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Revealing Voices
by Tony Roberts and co-hosts - Authors, Mental Health Advocates, and Ministry Developers
A faith-based, peer-led, story-driven, stigma-breaking mental health podcast that explores the question, “What does healing mean to you?”
Episodes
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HAIKAST XII – Sweet Seventeen
The 5-7-5 syllable format is not respected by all haiku enthusiasts. It took me 5 years of laboring away in private before I seriously began studying the centuries long history and learned how much of a rookie I really was in this poetic form. Now, for example, I tune in to a podcast about haiku...
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HAIKAST XI – On The Verge
One of my favorite words is verge. It is one of those fun words that can be either a noun or verb. I first gained a deeper appreciation for its meaning when reading a book about landscapes. In that book, verge was described as a place that delineated the border of human made space and natural...
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Episode 62 – Tony’s Moving to New York!
On this special old school episode, Eric Riddle produced the show. The show begins reflections of friends and family members answering the question, "What Does Tony Mean to You?" The episode then transitions into Tony and Eric discussing his move to New York, details about his new book, "Hope for...
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HAIKAST X – The Democracy Experience
I ran for City Council earlier this month. On the Sunday before the election, I decided to walk the outdoor labyrinth and then I went home to write, rather than continuing to seek, knock, and ask my way into office. This is an edited version of what I wrote while in that moment: Beautiful fall…
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HAIKAST IX – Labyrinth Love
I dedicate this Haikast to my wife, Jennifer Anne Riddle, for our 11 year wedding anniversary! I asked Jen to marry me in the center of a labyrinth on a cold February afternoon. The previous week was Valentine’s Day and she was clearly upset that I did not pop the question during dinner in…
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Episode 61 – Earleybird Steps Up to Associate Producer; Hope for Troubled Minds Release November 1
There is much good news from Delight in Disorder Ministries. Kevin Earleybird Earley has been appointed Associate Producer for Revealing Voices. He will also serve as co-host. This episode is a sneak preview of some of what lies ahead. The long-anticipated, eagerly awaited book Hope for Troubled...
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HAIKAST VIII – Gardening 201
It’s hard to accurately describe how big my parents' garden was when I was a child. I remember many summer days working with them to dig rows, plant seeds, weed and harvest. It was home to many vegetables, most notably the corn that my dad loved to grow and the green beans that I wasn’t as fond…
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HAIKAST VII – Opening
My basement stairs now have the “Rips Room” letters that I, Eric Rippy Riddle, inherited from my grandfather, Amos Harlen Rippy. The letters hung in the same formation from his home in Tell City, IN throughout my young life. It is an honor to walk down my stairs and remember the familiar walk…
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Episode 60 – Earleybird’s Substantial Interview
Technical producer Kevin Earleybird Earley is our guest host for this episode of Revealing Voices. He interviews fellow creative and long time friend Substantial. Prince George’s County, Maryland-born MC, producer, artist, and educator, Substantial, debuted in 2000 collaborating with the late...
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HAIKAST VI – The Local Drafts
Fifteen years ago, on the day my divorce was finalized, I sat around a corner table with some friends at the Columbus Bar. This was not a celebration, but a solemn gathering of men who supported me through one of the most difficult times of my life. A few months before, my best friend, Ben…
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Episode 59 – Running for Judge with Tim Fall
Judge Tim Fall is a California native who changed his major three times, colleges four times, and took six years to get his bachelor’s degree in a subject he’s never been called upon to use professionally. He’s been a trial court judge since 1995 and has taught judicial ethics to California…
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Sufficient Grace at Key Ministry’s Disability & the Church Conference
Reflecting on his pastoral career and work as a mental health minister, Tony shares what it is like to be a wounded healer with a bipolar thorn in his flesh.
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HAIKAST V – Horticulture Therapy
I really enjoy the idea of volunteer work in public spaces. For me, it feels like the basics of civilization. Essentially, I am talking about convincing people that no one needs to get paid to benefit the common good. This is a difficult task on a number of levels. First, people like to get paid....
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Episode 58 – Disability and the Church with Dr. Steve Grcevich of Key Ministry
Dr. Stephen Grcevich (MD, Northeast Ohio Medical University) serves as the founder and President of Key Ministry. He is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who combines over 25 years of knowledge gained through clinical practice and teaching with extensive research experience evaluating…
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HAIKAST IV – Going Green
I love spring and love moseying around my yard, marvelling at the flowers popping through the mulch and the abundance of - are they pink, magenta, maybe even purple - or simply, redbud tree blossoms. There’s so much to be thankful for. That being said, please take a few minutes with me to…
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Episode 57 – Pastor Mark Sowersby, Forgiving the Nightmare
How do you forgive when you've been wounded deeply? How do you move past the pain that keeps you up at night, leaves you isolated, untrusting, and afraid? How can you possibly forgive them, especially when they don’t deserve forgiveness? Pastor Mark Sowersby shares his testimony with his ministry...
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HAIKAST III – Synchronicity
What are your thoughts on the cliche - “The universe is trying to talk to you?” Humans run a wide range in the coincidence through divine intervention spectrum. The Universe talking to you falls somewhere closer to the divine intervention side. Living the majority of my life as a Christian who...
