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Today, she is a licensed clinical social worker, addiction specialist and a certification supervisor. But, she wasn't always that. Once upon a time, she was a woman with a broken heart. A mother who was unable to get up from her bed for over one week. A warrior who finally decided enough is enough and she would get help! Like me, and many of us who have struggled with suicidal ideatios, she was driving on the road one day and found herself wanting to drive off and end it all... with her children in the car! She admits to compartmentalizing her feelings and emotions, something many of us do... She also admits to using "retail therapy" to cope with her circumstances, much like many of us do... And lastly, just like me, she also has a podcast called: The Daily Calm Project, a podcast that explores literally work. Find out what she said that brought out the waterworks and how she navigated herself out of it. Quotables "You can't make sense out of nonsense" "I was compartmentalizing my thoughts and feelings" "I was on autopilot" "Because you have breathe, you have purpose" Where to find her: Podcast: The Daily Calm Website: www.choicesinwellness.com Facebook: North Carolina Wellness Coach Instagram @Choicesinwellness Feeling Stuck? Undecided? Dealing with a lack of motivation or self-belief? Your thoughts hindering you from taking that next step? Needing to reboot and press restart? Do you need someone to talk to, to help you jumpstart your life again? Help you figure out how to move forward? Let's chat. Go to calendly.com/drlulu, and schedule a free consult. I guarantee you, you will look at your life with a different pair of lenses...:) Ciao! Dr. L Life Coach --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uchenna-lizmay-umeh/support

Ladies and Gentlemen, Delora Evans is a Black gurl who SERIOUSLY rocks! She dropped ALL kinds of serious nuggets right from the jump! You will absolutely love her! She talks about REAL life growing up as a Black child, teen, young adult, and much more. Complete with disappointments and broken promises, drugs, alcohol, teen pregnancy, betrayals, abuse, you name it! But she is such a warrior! Today, she works with our most vulnerable; fighting addiction, and hopelessness in both the young and the old. Find out why I was so happy to finally find someone who agrees with me, literally verbatim as to the underlying cause of suicide! Quotables "We set ourselves on fire to warm others" "Fits of despair lead to utter hopelessness" "When a student is ready, the teacher appears" "The best predictor of future performance is past behavior until there is change" "Each one teach one, each one reach one" Check her out at Full Fruit Empowerment Center on Facebook and on the internet. On Instagram and you can send her an email at therapy@thefullfruit.com. Feeling Stuck? Undecided? Dealing with a lack of motivation or self-belief? Your thoughts hindering you from taking that next step? Needing to reboot and press restart? Do you need someone to talk to, to help you jumpstart your life again? Help you figure out how to move forward? Let's chat. Go to calendly.com/drlulu, and schedule a free consult. I guarantee you, you will look at your life with a different pair of lenses...:) Ciao! Dr. L Life Coach --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uchenna-lizmay-umeh/support

Dr. Karen was such a delight to interview. She is a retired OBGYN who has found her calling in energy and mindfulness work. She talked about her own private struggles with burnout and shares how she found her way home. Quotables:  "I said YES to myself" "Women tend to be "other-focused" Dr. Karen's freebie: One of the ways to REALLY know what you want and need is to connect DEEPLY to yourself! But for many of us, we don't know HOW to do that on a consistent basis. Here is an 8 minute guided audio to HELP you to connect to YOURSELF. She invites you to try it and see what happens! Free "Be In Your Body" guided audio, and access her freebie HERE. Please join her free FB group:  Driven Women Ready to Unleash Their Luscious Life! www.facebook.com/groups/selfmasterywithkaren Contact her via email at @lifemastery22@gmail.com, and check out her 9-month emersion course: "The Embody You More" emersion course. Are you stuck in a place in your life that you can’t get out of? Are circumstances standing in your way of achieving your goals or moving forward in your life? Do you have big dreams but no confidence or idea of how to make them a reality? Then I would love to tell you how life coaching can finally help you live the life you’ve always imagined! Visit https://calendly.com/drlulu for a FREE 45-minute consult with me, let's talk about it. I CAN help! Dr. Lulu --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uchenna-lizmay-umeh/support

