Episodes
July 8, 2021
Workplace Harassment Reaches into The Remote Workplace: Concerns
As we consider how to open the workplace with possible hybrid options, one reality that has received too little attention is the increase in Workplace Harassment during the pandemic year. In this show, Kalpana Kotagal, partne...
June 17, 2021
From Neurons To Nations: Regulating For The Benefit Of All Beings
In this show, our guest Boaz Feldman will be calling in from Geneva Switzerland with great interest in connecting to our listeners. Much as the title suggests, Boaz Feldman’s passion is the integration of knowledge from many ...
May 27, 2021
Supporting Transgender Teens: What Parents Need to Know
The journey that a transgender teen takes from confusion and fear to acceptance and consolidation of gender identity is often a difficult one for them and their parents. It is one for which understanding and support are inval...
May 13, 2021
Porn Literacy: How Do Parents Talk to Their Teens about Porn?
In today’s high speed internet world, teens are merely a few clicks away from free access to streaming porn. A Nationally Representative Youth Internet Safety Survey found that the likelihood of a teen or preteen accessing po...
April 15, 2021
Guns, Suicide, Violence and Gun Safety in Uncertain Times
Half of all suicide deaths are caused by firearms, and suicides account for nearly two thirds of all deaths by firearms. We are horrified by the epidemic of gun violence in this country. Suicide comprises a substantial portio...
March 25, 2021
Age-Proof Your Sex Life: Information, Realities and Strategies
In a manner that is personal, specific, at times funny and underscored with thirty years of writing and talking about sex, Tracey Cox invites us to age-proof our sex lives. Drawing upon her 17th and newest book, Great Sex Sta...
March 4, 2021
Make Effective Feedback Your Superpower: Strategies
In this episode, Dr. Therese Huston draws upon her new book, Let’s Talk: Make Effective Feedback Your Superpower, and her experience speaking to academic audiences and businesses like Microsoft and Amazon to teach us how to g...
Feb. 25, 2021
Black Physician Helps Black Communities Trust the Vaccine
The Racial Inequities of the Coronavirus are clear. Three times as many Black and Latino Americans have become infected with the Corona Virus compared to their White Neighbors. Many Black Americans have fears and reluctance t...
Jan. 28, 2021
Career Planning During a Pandemic – Lessons for Everyone
Among other things, the pandemic has taken jobs, economic stability, business ventures and the hope of new employment for many. In this episode we address this dilemma. Our Guest, Dr. Joel Evans, a Distinguished Professor of ...
Jan. 14, 2021
Untangling, Understanding and Improving In-Law Relationships
Whether you are newly married, a middle aged couple, the identified In-Laws or the bewildered Out-Laws of an expanded family, you need to hear this show. In it, psychologist and author Dr. Geoffrey Greif draws upon his new an...
Jan. 6, 2021
Encore “Uncover the Power Within” – A Program To Take Back Your Life
In this show Dr. Elisha Goldstein returns to Psych Up Live to describe, discuss and exemplify aspects of his important new program “ Uncover the Power Within”. Dr. Elisha Goldstein will share the personal journey that brings ...
Dec. 17, 2020
Grieving is Loving: Embracing Our Response to Loss
We are in a time of extraordinary loss of loved ones. Worldwide, more than a million people have died from Covid-19. Countless others have died of other causes. With extraordinary loss of loved ones there is extraordinary gri...
Dec. 10, 2020
Racism and Black Mental Health – How Do We Make a Difference?
In this show, Dr. Juliette McClendon, Research Psychologist in the Women’s Health Sciences Division of the National Center for PTSD at VA Boston and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine, d...
Dec. 3, 2020
The Power of Self-Compassion to Enhance Coping in Difficult Times
Dr. Kristin Neff is the recognized pioneer in the field of Self Compassion research and the author of the important book, Self-Compassion-The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself. As individuals, families and communities we...
Nov. 19, 2020
Revolutionizing the Way People Find Love: Deeper Dating Online
In this episode, Ken Page, psychotherapist and author of “Deeper Dating: How to Drop the Games of Seduction and Discover the Power of Intimacy” returns to Psych Up Live to tell us about his new Deeper Dating Online site. Ken ...
Oct. 22, 2020
From Frontier Days to Present Day: The Search for Love Through Personal Ads and Online Sites
In this episode, author Francesca Beauman draws upon her interesting and well researched book, Matrimony, Inc. to invite us to consider that from Frontier Days, through Wars, Industrialization and Immigration, people have bee...
Oct. 15, 2020
An Insider Look at the Message of “ BARS” by Pravin Wilkins at Four Walls Theater
Four Walls Theater is a grassroots socially responsible theater that produces new plays with diverse artists from around the country. Their upcoming show is the world premiere of “BARS,” a drama by Pravin Wilkins. On Psych Up...
Oct. 1, 2020
How Do We Cope With Two Epidemics – COVID-19 and Violence
We face a time of misinformation and ongoing fear of the COVID-19 Virus which has already taken the lives of 200,000 in the US. Concurrent with that is the fear, provocation and the reality of violence as economic hardship, r...
Sept. 17, 2020
Preventing Physician Suicide – Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation
This show deals with a dangerous but unknown reality – According to the American Federation of Suicide Prevention, 300 to 400 doctors in the US die by suicide each year. That is more than double the rate of the general popula...
Aug. 27, 2020
The Single Fathers Due to Cancer Support Group – Finding Their Way Together
In this episode, Dr. Justin Yopp, psychologist at the North Carolina Cancer Hospital, draws upon his work and co-authored book, The Group: Seven Widowed Fathers Reimagine Life, to share the story of young fathers who lose the...
July 30, 2020
Constructive Conflict – Make Your Arguments Matter
If you are in a relationship, you have to hear this episode. It will be as enjoyable as it will be strikingly helpful to you and your partner. According to psychotherapist and author, Keith Wilson, if you are in a real relati...
July 23, 2020
Beyond Burnout: The Moral Injury of Doctors
During this pandemic, most people have been grateful for the courage of medical workers. We have heard about the physical demands and emotional burnout they have suffered; but far less about moral injury. In this episode, Dr....
June 25, 2020
Behaving Bravely: Tools for Making Important Life Changes
Whether faced with unforeseeable life circumstances, economic hardship, physical or emotional distress, many people wish that they could re-invent or re-define themselves. Could they dare consider a new line of work, a differ...
June 18, 2020
What Can Parents Do When Their Children Are Sad?
Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, loss of loved ones, school and business shut-downs and social protest, many adults are stressed. Little ones are also stressed and be it from what they feel in those around them or f...