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- October 23, 2008: Heyward Bruce Ewart III - "A Man's Account: Growing up with Abuse"
- October 13, 2008: Book Bites for Kids - Jill Osborne
- October 13, 2008: Alan Smith - All About Massage Therapy
- September 25, 2008: Sherry Quan Lee - Live at University of Minnesota
- September 25, 2008: Anya Achtenberg - Live at University of Minnesota
- September 14, 2008: Marjorie McKinnon - REPAIR Your Life
- September 14, 2008: Alan Smith - All About Chiropractic
- September 5, 2008: Issam Jameel - Iraq Through a Bullet Hole
- August 22, 2008: Jill Osborne - Children, Trauma, and Play Therapy
- July 23, 2008: Richard A. Singer, Jr. - Tools for Recovery
Author Archive
George W. Doherty - Crisis Intervention Training for Disaster Workers
October 22, 2007 by sysop.
| Jake D. Steele interviews George W. Doherty on disasters, the community response, the roles of first responders, Disaster Mental Health Services and Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) responders and teams. We talk about each of these and their roles in responding to the needs of both victims and disaster workers. This includes discussion about war, terrorism and follow-up responses by mental health professionals. Doherty is the author of the new textbook Crisis Intervention Training for Disaster Workers: An Introduction. |  Listen to the PodCast!  |
| George Doherty has held positions as counselor/therapist, Masters Level psychologist, consultant, educator, disaster mental health specialist and is a former U.S. Air Force Officer. He is President of O`Dochartaigh Associates since 1985. President & CEO. George is also the founder of the Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Institute. |  |
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Oleg Reznik - Secrets of Medical Decision Making
September 14, 2007 by sysop.
| Sue Vogan interviews Oleg Reznik, M.D. on The Secrets of Medical Decision Making: How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of the HealthCare machine. We are all patients at some time. Is the medical industry giving us the best treatment possible, at the best price? We all know that it isn’t. This new book shows what goes on behind the scenes of the current medical care and how it impacts the patient.
In this book, Dr. Reznik describes actual cases from his clinical practice showing the most common paths that lead to increased patient suffering. This book offers possible solutions for outpatient, inpatient, preventive, and end-of-life care settings. Learn About… |
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| Dr. Reznik is an instructor at OHSU department of family medicine. He provides a full spectrum of general medical care at the OHSU Richmond Clinic. He cares for adults, children, and to do low-risk obstetrics. Reznik has admitting privileges at the OHSU University Hospital’s medical, intensive care, pediatric, and obstetrical units.His strongest and most profound interest is in mind-body medicine, specifically, phenomenology and mental imagery. I am certified by The American Institute of Mental Imagery and run Mind-Body Medicine Clinic at OHSU Richmond Clinic. |  |
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Frances Shani Parker - Hospice and Nursing Homes
August 24, 2007 by sysop.
| Frances Shani Parker, author of Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes talks with Author’s Audio host Jake Steele about the challenges of eldercare in institutions such as nursing homes and hospice. Her book is the captivating account of Frances Shani Parker’s hospice volunteer experiences in Detroit nursing homes. Stories, general information, and poems about patients and health care familiarize readers with the nursing home world, dementia, pain management, disparities, death, rituals, bereavement, and “how to” information on caregiving. Improvements needed in hospice and nursing homes are also examined. This groundbreaking book, published by Loving Healing Press, is available at this Web site, Amazon.com., Barnes and Noble, and other booksellers. |  Listen to the PodCast! |
| Frances Shani Parker is a writer, consultant, and hospice volunteer. Her writing has won awards from Writer’s Digest, the Poetry Society of Michigan, the Detroit Writer’s Guild, Broadside Press, and the New Orleans Public Library. Among publications including her work are Black Arts Quarterly (Stanford University), Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas (Chicago State University), and Voices of the Civil Rights Movement (AARP). Among venues at which her poems have been read are the International AIDS Conference in South Africa and “Artists Among Us,” sponsored by the Michigan Wayne County Council for Arts, History, and Humanities.A former school principal, Parker has had essays and poems published in the educational arena, particularly on service learning, a teaching and learning method that connects classroom learning with meeting community needs. She has been honored as “Outstanding Educational Administrator” by the Metropolitan Detroit Alliance of Black School Educators and “Educator of the Year” by the Wayne State University Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, an international, professional fraternity for educators. |  |
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Marian K. Volkman - Maximizing Happiness in Your Life
August 5, 2007 by sysop.
| This week we feature Marian K. Volkman on “Maximizing Happiness in Your Life” recorded live at the 2006 Mind/Body/Spirit Festival in Warren, Michigan. Can we choose happiness or does it all happen by chance? What is happiness, anyways? The answers to these questions along with the four keys to success are answered in this week’s interactive and lively discussion. Marian is the author of Life Skills: Improve the Quality of Your Life with Metapsychology and Turtle Dolphin Dreams (a work of visionary fiction). Listen to the PodCast!!  |
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Life Skills highlights key factors from the subject and illuminates the ways that these factors can be used on a daily basis for improved quality of life, as an individual, in relationships, and in the wider world.
