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A Mental Health Break
Welcome to the #1 podcast dedicated to mental health, where you are never alone. This Top Weekly Show provides a safe, supportive platform to normalize conversations around mental health through authentic, inspirational testimonials.
Since 2020, host Vincent A. Lanci and his guests have shared vulnerable stories and powerful insights that remind you—you are not alone on your journey.
Each week, we dive into real-life experiences from mental health advocates, professionals, and individuals who’ve overcome adversity. Together, we tackle a wide range of topics, including trauma recovery, anxiety, depression, mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and family challenges. From grief and social media addiction to mental health in the workplace and life after divorce, every episode offers valuable tools, advice, and understanding for anyone navigating life’s toughest moments.
As someone who survived a traumatic brain injury (TBI), Vincent uses his personal journey to help others, blending his lived experiences with the wisdom of experts to empower you on your own path to healing. Whether you’re struggling with a mental disorder or simply looking for support, A Mental Health Break is your weekly source of hope, guidance, and connection.
Tune in each week for honest conversations, practical tools, and the reassurance that you're not alone. Let’s break the silence together.
A Mental Health Break
#267: From Trauma to Transformation with Miriam Jacobson
Another mental health champion is here! This week, Miriam Jacobson shares:
- From victim to alchemist: Becoming the empowered protagonist in her life story impacted by the 9/11 attacks.
- Trauma and the gut: How regulating the nervous system and processing emotions can transform pain into health (a functional medicine perspective).
- Getting off the diet hamster wheel: Finding freedom and peace of mind around food and your body (this includes nutrition beyond weight loss and aesthetics and creating a more balanced mindset around diet, food, and exercise).
Meet our guest
Miriam is a triple board-certified Functional Medicine Dietitian with 15+ years of experience helping people transform their physical and mental well-being through food, mindset, lifestyle, breathwork, and somatic therapy.
Her practice, Every Body Bliss, combines holistic healing with her personal journey of overcoming trauma, including losing her father to 9/11, surviving pollutants from the Twin Towers, and battling breast cancer. Miriam is writing a memoir on healing through trauma and specializes in addressing mystery symptoms like poor digestion, fatigue, and mood imbalances.
A sought-after speaker on turning grief into health, Miriam has been featured in HuffPost, New York magazine, BuzzFeed, MindBodyGreen, HUM Nutrition, and Voyage LA.
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