Alison Wearing, is a best-selling author known for her award-winning books and one-woman shows, discussed memoir-writing.

Many listeners might relate with either wanting to write about their fascinating life experiences or feeling their life wasn’t quite exciting enough yet still desiring to craft a memoir. Alison touched on both scenarios.

Do you aspire to pen a memoir but are hesitant about the process? Alison will help you understand the nuances of autobiographical writing versus memoirs, how to decide what stays in your story and what doesn’t, where to start – she has answers for everything!

Giving up on alcohol doesn’t necessarily mean giving up fun! Says my guest Lily Weiss, it restores joy suppressed by intoxication and paves the way for positive changes leading towards happier lives.

If you are like me, someone who enjoys wine and other adult beverages and feels there is plenty of joy and happiness then this might not be the podcast for you. If you are also like me, someone who thinks less enjoyment of the grape would be a good thing, then listen in.

If you are someone who is stuck in a cycle of drinking to excess and wanting to stop but 12-step programs aren’t your thing, an organization called This Naked Mind, who trained Lily as a sobriety coach, is a successful, reputable alternative.

Did you know that Multiple Sclerosis is an autoimmune disease?

And can you imagine defying medical expectations and healing from MS or other autoimmune disease using the power of emotions, science, and energy? Tracy Hill, the Conscious Evolution Coach, did just that.

Her diagnosis came while she was in grad school. She’d been over exercising, training for 2 marathons and more stressed with school when her left side went numb for hours. She had been tripping on things but couldn’t figure out what. At last, a neurologist gave her the diagnosis of MS.

Ever thought about the power of joy, even in life’s toughest moments?

Today, I’m joined by Kristen Sparks who has conquered abuse, addiction, and physical trauma to uncover an unbelievable joy and resilience. She emphasizes the importance of discarding obsolete narratives, embracing love’s transformative power, and finding happiness in tiny moments of contrast.

Elen Sentier is, as she would call herself, a witchy woman. She was raised in the old ways of Great Britain, with a profound connection to nature, celestial bodies, and inner wisdom.

Like so many of my guests, her life journey, told in wonderful stories, kept me rapt. From her experiences as a hippie in the 60s, to her career transition from dance, drama, and art to psychotherapy and business coaching, she’s had a full life. She even reveals how she managed to hitch a ride in a fighter trainer jet!

When a friend invited her to a lecture on transpersonal psychotherapy she thought, sure, why not but what’s that? By the end of the lecture she was hooked. Enter the next chapter of her career.

Let’s talk dirty for a bit, shall we?

See where your mind went?

I’m talking dirty as in toxins. My guest, Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFM certified practitioner, is a detox expert. Like so many health experts with a niche specialty, it was her struggles with mold and metal toxicity, Celiac disease, and other health issues that steered her in this direction, she started out as an OB-GYN.

She is the poster child for healthy living and was even when she was suffering multiple symptoms that finally, at 35, led to a diagnosis of celiac. She’d likely had it since she was a teen, but it wasn’t a thing that docs knew to test for.

Udo Erasmus has lived enough versions of himself for 20 lifetimes. He has held brief jobs in various trades: fruit picking, dairy farming, logging, mining, carpentry, house painting, clearing land, burning brush, growing food, gardening, and finally pesticide spraying. He spent a year in medical school and several years in science research. It was in medical school that he realized you don’t learn about healing people.

“I have a bad back.”

Can you relate?

Today, back pain has reached epidemic levels, not just in the United States, but throughout the world.

It’s recently become the #1 cause of disability in the country.

Chronic back pain adversely impacts pretty much every aspect of life and derails your ability to participate in the activities that bring you joy.

It can lead to clinical levels of depression, anger, fear, anxiety and hopelessness.

This is why I was happy to find this week’s guest, Dr. Ryan Peebles.

For those of you who don’t know me, I do woo. I love all things mystical and spiritual, including Vedic astrology, and do my best to follow my inner guidance.

Sometimes I find I need a bit of guidance from other sources.

Like Prema Gurreri, this week’s guest.

I discovered Vedic astrology about ten years ago. I’d been having my chart read Western astrology style, for years. Good stuff and eerily accurate. Vedic is different. It’s more about now, about planetary energy and how it affects each of us individually.

Prema, a Vedic Astrologer and business oracle, uses Vedic astrology to help people chart their paths and flow with the energy of life as it is influenced by the planets.

In the olden days, people dropped acid, took shrooms, indulged in psychedelics, and tripped the light fantastic. In other words, they got high. Sometimes it went well and sometimes, well, let’s just say some people were never the same.

And there are plenty of people who still just want to get high for the sake of the buzz. A whole new generation of drug users is getting high with plants to expand their consciousness, to heal from depression, or to find a way to shift some inner stuck place.

I chose to bring a psychedelics specialist because there are I wanted to explore these plants’ potential. Universities like NYU, Johns Hopkins, and UCBerkley to name a few, and hospitals around the country are exploring the healing power of these plants for people with pain, PTSD, depression, addiction, and terminal illness.

Unless you want to enroll in a western medical trial, (Use that link to find trials now accepting new patients), then what are our options?

In the US only Oregon has decriminalized shrooms. Here are the countries around the world where you won’t go to jail for possession or use.

My guest this week, Alice Smeets, is the co-founder of a company, A Whole New High, who facilitates this new cohort. Wouldn’t you know it but the original party people, Boomers, are the ones who are flocking to retreats, journeys, and individual guided sessions in large numbers.