The Modern Sage Podcast

This week, Leah sits down with bestselling author, researcher, and mind-body medicine expert Dr. Dawson Church to explore the intersection of science, consciousness, and spirituality. They dig into spiritual intelligence, how our inner lives shape our experience of the world, and what science is beginning to reveal about our capacity for connection, healing, and transformation.

It’s a fascinating conversation about what happens when ancient wisdom meets modern research—and what we may still have to learn about the human mind and spirit.

Learn more about Dr. Dawson Church at www.dawsonshurch.com

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Can you actually change your past? 

In this episode, Leah explores what it means to revisit the stories we tell ourselves about where we’ve been—and how changing how we understand our past can change how we move through the present. Because you may not be able to rewrite what happened, but you can decide what it means now.

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Leah explores the power of doing nothing, and why slowing down can sometimes be one of the most productive things we can do.

We live in a culture that celebrates being busy, staying productive, and constantly moving on to the next thing. But when we never give ourselves permission to stop, we also lose the space to listen to ourselves, process what we're feeling, and simply be present.

In this episode, Leah talks about what happens when we step away from the constant need to be doing, fixing, achieving, or distracting ourselves and allow ourselves to embrace stillness instead.

We talk rest, productivity, nervous system regulation, mindfulness, creativity, presence and more.

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Leah talks with Jeralyn Glass, an internationally acclaimed singer, musician, and leader in the field of sound healing who has been sharing the gift of music medicine with the world for decades.

Sound and frequency have the power to shift our energy, calm the nervous system, and connect us more deeply to ourselves. In this episode, we explore how vibration and sound can be used as tools for healing, meditation, and transformation.

We talk frequency, vibration, music medicine, the healing power of the voice, consciousness, energy and more.

For more information about Jeralyn and her work, please visit her website. 

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Leah talks with Kim Bantle, a former media executive who is now an author and speaker in the spiritual community with her new book Confessions of a Closeted Clairvoyant.

Many people have shame about their spiritual beliefs, or hide their true beliefs due to social or cultural pressures. 

In this age of consciousness, we are in a time now to learn to support our youth and adults in how to come out of the "spiritual closet" and claim their beliefs. 

We talk energy, mediumship, intuition, organized religion, mysticism and more. 

For more information about Kim, please visit her website. 

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Grief is the proof of love. If you have loved, you know grief.

Yet grief overwhelms so many people - years of repressed grief, unprocessed in this 3d world that causes immeasurable suffering.

What if grief was an energy that we can tolerate because we know that separation is only temporary, and that love never dies. Energy never dies. 

And we can build a new relationship with the energy in its new form... 

And know that separation is only a human experience, but not a full soul experience. 

Listen in to see how grief can guide you. 

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Whatever the addiction, it has a similar root - pain. 

And, the way through addiction, to the other side of recovery, is similar for all addictions. 

Leah talks about emotional addiction, physical addiction, and substance addiction and more. The behavior that's driving addiction is coming from a place of trauma, pain, and repressed emotion.

Addiction is a symptom, a protective mechanism, against the pain that creates addictive behavior.

Leah speaks about the conversation between Andrew Huberman and Terry Real about the cure of addiction: connection and intimacy.

When we are disconnected, we feel isolation, loneliness, and separation which fuels the need to hide, quiet yourself, and seek alternate states or behaviors that fill a void. 

What is intimacy? What is connection? Listen and find out!   

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The pursuit of happiness has been linked to everything from finding daily balance, self-growth and even the meaning of life. But is being happy the goal? Does happiness provide what you are really looking for?

One thing that's wrong with the philosophy of pursuing happiness is that it traps one in the cycle of the pursuit. Happiness tends to be more superficial, fleeting, and circumstantial depending on experience or reward. 

Pursuing happiness is akin to seeking relief. 

But relief is not resolution, and there is something much deeper to attain than a feeling of happiness, and that is joy. 

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Leah speaks with veteran hospice nurse, JoAnne Chitwood, about how we can assist those we love to die with ease and grace, and how to prepare for death ourselves. 

This important conversation includes what to expect in the life review, the needs of a person dying, the needs for communication and transparency, and the effects we can have on one another until the end of life. 

Leah and JoAnne speak about energy, angels, grief, and how to support those we love in the transition phase. 

To learn more about JoAnne's work and book, Please Help Me Die Well, visit here. 

To learn more about Leah and her work, visit her website. 

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You've heard it a million times, yet likely still struggle with the ONE thing you can do to have more peace in your life.

BOUNDARIES

Lots of people talk about boundaries, and some even create boundaries, yet most never implement their boundaries in healthy ways.

What are they?

How are boundaries helpful in relationships?

How do we employ them?

What do we need in place to stay true to our boundaries?

What boundaries ARE NOT.

How not to control or manipulate people with your boundaries. 

How to implement loving self-discipline.

Learn the details about boundaries and how they create more vulnerability and ease in your life.  

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