Myndtalk With Dr. Pamela Brewer

MyNDTALK - Adversity Is Your Ally - Michael Taylor Without question life can be difficult and challenging. What if all the challenges in your life were just stepping stones to living the life of your dreams? Coach Michael Taylor shares how he was able to overcome being a high school dropout, a divorce, depression, bankruptcy and foreclosure to become a man who is now living his dream as an entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker and radio/television host. When you can accept that adversity is your greatest ally you can begin to create the life you were born to live.

MyNDTALK - The Other Side of Bipolar - Lauren Polly Lauren's story will captivate you and show you a path to finding peace and joy with being different, and ultimately how to utilize your difference to shift from surviving in this world to thriving and creating a satisfying life for yourself. You don't need to live a small, safe existence; you can go after your dreams, challenge yourself, and create a life far beyond what you may have thought is possible.

MyNDTALK - The Skeleton Code - Ken Massey Early in life, we learn to exaggerate our positive personal qualities and hide or deny our failures and weaknesses. Join us for a satirical and humorous look at the many ways we protect our public personas by closeting our personal secrets, an ultimately self-deluding way of life. But not to worry! The Skeleton Code also offers The Skeleton Cure.

MyNDTALK - Insight, Passion and Energy: - Dr. M. Starita Boyce Ansari Dr. M. Starita Boyce Ansari is a blogger and leader in the field of philanthropy and nonprofit management with expertise in the areas of philanthropy advising, strategic planning, fund development, and program design and evaluation. Starita's successful turnaround management strategies have been featured in The Chronicle of Philanthropy. A champion for social justice, Starita's dedication and commitment to providing equal access to health care, education and economic opportunity led to her becoming a Leaders of Change, National Urban Fellow.

MyNDTALK -Bridging the Gap - Marcus L. Walker Marcus L. Walker aspires to promote a message of change, and restorative democracy & justice via motivational speaking, and strategic recalibration of relationships throughout every community in the United States and beyond. Learn about his 'Bridging the Gap' program designed to bring communities and police departments - together. Together in peace and productivity.

MyNDTALK - Deepen Your Relationships - Nanette V. Hucknall Heart energy. It comes from an always loving and wise Higher Source. Nurturing, warm, quiet, refined, and all encompassing, heart energy brings spiritual growth that fosters creativity, attracts loving relationships, and engenders peace and happiness. Nanette Hucknall discusses how to live from your heart.  

MyNDTALK - Meditations for Caregivers - Dr. Barry J Jacobs & Dr. Julia L. Mayer Family caregiving has its challenges: emotional overload, time constraints, anxiety, burnout, missed work, adult sibling conflicts, and marital issues. Drs. Jacobs and Mayer offer emotional and spiritual motivation to minimize the strains while helping caregivers view their work as a mission from the heart. Guidance about accepting your feelings, knowing your limits, seeking support, and managing stress are important parts of what these clinicians have to offer.

MyNDTALK - Cry into the Wind - Othello Bach Othello Bach lived a life that almost defies understanding. Loss after loss, tragedy after tragedy, abuse after abuse - Othello's story is a spellbinding walk of triumph over incredible tragedy, and an inspirational guide for those struggling to overcome the effects of abuse. Abject poverty, a house fire that claimed her mother's life, the loneliness of an orphanage where she was separated from her siblings ... and so much more ... yet nothing could break Othello Bach's spirit. ...

MyNDTALK - Transitions ARE OK! Jimmie Holland Fears of aging have been one long cascading domino effect through the years: twenty year olds dread thirty; forty year olds fear fifty; sixty fears seventy, and so it goes. And there is something to worry about, though it isn't what you'd expect: research shows that having a bad attitude toward aging when we're young is associated with poorer health when we're older. These worries tend to peak in midlife; Jimmie Holland shows us that, contrary to common wisdom, our sense of well-being actually increases with our age--often even in the presence of illness or disability.

MyNDTALK - Changing -  S.L. Young Trying times are an unfortunate part of life. Sometimes, these    moments don’t last long, can be dealt with easily, or might be something that becomes an overwhelming burden. The reasons that some individuals cope better with mental health challenges than others doesn’t need to be reduced to questions about someone’s personal strength or mental fortitude; instead, considerations should be focused on the source(s), impact, and treatment options that might help someone who is depressed. S.L. Young discusses his battle with depression, recovery after a near-suicide, and raises awareness about the importance of attaining and maintaining mental health.This is a must listen conversation 

MyNDTALK - Dealing with the Impossible People in Your Life Mark Goulston Mark Goulston explains the 'Sanity Cycle' and discusses why people act the way they do, how instinctive responses can exacerbate the situation, and what to do instead. Learn when to confront a problem and when to walk away. Learn how to use a range of proven techniques and reduce the difficulties you experience when talking to that person who make you feel 'crazy.

MyNDTALK - Understanding Suicide - Dr. Adele Ryan McDowell Insightful, provocative, and compassionate, Dr. Adele Ryan McDowell shares wisdom and coping strategies from those who have walked before you. She explores the factors leading to suicide and the reasons why some do and some don't leave suicide notes. Dr. Ryan McDowell describes a seven-step healing process and opens the door to consider suicide and the soul, the heart lesson of suicide, and the energies of suicide. If suicidality has impacted your life, this conversation could offer important peace and understanding!

MyNDTALK - Quilt of Souls - Phyllis Lawson 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. Shortly, hardships left them unable to provide. Soon, four-year-old Phyllis is plucked off her front porch, ripped away from the only family she knows, and sent to live with her grandmother Lula on an Alabama farm with no electricity, plumbing, or running water. Heartbroken by her mother's abandonment, Phyllis struggles to acclimate to her new surroundings. Thanks to the unconditional love of Grandma Lula and the healing powers of an old, tattered quilt, she is finally able to adjust to her new life. Lawson discusses her childhood growing up with the incredible woman who raised her and the powerful family heirloom that served as the cloth that would forever stitch their lives together.

MyNDTALK - How to Make Your Life Your Own -  Karen Casey Karen Casey shares her story and the story of others who have suffered from codependency. Based on the insights and tools she's discovered during her many years of sobriety to address codependency, Casey discusses the steps of detaching from a bad situation: admitting the attachment, surrendering the outcome, forgiving, and focusing attention on what works. She describes how to pay attention, be aware, and take care of ourselves, and let others--husbands, family, and coworkers--become accountable for themselves

MyNDTALK - The Beginning of the End? The End of the Beginning? - Ian Brown This is the thing, you see: I am on my way to being an old man. But at sixty, I am still the youngest of old men." As Ian Brown's sixtieth birthday loomed, every moment seemed to present a choice: Confront, or deny, the biological fact that the end was now closer than the beginning. True, he was beginning to notice memory lapses, creaking knees, and a certain social invisibility—and yet, it troubled him that many people think of sixty as "old," because he rarely felt older than at forty.

MyNDTALK - Stop Lying - Bennett Pologe You may have tried to change your life many times, in big or small ways. You may have struggled with your habits, feelings, perceptions, with your behavior, relationships, job, diet, anything. You may have taken workshops and trainings, read books and tried therapies. If all this hasn't worked, if you're still somehow lost or stuck in your life, the problem may be this one persistent mistake. Dr. Pologe says it causes most of our problems. It derails our lives in countless ways, leaves us repeating pointless or self-destructive habits, poisons relationships of all kinds, prolongs misery. If you don't catch it, whatever else you try may well fail again. Catch it, and everything can change.

MyNDTALK - Many Hats - One Mission: Empowerment - Indred Alexander Indred shares her path from little one to student, worker, wife, mom and then business owner. After a number of life's twists and turns - Indred crafted her own life, her own goals, her own way of giving back to the community while growing her own professional and financial security. An inspiring story for anyone who wants to go out on their own - and wonders if and how it can be done.

MyNDTALK - The Exhaustion of Perfection - Dr. Jane Bluestein Dr. Bluestein has seen the toxic and corrosive effects of perfectionism on people's thinking, their bodies, their relationships, their work, and their sense of worth: now she discusses the truth: perfectionism is actually a mask for a fear of making mistakes, a desperate need to avoid negative judgments and rejection. For those who are bound by the impossible demands of perfectionism and those who feel bound by someone else's perfectionistic standards, Dr. Bluestein points out that perfectionism is not a good thing, and it's not remotely the same as doing your best. Dr. Bluestein also provides practical strategies for moving toward authenticity and wholeness to live with confidence, self-fulfillment, and happiness.

MyNDTALK - The Lonely Entrepreneur - Michael Dermer The difference between success and failure is your perspective," says Michael Dermer. He realized that with the right perspective, solutions were everywhere. With the wrong perspective, the simplest of tasks seemed impossible. Not only did Michael successfully sell his company and become an industry pioneer, he discovered a methodology that helps all entrepreneurs with the issue we face—the struggle. Michael discusses how to Identify the flawed perspectives you develop under the influence of the four Ps--pressure, passion, pleasure, and pain. Michaels shows you how to change your perspective from those that stifle progress to those that empower you to thrive.

MyNDTALK - In The Eye of a Storm - Dr. Eyal Muscal and Jeff Bekos An AutoImmune Disease That Remains Under Investigation: Dr. Eyal Muscal and Jeff Bekos This is a disease that can seem to show symptoms in an instant - and last in the body for weeks, months, years. AE can be missed, misdiagnosed - and forever change lives. Learn from Dr. Muscal, apediatric rheumatologist and Jeff Bekos - a parent who, along wit his wife and son continues to live through his daughter Hailey's diagnosis of years ago.