10/13/2023 0 Comments Gylt sarah mangan![]() I grew up, born in the early 80s, kind of came of age in the 90s. ![]() What is it about yourself that you felt uncomfortable? Can you label that? Maybe not, you couldn't at the time, but can you now label what made you feel like you weren't belonging? But that felt so incongruent with what was going on inside, if that makes sense. So there was a lot of attempts at masking to look like everything was okay. I can also see a person who had the beginnings of an undiagnosed mental illness, an eating disorder, a desire to be accepted, and a fear that that would never happen if people like really knew who I was. I think with, you know, with the mind of an adult, I can look back on that now and say, well, these were the factors of what was occurring. Why do you think you still felt disconnected? ![]() My parents have been married for 45 years. I think there were a lot of people around me. Did you feel disconnected as a young person? As we also discussed, that wasn't the way that I would ultimately find connection with people. But it was really an attempt to connect to find comfort in myself and in the world. Really, when I think back my drinking history was relatively brief. I shared with you the last time we talked the first time I drank alcohol I got in trouble and serious consequences. Something that saved my life, to continue to offer that to people who are still suffering.Ĭan you talk a little bit about your addiction? How did that come to be? And how did you get into that life where you were using chemicals and getting drunk a lot? How did that come to be? And it felt really important to give back. So it wasn't until I had recovery that any of that was possible for me. The real truth is all of the degrees, all of this stuff happened after I got sober. But why did you choose getting into chemical dependency and helping people in the first place when with all these degrees and all these things that you do, You could be pursuing different careers in a multitude of avenues, but yet you chose helping people, why is that? I know that you did a lot of work in chemical dependency with adults and mental health and things of that nature. That's a place that I can find the common ground. In a lot of ways I feel like people are people and being able to see their humanity at every phase of their personal development. How different is it working with young people now that you're doing it after working with adults most of your life, I feel like universe aligned and I just got this really cool opportunity. Like you said, I've had a history in the adult human services working world, I got an opportunity to be the positive community norms rent coordinator for Reach programs, which is a youth adult partnership. How did you come to take the leap into youth work? Most of your human experiences have been working with adults. You're relatively new to working with young people. Thank you so much for having me, Paul, I'm really excited to be here. Sarah, it's super exciting to have you as a guest on the podcast. But what I find most endearing is that her kindness and gratitude are contagious. She holds two master's degrees is a certified health coach, a behavior change specialist, a certified personal trainer, and she's even a yoga instructor. She is the positive community norms grant coordinator with Reach programs in Minnesota in the United States. For this episode, we're joined by Sarah Mangan. Welcome to this edition of The Passionate Youth Worker. As you listen, I encourage you to consider how your experiences shape what you have to offer young people. I'm glad you're listening because together we'll learn how their life experiences shaped their youth work. ![]() How lucky am I? I have the privilege to meet youth workers from around the globe and learn their stories and share them with the entire world. Hello, I'm Paul Meunier, the executive director of the Youth Intervention Programs Association, and I'm a youth worker at heart. That also turned out to be a false thinking process. And so I saw my parents assistance, their love, their support as a barrier to what I really wanted. So everything that got in my way, was a barrier. Once I started drinking and using that became the axis around which my life revolved. When the real thing that I was pushing against was the disease of addiction. It gave me something to push against, right? So it was like, ooh, if I could just get away from them, then I'll be okay. ![]()
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