Episodes
Thursday Jan 11, 2024
Your Sensory Processing Style: Sally Fryer Dietz and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Jan 11, 2024
Thursday Jan 11, 2024
Sally Fryer Dietz is an expert in child development with a doctorate in Physical Therapy. She is the author of Sensory Processing Solutions: Drug-Free Therapies to Realize Your Child’s Potential. She also has two boys each with distinct learning styles and is an advocate for the potential within every child to succeed naturally.
Here she and Dawson talk about:
- Her background and children
- All human beings have to take information from their environment
- Barriers to processing information from the environment
- Social skills
- Three learning systems
- Vestibular: where body is in space
- Proprioceptive: awareness of inner muscles bones and organs
- Tactile: perceived or actual touch
- What activities support weaker areas and reinforce positives
- The tool which measures reaction time to peripheral vision cues
- Children are not “broken”, they’re incredibly bright but can’t access it
- We all have sensory glitches
- New listening programs for learning and focus like an interactive metronome
- Knowledge is power - keep an open mind, do your own research, and experiment
- Keep all your options open, even solutions you don’t understand
For more information about Sally’s work: https://sallyfryerdietz.com/
And for more about Dawson: https://dawsonchurch.com/
#children #sensoryprocessing #eft #blissbrain #meditation #mindtomatter #highenergyhealth #childhooddevelopment
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Shine Your Light Today: Michelle Madrid and Dawson Church in Conversation
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Michelle Madrid is the author of Let Us Be Greater: A Gentle, Guided Path to Healing for Adoptees and host of the Electricity of You Podcast. She is an international adoptee, former foster child in the UK, and an adoptee empowerment life coach who has been recognized as an Angels in Adoption® Honoree by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) and inducted into the New Mexico Women’s Hall of Fame for her work in adoption.
Here she and Dawson talk about:
- Michelle’s background
- “Logos of limitation”
- Diminished sense of worth and beliefs of being unworthy and unlovable
- Beliefs that grow within the silence
- Silence hinders healing
- The impact of Louise Hay’s book, “You Can Heal Your Life”
- A personal journey of evolution
- Getting curious about recurring thoughts because they’re becoming beliefs
- Each of us has a unique electricity that can light up the world
- Who in your community might reinforce your belief in your greatness?
- Reconnecting with your truest voice and authentic self
- When we change ourselves internally we change the world
To learn more about Michelle, her coaching, podcast, and book: https://themichellemadrid.com/
And connect with Dawson at: https://dawsonchurch.com/
#adoption #eft #mindtomatter #youcanhealyourlife #blissbrain #healing
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
Healing Traditions: Jennifer Lisa Vest and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
Dr. Jennifer Lisa Vest has an impressive career spanning over 12 years as a medical intuitive, during which she has assisted numerous clients in unraveling their medical enigmas and guiding them to discover and harmonize with their life purposes.
Gifted with innate abilities including clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, and mediumship, Dr. Vest diligently cultivated these talents through rigorous training under the guidance of various mentors, both in traditional and formal educational settings. Her practice is an amalgamation of wisdom gleaned from a diverse range of teachers and training programs, incorporating elements from herbal and spiritual healing traditions such as African American, Native American, Jamaican, Trinidadian, and Spiritualist traditions.
With a robust background, Dr. Jennifer Lisa Vest boasts certification as a medium, a trained firekeeper, a QHHT Past Life Regression Practitioner, and a Usui Reiki Master. Her academic pursuits have culminated in a Ph.D. in Indigenous Philosophy from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in Physics from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. Notably, she held a tenured position as a Philosophy professor for a decade. This unique blend of qualifications informs her holistic approach to healing, combining intuition, logic, and scientific methodology.
Dr. Vest's capabilities extend to being a developed trance channel and akashic records reader, facilitating out-of-body experiences to visit the pre-incarnation meetings where her clients charted their life paths, selected their lessons, and entered into soul contracts with others. This profound insight allows her to elucidate the spiritual aspects of illness alongside providing insights into the physical and emotional roots of her clients' conditions.
