The Dark Angel Podcast

This week we’re talking about social anxiety. Social anxiety is something many of us may feel at time to time. Some of us feel it more or less often than others,  or more or less strongly than others. Regardless, anyone who has ever felt some kind of social anxiety knows how hard it is. Today Max and Nick discussed how social anxiety stopped them from truly living their life, doing what they want...

This week we talked to Nicolette. Nicolette shares her own experience with PTSD, OCD, abuse, and much more. To begin, Nicolette shares stories about her sometimes “absent” father and how him not being around very often had an effect on her. Meanwhile, Nicolette also faced a lot of abuse as a child and she explains how those experiences have shaped who she is today. Nicolette also talks about how h...

New Year, New Me? The new year can bring a lot of motivation to people to make a change that will better their life. However, there's a lot of problems with these New Years Resolutions and a lot of reasons why most people don't continue with them for a whole year. With the right mindset, good planning, and some of our tips you can break the classic cycle and actually make some healthy ch...

In this podcast, we explore the relationship between mental health and habits. We discuss how our daily habits can impact our mental well-being, and offer tips and strategies for creating healthy habits that support a strong and resilient mind. We also delve into the challenges of breaking negative habits and replacing them with positive ones, and provide practical tools for overcoming common obst...

It's hard when someone you love is going through any hardship in their lives. Figuring out what to say, how to react, and the best way you can be there for them is tough. Today, Nick and Max discuss their experiences with being there for someone going through something. They share what they think are some of the best ways you can be there for your friend or family who's going through any...

Some people thrive with change, and for others, it’s a little harder. Whether it’s a change in a job, change in scenery, change in routine, or anything at all, change can be hard. Like many, change isn’t our favorite thing either. So today we go through our experience with how we’ve dealt with change in the past, and give our own advice and tips on how you can deal with change yourself Support the...

As the weather outside gets colder and we’re outside less and less, our bodies and minds get affected. The days get shorter and overall we just tend to feel overall worse. Today we dive into how the changing season affect us and exactly why that is. Support the show

Unfortunately grief is a word most of us have felt. Although it’s something we all have had or will have to deal with at one time, it is never easy. Whether it’s grieving a loved one, a job, or a relationship, how we go through the grieving process is always different for every person. Today Nick and Max talk about the grieving process and share their own experiences with grieving and how they got...

It’s easy to let life get ahead of you. Stress from school, work, family, and friends can easily send us down a dark hole of anxious and depressing thoughts where all we want to do is be by ourselves, which in the end will only make things worse. Today we talk about our own experiences with self isolation and what we do when we find ourselves in this period. We also talk about how you can help you...

We all have bad days. Some, are definitely worse than others. Whether you’re having the worst day of your life, or a few things just keep on going wrong, how you frame your mind and power through, makes all of the difference. Today Nick and Max go over how they overcome their bad days by looking at things in a different light. listen for some relatable experiences and tips for your next bad day. B...

Kris joins us this week to share his incredible and inspiring story of recovering from an eating disorder. Kris shows us what it took for him to keep fighting and how worth it his recovery has been. Kris also sheds light on the fact that men struggle from eating disorders too and no one should ever feel alone. Kris has so much advice to give on how to get through a battle with depression, eating d...

Andrew Maher talks about the struggles we all have from time to time with anxiety and depressive episodes. He shares stories about recent times in college where the people he’d never guess are struggling also were. Andrew’s talk gives us inspiration on how precious our lives are.  Support the show

Jake Binkley is a 19 year old college student. In this podcast, Jake discusses a time of numbness he felt in college where he explains how it was hard for him to even get out of bed. Jake talks about what this numb feeling led to which included talk about self harm, depression, and loneliness. Jake tells us what he did to get better himself and the help he got for his struggles with the intention...

Alejandro Perez tells us about his injury that almost ended his dream of having a tennis career. He walks us through how he got injured, slowly became stronger, and is now playing at the division one level. Through his injury he faced many times of doubt and fear that he would never return to his sport, and the depression he faced from not being able to train or play and be with his friends for so...

This week we’re joined by comedian Anthony DiDomenico. Anthony’s story will leave you both laughing AND inspired. Despite the many challenges Anthony has faced, he has never given up. Anthony shares the continuous struggles of his weight loss journey and the many set backs that came along with it and how he overcame them. He also shares the story of the first time he experienced a panic attack whi...

This week Nick talks to Emily. In the first part of this podcast, emily shares about her experience living with anxiety and depression during school. From things like test taking, and just feeling overwhelmed emily shares how she got through it. She also talks about her own experience with trying different medications and how they’ve both helped her and hurt her. In the second part of this podcast...

Vic has had to experience losing two best friends within less than a month of each other to the same tragedy. She felt her previous upbeat self who loved to go out with friends more closed off and unrecognizable. She was quickly falling into a hole of depression before she picked herself back up and decided it would not be what her late friends would have wanted. Vic shares with us what she did to...

In this podcast we sit down with Jack Quinlin. Like many people, as Jack has grown up he’s been faced with many important decisions about what to do with his life. He’s had to make pivotal life decisions and can only hope he’s doing what’s best for himself. Jack gives advice on how he’s learned over the years how to choose what will make him most happy and how that’s all that really matters.  Supp...

Sophia North has experienced anxiety and OCD her entire life. In this podcast she tells us her struggle in going to school while facing extreme anxiety and not being able to sleep. She also shares how detrimental verbally abusive relationships are which led her to having to file a restraining order at a very young age. Sophia has been through a lot before even turning 18 including running away and...

Like many people, John felt an immense amount of pressure his first year of college to figure out what he’s going to do with his life in order to be “successful”. After college, despite having a successful almost 6 figure business, john made a scary decision. he decided that what he was doing was not truly making him happy and he wanted to change that. he wanted to break out of the typical “rat ra...

Claire Galante has been a student athelete since she was in second grade. From being one of the best in the country as a young gymnast, to now playing as a D1 golfer. However, Claire shows us how these many accomplishments don’t alway bring true joy and happiness.  Contrarily, it comes with feeling doubt about yourself, constantly searching to find who you are, feeling lonely, stressed, and more....

In this podcast Max Grewal shares how he's bettered himself as a person despite his upbringing. He talks about his own experience with social anxiety and where it likely stemmed from. Max also talks about how his depression started from a not-so-great home life and an injury that ended  his baseball career. He gives amazing advice on how to move forward in these situations, how to come to pea...

Michael Doherty takes us through his life. He discusses how he came out and the struggles that came with that. He takes us through the lowest points of his life, not only with his use of drugs, but also with his mental health battle. Michael shows how he overcame all of his struggles and continues to strive towards his goals.  Support the show

From a young age, Shannon always faced the battle of hating herself. Over the years things took turns for the worse as her mental illnesses came and took over. Keep listening to hear Shannon’s life long battle with bulimia, adhd, ptsd, depression, substance abuse, and multiple suicide attempts. This is the story of how she concurred her demons and is on her journey of recovery.  She shows, no matt...

Sarah shares with us her journey battling severe depression, anxiety, multiple personality disorder, and bipolar. Sarah first talks about the struggles of body image and how it affected her mental health. Sarah then tells us about how she took the first, and hardest step- asking for help which saved her life. She also talks about her different experiences in psychiatric wards, shock therapy, how i...