Episodes

  • How Past Lives and Spiritual Experiences Impact our Mental Health with Kerie Logan

    How Past Lives and Spiritual Experiences Impact our Mental Health with Kerie Logan
    Jan 29 2025
    How Past Lives and Spiritual Experiences Impact our Mental Health with Kerie Logan

    While there doesn’t seem to be any scientific consensus of past lives, the correlation between them, present-day conflicts, and/or emotional baggage is significant. And the anecdotal stories include resolving problematic patterns that one has around behaviors, phobias, relationship, relationship difficulties among others. In addition, we have individuals who when they have spoken about past lives or spiritual experiences are labelled crazy by people around them and professionals in the mental health industry.

    Hypnotherapist, Kerie Logan joins Bernadine to explain how our past lives or spiritual experiences may impact on our mental health. Logan has spent the last 40+ years working with people using meditation, NLP, creative visualization, relaxation, inner child work and hypnosis. She has won awards for her hypnotherapy work. ReThreading Madness talks with her about the impact past lives and spiritual experiences has on our mental health and how we might be able to resolve them.

    Music by Shari Ulrich and Born
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    1 hr
  • With Matt Sandoval from FreeArts AZ and Kagan Gog producer/director of Common Law

    With Matt Sandoval from FreeArts AZ and Kagan Gog producer/director of Common Law
    Jan 21 2025
    With Matt Sandoval from FreeArts AZ and Kagan Gog producer/director of Common Law
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • I "Married" My Therapist: Ken Schultz talks about the damage he suffered

    I "Married" My Therapist: Ken Schultz talks about the damage he suffered
    Jan 15 2025
    Trigger Warnng: This episode includes information about therapy abuse and may be triggering for some folks.

    I Married my Therapist:

    Ken Schultz is an advocate for mental health reform and a survivor of therapy abuse and exploitation. He is using his personal experience of harm to raise awareness about unethical therapeutic relationships and their lasting impact. Through his story, Ken aims to inspire change in laws and practices to protect others from similar experiences.

    If we want to examine the power and authority mental health professionals have over their clients – Ken’s story is a prime example. He saw this therapist for 3 months and in that time frame, he went from someone who had zero attraction to being sexually exploited by her all the while believing how she defined it as ok.

    If we want to examine how the institutions should be assisting us after we have experienced therapy abuse and exploitation, Ken is another prime example. The therapist he was seeing reported her, then left him to deal with the fallout on his own. The Texan state licensing board narrowed his complaint down to violating one aspect of the statutes: the timeline. His “therapist” dragged out leaving the ‘marriage’ to prevent a complaint based on the allotted time. But the licensing board ignored another statute that their social workers are not allowed to have sexual contact with a current or former client – of which she clearly had violated and of which had done so within the statute of limitations. And his church and police believed her statements without any corroboration and victimized him again.

    Things must change. We all need to wake up to harm perpetrated against those who have experienced therapy abuse and exploitation so that we are not inadvertently exacerbating that harm that is already catastrophic in too many cases.

    Music by Shari Ulrich and Shawn Mendes
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    1 hr
  • It's a New Year

    It's a New Year
    Jan 1 2025
    It’s a New Year

    Today’s program is a slightly different structure. As we walk into the next year, several people came to share their hopes for themselves, their family and friends - with all of you. It is an uplifting show that demonstrates the amount of care and generosity that exists all around us. The program is our personal thank you to all who have been a part of the ReThreading Madness family whether as a guest or behind the scenes making sure the show goes out each week. This has been a hell of a year – monumental even. A big part of that was being able to chat with some of the most incredible people from around the world. As the host of ReThreading Madness, I consider myself blessed because of it. But also because of you, our listeners, who join us each week.

    Today we are joined by Jodi Grey, Charlene Hellson, Kayle Ackerman, Jackie Crowchild, Michelle Oucharek Deo, Peter Morin, Kagan Goh, Alex Sangha and Amy Avalon.

    Our inspirational music today was by the Animals, Sara Barielles, Anna Glendening, Rachel Platten, Josh Groban, Kelly Clarkson, Zach Williams, Scott Callum, Peter Morin, and as always Shari Ulrich sings us into and out of each program each week.

