PULLING THE THREAD PODCAST
Pulling the Thread is a weekly show that’s 45-minute conversations and investigations with today's leading thinkers, authors, experts, doctors, healers, scientists about life's biggest questions: Why do we do what we do? How can we come to know and love ourselves better? How can we come together to heal and build a better world?
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All episodes are below. To see episodes organized by topic—along with coordinated book recommendation lists, head over here.
Are You Holding Yourself Back? (Monthly Solo)
March 31, 2025
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Activating Your Life Force (Phil Stutz, M.D.)
March 27, 2025
Listen now (45 mins) | "The human being is the most giving, self-sacrificing, loving entity and also is the most devious, amoral, vicious, and murderous is the better word..."
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How to Love Better (Yung Pueblo)
March 20, 2025
Listen now (47 mins) | "Big, big, big part of that is understanding that each individual arrives into a relationship with their own conditioning, with their own emotional history..."
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What Are These Telepathic Messages Trying to Teach Us? (Diane Hennacy Powell, M.D.)
March 13, 2025
Listen now (52 mins) | "And so I thought, well, if this is true that somebody can access information that is not part of their usual sensory way of obtaining information, then..."
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Putting Action Before Contemplation (Father Richard Rohr)
March 6, 2025
Listen now (66 mins) | "And that's what the deconstructionist always wants to do, thinks he or she is building something new. But the instinct to tear down, to dismiss, to deny..."
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When We Quit Being Defensive (Chelsea Handler)
February 27, 2025
Listen now (48 mins) | "I couldn't believe it, but I had a choice there in the moment to accept it or defend it, and I just accepted it. And moreover, the louder marking of that conversation was..."
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Solo Episode: Who is a Profit, and Who is Profiteering?
February 24, 2025
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Understanding Archetypal Evil (Thomas Hübl, PhD)
February 20, 2025
Listen now (58 mins) | "So be continuously pushing the effects in front of us into the future, and we are running into that future every day. I think that's very important to understand..."
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How to Talk to People You’d Rather Hate (Loretta J. Ross)
February 13, 2025
Listen now (52 mins) | "You start with the self and the calling in culture. Then you calibrate the size of the conflict because if somebody's just being awkward or irritating, is there..."
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Is This the Cure for Chronic Pain and Anxiety? (Nicole Sachs, LCSW)
February 6, 2025
Listen now (61 mins) | "Know this is happening and if you can come into alignment with this is the way the human being functions, you can do the work to lower the reservoir..."
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What We Got Wrong About the Female Body (Cat Bohannon, PhD)
January 30, 2025
Listen now (45 mins) | "It's important to figure out how to have universal buy-in to the idea that we should study sex differences, right? It's not just a matter of pity. It's not..."
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Solo Episode: Avoiding the Temptations of the Blame Game
January 27, 2025
Listen now (40 mins) | I recorded this month’s solo episode from the floor of the hotel room where I stayed for a couple of weeks after the fires broke out in Los Angeles.
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Why We Go Along With Things We Don’t Like (Sunita Sah, PhD)
January 23, 2025
Listen now (58 mins) | "Often we don't think about the consequences of being compliant as well because there is a cost to always disregarding your values and bowing your head..."
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Becoming Untrapped (Pico Iyer)
January 16, 2025
Listen now (61 mins) | "Silence is much better than shouting, and silence is what brings us together as shouting tears us apart."
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Wintering With Our Feelings (Katherine May)
January 9, 2025
Listen now (46 mins) | "We might see wintering as this defined phase where we are struggling, but I wanted to talk about being in contact with our emotions on an everyday basis..."
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A 4-Step Process for Changing the Patterns That Hold Us Back (Gabby Bernstein)
January 2, 2025
Listen now (46 mins) | "And some people might not even not be able to realize that. They might not even realize that, that they've even have these patterns or behaviors..."
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The Astrological Shifts to Know for 2025 (Heidi Rose Robbins)
December 26, 2024
Listen now (58 mins) | "With Saturn also entering Aries where it has not been for 29 years. We have the planet of the realist and the planet of the dreamer sitting next to each other..."
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Solo Episode: The Real Meaning of Resolutions
December 23, 2024
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Finding Understanding in Impossible Times (Father Gregory Boyle)
December 19, 2024
Listen now (43 mins) | "I think it's the only thing that can actually dispel fear and part of the thing too is, is it effective? Are we successful? Well then we're not called..."
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Engaging with the Inner Life (John Price, PhD)
December 12, 2024
Listen now (65 mins) | "I yearn to participate in and provide sacred initiation process for men. And what does that even mean? Well, it means to be initiated into yourself..."
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Tools for Contending with Fear (Courtney Smith)
December 5, 2024
Listen now (55 mins) | "Catching yourself in story making, which we do all the time. It just provides a sliver of a window for it may not actually be true. And then you can start playing..."
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On Communing More Deeply With Nature (Maria Rodale)
November 27, 2024
Listen now (50 mins) | "I think there's something to be said, but just like the velocity of doing a builder becomes a builder by building a baker, becomes a baker by baking..."
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Solo Episode: My Unofficial Investigation of Male Podcasters
November 25, 2024
Listen now (50 mins) | "I think there's something to be said, but just like the velocity of doing a builder becomes a builder by building a baker, becomes a baker by baking..."
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The Life Review (Connie Zweig, PhD)
November 21, 2024
Listen now (50 mins) | "I think there's something to be said, but just like the velocity of doing a builder becomes a builder by building a baker, becomes a baker by baking..."
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Doing Beautiful Things (Richard Christiansen)
November 14, 2024
Listen now (50 mins) | "I think there's something to be said, but just like the velocity of doing a builder becomes a builder by building a baker, becomes a baker by baking..."
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How Do We Work with Our Darkest Energy (Thomas Hübl, PhD)
November 7, 2024
Listen now (51 mins) | "We know that we can't resolve everything at once, but that's also not what life asks of us. Life says, make a step, step on the ground that appears."
