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Amy and Allie Middleton hosts today’s podcast. Allie Middleton is a Licensed Psychotherapist, Author, Yoga Teacher & Certified Yoga Therapist. Allie hopes to build relationships with influencers that are in adjoining fields of health care. Amy and Allie chat with Harvey Rosenthal. Harvey has over 45 years of experience working to promote public mental health policies and practices that advance the recovery, rehabilitation, rights, dignity and full community inclusion of individuals with psychiatric disabilities and/or diagnoses. He has helped to create several nationally acclaimed and highly replicated peer support and transformational training innovations and worked to advance informed choice protections, self-directed care and health and racial equity.

They discuss peer support, self-directed care and its connection to wellness / rehabilitation fields, and how Harvey’s work can help guide the future of Yoga Therapy and Mental Health.

They talk about the following:

·        “Imagine your worst nightmare, turn it on the side and your have your life purpose.”

·        Harvey’s journey through his own mental health challenges and how it impacted his professional journey

·        The impact of his experience on the field of Yoga Therapy

·        The Peer Support model that can be used in Yoga Therapy

·        Self-Directed care and its benefit to mental healthcare and application to Yoga Therapy

·        Important financial implementation strategies in the Health care sector

·        Where Mental Health funding would be most applicable to Yoga Therapy

·        How Harvey handles difficult situations

·        Harvey‘s thought on burnout and taking care of himself so that he does not feel like quitting when the going gets rough

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Book mentioned in the podcast

Yoga Radicals: A Curated Set of Inspiring Stories from Pioneers in the Field by Allie Middleton launching on the 19^th of August 2021

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08XSGX1QF/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Meet Harvey https://www.linkedin.com/in/harvey-rosenthal-7212358/

https://www.nyaprs.org/

Meet Allie https://alliemiddleton.com/

Check out Amy's website http://www.amywheeler.com