Authentic Living

Dr. Christiane Northrup is recognized both nationally and internationally as the veritable guru of women's health. A visionary pioneer who recognizes the connection between mind, body and spirit, she has brought that connection to the world of medicine in a way that no one else has yet been able to do. She is an OB/GYN physician and author of two New York Times bestselling books, "Women's Bodies,...

The word "power" is fraught with all kind of connotation, including "control," "manipulation," "abuse," "bullying" and yes, even the word "help." But these are all externalized views of that word. From an internal perspective power can be seen as the attainment of an authentic stand with and for your Self. Fear, on the other hand, is the foundation from which most of us live our daily lives—whethe...

We've heard it again and again recently, teen suicides based on bullying, particularly the bullying of someone who is or is perceived to be gay. And then we heard Joel Burns, openly gay City Councilman from Ft. Worth, Texas, in his passionate and tearful plea to gay and lesbian teens to hold on to life—don't let bullies drive you to suicide—because it's going to get better. Why are these children...

Though much of what we hear and see in media tells us differently, the only way to live a meaningful life is to live in poignant touch with the soul. Thomas Moore, our guest for today, is an expert on the soul. With 3 videos, 10 audio recordings and 18 books, including his original bestseller, "Care of the Soul," and others such as "Dark Night of the Soul," and "The Original Self," Thomas Moore ha...

How did we come to this place in our collective psychology in which we value image more than authenticity? What do we fear our bodies can do to us—in terms of our social value? Are other people's images of us so very important that we will kill ourselves to maintain a higher image in their eyes? How did they get to be more important than we are? Our guest today has lived through and overcome her o...

What is your mythology? Do you know? Or, are you living it out as if? There are many different mythologies by which we run our lives, by which we run our economy, by which we run our politics, our religions, our fates. Even our desires are very often based in our mythologies. Could it even be that our mental/spiritual/physical/emotional health is based in our mythologies? How can we activate princ...

There are many out there today who call themselves healers. Some are truly gifted; some are, to put it bluntly, charlatans. Dr. Eric Pearl ran a successful chiropractic practice for 12 years when his patients started feeling his hands on them even when he wasn't touching them. He started receiving reports from them that they had been healed from devastating diseases. His work has elicited great in...

Dr. Larry Dossey, is back for the second time to talk about his latest book, "The Science of Premonition: How Knowing the Future Can Help Us Avoid Danger, Maximize Opportunities and Create a Better Life." Now not only do we find that premonitions are common, but we can learn of the science behind them. Dr. Dossey is known around the world for his keen ability to bring scientific understanding to s...

Dr. Christiane Northrup is recognized both nationally and internationally as the veritable guru of women's health. A visionary pioneer who recognizes the connection between mind, body and spirit, she has brought that connection to the world of medicine in a way that no one else has yet been able to do. She is an OB/GYN physician and author of two New York Times bestselling books, "Women's Bodies,...

We tend to look at healthiness as a product of good nutrition, and a healthy dose of exercise, in combination with good genes, good medicine and good luck. Most recently, we've added low stress to that combination. What this means is that we are basically looking to the externals to bring us to good health. But Ivan Rados has a different take on it. Author of the book, "Health: It's All About Cons...

There are so many of you out there right now conspiring with your fantasies to write that book. You think about it and you wish for it and maybe you've even written some of it. But you are still uncertain. Your fears, your dreams and your obligations all line up for the midnight arguments with your soul. You feel that you were meant to write it, but well, you are stuck. This show and the upcoming...

Nash Mourad is a coach, corporate facilitator and trainer, who has written a book called "How to be Right About Everything: An Awakening Journey into Unlearning." And this week we are talking to him about what it is that we are unlearning and why. He and his partner developed a firm called, Emergent Awareness through which he has served as an executive management consultant for a variety of Fortun...

Back for the second time, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD is here to talk with us about her upcoming online series called "The Dangerous Old Woman: The Power of the Crone: Myths and Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype." World renowned author of "Women Who Run With the Wolves," which was on the NY Times bestseller list for 145 weeks, she is an internationally acclaimed poet, Diplomat Jungian psychoanal...

This whole business of relationship is pivotal point in our history. Not only are we looking at primary relationship in a whole new light as we create new ground rules for a new way of relating from love and intimacy rather than security needs, but we are also looking at all of our relationships differently. Work relationships, friendships, race relations, and issues of sexual orientation are all...

Like any new thought, humanity has had to experiment with the law of attraction for a while to see if it is really effective. And we have mixed reviews on that front. Some are saying that the law of attraction has brought them excellent results. But others are saying that they struggle and struggle to think so-called "positive" thoughts and eliminate all "negative" energy, but without much change....

This thing about staying young has become quite an important topic today, with many visiting their doctors regularly to keep up with their Botox shots and many others seeking facial change, and launching body work, vitamin and nutrition programs—all in an effort to sustain the grace of youth. But our guest today tells us that the body already knows how to stay young. She is Caroline Sutherland a m...

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 consciousness, spirituality and mysticism, health, energy medicine, and the science of medical intuition. After beginning her career as a journalist, she co-founded Stillpoint Publ...

It's in those darkest of moments when we wonder what the heck is going on that we are actually changing in such an alchemical way that we just don't recognize it until later. Regina Brett has been there and back. She wrote a column on her life's lessons that by popular demand became a book. God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours is an inspirational collection of essays and stories...

We generally define faith as a kind of knowing—we believe strongly and therefore trust. Some of us were raised in traditional religious backgrounds in which that kind of faith was considered to be essential to our final post-life ascendance into heaven. And that kind of elegant influence has been around for so many centuries now that it is archetypal—it impacts us in deep unconscious ways that we...

We've all made promises to ourselves that we would change something about our behavior or attitudes only to find ourselves back in the same old rut not too long after we made that promise. If we can't even make the surface changes, how in the world are we going to make the deep changes? Most of us don't even consider the possibility—so we just work on things like changing behavior, and thoughts. B...

What would it be like to know that you were dying? Would life look any different than it does from the perspective of your routine everyday experiences? We strongly suspect that it would but we don't want to have to be close to dying to find out. Well, this week we are going to get to hear from those who are on the edge of this precipice and learn from their experiences rather than having to go th...

From every angle, we are basically being told that our emotions are at best invalid, and at worst, influences that lead us astray. From the rational intellectual world, we are taught that our feelings are just fleeting, fickle, flights that have no more value to us than the wind blowing. From the traditional religious world we learn that our emotions are not only fleeting, fickle and invalid, but...

Dr. Joan Borysenko appears, for the second time, on the Authentic Living Show today to discuss her latest book, "It's not the End of the World: Developing Resilience in Times of Change." One of the most popular and sought after speakers in the field of health, healing and spirituality, Joan is world-renowned for her expertise in the field of Mind/Body medicine. A three-time graduate of Harvard Med...

We are excited that Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD comes this week to tell us about the unveiling of her long awaited audio work and online series called "The Dangerous Old Woman, Myths and Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype." World renowned author of "Women Who Run With the Wolves," which was on the NY Times bestseller list for 145 weeks, she is an internationally acclaimed poet, Diplomat Jungian p...

Who is really in charge of your life? Let's ask that a different way. How much of your life is hanging in the balance of other people's choices? How much of your life are you choosing, as opposed to excusing? Authentic living is all about taking full responsibility for your life—all of your life, not just the parts that no one else controls. Do you have a secret life that no one knows about? Do yo...