Mind Health Matters with Dr Bernie Siegel

Mind Health Matters with Dr Bernie Siegel

Welcome Back Angela Passidomo Trafford International Healer, Spiritual Teacher, Workshop Leader and Author Angela Passidomo Trafford is a nationally, even internationally, known healer, spiritual teacher, workshop leader, and writer. The author of “The Heroic Path: One Woman’s Journey from Cancer to Self-Healing” and “Remembering the Language of God: The Forgotten Path”, Angela has been featured on several national television and radio programs and in various national magazines. One Woman’s Journey from Cancer to Self-Healing, How to Heal Yourself of Life-Threatening Illness, Find Your True Self, and make Life work Some years ago, Angela was afflicted with what she now calls “the gift of cancer”. Led in prayer to Dr. Bernie Siegel’s book “Love, Medicine & Miracles”, she incorporated into her meditation practice the visualization techniques offered there; and experienced a powerful healing. That inspiring story is recounted in Dr. Siegel’s subsequent book, “Peace, Love & Healing”. Angela Passidomo had four separate bouts with breast cancer. Facing her own mortality, she embraced principles of love, hope and healing, using meditation and visualization to get to the root of her illness. It was during one of these meditations that she felt a white light moving through her body, healing her. Through her own experience Angela has developed the gift of helping people transform their health and way of living, find their true selves, and make life work. This book is the story of how she healed her body and her life, and a guide to the philosophy and technique of her self-healing process to help you on your own path to healing and happiness. https://www.passidomo.love/ Angela Passidomo Trafford believes she cured herself of a life-threatening illness by getting to what she considers to be its emotional cause. Diagnosed with a six-centimeter malignant breast tumor at the age of thirty-five, Angela was told she needed a radical mastectomy as well as radiation and chemotherapy. After some soul-searching, she opted for a lumpectomy. A year and a half later, the cancer recurred in her other breast. At this point, she decided to heal herself. ‘I regarded that lump as a symbol of the sad life I had been living,’ recalls Angela. ‘I’d been in an abusive marriage. We’d lived in the isolated woods of Canada, where I had no support system. And all the pain, resentment, and sorrow of my life had collected in that area near my heart until, finally, the blocked-up energy of my emotions manifested itself as a tumor. Cutting out the tumor was cutting out my old life.’ Amazingly, Angela triumphed over her cancer. She credits not only the medical treatment she received but her journal writing, meditation, and visualization. ‘I would imagine a group of small birds eating golden crumbs,’ she recalls. ‘The birds represented my immune system, and the crumbs were the cancer cells. I would let the birds eat their fill, and then I would visualize a bright white light entering my head and traveling down through my body, cleansing me.” ​Learn more about Dr. Bernie here:  http://berniesiegelmd.com/

Mind Health Matters with Dr Bernie Siegel

Resilience Without Regrets: Acclaimed Physician on Finding Miracles and Facing Adversity with Dr. Harley Rotbart Many people reach the end of their lives wishing they could change the past. Turning back the clock is impossible, but Dr. Harley Rotbart’s new book, No Regrets Living, offers sage guidance to help us better appreciate what we have in our lives, and take greater pride in what we’ve done with our lives — without spending precious time and energy wishing things had turned out differently. In No Regrets Living, Dr. Rotbart describes the seven keys to a life of wonder and contentment: Belief, Discovery, Healing, Appreciation, Acceptance, Seeking and Growth, and how to cultivate each in your life. Woven into the timeless message of the book are especially timely observations on the COVID-19 pandemic from Dr. Rotbart’s expert perspective as an infectious diseases physician, including coping mechanisms and paths for going forward as individuals and as a society. Dr. Rotbart is a man of science who also believes in, and “collects,” miracles. No Regrets Living is the much-awaited follow-up to his previous book, Miracles We Have Seen – America’s Leading Physicians Share Stories They Can’t Forget. In this new work, Dr. Rotbart reconciles science and faith from his unique perspective as physician, scientist, heart surgery patient and child of a Holocaust survivor. “I have a simple definition of a miracle,” Dr. Rotbart says. “Miracles are objects and events in nature and in our lives that cannot be fully explained or re-created. Yes, like the unimaginable true stories written by physicians in the Miracles We Have Seen book, but I believe the inside of the living human beings I have seen in the operating room and the tiniest of human cells I have seen under a microscope in my laboratory are equally miraculous and unexplainable. And you needn’t go to medical school or use a microscope to appreciate the ubiquity of miracles. They are all around us — we only need to open our eyes and hearts to recognize them.” A nationally renowned infectious disease specialist, Dr. Rotbart is also a pediatrician, parenting expert, speaker and educator. He is Professor and Vice Chair Emeritus of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and author of more than 175 medical and scientific publications, and five previous books for general audiences: Miracles We Have Seen; 940 Saturdays; No Regrets Parenting; Germ Proof Your Kids; and The On Deck Circle of Life. To learn more, please visit www.harleyrotbart.com, or connect with the author on Facebook (HarleyRotbartMd) or Twitter (@HarleyRotbart).  ​Learn more about Dr. Bernie here:  http://berniesiegelmd.com/

