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Interview with Michele Brourman, Part 2
This show begins with a re-cap of why we can’t change when we want to and introduces the concept of Anti-Modeling. In it I conclude my interview with Michele Brourman and play two more songs from her CD “Fools and Little Children.”
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Interview with Michele Brourman, Part 1
I recorded this show in Los Angeles. In it I discuss the impact of Modeling on our ability to change and begin a series of interviews called Anatomy of An Artist, with the first half of an interview with Michele Brourman, singer/composer/arranger/producer – and play two songs from her CD “Fools and Little Children”. In it I also talk about my trip to LA and my presentation at the Phillips Graduate Institute Therapists Conference.
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Interview with Charlie Bradt
In this show I recap the small change exercise and interview Yoga Teacher Charlie Bradt with whom I discuss our very human resistance to change and play “I’m not Getting Married” written by Steven Sondheim and sung by Madelyn Kahn.
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Interview with Sandy Kehoe
Small Change In this show I tell some stories from my own life, and continue exploring the impact of our family of origin on our current life, by explaining the concept of the Great Trait Swap and offering the Small Change exercise. I interview Sandy Kehoe about her book “Listen To Me, I’m Still Somebody” which chronicles her work with the caregivers of Alzheimer’s sufferers, play “Hail Mary” a song written and performed by Lynne Jackson and read “The Family” a poem I wrote about the last time I saw my mother.
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Discussion about family origin and adult life changes
This show continues the discussion of the impact of our family of origin on our ability to make changes in our adult life, recaps the Family Pie exercise and includes 3 songs from Jane Hoffman’s CD “The Journey.”
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Discussion of brain chemistry, part 3
This show concludes the information on Brain Chemistry and begins the discussion of how our family of origin still effects what we can do as adults. It includes the description of the Family Pie exercise as a way to begin to explore the impact of your particular family on your current life and a guided imagery exercise which is accompanied by a flute solo from the CD “The Journey” by Jane Hoffman. In addition there are 3 songs from the CD “The Lies of Handsome Men” by Sara Egglefield.
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Discussion of brain chemistry, part 2
This show continues the information on the impact of Brain Chemistry on our ability to change and includes a guided imagery exercise which is accompanied by a flute solo from the CD “The Journey” by Jane Hoffman and 4 songs from the CD “The Piano Player”, by entertainer Max Forsetter.
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Discussion of brain chemistry, part 1
This show begins my explanation of the way lessons learned by our brain and the resulting chemicals that it drops into our blood stream stop us from doing things we want to do. I also play hits by Roberta Flack and Bette Midler which were produced by the mega-successful record producer Joel Dorn, who also recently died.
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Discussion about myths
In this show I describe Myths, fed by our culture, which encourage us to believe that we can do things we can’t do. I debunk many of these Myths and explain what I believe about why we can’t always do the things we want to do – when we want to do them. I also play a retrospective of the work of singer/songwriter Dan Fogelberg who had recently died.
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