Highlights from guest interviews and whimsical outtakes from the year bookend this episode. Tony and Eric share their highs and lows from the season, as wells as hopes for the future of the podcast.
We thank all of our listeners for your support over the course of 2018. Look for season 2 to start in March 2019.
As we have asked each of our guests, we also encourage you to consider, “What does healing mean to you?”
Dr. Susan Lockwood, author of “Kicked to the Curb: Where Policy has Failed our Most Vulnerable Youth and the Fight for a Better Tomorrow,” discusses her new book scheduled for release in December 2018.
She is the former Director of Juvenile Education at the Indiana Department of Correction, where she retired after 17 years as a special education teacher and state-wide school administrator.
Currently, she is the owner of Nexus Point Consulting, LLC, specializing in correctional education and workforce development, and the Director of Education Strategy for American Prison Data Systems, PBC.
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Topics include:
How does she advocate for change in the criminal justice system?
Why did she choose “Kicked to the Curb” as the title to her book?
What is her experience of the integration of mental healthcare in the prison system?
What is an example of hope and resilience?
What does healing mean to you?
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Shownotes:
Indiana Persimmon Pudding Recipe
The Stability Network – Eric is a member of this professional organization that empowering people to share their stories of living successfully with a mental health diagnoses
Nexus Point Consulting – Susan Lockwood’s consulting business. You can contact Susan through this website
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Season Finale! Tony and Eric discuss the highs and lows of season 1, share some of the bloopers, and discuss their growing confidence as a podcasting duo.
Tony and Eric were keynote speakers at the Heartland: Best Practices for Ministries Conference . This episode is a live recording from the event. The focus is on development of the Faithful Friends Mental Health Ministry and the Revealing Voices podcast.
The keynote address was given on October 10, World Mental Health Day.
This is our first podcast release not in our standard 45 minute format.
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Next Episode:
We will be back in studio E for Episode 20 with Dr. Susan Lockwood. Her book, “Kicked to the Curb”, focuses on youth in the criminal justice system. It will be released on December 4.
By a matter of serendipity in early 2017, I was invited to join The Stability Network.
The previous year, as a contract employee at Cummins Engine Company, I had put together a business case for creating a Mental Health Affinity Group. The company already had other Affinity Groups that were focused on African American employees, Newcomers, LGBTQ employees, etc.
The intention was to create a safe place for those who identify with having a mental health diagnosis to share coping skills and their aspirations for success while effectively managing their mental health struggles. Unfortunately, my contract with Cummins ended and my main “corporate champion” for the cause was transferred to India.
Through this process, I met Donna Hardaker. When I was asked to create a business case for the value of the Affinity Group, Donna helped me find the statistics and other organizations already doing this kind of work. Donna is extraordinarily knowledgeable about the mental healthcare system. I was intrigued by her unique sense of the masked stigma and unique challenges that people with mental health diagnoses face in their career development.
After it was clear that the Affinity Group development had stalled, Donna surprisingly invited me to join The Stability Network. I was honored by the invitation and gladly accepted.
This past weekend, I attended The Stability Network’s national meeting in San Francisco. It was a follow up to last year’s regional meeting in New York City. The energy at the meeting and the natural bonds between all the members was a great atmosphere to be around.
Over the past 2 years, my involvement has helped me gain deeper relationships with other mental health advocates, helped me craft my own advocacy storytelling techniques, and inspired me to start the Revealing Voices podcast. The Stability Network inspires and encourages people experiencing mental health challenges to thrive. I am fully committed to the vision to help people with mental health challenges to thrive in workplaces and communities.
As Tony and I prepare for season 2 of Revealing Voices, we will be highlighting some of the individuals from The Stability Network who boldly share their mental health journey.
During my time in San Francisco, I was blessed to get the chance to ride a bike across the Golden Gate Bridge. The sight of this engineering marvel rising from the fog filled me with gratitude. The trip was rejuvenating and I’m energized by all my fellow advocates across the country.
Author, Blogger, and Podcast host Brandon Andress joins us in studio. Brandon’s new book, “Beauty in the Wreckage: Finding Peace in the Age of Outrage”, focuses on the redemption of suffering. Listen for Brandon’s humility as he shares his personal stories of finding gratitude, healing, and community in some of life’s most difficult moments.
Brandon is also author of “Unearthed: How Discovering the Kingdom of God Will Transform the Church and Change the World” (2010) and the tongue-in-cheek “And Then The End Will Come” (2013).
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Some topics include:
How do we transform our suffering?
