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Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
Amy D. Taylor | Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
72 episodes
15 hours ago
Send us a text We challenge the belief that shame is useful and take aim at the “inner critic,” reframing it as an inner narcissist that feeds on your energy and keeps you small. We share a clear method to cut its supply, regulate your body, and return to authentic choice. • redefining the inner critic as an inner narcissist • family roles of scapegoat, golden child, and enabler • how shame scales into workplaces and politics • shame versus guilt and why the difference matters • why “healthy...
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Send us a text We challenge the belief that shame is useful and take aim at the “inner critic,” reframing it as an inner narcissist that feeds on your energy and keeps you small. We share a clear method to cut its supply, regulate your body, and return to authentic choice. • redefining the inner critic as an inner narcissist • family roles of scapegoat, golden child, and enabler • how shame scales into workplaces and politics • shame versus guilt and why the difference matters • why “healthy...
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Mental Health
Education,
Self-Improvement,
Health & Fitness,
Alternative Health
Episodes (20/72)
Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
How Shame, Your Inner Narcissist, Messes With Your Mental Health
Send us a text We challenge the belief that shame is useful and take aim at the “inner critic,” reframing it as an inner narcissist that feeds on your energy and keeps you small. We share a clear method to cut its supply, regulate your body, and return to authentic choice. • redefining the inner critic as an inner narcissist • family roles of scapegoat, golden child, and enabler • how shame scales into workplaces and politics • shame versus guilt and why the difference matters • why “healthy...
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3 weeks ago
47 minutes

Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
It’s Not About the Stuff: A Mental Health Conversation on Hoarding and Healing
Send us a text We sit with Melanie Cohen to unpack the human side of hoarding—how trauma and OCD shape clutter, why trust matters more than trash bags, and how tiny goals build real change. We share language for hard family talks, safety-first priorities, and ways to give belongings a second life. • early signs of hoarding masked as productivity and space mismatch • divorce, bankruptcy, and trauma as drivers of escalating clutter • OCD, depression, perfectionism, and executive function hurdl...
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1 month ago
39 minutes

Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
Microdosing, Somatics, Feminine Healing & Your Mental Health with Leslie Draffin
Send us a text Leslie Draffin shares her expertise as a women's microdosing and somatic guide, helping women tap into body-held trauma through various modalities including psilocybin mushrooms and embodiment practices. • Microdosing psilocybin involves taking tiny amounts that don't cause intoxication but improve mood and brain function • Psilocybin calms the default mode network where deeply ingrained habits live, allowing better pattern recognition • Unlike pharmaceuticals, microdosing is ...
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1 month ago
39 minutes

Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
Healing Your Inner Child: Insights from Anat Peri on Emotional & Mental Health
Send us a text Discover how inner child work and emotional healing can empower your journey.' Anat Pari, an inner child expert with over a decade of experience, shares her powerful methodology for helping people break free from survival mode and become empowered creators in their own lives. • The distinction between traditional mindset work that "trims weeds" versus deep healing that addresses root causes • How childhood experiences shape our adult patterns even without major trauma • The fi...
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2 months ago
50 minutes

Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
Navigating the Sandwich Generation Mental Health Challenges with Mary Ann Hughes
Send us a text Learn how to maintain mental health while balancing care for neurodiverse children and elderly parents.'Mary Ann Hughes shares her experience as part of the sandwich generation, balancing care for her two adult sons with autism while supporting her elderly mother after a health crisis. She brings wisdom, compassion, and practical strategies for maintaining boundaries and finding yourself amid overwhelming caregiving responsibilities. • Navigating the simultaneous care of ...
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2 months ago
31 minutes

Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
Merging Woo and Mental Health Insights with Michele Lefler
Send us a text Explore how shadow work and psychology converge to elevate our mental health. Michele Lefler joins us to explore shadow work, revealing how this misunderstood practice combines psychology with spiritual elements to help us embrace all parts of ourselves. • Shadow work addresses aspects of our personality society conditions us to suppress or hide • Michele describes her approach as "spicy psychology" – blending traditional psychology with spiritual elements • Emotions like...
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3 months ago
41 minutes

Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
A Mother’s Journey Through Grief: Insights on Mental Health After Loss
Send us a text Join Sally Raymond as she unveils the complexities of grief and mental health. Sally Raymond, a psychotherapist and mother, shares how her brilliant son John's suicide catapulted her into a lifelong mission to understand what she missed and help other parents recognize warning signs. Through her heartbreak and professional training, she discovered how early childhood experiences and developmental stages can create vulnerabilities that might contribute to suicidal thoughts ...
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3 months ago
47 minutes

Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
Conquering Fear: A Compassionate Mental Health Approach to Dog Phobia
Send us a text A debilitating fear that often goes unacknowledged – but what if that fear has four legs and follows you everywhere you go? Stefani Cohen, a licensed clinical social worker with extensive experience helping children and families, joins us to shed light on an overlooked phobia that restricts countless lives. Unlike fears of heights or spiders that only occasionally interfere with daily activities, cynophobia (fear of dogs) creates constant limitations in a world where our...
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3 months ago
27 minutes

Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
Burnout to Breakthrough: Reclaiming Your Mental Health and Your Life from Exhaustion
Send us a text "When you die, you're never going to wish you worked more." These words from Tori Jenae's grandfather became a guiding light through her darkest moments. As a trauma-informed confidence coach who has walked through fire – from childhood trauma to profound loss, from adrenal failure to divorce – Tori brings hard-earned wisdom to women caught in cycles of burnout and overwhelm. The modern woman's burnout crisis isn't just about being busy. Women today are primary breadwinners, c...
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4 months ago
29 minutes

Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
Neurodivergence Unmasked at 50: Embracing Late Diagnosed Autism
Send us a text Need support that actually fits your life — not just another thing to squeeze into your calendar?That’s exactly why I created Amy’s Inbox Coaching. Here’s what Michele Lefler had to say: “Amy’s Inbox Coaching helped me feel supported in a way I didn’t realize I was missing. Being able to write when I actually have the mental space has been life-changing. Amy responds with such warmth and clarity… it’s like she’s sitting beside me, seeing the whole picture, anSupport the show Si...
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5 months ago
35 minutes

Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
Lori Kirstein Interviews the Host, Amy Taylor about Mental Health, Neurodivergence and Spirituality
Send us a text Listen to Amy an Lori talk mental health, neurodivergence and spirituality. This time Amy, Mental Health Warrior & Neurospicy Mama, is on the hotseat and Lori Kirstein from the Goodbye Goodgirl Project has the interviewer's mic. Check out Lori's Youtube show under The Goodbye Goodgirl Project. Make sure to subscribe and leave a thumbs up on this episode. https://youtu.be/d4ZR5Eu7iwI?si=K9TfxTf2bL1Bd1LZ Need support that actually fits your life — not just another thing...
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5 months ago
45 minutes

Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
Family Constellation Work: Supporting Mental Health Through Ancestral Trauma Healing
Send us a text Family Constellation work reveals how multigenerational trauma affects our parenting and offers a path to healing these inherited patterns for more conscious connections with our children. • Family Constellation is a healing modality that traces current challenges back to events up to seven generations ago • Trauma can be carried in our DNA, affecting us even if we had a "good childhood" • The goal isn't to uncover all family secrets but to release burdens that never belonged ...
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6 months ago
28 minutes

Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
Breaking the Good Girl Script: How Emotional Energetics Changed Everything For Her Mental Health
Send us a text Lori Kirstein opens up about overcoming decades of depression and anxiety through emotional energetics and spirituality after losing her mother to cancer at age 21. She shares how shifting from following rules to honoring her authentic emotions transformed her mental wellbeing and empowered her to help others. • Lost her mother to cancer after 11 years of illness, leading to decades of clinical depression • Discovered spiritual awakening through books and meeting the Indian sp...
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6 months ago
47 minutes

Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
Healing Through Loss: The SERVE Method with Dr. Michelle Petticolas
Send us a text Support the show Get a free WHO AM I Journal to learn more about yourself: https://advancingwithamy.com Sign up for Amy's newsletter at https://www.advancingwithamy.com/about Support the show here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2434582/supporters/new WE NEED YOU! Want to be a guest on Mental Health Warrior & Neurospicy Mama? Send Amy Taylor a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.joinpodmatch.com/advancingwithamy
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6 months ago
39 minutes

Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
The Conversation Every Parent With Mental Illness Should Hear
Send us a text On this illuminating episode of Mental Health Warrior & Neurospicy Mama, Amy welcomes esteemed clinical psychologist Dr. Michelle Sherman for a heart-to-heart conversation about families navigating mental illness and trauma. Dr. Sherman shares powerful insights drawn from both her three decades of clinical experience and her longstanding collaboration with her mother, an educator and fellow mental health advocate. Together, they’ve co-authored a series of interactive books ...
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6 months ago
37 minutes

Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
Your Intrusive Thoughts Are Not Your Intuition: A Chat with a Modern Medium
Send us a text We explore the fascinating world of psychic abilities and spiritual intuition with Nikki Williams, a medium who shares insights about distinguishing true intuition from intrusive thoughts. Nikki reveals how her neurodivergent mind enhances her spiritual gifts while offering practical advice for developing your own intuitive abilities. • Nikki explains her various psychic abilities including clairvoyance, clairaudience, and medical intuition • The clear difference between intru...
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7 months ago
55 minutes

Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
Patches for Mental Health & Reverse Aging with Darlene Greene
Send us a text Hey there, fabulous listeners of Advancing With Amy / Mental Health Warrior & Neurospicy Mama! Ready to take your mental health game to the next level? Then dive deep into this enlightening episode featuring the incredible Darlene Greene. She’s dropping some bombshell knowledge about stem cells and how they can be our body's DIY team! 🧬✨ Curious? Want your own body to start a little renovation project? Head over to Darlene's site at iamreverseaging.com and see what all the ...
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7 months ago
32 minutes

Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
From People Pleasing to Liberating Your Inner Child with Tina Hoang
Send us a text In this episode of Advancing With Amy / Mental Health Warrior & Neurospicy Mama, Amy sits down with Tina Hoang to explore the journey of overcoming people pleasing and navigating one's inner child. Tina shares her personal story, starting from a pivotal moment in a romantic relationship that led her to confront her passive tendencies. Through this experience, she embraced assertiveness and learned the power of saying no, marking the beginning of her transformation. Ti...
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7 months ago
26 minutes

Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
How Touch Starvation Affects Mental and Physical Health: Insights from Epiphany Jordan
Send us a text Thanks for tuning into Advancing with Amy! If you're as intrigued by the power of touch as we are after listening to our chat with the delightful Epiphany Jordan, you're probably itching to dive deeper. So why not get in touch (see what we did there?) with Epiphany herself? Head over to her website at www.nurturinghumantouch.com and explore how you can nurture more touch opportunities in your life. Don't forget to check out her book, "Somebody Hold Me, the Single Person's Guide...
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8 months ago
39 minutes

Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
Redefining Mental Health Treatment: Krissy Loveman talks shadow work and neuroplasticity.
Send us a text Welcome back to another in-depth episode of "Advancing with Amy," the podcast dedicated to exploring the intricacies of mental health and personal growth. I'm your host, Amy, and today we have the privilege of diving into the fascinating world of shadow work with our special guest, Chrissy Loveman. Chrissy, known for her expertise in shadow work and her integration of neuroscience into healing practices, shares insights into what shadow work involves and how it influences our l...
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8 months ago
25 minutes

Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate
Send us a text We challenge the belief that shame is useful and take aim at the “inner critic,” reframing it as an inner narcissist that feeds on your energy and keeps you small. We share a clear method to cut its supply, regulate your body, and return to authentic choice. • redefining the inner critic as an inner narcissist • family roles of scapegoat, golden child, and enabler • how shame scales into workplaces and politics • shame versus guilt and why the difference matters • why “healthy...