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Thomas R. Verny is a clinical psychiatrist and the author of eight of books, including The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, which was published in 27 countries and 47 scientific papers. His most recent book is The Embodied Mind: Understanding the Mysteries of Cellular Memory, Consciousness, and Our Bodies. He has previously taught at Harvard University, the University of Toronto, York University (Toronto), and St. Mary’s University. He is also a podcaster, and his podcast, Pushing Boundaries with Dr. Thomas R. Verny, can be found on all the usual channels. Website: https://www.trvernymd.com/ Sign up for 10% off of Shrink Rap Radio CE credits at the Zur Institute

David H. Rosmarin, PhD, is the founder of Center for Anxiety (New York, Boston, Princeton), an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and director of the McLean Hospital Spirituality & Mental Health Program. He is a clinical innovator in the treatment of anxiety, a board-certified clinical psychologist, and a peer-reviewed scholar. Dr. Rosmarin has helped thousands of patients and organizations learn how to live happier and more productive lives. For over two decades, he has taught people to overcome the stigmas associated with anxiety by embracing all of our human emotions to learn from them and thrive. His newest book, THRIVING WITH ANXIETY 9 Tools To Make Your Anxiety Work For You, was recently released. For further information go to: https://dhrosmarin.com/ Sign up for 10% off of Shrink Rap Radio CE credits at the Zur Institute

Jocelyn Eve is a white, neurodivergent human, and a trauma informed group therapist serving LGBTQIA+ folks. She is a loving Auntie, dog mom, and ambivert based in occupied Massachusett Tribe / Cambridge, MA. Jocelyn dreams of radical recovery, healing & thriving! She spends her days scheming creative, integrative, healing spaces and fostering radical community to work in synergy towards that end. She is a community builder dedicated to mutually uplifting women, gnc & trans people, in service of the larger urgent anti-colonial & anti-capitalist imperative to restore and remediate this earth. She received her Masters of Social Work at Smith College and her Bachelor’s degree in Human Rights. For the past decade she has worked in various mental health and psychiatric settings ranging from therapeutic mentorship and home based work to inpatient and intensive outpatient services. She has in-depth experience working with those who hold a wide array of complex, intersecting identities. She has long been committed t

Jon Frederickson, MSW, is on the faculty of the Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) Training Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry. He has been on the faculty of the Laboratorium Psykoeducaji in Warsaw and has taught at the Ersta Skondal Hogskole in Stockholm. Jon has provided ISTDP training in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Italy, India, Iran, Australia, Canada, the United States, and the Netherlands. He is the author of over fifty published papers and four books, Co-Creating Change: Effective Dynamic Therapy Techniques; Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Learning to Listen from Multiple Perspectives; The Lies We Tell Ourselves: How to Face the Truth, Accept Yourself, and Create a Better Life; and Co-Creating Safety: Healing the Fragile Patient. His book Co-Creating Change won first prize in psychiatry in 2014 at the British Medical Association Book Awards. It has been published in Farsi, Polish, and Slovak and is forthcoming in Spanish and Hebrew. The Lies We Tell Ourselves has been publ

Bio Stephen W. Porges, PhD, is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium in the Kinsey Institute. He is professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and professor emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He served as president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He is the originator of the Polyvagal Theory, creator of a music-based intervention, the Safe and Sound Protocol, and a founder of the Polyvagal Institute. Seth Porges is a journalist and filmmaker. He wrote, produced, and directed the hit film Class Action Park, which debuted at number one on HBO Max, was nominated for a Critics Choice Documentary Award, and won Best Documentary at the 2021 Hollywood Critics Associati

Karl Ammann uncovers wildlife trafficking, poaching and other forms of brutal exploitation of the planet’s most iconic species. Circumventing red tape and challenging the status quo established by governments and supranational bodies, he discloses the shameful silence of international bodies and puts names and responsibilities behind the ongoing death of nature. He is a leader of the campaign that gained worldwide recognition of the bush meat crisis in Africa. He is an advisory director to several organizations, including The World Society for the Protection of Animals , The Cheetah Conservation Fund, and The Biosynergy Institute. After studying at St. Gall Graduate School of Economics and graduating from Cornell University’s Hotel Management School in 1974, Karl worked on new project development and marketing for InterContinental Hotels, first in Kinshasa where he helped to organize the famous “Rumble in the Jungle” with Muhammad Ali, and then worldwide, traveling to over 100 countries. Karl first recogni

