What we’re Reading/Watching/Listening to: August
Happy August! As our summer wraps up, I hope you get a chance to check out what our team has been reading, watching, and listening to this month. Enjoy!
Reading
How Olympians Are Fighting to Put Athletes’ Mental Health First by Alice Park, published in TIME.com
The 2021 Olympics in Tokyo will go down in history as a momentous step for mental health. The bravery of top athletes like Simone Biles, Michael Phelps, Allison Schmitt, and many others have changed the conversation, rules, and expectations of prioritizing mental health in the Olympics.
It ceased to hurt me, though so slow by Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson, one of the most important figures in American poetry, writes about moving past trauma.
Watching
How Language Shapes the Way We Think by Lera Boroditsky | TedWomen2017
“The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is,” Boroditsky says. “Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000.” Lera’s insightful Ted Talk made me think about how we speak about mental health and the impact our words can have. Productive public conversations about mental health start with healthy communication.
Wrecked (Lyric Video) by Imagine Dragons
The Imagine Dragons explore grief and loss in their new music video.
Listening
The Most Days Show: Author Christie Tate on Group Therapy & Eating Disorders
“There’s a famous saying in self-help and recovery circles: ‘You’re only as sick as your secrets.’ Sound familiar? Bestselling author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick and critically acclaimed memoir, Group, Christie Tate joins The Most Days Show to talk about hers. Grappling with an eating disorder and crippled by the weight of the secrecy and shame she associated with it, Christie shares an intimate look at how group therapy changed her perspective and, ultimately, her life.” – The Most Days Show
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard and guest Nina Vasan
“Nina Vasan is a professor at Stanford University and the Founder and Executive Director of Brainstorm: The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation. She is the Chief Medical Officer of Real, a new women’s mental health company and a psychiatrist at Silicon Valley Executive Psychiatry, a boutique concierge clinical for executives, entrepreneurs, and elite performers. Nina chats with the Armchair Expert about her personal experience with anxiety/depression, the continued prevalence of stigma and the loop of actions, thoughts and emotions. Dax asks about the concern of treating addiction with psychiatric drugs and Nina discusses how technology can aid in this problem. They talk about mental health as a three-pronged bio, psycho and social endeavor and they discuss the tenets of cognitive-behavioral therapy.” – Armchair Expert
We’ll be back next month with a new list of our favorite books, shows, and listens. If you have a suggestion for us, please send it to us via our Contact Us page.