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Working with Our Enemies (Sharon McMahon)
October 31, 2024
Listen now (54 mins) | "And this wisdom from somebody who has lived a life that most of us can never imagine, this wisdom that she has left behind for us, that your enemies..."
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Solo Episode: Staying Rooted in What You Want
October 28, 2024
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The Women Who Raised Consciousness (Clara Bingham)
October 24, 2024
Listen now (55 mins) | "So one night, late night, I was working in February and I printed out the PDF of this and it went alphabetically. And the fourth name was Joan Bingham..."
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The Birth of the Allomother (Sarah Blaffey Hrdy)
October 17, 2024
Listen now (45 mins) | "In order to raise any offspring at all, and to maintain a viable group size, you needed to have shared care. Shared care...."
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Thinking Impossibly (Jeffrey Kripal, PhD)
October 10, 2024
Listen now (63 mins) | “We need to be open to things that offend or transcend our worldview because they're clearly doing that for a reason..."
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Evolving, Not Revolving (Edith Eger, PhD)
October 3, 2024
Listen now (50 mins) | “I think it's good to relive the past and then revise your life...go through it, but don't get stuck in it.”
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The Neuroscience of Manifestation (James Doty, M.D.)
September 26, 2024
Listen now (50 mins) | "What saved me was walking into this magic shop one time and meeting this woman, Ruth, who was there, who was this radiant individual, and after we..."
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Creating from False Fundamentals (Sarah Lewis, PhD)
September 19, 2024
Listen now (55 mins) | "The Caucasus was where Prometheus had been chained to a rock in eternal punishment for having stolen fire. Beauty, based on subjective categories such as..."
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On Finding Our Soul’s Vocation (James Hollis, PhD)
September 12, 2024
Listen now (62 mins) | “You said the important word there and that is the word grown up. To be grown up is what? To recognize, yes, I am accountable for what spills into the world..."
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Why Cynicism Isn’t Smart (Jamil Zaki, PhD)
September 5, 2024
Listen now (56 mins) | "In certain ways, our culture has glamorized the cynic. The person who doesn't have faith in others is seen as maybe wise or especially sharp. And it turns out that..."
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Finding Your Inner Mentor (Tara Mohr)
August 29, 2024
Listen now (67 mins) | "I got really interested in that gap and started to work with people with those clients around the inner critic..."
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The Upper Limit Problem (Katie Hendricks, PhD)
August 22, 2024
Listen now (54 mins) | “The whole sense though, of the Upper Limit Problem, is instead of feeling good and then feeling bad, which is how we think it's supposed to work. You know..."
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Why We Overthink (Amanda Montell)
August 15, 2024
Listen now (47 mins) | "Those of us growing up in consumerist society, when confronted with a problem, our tendency is to add a whole bunch of cumbersome variables to the..."
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Being Better Leaders (Jerry Colonna)
August 8, 2024
Listen now (54 mins) | "Human beings trigger other human beings, right? My teacher and friend, Parker Palmer, likes to say, riffing on Socrates, 'the unexamined life may not be...’"
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Staying with Discomfort (Thomas Hübl): Part 2
August 1, 2024
Listen now (53 mins) | “Many of us needed to suppress anger. And what you feel in your throat is an intelligent mechanism to suppress the intensity because it threatened the belonging..."
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GROWING UP: Really Hearing Our Own Voices (Carol Gilligan, PhD)
July 29, 2024
Listen now (55 mins) | "What I became aware of when I started writing about resistance and I thought the healthy body resists infection. We have an immune system and the healthy..."
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Finding Shadow in the Body (Thomas Hübl): Part 1
July 18, 2024
Listen now (49 min) | “I often ask, ‘so how beautiful are you when you need something?’ I call this the beauty of needs. And it's amazing how many of us don't feel beautiful at all when..."
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GROWING UP: Signs of High Intuition (Carissa Schumacher)
July 18, 2024
Listen now (90 min) | “When you have a feeling, you can recognize when it's a feeling, when it's a knowing, a lot of knowers, especially automatic channel writers, are like, did I..."
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The Life-Saving Power of Friendship (Mark Nepo)
July 18, 2024
Listen now (46 mins) | “The real meaning of ‘remember’ is to put the members back together, to make whole. So a lot of times we go back in time to a special time or a special moment..."
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GROWING UP: The Long-Term Implications of Sleep (Harvey Karp, M.D.)
July 15, 2024
Listen now (54 mins) | “I remember a wonderful psychologist was talking about, we shouldn't, should on ourselves. Don't should on yourself. And it's all of what I should do. And there's..."
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The Deconstruction of Belief (Sarah Bessey)
July 11, 2024
Listen now (59 mins) | “One of the things about practices that I love is this notion of it's not perfect. I haven't got it mastered, just by the very word, it's implied that I'm working it..."
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GROWING UP: The Critical Need for Deep Connection (Niobe Way, PhD)
July 8, 2024
Listen now (57 mins) | "You can't be independent if you're not deeply connected. So what happens to a child that's not deeply connected? What actually happens? ..."
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The Table Stakes of Good Relationships (Stan Tatkin)
July 3, 2024
Listen now (49 mins) | “Our anger is ‘I'm angry because something happened that I feel was unjust or unfair’ And if it continues, then I want my justice and you know, our injustices..."
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Understanding Your Energy (Prune Harris)
June 27, 2024
Listen now (57 mins) | “So when we think about this, what is the aura? Many people have an idea of the aura as something that is around you and a lovely bubble or sphere of energy..."
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Where the Brain and Mind Meet (Karl Deisseroth, M.D., PhD)
June 20, 2024
Listen now (51 mins) | "What optogenetics does is it's an engine of discovery. It helps us identify what matters, what's causing things to happen in the brain. And we know now..."
