Mental Health

Overcoming Failure to Launch Syndrome in Young Adults

Dr. Robert Fischer, M.D., Psychiatrist and Executive Director at Optimum Performance Institute joins eHealth Radio and the Mental Health and Health News Channels to discuss overcoming Failure to Launch Syndrome in young adults.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Robert Fischer discuss the following:The term “Failure to Launch Syndrome” has been turning up more and more these days in everything from psychology articles to pop culture. What does it mean, in a clinical sense, when a young adult is failing to launch, and how common is it?
Your transitional residential program for young adults, Optimum Performance Institute, and your specialized Roanne Program for young adults with Borderline Personality Disorder or BPD traits have been the nation’s leaders in overcoming failure to launch in young adults for over a decade. What are the steps involved in overcoming, and is there a final common pathway to a happy, independent life, despite variations in diagnoses?

What are the first steps one should take, whether they be the young adult themselves, a concerned parent, therapist, etc. if they suspect that a young adult is having a failure to launch to the next stage of development due to a mental health issue or learning disability?
Duration: 11:36
Robert “Bob” Fischer, M.D., is a psychiatrist and the Executive Director and co-founder, with his wife Anne, of Optimum Performance Institute and the Roanne Program. He also serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA, School Of Medicine in the department of psychoneuroimmunology and the Mindful Awareness Research Center.
Dr. Fischer has a strong desire to reach and serve young people who are suffering from a variety of mental health issues to help them discover their passions, transform, and to be equipped to build a life that they truly feel is worth living by overcoming Failure to Launch issues.

Show Links:
www.failuretolaunch.com
www.OPIliving.com
www.roanneprogram.com
Social Media:
https://www.facebook.com/OptimumPerformanceInstitute
https://www.facebook.com/HelpforBPD
https://twitter.com/opiliving
https://twitter.com/helpforbpd

Don't Just "Let it Go" - What Can Happen if You Don't Treat Your Hearing Loss

Susanne Jones, Hearing Instrument Specialist and Customer Support Specialist at HealthyHearing.com, a website that provides information to consumers about hearing loss and hearing aids joins eHealth Radio and the Hearing & Mental Health Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Susanne Jones discuss the following:Too many people who have trouble hearing don't do anything about it. How does untreated hearing loss impact people emotionally?How does it affect mental acuity?What are the implications for mental health?Are there physical health consequences, too?What does untreated hearing loss do to people's social lives?
Duration: 10:53
Susanne Jones is the Hearing Instrument Specialist and Customer Support Specialist for Healthy Hearing. She provides education and support to people with hearing loss and the professionals who serve them.
She holds a BA in Communication from Bradley University and has years of clinical experience testing hearing and programming hearing aids as a licensed Hearing Instrument Specialist. She also has hearing loss herself and is a long-time hearing aid wearer.
Susanne resides near Roscoe, IL with her husband and two children. Outside of the office, she enjoys sports, mid-century modern architecture and design, cooking and visiting wineries.

Website: www.healthyhearing.com
Social Media Links:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/healthyhearing
Twitter: @hearingaids

What if your insanity is the sanity that changes the world?

Susanna Mittermaier, Clinical Psychologist, Therapist, Best Selling Author, Worldwide Speaker and Founder of Pragmatic Psychology, the revolutionary paradigm empowering people to discover their brilliance beyond normality joins eHealth Radio and the Mental Health & Personal Development Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Susanna Mittermaier discuss the following:What is insanity?What does Pragmatic Psychology offer and how is it different from traditional psychology and therapy?What if your insanity is the sanity that changes the world, what does that mean?What are the possibilities of using insanity and mental illness to one´s advantage?
Duration: 12:24
What if you could turn your past and your problems into the choice, the question and the possibility that contributes to changing yourwhole life?
Is now the time for you to get over being normal and tapping into the true brilliance of you?
Susanna Mittermaier, licensed clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, Radio Show host, Access Consciousness Facilitator, author of the New Book, Pragmatic Psychology-Practical Tools for Being Crazy Happy and worldwide speaker is creating a new paradigm with psychology and therapy, Pragmatic Psychology.
Pragmatic psychologist Susanna Mittermaier is known for her revolutionary perspective on mental illness and for inspiring people all over the world to access the greatness they are beyond abuse and disease.
Growing up in Vienna, Austria, she waltzed through life with ease and elegance, not realizing that the ease came from the difference she is choosing to be; receiving everything and everyone and judging nothing and no one, embracing the celebration of living. Susanna knows that this is a possibility everybody has! She has an enormous capacity to facilitate lightness, joy and ease beyond what this reality finds normal. She lets the world know that depression, anxiety, ADHD, autism and every other mental illness is a capacity that has not been acknowledged and can easily be turned into possibilities and creating ones´ life greater than can be imagined.
Time to employ and enjoy your crazy to create your reality?
Welcome to join to create the world you always have known is truly available for all of us!

