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Join Dr. Dawson Church, a best-selling science writer, to explore the leading edge of health and happiness, along with practical techniques to maximize your wellbeing.
Join Dr. Dawson Church, a best-selling science writer, to explore the leading edge of health and happiness, along with practical techniques to maximize your wellbeing.
Episodes

Friday May 15, 2026
Your Inner Light: MaryAnn DiMarco and Dawson Church in Conversation
Friday May 15, 2026
Friday May 15, 2026
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MaryAnn's background
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Malign energies as well as benevolent ones
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EXERCISE: What’s looking to come through you?
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EXERCISE: What’s blocking it?
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Spiritual awakenings
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Understanding what your soul came here to learn
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Soul contracts
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Free will
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Why every awakening comes with an unraveling
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Moving into a new consciousness
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Expanding our consciousness as a species
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Journaling, automatic writing, sitting with your guides and loved ones
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Making your practice authentic to you

Friday May 08, 2026
Zen Caregiving: Roy Remer and Dawson Church in Conversation
Friday May 08, 2026
Friday May 08, 2026
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Roy's background
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Coming back to present moment awareness no matter what is happening
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Being triggered by big emotions
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Noticing when you’re out of present moment awareness
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What is mindfulness
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How do we process overwhelming emotions
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The life cycle of an emotion
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The 5 stages of compassion
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The ability to reflect on what we’d like to become
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Your intention in the role of caregiving
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Showing up with an open heart

Friday May 01, 2026
Friday May 01, 2026
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Melissa's background
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Life changing books
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What to do to get in touch with love
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Tuning into your body
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Shifting your emotions as you process them
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How it only takes 1% of a population to make a shift
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Why you are here to remember that you’re a beautiful divine being
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Where is humanity headed

Friday Apr 24, 2026
Friday Apr 24, 2026
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Peter's background
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Transcendental Meditation
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Why there’s nothing wrong with having thoughts
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Starting with a deep sigh as you sit down to meditate
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Feeling your feelings, allowing them to soften and dissolve
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Being curiously aware
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EXERCISE: When will I meditate? Commit to a specific time daily
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The power of mini meditations
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Why academics have been exploring the nature of consciousness
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Consciousness as the fundamental characteristic of the universe
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How our consciousnesses are linked to others
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Deep contentment
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How can a private practice like meditation help the world?
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Why when we’re calm, our minds are clearer and we’re more effective
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How stepping out of the ego mind, we become kinder
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The most fundamental practice to let your attention relax
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A quiet mind is a relaxed mind

Saturday Apr 11, 2026
Protecting Your Energy Environment: Jessica Howard and Dawson Church in Conversation
Saturday Apr 11, 2026
Saturday Apr 11, 2026
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Jessica's background
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Energy Healing for Modern Life's inspiration
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Protecting your energy field
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Negative energetic bonds
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Exercise: Which people do you admire who may be tinged by fear?
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Energetic protection
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Energy shield visualization to prevent negative energy coming in
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The use use of mirrors to reflect energy
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How our positive energy can radiate out to uplift other people
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Making time to check in with our bodies and energy
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Chakra scan
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Connection with your energy starting at the top of the head

Saturday Apr 04, 2026
Saturday Apr 04, 2026
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“What do you want to happen in the afterlife?”
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Animals in the afterlife
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An after-life conference where we assess our lifetime
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If we have a pre-life conference, why don’t we remember it?
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Doing your emotional processing here so you don’t take the unresolved with you
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Exercises caregivers can help with if people are near death

Thursday Mar 26, 2026
Wisdom from the Woods: Mark Langenfeld and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Mar 26, 2026
Thursday Mar 26, 2026
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Mark's background
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The message: “Do as I do”
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Why most animals will avoid conflict, they only fight if they’re cornered
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Honoring Mother Nature
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Buddhism
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Saying: “The life energy in me honors the life energy in them”
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Reflecting: “They were born an innocent baby … what happened to injure them?”
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Exercise: Which of your new habits isn’t serving you?
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The Student Nutrition Assistance Program

Saturday Mar 21, 2026
Embracing the Dark: Kelly Ann Street and Dawson Church in Conversation
Saturday Mar 21, 2026
Saturday Mar 21, 2026
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Kelly's background
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Exercise 1: Are you doing what feels right for your soul?
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History behind: “Dark Night of the Soul”
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Exercise 2: In what areas of your life do you feel numb?
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Why are anxiety and depression more prevalent now?
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How our brains can’t keep up with amount of info we have to take in each day
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Universal consciousness
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Feeling the vastness and also your own small consciousness
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Breathwork
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Grounding
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The term “The Shadow” for unconscious parts coined by Carl Jung
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Exercise 3: Which parts of you are in the shadow?
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Why every generation thinks that the world is in the worst shape ever
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When you can’t help the world if you’re chaotic inside
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Creating regulation in your own nervous system
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“All is well in my soul”

Thursday Mar 05, 2026
Super-consciousness: Thomas Brophy and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Mar 05, 2026
Thursday Mar 05, 2026
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Transcendent experiences
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The philosophy behind quantum mechanics
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The spiritual life of scientists
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Thomas' background
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Why observation collapses the quantum wave into one of the many possibilities
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Why anomalous experiences happen when science says they can’t
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The human cycle headed towards a reconnection with spirituality
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Non human intelligence
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Consciousness based technologies

Thursday Feb 19, 2026
Uncomfortable Conversations: Tonya Lester and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Feb 19, 2026
Thursday Feb 19, 2026
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Conflict aversion
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Assertiveness
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Jealousy
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Question: “Where do I have resentment and the other person would be surprised?”
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Value of a script
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Reciprocity, reliability, and communication
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Should partners do therapy together or separately?
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We don’t need to process absolutely everything, we can let some things go
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Core vulnerabilities: incompetence, unloveable, unworthy
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Noticing where you overreact
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A “dread list” of things
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If your emotions are getting above a 5, take a break
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Speaking for your feelings not from your feelings
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Reframe conflict from what divides us to what brings us closer
