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  • 011 Dr Karen Jacobson – Strategic Performance
    Coaching For Now - Strategic Performance For Legacy

    Today we're beyond "coaching," with vertical advice from above. Strategic performance work sets an objective of internal recovery and discovery - lasting personal value and global contribution.
    - Karen Jacobson
    Strategic Performance Strategies Discourage Treatment Failure

    This articulate and provocative interview with Dr. Jacobson adds considerable insights for the deep value of more comprehensive strategic performance planning... from within. Karen is absolutely delightful and filled with interesting anecdotes that reveal her engaging perspective on a variety of issues - not the least of which is a favorite complaint of mine: reductionistic thinking and labels.

    Karen wags her engaging, metaphoric finger at any hint of using fixed pathology [e.g. 'Disorder'] vs dynamic, operational, functional options. For her Past Trauma is not fixed with a Disorder label - it's not PTSD, it's PTS, no D. 'Disorder' creates a pathology dynamic from the outset, while the dynamics of Stress Awareness can become instructive - indeed constructive - to those interested in advanced self-management and leadership. 

    Her variety of personal and clinical experiences takes us down interesting, potentially controversial paths, but she speaks with the authority of truly having 'been there.' And don't forget to download her eBook below - her added effort to make your time here at CoreBrain Journal even more productive.

    Ed Note:

    Dr. Jacobson's active consultation practice embraces her vast strategic performance experience from NLP [Neurolinguistic Programming], Time Line Therapy [], hypnotherapy, breath work, Reiki - and she's a certified chiropractic sports physician as well.

    Dr. Jacobson Strongly Recommends:

    * You Can Heal Your Life - Louise Hay: Amazon Global Link

    Her Message In A Sentence:

    Your improved, strategic approach to your life requires a full appreciation of your values, your family, your work relationships, and your physical health - anything less will keep you stuck in places that don't permit growth.

    Dr. Jacobson's Connections


    * Her website: http://www.drkarenjacobson.com

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    012: Dr. Joanny Liu is a physician, author, speaker and brain expert and an international leader in Chinese Sports Medicine, and has written three books on the challenges of Traumatic Brain Injury and healing concussive events. I interviewed Dr. Liu from her office in Calgary, Canada where she connects healing from serious physical maladies [TBI & PCS] with principles of mental balance and her expertise in Chinese Medicine.
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  • 010 Dr Robert Melillo – Brain Balance Details
    Brain Balance Challenges Start Early and Stay Late
    Disconnected children become disconnected through measurable biomedical brain and body imbalances. From Pervasive Developmental Delay, to Autism, Asperger’s, Dyslexia and ADHD the measurement and intervention tools now remarkably improve treatment outcomes.
    – Robert Melillo
    There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.
    – Enrico Fermi
    Treatment Failure: From Discovery To Process
    I’ve said it before, and it bears repeating: we live today in a Galileo Mind Moment.
    Biomedical body and mind discoveries abound, and yet too often those discoveries do not connect with the necessary next step: a workable treatment process. Dr. Robert Melillo seeks to improve on imprecise, less effective outcomes by providing specific treatment strategies at his 110 Brain Balance Treatment Centers with a more measured, programmatic approach that addresses medical complexity.
    Why Galileo? The standard of care for children, quite remarkably in the context of fresh neuroscience discoveries, remains based almost entirely upon visible symptoms and behavioral appearances. Profoundly disconcerting is the automatic application of these superficial assessments for the treatment of more complex developmental challenges with measurable, significant and correctable underlying biomedical imbalances. In this introductory interview, we only briefly discuss an overview of Dr. Melillo’s work to share additional diagnostic and treatment options.
    Ed Note on Brain Balance Details:
    His insights, while predominantly directed to early intervention and children, do provide insightful applications for adults as well. Biology is biology at any age.
    When you listen to this CBJ/010 Episode you’ll soon discover how quickly we bonded on a number of challenging issues witnessed so frequently in everyday office practice internationally.  His experience with clinical results runs in the thousands, and with his strong academic background, it’s interesting how easily he brings challenging concepts down to an applicable street level. Compassionate and caring, he steps up to make a difference.
    His Message In Two Sentences:
    Any functional disconnection syndrome requires a full appreciation of each person’s biomedical complexity, from food allergies and immunity to nutrition, to parenting skills. Careful measurements individualized treatments offer more predictable outcomes.
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    Dr. Melillo’s Multiple Books:
    * Neurobehavioral Disorders of Childhood – An Evolutionary Perspective – Amazon Global Link – http://geni.us/balance
    * Autism: The Scientific Truth About Preventing, Diagnosing & Treating ASD – Amazon Global Link – http://geni.us/autismnow
    * Disconnected Kids: The Ground-Breaking Brain Balance Program – Amazon Global Link – http://geni.us/disconnected
    44 min
  • 010 Dr Robert Melillo – Brain Balance Details
    Brain Balance Challenges Start Early and Stay Late
    Disconnected children become disconnected through measurable biomedical brain and body imbalances. From Pervasive Developmental Delay, to Autism, Asperger's, Dyslexia and ADHD the measurement and intervention tools now remarkably improve treatment outcomes.
    - Robert Melillo
    There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
    - Enrico Fermi
    Treatment Failure: From Discovery To Process


