Dealing With Chronic Pain with David Hanscom, M.D. June 18, 2013 | 5:00 am

Having had had two spinal surgeries, ending up with kidney failure, ulcers and post-operative infection, Hanscom has first-hand knowledge of chronic pain. This has left him with extreme empathy for patients who come to him. Since medical school he’s educated himself on mind/body syndromes. Discovering he had a lot of anger issues he says, “I wrote a section in my book called the disguises of anger and, looking backward, I could see that I had every disguise going. When you come from a difficult childhood like mine, anger and anxiety are your baseline; that’s your norm.
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The Power Of Stories To Heal with Terry Laszlo-Gopadze June 11, 2013 | 5:00 am

For Terry Lásló-Gopadze the idea of sharing stories of spiritual power was born out of a struggle with her own health problems, grief for her desperately ill father, and sadness over her mother’s placement in a nursing home. She found mentors who guided her on a path of healing and growth by the stories they told. Writer and spiritual activist Christina Baldwin, in a story in the book, says, “In a crisis of such proportion as the times we live in, there are no idle stories.
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The Quakers, Forging America’s Identity with Susan Sachs Goldman June 4, 2013 | 5:00 am

Quakers, also known as “the Society of Friends”, have been part of American history for over 300 years and America’s whole national character and moral fabric has been affected by their commitment to peace and societal equity. They arrived in the mid-1600s and from the start worked for responsible relations with Native Americans. They denounced slavery and were early advocates for women’s rights. Unlike the Puritans they were tolerant of all religious beliefs. Even though they are Christian, they have no priesthood or official pastors.
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Genuine Sustainable Abundance with Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne May 28, 2013 | 5:00 am

Has our present economic system been designed for another age? Does it truly serve the needs of the 21st century world? What are the stepping stones to a new economic structure? The answers to these and many other questions are addressed in this informative dialogue. In taking out a loan or a mortgage under the current system, Lietaer and Dunne point out, “When you pay back interest, you’re actually using someone else’s principle. We are fighting for money that has not been created.” They go on to describe some very successful examples of complementary or cooperative currencies that are being successfully implemented today on some very large scales.
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Designing Products Toward Sustainability with Tom Darden May 21, 2013 | 5:00 am

Tom Darden and others like him are seriously looking at products that have positive environmental effect. He’s been able to help companies, such as sawmills, to change the way they produce their products. He’s been working in the field of investing in developing technology, products, and services that are environmentally safe. One of his personal interests is connecting companies with China to help address environmental problems there.
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Forgiveness Is The Path with Ronita Johnson May 13, 2013 | 5:00 am

Johnson is an African American daughter of a preacher who grew up initially in Louisiana and later in Northern California. Here she tells her story of a severe childhood which left her feeling shame, guilt, bitterness, and a general sense of unworthiness. She shares her journey from a devastating childhood to one of forgiveness and wholeness. Her first discovery of healing was provided by sitting in a women’s circle.
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Mindfulness Practice: Slowing Down – Tapping Into Our Inner Resources with Congressman Tim Ryan May 7, 2013 | 5:00 am

Ryan has a dream for America which is to create a society that has healthcare for all, a sustainable eco-system, fosters creativity at the highest levels, and time to connect with family and friends. He sees us slowing down and becoming more kind and more aware. To help us do this, he advocates training ourselves in mindfulness awareness. He, and others, are successfully introducing this practice in many of our institutions like schools, the military, healthcare, and even in Congress.
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Asking Better Questions with Robert Fuller, Ph.D. April 23, 2013 | 5:00 am

From traveling across Russia on the Tran-Siberian railroad to the “Golden Rule” in religion, Fuller takes us on a wide and deep adventure, always returning to the idea that learning to ask better questions is one of the keys to truly improving our lives and improving society. In Fuller’s varied career from serving as a college president and consultant to Presidents he always comes back to the fundamental practice of striving to ask better questions. Even in the early days when we first met Bob, he was asking the question of what would make a better game than war.
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The Four Seasons Of Moving Through Tough Times with Deidre Combs, Ph.D April 16, 2013 | 5:00 am

There are four phases that show up again and again in order to thrive in challenging times and Combs equates them to the seasons. We get a medical report, we’re facing a divorce, or coping with the death of a loved one. It’s in the autumn when things are falling apart. Combs describes the other seasons thusly,“We recognize there’s some period where things get really dark. We are feeling helpless; that’s the winter of tough times. If we can make it through the winter and pull ourselves back up [we arrive at] the spring and a time of new beginnings and new forms. Lastly we arrive at summer as we move back into nurturing these new ways.
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Poetry: The Unfolding Of What Is Hidden with Jane Hirshfield April 9, 2013 | 5:00 am