Julia Bugsby is a woman on a mission! She is a fellow podcaster and fellow "sur-thrivor"! I loooove her story of survival and thriving through domestic violence, suicide attempt, and PTSD! She is also living proof that there is life after trauma, there is life after pain, and life after a serious suicide attempt. Do me a favor and try to count how many times you hear the word trauma or PTSD in this episode. I have told y'all time and time again, that trauma is at the crux of most suicides, I think this episode helps me with that a lot. Join Julia and her listeners in subscribing to Finding Her, her podcast. Are you experiencing life's challenges? Overwhelmed at work or family or life in general? Are you having a hard time moving forward, or have a dream and vision that is somewhat hard to obtain? Are circumstances standing in your way of achieving your goals or moving forward in your life? Do you have big dreams but no confidence or idea of how to make them a reality? Then I would love to tell you how life coaching can finally help you live the life you’ve always imagined! Visit https://calendly.com/drlulu for a FREE 45-minute consult with me, let's talk about it. I CAN help! Dr. Lulu --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uchenna-lizmay-umeh/support

Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW says that the first language ever she learned was pain. Growing up in a mentally, physically, and sexually abusive home, all Tasha ever heard was that she was worthless, unloved, and unwanted. In this episode, Tasha talks about how her traumatic childhood led to her first serious attempt at suicide, how that attempt impacted her life, and her journey to become a clinician that helps others heal from trauma like hers. Tasha’s book What Children Remember can be found at https://www.amazon.com/What-Children-Remember-Tasha-Hunter/dp/1734417870 Tasha is also on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ascensiongrowthcenter and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/tashahunterlcsw/ Are you stuck in a place in your life that you can’t get out of? Are circumstances standing in your way of achieving your goals or moving forward in your life? Do you have big dreams but no confidence or idea of how to make them a reality? Then I would love to tell you how life coaching can finally help you live the life you’ve always imagined! Visit https://calendly.com/drlulu for a FREE 45-minute consult with me, let's talk about it. I CAN help! Dr. Lulu --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uchenna-lizmay-umeh/support

Dr. Araba Chintoh is a Canadian Psychiatrist after my heart! She specializes in research into Schizophrenia, she is smart, poised, and determined to educate the world about mental illness and its consequences. She speaks passionately about all the combinations of issues that lead us down the path of destruction and death by suicide.  Working at a large tertiary center in a Canadian urban area, she sees the "most complex" cases and works hard with her team at CAMH to get her patients better and reunited with their families.  Her institution is a "patient-centered", family-centered, and evidence-based, center for addiction and mental health. Find them at www.camh.ca where they currently have a huge anti-suicide campaign called "NOT SUICIDE, NOT TODAY". If you or anyone you know is at a place where they are stuck or in need of some clarity for decision-making.  Click HERE for a FREE 45minute consult with me, let's talk about it. I can help. Dr. Lulu --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uchenna-lizmay-umeh/support

Dr. Felecia Sumner is a superstar as far as I am concerned! She freakin' had a baby girl smack dab in the middle of the Covid-19 Lockdown, had some complications after her baby, and lived to tell it! She and her family have been through it all, and still standing strong! Find out what she told me about her encounter with a police officer that literally knocked the air out of me and left me dumbfounded! YIKES! She and her hubby are on a mission to create a wellness empire with their family medicine practice in Landsdown PA: Synergize DPC Quotable : "Happy Doc Happy Patient" Find her practice on Facebook HERE  If you are in the Pennsylvania area, look them up will ya?  And if you are in need of a good book to read during the holidays, check out her books HERE and HERE And if you are in need of a life coaching session or two, holler at your girl for a free 45-minute session by clicking this link HERE Aaight, Ciao Bella! Dr. Lulu Mindset and Motivational Life Coach --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uchenna-lizmay-umeh/support

