Sherri Mack BSN- RN is a leading force in the burgeoning cannabis industry as a nurse, patient, advocate, and activist. Sherri is CNO & VP of Nursing at Holistic Caring and Founder of The Green Nurse. Sherri utilizes her 35+ years of extensive nursing skills from the conventional system as a medical center specialist, clinical nurse liaison, and educator to bridge the gap between patients, traditional medical systems, and the cannabis community. Sherri mentors and educates other nurses and health professionals on the ECS and the safe utilization of cannabis at dispensaries, hospitals, clinics, and cannabis events, seminars, and expos the world over.
Sherri earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Boston College. She is founding member of the Cannabis Nurses Network, International Association of Psychedelic Nurses and on the editorial advisory board for Cannabis RX Magazine. She is on the Board of Directors for American Cannabis Nurses Association and is a contributing author in the first cannabis nursing textbook, Carey S. Clarks’ Handbook for Nurses. Sherri has a four-time award-winning podcast – The Green Nurse Podcast sharing compelling stories of healing, decreasing stigma around using plants as medicine.
Sherri Mack BSN- RN is a leading force in the burgeoning cannabis industry as a nurse, patient, advocate, and activist. Sherri is CNO & VP of Nursing at Holistic Caring and Founder of The Green Nurse. Sherri utilizes her 35+ years of extensive nursing skills from the conventional system as a medical center specialist, clinical nurse liaison, and educator to bridge the gap between patients, traditional medical systems, and the cannabis community. Sherri mentors and educates other nurses and health professionals on the ECS and the safe utilization of cannabis at dispensaries, hospitals, clinics, and cannabis events, seminars, and expos the world over. Sherri earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Boston College. She is founding member of the Cannabis Nurses Network, International Association of Psychedelic Nurses and on the editorial advisory board for Cannabis RX Magazine. She is on the Board of Directors for American Cannabis Nurses Association and is a contributing author in the first cannabis nursing textbook, Carey S. Clarks’ Handbook for Nurses. Sherri has a four-time award-winning podcast – The Green Nurse Podcast sharing compelling stories of healing, decreasing stigma around using plants as medicine.
Elizabeth Childers is a Registered Nurse whose nursing career has spanned over twenty years. Elizabeth had always thought that she had taken care of just about every type of patient until she became a patient in 2012 after being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. After her diagnosis she became increasingly more ill and found that the more treatments she received the worse her disease progressed. Armed with her nursing knowledge and the desire to heal, she began a journey of healing that has led her to a place where her disease has remained in remission without treatments. Elizabeth’s desire is to share with people how they too can heal and how our society can utilize conventional Western medicine, holistic medicine and mindfulness to achieve healing.
Resource: https://www.hearing-voices.org/ Jacqui Dillon is an activist, author, and speaker, and has lectured and published worldwide on trauma, abuse, hearing voices, psychosis, dissociation, and healing. She is a key figure in the international Hearing Voices Movement, has co-edited three books, published numerous articles and papers and is on the editorial board of the journal Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches. Jacqui is Honorary Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of East London, Visiting Research Fellow at The Centre for Community Mental Health, Birmingham City University and a member of the Advisory Board, The Collaborating Centre for Values-Based Practice in Health and Social Care, St Catherine’s College, Oxford University. Jacqui’s survival of childhood abuse and subsequent experiences of using psychiatric services inform her work, and she is an outspoken advocate and campaigner for trauma informed approaches to madness and distress. Jacqui is part of a collective voice demanding a radical shift in the way we understand and respond to experiences currently defined as psychiatric illnesses. In 2017, Jacqui was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Psychology by the University of East London.
We explore Kris's view of - the embodied, embedded, enactive mind, which he refers to as embodied enactivism. We discuss human functioning, the relationship between body and mind, what constitutes order/disorder, the role of meaning, and more.
Dr Pramod Tripathi is the man at the helm of freedomfromdiabetes.org. He has singularly focused on creating a diabetes-free society for the last 7 years. After finishing his MBBS from B J Medical College, Dr Tripathi obtained a Professional Diploma in Diabetes Management and completed many other courses, including in Advanced Yoga & Ayurveda, Bramha–Vidya, Dream Therapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Vipassana Meditation, and more. He ranks among the top influential leaders in the field of holistic health and stress management. He has had phenomenal success in helping over 10,000 people worldwide reverse Type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Dr. Esselstyn has been associated with the Cleveland Clinic since 1968. In 1991, he served as President of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons. That same year he organized the first National Conference on the Elimination of Coronary Artery Disease. In 1995 he published his bench mark long-term nutritional research arresting and reversing coronary artery disease in severely ill patients. That same study was updated at 12 years and reviewed beyond twenty years in his book, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, making it one of the longest longitudinal studies of its type. In July of 2014 he reported the experience of 198 participants seriously ill with cardiovascular disease. During 3.7 years of follow up of the 89% adherent to the program, 99.4% avoided further major cardiac events. Among many other awards, he received the American College of Lifestyle Medicine 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Dr. Esselstyn and his wife, Ann Crile Esselstyn, have followed a plant-based diet since 1984. Dr. Esselstyn presently directs the cardiovascular prevention and reversal program at The Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute.
