Is there something interfering with your happiness or is preventing you from achi...