Adriana Popescu, PhD, is Chief Clinical Officer at Avery Lane recovery center in Novato, California, and the author of EFT for Addiction. As well as working directly with clients, she provides coaching and mentorship for the Avery Lane clinicians and leadership team. In her practice as a psychologist, she has treated a wide range of issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic pain and grief. Research into Avery Lane’s results has shown that Adriana’s energy psychology methods produce much larger reductions in symptoms and relapse than traditional treatment programs.

 

Here she and Dawson discuss:

Energy Psychology 

Addiction as a family disease

Why it is essential to include significant loved ones in the treatment plan

The misperception that the client is the person with the problem

Start with information about how families are a system

Case history of the clients who drank together

The difference between healthy support and enabling

The neuroscience of stress and recovery 

Recognizing the slippery slope that leads to relapse

How grief and trauma can often trigger old ways of coping

How to produce sustained lifetime success at the end of treatment

 

Find Adriana at: https://www.adrianapopescu.org/

Purchase EFT for Addiction at: https://www.amazon.com/EFT-Addiction-Adriana-Popescu-PhD/dp/1604153164/

 

Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To purchase Dawson the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Genie in Your Genes: 

https://www.amazon.com/Genie-Your-Genes-Epigenetic-Consciousness/dp/1604153202/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #emotionalhealing #genieinyourgenes #trauma #addiction #eftforaddiction #energypsychology

Donna Bach is a naturopath, herbalist and chiropractor. She has been working with the Mind Mirror EEG system for years, evaluating the changes to the brain as people enter healing and transcendent states. One of her scientific studies showed dramatic changes in immunity, blood pressure, pain, and cortisol after a week of energy healing. It has been cited by some 300 other researchers.

 

Here she and Dawson discuss:

How to lift ourselves up to a high vibrational frequency

Donna's background

Living in an entangled universe

Love and compassion 

Listening intently and energetically with grounding 

Why brain waves change in real time when a person receives energy work

EFT - tapping on acupuncture points

Why pain, heart, gut issues all improve when stress decreases

What a remote Zoom session looks like

 

Reach out to Donna at: https://naturalhealthcarecoach.com/

 

Connect with host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To purchase Dawson the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Genie in Your Genes: 

https://www.amazon.com/Genie-Your-Genes-Epigenetic-Consciousness/dp/1604153202/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #genieinyourgenes #energypsychotherapy #neuroscience #epigenetics #healing #energy #naturopath #tapping

Ruthie Smith is a psychotherapist, musician, and meditation teacher. In her work, she explores the emerging field of energy psychotherapy, blending traditional talk therapy with practical energy-based techniques to help release trauma, fear, shame, and deeply ingrained emotional patterns. Drawing on insights from neuroscience, epigenetics, biology, quantum physics, and consciousness research, her work shows how healing the body-mind-energy system can foster emotional resilience, personal transformation, and expanded states of awareness in a rapidly changing world. She is the author of the acclaimed book Energy, Soul-Connecting and Awakening Consciousness: Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm.

 

Here she and Dawson discuss:

Ruthie's background

Chanting and the power of vibrational frequency healing

The Heart Sutra 

Energy psychotherapy

Integrating psychotherapy and spirituality

Trauma healing

A new level of consciousness

Humankind moving toward a more egalitarian world

Tapping and chakra clearing to heal your triggers

Meditation to drop from a busy mind into a peaceful heart

Opening to high vibrational living

Awareness as our greatest tool

Focusing on gratitude, joy, peace 

 

Ruthie's Transforming Trauma and other trainings can be found at: https://energypsychotherapytraining.co.uk/

 

Her book, "Energy, Soul-Connecting and Awakening Consciousness: Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm" can be purchased at: https://www.karnacbooks.com/product/energy-soul-connecting-and-awakening-consciousness-psychotherapy-in-a-new-paradigm/97034/

 

Connect with host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To purchase Dawson the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Genie in Your Genes: 

https://www.amazon.com/Genie-Your-Genes-Epigenetic-Consciousness/dp/1604153202/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #genieinyourgenes #energypsychotherapy #neuroscience #epigenetics

RamDev Dale Borglum is the author of How to Live So You Can Die Without Fear and the executive director of The Living/Dying Project. A pioneering figure in the conscious dying movement, he has spent decades helping individuals face death — and life — with greater awareness and has collaborated with leaders in the field including Ram Dass, Stephen Levine, and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Drawing on his background as a mathematician, meditation teacher, lover of God, and devoted practitioner of both Eastern and Western healing traditions, Borglum offers a uniquely practical and accessible map to the healing path.

 

Here he and Dawson discuss:

Why it’s hard to feel safe where the world isn’t supportive

When we focus on what we’re afraid of and not what fear feels like in the body

Exercise 1: What do I fear, and where to I feel it in my body

Meditation 

The Tantric Three-Step

Step 1: Can I feel it in my heart

Step 2: Is compassion keeping your heart open when there’s suffering

Step 3: It’s all part of life; pleasant and unpleasant

The fundamental spiritual practice: to identify with who and what we really are

Exercise: Feel warm, connected, compassionate, spacious heart?

Fact: Everyone is afraid

Why the world needs more people of compassion

 

For more information on The Living/Dying Project:

https://livingdying.org/

 

Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To purchase Dawson the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Genie in Your Genes: 

https://www.amazon.com/Genie-Your-Genes-Epigenetic-Consciousness/dp/1604153202/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #genieinyourgenes #energypsychology #death #grief #diewithoutfear #livingdyingproject

Adriana Popescu, PhD, is Chief Clinical Officer at Avery Lane recovery center in Novato, California, and the author of EFT for Addiction. As well as working directly with clients, she provides coaching and mentorship for the Avery Lane clinicians and leadership team. In her practice as a psychologist, she has treated a wide range of issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic pain, and grief. Research into Avery Lane’s results has shown that Adriana’s energy psychology methods produce much larger reductions in symptoms and relapse than traditional treatment programs.

