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Lucid Cafe
What Your Dog Needs to Thrive — And How You Can Help with Rita Hogan
Calling all dog lovers! In this resource-rich episode, I’m joined by clinical canine herbalist Rita Hogan, who brings over 20 years of experience helping dogs heal naturally. Her new book, The Herbal Dog: Holistic Canine Herbalism Applications and Practice, is a treasure trove of wisdom for anyone who wants their pup to thrive.Rita shares empowering, easy-to-apply tips for supporting your dog’s health using herbs, nutrition, and holistic care — and many of her insights are surprisingly helpful for humans, too. Whether you're new to herbalism or just love your dog like family, this conversation will gi...
2025-07-08
52 min
Lucid Cafe
Do You Have Enough? Rethinking Wealth & Worth with author Elizabeth Husserl
In this episode of Lucid Cafe, I talk with financial advisor and author Elizabeth Husserl about her new book The Power of Enough: Finding Joy in Your Relationship with Money. We explore how our mindset around money shapes not only our finances, but also our sense of self-worth, well-being, and freedom.Elizabeth offers a refreshing alternative to the endless pursuit of more. She shares how stepping off the treadmill of comparison and accumulation can help us redefine wealth on our own terms — and finally feel good about what we have.In this episode, Elizabeth discusses:...
2025-06-18
48 min
Lucid Cafe
Truth, AI, and the Wild: The World of Raven’s Daughter
In this very special episode of Lucid Cafe, I celebrate the long-awaited release of my new book, Raven’s Daughter: The Story Keeper. After years of dreaming, writing, and behind-the-scenes work, publication day is finally here.Joining me is my brilliant and hilarious friend Claire Wheeler, who helps me unpack the story, themes, and inspiration behind the book. This is the first time I’m speaking about Raven’s Daughter out loud in any real depth, so it’s part book talk, part soul share — with a few meandering moments along the way.We explore some of th...
2025-05-27
1h 02
Lucid Cafe
Reclaiming Feminine Wisdom in a Masculine World with Author Alanna Kaivalya
In this episode, I sit down with the passionate Alanna Kaivalya to explore the lost — yet ever-present — power of the feminine. While modern women have more freedom than ever to shape our lives and careers, many of us still measure success through a masculine lens, chasing goals and strategies that don’t reflect our deepest desires.This conversation is not about rejecting the masculine, but about reclaiming the feminine — the intuitive, connective, and compassionate energy that too often gets sidelined. Alanna, a bestselling author and spiritual teacher, shares insights from her new book The Way of the Satisfie...
2025-05-07
58 min
Lucid Cafe
What's Your Story? with Author Nancy Slonim Aronie
In this episode we explore the magic of writing and the power of telling your story. My guest Nancy Slonim Aronie wants you to know that writing is not an exclusive club, that everyone has a really good story to tell. And usually not just one. In her new book Seven Secrets to the Perfect Personal Essay she writes “Essay writing is personal. Sharing what you think about a certain topic is risky. Especially if what you think is not what everyone else thinks.”Nancy Slonim Aronie is the founder of the Chilmark Writing Work...
2025-04-17
47 min
Lucid Cafe
Karma, Anyone? with Author Mordy Levine
Does what goes around, really come back around? Do you reap what you sow? My guest Mordy Levine, who along with his coauthor, Lama Lhanang Rinpoche, recently released the book The Beginner’s Guide to Karma: How to Live with Less Negativity and More Peace. In this episode Mordy explains the role that the universal law of cause and effect, or karma, plays in our lives and how to use this understanding to create a positive path forward.“Learning about karma will help us understand why we are experiencing this contentiousness so broadly and deep...
2025-04-04
47 min
Lucid Cafe
The Critical State of Thinking with Dr Janine Oliver
This seems like one of the more important episodes I’ve released since the podcast started back in 2018. My guest Dr Janine Oliver is a clinical psychologist who has expertise in social media, reality TV, and critical thinking. In this episode we discuss her research, its implications and practical ways to take care of your amazingly resilient brain. Janine is a Cognitive Psychologist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker who, in addition to working with clients in her Philadelphia area practice, offers professional presentations and specialized consulting regarding her research. She is also the author of...