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To Transcend and Include (Ken Wilber)
June 13, 2024
Listen now (77 mins) | “All growing up stages are the product of scientific investigation of the stages of growing up that people go through. And those are all defined in third person terms..."
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Connecting with the Divine (Nicole Avant)
June 6, 2024
Listen now (49 mins) | “I really think that the past, we can go back to it and we definitely learn lessons because I'm always a hindsight person. So in hindsight, I'm always thinking that..."
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TRAUMA: Recovering Our Ability to Feel (Prentis Hemphill)
June 3, 2024
Listen now (51 mins) | “I think we need each other. I say this all the time, there are some things that are too big to feel in one body. You need a collective body to move them through. And I..."
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The Resilience Myth (Soraya Chemaly)
May 30, 2024
Listen now (55 mins) | "This is the richness of the trad wife explosion, right? There's this simple idea that you get to choose. Now you're choosing to emulate a situation that's a..."
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TRAUMA: Finding Fear in the Body (Resmaa Menakem)
May 27, 2024
Listen now (46 mins) | “There are therapies where the person is made to relive their traumas over and over and over again. It's called flooding. And that's the one type..."
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Take Back Your Brain (Kara Loewentheil)
May 23, 2024
Listen now (53 mins) | “There are studies showing that, once your basic needs are met, and you're not worried about losing your house, losing your health care, increases in money..."
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TRAUMA: Where Trauma Begins (Peter Levine, PhD)
May 20, 2024
Listen now (46 mins) | “There are therapies where the person is made to relive their traumas over and over and over again. It's called flooding. And that's the one type..."
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Choosing Wholeness Over Wokeness (Africa Brooke)
May 16, 2024
Listen now (56 mins) | “In writing my book, I wanted to bring it back to the self because being online allows us to have this inappropriate level of audacity. And I think audacity is a very..."
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TRAUMA: A Toolkit for Transforming Trauma (James Gordon, M.D.)
May 13, 2024
Listen now (61 mins) | “Now the tragedy, in one sense is a tragedy, that often people only become open when they've suffered horribly when that is both the tragedy of trauma, but also the promise."
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The Complexity of Weight Loss Drugs (Johann Hari)
May 9, 2024
Listen now (94 mins) | “I realized I think there's a few things that are in our heads that are so deep in the culture. One of them is the idea that being overweight is a sin. It goes right back to..."
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On Loving the End (Alua Arthur)
May 2, 2024
Listen now (51 mins) | “When we can pause for a moment and rifle through all that noise to figure out what the root of the fear is, then we can be with it in a meaningful way, rather than just..."
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On Telling the Truth (Nell Irvin Painter)
April 25, 2024
Listen now (47 mins) | “But one thing the whole 'Karen' thing did, which I think was very good, was that it pointed out the existence of spaces Ostensibly open to everyone, but not, and then..."
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When It’s Time to Go (Joy Sullivan)
April 18, 2024
Listen now (53 mins) | “What is that instinct that might be asking me to do something really unadvisable or radical or leap outside the bounds of my own life? And that's the space..."
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When Love Feels Unbearable (Anne Lamott)
April 11, 2024
Listen now (45 mins) | “You want to find yourself? Give. We're not hungry for what we're not getting. We're hungry for what we're not giving. And then at the same time, you watch this..."
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Understanding the Drama Triangle (Courtney Smith)
April 4, 2024
Listen now (63 mins) | “From my perspective, one of the reasons we tell stories is it helps give us a sense of who we are, we use stories to affirm our identity. And that's part of the reason..."
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The Power of Girls (Mattie Kahn)
March 28, 2024
Listen now (56 mins) | "I think historically we have always seen that intergenerational partnership is the way that movements grow and expand and the way people feel..."
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Breaking Family Patterns (Vienna Pharaon)
March 21, 2024
Listen now (54 mins) | “Part of middle life is that hopefully there's a little bit of wisdom there. And I think that is part of what we gain as we go through this journey of life is that there..."
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The Upsides of Menopause (Lisa Mosconi, PhD)
March 14, 2024
Listen now (62 mins) | “It's important to realize that yes, menopause can come with symptoms, but the symptoms are not alien symptoms. We've seen them before. We've seen them..."
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When Spirituality and Science are the Same (Jeffrey Kripal)
March 7, 2024
Listen now (60 mins) | “Historically, there's no such thing as a pure tradition. And I also think as human beings, we transcend these religions and we transcend these cultures. And so..."
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Five Things I’ve Been Thinking About (Solo Episode)
February 29, 2024
Listen now (36 mins) | Today, it’s just me.
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The Basics of Spiral Dynamics (Nicole Churchill)
February 22, 2024
Listen now (79 mins) | “Turquoise is looking for how do we bring back the village? How do we live in community again? Why are we living in these separate houses? We're not..."
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On Being Basic (Kate Kennedy)
February 15, 2024
Listen now (60 mins) | "When I went back and looked at some of these shows that I loved, I noticed that the writer's room was all adult men with the exception of one or two episodes...”
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On Maintaining Desire (Emily Nagoski, PhD)
February 8, 2024
Listen now (59 mins) | "The deal is your bodies are going to change over time and people can stay attracted to somebody's body over time, even though it is unrecognizable from what..."
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Why Conflict is Critical (John & Julie Gottman, PhDs)
February 1, 2024
Listen now (61 mins) | “Every single human being is a pack animal. That's what we are biologically. We would die if we didn't depend on each other. Saying what you need is..."
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Where Does Fat-Phobia Come From? (Kate Manne)
January 25, 2024
Listen now (61 mins) | “I think there's a lot of assumptions in play here that a good body is a thin one, a thin body is achievable, a thin body is achievable for everyone, and that you will..."
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On Self-Regulation (Aliza Pressman, PhD)
January 18, 2024
Listen now (61 mins) | “I think that with regulation, the funny thing is that it's either I want to control the weather around my children, or I want to control my children, but regulation..."
