Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

About Minding Your Amygdala - A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast

When you experience something traumatic, who do you call for help? How much education have you received about your brain, biology and their connection to your behavior? Are you familiar with the Amygdala (“Your Feelings Creator”) and one of the six Primitive Brain Systems that are predictably programmed by psychological trauma?When you or a loved one needs psychological help, it's hard to know what to say or do. Start here! Join Dr. Alauna, Trauma Psychiatrist, who believes in a comprehensive, empathy-based approach to healing from trauma. Regardless of the events leading to the traumatic experience (ex. physical abuse, sexual trauma, climate disasters, or even invisible wounds like invalidation), the impact on the brain’s programming is the same. It's time to de-stigmatize trauma as an experience that happens to everyone and evolve our ability to self-regulate our emotions. This is your weekly go-to for all questions about mental and emotional health, trauma recovery, brain science and more!Visit www.dralauna.com to learn more about Dr. Alauna, Trauma Psychiatrist

Publisher

Dr. Alauna Curry

Category

education · health & fitness · science

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

28 Mar 2022

Latest episode

20 Feb 2026

Latest episodes

21 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Feb 2026

   Bad Bunny, Kanye did WHAT?! and Epstein File Triggers

   Send a text Join us for an enlightening conversation on Minding Your Amygdala: A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast! This season we'll approach the podcast with mental health in the context of current events. We'll reflect on the powerful cultural money of the Bad Bunny Bowl, and how it highlighted how traumatic perceptions influence the way we each experienced it. Then, we continue our conversation about mental illness through examining Kanye's recent full page apology to the Bl...

2. 

   29 Mar 2025

   We Gotta Talk About Kanye: Understanding Bipolar Disorder

   Send us a text Join us for an enlightening conversation on Minding Your Amygdala: A Brain, Body, Behavior Podcast! In this episode, we take a closer look at what Bipolar Disorder can look like through the lens of Kanye West’s publicly shared experiences. Remember, this is for educational purposes only—but it can help spark a deeper understanding of mood disorders. We’ll walk through the DSM-5 criteria for Bipolar Disorder, exploring the highs (mania) and lows (depression), and wrap up by disc...

3. 

   20 Mar 2025

   Mental Health: The Final Frontier

   Send us a text In this powerful episode of Minding Your Amygdala, we confront the last great frontier of human health: mental well-being. Despite monumental progress in social justice—challenging racism, gender inequality, and systemic abuse—mental health remains stigmatized, hidden behind layers of cultural, religious, and societal resistance. But why??! Join us as we explore the numbers behind the mental health crisis, revealing its global impact and the economic toll of untreated condition...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

16 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 27 / 100

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Quality

33

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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