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Nanci has been practicing law since 1992. She started her practice in busy litigation firms in Montpelier & Rutland, Vermont with a focus on Civil and Criminal Litigation and Family Law. She also worked at Vermont Legal Aid, Inc. representing victims of domestic violence and people with psychiatric diagnoses in mental health civil commitment proceedings. Nanci began her solo private practice in 2005 and works exclusively in the area of Family Law. She is a member of the Vermont Bar Association and the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals. She has received advanced training in and practices Collaborative Divorce and Collaborative Mediation. She is also licensed to practice law in the state of New York.
https://nancismithlaw.com/

Thursday Dec 22, 2022
The Loneliness of Recovery with Dr. Cardwell Nuckols
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Loneliness is a real danger in addiction and recovery.
Dr. Cardwell Nuckols is a leading expert on loneliness and its impact on mental health. He has been in recovery for 45 years and is the author of several books on the topic, including "The Loneliness Cure: How to Overcome Loneliness and Create Lasting Connections."
This episode is about loneliness in recovery and how it can be a relapse danger. Dr. Nuckols learned about loneliness in recovery from his own experience and from working with others in recovery. Loneliness is a condition that affects everyone and can be caused by a variety of factors.
"The idea of success and future began to start to become apparent to me. An idea of the future that wasn't wrapped up in drugs and my friends wanted nothing to do with me."
In this episode, you will learn the following:
1. Loneliness is a big deal today, but nobody seems to be dealing with this.
2. Loneliness is a relapse danger.
3. Loneliness is a catalyst for drug use.

Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Dr. Hans Watson Pt.3 - The Family’s Illness and Recovery
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
In part 3 of our series with Dr. Hans Watson, Dr. Watson discusses how the family habits and "illnesses" show up in children's behavior.

Thursday Dec 08, 2022
Dr. Hans Watson Pt.2 - Anxiety and Depression THE REAL DEAL
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
Part 2 of my 3 part series with Dr. Hans Watson. We discuss Anxiety and Depression in such a way that we KNOW what helps, what hurts, and what happens next.
What is the job of the brain and how is it different when we have struggled with anxiety or depression?

Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Dr. Hans Watson Pt.1 - Building Resiliency in Teens
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Are teens nowadays just not able to handle what we could as teens? Are they too "fragile" and get depression and anxiety over things Gen Xers and Boomers just bootstrapped and handled?
Were we more resilient?
Dr. Hans Watson brings us through the life and psyche of a teen in this, Part 1 of a 3 part series. In this episode we confront not just the WHY, but HOW resiliency is created in the brain and tools to help our teens develop it.
Dr. Watson is a highly decorated, a combat-proven leader with advanced psychiatric training & experience. He has the necessary experience and skills to inspire & motivate groups, deliver world-class mental health training, improve leadership, identify the reasons for any organization’s performance, and execute expert psychiatric evaluations for the courts.
Part One of Three

Thursday Nov 24, 2022
I Hurt Too
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
Aaron Huey, Founder of Firemountain Residential Treatment Center, has a frank conversation with Val who’s brother suffers from Schizophrenia. Honest, emotional, and a clear understanding of how mental health issues hurt everyone in the family. They help to answer the question,"When a family member is mentally ill, what happens to the rest?"
www.beyondriskandback.com
www.mhnrnetwork.com

Thursday Nov 17, 2022
The Art of Being Cool With Dyslexia
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Host of Beyond Risk and Back and founder of www.firemountainprograms.com, Aaron Huey, interviews Chester Simmons, a young man that learned how to overcome dyslexia and ADD. Tune in to hear an amazing perspective for parents:
What is it like to have Dyslexia?
Do you grow out of it?
How does it affect ones social life?
What helps?

Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Love & Logic and REALLY Risky Teens
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Dr. Charles Fay and Aaron Huey review the essentials of Love and Logic and how it can provide a clear path of boundaries, consequences, and responsibility for ANY child. Dr. Fay is a parent, internationally recognized author, consultant and highly skilled public speaker. Millions of educators, mental health professionals, and parents world-wide have benefited from his practical and down-to-earth solutions to the most common and frustrating behaviors displayed by youth of all ages. These solutions come directly from years of research and clinical experience serving severely disturbed youth and their families in psychiatric hospitals, public and private schools, and homes. His interest in education and psychology were peaked as a child from years of exposure to some of our nation’s most dynamic experts in these fields. This early exposure came as a result of participation in training events with his father, Jim Fay. Jim is one of the nation’s leading experts on child discipline and has over fifty years of experience in public education. The internationally recognized Love and Logic approach was literally developed around Charles Fay as he grew. Now he jokes, “I think that’s why I became a psychologist…just to figure out what they were doing to me as a kid. But…let me be clear…I absolutely adore my mom and dad as a result.”
Dr. Fay currently works full time as an author, consultant, public speaker and CEO of the Love and Logic Institute. Because of his high-powered sense of humor and story-telling skills, audiences experience the most memorable and life changing form of learning: learning that’s mentally connected to joy and real-life examples.
www.loveandlogic.com

Friday Jun 10, 2022
Teens and Sex-Ed.
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Talk about bodies, sex, birds, and the bees to your kids and teens.
Leave space for family values. Leave space for your teen's ideas and values...that are in development.
Mandi Nuttall is a former high school health teacher and collegiate volleyball player at BYU and has since adopted the self-proclaimed titles of a taxi driver, nutritionist, doctor, therapist, personal trainer, cancer fighter, interior designer, janitor, photographer, chef, all since marrying her soulmate and becoming a mother. Mandi and her kind-hearted husband Matt found out real quick how easy it is to go from 3 to 5 kids after twins rocked their world. After living in Utah for 12 years, and Mandi working as a professional photographer while her husband finished school, the Nuttalls have moved North and have fallen in love with the Pacific Northwest. In between the craziness of motherhood, Mandi has found another incredible purpose. Mandi is now publishing her first book, The Birthday Suit Book 1: Yearly Guides to Easily Teach Children Ages 1 to 9 About Their Body and Sex which launches on October 5th. This first book will make a huge difference in parents' lives. Mandi believes in the limitless potential within families to do good and raise knowledgeable children. She witnessed the lack of knowledge in her High School students when teaching about the body and health in her Health class, and knows how hard it is for parents to feel confident in teaching this subject. So she wrote this book to make the process simple, and to empower parents to then empower their children to respect and love their bodies. We have one shot to teach our kids to respect their bodies, and we can't leave that up to the world-it's our job and divine responsibility.

Friday Jun 03, 2022
Permission to Heal
Friday Jun 03, 2022
Friday Jun 03, 2022
27 years as a High School Teacher, Marci Brockman is the author of Permission to Heal and this show helps clear the way for self-care.
Empathy begins with the sharing of our stories. In this podcast, we engage in meaningful, deeply human conversations to inspire connection, compassion, understanding, and whole-hearted wellness. We all need to learn to give ourselves the grace and space to heal from trauma, breathe through the tough stuff, and create meaningful lives and love. Only we can give ourselves permission to trust and take care of ourselves, follow our hearts and desires, and build lives of love, home, and belonging. Marci Brockmann is an author, artist, podcaster, and English teacher.
Do you actually have to stop and literally give yourself permission to recover from your trauma?
Yep. It is the first step to true healing. Tell yourself you can.
Check out her podcast "Permission to Heal" and her website: https://www.marcibrockmann.com/