Hirshfield points out that many people turn to poetry at great life transitions. She says, “You know when people fall in love, or when they lose love, or lose someone they loved, that is when they want a poem. When they get married they want a poem. These great transitions are larger than the normal, ordinary consciousness. And what poems do is give us a vocabulary for understanding things, which aren’t available through any other use of language.” Her poetry alludes to far ranging subjects such as time, nature, and even science.
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Magical, Combustible Words with Phil Cousineau April 2, 2013 | 5:00 am

Do you ever find yourself a little mumblemouthed? Or do you go to the dictionary to look up a word, only to get sidetracked when other, more interesting words catch your eye? If so, you share Phil Cousineau’s dynamic relationship with words. For him they’re playthings, enchantresses, magical sounds that can stir your heart, and mementos that tell fascinating stories about the lives of the ancestors who created them. The way we use them has more power than we may realize.
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A Brain That Knows How To Be Happy with Rick Hanson March 26, 2013 | 5:00 am

Each day you face the highs and lows of your own state of mind, as well as the onslaught of external threats from terrorist alerts, earthquake warnings, and economic downturns. Your mind is in a constant state of arousal, and your happiness and your physical health pay the price. But Dr. Rick Hanson says that you have enormous power, not only to change your frame of mind, but to physically alter your body, and even the structure of your brain by taking charge of your thoughts.
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America – An Insider’s View with Gerald Rosen, Ph.D. March 19, 2013 | 5:00 am

Gerald Rosen has seen America from most every vantage point. He grew up in a house without books, obtained an ivy league Ph.D. in literature, and went on to run a liquor store on the edge of Harlem. He’s crossed paths in one way or another with Miles Davis, Jack Kerouac, Janis JoplinÖeven Babe Ruth. So his observations about American culture carry his own particular brand of authenticity. And what he sees has him a little concerned. “We each of us are born into this culture, so we start getting in a sense hypnotized the day we’re born,” he notes. “So we’re Americans-we walk like Americans, we talk like Americans.
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The Doorway To Being Present To Life with Richard Moss March 12, 2013 | 5:00 am

Moss says that there are two basic mistakes we make in this stage of the evolution of consciousness: we identify with our thoughts and we flee from our feelings. He gives specific instructions how to examine our thoughts to identify stories we tell ourselves, and he makes a distinction between feelings and emotions. Moss warns us that if we run away from feelings and link them to thinking, they will turn into emotions.
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Watering The Seeds Of Mindfulness with Zachia Murray March 5, 2013 | 5:00 am

Zachiah Murray, tells us that mindfulness is an awareness of what is around us and within us in the moment, so that we can see deeply without being caught in the past or the future. Gardening encourages mindfulness because it requires our immediate attention and the attention of all our senses. She likens cultivating a garden to spiritual practice and inspires each person to accept themselves and start where they are, weeds and all.
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Warriors For The Human Spirit with Margaret Wheatley, Ph.D. February 26, 2013 | 5:00 am

In a time of constant distractions and disappointment we’ve become exhausted and heartsick as our good work is ignored. Wheatley speaks with fierce honesty as she gives us the map of where we are. She also gives us tools that enliven and reinvigorate us in our work and relationships. She says,“As the world gets more insane and more difficult and we encounter more disappointment, frustration, exhaustion, and overwhelm, we need each other, like we’ve never needed each other before.
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Co-Creating A Dream Of A Modern Day Oz with Jean Houston, Ph.D February 19, 2013 | 5:00 am

Here Houston takes us on a whirlwind tour of the authentic American myth of the Wizard of Oz. She answers the question of what it means to have a brain, a heart, and act with courage. Using the characters of the scarecrow, tin man, lion, and Dorothy, Houston inspires us to follow our deep yearning in order to develop and contribute to a better world with our full human capacities She tells us, “We are in the most critical time of history. The time in which we decide whether we grow or die, whether we evolve or perish.
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Unleash Your Brain Power As You Age with Michael J. Gelb February 12, 2013 | 5:00 am

