Healing Mental Health Challenges with Vulnerability & Heart with Patrick Kennedy

Feel Good Podcast with Kimberly Snyder

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Society & Culture, Education, Talk Radio, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 993 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Kimberly Snyder interviews Patrick Kennedy, former member of the United States House of Representatives and prominent advocate for mental health and addiction awareness. They discuss the evolution of mental health understanding, the importance of early intervention, and the personal journeys that shape advocacy. Kennedy shares his own experiences with addiction and emphasizes the need for a unified approach to mental health policy. The conversation highlights the power of storytelling in fostering compassion and understanding in the mental health community. In this conversation, Patrick Kennedy shares his journey through mental health and addiction, emphasizing the importance of community, service, and personal stories in recovery. He discusses the stigma surrounding mental health issues, the need for open dialogue, and how sharing experiences can foster connection and healing. Kennedy advocates for policy changes to improve mental health services and encourages individuals to get involved in supporting mental health initiatives.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Feel Good podcast, which is all about heart-led living and wellness.
0:07.8	When we awaken the power of our hearts and let that guide us through our daily choices and decisions, through our four cornerstones, food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth, we will experience the most incredible
0:22.8	results and create more vitality, health, strength, peace, abundance, and love in our lives.
0:31.9	I am your host, Kimberly Snyder, New York Times best-selling author, founder of Saluna,
0:39.2	creator of the research-based heart-aligned meditation, wellness expert, nutritionist, and international speaker. I am passionate
0:46.1	about supporting you on your unique heart and wellness journey. Let's get started.
1:02.7	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to our Monday interview show. I am so excited for our very special guest today, Patrick Kennedy, who is a New York Times bestselling author
1:08.0	and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the nation's
1:12.6	leading political voice on mental illness, addiction, and other brain diseases. During his 16-year career,
1:20.2	representing Rhode Island in Congress, he fought a national battle to end medical and societal
1:25.8	discrimination against these illnesses, highlighted by his lead
1:30.1	sponsorship of the Mental Health Parity and Addictions Equity Act of 2008. He has a new book out,
1:36.8	which is incredible, called Profiles and Mental Health, Courage. It goes on and on, but I'll pause there first to welcome you on to the show.
1:47.2	Patrick, thank you so much for being here with us today.
1:50.6	Oh, Kimberly, it's great to be on and thank you for doing all you do to help spread the word.
1:56.7	It means a lot.
1:58.4	Sometimes, you know, in the past, sometimes when we talk about health or wellness,
2:03.8	people would really focus on how fit their bodies were, how much they weighed. There was all these
2:08.4	different definitions. And thankfully, thanks to leaders such as yourself, there's so much expansion
2:13.9	of that definition of health and wellness, really taking the mental aspect into
2:19.3	consideration. I mean, I think even five years ago, would you agree, Patrick, 10 years ago?
2:24.8	Certainly, this was something that was hidden underneath. One of the things you talk about in the
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