Show Links:
www.susannamittermaier.com
www.pragmaticpsychologythebook.com

EBTConnect, Improve Your Well Being

Dr. Laurel Mellin an associate clinical professor of family and community medicine and pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine & also the founder of EBTConnect.net joins eHealth Radio and the Health News and Mental Health Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Dr. Laurel Mellin discuss the following:Can you tell us about your background in social sciences and research?When did you start Emotional Brain Training (EBT) and what is the basics of the program?Can you tell our audience about your crowdfunding campaign that has launched this September? What will the funds for the crowdfunding campaign be used for?
Duration: 7:32
Dr. Mellin is the executive director of The Institute for Health Solutions, which promotes training, research and service in methods of rewiring the emotional brain. She is the founder of Emotional Brain Training (EBT). Dr. Mellin developed earlier iterations of the method, including the Solution Method and the Shapedown Program for pediatric obesity, which was adopted by the Canadian Health System, and is used extensively in the United States. Her undergraduate work was completed at the University of California, Berkeley, her Master’s degree in nutrition at San Francisco State University and her PhD was completed at Northcentral University.
Dr. Mellin wrote for President Clinton the national guidelines for the prevention and treatment of pediatric obesity, and is a leader in integrative health, as well as a New York Times bestselling author (The Pathway) with her most recent book on emotional brain training: Wired for Joy. She has conducted more than 100 courses nationally for health professionals on the neuroscience and practice of rewiring the emotional brain, and has extensive media experience, including representing UCSF in media events, and appearing on programs such as Today, Oprah, Public Radio and UCTV. She is the mother of three children and lives in Marin County, California.

Website: EBTConnect.net

Borderline Personality Disorder and Failure to Launch Syndrome

Rebecca DeLeon, Program Coordinator at the Roanne Program for young adults with Borderline Personality Disorder and BPD traits and part of Optimum Performance Institute joins eHealth Radio and the Mental Health and Health News Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Rebecca DeLeon discuss the following: What is BPD?What is OFTLS, and how does BPD typically manifest itself as FTL?How does the Roanne Program treat BPD?You’re the Program Coordinator at the Roanne Program – what draws you to work with this particular population?What is the typical prognosis for a young adult with B-P-D who receives intensive intervention such as that at Roanne’s residential program?
Duration: 11:00
For more than 10 years, parents, programs, and clinicians worldwide have turned to JCAHO-accredited Optimum Performance Institute to provide the clinically sophisticated intervention young adults often need when faced with difficulties transitioning to adulthood. 
With the goal of “turning hopelessness into happiness,” OPI provides residential and intensive outpatient day treatment programs to young men and women ages 17-28 who present with a variety of mental health diagnoses ranging from Asperger’s Syndrome, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and OCD to learning disabilities.
Borderline Personality Disorder, borderline traits, and co-occurring disorders such as depression, eating disorders, substance abuse, mood disorders/anxiety, and PTSD are addressed in OPI’s breakthrough Roanne Program, the only residential treatment center in the United States serving both young women and men diagnosed with BPD. It is the only program specializing in BPD named Best in Treatment by Psychology Today Magazine.
In addition to therapeutic interventions such as DBT, CBT, and individual and group therapy, GeneSight genetic testing is offered. When pharmacological treatment is recommended, this painless, cotton swab to the inner cheek test allows OPI psychiatrists to quickly and accurately identify, on a very individualized level, which medications will likely have the most benefits and least side effects.
OPI is the first transformational program of its kind to recognize and address the relationship that exists between diagnosis and a ‘failure to launch,’ when young adults are held back from progressing to the next stage of development, including difficulty transitioning to college, leaving home, or being self-sufficient.
OPI is accredited as a residential treatment center. It’s comprehensive, highly therapeutic programs have proven effective treating the most debilitating of diagnoses.  Individualized treatment plans take into account the young adult’s interests so that the goal of building a life worth living can be established and built upon long after discharge. Call (888) 814-5985.

