The Most Important Medicine:
Becoming a ConnectEd Champion for Children

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The Most Important Medicine is connection! If you’re a professional who wants to have a greater impact in the lives of children and families, building resilience in relationships, this podcast is for you. It's where pediatricians, educators, nurses, advocates and other folks who are in children's lives meet and discuss how to respond and mitigate trauma by building buffering mechanisms that address adversity and build connection. We'll listen to stories and bring our humanness into spaces to transform how we think about children, early relational health and connection. It's truly, the MOST important medicine!

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Join Dr. Amy as she discusses 5 ways to help people think about their trauma differently. Often, people see their brain as broken, wrong, worried or forever damaged by trauma. It doesn’t have to be this way! In this episode, you’ll hear 5 scripts that Dr. Amy uses to help people look at their trauma […]

Episode 34: 5 Ways to Reframe Trauma Narratives

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This is the beginning of a four-part series where I model how I talk with my clients about trauma. Listen as I explain how trauma can become more routine to discuss with patients, how to begin conversations and how to normalize responses. Then, we’ll dig into the story of “Claire” and how I explain to […]

Episode 33: Your Brain is Beautiful with Dr. Amy

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6 Months and 32 episodes later, we’ve covered a lot! Join me as I reflect on lessons learned over the past episodes and ways guests have shared how trauma shows up in medicine. I reflect on themes we’ve covered as well – health equity, physician burnout, pediatric spaces, rural medicine, nursing woes, and building resilience. […]

Episode 32: Dr. Amy Reflects on 6 Months of Podcasts and Lessons Learned

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Dr. Harker‘s compassionate yet frank feedback about physician burnout, entrepreneurship and wellness is a breath of fresh air! She’s a force and a bucket of energy for physicians, especially female physicians. She’s grounded in self-compassion and wisdom from her own lived experience. Join us for an incredible talk! Work with Dr .Harker Dr. Kristin Neff RESOURCES […]

Episode 31: Why building a wall won’t work with Dr. Nicola Harker

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Dr. Amy & Dr. Stone discuss what it was like leading the nation’s largest healthcare system in our country during a global pandemic. Dr. Stone, as the acting Under Secretary for Health of the Veteran’s Health Administration, led his team through one of the toughest times in our nation’s history – the COVID 19 Pandemic. He’s […]

Episode 30: Be the Calm in the Storm with Dr. Richard Stone

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Friends, be ready to have your eyes WIDE OPEN! Dr. Beegle’s insight and lived experience with intergenerational poverty are inspiring, educating, and, at times, heartbreaking. Dr. Beegle is an authentic voice from poverty who speaks, writes, and trains across the nation to break the iron cage of poverty for others through services provided by her […]

Episode 29: Don’t talk over, around or about me – talk TO ME! Discussing Poverty with Dr. Donna Beegle

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Join Dr. Amy & her friend, Robyn Gobbel, LCSW, as we discuss the complex field of relational neuroscience, that Robyn, so beautifully, makes accessible. Robyn talks about how children who are regulated, connected & safe do well and then breaks down how parents and professionals can co-regulate with children. She does a beautiful job of […]

Episode 28: Changing how we see people changes people with Robyn Gobbel, LCSW

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Hayley Runnels of The Undone Mama shares her inspirational story of advocacy, survival and community as she discusses her quest to heal trauma and help others. Hayley Runnels hosts an online blog and FB community to help and heal women and discover their worth after experiencing trauma. She’s a friend, advocate, author & educator who […]

Episode 27: Being the Voice of Children: Healing Intergenerational Trauma with Hayley Runnels

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Learn from the Deputy Director, Tabitha Jensen, of New Avenues for Youth how to create positive change for individuals, especially youth; but be ready to do your own work first! Tabitha’s honesty, humility and curiosity for growth are refreshing to listen to and inspiring to take in. Tabitha is the deputy director for New Avenues […]

Episode 26: A Sandwich of Yuck – Discussing boundaries, regulation & support with Tabitha Jensen

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Friends – you’re in for a treat and some LIVE breath work! Join Dr. Amy and friend, Nicole Smith-Levay. Nicole Smith Levay is a professional dancer turned Energy Coach. She integrates somatic therapies, breathwork, and meditation into her work with folks struggling with anxiety and depression. Using body-centered techniques, Nicole takes a forward-thinking approach to […]

Episode 25: The Soul’s Growth – Breathwork with Nicole Smith-Levay

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