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No, Not Crazy

No, Not Crazy

Jessica Hornstein

We’ve all experienced invalidation that makes us question ourselves and sometimes, even feel a little crazy. From relationships to healthcare, from workplaces to spiritual communities, from media influence to societal bias and more, No, Not Crazy will explore the messages we internalize, their effects on our lives, and the ways we can free ourselves from them.

Sharing stories and speaking with experts, we’ll dig into the experiences that dismiss our truths and undermine our knowing.

Join educator and coach, Jessica Hornstein, as we learn how to better validate ourselves and others so, together, we can all feel a little less crazy.

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  • Recognize that domestic violence includes physical, emotional, financial, sexual, verbal, and even spiritual forms of abuse.
  • Why staying together for the children generally does not protect them physically or emotionally.
  • Explore how men and women typically experience abuse in different ways.
  • Learn how abusers systematically use gaslighting and other means of control from the beginning of relationships.
  • How to best support someone you think or know is in a domestic abuse situation.

Sybil Cummin is a licensed professional counselor and approved clinical supervisor specializing in working with survivors of domestic violence and narcissistic abuse, including the youngest witnesses. She specializes even further by focusing her work with survivors who are experiencing abuse post-separation, and abuse in our family court system. She created The Rising Beyond Community and The Rising Beyond Podcast to offer hope and strategies for healing from abusive relationships and offers training for other mental health professionals on working with this population.
Sybil’s website: www.risingbeyondpc.com
Find Sybil on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/risingbeyondpc/
Find Sybil on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/risingbeyondpowerandcontrol
***If you need Domestic Abuse support, here is the website Sybil referenced during the conversation:
https://www.domesticshelters.org/***

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  • What do you think—are humans inherently aggressive or inherently altruistic?
  • Think about how to facilitate cooperative teams and communities which make all members feel heard and valued.
  • What can we do to activate a capacity for altruism and course-correct humanity?
  • Discover one simple question that can instantly build connection and shift power dynamics.
  • Understand how leaders significantly undermine their goals and their organization's goals by mistreating or neglecting others.

Dr. Harvey Hornstein, now retired, was a practicing psychotherapist, and a professor in the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at Columbia University for over 30 years, during which time he also served as the Director of the Division of Psychology and Education. He also has consulted with executives at major companies all over the world to create healthier and more effective workplaces in industries such as technology, banking, insurance, entertainment, air travel, and more.
He is the author of 9 books including Cruelty and Kindness, Brutal Bosses and Their Prey, and The Haves and The Have Nots.
He also happens to be my dad!

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  • Identifying signs that you are not embodying the fullest expression of yourself.
  • Why you can move forward when you stop fearing your fear.
  • How to begin naming an undefined feeling that your life is out of alignment with your core.
  • Discovering hidden pieces of yourself at any age that are crucial to living the life you’re meant to live.
  • What you can do to free yourself from invalidation and self-doubt when society diminishes, dismisses, ignores, or judges your experience.

Gabriel Ayuso is a parent, coach, and trans guy who has made self-realization into a lifetime endeavor. In his work with others and in his own life, he has seen first-hand how critical is that we overcome invalidation and social conditioning in order to learn to love and trust ourselves and become who we are meant to be. He believes this is the pathway to a kinder, transformed world.

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  • Learn about Andrew's devastating experience within a spiritual community and the growth that arose from it.
  • Discovering the love, joy, power, stamina, passion, and beauty within yourself that connects you directly to your divinity.
  • How we can move through this time of global peril to become a world with extraordinary new powers of love, compassion, and justice.
  • The ways your individual dark night of the soul can lead to a more expanded, authentic, creative, joyful, regenerated self.
  • Exploring the radical regeneration map available to us all that offers hope for personal and global transformation.

Andrew Harvey is an internationally acclaimed writer, poet, translator and mystical teacher. He is the author of over 40 books, including Son of Man, The Hope, Love is Everything, Turn Me to Gold, and Engoldenment. He has taught all over the world, given over 20 courses for the Shift Network and is the founder of the Institute for Sacred Activism.

Andrew’s Website: https://www.andrewharvey.net/

Andrew’s book, Radical Regeneration: find it here

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  • What is the role of finding our sacred purpose in validating ourselves? And how do we find it?
  • Understand the way in which our survivalist society perpetuates a culture of shame and self-hatred.
  • How showing ourselves that we matter brings us closer to self-love and healing.
  • Why the journey to reshape our inner world is a beautiful and challenging warrior’s path.
  • The small question of...where does humanity go from here? Why we must begin authentically embodying ourselves and authentically relating to others.

About Jeff: A former criminal lawyer and psychotherapist, Jeff Brown is the author of seven popular books. He is the producer and central subject in the award-winning spiritual documentary Karmageddon. Jeff is also the founder of Soulshaping Institute and Enrealment Press. In a world saturated with spiritual teachers and self-help gurus, Jeff brings a refreshingly honest and human approach to what he calls grounded spirituality.
Jeff’s Courses: https://jeffbrown.co/courses/
Jeff’s Substack—The Enrealment Newsletter: https://jeffbrown42.substack.com/
Jeff's book, Hearticulations: find it here
Jeff's book, Soulshaping: find it here

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No, Not Crazy - No, Not Crazy Introduction
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10/19/22 • 2 min

We’ve all experienced invalidation that makes us question ourselves, and sometimes, even feel a little crazy. From relationships to healthcare, from workplaces to spiritual communities, from media influence to societal bias and more, No, Not Crazy will explore the messages we internalize, their effects on our lives, and the ways we can free ourselves from them.
Sharing stories and speaking with experts, we’ll dig into the experiences that dismiss our truths and undermine our knowing.
Join educator and coach, Jessica Hornstein, as we learn how to better validate ourselves and others so, together, we can all feel a little less crazy.

