#844 Return guest Dr. GayBradshaw on her book Talking With Bears: Conversations with Charlie Russell
Gay Bradshaw, who holds doctorate degrees in ecology and psychology, has been sharing cultures and homes with Animals all her life. For the past twenty-five years, her work has been dedicated to the self-determination and well-being of Wildlife and domesticated Animals. Her diagnosis of Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) among free-living African Elephants sparked a new paradigm of...
52m Apr 26, 2023
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#843 Amy Myers PhD LCSW discussing The View From The Other Side of The Couch
BIO I received my PhD and Masters in Social Work from Hunter College School of Social Work and trained for 10 years in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. I have enjoyed 30 years working with diverse populations and consider it an honor to be invited into people’s emotional lives. My direct practice, supervisory, and consultation experienc...
53m Apr 20, 2023
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#842 Alissa Hirschfield MFT on Ketamine-Supported therapy in treating loss and grief
Alissa Hirshfeld is a licensed marriage and family therapist, trained EMDR therapist, and certified spiritual director who specializes in grief/loss and trauma. She began to train in psychedelic-assisted therapy when she saw its power to help her heal after her divorce. She received certification through the California institute of Integral Studies and has undergone training in MDMA-assisted th...
1hr 3m Apr 12, 2023
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#841 Sara Schley on her book BrainStorm: From Broken to Blessed on the Bipolar Spectrum
Sara Schley is an international business consultant, speaker, and author who has led organizational transformations at renowned companies around the world. She is a mother, grandmother, community leader, and has been married to a great guy for twenty-six years. She also has a Bipolar II brain, on the Bipolar Spectrum. Sara has kept this mostly secret for four decades. Until now. She is choos...
42m Apr 05, 2023
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#840 Psychologist/Ecologist Gay Bradshaw PhD on Non-Dual Consciousness
G. A BRADSHAW Gay, who holds doctorate degrees in ecology and psychology, has been sharing cultures and homes with Animals all her life. For the past twenty-five years, her work has been dedicated to the self-determination and well-being of Wildlife and domesticated Animals. Her diagnosis of Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) among free-living African Elephants sparked a new par...
1hr 1m Mar 28, 2023
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#839 Justin Woodbury on Learning to Love, Forgive, and Heal After Emotional and Sexual Abuse
Justin Woodbury was raised on a small farm out in the country on the west side of Ann Arbor, Michigan. A child survivor of church abuse, he decided to start his life over at age thirty in Littleton, Colorado. There, he met his best friend, soulmate, and love of his life, Emily, and they happily married a year later and started their family. Justin began advocating for victims of abuse after he ...
58m Mar 22, 2023
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#838 Greg Mahr and Chris Drake on The Wisdom Of Dreams: Science, Synchronicity and The Language of The Soul
BIO Greg Mahr MD is a psychiatrist, a teacher and a writer. He is director of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Dream work and Jungian psychology have been long standing interests of Dr. Mahr. Greg is an avid writer, has published flash fiction and poetry in a variety of medical and literary journals. His poetry chapbook, Open Heart, will be published in March ...
58m Mar 15, 2023
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#837 Dr. Elaine Leeder on Restorative Justice and Spirituality in Prison Volunteer Work
BIO Elaine (Sneierson) Leeder is a Professor Emerita of Sociology and the Dean Emerita of the School of Social Sciences at Sonoma State University. She has 48 years of distinguished accomplishments and experience in academia and public service. She has written six books, two of which are currently used in universities in the US and Canada. Leeder has been working in prisons since 1995, current...
1hr 25m Mar 08, 2023
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#836 Psychoanalyst Leanne Domash on Graphic Novels as a Resource for Psychological Healing
Leanne Domash, PhD is a psychologist/psychoanalyst, playwright and Embodied Imagination practitioner. Dr. Domash is particularly interested in the creative process as expressed by interdisciplinary exploration. She has published articles integrating neuroscience and psychoanalysis; spirituality and psychoanalysis; and architecture and psycho-analysis. She has lectured and written on the creativ...
39m Feb 28, 2023
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#835 Existential-Humanistic Psychologist Kirk Schneider PhD on Life Enhancing Anxiety
Kirk J. Schneider, PhD, is a leading spokesperson for contemporary existential-humanistic and existential-integrative psychology. Dr. Schneider was a 2022 Candidate for President of the American Psychological Association (APA), a cofounder and current president of the Existential-Humanistic Institute (an award-winning psychotherapy training center), and a two-term Member of the Council of Repre...
