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The Hope Infusion Interactive Podcast
by Dr. Bergina Isbell
Welcome to the Hope Infusion Interactive Podcast, where we chat about ways our faith infuses hope with a focus on mental health and wellness. The Hope Infusion helps listeners transform their own lives by developing a mindset for growth by gleaning from the success of others in the global faith community. Dr. Bergina, a Board Certified Psychiatrist and Speaker is joined by Dr. Amir, a Medical Expert and Bestselling author share insight and interview professionals, music artists, entrepreneurs, and people just like you from around the world who are living full and purposeful lives th Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thehopeinfusion/support
Episodes
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Transform Your Mental Health with Lifestyle Medicine: 6 Steps to Success
In this episode, Dr. Bergina from Led Life Psychiatry shares practical ways to use lifestyle medicine to improve your mental health. Focusing on six key areas—stress prevention, movement, healthful intake, sleep optimization, substance moderation, and relationship optimization—she provides...
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Why Listening to Your Doctor Can Change Your Life
In this episode, Dr. Bergina discusses the importance of listening to your doctor for better health outcomes. Drawing from her experience as a physician, she explains why expert knowledge, holistic assessments, accurate diagnosis and treatment, preventative care, and a trust-based partnership…
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How to get better?
In this episode, Dr. Bergina, a board-certified psychiatrist from Led Life Concierge Psychiatry, delves into effective strategies for overcoming depression. She outlines a comprehensive three-step approach: rewiring the brain with medication, renewing the mind through cognitive-behavioral therapy...
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The Impact of Mental Health on Hypertension
In this episode, Dr. Bergina explores the connection between mental health and hypertension, highlighting four key factors: chronic stress, unhealthy coping mechanisms like alcohol and tobacco use, lack of self-care, and emotional eating. She emphasizes the importance of managing stress through...
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Navigating Disability and Depression
In this podcast episode, Dr. Bergina from Led Life Concierge Psychiatry addresses a question about balancing the desire for disability benefits with the goal of overcoming depression. She emphasizes the importance of making a clear decision about whether to focus on getting better or pursuing...
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What happens when you have to get admitted to the hospital?
Have you been doing everything you can to avoid getting hospitalized? But now you know that that's a very real possibility.
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The Big Picture
How do you put it all together? Wrapping up the end of a project, a season, or the end of a year can be daunting. In this recap of our Thrive Through the Holidays group, we discuss how to see the big picture for your life and what to do about it. And this last session in our series not only ends...
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To Connect or Not to Connect
Merry Christmas! So, you've been invited to the party or to go home and see family. But do you really want, or need, to go? And if you do, how do you make the most of the opportunity to show love to family and friends while maintaining your sanity?!? Here are lessons from our Thrive Through the...
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It’s The Trigger For Me
In our Thrive Through the Holidays group we previously supported people during the holiday season with education and community. For this topic we covered what are commonly known as "triggers" and how we can successfully navigate them. So, what is a trigger? Let's define what are commonly known as...
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Losing Is Real But Not Always a Bad Thing
For our Thrive Through the Holidays group we did previously to support people during the holiday season, we covered the concept of loss. Here we will define loss, discuss voluntary and involuntary loss, identify strategies and what it means for us moving forward.
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Give Your Stress Wings
This season, we want to re-introduce a series of teachings we did during the Thrive Through the Holidays group we did previously to support people during the holiday season. In this session, we will define stress and anxiety, identify coping strategies that allow us to let it go.
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Zones of Brilliance: Stress Prevention
Here at Led Life we use the 3R method - Rewire the Brain with Medicine, Renew the Mind with Evidence Based Therapy and Restore a Sense of Calm and Joy with Lifegiving experiences. The therapies we offer to Renew the Mind are either Goal Based CBT or Trauma healing CPT. In this portion of our...
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Set, and Settings, and Slow downs, Oh My!
Here we discussed a hodge podge of questions by both patients and persons interested in novel Neurohealth medicines like Spravato and Ketamine.
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First treatment of Spravato Ketamine
We got a TikTok follower who asked the question who and how do you ask about Spravato and Ketamine. In this podcast episode, we answer both questions and give three tips for the process.
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Who and How do You Ask about Spravato and Ketamine
We received this question on TikTok and share a few answers as well as tips for How To ask your provider about novel health medicines like Spravato and Ketamine. Here's another How To just for you.
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What is Spravato and Ketamine?
What is Spravato and Ketamine? The short answer is that Spravato is an FDA approved medicine for Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD) and depressive symptoms in adults with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), who also have thoughts of self harm. Ketamine is the parent medicine that's used for all...
