The Cognitive Rampage Podcast #170: Mental Health Warriors Interview
Interview of Adam Lowery from Mental Health Warriors by Jason MacKenzie and Brian Knowler
My name is Adam Brett Lowery. I am a Mental Health Counselor, Author, Host of The Cognitive Rampage Podcast and a Mental Trainer. I also take an activist role in treatment reform. I founded the diagnosis Athletes Depression, and the integrative psychological approach Transrational Structural Behavior Theory (TSBT). In my heart I am a father, son, brother, friend and humanitarian. In my spirit I am a teacher and protector.
Through a emotionally, verbally and sometimes physically violent childhood my only focus was my dream to play Professional Football. A college injury ended my NFL dreams. Angry, I chose a life of drug dealing that soon entwined with addiction. I transitioned to the nightclub business a saw quick success, but violence and addiction followed. I kept it masked by money and parties. One night after a random sixteen hour life contemplation session I left my career, gave away all my things, left a four year relationship and friends behind to embark on my walkabout, or what I now call my Spiritual Rampage
For 2 years I wandered from the Florida Keys to Tennessee, even a First Nation Reservation in New Mexico. I returned home a man on a mission to change self and help others do the same. Within 4 years I completed 2 degrees, published The Cognitive Rampage, launched a podcast and founded the Athletes Depression diagnosis. I Cognitively Rampage (Speak) on all things mental health, all social issues connected to mental health and athlete specific related mental health.
In my flow time you will find me in the great outdoors. I surf, dive, spearfish, kayak and offshore fish, hike, hunt my food and have survived on a deserted island. If nature isn’t calling, you’ll find me at reggae concerts, music festivals or cooking for friends and family. I have a serious addiction to the minimalist lifestyle, the road, podcasts, competence, new experiences and randomness. I talk to strangers, and too much. I love everybody, including you. A secret about this book; my Life Philosophy is hidden within these pages, just like yours.
I believe uncomfortable is where the change is. I believe in the power of you.
Tribe of Change Podcast #1: Things don’t get better
Welcome to the Tribe of Change Podcast in conjunction with the Cognitive Rampage Podcast. We are the Tribe, and we are here to love and support one another while we dig deeper into ourselves and the world. I’m your host Steve Stone, and I’m here to let you know that things don’t get better. ….. but I’ll tell you what does.
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – Dr. Seuss
The Cognitive Rampage Podcast #168: Chasing My Tail (Love & Optimization)
The history of Love and after nearly 10 years on a competence quest for mental health optimization, this is what I have come to…for now.
Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions, expecting different answers. Allow me to explain…oh and I’ll get to the “love” part.
“Sometimes we humans need a gentle shift to continue our journey in the right direction that supports our growth…ending the unwinnable war with Fear and making friends with it instead, is one of those shifts.”
~Kristen Ulmer Author of “THE ART OF FEAR, why conquering fear won’t work, and what do to instead” available now on Amazon
We all feel fear. Yet we are often taught to ignore it, overcome it, push past it. But to what benefit? This is the essential question that guides Kristen Ulmer’s remarkable exploration of our most misunderstood emotion in The Art of Fear.
Once recognized as the best extreme skier in the world (an honor she held for twelve years), Ulmer knows fear well. In this conversation-changing book, she argues that fear is not here to cause us problems—and that in fact, the only true issue we face with fear is our misguided reaction to it (not the fear itself).
Rebuilding our understanding of fear from the ground up, Ulmer starts by exploring why we’ve come to view it as a negative. From here, she unpacks fear and shows it to be just one of 10,000 voices that make up our reality, here to help us come alive alongside joy, love, and gratitude. Introducing a mindfulness tool called “Shift,” Ulmer teaches readers how to experience fear in a more simple, authentic way, transforming our relationship with this emotion from that of a draining battle into one more in line with our true nature.
Influenced by Ulmer’s own complicated relationship with fear and her over 15 years as a mindset facilitator, The Art of Fear will reconstruct the way we react to and experience fear—empowering us to easily and permanently address the underlying cause of our fear-based problems, and setting us on course to live a happier, more expansive future.
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The 2nd Edition of The Cognitive Rampage, a scientific approach to self discovery, change and optimization is now available on Amazon
Author of 20 published books, 19 in French, 1 in English.
Before moving to the US, Michel Pascal calls on his experience living in Kopan Monastery in the Himalayas, as well as his close relationship and dedicated study of 15 years under renowned Buddhist master Chepa Dorje Rinpoche, the last descendant of Marpa, now deceased. Additionally, Michel is the disciple of Theologian Psychologist Jean-Yves Leloup. Pascal is advised by and works closely with neuroscientists Dr. Mario Beauregard, Ph.D., who is officially considered one of one- hundred most important pioneers in science in this century, and by Dr. Natalie Trent, Ph.D. author and professor at Harvard University.
Michel has built the Meditation for daily stress, a method that is a mix of pure knowledge from buddhism and new medical research in neuroscience, proposing that we train our mind inside the stress in our daily situations. Michel is also one of a few meditation singers. He uses his voice and visualizations to create a deep healing sensation.
Michel has created with Amity Foundation the first meditation program for “lifers” (people who have spent 20+ years incarcerated) reintegrating into society after prison. Amity is well known for its jaw dropping statistics: without support, over 80% of incarcerated citizens return to jail. With the Amity program 80% of its students escape the cycle of incarceration and re-enter into society.
“Sometimes we humans need a gentle shift to continue our journey in the right direction that supports our growth…ending the unwinnable war with Fear and making friends with it instead, is one of those shifts.”
Before moving to the US, Michel Pascal calls on his experience living in Kopan Monastery in the Himalayas, as well as his close relationship and dedicated study of 15 years under renowned Buddhist master Chepa Dorje Rinpoche, the last descendant of Marpa, now deceased. Additionally, Michel is the disciple of Theologian Psychologist Jean-Yves Leloup. Pascal is advised by and works closely with neuroscientists Dr. Mario Beauregard, Ph.D., who is officially considered one of one- hundred most important pioneers in science in this century, and by Dr. Natalie Trent, Ph.D. author and professor at Harvard University.
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