Episodes
March 28, 2022
Rebuilding your life after Incarceration
In Correctional, Shankar frames his unexpected encounters with the law and the unraveling of his life through the lenses of race, class, privilege, and his bicultural upbringing as the first and only son of South Indian immig...
March 21, 2022
International Social Work: Loma Linda University’s Trauma Team
The Loma Linda University (LLU) International Behavior Health Trauma Team (IBHTT) operated by the LLU School of Behavioral Health (SBH) has been providing international trauma preparatory training and psychological first aid ...
March 14, 2022
The Heart of Caring: A Life in Pediatrics
Pediatrician Mark Vonnegut has spent forty years treating children for coughs, fevers, ear infections, and sometimes more serious complaints. In that time, he has seen the American medical system change in ways he couldn’t ha...
March 7, 2022
Compassion for Ukraine: Promoting Peace & Healing
Many in the global community want to help Ukrainians and may not know how. Vira Salzburn will discuss with host Elaine Miller-Karas how a group of international Community Resiliency Model teachers gathered with their Ukrainia...
Feb. 28, 2022
Compassion & Loving-kindness in Response to Genuine Despair
We are inundated with information about all that is wrong in the world. Sometimes it feels so overwhelming we throw our hands up, believing we can’t possibly make a difference. But we can. There is a quote that goes, “everyon...
Feb. 21, 2022
Becoming a Thriver of Intimate Partner Violence: Using the Truth
Bernita R. Walker, the CEO and Co-Founder of Project Peacemakers, Inc. will share the wealth and wisdom of her experience as a Violence Prevention Practitioner, an Intimate Partner Violence Survivor, and a retired Deputy Sher...
Feb. 14, 2022
Steps in Courage: Racial Equity, Healing, and Civic Engagement
A team of multi-generational civil rights leaders, historians, educators, community leaders and clinicians gathered together to participate in a landmark initiative, the Kellogg Foundation’s Racial Equity 2030 grant opportuni...
Feb. 7, 2022
Keeping Faith: Trauma and Resiliency among Black Youth in America
Reggie will discuss how Black youth in America are confronted by trauma disproportionately affecting their communities. As we remember the past, engage the present and envision the future, the protective factors within youth,...
Jan. 31, 2022
Hope: Mental Health in poor and traumatized communities
Chris Underhill MBE works as a mentor and is a social entrepreneur in the field of quality of life, and mental health in the community. The host of Resiliency Within first met Chris in Oxford, England at the Skoll World Forum...
Jan. 24, 2022
Helping children navigate uncertainty: Lessons from South LA
The pandemic has highlighted many issues with our current education system. These last years have brought many challenges for students, teachers and parents/guardians. In a future filled with uncertainty, how can we best prep...
Jan. 17, 2022
Resiliency through Unprecedented Times 2022 with Bryan Robinson
Dr. Bryan Robinson returns a year after helping to launch Resiliency Within. Dr. Robinson and host, Elaine Miller-Karas, will reflect upon 2021 and continue to discuss how to cultivate well-being during the challenges of the ...
Jan. 10, 2022
Artificial Insemination: Unknown Origins & the Secretive History
What if, halfway through life, you found out that your father wasn’t your biological father? It happened to Peter J. Boni at the age of forty-nine, when his mother suffered a stroke that led her to divulge a family secret: Li...
Jan. 3, 2022
Cultivating Joy: The Eight Pillars
The great spiritual leader, Desmond Tutu died last week, and Resiliency Within was already planning to enter the new year with his message of joy. We will celebrate his life in this episode highlighting his dialogue with His ...
Dec. 27, 2021
Healing-World-Wide View:Reflections-the Trauma Resource Institute
The Trauma Resource Institute (TRI) sponsors Resiliency Within on VoiceAmerica. Elaine Miller-Karas, the co-founder and Dr. Michael Sapp, the CEO of the Trauma Resource Institute will discuss their innovative ideas of how to ...
Dec. 20, 2021
Surviving Challenges in Unprecedented Times with Grace
Jennifer Burton, LMFT, a leading psychotherapist in Los Angeles and San Francisco, shares her wisdom about how we can cultivate our grace and compassion during challenges we all are facing during unprecedented times. Grace is...
Dec. 13, 2021
Helping Kentucky Survivors with the Community Resiliency Model
The events this past week in Mayfield, Kentucky and the surrounding areas have shown us the tragedy of climate events and how every person in the community is affected. We must not forget the mental health challenges resultin...
Dec. 6, 2021
Love & Transformation-Riding the Edge, A Love Song for Deborah
Michael Tobin will share the journey of his book, Riding the Edge, a Love Song for Deborah.The book chronicles the around the world journey of two soulmates, who the security of their well-ordered lives in search of larger tr...
Nov. 29, 2021
Healing the Wounds of War
Veterans Dr. William Cross and Dr. Mark Dust, represent different generations and different wars. They will share their sacred journey from their service in Vietnam and Iraq to their return and what they learned about life an...
Nov. 22, 2021
Rising Above Childhood Abuse & Trauma:Coming of Age in 1950’s NY
Marc Straus will discuss his newly published memoir, One-Legged Mongoose, Secrets, Legacies and Coming of Age in 1950’s New York The book documents two pivotal years of his childhood on Long Island, beginning with him being f...
Nov. 15, 2021
Reclamation and Reconciliation: The Lost Café Schindler
MERIEL SCHINDLER will share her journey in writing The Lost Café Schindler as she recounts the history of an extraordinary family. The Lost Café Schindler is a story of tragic loss—several of Meriel’s relatives disappeared in...
Nov. 8, 2021
Honoring the Wisdom of Indigenous People
November is National Native American Heritage Month, which pays tribute to the rich history and culture of the indigenous people of the Americas. In 2009, during President Barack H. Obama’s first term in office, November beca...
Nov. 1, 2021
Building Resiliency in Rural America
Building accessible interventions promoting mind and body health in rural America is possible. Research suggests that individuals living in rural areas are less likely than residents of urban areas to seek professional help f...
Oct. 25, 2021
Peace, Purpose, and Prosperity
Karin Weiri will discuss her new book, Achieving Peace, Purpose and Prosperity. As a society we have built a myopic view of mental health blaming the majority on genetics and leaving out environmental, societal trauma and inf...
Oct. 18, 2021
We are all refugees:Alienation our Shared Bond
We are stuck in a pattern. Urgent headlines such as George Floyd’s murder or the chaos of the Afghanistan withdrawal pulls our attention, demand our support but we consistently fail to achieve meaningful systematic change. Al...