A Mental Health Break
Learn from others sharing their mental health stories each week. Your time is valuable. That's why we get right to it with no fluff and keep each value-filled show under 30 minutes.
Ranked in the Top 5% of Globally Ranked Podcasts, welcome to the #1 podcast dedicated to mental health: where you are never alone. This Top Weekly Show provides a safe, supportive platform to normalize conversations around mental health through authentic, inspirational testimonials.
Since 2020, Traumatic Brain Injury Survivor, 3x Mental Health Author, and host Vincent A. Lanci and his guests have shared vulnerable stories and powerful insights that remind you—you are not alone on your journey.
Each week, we dive into real-life experiences from mental health advocates, professionals, and individuals who’ve overcome adversity. Together, we tackle a wide range of topics, including trauma recovery, anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and both life and family challenges. From grief and social media addiction to mental health in the workplace and life after divorce, every episode offers valuable tools, advice, and understanding for anyone navigating life’s toughest moments.
As someone who survived a traumatic brain injury (TBI), Vincent uses his personal journey to help others, blending his lived experiences with the wisdom of experts to empower you on your own path to healing. Whether you’re struggling with a mental disorder or simply looking for support, A Mental Health Break is your weekly source of hope, guidance, and connection.
Tune in each week for honest conversations, practical tools, and the reassurance that you're not alone. Let’s break the silence together.
A Mental Health Break
#230: Community, Relationships, and Healing with David McMillan
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It is time to take a deep breath on A Mental Health Break. We have an incredible guest heading your way with David McMillan. Here are some areas he touches on:
- Why sadness takes courage and a brave person to admit their sadness and show vulnerability
- What does quantum physics have to do with relationships?
- Need for belonging
- How newtons law of homeostasis is related to mental health
- Being a part of a community
- How shared events create history
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More about this week's guest:
- Dr. McMillan is a clinical community psychologist with 40+ years of experience providing people with tools and insights they can use in their personal relationships, communities, and society to heal divisions and find ways to work together.
- He developed and authored the Sense of Community Theory, the most influential research on the psychological sense of community, with 10K+ literature references and 50K+ reads annually.
- Dr. McMillan is also the author of several highly-rated books, including Create Your Own Love Story, which uses the four elements of his Sense of Community Theory- membership, influence, integration and fulfillment of needs, and shared emotional connection- to describe relationships and offer steps to take to make them stronger, more enduring, and more soul-satisfying.
- His 38-year marriage to Judge Marietta Shipley inspired him to write Create Your Own Love Story
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