In addition to her client work, Dr. Jennifer Lisa Vest has dedicated herself to teaching psychic and healing arts, imparting knowledge in areas such as medical intuition, akashic records, mediumship, and women of color medicine traditions for many years. She also leads ceremonies, conducts training sessions, speaks at events, and has recently authored a book titled "The Ethical Psychic," which is currently available for pre-sales through Penguin/Random House.
Dr. Vest and Dawson discuss:
- Dr. Vest’s background
- How and why tragic events sometimes pivot us
- Scanning for emotional and spiritual causes of diseases as well as physical
- Life purpose sessions
- Shamanism
- Tapping into the akashic records
- When do you seek guidance and when do you surrender
- Little selves and higher selves
- Out-of-body experiences
For more about Dr. Jennifer Lisa Vest: http://www.drjenniferlisavest.com/
And for more about host, Dr. Dawson Church: https://dawsonchurch.com/
#akashicrecords #healingarts #mindtomatter #blissbrain #eft #highenergyhealth #meditation #lifepurpose
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Stephen Aizenstat, PhD, is the founder of Pacifica Graduate Institute. For more than 35 years, he has explored the power of dreams through depth psychology. He has collaborated with Joseph Campbell, Marion Woodman, Robert Johnson, James Hillman, and Native elders worldwide. He conducts dreamwork and imagination seminars throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. His most recent book is The Imagination Matrix: How to Access the Greatest Power You Have for Creativity, Connection, and Purpose.
Here he and Dawson share about:
- Dr. Aizenstat’s background
- How each of us is part of a world of imaginal figures
- Cultivating a relationship with our inner figures, including the difficult ones
- Mystical experiences giving us access to the imaginal realm
- Imagination as an extraordinary dimension of the human experience
- Evolutionary heritage
- The ways school usually separates us from the imagination
- Imaginal intelligence evolves as we use it
- Alpha brain waves then theta, linked to creativity and innovation
- The benefit of invoking the imagination upon waking before the busyness of the day
- Why to write down your dreams
- Exercise 1: Soft eyes then focused eyes
- Exercise 2: Letting yourself take the path less traveled
You can find out more about Dr. Stephen Aizenstat’s work at: https://dreamtending.com/
And more about host Dr. Dawson Church at: https://dawsonchurch.com/
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #dreamtending #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #theimaginationmatrix #creativity #connection #purpose
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
Sleep and Mysticism: Philip Carr-Gomm and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
Philip Car-Gomm is the author of twenty books, including The Druid Way and The Gift of the Night: A Six Step Program for Better Sleep. He began studying Druidry in his teenage years, and eventually became head of the order of Bards Ovates and Druids. He has also trained as a teacher of Yoga Nidra and Mindfulness Meditation. He's fascinated by the intersection of the worlds of psychology and spirituality. He finds that psychology reveals the many facets of our human consciousness. When you add the insights of the Perennial Wisdom Tradition – the ancient knowledge and esoteric teachings passed down through the ages – you enter awe-inspiring transformational territory. He live streams a program called "Tea with a Druid" each week.
Here he and Dawson share about:
- The book called The Life of The Buddha
- The concept of the spiritual quest
- Philip’s background
- The phases of sleep
- REM sleep for emotional processing
- Yoga Nidra
- How the eye movements of EMDR echo the reprocessing happening in REM sleep
- For a great sleep, you need a safe bedroom, a calm mind, and a relaxed body
For more about Philip and his books: https://philipcarr-gomm.com/
And for more about Dawson: https://dawsonchurch.com/
#sleep #yoganidra #meditation #mindtomatter #blissbrain #eft #bettersleep
Thursday Nov 09, 2023
Mindful Investing: Jonathan DeYoe and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Nov 09, 2023
Thursday Nov 09, 2023
Jonathan DeYoe is a Lutheran seminarian turned Buddhist academic turned financial adviser. He is the author of Mindful Investing: Right Focus, Better Outcome, Greater Well-Being. Jonathan has been investing for over four decades and meditating for 25 years. DeYoe started managing investments for clients at Wall Street firms before launching his own financial planning firm in 2001. After 20 years, Jonathan merged his firm into the national financial planning firm EP Wealth. Today, Jonathan is a senior VP and partner at EP Wealth, and his Mindful Money organization is focused on financial education and coaching for people who don’t have access to traditional advice.
