Mental Illness and Healing

In the first half hour Patricia will be joined by Lynell Masterson, founder of Nell, is a motivational coach and healer. She develops individual and group wellness programs that integrate mind, body, and spirit methods. Lynell will discuss the importance and elements of sexual health and how it is part of our overall well-being. In the second half hour Patricia is joined by Maggie Lamond Simone author of Body Punishment: OCD, Addiction, and Finding the Courage to Heal as well as several other books. She is a humor columnist whose painful journey provides insight for the thousands of others who similarly cut, starve, pick, drink, pluck, purge, and otherwise hurt themselves in private in order to survive in public. She explores the issues of substance abuse, anxiety, and depression that commonly occur with OCD and eliminate feeling shame.