Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast
Episodes
Bad Bunny, Kanye did WHAT?! and Epstein File Triggers
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textJoin us for an enlightening conversation on Minding Your Amygdala: A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast! This season we'll approach the po...
We Gotta Talk About Kanye: Understanding Bipolar Disorder
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textJoin us for an enlightening conversation on Minding Your Amygdala: A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast! In this episode, we take a closer look ...
Mental Health: The Final Frontier
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIn this powerful episode of Minding Your Amygdala, we confront the last great frontier of human health: mental well-being. Despite monument...
Introducing The Trauma Toolbox : 7 Proven Tools to Cope with Trauma
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIn this episode, Dr. Alauna discusses the mission of DA-TRI.org to offer mental health education and trauma recovery in the form of a Skill...
WTH was that!!? Aging Brains and the Presidential Debate
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIn this episode, Dr. Alauna reflects on America's most recent Presidential Debate between Former President Donald Trump and Current Pr...
How Confirmation Bias is Dividing Society
23 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textHave you noticed that society seems more divided than ever? How can so many people be living in the same world, yet experiencing such dif...
Secondary Trauma - How to Cope when you Witness Tragedy
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textWe are absorbing an INCREDIBLE amount of trauma lately. From the very public medical emergency of Damar Hamlin, to the release of brutal ...
Parenting Traumatized Humans : A Look at ACEs (Adverse Childhood Events)
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textWe are seeing the numbers of children struggling with emotions skyrocketing, and as a trauma psychiatrist, it makes sense to me. Traumas ...
The Humans are Gangbanging!
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textWhy does it seem like humanity is gang-banging right now? How we achieve Unity in such a Divided Society? We're called the "Uni...
Are We Truly "Aware" of Mental Illness?
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIn October, we observed Mental Illness Awareness Week. In that time I asked myself, as a society, Are we TRULY AWARE of mental illness? (...
SOS: Saving Our Selves from Suicide
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textSuicide, or intentionally taking one’s own life, is complex; it involves psychological, social, biological, cultural, and environmental f...
Let's Talk About Sex!
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textNew Season Alert!!! Minding Your Amygdala : A Brain, Body & Behavior Podcast is Back!Sex! What a loaded word! It can mean so many...
Treating America's Addiction to Violence
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textDear friend, I'm sorry to have to tell you, but we, human beings, allaus, unfortunately, are struggling with an addiction to violence....
Hate and Racism: Are they mental illness?
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textY'all... I'm tired. Are you tired? I'm angry, hurt, frustrated and SICK of us ignoring the obvious impact of 2 core hu...
Empathy Heals!!!
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send a text"Trauma hurts. Empathy heals." Have you wondered lately, WTF is wrong with humans? Everywhere you look, there are traumatic e...
Trauma Hurts...
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textWhat is psychological trauma? How do you know if you have experienced trauma? What can you do about the traumas in your life? In this...
All Words Matter
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textHave you ever considered the anatomy of words? What are "words?" How do these fragile yet impactful sounds affect the way we th...
It ain't the Devil, It's your Amygdala!
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIn this episode, Dr. Alauna breaks down the anatomy of the primitive brain, and the 7 parts of your brain that are critical to understandin...
Trauma Mythbusters
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIt's time for Trauma Mythbusters!!!! Now that we have explored the real world trauma of "The Slap," it's time to dive...
The Slap Seen 'Round the World
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send a text"Oh $h!ggidy! Did you see that?!" was the common refrain from the night of the Oscars 2022. So many of us worldwide watched in ...
Minding Your Amygdala
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textWelcome to Minding Your Amygdala! In this first episode, Dr. Alauna breaks down her journey through traditional psychiatry, her crash cours...