It is summer, and you know what that means. It is summer vacation. I am taking a couple of weeks off of recording the podcast, and that means that we get to drop some of my favorite episodes that you may or may not have ever listened to. These three interviews have such a dramatically different approach on how we can heal our mental health and truly become mentally well.  Julia Britz is a licensed naturopathic doctor who received her training from Bastyr University in San Diego, CA. She specializes in supporting people who are struggling with mental health issues such as OCD, disorders eating and psychiatric medication tapering. Her passion for working with individuals suffering from these lonely conditions is that she too was a “hopeless case”, but got better.   Dismissed by doctors, she was told over and over there was nothing else she could try beyond pharmacotherapy, and so was inspired to create MyOCDdiary: an imperfect story.” She utilizes natural and integrative modalities including targeted amino acid therapy, peptide therapy, micronutrient therapy, bioresonance, botanical medicine and epigenetic analysis.   Most recently she was the director of naturopathic medicine at Alternative to a meds Center in Arizona and now practices telemedicine.   Topics covered in this episode: Current State of OCDEating habits  Types of OCD & Eating DisordersMedications for Mental Health DisordersMale & Female Differences in DisordersBorderline Personality DisorderGender MisrepresentationsMedia RepresentationAddiction & Dependencies  Children Diagnoses  Acothesia  Emerging Therapies    Referenced in the episode: The Lindsey Elmore Show Ep 184 | The Silent Epidemic Of Antidepressant Addiction and How to Truly Heal Anxiety | Ellen VoraThe Lindsey Elmore Show Ep 21 | The Fight For Equality in Media | Madeline DiNonnio To learn more about Julia Britz and her work, head over to https://www.drjuliabritz.com/__________________________________________________________    If you haven't been feeling like your best self, maybe you've been struggling with your metabolism and weight loss, or are just. Not in a good mood and are stressed out all the time. Maybe your sex life isn't what it once was. Enter the Amare Happy Hormones Pack.   If you wanna get going and try the Happy Hormones pack head to http://www.learnamare.com/hormones or http://www.lindseyelmore.com/amare to save $10 at any point.     __________________________________________________________   It's hard to believe that summer is almost over and that fall is right around the corner. We know that when we have shorter days and longer nights, we have an increased risk of depression. There's no reason for somebody to live in sadness.    Head to http://www.lindseyelmore.com/depression to shop my full list of supplements that have been studied and researched for helping to mitigate sadness and depression.    ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We hope you enjoyed this episode. Come check us out at www.lindseyelmore.com/podcast.