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Be Crazy Well

Be the Jackass: The Hidden Value of Stubbornness

  • S2E73
  • 12:24
  • August 21st 2023

Stubbornness! Can this characteristic, often viewed negatively, actually have hidden depths and value? Join me, Susie Landolphi, as I am at my usual refuge, the Lifesavers Wild Horse Sanctuary, where we explore these questions and more. 

There are parallels between the protective nature of donkeys and the stubborn behavior exhibited by children who've had to become their own protectors. Drawing on my experience as a therapist, we challenge traditional views of mental health, encouraging a fresh perspective on why certain behaviors occur. Learn to understand rather than stigmatize these traits. 


So, ready to change the way you view stubbornness? Let's get started.

Music credit to Kalvin Love for the podcast’s theme song “Bee Your Best Self”


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Be Crazy Well

It’s not what’s wrong, it’s what happened! Be Crazy Well, a podcast of Coming Home Well, explores mental and emotional wellbeing from the perspective that "a diagnosis" doesn’t tell the story of what happened to you. Understanding what happened provides the most important intel to plan and execute a new and effective mission to your mental health. Join Suzi and her mental health allies as she disrupts the mental health establishment and starts a mental health evolution! You have to Do Different, to Be Different, so you can create the person you deserve to be and the life you deserve to live. Each podcast will be filled with the newest mental health research, people who walk their mental health talk and wellness practices so we can BE CRAZY WELL.

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Suzi Landolphi
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Suzi is the Clinical Director of Merging Vets and Players (MVP), a national peer to peer support and empowerment organization for combat veterans and retired professional athletes. Located in six major cities and regions, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, Atlanta, New York, and Seattle. Suzi also serves as the Clinical Director for Unbreakable, as well as, she is the Program Manager for Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue, providing wild horse gentling retreats as a mental health therapeutic modality for veterans. Prior to MVP, Suzi worked as a Senior PATHH Guide at Boulder Crest Retreat (BCR) in Bluemont, Virginia, a privately funded retreat for combat veterans, their families and first responders. Suzi is one of the co-creators of BCR’s, signature program called PATHH, which stands for Progressive and Alternative Training for Healing Heroes. PATHH is the nation’s first curriculum-based retreat, based on the science of Posttraumatic Growth. PATHH is now offered, at other VSO’s, around the country.

Suzi has also consulted with the Wounded Warrior Project, Save A Warrior, Veteran’s 360 and Guardian Hills. Suzi earned her degree in Clinical and Community Psychology at Antioch University and became certified in Equine Assisted Psychotherapy. She created her own equine therapy program called Horse Inspired Growth and Healing (HIGH) where horses teach clients how to practice principled, authentic, behavior.