Of all my guests ever, Dr. Ronda takes the cake with her uniqueness! A Psychiatrist and Integrative Behavioral Health Specialist! She is so smart, she is so smooth, she is so stress-free in her direct approach to preventing suicide. For her, suicide prevention is about giving life and hope to her patients. She uses the scriptures and Bible-based teachings to connect with her patients no matter their religious inclinations. She is the doctor for doctors, the psychiatrist you wish you and your mama could see :) Find out what she thinks about why she said "I don't have to worry about suicides", and "it's not weak to seek help" Other Quotables: "Burn Your Superman and Superwoman Capes" Where to find her: All social media is @DrRhondaMattox, and HERE  Remember, you can sign up for life coaching at Calendly.com/drlulu. And I shall see you on the inside Dr. Lulu Mindset and Motivational Coach  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uchenna-lizmay-umeh/support

What do you do? What can you do? When your ex-boyfriend kills himself right in front of you! One of this week's guests had to endure seeing that type of horror movie play out before her eyes when she was only 18. Her name is Dr. Wanda, and today, she is a therapist, but once upon a time, she was a victim of domestic abuse and all other kinds of trauma. Listen as she tells the chilling tale of how, and why, and what happened that day. What did she do? How did she overcome the days and nights that followed that event? Find out what she says was her #fuel. Quotable: "You die a thousand deaths" "Stay connected and find a source of strength" Where to find her: She is licensed in Louisiana and Mississippi Uniquelyyourslifesolutions.com On Facebook: Uniquely Yours Life 15 There are life coaches, there are motivational speakers, but what about motivational life coaches? Well, guess what? I am getting certified as a (motivational) life coach! YAAAASSSS!!!! Are you stuck trying to make a tough life decision? Worried about what the next step in your life would be? Think you cannot move forward? Overwhelmed? Let's talk...I will help you get past that midset... I guarantee it! calendly.com/drlulu Coach-Dr. Lulu --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uchenna-lizmay-umeh/support

My second guest this week has the most incredible story. She has been depressed and suicidal since the age of 6 or 7! Losing her beloved father as a child was a very difficult life blow for her, and she struggled for years "looking for love in all the wrong places, with a broken heart". Thankfully, she found healing with "inner guidance", and rid herself of all the chronic ailments including thyroid disease, fibromyalgia and irritable bowel syndrome! Today, she is a transformational coach and energy healer. She is helping others cross over to the other side, with minimal pain. She is a shining star and a bright light. Find out how she did it, and what it took. Quotables: "I felt very unloved" "It is possible to thrive" "When you are needy, you try to control things" Where to find her: Rajyalovelife.com PS: Join her and some more awesome "sur-thrivors" like you for an awesome event coming up in November by clicking the link below: https://www.rajyalovelife.com/bookings-checkout/online-workshop-flip-your-existence There are life coaches, there are motivational speakers, but what about motivational life coaches? Well, guess what? I am getting certified as a (motivational) life coach! YAAAASSSS!!!! Are you stuck trying to make a tough life decision? Worried about what the next step in your life would be? Think you cannot move forward? Overwhelmed? Let's talk...I will help you get past that midset... I guarantee it! calendly.com/drlulu Coach-Dr. Lulu --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uchenna-lizmay-umeh/support

Dr. Berens and I go back a bit in our DPC journeys. She is also a fellow Woman-in-Medicine so, I have a very soft spot for her. Find out how she went from employee to starting her own practice at the New Year, only to be thrown with the curveball called Covid-19! She talks candidly about life in these United States as a Direct Primary Care Physician, offering affordable care in a time of great uncertainty. Her practice is called VIDA Family Medicine located in Houston, TX, so check them out. On social media, where she is very active, you can find her on Instagram as well as Facebook, please like and follow and share all about them. Toodles! Dr. L --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uchenna-lizmay-umeh/support

This week's first guest, in the person of Dr. Ball is another Black girl who rocks! In honor of the international day of the girl child that was on 10/11/2020, I am featuring two Black girls who rock, and she is one of them! She talks candidly as one of the 19 physicians I interviewed for my Covid-19 Doctor Chronicles about a serious family health crisis in her own mother during the lockdown and the stress of dealing with that.  Describing herself as an extroverted-introvert, she shares about the need for "adapting", "pivoting", and "camelionizing", as ways to beat this new normal of a pandemic. Focusing on family and togetherness and the need to be each other's keepers, she endorses the role of technology in all of it, and is happy to state that physicians more than any other time, need to be each others' keepers and have multiple streams of income. Quotables "We complain so much about being indoors, but, there are homeless people out there who are simply too happy to just be alive" To reach the good doctor, go to www.oncallmobilemedical.com OR call (704) 747-2262 Remember to check out our social media pages and follow us: IG and Facebook: @AskDoctorLulu, Twitter, and LinkedIn.  If our message resonates with you, kindly subscribe and share and leave us a review! Dr. L --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uchenna-lizmay-umeh/support

