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Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

Dr. Alauna Curry

20 episodes

7 months ago

Send us a text Join us for an enlightening conversation on Minding Your Amygdala: A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast! In this episode, we take a closer look at what Bipolar Disorder can look like through the lens of Kanye West’s publicly shared experiences. Remember, this is for educational purposes only—but it can help spark a deeper understanding of mood disorders. We’ll walk through the DSM-5 criteria for Bipolar Disorder, exploring the highs (mania) and lows (depression), and wrap up by disc...

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Social Sciences

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Send us a text Join us for an enlightening conversation on Minding Your Amygdala: A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast! In this episode, we take a closer look at what Bipolar Disorder can look like through the lens of Kanye West’s publicly shared experiences. Remember, this is for educational purposes only—but it can help spark a deeper understanding of mood disorders. We’ll walk through the DSM-5 criteria for Bipolar Disorder, exploring the highs (mania) and lows (depression), and wrap up by disc...

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Self-Improvement,

Health & Fitness,

Social Sciences

Episodes (20/20)

Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

We Gotta Talk About Kanye: Understanding Bipolar Disorder

Send us a text Join us for an enlightening conversation on Minding Your Amygdala: A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast! In this episode, we take a closer look at what Bipolar Disorder can look like through the lens of Kanye West’s publicly shared experiences. Remember, this is for educational purposes only—but it can help spark a deeper understanding of mood disorders. We’ll walk through the DSM-5 criteria for Bipolar Disorder, exploring the highs (mania) and lows (depression), and wrap up by disc...

8 months ago

38 minutes

Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

Mental Health: The Final Frontier

Send us a text In this powerful episode of Minding Your Amygdala, we confront the last great frontier of human health: mental well-being. Despite monumental progress in social justice—challenging racism, gender inequality, and systemic abuse—mental health remains stigmatized, hidden behind layers of cultural, religious, and societal resistance. But why??! Join us as we explore the numbers behind the mental health crisis, revealing its global impact and the economic toll of untreated condition...

8 months ago

36 minutes

Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

Introducing The Trauma Toolbox : 7 Proven Tools to Cope with Trauma

Send us a text In this episode, Dr. Alauna discusses the mission of DA-TRI.org to offer mental health education and trauma recovery in the form of a Skills Over Pills approach to self healing AND why your support is so important! For Giving Tuesday 2024 (and beyond), we offer the gift of mental health! Today, we explore the new Trauma Toolbox: 7 Proven Tools for Coping with Trauma E-Book! So often, we've been shown negative coping skills like drinking, smoking, shopping, e...

11 months ago

31 minutes

Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

WTH was that!!? Aging Brains and the Presidential Debate

Send us a text In this episode, Dr. Alauna reflects on America's most recent Presidential Debate between Former President Donald Trump and Current President Joe Biden on June 27, 2024. The stakes for our country are extremely high, and watching this as a trauma psychiatrist, I realized that we HAVE to talk about the aging brain! Both candidates have clearly observable challenges, but without mental health awareness and education, these concerning symptoms may not be obvious. ...

1 year ago

28 minutes

Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

How Confirmation Bias is Dividing Society

Send us a text Have you noticed that society seems more divided than ever? How can so many people be living in the same world, yet experiencing such different realities? Enter our brain and biology! While some have become aware of the importance of understanding implicit and explicit bias, I believe the strongest human bias is confirmation bias, the tendency to believe in our own "rightness" and therefore our brain gives greater weight to information that reinforces our own ...

1 year ago

32 minutes

Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

Secondary Trauma - How to Cope when you Witness Tragedy

Send us a text We are absorbing an INCREDIBLE amount of trauma lately. From the very public medical emergency of Damar Hamlin, to the release of brutal footage of police beating Tyre Nichols, we find ourselves in the space to again, be a witness. According to dictionary.com, to be a witness is to "be present, personally see or perceive a thing; a beholder, spectator, or eyewitness." This episode of MYA is centered on the importance of building our individual trauma resilience ski...

2 years ago

32 minutes

Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

Parenting Traumatized Humans : A Look at ACEs (Adverse Childhood Events)

Send us a text We are seeing the numbers of children struggling with emotions skyrocketing, and as a trauma psychiatrist, it makes sense to me. Traumas create predictable patterns in our psychological and biological health. The pandemic was/IS a shared, global trauma that all humans experienced, and if a large number of "adults" are struggling with "post-" traumatic mental health effects, then of course, the children are suffering, too. In this episode, we will dive into 3 c...

2 years ago

37 minutes

Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

The Humans are Gangbanging!

Send us a text Why does it seem like humanity is gang-banging right now? How we achieve Unity in such a Divided Society? We're called the "United States" but it seems we are more divided than ever. I haven't heard anyone say that they think humans are doing OK. "Mass global mental health crisis" is a term we hear more and more. There aren't even enough mental health practitioners, especially who are FULLY trauma trained to even manage the number of people struggling emotionally.&n...

2 years ago

34 minutes

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Are We Truly "Aware" of Mental Illness?

Send us a text In October, we observed Mental Illness Awareness Week. In that time I asked myself, as a society, Are we TRULY AWARE of mental illness? (Spoiler: NOOOOooo!) This month, we take the time to acknowledge and raise awareness of many different conditions we call “mental illness” like Depression, Schizophrenia, ADHD, PTSD, Dementia, Bipolar Disorder and more. However, as I listen to society debate the many pressing issues of our current society, the widespread violence a...

