Dr. Ira Bedzow: Life on Purpose
In this podcast, Dr. Ira Bedzow, Executive Director of the Emory Purpose Project, provides an inspiring, holistic, and challenging take on how to bring the power of purpose into our lives and educational systems.
Dr. Chantelle Thomas: Sanity in the Wild New World of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
This podcast will be of huge interest to anyone who wants to get an insider’s view of the current psychedelic world in general and the risks, challenges, and deep satisfactions that can come from working with psychedelics in a therapeutic context in particular. You will never look at psychedelics the same after listening to our discussion with Dr. Thomas.
Dr. Sue Carter: Oxytocin the Human Hormone: A Report from a Life in Science
If you are not holding the hormone oxytocin in the highest regard now, you will after listening to this episode’s guest, Sue Carter, PhD, as she explains how this remarkable hormone may hold the key to much of what makes us who we are. In particular, Dr. Carter describes the myriad ways that oxytocin allows humans to feel safe enough in the world and with each other to engage in the many types of bonding/sharing behaviors that have allowed us to create the world in which we live.
Dr. Don Noble: Part 2 – 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.
Chris Lindley: How One Valley Changed the Equation
Join host Dr. Charles Raison for a fascinating conversation with Chris Lindley, Executive Director of Eagle Valley Behavioral Health and the primary architect of the remarkable changes in mental health care that have occurred under his leadership. Mr. Lindley’s recounting of how he and his team revolutionized behavioral health care will provide a wealth of ideas that will be of interest to healthcare administrators, clinicians, patients, and anyone who cares for someone struggling with mental illness.
Dr. Boadie Dunlop & Dr. George Grant: Part 2 – Transcendent Experience and the Psychedelic Renaissance
Join host Dr. Charles Raison for a part 2 of lively discussion with Dr. Boadie Dunlop and Dr. George Grant, co-founders of the Emory Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality. We dive deeper into the role of spirituality in human health in general and in psychedelic-assisted therapy, or PAT.
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.
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.
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.
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.