The Mind-Body Connection: How Your Thoughts Shape Your Healing Journey When it comes to wellness, most people focus on diet, exercise, supplements, or medical treatments. But what if your biggest blocks to healing don’t come from your body &m…
The Hidden Enemy Within Our Walls: How Mold Toxicity Affects Children's Mental Health When children experience mysterious health issues, parents often find themselves navigating a confusing maze of specialists and diagnoses. Laura Hott’s stor…
Whitney Jones: Transforming Pain into Power and Purpose When life breaks you down, you face a choice: stay broken or turn those fractures into the foundation for growth. Three-time Miss Olympia champion Whitney Jones chose the latter—and her …
Surviving the Unthinkable: Brickman Allen’s Journey of Purpose, Pain, and Forgiveness Brickman Allen’s life changed forever in July 2003. Given less than a 10% chance of survival after a brutal home invasion, his story is not only one o…
When Grief Finds a Mirror: Two Widows Share Their Journey Through Suicide Loss Suicide loss creates a particular kind of grief—complicated, isolating, and often laced with shame. But when two widows sit down after over a year of connecting on…
Breathing Through Grief: Finding Healing with Resurrect Breathwork The transformative power of breathwork is something many have heard about but few truly understand—until it’s needed. In a deeply moving episode of Not Alone, host Melis…
Grief Through a Child’s Eyes: A Conversation with Sophia and Mateus Grief looks different when seen through the eyes of a child. When my two children—Sophia (11) and Mateus (9)—sat down to share their experiences of losing their f…
Not Alone Podcast: Dr. Trevor Nichols on Burnout, Emotional Healing, and Airway Health In a moving episode of Not Alone with Melissa Sue Methven, Dr. Trevor Nichols opened up about the emotional realities behind his success as an orthodontist, husb…
Grief shows up in many ways for children. It can be quiet, full of outbursts, or even mixed with unexpected moments of laughter followed by guilt. After my children lost their father to suicide, I had to learn how to support them through emotions th…
We often think of success in terms of titles, money, or status. But for Dr. Arvind Petrie—a respected dentist, business owner, and father—true success took on a much deeper meaning after life threw him some of its hardest punches. Raise…
Most people don’t realize just how critical nasal breathing is for kids. But when children can’t breathe properly through their nose, the impact goes far beyond stuffy noses or snoring—it can affect their behavior, development, sle…