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| What if we shared planet Earth with other intelligent species? What if inter-species communication were really possible? Seek out some answers in Turtle Dolphin Dreams… An extremely unusual work of fiction in which three creatures, a turtle, a dolphin and a human link minds through dreams to bring a unique perception of the world. Most of the narration is by the Turtle (via the human) and Dolphin’s voice comes through both turtle and human, yet somehow this strange book hangs together and holds the reader’s attention.”A pearl is a small thing, and yet it is as precious as any jewel. So is this little book.” –Robert Rich, Ph.D. |
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Peggy Fisher and Sylvia Dickey Smith - Finding Transformation in a Marital Crisis
July 29, 2007 by sysop.
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Peggy M. Fisher earned her M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University. She has held various professional careers as a registered nurse, army officer, teacher and guidance counselor. Now retired, she has finally accepted her journey as a writer. She is the author of Lifting Voices: Voices of the Collective Struggle. Her poems have appeared in several anthologies including Commemorating Excellence: the 1998 Presidential Awards. Peggy’s book, , placed second in the Self-help category in the Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award 2007. She is one of the featured authors in an anthology of essays, , to be published by Loving Healing Press in June 2007. Peggy Fisher has completed a memoir, tentatively titled, Journey to the Jewels Within. Peggy M. Fisher has attended many workshops and conferences over the years including the Hurston-Wright Foundation, Goucher College, The Philadelphia Black Writers’ Conferences, the New Jersey Council of the Arts Writers and Arts Programs and The International Women’s Writing Guild Conferences. In July 2003, Fisher completed the Amherst Writer and Artists Creative Writing Workshop Leadership course of study. This Spring she participated in poetry workshops led by Cave Canem Foundation fellows
Peggy M. Fisher has presented workshops in writing for the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers at their annual conference for the past three years. She continues her commitment to young people by meeting with them to talk about their needs as she completes a book on coping for teens. Peggy M. Fisher is available for readings as well as workshops. |
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It’s been said that Sylvia Dickey Smith sees everything and misses nothing. She was born and reared in exotic southeast Texas, the land of Cajuns, cowboys, pirates and Paleo-Indians. She entered this world backwards—feet first, and left-handed—and has done most things backwards ever since.At 17 she married a preacher and for the next 28 years followed him across the state as he pastored various local churches. Seven of those years were spent on the Caribbean island of Trinidad, W.I. working as foreign missionaries before returning to Texas at mid-life. At 41 she took her first freshman class and fought her way to a BA in Sociology and a Masters in Educational Psychology while raising four children and being ‘the preacher’s wife’. After that, she worked with non-profit and for-profit organizations within the human services field and conducted private practice as a licensed professional counselor before embarking on a career as a novelist. Her first mystery novel, debuted at the same time her non-fiction short story debuted in . Her plans are to one day develop the short story into a memoir. She currently lives in Round Rock, Texas with her husband, Bill, an Army Colonel (Ret.). Visit the author’s website |
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The Story That Must Be Told: True Tales of Transformation, Vol. I Edited by Irene Watson and Victor R. Volkman Loving Healing Press (2007) ISBN 9781932690385 Read the review on ReaderViews.com Synopsis: What will you do when life puts you to the ultimate test? This slim volume contains 21 true stories of courage, love, endurance, and undying hope from people around the USA and UK. Follow each of our authors as they detail what it took to face impossible circumstances and powerfully transform them into forgiveness, understanding, and grace. |
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David W. Powell - Combat Trauma and Recovery
July 13, 2007 by sysop.
