Dr. Sheryl's PodCouch

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A Bi-Weekly Podcast Guest-starring Mental Health Experts & Professionals, hosted by Dr. Sheryl Ziegler.

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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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

June 11, 2024

Eric Tipler has spent the past twenty years working with teenagers as a teacher, writing coach, and college admissions counselor. His students have attended the country’s top colleges and universities, including all eight Ivy League schools. Eric holds degrees from Harvard and Yale, and he is a member of the National Association for College Admission Counseling. With admission rates at an all-time low, getting into a competitive college is tougher than ever. At the top schools, a strong transcript and test scores will get your foot in the door, but it’s your essays, and the personal qualities that they ... Read More

December 5, 2023

Phyllis Fagell has worked in both public and private schools with students in grades K-12. She currently works as the school counselor for Sheridan School in Washington, D.C. and provides therapy to children, teens and adults in private practice. She also was a previous guest on Dr. Sheryl's Podcouch, appearing in Episode 050: Middle School Matters. Her newest book Middle School Superpowers: Raising Resilient Tweens in Turbulent Times discusses how to bolster any middle schooler’s resilience by leveraging the 12 Middle School Superpowers they need to manage disappointment, self-regulate emotions, take healthy risks, and recover from any setback. You can ... Read More

November 21, 2023

For more than two decades, Rebecca Rosen has served as an ambassador between the spirit world and our day-to-day world—relaying wisdom and insight from angels, guides, and those who have passed on to people seeking answers in the here and now. You can visit her YouTube FAQs playlist to get the answers to some of the most common questions she is asked.  She has written four books: international bestsellers Spirited and Awaken the Spirit Within, What the Dead Have Taught Me About Living Well, and her most recent book, What’s Your Heaven? which is what she discusses with Dr. ... Read More

October 24, 2023

Jessica Speer is the highly acclaimed author of books for kids and teens, including The Phone Book - Stay Safe, Be Smart, and Make the World Better with the Powerful Device in Your Hand. She is also the author of the award-winning, BFF or NRF (Not Really Friends)? A Girls Guide to Happy Friendships and Middle School - Safety Goggles Advised, both of which grew out of her work with kids. Blending social science, stories, and fun activities, her writing unpacks tricky stuff that surfaces during childhood and adolescence. She has a Master's Degree in Social Sciences and a ... Read More

October 10, 2023

In 2008, Rebecca Fogg walked away from her New York life and successful career in financial services to move to London, where she co-founded the Institute of Pre-Hospital Care at London’s Air Ambulance and continues to work, write and learn Scottish fiddle. BEAUTIFUL TRAUMA: An Explosion, An Obsession and a New Lease on Life (Penguin Random House/Avery Books), is her first book.  You can find all of Rebecca's links here. ... Read More

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