Michael Gellert was born and raised in Montreal. The son of Hungarian Holocaust survivors, he was educated in rabbinic Judaism. Traveling at age nineteen overland from Europe to India and throughout the Indian subcontinent, he had a close brush with death, an experience described later in his first book, Modern Mysticism. He studied with Marshall McLuhan at the University of Toronto and trained with the renowned Zen master Kōun Yamada in Japan for two years. He served as a humanities professor at Vanier College, Montreal, and as a lecturer in religious studies at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He managed an employee assistance program for the City of New York and has been a mental health consultant for the University of Southern California and Time magazine. Michael is a Jungian analyst practicing in West Los Angeles. He was formerly Director of Training and is currently an instructor at the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles. His other books include The Way of the Small (winner of Spirit

Jill Stoddard, PhD, is passionate about sharing science-backed ideas from psychology to help people thrive. She is a psychologist, TEDx speaker, award-winning teacher, peer-reviewed ACT trainer, and co-host of the popular Psychologists Off the Clock podcast. Dr. Stoddard is the author of two other books: Be Mighty: A Woman's Guide to Liberation from Anxiety, Worry, and Stress Using Mindfulness and Acceptance and The Big Book of ACT Metaphors: A Practitioner's Guide to Experiential Exercises and Metaphors in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Her writing has also appeared in Psychology Today, Scary Mommy, Thrive Global, The Good Men Project, and Mindful Return. She regularly appears on podcasts and as an expert source for various media outlets. She lives in Newburyport, MA with her husband, two kids, and silly French Bulldog. Sign up for 10% off of Shrink Rap Radio CE credits at the Zur Institute

Dr. Peter H. Kim is a professor of management and organization at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. His research on trust has been published in numerous scholarly journals, received ten national/international awards, and has been featured by the New York Times, Washington Post, and National Public Radio.    He has spent two decades building a body of scientific knowledge around the topic of trust, a field that had previously been largely undeveloped. Sign up for 10% off of Shrink Rap Radio CE credits at the Zur Institute

Allen Sussman MD was a board-certified endocrinologist in private practice for thirty- four years as well as Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. As co-founder and President of Rainier Clinical Research Center, he was involved in hundreds of evidence-based studies and the development of ground-breaking technology for the treatment of diabetes. He also served as Director of Alternative Medical Services at Valley Medical Center and participated in a Washington State Commission Taskforce to systematize standards of practice within alternative medicine.  Married to his soulmate Melanie for over thirty years, he raised with her two sons, who both became doctors. Today, Dr. Sussman lives in Seattle, Washington, where he meditates every day in a beautiful Zen garden of his own design. His interests range from Buddhist philosophy to the science of consciousness and beyond. Sign up for 10% off of Shrink Rap Radio CE credits at the Zur Institute  

Harriet Sams researches, teaches, mentors, and facilitates ecotherapy and archaeotherapy. She works for the Buddhist ecotherapy charity, Tariki Trust, UK (www.tarikitrust.org), and co-hosts Earth Exchange Cafés for the US eco-resiliency, eco-art, and landscape belonging charity, Radical Joy for Hard Times (www.radicaljoy.org). She co-facilitates ‘Through the Door’ imaginal workshops for the Climate Psychology Alliance (www.climatepsychologyalliance.org). Her writing has been published on widely ranging but interconnected threads such as myth, archaeology, Earth-based spirituality, environmental art, and climate/ecological chaos. Harriet is currently researching for her PhD in archaeotherapy at Bournemouth University. Harriet can be contacted through her website: www.nwyfre-earth.co where you can also follow workshops, talks and courses that she is giving. In the conversation, we also discussed Druidry – and you can find out more here: https://druidry.org/ Harriet Sams hsams@bournemouth.ac.uk Sign up for 10% o

Paul D Corona MD was born and raised in Southern California. He attended the University of Southern California from 1980-1984, receiving a BS degree in Biology/Premed. From there he went to Medical school at New York Medical College, and then a three - year residency program in family practice at California Hospital in Los Angeles. After the first decade in Family Medicine, he decided to move full time into psychiatry, combining both into "Mind Body Medicine." He then decided to dedicate the rest of his career to patient care and teaching patients and Doctors alike the emotional and physical benefits of “this revolutionary medical solution. “ http://www.drpaulcoronamd.com Sign up for 10% off of Shrink Rap Radio CE credits at the Zur Institute

Robert L. Okin, MD, is a world-recognized expert on human rights for the mentally disabled. He served as chief of service of the San Francisco General Hospital Department of Psychiatry, where he oversaw the development of crucial services for patients with acute and chronic mental illness. He was also professor and vice chair of the UC San Francisco School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry. In 2009, he received the American Psychiatric Association's prestigious Human Rights Award for his work in developing countries. He is the author of Silent Voices: People with Mental Disorders on the Street (2nd edition, August 2023). Sign up for 10% off of Shrink Rap Radio CE credits at the Zur Institute

