The Dr. Melanie Show

Dr. Melanie Barton

People expect solutions to be expensive to be effective. Our program provides tools to locate resources that can be affordable. The Dr. Melanie Show is designed to educate the world about holistic techniques and the benefit of using them combined with Western methods, as well as to give you hope that your situation can be better. If you are looking for the right resources to connect with you, we can help. Every person can have somebody to connect with for support and guidance; someone that can relate to them. No situation needs to be considered hopeless. Dr. Melanie will share her gifts and talents, to serve and in serving will teach others to do the same. Topics will include: Ministers and sexual addiction, cancer and anxiety, combining Western and Eastern medicine, energy healing, meditation: an aide to recovery, and holistic nutrition. read less

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Saving Animals, Running for a Cause, and Partnering with your Doctor

Saving Animals, Running for a Cause, and Partnering with your Doctor

Allsion Cardona helps save animals that would have become victims of neglect. Find out how you can help. Kelly Flynn coaches the Team-In-Training (TNT) Teams to run marathons to raise funding to help find a cure for Leukemia and Lymphoma. See what you can do to participate in one or donate for someone else to do so. Dr. Zachary Berger has written the book Talking to Your Doctor: A Patient’s Guide to Communication in the Exam Room and Beyond. A must read for both doctor and patient.

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Saving Animals, Running for a Cause, and Partnering with your Doctor

Saving Animals, Running for a Cause, and Partnering with your Doctor

Allsion Cardona helps save animals that would have become victims of neglect. Find out how you can help. Kelly Flynn coaches the Team-In-Training (TNT) Teams to run marathons to raise funding to help find a cure for Leukemia and Lymphoma. See what you can do to participate in one or donate for someone else to do so. Dr. Zachary Berger has written the book Talking to Your Doctor: A Patient’s Guide to Communication in the Exam Room and Beyond. A must read for both doctor and patient.

Special Encore Presentation: The Mind is a Powerful Tool

Special Encore Presentation: The Mind is a Powerful Tool

People for a variety of reasons can become almost addicted to substances. Once they make the decision to change that behavior they can alter their life direction. People who have cancer can have a positive effect on their condition using various psychological approaches. The mind is a powerful tool which has the ability to help a body heal, create conditions, or worsen them.

MS Advances and Myths, Safe Teen Driving, and Surviving World War II Atrocities

MS Advances and Myths, Safe Teen Driving, and Surviving World War II Atrocities

Learn the advances and myths about MS. Tyler Presnell knows first-hand what it is like to be a victim of a friend’s reckless driving habits. Hear his story. James Ehl and Margret Mefford interviewed women who survived the atrocities of World War II. Be inspired hearing how they not only endured hardship, but ended up happily settling in the United States.

Childhood Hunger, College Life, and Iridology

Childhood Hunger, College Life, and Iridology

1 in 5 Children Struggle with Hunger in America. America’s Egg Farmers and Share our Strength’s No Kid Hungry® Campaign Partner to End Childhood Hunger. Leigh Ann Edwards MPH, RD will tell us how we can help. Jon Vroman “Campus Speaker of the Year” will tell us how he encourages college students to find and develop their unique talents. Hanne Hojsted will teach us about how looking at the iris of our eyes can determine information about a patient's systemic health. Practitioners match their observations to iris charts, which divide the iris into zones that correspond to specific parts of the human body. Iridologists see the eyes as windows into the body's state of health. See what you can find out about your own eyes.

Children’s Dreams and Clearing Sensitivities

Children’s Dreams and Clearing Sensitivities

We often discount children’s dreams. Kelly Bulkeley, author of Children’s Dreams will tell us the reason we need to encourage discussing them. Many people have food and other sensitivities. Dr. Ellen Cutler author of Clearing the Way to Health and Wellness talks about the BioSet system she created to clear such sensitivities.

Letting Go, Persevering, Preventing, and Listening

Letting Go, Persevering, Preventing, and Listening

Nicholas Corrin has drawn from the wisdom of the ages, as well as from current scientific research and ground-breaking discoveries. He has condensed this wisdom into a single comprehensible volume The Power of Letting Go - transforming fear into love. John Nichols took his near death experience to propel him into recovering from a spinal cord injury. Scott Williams of the Men’s Health Network and Matthew J. Bassiur of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals will tell listeners about counterfeit drugs sold in the Internet. All these men have information that can help listeners. Join us.

Whole Foods’ Benefits and Living Comfortably with Illness

Whole Foods’ Benefits and Living Comfortably with Illness

Eating whole foods can not only keep us healthy, but help restore our health. T. Colin Campbell, PhD will discuss his book Whole…Rethinking the Science of Nutrition that is the sequel to the famous The China Study that President Clinton followed to get healthy for his daughter’s wedding. Sylvia Hawthorn-Deppen will share with us her journey from recovery from chronic pain and discovery of new energy.

Caring for Self While Helping Others

Caring for Self While Helping Others

Balancing caring for yourself as a professional while helping others is quite a feat. Elizabeth Scala nurse and radio talk show host embodies this balancing act. Poet, author, and healing touch practitioner Katya Taylor learned she had to change her name to be true to her inner most self. Hear these two women’s stories and be empowered to share your own.

