Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast

In this episode of INNER WORK, I respond to a listener email about how to heal after experiencing cheating in a relationship. I use this as a jumping-off point to address many different experiences of betrayal - within families, in friendships, in romantic partnerships - and how we can begin to heal the aftereffects of betrayal. Please be kind and compassionate with yourself as you listen to this...

In this episode of AWAKENING, I explore why it's important to identify any behaviors, habits, relationships, or choices that could be suppressing your life force. This is your vital energy, which animates your physical body. For you to feel healthy, balanced, and spiritually connected, your life force must be flowing freely throughout your body and energy system. Join me for a discussion of: what...

When you listen with your heart instead of your head or human ears, what do you hear? What do you perceive and know? This episode of INNER WORK is all about the frequency, resonance, and deep knowing of your heart. Your heart holds a powerful seed of silence, healing, wisdom, and connection to all that is - to every other Soul in this Universe. So how do you tune out of the human world of noise, c...

I wanted to share a special holiday message to close out 2022. Thank you so very much for tuning in to this podcast, for leaving positive ratings and reviews, for recommending it to friends and family, and (above all!) for being willing to do your inner work. This podcast would not exist without your presence. I'm wishing you a peaceful holiday season and a healthy, happy, aligned, purposeful star...

How can you navigate the complexities of having a family in the human dimension? In this episode of INNER WORK, I respond to a listener email on this topic. Join me for a discussion of: the complexities of family dynamics in our human dimension dispelling myths and delusions about family from the 3D reality, such as the myths that blood is thicker than water and that you owe your family or parents...

In this episode of AWAKENING, we explore the effects of dysfunctional ancestral patterns, contracts, and burdens you might be carrying. Join me for a discussion of: what are ancestral contracts, vows, and unconscious agreements? how do these contracts and burdens get passed down through the family line? the importance of identifying unconscious agreements you might have with ancestors or family me...

Are you receiving love openly? Are you connecting to the stream of love all around you and within you? This episode of INNER WORK is all about the energy of love, as well as your capacity to feel, connect to, receive, and embody that energy. We'll begin with a quick exercise to check in on your ability to give and receive self-love (we must always start here). I then talk about: what might hinder...

In this episode of AWAKENING, I explore what it means to experience a crisis of purpose as you awaken. Join me for a discussion of: what is a crisis of purpose? how do you know if you're going through one? how waking up spiritually can make us realize we're not in alignment with our true purpose how your tolerance for mis-alignment and lack of fulfillment goes down the more you awaken my own crisi...

In this episode of INNER WORK, I explore whether it's possible to remain on the spiritual path - and continue evolving - while using substances such as alcohol and drugs. Join me for a discussion on: can alcohol use be compatible with the spiritual path? the importance of identifying our intentions and motivations for using substances how to notice if a particular substance or behavior is hinderin...

Being vulnerable requires a great deal of courage, presence, and transparency with ourselves and others. What happens when you're vulnerable with someone, and they can't receive, honor, or reciprocate your vulnerability?  This episode of AWAKENING explores both the benefits and potential consequences of being vulnerable with people in your life. I share a few personal anecdotes of being vulnerable...

As the year draws to a close, I've been reflecting on the major healing lessons of 2022. These are derived from my own personal life, but I'm sure many of these points will resonate with you deeply.   Join me for this episode of Inner Work where we take stock of the past year and explore what we've learned, what we've let go of, what we must still release, and what lessons we can bring with us int...

Recently, a listener of this podcast asked me an important question: how do we bring our insights and healing down to Earth, to share them with others? How do we embody our spiritual insights? In this episode of AWAKENING, I answer this question and talk about: how to avoid using spirituality or spiritual tools (like the Akashic Records) as forms of escapism how to periodically review your spiritu...

My guest for this episode is Jessica Flanigan Brown, clinical nutritionist and author of The Loving Diet. Jessica has been practicing clinical nutrition for 25 years, specializing in gut restoration and disordered eating, especially in mid-life. She's getting certified as a compassion teacher at Stanford University School of Medicine's CCARE Applied Compassion Training program. Jessica helps other...

