Send us Fan Mail Your nervous system can win a war and still lose the peace. I sit down with Tony Crescenzo, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and the President and CEO of Intelligent Waves, to talk about what PTSD, moral injury, and high-stress service can look like years later: hair-trigger anger, relentless rumination, broken sleep, and that feeling of being stuck in “hurry up” mode even when life is safe. Tony shares an extraordinary counterintelligence story from the early 1980s and how betray...
Aug 31
54 min
Send us Fan Mail A lot of us hit adulthood thinking our childhood is “over,” then we watch ourselves react like a younger version of us just grabbed the steering wheel. Dr. Adam McCormick joins us to unpack why that happens, especially for people in service roles, and why the helping professions are full of high-functioning survivors who look fine on the outside while carrying heavy inner pressure. We get practical about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and a distinction that chang...
Aug 26
54 min
Send us Fan Mail Porn is easy to blame. It’s harder, and far more useful, to ask what it’s doing for you. Dr. Daniel Roberts sits down with hypnotherapist Nelson Whiting to look underneath compulsive pornography use and talk about the real engines of stuck patterns: loneliness, grief, rejection, chronic stress, and the quiet identity belief that keeps showing up, “I’m not good enough.” Nelson shares how his first exposure to self-hypnosis started as a simple breathing and affirmation r...
Aug 25
44 min
Send us Fan Mail A patient dies quickly, a family can’t agree, a nurse goes home and still can’t turn it off. That ethical weight has a name: moral injury, and it doesn’t belong only to the battlefield. We sit down with Kelly Edmondson, a trauma ICU nurse, healthcare executive, certified grief counselor, and founder of Timely Presence, to talk about what COVID looked like from inside hospital walls: constant uncertainty, fear of exposure, rapid loss, and the shock of feeling mistruste...
Aug 4
1 hr 3 min
Send us Fan Mail Trauma doesn’t just live in memories. It hides in the body, locks into identity, and quietly runs decisions until we feel like we’re fighting ourselves. I’m Dr. Daniel Roberts, and I sit down with Dr. Judith A. Swack, PhD, a biochemist and immunologist who became a pioneer in energy psychology and mind-body healing. Judith created Healing From the Body Level Up (HBLU), a practical model that treats us as multi-level beings: conscious mind, unconscious mind, body, and soul. W...
Jul 27
1 hr 1 min
Send us Fan Mail Burnout can look like productivity on the outside while your inner life is collapsing. We sit down with Keith A. Cole, a Vietnam Marine veteran, speaker, and Christian recovery advocate, to trace how grief, combat trauma, and years of “just power through” can quietly stack up until you hit a wall you can’t muscle past anymore. Keith shares his story with disarming honesty: wounded three times in Vietnam, later tasked with notifying families of fallen Marines, and eventually ...
Jul 21
59 min
Send us Fan Mail Your teeth can be the first place your body shows a deeper problem. When gums recede, enamel erodes, or bones quietly thin over time, it is easy to blame age and genetics and miss what might be driving the process underneath: chronic stress, rising acidity, and mineral depletion. We sit down with nutritionist Stephen Hewer to unpack his personal journey from mercury toxicity to decades of clinical work, and why he believes a specific form of calcium, “ionic calcium,” plays an...
Jul 7
40 min
Send us Fan Mail A single prescription can change your life, but not always in the way you were promised. We sit down with Ellen P. Lubensky, Esquire, a Stanford graduate and attorney, to talk about what patients rarely hear clearly: the real-world risks of psychiatric medications, the gaps in informed consent, and how quickly benzodiazepine dependence can take hold when you’re just trying to sleep. Ellen shares her personal and professional perspective after decades on psychiatric meds, inc...
Jul 2
44 min
Send us Fan Mail A child doesn’t have the vocabulary for moral injury, PTSD, or hypervigilance, but they can feel a parent’s distance in their bones. When a service member or veteran comes home changed, kids often fill in the blank with the most painful explanation possible: “It must be my fault.” That’s where our conversation with licensed psychologist Dr. Pat Pernicano gets real, fast. She spent years at the South Texas VA working with veterans and co-developing Acceptance and Forgiveness T...
Jun 29
39 min
Send us Fan Mail Silence can be a survival skill, especially when the system around you feels like it will punish the truth. We sit down with Paula J. Kemp, a U.S. Navy combat veteran who served during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom as a combat photographer, to talk about what happens when the uniform you love becomes the setting for military sexual trauma (MST) and the long shadow it can cast afterward. Paula walks us through the real-world barriers that keep survivo...
Jun 2
1 hr 4 min
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