A Better Pill To Swallow

About A Better Pill To Swallow

Just a spoonful of humor helps the medicine go down. Inspired by his brother’s suicide David unleashes his outlandish banter and passion for mental health with his good friends and experts alike. He challenges the over-medicated status quo, asking questions and exploring new holistic alternatives with his guests from a wide array of experience and discipline.

Publisher

David Neiman

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Mar 2024

Latest episode

25 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

36 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Mar 2026

   37. From Broadway to Motherhood: Postpartum Depression and Finding Yourself Again

   There’s a moment in this conversation where Emily says she doesn’t recognize herself anymore—and somehow, it opens the door to something more honest. Emily Walton—Broadway actress (Come From Away) turned mental health counselor—joins me for a conversation that moves between humor, identity, and what it means to stop performing in your own life. We talk about growing up in a world where performance and self blur together, the strange safety of playing someone else, and the pull toward someth...

2. 

   4 Mar 2026

   36. "When you Lose A Child, You Lose The Future..."

   A healthy baby. A seizure in the middle of the night. And a reality no parent is prepared to face. Susan Weissman shares the story of losing her son Nathan just weeks before his second birthday — what it was like to bring him home knowing he would die, the silence and discomfort that followed, and the long, uneven path of learning to live again. We talk about denial, marriage under strain, faith, anger, ritual, and the myth that grief has a timeline. About what actually helps when someone you...

3. 

   4 Feb 2026

   35. Biofeedback Therapy: How It Can Change Your Mental Health

   At the heart of A Better Pill to Swallow is the belief that mental health in the modern era demands new modalities—approaches that go beyond insight alone and actually meet the body and brain where change happens. That’s what makes a conversation like this so important. Biofeedback therapy speaks directly to the subconscious, where most of our patterns, reactions, and choices are formed. Using subtle frequencies delivered through the hand, the technology communicates with the nervous system t...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 39 / 100

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Quality

59

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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