Rebel Health Radio
New revolutionary health ideas that will blow your mind: ideas, books and resources reviewed and discussed for you so you can inform yourself to make better choices in healthcare. From trauma healing, nervous system regulation, biofield resonance to the microbiome and beyond. If something exists to help us heal ourselves, I'm there! With interviews with like minded health-seekers, book reviews, discussions and Q&A sessions to find out more about this new, expanding medicine coming on-stream now that blows out of the water the old model of medicine based on symptom suppression and drugs. It's more efficient, it's more sustainable and it works! Stay tuned.
Episodes
168 episodes
Athletes and Anxiety | Recorded for the Centre for Integrative Sports Nutrition CISN
Anxiety is a common problem for athletes:00:00 Intro and how I got into somatic trauma work03:40 Chronic anxiety is a natural response to past experience stored in your body in a feedback loop with your limbic brain06:50 The bod...
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The Neuroscience of Flotation Therapy - How it Calms Anxiety in Mind and Body
I've been looking at innovative new therapies to help calm the mindbody as I'm writing my book Mind Medicine (soon to be published 6th September).Here I give a summary of how and why it works and what my experience was recently.Catch th...
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The Future of Health | Connecting the Mind and Body | Wholism in Action
How Health is more than fixing the problem but engaging with a wider perspective - a truly wholistic vision of purpose, beliefs and connectionWe need to understand we are connected to a universal consciousness...Find me on alche...
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Cooperation not Competition | Understanding Living Systems Book Review | Denis Noble's New Biology
In my review of this most important book Understanding Living Systems by brothers Raymond and Denis Noble I show you how biology is beginning to move beyond the concept of the 'selfish gene' and turning to a more co-operative view of life.<...
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The Neuroscience of Flotation Therapy | How it Calms Anxiety in Mind and Body
I've been looking at innovative new therapies to help calm the mindbody as I'm writing my book Mind Medicine (soon to be published 6th September).Here I give a summary of how and why it works and what my experience was recently.
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Our Body Electric | Nerves and Electropollution | The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg Part 3
By special request - more info from the book The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg on the importance of the myelin sheath in transmission of energy throughout the body - and what can go wrong with Electromagnetic pollution.00:00 I...
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Martha Beck - The Way of Integrity - Finding the path to your true self | Book Review
A book review and interpretation of Martha Beck's wonderfully illuminating book The Way of Integrity based on Dante's The Divine Comedy as a book of an existential midlife crisis!Martha takes us through the process of recovery from this thr...
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Brain pain - how Psychogenic Pain Develops from Unfelt Emotions- and how to treat it
Chronic or persistent pain is very different to acute pain both in origin and management. Find out the secret to overcoming this debilitating condition00:00 Intro - reminder acute vs. chronic pain (nocioceptive, neuropathic vs. psychoge...
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Human Complexity and Emotions as Resonance | Healing as a Cell Mitochondrial Feedback System
Healing is an act of self-organising feedback resonance within the body.Here I explain how I came to learn this and what you can do to promote it within your body.Here is the video I talk about extensively The Secret Life of Chaos ...
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The Divided Mind - Dr Sarno's revolutionary take on the unconscious origins of mindbody disorders
Here I review the understanding put forward in the book The Divided Mind by Dr John Sarno as long ago as 2006. Doctor Sarno was one of the first medical doctors to embrace the idea of psychosomatic medicine which he dubbed mind body disorder to...
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How the Brain Creates Pain and how that differs from tissue damage pain
Talking about pain from a mindbody perspective and how to heal.00:00 Intro and why I'm talking about pain today01:30 how to treat acute pain relating to tissue damage and shock (held in the body)05:20 acute vs. chronic pain - pa...
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Retrain Your Brain - Different approaches to CFS/ME recovery
Explore with me the multi-dimensional nature of complex chronic exhaustive conditions and how you can heal. See also Raelan Agle's fabulous channel @RaelanAgle ...
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Recovery from Chronic Disease is NOT about 'Fixing the Problem'- A New Paradigm of Healing
Recovery from chronic disease or conditions is not about fixing the problem. How the experience of Craig McKinley's sepsis and the work of Dr Rangan Chatterjee, Nicola Singleton and John Campbell has informed my work.Here's the in...
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Dealing with Trauma - The SHOCK loss of Michael Mosley Triggers an Outpouring of Grief and Disbelief
My reaction to the death of TV presenter and doctor Michael Mosley was one of deep sorrow and shock despite not knowing him personally. I was stunned by the unnecessary loss but also realising I was reacting to an event that happened to me 40 y...
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What REALLY causes CFS/ME - and how to heal it psycho-spiritually - A therapist's view
My commentary on the insight and understanding of healing ME/CFS as a spiritual disconnect that nevertheless has physical consequences. I draw on an interview between Jenny Lynn and Raelan Agle as well as my own experience as a therapist for ov...
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Reviewing Gabor Mate's Extraordinary New Book: The Myth Of Normal
Why is this groundbreaking book so important? Here's my view...00:00 Intro and Dr Mate's background02:00 A leading light in emotional trauma awareness- and his personal experience of childhood trauma03:44 Synopsis of chapters an...
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Iain McGilchrist What's the Matter with Medicine Commentary - Part 2
My commentary on the lecture given by Iain McGilchrist yesterday to McGill University.for the original lecture go herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REB7GOxX5Mk00:00 Intro to what's the matter with medicine in a left-brain worl...
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What's Wrong with Medicine - Iain Mc Gilchrist & Importance of Right Brain in Wholistic Healing
My commentary on the lecture given by Iain McGilchrist yesterday to McGill University.for the original lecture go herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REB7GOxX5Mk00:00 Iain is a unique voice in that he marries the humanities (phi...
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The Unique Ways Men Handle Stress: An Insight Into Men And Therapy
Men and women - the difference in how stress operates and how it manifests. And why men are less likely to admit they need helpSee this article for more details on gender differences in neurobiologyhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...
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Lessons From Amy Winehouse & Gabor Mate: Regulating Your Nervous System
Lessons from the life and untimely death of Amy Winehouse after watching the movie Back to Black and also reading The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate. How nervous system dysregulation plays out in the life and how it inevitably takes its toll as w...
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Being Vulnerable is HEALTHY | Unlock Your Creativity & Boost Self-worth By Embracing Vulnerability
I've become aware that vulnerability is key to true creativity - you cannot create something new without risk. Find out how I've discovered this in my own life and work - with the help of some others who've explored this - Brene Brown, Gabor Ma...
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The Perils of AI - Artificial Intimacy and Social Media | The Wisdom of Esther Perel and Brene Brown
In this commentary on the words of Esther Perel and researcher Brene Brown I delve into how AI is creating a mental health crisis. Not Artificial intelligence but Artificial Intimacy!! Intimacy and Connection are crucial to healthy human expres...
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Transforming Trauma | Microdosing Psilocybin | Healing Trauma With Psychedelics/EMDR/Altered States
Find out how to transform past experiences so that you can move forward in life without sabotaging yourself.An update on my microdosing months 3 after 1 month offAlso how I've noticed EMDR works similarly to psychedelics.For the...
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How to Change your Mind | Book Review of Michael Pollan's The New Science of Psychedelics
In this audio I describe this ground-breaking information on how to heal with psychedelics from the book How to Change your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan.The article I mention By Robin Carhart-Harris on The Ent...
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Working with Emotion | The Influence of Virginia Satir in Healing Relationships and Life
Psychotherapist Virginia Satir (1916 - 1988) remains one of the most influential family therapists there have ever been but she is virtually unknown now outside of psychology. She taught the importance of feelings over thoughts and blew the cur...
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