Optimal Living: Recent Episodes

Dr. Jeremy Spiegel

Optimal Living is a series of podcasts by Dr. Jeremy Spiegel, a nationally recognized psychiatrist, award winning author, and founder and medical director of Casco Bay Medical

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Aromatherapist Cathy Skipper is cofounder of AromaGnosis with her husband Florian Birkmayer, MD. Cathy synthesizes Jungian psychology with aromatherapy for a unique, powerful and transformative modality of coaching and healing.

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Interview with New Mexico Holistic Psychiatrist Florian Birkmayer, MD of AromaGnosis.

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Discussion with Ashley Rutherford, Practice Manager, Casco Bay Medical. Works discussed include George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy, Tillie Walden’s Spinning, and Blankets by Craig Thompson. 

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In today’s podcast, Dr. Spiegel has a conversation with Spiros Lazos, MD, a well respected primary care physician practicing in Maine.

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Casco Bay Medical psychotherapist Glenn Selwood describes his use of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, an incredible, pharmaceutical-free treatment for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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Casco Bay Medical psychotherapist Glenn Selwood describes his use of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, an incredible, pharmaceutical-free treatment for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). 

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Casco Bay Medical psychotherapist Glenn Selwood describes his use of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, an incredible, pharmaceutical-free treatment for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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Emotional eating is something that many of us do—we’re stressed, we’re feeling badly, or, maybe we don’t know why just then that we’re doing it—but we find something, usually quickly, to munch on or to swallow. We eat, impulsively at first, and then more and more in response to something other than simple hunger. Dr.…

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Dr. Spiegel makes the case for medical marijuana in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. First he presents a general defense of medical marijuana. Then, describes what he’s seen in his own practice. Finally, Dr. Spiegel explains in brief three studies, two for anxiety and one for depression where medical marijuana has been of great benefit.

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What you should do when an electronic device becomes your best friend. In today’s podcast, Dr. Spiegel explains how a greater chance for emotional isolation exists when the lion’s share of your social life is mediated through a smartphone.