1hr Feb 22, 2023
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#834 Psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman PhD on Transcending Trauma, Fear, and Self-Doubt
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D., is a cognitive scientist and humanistic psychologist exploring the depths of human potential. He is founder and director of the Center for Human Potential and is an Honorary Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Wellbeing Science. He is author/editor of 10 books, including Choose Growth (with Jordyn Feingold), Transcend: The New Science of Self...
49m Feb 16, 2023
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#833 Neuroscientist Joe LeDoux PhD on Putting The Mental Back into Mental Health and More
Joseph LeDoux PhD is a University Professor and Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at New York University, and he directs the Emotional Brain Institute at NYU. His work is focused on the brain mechanisms of emotion, memory, and consciousness. LeDoux has received a number of awards for his research, and he is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National ...
50m Feb 08, 2023
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#832 Psychoanalyst Avgi Saketopoulou on Sexuality Beyond Consent
Avgi Saketopoulou is a psychoanalyst and professor who works with transgender kids and their families. Rather than buy into the notion that trauma can be cured, she reroutes our attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. Those who surrender to the fact that their pain cannot be eliminated, she argues, are sometimes able to do things with trauma. In this radical alternative...
51m Feb 01, 2023
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#831 Ed Tick PhD on Healing through Dream Incubation, Visions, Oracles and Pilgrimage
Edward Tick, Ph.D., is an internationally-acclaimed transformational psychotherapist, pilgrimage guide, educator, author, and poet. A specialist in archetypal psychotherapy and the healing of violent trauma, he is the author of the forthcoming Soul Medicine, Healing Through Dream Incubation, Visions, Oracles, and Pilgrimage (Inner Traditions, January 2023), along with three collections of poetr...
1hr 10m Jan 18, 2023
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#830 Law Professor Gaia Bernstein on Recovery from Addictive Technologies
Gaia Bernstein is a Law Professor, Director of the Institute for Privacy Protection and Co-Director of the Gibbons Institute for Law Science and Technology at the Seton Hall University School of Law. She writes teaches and lectures in the intersection of law, technology, health and privacy. Gaia is also the mother of three children who grew up in a world of smartphones, iPads and social network...
55m Jan 11, 2023
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#829 Dr. Mike Deninger on a new Eye Movement treatment for resolving trauma
During the first half of his career, Dr. Mike Deninger rose to a leadership position in the education of deaf youth as an administrator at Gallaudet University. However, in his 40s traumatic childhood memories triggered a mental health crisis and an extended period of recovery. In the years that followed, he chose a new path as a trauma therapist and trainer after earning a counseling degree an...
1hr 17m Jan 04, 2023
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#828 Researcher and author Michael Jawer on Emotion and Thick or Thin Personal Boundaries
Michael Jawer is a Washington, DC-based writer, speaker and researcher. His focus is the nexus of personality development, body/mind, emotion, and spirituality. Jawer is the author of 3 books: Sensitive Soul (Park Street Press, 2021), Your Emotional Type (Healing Arts Press, 2011), and The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion (Park Street Press, 2009) – the latter two coauthored with Marc Micozzi, M...
1hr 7m Dec 27, 2022
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#827 Philosopher Tim Shaw PhD on Trauma and Moral Injury
Dr. Shaw has undertaken a lot of research on moral injury, which is the damage done to one’s conscience or moral compass when that person perpetrates, witnesses, or fails to prevent acts that transgress one’s own moral beliefs, values, or ethical codes of conduct. Most research to understand moral injury has been with military Service Members and Veterans, as the nature of war and combat cre...
56m Dec 14, 2022
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#826 Physicist Suzie Sheehy PhD on How Physics Is Really Done
DR. SUZIE SHEEHY is a physicist, science communicator and academic who divides her time between research groups at the University of Oxford and University of Melbourne. She is currently focused on developing new particle accelerators for applications in medicine.  Her 2023 book The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics and Improbable Experiments Changed The World  is her first book.
1hr 3m Dec 08, 2022
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#825 Andre Solo on The Hidden Power of The Highly Sensitive Person
Andre Sólo is the force behind Sensitive Refuge, the world’s largest website for sensitive people, and the author of Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World. An author, researcher, and speaker, Sólo serves as editor-in-chief of Sensitive Refuge and Chief Make-It-Happen Officer of Introvert, Dear. A highly sensitive person himself, for much of h...