2025-03-15
1h 13
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Unleash Your Potential with Author Becca Powers
Have you ever wanted to create change? Or unapologetically chase your dreams? Yet for some reason you stop before you ever get started? Do you ever feel stretched in so many different directions that it feels like you’ve lost your creative spark? My guest Becca Powers wants to empower you to unleash your potential and become everything you were meant to be. In this episode we discuss her new book A Return to Radiance: The POWER Method to Ignite Your Soul and Unleash Your Potential and the creative ways she helps people to get unstuck....
2025-02-20
50 min
Lucid Cafe
Develop Your Intuition with Author Happy Ali
With all the external noise vying for our attention these days, it’s easy to forget that we have access to a wealth of wisdom within each of us and beyond. My guest Happy Ali shares easy techniques that work on every level of intuition starting with hunches, precognition, and dream analysis and building to direct communication with a multidimensional level of intelligence that is always available. Happy’s clear explanations and insightful guidance, combined with inspiring true stories from his own and others’ direct experiences, demystifies the intuitive process and makes it accessible to all. Hap...
2025-01-25
53 min
Lucid Cafe
Rethinking How You Walk with Author Bruce Fertman
This episode might surprise you. I had no idea until I spoke with my guest Bruce Fertman that the way we’ve unconsciously learned to walk is actually doing us a disservice. In fact, most of us are making it harder than it needs to be. In this episode we discuss Bruce and his coauthor Michael J. Gelb’s new book Walking Well: A New Approach for Experiencing Comfort and Vitality in Every Step; a helpful guide that’s chock full of secrets, advice, and guidance on walking with pleasure, power, poise, and peace.Bruce...
2025-01-03
54 min
Lucid Cafe
A Cup of Love: Ceremonial Cacao with Judy Machado
Cacao is more than just a drink that many are sharing in their ceremonies; it is a Master Plant Medicine that, although not psychedelic, carries the power to open hearts, facilitate deep inner work, and foster a profound connection with the essence of life. My guest Judy Machado, founder of Goddess Temple Cacao, is following her passion to introduce people to the healing magic of Ceremonial Cacao. Judy spent a year and half Consulting for a bean-to-bar chocolate company. She became infatuated with the spiritual story and significance of Cacao and whole-heartedly connected to t...
2024-12-13
54 min
Lucid Cafe
Feel, Heal & Let that Sh*t Go with Rachel Kaplan
Are you emotionally potty trained? My guest Rachel Kaplan is a licensed psychotherapist who created an accessible framework for self-care and personal transformation that she calls Emotional Potty Training™ (EPT). In this episode and in her new book Feel, Heal & Let That Sh*t Go, she shares her revolutionary call to action that will teach you precisely how to feel your emotions by moving them through your body as nature intended.Rachel Kaplan, MA, MFT, is a licensed psychotherapist with a thriving practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. Creator and host of the ac...
2024-11-22
54 min
Lucid Cafe
Astrological Forecast (2024-2025) with Linda River Valente
To kick off Season 7, I asked my friend Linda River Valente if - given the nature of these “interesting” times - she’d be willing to come back on the show and give us a taste of what we can expect in the coming months through the lens of astrology, as well as how to best navigate the challenges that she sees coming. Linda offers her clients a lifetime of collected, eclectic wisdom through her work as a seasoned astrologer, witch, holistic sexuality educator, tarot visionary, magic maker, and Burlesque producer and performer.
2024-10-30
1h 22
Lucid Cafe
The 15-Minute Method with Author Sam Bennett
In this episode I speak with the very fun and engaging Samantha Bennett about how to tap into and explore the things that bring you joy in a way that’s reasonable and not at all intimidating. We discuss her latest book The 15-Minute Method: The Surprisingly Simple Art of Getting It Done, which isn’t just about productivity hacks or working more efficiently. Instead, it asks us to adjust our outlook and realize an important truth: we don’t achieve more simply by doing more — we achieve more by doing more of the things that matter.