How did the grief he experienced during writing impact the book?
How do spiritual disciplines lead to healing?
What does healing mean to you?
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Shownotes:
Video Introduction to “Beauty in the Wreckage”
“Beauty in the Wreckage: Finding Peace in the Age of Outrage” main website
Brandon Andress Personal Website
Brandon’s Outside The Walls Podcast
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Tony and Eric live recording at the Heartland 2018 Best Practices Conference
Want to join a consortium of 12,000 mental health advocates? Listen to Bob Mills, Founder of Minds Renewed, discuss the mission of his ambitious organization. The goal of the organization is to become the most valuable web platform for evaluating, curating, and communicating the best mental health information on the web.
The origins began in 2001 in a mental health ministry that Bob started at 1st Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Bob’s desire to honor God through serving the suffering grew out of his own experience with bouts of depression and bipolar disorder.
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Some topics include:
What is the leadership structure of his mental health group ministry?
What has led to the growth of Minds Renewed?
What are some good models that he has identified through his networking?
What does healing mean to you?
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Shownotes:
Mental Health Grace Alliance – ministry that provides mental health resources for families and individuals suffering with mental health struggles
Fresh Hope for Mental Health – Pastor Brad Hoefs is a podcast host and developer of a mental health group ministry model
The Stability Network – Mental health advocacy organization that helps employers, communities, and the public recognize that people with mental health conditions are their friends, neighbors and colleagues who can—and do—lead successful lives.
This Wednesday (October 10, 2018) is World Mental Health Day. We are honored to be keynote speakers at the at the Best Practices for Ministry: Heartland Conference held at St. Peter’s Lutheran in Columbus, Indiana.
The topic of our presentation will be healing. Here is the program description:
What does healing mean to you? How can it be received and maintained? Eric Riddle and Tony Roberts have tackled this issue in an intimate way as they wrestle with mental health diagnoses. In Eric’s pivotal work with the flood recovery effort, he discovered how to serve his way to sanity. Tony turned inward, writing a spiritual memoir called, Delight in Disorder: Ministry, Madness, Mission. Eric and Tony then teamed up to found a faith-based mental health support group Faithful Friends. They were then led to produce Revealing Voices, a podcast that is faith-based, peer-led, story-driven, and stigma-breaking.
Eric and Tony will discuss how God them into mental health ministry, where they find Christ’s strength in their own weaknesses, and what the Holy Spirit can do when believers reach out to those with troubled minds.
Our hope is that we will cultivate a greater sense of healing within and among those who participate and that this healing would spread as they are sent back into their communities to love God and serve God’s people.
Author and Mental Health Podcast Host of “Waking Up Bipolar”, Chris Cole, walks us through his vision of a more person-centered, holistic, compassionate mental healthcare system. Chris re-appropriates language to describe mental illness. For example, he describes his personal journey with “bipolar order”. His podcast focuses on the intersection of bipolar disorder and spiritual awakening.
Chris’s podcast, blog, and Cole Coaching website is www.colecoaching.com. There are multiple references in the episode to his blog post Re-appropriating Bipolar Beyond Pathology.
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Some of the topics covered in the show include:
What is his life experience with “Bipolar Order”?
How can the mental healthcare system care for individuals suffering with severe mental illness?
Who are some of the best coaches in his life?
What does healing mean to you?
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Shownotes:
Chris Cole’s book: The Body of Chris: A Memoir of Obsession, Addiction, and Madness
Podcast Facebook Page: Waking Up Bipolar (with video editions of his podcast)
Tony and Eric will be key note speakers at Best Practices for Ministry: Heartland 2018. If you live near Columbus, IN please consider joining us on Wednesday, October 10 at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
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Next Episode:
Bob Mills, President and CEO of Minds Renewed
Leader of a Facebook group with nearly 20,000 members, Laura Pogliano has the unique experience of professionally working with Johns Hopkins and personally serving her son who suffered from mental illness. Laura shares her passion for advocacy, putting it into the context of a social justice movement.
Laura’s Facebook group is Advocates for People with Mental Illnesses.
Laura’s Non-profit is Parentsforcare.org.
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Some of the topics include:
How does her non-profit help caregivers?
How has the church shaped her family’s life experience?
What are drawbacks of the “Recovery Model” in mental healthcare system?
How does HIPAA impact families?
What does healing mean to you?
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Show notes:
Treatment Advocacy Center of Virginia
Video of Laura at John’s Hopkins
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Next Show:
Chris Cole, Podcast Host of “Waking Up Bipolar”
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