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On Your Mind Podcast

A Conversation with Timothy J. Hayes, PsyD

It was such an honor to spend time talking with Dr. Hayes about my family history and my memoir.

Awakening to and accepting that my relationship to my entire adult world was shaped by my earliest experiences floored me. It also enflamed in me a level of compassion for myself, my family, and my parents that I hadn’t believed was possible. It didn’t start with us. It didn’t start with them either. I wasn’t broken and I didn’t need to be fixed. I had to unlearn patterns that never served my best interest and replace them with healthier ones.

I didn’t do it alone, and you don’t have to either. We all have mental health, so let’s talk about it.

One of the most terrifying things that can happen to a parent is for their child to have a crisis. The feelings of powerlessness are overwhelming. Ultimately, the only person we can control is ourselves. Understanding self-care as a practice of service to self and other is key to our own physical and mental health and well-being, especially when times get tough.

On Your Mind podcast

The On Your Mind podcast by Journey’s Dream brings together professionals in the field who are successfully supporting people through mental health challenges to a place of true and lasting well-being.

On the website, you will find hope and inspiration. You will walk away with practical tools and pathways to innovative, effective solutions. Connect to a community who believes you can be well and will support you moving from a place of fear to a place of opportunity.

Every week, host Timothy J. Hayes, Psy.D, is joined by practitioners, thought leaders, and experts in the field of mental health who offer solutions, actual next steps, and tangible tools. In addition to professionals, the podcast will feature individuals sharing their own inspirational stories of transformation and recovery.

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Episode Highlights

In this episode I share, in part:

  • What can get in the way of us being the type of person, type of parent we wish to be.
  • How my daughter’s mental health crisis and my personal suffering was the impetus for my growth and healing, and for unlearning the hurtful patterns passed down to me by generational trauma.
  • Cross-generational patterns are mostly invisible, and silence keeps us sick. What does it take to break those patterns and what happens when we heal.
  • How the best thing we can do when our children receive a diagnosis of mental illness is learn how to take care of ourselves. What that actually means.
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