2024-08-24
54 min
Lucid Cafe
Celtic Druidism with Author Ellen Evert Hopman
What exactly is a Druid and what do they do? In this episode and in her new book Celtic Druidry: Rituals, Techniques, and Magical Practices, my guest Ellen Evert Hopman unravels some of the mysterious lore surrounding Druidism and shares how our contemporary understanding of this ancient practice is not really complete. Ellen Evert Hopman is the author of a number of books and has been a teacher of Herbalism since 1983 and of Druidism since 1990. She is a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild and has presented on Druidism, herbal lore, tree lore, P...
2024-08-02
59 min
Lucid Cafe
Sacred Geometry & the Evolution of Consciousness with Gail & Gregory Hoag
Can working with Sacred Geometry help you unlock the secrets to your spiritual evolution? Gail and Gregory Hoag have been studying and working with Sacred Geometry for decades and in this episode highlight what they’ve learned and the tools they’ve created to help your personal evolutionary journey. We also discuss their new book Sacred Geometry: The Universal Language of Divine Alignment. The Hoags, revered leaders, speakers and teachers, are revealing how the universal patterns displayed in sacred geometry play a foundational role in the evolution of consciousness. There is magic in how they...
2024-07-12
59 min
Lucid Cafe
Healing with Light and Sound Frequencies with Inventor Gail Lynn
In 2016 Gail Lynn invented the Harmonic Egg®, a large wooden sacred geometric chamber that uses sound and light therapy with a resonant frequency to move and/or re-route blocked energy. In this episode we discuss the Harmonic Egg® - its design, how it works and the experience, as well as Gail’s book Unlocking the Ancient Secrets to Healing: Why science is looking to the past for the future of medicine.Gail is a renowned visionary, inventor and pioneer in the realm of frequency healing, celebrated for her ground-breaking creation, the Harmonic Egg®. Since then...
2024-06-20
59 min
Lucid Cafe
Otherworldly Experiences - Part One
Join me and the host of the Supernormalized podcast CeeJay Barnaby for part one of our pod swap. This initial conversation focuses primarily on my shamanic experiences and how I use trance to engage in healing dreams on behalf of others. Part two, which will be released later this season, will focus on CeeJay and his otherworldly experiences, but you’ll get a taste of his experiences in today’s episode. Mighty intense! Check out CeeJay’s podcast Supernormalized Learn more about Wendy’s practice
2024-02-02
53 min
Lucid Cafe
Fostering Intimacy with Author Corey Lyon Folsom
Corey Lyon Folsom is the author of the book Soul Statements: A Love Coach’s Guide to Successful Communication. In this episode we talk about communication and intimacy, the nature of soul statements and his work as a love coach. Corey suggests that “the goal is not to ‘fix’ any given interaction. It’s about living in an alive, embodied present.”After experiencing a spiritual soul-awakening, Corey was inspired to become a tantra teacher; and in 2012, he began his work as a relationship and intimacy coach. Corey helps people from all over the world remove block...
2024-01-08
48 min
Lucid Cafe
Psilocybin & Human Evolution with Jahan Khamsehzadeh, PhD
My guest Jahan Khamsehzadeh is a fount of information on all things psilocybin. In this final episode of season 5, we discuss his book The Psilocybin Connection, the theory that psilocybin may have played a role in human evolution, and the promise of psilocybin assisted therapy. Jahan completed his dissertation on psychedelics in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Doctorate program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He earned his master's in Consciousness and Transformative Studies from John F. Kennedy University and his bachelor's from the University of Arizona with a major in philosophy and m...
2023-08-09
55 min
Lucid Cafe
Intuitive Channeling with Stephanie Banks
Stephanie Banks’ channeling journey began when her mother’s dementia made verbal communication impossible. She has since become a popular intuitive channel, mentor and guide teaching others how to access their own inner voice of wisdom. Connection and communication are common themes in all of Stephanie’s professional endeavors as a speech-language pathologist, birth doula, lactation consultant, infant massage instructor, and intuitive channel. She channels from the perspective of any soul currently on the planet, souls on the other side, purely non-physical beings such as spirit guides, as well as nature spirits.
