The Frontier Beyond Fear

In a show for all of us who have ever felt that we are totally outside the norm, Debra Silverman, M.A., reveals a way to understand and find our gifts and place within this world.  Debra is the author of the new book The Missing Element: Inspiring Compassion for the Human Condition.  Using the wisdom of the ancients, Debra explores how compassion is the key to making peace with ourselves and everyone around us.

Using personality types based on the four elements, Water, Air, Earth and Fire, Debra shows how to understand the ways painful cycles repeat, helping us to move beyond into lives of lasting peace.

Debra works with people individually and in workshop settings to impart emotional wisdom through an understanding of the four elements. She received an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University.  She trained at York University and studied Dance Therapy at Harvard.  Debra is also a talented astrologer.

"Debra Silverman reminds you what fun it is to be YOU, the singular, freakish, awkward YOU.  And she also reminds you of your potential, or your gifts to the world and of your place in it." ~ Sting

Debra's web site:  DebraSilvermanAstrology.com

Program music copyrighted by Grammy award winner Larry Seyer (LarrySeyer.com), included in this podcast with his permission. Visit FrontierBeyondFear.com to learn about the inspirational outreach of this program, now in its 6th year.

Courtney A. Walsh shares beautifully authentic insights from her new book Dear Human: A Manifesto of Love, Invitation and Invocation to Humanity. Courtney invites us to go ahead and embrace our glorious messiness, to love, love, love and love some more, and most especially ourselves! When we truly choose to be the people we actually are, when we honor both our humanity and our divinity, our lives begin to flow in astonishingly magical ways.

Millions of people all over the world have experienced the unabashed wisdom of Courtney A. Walsh through the Dear Human passage about love she originally shared on Facebook, a meme that rapidly became expansively viral. She currently teaches and coaches in empowering ways, assisting everyone she touches with living passionately and authentically, with thriving instead of merely surviving. 

Courtney has been a professional writer/editor/author/inspirational speaker for 15+ years, with an extensive background in marketing, advertising, creative writing, film, cultural studies, and languages, including work for MTV and the National Park Service. Her writing has been featured in multiple popular publications and she has appeared on several well-known media venues. Courtney is also the author of Lipstick and Thongs in the Loony Bin.

Courtney's webs site:  SqueezingtheStars.com   Dear-Human.com

Program music copyrighted by Grammy award winner Larry Seyer (LarrySeyer.com), included in this podcast with his permission. Visit FrontierBeyondFear.com to learn about the inspirational outreach of this program, now in its 6th year.

Host Susan Larison Danz reflects upon honestly claiming our own authenticity and talks about some of her own personal "New Age" beliefs and how she interprets idealistically and realistically embracing co-creative, omnipresent, unconditional Love.

Join the discussion on Twitter here: www.twitter.com/bridgebldr

Susan first began having "bridge building" discussions many years ago on the Oprah spirituality discussion forum and other forums as anonymous contributor "bridgebldr" (aka BridgeBuilder). These discussions involving people of diverse backgrounds and idealogies led to many epiphanies of understanding and shifts in points of view. The posts of Susan and other frequent contributors regularly were featured on the front page of the Oprah web site under "What People Are Talking About".

Susan went on to regularly share her anonymous voice on broadcast radio, recognized in Portland and beyond, as well as creating her own show The Frontier Beyond Fear over 5 years ago.  Susan has a background in Computer Science and Mathematics, and spiritually had an evangelical upbringing, though her natural intuition was active at a very young age. After a brush with her mortality in her late 30's, Susan had a series of powerful spiritual emergence experiences many years ago, rocking her world, and opening her up to an entirely new level of expansive awareness and being. 

Program music copyrighted by Grammy award winner Larry Seyer (LarrySeyer.com), included in this podcast with his permission. Visit FrontierBeyondFear.com to learn about the inspirational outreach of this program, now in its 6th year.

Are you having trouble starting, restarting or continuing a meditation practice?  Psychotherapist Nigel Wellings is the author of the new book Why Can't I Meditate: How to Get Your Mindfulness Practice on Track.

Nigel will share practical ways to help our mindfulness practice flourish, drawing guidance from a wide spectrum of secular and Buddhist mindfulness teachers, as well as personal accounts by new meditators on what they find difficult and what helps them overcome those blocks.  The struggles themselves are vital to the path forwards. 

