SOLUTIONS FOR MENTAL WELLNESS
Brain Health Hook-up Podcast
Explore the physical, emotional, and relational needs we have as humans and the science-backed practices that help our mental health to flourish.
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Groovology
Listen to our favorite podcast episodes detailing my signature GROOVE THERAPY™ model to lift mood while lowering pain and inflammation
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Brain Biology
How-to guides for brain ownership and maintenance. Our favorite episodes on how to nourish your nervous system to feel, think, and act better
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Inflammation
Our most effective tools and tips to calm your immune system
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Neuroplasticity
Get the little known information about primitive reflexes and how they relate to focus and concentration, irritability, and a host of other mood problems
Meet the Host
Laurel Myers Hurst
Beloved mental health nurse practitioner and music professor, Laurel lives to show driven women how to retune their nervous systems by addressing the unmet needs in their bodies and relationships without drudgery or perfectionism.
I believe you can flourish as a woman by fully embracing your desires. If you know you have unfinished emotional business and you just can't lighten up, you need a playful and transformative way to remake your nervous system. That's where I can help.
After almost 20 years of embodying the practice of groove-based music making, primitive reflex integration, and anti-inflammatory strategies, I feel better at age 55 than I did in my 20s, and I can show you how it works.
My spouse and I are enjoying more than thirty years of marriage with our five adult children and our grandbabies. We are a military family and huge fans of live music, museums, and National Parks.
WHAT YOU'LL FIND ON THE PODCAST
Interviews with Health & Wellness Experts
We are honored to bring you health care leaders, motivators, authors, and clients to share their stories and to teach you how to make mental wellness easier and more fun. In less than 30 minutes a week, we strategize to deliver the latest and greatest ways to reduce irritability, lift mood, and improve your everyday life with the ones you love.
What your doctor won't tell you
Most visits with a mental health clinician are brief and focused on one possible treatment path. In fact, effective treatment planning includes the risks and benefits of treatment and no treatment alongside the alternatives: alternatives we rarely hear about. The Brain Health Hook-up acquaints listeners with these alternatives so you can discuss them with your provider.
Actionable Tips & Strategies
I'm a citizen of Buckeye Nation–a proud alum of The Ohio State University College of Nursing–#1 in the nation! We say, "In God we trust. All others must bring evidence." In my podcasts, my guests and I break down the research science into everyday language and explain how it applies to improving mental wellness. On average, it takes 17 to 27 years for new research to become part of practice. The Brain Health Hook-up is about shortening that trajectory.
WHAT LISTENERS ARE SAYING…
"Amazing!"
"I have listened to easily 5 episodes in the last 2 days and all of these have been super helpful! I'm so glad it was recommended to me! Thanks for all the great insights! You are SUPER WOMAN! You balance all the things so well!"
JAMES MARK
WHAT LISTENERS ARE SAYING…
"Amazing!"
"I have listened to easily 5 episodes in the last 2 days and all of these have been super helpful! I'm so glad it was recommended to me! Thanks for all the great insights! You are SUPER WOMAN! You balance all the things so well!"
JAMES MARK
WHAT LISTENERS ARE SAYING…
"Amazing!"
"I have listened to easily 5 episodes in the last 2 days and all of these have been super helpful! I'm so glad it was recommended to me! Thanks for all the great insights! You are SUPER WOMAN! You balance all the things so well!"
JAMES MARK
WHAT LISTENERS ARE SAYING…
"Amazing!"
"I have listened to easily 5 episodes in the last 2 days and all of these have been super helpful! I'm so glad it was recommended to me! Thanks for all the great insights! You are SUPER WOMAN! You balance all the things so well!"
JAMES MARK
WHAT LISTENERS ARE SAYING…
"Amazing!"
"I have listened to easily 5 episodes in the last 2 days and all of these have been super helpful! I'm so glad it was recommended to me! Thanks for all the great insights! You are SUPER WOMAN! You balance all the things so well!"
JAMES MARK
WHAT LISTENERS ARE SAYING…
"Amazing!"
"I have listened to easily 5 episodes in the last 2 days and all of these have been super helpful! I'm so glad it was recommended to me! Thanks for all the great insights! You are SUPER WOMAN! You balance all the things so well!"
JAMES MARK
Want to be a guest?
You are a good fit for the Brain Health Hook-up if:
You are an expert on a topic that hasn't been shared on the show yet
You have tangible, actionable takeaways you can share
You are willing to share your story and be real about your struggles as well as your successes
You don't take yourself too seriously and you take the subject matter very seriously
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OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAM
A total overhaul to tone down irritability and fatigue and turn up intimacy and focus
This four month experience soothes and recalibrates your nervous system so you can enjoy your best life in your home and in your head!
Laurel Myers Hurst is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, medical ethnomusicologist, pocaster, mom of five and developer of the GROOVE THERAPY™ model. She helps women and families to flourish and to enjoy the best mental wellness of their lives.
