Mind Body Health & Politics

Richard L. Miller
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Dr. Richard Louis Miller is an American Clinical Psychologist, Founder of Wilbur Hot Springs Health Sanctuary, and broadcaster who hosts the Mind Body Health & Politics talk radio program from Mendocino County, California. Dr. Miller was also Founder and chief clinician of the nationally acclaimed, pioneering, Cokenders Alcohol and Drug Program. Dr. Miller’s new book, Psychedelic Medicine, is based on his interviews with the most acclaimed experts on the topic. Mind Body Health & Politics radio broadcast is known for its wide ranging discussions on political issues and health. The program’s format includes guest interviews with prominent national authorities, scientists, best-selling authors, and listener call-ins. The programs offer a forum and soundboard for listeners to interact with the show and its guests. We invite you to listen to the latest broadcasts below or visit our many archived programs. We’d love to hear from you on political and health issues! www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org

  1. 2d ago

    The Price of Swallowing Anger

    In this episode: Les Jensen grew up afraid of his father's anger and spent decades unable to feel his own, until a psychiatrist asked him to "show me your anger." He and Richard talk about suppressed anger, when to let it out and when to walk away, and why "your age is none of your business." Guest - Les Jensen hosts the New Human Living podcast and is the author of Citizen King and Forgiven Sinner: God's Last Savior. newhumanliving.com Nothing in this conversation is medical advice. Chapters 00:00 — Cold open: “We have an immense amount of pain right below our radar” 00:45 — Welcome: how do we live tribally? 01:26 — Meet Les Jensen 02:06 — What’s on your radar: compassion for humanity 03:08 — “I had no clue that I was a doormat” 04:13 — Growing up with a World War II father’s anger 06:51 — Isn’t walking away a good thing? 07:50 — Ulcers, digestion and the pressure cooker 08:37 — Anger as a messenger 09:32 — Suppressed anger: a case from Richard’s career 11:11 — “Show me your anger”: the session that changed Les’s life 14:48 — Scrubbing the psyche 15:29 — Tennis rackets and batakas: anger work in the 1970s 16:26 — Healing your relationship with an emotion 18:16 — Let it out, or get out? Richard’s middle ground 18:58 — The water experiment (see §6 item 1 — drop from public chapters) 21:24 — Beliefs, emotions and Echo Canyon 23:27 — “I’m 66 and … I feel like I’m fresh out of college” 25:26 — What does it mean to put your heart into something? 27:17 — The mind is a tool that wants to be the boss 28:34 — “Cracked open,” or opened up? 30:03 — Climbing Colorado’s fourteeners 31:38 — Seven weeks in hospital and the climb back from atrophy 34:41 — Why Les stopped reading books 36:41 — Citizen King and Forgiven Sinner 38:32 — The soul and intention 40:05 — Richard’s vision of a Möbius strip of souls 41:54 — Les’s children and the transformation 43:47 — Richard’s own turn: from professor to psychedelic medicine 44:17 — Les’s psychedelic past 46:47 — Existential grief 47:59 — Walking into old pain 50:13 — Break and announcements 51:41 — “Your age is none of your business” 52:27 — Closing This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

  2. Oct 6

    10% of Women Have Devastating PCOS

    In this episode — Céline Hovette, a naturopath and hormone-health coach from Northern France, joins to talk about polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which affects roughly one woman in ten, most of whom don’t know they have it. Céline lays out the five areas she works on with clients (nutrition, movement, stress, sleep, and chemical exposure), they compare what they eat, and Richard explains the food diary that cost him his morning croissant. Guest: Céline Hovette — naturopath, nutrition consultant (Institute for Integrative Nutrition), aromatherapy consultant; based in Northern France, consulting in France and abroad; author of Take Control of Your PCOS: Naturally Balance Your Hormones, Restore Intestinal Flora, and Boost Fertility (Inner Traditions, 2026) celinehovette.com Nothing in this conversation is medical advice. If you think you may have PCOS, see a physician for a diagnosis. Chapters 00:00 — Cold open: a symptom of a sick society 01:04 — Welcome: community as the antidote for anxiety and depression 04:11 — Céline Hovette from Northern France, and one woman in ten 05:40 — What PCOS is, and why it may get a new name 07:41 — Most women who have it don’t know 08:34 — A diagnosis by exclusion 10:13 — Fertility, insulin, and the wider metabolic picture 11:40 — No definitive test: room for misdiagnosis 13:09 — No cure, and no one answer for every woman 14:16 — Dense breast tissue and California’s 2013 notification law 17:19 — The symptoms, and where to get a good diagnosis 22:03 — Which androgens: testosterone and DHEA 22:33 — Can a partner’s testosterone gel cause PCOS? 24:35 — Since 1936: family history and the missing gene 25:16 — Endocrine disruptors: bisphenol, cosmetics, 300 chemicals a day 28:49 — What brings a woman to her practice 30:46 — Referrals, and naturopathy in France 32:10 — Five priorities: nutrition, movement, stress, sleep, disruptors 33:58 — What Céline eats: cook once, eat twice 36:44 — Slow down: egg whites, arugula, and bison 38:43 — The food diary and the 47-minute croissant 41:33 — Obesity in the US and France 45:10 — Reading from the book’s conclusion 48:10 — Fifteen minutes with a cardiologist: “our medical system is broken” 49:24 — The Ten Commitments, and a ripple effect 50:40 — “Patient” means to wait 52:41 — Lifting weights after fifty 54:14 — Break, and the free archive 56:02 — Closing: your diagnosis is not your destiny 57:24 — One last question: are the cysts real? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

