Go Help Yourself: A Comedy Self-Help Podcast to Make Life Suck Less

On this edition of the Weekly Beef, Lisa brings us an article about community care vs. self care from Mashable. If you want to hear more about the homework, check out our Deep Dive episodes available on our Patreon. To get your GHY swag, check out our merch store! Thank you for supporting Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, Misty and Lisa review the New York Times bestseller Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski, Ph.D. & Amelia Nagoski, D.M.A. Emily Nagoski has a Ph.D. in Health Behavior with a minor in Human Sexuality from Indiana University, and a MS in Counseling, also from IU, including a clinical internship at the Kinsey Institute Sexual Health Clinic. She has been a sex educator for twenty-five years and is the author of the NYT bestseller Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life. She lives in western Massachusetts with a strange cat, two dogs, and a cartoonist. Dr. Amelia Nagoski is a conductor and music professor, in which jobs her responsibilities include running around waving her arms and making funny noises, and generally doing whatever it takes to help singers get in touch with their internal experience. Her students have described her as "passionate, positive, and boundlessly enthusiastic." In her teaching, performing, and writing, she focuses on connections between art and the experience of being alive in the world, with the expectation that understanding music can help us understand ourselves and each other. She is the identical twin sister of Emily Nagoski, PhD. We cover the main ideas from each part of the book in this Burnout book review summary podcast, including: Part 1: What You Take with You Part 2: The Real Enemy Part 3: Wax On, Wax off If you'd like to learn more about the authors, you can do so at their website here.  If you'd like to buy the book, you can do that here! To listen to our episode reviewing Emily Nagoski's first book Come As You Are, click here! You can also listen to our episodes reviewing For the Love of Men Part 1 and Part 2. If you'd like to support the podcast, you can do that on our Patreon. To get your GHY swag, check out our merch store! Thank you for supporting Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

On this edition of the Weekly Beef, we check in on Misty's homework from Coyote Medicine.  If you'd like to support the podcast, please check out our Patreon. To get your GHY swag, check out our merch store! Thank you for supporting Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, Misty & Lisa review Coyote Medicine: Lessons From Native American Healing by bestselling author Lewis Mehl-Madrona, M.D.  Dr. Mehl-Madrona graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine and trained in family medicine, psychiatry, and clinical psychology. He has been on the faculties of several medical schools, most recently as associate professor of family medicine at the University of New England. Lewis has been studying traditional healing and healers since his early days and has written about their work and the process of healing. His goal is to bring the wisdom of indigenous peoples about healing back into mainstream medicine. In this Coyote Medicine book review podcast, we talk about concepts that span across the book's chapters: Why Are You Here? Where Did You Come From? Who Are You? Healing Stories Another Way A Good Resident The Sacred Fire The Gift of the Sun AIDS and the Spirit of an Illness The Vision Quest Coyote Medicine If you like what you're hearing and want to purchase the book, you can do so here.  If you'd like to learn more about the author, you can visit his website. If you'd like to hear the other episode of GHY we mention during you can listen to it here: You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay If you'd like to support the podcast, please check out our Patreon. To get your GHY swag, check out our merch store! And please remember to rate, review, recommend and subscribe to Go Help Yourself! Thank you for supporting Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

On this edition of the Weekly Beef, Lisa and Misty check in on their Joy & Meaning lists from The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, Misty and Lisa review the #1 New York Times bestseller The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown. Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation - Brené Brown Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and is the author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers: The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness, and her latest book, Dare to Lead, which is the culmination of a seven-year study on courage and leadership. Brené's TED talk - The Power of Vulnerability - is one of the top five most viewed TED talks in the world with over 35 million views. She is also the first researcher to have a filmed talk on Netflix. The Call to Courage special debuted on the streaming service on April 19, 2019. In this Gifts of Imperfection book review podcast, we talk about what the gifts of imperfection are, each of the guideposts Brené lays out for wholehearted living, and what can get in the way.  If you'd like to learn more about the author, you can do so here.  You can also buy the book here.  Here are the other GHY episodes we mention during this review: Come As You Are How to Take Smart Notes How to Be an Imperfectionist And don't forget to grab your merch here! Please subscribe, rate, and review Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

On this edition of the Weekly Beef, Misty checks in on her homework from On Tyranny. Then, Lisa asks a thought-provoking question: are cults self-help? Here's our episode covering Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis if you'd like to listen.  Please subscribe, rate, and review Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Happy New Year! This week, Lisa and Misty review the #1 New York Times Bestseller On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He speaks five and reads ten European languages, has authored eight books and co-authored three more. Snyder’s work has appeared in forty languages and has received a number of prizes, including the Emerson Prize in the Humanities, the Literature Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Václav Havel Foundation prize, the Foundation for Polish Science prize in the social sciences, the Leipzig Award for European Understanding, the Dutch Auschwitz Committee award, and the Hannah Arendt Prize in Political Thought.  Snyder was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, has received the Carnegie and Guggenheim fellowships, and holds state orders from Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland. In this On Tyranny book review podcast, we cover the following chapters: 3. Beware the one-party state. 4. Take responsibility for the face of the world. 7. Be reflective if you must be armed. 9. Be kind to our language. 10. Believe in truth. 13. Practice corporeal politics. 14. Establish a private life. Lisa also mentions the Daily Show interview with the author she saw in 2017, if you'd like to watch it. If you want to know more about the author, you can visit his website. If you want to buy the book, you can do so here. Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe and recommend Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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For the last episode of 2020, Lisa and Misty reflect on another year of the podcast.  Thanks for being with us on this journey. You can grab your GHY merchandise here! As always, please subscribe, rate, and review Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands