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Dr. Boadie Dunlop & Dr. George Grant: Part 1 – Transcendent Experience and the Psychedelic Renaissance

Join host Dr. Charles Raison for a lively discussion with Dr. Boadie Dunlop and Dr. George Grant, co-founders of the Emory Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality. We hear how the center reflects a fully collaborative effort between perspectives often seen as separate or even conflictual: biomedical psychiatry and spiritual health.

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Dr. Christine Whelan: Demystifying Purpose with Emory’s New Purpose Professor

Host Charles Raison is joined by Dr. Christine B. Whelan, Emory University’s new purpose professor for a podcast that will demystify and define the concept of purpose. They will take you through the steps to create your own personal purpose statement and frame the questions so that you can anticipate the practical and emotional obstacles on your path to purpose.

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Dr. Rosalind Watts: Psychedelics as the Start, and Not the Ending, of the Journey of Healing

In this episode, we trace clinical psychologist Dr. Rosalind Watts’ journey in the psychedelic world, listening to her describe her initial hope that psychedelics might routinely cure mental illness give way to a growing concern that increasingly unrealistic hopes for these medicines were distorting both their risks and benefits.

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Dr. Don Noble: Part 1 – Want to Change Your Life? Take a Breath

In this episode, host Charles Raison discusses the health benefits of breath work with Donald J. Noble, PhD, continuing a conversation started in a prior “Health is Everything” podcast episode. In this installment Raison and Noble open up a wide-ranging discussion on topics ranging from how breathing changes brain function on a moment-by-moment basis to the potential of both slow-deep and rapid breathing to improve well-being, along the way providing a quick guide to the bodily mechanisms involved in various therapeutic breathing strategies.

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Dr. Chikako Ozawa de Silva: Explorations Into the Lonely Society

This podcast brings us face to face with one of the most distressing issues of the modern world. In this episode, Dr. Chikako Ozawa de Silva shows how intimately suicide is connected with aspects of modern life that generate loneliness.

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Rev. Maureen Shelton: Part 2 – Spirituality, Health, and Compassion

In this second part of a two-part series Maureen Shelton, M.Div, joins host Charles L. Raison, MD, to continue their conversation on the role that rigorous training in compassion has played for development of spiritual health as a scientific discipline.

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Rev. Maureen Shelton: Part 1 – Spirituality, Health, and Compassion

Join us in this Part 1 podcast as Maureen Shelton, M.Div engages us in a wide-ranging discussion about chaplaincy in general, and more specifically about remarkable developments in the Emory Department of Spiritual Health.

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Dr. Andrew Miller: Part 2 – Inflammation and Depression

In this Part 2 episode with Dr. Andrew H. Miller, we explore why humans have an inflammatory bias, why the link between inflammation and depression likely enhanced survival and reproduction across human evolution and why the absence of co-evolved bacteria, viruses and worms in the modern world is making both inflammation and depression worse.

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Dr. Andrew Miller: Part 1 – Inflammation, Stress and Depression

Dr. Andrew Miller has been a world leader in unraveling how inflammation produces depression and how addressing inflammation might help identify new treatments for this disabling condition. Join us on this podcast to hear the history of this psychiatric and medical revolution from someone who made much of it happen.

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Dr. Carla Haack: A Surgeon’s Journey to the Heart of Health

Yoga as a Means of Physical, Mental and Spiritual Health. Join us on this episode as we discuss with Dr. Carla Haack the many surprising ways in which yoga and surgery can inform each other to provide an inspiring vision of medicine characterized by a commitment to healing the body, mind, and spirit.

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