Show Links:
Roanne Program
www.roanneprogram.com
Optimum Performance Institute
www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com
Social Media:
Facebook
www.facebook.com/HelpforBPD
Twitter
www.twitter.com/helpforbpd

Holistic Health for the Body, Mind and Soul with Louise Plant

Louise Plant, a Holistic Nutritionist, Master Herbalist, Author and Life Transformational Facilitator joins eHealth Radio and the Mental Health and Nutrition Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Louise Plant discuss the following:What would you describe as Holistic Health?What tips would you have for optimal physical health?What tips would you have for optimal emotional health?What tips would you have for optimal mental health?What tips would you have for optimal spiritual health?
Duration: 16:40
Louise Plant is an Entrepreneur, Holistic Nutritionist, Master Herbalist, Life Transformer, Mover and Shaker. She is a motivated, passionate and illuminated speaker, author, facilitator, teacher and healer. She has been teaching for over 25 years in all aspects of Herbal Medicine, Holistic Living, Nutrition, Spiritual Growth and Emotional Healing.
Her qualifications include Diplomas in Naturopathy, Remedial Therapies, Animal Homeopathy, Honours Diploma is Herbal Medicine, Certificate in Business Management, Bachelors Degree in Natural Science and a Post Grad in Higher Education.
Her passions are travel, adventure, functional foods, healing plants, learning new concepts, empowering others, bringing families together, healing humanity and laughing with my family. She loves to see the light being turned on inside people, and seeing them ‘light up’ as they reconnect to their bodies and themselves.
Her latest venture is Vitae Amor Seminars which is a series of seminars that create a safe and nurturing environment for participants to access and release emotional and mental baggage.

Websites: www.louiseplant.com.au | www.chi-institute.com.au
The views and opinions expressed on any program are those of the persons appearing on the program and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the eHealth Radio Network.

The connection of our mental state with our digestive health, or gut health

Nadia Tarazi, Founder of MicroNourish that is blazing the trail that wakes the world to the connection between micronutrient absorption, gut balance and brain health by creating superior formulas that change lives and set a new standard for mental wellness joins eHealth Radio and the Health News, Mental Health & Stress Management Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Nadia Tarazi discuss the following:Many people these days feel overwhelmed and stressed, whether it's due to pressures from work, finances or personal relationships. But most people don't realize how closely their mental state is connected to their digestive health, or gut health. Can you talk a little about this connection?What exactly are micronutrients, and what impact do they have on mental wellness?What are some reasons people aren't getting enough micronutrients?What is the MicroNourish System, and what makes your products unique?Tell us more about what makes the MicroNourish core formula unique?What kind of resources do you have available for our listeners to learn more about micronutrients and the brain-gut connection?
Note: Special listener discount link for coaching series and to try the MicroNourish System.
Duration: 11:35
Nadia started MicroNourish after
her quest to improve her focus, digestion and eating led her to learn
about the importance of micronutrients and gut health. Taking a
broad-spectrum of micronutrients provided an equilibrium she had never
experienced. Nadia immediately wanted to help others find the path
sooner than she had – and provide high-quality micronutrients from a
company people could trust. She worked with scientists and micronutrient
experts to develop a system of nutritional formulas that she takes
herself, and confidently gives to her family.
With a career background as a Media Producer and Executive Coach, Nadia
never imagined she would end up producing nutrient formulas. But the MicroNourish System is
the perfect combination of her long-held passions: Understanding how
the mind works, focusing on alternative and nutritional health
solutions, looking at individuals from a holistic perspective, and
supporting people to be their best, brightest selves.

