A Course in Miracles

Jennifer welcomes back her friend Tama Kieves - Harvard Law honors graduate turned best-selling author and longtime A Course in Miracles teacher - to talk about the one thing Jennifer says trips up nearly every ACIM student: trust. Her latest book, Learning to Trust Yourself, is the heart of the conversation. They get honest about the inner critic, the voice that says be practical, and the quiet k...

Jennifer Hadley and Mark Anthony Lord met as Agape Science of Mind Practitioners in training in 1999, and they've walked the same road ever since: prayer practitioner training, becoming ministers, starting their own ministries, learning to counsel and to train counselors. Both came up through their own dark night first, so this is also the story of how the work itself became the healing. Two longt...

Our earthly fathers are a challenge to us, and we’re a challenge to them.  In all of our primary relationships there’s a call for forgiveness.  No one does it perfectly and some of us really fail - but we can begin again.  It’s about being willing to Love without conditions.  Jennifer Hadley sits with A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 1 and the story of her own journey with her father, where ACIM'...

You believe in God. You also believe somebody is a sinner, that someone deserves what's coming, that you're being punished. The contradiction doesn't show up because everyone you know carries it too. The depression. The feeling of being judged. The joy that keeps slipping out of reach. Jennifer Hadley sits with A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 10, the section ACIM calls the denial of God, naming...

You've been waiting for your life to look different before you'd let yourself feel joy. Until the body heals. Until the relationship resolves. Until the news stops breaking your heart. Many of us have lived this way so long it's stopped feeling like waiting. Jennifer Hadley sits down with A Course in Miracles teacher Lisa Natoli, author of The Joy of Being, for a conversation that quietly question...

You've worked the lessons. You've tried harder. Somewhere underneath, a quiet voice still says you're not doing A Course in Miracles right. Maybe the forgiveness you thought you'd finished keeps circling back. Maybe the guilt of falling short has become its own weight. Jennifer Hadley sits down with author and teacher Michael Mirdad for a conversation that gently questions what ACIM is actually as...

Spiritual students who who pour themselves out for everyone else, then feel a flicker of guilt the moment they pause to care for themselves. They say yes when they’re already running low. When they finally rest, a quiet voice calls it selfish. For anyone walking a spiritual path, the line between devotion and depletion blurs fast, and most of us were taught to honor the wrong side of it. Joined by...

What if you've been studying spirituality your whole life and quietly missing the actual experience? In Episode 739 of A Course in Miracles with Jennifer Hadley, Jennifer welcomes bestselling author James Twyman for a conversation about his latest book - and an inheritance that traces back to 13th century women mystics most of us have never heard of. Why does the path to direct mystical experience...

What if waking up doesn't have to hurt? In Episode 738 of A Course in Miracles with Jennifer Hadley, Jennifer continues into the second half of one of the most foundational sections in ACIM “The Dreamer of the Dream” - and turns from diagnosis to medicine. Why do so many of us dread real spiritual awakening, secretly believing it would cost us everything? What's the quieter dream Jennifer says the...

What if life isn't happening to you at all? In Episode 737 of A Course in Miracles with Jennifer Hadley, Jennifer opens Chapter 27, Section 7 — one of the most foundational sections in the Course — and walks listeners into a teaching that takes a few years of willingness to fully accept, but quietly ends the suffering of victimhood when it lands. Why does almost every problem feel like something t...

What if the very thing you love most is the thing that's hurting you? In Episode 736 of A Course in Miracles with Jennifer Hadley, Jennifer discusses Chapter 26, Section 6 and shares the personal story of her own bottoming-out moment when something she'd poured years into didn't go the way she hoped. Why does almost everything we strive for eventually disappoint us? Who is the friend ACIM says we'...

Most of us think we know what justice is. Then the word stops making sense. Chapter 19 of the Manual for Teachers offers a definition that has nothing to do with punishment, fairness, or getting even — and it quietly reorders what forgiveness requires of us. What IS justice, then? Why does forgiveness depend on it? And what's the one word we use without thinking that may be silently blocking every...

