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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Music credits:
Mozert by John Vallis (https://johnvallis.bandcamp.com)
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Ep. 5 - Neseret Bemient's Conversational Portrait