by Van Nuys | Apr 18, 2019 | All Shows, Personal Growth, Social Issues
Kristin Smedley is an award-winning non-profit leader, TEDx speaker, and author – but she never planned on any of that. Kristin did plan to be a teacher and impact thousands of children, but then a rare disease happened. Two of her three children were...
by Van Nuys | Mar 21, 2019 | All Shows, Consciousness, Mind/Body, Personal Growth, Podcasts, Psychotherapy, Social Issues, Spirituality
Chi’s Bio For most of my life, I battled addiction, depression, and low self-esteem. In my 20’s, I spent a total of 16 months in silent retreat, including a month in darkness. I went to Burma twice to take temporary monastic vows and practice with the monks. I...
by Van Nuys | Jan 10, 2019 | All Shows, Depth Psychology, Developmental, Personal Growth, Research Psych, Social Issues, Spirituality
Are there actually gifts that come along with growing older? Are there ways we can deepen them as we move along? My longtime friend and colleague Susan Stewart, affirmatively answers these and other questions in her 2018 book, Winter’s Graces: The Surprising Gifts of...
by Van Nuys | Dec 13, 2018 | All Shows, Mind/Body, Neuroscience, Podcasts, Psychopathology, Psychotherapy, Social Issues
Stefan J. Malecek, Ph. D. is the author of four previous Paul Marzeky novels, and Crucible of Shame, a clinical book discussing the origins of addiction and “mental illness.” He worked in many aspects of psychiatry while serving in Vietnam during the war there, before...
by Van Nuys | Dec 6, 2018 | All Shows, Mind/Body, Podcasts, Psychopathology, Psychotherapy, Social Issues
Matt Jaremko has taught clinical psychology at the University level for almost 20 years, mostly at four institutions: University of North Texas, University of Richmond, University of Mississippi and University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Dallas. This academic...
by Van Nuys | Nov 29, 2018 | All Shows, Consciousness, Depth Psychology, Dreams, Mind/Body, Personal Growth, Psychotherapy, Social Issues
Roger Duncan is a Systemic Family psychotherapist and author who has been involved in nature based practice for thirty years and his book “Nature in Mind Systemic Thinking and Imagination in Ecopsychology and Mental Health” was published in July 2018. Roger...
