Sanctuary, Socks, Shoes, and Spiritual Growth

Guest: Don Goewey Don brings his neuroscience background to a new book by Jesuit priest and mystic Anthony DeMello. Listen as Don shares the wisdom from both worlds.

Guest: Author and Interfaith Minister, Barbara Becker Heartwood is the central core of the tree. Its sole purpose is to support the rings that grow around it. Barbara Becker wants us to see those we love, and have lost, to be that heartwood. I think you will love her. Perhaps you will start your own […]

Guest: Linda Penkala 2020 is turning out the be the year of the pause. Uninvited though it was, perhaps we can make the most of it by taking the time to make an intentional commitment to our health. Linda Penkala is a wellness expert and the author of The Pause, a book for and about […]

Guest: Gelong Thubten Gelong Thubten is our very first Tibetan monk to grace the podcast with his presence. And what an awesome presence he has! He shares with us some wisdom for navigating these stressful times and creating more peace through mindfulness practices. The author of the new book, A Monk’s Guide to Happiness, Thubten […]

Guest: Kathryn Tristan As a Research Scientist and Assistant Professor of Medicine on the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine, Kathryn Tristan studies our immune system and its diseases. She shares some strategies to to help us focus our minds to overcome worry and anxiety using simple and easy tools of the mind, body, […]

Guest: Connie Bowman I was taking a walk and I thought of you! Here are some words of (hopefully) comfort for some troubling times. How you are doing? Please share how you are staying grounded and well during these unprecedented times. And if you need new sunglasses or readers, don’t forget to use code: Connie20 […]

Guest: Tracy Carlson The best way for us to emulate God is to become a blessing in other people’s lives. – Joseph Telushkin, A Code of Jewish Ethics After an abusive and traumatic childhood which resulted in struggles with an eating disorder and entering recovery, Tracy has become an advocate for others, as well as […]

Guest: Connie Bowman Do you have a safe place, a sanctuary of your own where you are free to express your sorrows, your prayers, your gratitude? What was your response to the last podcast? When your old shoes are tired and worn, how long does it take you to replace them with new better fitting […]

Guest: Connie Bowman “Love takes time” as my acting teacher used to say. He was stealing a line from a song but there’s truth there. Becoming a spiritually mature human can be the work of a lifetime; a lifetime of forgetting and remembering and forgetting again that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. […]

Guest: Connie Bowman Is balance even possible? Over the past several years on this podcast I have talked a lot about finding balance in mind, body, and spirit. What does that mean? I try my best to explain. After listening, you might think about in which of the three centers you tend to spend more […]