    I've said it before, and it bears repeating: we live today in a Galileo Mind Moment.

    Biomedical body and mind discoveries abound, and yet too often those discoveries do not connect with the necessary next step: a workable treatment process. Dr. Robert Melillo seeks to improve on imprecise, less effective outcomes by providing specific treatment strategies at his 110 Brain Balance Treatment Centers with a more measured, programmatic approach that addresses medical complexity.

    Why Galileo? The standard of care for children, quite remarkably in the context of fresh neuroscience discoveries, remains based almost entirely upon visible symptoms and behavioral appearances. Profoundly disconcerting is the automatic application of these superficial assessments for the treatment of more complex developmental challenges with measurable, significant and correctable underlying biomedical imbalances. In this introductory interview, we only briefly discuss an overview of Dr. Melillo's work to share additional diagnostic and treatment options.

    Ed Note on Brain Balance Details:

    His insights, while predominantly directed to early intervention and children, do provide insightful applications for adults as well. Biology is biology at any age.

    When you listen to this CBJ/010 Episode you'll soon discover how quickly we bonded on a number of challenging issues witnessed so frequently in everyday office practice internationally.  His experience with clinical results runs in the thousands, and with his strong academic background, it's interesting how easily he brings challenging concepts down to an applicable street level. Compassionate and caring, he steps up to make a difference.

    His Message In Two Sentences:

    Any functional disconnection syndrome requires a full appreciation of each person's biomedical complexity, from food allergies and immunity to nutrition, to parenting skills. Careful measurements individualized treatments offer more predictable outcomes.
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    Dr. Melillo's Multiple Books:

