Asking Why

Episode 99: Catherine Counihan | Boundaries with Parents

This week Clint speaks with Catherine Counihan.  Cath is an Integrative Psychotherapist working in private practice in London. Cath specialises in complex trauma, perfectionism, nervous system healing, shifting dysfunctional patterns in our families and reparenting. One of her areas of expertise is how our own childhoods impact our parenting journey. Her passion is to shift shame and help each client gain an embodied sense of being good enough. Our shame voices do not speak the truth! Cath had done a lot of personal trauma therapy prior to kids and, despite this, was set back to emotional ground zero by motherhood. Cath hosts a weekly podcast 'Grow Yourself Up' focused on how we can learn to tend to ourselves in adulthood when we have not had our needs met as children, and the challenges of doing this as we parent. She also writes, has taught at the Bowlby Centre in London and will begin teaching for the International Attachment Network in Sept 2023. She is accredited by the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and has nearly 12 years of clinical experience. Cath had a previous career in financial services, working in investment banks and as a management consultant. Cath is the mother of 7 year old twin girls.

Episode 98: Rosalie Reacts | The Psychology Of Reaction

This week Clint talks to Rosalie from  @RosalieReacts  Rosalie is a German/Cuban-American, Singer/Songwriter, Mentor & Coach and the host of a youtube reaction channel called "Rosalie Reacts" She is passionate about teaching and exploring music and cultures from around the world, finding ways to combine education, entertainment and encouragement as she explores the connections between music and psychology through her videos.

 

Check out her YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@UC4C_pHkXtrSrwPILdKsSpZw

 

Episode 97: Dr. Joe Malone | Battle of the Sexes

This week Clint speaks with Dr. Joe Malone.  Dr. Malone is a physiologist, taught for many years at Middle Tennessee State University and has guest lectured at Vanderbilt, Princeton, University of Miami, University of Alabama, and Catholic University of America as well as other major universities. He taught classes that ranged from Health and Wellness to Fitness Education for the Adult. Dr. Malone created a new course in 2012 called Women’s Personal Conditioning along with a sorority wellness program which was extraordinarily successful and effective. Dr. Malone was named Greek Faculty Member of the year in 2010 and 2016 for his wellness work with sororities. Additionally, he has worked with fraternities to promote greater sexual integrity among the young men. He holds a Ph.D. in Health and Human Performance with a minor in neuropsychology and a specialization in women’s health and sexual wellness.

Dr. Malone’s writing has been published in Heartbeat International’s Sexual Integrity Communiqué, Faith and Fitness Magazine, the Institute for Family Studies, Natural Womanhoodand Christian Health Magazine. He is becoming known as The Sexual Integrity Scientist. Malone has also earned national certifications as a Personal Trainer, Lifestyle and Weight Management Consultant, and Fitness Educator. He is the former Chair of the Nashville Community Health and Wellness Team and the current Topic Network Chair for Health Promotion for the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood http://ssea.org/.

Dr. Malone served on the CDC initiative for STI prevention for the state of Tennessee. He has been happily married to his wife Jody for over 40 years. Dr. Malone is co-author of Battles of the Sexes https://www.amazon.com/Battles-Sexes-Raising-Conflict-Empower/dp/1683508777 and cofounder with Jody of the sexual integrity and intelligence initiative Sex IQhttps://www.sexiq.org/

Website: https://www.drjoemalone.com

 

 

Episode 96: Chelsey Harrington | Conscious Parenting

This week Clint talks to Chelsey Harrington. Chelsey is a certified Health Coach specializing in serving families through holistic, child development. She uses her experience as a licensed Pediatric Occupational Therapy Assistant to educate caregivers through a more natural and scientific approach to parenting. She is passionate about encouraging caregivers to tap into their powerful intuition and follow their child’s lead to support them through every milestone in their life.

Instagram: @chelseyharringtoncoaching

website: https://impactcoachteam.com/parent-and-family-coaching/

 

Episode 95: Nellie Harden | Giving Teenagers Purpose

This week Clint talks with Nellie Harden.  Nellie is an author, speaker and Family Life & Leadership Coach who focuses on helping parents love & lead their teen/tween daughters in a way that teaches them to love & lead themselves while building a strong foundation of worth, esteem & confidence all before they leave home!

She is a wife, a mom to 4 teenage daughters, a retired homeschool parent and an adventure chaser. She has a background in biology and psychology from humpbacks to humans and years of personal, family and faith leadership development. She believes the best way to change the world is through one living room at a time!

Episode 94: Donesa Walker | Your Voice Matters & Neurodiversity

This week Clint talks with Donesa Walker. Donesa was born and raised in Texas. Married a Louisiana boy and birthed two wonderful young men! Loves reading, gardening, and growing minds! Donesa had planned to be a medical doctor when growing up but her love of learning quickly led her into the field of teaching when a personal crisis showed her the importance of knowledge. Donesa taught for over 20 years in the public school systems of Texas and Louisiana at all grade levels from PreK through college. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Clinical & Educational Psychology and is the first Board Certified Cognitive Specialist in the State of Louisiana. Donesa is a pastor's daughter and vividly demonstrates her love for Christ in all that she does. Donesa loves skydiving and traveling but she is most impressed when someone conquers their own weaknesses in learning through brain training as this is what brings her joy! She says, "teaching someone to read and learn to learn is like giving them a gift that keeps on giving." Donesa spreads contagious joy to all those around her with her smile and gift of love for everyone. She opened the LearningRx centers of Shreveport-Bossier in 2008 and prides herself in being one of the best brain training centers in the world! She has been Franchisee of the Year and received various awards such as the Founder's Award, Glia Award, Top Center in the Nation, Top Customer Care every year that the center has been open and so many more...both local and national awards. Her infectious joy and love of learning is certainly contagious!

