Being Human

#200 Wounds into Wisdom – with Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, PhD

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This week's guest is author and Jungian psychotherapist Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, PhD.
The lasting effects of individual trauma are now widely recognized. But what of the consequences of trauma two, three or four generations down the line?
Tirzah's book Wounds Into Wisdom makes a compelling case that trauma legacies can be transformed and healed.
We talk:
Facing your loss 
Trauma passing down generations 
Weaponising our trauma 
Embracing, then releasing victimhood 
Seven principles of recovery
Links:Tirzah's Website

#199 Unlearn Your Pain – with Howard Schubiner, MD

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This week's guest is Dr. Howard Schubiner, director of the Mind Body Medicine Center at Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan and Clinical Professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine.
According to Dr. Schubiner, our chronic pain is often a learned response or association, meaning that we have conditioned ourselves to associate a trigger with a reaction.
Dr. Schubiner suggests that we can "re-wire" our neural circuits to undo this conditioning using his Mind-Body approach. 
If you're suffering from chronic pain or have friends and family that do, Dr Schubiner is well worth a listen. 
We talk:
Howard's conversion to mind-body thinking
Medicine's blind spot
Job satisfaction and back pain 
How forgiveness can heal you physically
How pain protects us
Links:The Unlearn Your Pain WebsiteUnlearn Your Pain - The Book    Resources recommended by Dr. Hubiner: 
The TMS Wiki - for those suffering from Tension Myositis Syndrome
The Psychophysiologic Disorders Association - dedicated to ending chronic pain
SIRPA (UK) - providing a cutting edge approach to chronic pain

#198 From the Ashes – with Jesse Thistle

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This week's guest is Jesse Thistle, author of the inspiring debut memoir, From the Ashes.
Abandoned by his parents before becoming a high school dropout, Jesse is now a rising Indigenous scholar. His book charts the story of his life on the streets and how Jesse overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth about who he is.
  We talk:
Hiding from the police as a toddler
Attempting to get killed by his dealer
Finding redemption in prison
From undergrad to professor in 7 years
How recovery happens in loving communities
Jesse's truly is an incredible story.    Links:From The Ashes - The BookJesse's Website

#197 Cured – with Jeffrey Rediger, MD

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This week's guest is Dr. Jeffrey Rediger, instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and medical director for the McLean South East Adult Psychiatric Programs. A licensed physician and board-certified psychiatrist, he also has a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary.Observing the common denominators of people who have beaten the odds, Dr. Rediger reveals the immense power of our immune system and unlocks the secrets of the mind-body connection. 
We talk:
Remarkable recoveries
The curse of sugar
Overcoming Decartes’ mind-body split
The 4 pillars of great health
The power of prayer
Links:Cured - The BookDr. Rediger's Website

#196 The Seventh Power – with Kevin Hancock

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This week’s guest is Kevin Hancock, CEO of one of the oldest family businesses in the United States.Kevin used to be a hard-charging, traditional leader, until one day, when felt his throat tightening and found it difficult to speak or be understood. His diagnosis: spasmodic dysphonia, an incurable and rare condition that causes throat spasms.Out of this adversity came a radical shift in leadership and a brand new set of ideas that focused on him doing less, flipping the script on the leadership model, bringing unprecedented performance to his company.
We talk:
Asking questions as leadership
Getting clear in Pine Ridge
Astonishing business results
Travelling from the head to the heart
Advancing humanity
Links:The Business Of Shared Leadership

#195 Leverage Change – with Jake Jacobs

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This week’s guest is perhaps one of the most experienced change leaders and advisors on the planet, Jake Jacobs.For over 35 years, he has worked in 61 industries, helping over 210.000 people implement changes in their businesses.What I love about Jake is his fearlessness in calling out what leaders really must do to achieve change in their businesses.
We talk:
The importance of leverage
Thinking and acting as if the future were now
Following the energy (you don’t always have to start at the top)
The importance of large group work
The paradox of honouring continuity to achieve change
Links:Jake Jacobs Consulting
 

#194 Psychedelic Psychiatry - with Will Van Derveer, MD

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This week's guest on Being Human is Dr Will Van Derveer. Will is the founder and medical director of the Integrative Psychiatric Healing Center where he has practised integrative psychiatry for 15 years.
After discovering that his conventional psychiatric training was inadequate to answer many of his patients' challenges, he took an entire year out to meditate. Finding that meditation alone was also not the answer; he began investigating psychedelic therapy to resolve the root causes of common problems such as depression, anxiety, and insomnia.
We talk:
The power of using MDMA in therapy
Will's ayahuasca experience
The importance of sleep
How meditation is not always enough
'Weirding' your way to healing
Links:The Integrative Psychiatry Institute

#193 Courage To Come Back - with Guy Felicella

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/This week's guest on Being Human has one of the most extraordinary life stories of anyone I’ve met. I give you Guy Felicella.Guy grew up in a middle-class home but fell into addiction at a young age. He spent 30 years in the repeated cycle of gangs, addiction, treatment, and jail.But a pivotal meeting with one of Canada’s most celebrated doctors changed the course of his life. Guy is now nine years sober and in a stable relationship with three children, a remarkable turnaround.We dive into how he was able to achieve such a remarkable recovery.We talk:30 years of gang lifeMeeting Gabor MateThe trauma therapy that changed everythingPracticing 'doing kind'Confronting his abuser motherLinks:Guy's WebsiteGuy's Twitter   

#192 Learning From The Indigenous - with Darcia Narvaez

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/This week's guest on Being Human is Darcia Narvaez, Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame.I love Darcia's work because, unlike other psychologists, she doesn't simply look at our society's current pathologies and ask, how do we fix this?She takes in the broad sweep of human societal evolution and notes how our current ways of being and relating haven't always been so. She focuses especially on what we can learn from past and present indigenous cultures.We talk:How agriculture gave us hierarchyPredatory individualism and the cycle competive detachmentPre-competitive culturesFeeling the trees screamThe power of the Gift EconomyLinks:Breaking The Cycle - The FilmEvolved NestKindred MediaDarcia's University of Notre Dame Website 

#191 Resilient By Design - with Ian Snape

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/This week's guest on Being Human is complexity theorist and author Ian Snape.A former research leader and executive at the Australian Antarctic Division, he has led teams on expeditions to both polar regions before focusing on coaching and training CEOs, Olympic athletes, and frontline professionals.We discuss how resilience isn't just the ability to tough it out; it's dependent upon an interconnected set of skills, techniques, creative processes. It's about new understandings of how we think, act, and interact with our environments and each other.We talk:How and why to quiet the Left BrainClean language for resilienceThe power of using perspectivesCoaching marines for breakthrough performanceThe one about the abductive turkeyLinks:Resilience By Design - The BookFrontline Mind