Ep. 5 - Neseret Bemient's Conversational Portrait

Neseret Bemient shares about..

- Fearing the conscription of her brothers as child soldiers while in Ethiopia, navigating a Kenyan refugee camp, and emigrating to Canada 

- Becoming a mental health practitioner—and patient

- Recovering from antidepressant-induced bipolar disorder across ten different medications over 13 years (now zero)

- Living too quietly most of her and life and now opening up to speaking and being seen- Not knowing what it meant to be a mother at 22 and finding new hope through instinct

- Racing to raise her wounded inner child and intergenerational trauma to raise her daughter

- How sorting yourself out is the best gift you can give your child and being of service—and hope—to so many globally

Chapters

00:00 "How can I overcome--and help others do the same?"

13:37 Unlearning an Ethiopian bond with animals

18:07 A compassion for others from my experience

34:40 Finding hope and instinct at 22 with my daughter

42:12 "The first patient on the operating table is yourself"

46:39 Growing up in a different tradition of mutual care

53:15 Healing and wholeness is an an inner journey, not a "next pill" one

58:11 Narrative Psychiatry

01:08:54 A person who is sick has just one dream

01:13:57 Becoming a psych nurse chose me

01:21:57 Becoming the mother I wanted to be

01:37:09 The thousand dreams I've dreamt since recovery

01:49:07 Tracing the generations of women in my family

01:54:33 Living through a civil war

02:01:35 Away from mass graves and into a Kenyan refugee camp

02:16:11 Finding a new family in Canada

02:27:52 Shifting from thinking in Amharic to English; refuge through my ESL teacher

02:34:41 Finding unconditional love and commonality with a former hockey player from Alberta

02:41:01 The questions I hope to ask and the ones I hope to answer

02:47:14 Communing with my inner need to create

02:52:04 Creativity and mental illness: pathology and the normal range of human experiences

03:12:44 Debrief and Behind the Scenes

Show Notes

- Neville Goddard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Goddard

- Og Mandino’s The Greatest Miracle in the World https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Miracle-World-Og-Mandino/dp/0553279726

- 59:04 - Lewis Mehl-Madrona’s Narrative Medicine: The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process https://www.amazon.com/Narrative-Medicine-History-Healing-Process/dp/1591430658

1:14:04 - Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning https://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/0807014273

2:35:15 - David Hawkins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hawkins_(philosopher)

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