Sean Hershey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York who specializes in using mind-body work to help his clients end their chronic pain and, in his words, "truly learn to be themselves." He's the host of a new podcast called The Mind-Body Medicine for Chronic Pain, and in that podcast he works to, piece by piece, share the principles and practices of mindbody healing.

I love Sean's honest and humble approach (he's a Midwesterner, just like me, who grew up in an Irish Catholic community in St. Paul, Minnesota) and think you will too. In this conversation Sean and I talk about the paradox of mindbody healing -- as we embrace our true selves and our body pain goes down, our feelings of separation from others can increase. This of course does not mean we shouldn't do it -- it's just that this angle is not covered as frequently as the success stories are.

Sean and I also share parts of our journey and talk hip pain and what we've learned about it. We talk about what being a therapist pre-mindbody vs post-mindbody looks like for him. And of course we discuss our shared understanding of the TMS (tension myoneural syndrome) personality.

Website: https://www.mindbodymedicineforchronicpain.com/
Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/2w673beYfZXmfpznyvaYQg
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/my_gay_therapist/

In this episode of the Anxious Achiever podcast Morra and I dig into some of the new techniques for managing stress and anxiety I first wrote about in the Beautiful Voyager Stress Relief Cheat Sheets on Substack.

I love Morra’s description of the episode: “In the high stakes world of technology companies, a lot of lip service is paid to well-being and mental health. But Meredith Arthur has been researching practical ways to manage anxiety and overthinking since before it was cool. In this episode, Morra speaks with the author and Beautiful Voyager creator about everything from polyvagal theory, clinical somatics, self-regulation and internal safety. They share their favorite routines for managing anxiety and stress.”

If you haven’t listened to the Anxious Achiever podcast before, this is your chance to learn more about Morra’s work (and check out her book too). You can also listen to my previous Anxious Achiever episode which first came out in Feb 2023.

Thank you, Morra Aarons-Mele, for everything you do to help people understand what anxiety means and how it works. The energy and expertise you bring to this field is inspiring. And thank you to Mary Dooe for the production work on the episode.

Special guest episode from NYC-based nonprofit Girls Write Now!

In this episode of the Writing Our Way to Wellness podcast series, Meredith finds herself in the role of interviewee instead of interviewer. This wide-spanning conversation between Meredith and Girls Write Now Staff Member Vahni Kurra covers everything from the pitfalls of ambitions to mental health memes; the connection between physical and emotional pain to the importance of learning to journal as if no one's watching.

Girls Write Now is an award-winning nonprofit make up of "a diverse, multi-generational, passionate community of writers, creatives, leaders, artists and activists who all share a love of stories."

Sign up for Writing Your Way to Wellness: https://girlswritenow.org/writing-our-way-to-wellness-podcast/
Donate to Girls Write Now: https://girlswritenow.org/give-to-girls-write-now-2024/