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Becoming a doctor takes years of dedication and focus. But, what happens when a doctor finds herself in the patient’s chair?
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- Audio File rewired_radio/rr215.mp3
- Doctors Vanessa Grubbs, MD
- Featured Speaker Vanessa Grubbs, MD
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Vanessa Grubbs, MD, is an assistant professor of medicine and a nephrologist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, where she maintains a practice and clinical research program.
She received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Duke University and teaches writing for patient advocacy to medical students and practicing physicians.
She lives with her husband and teenage son in Oakland, CA. Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers is her first book. - Hosts Erica Spiegelman
- Length Mins 26:18
Our body image directly affects the way we move through the world, but it’s not always easy to embrace our own bodies and stay positive.
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- Audio File rewired_radio/rr214.mp3
- Doctors Mike Beychok, MA, CPT, CMO
- Featured Speaker Mike Beychok, MA, CPT, CMO
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Guest Bio
Mike Beychok is currently a Doctoral Candidate at Ryokan College. Mike received his degree from the University of Santa Monica (USM) in Spiritual Psychology. He has been facilitating all age ranges for over 10 years and has helped countless individuals work through their issues.
Mike decided to become more specifically involved in the addiction field, as he saw the great need for coaching that specialized in recovery. Using a very open and intuitive approach, he is easily able to connect with clients to help guide them to a supportive and successful recovery. Having struggled with food addiction and eating disorders himself, he has a deep understanding of what individuals may be feeling and experiencing.
Mike's struggle with weight and body image lead him to become very active in the fields of physical fitness and nutrition. Being recruited as a walk-on for a Division-1 sports team at a top university gives Mike experience working with some of the top athletes and coaching in the world. He has a genuine passion for helping people with their fitness goals and assisting them in creating a healthy lifestyle to coincide with their recovery.
Mike also graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major, focusing on the impacts of globalization on marketing and finance. His multiple years of experience in the fields of marketing and business development has given him the perfect background to assist Serenity with their marketing and outreach efforts daily.
Mike looks forward to meeting and helping as many people as possible through their healing journey. - Hosts Erica Spiegelman
- Length Mins 26:46
The human brain powers every single physical and emotional sensation you experience, which is why it’s so important to make sure you keep your brain functioning at peak level.
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- Audio File rewired_radio/rr213.mp3
- Doctors Jamie D. Stern, MA
- Featured Speaker Jamie D. Stern, MA
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Jamie D. Stern, MA, is the lead Neurofeedback Clinician at Serenity Trauma Healing Center, in Pacific Palisades, CA, where she sees clients who are healing from PTSD, depression, anxiety, addiction, eating disorders, and other complex issues.
She also focuses on enhancing peak performance and brain function as well as significantly reducing physiological discomforts such as hot flashes, motion sickness, chronic headaches and migraines, stress and anxiety related IBS, chronic pains, and sleep disorders.
Jamie works extensively with veterans through the Serenity Trauma Foundation, which raises money through donations, to provide free care for our veterans. In 2016, she led a pilot project studying the effects of Neurofeedback Therapy at the LA Family Housing facility in North Hollywood, CA. The areas of focus included PTSD, traumatic brain injury, anxiety, addiction, depression, ADD, ADHD, Autism spectrum, and insomnia. Neurofeedback Therapy greatly supported her patients with improved physical and emotional health, and improved motivation for job placement and permanent housing.
Jamie is also the Director of Research for a non-profit organization titled The Indo Project where she studies culture-related neuropsychological health and the trauma of post-war migration. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society and her data can be found at www.theindoproject.org.
In August of 2016, she was an invited scholar and speaker at a week-long conference at Leiden University, Netherlands, to present her findings on the neuropsychological health of the Indo people post-Diaspora.
Jamie has experienced firsthand how Neurofeedback Therapy can target a wide variety of “brain instabilities” such as her own chronic migraines and motion sickness. For Jamie, Neurofeedback Therapy has been life changing, and something she deeply looks forward to sharing. - Hosts Erica Spiegelman
- Length Mins 26:31
Sexual trauma is one of the most difficult traumas to work through.