In this episode of AWAKENING, we'll explore the ways in which you might be handing over your power and decision-making to others. We'll run through some common examples of how (and why) we might do this in daily life, how it feels in the body when you give your power away, and some specific steps to start taking your power back - on every level. In the episode, I mention a resource for developing...

My special guest for this episode is Judith Orloff, MD, the "godmother of the empath movement." Dr. Orloff is a psychiatrist, empath, and intuitive healer. She is also a  New York Times  bestselling author and UCLA psychiatric clinical faculty member. Her books include  The Empath's Survival Guide, Thriving as an Empath, and Emotional Freedom. Dr. Orloff has written a new book called Affirmations...

On the path of awakening, you might be called to begin living in a different or new way. This can happen when you're truly listening to your heart and tuning in to your inner guidance. In this episode of AWAKENING, I respond to a listener's email about how to begin aligning with the lifestyle and way of living that most resonates with you (and how to release limiting beliefs and fears along the wa...

This episode of INNER WORK is a spiritual exploration of hunger, desire, and how we relate to food. This discussion will be especially helpful if you have (or have ever had) a disordered relationship to food and eating. We'll examine what your relationship to food might have to do with your deeper hungers and desires, particularly if you're not fully allowing yourself to feel or express those desi...

In this episode of AWAKENING, I answer a listener's email about how to cope with seasonal depression during the fall and winter months. Join me for a discussion of: why you might feel anxious or fearful as fall and winter approach the spiritual meaning of the fall and winter seasons how this time of year can help us go within to examine what we really need (and what needs to be expressed or felt)...

What do you do if you outgrow your job, career, profession, or business? What happens if you discover that your work, or certain ways of working, are no longer aligned with you? Join me for a discussion on this common experience of outgrowing your work or business as you continue awakening. In this episode, I talk about: the health challenges that have moved me to recognize the ways in which I've...

Does letting go of something mean that you no longer care about it? Or that you shouldn't have any feelings about it? Or that you should never think about it again? A listener recently wrote in with these questions - and more - about what it really means to let go. In this episode, I answer this listener's email by exploring the spiritual concepts of "letting go", attachment and detachment, and su...

My guest for this episode is Rachel Garrett, a Registered Nurse and expert in multidimensional healing. Rachel is a spiritual guide and teacher who loves to work with people no matter where they are in their journey of healing and awakening. She focuses particularly on the Akashic Records, Energy Healing and Channeling. Rachel has a special gift for tapping into the root causes of what holds peopl...

Do you have a hard time trusting the good in your life? Or trusting that life CAN be good? Or trusting that good things can last? This is the episode for you. As you begin creating a more aligned, joyful life on your path of awakening, you might get tripped up if a part of you feels unworthy of goodness. Unworthy of expansion and freedom. Or if a part of you is skeptical about good things lasting,...

In this episode of AWAKENING, I respond to a listener email that asked this question: What happens when a decision on your spiritual journey hurts someone else? We'll dive into the topic of making tough choices on your spiritual path, when you know those choices will likely upset, hurt, or disappoint someone else. Join me for a discussion on: why it's so critical for you to live your truth and fol...

My special guest for this episode is Dr. Ricci-Jane Adams. She is the principal of the Institute for Intuitive Intelligence®, a world-class, global, professional intuition training school. She trains exceptional spiritual people to become socially conscious leaders and profound mystics. Ricci-Jane has authored the bestselling book Spiritually Fierce , as well as Intuitive Intelligence Training and...

Are you allowing the past to define you? Are you still living an identity that was created long ago, and that no longer reflects who you really are... or who you are meant to be in this lifetime? This episode of AWAKENING is all about coming to terms with and releasing the past, so you can create a new identity from an empowered, conscious, awakened place within yourself.  I talk about how we unco...