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Seeing Each Other’s Pain (Rabbi Sharon Brous)
January 11, 2024
Listen now (61 mins) | “How do we center the voices that traditionally and historically we know existed, but were only marginalized in the tradition? And that does feel like holy work..."
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Embracing the Shadow (Connie Zweig, PhD)
January 4, 2024
Listen now (54 mins) | “If you have a reaction to a stranger or someone in the media or someone in politics or someone who's just providing this kind of blank slate because you..."
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Five Things I’ve Learned this Year (Solo Episode)
December 28, 2023
Listen now (42 mins) | Today, it’s just me. I thought I’d round out the year by trying something different, and offering five big things I’ve learned this year.
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ADDICTION: What Actually Motivates Change? (Carrie Wilkens, PhD)
December 26, 2023
Listen now (59 mins) | "Nobody wants to be somebody with a serious substance use problem. Nobody wants to be addicted to a substance. I mean, it doesn't feel good."
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How Story Can Heal (Akiva Goldsman)
December 21, 2023
Listen now (50 mins) | “I think what's interesting about healing, psychological healing, is there's always a narrative that helps. So sometimes when you go to therapy, and you tell..."
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ADDICTION: On Reducing Harm & Saving Lives (Maia Szalavitz)
December 18, 2023
Listen now (59 mins) | “I think it's really important for, you know, people to realize that you can totally be an absolutely excellent parent of a traumatized child and the trauma..."
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The Malleability of the Brain (David Eagleman)
December 14, 2023
Listen now (55 mins) | “For years, I was asking myself whether or not I was an alcoholic versus really asking myself whether or not alcohol was actually providing any benefit to me. And..."
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ADDICTION: Breaking the Addiction Binary (Carl Erik Fisher, M.D.)
December 11, 2023
Listen now (61 mins) | “I want to say that it's not just some idea about suffering, it's also a function of social and economic systems that are deliberately weaponizing an..."
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The Gordian Knot of Mental Illness (Rachel Aviv)
December 7, 2023
Listen now (55 mins) | “For years, I was asking myself whether or not I was an alcoholic versus really asking myself whether or not alcohol was actually providing any benefit to me. And..."
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ADDICTION: Reimagining Recovery (Holly Whitaker)
December 4, 2023
Listen now (55 mins) | “For years, I was asking myself whether or not I was an alcoholic versus really asking myself whether or not alcohol was actually providing any benefit to me. And..."
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Grappling with Part X (Phil Stutz)
November 30, 2023
Listen now (43 mins) | “If there is this part of you that you think is inferior, the weak spot, something you're ashamed of, etc., it's one of these things where if you believe it's true..."
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On Cultivating Creativity & Abundance (Richard Christiansen)
November 22, 2023
Listen now (58 mins) | “I'm grateful for seasons. I'm so happy that there can be a winter and there can be a spring and there can be a summer, that it can't always be summer, can't...”
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The Risk it Takes to Bloom (Raquel Willis)
November 16, 2023
Listen now (43 mins) | “Well, the interesting thing is, I guess some of this came from writing the book too, but all of those versions of me live inside of me, right? Even the kid that was..."
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MYSTICAL SYSTEMS: Human Design as the Roadmap to the Soul (Chetan & Carola)
November 13, 2023
Listen now (65 mins) | “The human design chart is basically a match to your unique particular frequency, whether it's partially ancestral, whether it's partly what you've come to live..."
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Does Love Require Complete Acceptance? (Jedidiah Jenkins)
November 9, 2023
Listen now (54 mins) | “Nature, the universe, speaks in metaphor, and one of its truest things is paradox, is holding two things that are both true at once. I remember laying in bed..."
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MYSTICAL SYSTEMS: The Mystical Roots of Tarot (Mark Horn)
November 6, 2023
Listen now (45 mins) | "One of the things that we do on Yom Kippur is we read the story of Jonah, the prophet who ran away saying, no, no, I don't want to do this job..."
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Whose Pain Counts (Susan Burton)
November 2, 2023
Listen now (57 mins) | "“I mean, I do think that I have an abiding interest in women's bodies. In how our bodies can be determinative, how they can suggest certain identities..."
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MYSTICAL SYSTEMS: The Secret Astrological System (Jade Luna)
October 30, 2023
Listen now (61 mins) | The more we let go of, the more we receive. I feel that I live in that light. I believe that consciously. I'm not trying to control what the universe brings to me..."
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When We Hold Ourselves Apart (Chloé Cooper Jones)
October 26, 2023
Listen now (54 mins) | “That's just like the human struggle, is how is it that our interiority and the way that we're perceived externally, how do we live with that? How does it act?"
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MYSTICAL SYSTEMS: The Magic of the Enneagram (Courtney Smith)
October 23, 2023
Listen now (81 mins) | “Part of what happens when human beings experience difficulty is the same difficulty, the same fact pattern, can resonate very differently for different human..."
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Conflict as Tool for Growth (Esther Perel)
October 19, 2023
Listen now (59 mins) | You cannot differentiate when you never fight. Fighting is also a tool for differentiation, for having two people be able to breed and grow inside a relationship..."
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Airing the Griefances, not the Grievances (Yeshua, as channeled by Carissa Schumacher)
October 17, 2023
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Simplifying Wellness (Liz Moody)
October 12, 2023
Listen now (60 mins) | “I just think that never being the one to say no to yourself is so powerful for so many reasons. One, the amount of yeses that you get will shock and surprise you...
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Healing Our Money Fears (Farnoosh Torabi)
October 5, 2023
Listen now (59 mins) | “We think that money is just going to solve the problem. We think that we can get rid of the fear by making more money. We can get rid of the fear by having more..."
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Feeling into the Collective Presence (Thomas Hübl)
September 28, 2023
Listen now (67 mins) | “When I ask myself what's in my body? How do I feel my body? Sometimes I feel tight, sometimes I feel open, I feel inner sensations of aliveness..."