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- Audio File rewired_radio/rr212.mp3
- Doctors Joanne Mednick, LMFT, PsyD
- Featured Speaker Joanne Mednick, LMFT, PsyD
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Dr. Joanne Mednick is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in a unique blend of various methodologies to offer her clients the deepest possible healing.
Dr. Mednick received her PsyD, MFT from Ryokan College and has Master's degrees in both Applied Psychology as well as Counseling Psychology and her undergraduate work was at the University of Southern California. Her studies in Spiritual Psychology frame her point of view that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. This unique perspective permeates into Dr. Mednick's further studies.
She has also received an additional degree in the field of Consciousness Health and Healing. This concentration allows her a deep understanding of the most severe addictions and traumas, and to assist in finding ways to help trauma survivors and sex addicts heal on all five levels of consciousness: Mental, Physical, Energetic, Emotional and Spiritual.
Dr. Mednick has built her practice with clients worldwide. Through trauma, illness and addiction therapy, she transitions clients with the identification of living as "victims" or "survivors" all the way to that of living as "thrivers." She offers her clients complete healing to find deep meaning in past occurrences, and to take the "silver lining" in it all and view their issues as blessings in disguise.
She strives to bring her clients completion in the trauma/addiction/illness cycle, and to move them from pull into the trauma vortex (pain and chaos) towards easily and consciously choosing the healing vortex (calm and relaxed).
Dr. Mednick took ongoing training in advanced EMDR techniques such as the Strategic Developmental Model for EMDR, is certified in Brain Spotting, and trained in Sensory Motor Psychotherapy and Somatic Therapy. This assisted her most extremely traumatized clients and addicts process their issues much more easily, and without undue distress.
She believes in the importance of the Inner Journey and how best to support her clients in reconnecting with that which is inside. Dr. Mednick had also undertaken twelve further years of study with world-renowned Energy Medicine specialist Christine Schenk. She was a member of the first US graduating Master's class. Dr. Mednick is one of the few people in America trained in the CHRIS®-Technique, and as a part of the services she offers, Dr. Mednick blends these techniques into her work at Serenity Trauma Healing Center. The addition of the CHRIS®-Technique to all the psychotherapeutic education has helped her to assist her clients in reaching higher levels of inner peace, connectedness in their body, and achieving a sense of wellness in their lives.
Through her many years as a therapist and her deep commitment to cutting-edge education, she has learned to pinpoint even the most resistant clients' deepest issues and help them to change their destructive patterns.
Dr. Mednick believes it is her life's purpose to help others move along their own path towards full and complete healing. - Hosts Erica Spiegelman
- Length Mins 26:13
The digital world can sometimes feel like the wild wild west, but it’s a world most of us simply can’t stay away from.
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- Audio File rewired_radio/rr211.mp3
- Doctors Jacklyn Hefter & Leanna Hefter, Founders of Social Movement
- Featured Speaker Jacklyn Hefter & Leanna Hefter, Founders of Social Movement
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Jacklyn Hefter and Leanna Hefter are twins and owners of a social media company based out of Montreal and Toronto called Social Movement.
Leanna has been involved in the events and marketing industry for over a decade.
She has worked with athletes, reality stars and everything in between.
Jacklyn has extensive experience in Social Media. She began her career with a photography blog back in 2009. Her blog went viral, receiving over 90,000 hits within one year. This landed her a social media position at Playboy.
After working at Playboy for two years she continued her career with a position at Micheal Kors. - Hosts Erica Spiegelman
- Length Mins 26:23
When you imagine an alcoholic, what do you see?
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- Audio File rewired_radio/rr210.mp3
- Doctors Martha Carucci, Author
- Featured Speaker Martha Carucci, Author
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Martha Carucci is an author/blogger who lives in Alexandria, VA, with her husband and three children.
She spent many years as a lobbyist for the telecommunications industry and is currently the Executive Director of the National Breast Center Foundation. She studied at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard and Georgetown.
Martha’s first book, Sobrietease, was the #1 New Release on Amazon for Alcoholism and Recovery. She is preparing to release her second book this Fall and is currently writing a novel.
Martha Carucci has appeared on numerous television and radio shows, including Great Day Washington, The Dee Armstrong Show, The Chad Benson Show and the Mike Schikman Show. Her writing has been featured in BrazenWoman.com, WomenYouShouldKnow.com, Party Digest, and The Tamed Cynic.
