The Dismantling You Podcast

This week’s guest is Lisa Tahir. Lisa is a licensed therapist of over 20 years, host of All Things Therapy podcast with over 280 episodes, and author of, "The Chiron Effect: Healing Our Core Wounds through Astrology, Empathy, and Self- Forgiveness," endorsed by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

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Dr. Loree Johnson has combined her 25 years of professional clinical experience as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with her own personal fertility journey to help others who are going through similar experiences.

Dr. Johnson helps her clients navigate uncertainty in their relationships and overcome the emotional challenges that come with fertility problems and the loss of a pregnancy. With research-based approaches, including E.M.D.R. (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) applied through a holistic lens, her clients are able to learn how to connect more deeply with themselves, their partners, and the people in their lives.

Dr. Johnson currently lives and works in the Los Angeles, California area. She and her husband welcomed their rainbow in 2021 after 8 years of trying to conceive, three losses, and one TFMR.

Dr. Amy Novotny founded the PABR® Institute (www.pabrinstitute.com) with the mission to provide pain, stress and anxiety relief to those who seek a naturalistic form of treatment when other treatment methods have fallen short. Her unique approach comes from her experience treating in a variety of settings and with a wide range of patient populations over the past 12 years. Her background in orthopedics, sports, geriatrics, balance disorders, nerve injuries, and most recently, chronic pain; and influences from coursework at the Postural Restoration Institute gave her the foundation to develop this treatment method to address a wide variety of painful and restrictive conditions. Her methods have helped countless people reduce and eliminate pain, stress, anxiety, orthopedic surgeries, sleep issues and the need for medications. She co-authored two Amazon #1 Best-Selling books Don’t Quit: Stories of Persistence, Courage and Faith and Success Habits of Super Achievers, which share her journey on how and why she developed the PABR® Method. Her ability to speak French and Spanish has allowed her to communicate with and help various clients from all around the world, including France, Mexico, Central America and South America. She has a variety of interests including running 40+ marathons, running 10 ultra marathons (including two 100 milers), completing an Ironman triathlon, photographing wildlife and landscapes all over the world that has led to several of her images being chosen as Photos of the Day, most notably National Geographic Your Shot World Top Photo of the Day. Visit her photography portfolio at www.amysimpressions.com.

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Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist. In 1996, Jill experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain, causing her to lose the ability to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. In 2008, she gave the first-ever TED Talk to go massively viral.

We talk about the brain hemorrhage that led to her stroke of insight and one of the most viewed TED talks of all time, her tips for taking control of our brains, how to switch from doing mode to being mode, becoming your best self, and the four characters that drive our life.

Her memoir, My Stroke of Insight documents her experience with her stroke and her 8-year recovery and it spent 63 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Her new book is Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters that Drive Our Life.

She's been named by Time Magazine on a list of the 100 most influential people in the world and was the first guest on Oprah's SoulSeries show.

Dr. Taylor founded the nonprofit Jill Bolte Taylor Brains, Inc. and is the national spokesperson for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center. She received a Ph.D. with postdoctoral studies at Harvard Medical School in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. She's also the author of the bestselling book My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientists' Personal Journey.

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Dr. William Jackson is a clinical health psychologist in private practice and a former Buddhist Monk with 20 years of experience in mindfulness based meditation and a passion for comprehensive well-being. Inspired by his personal experiences with suffering, deep retreat, insight and growth; William cares about creating and fostering a sense of safety, connection, and meaningful change. He is focused on developing systems to aid individuals in clarifying and realizing a personalized vision of well-being. William incorporates the most accessible and core methods from Vietnamese Zen, Burmese Theravada (Terəˈvädə) and contemporary evidence-based meditation practices to his wide network of health and wellness practitioners including experts in yoga, nutrition and holistic care. He is the founder of SkillfulMeans LLC and creator of the online meditation program The SkillfulMeans Program.