Daniel Mackler is a YouTuber, musician, and former New York City psychotherapist. He is a documentary filmmaker as well, and his films on recovery from psychosis without psychiatric drugs have been subtitled in more than twenty languages. Daniel is also the coauthor of several books, including “Breaking from Your Parents” and “Beyond Medication: Therapeutic Engagement and the Recovery from Psychosis” (Routledge, 2008). His present passion is hitchhiking around the world, though he hasn’t decided where he’s traveling to next.
Dr. Vijay Yanamadala is an award-winning, board-certified neurosurgeon who has participated in more than 2,000 spine surgeries. He was recognized by the North American Spine Society as a 20 under 40 spine physician in 2022. He currently serves as System Medical Director of Spine Quality at Hartford Healthcare and Chief Medical Officer of Sword Health, a global provider of digital physical therapy and musculoskeletal pain solutions.
David Greenwalt is a certified Health Coach, founder of Leanness Lifestyle University, and author of The Leanness Lifestyle. He has been in the health coaching space for several decades. In Part 2 of this 2-part conversation, he shares tips he uses with his clients to help them change their lives.
David Greenwalt is a certified Health Coach, founder of Leanness Lifestyle University, and author of The Leanness Lifestyle. He has been in the health coaching space for several decades. In Part 1 of this 2-part conversation, he shares his story of healing from severe back pain.
Evelyn's family sought refuge in Canada and the United States after the Vietnam War. The war caused her family to be ripped away from each other, fighting to survive. Her family was in survival mode. Affection, love, and connection took a back seat, causing inner child wounds. She went through a difficult period of life that included anxiety and suicidal thoughts. She found new insights and power by getting involved in fitness, and ultimately healing her inner child and generational trauma, which has changed her life. Today, she helps the people she works with to do the same.
Cristina-Andreea Moraru, aka "Worthful Woman", is a science communicator and podcaster focused on the intersection of science and spirituality. Cristina's work was born out of her need to reconcile her attraction to both spirituality and science. The name "Worthful Woman" reflects the heart of her professional story and makes a stand for the many perspectives that have historically been excluded from science: including but not limited to those of women.
Arjun joined the India Against Corruption Movement in 2011 at the age of 17. He later advised the Chief Minister of Delhi on various policies and led a movement that pushed for reforms of rape laws. He was awarded the Chevening Scholarship by the British Government, which allowed him to do his Master's in Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Right at the end of his scholarship, he started to feel sick. He was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy and then with spondyloarthopathy, an autoimmune disorder. He was at wit's end. Then, his healing process began.
Salila’s family lineage is steeped in the tradition of Ayurveda. In her family, grandmothers pass down the tradition, which Salila often scoffed at in her childhood search for a more Western life. However, Ayurveda was in her bones, and would not abandon her. After reaching a point in her life where her health and heart were missing something, her mother urged her to return to the source - Ayurveda and Yoga. Salila did not question her, and it was there that she found her healing. After a profound and powerful reconnection and transformation, she committed to studying these Vedic healing modalities and bringing Ayurveda to the world.
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Dr. Ken Milne has been working clinically as an emergency physician for 27 years and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine (Division of Emergency Medicine) and Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Milne is passionate about skepticism and critical thinking. He is the creator of the knowledge translation project, The Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine (TheSGEM). He teachesa evidence-based medicine, clinical epidemiology, critical appraisal and biostatistics at Western University in London, Ontario, and serves as a senior editor of Academic Emergency Medicine. He has no funding from the pharmaceutical or biomedical device industry.
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Leemon McHenry is a bioethicist and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge. Last week, in Part 1 of this conversation, we talked about misunderstandings about evidence-based medicine, as well as ways to improve it. This week, in Part 2, we talk about the implications of undeclared philosophical views in medicine–such as that of the primacy of the body over mind–and how this may relate to the state of evidence-based medicine today.
Kumaar Bagrodia is the founder of Neuroleap, a company leveraging brain interface tech to help people based on principles of neuroplasticity, operant condition, and self-regulation.
Part 2 our conversation with Dr. Gita Vaid, who is a co-founder of the Center for Natural Intelligence, a multidisciplinary laboratory dedicated to psychedelic psychotherapy innovation and clinical practice (www.cni.nyc). Dr. Vaid completed her residency training at NYU Medical Center, and her psychoanalytic training at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York. She trained as a fellow in clinical psychopharmacology and neurophysiology at New York Medical College and completed a research fellowship at NYU Medical Center. Dr. Vaid is a MAPS–trained psychedelic psychotherapist and is a faculty member at The Ketamine Training Center. Her current interests include rethinking psychotherapy frameworks to support psychedelic psychotherapy and consciousness expansion.
