Myndtalk With Dr. Pamela Brewer

Dr. Fogel Schneider discusses Confidence & Joy: Success Strategies for Kids with Learning Differences You’ll learn practical tools to lead your child with learning differences to lifelong success—educationally, socially, and personally.

Is something missing from your intimate encounters?  Are you not interested in sex anymore, or interested but can’t get aroused? Maybe you get aroused but have neither the desire nor the energy to follow through. You find yourself wondering what’s wrong with you. Dr. Anita H. Clayton wants you to know that there’s nothing wrong with you–what’s wrong is the ridiculous fantasies you’ve been sold about sex, and the unrealistic expectations you cling to

Puja offers the tools to discover your inner wisdom in order to live a life of personal integrity. It is easy to be distracted in our fast-paced world if you listen to others but not to yourself. You may even lose touch with your own core values. In order to have a life of integrity, it has to be fully your own.  Puja discusses how to stay on/regain your own path.  

Meet Dan and learn about the Above and Beyond Recovery Center - a unique and all-encompassing environment in Chicago for those who want help to deal with their addiction and start life anew - with respect, energy and a new caring for self. 

An honest, hopeful, amazing read about an amazing physician who brings wisdom and hope to the experience of traumatic brain injury.

From dreams of being on stage - to being forced to lose a leg, Donna's life was more than challenging. Now the Founder and CEO of LEGGTalk, Inc. and the Divas With Disabilities Project, Walton is an award-winning motivational speaker who helps individuals and businesses fulfill their full potential.   

Victoria D. Stubbs shares her story of overcoming loss, hardship, racism, and adversity.  Becoming vulnerable and true to one's own truth can be difficult but is critically important and ultimately empowering.

Drawing on Zen principles, David Ulrich discusses his photography practice and guides you to the creativity at your fingertips, calling for nothing more than your vision and any camera, even the one embedded in your phone. 

 Four-year-old Phyllis was plucked off her front porch, ripped away from the only family she knew, and sent to live with her grandmother Lula on an Alabama farm with no electricity, plumbing, or running water. Heartbroken by her mother’s abandonment, Phyllis struggled to acclimate to her new surroundings. Thanks to the unconditional love of Grandma Lula and the healing powers of an old, tattered quilt, she is finally able to adjust to her new life

With humor, compassion, and insight, Geneen Roth explores the personal beliefs, hidden traumas, and social pressures that shape not just women’s feelings about their bodies, but also their confidence, choices, and relationships.

At age thirty, an undiscovered mass in her brain ruptured. So did her life. A brain surgery marked only the beginning of a long journey, and when her illness hit a critical stage, it forced her to finally admit the long-suppressed truth: she was vulnerable, she needed help, and she longed to grow. She needed true friendship for the first time.

After the horrific tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, local caregivers, civic leaders, and first responders had the daunting task of navigating emotional and physical trauma as they stitched their community back together. The recovery process takes years, and as the coordinator of the Newtown Recovery and Resiliency Team, Melissa Glaser managed the town’s response.

An expert in assisting businesses to deal with the vagaries of insurance for their employees, while helping those who are aging to live their most vibrant lives. 

Learn about the emotional impact of a disease that according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention affects "an estimated 2.7–6.1 million people in the United States....   

We all know relationships take work.  But there is reasonable and healthy work and then there's waste of time and hurtful work. Know the difference and know how.

For many, the kind of negative comments she received from a parent would have stopped them in their tracks - but the caring of a teacher, and the guts of a little girl - to try - just try - turned her life towards a future she could never have imagined.

Carole joins Dr. Brewer again for more conversation about life after loss. Many of us have been there - ready to start back into the dating world - while trying to navigate the children who feel compelled to weigh in on who and when to date - or not.  What to do?  What to do? 

Anthony never learned how to play an instrument nor read music, yet his acutely tuned ear tells him when there is a sour note played by a violist in a full philharmonic orchestra. The streets of Brooklyn, New York became his first stage as he gathered under the street lamps to harmonize with friends, who later on became known as The Imperials. A teenage heart throb, he set the radio on fire with his smooth, savvy voice that could sing three octaves and a falsetto.

This is a compelling conversation about the frightening, painful life of a young mixed-race girl, growing up in post-war Britain, and her experiences of racism in all its forms from all quarters of society.  

Something Happened in Our Town follows two families — one White, one Black — as they discuss a police shooting of a Black man in their community. The conversation aims to answer children's questions about such traumatic events, and to help children identify and counter racial injustice in their own lives. Free, downloadable educator materials (including discussion questions) are available at www.apa.org.