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#230: Community, Relationships, and Healing with David McMillan
Manage episode 406241443 series 2913151
It is time to take a deep breath on A Mental Health Break. We have an incredible guest heading your way with David McMillan. Here are some areas he touches on:
- Why sadness takes courage and a brave person to admit their sadness and show vulnerability
- What does quantum physics have to do with relationships?
- Need for belonging
- How newtons law of homeostasis is related to mental health
- Being a part of a community
- How shared events create history
If you enjoy the show, please subscribe to this podcast for future shows and leave a review for others to join our conversations on A Mental Health Break.
More about this week's guest:
- Dr. McMillan is a clinical community psychologist with 40+ years of experience providing people with tools and insights they can use in their personal relationships, communities, and society to heal divisions and find ways to work together.
- He developed and authored the Sense of Community Theory, the most influential research on the psychological sense of community, with 10K+ literature references and 50K+ reads annually.
- Dr. McMillan is also the author of several highly-rated books, including Create Your Own Love Story, which uses the four elements of his Sense of Community Theory- membership, influence, integration and fulfillment of needs, and shared emotional connection- to describe relationships and offer steps to take to make them stronger, more enduring, and more soul-satisfying.
- His 38-year marriage to Judge Marietta Shipley inspired him to write Create Your Own Love Story
Have a question for the host or guest? Are you looking to become a show partner? Email Danica at PodcastsByLanci@gmail.com to get connected.
CRISIS LINE: DIAL 988
254 episodes
Manage episode 406241443 series 2913151
It is time to take a deep breath on A Mental Health Break. We have an incredible guest heading your way with David McMillan. Here are some areas he touches on:
- Why sadness takes courage and a brave person to admit their sadness and show vulnerability
- What does quantum physics have to do with relationships?
- Need for belonging
- How newtons law of homeostasis is related to mental health
- Being a part of a community
- How shared events create history
If you enjoy the show, please subscribe to this podcast for future shows and leave a review for others to join our conversations on A Mental Health Break.
More about this week's guest:
- Dr. McMillan is a clinical community psychologist with 40+ years of experience providing people with tools and insights they can use in their personal relationships, communities, and society to heal divisions and find ways to work together.
- He developed and authored the Sense of Community Theory, the most influential research on the psychological sense of community, with 10K+ literature references and 50K+ reads annually.
- Dr. McMillan is also the author of several highly-rated books, including Create Your Own Love Story, which uses the four elements of his Sense of Community Theory- membership, influence, integration and fulfillment of needs, and shared emotional connection- to describe relationships and offer steps to take to make them stronger, more enduring, and more soul-satisfying.
- His 38-year marriage to Judge Marietta Shipley inspired him to write Create Your Own Love Story
Have a question for the host or guest? Are you looking to become a show partner? Email Danica at PodcastsByLanci@gmail.com to get connected.
CRISIS LINE: DIAL 988
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