Mental Mobility - Movement, Mental Health, Healing

Family, Therapy, and DBT Skills with Salman Aboudiez Episode 49 Part 2

One Year Later after Group Therapy we talk family, therapy, training, and DBT Skills with Salman Aboudiez in episode 49. Come on out and listen to part 1 of this 2 part podcast. 

Forgive Yourself to Move Forward- Episode 48  In today's episode Pete touches on the act of forgiveness and how to forgive yourself and others in order to move forward in life. He also covers exercises he's using to stay positive, think positive, and to be positive. All these take a lot of hard work lets see how this all pans out.  See in you today's episode.

May is Mental Health Awareness month, he talks about what it stands for and what it means for everyone in life today.  Find out what you can do to support this important cause. Interesting question---"What do you do?"-why do people ask that? Are they judging, are they really interested, or do they just need a conversational piece?  This question turned Pete's day around for the worst thi...

Today Pete talks about some sad stuff that has happened over the past week and what he needs and promises to do for himself and others starting right now.  Just like that, people in his life unexpectedly passed away last week—here and now gone, way too young.  Life is short, the older you get the more you feel it. And yet again, Pete now has a more recent injury, another battle he is fig...

Depression, Sadness, Anger. There are little tricks you can do to help ease the emotion. Most of the time we just ignore or push through the pain that we are feeling rather than looking for the answer. The answer is usually pretty simple, but we let the depression ride out longer than needed to. Thats okay. I get that. Why not check out the 5 tricks we use to help with depression, sadness, anger,...

Non-Suicidal Self-Harm - What We Need to Know Episode #44 of the “Jersey to Vegas Podcast” Non-Suicidal Self-Harm is something that most people are not aware of, they only hear depression as being linked with suicide.  But there is a whole other side, there are many different types of self-harm and they are not always easy to notice. Pete talks about why people do it - It is different for eve...

World Bipolar Day Episode #43 of the "Jersey to Vegas Podcast" Each year on March 30th, the world comes together to bring awareness to bipolar disorder and to eliminate social stigma. Today Pete talks about World Bipolar Day --- one illness, many face - he educates us on the moods and feelings associated with this mental health disorder. Pete shares his experience since being diagnosed with bipola...

In todays episode of Jersey to Vegas we talk about the benefit of losing. A loss has many beneficial factors in ones character. Learning, taking a deeper look into things, resilience. These are life traits that everyone should possess. Pete talks about how his current losses he past few years have helped him realize many things bout himself and his life. Take a deeper look into this topic in episo...

Post Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Tournament Episode #41 of the “Jersey to Vegas Podcast” Regardless if Pete won or lost in this tournament, he shares what he has learned from this experience. Today Pete talks about how he prepared for his fights both mentally and physically---and how it all comes together and correlates to everyday life. We hope you all enjoy this episode and thank you for listening to th...

Pete has an exciting week ahead of him as he approaches this upcoming weekend.   He will be participating in a BJJ competition which he hasn’t done in over a decade!  Pete shares how he is preparing for the fight, how he currently feels about it, and, more importantly his mindset going into the competition. Will he win?   Come find out next week in Episode #41. Pete also talks...

Pete starts off today talking about how being positive can be difficult because feeling negative and/or depressed is so much easier.  Being comfortable in your misery or sadness can be addicting, which is a sign of a person suffering from an underlying mental health disorder. Why is it so easy to fall into this feeling? BUT we will learn of the NEXT BIG THING coming up for Pete in March – Ove...

Pete’s new book, I’m Not Okay, was released this week--- he talks about the reasoning and purpose behind publishing this book.   This month would have marked the 12-year anniversary of Krank Nutley.  Pete reminisces about Krank from the beginning days all the way through to the closing days.  Memories, good and bad, but never forgotten.  Exactly how Pete feels now --- just...

How do people deal with their depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts? –Today Pete talks about all of this, and how important it is to check on people regardless of how they look and act on the outside, sometimes the people with the biggest smiles are struggling the most.  The feeling of knowing they have people around that care about them, can have such a positive impact on their recovery...

Accepting Change --- Episode #36 of the “Jersey to Vegas Podcast” Today Pete talks about how hard it is to accept change; living in a whole new environment completely opposite than what he was used to and accepting this change.  He faces this hard plight in life right now and shares his feelings on living in the present, suffering from the past, and what will be the future. Come listen to ano...

Stuck in a Moment ---This Time Will Pass, Will It though? - Episode #35 of the “Jersey to Vegas Podcast” Pete talks about how he tries to be present in a moment where he cannot stop thinking about the past, and the uncertainty of the future which is causing him to lose his mind. He wanted to delete this podcast and start over because of how down and depressed he felt, and thought it was just going...

Are you trying to be perfect? - Episode #34 of the "Jersey to Vegas Podcast" Today let's talk about perfection and trying to be perfect. Why do we put this external pressure on ourselves when we already know how hard it is just to live?   If you are really trying hard to be perfect -is that a good thing or a bad thing? I honestly don't know. Perfection is one of my biggest assets---I hav...

Bipolar Depression vs Mania - Episode #33 of the “Jersey to Vegas Podcast”, an episode that almost wasn’t recorded this week because depression was winning.  Pete is currently experiencing the depression stages of Bipolar and the last thing he felt like doing was recording a new podcast.  Depression is setting in so hard, normal life seems very difficult. Bipolar Life : Very confusing an...

Today we have Episode #32 of the “Jersey to Vegas Podcast”, back by popular demand, we have once again Guest Danny Bartosiewicz.  Pete and Danny talk about many things  -- But the roles get reversed and Danny has Pete in the hot seat asking some questions.  How is Pete feeling? What is he going through now? How did Pete really feel about Krank closing? Come find out and listen to an...

Winter in Vegas, Effexor Side Effects, Being the" New Guy" - Episode 31. In episode 31 Pete talks about their first winter in Las Vegas, how being the “ new guy” in a group can be challenging and his not so great experience with a. Drug called Effexor. Thank you all for coming out this week!

Happy New Year 2022 Episode 30

Why I Quit Stand Up Comedy and I'm Back to Life - Episode 29

Today we are in Episode #28 of the “Jersey to Vegas Podcast”, we are switching it up this week with a Las Vegas Guest—Comedian Chris Spring. We talk about mental health and the stand-up up comedy scene in Las Vegas. Chris hits me with one big surprise that I did not expect to hear—-you never know what you are going to get, especially in Las Vegas. We hope you all enjoy this episode. Thanks for com...

Episode 27 of the Jersey to Vegas Podcast has guest Danny Bart , Pete’s best friend since middle school days. In this episode we talk about how the pandemic affected him and his family. Danny had a “ Hell Week” the same time COVID 19 struck the world and we dig into his at home training routine. The chemistry between these two is great. Check out. 0:00 - 2:53 Whats in my room 2:53 - Intro 4:20 How...

Mental Breakdown, Panic Attacks, and Krank Closing Episode 26