Have you ever felt like life keeps happening TO you — like no matter what you do, you can't get ahead of the circumstances, the health struggles, the relationship pain? In this episode, Jennifer Hadley reveals what she calls the most challenging teaching in A Course in Miracles — the one most students try to make exceptions for. She explains why those exceptions are keeping you stuck, and what act...

What if every time you blamed someone, you were actually locking in the very pain you wanted to escape? In this episode, Jennifer Hadley explores Chapter 7, Section 8 of A Course in Miracles - "The Unbelievable Belief" - and unpacks a fundamental law of the mind: without projection, there can be no anger; without extension, there can be no love. Jennifer confesses that anger used to be her favorit...

What if the thing that happened to you didn't mean what you think it means - and what if it didn't have to mean anything at all? In this Easter episode, Jennifer Hadley shares a simple story about mice, sunflower seeds, and a bag of clothes that becomes a masterclass in A Course in Miracles neutrality. She then turns to Chapter 29, Section 6 - "Forgiveness and the End of Time" - and explores what...

Are you still saying "I will be healed" - and wondering why healing never arrives? In this episode, Jennifer Hadley explores a small word change in A Course in Miracles that shifts everything about how we pray, how we heal, and why so many of us have been unknowingly pushing our good into a future that never comes. She shares her modified version of the "Truly Helpful" prayer she's used for nearly...

Would you like freedom of the body - or freedom of the mind? A Course in Miracles says you can only have one. In this episode, Jennifer Hadley explores Chapter 22, Section 6 - "The Light of the Holy Relationship" - and the question that changes how we allow peace, happiness, and love into our mind. She unpacks why so many of us have been searching in the wrong place entirely, and what it actually...

"I will never forgive." Jennifer Hadley has been seeing these words everywhere lately - in videos, in comments, in the energy of a world that feels increasingly divided. And she understands it. She used to live there. In this episode, she turns to A Course in Miracles Chapter 30 and four words that completely transformed how she moves through conflict, betrayal, and anger. She also reveals somethi...

What would happen if you simply refused to let anything pull you into littleness - not the chaos in the world, not the things that go wrong, not even your own mistakes? In this episode, Jennifer Hadley returns from a week in Costa Rica with a broken laptop, a sinus infection, and a story about almost missing her international flight that perfectly illustrates the teaching she's been living. She di...

Why do we resist the very healing we desperately pray for? In this profound exploration of A Course in Miracles Chapter 7, Section 2, Jennifer Hadley reveals a startling truth: we're actually afraid of getting well. But why would anyone fear healing? What hidden beliefs keep us trapped in cycles of pain and victimhood? Jennifer courageously shares her own journey of discovering the deep-seated ter...

Jennifer Hadley dives into A Course in Miracles Chapter 13, Section 6 - "Finding the Present" - exploring why we struggle to see people as they are now instead of through the lens of our past experiences with them. She unpacks the Course's teaching that "the past can cast no shadow to darken the present unless you are afraid of the light," and gets vulnerably honest about her own edge: the stickin...

What if the thing you're most afraid of isn't pain, loss, or suffering? In this episode, Jennifer Hadley turns to one of the most startling passages in A Course in Miracles - Chapter 13: The Fear of Redemption - and what she uncovers there is not what you'd expect. With so much hatred, division, and disinformation in the world right now, Jennifer shares a raw and honest post about her own experien...

What do you do when you can feel the pain of the whole world? In this episode, Jennifer Hadley shares what happened when she sat down to read the news and found herself crying — not from despair, but from feeling the collective fear, worry, and anxiety so many people are experiencing right now. This led her to one of the most powerful sections in A Course in Miracles: the Special Principles for Mi...

What if the very thing you've been avoiding is actually your greatest spiritual power tool? In this episode, Jennifer Hadley explores a word that doesn't even appear in A Course in Miracles — accountability — and uncovers its surprising connection to what the Course calls the second characteristic of God's teachers. She reveals why most spiritual students are already consistent... just in the wron...

What if the thing causing your fear... isn't the cause at all? In this episode, Jennifer Hadley dives into one of the most liberating sections of the A Course in Miracles Text and uncovers the surprising truth about why we stay afraid — even when we know better. She reveals what she discovered working with a client convinced their spouse was the problem, exposes the hidden pattern that keeps spiri...