Is Buddhism a religion? This is the question that Dr Pierce Salguero, Professor of Asian History & Health Humanities, Program Chair for Multidisciplinary Studies, Integrative Arts, & Health Humanities , The Abington College of Pennsylvania State University asks his first-year students every year. He is an author, researcher, teacher, fan, and critic of Buddhism & Asian medicine and we discuss his new book, Buddhish, a guide to the 20 most important Buddhist ideas for the curious and ...
Jan 13, 2023•46 min
Everything that remains in silence stays in silence and you feel it to heal it. Please join Dr Ken Duckworth who discusses his journey into psychiatry started when he was a boy growing up with a dad who experienced severe bipolar disorder. His father was loving, kind and periodically quite ill, hospitalized for months at a time. Ken became a psychiatrist in part to help his father. Ken is double-board certified in adult and child/adolescent psychiatry. He serves as the Chief Medical Officer for ...
Dec 18, 2022•42 min
Imagine you are given the gift of life. You may have already have it but are caught up in the business of life. You may not realise it or you may have genes hidden in your history lurking to come out at any moment that change your wellness. Self-care is not selfish but self-preservation. Dr. Simran Malhotra is a triple board-certified physician in internal medicine, hospice & palliative care, and lifestyle medicine as well as a certified health and wellness coach. On episode #110 of the Thri...
Nov 26, 2022•50 min
How do you go from being a police officer included in undercover operations, major crime and homicide investigation, police hostage negotiation and as team Leader at both domestic and counter Terrorist level to being afraid to leaving your house? This is the untold story for many people on the front-lines who are serving the community, protecting and keeping us safe. Firefighters, police officers, survivors of domestic violence and psychiatrists are just some of the groups of people prone to the...
Nov 14, 2022•48 min
Dr Jeff Rediger is a revolutionary intellectual in the field of spontaneous healing from incurable diseases. He has written the best selling book called CURED- Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life. His book describes: " When it comes to disease, who beats the odds -- and why? When it comes to spontaneous healing, skepticism abounds. Doctors are taught that "miraculous" recoveries are flukes, and as a result they don't study those cases or take them into account when treating patients...
Nov 05, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Dr Dennis-Tiwary is in praise of anxiety. She teaches people how to sit with the bad feelings that accompany anxiety by trying to listen to what it is telling us, leverage from the knowledge to understanding to find new solutions and then let go. For example, if you wake in the middle of the night, worried about something that happened during the day. Instead of lying awake and ruminating on these thoughts until they become catastrophic. Take a deep breath, listen to what the thoughts are, sit w...
Oct 31, 2022•52 min
The words of Einstein stir our hearts, ‘Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result’ He has worked towards working out different ways to grow older in life and navigate debilitating conditions. Can we turn back the clock on the aging process? Can research on longevity help us combat the ‘diseases of aging'? Is it possible to live a better quality of life now and in the future? Michael Morgan helps us change our minds about ageing. We examine these and ot...
Oct 24, 2022•52 min
Imagine knowing there are steps you can take to overcome major impacts on the brain from being on the front-lines of police, military, healthcare worker, tow truck driving and many other first responder positions. David C. Lee is a coach, author, entrepreneur and speaker who has honed his skills as a operator, motivator, mentor and coach in a thirty year career in business, police, military and paramilitary organisations. He has built & managed million dollar businesses, has had his feet on ...
Oct 18, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Sarrah Le Marquand describes the power of telling people’s stories about people’s courage to get stronger despite setbacks, grief, trauma and loss. From losing her mother at age of 17 to leading Editor in Chief of Body and Soul and Stellar and many other journalistic feats. “Hoping someone will connect and be inspired by your story”. Kurt Fearnley, Sharing his cheat codes to thriving. It is all about community and helping others. He asks: who are you? Hope to continue to change to be better. Ide...
Oct 17, 2022•2 hr 12 min
Professor Nadja Reissland and Professor Jackie Blissett are experts in how mother’s eating changes the faces of foetuses. They are researching and building technology to allow us to see the changes in the facial expressions in utero in response to food, maternal depression on infant cognitive, emotional and social development. Professor Nadja Reissland is in the Department of Psychology at Durham University her research interests are in early mother-infant interaction starting prenatally from 12...