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Thinking Our Way to Health (Ellen Langer, PhD)
September 21, 2023
Listen now (50 mins) | “But it's also okay not to get it right. You know, people mistakenly think that they want perfection, say you're playing golf and you wish you could get a hole..."
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Contending with Panic (Matt Gutman)
September 14, 2023
Listen now (67 mins) | “And I think a lot of us embody this, what I call the paradox of the courageous coward, right? Like, we're capable of doing these things that are bonkers..."
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The Science of Failing Well (Amy Edmonson)
September 7, 2023
Listen now (52 mins) | “It’s all but hardwired to resist failure, to not want to be blamed. You know, it's an instinct that's very, very powerful because we don't want to be rejected..."
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One What We Can Become (Kate Bowler)
August 31, 2023
Listen now (55 mins) | “I’m really hopeful that we're evolving past our very hyper individualistic understanding of like, my health, wealth and happiness is the great goal..."
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Why Do We Expect Life to Be Any Other Way? (Nora McInerny)
August 24, 2023
Listen now (67 mins) | "Sometimes it feels like empathy, sympathy, sorrow, grief are scarce resources, because we certainly treat them like that. And if someone is feeling too much..."
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Navigating Heartbreak (Florence Williams)
August 17, 2023
Listen now (59 mins) | "It's okay to not be perfect. I don't wanna be judging myself for my imperfections. I actually wanna be accepting myself for my imperfections. And that was..."
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What We’ve Chosen to Forget (Baratunde Thurston)
August 10, 2023
Listen now (61 mins) | "There’s a thin line between feeling enhanced and improved versus feeling disconnected from my own self. Did I have a good night's sleep? I think so, my ring..."
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Accepting the Invitation (Frank Ostaseski)
August 3, 2023
Listen now (57 mins) | “Acceptance is kind of a choice. We say, I accept this. That's the way they are. Surrender feels different. It feels like we're not just distancing..."
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Contending with Fear (Jakki Leonardini)
July 27, 2023
Listen now (61 mins) | “A loving being isn't domineering and a loving being is not going to judge you and certainly isn't going to test you. A loving being, a loving energy, and you..."
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Our Collective Psychological Development (John Churchill Psy.D)
July 20, 2023
Listen now (68 mins) | “There's a deep need for all of us to grow up, like we are now being handed tools of the gods, right? And so we have to grow up and we have to mature..."
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The WiFi of the Body (Lauren Roxburgh)
July 13, 2023
Listen now (51 mins) | “So trauma can get stuck in our tissues.You know, our emotions can actually be stuck in our tissues because in a way, our fascia is actually holding..."
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When Women Tell the Truth About Their Lives (Andrea Bendewald)
July 6, 2023
Listen now (60 mins) | “So circling can be very personal, meaning you have your own awareness. It's not like, you know, you come to a circle and everybody sees you and they..."
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Reconciling with What We Didn’t Receive (Minka Kelly)
June 29, 2023
Listen now (65 mins) | “And I am not thankful for how hard it was. I don't believe we have to suffer to be great people. I do believe great empathy and depth and love come from all...
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Standing at the Edge (Roshi Joan Halifax)
June 22, 2023
Listen now (46 mins) | “I think there are a number of ways that we move into action that's characterized by integrity and where, you know, healthy altruism and compassion..."
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Finding Our Desire (Emily Morse)
June 15, 2023
Listen now (71 mins) | “Sex is not a quick fix when there's these foundational challenges that you're having, you're like, I know how to give oral sex a million different ways, but I'm ..."
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The Non-Linear Life (Bruce Feiler)
June 8, 2023
Listen now (63 mins) | “A million Americans a week are quitting a job. This number is almost twice as high as it's ever been in history, not laid off. Not being fired. Quitting...."
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Being Transcendent (Geena Rocero)
June 1, 2023
Listen now (63 mins) | “I believe certainly, I know now, after have going through this years and years of feeling ashamed of who I am, you know, internalizing the shame, how..."
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How to Change the World (Austin Channing Brown)
May 25, 2023
Listen now (59 mins) | “When you are quite literally told that you are not human. What option do you have? What’s the other option other than to overthrow the system that is telling..."
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The Making of ON OUR BEST BEHAVIOR (Whit Frick)
May 18, 2023
Listen now (80 mins) | "In reading your book, what became so clear to me is that the voice in my head, and like this, I'm gonna describe this voice, and I know I am not alone in having..."
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What Makes Marriages Work (Stan Tatkin)
May 11, 2023
Listen now (61 mins) | “One thing my work has taught me is how human interaction is a comedy of errors. People are making so many errors without knowing it. I think I'm making..."
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The Best Strangers in the World (Ari Shapiro)
May 4, 2023
Listen now (59 mins) | “But I now think about how wonderful it is that some of these radio stories that meant a lot to me that might have otherwise just disappeared..."
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Knitting Together Our Lives (Peggy Orenstein)
April 27, 2023
Listen now (53 mins) | “Women spent so much time in the ancient world spinning, like they spent all their time, any spare moment. And spinsters were not bad, it wasn't bad..."
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A Fully Sensed Life (Gretchen Rubin)
April 20, 2023
Listen now (56 mins) | “So one of the things I explored in life in Life in Five Senses was the value of boredom. Because when you're bored and when your mind is just kind of…"
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Reconceiving Our Lives (Maggie Smith)
April 13, 2023
Listen now (58 mins) | “For people who have been in a long relationship and then it goes off the rails and ends, it’s a different kind of grief from say widower grief, right? Where maybe..."
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Igniting Creativity (Ozan Varol)
April 6, 2023
Listen now (58 mins) | “Ideas don't arrive with a bang. There is no parade. The big thing never screams that it's a big thing. The big thing actually, at first, looks quite small, but..."
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Making Sense of Time (Jenny Odell)
March 30, 2023
Listen now (53 mins) | "I guess for me, the real tragedy is this idea of a life where you're getting further and further away from something meaningful or what you want and..."