Mind Health Matters with Dr Bernie Siegel

Israela Meyerstein MSW, author of Bridge to Healing: Finding Strength to Cope with Illness and Miracle Nation: Seventy Stories about the Spirit of Israel Israela Meyerstein, LCSW-C, has been helping families, couples, and individuals for forty years, treating a variety of problems and situations, including parenting and family relationships, couples issues, coping with separation, divorce, and remarriage, medical illness, fetal loss, spirituality, and healthy personal coping. In private practice since 1978, she was recognized in 2001 as a leading mental health professional by Baltimore Magazine. Israela completed her MSW degree in 1973 from Columbia University School of Social Work, followed by a Third Year Fellowship in Social Work at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, where she was later appointed Faculty Associate in the Division of Community and Social Psychiatry of the Medical School. As an Approved Supervisor in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, Ms. Meyerstein directed a Family Therapy Training Program at Sheppard Pratt Hospital from 1986-1998. She has trained hundreds of professionals of varied disciplines, and has taught Family Therapy in college and graduate level programs. Israela co-founded the Baltimore Jewish Healing Network. Together with Rabbi Gila Ruskin, she co-led Spiritual Study/Discussion Groups for those struggling with medical illness. Ms. Meyerstein has authored thirty published articles on couples and family therapy, spirituality, medical illness, remarriage, and therapist training.      "Bridge to Healing: Finding Strength to Cope with Illness" is also available in Hebrew translation: Gesher Lemarpeh: Metziat Koach Lehitmoded im Machalah https://www.miracle-nation.com/ ​Learn more about Dr. Bernie here:  http://berniesiegelmd.com/

Mind Health Matters with Dr Bernie Siegel

Hope is a Garden: Poems and Essays from the 2020 Pandemic with Mary McManus How do you hold onto hope in the midst of a pandemic? How do you hold onto hope when civil unrest, tyranny and violence dominate the headlines? In Hope is a Garden: Poems and Essays from the 2020 Pandemic, polio and trauma survivor Mary McManus, MSW inspires us with her wisdom and poetry chronicling her experiences during an unprecedented time in American History. About the Author: Mary McManus, MSW has known challenges throughout her life beginning at age 5 when she contracted paralytic polio in one of the last polio epidemics in the United States. She endured years of abuse at the hands of family members from the age of 8 until 17 when her father ended his life. At the age of 53 she was diagnosed with Post-Polio Syndrome, a progressive neuromuscular disease and was told to prepare to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. She refused to take the diagnosis sitting down. Her pen became her divining rod for healing harnessing the power of the mind/body connection through poetry. She embarked on a journey that took her from taking a leap of faith leaving behind her award winning career as a VA social worker to the finish line of the 2009 Boston Marathon, and many adventures as a woman transformed through the sport of running. Out of the rubble of her past, Mary dug deep to discover the treasure of who she was always meant to be. Her Spirit shines with brilliant resilience as she conquered every challenge going the distance on the roads and in her life. Mary is the author of Feel the Heal: An Anthology of Poems to Heal Your Life, her Trilogy of Transformation that chronicles her health and wellness journey and Hope is a Garden: Poems and Essays from the 2020 Pandemic. Mary holds a BS in Communications from Boston University, an MSW from Boston College and many fond memories of her veterans and their families who blessed her life when she worked at the VA. She lives in Chestnut Hill Massachusetts with her husband, Tom, and their lovely cat Jamie. https://www.marymcmanus.com https://hopeisagarden.blogspot.com/ ​Learn more about Dr. Bernie here:  http://berniesiegelmd.com/

