Month: March 2020

Bill Protzmann has done volunteer work including Board positions with Guitars for Vets and the San Diego Veterans Coalition. He has connected thousands of military service members & Veterans with honor tickets to the largest healing music organization in his town: the San Diego Symphony. Bill has been keynote presentations for Organizations like Consumer Action, Society for Financial Education and Professional Development, 2-1-1 San Diego, The American Music Therapy Association. Online you can read his articles at Fox News, Your Tango, The Good Men Project, Psychology Today, and PracticalHeartSkills.com. Find Bill’s music from “Serenity” on Amazon, iTunes, Spotify! He received an Inspiring Hope Award of Excellence Award from the National Council for Behavioral Health for his foundational work establishing music as self-care Find his first book at Amazon, More ThanHuman – The Value of Cultivating the Human Spirit in Your Organization. He’s the world’s leading expert on music’s power for physical, mental, emotional, & spiritual health. He’s here today to inspire, and demonstrate the power of music as a tool for self-care.

Ok so maybe “Dropping & Giving Ten” isn’t practical anymore. In fact, a few of us may not be able to get back up! Maybe our routine has changed, but exercise is still an important ingredient to overall good health. Simon and Kim will be discussing exercise alternatives, for both mind & body. We welcome calls about great/safe/helpful alternatives you have found. Since the world has changed a great deal since this show was booked, we will be doing a “Mental Health” check ..

Elizabeth Sandel, MD, is a medical director for Paradigm, which leads the workers’ compensation industry in solving complex health-care challenges and improving lives. A Clinical Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of California Davis School of Medicine, past president of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and is a panelist for national Traumatic Brain Injury Guidelines Program. Her new book: Shaken Brain: The Science, Care, and Treatment of Concussion explores Dr. Sandel’s three decades treating patients with TBI’s, training clinicians, and conducting research. Here she explains the scientific evidence for what happens to the brain and body after a concussion. She shares stories from a diverse group of patients, educating readers on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. More at: elizabethsandelmd.com Today concussions aren’t just injuries—they’re big news. And, like any-thing in the news, they’re the subject of much misinformation. Shaken Brain is the resource patients and their families, friends, and caregivers need to understand how concussions occur, what to expect from healthcare providers, and what the long-term consequences may be.

Kim and Caren will be discussing the basics of Brain Injury in an effort to raise up the understanding, as we begin Brain Injury Awareness Month. Among the topics discussed will be: Mindfulness Techniques, Meditation, Positive Psychology, EMDR and other holistic techniques. Building bridges and synapses the Non Pharma way!

My guest tonight will be Catz LeBlanc to talk about sports, repeated concussion, and her new exciting series! Catz had two roommates, one of whom lost a sibling to suicide from repeated sports concussions. She, herself is a multiple concussion disabled female athlete, once with a very promising career. She is a MGH Physician’s Assistant working through personal/global issues in real time, with humor, faith & grace, engaging everyone ‘all in’ to save the world. She, like many of us, has found a way to reach out to other survivors with her new series Quantum Leaping Ladies.