Tim Lott was born in Southall, West London in 1956. After a career in journalism, his first book, The Scent of Dried Roses, a memoir, was published in 1996 and won the PEN/JR Ackerley Prize for Autobiography.  His first novel, White City Blue, (1999) a contemporary portrait of friendship and rivalry between a group of young single men, won the Whitbread First Novel Award. It was followed Rumours of Hurricane (2002), a portrait of working class life in Britain in the 1980’s, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award. Follow Tim at timlott.substack.com, @timlottwriter timlott.com and tlott.substack.com for information about Alan Watts. https://timlott.com/ https://timlottwriter.wordpress.com/ Here are the two articles mentioned in the interview https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jun/22/inspired-by-63-up-author-tim-lott-decides-its-time-to-take-stock https://aeon.co/essays/alan-watts-the-western-buddhist-who-healed-my-mind Sign up for 10% off of Shrink Rap Radio CE credits at the Zur Institu

Psychology In Seattle ® is a podcast and YouTube channel that is both educational and entertaining. The host, Dr. Kirk Honda, PsyD, LMFT has a Doctorate in Psychology, a Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy, and has been working as a psychotherapist since 1996 and a professor since 1998. The Psychology in Seattle podcast and YouTube channel's mission is to attempt to make the world a better place by providing educational and engaging content on psychology, psychotherapy, and culture. Sign up for 10% off of Shrink Rap Radio CE credits at the Zur Institute

Psychology In Seattle ® is a podcast and YouTube channel that is both educational and entertaining. The host, Dr. Kirk Honda, PsyD, LMFT has a Doctorate in Psychology, a Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy, and has been working as a psychotherapist since 1996 and a professor since 1998. The Psychology in Seattle podcast and YouTube channel's mission is to attempt to make the world a better place by providing educational and engaging content on psychology, psychotherapy, and culture. Sign up for 10% off of Shrink Rap Radio CE credits at the Zur Institute

Michael Mills is an evolutionary psychologist at Loyola Marymount University (LMU). He earned his B.A. from UC Santa Cruz and his Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara. He has served as Chair, and as the Director of the Graduate Program, at the LMU Psychology Department. He serves on several editorial boards including Evolutionary Psychology; Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology; Sexuality and Culture; The Sage Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology; Journal of Open Inquiry in Behavioral Science. His research and teaching interests focus on adaptationist approaches to human behavior, including the development of a novel evolutionary theory of motivation (competing with Maslow’s model), evolutionary approaches to sustainability, as well as explorations of evolved sexually dimorphic psychological adaptations and their manifestations across cultures (open access textbook) Sign up for 10% off of Shrink Rap Radio CE credits at the Zur Institute

BIO Tony Nader, MD, PhD, is a medical doctor trained at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD in neuroscience) and a globally recognized expert in the science of consciousness and human development. His training includes internal medicine, psychiatry, and neurology. He's the successor to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the head of the Transcendental Meditation organizations around the world. He was appointed assistant director of clinical research at MIT and was a clinical research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He conducted research in neurochemistry and neuroendocrinology; the relationship between diet, age, behavior, mood, seasonal influences, and hormonal activity; and the role of neurotransmitter precursors in medicine. Dr. Nader has discussed his expertise at academic institutions such as Harvard Business School on The Neuroscience of Transcendence, Stanford University, where he gave talks in a series entitled “Hacking Consciousness.” as well as t

Tanith Carey is an award-winning writer and author of 12 books on psychology, parenting and social history which have been published in over 35 languages. Her pieces have appeared in newspapers and magazines across the world, from the Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times to The Spectator and the Sydney Morning Herald. As a speaker, Tanith has addressed audiences on BBC Radio 4, The Cheltenham Science Festival and the Child Mind Institute in Palo Alto, California. Tanith also holds a Certificate in Therapeutic Skills and Studies. Sign up for 10% off of Shrink Rap Radio CE credits at the Zur Institute  

BIO Kieran Setiya is a professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he works on ethics and related questions about human agency and human knowledge. He is the author of Midlife: A Philosophical Guide and Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way, which was selected as a Best Book of 2022 by The Economist and The New Yorker. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, the LA Review of Books, the TLS, the London Review of Books, The Atlantic, Aeon, and The Yale Review. Website: http://www.ksetiya.net; Twitter: @KieranSetiya; Substack: https://ksetiya.substack.com Sign up for 10% off of Shrink Rap Radio CE credits at the Zur Institute