    * Neurobehavioral Disorders of Childhood - An Evolutionary Perspective - Amazon Global Link - http://geni.us/balance
    * Autism: The Scientific Truth About Preventing, Diagnosing & Treating ASD - Amazon Global Link - http://geni.us/autismnow
    * Disconnected Kids: The Ground-Breaking Brain Balance Program - Amazon Global Link - http://geni.us/disconnected
    * The Disconnected Kids Nutrition Plan - Amazon Global Link -
    44 min
  • 009 Scott Stevens – Alcohol, Biology, Recovery
    The Problem With Alcohol is More Than Will – The Biology Will Kill You
    Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
    – Bertrand Russell
    I’m doing the research because I’ve been there. All results point to specific increases in illness and death with alcohol gone wrong. It’s a plague more relevant than AIDS, with far more cost to our society.
    – Scott Stevens 
    Alcohol Abuse (problem drinkers) and Alcoholism (drinking problems) constitute the top public health and public safety issues in America, to the tune of $220 billion in costs per year. Alcohol overuse is our number one killer and is behind more illness and ER visits than any other aspect of our society including cancer and obesity.
    – Scott Stevens
    Alcohol & Treatment Failure
    So much to say, so little time.
    Scott is a former mutual fund executive and journalist who lived through two near death experiences. For years he used his intelligence to deny or diminish his serious alcohol addiction. Listen up on this one as this award-winning author of three books reports on alcohol in a way that many medical folks, including psychiatrists, do not. His is a combination of intellect mastery and street tragedy. His is not a sob story, not a poor wretched me, but rather an intense and thoughtful look at alcohol’s lasting downstream damage to brain and body biology.
    He’s taking alcoholic biology on the road – with interesting trench insights of near death on the front lines.
    Scott’s reportage marks a poignant, personal sequence of tragic travels through the painful personal process of coming to grips with a workable recovery plan. He’s an intelligent professional who does reconstruct his life by directly facing his biological reality – illuminated in a way that anyone will find hard to deny. The fact that biology does, finally over time, hit you in the face.
    Ed Note
    As an additional very thoughtful gift to our Core Team listeners, he will give away one copy of all three of his books to make a difference with anyone listening. We’ll send the books out after a drawing – so just leave your email here on the download link below – /009download – and we’ll give out the first name of the winners on that private, anonymous list.
    Jump on the downloads: This gifting opportunity will close two weeks after our CBJ pub date – do forward Scott’s encouraging episode so that others can jump on his insightful, timely messages. Drawing opportunity closes 5-19-16 midnight.
    Imagine this is a speaker’s meeting, and you hear the word from a guy who made it, relapsed and made it back again. He can’t tell it all in these 30 mins, but he sure can give you a taste of near death that can help point the way for your recovery. Scott was drinking 86-proof-two-liters a day – and you well know that you don’t have to travel that far down the road to suffer from real heartbreak and problems.
    His Message In Two Sentences
    The reality of brain and body biology is quite enough to turn you around – if you can admit to yourself, you don’t live outside of biological reality. Recovery goes beyond will/willpower – his message embraces the imperative of brain and body biologic reality.
    Find A Meeting
    Resources, Literature, Or A Meeting Near You: Alcoholics Anonymous Info For Professionals & Members http://www.aa.org
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    37 min
  • 009 Scott Stevens – Alcohol, Biology, Recovery
    The Problem With Alcohol is More Than Will - The Biology Will Kill You

    Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
    - Bertrand Russell


    I'm doing the research because I've been there. All results point to specific increases in illness and death with alcohol gone wrong. It's a plague more relevant than AIDS, with far more cost to our society.
    - Scott Stevens 


    Alcohol Abuse (problem drinkers) and Alcoholism (drinking problems) constitute the top public health and public safety issues in America, to the tune of $220 billion in costs per year. Alcohol overuse is our number one killer and is behind more illness and ER visits than any other aspect of our society including cancer and obesity.
    - Scott Stevens

    Alcohol & Treatment Failure

    So much to say, so little time.

    Scott is a former mutual fund executive and journalist who lived through two near death experiences. For years he used his intelligence to deny or diminish his serious alcohol addiction. Listen up on this one as this award-winning author of three books reports on alcohol in a way that many medical folks, including psychiatrists, do not. His is a combination of intellect mastery and street tragedy. His is not a sob story, not a poor wretched me, but rather an intense and thoughtful look at alcohol's lasting downstream damage to brain and body biology.

    He's taking alcoholic biology on the road - with interesting trench insights of near death on the front lines.

    Scott's reportage marks a poignant, personal sequence of tragic travels through the painful personal process of coming to grips with a workable recovery plan. He's an intelligent professional who does reconstruct his life by directly facing his biological reality - illuminated in a way that anyone will find hard to deny. The fact that biology does, finally over time, hit you in the face.

    Ed Note

    As an additional very thoughtful gift to our Core Team listeners, he will give away one copy of all three of his books to make a difference with anyone listening. We'll send the books out after a drawing - so just leave your email here on the download link below - /009download - and we'll give out the first name of the winners on that private, anonymous list.

    Jump on the downloads: This gifting opportunity will close two weeks after our CBJ pub date - do forward Scott's encouraging episode so that others can jump on his insightful, timely messages. Drawing opportunity closes 5-19-16 midnight.

    Imagine this is a speaker's meeting, and you hear the word from a guy who made it, relapsed and made it back again. He can't tell it all in these 30 mins, but he sure can give you a taste of near death that can help point the way for your recovery. Scott was drinking 86-proof-two-liters a day - and you well know that you don't have to travel that far down the road to suffer from real heartbreak and problems.

    His Message In Two Sentences

    The reality of brain and body biology is quite enough to turn you around - if you can admit to yourself, you don't live outside of biological reality. Recovery goes beyond will/willpower - his message embraces the imperative of brain and body biologic reality.

