Episodes
Feb. 10, 2016
Detachment
If you know anything about the Buddhist philosophy, you know that one of its primary principles is detachment. We are not to attach ourselves to people, places, things, events, circumstances or situations. But how does one li...
Feb. 3, 2016
The Ancient YOU
Have you found your deepest ancient roots? No. We're not talking about your genealogy, though that can certainly be a part of it. We’re talking about the deepest collective archetypal memories found in the corpuscles of your ...
Jan. 27, 2016
Oneness
Why is it so very difficult for us to imagine that we are One with all, and that all is One with us? Why is it that we feel so very separate from the divine and each other? Why does any one of us ever feel lonely? Today we ar...
Jan. 20, 2016
The Gift of Sorrow
No one wants to feel sorrow. It is the emotion we most avoid, for it makes us vulnerable to the onslaughts of deep emotional and psychic shifts. We live in a world in which the social pressures and rigid schedules of life for...
Dec. 9, 2015
Gratitude and Presence
There are many spiritual teachers teaching that we should practice gratitude as a daily, even hourly part of our routine—so that we will maintain a positive outlook, increase our mood, decrease our stress and make us generall...
Dec. 2, 2015
Inside the Miracle with Mark Nepo
What do we do with the enormous suffering created by such things as deadly illness and trauma? They say, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. But when the miracles come, what is it that happens within us, around us, abou...
Nov. 11, 2015
Whatever!
What can you expect to happen next in your life?Will you get that job or relationship you want? Or not. What if it doesn’t happen? What will you do then?
Oct. 21, 2015
Where is Your Peace
If you are like most people, at some point in your life you begin to think that lasting peace or happiness will forever elude you. You may have had periods of satisfaction or contentment but deep, abiding peace seem to be imp...
Oct. 14, 2015
Wicked Thoughts
We still hear a lot about how it is that we should control our thoughts so that we can get what we want. There are memes on social media sites every day about this idea. We are constantly being advised to watch what we are th...
Oct. 7, 2015
Surrender as Personal Empowerment
Typically we don’t think of surrender as a form of empowerment. We think of surrender in terms of defeat, waving the white flag and feeling forever after that like the loser. But surrender is allowing the soul to be itself. S...
Sept. 30, 2015
How to Thrive Through Life's Transitions
We all have major life transitions, which come in many different forms. But these difficult times can be thresholds to a new adventure. How do we take the challenge to turn what appears to be a block or even a death, into a t...
Sept. 23, 2015
Mind Control of Original Thought?
Have you ever looked back over your life and thought to yourself, “I’ve been had?” Well, don’t feel alone, many of us have experienced deliberate gotcha’s perpetrated by those who want to manipulate, abuse or control us. But ...
Sept. 16, 2015
Special Encore Presentation: What are we going to do about guilt?
Joan Borysenko is back this week for the third time to talk with us about guilt, for guilt can be a major block to our resilience factor. Her latest book, “It’s Not the End of the World: Developing Resilience in Times of Chan...
Sept. 9, 2015
How to have a healthy, happy, long-term relationship
We have arrived at adolescence in our understanding of relationship—in other words, we have a long way to go. But, well, what do we expect? Only 150 years ago, we were still often arranging marriages. We arranged for a good d...
Aug. 26, 2015
Illusions, Delusions and Lies
What is it that keeps us from living authentically? Well at least a part of it is the illusions, delusions and lies we believe that keep us from even considering that there is such a thing as the authentic Self, or that we ca...
Aug. 19, 2015
Special Encore Presentation: Getting the Gift from Grief
When we experience a loss or a defeat, we often feel a great deal of pain. Added to that pain is also a self-judgment, self-recrimination, that has to do with our effort to spiritually by-pass grief altogether. Many are teach...
Aug. 12, 2015
Special Encore Presentation: Iyanla Vanzant on Forgiveness
Today we are so honored to have Iyanla Vanzant here to talk to us about her latest book, Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything. Iyanla Vanzant, NY Times Bestselling author; host of the number one reality sho...
Aug. 5, 2015
Lost
We get lost in the holes in the sidewalk of our psyches. These holes are like the traps made for wild animals in the wilderness, all covered up with brush and dirt, so that we think we are just continuing on the path. But sud...
July 29, 2015
Vulnerability, Your Greatest Strength
In this day in which we are being taught to build self-confidence without even making reference to an authentic Self, we think that vulnerabilities make us weak. But actually, just the reverse is true. For, how might one come...
July 22, 2015
There is No 'Should' in Front of Real Love
Most of us have been taught that loving others is our job, our duty—that we must love others in order to be considered to be good citizens of the world. But love, real love, is not a function of striving. It is not a function...
July 8, 2015
Special Encore Presentation: Rosanne Cash and the Authentic Life
Rosanne Cash comes to the Authentic Living show this week to discuss her latest book, Composed: A Memoir, the powerful, poetic and poignant story of her own inner journey, which touches us at a deep essential and spiritual co...
July 1, 2015
Special Encore Presentation: Alchemy and Presence
With so much information floating around out there in the spiritual world about how to manifest abundance and, in the secular world about how to attain your goals, it’s difficult to consider such concepts as staying in the mo...
June 24, 2015
Special Encore Presentation: Authentic Living with Special Guest Andrew Solomon
Today we are very fortunate to get an opportunity to talk to bestselling author Andrew Solomon, writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts and winner of the National Book Award for The Noonday Demon: An Atlas o...
June 17, 2015
Stop Being Good; Start Being Real
Most of us have been raised to be good. We were to share, be kind, be loving, say thank you when we didn’t feel grateful, say I’m sorry when we weren’t, hug people we didn’t want to hug and say we loved people we didn’t even ...