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A Mapmaker for the Soul (Cynthia Bourgeault)
March 23, 2023
Listen now (62 mins) | “We are in a time where everything that we think we have taken for granted in terms of human achievement, human conscience, human goodness are..."
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The Origins of Inequality (Angela Saini)
March 16, 2023
Listen now (63 mins) | “People have always fought against anyone trying to impose power on them or trying to assert their status on them. That is true right throughout history, from..."
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The Uses of Enchantment (Katherine May)
March 9, 2023
Listen now (62 mins) | “When I'd gone off and got lost in the woods and I walked for hours and I just couldn't find my way back out of the woods, there was this moment..."
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Self-Healing in the Dark (Tara Schuster)
March 2, 2023
Listen now (54 mins) | "“And we are made of stars, you know. It's not some fun little thing I'm trying to make everyone feel happy with. It's the carbon in your muscles, the calcium in your..."
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Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships (Nedra Tawwab)
February 23, 2023
Listen now (51 min) | “I think the biggest challenge with codependency is when a family member is catered to when their unhealthy or toxic behavior is catered to..."
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The Friendships We Need (Will Schwalbe)
February 16, 2023
Listen now (58 min) | "A conversation that I hope this book sparks, because it's such a fun conversation, is the conversation about gay men being friends with straight men, but also straight..."
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Learning to See Our Parents as They Are (Priscilla Gilman)
February 9, 2023
Listen now (62 min) | "And then there was that moment where she sent me that brief email where she affirmed his essential goodness, his essential integrity and his worth as a father, which was..."
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What We’re After (Solo Episode)
February 2, 2023
Listen now (51 min) | In today’s episode—my first ever solo attempt—I explain how my spirituality emerged out of a largely secular, nature-based childhood, how I learned to work with the forces of the universe, and what I think we’re after. (Hint: Wholeness.)
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Understanding Spiritual Power (Carissa Schumacher)
January 26, 2023
Listen now (107 min) | “This is the time where it's kind of like the things that we didn't get right, we need to start fixing. Not fixing, I would say, but opening up to new paths of ..."
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Learning How to Breathe (James Nestor)
January 19, 2023
Listen now (55 min) | “I mean, look at how we've convoluted and complicated the most simple things. Look at nutrition now, how many supplements are we supposed to take?..."
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In Search of Paradise (Pico Iyer)
January 12, 2023
Listen now (60 min) | “There are many places I'd love to see and I know I would learn from. But if I never see them, I won't be sorry. I mean I feel..."
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Working With the Power of the Earth (Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, PhD)
January 5, 2023
Listen now (69 mins) | “We're aware that we're in an ecological crisis. We are destroying our own ecosystem. We're aware there's loss of biodiversity, these beautiful species..."
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Where Self Meets World (Dan Siegel, M.D.)
December 29, 2022
Listen now (62 min) | “How do we actually with due speed, because this is a timely issue, start to live in modern culture, which has taken over the planet basically live in a way..."
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The Kitchen Healer (Jules Blaine Davis)
December 22, 2022
Listen now (62 min) | “I mean, nourishing is truly, honestly, it is, it is, uh, an activism. It is it, the, the minute you are nourished the decisions you make versus when you weren't...”
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Processing our Collective Past (Thomas Hübl)
December 15, 2022
Listen now (57 min) | “If you don't change things that we already feel we should change or we feel called to change, if you're holding onto our job alone or to a relationship that is toxic...”
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On Collaborating with Ourselves (Alexandra Grant)
December 8, 2022
Listen now (58 min) | “Now I'm making something that I didn't imagine. It's not going like I imagined, but it's going. And then when you finish the Object, Thing, Book...”
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Living a Committed Life (Lynne Twist)
December 1, 2022
Listen now (58 min) | “But a life devoted to something larger than yourself is a life worth living. It's a life that is in recognition of life is given to us...”
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The Boundaries We Need (Melissa Urban)
November 23, 2022
Listen now (65 mins) | “Boundaries don't tell other people what to do. They tell other people what you are willing to do to take responsibility..."
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The Closet of Inauthenticity (Jessi Hempel)
November 17, 2022
Listen now (49 mins) | “My childhood was a childhood in the closet. I had some good things. I had some bad things, like living in the closet is, you know, not always..."
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Recovering Every Part of Ourselves (Richard Schwartz, PhD)
November 10, 2022
Listen now (58 mins) | “I’m trying to map the territory in the center world, just the way I did with families and the distinction that immediately leaped out was between parts..."
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Decolonizing Wellness (Chelsey Luger & Thosh Collins)
November 3, 2022
Listen now (71 mins) | "We have offered a model, the seven circles, that helps people to understand that it's not just food and fitness, which so many wellness practitioners..."
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The Power of Visual Thinkers (Temple Grandin, PhD)
October 27, 2022
Listen now (63 mins) | “The thing is the type of thinking where you can figure out how mechanical things work. It’s a different kind of intelligence..."
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Being a Good Enough Person (Dolly Chugh)
October 20, 2022
Listen now (52 mins) | “What I'm positing is, is an ability to grapple with contradiction. So that's the paradox mindset that Wendy Smith, Maryanne Lewis...”
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When Women Lead (Julia Boorstin)
October 13, 2022
Listen now (57 mins) | "But my other favorite thing about the confidence piece, as someone who can be very anxious and nervous myself, is that sometimes it's valuable...”
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A Map to Your Soul (Jennifer Freed, PhD)
October 6, 2022
Listen now (65 mins) | “Well, I think of it like the metaphor of the ensemble in a great musical, like everybody has to know their part. Everybody has to give 2000% ..."
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What Makes Love Last (John & Julie Gottman, PhDs)
September 29, 2022
Listen now (56 min) | “I’ve never really figured out how come we stop asking each other questions. You know, we always do that in the beginning of a relationship..."
