Myndtalk With Dr. Pamela Brewer

From renowned parent expert Caroline Maguire, Why Will No One Play with Me? is a groundbreaking program that has helped thousands of children struggling with social skills to make friends, find acceptance, and have a happy childhood. 

Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his three siblings idolized their dad. Tall, strong, smart, and brave, the self-taught Cherokee regaled his family with stories of his World War II feats. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with his own code of ethics that justified cruelty, violence, lies—even murder.

If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate for your parent’s behavior. These wounds can be healed, and you can move forward in your life.

Learn the power and resilience that comes with healing and recovery and treatment.   

MyNDTALK  5/30 History P1  Jim Brown  A Real Time Dementia Story

What is hospital diversion? What are the signs?  What can be done?  What is being done?  Join Rodrigo Garcia for a look at the nationwide efforts to treat this issue among medical professionals

It's hard to imagine that a profession known for its members' compassion, patience and generosity of spirit - could in fact, hurt each other.  Learn what is happening, why it's happening and what can be done.

 MyNDTALK   "5-30"  - Jim's Story  im's professional life in the communications industry spans 50+ years.  Today's episode of "5/30" - Jim is learning more about Alzheimers and continues to share his current day experience of having been diagnosed with Mixed Dementia on 5/30/19..   

Dr. Marc Feldman describes people’s strange motivations to fabricate or induce illness or injury to satisfy deep emotional needs. ... From the mother who shaves her child’s head and tells her community he has cancer, to the co-worker who suffers from a string of incomprehensible "tragedies," to the false epilepsy victim who monopolizes her online support group, "disease forgery" is ever-present in the media and in many people’s lives.  

Dr. Bryna Siegel investigates the truths and fictions of public understanding about autism, questioning apparent realities too sensitive or impolitic to challenge. 

After seven years of faithfully following her spiritual teacher, Renee Linnell finally realized she was in a cult and had been severely brainwashed. But how did that happen to someone like her? She had graduated magna cum laude with a double degree. She had traveled to nearly fifty countries alone before she turned thirty-five. She was a surf model and a professional Argentine tango dancer. She had started five different companies and had an MBA from NYU. How could someone like her end up brainwashed and in a cult?

More of Jim's history and more of his day to day experiences. Who were some of the more memorable people whose life crossed his and he theirs? 

MyNDTALK   The Magic Feather Effect   Melanie Warner A fascinating look at how and why we believe what we believe. And the power of such beliefs.  

Jim shares experience of his dementia journey

Jonathan Mooney, a neuro-diverse writer, advocate, and father meditates on his life, offering the radical message that we should stop trying to fix people and start empowering them to succeed.  

Diversion Services for CliniciansToo often, clinicians find themselves chronically dealing with impossible work demands.  And too often clinicians make choices that hurt ... 

The MAYor's Office : WDC the Director of the DC Mayor's Office of LGBTQ Affairs Meet Sheila and learn about her day-to-day concerns/issues with respect to the LGBTQ community. Could this model program work in your city? 

As we continue to share Jim's experience of his dementia journey, he makes distinctions about his past and now.  

If you were asked when America became polarized, your answer would likely depend on your age: you might say during Barack Obamas presidency, or with the post-9/11 war on terror, or the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, or the Reagan Revolution and the the rise of the New Right. For leading historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer, it all starts in 1974. 

If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate for your parent’s behavior. These wounds can be healed, and you can move forward in your life.