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Therapeutic consultant and mental health professional, Todd Weatherly, hosts this weekly radio show and podcast interviewing doctors and therapists, treatment professionals and organizational leaders about the world of mental health treatment. Todd discusses how to support mental health in our communities from the hospital to the workplace to the dinner table.

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Announcing our booklet, A Family Guide to Mental Health Recovery

Announcing our booklet, A Family Guide to Mental Health Recovery

We're excited to announce that we will be publishing a booklet titled, A Family Guide to Mental Health Recovery. We have been working on this guide for over a year and are now in the final stages of artwork and design. The exact date of availability is unknown, but it...

S2E13: How To Deliver Mental Health Support Remotely with Brad Richards

S2E13: How To Deliver Mental Health Support Remotely with Brad Richards

Brad Richards, psychiatric interventionist, returns to the podcast to share tips around how therapists and medical professionals can best deliver support through online and remote means. In this time of crisis, tele-health is scaling up rapidly, breaking down barriers...

S2E12: Life After COVID-19: What Organizations Need to Do Next

S2E12: Life After COVID-19: What Organizations Need to Do Next

Virgil is joined on the podcast by Brian Hansen, executive director of Spring Lake Ranch. Brian is uniquely qualified to comment on what it takes for organizations and individuals to recover from a crisis or disaster. In this episode, he shared that while...

Creating Community Amidst COVID-19 Fears and Anxieties

Creating Community Amidst COVID-19 Fears and Anxieties

Dear friends, My sense is that the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health community, families and professionals is profound.  While I am not an expert on the coronavirus, I do know about the power of community. Keeping our distance from one another and from the virus...

Mental Horizons is going to SXSW!

Mental Horizons is going to SXSW!

Our podcast, Mental Horizons, will record a live show on the podcast stage at the SXSW (South by Southwest) Festival on March 17, 2020 in Austin, Texas. The invitation to participate in this event came this month and was a total surprise! We started the podcast a year...

What is your dream? Serious Mental Illness and Humanity

Respecting the humanity of a person with serious mental illness Hmmm, your dream?…unfortunately, the predominant question in the mental recovery experience is, “What is your diagnosis?” Clinicians generally focus on symptom reduction and management. That’s...

A Warrior Mom does what it takes.

It is an understatement for me to say that I am in awe of the 30 mothers (soon to be 50) who are becoming the Warrior Moms Community. Mostly I am in awe of their willingness to “do whatever it takes” to help their adult child with serious mental illness to live a...

You are not alone.

“I am no longer climbing an unknown and dangerous mountain all by myself”  Reflections from a Warrior Moms Community Member  Sandy D. June 23, 2023 Each Wednesday afternoon nine women get together over Zoom to share their weeks, their stories, resources for...

The Warrior Moms Story – Reducing Isolation, Increasing Empowerment

A little over 2 years ago, a mother of an adult child with serious mental illness asked, “Virgil, are there any other mothers like me with whom I could have a conversation?” As I pondered her question, I could sense her isolation. Having worked with a few thousand...

Guest Post – Pete Earley’s blog: “Recovery Colleges”

Dear Colleagues and Families, As the pandemic tsunami overwhelms the mental health of so many, we struggle to feel hopeful. The attached blog we were invited to write by Pete Earley hopefully inspires a path forward for some, with two key ideas: Imagine a ‘Mental...

Blog Post: On Being 68… and becoming an Elder

February 3, 2021 Being an elder does not mean that I am retired, but it is time for me to focus less on human doing and more on human being. I am more introspective and reflective; I realize that I can’t “do it all.” I also spend more time looking for others who are...

Season 3 Episode 3

Creative Psychiatry - Learn about the benefits of oxytocin for psychosis Season 3, Episode 3 Mental Horizons Podcast Guest: ROCCO MAROTTA, M.D., Ph.D., Silver Hill Hospital, New Canaan CT. Dr. Marotta - “Rocky” - is one of the most compassionate, committed, and...

Season 3 Episode 4: Achieving Excellence in Treatment of Co-Occurring Mental Health & Substance Use

World renowned Delia Cimpean Hendrick, M.D. joins Virgil Stucker on a Mental Horizons podcast to discuss how to achieve excellence in the treatment of co-occurring mental illnesses and substance use disorders. Triple Boarded in psychiatry, addictions and internal...

Season 3 Episode 2 of Mental Horizons Podcast: Pandemic-Adapted Legal Remedies

This is the second episode of season 3 of Mental Horizons Podcast. Virgil spoke with Lisa Cukier, Partner at Burns & Levinson in Boston. Lisa is well-known for her ability to handle the toughest of cases and is particularly skilled at handling sensitive matters...

Season 3 of Mental Horizons Podcast: How Organizations Persevere During COVID-19 Crisis.

This is the first episode of season 3 of Mental Horizons Podcast. In this episode, we learn how residential therapeutic communities may be some of the safest, most effective places for mental health recovery during this fearful time of the COVID-19 crisis and civil...

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