In the Balance

Poet, writer, teacher and badass woman and warrior Arminé Iknadossian talks about her journey: from fleeing the civil war in Beruit as a child, to finding her voice and her confidence in the spoken word. Together Arminé and Susan discuss the universality of poetry and how it serves to bring to light the stories we need to hear.

Dr. Barbara Shoshanna is a psychologist, author, speaker, and zen buddhist who weaves the philosophies of both East and West into her practice. In this episode she discusses zen and the practices that relate to falling in love and being in love - with a partner but also with all of life!

In this week's new episode, Susan talks to Michelle Bitting - a poet with a mission! Together they discuss poetry, process, the crisis our culture is in, and from whence her art comes and how it gets on the page.

Susan talks with author, poet, grief counsellor, and award-winning translator of mystics Mirabai Starr, who uses timeless language to make the wisdom of the mystics accessible to us in this contemporary, modern day life. Together they discuss inter-spirituality, the pursuit of wisdom, the transformation of loss and more!

Susan talks with psychoanalyst Dr. Claudia Luiz about finding our own stories through therapy. She believes the core and effectiveness of the therapeutic process is delving into the unconscious - to uncover it, explore it, and make it less intimidating and mysterious. "Listen for what is still unsaid," she tells us, as a way to connect with those thoughts and feelings that drive us. Join her and Susan as they talk about using psychoanalysis to go on an emotional journey to find ourselves and our own stories.

2018 has officially drawn to a close and we are welcoming and embracing 2019 with Barbara Biziou, a modern day "urban priestess." In this insightful episode, she discusses powerful rituals, setting intentions, gathering tools, and opening our hearts as we go through our endings and beginnings.

Teodora Pavkovich is an international traveler and a voracious learner. She is a person who strives to build community wherever she goes through connection, healing, teaching, and being 100% present. Currently her work is centered around the world of parents and children, and how they can thrive in this modern world of technology.

"We are all teachers and students of this classroom of life" says Linda Glick, a singer and voice coach who resonates and emanates love in all that she does.

Listen in to her and Susan as they discuss the power and vulnerability of singing and the grace of learning through love.

Romy Phillips is a true Renaissance woman - from her beginnings as an art historian, to dance and movement, right up to today as an interdisciplinary yoga instructor, her focus has been building the mind/body connection within herself and within others.

Find out more about her story and strategies, and her new book in this insightful episode!

We have lost touch with the natural world - but we can get it back through our senses - by "diving deep/ into the soil and breathing it all in." Scott Edward Anderson's conversation with Susan explores the ideas behind his new book Dwelling: an ecopoem.