Mental Health: Hope and Recovery

Mindfulness is the simple act of focusing awareness on the present moment without judgment.

Helen Sneed and Valerie Milburn open a two-part look at the family side of a psychiatric crisis.

Mental Health: Hope and Recovery marks episode 35, “The Healing Synergy of Creativity and Recovery,” recorded at the NAMI Texas Statewide Annual Conference in Houston with a live audience.

Mental Health: Hope and Recovery frames “Loneliness: The New American Epidemic” around the Surgeon General’s May 2023 advisory, the claim that one in two American adults reported loneliness before COVID-19, and the comparison to smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

Helen Sneed and Valerie Milburn frame Episode 58, "Attacking Anxiety," with their lived experience of chronic mental illness and a peer-based approach that is not medical advice.

Helen Sneed and Valerie Milburn, hosts of the award-winning Mental Health, Hope, and Recovery podcast, discuss how to outsmart negativity through goal-setting after the New Year.

Helen Sneed and Valerie Milburn frame episode 64, “Cornerstones of Recovery: Individual and Community Relationships,” around a 10-year friendship that began at a NAMI volunteer training and grew through peer-to-peer teaching, shared writing, and COVID-era programming.

Episode 57 features mental health expert Samantha Potthoff discussing how to build and assess therapeutic relationships, attachment issues, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.

Episode 50 of Mental Health, Hope, and Recovery is Part 3 of a five-part series on the family dynamics of psychiatric crisis, focused here on parents of children with mental health issues.

Helen Sneed and Valerie Milburn anchor Episode 41 of Mental Health, Hope, and Recovery in a Canadian study that found 10% of people with mental health conditions and 24% without them defined themselves as thriving.

The episode opens with a clear frame.

Episode 44 features a deep dive interview with Kaylin, who shares a comprehensive eating disorder recovery journey spanning multiple decades.

Helen Sneed and Valerie Milburn interview Penny Kruger, LCSW, who started the first adult DBT intensive outpatient program in Austin in 2006 and teaches DBT and RO-DBT at UT Dell Medical School.

Patricia Wenzel shares her 40-year journey with bipolar 1 disorder, including misdiagnosis, psychosis, and recovery.

One bad call from your handler could literally end your life on the platform

Episode 48 of Mental Health, Hope, and Recovery centers on family caregiving during a psychiatric crisis, with Helen Sneed and Valerie Milburn framing the discussion around NAMI advice and their own family experience.

Episode 60 of Mental Health, Hope, and Recovery focuses on dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, and opens by framing it as a universal treatment method used around the world.

Episode 52 of Mental Health: Hope and Recovery closes the five-part series "The Family Dynamics of a Psychiatric Crisis" with Lisa Powell-Watts, a psychotherapist of 40 years.

Rebecca Zapata-Smith describes a family crisis that began when she was 13, with her father’s drinking worsening, her mother’s depression deepening, and her older brother moving into addiction.

My five-year-old granddaughter grabbed my hand and said, 'Nana, we need to open our donut shop'—and suddenly I was in joy.

Helen Sneed and Valerie Milburn use Episode 509, "Mindfulness Applied to Mental Health," to connect mindfulness with recovery, anxiety, and daily functioning.

Mental Health, Hope, and Recovery opens episode 43 by focusing on the healing power of animals and pets, with Helen Sneed and Valerie Milburn pointing to their own dogs and horses as personal examples.

Helen Sneed and Valerie Milburn talk about what happens when a loved one will not seek mental health treatment.

Helen Sneed and Valerie Milburn open the second part of their two-part series on women and mental health.

Helen Sneed and Valerie Milburn keep the OCD conversation going with guest Mel, whose recovery from the disorder gives the discussion its center.

Helen and Valerie frame work as part of recovery.

Setbacks can feel like proof that recovery is slipping out of reach.