How do you calm your nervous system when survival mode has quietly become your baseline? Dr. Eva Selhub joins Mike Vera on the Healthy & Awake Podcast to get into stress, anxiety, and burnout, and instead of a standard Q&A, Mike brought four case studies, the archetypes he sees over and over in sessions as a health coach: the guy stuck in the cookie-and-coffee loop who asks why even bother, the person waking at 2 a.m. with layoffs circling, the mom quietly dreading the empty nest, and the caregiver running on empty. Resilience is more than toughness, she says, and she argues that the coping most people reach for only brings the stress response part of the way down, which leaves the baseline creeping higher over time.

🔎 ABOUT THE GUEST — DR. EVA SELHUB

Dr. Eva Selhub is a board-certified internist who spent 20 years on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and served as medical director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She ran her own integrated medicine practice for over two decades and has written six books, including Burnout for Dummies, Resilience for Dummies, and The Love Response, and she co-authored Your Brain on Nature. Today she coaches C-suite leaders and teaches the SHIELD method and her six pillars of resilience.

- Website: https://www.drselhub.com

- Substack: https://substack.com/@dreva1

- Free Preview of Resilience Program - https://resilienceexperts.learnworlds.com/course/week7-free-sample

- Foundations of Mastering Resilience (10-week self-paced program): https://resilienceexperts.learnworlds.com/course/foundations-of-mastering-resilience

- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drevaselhub/

- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ESelhub

📖 FREE — WHY SUGAR KEEPS WINNING EVEN WHEN YOU KNOW BETTER

This episode opens on the cookie loop, and Mike wrote the long version of it. Why sugar keeps winning even when you know better, and what is actually running underneath the craving. Free to read and subscribe:

→ https://mikevera.substack.com/p/why-sugar-keeps-winning-even-when

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Dr. David Healy, psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist, and author of Pharmageddon, returns to lay out what he argues the drug companies concealed about antidepressants. He says the healthy-volunteer trials showed sexual side effects in close to 90% of people while the marketed figure was under 5%, and he explains why he considers the word "antidepressant" itself a marketing term. Host Mike Vera, MS, NBC-HWC, walks through the trial data, informed consent, and whether the same pattern is now repeating with GLP-1 drugs. This is a discussion of Dr. Healy's research and perspective, shared for educational purposes only, and it is not medical advice.

A note before you listen: this conversation covers antidepressants, SSRIs, and mental health, including the subject of suicidal thoughts. It is not a recommendation to start, stop, or change any medication. Always make medication decisions with your prescribing clinician. If you are struggling or in crisis, support is available 24/7: in the US, call or text 988 (Suicide and Crisis Lifeline), or text HOME to 741741 (Crisis Text Line). Outside the US, contact your local emergency services or crisis line.

🔎 ABOUT THE GUEST — DR. DAVID HEALY

Dr. David Healy is a psychiatrist and psychopharmacologist, and one of the most influential critics of how antidepressants are studied, marketed, and sold. He founded RxISK, where people can report and research drug side effects, and he is the author of Pharmageddon and other books on antidepressants and the history of medicine.

- Writing and blog: https://davidhealy.org

- RxISK (report and research drug side effects): https://rxisk.org

- Book: Pharmageddon

📖 FREE — THE COMPLETE GLP-1 BREAKDOWN

Mike's no-hype breakdown of GLP-1 medications (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro): what they actually do, what happens when you stop, and what the research says the marketing leaves out. Free to read and subscribe:

→ https://mikevera.substack.com/p/the-ozempic-trap-what-theyre-not

🤝 WORK WITH MIKE

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→ https://bit.ly/3QDnWg7

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- BreathBuilt course → https://www.breathholdwork.com/a/2148152057/XjErFcgW

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DISCLAIMER: This content is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not intended as medical advice and should not be used to diagnose, treat, or prevent any condition. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making changes to your health routine.

This episode contains affiliate links. If you purchase through my link, I earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. These are not paid sponsorships, they are products and programs I personally use and recommend.

Former Navy SEAL Team 6 operator Craig "Sawman" Sawyer — founder of the nonprofit Veterans for Child Rescue — joins Mike Vera on the Healthy & Awake Podcast to share his firsthand assessment of child trafficking in America: how he says it operates, why he believes it stays out of the headlines, and what he argues regular people can do about it. One of the heavier conversations we've had on the show, and one of the most important.

🔎 ABOUT THE GUEST — CRAIG SAWYER

Craig "Sawman" Sawyer is a former Marine and Navy SEAL Team 6 operator who founded Veterans for Child Rescue (V4CR), a nonprofit that investigates child trafficking and works with law enforcement to bring predators to justice. His documentary, Contra Land, follows that work.

- Veterans for Child Rescue: https://v4cr.org

- Contra Land (documentary): https://contralandmovie.com

📖 FREE — THE COMPLETE GLP-1 BREAKDOWN

Mike's no-hype breakdown of GLP-1 medications (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro) — what they actually do, what happens when you stop, and what the research says the marketing leaves out. Free to read and subscribe:

→ https://mikevera.substack.com/p/the-ozempic-trap-what-theyre-not

🫁 BREATH TRAINING (affiliate)

The breath-hold and meditation training Mike uses, from BreathHoldWork — 25% off automatically through these links:

- Meditation Masterclass → https://www.breathholdwork.com/a/2148085889/XjErFcgW

- BreathBuilt course → https://www.breathholdwork.com/a/2148152057/XjErFcgW

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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelfvera

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DISCLAIMER: This content is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not intended as medical advice and should not be used to diagnose, treat, or prevent any condition. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making changes to your health routine.

This episode contains affiliate links. If you purchase through my link, I earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. These are not paid sponsorships — they're products and programs I personally use and recommend.