What Really Matters: Everyday Spirituality

Learn how to let go of expectations and your bitterness over life’s disappointments. This episode includes: How suffering increases when we believe that things should have been different. How clinging to the need to control the events of life can lead to bitterness and regret. Life flows like a river and we cannot control or stop the flow by resisting it. Why staying attached to our expectations k...

Learn the lesson of impermanence and why it is essential for life. This episode includes: The Buddhist concept of impermanence. How everything that is fleeting becomes more precious to us. Entropy – the 2nd law of thermodynamics – from the Greek word entropia , which means a turning toward or transformation. How life moves from order to disorder, structure to non-structure, physical form to energe...

Today let's talk about how our greatest devastation can lead to transformation and growth. I've experienced it in my own life and have been excited to read the research on Post-Traumatic Growth. This coincided with reading about Dr. Edith Eger who is a survivor of Auschwitz and wrote about her own healing and growth after the horror of her experiences in early life. She writes about having been vi...

What Really Matters is hosted by Dr. Karen Wyatt who shares the lessons she learned from her patients facing the end of life. She'll share this life wisdom along with what it actually takes to put these lessons into practice in our own lives. She'll be sharing how we navigate the ups and downs of this life and these challenging times while we work to become our best selves.  This podcast make...