Episodes
May 29, 2019
Learning to Receive Love
We have always heard a lot about how we ought to love everyone, how we should love others, and lately even how we should love ourselves. But we don't hear so much about learning how to receive love, and most of us have not be...
April 24, 2019
The Power of Peace
When we think of empowerment, we don't generally think first of peace, but rather of things like confidence, self-assurance, assertiveness and other like traits. We think of the ability to confront others, to draw appropriate...
April 10, 2019
Safe to Love Again?
Have you loved and lost? Have you been heart broken, devastated by the personal loss of a relationship due to divorce or a breakup? If you have, you have probably asked the question, “when is it safe to love again?” Well, tod...
March 27, 2019
Darkness and Light
There's just so much out there about living in the light, living into worthiness, living into goodness, that we dismiss the value of the shadows, the darkness. We think that darkness implies evil. But we miss all the beautifu...
March 20, 2019
The Wild, Wild Wisdom of Life
How do we even begin to trust a life in which there is so much worldwide suffering? People say, “Trust the process,” but what does that mean, and how do we trust it? We’ve all entered this wild, wild ride of life filled with ...
March 13, 2019
Forgiveness
Forgiveness turns out to be just another f-word—for it is fraught with so much misinformation, and laden with such heaviness! But forgiveness is not what we’ve thought it is. It is not something we can “should” ourselves into...
March 6, 2019
Spiritual Bypassing
There are so many ways, dictated by so many others, to be a spiritual person. Many, for example, believe that they should never allow themselves to have a so-called negative thought, or a negative feeling. They believe that d...
Feb. 27, 2019
Toward Inner and Outer Peace
Peace. We all long for peace, both inner peace and outer peace. But we cannot seem to find it internally because the external world seems to be in such chaos. So, as long as that's true, how will we ever find peace? Well, tod...
Dec. 19, 2018
Ain't Necessarily So
What we have heard and we’ve read in the Bible, well it ain’t necessarily so. So goes the old Porgy and Bess song. Perhaps they did not read Thomas Moore’s version, Gospel The Book of John, in which regardless of religion or ...
Nov. 28, 2018
From chaos to Oneness?
What do we mean when we speak of Oneness? What is duality? What is it like to live in Oneness? Is it possible that we are actually in a unique period of spiritual transformation that, through divisiveness leads us to unity, e...
Oct. 10, 2018
Is Guilt Running Your Life?
Most of us have been taught that guilt is a good thing. A guilty conscience keeps us in line—according to that teaching. Guilt drives us to “do the right thing,” or so we’ve been taught. But what if the human heart has enough...
Sept. 19, 2018
Surrender to Oneness
As we study the sacred texts of the world, the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, the Vedas, the Bible—particularly in its root language—what we discover is that duality is nonduality. There simply is no such thing as separation....
Sept. 12, 2018
Divine Feminine?
For some in the Western world considering the divine as feminine not only seems impossible, so engrained have we become with the masculine archetypal God, but for some is thought to be blasphemy. But in the history of sacred ...
Aug. 22, 2018
What to do with Conflicted Feelings
It is hard enough to have one overwhelming emotion take over our thoughts and behaviors. But it is even more difficult for most of us to have two or three very opposite emotions. Our thoughts tell us that we should argue for ...
July 11, 2018
Boundaries
Joan Borysenko comes back to the Authentic Living Show to discuss one of the most important features of mental health: the appropriate use of boundaries. We are only recently coming to understand the necessity of appropriate ...
June 13, 2018
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...
June 6, 2018
The Flow and Divine Self
From a purely spiritual perspective this show will discuss the meaning of those all too commonly used words “The Flow.” What is the flow? How does it work? And how does one get into the flow? Is there something we should be d...
May 16, 2018
Messages from the Divine
Do you want to know how to engage in direct connection with the Universe? How to live a soulful life? How to tap into your soul’s wisdom? Our guest today, spiritual teacher, author, psychic and musician, Sara Wiseman, brings ...
May 9, 2018
Spiritual Guidance vs. Spiritual Abuse
What is the difference between spiritual guidance and spiritual abuse? Certainly, most of us would deny that when we offer spiritual guidance we might also be spiritually abusing. But it is most important that we understand t...
May 2, 2018
Spirituality in a Crazy World
How does one manage to maintain one’s spirituality, when the world seems to have turned upside down? In a world where what was previously “right” seems wrong and what was “wrong” now seems right, how does one maintain a sense...
April 4, 2018
Inhabiting Heaven NOW
There are many stories out there from those who have experienced a near-death experience, who tell us that life goes on after death as peace and joy. Many mediums who also inform us that life goes on after death as peace and ...
March 21, 2018
Spiritual Guidance
How do we know that we are on the truest path? Can we discern a truer path through certain spiritual practices? Can Prayer help? Runes, iChing, Tarot, or other methods of alignment? We all want to be in the flow of universal ...
March 14, 2018
On the Wrong Path?
Isn’t that just like how we think? Always questioning ourselves as to which way is “right?” What if those questions about right and wrong just keep us stuck at a level of consciousness that will not take the next step? What i...
Feb. 28, 2018
Oppositions
In an astrological chart we see a configuration called an opposition. It means that two distinct energies in the chart are acting in opposition to each other. Well, we have all kinds of oppositions in our lives, both internal...