    Bernadine’s personal message to our listeners: So here is wishing you a year full of caring, compassionate and supportive people, safe and gentle havens, along with personal growth, brave new insights, spontaneous, joyful fun and a trust in yourself that grows every day. But most of all she wishes for you a peace which settles into your heart as though it has always belonged there.
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    1 hr
  • Importance of Lived Experience in Mental Health Issues: A Conversation with Matthew Jackmanman

    Importance of Lived Experience in Mental Health Issues: A Conversation with Matthew Jackmanman
    Dec 19 2024
    Importance of Lived Experience in Mental Health Issues: A Conversation with Matthew Jackman

    Matthew Jackman has an intense conversation with Bernadine about the importance of the recognizing the immense value of those with lived experience as we examine mental health challenges. Matthew Jackman is a mental health advocate promoting human rights, social justice … he is activist from an academic science from a public health and mad studies knowledge base. He trained as social worker and has partnered with different marginalized and disadvantaged communities which focus on mental health. Matthew is a representative, ambassador or advisor with the Global Mental Health Peer Network, the World Economic Forum, the Australian Association of Social Workers, Generation Mental Health, and the World Health Organisation on key global mental health documents requiring lived experience perspective. He is a certified peer specialist and a visiting scholar in Psychiatry at Yale and Harvard University. He focuses on alternatives to psychiatry. Most recently he has accepted the role of Commissioner on Lived Experience in Mental Health Research for the Lancet Psychiatry. For those of who do not know the Lancet is one of the oldest peer-reviewed medical journals.
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    1 hr
  • Getting Over the Wrong Relationship with Sean Bridges

    Getting Over the Wrong Relationship with Sean Bridges
    Nov 27 2024
    Sean Bridges, award-winning screenwriter and author, had never been married until at the age of 55, he found, what he described as, the love of his life. He was about to be married. He was her fourth husband (to-be). Then something in his gut started shaking him awake to the realization that his life and his own personage had morphed into something he didn’t recognize; didn’t feel comfortable in. He packed his bags and left the million-dollar home he and his fiancé lived in. Traded it for a bartending job in a small town. And slowly found himself again. He talks with us about what happened and what he did to put the pieces back together.

    Sean Bridges is a Stephen King Dollar Baby with his festival winning audio production of One for the Road. His latest screenplay, Beginner's Luck, is a 2024 award-winner at the San Antonio and Austin Film Festivals. His new novel, Gunbarrel Highway, will be released as a paperback, e-book and audio book on November 20th. He lives and works in the Texas Hill Country, in central Texas USA

    Music by Fearless Soul and Shari Ulrich
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    1 hr
  • A Conversation on grief... that morphs into one about death

    A Conversation on grief... that morphs into one about death
    Nov 12 2024
    A Chat about Grief… that Morphs into one about Death

    Rebecca Coleman joins Bernadine to chat about grief. Layers of grief the represent what she is experiencing currently in her life. However, as these things go, one conversation morphs into another and by the end of this program they are looking at the issue of death: facing it, planning for it. It is a frank, easygoing, and important conversation.

    Music by Shari Ulrich
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    1 hr
  • Theatre for Living with David Diamond

    Theatre for Living with David Diamond
    Oct 31 2024
    Theatre for Living with David Diamond

    David Diamond joins Bernadine on ReThreading Madness to discuss his Theatre for Living Workshops. TFL, as the website states, is about empowerment. Taking the living organism, which is a community, and providing a platform for its expression to create “creative, community-based dialogue.” It sounds esoteric until you are inside the dialogue and then, as you will hear David describe, it becomes a natural process for learning, listening, healing, and recovering. As Gina Beltran commented, “The Theatre for Living workshop was a wonderful and profound experience for me. It allowed me to realize the potential of people coming together and connecting in genuine and honest ways that build meaningful and lasting relationships. In other words, it allowed me to see what a strong community can look like.” David facilitates these workshops for all sorts of groups including indigenous, recovery,
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    1 hr