Myndtalk With Dr. Pamela Brewer

Victoria Stubbs shares her story of overcoming loss, hardship, racism, and adversity. Victoria embraced her own vulnerability and allowed herself to find freedom in her sexuality and spiritualism. She encourages you to do the same. You can be free - you too can become untangled. 

When Dana experiences a short-lived relapse during the Christmas holiday, she has the startling realization that recovery is more than just giving up alcohol. ... it doesn’t take her long to realize that self-care and getting over herself is the key to happiness.

John shares his views about parenting from a father's perspective - and the important wisdom he most wishes for his children and yours

 On August 1, 1966, after murdering his wife and mother at home, Charles Whitman climbed the clock tower at UT Austin and ordained himself high priest of the first televised mass shooting and "domestic terror" spectacle in American history. Without realizing it, Whitman replicated a twisted version of the Catholic rituals he had learned as an altar boy, in a culture where he saw how priests and fathers could get away with almost anything?.

Love and it's Opposite - Domestic Violence Poet CeLillianne Green shares her gift of creating powerful word pictures as she discusses a most painful and a most joyful way of relating.

It's not something we tend to think about - but it is something that happens much too often.  Children ending their lives. Should children be asked if they are contemplating self-harm? What could lead children to experiencing such potentially life-ending despair?

Dr. Grant Brenner, Dr. Mark Borg and Daniel Berry, RN continue their collaboration working to help us create and maintain healthy relationships - which might be different from the relationship you are in right now...

A medical degree. A wife. Children. A career. A full life. Things were good. He was happy with his life - but - he knew something was missing.  And then he met someone - and then everything was different.

The Common Core State Standards Initiative is one of the most controversial pieces of education policy to emerge in decades. Detailing what and when K–12 students should be taught, it has led to expensive reforms and displaced other valuable ways to educate children. In this nuanced and provocative conversation, Nicholas Tampio argues that, though national standards can raise the education bar for some students, the democratic costs outweigh the benefits.

MyNDTALK  - Understanding Sleeping Pills - Dr. Wallace B. Mendelson As critical as healthy sleep is to us all, is as critical as it is that we understand what we use to assist us with our sleep. Listen to this conversation and take your questions to your prescribing physician.  You deserve to take an active role in your treatment! 

Is there a way to be happy with yourself and your partner?  Is that really important?  Is it difficult?  How do you do it?  How do you think about it?  Join today's conversation and start getting answers!?

A true and moving family memoir, Dr. Bottner shares her "memory" of a life under the Nazi regime that she never lived - and the monumental choices her grandparents made to ensure the survival of their family.

A Man on the Rise  As an NFL player - he felt on top of the world.  Until he didn't. When he left the NFL things changed.  An almost debilitating bout with depression could have been his undoing.  But! He is here today to share his remarkable story and all that he is doing to help young people. 

MyNDTALK – Bullying - Is A Child Being Bullied - Dr. Ankur Desai Is it a growing epidemic - or is there more awareness? Is there a time when it starts? Is there a way that it starts? Is there a who? Is there a why? Learn the answer to these questions and more from Dr. Ankur Desai, a Medical Director with AmeriHealth Caritas

A silent epidemic in the United States is imperiling our health and threatens to bankrupt our healthcare system: overmedication. Today, one-third of all adults take two or more prescription drugs, and half of all seniors take more than five daily. This book?the first of its kind?tackles the epidemic overuse of prescription drugs.

After seven years of faithfully following her spiritual teacher, Renee Linnell finally realized she was in a cult and had been severely brainwashed. But how did that happen to someone like her? She had graduated magna cum laude with a double degree. She had traveled to nearly fifty countries alone before she turned thirty-five. She was a surf model and a professional Argentine tango dancer. She had started five different companies and had an MBA from NYU. How could someone like her end up brainwashed and in a cult?

Tatiana offers an unsparingly honest memoir of a childhood lost and of courage and resilience gained. It s also an exploration of the fundamentals of yoga: as a technology that focuses our awareness; as a practical application of mindfulness and attention to what is really going on in our lives and bodies; and as a vehicle for the body to guide the mind and heart toward healing.

Can art actually help alleviate feelings of burnout? Dr. Shawn C. Jones thinks it can, and he uses Renaissance paintings as a framework to explain how medical professionals can manage fatigue. Through an appreciation of the beautiful world around us, we can reconnect with our feelings and experience gladness, anger, fear, sadness, hurt, and all the feelingsthat call you to full living. Your emotions are a reflection of your heart’s desire?don’t lose touch with them.

A noted religious scholars draws on centuries of Qur'anic and Biblical studies to offer rigorous and revelatory commentary on how these holy books are intrinsically connected. Reynolds demonstrates how Jewish and Christian characters, imagery, and literary devices feature prominently in the Qur'an, including stories of angels bowing before Adam and of Jesus speaking as an infant.

Within weeks of 9/11, Lisa vowed that she would make something good come from the nightmare of the death of her husband and all the others in the devastating event that changed our world forever. With a warrior’s will, Lisa reframed her pain into a fast track for personal growth and positive change for herself and for her young family.