1hr 6m Dec 01, 2022
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#824 UK Music Therapist Amanda Thorpe on The State of The Art
Amanda Thorpe M.A. is a registered music therapist in the UK. She also has an extensive career as a songwriter, performer, and recording artist, as well as a community musician and special needs tutor, using song to facilitate wellbeing and cognitive functioning for over 20 years. She has worked in a range of corporate, clinical and community settings, on both an individual and group basis. Her...
1hr 2m Nov 26, 2022
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#823 Sex Therapist Tom Murray PhD on Making Nice with Naughty
Dr. Tom Murray, an international trainer, educator, and couples and sex therapist, is a widely sought-after expert in sexuality and intimate relationships. He authored the 2022 book, Making Nice with Naughty: An intimacy guide for the rule-following, organized, perfectionist, practical, and color within the line types. For 20+ years, Murray has worked with everyday folks to embrace their weird...
1hr Nov 08, 2022
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#821 Dan Siegel MD on The Integration of Self, Identity, and Belonging
Dr. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. He is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute which focuses on the development of mindsight, teaches insight, empathy, and integration in individuals, families and communities. Dr. Siegel has published extensively for bo...
53m Nov 02, 2022
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#821 Isabella Clarke Speaking with Stoic Philosopher Prof. Massimo Pigliucci on the quest for good leaders
Prof. Pigliucci has a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Connecticut and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee. He currently is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. His research interests include the philosophy of science, the nature of pseudoscience, and practical philosophies like Stoicism and New Skepticism. Prof. Pigliucci h...
1hr 12m Oct 22, 2022
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#820 Liverpool Therapist Alun Parry on his guidebook for therapists on removing traumatic memories
Alun Parry is the author of How To Remove Trauma Response: A Memory Reconsolidation Guidebook for Therapists & Coaches - released on September 24th 2022.He is a psychotherapist based in Liverpool in the North West of England. He is the Director of The Liverpool Psychotherapy Practice. His specialism is helping adults finally remove the effects of childhoods that felt scary or hard.He is also th...
58m Oct 18, 2022
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#819 Deborah Korn PsyD on EMDR, the Proven Trauma Therapy with the Power to Heal
Deborah Korn, PsyD, is an internationally renowned pioneer and expert in EMDR Therapy and the coauthor of Every Memory Deserves Respect: EMDR, the Proven Trauma Therapy with the Power to Heal. Dr. Korn is on the faculties of the EMDR Institute in CA and the Trauma Research Foundation in Boston. As a member of the EMDR International Association, she presents and consults internationally on the t...
1hr Oct 11, 2022
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#818 Bernard Beitman MD on Meaningful Coincidences, Synchronicity and Serendipity
Bernard Beitman, M.D., is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to systematize the study of coincidences. A graduate of Yale Medical School, he did his psychiatric residency at Stanford University. The former chair of psychiatry of the University of Missouri-Columbia medical school for 17 years, he writes a blog for Psychology Today on coincidence and is the coauthor of the award-winning book ...
1hr 2m Oct 05, 2022
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#817 Joanna LaPrade PhD Transformation Forged in Darkness
Dr. Joanna LaPrade earned her MA and Ph.D. in Jungian and Archetypal Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. She is now the founder of Aion Psychotherapy and a practicing Jungian psychologist in Colorado. Her therapeutic work focuses on helping clients find a meaningful connection to their inner worlds. Dr. LaPrade is author of the 2022 book, Forged in Darknes...
1hr Sep 26, 2022
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#816 Ken Benau PhD on Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma
Ken Benau, Ph.D. earned his doctorate in clinical psychology with a subspecialty in adult psychotherapy at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA, in 1988. His dissertation focused on integrative, mind/body approaches to creative problem solving and symbolization in psychotherapy. Dr. Benau has been a California licensed clinical psychologist since 1990, and maintains a private practice in Ken...
59m Sep 21, 2022
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#815 Renowned UK Expert Robb Kelly PhD on Addiction
Dr. Robb Kelly is a renowned Addiction Expert. Born and raised in Manchester, UK, who is eccentric, no holds bar, successful, and places his patients first kind of man. Robb is Meadows Trained in Trauma and holds a double Ph.D. It is necessary for the family to work along with the patient- we uncover the family chaos and dynamics to better resolve addiction. Robb mentors upcoming entrepreneurs ...