2023-07-07
33 min
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Healing Dreams with Edward Tick, PhD
In this episode we take a deep dive into the healing power of our dreams. My guest Edward Tick conducts original and groundbreaking healing work in the Ancient Greek tradition. In our conversation and in his latest book Soul Medicine: Healing Through Dreams, Oracles, Visions and Pilgrimage Edward breathes new life into these Ancient Greek healing practices. Edward Tick is a nonfiction writer and poet. He is a transformational healer, holistic psychotherapist, educator, consultant and international journey guide. He’s been working to heal the invisible wounds of war and viol...
2023-06-16
1h 10
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A Conversation with Psychic Medium Karen Docherty
In this episode Karen Docherty shares how she’s been connecting with the spirits of folks who’ve died for a long time to help grieving loved ones bring a sense of calm and clarity to their lives. We talk about her work and how she mentors others to develop their understanding of psychic connections, self development, spirit communication and the mechanics of mediumship itself.Since the discovery of her abilities, Karen has worked tirelessly to bring the word of Spirit to those who need it most. From the UK to the USA, from Asia...
2023-05-25
59 min
Lucid Cafe
From Victim to Survivor with Kanchan Bhaskar
My guest Kanchan Bhaskar is the author of the memoir Leaving: How I Set Myself Free From An Abusive Marriage. In her book and in this episode, Kanchan gives us an intimate glimpse into a painful, extremely difficult time in her life and how she found her way out.Kanchan was born and raised in New Delhi, India. She holds a master’s degree in social work from Delhi University and a postgraduate certificate in personnel management and industrial relations. She moved to the U.S. in 2000 and currently lives in Chicago, Illinois. She no...
2023-05-05
1h 13
Lucid Cafe
Psychedelic Cannabis with Daniel McQueen
In this informative episode, professional psychedelic therapist and educator Daniel McQueen shares how to transform cannabis into a reliable and safe psychedelic medicine. He describes the hidden healing potential of cannabis blends to create experiences akin to psilocybin, MDMA, and even ayahuasca. Daniel is the author of Psychedelic Cannabis: Therapeutic Methods and Unique Blends to Treat Trauma and Transform Consciousness. In 2012, he co-founded the Center of Medicinal Mindfulness which is the first legal plant-based psychedelic therapy center in the United States. Daniel specializes in using Cannabis-Assisted Psychedelic Therapy and Ketamine-Assisted Psychedelic Therapy as tools f...
2023-04-12
1h 00
Lucid Cafe
Chiron: Healing Core Wounds with Author Lisa Tahir
Using astrology as a diagnostic tool, author and licensed clinical social worker Lisa Tahir shares how to use the astrological placement of the minor planet Chiron in your birth chart to identify the core wounds and unconscious patterns that block your capacity to have self-empathy and to forgive. Lisa is the author of The Chiron Effect: Healing Our Core Wounds through Astrology, Empathy, and Self-Forgiveness and the host of the popular podcast All Things Therapy. Lisa has private practice office locations and residences in both Los Angeles and New Orleans.
2023-03-23
43 min
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Exploring the Unconventional with Mitch Horowitz
Mitch Horowitz invites us to break through the walls of convention and explore the numinous, mysterious, and uncertain places that lie beyond those walls. In this episode Mitch serves as a tour guide taking us on a thought provoking journey of the spiritual, the occult, the magickal, and the extra-physical. Mitch is a historian of alternative spirituality and one of today’s most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult. Through his many lectures, books and articles he shines a light on outsider history so that we can understand its relevance to contemporary life. ...
2023-03-02
46 min
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Learning To Heal with Author Ed Cohen
After an emergency surgery that saved his life, Ed Cohen had a spontaneous healing experience that prompted him to ask the question: Why doesn’t medicine know about healing? In this episode Ed explores how Western medicine turned from an “art of healing” toward a “science of medicine” and how this shift has affected both medical practitioners and their patients.Ed Cohen has a Ph.D. in Modern Thought from Stanford, and for the last three decades, has been an award-winning professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of On Learning...
2023-02-09
53 min
Lucid Cafe
Roar Like A Goddess with Acharya Shunya
Acharya Shunya has written a feminist manifesto rooted in class Vedic teachings and brought to life through India’s primary goddess archetypes titled Roar Like A Goddess: Every Woman’s Guide to Becoming Unapologetically Powerful, Prosperous & Peaceful.She is a highly-rated motivational speaker, podcast host, workshop facilitator and retreat leader with over 20 years of experience as a spiritual, wellness, relationship and women's empowerment coach. In this episode, Shunya discusses:How she lost her power in an arranged marriageThe concept of DharmaHow she changed when she took her power backT...