She speaks to various groups and audiences about alcoholism and her recovery.
Martha was recently awarded the City of Alexandria Commission for Women’s “Women’s Health and Safety Advocate Award.” She is an avid golfer and tennis player and active volunteer in the community. - Hosts Erica Spiegelman
- Length Mins 26:45
If you’re a parent, the world wide web can mean added stress.
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- Audio File rewired_radio/rr209.mp3
- Doctors Alexandria Abramian, Content Director for Forcefield
- Featured Speaker Alexandria Abramian, Content Director for Forcefield
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Alexandria Abramian has been a journalist and magazine editor for the past 15 years. With a degree in English literature from UCLA, Alexandria was the editor-in-chief for Modern Luxury’s Angeleno magazine for five years before becoming the company’s founding editor of its Interiors publications, which launched in four U.S. cities.
Alexandria went on to become the Home & Lifestyle editor at the Hollywood Reporter.
Most recently, Alexandria has become the Content Director for Forcefield Online, Inc., a parental monitoring app. As a mom of school age twins, she’s passionate about protecting kids from the worst of the Internet while highlighting the best of the web.
Alexandria is the editor of Forcefield’s Parent Lab blog and works on developing and implementing marketing campaigns for Forcefield. Alexandria has written about parenting for publications such as the New York Times and Hollywood Reporter, as well as a variety of regional publications. - Hosts Erica Spiegelman
- Length Mins 26:18
What happens if you decide to get sober and your partner still drinks? Even if your partner doesn't have an addiction problem, this dynamic can be challenging.
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- Audio File rewired_radio/rr208.mp3
- Doctors Lee Davy, Addiction Specialist
- Featured Speaker Lee Davy, Addiction Specialist
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In 2009, Lee Davy gave up alcohol to save his marriage. It didn’t work. His wife divorced him, and in a blink of an eye he had lost everything he had known and loved for the past 20 years.
Undeterred he flung himself into sobriety and changed every facet of his life. Today, Lee has overcome addictions to nicotine, alcohol, gambling, sugar, and pornography, as well as becoming vegan, and learning to fall in love all over again.
He gives back to the world by inspiring and coaching others to do the same through The Alcohol & Addiction Podcast, The Needy Helper, The Needy Helper Hub, and The Needy Helper Community Forum. - Hosts Erica Spiegelman
- Length Mins 26:22
Have you ever wondered why we believe drinking a powerful poison is both "normal" and "pleasurable"?
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File rewired_radio/rr207.mp3
- Doctors Lee Davy, Addiction Specialist
- Featured Speaker Lee Davy, Addiction Specialist
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Guest Bio
In 2009, Lee Davy gave up alcohol to save his marriage. It didn’t work. His wife divorced him, and in a blink of an eye he had lost everything he had known and loved for the past 20 years.
Undeterred he flung himself into sobriety and changed every facet of his life. Today, Lee has overcome addictions to nicotine, alcohol, gambling, sugar, and pornography, as well as becoming vegan, and learning to fall in love all over again.
He gives back to the world by inspiring and coaching others to do the same through The Alcohol & Addiction Podcast, The Needy Helper, The Needy Helper Hub, and The Needy Helper Community Forum. - Hosts Erica Spiegelman
- Length Mins 25:26
Ambulatory Detox provides the same protocols and procedures as inpatient recovery centers, with one key difference: clients can return home at the end of a structured day.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File rewired_radio/rr206.mp3
- Doctors Indra Cidambi, MD
- Featured Speaker Indra Cidambi, MD
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Guest Bio
Indra Cidambi, MD, Medical Director, Center for Network Therapy, is recognized as a leading expert and pioneer in the field of Addiction Medicine.
Under her leadership, the Center for Network Therapy started New Jersey’s first state licensed Ambulatory (Outpatient) Detoxification program for all substances nearly three years ago.
Dr. Cidambi is Board Certified in General Psychiatry and double Board Certified in Addiction Medicine (ABAM, ABPN).
She is fluent in five languages, including Russian. - Hosts Erica Spiegelman
- Length Mins 26:18
