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 conditions such as depression, anxiety, substance use and eating disorders, self-harm, suicide, and other major illnesses. You’ll learn about treatment options, coping skills, goal setting, relationships, 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
- 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
- And guests to explain them
Episodes Offer:
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.
Signal Awards Winner!
Helen and Valerie are honored and thrilled to announce that Mental Health: Hope and Recovery has received its third award, the international Positive Change Podcast Award from Speak Up Talk Radio, for it's contribution to mental health recovery.
Being recognized as a forceful positive voice in the mental health arena, a landscape often viewed negatively, is extremely rewarding to Helen and Valerie. The award winning podcast recently won two national Signal Awards, which recognize and celebrate those who raise the bar in the podcasting industry.
They 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!
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Latest Episodes
The Family Dynamics of Psychiatric Crisis—Part Two: Caregivers Talk Turkey to Caregivers
In Part Two of the series Family Dynamics in a Psychiatric Crisis, Valerie and Helen have a frank, candid conversation with Valerie’s sister and husband, who were the principal caregivers during her severe mental illnesses and behaviors. The result is Caregivers Talk Turkey to Caregivers, where they...
The Family Dynamics of a Psychiatric Crisis--Part One: Personal Perspectives from a Sibling and a Spouse
When a family member faces a mental health challenge, family relationships can become formidable and problematic, while being loving and supportive, as well. The complicated nature of these relationships has launched Helen and Valerie on a five-episode series – The Family Dynamics of a Psychiatric C...
OCD: The Reality, the Research, the Recovery—Part Two
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is so vast and perplexing, Valerie and Helen devoted two episodes to OCD. They discovered a complex and harrowing mental illness often trivialized and misunderstood by those who don’t have it. To legitimize the severity of the disorder, they turned to the experts. In Pa...
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