Myndtalk With Dr. Pamela Brewer

Love Fraud tells two parallel stories. The first is the true story of Donna Andersen's marriage to a sociopathic con artist … It was the second time he committed bigamy. The second story is about Andersen's personal spiritual journey. … For people unaware of these human predators, Love Fraud is a stern warning. For people who have tangled with sociopaths, Love Fraud explains why it happens.

Today we know that contributing factors and symptoms (such as stress and hypertension) can be alleviated with holistic,  "Alzheimer's disease has become a gigantic specter that looms before all of us as we age, and it is advancing unimpeded. ...alternate management approaches—like meditation, yoga, music therapy and virtual reality therapy. Research studies from Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins University and Mayo Clinic, among many others, have demonstrated the comprehensive benefits of yoga and meditation on various aspects of the human mind—and when you think about it, that's where Alzheimer's disease develops—in the mind.

Dr. Janice Ellis vividly recounts the journey of an African-American woman from rural, segregated Mississippi through academia, corporate America, and politics. It is the story of how she triumphed even when, more often than not, the ugly realities of racism and sexism tried to deter her.

If you had heart disease, cancer, or another physical malady, would you let it run its course, or would you treat it? Physical illnesses can cause you to be less happy, less focused on the task at hand, and less productive. They can lead to increased absence from work or poor job performance. We seek treatment to feel better and to be happier and more productive, so we can live our dreams. Why is it then that when illness is related to emotional, mental, or relationship factors that cause similar outcomes, we are more likely to hide and deny it, hoping it just goes away?" Does this make sense? 

An urgent and powerful discussion with Larry Ruhl, author of Breaking the Ruhls.  Larry candidly discusses the painful and traumatizing reality of childhood sexual abuse, a scourge on too many neighborhoods, often hiding in plain sight. Millions of victims remain silent, buried under the weight of their own undeserved guilt, shame, and addiction. As an advocate for survivors of sexual abuse, Larry Ruhl ?

Mahagony B is the creator and director of The Raging Boom - a science fiction film that focuses on the lives of five New York college students, who are assigned the task of evaluating human response to sound by their science professor. What begins as a class project, progresses into a catastrophic response to the experiment and resounding realization that sound has the ability to leave a mental and emotional imprint on its listeners.  Meet Mahagony, listen to her story - and be inspired to create your own! 

Whether it is the loss of a parent to death or divorce; bullying; alcoholism or drug abuse in the home; mental illness in a parent or a sibling; neglect; emotional, physical or sexual abuse; having a parent in jail; or growing up alongside domestic violence, nearly 75% of us experience adversity by the age of 20. But these experiences are often kept secret, as are our courageous battles to overcome them.

Like many Black Americans of the mid-twentieth century, Phyllis Lawson’s parents moved from their hometown of Livingston, Alabama to the big city in search of a better life. It wasn’t long before hardships left them unable to provide.

Listen - and learn ways to change your experience of parenting. (1) You don't have to reward or punish willful children to get them to cooperate.  (2) Aggressive kids are frightened kids, and there are simple tools to ease their fear so they don't need to lash out.  (3) Your willingness to just listen to crying or tantrums often is enough to heal a child's fears and hurts. (4) Safe play during which your kid becomes the boss can reveal his hidden feelings-- and heal them too. (5) Parents who regularly listen to one another's struggles, without judging or advising, often clear so much toxic emotion that their children benefit greatly. 

In a televised social experiment before millions of viewers, police sergeant Derrick Levasseur demonstrated that techniques used by undercover detectives could help people achieve their goals in everyday social situations. The result: he walked away with more than half a million dollars." What techniques did he use to win? What techniques does he use to master his life goals? And what can he teach you

Joanna Conti, says "Measurement-based care gives clinicians the ability to be more effective in real-time. It lets them identify groups of patients who are not progressing as well as others - important information that's usually invisible without MBC. This is helping clinicians be more effective and keeping patients in therapy and out of danger." Joanna Conti is CEO of Vista Research Group one of a small number of research companies helping to make measurement-based care for possible behavioral health and addiction treatment organizations. "Our clients are extremely busy and need high-quality tools that are easy to use and cost-effective." Joanna shares the experiences in her personal life that brought her to do the work about which she is so passionate.

Learn how to improve your wellness and happiness. Discover how to determine your intuitive type, center and ground your energy, and rest fully when you sleep. Explore ways to cut negative influences around you, make your living spaces more peaceful, and fill your life with abundance. By changing your inner dialogue and the harmful beliefs that may have been ingrained in childhood, you can live the truth of who you really are.

Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman is a multi-media strategist and professional creative who has built an expansive interdisciplinary career as a professional in higher education, media, student development and the arts. energy and her experiences.  Her work is far-reaching.  Learn about her life, her observations about life as a woman, as a mom and a woman of color.

MyNDTALK - Says Who - Ora Nadrich Many of the obstacles people face, are the result of their own negative thoughts holding them back. Often those thoughts don't even originate within them; they're the ideas or opinions of someone else---a critical parent or angry spouse, for instance---which they believe without questioning to see if they're even real or true. Since thoughts create beliefs---which then create behavior---negative thoughts are dangerous things to leave unchecked. You must question them, challenge them.

Learn from a fully impotent, chemically castrated, survivor of two cancers and his post-menopausal partner as they candidly discuss their experiences and joy with sex, intimacy, and relationships. Welcome to Michael's world of    xtraordinary emotional, sexual and spiritual intimacy most couples cannot even fathom possible.

So very often the inside of your home reflects the inside of your head - and your stress levels.  

What do you do when your son announces he is transgender and asks that you call her by a new name? Or what if your child uses a term you’ve never heard of to describe themselves (neutrois, agender, non-binary, genderqueer, androgyne…) and when you didn’t know what they meant, they left the room and now won’t speak to you about it? Perhaps your daughter recently asked you not to use gendered pronouns when referring to ‘her’ anymore, preferring that you use “they”; you’re left wondering if this is just a phase, or if there’s something more that you need to understand about your child. There is a generational divide in our understandings of gender", this conversation will help you begin to understand.

How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the prospect of death that blights the future? In this self-help book with a difference, Kieran Setiya confronts the inevitable challenges of adulthood and middle age, showing how philosophy can help you thrive.

Since the late Stone Age, approximately 10 percent of humans have been left-handed, yet for most of human history, left-handedness has been stigmatized. In On the Other Hand, Howard I. Kushner traces the impact of left-handedness on human cognition, behavior, culture, and health.

What do you do when the "cure" is to stop doing something you never began? Chad, who was my fiancé at the time, went into the ER one morning, as I was taking my last nutrition final, with chest pain. The next day he was scheduled to have open heart quadruple bypass surgery, at the very young age of 27. Our lives were turned upside down....  We were married two months later and we went on to start living life like there was no tomorrow. ..."And yet, Chad's health continued to be a challenge that was only fully identified by his wife as she searched for more information... and hope. What did she find? What are their lives like today?