Oct 12, 2022•47 min
Episodes on food are the most downloaded. We have put together parts of the episodes that are compelling listening with ideas to consider. On the Healthyish podcast Felicity and I discuss sugar addiction and what to do about it. Dr James Muecke, Lieutenant Governor, South Australia discusses diabetes and the impact of sugar. Dr. Robert Lustig is Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Lustig has become a leading public health authority on processe...
Sep 29, 2022•56 min
Imagine knowing that if you get dementia everyone around you knows how to take care of you. This is gift from dementia and care with dignity. Did you know the Inuit see dementia as a gift. Judy Cornish does as well. Judy is asking us to become more human. People in Idaho have been gifted the intuitive talents of Judy Cornish, an attorney turned dementia care revolutionary. She created the Dawn method that allows people to have dementia with dignity. She worked out how to see past dementia and pr...
Sep 23, 2022•54 min
Today we are celebrating 100 episodes of the Thriving minds podcast. It is being listened to in 99 countries, and 2,251 cities. The program being produced in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and is across cities in Australia, cities in Canada, France, Norway, Ireland, USA, Serbia, Israel, Balearic Islands, Majorca, Spain to name a few. There are 4 main themes that have arisen from examining the data on what people like to listen to. Theme 1. Episode 100. The accidental futurists bringing the bra...
Sep 16, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 100
Guy MacGillivray he is a psychologist and social worker in Port Lincoln that discovered he was using sugar to medicate the stress in his life. He decided to change this. He started to reduce his sugar intake and noticed he started to lose weight. He changed his morning routine, thought about 3 things he is grateful for, that included his family, friends and meditative prayer. He decided to start the day in a good direction and noticed what happened when he went back to his old routine. He asks: ...
Sep 03, 2022•48 min
People who live to be 100 (and beyond!) have four factors in common that… Seems to have nothing to do with their: · Genetic makeup · Family history · Lifestyle choices · Diet · Environment · Socioeconomic status In fact, according to clinical neuropsychologist Dr. Mario Martinez, your genes have only a 20 percent impact on your health and longevity. The rest is attributed to what you hold in your consciousness — how you view yourself and the experience of aging. 1. Relationship to Time 2. Self-L...
Aug 23, 2022•42 min
We are joined by Susanne M. Jaeggi, Ph.D discusses how working memory is an essential system that underlies the performance of virtually all complex cognitive activities. People differ in terms of how much information they can hold in working memory, and also, how easily they can hold that information in the face of distraction. These individual differences are related to the fact that the functioning of the working memory system is highly predictive of scholastic achievement and educational suc...
Aug 10, 2022•45 min
Kerry and I have more in common than we realised. Our siblings, Francesca and Randall, were both made ward of the state at Wolston Park in 1970's and 1980's. This interview is for them. Their wish is that others do not suffer the same fate. Kerry Lyn Carrington FASSA (born 1962) is an Australian criminologist, and an adjunct professor at the School of Law and Society at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC). She formerly served as head of the QUT School of Justice for 11 years from 2009 to ...
Jul 18, 2022•38 min
Jeremy is using film, animation, and photography to break the silence about child abuse. He is helping break the unspeakable. How does someone that was about to become the mechanical engineer designing aircraft and then supercars. He was going to work on a Formula One team. He worked at McLaren team. Things started to change, and he noticed more about his childhood. His story is not an outlier story. People don’t know why things in their life start to change. It is confusing for people that are ...
Jul 05, 2022•50 min
Have you wondered what your brain's potential can be? Imagine working out the brain health of the globe. Dr Julie Fratantoni, Center for Brain Health at University of Texas, Dallas is the Head of Operations, for the Brain Health Project, a 10-year longitudinal study to help people see the potential of the brain. They have developed a brain health index. Cognitive, social interactions, well-being and daily life. Study has already identified 3 important factors for brain health. Clarity Connectedn...
Jun 28, 2022•50 min
Professor Debbie Haski-Leventhal understands resilience. Her personal story of growing up in an ultra-orthodox Jewish family but became secular at the age of 19. Her family were some of the first families into the Kabbalah centre, decades before Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow made it famous. She watched first hand, how power and money change people from their original intentions of doing good. Her story talks about child abuse, emotional abuse. This is not just a story about religious cults. This i...