  3. Sep 29

    Zee Cohen-Sanchez: Organizing, Voter Turnout, and Why Conversation Still Moves People

    In this episode — Zee Cohen-Sanchez, founder of Sole Strategies and executive director of National Ground Game, joins to talk about the difference between an activist and a political operative. They discuss her campus tour built as an answer to Turning Point USA, what “hustle” would mean for a health channel, finding and equipping young talent, lobbying, the working-class and evangelical vote, and Obama’s first two years. Guest: Zee Cohen-Sanchez — founder of Sole Strategies; executive director of National Ground Game PAC. nationalgroundgame.com Chapters 00:00 — Cold open: activist vs. political operative 00:49 — Welcome: tribal animals, isolation, and inflation 03:37 — A political family, and walking through Occupy Wall Street 05:51 — Protesting vs. acquiring political power 06:58 — Leaving graduate school for the Bernie Sanders campaign 09:13 — Running half of AOC’s paid field program 10:34 — Change minds or get out the vote? The win number 12:43 — Does door-to-door canvassing still work? 13:44 — Is the Democratic Party running an effective Senate campaign? 15:04 — Taking on Charlie Kirk: fifty creators at Texas A&M 20:48 — What Charlie Kirk had: the hustle 22:01 — Richard asks: what would hustle look like for a health channel? 24:07 — The Senate odds, and finding young talent 27:23 — A camera, some lights, and a 19-year-old from rural Texas 28:38 — Richard offers to help 29:48 — Both parties corrupt: lobbying is bribery 31:20 — Accountability 32:39 — Why the Democrats lost the working class 34:11 — Progressive policy vs. slogans: the Nevada door hanger 35:53 — Obama’s first two years: playing fair with people who don’t 39:48 — How do women, Black, and Hispanic voters choose Trump? 41:08 — From a party boat and the Dean scream to 34 felonies 42:25 — How the Democrats lost the evangelicals 44:41 — The ground game in Nevada 45:42 — Last word: vote in the midterms 47:36 — An introduction: Jamie Joyce This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

  4. Sep 22

    Can a Heavy Drinker Ever Drink Again?

    In this episode — Dr. Andrew Tatarsky, developer of Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy, returns for a second conversation. They take up the question that divides the field, whether a person who once drank a fifth a day can ever have a drink on a Saturday night. Andrew: some can, some can’t, we don’t yet have the science to tell which, and the therapist’s job is to help each person answer it for themselves. Also: the “submit–rebel bind” abstinence-first treatment sets up, an 89-year-old client who cut her drinking in three sessions, addiction as a continuum that includes junk food and the phone in your hand, and harm reduction as the container for psychedelic-assisted therapy. Guest: Dr. Andrew Tatarsky — clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, New York; PhD in Clinical Psychology; postdoctoral certificate in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis (NYU); developer of Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy (IHRP); more than 40 years in practice; author of Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A New Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems. andrewtatarsky.com · About · Training · Book Nothing in this conversation is medical advice. Chapters 00:00 — Cold open: addiction as a universal human response to suffering 00:54 — Welcome: the case for community 02:20 — Two harm reduction stories: a call from the White House, and a two-page letter at NPR 05:41 — The acting drug czar who changed his mind 08:31 — What harm reduction is: the disease model, the drug war, and the AIDS crisis 11:15 — From public health to psychotherapy: compassionate pragmatism, start where people are 14:29 — Religion and the law: clean or using, no gray 16:27 — Can a person who drank a fifth a day ever have a drink on a Saturday night? 17:25 — Taught the disease model in the eighties, and in the sixties: Jellinek’s chart 19:09 — An alternative paradigm: addiction as a response to suffering 20:36 — Who can moderate and who can’t: we don’t have the science 22:46 — Why this is a courageous position: impulse control disorders 25:18 — Drinking, driving, skiing: the bad-driver analogy 27:13 — The submit–rebel bind 29:16 — An 89-year-old who wanted to cut back her drinking 31:43 — Alcohol at 87: the finest fuel 33:09 — Addiction on a continuum: junk food, phones, relational meaning 36:25 — Gambling, eating, shopping, sex 38:04 — Psychedelics and harm reduction: ketamine, ibogaine, a New York training 41:06 — Close This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