 

Here she and Dawson discuss:

Adriana's background

Discovering EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques)

Using The Prochaska Stages of Change Model to determine readiness to change

The importance of numerical assessment of symptoms

Partnering with Vista Research to collect data using standardized instruments

Assessments of patients in addiction treatment programs

The fight flight freeze response

The limitations of traditional talk therapy

How tapping calms the nervous system

The way EFT can reach the brain through the connective tissue and calms the amygdala

How to apply tapping with someone in the throes of an addiction craving

Tapping on being willing and open to change

Tapping on specific cravings with addiction treatment

 

Find Adriana at: https://www.adrianapopescu.org/

And to purchase EFT for Addiction: https://www.amazon.com/EFT-Addiction-Adriana-Popescu-PhD/dp/1604153164/

 

Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To purchase Dawson the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Genie in Your Genes: 

https://www.amazon.com/Genie-Your-Genes-Epigenetic-Consciousness/dp/1604153202/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #emotionalhealing #genieinyourgenes #trauma #addiction #eftforaddiction #energypsychology

Gina Goldfeder is a psychologist and the author of Releasing the Emotional Wound: Shamanic and Psychological Tools to Release Trauma and Rebuild Your Life. Her work draws on her training in shamanism, dream interpretation, psychdrama, and sacred geometry. She helps individuals and couples find core wounds and uses both psychological and spiritual techniques to release them to build a new and functional identity.

 

Here she and Dawson discuss:

Great psychology as spiritual

The wound as the portal to healing

Why we shouldn't be in a hurry to fix your wounds

Exercise: Write about the you with this wound and the you without it

The ways we wear armor and eventually we forget we even have it on

Our strategies to avoid suffering that disconnect us from who we really are

Exercise: In what ways am I armored?

Why some people seek help and others do not

How for some people, suffering becomes the purpose of life

The practice of owning your life and being responsible 

Exercise: Where have I gotten comfortable with my wounds?

Why at some point there are no more words or thoughts, you need more

Exercise: What ritual can I use to release what I no longer need?

 

Learn more about Gina and her work at: https://ginagoldfeder.com/

 

Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To purchase Dawson's book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #emotionalhealing #genieinyourgenes #trauma

Wendy Valentine is author of Women Waking Up: The Midlife Manifesto for Passion, Purpose, and Play and host of The Midlife Makeover Show, which is a top-rated podcast for women in midlife.  Wendy helps women kick fear to the curb, reignite their spark, and wake up to what’s possible. She lives on the island of Madeira, Portugal.

 

She and Dawson share about: 

Midlife experiences 

Wendy's background and personal story

The inner critic and enemy voice

Exercise: Who is the you who is waiting in the wings?

Enjoying the process of being messy as it doesn’t all have to be perfect

“Wonder Wendy”

Focusing on a new future self and just keep moving ahead

The first and most important step... is to believe

How negative thoughts are like weeds growing in the mind

Self-love

“Soul-scribing” 

Allowing emotions to flow

How to stop camping out in low frequency emotions

 

To learn more about Wendy: https://wendyvalentine.com/

 

Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To purchase Dawson's book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #midlife #genieinyourgenes #reigniteyourspark

Mandy Tang is the author of Heal Your Career Wounds: Navigating the Trauma of Today’s Workplace. A career coach and holistic healer, Mandy helps clients such as large technology companies, start-ups, and the nonprofit sector bring more creativity and joy into their work lives. Her training includes an MBA in finance from Columbia, certification as a trauma-informed yoga instructor, and completion of a three-year shamanic practitioner program.

 

Here she and Dawson discuss:

Mandy's diverse background 

Why there isn’t "great" leadership and management in many companies

How to get you in touch with your potential at work

Overreliance on an analytical the mind and how that leads to bad decisions

Listening to your own inner guidance system; disconnecting from external noise

Why the best decisions are rarely linear 

How we talk to ourselves and why that makes a huge difference

Noticing and raising our level of vibration around work

What to do if you’re feeling stuck

Trusting your own voice

Having a creative outlet that is not tied to outcomes

 

Learn more about Mandy's work at: https://www.mandytang.co/

 

Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To purchase Dawson's book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #career #leadership #worklife #healyourcareerwounds

Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS, is an integrative psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and a professor of psychiatry at UCLA. She directs clinical and research programs in integrative mental health. She serves as a Director of Research for the UCLA Integrative Medicine Collaborative. She is the author of Living from the Soul: The Neuroscience of Spiritual Awakening.

Here she and Dawson discuss:

When you bring in the soul it changes everything

Helen's background

How our bodies have the ability to express light

Why human awakening is happening in steps because it’s too much to handle

Self-regulation

Being open to the possibility of the existence of your soul

The ways caregivers realize that they’re never alone

Brain health

Encouraging psychiatry to include self-healing and soul perspective

Viewing stress and trauma as information for the soul’s evolution

 

Find Helen at: https://drhelenlavretsky.com/

 

Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To purchase Dawson's book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #energy #neuroscience #spiritualawakening #livingfromthesoul

A rare solo episode! Join host Dr. Dawson Church as he guides listeners through the 8 fundamentals of wellbeing ...which are:

Clean food

Clean water

Time in Nature

Conscious Breathing

EFT Tapping

Meditation

Loving Relationships

Quality Sleep

To connect with Dawson: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To purchase Dawson's book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #energy #consciousness #breathing #mindfulness #wellbeing