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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

Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
Fulfilling Relationships: Dené Logan and Dawson Church in Conversation
Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
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Lifetime curiosity about our behavior patterns
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Often there is conflict over who’s getting what share of the energy
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Eastern traditions have an understanding of our own wholeness
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Building on Jung’s work on the masculine and feminine within each person
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Jung’s individuation process
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As a society we’re questioning: who are we?
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When you take everything away, who am I?
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Getting into intuition and synchronicity
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Why you can feel the energy between people
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Always be respectful about your partner
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Should you do your psychological growth work within the relationship?
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The first thing to do in your relationship is to ask why
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The Stoics always asked the first question: Know yourself
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Know your story and your own purpose, then bring an individuated self into the relationship dynamic
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Our relationships are these mirrors that are showing us ourselves
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You are the love of your life

Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Getting Past Defensiveness: Sarah Close and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
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Sarah's background feeling trapped by her desire to help
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Research into complex PTSD
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Trauma results from an event when our needs are not met
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Survival needs, relationship needs, attachment needs
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As we approach healing, our defensive strategies come up
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Being stuck in the negative belief that 'I’m not enough'
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Why some people do not heal despite effective treatments like EMDR and EFT?
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Suggestions for self-care

Saturday Oct 26, 2024
Spiritual Intelligence and Leadership: Yosi Amram and Dawson Church in Conversation
Saturday Oct 26, 2024
Saturday Oct 26, 2024
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Yosi's background
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Yosi’s research
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The 7 Dimensions of Spiritually Intelligent Leadership
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Meaning, Grace, Inner-direction, Community, Authentic Presence, Truth, Wisdom
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Trusting the universe, opening to beauty in our work
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Bringing joy into work makes us creative and spontaneous
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Working in alignment with our core values
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The most precious resource we have is our attention
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Exercise: connect with your breath, drop into body, heartbeat

Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
Living Open Versus Closed: Nate Klemp and Dawson Church in Conversation
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
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The two modes of being in the world: open and closed
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Nate's background and journey to this work
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Tantric Buddhism says we can burn out the roots of our desires
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Why being closed affects your sleep
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External closure to those who disagree with you
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How the real work is done when you’re back to ordinary reality
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Living in a closed mind you still get short term pleasures
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Experiencing sadness grief as part of the human experience
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Daily why and how Nate interrupts his closedness and moves into openness
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What openness looks and feels like

Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Healing Through Feeling: Rachel Kaplan and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Thursday Oct 17, 2024
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Rachel's story
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How human relationships inherently involve loss and challenges
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When decades of emotional numbness isn’t easy to overcome
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When people don’t allow themselves a physical based feeling
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The lurking sense of impostor syndrome
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The inability to slow down because of all the distractions
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First Step... ask a key question: What qualities of me do I not accept?
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Emotional release work
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Letting the energy of emotions move through you
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Moving anger is high energy release
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Emotional resilience
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Why EMDR is one of the most powerful forms of trauma healing
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Brave into the unknown... face your fears and you’ll build self-trust

Monday Oct 14, 2024
Monday Oct 14, 2024
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The five core characteristics of the enlightenment experience
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Intensity - the emotional centers of the brain are triggered when something significant happens to us
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Oneness - as we surrender, there’s a drop in activity of the frontal lobe
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Limiting distractions
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Focus... but then surrender
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How long do you need to meditate to start neural plasticity? (... just 12 minutes!)
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Being happy, creativity, concentrating, and problem solving
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The sense of unity to community and global humanitarian the universe

Monday Oct 07, 2024
Monday Oct 07, 2024
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Why people turn to Buddhism
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Gandhi’s 6 Core Values
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Perry's story
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The questions: Who am I? Why am I here? How is the world put together?
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Simplicity
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Meditation
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Emptying your mind
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Releasing the self judgment that brings us down

Tuesday Oct 01, 2024
Tuesday Oct 01, 2024
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Why most people are able to feel energy even if they can’t see it
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What is Tapping
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How Tapping converts pressure into an electrical impulse to manage stress
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Why David and Dawson picked EFT
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Energy and healing
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When people tap, you see a little spark in their hands then the energy travels up to the brain along meridian lines
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After the tapping sessions you see the different energy systems vividly
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How David and Donna work along with some client stories
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Self-healing is a gift handed to you when you’re born
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Believe in energy, and it will change your life
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How energy medicine and energy psychology work together

Thursday Sep 19, 2024
Consciousness Is All There Is: Tony Nader and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Sep 19, 2024
Thursday Sep 19, 2024
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Life’s big questions of freedom and happiness
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Research on the brain and consciousness
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Transcendental Meditation (TM)
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Consciousness as emerging out of cells and brain
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Training ourselves to direct our intention inward rather than outward
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The infinite absolute unbounded self within
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The purpose of life as an expansion of consciousness which leads to happiness
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The whole purpose of our existence
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Creating peace and harmony within a group to change collective awareness

Monday Sep 09, 2024
Reversing Alzheimer’s: Heather Sandison and Dawson Church in Conversation
Monday Sep 09, 2024
Monday Sep 09, 2024
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Optimizing our health as we age
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The six risk factors of Alzheimer's: Toxicity. Nutrients. Stressors. Structure. Signaling. Infection.
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Three types of toxins: Mold, household, and personal chemicals
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Heavy metals like lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium: what they do to our body
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Balancing stress
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High quality sleep
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Your body's signals
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Infection as a risk factor, especially gum health
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Case histories: the first major study was published in 2022
