Mental Health: Hope and Recovery

Mental Health: Hope and Recovery

We live in recovery. So can you.

Helen Sneed and Valerie Milburn have both fought and overcome severe, chronic mental illnesses, and offer an insider’s approach to mental health. They share inspirational true stories and a host of recovery skills. Episodes examine mental health conditions and topics such as depression, anxiety, substance use, eating disorders, PTSD, obsessive compulsive disorder, setbacks, suicide and self injury. Helen and Valerie delve into a wide range of factors that affect our mental health such as creativity, grit, happiness, the healing power of animals, work, and loneliness. You’ll learn about treatment options, coping skills, goal setting, relationships, cutting edge research, and mindfulness.

Helen and Valerie are your peers. They are not a substitute for qualified counseling or other mental health resources. They are not professionals, but they are experts through their own lived experience with multiple mental health conditions. Please join them on their journey.

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Welcome To Our Podcast

Valerie and Helen address the needs and questions raised by all those affected by a mental health condition. Their podcast serves individuals with mental health challenges; their families, friends, and caregivers; and doctors and therapists. Through their hard won knowledge, Valerie and Helen provide wide-ranging, invaluable information on this complex subject and its powerful impact on the lives of millions.

    Episodes Offer:

  • Insiders' true stories of recovery
  • A host of skills and strategies
  • Cutting-edge knowledge about various mental illnesses
  • Breakthroughs in the psychiatric field for researching, understanding, and treating these disorders
  • Expert guests to explain them

    Helen and Valerie's wealth of hope is based on their many years as living proof that individuals can build rich, rewarding lives despite the profound challenges of mental health conditions.


We live in recovery. So can you. 

    Recognition for Mental Health: Hope and Recovery!

Helen and Valerie are honored and thrilled to announce that Mental Health: Hope and Recovery has three awards, two Signal Awards and the international Positive Change Podcast Award from Speak Up Talk Radio, for its contribution to mental health recovery.

The Signal Awards recognize and celebrate those who raise the bar in the podcasting industry. Valerie and Helen are especially grateful that the episode Parenting Skills for Symptomatic Parents has been honored with this award, because this episode offers skills and strategies for the inexhaustible challenges of parenting while struggling with a mental health condition. Please access this valuable resource for parents and other family members, along with all other episodes on our Episode page, and listen now!

 

OUR PODCAST

Latest Episodes

Mindfulness Applied to Mental Health
Mental Health: Hope and RecoveryOctober 24, 2025
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Mindfulness Applied to Mental Health

In this enlightening episode of Mental Health: Hope and Recovery, Helen Sneed and Valerie Milburn delve into the transformative practice of mindfulness and its profound impact on mental health. Mindfulness can effectively combat anxiety, depression and many other psychological conditions. Both hosts...

Attacking Anxiety
Mental Health: Hope and RecoverySeptember 30, 2025
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00:56:18

Attacking Anxiety

Anxiety disorder is the most prevalent mental illness in the U.S. and worldwide. Twenty percent of Americans, 40 million people, suffer from an anxiety disorder. The disorder can have a devastating impact on society and the individual, and can be particularly damaging to the human brain. Experts cau...

A Therapist Examines Therapy
Mental Health: Hope and RecoveryAugust 26, 2025
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00:44:44

A Therapist Examines Therapy

What does a skilled therapist with an exceptional background think of therapy and how to effectively treat people battling mental illnesses? From advice on how to choose the right therapist to attachment issues to Ketamine treatment in conjunction with psychotherapy, Samantha Potthoff delivers price...

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