Your brain is a fancy computer, always making predictions in order to keep you physically alive. To support its prediction making, it makes up causal models to try to explain how life works. If this, then that. If x, then y.Which is fine, except those causal models aren’t accurate. And we often take them as

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Matt Dixon of Purple Patch Fitness coaches athletes, business leaders, and others to their absolute highest level of performance.  Like all competitors, Matt loves winning. But his coaching is not about that. It’s about taking people on a journey where they get to wake up to what’s possible for them, which impacts every aspect of

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Jamie Sellers is a magician. He has also been sharing the New Paradigm with adults and young people, in psychiatric hospitals and other in- and out-patient settings, for over 20 years. Jamie says that doing magic for his patients in the psychiatric hospitals proved to him that innate health was true. He could take any

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This is a conversation I’ve been wanting to have for a while. First, with Sharon Strimling. I’ve been aware of her for a few years and we’ve never had the opportunity to connect until recently. But also about what it truly looks and feels like to wake up to that space beyond our psychology when

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The inspiration for this episode is a Biblical quote retold in Moshe Gersht’s book It’s All The Same To Me.  “In the beginning there was one voice. Then there were two. Now there is one. Our first step is to, at the very least, return back to hearing two voices.” The voices are said to be

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Moshe Gersht is the author of It’s All the Same to Me, a book about the equanimity we discover beyond our mind’s ideas of how life should go.  This kind of equanimity or “sameness” is the exact opposite of dull, boring, or cookie-cutter. When we sense our shared oneness, the light in all things, as

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Katherine went through a boatload of anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts after the birth of her daughter a few years ago.  For as hard as that time in her life was, it’s incredible to hear how it all looks to her now. Katherine discovered her resilience through this hard, scary time. She’s come to see more

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Consider what it might be like to not carry anything through time. To not carry your clung-to identities or problems around. To not be checking on, or  “working on” anything. Notice how often you check on your issues. How am I doing? How’s my progress? How’s my problem?   I want to suggest that none of this is

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Shane is a former law enforcement agent who began experiencing PTSD symptoms 20 years ago, after an event on the job. For years, he was in therapy that had him relive the traumatic event over and over again. It was horribly painful, but the memories did lose a lot of their power after he replayed

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It’s an episode within an episode! I’m sharing my conversation with Angus and Rohini Ross, when they interviewed me about my relationship with my husband on their incredible podcast, Rewilding Love. I talk about how this understanding has impacted our relationship, how many of the ideas and theories I used to have about what made for

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