Episodes

  • Stressfree Bride

    Stressfree Bride
    Nov 26 2019
    Beke Beau, a successful makeup artist for brides and mature women, shares with Dr. Franco her years of working with brides and bridal stress. Beke also teaches teens and women how to expand their awareness and use of makeup to acquire a natural beauty and glow. We explore what helps brides cope and creatively attend to their natural beauty and capacities.
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    55 mins
  • De-Stress for MS Youth

    De-Stress for MS Youth
    Nov 19 2019
    Dr. Mary Rensel is Director of Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis and Wellness at the Mellen Center of the Cleveland Clinic. She joins Dr. Franco, a MS specialist and psychologist, to explore the particular challenges of living with MS as a teen and the need to teach and expand wellness skills to promote coping and life-long resilience.
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    54 mins
  • Ageless Women

    Ageless Women
    Nov 12 2019
    Dr. Matyas, Ph.D., has developed a wonderful webinar series called: Ageless Woman. She interviews guests who have developed notable ways to both imagine and create meaningful work, purpose and self-empowerment in the 2nd or 3rd acts of their lives. Dr. Franco will interview the interviewer to explore the creative process involved in promoting, advocating and teaching older women to re-imagine and re-invent themselves. Free gift: a 30 minute Clarity Coaching Call: download link: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=17057169&appointmentType=9708337
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    52 mins
  • Shrinks on Third

    Shrinks on Third
    Nov 5 2019
    Dr. Franco's two guests: psychologists Julie Mayer and Cindy Ariel, co-host a podcast series called: Shrinks on Third. Their podcast spotlights diverse and underrepresented people and organizations in the Philadelphia area working to create positive change from within the field of psychology or those on the ground working for social justice. Dr. Franco explores their motivation and success in developing this unique podcast series and the process by which social change is first imagined and then created.
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    54 mins
  • Do Animals Imagine?

    Do Animals Imagine?
    Oct 29 2019
    Dr. Stephanie Theodorou, a Professor of Philosophy, has published on theories of consciousness and the realm of animal consciousness. Dr. Theodorou and Dr. Franco explore whether animals have an imagination and, if so, how it mirrors or differs from the imaginative processes of humans. How animals think and emote is also explored to learn what we can learn from animal cognitive processes to shed light on our own.
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    55 mins
  • Relieve Caregiver Stress

    Relieve Caregiver Stress
    Oct 22 2019
    Elissa, Lewin, M.A., the Founder of Nancy's-House, a Caregiver Respite Program in the greater Philadelphia area, explores with Dr. Franco the challenges of caregiving and the need to provide effective, stress reduction techniques and community support to caregivers.
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    54 mins
  • Stressless with MS !

    Stressless with MS !
    Oct 15 2019
    Yvette Brisco, is a Multiple Sclerosis advocate, Health and Wellness Coach, and a working mother with MS. She has developed a successful podcast series: Surviving and Thriving with MS to help others empower themselves to cope, relieve stress and stigma while living with MS. She discusses with our host, Dr. Franco, a psychologist and a MS specialist, how Guided Imagery can be an effective tool to reduce stress and improve healing with auto-immune disorders. A free gift is available to listeners at: https://www.YvetteBrisco.com/Energetic
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    52 mins
  • Imaginative Treatment Techniques to Heal Trauma

    Imaginative Treatment Techniques to Heal Trauma
    Oct 8 2019
    Are you haunted by bad memories? Do you wish your past had less power over you? Our guest this week, Janine de Peyer, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in New York City who engages in the power of the imagination to unlock and heal past traumatic events. With training in psychoanalysis, addictions and family therapy, she discusses with Dr. Franco how she incorporates interactive techniques that get to the core of where clients are stuck, thereby shifting longstanding negative patterns. Integrating methods that engage the body, such as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), an approach that allows memories frozen in time to be released from the nervous system, Janine finds that negative memories no longer have the same hold. Rather, a richer, more joyous live experience becomes possible. Dr. Franco and Janine also explore recent breakthroughs in Virtual Reality technology in the development of empathy and the treatment of phobias, social anxiety, stress and physical pain.
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    58 mins