Encore: Living Mindfully with Shelter and Storm in Times of Uncertainty with Guest Tamara Dean
Release Date: 08/07/2025
Encore: Traumatic Loss - Moving Forward But Not Moving On From Love
Psych Up Live
In her new and important book “ Never Say Never- Never Say Always,” Susan Warner invites us to take the journey no one wants to take, but too many have faced. Susan takes us from a family love story to the devastating losses of a son and a spouse within 6 months. She puts words to the insider story of traumatic loss in a way that will touches anyone who has suffered loss. As you will hear in daily details, relationships with family and friends, tears in a closet, emptiness in a house, the difficulty of eating alone, the enduring presence of her son and spouse and the question of ever...
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Encore: Taking Revenge a Better Way with Dr. Steven Berglas
Psych Up Live
There are few people who have been injured or wronged by another who don’t think about and want to mollify their psychic pain with revenge. In this episode, Dr. Steven Berglas, professor, psychotherapist, research scientist and executive coach invites us to consider “ Taking Revenge – A Better Way.” The author of award winning books, 70 articles and journal reports on cures of self-defeating behavior, Dr. Berglas discusses the personal cost of angry retaliation and the power of redirecting the brain’s reaction to danger. With a wealth of professional experience and powerful examples,...
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Encore: Dr. Dean David Schillinger’s TELLTALE HEARTS
Psych Up Live
This Show offers a powerful and eye-opening consideration of medical care for marginalized people. Whether from a patient’s perspective or the perspective of those who serve as medical caregivers, you will find Dr. Dean David Schillinger’s TELLTALE HEARTS to be an extraordinary book and Dr. Schillinger to be an extraordinary person. What Dr. Schillinger offers is the gift of his own story in tandem with the unexpected, tragic, impressive and heart-breaking stories of his patients. Both sets of stories offer a glimpse of how industrialized medical systems can be dangerous for patients who...
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Encore: A First Responder Shares His Journey of Healing and Resiliency
Psych Up Live
While we hear the news and read the headlines of Fires, Accidents and Disaster, rarely do we understand the day to day, often hour to hour impact on those who serve as our First Responders. Those who hope at times to get a few hours of sleep before the next call. In this show Jim Burneka Jr., draws upon his powerful and revealing new book, Overcoming Tuesday to bring us into his journey - his commitment, his trauma and its impact on his life. Importantly he shares not only the denial of physical and emotional suffering common to First Responders, he brings us up close and personal to his...
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Encore: Facing Addiction or Alcoholism - Finding Lasting Sobriety
Psych Up Live
In the US an estimated 20 million people have problems with alcohol and/or other drugs. Some seek help, many try to stop on their own terms but can’t, many never stop. In this show, Dr. Geoff Kane, who has helped people understand and cope with substance use disorders for more than 50 years, brings his expertise to Psych Up live to benefit our national and international listeners. Board certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, Dr. Kane will be drawing upon his experience and his important book, The Two...
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Encore: Living Mindfully with Shelter and Storm in Times of Uncertainty with Guest Tamara Dean
Psych Up Live
Whether you are someone who loves city living or would love the chance to go back to living in nature on a farm overlooking fields, you will be enthralled with Tamara Dean’s telling of her re-location to the Driftless Area of Wisconsin. Together with her partner David, she shares the challenges, wonders and strenuous daily work of a life embedded in nature. From building their own farmhouse, hunting for water, to burning a hayfield to recreate a prairie you will be in awe of the challenges they face. You will also hear of the bonds with neighbors that are clearly different when dealing with...
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" Till Divorce Do Us Part - Coping with Divorce"
Psych Up Live
“Till Divorce Do Us Part – Coping with Divorce” While there are a little less than 50% of couples divorcing, the United States is still home to the most divorces. According to the CDC the current nationwide divorce rate is 42%. Well beyond the numbers are the people, the families, the children, the lawyers, the feelings, losses, trauma and possibilities that may come with divorce. Today we will be considering strategies, steps and the resilience that will help anyone dealing with divorce. Oona Metz, LICSW, CGP is a nationally recognized therapist, writer, and speaker who...
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‘Insomnia: Symptom or Diagnosis?’
Psych Up Live
In this show Dr Avi Bhar will offer listeners an understanding of insomnia and its manifestations, and why medications don’t always work. The show will offer an understanding of the basics of good sleep. It will unravel the insomnia diagnosis from insomnia as a symptom and underscore the danger of immediately treating insomnia with a sedative. Too often people do not get any sleep evaluation once they utter the word ‘insomnia’ to a provider. Rather than being prescribed a pill or a CBT program, Dr. Bhar invites a closer understanding of the reasons many people struggle with sleep and...
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14 Simple Ways to Become “Sharp”
Psych Up Live
What if you could use 14 Simple Ways to Improve Your Life with Brain Science? You can. In this show, Dr. Therese Huston returns to Psych Up Live with her new book “Sharp” - a little book that can play a very big role is your everyday success. Across the age spectrum people want to focus better, remember more, handle stress, bias, cope with pain, stay healthy and unlock their full potential. Dr. Huston guides us. She has already done the research and captured what we need to know and do to be more focused and productive often with 10 minute (sometimes 5 minute) strategies. Whether you want...
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Encore - A Closer Look at The Secret Lives of Men: Pain and Possibilities
Psych Up Live
This show is for men and everyone who loves them. In it, psychotherapist, James Hawes draws upon his years of clinical experience with men and his book, The Secret Lives of Men: Ten Keys to Unlock the Mystery, to discuss the social and cultural norms that keep men trapped with feelings like unvoiced hurt, sadness, fear and shame. In his presentation he considers topics like: Feelings as a Foreign Language, Vulnerability Masked as Anger, Sex as Intimacy and Performance as the Source of Self Esteem. As you will hear in his examples and strategies for therapeutic change, James Hawes has a...
info_outlineWhether you are someone who loves city living or would love the chance to go back to living in nature on a farm overlooking fields, you will be enthralled with Tamara Dean’s telling of her re-location to the Driftless Area of Wisconsin. Together with her partner David, she shares the challenges, wonders and strenuous daily work of a life embedded in nature. From building their own farmhouse, hunting for water, to burning a hayfield to recreate a prairie you will be in awe of the challenges they face. You will also hear of the bonds with neighbors that are clearly different when dealing with fires, floods, beavers and tornadoes. A fiction writer, Tamara in this book shares the reality of pain and power of nature in a way most of us have never experienced. Listen in.
Guest: Tamara Dean
Tamara Dean is a writer whose essays and stories have been published in The American Scholar, The Georgia Review, The Guardian, One Story, Orion and The Progressive. She is also the author of an earlier book, The Human- Powered Home: Choosing Muscles over Motors. Tamara has been camping, fishing, hiking and gathering foods from an early age led by parents who grew up on farms in Wisconsin and had the opportunity to go to college and move to a small city. Her understanding and love of nature is a part of who she is.
