Waking Up Bipolar with Chris Cole | Bipolar disorder, spiritual awakening, and everything in between.
58 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 64 ratingsChris Cole hosts the Waking Up Bipolar podcast, focused on the intersection of bipolar disorder and spiritual awakening. He is the author of The Body of Chris: A Memoir of Obsession, Addiction, and Madness, inspired by his own journey of spiritual unfolding and mental health challenges. Chris Cole offers life coaching for any number of mental health conditions, specializing in bipolar disorder and spiritual emergence. Chris’s experience with addiction, disordered eating, body dysmorphia, psychosis, and spiritual emergency allows him to relate to a wide range of clients. He utilizes a holistic approach to mental health which views wellness in physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual domains. Learn more about Chris and his work at colecoaching.com.
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Episodes
Matthew Gindin: Remember Michael Stone and OCCUPY Everything
August 02, 2017 22:27 - 47 minutes - 65 MBIn this episode of Waking Up Bipolar, Chris Cole speaks with Matthew Gindin—freelance journalist, former Buddhist monk, educator, meditation teacher, and friend of the late Michael Stone. Michael Stone was a dharma teacher with an international sangha, a social and environmental activist, hatha yoga instructor, husband, father, author, and the embodiment of a life driven by heart-centered action. In addition to the miracle that is the life of Michael Stone, he occupied a bipolar body. I came...
Andy Behrman: The Evolution of Electroboy
July 26, 2017 19:18 - 56 minutes - 77.5 MBIn this episode of Waking Up Bipolar, Chris Cole speaks with Andy Behrman—author of Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania, published by Random House and translated into six languages. Behrman is a mental health advocate and speaker who promotes mental health awareness and suicide prevention, speaking to college audiences, mental health care professionals and local and national mental health support groups. Andy's writing has been published by The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine and he is ...
Monica Cassani: The Somatic Imperative
July 24, 2017 05:44 - 56 minutes - 77.1 MBIn this episode of Waking Up Bipolar, Chris Cole speaks with Monica Cassani, writer and creator of the website Everything Matters: Beyond Meds, a site that documents and shares many natural methods of self-care for finding and sustaining health in body, mind and spirit. Much of Monica's writing also deals with wider issues in the socio/political and spiritual realms as they pertain to mental health and human rights issues surrounding psychiatry. Monica Cassani has seen the system from both s...
Dr. Steve Prentice: Trusting Your Nature
July 21, 2017 01:41 - 51 minutes - 71 MBIn this episode of Waking Up Bipolar, Chris Cole speaks with Dr. Steve Prentice, Doctor of Chiropractic and author of Wrecked: Why Your Quest for Health and Weight Loss Has Failed... And What You Can Do About It. Dr. Steve Prentice, practicing chiropractor and health contrarian since 1996, has spent his career questioning the status quo and challenging the accepted norms. His experience working with thousands of patients over 20 years led him to create what he termed “the stress-centered ap...
Chris Cole: Using Your Voice
July 17, 2017 20:21 - 15 minutes - 20.7 MBIn this episode of Waking Up Bipolar, Chris Cole discusses the tall order of using one's voice with intention and awareness, so as to show up to life with mindfulness and congruence. JOIN THE DISCUSSION at FB.com/groups/wakingupbipolar Chris Cole hosts the Waking Up Bipolar podcast, focused on the intersection of bipolar disorder and spiritual awakening. He is the author of The Body of Chris: A Memoir of Obsession, Addiction, and Madness, inspired by his own journey of spiritual unfolding ...
Chris Cole: True Humility, Real Confidence
July 13, 2017 22:21 - 12 minutes - 16.9 MBIn this episode of Waking Up Bipolar, Chris Cole discusses the relationship between humility and confidence, especially for folks with bipolar questioning their worth and integrating spiritual experiences. JOIN THE DISCUSSION at FB.com/groups/wakingupbipolar Chris Cole hosts the Waking Up Bipolar podcast, focused on the intersection of bipolar disorder and spiritual awakening. He is the author of The Body of Chris: A Memoir of Obsession, Addiction, and Madness, inspired by his own journey o...
Chris Cole: The Spiritual Mania Fallacy
July 11, 2017 22:41 - 13 minutes - 18.3 MBIn this episode of Waking Up Bipolar, Chris Cole discusses what he calls “The Spiritual Mania Fallacy,” where folks with bipolar mistakenly equate spiritual awakening with mania or manic psychosis. JOIN THE DISCUSSION at FB.com/groups/wakingupbipolar Chris Cole hosts the Waking Up Bipolar podcast, focused on the intersection of bipolar disorder and spiritual awakening. He is the author of The Body of Chris: A Memoir of Obsession, Addiction, and Madness, inspired by his own journey of spirit...