56m Sep 13, 2022
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#814 Michael Mayer PhD on The Path of A Reluctant Metaphysician
Michael Mayer, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist, and Qigong/Tai Chi teacher who specializes in giving his patients self-healing methods for health problems. Dr. Mayer presents his approach to bodymind healing at professional conferences, national/international workshops, universities, and hospitals; and he is a keynote speaker. He was a co-founding faculty member of the Transpersonal Psychology...
58m Sep 07, 2022
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#813 Psychoanalyst Dr. Efrat Ginot on Our Anxious Selves
Efrat Ginot PhD, a graduate of the New York University Postdoctoral Program for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, has been practicing psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for over 35 years in New York City. Her body of work integrates neuropsychology and psychoanalytic thinking, advancing our understanding of psychodynamics and psychopathology. In 2002 she received the Gradiva Award for an artic...
55m Aug 31, 2022
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#812 Ron Alexander PhD on The Mindful Way to Unlock Your Creative Self
Ronald A. Alexander, PhD, is the author of the new book, Core Creativity: The Mindful Way to Unlock Your Creative Self (Rowman & Littlefield, June 21, 2022). He is a creativity coach, consultant, and mind-body psychotherapist. He has a private psychotherapy and executive coaching practice in Santa Monica, California. He’s the executive director of the OpenMind® Training Program that offers p...
52m Aug 17, 2022
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#811 Thom Cavalli on Applied Jungian Alchemy for Personal Transformation
Thom F. Cavalli, Ph.D. is a Jungian psychologist, writer, and coach who provides psychological services throughout the world. He has authored two major books, Alchemical Psychology, Old Recipes for Living in a New World (Putnam 2002) and Embodying Osiris, the Secrets of Alchemical Transformation (Quest 2010) as well as many articles in Psychological Perspectives, the Journal of Jungian Scholarl...
1hr 3m Aug 10, 2022
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#810 Machiel Klerk MFT on Connecting to The Soul Through Dream Incubation
Machiel Klerk (https://machielklerk.com/dream-book/) is a licensed therapist, expert and international speaker on dreams. He has traveled the world, studying various cultures, their healing traditions and dream practices. Machiel’s new book DREAM GUIDANCE Connecting To the Soul Through Dream Incubation, was recently released. He explains dream incubation, an ancient practice that has been used ...
59m Aug 02, 2022
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#809 Dr. Mark Changizi on Research Decoding The Language of Emotion
  Mark Changizi is a cognitive scientist, with several previous books about his research, including Vision Revolution and Harnessed. He has been a researcher and/or professor at University College Cork, Duke University, Caltech, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Learn more about Mark: www.changizi.com (http://www.changizi.com/) Sign up for 10% off of Shrink Rap Radio CE credits at the Zur...
59m Jul 26, 2022
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#808 Sherry Walling PhD on Touching Two Worlds & Finding Hope
Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate. Her company,ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs and leaders navigate transition, rapid growth, loss, conflict, or any manner of complex human experience. She hosts theZenFounderpodcast, which has been called a “must listen” by both Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine and has been downloaded more tha...
47m Jul 19, 2022
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#807 Dr. Saleem Ali on How Natural Laws Define Human Life
Saleem H. Ali was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts but grew up in Lahore, Pakistan until his college years, receiving his Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Tufts University, and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in environmental policy and planning at Yale and MIT, respectively. He currently holds the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professorship in Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University ...
54m Jul 06, 2022
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#806 David E. Scharff MD Discussing International Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Therapy
David E. Scharff, M.D. is Co-Founder and Former Director, International Psychotherapy Institute; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Georgetown University; Supervising Analyst, International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training; Honorary Fellow, Tavistock Relationships, London; Former Chair, The IPA’s Committee on Couple and Family Psychoa...
1hr 1m Jun 29, 2022
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#805 Bill Knecht LCSW on What Works in Therapy
  Bill Knecht has a unique combination of clinical, supervisory, and management skills and experience. He has served as a therapist for over fifty years in a variety of medical, physical rehabilitation, and mental health settings. In his career, Bill has managed and developed several mental health programs, including the first comprehensive psychiatric emergency service in New Hampshire as wel...
1hr 2m Jun 22, 2022
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#804 Art Therapy and Ecotherapy with UK Jungian Analyst Mary-Jayne Rust
Mary-Jayne Rust BIO: I am an art therapist and Jungian analyst in private practice in North London. Alongside this, I lecture and facilitate workshops on Ecopsychology in a wide range of settings. My therapy training began in art therapy in 1979. During the 1980s I worked in a men’s prison, as well as with women with eating problems at the Women’s Therapy Centre, London during the early years...
