The Mental Health Podcast

In our final episode of Season 3, we discuss the Two-Eyed Seeing pathway, bridging Western psychiatric treatments with Indigenous traditional healing practices to offer a more holistic approach to mental health care.

Season 3 | Episode 21
Medication is never one size fits all, especially in mental health care. Even a difference of less than 0.01% in our genes can mean the same medication works beautifully for one person but causes serious side effects or no benefit at all for someone else.
That’s beginning to change thanks to advances in pharmacogenetics, a field that uses a person’s genetic profile to help predict how they’ll respond to specific medications.
One of Canada’s leading experts, Dr. Daniel Mueller, joins us to explain how this science is transforming treatment and improving outcomes for patients.

Season 3 | Episode 20
Our daily habits can be a powerful lens into our mental health. Behaviour analysis can provide essential tools to changing our lives and helping with discovery and recovery.

Season 3 | Episode 19
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is not the humorous quirk that makes us laugh at a TV character. It’s a serious illness, one that can often take almost two decades to diagnose and treat. Our guest is Merissa Little, founder of OCD North.

Season 3 | Episode 18
Dr. Robyne joins Kevin again to talk about her new book, “I Hope So: How to Choose Hope Even When It’s Hard.”

Season 3 |  17
Stress and burnout for high-performing women can often go unchecked. Essentially, they don’t have time for it, which makes the need to find solutions even more imperative. Dr. Julie Merriman has researched burnout in women and offers insights into alleviating it, especially among women over 50. 

Addiction is a serious mental illness. We know that it can actually alter a person’s brain. But what about those supporting a person living with a substance use disorder? Family? Friends? The impact on their mental health is often overlooked. Kevin talks with a psychotherapist who specializes in helping those supporting loved ones living with addiction.

Season 3 | Episode 14
Caring for a teen living with a mental health challenge can push a family to the brink. Recovery College at Ontario Shores is offering a new course on how to care for your teen and yourself in this tumultuous time.

Season 3 | Episode 13
Almost half of all Canadians report finances as a leading cause of stress. This can lead to insomnia, high blood pressure and headaches. Anxiety over money can also result in social isolation, reduced productivity and shame. Rina Winston is an executive life and leadership coach. She explains how you can rise above feeling shame about your finances.

Season 3 | Episode 12
In our semi-regular feature, In Focus, we take a deep dive in Alzheimer’s Disease. We reveal 14 peer-reviewed modifications you can make to your life to possibly delay or even prevent almost half of Alzheimer’s diagnoses. Guests include one of Canada’s leading researchers of the disease, a newly diagnosed patient and an advocate who is working towards dementia friendly communities.