Dr. Sheryl's PodCouch
Conversations intended to reduce stress, depression, anxiety and prevent burnout.
Dr. Sheryl Ziegler is a psychotherapist, speaker, frequent media contributor, and author of Mommy Burnout™. Dr. Z believes that in order to truly address today's mental health crisis, we need to create community and solutions around all aspects of our lives that affect anxiety, depression, and loneliness.
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March 18, 2025
Best-selling Author and Educational Consultant, Craig A. Knippenberg, has developed effective parenting strategies to help “imperfect” parents build resilient kids and families. His highly popular books and podcast support people all over the world discover how their children’s brains work so they can foster both deeper connection and independence without guilt or shame. In his newest book Shame Free Parenting, Craig demystifies the challenges of over-protective parenting and offers a thoughtful guide to resilient and genuine parenthood. Loaded with judgment-free parenting wisdom and invaluable resources, Shame-Free Parenting inspires parents to build families that not only withstand challenges but flourish amidst ... Read More
March 4, 2025
Dr. Bonnie Mitchell is the Clinical Director at Healthy Life Recovery, a rehab center in San Diego that offers education and treatment to help their patients’ journey to sobriety. Whether transitioning out of a residential setting or starting recovery, Healthy Life Recovery outpatient rehab and sober living can help achieve lasting sobriety. Their addiction treatment program is designed by clinical professionals to provide individualized levels of care. On this episode of Dr. Sheryl’s PodCouch, Dr. Mitchell joins Dr. Sheryl and discusses how to spot dopamine addiction that stems from everything from social media to video games to marijuana to ... Read More
February 18, 2025
New York Times bestselling ghostwriter, Samantha Rose, steps out of the shadows to unravel the mystery surrounding her mother’s suicide. What begins as a solitary journey of grief shifts form when her mother slips back from the darkness beyond to reconcile her irreversible choice. Raw, deeply revealing, and with resilient humor throughout, Giving Up the Ghost explores the layered complexity of mental health, the love between mothers and daughters, and how, in the aftermath of inconceivable loss, we can release our inner ghosts and write a new story for ourselves. Giving Up the Ghost is a memoir about a ghostwriter who “ghosts” ... Read More
January 21, 2025
Emily Klein is the creator of Human Design Haven. Human Design is a practice that is described as a holistic self-knowledge system. It combines astrology, the Chinese I Ching, Judaic Kabbalah, Vedic philosophy and modern physics. In her own words, Emily seeks to “blend my ghostwriting and coaching experience to support women who are ready to align who they are with what they do. Using Human Design and Gene Keys as a foundation, I help women break the patterns that lead to burnout and overwhelm, expand their life vision, and step into their days with clarity, purpose, and joy.” She discusses her journey, the components of ... Read More
January 14, 2025
Neha Ruch is the founder of Mother Untitled, the leading platform for ambitious women leaning into family life. A thought leader, influencer, and sought-after speaker focusing on women, work, parenting and identity, Neha’s transformative insights and reframes resonate with the hundreds of thousands of women in the Mother Untitled community and beyond. Her book, The Power Pause is a first-of-its-kind, interactive guide to approaching stay-at-home motherhood or a downshifted career as an enriching chapter — the opposite of a death knell for a woman’s professional life. You can order it here. She discusses the book in great detail on ... Read More
August 20, 2024
Kristi Rible is founder and CEO of The Huuman Group™ where she is dedicated to “humanizing the workplace” by developing caring leaders for a future of work that will depend upon workplace equity, psychological safety, and whole well-being. She also created a course for Stanford University called “Motherhood & Work: Challenges & Opportunities for Positive Change” starting on February 5th! This course discusses topics that some often feel can be taboo, but puts the data behind what mothers are feeling and experiencing and why they are feeling and experiencing it … Those experiences have names like “the motherhood penalty”, ... Read More
August 6, 2024
Kailan Carr is on a mission to prioritize play for kids living in this screen saturated world. She is a former teacher with a masters degree in Literacy and founded Quiet Book Queen and Crafts in Between to make it easy for caregivers to use screen-free activities and more play in their day to day. Limiting screen time was (and still is) so important to her. It wasn’t easy, but it is SO worth it. Her book Screens Away, Time To Play! is an award-winning children’s book inspiring screen-free activities and sparking conversations about screen time limits. Recommended by early ... Read More
July 23, 2024
Alyssa Blask Campbell is a teacher, parent, and an emotional development expert with a masters degree in early childhood education. She co-created the Collaborative Emotion Processing method, and researched it across the country. Their revolutionary, research-backed Collaborative Emotion Processing (CEP) method has been a game changer for parents and educators, and now they are sharing it with readers in this indispensable guide. Tiny Humans, Big Emotions provides the tools to tackle every sort of stressful child-rearing situation, including: What to do when your child throws a tantrum (it’s not what you think!) Helpful scripts to handle any challenging moment like school ... Read More
July 9, 2024
Kathleen Smith, PhD, LPC is an author, licensed therapist, and expert on relationship systems. She helps individuals and organizations learn to think differently about their relationship challenges and begin to operate more thoughtfully and less anxiously. Her book True To You: A Therapist’s Guide to Stop Pleasing Others and Start Being Yourself is a relatable self-help guide for people who want to learn to live less focused on others’ reactions and more confidently by their own principles. Readers will learn how to: Interrupt relationship patterns that keep you stuck. Rely less on praise and approval from others. Develop a solid ... Read More
June 25, 2024
Dr. Jody Carrington is a psychologist, best-selling author, and public speaker with an affinity for helping teams and organizations overcome their most complex, human-centred problems. Her glowing energy and incomparable ability to connect with audiences result in compelling keynotes and life-changing workshops. Her book Feeling Seen examines how and why humans are so disconnected right now, worse than we have been in the history of the free world. Dr. Jody looks at how we got so lost, and all the soul-ripping contributions to a disconnected world. Then, Jody deciphers with the reader a road map back home, back to each other, ... Read More
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