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Episode 56 – Rev. Dr. Sarah Lund, Minister for Disabilities and Mental Health Justice
The Rev. Dr. Sarah Lund’s mission is to partner with others to share hope and healing. She is an ordained minister in both the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ. Sarah has served as pastor to churches in Brooklyn, NY, Minneapolis, MN, and New Smyrna Beach, FL....
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HAIKAST II – Magical Words
Do you ever feel like you are in the need of some elusive, magical words to resolve a situation? I know I do. That feeling often comes when I am convinced that there are no words designed to communicate my heartfelt intention. I don’t mean to make that sound like a bad thing. Biblically speaking,...
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Episode 55 – Beyond Madness & Grace with Matthew Stanford, PhD
Our guest for this episode is Matthew S. Stanford, PhD, CEO of the Hope and Healing Center & Institute (HHCI) in Houston, Texas. He is also adjunct professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and the Houston Methodist Hospital Institute for Academic Medicine. A fellow of the Association...
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HAIKAST I – Arts & Crafts
Welcome to the Revealing Voices Haikast series with Eric Riddle serving as our guest poet. Eric is co-founder of Revealing Voices who redirected his avocation to environmental stewardship about a year ago. I have invited Eric to blend his spiritual art with his passion for mental health advocacy...
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2022 Year-End Message: Memories and Hopes
Memory and Hope can be two healing agents of faith to be used as resources for personal, social, even spiritual improvement. As we remember the events surrounding the broken system that contributed to the end of Mark Rippee's life this year, let's not fall victim to bitterness or futile rage....
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Episode 54 – The Art and Advocacy of Kevin ‘Earleybird’ Earley
Kevin "Earleybird" Earley is an artist and musician based out of Northern Virginia. He is a graduate of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York where he studied fine art, and Virginia Commonwealth University, where he has earned his Master's in Social Work. His love for hip-hop goes back decades…
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Episode 53 – Janet Hays: Healing Minds NOLA
Janet Hays, is founder and director of Healing Minds NOLA, a 501(c)(3) educational and charitable organization based in New Orleans, LA that focuses on removing funding and policy barriers to treatment and care for people living with no-fault serious mental diseases. She is a problem solver by...
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Episode 52 – Kathryn Parke, A Therapist Who Respects Clients with Serious Brain Illnesses and Other Mental Health Conditions
Kathryn Parke is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist in Baltimore, MD. She has fifteen years of experience working with severe psychiatric brain disorders in both community mental health systems and clinical hospital settings. Kathryn is passionate about supporting this community and...
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Episode 51 – Kathy Day, An Advocate’s Advocate
Tony Roberts and co-host, Laura Pogliano, talk with Kathy Day, MPA. Kathy is currently the caregiver, advocate, and conservator for her family member who was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2010. She is active in local, state, and national advocacy to promote the need for family involvement for...
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New Blood in the Hood: The Season 5 Trailer
While Eric pours himself into saving the planet one pollinator plant at a time, Revealing Voices goes global with top-drawer advocates for co-hosts, a new sound engineer and guests that continue to explore what healing means in the context of caring for those impacted brain illnesses. In this...
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Episode 50 – Eric’s Finale with Brandon Andress
On Eric's final episode as co-host of Revealing Voices, we invited Brandon Andress back for his second interview. In 2021, Brandon published his fourth book, "What Can't Be Hidden." At the beginning of the show, we discuss the writing process as he switched to fiction for the first time. Brandon...
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Episode 49 – Dr. Bruce and Sally Riddle in Studio E
Eric's parents, Dr. Bruce and Sally Riddle, join us in Studio E in this penultimate episode of Eric hosting the podcast. Bruce shares his story living with bipolar disorder, discussing the struggle getting through his med school internship and residency. Sally talks through the decision not to...
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Episode 48 – Origin Story & 2022 Transition
In this episode, Tony and Eric are in studio to discuss the roots of the podcast and future for the show. Revealing Voices will become a part of Tony's Delight in Disorder Ministries - a new nonprofit dedicated to publishing content to educate and encourage those impacted by brain illnesses and...
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Episode 47 – Art of Invitation with Debbie Teike
Debbie Teike, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, is the author of The Art of Invitation: Building enduring relationships · Connecting community. Debbie has extensive experience working in long-term care, elder abuse and neglect, hospice care and congregational social work. She grew up in Decatur,...
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Episode 46 – Hope with Kirsten Panachyda
Kirsten Panachyda writes and speaks to infuse courage into the soul-weary. Her book Among Lions: Fighting for Faith and Finding Your Rest while Parenting a Child with Mental Illness is available now. Kirsten blogs at kirstenp.com. She and her husband Dan have two sons, and they are a...
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Episode 45 – Saints who Struggled with Diana Gruver
Diana Gruver (MA, Gordon-Conwell) writes about discipleship and spiritual formation in the every day. She is the author of Companions in the Darkness: Seven Saints Who Struggled with Depression and Doubt, and serves as a writer and communications director for Vere Institute. She lives in...