The Real Name of and Pathways to God

The Real Name of and Pathways to God

With Rabbi Wayne Dosick we will explore the revolutionary discovery of the Name of the Whole, Complete God, the Inner God of breath and soul. It is a journey on the pathways of mind and spirit that brings each one of us into a deep, personal, intimate, loving relationship with God, and close to a world of Oneness. Dr. Robert Newton says that people yearn to have proof positive of God’s existence. People may know intellectually that God exists, but rarely or never do they feel this presence of God. Dr. Newton will provide substantial proof of God’s existence and practical methods, means, and devices, through which God reveals itself to us. A program you will not want to miss.

Trends, Helping, and Healing

Trends, Helping, and Healing

John Koller, of Playstation will educate us about the trends in technical devices that help us function in our daily life. Some people cannot function at full capacity due to rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Debbie McGrady will tell us how RA patients are helping one another. Cesar Milan, the “Dog Whisperer” will tell us how he is helping the world combat the problem of canine abandonment and about his new television show. Eric Pearl is helping patients heal through Reconnective Healing. He will share with us his new book Solomon Speaks. All these guests have things to teach us. Please join us.

Consciousness and Living in the Super Mind

Consciousness and Living in the Super Mind

Spiritual teacher Tony Samara author of four books will share with us his mission to encourage people to lead a life in order to realize the evolution of human consciousness. Dr. Maurie Pressman creator of the program to help Olympic ice-skaters visualize their success will talk to us about his new book Living in the Super Mind and how he developed Spiritual Psychotherapy.

AA’s Traditions and Founders

AA’s Traditions and Founders

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) started in 1935 and has grown immensely throughout its lifetime. Since the founders Bill W. and Dr. Bob started AA it has inspired other groups to form like Gamblers Anonymous, Cocaine Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, and Sex Addicts Anonymous. In this episode you will learn about some of the history and traditions of AA, and some things about its founders. You will get a new perception of AA while listening to my intern, Joseph Anglim interview Mike Fitzpatrick.

Food Facts and Allergy-Free Goodies

Food Facts and Allergy-Free Goodies

Do you know what the actual ingredients and the nutritional value of your food is? Stanley Rak of Food Facts will tell us how we can access this information on his Internet database. If you are a person who needs allergy-free foods, but still wants flavor Laurie Sadowski is the person you want to meet. She will discuss her cookbook The Allergy-Free Cook Bakes Cakes and Cookies.

Finding Family, Farming, and Poetry

Finding Family, Farming, and Poetry

Family is very important. Richard Hill did not know he was adopted. It was quite a journey to finally connect all the dots. Katie Pratt is a farmer and wife and mother. Their seven generation family farming business stresses the importance of working together. Wife, mother, educator, and poet Katya Taylor did not start her family until she was in her forties. Family makes all the difference. Learn the importance of your family from this episode.

Finding Midlife Mojo and Lassoing Love

Finding Midlife Mojo and Lassoing Love

The word “mojo”comes for the African Congo word “moyo,” which means your life-force. If your ‘life-force’ seems to have dimmed, now is the time to reclaim your Mojo, in Midlife ( or otherwise). Discover how to overcome the obstacles that stop you from living your life’s purpose and get sparked into action! Frankie Picasso’s book, Midlife Mojo: How to get through the midlife crisis and emerge as your true self is not a self-help book. It is a “to-do” book that will guide you on your quest to change. Stay tuned as we also explore her book No Bull Allowed- How to Lose the Losers and Lasso in Love written in collaboration with Kelly Wallace.

Violence in Schools and Relationships

Violence in Schools and Relationships

Violence affects all of us. The Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting in December of 2012 shook us all to the core. It reminded us that what we hold precious can be taken from us in a millisecond. Jeanine Jones social worker and domestic violence expert will educate us about how to recognize the traits of an abuser. Winston Johnson Director of Prevention Intervention Services for Hartford Connecticut Public Schools will inform us about how school social workers are being trained to recognize and to avert such tragedies.

Social Workers: Research and Reality

Social Workers: Research and Reality

Social workers serve in a variety of capacities from a statistician studying trends in the social work labor force to a public figure on a reality television show. Dr. Tracy Whitaker addresses the information gap and strengthens the link between science and service (research and practice). Psychotherapist Mark Gaynor goes where others fear to tread entering the homes of animal hoarders enduring the stench and the filth to offer a helping hand to freedom from their obsessions. Learn how they help others.

Social Workers Serving the Disenfranchised

Social Workers Serving the Disenfranchised

What happens to those people who have medical and mental health needs but do not have the funds to pay for them? Who helps them? Velma Stevens works with those diagnosed with Sickle Cell and Mark Lazarus works with the homeless many of whom lack the basic necessities of life. Hear how these two social workers are making a difference in the lives of disenfranchised people.

Social Workers Wear Many Hats

Social Workers Wear Many Hats

Social Workers wear a variety of hats. Some teach, head agencies, write policies, work in hospitals, nursing homes, or for the government. Some social workers treat individuals, families, and groups to help the clients solve their problems and become self-sufficient. You may not be aware how many times a week a social worker has helped you. Throughout March, Social Work month you will learn about the variety of jobs they perform.

Healing Comes in Many Forms and Sometimes not at all

Healing Comes in Many Forms and Sometimes not at all

Healers come in many forms. The practitioner may do Reiki, or be a medical intuitive, or talk to spirit guides. The person may just help you adjust to a chronic illness that will not be alleviated. That is what hospital chaplain Richard Cheu does. Lisa Brown-Tarves uses her hands, her mind, and her intuition to help her clients to heal from their mental and physical conditions. Both have much to teach us. Let us be their students.