"Mentalbility" Mental Health & Welln

Hello and welcome to Mentalbility Episode # 2. Apologies for the delay, my illness and two family bereavements haven't helped. However, we're here. Managed to convince Tara Gretton to allow me to talk to her and find out something of her work in schools supporting challenged youngsters, and she has agreed to do another interview regarding a more in-depth appraisal of her work using solution-focus approaches.  Please also see the accompanying blogpost which has an interesting (I think) bibliography which may help you to see and understand where those of us working with children are coming from. You can find the blog by going to my website at https://www.paulavard.co.uk and looking for the latest blog - dated, 5th March 2019. I'm hoping that we can begin a dialogue about this work. Please feel free to respond or comment, I do not respond to abuse, so don't go there, please. 

If you want to submit a story to be featured on the podcast, go to www.jamesochoa.com/storm-stories. On this months episode, Robin has a Fat Attack and gets spun into a storm! Listen to see what James offers to help deal with this situation.

Welcome to the introductory episode #1 of the new Mentalbility: Mental Health and Wellness podcast by me, opnmnd (the Podbean subdomain for my therapy practice - Open Mind Therapy. Although, you'll have to look for that at https://paulavard.co.uk where you will find lots of information about training; my blog, which started well, however, I then became unwell and that tailed off, however, it will pick up now that I'm feeling more and more like a human being. I am a practising hypnotherapist and counsellor (registered here, in the UK), a counsellor (I use the solution-focus approach as my main model of intervention) and I'm also a supervisor, trainer and mentor for other counsellors wishing to add solution focus to their repertoire of skills. Mentalbility will be a place to ask questions, and to LEARN about  mental health and general mental wellness; and, importantly an opportunity to get under the rubbish that is often spoken about mental distress. You will learn about the origins of distress and about how to try to ensure you don't succumb, and about how, and more importantly, from whom you can get help. I'm intending to have a regular guest to be interviewed every second Episode, with an opportunity for subscribers to ask questions either of me, or of guests who will be flagged up, with their main area of interest / expertise in time for people to get questions to me, via emails, twitter, text or using the comments section on the podcast page. I want this to be a dialogue rather than a monologue, I know I was " born with the gift of a golden voice..." (c) Leonard Cohen, however I much prefer a dialogue Please subscribe to the podcast by clicking follow on this page, or on Itunes (when the podcast appears there), and I look forward to hearing from you. The first, full episode, will happen by the end of next week (around the 15th of February), there will be plenty of warning on social media.   Thanks for listening   Paul

The Complex is back with Shiny Shorts! Help us build a community for all ADHDers to find validation in their lives and love for who they are. Go to https://www.jamesochoa.com/storm-stories/ to read about other people's storms and even submit your own to potentially be featured on the podcast!

Stay connected with The Complex at https://www.facebook.com/thecomplexpodcast/. In this episode James and I go more in depth about the use of imagination and the Emotional Safe Place we heard about in Episode 6.

Stay connected to The Complex at https://www.facebook.com/thecomplexpodcast. In this last episode we meet Bernard in a group session with James and learn about his near-death-experience involving keys.

James and I talk about the Panic Precipice and how it can be a legitimate strategy.

In this episode we get to meet Genius Boy - the master of the Panic Precipice.

James and I talk about Amanda's misevaluations and how ADHD can affect passions.

In this episode we get to party down with the characters at The Complex and get to know Amanda a little bit better. This episode brings up an issue that almost every single person with ADHD (no matter the type) have found themselves dealing with - passions.

James and I talk about one of the rarest types of ADHD - Inattentive type. Find James' upcoming FREE webinar with Tara McGillicuddy here: https://www.addclasses.com/

In this episode, we meet the side of ADHD that not many people know about: the nonhyper ones. Krispy is our resident chill ADHDer.

In this episode James and I discuss the family aspects of living with ADHD.

In this episode, you get to hear the dynamic between Jessica and her daughter Jade as we find out more about their past histories.

James answers questions on the basics of ADHD and explains exactly what it is. If James doesn't answer your questions here, please leave a comment or review with your question and we will try to fit it in next week!

In this episode you'll get an introduction to The Complex by meeting almost all of the characters that live there. You'll be following Jules, the owner and manager, on his morning rounds as he retells the story of this hectic morning at The Complex.

The owner of a new eco-friendly, co-housing, sustainable apartment complex finds himself overwhelmed with the eclectic group of tenants he has. In this podcast, you'll be following the owner and manager, Jules, as he recounts his hectic life at The Complex. While the story and characters in this show are fictional, there will be very useful information, strategies, and techniques presented to help those with and around ADHD. For more information on the techniques and strategies that will be presented, go to Jamesochoa.com or refer to the book Focused Forward: Navigating the Storms of Adult ADHD.