2023-01-19
51 min
Lucid Cafe
The Amazonian Angel Oracle with Howard G. Charing
Howard G. Charing is the author of The Accidental Shaman, a book recounting his incredible introduction to shamanism as well as the co-author of Plant Spirit Shamanism and The Ayahuasca Visions of Pablo Amaringo. He holds workshops internationally and plant medicine retreats in the Peruvian Amazon. In this episode, Howard discusses:His relationship with artist Pablo AmaringoHow the oracle deck came to beThe process of creating each card and its meaningHis introduction to shamanismThe Near Death Experience that changed his lifeHow he healed after the accident that led to his NDEHis first encounter w...
2022-12-28
44 min
Lucid Cafe
Elemental Magic with Author Taylor Ellwood
Taylor Ellwood encourages people who are interested in practicing magic, as well as veteran practitioners, to break free from dogmatic approaches to practicing magic. Instead, as the manifesto on his website states, he encourages you to become a Magical Experimenter; to create your own magical systems, develop your own magical workings and challenge what’s known by venturing into the unknown.In this episode, Taylor discusses:The broad scope of the many books he’s authored, both fiction and non-fictionHis introduction to magic as a teenagerThe dangers of getting caught in one way of t...
2022-12-07
48 min
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Tao Quantum Healing with Master Sha
Dr and Master Zhi Gang Sha is a Tao grandmaster, healer, teacher, and author of 30 books, including 11 New York Times bestsellers. He’s both a Western medical doctor and a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture.In this episode, Master Sha shares:How Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus author John Gray encouraged him to write his first bookHis motivation for writing books and teachingHis introduction to Taoism through studying martial artsHow the soul is the true bossThe two lives of the humanThe anatomy of the soulTai ChiHis introduction to Ta...
2022-11-15
1h 01
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Dare to be Brave with Amikaeyla Gaston
Amikaeyla Gaston is an international award-winning singer, activist, and executive director/founder of the International Cultural Arts & Healing Sciences Institute.In this episode, Ami discusses:The profound role that music and vibration plays in our livesThe hate crime that almost took her life, and the near death experience she hadHer TEDx talk: Dare to Be Dauntless Performing for the Dalai Lama Our damaging cultural worldviewUnconscious biasBeing beyondThe barrier mindsetWhat will it take to actually make a shift in the collective consciousness?Dr Fran Peavey’s conversation modality: Strategic QuestioningLearn more about Amik...
2022-10-25
46 min
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Sex, Eroticism & Pleasure with Linda River Valente
My guest Linda River Valente offers her clients a lifetime of collected, eclectic wisdom through her work as a seasoned astrologer, witch, holistic sexuality educator, tarot visionary, magic maker, and Burlesque producer and performer. In this episode, Linda discusses:What Holistic Sexuality Education isReasons why someone might seek out this serviceBreaking the ice with clientsAmerican culture’s twisted relationship with sexYour erotic selfStaying warm to get hotPleasureDevotional orgasmBurlesque shows What it’s like to perform BurlesqueThe diverse offerings on her Patreon The complexities of consentHer take on Gwyneth Paltrow’s Sex, Love & goop Netflix s...
2022-07-17
1h 01
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Finding Inner Peace with Author Diane Dreher, PhD
Diane Dreher, PhD, is the author of five nonfiction books including the best-selling Tao of Inner Peace. She is an award-winning university professor and positive psychology researcher whose work on hope has been recognized internationally.In the episode Diane discusses:Her early introduction to Asian cultureAn overview of TaoismHer martial arts trainingA technique to avoid conflictWhat it means to be centeredThe impact of stress Yin and Yang imbalanceReadinessStruggling with motivationTaking small stepsStruggling with disciplineSpiritual vitaminsThe Tao philosophy on healthHarmonious actionTaoist conflict resolutionDiane’s website: https://www.dianedreher.com/Find coo...