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Rewire, Renew, Restore
Our front desk staff have gotten the question, "What is Led Life and why do you call yourselves that?" This episode shares a bit of the reasoning behind that as well as the 3Rs that we use. No, not Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic. Rewire, Renew, and Restore. Take a listen and tell us which area...
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Which is Better, a Home Based or Office Based Business?
Home based is what many of us have been doing for over a year but in our mental health practice, we had the privilege of doing it before it was accepted. We are kind of early adopters in that regard. Now we help other healthcare providers do what we do. Here is some of the advice we have given to...
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Using Software to Support Your Business and Your Life
Here are a few tips on software taken from a slightly different angle that you might have heard before. We are big on reverse engineering things. In patient cate we start with the patients 90 day goal. In our practice as a business we utilize tools but they are just a part of the system that…
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How to Network with Potential Clients and Referral Sources
Most of us don't go into the field in which we are passionate about just for the networking opportunities - unless it leads to sharing the gospel. So most of us aren't taught how to network. In my practice I was taught medicine, not how to network. But, the vast majority of my clients and…
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Do you Build on a Legacy or Create Your Own?
Can you buy an existing practice or do you start from scratch? Do you build on your parents ministry legacy or create your own. While I’ll be talking about an existing versus start-up practice, make these words of wisdom your own based on whether or not you are thinking of improving on someone...
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Personal Productivity with the GODLY Method
In a previous episode we spoke about using the GODLY method for business. In this episode we talk about using it from a personal growth and development perspective. In personal development, GODLY stands for: G - Godly vision O - Offer Excellence D - Do it afraid and Duplicate yourself L…
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Five Tips for Your Career or Kingdom Business
Here are a few tips for using the GODLY method in your career or business. G - Godly vision first O - Offer Excellence D - Do it afraid and Duplicate yourself L - Leverage what you know and Learn what you don't (or learn who can help you in achieving your goals) and remember... Y - You are the...
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Why started my own business
I remember being in an appointment with a patient who had already been rescheduled more than once. When the nurse knocked on the door, we both knew why. I took the call from my son’s school where there was a medical concern and knew I'd be rescheduling that patient yet again. I came back to the...
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Is Concierge Care Worth it?
Concierge service is provided by an individual or a company which provides personalized services to its clients in specialty areas such as lifestyle management, business matters, and, in my area of expertise, holistic healthcare. If you look up CP, you’ll find terms like quality over quantity and...
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Limiting Beleifs
Articles, blogs, and social media episodes are abounding in conversations about limiting beliefs. What are they and how do you overcome them? We’ll talk about their origins in Psychiatry and therapy and how they are now extended into the coaching world.
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Physician Heal Thyself: Employee, Practice Owner, or Concierge Psychiatry
Physician Heal Thyself is an episode that covers the health care provider as employee, practice owner, or concierge provider. If you are a provider, where do you fall among these categories? If you are a patient, which type of provider do you prefer? I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments...
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What is the Process for Getting Good Health Care and How Do You Maximize Your ROI?
In medicine, when we think in terms of ROI, its usually about confidentiality. We focus on obtaining a Release of Information, but in business the term ROI stands for Return on Investment. How do you combine both of these concepts for optimal health? We cover this in this bonus episode.
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Three Places to Learn About New Clients
This is a Bonus episode for those of you in the business of healthcare and leadership. It is also helpful for those who are building a ministry. You can spend time researching people and their companies all over the internet. But here are three great places to start.
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How to be a "Good" Patient
Here are a few strategies recommended for both those who want to be a "good" patient as well as those who want good doctors caring for them.
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What Makes Our Practice of Medicine Unique?
It's interesting that the application of medical knowledge to prevent and treat illness is called the practice of medicine. Today we cover ways that practices can stand out in the world of medicine by infusing the old fashioned with the state of the art in medicine.
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Reasons to Retain a Mental Health Specialist
There is still considerable stigma with mental illness. But mental health is something everyone needs. We want a healthy, growth mindset and optimizing mental health is the way to get there. Here are a few reasons to move past the stigma and reach out to a mental health specialist, especially now.
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Who Certifies Doctors and Why Want a Board Certified Physician?
Welcome to Season 2 of the Hope Infusion Podcast! In this Season we will talk about how you can take charge of your health, but we'll also be discussing some of the back ground elements that go into who you see as a provider. Perhaps you are both the patient and the provider. Do you have a...