Mind Health Matters with Dr Bernie Siegel

Angela Passidomo Trafford Internationally known Healer, Spiritual Teacher, Workshop Leader, and Author Angela Passidomo Trafford is a nationally, even internationally, known healer, spiritual teacher, workshop leader, and writer. The author of “The Heroic Path: One Woman’s Journey from Cancer to Self-Healing” and “Remembering the Language of God: The Forgotten Path”, Angela has been featured on several national television and radio programs and in various national magazines. One Woman’s Journey from Cancer to Self-Healing, How to Heal Yourself of Life-Threatening Illness, Find Your True Self, and make Life work Some years ago, Angela was afflicted with what she now calls “the gift of cancer”. Led in prayer to Dr. Bernie Siegel’s book “Love, Medicine & Miracles”, she incorporated into her meditation practice the visualization techniques offered there; and experienced a powerful healing. That inspiring story is recounted in Dr. Siegel’s subsequent book, “Peace, Love & Healing”. Angela Passidomo had four separate bouts with breast cancer. Facing her own mortality, she embraced principles of love, hope and healing, using meditation and visualization to get to the root of her illness. It was during one of these meditations that she felt a white light moving through her body, healing her. Through her own experience Angela has developed the gift of helping people transform their health and way of living, find their true selves, and make life work. This book is the story of how she healed her body and her life, and a guide to the philosophy and technique of her self-healing process to help you on your own path to healing and happiness. https://www.passidomo.love/ Angela Passidomo Trafford believes she cured herself of a life-threatening illness by getting to what she considers to be its emotional cause. Diagnosed with a six-centimeter malignant breast tumor at the age of thirty-five, Angela was told she needed a radical mastectomy as well as radiation and chemotherapy. After some soul-searching, she opted for a lumpectomy. A year and a half later, the cancer recurred in her other breast. At this point, she decided to heal herself. ‘I regarded that lump as a symbol of the sad life I had been living,’ recalls Angela. ‘I’d been in an abusive marriage. We’d lived in the isolated woods of Canada, where I had no support system. And all the pain, resentment, and sorrow of my life had collected in that area near my heart until, finally, the blocked-up energy of my emotions manifested itself as a tumor. Cutting out the tumor was cutting out my old life.’ Amazingly, Angela triumphed over her cancer. She credits not only the medical treatment she received but her journal writing, meditation, and visualization. ‘I would imagine a group of small birds eating golden crumbs,’ she recalls. ‘The birds represented my immune system, and the crumbs were the cancer cells. I would let the birds eat their fill, and then I would visualize a bright white light entering my head and traveling down through my body, cleansing me.” ​Learn more about Dr. Bernie here:  http://berniesiegelmd.com/

Mind Health Matters with Dr Bernie Siegel

How to Stay Out of My Emergency Room with Dr. Mona Balogh, M.D. Master Your Health and Find Joy in Life by Balancing the Power of Your Mind, Your Body and Your Higher Self  A Positive Program Of Living For Uncertain Times Mona Balogh, M.D. is a retired Emergency Room Physician. She received her medical degree at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. Her residency was completed in Emergency Medicine at the well-known Los Angeles County General Hospital near downtown L.A., notable for its proximity to South Central and serving an underserved population that often arrived at the ER without resources for medical care. She offered her medical expertise as a volunteer for The Flying Samaritans, which mission is to deliver free health care to those lacking access in Baja California, Mexico.   Dr. Balogh in her early career eventually landed at Kaiser Woodland Hills Medical Center in the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles, where she practiced as an ER doctor for many years. Over time, she came to regard the practice of medicine as a true art, and learned that even simple lifestyle changes can directly impact patient outcomes.  Probably because of what many would agree to be a wise approach, Dr. Balogh became interested in alternative medicine midway in her career, after attending an Addiction Medicine seminar. This passion led her to more study on holistic approaches to health. She pursued other therapeutic modalities that could complement evidence-based (Western) medicine. Since then, she has studied both formally and informally: acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine, energy medicine, herbal, and homeopathic medicine. Her interest in treating and helping the most resistant of patients, the 'frequent flyers,' led her to write this book. She lives with her husband, Endre, an artist and musician in Chatsworth, California and is enjoying her children and grandchildren. Los Angeles, CA – Over the course of twenty-seven years treating patients in emergency rooms, Dr. Mona Balogh noticed a tendency - from diabetes to addiction - for some people to chronically use ERs to address their disease when lifestyle changes could help their condition immensely. These “Frequent Fliers” didn’t seem to understand how to help themselves. Dr. Balogh took the road less travelled, convinced there had to be a more comprehensive and effective roadmap she could offer to help her patients restore their health and vitality. How to Stay Out of My Emergency Room addresses a panoply of bad habits and addictions through captivating stories of Dr. Balogh’s interactions with patients who repeatedly return to her emergency room due to their tendency to avoid making lifestyle changes. Delving deeper, we soon learn that there might be a Frequent Flyer hidden in many of us. The second part of the book moves into action, presenting a roadmap to instilling healthy new habits into our lives - complete with worksheets. By applying the Eastern philosophy of opposing forces with The 12 Steps and Vipassana-inspired meditations, the book provides a foundation for the reader to help themselves escape from whatever unhealthy rut in which they find themselves. In a series of powerful game-changing meditations we get in touch with our Higher Self. How to Stay Out of My Emergency room calls upon time-honored principles to help us stop blaming everybody and everything around us and use tools outlined in the book to fulfill the vision that we have for ourselves and our life. Not since the 7 Habits of Highly Successful People has there been an “instruction manual” that powerfully presents such a positive program of living. This book will be useful to the health professional, the caregiver and for anyone who is ready to do what is necessary to transform their lives and become their very best self. www.monabalogh.com  ​Learn more about Dr. Bernie here:  http://berniesiegelmd.com/

