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Lessons on life, leadership, resilience and mental health. Erika Diaz is a wife, mama, and women in leadership. She also has depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder. Erika and guests will tackle several issues surrounding mental health and wellness through honest and vulnerable conversations. We’ll put it all out there on the table, dispelling myths on mental health and vulnerability, both personally and professionally. Together, we will challenge the status quo and begin to embrace who we are and what we need at home and at work. We aim to destimatize mental health by continuing the conversation, raising awareness, providing hope with an ultimate goal of saving lives!
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Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
🎧 Episode# 3: Thriving following diagnoses of PPD & GAD 🎧
Introducing Rocki Howard, a bold, beautiful, badass pioneer!
“My husband often says if more women were represented in healthcare, we would get more answers to women specific issues.”
She’s a DEIB influencer, on Staffing Industry Analysts - Global Power 150 list, and hosts Grown Woman Wednesday. Rocki also has a wonderful tool kit to help her mental health. She will share that with you in this episode.
This is a tool kit Rocki learned battling postpartum depression (PPD) and living with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).
Rocki is a true testimonial of those who are active participants in their mental health, continuing to thrive despite having a mental health illness.
This episode will cover:
🫶🏽 Rocki’s journey with PPD, and subsequent diagnosis of having GAD
🤱🏾 How PPD and GAD impacted Rocki as a mother
🫂 What support looks like from family and friends
🦸🏾 Leveraging your diagnoses as a super power!
🛠️ Several tools to utilize for mental health and wellness
Rocki’s Achievements:
- Founder of diversiology.io
- Host of Grown Women Wednesday.
- Staffing Industry Analysts - DEI Influencer in 2022 and 2023.
- Staffing Industry Analysts - Global Power 150 in 2023.
Facts about PPD & GAD:
In the US, PPD affects every 1 in 7-10 women, though the numbers are likely underestimated Scientists are unable to identify a single cause for PPD.
6.8 million people, 3% of the US, are diagnosed with GAD, women are 2x more likely than men.
Sources:
https://www.postpartumdepression.org/postpartum-depression/
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/perinatal-depression
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Episode #2: Your Past Doesn’t Define You
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Monday Feb 12, 2024
🎧 Episode# 2: Your Past Does Not Define Who You Are 🎧
Y’all, can we get real?
I’d like to tell you a bit of my story. I’m Erika Diaz, the host of Honestly Mental, the podcast. My goal with this podcast is to have more honest discussions about mental health. Not just mine, but others as well. On the next episode, you’ll hear Rocki Howard’s story.
Today, you’ll hear the purpose behind this podcast. Where I am at today, what I struggle with, and why I struggle with them. Honesty is the best way to break the stigma surrounding mental health.
This emotional episode will provide you with further insight into traumas that used to govern my actions and relationships, as well as how the lack of protection growing up fueled distrust with those around me. I leaned heavily into school and work for external validation and controlling outcomes, creating a false sense of identity.
Episode Highlights:
👨👩👦👦 Who I am - as a wife, mama and women in leadership
👊🏼 Overcoming obstacles of my past & how it previously fueled risk taking, poor relationships and impacted the of ease of being a mom
💻 From the age of 14, how my identity being tied up in work came to be
🫶🏼 My first suicide attempt and grappling with the reality of it
✨ How I am reshaping my past experiences for good
Oh, and speaking of the next episode and Rocki Howard, you are going to love her! Rocki is just amazing. She has a great mental health tool kit she’ll offer you. Subscribe and get the automatic download. Also, please rate and review Honestly Mental. It helps the show grow. The more people we can reach, the more people we can help. That is our overall goal, to help as many people as we can. Thank you!
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Episode #1: Flipping the Script,Your Host Interviewed
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Monday Jan 29, 2024
“Whatever your walk of life is, I think you have to be real about it.”
Honestly Mental, the podcast, matches what Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder says there. Hi, I’m Erika Diaz. Like millions of others, my walk of life includes struggles with mental health. On Honestly Mental, my guests and I are real about it.
My mental health struggles include suicidal ideation, postpartum depression, and an Outpatient Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP).
I’m also a wife, a mama, and a woman in leadership.
Honestly Mental is not pity party. We foster understanding. And we focus on growth. As Rob Hunter puts it, “The key is approaching your mental health in the right way, in a realistic way.”
We will discuss tools to manage mental health, how mental health impacts office life, and how to talk with your family and coworkers about it.
Honestly Mental is introduced as a raw, authentic podcast aimed at destigmatizing mental health by continuing the conversation, raising awareness, providing hope, with an ultimate goal of saving lives.
This episode will cover:
💁🏽♀️ Impacts of mental health on my day-to-day & how it shows up (emotionally & physically)
👨👩👦👦 Juggling being a wife, mama, and women in leadership with mental illness
🌀 Awareness of a downward spirals and the tools I utilizes to overcome them
💻 How my identity being tied up in all things work, landed me an Outpatient Partial Hospitalization stay
🗣️ Seeking out help when symptoms of mental illness arise
👉🏼 Why honesty is the foundation of Honestly Mental