Beyond Names: Spirituality for Anyone and Everyone

Can spirituality transform the way we lead, work, and relate to one another? In this deeply personal and inspiring conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger sits down with Paul Werder, founder of Lionheart Consulting, leadership consultant, author of Business with Heart , and longtime faculty member at the University of Sufism. Paul shares the extraordinary story of how an unexplained illness became the doo...

What happens when a life-altering diagnosis becomes the doorway to a deeper relationship with the Divine? In this heartfelt and inspiring conversation, Dr. Habib sits down with spiritual teacher, healer, dentist, and author Latifah Lynn Hobin to explore her extraordinary journey from chronic illness and personal upheaval to healing, wholeness, and spiritual awakening. After being diagnosed with Mu...

What does it take to move from despair to hope, from self-harm to self-love, from merely surviving to truly living? In this deeply personal and compassionate conversation, Dr. Habib sits down with entrepreneur, author, filmmaker, and sustainability advocate Gina Cavalier to explore her remarkable journey through childhood trauma, years of suicidal ideation, and the spiritual awakening that transfo...

What if we stop treating our work as separate from spirituality and start treating it as a place where we can make love manifest? In this episode of Beyond Names , Dr. Habib sits down with Mark Silver—founder of Heart of Business, spiritual teacher, and longtime student of Sufism—to explore a radically different vision of work, success, and liberation. Mark shares his deeply personal spiritual jou...

In this deeply moving conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger sits down with philosopher and grief scholar Dr. Thomas Attig to explore grief not as something to “get over,” but as an invitation into deeper humanity, meaning, and connection. Drawing from decades of work in grief studies, Thomas Attig shares his understanding of grieving as “relearning the world” after profound loss. Together, Habīb and Tom...

In this deeply expansive and intimate conversation, Dr. Habib Boerger sits with psychologist, mystic breathwork practitioner, and author Dr. Colleen Quinn to explore the transformative power of breath, love, and spiritual awakening. Colleen shares her extraordinary journey—from childhood spiritual sensitivity and profound trauma to two near-death experiences that reshaped her understanding of life...

In this deeply honest and expansive conversation, Dr. Habib Boerger is joined by Dr. Rose Aslan—community healing practitioner, former professor, and guide in somatics, breathwork, and embodied spirituality. Together, they explore the powerful intersection of trauma, healing, and faith. Dr. Aslan shares her remarkable journey—from a childhood marked by fear to a passionate spiritual seeker, to her...

In this powerful and timely conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger is joined by returning guest Abdul-Karim Pinckney—musical artist, former imam, and spiritual thinker—to explore the deeper meaning behind his unreleased single, “Here We Go Again.” Together, they reflect on the repeating patterns of war, the emotional and spiritual toll of global conflict, and the systems that perpetuate division and inju...

In this deeply insightful conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger sits down with psychotherapist and relationship expert Ray Rivers to explore what it truly means to put love first —not as a feeling, but as a way of being. Drawing from decades of experience working with couples, Ray shares how conflict in relationships is not a problem to avoid, but a doorway into deeper connection, healing, and growth. T...

What happens when a single moment reveals the truth of reality—and changes everything? In this deeply moving and wide-ranging conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger sits down with radio host Cathy Antunes to explore a profound spiritual awakening that began with the birth of her child—an experience of unity, love, and connection that challenged everything she had been taught about sin, separation, and th...

In this episode of Beyond Names , Dr. Habīb Boerger is joined once again by musical artist, former imam, and spiritual thinker Abdul-Karim Pinckney for a powerful conversation centered on his new single, “You Ain’t Gotta Believe Me.” Together, they explore the Qur’anic teaching that there is no compulsion in religion, reflecting on faith as invitation rather than force, character as the first form...

In times of violence, hatred, and deep collective pain, many of us are asking the same question: How do we stay rooted in peace without turning away from the suffering of the world? In this special episode, Dr. Habīb offers something different from the usual conversation—an invitation into a guided spiritual practice for peace. Through breath, somatic grounding, and heart-centered awareness, we tu...

What happens when our spiritual experience expands beyond what we’ve been taught about religion? In this episode of Beyond Names , Dr. Habīb Boerger speaks with actor, writer, and secular chaplain Elizabeth Morton about the lifelong path of seeking the sacred in unexpected places. Elizabeth shares her journey from a Catholic upbringing in Kentucky to becoming an interfaith minister, spiritual dire...