Here he and Dawson share their passion for making money part of your spiritual journey:
- Jonathan’s background
- The meaning of life
- Meditation
- How money and spirituality are vital parts of life
- Done correctly, money isn’t about piles of wealth, it’s about love
- What money can do for our children, our communities, our later lives
- The definition of mindfulness
- Investing
- All investments fall into two categories: investment or renting
- Inflation is the real problem, the constant decline in our units of value
- Equities protect against inflation
- Dividends increase at 2 - 3 times the rate of inflation
- Cash and bonds aren’t safer in the long run
- Keep your investment plans ultra simple
- Start with global equity portfolio
- Asking about the size of returns is the wrong question because we don't know the future
- Studies show that the more time you spend picking stocks, the less likely you are to be a successful investor
To learn more about Jonathan DeYoe and to purchase his books: https://mindful.money/
For more about host Dr. Dawson Church: https://dawsonchurch.com/
#eft #meditation #money #investing #blissbrain #highenergyhealth #mindtomatter #mindfulmoney #mindfulinvesting
Thursday Nov 02, 2023
Thursday Nov 02, 2023
Jerry Kantor is a faculty member of the Ontario College of Homeopathic Medicine and owner of Vital Force Health Care LLC, a Boston-area homeopathy and acupuncture practice. The first acupuncturist to receive an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Anesthesiology, Kantor is the author of The Emotional Roots of Chronic Illness, and The Toxic Relationship Cure.
Here Jerry shares his insights with Dawson on:
- Homeopathy: uses the law of similars, using like to treat like
- Homeopathy isn’t diagnosis driven
- Homeopathy trains you to convert what people tell you into a rubric of meaning
- Medicine is fragmented, and the psychological roots are not considered
- During Lincoln’s time the government was full of homeopaths
- There are 5 existential quandaries at the root of our existence
- Existential questions don’t have a yes or no answer
- Homeopathy releases the charge underlying the five quandaries
- Often one dose is enough, and the vital force responds over 4 or 5 weeks
- Remedies trick the system into treating a chronic problem into an acute problem
To learn more about Jerry and to purchase his books: https://vitalforcehealthcare.com/
And to reach Dawson: https://dawsonchurch.com/
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #eft #homeopathy #chronicillness #highenergyhealth
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
The Awakened Brain: Lisa Miller and Dawson Church in Conversation
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Dr. Lisa Miller is the author of The Awakened Brain: The Psychology of Spirituality. She is founder of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Columbia University and has authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles on spirituality and mental health in youth and family. She is also the former President of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Society of Psychology & Spirituality, and editor of The Oxford University Press Handbook of Psychology & Spirituality and Editor-in-Chief of the APA journal Spirituality in Clinical Practice.
