So you think you can’t make a difference?  My guest Orly Wahba is a young teacher who made a YouTube video seen by 5 million people.  Learn how she’s spreading kindness and empowering people through her organization “Life Vest Inside.”

My guest Michael Cornwall PhD explores how to help people labeled schizophrenic with empathy and without resort to drugs.   Michael has vast personal experience and profound understanding.  A “must listen to” show for anyone concerned about madness, its nature, and its healing.

My guest is Chris Stankovich PhD an athletic counselor from Columbus, Ohio, who brings a fresh perspective about how to empower young people not only in their sports endeavors but in their lives.  A positive approach consistent with the best in empathic therapy.

My guest Gerald Porter, PhD has a broad and wonderful vision of psychology and psychotherapy.  We focus in part on psychiatric diagnosis vs. a genuine understanding of a person’s life.

My guest Mathy Downing lost her 12 year old daughter to antidepressant-induced suicide.  I was a medical expert in her case.  Mathy’s story exemplifies how to rise from tragedy and how much can be accomplished by one goodhearted well motivated person.

Good stuff to listen to. My guest Tim Evans is an Adlerian psychologist.  Reading Adler helped me understand empathic relationships in therapy and in life.  Talking with Tim is very grounding and positive.  Join us.

Maybe the best discussion ever about overcoming depression without resort to drugs.  My guest Dr. John Snyder is a therapist and author with a marvelous approach to depression.

Please listen to this show and learn about empathic peer support, a nonprofessional approach that steps wholly outside the psychiatric model, and delivers a caring human service to people in need.  My guest, Australian psychologist Tony Gee, will explain how to do it.  Then implement it in your own community and help to change the world.

Today’s show is “First Monday of the Month Open Mike,” when I focus on callers.  I chat with a man whose “manic episodes” inspire him to deeper understandings, and with a woman whose five year old son was badly damaged by antipsychotic drugs. My friend Doug Bower describes last weekend’s Person-Centered Conference in Georgia and I describe a marvelous Adlerian Conference I attended in Florida. Moving and informative discussions.