Our second girl-child (all grown up) that rocks for this week is Dr. Delicia Haynes, another Direct Primary Care Physician based in Florida. She discusses the changes and transitional processes her practice put in place to help her patients and the people of Florida. No stranger to mental health challenges, Dr. Haynes shares about her own struggles with depression, and how she overcame it with a combination of self-care and making a drastic decision to quit traditional medicine for direct primary care because while she had always loved what she did, she stopped loving the way she did it. Dr. Delicia is a pioneer and an authority in the DPC space and she can be found at www.whitecoatsafespace.com and familyfirsthealthcenter.com. Quotables "We must fill our own cups and serve from a place of overflow" Y'all, don't forget to find and follow her and join in the good work she is doing to save lives in Florida... Dr. L --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uchenna-lizmay-umeh/support

Hmmm, you can never miss a Naija fella... "dem no de eva carray last"! (Look that up.) My second interview this week is non-other than a fellow Naija guy, a psychiatrist, a smart, well "edumacated" (6 university degrees later...CHAI!) kinda guy! Dr. Ifeanyi was so awesome to interview! A cool-headed-self-described introvert, but who gets that his young kids will need him to extrovert-up as needed in order to help them survive the much-needed adaptations, and might I add mutations it is going to take to get through COVID. Y'all he was spitting knowledge! I learned a lot and I want you to do the same too! Ever heard of the 8 Pillars of Mental Wellness? Welp, I hadn't until this interview! Listen and learn. Also, interesting are his views on teachers and police brutality. Find out what he says about himself as a Black man in America where said police brutality is concerned. Quotables: About physician suicides: "What is missing in their support system?" We, as physicians, must tell each other "I got your back" "Hospitals must put processes in place to allow doctors decompress" Where to find: www.GPSmindset.com Social Media: @TheGPSMindset; GPS Psychiatry Solutions. Thank me later :) Dr. L --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uchenna-lizmay-umeh/support

Dear Listener,  If I ever had a twin sister, her name would be Dr. Ann Contrucci, and she would be Italian! This week's first interview took place in May 2020, right in the heat of the lockdown, soon after I had a  virtual parenting program. She is as funny as she is compassionate, she is a pediatrician after all! Non-stop action from the jump! Yes, even if we are talking about mental health challenges, trauma, ADHD, and of course SUICIDE! I love her definition of TRUST and JOY, and the way we both complete each other's sentences in this interview! Al stop at that... Just let me know your thoughts... All I have to say is "She good!" Dr. L --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uchenna-lizmay-umeh/support

Whoa!! Our second episode this week, the last couple of days in September, the National Suicide Awareness AND Prevention month, is the BOMB! I found me a fairy God-Mother in my thought process and in medicine! A pediatric/child and Adolescent AND Adult psychiatrist for, get this... 40 YEARS! I thought I was BADT, but this here Chica is BADDDTT!! Such a brilliant soul! She is calm, collected, and challenges the norm: my type of girl, minus the "calm" :), cos y'all know I can't keep calm, I am RESTLESSLY RESTLESS! But now I know that I CAN change my personality, thanks to her wisdom. All I gats to do is THINK about what I am about to do...does it serve the greater good of MY BEING? Bestselling author, Award-winning co-author, and Blogger on Psychology Today, Dr. Adams is a rare gem in today's ever-searching-for-medications-world. Her book; "Living on Automatic" is available on Amazon, Wally's, Barnes and Noble, and where ever good books are sold! Find it. Read it. Learn from it! I know I am! This book has 80 years of experience in it, HELLO?! Quotables: "Emotional Illness from relationship problems, CONFLICTS: This is the basis of most human distress" "How a child is emotionally conditioned, determines their adulthood" "This pandemic is an opportunity to learn about yourself" "The antidote of emotional conditioning is thinking" The best book she wants you to read: The one about yourself: "Intense Introspection with the help of a psychotherapist" Where to find her: FB, LI, Twitter Christine B. L. Adams, M.D.  christine@doctorchristineadams.com www.doctorchristineadams.com(502) 459-0406   LinkedIn: Christine BL Adams, MD Twitter: @BlogAdamsMD Facebook: Christine BL Adams, MD  YouTube: Christine BL Adams, MD—The Emotional Conditioning Expert “Living on Automatic” blog at Psychologytoday.com: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-automatic Co-Author of the Bestselling, Award-Winning book, Living On Automatic: How Emotional Conditioning Shapes Our Lives and Relationships As always, thank you so much for always listening and sharing, and please do consider leaving me a review, it helps the podcast get into more ears... If you did not know, we had the most awesome Suicide Prevention Summit this past weekend! I have recordings of the 3 hours of pawa!! Go to www.stopsuicidenowsummit.com for more information, and join our brand new Facebook group called Stop Suicide Now! Thank you! Dr. L --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uchenna-lizmay-umeh/support

