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Oct. 22, 2025

What Kids Understand About Friendship Better Than Adults

The Pace of Modern Parenting Parenting can feel like sprinting on a treadmill that never slows. Lunches, sports, homework, and work emails blend into noisy loops that swallow entire days. This conversation between Melissa and her daughter Sophia o…

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Oct. 15, 2025

Dental Insurance Decoded

From Coupons to Care: Rethinking Money, Mindset, and Modern Dentistry Dentistry promises precision, purpose, and a stable living. Yet many new dentists step into practice blindsided by how money actually moves, how insurance actually pays, and how …

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Oct. 8, 2025

So, your “dead tooth” is throwing a party for bacteria

The Mouth as a MirrorBiological dentistry sees the mouth as a living reflection of the whole body. Teeth and gums are not isolated parts—they echo stress, immune load, hormones, gut health, nutrition, sleep, and environmental exposures. After…

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Oct. 1, 2025

Inflammation Speaks In Whispers Before It Screams

Brain fog rarely arrives with a bang. It creeps in as small forgetfulness, fuzzy thinking, or tiny mistakes that don’t feel like us. We laugh off putting milk in the cupboard or missing an obvious turn, yet the pattern keeps repeating. The sma…

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Sept. 24, 2025

Your Body Knows Before Your Mind Does

Breaking Free from Fear: Reclaiming Clarity, Health, and Intuition Fear is powerful. Silent. Subtle. It can build invisible prisons we don’t even realize we’re living inside. In my own life, fear trapped me in toxic situations, manifest…

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Sept. 17, 2025

Why Men Struggle with Sharing Their Feelings

Breaking the Silence: Brad Perry on Men’s Mental Health and Emotional Vulnerability For generations, men have been cast as stoic protectors—expected to shoulder the world’s burdens without showing a crack in their armor. That outd…

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Sept. 10, 2025

A Surprising Depression Recovery Story

Overcoming Darkness: Jennifer Stirling-Campbell’s Journey Through Depression Depression can feel like an inescapable shadow, following you from childhood into adulthood. Jennifer Stirling-Campbell knows this struggle intimately, describing he…

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Sept. 3, 2025

What If Your Biggest Block Is In Your Mind, Not Your Body?

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…

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Aug. 27, 2025

When Your Home Makes Your Family Sick

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…

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Aug. 20, 2025

When Life Breaks You, You Choose How to Heal

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 …

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Aug. 13, 2025

When God Uses Your Darkest Moments to Light Others' Paths

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…

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Aug. 6, 2025

What Happens When No One Wrote You a Rulebook for This?

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…

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July 30, 2025

Your Breath Already Knows How to Heal You

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…

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July 23, 2025

Finding Light After A Parent's Suicide

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…

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July 22, 2025

The Hidden Weight of Manhood

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…

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July 9, 2025

A Parent's Toolkit for Helping Children Navigate Grief

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…

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July 2, 2025

The Breaking Point Is Where the Healing Starts

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…

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June 25, 2025

Is Your Child's Behavior Problem Actually a Breathing Problem?

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…

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