The Upside of Bipolar: Conversations on the Road to Wellness

About The Upside of Bipolar: Conversations on the Road to Wellness

Living with bipolar disorder sucks! Each week Michelle Reittinger and her guests explore tools and resources that help you learn how to live well with your bipolar. If you are tired of suffering and want to live a healthy, balanced, productive life with your bipolar, this podcast was designed with you in mind.

Publisher

Michelle Baughman Reittinger

Category

education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Jan 2023

Latest episode

26 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

95 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Oct 2026

   EP 94: Trauma Healing: Memory Reconsolidation, Subconscious Beliefs & Lasting Change with Jen George, LCSW

   Send us a message! I talk with trauma therapist Jen George about why forcing change can backfire and how real healing often starts when we stop “trying” and start getting curious and grounded. We break down memory reconsolidation and why the goal of therapy is to help you trust yourself enough to eventually retire your therapist. • Jen’s story from architecture to helping people “rearrange” their inner world • Why fixing the outside rarely works when the inside is chaotic • The “100-story ...

2. 

   12 Oct 2026

   EP 93: Mindfulness for Depression: Dr. Mark Williams on Quieting the Inner Critic & Breaking Rumination

   Send us a message! I talk with Oxford clinical psychologist Mark Williams about why mindfulness is not about emptying the mind and how MBCT helps people stay well by changing their relationship to thoughts and feelings. We share simple practices that fit real life, including how to notice feeling tone and step out of the inner judge that always calls you guilty. • Mark’s path into depression research and relapse prevention • How mindfulness based cognitive therapy reduces recurre...

3. 

   6 Oct 2026

   EP 92: My Postpartum Mental Health Wasn’t “Just Hormones”: What Changed With My Third Baby

   Send us a message! I share my personal story of three pregnancies and why the first two postpartum seasons spiraled into anxiety, intrusive thoughts, depression, forced weaning, and thyroid chaos. I also break down what changes before the third baby and how a proactive plan with support, nutrition, mindfulness, and trauma work can shift postpartum mental health outcomes. • postpartum anxiety and intrusive thoughts as a threat-scanning brain response • the three-month postpartum cr...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

3.4 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 39 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

55

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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