The Healing Room

What if the thing keeping you from a full life isn't sin, it's fear of punishment?

This week the Healing Room opens its door to Maggie Rowe, screenwriter, author, and dear friend, live from Los Angeles, the city of fallen angels. Maggie once checked herself into a psychiatric hospital whose slogan was "psychiatry where the Bible comes first”, and met a doctor who handed her a 500-year-old prescription from Martin Luther: pecca fortiter. Sin bravely.

Before we get there, we confess our own. Kacheve on the taboo he walked straight into, and on refusing baptism under enormous pressure. Philipp on a night spent under the gaze of a weeping Mother Mary. Neither of us has fully stopped flinching.

Maggie closes with a blessing for every queer listener who was taught that love is conditional. It isn't.

You are seen. You are not forgotten. You are never alone.

Next week: love, with bell hooks and Rumi.

Welcome to The Healing Room. Two lovers, one healing room, and two confessions we've been avoiding. Philipp admits he's been outsourcing his inner life to AI: not just emails and to-do lists, but comfort, reassurance, the small daily question of am I alright? Kacheve confesses a fear he carried for decades: dyslexia, and the shame that came with it. Books as enemies. Long texts as humiliation. Until a bookshop, and a Saturday afternoon, and someone standing next to him.In this first episode we ask what happens to a person who lets something predictable do their feeling for them. Philipp brings Hannah Arendt and her idea that we only truly appear in front of other human beings, never in front of a machine. Kacheve brings the harder proof: what it actually costs to walk into the room you've been running from.

Confess. Inspire. Ask. Send.
New episodes every week. Speak it out!

Special thanks and acknowledgement to @DJ_Rakim for the music!

The Healing Room - A Podcast About Relationship, Faith, and Coming Home to Yourself - Speak it Out! On air August 10th

First topics will be confessions about ourselves, struggling to find our inner voice in the time of Artificial intelligence and the imperative of perfection and self-optimization.  

The first element of a confession is a playful reference to our religious and spiritual backdrops, the ambivalent and still important relation with faith, twisted into something truly liberating, speaking out what moves you, makes your ashamed, you keep processing and want finally to get rid of by giving words to it.

The second element of inspiration gives depth, background and understanding to our confessions, using our own backdrops and sources of inspirations and those of guest as well. By bringing in philosophical elements, literature, personal experiences, art and everything else that can serve as a source of inspiration.

The third element is asking back to public, the topics for deepening and activating.

The final recurring element is the playful, still honest benediction and sending.

HOPE TO SEE U, August 10th in The Healing Room!