Mind Body Health & Politics

Bill McMillan, PTSD VA therapist, Mike Maxwell, and Vietnam vet Bob Eaton will be interviewed on their moving film: The Welcome: A Healing Journey for War Veterans and their Families, which will show at the upcoming Mendocino Film Festival. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

Dr. Phil Wolfson MD, author of the memoir of his son, Noe, chronicling the boy’s four-year struggle with leukemia, his untimely death at sixteen, and the aftermath is presented from three perspectives. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

Dr. Kevin Fauteux outlines key steps and reveals how to proactively protect ourselves and others when a person unleashes unpredictable fury. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

Kristin Neff, author of "Self-Compassion", discussing the relentless search for high self-esteem that has become a virtual religion; and a tyrannical one at that. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

Alena Guest, CMT, Hypnosis: Everything you wanted to know but never asked. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

Ask Dr Miller - This program will consist of "News and Notes" in psychology and medicine followed by your calls related to topics psychological. This is an opportunity for you to get live consultation. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

"Aaron Vargas: Unanswered Questions" Mind Body Health & Politics explored some of the questions raised by the recent sentencing of Aaron Vargas, who received a nine year state prison sentence after killing Darrell McNeill, a neighbor, Boy Scout leader, and businessman who reportedly sexually and psychologically molested Vargas for twenty years. McNeill also reportedly molested other local boys.The show included interviews with experts in the area of psychology and criminal law, as well as the Vargas family and Vargas prosecutor Assistant District Attorney Beth Norman.Guests also included Dr. David Wolfe of the University of Toronto, a psychologist and author specializing in abuse and trauma issues affecting children and youth and Gerry Schwartzbach, a nationally respected criminal law attorney with over 40 years of courtroom experience.On this show, Mind Body Health & Politics explored whether law enforcement, probation departments, district attorney's offices, and judges have the willingness and the expertise to consider the effects of long term sexual molestation on molestation victims such as Aaron Vargas.The guests provided a variety of views and perspectives on this controversial case and the challenging issues it raised. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

Dr. Miller explores the obesity epidemic in the United States. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

Mind Body Health & Politics explores some of the questions raised by the recent sentencing of Aaron Vargas, who received a nine year state prison sentence after killing Darrell McNeill, a neighbor, Boy Scout leader, and businessman who reportedly sexually and psychologically molested Vargas for twenty years. McNeill also reportedly molested other local boys. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touching_Home This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

Dr. Richard Miller interviews James Morone, co-author of the new book, "The Heart of Power: Health & Politics in the Oval Office". This timely and compelling book, subtitled "The 8 Dirty Rotten Secrets of Healthcare Reform," explains how presidential actions ultimately determine either the success or failure of healthcare reform. James Morone is Chairman of the Political Science Department at Brown University.Also participating in the exchange is Jeff Kane, MD, who argues that the current healthcare debate has nothing to do with healthcare. He contends that the debate is all about economics. Dr. Kane is a practicing physician and Director of Psychosocial Education at Sierra Nevada Cancer Center in Grass Valley, California and authors the lively blog Healthcare As Though People Matter. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

Dr. Richard Miller interviews Paula Derrow, editor of the popular Random House book "Behind the Bedroom Door" and three of the book's writers. Ms. Derrow is Articles Director at Self Magazine and teaches writing at CUNY Journalism School. She has worked for Glamour, Harper's Bazaar and Lifetime magazines. She has a degree in British history and literature from Harvard University.Ms. Derrow's book is a funny, honest, and enlightening collection of stories by women of many ages and backgrounds talking about the lessons and foibles of living and loving in America today. The writers have learned valuable lessons about love and sex which they share with humor and grace, reassuring us that whatever we feel, whatever we do or don't do in the bedroom, we're not alone. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

Host Dr. Richard Miller interviews Ecosexuals, Dr. Annie Sprinkle and Dr. Beth Stephens. Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle have been pollinating the ecosex movement through art, theory, practice and activism since 2004, they’ve produced numerous performance art works, ecosex symposiums, weddings to nature entities, workshops, walking tours, and art exhibits. Their award winning documentary, Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story played many film festivals and is on iTunes. Beth is an Art Professor at UC Santa Cruz, Annie earned Ph.D. in Human Sexuality. Their new film is Water Makes Us Wet, about the pleasures and politics of water. They aim to make the environmental movement a little more sexy, fun and diverse. http://sexecology.org/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

Host Dr. Richard Louis Miller interviews Tamara Holder, attorney, author and television commentator who courageously blew the whistle on sexual harassment at Fox Television and was fired and blacklisted. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

Host Dr. Richard Louis Miller interviews Tony Buettner of the Blue Zones about those people--in 5 areas of the world--who live the longest and most healthy lives. Tony Buettner is a national spokesperson and senior leader at Blue Zones. He is a former expedition member, explorer, entrepreneur, and a Blue Zones and Blue Zones Project expert. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe