In this episode, Ciaran and I are joined by Dr Shane Creado in Chicago. Shane is a double board-certified sleep medicine doctor and psychiatrist. He practices functional sleep medicine, integrative psychiatry, and sports psychiatry, combining all those skills to uncover underlying factors that sabotage the patients, comprehensively treat them, and help them achieve their goals. He completed an undergraduate degree in physical therapy and went on to do an MD, graduating at the top of his class with Honours in every subject in medical school. He completed his psychiatric training at the University of Wisconsin, where they awarded him the graduating resident award for academic achievement. He then went on to a fellowship in Sleep Medicine at the University of Wisconsin because of the huge overlap between sleep and psychiatric issues.

Topics we discuss in this epic episode with Shane.

• The value of storytelling and narrative for convey historical truths


• The neolithic burial chamber in Ireland called Newgrange


• Carl Jung archetypes


• Learning about yourself from facing your shadow, integrate the shadow


• The guesthouse by Rumi https://gratefulness.org/resource/guest-house-rumi/


• The role of suffering to better our life


• The story of Job https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_(biblical_figure)


• Ying and Yang, Unification and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang


• “Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love, and hate, are necessary to human existence.” William Blake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake


• In Heraclitus’s Fragments, he notes that tension is the very thing that makes life sing. Take a guitar string, for example. If you wind it too tight, it will snap. Too slack, and it will buzz and make no note at all. Heraclitus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus


• Jordan Peterson on Evil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqoyQNUrGls


• The story of two wolves https://www.urbanbalance.com/the-story-of-two-wolves/


• The use of biblical stories in today’s world


• Carl Jung anima and animus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_and_animus


• Boethius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boethius


• Thomas Jefferson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson


• Catholic church historical, social, cultural, religious, and personal context


• Stoicism in Catholicism and Christianity https://dailystoic.com/stoicism-and-christianity/


• The Best Catholics in the World: The Irish, the Church and the End of a Special Relationship by Derek Scally https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-best-catholics-in-the-world-9781844885282


• On the Genealogy of Morality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Genealogy_of_Morality#Summary


• Carl Jung and the shadow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhzBo0dZNpY


• Catholic church raided during service


• https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/coronavirus/outrage-after-police-stop-mt-hawthorn-st-bernadettes-church-service-to-check-masks-c-5565472


• Derrin Brown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derren_Brown


• Roland Fryer on Police violence in the USA https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/fryer/files/empirical_analysis_tables_figures.pdf


• Coleman Hughes https://colemanhughes.org/


• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl


• Covid in Sydney: Military deployed to help enforce lockdown https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-58021718


• Who was Rumi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi


• Jungian Dream Interpretation - Marcus West https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x73dOSrn4fw


• Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, a short book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confession


• A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart by Martin Luther King

Purchase Shane’s book here Peak Sleep Performance for Athletes: The Cutting-edge Sleep Science That Will Guarantee a Competitive Advantage

Contact Shane at shanecreado.com

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