Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle

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After the First Marriage: Learning and Growing in Relationship: Dr Susan Orenstein on PYP 445 Jan 05, 2021

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What can we learned from "failed" relationships that can help us succeed next time? Couples therapist Susan Orenstein talks about her work helping people move on and grow after a first marriage.

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Discover YOUR Optimal Diet and Lifestyle Through Data: Dr Casey Means on PYP 443 Dec 22, 2020

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Tired of the nutrition debates? Confused about what YOU should be eating? Dr Casey Means of Levels Health shares the power of closed-loop data to change our lives - and health destinies - for the better.

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Plant Care is Self-Care: Yuvika Iyer on PYP 442 Dec 15, 2020

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What are the best house plants for healthy indoor air? Which ones are easiest for beginners? What are the benefits to indoor plants? And how can we become more connected, calmer, and happier people through our co-nurturing relationships with these plants?

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Mind Hacks for Getting Through a Pandemic: Josh LaJaunie on PYP 440 Dec 01, 2020

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Josh LaJaunie returns to talk about his strategies for staying sane, strong, and fit during the pandemic.

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The Queen’s Gambit, The Hero’s Journey, Veganism, and Exercise: Tyson Yunkaporta on PYP 439 Nov 24, 2020

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Author, academic, and artist Tyson Yunkaporta offers an Indigenous perspective on some of the core beliefs that have guided my life. Some, like veganism, survive in a different form. Others, like the Hero's Journey, lie in tatters. And some, like exercise, get transformed and deepened.

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Healing Cultural Trauma: Tada Hozumi on PYP 438 Nov 17, 2020

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Tada Hozumi is a somatics practitioner, and one of the leaders of a movement known as cultural somatics.

In this challenging conversation, we discuss how our cultures can traumatize us and predispose us to oppress other cultures. And how we can "digest" our past - collective and individual as a way of healing.

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Owning Our Health with Glen Merzer and Chef AJ: PYP 437 Nov 10, 2020

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Glen Merzer has possibly created a new genre, the comedic plant-based memoir.
Join me, Glen, and recipe contributor Chef AJ to talk about their new book, Own Your Health.

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How Our Communities Can Get Healthy at Last: Eric Adams on PYP 432 Oct 09, 2020

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Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams returns to the podcast to talk about his new book, Healthy at Last. Part family memoir, part political mission statement, part science review, part self-help book, and part cookbook, this is a celebration of the possibilities of health for the American people in general, and the Black community in particular.

We talk about the title - from Etta James, and not Martin Luther King, Jr's "I have a dream" speech, as I first assumed - and the fact that, in Adams' words, "slavery never ended," and remains entrenched in the slave foods that are still harming Black people to this day.

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We Move, Therefore We Think: Barbara Tversky on PYP 431 Oct 06, 2020

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Barbara Tversky argues that our thinking, and consciousness itself, arises from the experiences of our physical bodies in space.

Rather than being an afterthought, or just the province of athletes and dancers, spatial thinking is the foundation of all thought.

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Democracy Means a Healthy and Safe Environment for All: Jovita Lee on PYP 430 Sep 29, 2020

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Today's guest, Jovita Lee, is co-founder and vice president of Democracy Green, a North Carolina-based non-profit dedicated to environmental justice.

The environmental movement has a long and shameful history of privileging certain parts of the environment over others. Specifically, it's focused on preserving spaces enjoyed by the rich, and where the rich live.

The result is a nation in which environmental racism condemns poor people and people of color - regardless of income and economic status - to lives cut short by chronic conditions caused and worsened by pollutants and climate instability.

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