Start With RealnessThe first step isn’t about crushing goals or looking perfect—it’s being honest with yourself. Check your energy, purpose, and passion. Are you feeling excited or just going through the motions? Self-awareness is …
Wish You Could Go Back to Day OneParents often wish they had the wisdom they hold now at the very beginning. Lucia Silver’s journey started with her son’s sudden, relentless tics. Sleepless nights, dismissive specialists, and late-night …
Abuse Isn’t Always LoudWe usually think abuse looks like bruises or shouting. Some of the worst kinds whisper. They hide behind perfect smiles. This conversation traces covert narcissism: the love bombing that feels like destiny, the mirroring…
From Beirut to Orange County: A Life RewiredHow one dentist turned trauma into clarity, resilience, and joy Childhood Under FireBefore age five, Dr. Guitta Harb could tell the direction of incoming bombs by their whistle. She slept with slippers on…
Brain Fog, Bloat, and Mood Swings: Could Hidden Toxins Be at Work? Most people blame stress or hormones for stubborn brain fog, bloating, cravings, and mood swings. The truth is often deeper: environmental toxins quietly hijacking your system. Para…
When Dentistry Affects More Than a SmileDentistry shapes more than appearance. It influences mood, memory, hormones, and the health of every organ system. This story begins with loss and a hard truth: dentistry has one of the highest suicide rates, …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…