    Find A Meeting

    Resources, Literature, Or A Meeting Near You: Alcoholics Anonymous Info For Professionals & Members http://www.aa.org
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  • 008 Heidi Siefkas – TBI, PTS, and PTG
    Brain Injury: TBI, Hospital, Divorce and Termination – She Rebuilds From Within
    Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
    – Ovid
    I used my imagination and created a new life.
    – Heidi Siefkas
    TBI Into PTG: Post Traumatic Growth – The Opposite of Treatment Failure
    Each of us is an individual with differing strengths and differing levels of perseverance.  In this interview Heidi takes us dramatically from a significant concussion with serious loss of consciousness and hospitalization, through the pain of loosing the two next most important supports in her life: her husband and her international travel career with wonderful perks in faraway places. No, we won’t bearing about the perks or the Riviera, instead Heidi tells us how she made it out of her private hell.
    Hint: she changed her injury perspective – sound familiar? Second hint: she structured her change into a Masterplan called PTG – with an emphasis on plan.
    Heidi shares her personal TBI and recovery lessons for all of us.  As you well know, we all do bounce on the bottom at times. Sometimes we bounce darn hard And with trauma comes an opportunity for constructive change. Hers is a an interesting process-lesson you’ll deeply appreciate along with her good humor, recovery attitude and her new life. She truly walks the walk – way beyond the talk.
    Ed Note:
    Heidi’s book spells out the details, both the trauma and the recovery, and she has created a new dream job that takes her back on a different kind of journey. Now she creates recovery experiences for others to construct their own new directions.
    Jump on the download: This gifting opportunity will close two weeks after our CBJ pub date – do forward Heidi’s encouraging episode so that others can jump on her insightful, timely messages. Drawing opportunity closes 5-17-16 midnight.
    The easy link for this episode: http://corebrainjournal.com/008
    Her Message In A Sentence:
    You can look at trauma as a negative, or an opportunity to change your perspective.
    Heidi, of course, sees her challenges as learning experiences, and doesn’t call her problem PTSD – but rather, PTG – Post Traumatic Growth. Life is best lived in the active, the doing mode. You can’t climb out of the well if you don’t stand up and change your personal reality.
    Heidi’s Connections For Additional information
    * First Book – Ouch and Reframe: When All Balls Drop – The Upside of Losing Everything
    * Second Book – Masterplan: With New Eyes – The Power of Perspective
    * Heidi’s interesting website:  http://heidisiefkas.com
    * Heidi’s Facebook Pager: https://www.facebook.com/HeidiNSiefkas/
    PTG References
    * Excellent articles and multiple additional resources, including a download PDF: Post Traumatic Growth Inventory at Post Traumatic Growth here.
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    Heidi’s Complimentary 008 Drawing – Closes Midnight 5-17
    Enter Here For Heidi’s Book Giveaway – When All The Balls Drop
    38 min
  • 008 Heidi Siefkas – TBI, PTS, and PTG
    Brain Injury: TBI, Hospital, Divorce and Termination - She Rebuilds From Within

    Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
    - Ovid


    I used my imagination and created a new life.
    - Heidi Siefkas

    TBI Into PTG: Post Traumatic Growth - The Opposite of Treatment Failure

    Each of us is an individual with differing strengths and differing levels of perseverance.  In this interview Heidi takes us dramatically from a significant concussion with serious loss of consciousness and hospitalization, through the pain of loosing the two next most important supports in her life: her husband and her international travel career with wonderful perks in faraway places. No, we won't bearing about the perks or the Riviera, instead Heidi tells us how she made it out of her private hell.

    Hint: she changed her injury perspective - sound familiar? Second hint: she structured her change into a Masterplan called PTG - with an emphasis on plan.

    Heidi shares her personal TBI and recovery lessons for all of us.  As you well know, we all do bounce on the bottom at times. Sometimes we bounce darn hard And with trauma comes an opportunity for constructive change. Hers is a an interesting process-lesson you'll deeply appreciate along with her good humor, recovery attitude and her new life. She truly walks the walk - way beyond the talk.

    Ed Note:

    Heidi's book spells out the details, both the trauma and the recovery, and she has created a new dream job that takes her back on a different kind of journey. Now she creates recovery experiences for others to construct their own new directions.