Nigel Wellings is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist who has been teaching and writing about the relationship between psychotherapy and Buddhism for the last sixteen years. He has served as a Director of Training at the Centre for Transpersonal Psychology, is a founder member of The Forum for Contemplative Studies and a facilitator on The Bath and Bristol Mindfulness Courses. With Elizabeth McCormick he has written and edited several books including Nothing To Lose, Psychotherapy, Buddhism and Living Life.

Nigel's web site:  WhyCantIMeditate.com

Program music copyrighted by Grammy award winner Larry Seyer (LarrySeyer.com), included in this podcast with his permission. Visit FrontierBeyondFear.com to learn about the inspirational outreach of this program, now in its 6th year.

How can we celebrate Earth Day every day by heartfully living in harmony with our beautiful planet?  How can we courageously reclaim the future of our world?  Frontier Beyond Fear host Susan Larison Danz authentically  explores this vital topic.

Join the discussion on Twitter here: www.twitter.com/bridgebldr

Susan first began having "bridge building" discussions many years ago on the Oprah spirituality discussion forum and other forums as anonymous contributor "bridgebldr" (aka BridgeBuilder). These discussions involving people of diverse backgrounds and idealogies led to many epiphanies of understanding and shifts in points of view. The posts of Susan and other frequent contributors regularly were featured on the front page of the Oprah web site under "What People Are Talking About".

Susan went on to regularly share her anonymous voice on broadcast radio, recognized in Portland and beyond, as well as creating her own show The Frontier Beyond Fear over 5 years ago.  Susan has a background in Computer Science and Mathematics, and spiritually had an evangelical upbringing, though her natural intuition was active at a very young age. After a brush with her mortality in her late 30's, Susan had a series of powerful spiritual emergence experiences many years ago, rocking her world, and opening her up to an entirely new level of expansive awareness and being. 

Program music copyrighted by Grammy award winner Larry Seyer (LarrySeyer.com), included in this podcast with his permission. Visit FrontierBeyondFear.com to learn about the inspirational outreach of this program, now in its 6th year.

Acupuncturist Gail Reichstein Rex, L.Ac., is the author of the new book Earth Acupuncture: Healing the Living Landscape. After experiencing a powerful vision of the nuclear power plant near her home on and its toxic effects on the Hudson River, Gail discovered she could treat the landscape just as she treated her patients - by taking its pulses and treating the points of stagnant energy and pollution with acupuncture, drawing upon both Chinese medicine and Native American shamanic traditions.

Beyond the healing, we can communicate with the rivers, mountains, trees and rocks that surround us, allowing each of us to develop an authentic spiritual relationship with the living body of the Earth.

Gail is an acupuncturist, author and editor currently living in Vermont. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Tri-State College of Acupuncture, she has been practicing Chinese medicine since 1995. She is also the author of Wood Becomes Water: Chinese Medicine in Everyday Life.

Gail's web site: GailRex.com

Program music copyrighted by Grammy award winner Larry Seyer (LarrySeyer.com), included in this podcast with his permission. Visit FrontierBeyondFear.com to learn about the inspirational outreach of this program, now in its 6th year.

How can we bring our own authenticity into the world, more and more? Susan Larison Danz authentically explores how we can build bridges of understanding in our lives and the world. Callers joining the discussion are welcome, and the chat room will be open. Those seeking gentle guidance and support are encouraged to call or submit questions via the chat room. Join the discussion on Twitter here: www.twitter.com/bridgebldr

Susan first began having "bridge building" discussions many years ago on the Oprah spirituality discussion forum and other forums as anonymous contributor "bridgebldr" (aka BridgeBuilder). These discussions involving people of diverse backgrounds and idealogies led to many epiphanies of understanding and shifts in points of view, as well as multiple lifelong friendships. The posts of Susan and other frequent contributors regularly were featured on the front page of the Oprah web site under "What People Are Talking About".

Susan went on to regularly share her anonymous voice on broadcast radio, recognized in Portland and beyond, as well as creating her own show The Frontier Beyond Fear over 5 years ago.  Susan has a background in Computer Science and Mathematics, and spiritually had an evangelical upbringing, though her natural intuition was active at a very young age. After a brush with her mortality in her late 30's, Susan had a series of powerful spiritual emergence experiences many years ago, rocking her world, and opening her up to an entirely new level of expansive awareness and being. 

Program music copyrighted by Grammy award winner Larry Seyer (LarrySeyer.com), included in this podcast with his permission. Visit FrontierBeyondFear.com to learn about the inspirational outreach of this program, now in its 6th year.

Even when things appear to be going the "wrong" direction, how do we find the trust and the faith to stay true to our Hearts? Susan Larison Danz authentically explores how we can build bridges of understanding in our lives and the world. Callers joining the discussion are welcome, and the chat room will be open. Those seeking gentle guidance and support are encouraged to call or submit questions via the chat room. Join the discussion on Twitter here: www.twitter.com/bridgebldr

Susan first began having "bridge building" discussions many years ago on the Oprah spirituality discussion forum and other forums as anonymous contributor "bridgebldr" (aka BridgeBuilder). These discussions involving people of diverse backgrounds and idealogies led to many epiphanies of understanding and shifts in points of view, as well as multiple lifelong friendships. The posts of Susan and other frequent contributors regularly were featured on the front page of the Oprah web site under "What People Are Talking About".

Susan went on to regularly share her anonymous voice on broadcast radio, recognized in Portland and beyond, as well as creating her own show The Frontier Beyond Fear over 5 years ago.  Susan has a background in Computer Science and Mathematics, and spiritually had an evangelical upbringing, though her natural intuition was active at a very young age. After a brush with her mortality in her late 30's, Susan had a series of powerful spiritual emergence experiences many years ago, rocking her world, and opening her up to an entirely new level of expansive awareness and being. 

Program music copyrighted by Grammy award winner Larry Seyer (LarrySeyer.com), included in this podcast with his permission. Visit FrontierBeyondFear.com to learn about the inspirational outreach of this program, now in its 6th year.

Susan Larison Danz authentically explores how we can begin to build bridges of understanding in our personal and greater world. Callers are welcome, and the chat room will be open.

Susan first began having "bridge building" discussions many years ago on the Oprah spirituality discussion forum and other forums as anonymous contributor "bridgebldr" (aka BridgeBuilder).  These discussions involving people of diverse backgrounds and idealogies led to many epiphanies of understanding and shifts in points of view, as well as multiple lifelong friendships.  The posts of Susan and other frequent contributors regularly were featured on the front page of the Oprah web site under "What People Are Talking About".

Susan went on to regularly share her anonymous voice on broadcast radio, recognized in Portland and beyond, as well as creating her own show The Frontier Beyond Fear over 5 years ago.  Susan has a background in Computer Science and Mathematics, and spiritually had an evangelical upbringing.  After a brush with her mortality in her late 30's, Susan had a series of spiritual emergence experiences many years ago, rocking her world, and opening her up to an entirely new way of expansively thinking and being.

Program music copyrighted by Grammy award winner Larry Seyer (LarrySeyer.com), included in this podcast with his permission. Visit FrontierBeyondFear.com to learn about the inspirational outreach of this program, now in its 6th year.

In the premiere episode of what will become a regular feature of The Frontier Beyond Fear broadcast, host Susan Larison Danz spontaneously shares her vision for how we can begin to build bridges of understanding in an increasingly contentious world.  We will likely discover we have far more in common than we realize, and in areas where we don't, we can at least have a discussion.  Callers are welcome, and the chat room will be open.

Host Susan Larison Danz first began having "bridge building" discussions many years ago on the Oprah spirituality discussion forum and other forums as anonymous contributor "bridgebldr" (aka BridgeBuilder).  These discussions led to many epiphanies of understanding and shifts in points of view, as well as multiple lifelong friendships.  The posts of Susan and other frequent contributors regularly were featured on the front page of the Oprah web site under "What People Are Talking About", gaining momentum, including a very honest discussion during the pivotal 2008 presidential elections. 

Susan went on to regularly share her anonymous voice on broadcast radio, recognized in Portland and beyond, as well as creating her own show The Frontier Beyond Fear over 5 years ago.  Susan has a background in Computer Science and Mathematics, and spiritually had an evangelical upbringing.  After a brush with her mortality in her late 30's, Susan had a series of spiritual emergence experiences many years ago, rocking her world, and opening her up to an entirely new way of expansively thinking and being.

Program music copyrighted by Grammy award winner Larry Seyer (LarrySeyer.com), included in this podcast with his permission. Visit FrontierBeyondFear.com to learn about the inspirational outreach of this program, now in its 6th year.