Mind Health Matters with Dr Bernie Siegel

Greg Hammer, MD, author of GAIN without Pain: The Happiness Handbook for Health Care Professionals GAIN without Pain: The Happiness Handbook for Health Care Professionals  Bio: Greg Hammer, MD is a pediatric intensive care physician, pediatric anesthesiologist, and professor at Stanford University Medical Center. A member of the Stanford WellMD initiative and the Wellness Committee for the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Dr Hammer is currently the Chair of the Physician Wellness Task Force for the California Society of Anesthesiologists. He has been a visiting professor and lecturer on wellness at institutions worldwide and teaches GAIN to medical students, residents and fellows at Stanford. Dr. Hammer’s clinical focus is in pediatric cardiac anesthesia and pediatric critical care medicine. His research is in developmental pharmacology and immunology, and he has an active laboratory with multiple ongoing studies in these areas. He has published widely on topics related to pharmacology and perioperative care of children undergoing cardiac and thoracic procedures as well as organ transplantation. Dr. Hammer is a health enthusiast and meditator, utilizing a non-duality and mindfulness-based approach, including the GAIN method. Dr. Hammer is the author of GAIN without Pain: The Happiness Handbook for Health Care Professionals, which was released May 15, 2020. Website: www.GregHammerMD.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greghammermd/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-hammer-02b20422/ ​Learn more about Dr. Bernie here:  http://berniesiegelmd.com/

Mind Health Matters with Dr Bernie Siegel

Choosing Presence: How to Access God’s Peace and Release Fear, Anxiety and Stress with Jim Heaney There’s no doubt many of us are facing anxiety and stress during these times. I wanted to see if you might have interest in setting up an interview with Jim Heaney, author of the timely new book, Choosing Presence: How to Access God’s Peace and Release Fear, Anxiety and Stress. As a renowned speaker and business leader, Jim has been teaching the practice of presence for over twenty years, encouraging people of all ages to incorporate it into all areas of their lives – for greater spiritual and physical well-being. Drawing on Christian scripture, spiritual luminaries from the Christian tradition, the social sciences, and personal experience, author Jim Heaney explains in clear, accessible language why presence is essential to sustaining a vibrant inner life. Jim Heaney has been teaching the practice of presence from a Christian perspective for over twenty years, encouraging people of all ages to incorporate the practice into all areas of their lives - professional, relationships, sports, arts, health, and more - for greater spiritual and physical well-being. He is the founder of Electronic Waveform Labs, manufacturer of the H-Wave device, the premiere modality in the drug-free treatment of chronic pain. Jim lives with his wife Patricia in Huntington Beach, CA. https://www.facebook.com/JimHeaneyChoosingPresence/  ​Learn more about Dr. Bernie here:  http://berniesiegelmd.com/

Mind Health Matters with Dr Bernie Siegel

Crappy to Happy: Sacred Stories of Transformational Joy with Rev. Ariel Patricia & Kathleen O’Keefe Kanavos  Into every life, some rain must fall. Fortunately, no storm lasts forever. Do bad things happen to good people, or could the difficulties we face be gifts in disguise? You decide as thirty courageous authors share their poignant true stories with you. Walk alongside the writers as they weather the storms of gender and sexual identity, crises of faith, divorce, addiction, health challenges, lost love, and more. Find inspiration for your future as you gain deeper insight into the meaning of life’s challenges. Share in the personal power and profound joy of testimonials by several prominent figures: Co-author Reverend Ariel Patricia’s past lives that prove she has experienced lasting love Co-author Kathleen O’Keefe Kanavos’ good friend Petronelle, who taught her to “laugh till it heals” to help her overcome life-threatening illness Spiritual Leader Reverend Dr. Temple Hayes, who found Unitywithin herself as a gay woman after being judged by her family NY Timesbestselling author Dr. Bernie Siegel’s mystical nudges by deceased wife, Bobbie Media guru Ken Walls’ journey to sobriety and the night he knew he needed help Survivor Connie Bramer’s memories of her mom, who lost her battle with breast cancer Nurse Diane Vich as she connects to her goddess within before sharing Covid-19 results And more empowering true stories of grit, grace, and love that begin in upheaval and end with cathartic joy. If you liked Chaos to Clarity, the first book of the series, you will love this standalone second book. Grab your tissues! Prepare to cry and learn to laugh till it heals as you enjoy tales that shift from Crappy to Happy. Rev. Ariel Patricia– is CEO and Founder of Sacred Stories Media, a conscious online media network. Sacred Stories Media includes Sacred Stories Publishing, an award-winning traditional book publishing and marketing company; Garnet Press, a self-publishing book division; and Sacred U, an online course division. As an ordained interfaith, interspiritual minister, Ariel Patricia believes every story is a sacred story. She is ordained from One Spirit Interfaith Seminary in New York and has earned her Master of Arts in Education and her Bachelor of Science in Business. Ariel Patricia worked in the corporate and educational worlds for many years and proudly served six years as a sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. Ariel Patricia is the author of two books sharing the beginning of her spiritual journey— God is in the Little Things: Messages from the Animals and God is in the Little Things: Messages from the Golden Angels—and is co-author of a poetry book, Scanning For Signal, and co-author of the first book of the Sacred Stories of Transformation series: Chaos to Clarity: Sacred Stories of Transformational Change     https://sacredstoriesmedia.com/  and http://sacredstoriespublishing.com/ Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos believes dreams diagnose your life. Kat survived three cancers diagnosed by dreams but missed by the medical community and the tests on which they relied. She lived to write about it. International award-winning author of Surviving Cancerland: Intuitive Aspects of Healing, Dreams that Can Save Your Life: Early Warning Signs of Cancer and Other Diseases co-authored with Radiologist/researcher Dr. Larry Burk of Duke University Medical, Chaos to Clarity, and Crappy to Happy, both co-authored with publisher Rev. Ariel Patricia, and contributing author to Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dreams and Premonitions, Internationally Syndicated Columnist in BIZCAT360, and Desert Health Magazine, Dream Expert, Coach, Keynote Speaker, and TV/Radio Producer/Host. Kat was featured on Dr. Oz, NBC News, in magazines like Women’s World,  and newspapers like The Epoch Times. Learn more http://kathleenokeefekanavos.com/ ​Learn more about Dr. Bernie here:  http://berniesiegelmd.com/

Mind Health Matters with Dr Bernie Siegel

Firefighter Zen: A Field Guide to Thriving in Tough Times By Hersch Wilson New Book Shares Hard-Won Lessons on Coping with Life’s Inevitable Difficulties with Composure, Courage, and Compassion, from a Longtime Volunteer Firefighter “First Responding is life magnified. We care for people in the most extraordinary and sometimes tragic moments of their lives. High purpose, tragedy, joy, and the deep and profound relationships that come with doing important work together are experiences that first responders have weekly and sometimes daily. It is transformative; it changes how you see life, work, and love.” Hersch Wilson is a thirty-year veteran volunteer Firefighter-EMT with the Hondo Fire Department in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. He is also a story-teller, committed to explaining how First Responding can change how we see and experience our own lives. In his “real job” he is a writer, speaker, and consultant. In the past twenty-five years, Hersch has worked extensively with leadership teams from a variety of organizations including Kodak, IBM Japan, Altria, The United States Postal Service, the CIA, Kraft Foods and Baxter Healthcare to name a few. He has co-written three national business best sellers with Larry Wilson, including the awarding winning, “Playing to Win!: Choosing Growth Over Fear in Work and in Life.” His latest project, based on thirty years as a volunteer firefighter, is helping individuals and organizations see the world as firefighters do and learn how to thrive through traumatic and stressful times. Hersch attended Colorado College and graduated with a BA in English from the University of Minnesota. Prior to becoming a writer and consultant, Hersch was a dancer and actor. He performed in Canada, Switzerland, and the United States. He has also worked as a flight instructor and commercial pilot. Hersch Wilson and his wife, Laurie, became volunteer firefighters in 1986. He has worked as an organizational consultant, pilot, outdoor adventure trainer, professional dancer, and author. He writes for Backdraft magazine and other publications. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. More information at www.HerschWilson.com ​Learn more about Dr. Bernie here:  http://berniesiegelmd.com/