  5. Sep 15

    A Legal Psychedelic! Salvia Divinorum

    In this episode — Somatic Salvia guide Christopher Solomon, from Willits in Richard’s own Mendocino County, teaches Salvia divinorum from the ground up: what the plant is (a sage from the Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca), its legal status (federally unscheduled and legal in California; banned in some states), how it is grown from cuttings, and the three ways it is taken — the Mazatec quid, the dried leaf, and a standardized extract in the five-bowl pipe Christopher invented. He explains how the gas-station “60x” extracts of the late nineties gave salvia its bad rap, why he built his practice around the smallest dose that does anything (“titrating and pendulating”), what the 2020 Johns Hopkins fMRI study he took part in found about the default mode network, a light dose as a door into meditation, and what he calls “the witness of an other.” For Richard’s book on adverse effects, they cover the ugly as well as the good: no addiction, no hangover, no measured rise in blood pressure or heart rate in the Hopkins safety work, and the one real danger at high dose, a dissociated person getting up and running, answered by a mature sitter and working in slowly. Guest: Christopher Solomon — somatic Salvia guide and teacher; B.A. Psychology (UT Dallas); two-year somatic psychotherapy certification, Hakomi Institute of California; Body-Mind Centering training; inventor of the five-bowl Salvia pipe; founder of the Somatic Salvia Network. Participant in the Johns Hopkins salvinorin A fMRI study (2020). salviahealings.com · About · His Johns Hopkins experience report Legal status of Salvia divinorum varies by state. Nothing in this conversation is medical advice. Chapters 00:00 — Cold open: the perfect plant for beginners and seasoned psychonauts 00:46 — Welcome: community is the antidote to isolation 02:05 — A guest from Willits, Mendocino County 02:34 — The magic wand: education and pragmatic advice 04:20 — What is Salvia divinorum? A sage from the Sierra Mazateca 05:35 — Is it legal? Federal law vs. state law 06:50 — How to grow it: clones, shade, and nitrogen 09:07 — Harvest and the quid: how the curanderos use it 10:51 — Gas-station extracts and salvia’s bad rap 13:10 — Three ways in: the quid, the dried leaf, the standardized extract 14:37 — Reverse tolerance and the five-bowl pipe 18:37 — How long it lasts: stair-stepping and pendulating 20:33 — Therapeutic benefits: Johns Hopkins, the claustrum, and the default mode network 23:25 — A light dose: quieting the mind, dropping the story 26:02 — Enhancing the witness: “something else being there with you” 27:49 — The good, the bad, and the ugly: adverse effects 29:34 — Opioid withdrawal and the kappa opioid receptor 30:28 — The main risk: dissociation, and getting up to run 31:37 — A mature sitter 32:40 — No hangover, no fatigue 33:40 — How to reach Christopher: salviahealings.com 34:33 — Blood pressure, heart rate, and medications 37:16 — The break: the open-source archive and Richard’s books 40:10 — Closing: beginners and psychonauts, the Somatic Salvia Network, a sustainable plant 42:47 — Close: “I’m gonna do it myself” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

  6. Sep 8

    Psychedelic Assisted Therapy

    In this episode — Psychedelic psychotherapist Heather A. Lee returns to the program with the message she received on a recent psilocybin journey. She and Richard cover psilocybin for women sixty and over, why she thinks the “hero’s dose” is male language, what a micro dose actually is, Colorado’s grow-gift-share model, and the psychedelic tourism they’ve produced. Guest: Heather A. Lee, LCSW, LNMCF — one of the nation’s first licensed psychedelic-assisted psychotherapists (Licensed Natural Medicine Clinical Facilitator, Colorado); 30+ years in clinical practice; trained at the Harvard Mind/Body Medical Institute; former Coordinator of Women’s Mind/Body Wellness Education at UVA Medical Center’s Midlife Women’s Health Center; featured in Lisa Ling’s CBS special The Psychedelic Renaissance. Author of The Psilocybin Sessions: Real-Life Stories of Women’s Wisdom Awakening with Psychedelic Medicine (Modern Wisdom Press, 2025). heatheralee.com · Azores retreats Chapters 00:00 — Cold open: “all the other plants have something to say” 00:55 — Welcome: living in community, and Peaks Island’s 900 people 02:41 — Breakfast, intermittent fasting, and watching your protein 04:28 — Fuel: air, water, and ingestibles 05:48 — The Psilocybin Sessions, and what’s new 06:31 — The mushrooms’ message: listen to the other plants 07:28 — The Azores: a retreat that sold out in two weeks 09:21 — Living on the planet vs. living as part of it 10:23 — Selling Boulder, buying Peaks Island 11:33 — The legend of the Azores: the healers being called back 13:49 — Psilocybin for women 60 and over: cumulative grief, reinvention, resilience 17:02 — Hero’s dose vs. heroine’s dose 19:27 — What a microdose actually is 19:58 — How do you know what’s in the mushroom? Testing and strains 22:19 — Colorado’s two models: unregulated (grow, gift, share) and regulated 24:23 — Psychedelic tourism: flying to Colorado to do it legally 27:31 — Many paths: the jungle, the hospital, or “a psychedelic broad like me” 29:02 — Will psychedelics change the culture? 30:54 — Forest bathing and clinical ecotherapy 31:53 — Adverse effects: screening, and the three who went silent 35:09 — The container: 12 to 15 hours of prep, journey, and integration 36:19 — Who Heather turns away 38:04 — The break, and the open-source archive 40:28 — Imagine the mossy forest: magnifying glasses, black sand, breath work to the surf 44:01 — Close: heatheralee.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

