Choose Your Struggle

Season 2, Episode 81

From Heartbreak to Helping Others With Laurie Singer

This week, Jay chats with California-based therapist Laurie Singer. After overcoming a traumatic childhood and losing a child to cancer, Laurie dedicated her life to helping others. She's written a fantastic book, You're Not Crazy: Living with Anxiety, Obsessions and Fetishes and is the founder of a nonprofit.

To learn more about Laurie, check out her website https://lauriesingerbehavioral.com/ and find her book at Bookshop!

We're doing an end of season giveaway! At Thanksgiving, Jay will put all the names of everyone who has left a review into a generator and three people will receive a prize pack. One is Choose Your Struggle merch, one is a gift pack from my partners Road Runner and Bookshop, and one is a Youdgee muscle massager. If you haven't left a review yet, scroll down in these show notes and find the review link or, if you listen on i-Tunes, review it there!

Today's Good Egg: Leave a review and be entered into the end of season giveaway drawing!
Looking for someone to wow your audience now that the world is reopening? My speaking calendar is booking up fast! But if you're interested in bringing me to your campus, your community group, your organization or any other location to speak about Mental Health, Substance Misuse & Recovery, or Drug Use & Policy, reach out to my strategist Ryan Holzhauer at ryan@jayshifman.com.

• Tank Tops are in! You can see what they look like on the website (thanks to Jay's wife for modeling the women's cut). Reach out through the website to order. If you're looking for something a little less expensive, magnets are in too! Check them out on the website or Instagram. Patreon supporters get a discount so join Patreon!
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Thanks for coming along on the CYS journey! Welcome to episode 23!

Stick around after the interview for today's Choose Your Card and Good Egg.

To learn more about Greg, find him at his website: https://www.gregnance.org/, or his Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/gregrunsfar/.

Pat's Shout Out request is you check out the Cookies for Breakfast Podcast, which you can find here: https://open.spotify.com/show/1UZpUBLoetXL3nNtUTOrVz.

For today's Good Egg: https://leavingthevalley.com/.

Hoody Time new video, Truth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50zceF8ECZI

Sarah Korenblit's podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1210457

As always, you can find more info on me, and Choose Your Struggle, at my links: https://jay.campsite.bio/.

Huge thank you to my guests today, Sharifah Hardie from the immensly popular Ask Sharifah Morning Show and Shawn Braley, from Cincy Stories. You can learn more about Sharifah at https://sharifahhardie.com/ and Shawn's Organization Cincy Stories at https://www.cincystories.net/. Stick around after the interview for this week's Choose Your Card and Good Egg. As always, you can check out my links to learn more. https://campsite.bio/cys_jay

Thank you for listening to Episode 21! I have a new logo! First person to contact me through my website correctly identifying the character who the artist, Tami Boyce, mashed me up with wins a Choose Your Struggle bracelet.

Program note: I'm an idiot. In the initial recording of my intro I referred to Mohawk as she/her and Mohawk uses they/them. I feel awful about this and want to apologize to Mohawk profusely. That has been fixed but anyone who heard the first version that's my fault and I apologize.

Stick around after the interview for this week's Choose Your Card and Good Egg.

You can find out more about Next Harm Reduction and their awesome work at https://nextdistro.org/ and https://www.naloxoneforall.org/.

Emily's Shout Out request is you follow our awesome friend Spark Tabor on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/spizzlation.

For more info on Tami Boyce aka Tami Likes to Draw, check out her page: https://tamiboyce.com/.

Required reading this week: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/opinion/letters/confederacy-black-descendants.html

As always, you can find more info on me, and Choose Your Struggle, at my links: https://campsite.bio/cys_jay.

Thank you for listening to Episode 20! Stick around after the interview for this week's Choose Your Card and Good Egg. To learn more about Sophie, check out her website at: https://sophieriegel.com/ You can follow Briana at her Instragram: https://www.instagram.com/briana.bakes/ Link to my Birthday Call to Action for the DPA: https://lnkd.in/dz8qPUb. Black Voices on Mental Health and Wellness to follow for this week's Good Egg: https://relevantmagazine.com/life5/25-essential-black-voices-on-mental-health-and-wellness/ As always, you can find more info on me, and Choose Your Struggle, at my links: https://campsite.bio/cys_jay.