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Embracing Uncertainty (Estelle Frankel)
September 22, 2022
Listen now (52 min) | “Sometimes you can't see the full path. And so you don't even venture into the unknown, you know, you're unhappy..."
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When Stress Becomes Illness (Gabor Maté, M.D.)
September 15, 2022
Listen now (66 min) | “Where in your life where you're not saying yes, but there's a, yes. That wants to be said where there's some desire for self-expression..."
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What Makes Us Whole (Susan Cain)
September 8, 2022
Listen now (56 min) | “I think we all have these stories, you know, whether they come through bereavements or betrayals or, or whatever, we, we all have these losses…"
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The Fallacy of Time Management (Oliver Burkeman)
September 1, 2022
Listen now (53 min) | “There seems to be this basic idea that if you make a system including a human life, more efficient, capable of processing more inputs..."
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Touching the Other Side (Laura Lynne Jackson)
August 25, 2022
Listen now (53 min) | “There seems to be this basic idea that if you make a system including a human life, more efficient, capable of processing more inputs..."
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The Power of Myth to Heal (Kwame Scruggs, PhD)
August 18, 2022
Listen now (52 mins) | “I tear up at the drop of a hat and got another facilitator who tears up quicker than I do. But like we tell the youth, the soul would have no rainbow had the eyes..."
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Overriding Implicit Bias (Jessica Nordell)
August 11, 2022
Listen now (53 min) | “I mean, the idea that we're colorblind or, or gender blind or age blind or something, is ridiculous. I mean, we categorize those things..."
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The Power of the Enneagram (Susan Olesek)
August 4, 2022
Listen now (57 mins) | “And I just feel that people, I now I have so much more perspective, but at the time, even I felt people who have already had so much adversity..."
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Navigating Quarterlife (Satya Doyle Byock)
July 28, 2022
Listen now (51 mins) | “The focus of adulthood has been on stability, just, you know, find a job and don't leave it, find a partner and don't get divorced..."
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Understanding the Intelligence of the Universe (Jeddah Mali)
July 21, 2022
Listen now (53 min) | “So natural intelligence has this ability to bring order when we allow it to. The reason that we don't see it so often in operation..."
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The Mystery of Spontaneous Healing (Jeffrey Rediger, M.D., M.Div)
July 14, 2022
Listen now (48 mins) | “If you don't know how to say no, your body will eventually say no for you. I think there is so much depth to that. And that's why it's so important that we help..."
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The Map of Loss (Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD)
July 7, 2022
Listen now (43 min) | “I think I find great comfort in this idea that when you form that bond, when you fall in love, your neurons are actually changed..."
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The Power of Boundaries (Nedra Tawwab)
June 30, 2022
Listen now (51 min) | “As a therapist, I started to discover that when people need boundaries, they start to have issues around anxiety in their relationships..."
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Finding the Mother Tree (Suzanne Simard, PhD)
June 23, 2022
Listen now (53 min) | “As scientists, we often look at one thing and we say, oh, that's the one thing it's competing for light. And then, and that's true..."
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Don’t Wait to Live (Rabbi Steve Leder)
June 16, 2022
Listen now (58 mins) | “There are 12 questions that enable every person who's willing to, to answer them, to reevaluate their life and their legacy. Because what..."
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Finding the Sacred Pause (Jennifer Rudolph Walsh)
June 9, 2022
Listen now (48 mins) | “I didn't wanna be still, I had to be still, but I wanted more than anything to continue being a human doing. And the universe was insisting..."
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Bringing Our “Wise Adults” Into Relationship (Terry Real)
June 2, 2022
Listen now (53 min) | “I talk about dysfunctional relational stances that would repeat over and over again. For example, angry pursuit is an oxymoron. Angry pursuit..."
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The Beauty of Aging (Nigma Talib, N.D.)
May 26, 2022
Listen now (49 mins) | “I think the key is to really believe it when you see something that you're doing every day in your diet that is making..."
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Why Do We Suffer? (Carissa Schumacher)
May 19, 2022
Listen now (66 min) | "If you are in a Western life and, and are designed as an empath or a spiritual being that feels things very deeply, it is important for you..."
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Understanding Essential Labor (Angela Garbes)
May 12, 2022
Listen now (55 min) | "This to me is basic, but it feels like we've drifted really far from it in our culture. That to be a human, the basic condition of being a human is being needful..."
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Understanding Emotional Inheritance (Galit Atlas, PhD)
May 5, 2022
Listen now (59 min) | "When we talk about the ghost of the unsaid, we're talking about the inherited feelings of our parents, unprocessed trauma, where the Phantoms that..."
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Where Are Our Huddles? (Brooke Baldwin)
April 28, 2022
Listen now (62 min) | "I talk to so many women who, you know, we talk about huddle and we talk about, I referenced, you know, back catalog friends, people who I've known..."
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When Illness is Not Validated (Meghan O’Rourke)
April 21, 2022
Listen now (44 min) | “One reason I wrote the book is that the lack of recognition is such a powerful harm done to patients. And I think until you've gone..."
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Navigating Conflict (Amanda Ripley)
April 14, 2022
Listen now (55 min) | “Usually in high conflict, the conflict becomes the whole point. So you make a lot of mistakes and you can miss opportunities..."
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Living Without Lying (Martha Beck, PhD)
April 7, 2022
Listen now (60 min) | “I’ve won arm wrestles with big muscular men, right out of prison because you align the energy. Everything wants to harmonize with it..."
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Why Closure is a Myth (Pauline Boss, PhD)
March 31, 2022
Listen now (55 min) | “You have to have something new to hope for sure. You might still keep hoping that somebody with a terminal illness might get better and..."
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Having Conversations We’d Rather Not Have (Celeste Headlee)
March 24, 2022
Listen now (50 min) | "So if we take that off the table, if we take off this, this goal of changing somebody's mind, then what are you left with? What's your..."