Jun 20, 2022•57 min
Making brain health everyone's business with Dr. Sandi Chapman is one of the nation’s preeminent cognitive neuroscientists furthering our understanding of what makes the brain stronger, faster and last longer. She is committed to enhancing human cognitive capacity and the underlying brain systems across the lifespan. She is committed to democratizing access to brain health strategies and tools to achieve for brain health what has been done for heart health in individuals ages 10 – 100 from all w...
Jun 13, 2022•49 min•Ep. 92
Prescription mindfulness, how much is enough , how much is too much with Dr Sarah Strohmaier, Mindfulness researcher, UK A short time of mindfulness, 5 mins, over 2 weeks compared to a longer-term, 20 mins over 2 weeks is more effective for people that have not practiced mindfulness before. Understanding- think about running a marathon, would not expect to run a marathon on the first day. Start small and pay attention to the breath. Sarah’s Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/sarahstrohmaier Sa...
Jun 06, 2022•46 min
Dr Diwadkar has imaged the Iceman's brain- Wim Hof. "They have shown how his brain responds during experimentally controlled whole-body cold exposure. These investigations are part of the scientists' series of seminal studies launched in 2014 on how the human brain responds to thermoregulatory challenges. The results document compelling brain processes in The Iceman and present intriguing possibilities for how his techniques might exert positive effects related to disorders of the immune system ...
May 29, 2022•59 min
Learn why sugar is embedded in the food chain, is addictive and what to do about it. https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-neuroscientist-on-sugar-the-damage-to-your-brain/id1246679887?i=1000557120286 Interviewed on the Healthy-ish podcast by Felicity Harley. She has 20 years media experience, Felicity Harley is one of the most respected editors in women's publishing. In 2017 she launched whimn.com.au, before which she was launch editor of Women's Health magazine. During her nine year tenure, ...
May 16, 2022•11 min
Dr Mark Williams who is a cognitive neuroscientist discusses his new book. The Connected Species: How the evolution of the human brain explains and offers solutions for societal challenges including racism, sexism, marginalisation, and extremism. Mark says in his book: "as a card-carrying cognitive neuroscientist, I firmly believe that understanding our brain and how it works will help us understand our behaviours and how to control them. Since I started studying the human brain some 25 odd year...
May 14, 2022•1 hr 12 min
In the podcast we discuss with Dr Randolph Nesse his foundational and pioneering work in evolutionary medicine and his work with patients. He talks with his patients and explains to them that, in many cases, their disorders are not a disease or some kind of failing, as they have been told by other practitioners, but rather a natural and inherently useful response that has “gone overboard”. Evolution makes women on average twice as prone to excessive anxiety as men for good reason. Nesse reports ...
May 07, 2022•57 min
Hello everyone, this is such an important and very delicate conversation with an expert. I do hope you find useful resources and compassion in this podcast. If you are struggling and have suicidal thoughts, please know you are not alone and help is available. Please contact any one of the following organisations in Australia are listed below, at the bottom of this post. "Boys do Cry" In this episode we discuss suicide and suicide prevention with an expert that has helped people for the last 20 y...
Apr 30, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Join us today, learn all about how the western diet is making us unhappy, unhealthy, and weak. Dr Robert Lustig is a pioneer and advocate, author of "Fat Chance" and "Metabolical". You can learn more at his website and links below. Addicted to the western diet. Dr Lustig discusses on the podcast that certain foods — “hyperpalatable foods” — particularly processed foods that are high in sugar, salt and fat can be addictive. Food addiction is still a controversial concept in the scientific communi...
Apr 08, 2022•1 hr 9 min
“Mind the Hype” An open secret about the side effects of mindfulness and meditation Did you know that mindfulness and meditation can cause sickness and side effects for some people? You may be shocked to read and learn about this. As all the information tends to portray that nothing can go wrong with mindfulness and meditation and every gets better. There have been about many articles published about its benefits, so much so, that sometimes people feel that they are bad for not practicing and no...
Apr 04, 2022•56 min
In this extraordinary episode with Kurt Fearnley. He asks us to think about who we are? Are you the type of person that gives blood once a month.? Are you the person that runs next door to help someone in need? Are you a paraolympian representing your country? At this extraordinary time in history, with the world order changing. What a great time to reflect on this question. Would you stay in Australia to fight if you had to? What does it mean to be Australian? All this and more in the episode t...
Mar 04, 2022•44 min