In this powerful and deeply personal conversation, Dr. Habib Boerger sits down with Dr. Jihad Turk, founding president of Bayan Islamic graduate school, to explore the beauty of religion when it is lived with depth, discipline, and love. Dr. Turk shares his journey as a Palestinian-American growing up in Arizona, the shock of his parents’ divorce that propelled him into spiritual seeking, his form...

In this deeply moving conversation, Dr. Habib sits with interfaith minister and author Liza Rankow, whose book Soul Medicine for a Fractured World explores the healing that emerges from our deepest fractures. Together they reflect on: Illness as a spiritual teacher Woundedness and wholeness as two sides of the same coin The Japanese art of Kintsugi as a metaphor for the soul Suffering as a “discip...

What does it mean to remain faithful while navigating injustice, distraction, social pressure, and the constant pull of the ego? In this powerful episode of Beyond Names , Dr. Habib Boerger sits down with returning guest Abdul-Karim Pinckney — musical artist, former imam, and spiritual teacher — to explore the deeper meaning behind his single “Living in These Lands.” Together, they reflect on: Mai...

Dr. Habib sits down with Zen teacher, author, and spiritual director Busshō Lahn for a deeply timely conversation about awakening, truth, and what it means to live from love in a world marked by suffering. Raised within the Catholic tradition and later drawn into Zen practice, Busshō shares how a single spiritual seed can grow into a life of “multiple belongings.” Together, he and Dr. Habib explor...

In this deeply moving conversation, Dr. Habib Boerger is joined by artist, spiritual companion, and grief tender Susannah Crolius for a wide-ranging exploration of spirituality as movement, unbinding, and belovedness. Susannah shares her spiritual journey—from a childhood shaped by art and nature, through decades of institutional ministry, to leaving the church in search of a more authentic, embod...

In this powerful and deeply moving conversation, Dr. Habib Boerger is joined by Rev. Dr. Tomeka Jacobs, theologian, former chaplain, and author of Ecocosmological Spirituality of Southern Queer Black Women: Remembering and Reconnecting Identity . Together, they explore spirituality beyond rigid categories—toward embodiment, wholeness, justice, and belonging. Dr. Jacobs shares her spiritual journey...

In this deeply moving and contemplative conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger is joined by Hossam Ibn Yusuf, musician, Sufi practitioner, and spiritual seeker whose life has been shaped by sound, nature, and surrender. Hossam shares his remarkable spiritual journey—from a childhood influenced by Christian and Sufi lineages, to formative years at Dar al-Islam in New Mexico, through loss, resistance, musi...

In this deeply moving episode of Beyond Names , Dr. Habib Boerger is joined by Abdullah Pat Aylward—board chair of the Shadhiliyya Sufi Communities and founding leader of the Sufi Center Minnesota—for a wide-ranging and heartfelt conversation about spiritual seeking, transformation, and embodied love. Pat shares his remarkable spiritual journey, beginning with a Catholic childhood and early yearni...

In this deeply moving conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger is joined by spiritual healer and artist Michele Hamida Rabinowitz for a rich exploration of spirituality lived through the body, creativity, and presence. Michele shares her life story as a series of sacred doorways—birth trauma, dance, motherhood, bodywork, loss, healing, movement, and art—each one drawing her closer to God and to her true se...

In this deeply moving episode of Beyond Names , Dr. Habib Boerger is joined by Dr. Sabrina N’Diaye—therapist, teacher, author, peacebuilder, and founder of the HeartNest Center for Peace and Healing—for a wide-ranging conversation on spirituality, trauma, transformation, and the lifelong work of love. Dr. Sabrina shares her spiritual journey from Catholic childhood to Sufism, reflecting on identit...

In this deeply honest and compassionate conversation, Dr. Habib Boerger is joined by writer, speaker, and professor Dr. Alane Daugherty to explore the lived intersection of spirituality, somatic awareness, trauma healing, and emotional resilience. Dr. Alane shares her personal journey through severe anxiety and emotional distress—and how meditation, Quaker spirituality, Zen practice, and somatic a...

In this luminous episode, Dr. Habib sits down with renowned Sufi teacher and author Dr. Rosina Fawzia Al-Rawi for a conversation that moves from the streets of Cairo to the heart of Jerusalem, from the inner meaning of la ilaha illallah to the healing language of nature. With profound clarity and gentleness, Fawzia shares: Her early spiritual awakening and the moment that changed her life The inne...