In March 2020, I spoke with David Vigerust, PhD, a virologist who was busy setting up new laboratories to test for the novel coronavirus. Cities were locked down, businesses were closed, and testing was hard to find.
In March 2020, I spoke with Frank King, a comedian who calls himself the mental health comedian. He spent decades on the road opening for comics who later became household names, and he now speaks to workplaces and health professionals about depression and suicide prevention, using his own life and a lot of humor.
In February 2020, I spoke with Stephen Finlay, who managed addiction services in the Surrey region of British Columbia for Lookout Housing and Health Society. Among other programs, he oversaw SafePoint, the second federally sanctioned supervised injection site in Canada.
In January 2020, I spoke with Anissa Hudak, a Reiki master and yoga therapist who works with people living with trauma. We talked about Reiki, energy centers, sound, a deep muscle she calls the emotional warehouse of the body, and what to do when a trigger hits.
In December 2019, I spoke with two guests at once. Harry Derbitsky teaches the three principles of Sydney Banks and wrote The Evolution of Addiction Recovery. Mark Astor is an attorney whose law firm focuses on helping families when a loved one with a substance use or mental health problem has lost control of their life.
In this episode, released in December 2019, I spoke with Bill Hudenko, PhD, a psychologist at Dartmouth and the chief executive of VOI, a behavioral technology company. The company's single focus was reducing suicide rates in the United States through advanced technology and new approaches.
In December 2019, I spoke with Claudia Christian, the actor best known for her lead role on Babylon 5, who founded the C3 Foundation to spread the word about the Sinclair Method.
In November 2019, I recorded a short solo episode about two questions. Do 12-step meetings work for people with alcohol dependence, and is there anything a doctor can offer? The starting point was an NPR article that had been shared with me about Dr.
In October 2019, I spoke with Dr. Eben Alexander, an academic neurosurgeon who taught at Harvard Medical School for more than 15 years. In November 2008, he spent a week in a coma from a severe bacterial meningitis that infected his brain, and he woke with a memory of an experience he later described in his book Proof of Heaven.
In September 2019, I joined Mark Astor, an attorney who helps families get help for a loved one with a substance use problem, on his own show. We treated it as a shared episode.
In June 2019, I spoke with Jamelia Hand, a consultant who helps physicians, health care organizations, and employers build care for opioid use disorder. She holds a Master of Health Science and certification in addiction counseling and co-occurring disorders, and she was working on her doctorate when we recorded.
In August 2019, I sat down with Kristin Sunanta Walker. She had welcomed me into the Digital Tech Initiative, a group of people from many fields who look at how technology affects mental health.