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Friday Nov 19, 2021
Friday Nov 19, 2021
Tenacity in Children: Nurturing the Seven Instincts for Lifetime Success
In reviewing many studies and writings, Pediatric Neuropsychologist Sam Goldstein, PhD and Harvard Medical School Professor Robert B. Brooks, PhD identified 7 instincts present from birth that have proven to be of the greatest significance in our development. They have evolved over thousands and thousands of years, ensuring the success and survival of our species.
For example, the early manifestations of such attributes as optimism, motivation, empathy, and altruism are present at birth, waiting to be nurtured and brought to fruition by parents and other caregivers.
In light of the role that these instincts play throughout our lives, the doctors believe that it is imperative for parents, educators, mental health and childcare professionals to strive to identify and reinforce them in children
Intuitive Optimism is the belief that gratifying and successful outcomes can be achieved despite existing challenges. Children retain the belief that with perseverance as well as assistance when necessary from parents and educators, they will ultimately experience success. Strategies to foster Intuitive Optimism include: reinforcing a sense of personal control from an early age, teaching problem-solving strategies, identifying strengths to build confidence, and helping children view setbacks and mistakes as experiences they can learn from.
Intrinsic Motivation posits that children are motivated to engage in tasks when certain inner needs are being met without the presence of contingent rewards. These needs include: belonging and connecting with others, providing a feeling of security; self-determination and autonomy, reinforcing a belief that they are being heard, respected, and that they have input into situations impacting their lives; competency as the source of a child’s ability to successfully perform, master tasks, and reach goals in their world; and a sense of purpose, often represented by children subscribing to a greater good.
Compassionate Empathy is composed of two main dimensions: empathy is the ability to understand the world of another person both on an affective and cognitive level, while compassion involves using that understanding to initiate actions that express caring towards others. This instinct serves our deepest needs to survive, to connect, and to find our partners in life. Using empathic communication with our children can secure important benefits, including having enriched relationships with them. This provides the opportunity for children to nurture this instinct in themselves and thereby connect in a more gratifying way to others.
Simultaneous Intelligence is how different pieces of information fit together into a whole in order to understand, interpret, and solve problems. Children become more effective critical thinkers and problem solvers when they create categories and classify items, identify relevant information, construct and recognize valid deductive arguments, recognize reasoning fallacies, and distinguish between evidence and interpretations of evidence. Parents and teachers can reinforce this instinct whenever children are navigating through problems by encouraging them to consider alternative explanations and solutions, talk about biases, ask open-ended questions, and encourage thinking in new ways.
Genuine Altruism is an unselfish concern for others, represented by acting to alleviate their distress with no expectation of reciprocation. Altruism is an instinct worthy of cultivation through socialization and modeling. Children benefit from helping others. These actions improve mood, behavior, and self-image; reinforce positive relationships with others; and encourage a sense of purpose. As children observe and practice altruistic words and actions, they are inspired for this instinct to reach its full expression.
Virtuous Responsibility is the ethical and moral responsibility we have to enhance the lives of family, friends, and members of our society. This instinct extends beyond the scope of helping others, because it involves making decisions and engaging in behaviors that demonstrate that we can be trusted and accountable for our actions.
Assuming responsibility is rooted in the ways in which parents and caregivers discipline children in order to nurture qualities of self-discipline and accountability.
Measured Fairness is an important foundation of morality and the evolution of cooperation in human beings. It is allied to pro-social behaviors such as effective communication, empathy, cooperation, problem-solving skills, and forgiveness as the basic underpinnings of connected, generous, and successful lives.
This instinct is nurtured in children by helping them develop a sense of personal control. They learn to believe that while they may not always have control over challenging situations, they do have control over their attitude and behavior.