  7. Sep 1

    The Sun: Adverse Effects

    In this episode — Five minutes on sun exposure and skin cancer — three diagnoses, one melanoma that nearly didn’t end well, and the one habit that changes the odds. Chapters 0:01 — Another entry in his “raining on your parade” series: this one’s about the sun 0:27 — The sun is fantastic, and it comes with adverse effects 0:56 — Hanging out in the sun through his teens, twenties, and thirties 1:24 — A teenage sunburn with his girlfriend Marguerite Davis, at a lake near Champaign, Illinois, that ended in the hospital 1:52 — Decades later, the first skin cancers: basal and squamous cell 2:19 — Five years ago: a nodular melanoma diagnosis 2:47 — How his immune system bought him the time to get it cut out 3:15 — The real tradeoff: sun now, or the dermatologist later 3:42 — Why SPF 50+ sunscreen is the compromise he’s landed on 4:11 — Closing thought and sign-off This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

  8. Aug 25

    Fertility: What you need to know

    In this episode — Fertility specialist Gabriela Rosa joins to talk about couples the healthcare system has given up on: two-plus years trying with multiple failed IVF cycles. They cover her seven-year study of 544 patients (78.8% took home a healthy baby), why infertility gets diagnosed by a stopwatch instead of an investigation, the real success rates behind IVF and egg freezing, and why male fertility is half the equation. Guest: Gabriela Rosa, DrPH, MPH (Clinical Effectiveness, Harvard T.H. Chan School), MScM (Reproductive Medicine & Human Genetics, University of Sydney), BHSc (ND) — fertility specialist; founder and clinical director of The Rosa Institute; author of Fertility Breakthrough: Overcoming Infertility and Recurrent Miscarriage When Other Treatments Have Failed (2019) and Eat Your Way to Parenthood. @gabrielarosafertility on Instagram. Chapters 00:00 — Who fertility treatment is really for (cold open) 01:11 — Welcome and introduction 02:47 — Gabriela’s path into fertility 07:00 — Two patients who changed everything 12:32 — The cohort study: 544 patients, seven years 17:17 — Trying, perseverance, and pleasure 19:08 — When trying to conceive kills your sex life 23:06 — Reframing the fertility timeline 24:16 — Population fertility and the egg-freezing pitch 29:11 — IVF’s real success rate 31:56 — Male fertility and age 38:30 — Sperm banking, and why men don’t think about it 40:08 — Life expectancy and deferred maintenance 42:01 — “What is new under the sun? Nothing.” 45:34 — Unexplained infertility: a diagnosis based on time 48:18 — The leaking toilet 52:19 — Richard’s hospital story 54:19 — Existence vs. non-existence 56:08 — Close This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe

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Dr. Richard Louis Miller is an American Clinical Psychologist, Founder of Wilbur Hot Springs Health Sanctuary, and broadcaster who hosts the Mind Body Health & Politics talk radio program from Mendocino County, California. Dr. Miller was also Founder and chief clinician of the nationally acclaimed, pioneering, Cokenders Alcohol and Drug Program. Dr. Miller’s new book, Psychedelic Medicine, is based on his interviews with the most acclaimed experts on the topic. Mind Body Health & Politics radio broadcast is known for its wide ranging discussions on political issues and health. The program’s format includes guest interviews with prominent national authorities, scientists, best-selling authors, and listener call-ins. The programs offer a forum and soundboard for listeners to interact with the show and its guests. We invite you to listen to the latest broadcasts below or visit our many archived programs. We’d love to hear from you on political and health issues! www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org

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  • Creator
    Richard L. Miller
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2026
  • Episodes
    372
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Dr. Richard L. Miller
  • Show Website
    Mind Body Health & Politics

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