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The DU Podcast visits with Dr. Brian Davis, Mississippi State University, and Dr. Phil Lavretsky, University of Texas El Paso, to discuss the latest discoveries in duck genetics and how these are changing our traditional view of mallard populations. New research shows westward expansion of game-farm mallard genes and reveals potential impacts on behavior, morphology, and potentially migration. So what’s the big deal and how might this impact the future of waterfowl management? Listen in and find out!

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In this episode we discuss the parable of the wineskins (and the patched garment) from Matthew 9, Mark 2, and Luke 5. Contrary to the popular interpretation of a radical redefinition and subversion of Jewish apocalyptic eschatology, this parable communicates the simple principle of dysfunctionality or maladaptation. You cannot force Jesus’ disciples to fast while the Messiah is with them. It does not work. But when he is “taken away” (cf. Isa 53:8 LXX), they will fast. Through this parable, Jesus (and the Gospel authors) sought to establish the discipline of fasting in the early church.

Show notes

• Fasting and Jewish apocalypticism - Matthew 9:14-15; Isaiah 53:7-8 LXX (4:03)
• The common supersessionist approach - Origen, Blomberg, and Wright (10:09)
• The purpose of the parable: dysfunctionality and maladaptation - Joshua 9:12-13 (24:18)
• Other parables that simply teach a principle - Luke 10:27, 29; Luke 12:15; Luke 11:8 (29:48)
• How should we understand this parable if there is no radical redefinition of Jewish eschatology? (34:45)

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Environment & Wildlife:  6 Islands to be Carbon Neutral by 2040

Researched:  Maladaptive Day Dreamers

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Have you experienced trauma as a child or adult? Most of us have, just living in an imperfect world with imperfect people makes us susceptible to trauma in our lives. Did you know that unhealed trauma can disguise itself in maladaptive coping skills manifesting itself in how we parent. Unhealed trauma can show up as rage, anger, abuse, anxiety, depression, addiction….As parents and grandparents we want to begin to develop healthy coping skills that manifest in healthy parents who manage their emotions, as they provide the nurturing and support their family needs.

Resources:

Raising Mother By Ashley Kahn Podcast

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“Raising Mother’s” Empowerment/Transformation Coach Ashley Kahn www.ashleykahn.co

Dream Blankets

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Mindfulness a Solution for Addiction?
Dr. Jud Brewer 

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If we define addiction as continued behavior despite adverse consequences, we all have cause for concern. Perhaps you’re up so late watching Netflix that you make a mistake at work that costs you your job; maybe your pornography compulsion blocks real intimacy with your partner and derails your marriage; or maybe your online gambling leaves you with maxed out credit cards.

It all sounds ridiculous until you focus the lens on your own life, open up your definition of what addiction means, and immediately discover that you too have maladaptive behaviors that might warrant change. On this week’s podcast, you’ll meet an addiction psychiatrist who helps people use mindfulness on a path toward balance.

Listen & Learn: 

• How to know if you’re addicted? 
• How to analyse the trigger + behavior + results  
• Why you should focus on immediate experience (instead of long term) 
• How to start by knowing thyself 

Links & Resources

• Dr Jud’s Website

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Jud Brewer is an Addiction Psychiatrist and the author of The Craving Mind and the creator of a number of mindfulness apps.  He is director of research and innovation at the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, and the executive medical director of behavioral health at Sharecare.

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This is Episode 22 of PsychCrunch, the podcast from the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest, sponsored by Routledge Psychology. 

In this episode, Ella Rhodes, Journalist for The Psychologist, explores the boundaries between wakefulness and dreaming. What can we can learn about consciousness from the strange transition period between being awake and asleep, known as hypnagogia? And why do some people experience visions and imaginings that take them away for hours at a time?

Our guests, in order of appearance, are Dr Valdas Noreika, lecturer in Psychology at Queen Mary University of London, and Dr Nirit Soffer-Dudek, clinical psychologist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.

Episode credits: Presented and produced by Ella Rhodes, with additional content from Matthew Warren. Mixing and editing by Jeff Knowler. PsychCrunch theme music by Catherine Loveday and Jeff Knowler. Art work by Tim Grimshaw.

Background reading for this episode:

Dreams: Everyone’s Guide to Inner Space, a paper by Deborah Wesley, is free to access thanks to our sponsors Routledge Psychology.

Relevant research from our guests includes:

• Intrusions of a drowsy mind: neural markers of phenomenological unpredictability
• Trapped in a Daydream: Daily Elevations in Maladaptive Daydreaming Are Associated With Daily Psychopathological Symptoms
• The Comorbidity of Daydreaming Disorder (Maladaptive Daydreaming)

During a busy advertising career, Simon started to feel run down and then contracted a virus - when he didn't recover from the illness he began his long recovery from being bedbound with CFS. Alex Howard talks with Simon Ratcliffe about his recovery story from ME/CFS, along with his journey to launch his new podcast Turning the Tables: From Adversity to Advantage, including a feature interview with Michael Crawford. Listen to Turning the Tables at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/turning-the-tables/id1466532041

Alex Howard talks about the importance of coming into the body to help cultivate a healing state, and offers suggestions to help encourage this. When living with chronic illness or discomfort leads us to try to escape our body, we're often re-inforcing unhelpful energy or activity and contributing to further anxiety. When we connect to the body and settle into what we're really feeling, we can get better information about the next best step. Alex offers some further tips on how to get into more comfortable feeling states and where we might direct our energy when experiencing discomfort.

Alex Howard explores the relationship between stress and healing. In the video he talks about an important FREE 3-part video series you can register for now at www.alexhoward.tv/reset

When our primary symptom is fatigue, it's clear that getting deep, effective rest is a crucial part of the recovery process. When the maladaptive stress response adds too much stress to be able to relax deeply, we can intend to rest without actually achieving deep rest. The OHC approach works to calm the nervous system enough that the tired/wired process surrenders to legitimate relaxed restful states. At stage 1 we need to prioritise deep rest, in stage 2 we need more activity to calm and ground the new energy anxiety, and at stage 3 people find it easier to get deep rest when they're able to do more physical activity. 

In this Facebook Live recording CEO Alex Howard discusses how the maladaptive stress response can keep us in a state where we are unaware of what our body really needs. Being able to relax into your exhaustion can take practice, but being able to deeply rest is necessary for healing to take place.