Neurotic Nourishment

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Season Three, Episode 16: Against All Odds, Jay Shifman Is Still Alive By the age of twenty-three, Jay Shifman had a life-threatening opioid addiction, twice been hospitalized for an overdose, twice attempted suicide, and spent a significant amount of time in an inpatient hospital and a rehab facility. Clearly that rehab facility didn't do the trick.  But, today, Jay is a husband, the host of the...

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Neurotic Nourishment Patreon Episode: Behind the DNA Privacy Controversy

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In this week's Neurotic Nourishment Episode, we listened to the incredible Lisa Phillips discuss how she went BIG with her company, Pink Lady Investigations. Lisa has gone big. HUGE. Multiple offices, and over 120,000 Tik Tok followers! I was blown away by Lisa, and when I spoke to the amazing Alex Minor, he easily broke down some solid tips to growing your business in this multi-media focused wor...

Season Three, Episode 17: Lisa Phillips, Pink Lady Investigations In this week's Neurotic Nourishment Episode, we listened to the incredible Lisa Phillips discuss how she went BIG with her company, Pink Lady Investigations. Lisa has gone big. HUGE. Multiple offices, and over 120,000 Tik Tok followers! Lisa has a history of relationships gone wrong, but then again...who the hell doesn't. Join us fo...

Neurotic Nourishment Season Three, Episode 15: Part Two: The Strength to Move   In this second part of our two-part series about Jan and Alan Canty, Jan discusses the fallout of life as she knew it. Jan candidly explores with me the times when she kinda should have maybe known that something was up with her husband of so very many years who turned to a young prostitute for love and affection...

Season Three, Episode 14: Part One: My Husband Died Living A Life I Never Knew Existed When Jan met Dr. Alan Canty, a well-known, well-respected Detroit Psychiatrist, he was eighteen years her senior and quickly became not only her employer, but her biggest cheerleader as well. She proposed to him, suddenly and out of the blue, and their wedding was picked at random when Jan pointed her finger at...

Season Three, Episode 13: Murder, Margaritas and Mayhem: Talk Murder to Me You all know about my rapidly growing true crime addiction, so you can only imagine how friggin' excited I was when my guest of a few weeks ago, Dr. Marianne Matzo, happened to mention that her niece hosted a true-crime podcast -- and holy crap, her niece is Nicole LaPorte Perry, one of the three co-hosts of one of my favor...

Neurotic Nourishment Season Three, Episode 12: All Expert Testimony Is Opinion Warning: If you're not into bloody crime scenes, this episode *probably* isn't for you. Seriously. Maybe you just skip this one, just this one time, of course. In today's episode I get to geek out with Anita Zannin, an expert in Blood Spatter Pattern Analysis. Seriously, guys, don't call it blood spatter, that's ju...

Roscoe's Wetsuit Neuro: How to trick your brain into being better behaved Toby Pasman is a neurophysiology researcher and founder of Roscoe's Wetsuit Neuro, an applied neuroscience that uses tech to improve the way your brain works its magical cognitive and emotional functions. Toby created a complimentary "Six Steps to Better Cognitive Performance '' PDF that our listeners can receive if they sig...

Season Three, Episode #11: How Do You Recover From A Stroke: Marcia Moran Marcia Moran is the survivor of a massive stroke that caused her to lose the ability to speak (also known as aphasia) and resulted in limited control over the movement in the right half of her body. But, these days Marcia isn't just surviving, she is seriously thriving. Thanks to her hard work, the advocacy of her husband on...

Season Three, Episode 10: How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes Melinda Wenner Moyer is an award-winning journalist whose research-based articles have appeared in pretty much every publication that has rejected my own work. She is a contributing editor at Scientific American magazine and a regular contributor to The New York Times, Washington Post , and other national magazines and newspapers. She...

Season Three, Episode #9: How Do We Talk to Our Kids About Death With Dr. Marianne Matzo To hear Dr. Marianne Matzo tell the story, it sounds like she has always wanted to work with the elderly, and from the early days of nursing school, she quickly noticed a difference between the way the doctors attended to elderly, declining patients, and the way the nurses did. Maybe that was because doctors i...

Season Three, Episode 8: Can Murderers Learn to Be Mediators? Doug Noll and the Prison of Peace Project Say Yes! This week's Patreon episode: Season Three, Patreon Episode #3: More about the woman whose letter started Prison of Peace! Doug Noll spent 22 years as a trial attorney before getting his Master’s Degree in Mediation and accidentally stumbling into an opportunity to make a difference in t...

Bonus Episode! Season Three, Patreon Episode #1 In 1983, Rebecca and Vaughn Arceneaux of Kaplan, Louisiana, finally decided to separate after several years of remaining in a not-so-great marriage. Rebecca was given custody of their son, Beau, who was somewhere between 15 and 17 months old. The judge established a steady visitation schedule in which Beau was with Vaughn every other weekend. But, on...

Season Three, Episode 7: A Kardashian, a Kidnapping, and Kicking Addiction Evan Jarschauer, the Kardashian Interventionist, makes it his job to reunite families who have been torn apart by substance abuse. Perhaps part of his motivation and talent for repairing families comes from his own childhood kidnapping, although his description certainly left me with more questions than answers. Join Evan a...

Season Three, Episode 6: Jaimie Beebe is the co-host of Strictly Stalking, along with Jake Deptula, a true-crime podcast that gives the survivors of stalking the opportunity for their story to be heard. I use the word survivors deliberately because labeling someone as a victim after they live through an awful ordeal just seems wrong.  Jaimie is annoyingly gorgeous and upbeat and truly passion...

This is nothing more than a brief, adorable explanation for where I have been and what my children think I spend all my time doing...and they're not wrong. Tons of exciting guests to look forward to!

Season Three, Episode 4: What Can You Live With? In this episode, I talk to Dr. Alan Winder, Psychologist and Certified Divorce and Family Mediator, about the state of relationships during the pandemic. How have things changed? Are there more people getting divorced? Are there more couples seeking therapy in light of quarantine and Corona anxiety? Have a listen as Dr. Winder tells us how to keep o...

Today’s episode was made for you, the listener. You, personally, I mean. You see, my dear listeners, I know who you are and what you struggle with. I know that you constantly strive to make your outside prettier than your inside, because damn, although mental health is important – and you know this – but, you live in a time or a town or a world where women are not supposed to age at all, and certa...

Season Three, Episode 2: What Would You Do To Save Your Child’s Life? In today’s episode, I struggle not to cry – because tears would do Jordan Ogman very little good. And my tears would probably be even less helpful to David Ogman, my current guest, new friend, and Jordan’s father. To understand this episode I think it helps if I explain how I connected with David: A few weeks ago I posted on my...