2022-07-03
44 min
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The Shamanic Teachings of don Alberto Taxo with Author Shirley Blancke
Shirley Blancke is an archaeologist and anthropologist who recently released the book write The Way of Abundance and Joy: The Shamanic Teachings of don Alberto Taxo.In this episode Shirley discusses:How she became interested in archeology and was introduced to shamanismThe connections she made with American Indigenous tribesThe chain of events that led to her meeting don Alberto TaxoAn overview of shamanic practiceHer unusual and powerful introduction to don Albertodon Alberto’s connection with the natural worldThe prophecy of the eagle and the condorThe most important teaching shared by do...
2022-06-17
50 min
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Food Is Medicine with Nutritionist Lisa Masé
Lisa Masé is a Board Certified Nutritionist, Registered Health Coach, herbalist, and intuitive eating guide in central Vermont and beyond. In this episode, Lisa discusses:How we all have the power to heal ourselves with foodHow she healed herself after a decade of chronic parasites, anxiety and depression, an eating disorder, infertility, and food allergiesLiving in Italy as a child and the culture shock she experienced moving to the U.S. as a teenHer time in IndonesiaStarting a textile export business in Bali to assist the indigenous community Her studies and exploration of the...
2022-06-02
56 min
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Reimagining Death with Author William J. Peters
In 2013 William J Peters founded the Shared Crossing Project to explore and research the Shared Death Experience (SDE). He is the author of At Heaven’s Door: What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach About Dying Well and Living Better - A groundbreaking, authoritative exploration – rich with powerful personal stories and convincing research – of the many ways the living can and do accompany the dying on their journey into the afterlife.In this episode William shares:Why people are reluctant to share their shared death experiencesThe value of an SDEHis Near Death Experience and th...
2022-05-19
55 min
Lucid Cafe
Healing Painful Patterns with Radhule Weininger, MD, PhD
Radhule Weininger, MD, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and teacher of Buddhist meditation and Buddhist psychology. Drawing on decades of experience as a therapist and mindfulness meditation teacher, she helps people understand the trauma behind their painful emotional patterns in her new book Heart Medicine: How to Stop Painful Patterns and Find Peace and Freedom—at LastIn this episode, Radhule discusses:How the Dalai Lama encouraged her to share Buddhist teachings and practicesHow her new book Heart Medicine was born out of her wish to heal her own traumaThe wider perspective her Ti...
2022-05-06
48 min
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Medicine & Miracles Among the Navajo People with Erica Elliott, MD
Erica M. Elliott, MD, is a medical doctor with a busy private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Referred to as “the Health Detective,” she has successfully treated patients from across the country with difficult-to diagnose health conditions. She served in the Peace Corps in Ecuador and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.In this episode, Erica discusses:Her search for her purpose and the surprising places her search led herHow she came to teach on the Navajo reservationWhat living and teaching on the reservation was likeHow she crossed the cultural divide and conn...
2022-04-14
53 min
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There’s Magic In Your Story with Dawn Torres
Dawn Torres of Dakini Healing guides clients and students to wake up their deeply rooted inner guidance systems through Yoga, Meditation, Reiki, Sound Healing and a multitude of transformation tools she’s gathered throughout the years. In this episode, Dawn discusses:How she incorporates different traditions and modalities in the work she doesWhy she’s drawn to the energy healing technique Emotion Code, especially for chronic concernsHow an Emotion Code session worksHer love for offering and facilitating retreatsThe challenges of self-care for womenTips for finding an online retreatHer path to becoming an alternative heali...
2022-03-24
45 min
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Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy with Emma Bragdon PhD & Benjamin Asher MD
Emma Brandon is a mental health clinician with a PhD in Transpersonal Psychology, specializing in issues of Spiritual Emergency.Benjamin Asher is a New York City based, board-certified Head and Neck Surgeon who is renowned for his innovative, non-surgical approaches. He is currently an integrative physician focusing on the psycho-spiritual aspects of health and chronic illness.Emma and Benjamin currently provide Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy in Vermont. In this episode:Emma touches on her work specializing in Spiritual EmergenciesHow spirituality has the potential to assist u...
