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Friends - you're in for a treat and some LIVE breath work! Join Dr. Amy and friend, Nicole Smith-Levay. Nicole Smith Levay is a professional dancer turned Energy Coach. She integrates somatic therapies, breathwork, and meditation into her work with folks struggling with anxiety and depression. Using body-centered techniques, Nicole takes a forward-thinking approach to mental health and trauma-informed care. Nicole holds an MA in Somatic Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and is a well-known workshop facilitator, having hosted wellness retreats around the world. Since founding her practice, Power Within Healing, in 2013, Nicole has since helped hundreds of people overcome their energetic blocks in order to step into their power and live out their purpose.

@nicolesmithlevay on IG and FB

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Join Dr. Amy along with Dr. Alisha Moreland-Capuia. Dr. Moreland-Capuia is the founder & Director of McLean Hospital’s Institute for Trauma-Informed Systems Change. And, she is the author of The Trauma of Racism & Training for Change. I was especially excited to have Dr. Moreland-Capuia here on the podcast b/c I get to nerd out a bit on all-things trauma-informed change and research. Alisha had an article come on earlier this year and I was so thrilled to see it b/c it’s so needed in our field. 

Dr. Moreland-Capuia's article

Campaign for Trauma Informed Practice

Dr. Moreland-Capuia's book

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Dr. Z and I taped this during hurricane Ivan - her intellect, compassion, and vulnerability shines through despite the environmental disaster going on around her.

Dr. Miriam Zylberglait (Dr. Z) is triple Board-Certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, and Obesity Medicine. She has completed a Physician Leadership Academy (FMA), a Fellowship on Leadership Development and Education (AAMC), and has been certified as a Mental Health Ally and wellness advocate. She serves as a member of the American College of Physicians (ACP) National Wellness and Professional Fulfillment Committee. Dr Z is the author of the book "The 3G Cycle of Life: The secrets of achieving joy, meaning, and wellbeing". 

This is the link for the book website: https://www.3gcycle.live/my-book

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You're in for a treat with my friend, Gretchen Pianka, MD. Gretchen is the creator of Resilience University, an author and practicing pediatrician. In this touching episode, you'll get pointers on how to be a change-maker in your practice and how to begin to normalize responding to trauma.

Dan Siegel's Flipping Your Lid Exercise

AAP Policy Statement

Positive Childhood Experiences Study

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Join Dr. Amy as she talks with friend and colleague, Dr. David Willis. Together, they discuss early relational health, the importance of supporting families early and often and Dr. Willis shares poignant stories from his incredibly rich career.

David W Willis, MD, FAAP serves a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Social Policy and a national expert in pediatrics, early childhood systems, early relational health and early childhood mental health. At CSSP he helps to advance the growing intersection of child health transformation and early childhood system building with a social justice emphasis and an early relational health frame.  Prior to coming to CSSP, Dr. Willis served as the Inaugural Executive Director of the Perigee Fund in Seattle, the Division Director of Home Visiting and Early Childhood Systems in HRSA under the Obama administration, an early brain and child development pediatric leader in Oregon and AAP, and a 30+ year developmental-behavioral pediatric clinician in Portland, Oregon. He received his MD from Thomas Jefferson University.

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Lisa Springer is a nurse, turned trauma-informed yoga practitioner. Listen to her incredible story with Dr. Amy as they explore burnout in healthcare, breath work and how yoga transformed Lisa.

Learn more about trauma-informed yoga

Lisa has been a nurse since 1992. She worked in Oncology, Hospice and Postpartum. As an adoptee she was fascinated with bonding and after 20 years as a nurse, she took on the role of maternal mental health. She struggled with depression and anxiety and after taking a trauma-informed yoga class, she knew she had to find her biological roots. She now works as a trauma-informed yoga teacher at a Monte Nido with teens and young adults with eating disorders.

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Join Dr. Amy & mental health advocate, Kitt O'Malley as we discuss her journey. As a former therapist and adult living with Bipolar Disorder, she shares with vulnerability and compassion for herself, her family and those living with mental illness. Kitt's approach is warm and insightful - and it will give you perspective as a healthcare professional b/c we can often miss mental illness, in plain sight, if we're not curious and if we're not listening with an open mind and heart.

