Meeting Your Inner-Hero and Healing Your Inner-Child: with Ron Yap @mentalhealthceo

📝 Show Notes (Key Ideas & Takeaways) What if healing isn’t just about looking back—but also about learning to listen forward? In this episode of Classroom Narratives, Dr. Joey Weisler sits down with Ron Yap (@mentalhealthceo) to explore the dual work of healing the inner child while also meeting the inner hero—the future version of ourselves who has already found meaning, clarity, and direction. Drawing from his work in Finding Meaning in Life When It Feels Like There Is None, Ron unpacks how people lose their sense of purpose through survival mode, identity disruption, and living stories that were never truly theirs. For educators especially, this conversation hits close to home—where caring for others can quietly lead to losing yourself. Together, they examine anxiety, OCD, the survival mode, imposter syndrome, and the emotional weight educators carry, while offering a grounded way forward: reconnecting to values, separating internalized voices from your own, and creating a vision of who you’re becoming—not just who you’ve been. This episode is both reflective and practical—a reminder that healing doesn’t stop with the past. It continues when we allow our future self—the inner hero—to guide us forward. 🔗 Show Resources and Links 📌 Ron Yap's website 📌 Ron Yap's instagram: @mentalhealthceo 📌 The Inner-Hero's Journey Newsletter 📌 The Inner-Hero Workbook 📌 Beyond Behavior: Bev Johns Chapters: 0:00:00 - Intro to Ron Yap @mentalhealthceo 0:06:41 - Survival Mode in Education 0:19:04 - The imposter syndrome 0:20:48 - Facing and reshaping career-identity 0:26:50 - Living stories that are not ours 0:30:52 - Pain of presence, pain of absence 0:35:18 - Focusing on struggling professionals 0:41:32 - Passive suicidality 0:46:08 - Segment conclusion/where to find Ron Yap