If you enjoyed the show, please follow, rate, and review wherever you're listening.
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  • How to treat yourself with kindness and encouragement, acting as the supportive parent you may not have had.
  • How to soften your inner critic and replace self-criticism with compassion.
  • Understand the distinction between anxiety grounded in reality and neurosis characterized by imagined threats turning into overwhelming fears.

Laura Rhodes-Levin, author of The Missing Peace: Rewire Your Brain, Reduce Anxiety, and Recreate Your Life is a licensed marriage and family therapist who specializes in the evaluation and treatment of anxiety, depression, and trauma. She holds a Master of Science in Counseling and is known for her unique approach in the understanding of anxiety and anxiety disorders.

Laura is the Founder of The Missing Peace Center for Anxiety, a facility that offers a variety of modalities, including psychotherapy, neurofeedback, play therapy, olfactory anxiety reduction, group therapy, movement, and more to help ease the nervous system and restore the brain, body, and mind to a place of calmness and relaxation.

In addition, Laura served as the Co-Chair for the Special Interest Group of Integrative Health for the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), an international nonprofit membership organization and leader in education, training, and research for anxiety, depression, and related disorders and is the founder and director of the PHEW foundation, a mental health non-profit.
Laura's websites: phewmentalhealth.org
missingpeace4anxiety.com
Laura on IG: thequantumtherapist

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  • The transformative force of letting go: making space to embody a more expansive and fulfilled version of yourself.
  • How to step into your power and start aligning your choices with the belief that you deserve the life you desire.
  • Using the question “why?” to get honest with yourself and get to the bottom of what you want to change in your life.
  • How to build the confidence to know that you can navigate big changes, even when they’re scary.
  • Why discomfort may be exactly what you need to get unstuck, and why it may not be as uncomfortable as you fear.

Dr. Anancia Stafford received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology, her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health, and holds a doctorate degree in Counselors Education and Supervision. She is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, an adjunct professor in the counseling department at DePaul University, and the CEO of the mental health private practice, Inner Peaces Counseling and Consulting LLC in Chicago, Illinois.

She also is the author of It’s Time to Get on Track: A Mood and Behavior Tracker. Having extensive clinical experience with a wide range of popul,ations and mental health conditions, Dr. Stafford currently focuses on self-esteem, codependency, depression, anxiety, and self-accountability in adults and adolescents.

Dr. Stafford on IG: https://www.instagram.com/drstafford_/

Dr. Stafford’s book, It’s Time to Get on Track: A Mood and Behavior Tracker: Find it here.

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No, Not Crazy - Leaning into Your Longing with Jessica Hornstein
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04/06/23 • 17 min

  • Examine the belief that reaching for your deepest desires is riskier than staying in your familiar, stuck place.
  • The important distinction we must make which illuminates our obstacles to longing.
  • Hear about the personal experience I’ve been having lately of opening to deeper longing and what it feels like.
  • Explore the potentially soul-crushing consequences of choosing to deny your longing and, conversely, the potentially life-changing opportunities of choosing to embrace it.
  • Understand that on the other side of the courage and vulnerability it takes to admit what you want and need, there is strength, truth, and the fullest version of your life.

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No, Not Crazy - Why Invalidation Is Making Us Feel Crazy
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01/05/23 • 17 min

  • What is invalidation? Why does it matter to your life? Is it always intentional and malicious?
  • The Invalidation Wound: Find out how it affects us when we internalize invalidating messages from family, friends, partners, institutions, corporations, narcissists, and more.
  • Explore how this conditioning could be running the narrative of your life in ways you may not realize but which deeply undermine your agency and self-concept.
  • Why shifting to a default state of validation will change our lives and the lives of others—and make the world a better place while we're at it.
  • Let's build a ValidNation together! What steps can we take to begin learning how to better validate ourselves and others?

If you enjoyed the show, please follow, rate, and review wherever you're listening.
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How many episodes does No, Not Crazy have?

No, Not Crazy currently has 18 episodes available.

What topics does No, Not Crazy cover?

The podcast is about Society & Culture, Narcissist, Truth, Self-Help, Mental Health, Podcasts, Self-Improvement, Education and Relationships.

What is the most popular episode on No, Not Crazy?

The episode title 'Domestic Abuse: Understanding Its Wide Scope and Profound Effects with Sybil Cummin' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on No, Not Crazy?

The average episode length on No, Not Crazy is 45 minutes.

How often are episodes of No, Not Crazy released?

Episodes of No, Not Crazy are typically released every 14 days.

When was the first episode of No, Not Crazy?

The first episode of No, Not Crazy was released on Oct 19, 2022.

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