Episodes
Nov. 26, 2014
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...
Nov. 19, 2014
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...
Nov. 12, 2014
What do you want?
What is it? Your grandest fantasy about your life? What do you want? You might be surprised to learn that a majority of people don’t even know what they want. Why is that? Because we’ve been taught, and have learned, to put o...
Nov. 5, 2014
What to do when you don't know what to do
So, you are stuck in a job, a relationship, an attitude, a life stance. The worst part is that you know you are stuck. You want out, but you don’t know what you want to do next. Or you don’t know which of a few options would ...
Oct. 29, 2014
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
Okay, so let’s talk about that F-bomb, FEAR. Many are telling us that fear is “negative.” They tell us that fear is the opposite of love and that it is impossible to have fear and love in the same moment. In fact, they are te...
Oct. 22, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: The Map to your Soul
We’re very excited to have Colette Baron-Reid back to the show for the second time to talk about her latest book The Map: Finding the Magic and Meaning in the Story of Your Life. Have you ever experienced a tragedy that just ...
Oct. 15, 2014
What does it mean to Overcome?
Overcoming the odds. That’s how we typically think of overcoming. It’s a competition between us and the odds. Overcoming the enemy is another, and again it’s a competition between us and the enemy. But what if overcoming has ...
Oct. 8, 2014
Transcendence
What do we mean when we talk about transcending? The word, transcendence, has been so used in the New Age, New Thought and Human Potential communities, that it has now been moved to the pop culture. In combination with words ...
Oct. 1, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: Defying Gravity with Caroline Myss
We are fortunate today to have Caroline Myss return for the second time to the Authentic Living show. Caroline is a five-time New York Times bestselling author and internationally renowned speaker in the fields of human consc...
Sept. 24, 2014
Define - Redefine Your Life
Can you look back on your life and think of some moments, some particular circumstances and decisions that you made that were defining moments? Perhaps now you would like some re-defining moments? Well today we are speaking t...
Sept. 17, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: Authentic Living- Dr. 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...
Sept. 10, 2014
The Truth Shall Set You Free
Back in 1968 a movie called “Yours Mine and Ours” convinced us of the warmth, love and inspiration of a blended family consisting of the two parents, played by Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda, and the 8 North children and the 10...
Sept. 3, 2014
Sexy, Sexy Power, Part II
From John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and Mark Sanford, to Anthony Weiner, we can clearly see that power is, indeed, as Henry Kissinger informed us, the ultimate aphrodisiac. And Frans de Waal’s book, Chimpanzee Politics tells ...
Aug. 27, 2014
Sexy, Sexy Power
Henry Kissinger once said that power was the ultimate aphrodisiac. And we don’t have to look very far in the news to see what he was talking about. But he forgot to tell us why. Why is power so sexy? Why is it that both women...
Aug. 20, 2014
Authentic Prayer
Today we are so fortunate to have Paramahansa Jagadish, world renowned master healer, teacher and spiritual leader who guides people in discovering their own Stewardship of the Soul. With more than four and a half decades of ...
Aug. 13, 2014
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...
Aug. 6, 2014
Learning to Fly
There are many ways of flying. Attempting to transcend life by flying through life without ever living—by using drugs and alcohol as a replacement for dealing with emotions, is one of the most obvious examples. Sticking our h...
July 30, 2014
The Lie: Good vs. Evil
We have to have the dark to enjoy the light. This is what we say. But most of us don’t stop to ask why? Why do we need the dark to enjoy the light? Why do we need evil to prove good? Why do we need to suffer in order to know ...
July 23, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés - Untying the Strong Woman
We welcome Dr. E back again to the Authentic Living show this week for the fourth time, this time to talk about her latest book, “Untie the Strong Woman.” For many years, Dr. E has been sending a message to the world that the...
July 16, 2014
The Heart: A Lonely Hunter
The heart is hungry and longs to be fed. When it has been forced through a negative, hostile, or abusive upbringing, to live in a state of perpetual starvation, it will eat tree bark, crickets or dirt. Many, far too many of u...
July 9, 2014
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...
July 2, 2014
Authentic Spirituality
What does it mean to develop one’s own authentic spirituality? How does one do that? Does one have to ditch all religious rituals and practices? Does one have to ditch religion in general? What are the consequences of develop...
June 25, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: Nothing Changes Until You Do
What is it in your life that is calling you to change—while you are calling for it to change first? Today Mike Robbins is here to talk to us about how real change really happens. Mike is the author of three books, including F...
June 18, 2014
The Body as Solution to the Soul
We have been taught that the body is the problem. The body is what makes us sin, with its lusts, its appetites and its hungers. The body is what makes us sick. The body is what makes us die. The body is that which we must dis...