Episodes
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 ...
June 10, 2015
What Makes People Change?
The first question before that, of course, is “Can people really change?” Well the answer is “yes,” but we’ve all heard about those Road to Damascus changes that leave us scratching our heads and waiting for them to change ba...
June 3, 2015
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...
May 27, 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...
May 13, 2015
Your Soul's True Mate
One of the most important aspects of adult life is the journey to finding a soulmate. This is an urgent mission for so many in our world. And now with the addition of online dating sites we are making the mission an E-mission...
May 6, 2015
Abundance
We hear the word “abundant” quite a bit these days. Mostly we think of this word in terms of money. We can’t seem to help it. Our world is virtually run by money. When we want something, the first thing we think of is whether...
April 29, 2015
Special Encore Presentation: The Honeymoon Effect
In our third week of our Countdown to Heaven, we are talking to Bruce Lipton, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief about his latest book, The Honeymoon Effect: The Science of Creating Heaven on Earth. We all understand...
April 22, 2015
Special Encore Presentation: The Heart of a Wild Woman
We are so excited this week to have Dr. Clarissa Pinkoa Estés (Dr. E, as she is affectionately known) back on our show for the fifth time. Bestselling author of “Women Who Run with the Wolves,” which sold over a million copie...
April 15, 2015
Getting out of the Game
Do you find yourself doing all manner of things you don’t really want to do? Do you often hear yourself saying “I have to…”? Do you find yourself having fantasies of saying what you’ve always felt about someone who gets your ...
April 8, 2015
The MYTH of the Universal Battle Between Good and Evil
For centuries we have been attempting to fight the good fight, to finally put an end to evil once and for all. Mostly we think that we will accomplish this through government, philanthropy, and the power of wealth in groups o...
April 1, 2015
NO such thing as "Good Guilt"
“What’s-a-mattah? Got a guilty conscience?” Remember hearing this as a child? I do. And I remember that having a “guilty conscience” meant that you’d done something wrong. When you put that in reverse, you come to understand ...
March 25, 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...
March 18, 2015
Mark Nepo on Authentic Living
Mark Nepo is an author, poet, philosopher, beloved teacher and cancer survivor who has, for thirty years, been exploring how we can stay awake and authentic when our wounds make us numb and hidden; how we can minimize what st...
March 11, 2015
How to work with the Shadow
There are many people out there telling us today, that the shadow is the bad, sabotaging part of us, and that because it is, we need to clean it out. Those same people tell us that the ego, though also bad, is the opposite of...
March 4, 2015
Getting What You Want
Isn’t that what we all want—to get what we want? And if I told you today that all you would have to do to get what you want is to do A, B and C, you’d probably do it, right? Well, that’s what’s been happening—with all kinds o...
Feb. 18, 2015
The Evolutionary Power of Relationship
One of the most important tasks of maturity is learning to live with and accept another person as is, while simultaneously holding on to one’s own authenticity. But most of us go through a few relationships with Mr. or Mrs. W...
Feb. 11, 2015
The Myth of Morality
There is not one single shred of any endeavor humans ever make that is not touched by the myth of morality. Myth? Why am I calling this a myth? Because the entirety of the good/evil polarity is based on a misperception about ...