    Jump on the download: This gifting opportunity will close two weeks after our CBJ pub date - do forward Heidi's encouraging episode so that others can jump on her insightful, timely messages. Drawing opportunity closes 5-17-16 midnight.


    The easy link for this episode: http://corebrainjournal.com/008

    Her Message In A Sentence:

    You can look at trauma as a negative, or an opportunity to change your perspective.

    Heidi, of course, sees her challenges as learning experiences, and doesn't call her problem PTSD - but rather, PTG - Post Traumatic Growth. Life is best lived in the active, the doing mode. You can't climb out of the well if you don't stand up and change your personal reality.

    Heidi's Connections For Additional information


    * First Book - Ouch and Reframe: When All Balls Drop - The Upside of Losing Everything
    * Second Book - Masterplan: With New Eyes - The Power of Perspective
    * Heidi's interesting website:  http://heidisiefkas.com
    * Heidi's Facebook Pager: https://www.facebook.com/HeidiNSiefkas/

    PTG References

    * Excellent articles and multiple additional resources, including a download PDF: Post Traumatic Growth Inventory at Post Traumatic Growth here.

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    Heidi's Complimentary 008 Drawing - Closes Midnight 5-17

    Enter Here For Heidi's Book Giveaway - When All The Balls Drop
    38 min
  • 007 Dr Robert Hedaya – On Biomedical Evidence
    Biomedical Evidence – Hedaya on The Biology of Mind and Body
    The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
    — Albert Einstein
    Everyday we increasingly confirm that inflammation directly effects brain function. Over time it can create permanent change.
    – Robert Hedaya 
    Treatment Failure Without Biomedical Evidence Treatment failure, especially in the face of good training and the best information, means, quite simply, you’re/we’re missing something. We’re missing mind complexity. It’s not the patient’s fault. It’s not the doctor’s fault. Looking to blame someone? Blame our historical dependency on behavioral appearances.
    The inadequacy of reductionistic labels deny the complex reality of mind, body and biomedical functional complexity. The system is set to run on labels and medications that target those dancing clouds of surface appearances. We’re living in akimbo-land, with a frustrating global problem of misperception in the context of fresh scientific details.
    It’s not that the current psychiatric system is bad or broken – it’s excellent – and yet the labels system remains simply inadequate in the context of fresh data from modern neuroscience. Repeated imprecision builds disdain, distrust and stigma.
    …misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.
    ~ Goethe – 1774
    Don’t assume bad intentions over neglect and misunderstanding.
    ~ Hanlon’s Razor – 1990
    Dr Hedaya unearthed this flash of insight many years ago, back in 1985, and it continues to relentlessly drive him – as he’s still searching today. In this episode Dr Hedaya shares his personal story, and tells us how he turned his medical, psychiatric curiosity in a different direction. Hedaya emphatically encourages more critical thinking – with more measured reviews of dynamic change, time, and context. More careful biomedical reviews do inevitably change the rules of the game.
    Listen while we discuss just how he became one of leading national authorities in that interesting space, the polarity, between traditional psychiatry and functional medicine. Also listen carefully to how often we both bring up inflammation as an important marker on the crossroads between these two often adversarial diagnostic and treatment strategies.
    Ed Note: Dr. Hedaya continues in active practice, and, in addition, remains firmly involved in mind research. In this interview he discusses the relevance of pain and inflammation in his own life, and the discoveries he’s made on his clinical journey into the challenging territories of dementia, including TBI and Alzheimer’s. Notice how we segue into IgG measurements, and the challenges of other mind inflammations found downstream from food sensitivities.
    His Message In A Sentence: Every treatment failure, every refractory, chronic mind imbalance deserves specific biomedical measurements for contributory factors, including inflammatory processes.
    Dr. Hedaya’s Connections For Additional Measures
    * First Book: Understanding Biological Psychiatry – 1996
    * Website: Whole Psychiatry
    * Dr. Hedaya’s
    40 min
  • 007 Dr Robert Hedaya – On Biomedical Evidence
    Biomedical Evidence - Hedaya on The Biology of Mind and Body

    The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
    — Albert Einstein


    Everyday we increasingly confirm that inflammation directly effects brain function. Over time it can create permanent change.
    - Robert Hedaya 

    Treatment Failure Without Biomedical Evidence Treatment failure, especially in the face of good training and the best information, means, quite simply, you're/we're missing something. We're missing mind complexity. It's not the patient's fault. It's not the doctor's fault. Looking to blame someone? Blame our historical dependency on behavioral appearances.