| David W. Powell, author of the award-winning memoir My Tour In Hell: A Marine’s Battle with Combat Trauma, shares his unique insights into the nature of warfare and its impact on the human psyche with interviewer Jake D. Steele. David enlisted for a tour of duty in April 1966 with the US Marines after receiving an imminent draft notice. Believing he would be able to leverage his existing skills as a computer programmer, he never thought all they would see on his resume was his Karate expertise. Even less that he would wind up serving as a Rocket man in the jungles of Da Nang and Chu Lai for a 13 month tour in hell. David’s journey from naive civilian to battle-hardened combat veteran shows us all how fragile our humanity really is. In addition to killing the enemy on the field of battle, he was witness to countless cruelties including murder both cold-blooded and casual, cowardice under fire, and a callous disregard for life beyond most people’s imagination. With each new insult, he lost a little bit of his soul, clinging to his Bible as his only solace while equally certain of his own demise. |
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| Upon returning to civilian life after a two year enlistment, he found himself with nightmares during sleep, intrusive thoughts while awake, a hypervigilant stance combined with an exaggerated startle reaction, and a seeming inability to control basic emotions like anger and sadness. The price he paid for what would only be diagnosed decades later as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder was broken marriages and relationships, inability to hold down jobs leading to bankruptcy, alcohol abuse, and having to hide the service he willingly gave to his own country.
In 1989, David eventually recovered through a simple but powerful technique known as Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) and is now symptom-free. Not just for veterans, TIR has since been successfully applied to crime and motor vehicle accident victims, domestic violence survivors, and even children. His story shows what is possible for anyone who has suffered traumatic stress and that hope, healing, and recovery can be theirs too. |
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Heyward Bruce Ewart, III, PhD - The Recovering of Self
June 22, 2007 by sysop.
| Authors Airwaves is pleased to present Heyward Bruce Ewart, III, PhD reading “A New Developmental Model: The Recovering of Self” (Chapter 2) from his new book AM I BAD? Recovering From Abuse. The average reader is likely familiar with the established models of personality development. It can readily be seen that the more recent theorists progress toward a realization of interpersonal events as major factors directing the course of maturation from infancy to adulthood. They are getting closer to the truth. I, however, take a much different approach. Instead of describing how children might ideally develop, I propose a model based on what I have seen as a clinician, treating most known forms of emotional distress and crippling mental disorders for 25 years. My premise is that all children, to some degree, absorb erroneous information about themselves that can misdirect their course through life, prevent full maturation no matter what model is used to measure, and create a false identity. I have named this the “adopted self”. This adopted self can work rather successfully when a child has been fortunate in his life experiences, although it is not the “real self”. Children who are “lied to” about their nature are destined to acquire an adopted self that limits life in direct proportion to the severity of the false information. Child abuse is the worst case, where the most severe lies are communicated most often and most forcefully. |  Listen to the PodCast!  |
If you were abused or neglected as a child, chances are that you have been your whole life, whether you are a man, a woman, or a teen. Child abuse so mangles the personality that the victim unconsciously attracts abusers throughout the life cycle. Lies about yourself were planted deep in your mind by the abuse, and you still believe them. They are crippling your life! Do you have any of these signs?
Until you understand exactly what the abuse did to you, you cannot get free. You can stay in therapy your whole life and never get a clue. OR you can unravel the mysteries once and for all and bring everything to light by reading AM I BAD? Recovering from Abuse. A great resource for victims, therapists, and group work. |
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Our Sister Station - Authors Access
June 15, 2007 by sysop.
Authors Access is where authors get published and published authors get successful. Each Thursday at 8PM, Victor R. Volkman and Irene Watson interview an industry guru on the subjects of writing, marketing, publishing and how to make it all succeed.
We have shows about specific genres including children’s books, fiction, romance, nonfiction, and much more. I guarantee you’ll find many episodes to help you past wherever you may be stuck in the process.
The Current Show Lineup lists all our past, present, and future shows!
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Frank A. Gerbode, M.D. - The Nature of Hope
June 15, 2007 by sysop.
| Author and psychiatrist Frank A. Gerbode, M.D. questions the nature of hope and whether optimism or pessimism should be nature of human expectations in light of our hopes and dreams for the future. Join us for a philosophical romp both lighthearted and informative. |  |
| Dr. Gerbode is the author of Beyond Psychology: An Introduction to Metapsychology (3rd Ed., 1995). This lecture was recorded March 12th, 1989 at the 2nd Annual Institute for Research in Metapsychology Conference in Palo Alto, California. |  |
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Announcing - Authors Airwaves!
June 15, 2007 by sysop.
Victor R. Volkman is proud to bring you a new podcast stream devoted entirely to airing authors talking about their work. This new program, entitled Authors Airwaves, will feature selected authors reading from their work, being interviewed, and providing brand new never-before heard material. Our authors range from the inspirational to the pragmatic and I’ll be posting one new audioblog right here every Friday. Authors Airwaves is a production of Loving Healing Press.
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