Here she and Dawson enthusiastically share their insights on:
- We’re born with a natural state of spiritual awareness
- Spirituality is ⅓ innate, and ⅔ culturally formed
- Everyone has an awakened brain naturally
- Dr. Miller’s research
- Depression
- Tsai’s study of 3,000 vets with PTSD
- How trauma can expand our ability for love and forgiveness
- Why our culture has no road map for these spiritual growth spurts
- The different questions we ask ourselves at each life stage
- Seeing that often the awakening takes the form of an existential crisis
- You can access the transcendent through service, meditation, nature, other ways
Dr. Lisa Miller can be reached at: www.lisamillerphd.com
And find host Dr. Dawson Church at: https://dawsonchurch.com/
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #eft #spirituality #theawakenedbrain #highenergyhealth #psychology
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Three Minutes a Day: Richard Dixey and Dawson Church in Conversation
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Richard Dixey, PhD is the author of Three Minutes a Day: A Fourteen Week Course to Learn Meditation and Transform Your Life and a senior faculty member at Dharma College in Berkeley, California. A research scientist and a lifelong student of Buddhism who holds advanced degrees in biophysics and the history and philosophy of science, Dixey directed a bioelectronic research unit at a London hospital before becoming CEO of his own biotech company. He moved to the US in 2007 to devote himself to teaching meditation, deepening his own practice, and running the Light of Buddhadharma Foundation in India with his wife Wangmo, the eldest daughter of the well-known Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku.
Here he and Dawson share about:
- What the world really is and what we believe it is are very different
- Meditation is the process of seeing things as they actually are
- The 5 obstacles that stand in the way of our peace of mind
- The history of meditation
- Meditation myths
- How we live in a map made by the mind
- The benefit of meditation practices that are direct, quick, and experiential
- If you’re to establish a change in your routine it requires effort
- The 5 senses we live in are just like 5 degrees of perception
To learn more about Dr. Richard Dixey and to purchase his books: https://www.richarddixey.com/
To connect with host Dr. Dawson Church: http://dawsongift.com/
#meditation #transformyourlife #eft #eftuniverse #mindtomatter #blissbrain #buddhism
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Healing Collective Trauma: Thomas Hübl and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change by integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science.
Since 2004, he has taught and facilitated programs with more than 100,000 people worldwide, including online courses which he began offering in 2013. He is the author of Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World (2023) and Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds (2020), which was featured in Oprah Daily as one of “10 Books to Help with Old, Painful Traumas”. He has published articles in Harvard Health and the Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change.
Hübl has served as an advisor and guest faculty for organizations and universities and is currently a visiting scholar at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. As a coach and trainer, he supports CEOs and leaders in their personal and professional development and in becoming trauma informed. He has presented talks and taught workshops on resilience, collective healing, and relational competencies for healing trauma at Harvard Medical School since 2019.
Born in Austria, Hübl studied medicine at the University of Vienna and worked as a paramedic for nine years. He left his studies at the University in the 1990s to begin a new life path focused on teaching meditation and mindfulness-based awareness practices. He began holding retreats in Austria and Germany in the early 2000s and noticed that many participants began to voice some of their deeply held intergenerational wounds stemming from the second World War.
As these programs evolved over the next two decades, he developed the Collective Trauma Integration Process for working with individual, ancestral, and collective trauma. This model promotes a safe exploration of sharing and reflection, guided by a facilitation process that supports radical openness, transparent communication, mindful awareness, and refined relational competencies.
Hübl has led large-scale events that have brought together thousands of Germans and Israelis to acknowledge, face, and heal the cultural shadow left by the Holocaust. Over the past ten years, his intensive training programs have addressed the persistent challenges of our time – climate anxiety, racism, gender violence, and political polarization, among others – through the lens of individual, ancestral, and collective trauma.
The interdisciplinary nature of Hübl’s work has been shared with and practiced by organizations and working groups of physicians, psychologists, and therapists. Since 2019, Hübl has hosted an annual Collective Trauma Summit which has brought together hundreds of prominent speakers and draws hundreds of thousands of attendees from around the world.
In 2017, Hübl and his wife, Israeli artist Yehudit Sasportas, founded The Pocket Project, an NGO dedicated to addressing and integrating collective trauma throughout the world. Trauma-informed leadership, post-genocide reform, and a practice called “global social witnessing” are key areas of focus and activity.
For more about Thomas, his books, podcast, and courses: https://thomashuebl.com/
And for more about host Dr. Dawson Church: http://dawsongift.com/
#eft #eftuniverse #highenergyhealth #mindtomatter #blissbrain #collectivetrauma #trauma #healing