The Revolutionized Mind

On the final episode of 2021, we are joined by body image advocate and TikTok star, Mary Mondlock. Mary shares her experiences with anxiety and eating disorders, and explains what her journey to self-love has looked like. After a long struggle with her own body image, she finally got to a point of simply accepting who she was and decided that she would no longer change her body for anyone else's a...

This week, we are joined by mental health advocate and medical student, Carly Johnston from the Healing the Anxious Mind Instagram page. After many years of struggling with anxiety, perfectionism, low self-worth, and one intense burnout, Carly decided to start her healing journey. She is extremely knowledgeable, relatable, and authentic in her advocacy work and has built a successful platform/comm...

This week, we are joined by Cedric Joseph who is very passionate about psychology, meditation, and taking a holistic approach to life. In this episode, CJ talks about the human experience and why it is so important to pay attention to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of our lives. He explains what the CHEK institute - where is he currently obtaining a holistic lifestyle coach...

In this week's solo episode, I tell the story of why I have the word, 'Passion' tattooed on my left wrist. After struggling with depression and self-harm, I found it very challenging to feel any sense of purpose in my life, until I learned what I was truly passionate about. At the time, soccer was my sweet escape. It was the only place I could go to where I could feel like myself and get away from...

Today, we are joined by guest, Diana Del Rosario who shares her struggles with depression coming from a Filipino background. She talks about what it was like being in an immigrant family and how mental health was never a topic of discussion or viewed as a valid illness. In many Asian cultures, emotional control is desired and any sign of distress is typically seen as a weakness. She explains how d...

This week on TRM, we are joined by the Founder and Leader of The Movement of Empowerment, Abbey Sawyer! Abbey demonstrates her vulnerability in this episode as she opens up about her struggles with anxiety, verbal abuse, and depressive thoughts. She also shares some tips and tricks about how she learned to cope with these things, the changes that she has made to her own life, and the improved mind...

This week, we are joined by Dr. Peter Shipley, who just retired from his position with the Ontario Provincial Police. Peter has been a large part of leadership and mental health research, strategy planning and implementation, and organizational culture development. In this episode, he shares some of his knowledge and expertise regarding the widely recognized 13 Psychosocial Factors for Psychologic...

Stephen Liu is a Mental Health Educator with the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) York Region and South Simcoe. In today's episode, he tells us all about what his position entails, which includes going around to different schools/communities to present psycho-educational workshops about mental health and well-being. Stephen works with young people aged 12-24 and has a passion for listenin...

This week, we are joined by Conor Kelly, host of the ComebaCK podcast! Conor is from the UK, but is currently living in Vietnam, and has aspirations to move to Australia when the borders open back up. In this episode, he shares his own struggles with mental health and explains how it affected his life. After many years of therapy, medication, and self-development, he decided to start his own podca...

JT is an amazing coach, mentor, leader, author, and overall person. After experiencing some pain in his own life and longing for meaningful connection, he decided to start a Facebook community called, Thinking Into Greatness. On this platform, he connects with other like-minded individuals and has powerful conversations with others about their own personal growth development and journey to success...

This week, we are joined by MentalHealthwMaddy’s very own, Maddy Furgiuele. Maddy is a mental health advocate who was diagnosed with Anxiety and Scrupulosity (or better known as Religious OCD) a few years ago. In today’s episode, Maddy shares her trauma from a toxic elementary school that negatively impacted her mental well-being. She describes how it started, what it developed into, and why she f...

This week, we are joined by Clinical Psychology student, Megan Raichelson. Megan shares her experiences in academia, including her undergraduate journey, the post-grad application process, and the Doctorate program that she is in now. She has a wealth of knowledge and perspectives about both the field of psychology and the field of mental health. She gives some great advice about navigating your e...

