A New Dawn

A New Dawn

We are Mental Health advocates! Podcast guests share their stories to humanize mental illness in our efforts to erase the stigma on a global scale and improve lives. Be mindful, listen, subscribe & rate us. Our goal is to break the walls and barriers for people so they can unmask themselves. New episodes updated every week. #mentalhealth #dialogue #talk #podcast #suicideprevention #health #endthestigma #podcast #bipolardisorder #depression #realpeople #bullying #experience #bullyinginschools #school #bully #mentalhealth #raiseawareness #sicknotweak #nothingwasted #Angelssuicideawareness #NAMI Advocates #schizonphrenia #PTSD #MPD #anxiety #Selfhelp #livinginsilence, advocacy, mental health You can comment on each podcast, provide feedback and let us know how it helped you at https://www.anewdawnaa.com/ under the "Episodes" Page. Thank you and stay strong.

Episodes

July 2, 2021 97 mins
Victor provides us with the history of the horrific abuse he faced growing up and provides the scenario and basis for his multiple personality disorder and multiple, ‘characters,’ surfacing in his life. I have included the order of documents to be read, as he sent them to me: 1.       My essay entitled “IsHopeAStrategy-IDontKnowYouTellMe”-Rev1 – explains my experiences for the last 55 weeks 2.       Email to my circle of care “...
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Abby, another victim of THC Potent Drug from smoking daily for a short period of time. Thankfully her father intervened. Doug, her father, reached out to share her story as a worried dad and mental THC awareness advocate for parents. Listening to him discuss the the experience they had with hospitals to gain admittance and help for drug induced or mental health impaired individuals. If you’ve ever experienced this, it’s heart wrenc...
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John, from the Road to Mental Wellness, joins us for a second update on how he's been. He discusses his new podcast and enlightens us on where he is with his book. He focuses on 'men's health,' and how we can find commonalities between the genders or even those that are binary. We discuss 'covid coma' a bit, please enjoy.
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John of "The Bipolar Battle" podcast and mental health advocate on Twitter joins us with his story. He describes his family as coming from the thought of 'mind over matter,' to get over struggles. He's living with Bipolar disorder and emphasizes the idea to 'embrace your journey,' as you live with mental illness. If you would like to follow him you can reach him on Twitter. Twitter: @BipolarBattle Website: thebipolarbattle.com...
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Luke from the UK shares his journey of mental illness. Please check out his blog at Discusslife.net.
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Sharon is a mental health advocate, Emergency Management Field Officer, OFMEM, social worker, disaster responder, volunteer and also a speaker. She lives with PTSD, CPTSD, MDD and OCD and childhood trauma revealed itself in her early twenties. She tells her story beautifully and reveals how 'brushing under the rug,' doesn't help when it comes to childhood trauma. Her story, like many here, is one of hope, survival and recovery. S...
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Cameron returns for Season 3 where we get an update on his mental health, since our last episode and open the conversation about diversity in the world and the Covid19 pandemic. #compathy is something we discuss, based on emersing someone into other cultures to help break down the walls of racism. Thoughts about this can be heard in the episode, check it out.
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Elle graces us with her delightful demeanor. She’s an artist in true form from her pop culture videos, to her artwork. Stay tuned, she her own podcast coming to share paranormal stories from people that have experienced them. Here’s more information and links from her site: She is a young artist, youtuber, and writer living with ADHD, DPRD, and depression. She cycles between three types of content: Youtube videos about the inte...
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Skip, a 26 year veteran, physician, author, speaker and MH advocate for individuals suffering depression. His message is prodominately for men, but we also were inspired by his story and it touched out lives too. See our website for links to his social media; https://www.anewdawnaa.com/.
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Evan Whitehead, M.Ed @EvanWhitehead00, Nat'l Consultant/Certified Trainer of the @ahaprocess /Dist. Administrator/Educational Consultant/Mental Health Advocate. Building Capacity 2 Achieve Sustainability! It was a pleasure to speak with him and I support all of this efforts, which mimic my efforts in many ways. Therapeutic day school crisis intervention experience, which began his journey into special education, social emotional le...
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Jody of returns to discuss her road towards advocacy, her struggles and triumphs. She’s a podcast host, trauma trained coach, mental health advocate and Twitter support mentor to many. Her articles can be found on “The Mighty” or read about her in a story, and anthology of women who have survived and become beacons of hope. Jody#BraveWingsTrauma&Crisis Informed Peer Support @ONELASTKICK71
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Welcome Katherine from Butterfly Tears and Kisses blog in her debut video as our third guest to “Ditch the Mask.” Please find her video on our YouTube Channel, where you can also watch all of our Ditch the Mask Campaign videos. Katherine sheds light on why she’s worn masks, as well as identifying why she felt they were put there in the first place. Stigma about mental illness has been a real conversation grabber in both our podca...
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Tracey Maxfield is doing all the things I dream about, she wrote a book about coming out of the Rabbit Hole of depression and is a speaker in schools across the globe. Her philosophy meshes with mine, help teach kids how to cope with the stresses of life, manage anxiety, emotions and how to breathe properly. Our school children are stressed out and you can gain a deeper understanding of her thoughts, listen to the podcast. Podcast...
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Linda worked on the frontlines and as an Incident Commander, where she put 30 years of her life on the line. Her podcast and book tell the story of her life, her struggles and what it’s like to live before, during and after as a California fire-fighter. She lives with PTSD and struggles with the stigma of mental health in the department, amongst friends and tells us her story. You can find her at https://www.encouragegreen.com/ wh...
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It's me, Dawnette Brenner and I share my experience as a teacher using mindfulness in the classroom. We must make a change in this world, especially where our kids are concerned. #Mindfulness is part of my daily Mental Health check-ins and I'm supported and helped so many kids. Teachers, this is a call to action. Parents inform your teachers. We must get our legislation changed, mental health education/curriculum must be part of ou...
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Hayley Wheeler - emotional empowerment coachHAYLEY T WHEELERI work with adults and children to help them conquer their anxiety and depression. I coach people who are ready to challenge and conquer anxiety, depression or stress, to accept their super power and take back control of their life and business.In 2015, I ended up in my pit of despair – depression. I didn’t realise at the time, looking back it was bleak time. Having got th...
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Melanie and Krystal founded "Joy for Jan,' after the grief of losing their mom to suicide. They have a blog, videos and products for sale, all supporting scholarships for kids making a difference in their lives. Advocates and sisters, a dynamic duo, began in a small town. Check out their sites and enjoy listening to our podcast interview. Check them out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joyforjan Instagram: https://www.insta...
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Sam is a strong Mental Health advocate on Twitter and has been supportive of all people living with mental illness that he's come in contact with on Twitter. He wears several masks and today we talk about a few descriptors he's given them, as he wrote them on his mask. The Video vodcast will release on our youtube channel next week, so stay tuned for that. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6_NdPpIelddMoXjmKCaDp_z4akWdeTGM
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Welcome to our introductory podcast for Season 2 of A New Dawn podcast. We are here with, "Bipolar Mama of 3," as she ditches her mask, as my first video & podcast guest of season 2. Please find the video version of this podcast on my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7jue8iV4cTwdyEFYESf_OQ The importance of removing the social media mask she’s worn for several years was apparent during our interview. She’s stil...
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Sammie shares her story of being self-sufficient at a young age and living with bipolar disorder, depression, OCD, anxiety and childhood schizophrenia. "My Brain Works Differently Than Yours" She's been supportive of her autistic stepbrother and showed compassion towards her mom with her struggles. She calls herself the #blacksheep of the family.
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