Episodes

Jan. 29, 2025

Clarissa Pinkola Estes and The Joyous Body

We are so happy to have Dr. E back again to the Authentic Living show to talk to us about her third part in the Sounds True online event series, The Dangerous Old Women, entitled The Joyous Body. We do tend to either focus wh...
Jan. 21, 2025

Toxic Parents and Your Spirituality

How did you grow up? Did you grow in a sea of toxicity, where parents were abusive, immature, addicted and/or emotionally or physically unavailable? Were they ambivalent toward you, being kind and considerate one minute and u...
Jan. 15, 2025

Everything you Wanted to Know About the Afterlife

The afterlife is one of, rather, THE biggest mystery of life here on plane earth. Most of us are curious about it, and have serious questions about what will happen after death. Well today we have some answers as explained by...
Jan. 8, 2025

Good vs. Evil vs. Wholeness

Since the beginning of time, it seems, we have thought that we had to fight the good fight. We had to fight for good over evil. And so many a person has spent a lifetime trying to discern the difference between the two and tr...
Jan. 17, 2024

Encore Encore Help for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

Dr. Lindsay Gibson comes to us today to bring us some of her expertise on the subject of surviving and thriving even though one was raised by immature parents. The central challenge of our adult lives is unloosening the toxic...
Jan. 10, 2024

Encore: Nancy Dreyfus: Talk to Me Like I'm Someone You Love

One of the most difficult challenges of any relationship is communication. How do we say what we mean without lashing out, or hurting the ones we love the most? Unfortunately, we tend to go to the extremes on this one: We eit...
Jan. 3, 2024

Encore: Sin: The Mistaken Belief

A large part of the world has lived for centuries into a concept of sin that has us sinning from the moment of our birth and being unable to stop sinning until we die. This belief has people disavowing, dismissing their perso...
Nov. 8, 2023

Encore: The Feminine Archetype and Spirituality

We tend to think of the feminine in terms of what we understand of gender. But the truth is that gender is one thing, gender identity is another, and femininity is totally another. The feminine is a psychic structure, a way o...
Sept. 21, 2022

The Sacred to Music

David Vito Gregoli has created a masterpiece of music by translating into music the Bhagavad Gita. A while back we interviewed Lissa Coffey who wrote an accompanying book to go with Gregoli’s music entitled, “Song Divine: Wit...
July 27, 2022

Spiritual Abuse

Spiritual abuse is abuse of the human spirit—the place in human consciousness where we can most easily access the Divine, in whatever form we see the Divine. Spirituality is not a belief. It is not a thought. It is not a beha...
June 1, 2022

The Secret Psychic

Angela Wix is here with us today to tell us how to fully unite our hidden spiritual life with our everyday reality. She knows how hard it is to talk to others about spiritual gifts, so we keep them hidden. Her book, The Secre...
May 4, 2022

Life Challenges: Where is the Blessing?

Have you ever wondered why there is so much suffering in the world? Why is the Ukraine, for example, going through such awful suffering? Some people actually stop believing in a benevolent Universal Source because of such suf...
April 20, 2022

Everything You Wanted to Know About the Afterlife

…as explained by our guest today, medium Hollister Rand. Do you have questions? Wouldn’t you like to know? Well, Hollister Rand has written the book, “Everything You Wanted to Know About the Afterlife, But Were Afraid to Ask....
March 2, 2022

What do we do about LOSS?

Today we are going to talk about a very uncomfortable topic—but a topic which is an inevitability for most, if not all of us. We are going to talk about how to handle loss and in this case, great loss. Our guest today is Dr. ...
Jan. 26, 2022

Thomas Moore and Soul Therapy

Are you one of the many people who provide soul care to other humans? Thomas Moore, bestselling author of “Care of the Soul,” comes again to the Authentic Living Show to discuss his latest book “Soul Therapy: The Art and Craf...
Dec. 15, 2021

Help for the Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents

Dr. Lindsay Gibson comes to us today to bring us some of her expertise on the subject of surviving and thriving even though one was raised by immature parents. The central challenge of our adult lives is unloosening the toxic...
Dec. 1, 2021

Don't Be a Jerk!

John Povlovitz comes to the Authentic Living show today to remind us of what could be the 11th commandment: “Thou shalt not be horrible.” He wants us to imagine what the world would look like if we all obeyed that command. He...
Nov. 17, 2021

Divinization

What if there is actually a process through which you are becoming more and more divine? If that were possible, what would it look like? How would it work? Actually what is happening is that we are becoming more and more awar...
Nov. 10, 2021

Encore Lissa Coffey and the Song Divine

We are so happy to welcome Lissa Coffey back to the Authentic Living show, this time to talk about her latest book, "Song Divine: A New Lyrical Rendition of the Bhagavad Gita." She has also teamed up with Award-winning compos...
Oct. 27, 2021

Lissa Coffey and the Song Divine

We are so happy to welcome Lissa Coffey back to the Authentic Living show, this time to talk about her latest book, “Song Divine: A New Lyrical Rendition of the Bhagavad Gita.” She has also teamed up with Award-winning compos...
Oct. 6, 2021

Mike Robbins and Creating a Team Culture

We’ve been through so much over the past year and a half with Covid and Climate Change. And what we have been through is pushing us to develop new and innovative ways of working together. What has been and is being revealed i...
Sept. 22, 2021

Toxic Parents and Your Spirituality

How did you grow up? Did you grow in a sea of toxicity, where parents were abusive, immature, addicted and/or emotionally or physically unavailable? What did you learn about life and about yourself from that formative period ...
Aug. 25, 2021

Near-Death Experiences in the Very Young

Premier researcher P.M.H. Atwater, L.H.D. has delved into the mysterious stories of near-death experiences had by children and infants. What difference does such an experience make to a child? Are there certain definable char...
Aug. 18, 2021

Morality Vs. Spirituality

There is so much emphasis today on morality—which we use to define the worth of a given individual. Much that we use to measure ourselves—finding ourselves worthy or unworthy. Morality is all about right and wrong and we feel...