    The inadequacy of reductionistic labels deny the complex reality of mind, body and biomedical functional complexity. The system is set to run on labels and medications that target those dancing clouds of surface appearances. We're living in akimbo-land, with a frustrating global problem of misperception in the context of fresh scientific details.

    It's not that the current psychiatric system is bad or broken - it's excellent - and yet the labels system remains simply inadequate in the context of fresh data from modern neuroscience. Repeated imprecision builds disdain, distrust and stigma.
    ...misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.
    ~ Goethe - 1774
    Don't assume bad intentions over neglect and misunderstanding.
    ~ Hanlon's Razor - 1990
    Dr Hedaya unearthed this flash of insight many years ago, back in 1985, and it continues to relentlessly drive him - as he's still searching today. In this episode Dr Hedaya shares his personal story, and tells us how he turned his medical, psychiatric curiosity in a different direction. Hedaya emphatically encourages more critical thinking - with more measured reviews of dynamic change, time, and context. More careful biomedical reviews do inevitably change the rules of the game.

    Listen while we discuss just how he became one of leading national authorities in that interesting space, the polarity, between traditional psychiatry and functional medicine. Also listen carefully to how often we both bring up inflammation as an important marker on the crossroads between these two often adversarial diagnostic and treatment strategies.

    Ed Note: Dr. Hedaya continues in active practice, and, in addition, remains firmly involved in mind research. In this interview he discusses the relevance of pain and inflammation in his own life, and the discoveries he's made on his clinical journey into the challenging territories of dementia, including TBI and Alzheimer's. Notice how we segue into IgG measurements, and the challenges of other mind inflammations found downstream from food sensitivities.

    His Message In A Sentence: Every treatment failure, every refractory, chronic mind imbalance deserves specific biomedical measurements for contributory factors, including inflammatory processes.

    Dr. Hedaya's Connections For Additional Measures

    * First Book: Understanding Biological Psychiatry - 1996
    * Website: Whole Psychiatry
    * Dr. Hedaya's The Whole Psychiatry Hour Radio Show
    * We referenced Dr Hedaya's Joint and Back Pain Supplement ...
    40 min
  • 006 Vespasian – On Rational Living
    From Pre-History to Today: Rational Living & Thinking
    Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
    – Ovid
    Our history repeatedly shows the value of rational thinking – and the limitations of overlooking reality.
    – John Vespasian 
    Rational Living Can Prevent Treatment Failure
    To the extent that the current state of mind science is based upon beliefs and not upon reality is the cause of significant years of suffering. Rational living involves structured, timely reactions to changing reality.
    Ed Note:
    It is interesting to hear the progression of Vespasian’s thinking and writing. In our interview, though somewhat difficult with his Dutch accent [recorded from the Netherlands], an interesting theme evolved based upon insights from early recorded history.  Change happens. Preparation for change, with plans and objective strategies  based upon logic and consensus, can provide solutions that stand the test of time.
    For Vespasian historical and philosophical references abound. In each of his books Vespasian connects daily living with hard data from Livy, who wrote the History of Rome, to practical applications from philosophers such as Hegel who connects the data of experience with reality and rationality.
    His Message In A Sentence:
    The process of rational thinking and living reaches far beyond the self-help maxims of positive thinking.
    Vespasian’s Books: 
    * On Becoming Unbreakable –  With multiple historical references, 2015 – Updated and working.
    * John Vespasian’s Amazon Author Page
    * John Vespasian’s Blog
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    007: Dr Robert Hedaya – a good friend and colleague from my many DC years working in Reston looking for macro brain evidence with Dr. Daniel Amen. In this episode Dr Hedaya discusses his own turning points, his own personal evolution with functional medicine – as one of the most effective functional medicine psychiatrists in the country. His relentless search for meaningful answers to solve the challenges of psychiatric treatment failure is exemplary. You’ll love his sense of humor and personal touchstones as we review what didn’t work in his both practice and his personal life.
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