Sam Goldstein, Ph.D. is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, the University of Utah School of Medicine (USA). and certified School Psychologist in the State of Utah. He is also Board Certified as a Pediatric Neuropsychologist and listed in the Council for the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the National Academy of Neuropsychology. He has authored, co-edited or co-authored over fifty clinical and trade publications, three dozen book chapters, nearly three dozen peer-reviewed scientific articles and eight psychological and neuropsychological tests. Since 1980, he has served as Clinical Director of The Neurology, Learning and Behavior Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Robert Brooks Ph.D. is currently on the faculty of Harvard Medical School (part-time) and is the former Director of the Department of Psychology at McLean Hospital, a private psychiatric hospital. He is Board Certified in Clinical Psychology, as well as listed in the Council for the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. He has authored, co-edited or co-authored 18 books and, in addition, authored or co-authored almost three dozen book chapters and more than three dozen peer reviewed scientific articles. https://tenacityinchildren.com/
Learn more about Dr. Bernie here: http://berniesiegelmd.com/
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Dr. Jan Holden for the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS)
After earning her Doctor of Education degree in Counselor Education in 1988, Dr. Janice Miner Holden served 31 years on the University of North Texas (UNT) Counseling Program faculty—12 of those years as chair of the Department of Counseling & Higher Education. In 2019 she retired as professor emerita. Dr. Holden’s primary research focus has been near-death experiences, after-death communication, and other transpersonal experiences—those that transcend the usual personal limits of space, time, and identity. In this research area she has over 50 refereed journal publications and over 100 national and international presentations. She served as lead editor of the 2009 Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation, and she co-edited the Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling’s (ASERVIC’s) 2017 Connecting Soul, Spirit, Mind, and Body: A Collection of Spiritual and Religious Perspectives and Practices in Counseling.
Dr. Holden currently serves as President of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS), and since 2008 she has served as editor-in-chief of that association’s peer-reviewed scholarly Journal of Near-Death Studies. For her outstanding and sustained contributions to scholarly-creative activity, teaching, and service, she received the UNT Foundation’s 2019 Eminent Faculty Award. Today, Dr. Holden continues her role as a researcher, President of IANDS, Journal editor, graduate counseling adjunct instructor, and other scholarly activities. Through her various research endeavors, she often collaborates with Dr. Bruce Greyson, who is the leading scholar in the field of near-death studies. https://www.janholden.com/
Founded in 1981 Educational nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) focuses most of its resources into providing the highest quality information available about NDE-related subjects. It is the only such membership group in the world.
IANDS’ purpose is to promote responsible, multi-disciplinary exploration of near-death and similar experiences, their effects on people’s lives, and their implications for beliefs about life, death, and human purpose. https://iands.org/
Learn more about Dr. Bernie here: http://berniesiegelmd.com/
Friday Sep 17, 2021
Friday Sep 17, 2021
Dare to Care How to Survive and Thrive in Today’s Medical World with Dr. Jan Bonhoeffer
Healthcare’s 'Silent Pandemic' — How Caregivers Can Better Care for Themselves and Their Patients
Dr. Jan (Yon) recently appeared with luminaries including Deepak Chopra and Rupert Sheldrake in The Science of Healing Summit. He discussed what he calls a “silent pandemic” in healthcare — a “pandemic of fear.”
Fear creates a sense of separation and isolation that fuels many mental health concerns of healthcare providers and patients. Understanding this dynamic compelled Dr. Jan to found Heart Based Medicine, a global network of healthcare professionals and patients exploring the natural healing potential that exists between provider and patient. Heart Based Medicine teaches caregivers that love is the primary healing force, and that illness can be a gateway to healing
“There is a difference between cure and healing,” he says. “What I learned at medical school was about cure, but what I didn't really learn about is about healing.”
“The aim of heart-based medicine is to provide training and to provide education to healthcare providers and patients to reclaim their initial motivation in terms of healing rather than cure.”
Dr. Jan serves as professor of pediatrics, infectious diseases, and vaccines at the University of Basel Children’s Hospital, Switzerland. Heart Based Medicine is a nonprofit foundation helping medical professionals, caregivers, and others maintain compassion and empathy for their patients and for themselves. Learn more at drjanbonhoeffer.onlinepresskit247.com and heartbasedmedicine.org.
Learn more about Dr. Bernie here: http://berniesiegelmd.com/
Friday Aug 20, 2021
Friday Aug 20, 2021
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/
Friday Jul 23, 2021
Friday Jul 23, 2021
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/
Friday Jun 18, 2021
Friday Jun 18, 2021
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/
Friday May 21, 2021
Friday May 21, 2021
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/
Friday Apr 23, 2021
Friday Apr 23, 2021
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/
Friday Mar 19, 2021
Friday Mar 19, 2021
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/
Friday Feb 19, 2021
Friday Feb 19, 2021
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/