Website: www.MicroNourish.com

Transforming anxiety into a gift with Sherianna Boyle

Sherianna Boyle who is a Stress Coach & Energy Practitioner at The Lymes Center Cape Cod / Whole Health Center & the author of four books, the latest Choosing Love joins eHealth Radio and the Mental Health and Stress Managment Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Sherianna Boyle discuss the following:
It seems the focus of your writing has been on anxiety. Can you tell us what makes you so passionate about this subject matter?You say anxiety is a gift, can you tell us more about that?Can you gives an idea of how someone would transform anxiety into a gift?What kind of success have you had with this?Can you share a bit about your next book Choosing Love your next book?
Duration: 19:38
Sherianna
is the stress coach /energy practitioner at The Lymes Center Cape Cod /
Whole Health Center. She is the author of four books: Powered by Me for
Educators Pre-K – 12, 2012, The Everything Parents Guide to Overcoming
Childhood Anxiety, 2013, The Four Gifts of Anxiety, 2014, and Choosing
Love: Open Your Heart, Transform Your Life and Live Fearlessly (Dec
2015). She holds a Masters in Education and Certificate of Advanced
Graduate Study in School Psychology from The University of
Massachusetts, Boston. Her background includes workings as an Adjunct
Psychology Professor at Cape Cod Community College, stress therapy
coach, former owner and operator of a yoga studio, parent educator,
leader of self esteem girls groups and more.
Sherianna has taught
workshops for Hayhouse Publishing Company (Tools & Strategies for
Empowering the School Community, June 2013), has been a contributing
writing to over 30 published articles, and has been featured in
Psychology Today, Jan/Feb 2015 and Mantra Yoga & Health, May 2015.
Her book The Four Gifts of Anxiety has been recognized and shelved by
NAMI, 2015.  She is a nationally certified  yoga instructor and has been
teaching regularly for 14 years. She also developed and leads a regular
well attended class (series) called Gift Focused Living.
She is
professionally developed and is certified as a healing practioner in
three different systems of Energy Healing. She works closely under the
supervision of a master Quantum Healing practioner.  Sherianna is now
carving out her own style, and based on her years of experience is
discovering and creating techniques and methods of her own.  These
methods have proven to be highly successful in assisting clients to
reach their highest potential physically, emotionally and spiritually.
 Her intention is to empower the student / client to be able to
utilize the techniques independently and confidently.
Sherianna
has been married for 17 years and is proudly raising three daughters.
When she is not writing she enjoys going to church, exercising, reading,
gardening and taking naps.

Website: www.sheriannaboyle.com

Heal Your Memories, Change Your Life with Frank Healy

Frank Healy of Phenomenal Memory, and author of the bestselling book “Heal Your Memories, Change Your Life” joins eHealth Radio and the Personal Development & Mental Health Channels. Phenomenal Memory provides counseling and coaching for people who need help recovering from past traumas. Frank is a Licensed Profesional Counselor and Life Coach.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Frank Healy discuss the following:Why is it important to read your book and Heal Your Memories?What was it like for you remembering everything?What are the benefits of being a Phenomenal Memory website member?What are the benefits of being coached?How can healing your memories improve your physical and mental health?
Duration: 13:21
Frank Healy is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Life Coach. He counsels people with depression and anxiety. He has Hyperthymesia which means that he remembers every day of his life since he was six years old.  He is now 54. This includes the day of the week, the weather, news, and personal events. He was studied at the University of California along with about 50 other people who have this ability. The University calls it Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory.
Remembering every day of his life has its advantages and disadvantages. The advantages are the pleasant memories, such as vacations and good times with family and friends. The disadvantages are that he remembers every slight, every bad day, and every unpleasant incident. He used to remember everything with the same emotional intensity as if it were happening now. However, he learned to heal from that and now helps others heal through his counseling, coaching, website, and books.
Frank is the author of the bestselling book Heal Your Memories, Change Your Life. Living With A Phenomenal Memory, and Memory Quiz, What Type Of Learner Are You? Frank lives with his wife Janet in Dennisville, New Jersey.

Website: www.phenomenalmemory.com

Treatment of co-occurring disorders at Lucida Treatment Center

Dr. Christopher La Tourette La Riche, Medical Director at Lucida Treatment Center, a comprehensive substance abuse and mental health center in Palm Beach, Florida joins eHealth Radio and the Addiction Prevention and Mental Health Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Christopher La Tourette La Riche discuss the following:What are co-occurring disorders?Why does substance abuse frequently co-occur with other mental health issues?Tell us about the Dual Disorder Program at Lucida Treatment Center.Why is it important to use a humanistic approach that treats the whole person, not just the disease?What advice do you have for those who may be suffering from co-occurring disorders regarding treatment?
Duration: 22:27
Christopher La Tourette La Riche, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist, award-winning psychotherapist and board-certified addiction psychiatrist. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and specializes in treating patients with addictive disorders, anxiety, depression, panic disorder, bipolar disorder and adult ADHD, using a humanistic approach that treats the whole person, not just the disease.
Dr. La Riche entered medicine after a career in education and the arts. He received a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from Yale University and a master’s degree from Columbia University. Dr. La Riche received his medical degree from the Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico where he graduated with clinical distinction. He completed his internship and residency in psychiatry at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, and received his fellowship in addiction psychiatry from the University of Miami. Dr. La Riche is a fluent speaker of six languages (English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, German and French) and treats clients in all of these languages.
He is currently writing a book on recent advances in addictive disorders and cognitive deficit/cognitive health post-addiction for families and patients. His publications include book chapters and journal articles on the topics of addiction, the neurobiology of depression and child abuse. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Addiction Medicine and Therapies.

Website: www.lucidatreatment.com