Episode 93: Jeremy Pierce | Understanding The Sex Offender’s Registry

Jeremy Pierce and Andy Bond came on the podcast to discuss the Sex Offender Registry and the systemic problems in our country when it comes to reconciliation and recovery vs punishment and behavior modification. This conversation was heavy and also very informative. We hope that it brings light to the effects that these charges cause on the families of victims and the families of the offender as well. Jeremy started an online church for men and women on the sex offender registry to bring healing and stop the cycles of abuse. 

Episode 92: Dr Sean Sullivan | Shift Therapy

This week Clint talks to Dr. Sean Sullivan. Dr. Sullivan is a licensed clinical psychologist and founder and CEO of OnePerfect, an enterprise mental health and wellness platform that delivers personalized mindset ’shifting’ experiences called Shifts. 

Dr. Sullivan began his formal psychology education at Harvard University and completed it with a psychology residency at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center and postdoctoral training based at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He has since been featured extensively in national and international publications including The New York Times, Forbes, and Huffington Post, to name a few.

Dr. Sullivan’s clinical research focuses on applying technology to improve mental health — particularly by teaching anyone how to shift their state of mind on demand. As a psychotherapist for over twenty years, he also wrote popular psychology books and articles and created countless digital mental health, wellness, and peak performance psychology courses, apps, tools, and virtual reality (VR) treatments. 

Based on researching the impact of teaching his patients how to strategically shift their state of mind in a few minutes anytime (i.e. ‘shifting’), Dr. Sullivan developed Shift TherapyTM to guide anyone through shifting into a better state of mind from their smartphone in under 10 minutes anytime.

Demonstrating a major endorsement for shifting, the Regents of University of California approved piloting Shifts at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) during the pandemic. After two years of successful pilots, UCSC’s Health Center subscribed their entire 20,000+ member community to receive Shifts in 2023.

Dr. Sullivan believes teaching ‘shifting’ is the best way to address the massive US and worldwide mental health and unhappiness crisis we currently face and would love to introduce the concept to your audience.

 

Episode 91: Andy Howard | When Words Don’t Come Easy

This week Clint talks to Andy Howard.  For over 20 years, Andy has served in ministry as a youth pastor and marriage ministry pastor. He has found that not much changes in each role, just that some come with more wrinkles and less hair.

Andy is an advocate for mental health awareness as he has known the heaviness of depression himself. He is passionate about fighting against the awful attack of mental health issues that are running rampant across the human race. 

At his heaviest Andy weighed 345 lbs and his wife Tiffany weighed 317 lbs. Together, they have lost over 350 lbs combined and have co-founded a health coaching business called Taking Back My Life where they have helped thousands of people get healthy as well. Through this journey, Andy has become passionate about fitness and working out.

Andy loves traveling and sharing his and his family’s story with churches, conferences, and youth camps. In his spare time, he enjoys following his favorite sports teams and shooting zombies on Playstation (you probably didn’t see that coming). 

Andy was born in Bryan, Texas and currently lives outside Dallas, TX with his wife Tiffany and their three beautiful daughters Payton, Parker, and Presley.

Website: www.andyhoward.com

Andy's Book:  When Word Don't Come Easy - https://a.co/d/3pEPd0G

 

 

Episode 90: Dr Amy Moore | 5 Pillars of ADHD Support

This week Clint talks with Dr. Amy Moore.  Dr Moore is a cognitive psychologist at LearningRx in Colorado Springs, CO at the headquarters of the largest network of cognitive training centers in the world. She specializes in cognitive rehabilitation training and cognition assessment for ADHD and other neurodevelopmental disorders, brain injury, learning disabilities, and age-related cognitive decline. She also serves as VP of Research at Gibson Institute of Cognitive Research. Her ground-breaking brain training and assessment research has been published in peer reviewed medical and psychology journals and presented at conferences around the country.

She has been a child development specialist, education administrator, and teacher of teachers with a PhD in psychology and a master's degree in early childhood education. She is also a board-certified Christian counselor, Editor-in-Chief of Modern Brain Journal, a TEDx Speaker, host of the Brainy Moms podcast, and a licensed pastor. Originally from South Carolina, Dr. Amy has lived in Colorado since 2006 with her husband, Jeff, a retired Air Force fighter pilot now working as a surgical nurse. They have three incredible sons (ages 18, 22, and 24) and a very mischievous but soft Siberian cat.

Cognitive Psychologist & Director of Research | LearningRx | www.LearningRx.com
Host | The Brainy Moms Podcast | www.TheBrainyMoms.com

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