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Episode 44 – At the Nexus with Eli Perez
Eli Perez serves as the convener of NEXUS – a collaborative group that is working to bridge gaps in mental health to support women, youth, and individuals coming into contact with the justice system. NEXUS, which stands for Neuroscience Experts and Cross-Sector Unconventional Stakeholders, aims…
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Episode 43 – Healing Highlights from Seasons 2 & 3
The animating question of Revealing Voices is “What does healing mean to you?” Tony and Eric have explored a wide diversity of responses to this question from our guests over the last 3 years. You will hear the voices of 15 different people in this episode, ranging from a Mental health Peer...
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Episode 42- That Healing Feeling (Part 2)
This is part 2 with Sibyl Towner. We had so much fun with her and forgot to ask her our key question, "What does healing mean to you?" This episode focuses on her response to that question. The episode begins with my conversation with her the day after our original interview (Tony was not in...
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Episode 41 – Retreating with Sibyl Towner (Part 1)
Sibyl Towner has a passion to help people identify the voice of God that is within them and to encourage a responsiveness to that voice. She has over 50 years of experience in extended household living as well as decades of pastoral leadership positions at College Hill Presbyterian Church in...
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Episode 40 — When Despair Meets Delight Author, Tony Roberts
Eric and Tony discuss Tony's new book, When Despair Meets Delight: Stories to Cultivate Hope for Those Battling Mental Illness. The book is a memoir of a minister with a mental illness and model for mental health ministry. Autographed copies can currently be ordered at Tony's website:...
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Episode 39 – Environmental Stewardship with Rachel Kavathe
Rachel Kavathe is an artist, landscape architect, and city planner. Her work focuses on creative placemaking and site-specific art installations. Her studio is located in Columbus, Indiana. Rachel has over 15 years of experience working with communities to create, enhance, and celebrate the…
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A Timeless MLK Eulogy from 57 years ago
From pandemic to protest. 2020 has been a difficult year. We seek spiritual leadership. During this time, Tony and I look to the healing words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This eulogy was given in 1963 following a bombing at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. "They were…
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Episode 38 – The Heart of Advocacy
Leslie Carpenter is a serious brain disorders advocate who is working to improve quality of care for people with brain disorders all along the continuum of care locally, in the state of Iowa and in the country. She also teaches NAMI Family to Family & NAMI Provider training and is an active…
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Episode 37 – Pastoring in the Pandemic
As we press forward in these difficult days, we want to feature voices from a variety of perspectives whose life and work has been strongly impacted by this crisis. On this episode, Les Rust talks about how the virus and ensuing quarantine is impacting the ministry of faith communities. Leslie D....
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Episode 36 – Pain in the Pandemic
On this day before Easter, Tony and Eric want to acknowledge the pain experienced across the globe during this Lent season. On Ash Wednesday (February 26), social distancing and quarantines were not yet being discussed in America. Over the 40 days of Lent, we have gained more empathy for the...
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Episode 35 – Spouse Takeover!
Jen Riddle and Susan Lockwood-Roberts are guest hosts on this very special episode of Revealing Voices. Be prepared to have a different side of Tony and Eric "revealed" by their beautiful wives.....
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Episode 34 – Praying Through A Pandemic
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” ― Soren Kierkegaard Prayer is not a business transaction between a dispassionate producer and a pleading consumer. Prayer is a conversation within a relationship of love. A prayer of St.…
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Episode 33 – Passing Peace in a Pandemic
Our response to the coronavirus is to create more episodes related to the intersection of faith and mental health. As we all seek out new ways to connect with each other, Tony and Eric will continue to pursue intimate, relevant conversation. On this episode listen for: How to prepare and not…
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Episode 32 – Ray Lay, Hall of Famer
Ray Lay is a US Marine and person living with a dual diagnosis and is a member of three statewide boards. NAMI Indiana, Indiana Balance of State and Indiana Mental Illness Advisor Council. He is married and an Indiana Certified Specialist and VA Peer Support Specialist Ray Lay is the first peer...
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Season 3 Trailer
After a productive brainstorm on a cold January afternoon, Tony and Eric share updates about the upcoming season. In the next month, we plan to gather listener feedback to choose relevant topics and help us craft questions for our guests. For Tony's Delight in Disorder subscribers, we are excited...
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Episode 31 – Bryon Ross, Tony’s GOAT Therapist
Bryon Ross is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who graduated from Indiana University in 1985. He has served diverse populations, including a program to rehabilitate sexual offenders. He now works as a therapist for a publicly funded clinic. There he serves people facing a wide range of mental...
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Episode 30 – Sepee Zabala Loves Jazz
Sepeedeh or “Sepee” Zabala is a working mother of two who moved to Berkeley, California in 1993 as a Christian missionary. Raised an atheist by Iranian parents who immigrated to the U.S in the sixties, she was baptized in a horse trough in a living room in Washington, D.C. while attending…
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A faith-based, peer-led, story-driven, stigma-breaking mental health podcast that explores the question, “What does healing mean to you?”
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Revealing Voices is created and hosted by Tony Roberts and co-hosts - Authors, Mental Health Advocates, and Ministry Developers.
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