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Passing as “Normal” (Katherine May)
March 17, 2022
Listen now (53 min) | “I increasingly feel that modern life is becoming intolerable for everyone, whether they're neurodivergent or not. I think we've noticed it earlier..."
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What Our Anxiety Tells Us (Ellen Vora, M.D.)
March 10, 2022
Listen now (50 min) | “I think we're due for a cultural rebranding around crying. I think that crying, you know, if we start to cry, we invariably apologize..."
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Manifesting What We Actually Want (Lacy Phillips)
March 3, 2022
Listen now (53 min) | "When I would witness somebody that I identify with in whatever capacity of what I'm calling in, have, what I want or are successful in..."
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Why Design Matters–and the Courage to Create New (Debbie Millman)
February 24, 2022
Listen now (55 min) | “I think what makes it much more difficult to, to have the courage, to continue to experiment, you know, look at somebody like Joni Mitchell..."
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The Psychology of the Body (Olivia Laing)
February 17, 2022
Listen now (44 min) | “That's what I think is so funny about this is like a hundred years on these things that he's talking about remain as live as ever..."
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How Science Got Women Wrong (Angela Saini)
February 10, 2022
Listen now (49 min) | “But what I do do is whenever I read an academic paper is I read around it. I don't just take that as given or assume..."
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Understanding Our Sexual Potential (Ian Kerner, PhD)
February 3, 2022
Listen now (48 min) | “We sort of get into this, you know, relational model. And look, when it's working, when sex is a form of intimacy and merging and lovemaking..."
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Finding Balance in Our Bodies (Aviva Romm, M.D.)
January 27, 2022
Listen now (56 min) | “I've spent many years, like med school residency, as a mom, eight books, which is a lot of deadlines. Just a lot of things..."
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Challenging the Stories We Tell Ourselves (Elizabeth Lesser)
January 20, 2022
Listen now (54 min) | “The obviousness of something that has been with us forever and must change, is often the most painful part..."
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Unblocking the Creative Self (Julia Cameron)
January 13, 2022
Listen now (51 min) | “Are you doing something that brings you joy? Are you doing something that brings you fulfillment? Do you take yourself seriously..."
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The Guru in Our Own Minds (Mark Epstein, M.D.)
January 6, 2022
Listen now (53 min) | “But the true guru, you know, the Buddha came and turned all that inside out. You know the Buddha taught the Four Noble Truths..."
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Struggle is Real—Suffering is Optional (B.J. Miller, M.D.)
December 30, 2021
Listen now (49 mins) | “My goal isn't to not be afraid, my goal is to have a relationship with fear. So I presume fear is going to be part of the picture. So my goal..."
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Where Should Work Fit in Our Lives (Anne Helen Petersen & Charlie Warzel)
December 23, 2021
Listen now (53 min) | “Like family relationship has obligations that go both ways. Hopefully there's unconditional love there, but it's also like your..."
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Why Don’t We Believe Women? (Deborah Tuerkheimer)
December 16, 2021
Listen now (45 min) | “Outside the legal context, I'm urging readers and listeners in this case to think very deliberately about whether that high standard of proof..."
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The Reprioritization of Relationship (Lori Gottlieb)
December 9, 2021
Listen now (50 min) | “I think what COVID did was it really made people realize that the state of their emotions, the state of their relationships, all of those things..."
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Solving the American Gun Crisis (Ryan Busse)
December 2, 2021
Listen now (54 min) | “The NRA and gun owners then signified, you know, the sort of comradery, responsibility, safety, sort of a bygone..."
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My Spiritual Teacher & Yeshua Channel (Carissa Schumacher)
November 24, 2021
Listen now (87 min) | Since she was a little girl, Carissa Schumacher has always seen and spoken to dead people. She pushed all of that aside, went to Brown University...
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How to End Zero-Sum Thinking (Heather McGhee)
November 18, 2021
Listen now (58 min) | “We must stop the siloed thinking that racism is great for white people and bad for people of color..."
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Navigating an Addictive Culture (Anna Lembke, M.D.)
November 11, 2021
Listen now (43 min) | “We are living in a world that primes us all for the problem of addiction. So even though some people come into this world..."
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What Our Anger Teaches Us (Harriet Lerner, PhD)
November 4, 2021
Listen now (58 min) | “I think it's very important to mention also, Elise, that even if a woman feels permission to be angry, that anger..."
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Where Did the Patriarchy Come From? (Riane Eisler, PhD)
October 28, 2021
Listen now (54 min) | Dr. Riane Eisler is a social systems scientist, cultural historian, futurist, attorney and internationally bestselling author of many notable classics...
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Healing Male Depression (Terry Real)
October 21, 2021
Listen now (55 min) | “Before our boys have learned to read, they have already read the stoic code of masculinity and are conforming to it..."
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Women, Food, and Hormones (Sara Gottfried, M.D.)
October 14, 2021
Listen now (60 min) | Dr. Sara Gottfried is a Harvard-educated doctor, scientist, researcher, mother, and seeker with 25 years of experience...
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The Legacy of White Feminism (Kyla Schuller)
October 7, 2021
Listen now (61 min) | “There's a fantasy in argument, in Lean In, or Girlboss style corporate feminism that says, once you have women in charge of your company, then..."
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Finding the Line Between Savoring and Saving (Jamie Wheal)
September 30, 2021
Listen now (63 min) | “We as a generational cohort are coming of age where we simultaneously have more awareness of life...and at the same time..."
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Calling in the Call-Out Culture (Loretta Ross)
September 23, 2021
Listen now (53 min) | “Do you want to continue to live out the patterns of your childhood? Or do you want to make different choices? Are you programmed or are you self-determining?..."
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Building the House of Knowledge (Joy Harjo)
September 16, 2021
Listen now (51 min) | “Humanity is messy, each of us starts with ourselves, it's horribly messy and then multiply that times millions. And that's an incredible, lovely mess."
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