Hello, dears, This episode was recorded in September of 2019 as a Facebook live episode, so, it might come out in a different mode than the others.  It is a solocast. I am discussing physician suicides in details, in honor of September as suicide awareness month, and in honor of other things that are going on leading to more and more physician suicides daily. We just lost another physician, a pediatrician over Labor Day weekend and I can't think of a better way to honor him, than this way. No, I did not know him, but, I do know that his life mattered. If you haven't heard yet, we held our first-ever Dr. Lulu's StopSuicideNow! Summit for 2020. All I can say is thank you to those that attended. The recordings are available for sale for $49.99 only, just send me an email @askdoctorlulu@gmail.com Now, as usual, please do something today to save someone's life, generally, that means focusing positive thoughts on yourself, and helpfulness towards others. Al see you next week! Ciao! Dr. L --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uchenna-lizmay-umeh/support

This was a talk that I recorded for a virtual event hosted by the United Nations in Ghana earlier this year. It was a pre-recorded event, and I essentially downloaded the audio version for you. I decided it is very relevant for this month and a great segway for my upcoming event on the 26th of September, 2020. Stay tuned for Stop Suicide Now! Summit...  A 3hr event that will also include CEUs for clinicians as well as personal stories and expert lectures from psychiatrists alike. Stay tuned for more info! This also happens to have been the topic of my recent TEDx talk, which took place in Alief, a Houston suburb on 9/5/2020 Stay tuned for more info on that...:)2 In the meantime, enjoy this episode, and don't forget to leave me a message or review. Dr. L --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uchenna-lizmay-umeh/support

The second doctor this week is a pediatrician like me.  A Nigerian like me, and an Igbo woman! She is an ER physician and shares her insights and her thoughts and of course, how she and her family are dealing with the Crisis. She shares a special eagle's eye view of the pediatric emergency room. The 3 questions I ask the doctors are: How are you doing? How is your family doing? How is your practice doing? This was such a fun episode to record! Find Dr. Nkiru on IG and follow all her fun, interactive and insightful videos on TikTok, etc :) Enjoy! Dr. Lulu --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uchenna-lizmay-umeh/support

Dear Listeners, This is a special episode of Suicide Pages. One of two this week. Both dedicated to physician wellness during this pandemic. Just last week another physician lost his life to suicide, bringing the number to about 13 so far that I have become aware during this time! It is the year 2020 and physicians still have the highest rates of suicides in the United States, to the tune of about 1.1 per day or 400 per year! This and the next several episodes are dedicated to doctors. The idea to do it was borne out of sheer desperation on my part and a perceived need to highlight physicians' lives and struggles during the pandemic. I felt pulled to interview them following the suicide of Dr. Lorna Breen earlier this year in the heart of the lockdown. This week's guests are Drs. Yashika Dooley-Chang and Katherine Igah-Phillips, the original idea was to interview 19 doctors for the Covid - 19... :) Y'all, please find these fine ladies and support and follow them. And continue to share this podcast, and thank you for the reviews! Dr. L --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uchenna-lizmay-umeh/support