Kitt O'Malley is an author, speaker, mental health advocate and former therapist. In her book, Balancing Act – Writing Through a Bipolar Life, she offers hope to those living with mental illness and their loved ones. As a therapist who left her career due to mental illness, O’Malley educates the public about mental health and fights stigma against those living with mental illness by challenging stereotypes.

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Join Dr. Amy & Dr. Shah-Haque as we explore physician burnout, unrealistic expectations of physicians, and the survival mentality they often adopt. She's honest and transparent about boundaries, physician suicide, and her commitment to talking openly about barriers to wellness.

Dr. Shah-Haque is a board-certified internal medicine physician. She was born and raised in Kansas and attended the University of Kansas School of Medicine. After experiencing burnout herself, and watching colleagues experience burnout, it became a passion of hers to look into the root causes of burnout. Dr. Shah-Haque is now the podcast host of The Worthy Physician where she explores physician burnout with colleagues and other experts in the field.

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The nurses are in the house! Join Dr. Amy with nurses Antra Boyd and Karen DiMarco of RNegade as we have some deep conversations about trauma in the field of nursing. These women are real, loving, disrupters in the world of healthcare.

RNegade

KAREN DIMARCO 

Karen DiMarco is a bit of a wild card. She believes that authenticity serves as the laxative for connection, communication, and inspiration. She writes her bio in the 3rd person like a normal arsehole, but she’ll tell you about it (see what she did there?) Curiosity is her superpower, and creativity is the machete she uses to cut through the antiquated bullschizzle of how the world says things ‘ought to be.’ When she can’t think of a word to say precisely what she means, she’ll make one up: Memorgasm - the feeling/sound that is made when one suddenly remembers the name of a person/song/ or “what did I come in this room for again?” Since this slashie mouthful doesn’t quite cover the CV: “R.N./transformational coach/published health researcher & educator/foul-mouthed humorist,” she goes by ‘RNegade.’ Although Karen is a girl with a dragon tattoo, she’s really quite kind. The thing that makes her leap out of bed in the morning like some deranged fairy godmother whose wings were crumpled by too many My Pillows, is helping others to achieve their greatest level of health, happiness, and human potential…preferably with lots of snort-laughing along the way. 

ANTRA BOYD 

Antra is the only one here who is actually having someone else write her bio in the 3rd person. She is formidable. Like, you’re as grateful to have her ‘at your side,’ as you are relieved that she’s not on an opposing team. Yet, those pretty blue eyes will start pissing tears if you do the least kind thing for her, or show her a TikTok of a baby cow. 

Antra’s insecurity-inducing professional resume: Navy veteran, 20+ year clinical nursing experience in the OR, and wickedly talented entrepreneur in the emerging role of Private Patient Advocacy — was cultivated from the compost of challenge, triumph, and transformation that her life has so abundantly provided. 

Those experiences shaped her unique way of seeing the world. “The status quo is a snoozefest. What puts a fire under my ass is shaking shit up, a nice glass of red wine, and hanging out with my tribe of trouble-makers.” 

WARNING: boxes, knowns, ‘shoulds', 'ought-tos', and ceilings WILL be blown-up and crashed-through. Antra is an Original RNegade.

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Dr. Amy & Dawn dive deep into parenting and the impact of child abuse on parenting. It's a heartfelt conversation, bring the tissues. 

Dawn is co-editor of the book Parenting with PTSD: the impact of childhood abuse on parenting. She is a mother of two, has an ACE score of 9, and has spent nearly 20 years working in the trenches of the mental health system.

Dawn is currently the Program Director for Milestone Manor, a recovery home in Saratoga Springs, NY. Previous to that she provided ICM and Health Home care management services to adults living with mental illness in the community. She entered her career in the field as a mental health inpatient tech and child and youth residential counselor.

Dawn uses both her personal and professional experience to write, speak, and facilitate conversation about trauma-informed systemic change. Her mission is to help shift the culture’s understanding of what it means to recalibrate and heal the mind and body from trauma.

You can connect with Dawn via email at [email protected], or visit her websites www.parentingwithptsd.com and www.dawndaum.com to learn more.

Links Dawn Mentioned
Nadine Burke Harris Ted Talk on ACEs
Wrestling Ghosts Documentary
Dawn's article on Scary Mommy 

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