671: How to Love Someone with Mental Illness with Dr. Michelle D. Sherman

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Lucas Rockwood

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever struggled to support a close friend or family member dealing with a mental health condition? How do you know when you're truly helping rather than enabling? When should you push, simply show up, or even step away? If these questions resonate with you, you’re not alone—at least 20% and possibly up to 40% of people will face this reality at some point in their lives. On this week’s podcast, you’ll meet a psychologist who shares her research and clinical experiences.

Listen and learn:

How to differentiate between supporting and enabling a loved one
Key questions to ask yourself if you're in a caregiving role
The impact of online support groups and AI on mental health care
Strategies for handling difficult or unpleasant caregiving situations
How to find affordable mental health resources locally and nationally
Common challenges of caring for aging family members and how to cope

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www.SeedsofHopeBooks.com

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Michelle D. Sherman is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience, specializing in individual and couples therapy. She is a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School and a board-certified expert in couples and family psychology. Her work focuses on supporting families dealing with mental illness, PTSD, and trauma. She is the author of Loving Someone with a Mental Illness or Trauma History.

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0:00.0	Have you ever struggled to support a close friend or a family member who's dealing with a mental health condition?
0:08.2	How do you know if you're helping or if you're enabling?
0:11.9	When should you push someone, simply show up, when do you need to step away and take care of yourself?
0:17.4	If any of these questions resonate with you, you're not alone, at least 20%, maybe
0:21.4	even 40% of us, will face this reality at some point in our lives, caring for supporting
0:27.1	a loved one with mental illness. In this episode, I sit down with Michelle Sherman, who's a psychologist,
0:33.4	to talk about navigating these relationships. If you're new here, it's the Age Less, Live More podcast.
0:39.3	I'm Lucas Rockwood, a yoga teacher and trainer, a serial entrepreneur.
0:42.7	I'm the father of three kids, but firstly, I'm a student.
0:45.4	I use the podcast as a way to research and share information around health span,
0:50.7	specifically how we can all live our best lives in the second half of life.
0:55.4	To support the show, leave a rating and review, or even better, share the show with a friend.
0:59.9	If you have questions for me for the podcast, email me podcast at yogabody.com.
1:04.8	Lastly, I have a program called Yoga Body Daily.
1:07.5	We do strength and stretch and steps every day, a couple thousand people, just like you. You can find out about that at yogabody.com. Okay, welcome, everyone. Today's show is
1:17.3	called How to Love Someone with mental illness. I am joined here with Michelle Sherman. Michelle is a licensed
1:22.9	clinical psychologist with over 25 years experience. She specializes in individuals and also couples.
1:28.8	She's a professor at the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University
1:32.8	of Minnesota Medical School. And she's board certified in couples and family psychology.
1:38.3	New book out, it is called Loving Someone with Mental Illness or Trauma History. And it just came out.
1:43.4	You can find all the info at
1:44.9	Seeds of Hopebooks.com. Michelle, welcome to the show. Hey, thank you. Good morning. I have you to be here.
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