2022-03-03
51 min
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The Empath’s Journey with Author Signe Myers Hovem
In her book The Space In Between: An Empath’s Field Guide and in this conversation, Signe Myers Hovem shares the importance of developing the traits needed to better understand your own sensitivities and how doing so will influence your relationship with yourself, others, and your environment. In this episode, Signe discusses:How she reverse-engineered empathic receptivityBeing empathic vs being an empath vs being highly sensitiveThe power of wordsThe goal of being in relationship with the environment and your bodyBeing in the driver’s seatThe role of self-careThe importance of getting to know yours...
2022-02-10
45 min
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An Everyday Cult with Author Gerette Buglion
Gerette Buglion, B.A. Elementary Education and Special Education, earned her ‘Master's Degree’ in cult awareness education from the school of life. She is the author of the memoir An Everyday Cult.In this episode, Gerette discusses:Her definition of cultic involvementHow she became involved in a cultThe subtle nature of indoctrinationThe concept of being “love bombed”How seeds of dependence are plantedWhat unhealthy dependence can look likeWhat to pay attention to when working with a teacher, healer or person of authorityNeurolinguistic Programing (NLP)The consequences of addressing your trauma history in a cult set...
2022-01-21
58 min
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Finding My Voice in the Land of Crazy Horse with Author Kevin Hancock
I think this quote from Kevin Hancock’s book Not For Sale: Finding Center in the Land of Crazy Horse pretty much captures the spirit of his message and his journey: “You can learn a lot by losing your voice.”In this powerful episode Kevin shares:How a rare speech disorder led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation How his time in South Dakota became an unintended spiritual questWhat he learned from spending time with members of the Oglala Sioux TribeThe power of awareness and connectivityHis thoughts on cultural appropriationThe wisdom he witness...
2021-12-31
53 min
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Be Your Own Medical Intuitive with Author Tina Zion
Tina Zion is a fourth-generation intuitive medium, educator, and is considered an expert in medical intuition. She is an award-winning author, specializing in medical intuition and teaches internationally. In this episode Tina shares:How she came to be a medical intuitiveHer definition of intuitionWhat it takes to become your own medical intuitiveHer mentorship programHow she works with studentsSome of the challenges we all face as we develop out intuitionHow intuition comes easily if you get out of your own wayDifferent ways to perceiveDiscerning the difference between true intuitive guidance and wishful thinkingWorking with spirit helpersThe ma...
2021-12-08
47 min
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Change Your Story with Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD
Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD, is a retired clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst, a businessman, and a shamanic practitioner, author, and philanthropist. He is the best-selling, award-winning author of Change Your Story, Change Your Life and Change the Story of Your Health.In this episode, Carl discusses:His motivation for writing a self-help inspired memoirHis later-in-life career changeHow we can find the sacred in our every day, practical livesThe wisdom of natureHis experience using psychedelic plant medicines and how they transformed himDifferent ways to interpret maligned forcesChanging the story of your lifeHis health journey
2021-11-18
51 min
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Transcending Conditioned Consciousness with Gina Caputo
Gina Caputo is an ACE Certified Health Coach, Behavior Change Specialist and a seasoned yoga instructor. During the pandemic she created The Yoga Potluck as a way to be in relationship and community with people from all over the world. In this episode Gina discusses:Her definition of yogaHow practicing yoga applies to daily lifeThe consequences of poorly managed stressBringing focus inwardSetting reasonable goalsHow language mattersOur relationship to sufferingTrustWhy self-care is vitalThe Yoga PotluckExploring our blindspotsWays to motivate yourselfHer approach as a Health CoachLearn more about Gina Caputo: h...
2021-07-22
52 min
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Recovery From Lyme Disease with Dan Kinderlehrer MD
Controversies regarding the treatment of Lyme disease abound. This episode is chock full of helpful information…and for people struggling with chronic Lyme disease, hopefully some validation. In this episode, Dan discusses: The history of Lyme disease The “Lyme Wars” Prevalence Where Lyme cases are found The “myth” of Lyme in the medical world Symptoms of chronic vs acute Lyme The role of trauma and stress Co-infections Contributing factors to the severity of the disease The role of belief Three components of the immune system Epigenetic influence The importance of social connection His holistic ap...
2021-07-02
1h 00