TRM is back this week with fitness and finance growth coach, Anthony Pietrobono. In this episode, we talk about self-identity and finding your true path or purpose. Anthony shares his story and explains how he started experiencing burnout in his previous career which initiated a transition to something new. He was struggling with his own goals and ideas of what he thought he was supposed to be doi...

Happy pride month everyone! This week, I decided to share something that not many people know about me. With all the positive posts that I have seen this month, I wanted to tell my story in the hopes that it can help at least one other person. While this is a very personal and vulnerable topic for not only me, but my family and friends as well, I am so happy to be releasing this episode. I share m...

This week, Kyle, a Stage 4 cancer survivor, shares his story and perspectives on The Revolutionized Mind. At the age of 38, he was living an extremely active and healthy lifestyle when things, unfortunately, took a turn. He was diagnosed with colon cancer and immediately began chemotherapy and radiation. After a few years of ups and downs, to his doctor's disbelief, he beat his pathology tests and...

This week, we are joined by Personal Trainer and Fitness Instructor, Brianna Gibbons. She went to school for Biochemistry and then decided that she wanted to use her passion for fitness and nutrition to help other people. Bri created an Instagram page (@brisbootcamp) that provides realistic and sustainable workouts, tips, and inspiration to live a balanced life. We talk about the impacts that soci...

This week, we are joined by Jamie Carlisle from the Canadian Mental Health Association, MOBYSS team. Jamie is a Peer Support Specialist who works with youth aged 12 to 25. He shares information about an incredible free resource, Mobile Outreach Bus York South Simcoe, that is currently offering virtual drop-in clinics every Thursday from 3 pm - 5 pm. No referrals, health cards, or appointments nece...

This week, we are joined by mental health advocate, Menley Langham! Menley shares her story with mental illness and explains how she got to where she is today. After going through many years of suffering on her own and being undiagnosed, she reached the lowest point in her life which ended up in hospitalization. This allowed her and her family to acknowledge the presence and severity of what were...

This week, we are joined by U.S National Team volleyball player and Under Armour athlete, Jordan Thompson. She talks about her own personal struggles with mental health and how the events of 2020, particularly the pandemic and the social injustices that were globally brought to light, impacted her. She addresses the relationship between racism and mental health and shares some of her own experienc...

This week, we are joined by a Spiritual Samurai! Daniil shares a great deal of knowledge, insight, and perspectives about what spirituality is and how it can benefit us. He provides cultural/historical information to explain where these ideologies and practices started from and how they have evolved over time. He helps to break down some of the misconceptions towards meditation and gives useful ti...

This week, Nicole shares her story with addiction and concurrent disorders. She opens up about her struggles with weed, NyQuil, depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, body image, and more. After 5 times in treatment, she has now been clean off of drugs for almost 3.5 years! Although she still does suffer from mental illness, she is in a much better place mentally and is using her pa...

This week, I am honoured to be joined by a real-life superwoman, my mom! We start off by discussing a bit about my childhood and some of the things that negatively affected me in my early years. As an outsider looking in, she explains some of the changes that she began seeing in my behaviours that lead her to believe that something was wrong. She talks about how my mental illnesses both impacted h...

This week, Claire shares her experiences with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). She goes into detail about what this mental illness is, how it is diagnosed, what the common symptoms are, and what it feels like to be in her shoes. Claire educates, inspires, and motivates through her knowledge and experiences with having BPD. We also talk about different ways of coping and how to be there for s...

This week, we hear Noah's inspiring story. He shares his experiences with depression, suicide, self-harm, and substance use. He explains a situation that led to him getting arrested for aggravated assault, something that he thought he was simply defending himself and protecting others for. This incident has had several effects on his mental health, both negative and positive. Listen to hear about...

Building off of last week’s episode, Maddy joins me today to talk about her knowledge and experiences with Nutrition and Dietetics. She does an amazing job of outlining the relationship between nutrition and mental health and identifies the problematic behaviours and beliefs that we obtain in our society regarding food. We talk about the importance of this topic for individual and societal well-be...