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Tests for Productivity and Optimal Mental Health
Is it ADHD? Early onset dementia? Do you need to take 5-HT or Testosterone? Perhaps not. Here are some tests to talk to your physician about to improve your productivity.
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The Fisherman and the Businessman (Season 1 Episode 11)
Here is an inspiring story about reverse engineering your business, knowing what you really want, and gratitude. Enjoy!
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Non-Traditional Biblical Medicine
In this episode we move into the main event from a Psychiatric perspective - what about medicines for mental illness? Many take medicines for hypertension, or high blood pressure, diabetes, cardiac disease, and cancer. But what about for anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia? Today...
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Whom the Son Sets Free
John 8:36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. On July 4th Americans celebrate Independence day, the day they put pen to paper to gain freedom from British rule. Many of us have been liberated as well, not necessarily from tyranny, or imprisonment of the body, but we have been...
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Medicine and God's Elegant Design
As a Christian I have been told that we don’t need to use medicine for healing. This left me a bit conflicted as a doctor who prescribed medicines. When I was in my Psychiatry residency, one of my mentors Dr. Rumans gave me some valuable insight on medicines. She led me to John 9:6. The story of...
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The Difference Between Concierge Medicine and General Medicine
The original form of medicine was actually a concierge medicine model that kept the doctor patient relationship as the main feature. I was in a few offices recently for a specialty team that are the best in the area, but not in a concierge practice. In one specialist's office, I waited about 20...
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What is Concierge Psychiatry?
For this Bonus Episode Dr. Bergina talks about what Concierge Psychiatry provides.
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What is a Medicine?
One of the areas that I get asked about a lot is medicines and what my thoughts are about using medication. They have been all kinds of concerns raised about whether or not pharmaceutical medication should even be used among Christians. Are you lacking in faith if you use a medicine? Why do some...
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A Little Wine for Your Stomachs Sake, Part 3
Is using alcohol or other substances helpful for the body? By that I mean both the physical body as well as the Body of Christ. In this series, A Little Wine for Your Stomachs Sake, we cover a few biblical concepts related to this topic. Join us for this three part teaching with Dr. Bergina on…
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A Little Wine for Your Stomachs Sake, Part 2
Is using alcohol or other substances helpful for the body? By that I mean both the physical body as well as the Body of Christ. In this series, A Little Wine for Your Stomachs Sake, we cover a few biblical concepts related to this topic. Join us for this three part teaching with Dr. Bergina on…
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A Little Wine for Your Stomachs Sake, Part 1
Is using alcohol or other substances helpful for the body? By that I mean both the physical body as well as the Body of Christ. In this series, A Little Wine for Your Stomachs Sake, we cover a few biblical concepts related to this topic. Join us for this three part teaching with Dr. Bergina on…
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A Prayer to Help With Anxiety
One of my recommendations to patients is to read scripture that talks about ways to deal with anxiety, then to pray those scriptures back to God. Prayer is simply having a conversation with God. But I have been asked by more than one person, how do I pray? More specifically, how do I pray about...
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A Scripture to Focus on In Times of Anxiety
Psalm 139 is a popular psalm that addresses a variety of concerns of King David. In this episode, Dr. Bergina shares some insights from this psalm as it relates to anxiety, anger, and other emotions.
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Anxiety 101
Anxiety. We’ve all experienced it. Whether it is being anxious before a big meeting or giving a presentation or worry about balancing your finances, anxiety symptoms are a common occurrence. With current concerns about health and movement restrictions, there is heightened anxiety for many people....
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The Great Physician
Imagine if you woke up every day feeling absolutely awful. You try to treat yourself to you feel better, but it doesn't work. You go to a specialist and you get a second opinion, but none of these doctors but no one seems to know exactly what's going on with you, or how to treat you. You go see...
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The Hope Infusion: Hope to Come
Welcome to the Hope Infusion Interactive Podcast, where we chat about ways our faith infuses hope with a focus on mental health and wellness. The Hope Infusion co-hosts are Dr. Bergina, a Board Certified Psychiatrist and Speaker and Dr. Amir, the Medical Expert and Bestselliing author. WeI invite...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to the Hope Infusion Interactive Podcast, where we chat about ways our faith infuses hope with a focus on mental health and wellness. The Hope Infusion helps listeners transform their own lives by developing a mindset for growth by gleaning from the success of others in the global faith community. Dr. Bergina, a Board Certified Psychiatrist and Speaker is joined by Dr. Amir, a Medical Expert and Bestselling author share insight and interview professionals, music artists, entrepreneurs, and people just like you from around the world who are living full and purposeful lives th Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thehopeinfusion/support
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