3 years ago

33 minutes

Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

SOS: Saving Our Selves from Suicide

Send us a text Suicide, or intentionally taking one’s own life, is complex; it involves psychological, social, biological, cultural, and environmental factors. Join us this week for an important conversation about one of the most preventable public health emergencies in our society today: suicide. Talking about it can save a life. Some statistics about suicide: Globally, there is one suicide about every 40 seconds. In the U.S., there is a suicide every 13.7 minutes. Suic...

3 years ago

35 minutes

Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

Let's Talk About Sex!

Send us a text New Season Alert!!! Minding Your Amygdala : A Brain, Body & Behavior Podcast is Back! Sex! What a loaded word! It can mean so many different things to so many people, yet it is one of the hardest things to talk about! Which means our amygdalas have a LOT to do with the human experience of SEX! In this episode of Minding Your Amygdala, we will dive into some key elements of sex: why it's so difficult to discuss in a healthy way, why there is so much...

3 years ago

31 minutes

Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

Treating America's Addiction to Violence

Send us a text Dear friend, I'm sorry to have to tell you, but we, human beings, allaus, unfortunately, are struggling with an addiction to violence. It's not your fault, because of the way our global society has evolved, now in 2022, we are all caught up in a devastating cycle of trauma and addiction, fueled by one important, powerful (but short lasting) pleasure chemical, Dopamine. American society is uniquely addicted to violence, because aggression and force has been a c...

3 years ago

32 minutes

Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

Hate and Racism: Are they mental illness?

Send us a text Y'all... I'm tired. Are you tired? I'm angry, hurt, frustrated and SICK of us ignoring the obvious impact of 2 core human issues: Hate and Racism. In this episode, I'm going to explain why racism is a delusional condition and hate absolutely IS a state of mind that should be classified as mental illness! The sooner we begin to understand the underlying mental illness that all humans are experiencing, the faster we can evolve society to addr...

3 years ago

46 minutes

Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

Empathy Heals!!!

Send us a text "Trauma hurts. Empathy heals." Have you wondered lately, WTF is wrong with humans? Everywhere you look, there are traumatic events and painful reminders that we are going through an emotional, spiritual and psychological crisis. We want answers for how to stop mass killings, political division, addiction crises and beyond, yet those answers seem slow in arriving, as we witness more and more chaos. Yet, I do believe that there is a cure for what ails hu...

3 years ago

39 minutes

Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

Trauma Hurts...

Send us a text What is psychological trauma? How do you know if you have experienced trauma? What can you do about the traumas in your life? In this episode, I break down my motto "Trauma hurts. Empathy heals" and explain why I chose to lead with that statement. As society begins to realize trauma as a core experience that all people share, it will help us to expand and update the way we think about psychological trauma. MANY events cause psychological tr...

3 years ago

36 minutes

Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

All Words Matter

Send us a text Have you ever considered the anatomy of words? What are "words?" How do these fragile yet impactful sounds affect the way we think, feel and act? Can words be "violent?" Miscommunication is inherent in the human experience, and our current world is full of the trauma that comes from our careless use of words. Whoever said, sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt you, clearly did not know about the Somatosensory Cortex, the part of th...

3 years ago

30 minutes

Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

It ain't the Devil, It's your Amygdala!

Send us a text In this episode, Dr. Alauna breaks down the anatomy of the primitive brain, and the 7 parts of your brain that are critical to understanding your mental health. Have you ever heard of your amygdala? Did you know it does more than create FEAR responses? When is the last time you thought about your Brain Reward System? Did you know dopamine drives all addiction processes? Do you know how to activate your prefrontal cortex? Did you even know y...

3 years ago

33 minutes

Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

Trauma Mythbusters

Send us a text It's time for Trauma Mythbusters!!!! Now that we have explored the real world trauma of "The Slap," it's time to dive into the many myths and falsehoods we have been taught about mental health and psychological trauma. "Only military people who go through combat and get injured have trauma." - NOPE, Errbody has experienced trauma. Every human being on Earth has experienced trauma in their past, present and will in their future as well. "Trauma has to be hor...

3 years ago

28 minutes

Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

The Slap Seen 'Round the World

Send us a text "Oh $h!ggidy! Did you see that?!" was the common refrain from the night of the Oscars 2022. So many of us worldwide watched in shock as Will Smith, one of the main honorees of the event, slapped Chris Rock in response to a joke told about Jada Pinkett Smith's bald head, which is due to autoimmune alopecia. This is just one of MANY examples that we have had lately of humans behaving badly. From airplane conduct, to road rage, to gun violence, political violence...

3 years ago

32 minutes

Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

Minding Your Amygdala

Send us a text Welcome to Minding Your Amygdala! In this first episode, Dr. Alauna breaks down her journey through traditional psychiatry, her crash course in trauma as she navigated her own personal and professional life, and how this led to the creation of Empathy Skills Practice™ for Traumatized Humans. We're all humans. We all have amygdalas, and we all have emotions. There is no shame in having traumatic experiences—We all have them. Tune in each week as Dr. Alauna offers answers ...

3 years ago

27 minutes