1hr 2m Jun 12, 2022
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#803 Howard Eisenberg MD on Dream it to Do it: The Science & the Magic
Howard Eisenberg, M.Sc.(Psych), M.D., is a medical doctor with additional postgraduate training in both psychology and psychiatry. He has been a Lecturer in Parapsychology at the University of Toronto, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont. He is also the C.E.O. of the international consultancy, Syntrek® Inc. He was awarded the first postgraduate degree in Canada ...
59m Jun 08, 2022
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#801 Johnny Crowder The Remarkable Founder of CopeNotes
Johnny Crowder is a 29-year-old suicide/abuse survivor, TEDx speaker, touring musician, mental health and sobriety advocate, and the Founder & CEO of Cope Notes, a text-based mental health platform that provides daily support to users in nearly 100 countries around the world. But in the years leading up to these incredible leaps in advocacy, every day was a battle against schizophrenic hallucin...
50m May 25, 2022
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#800 Psychoanalyst Jill Scharff MD on International Perspectives on Psychoanalysis Today
Jill Savege Scharff, MD, FABP, MRC.Psych. Child and adult psychoanalyst, couple and family therapist, psychoanalytic educator in USA, China and Russia, author and editor. Co-founder, International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) www.theipi.org Co-editor, www.freepsychotherapybooks.org Co-author and editor of books on couple and family therapy, and teletherapy Books include The Interpersonal ...
1hr 2m May 11, 2022
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#799 Varun Gandhi PhD on Story, Passion, and Service
Dr. Varun Gandhi is a life orchestrator, soulpreneur, Angel investor, inventor, philanthropist and a water doctor. He enjoys orchestrating businesses, events, and ideas about the self (self-image)! He is currently focused on creating a digital course called Whats Your Story, which allows you to create your Life Film, a chart consisting of your memories, experiences, and defining moments that ha...
1hr 5m May 04, 2022
1hr 5m
#798 Michael Alcee PhD on Therapeutic Improvisation
Michael Alcée, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Tarrytown, NY and Mental Health Educator at Manhattan School of Music. He specializes in the psychology of artists and everyday creativity and the professional development of therapists.  He has worked in college counseling at Fordham University and Vassar College and was Training Coordinator at the counseling center at Rama...
1hr 2m Apr 27, 2022
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#797 Laurie Ure LICSW Discussing Her Work in Bioenergetics
BIO Laurie Ure, LICSW, has practiced as a Certified Bioenergetic Therapist in Gloucester, MA, for over 25 years. She trains bioenergetic therapists in the U.S. and internationally. In addition, she leads workshops, speaks, plans conferences, and writes about topics related to bioenergetic analysis. Her involvement with this approach began in 1986 as a client of a bioenergetic therapist. She ha...
1hr 6m Apr 20, 2022
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#796 Mike Rucker PhD on How the Disciplined Pursuit of Joy and Wonder Can Change Your Life
BIO Dr. Mike Rucker is an organizational psychologist, behavioral scientist, and charter member of the International Positive Psychology Association. He has been academically published in publications like the International Journal of Workplace Health Management. His ideas about fun and health have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Fast Company, Forbes, Vox, Thrive Glo...
56m Apr 13, 2022
56m
#795 Transformation Guru Robert Althius on His Hero’s Journey and NotEnough-Itis
BIO Robert Althuis is the Founder of the Sacred Wealth Institute, a mindfulness organization that provides coaching, strategies, tools, and techniques to helpprivate clients and businesses embody their full potential. In addition, Mr. Althuis is the founder of Wayfare Holdings, a boutique impact investment firm for his personal real estate and entrepreneurial interests. Mr. Althuis is also a ...
1hr 10m Apr 06, 2022
1hr 10m
#794 Omar Reda MD on The Wounded Healer, The Pain and Joy of Caregiving
It was during the armed conflict in 2011 when a group of fighters found Dr. Reda in a tent caring for trauma surviving children in Libya. The fighters indicated that Dr. Reda was needed on the frontlines of the fighting. Dr. Reda let them know that attending to the psychosocial needs of the children in the tent was indeed his frontline. After 12 years in exile, Dr. Reda was able to return to L...
45m Mar 31, 2022
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