Like fine wine, researchers have shown that our brains can improve with age. Gelb has spoken with the world’s foremost brain researchers about how the brain actually works and they have revealed exciting news. He says, “Unlike the knee or the hip, the brain is designed to improve with use and the only real question is, therefore, what are the best ways to use.”
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Navigating Crisis With Mindfulness Practices with Ronald Alexander, Ph.D. February 5, 2013 | 5:00 am

here is no question that during our lifetime we will inevitably experience times of crises and ultimately loss. Many of us feel powerless over the anxiety and confusion that arises during these times. According Ronald Alexander, we are actually not powerless over the impact of crisis; we can transform during these times to find more strength, more awareness, and more creativity in our lives through the practice of mindfulness.
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Building A Conscious Money Strategy with Patricia Aburdene January 29, 2013 | 5:00 am

Patricia Aburdene is widely acclaimed as one of the world’s leading social forecasters. She has lectured throughout North and South America, Europe, Australia, and the Pacific Rim, helping thousands of corporations and millions of people make the most of social transformation.
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Creating The New Dream And The Future Of The Earth with Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. January 22, 2013 | 5:00 am

Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. is an internationally acclaimed evolution biologist, futurist and author. Her books include Earth Dance: Living Systems in Evolution ( iUniverse 2000); Co-author with Brian Swimme & Sidney Liebes, A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us (John Wiley & Sons 1998), and co-author with the late Willis Harman, Biology Revisioned (North Atlantic Books 1998).
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Principles Design Based On The Laws Of Nature with William McDonough January 15, 2013 | 5:00 am

William McDonough is an anticipatory design architect. But more than that he is a philosopher for the 21stcentury and is asking some of the most critical questions we should be thinking about in these challenging times. He’s the former Dean of the Architecture Department at the University of Virginia, and was named “Hero of the Planet” by Time magazine. He’s also the winner of three U.S. presidential awards including thePresidential Award for Sustainable Development. He is the author with his partner, Michael Braungart, of the book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Farrar, Straus and Geroux 2002)
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Crossing The Murky Moral Terrain Of Ethics with Mark Matousek January 8, 2013 | 5:00 am

Free Listening Through January 15, 2013 Are there universal human ethics? Are we moving toward a more ethical future? Mark Matousek has interviewed and researched the subject of ethical wisdom with social scientists, spiritual leaders, ex-cons, altruists and philosophers. He’s examined morality from all angles and suggests that ethics just may be a minefield of opposing ideologies, special interests, and temperamental proclivities. The good news is that humans are hardwired to care for one another, we [...]
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Difficulties Give Rise To Something Good with Patricia Sun January 1, 2013 | 5:00 am

Ms. Sun shows us that the difficulties of the times are contrivances to free us to take a bigger view. We are reminded to relax and trust there is something good emerging and that there is a frequency that runs the universe we can tune in to. What Patricia has called the, “New Style of Thinking” is extraordinary in its power to depolarize people. She inspires us to go for creative solutions, as we “re-create” and “re-perceive” our thought patterns. She says, “The truth is the authenticity and genuineness that flows through you. It is freedom.
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Integral Philosophy And Evolution with Steve McIntosh December 25, 2012 | 5:00 am

Integral philosopher McIntosh says the way to approach truth is threefold: science, philosophy, and spirituality. He says, “[W]e know that the scientific, the philosophical, and the spiritual are three authentic and irreducible approaches to truth because there are three kinds of human experience. There’s the sensory experience, upon which science is based. There’s the experience of relationships and meanings that we come to through philosophy, and then there’s the spiritual experience which can’t be reduced to either of those two. In an attempt to try to harmonize science and spirituality without trying to conflate one into the other, philosophy has a very important role of both bridging and separating these three great approaches to truth.” He goes on to point out that evolution always builds on what came before using it as a platform to transcend to a new level of complexity.
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The Power Of The Grimm Brother’s Collection Of Folktales with Allan G. Hunter, Ph.D. December 18, 2012 | 5:00 am

Fairytales have given pleasure and delight for centuries, and ultimately many of them have been a source of wisdom for generations of people, who had no psychology textbooks to reference, and no certified therapists to consult. However, in recent decades we’ve “Disneyfied” them and assimilated commercialized versions, while the real tales ­full of wisdom ­remain unread. The collection of tales by the Grimm Brothers deal with some very murky human passions, and they hold the possibility of a productive way of being, on the other side of difficulty. In the early 1800s, the Grimm brothers carefully wrote down stories from itinerant storytellers, who were basically an endangered species and dying out.
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Food Is The Earth’s Most Potent Medicine with Kara Kroeger December 11, 2012 | 5:00 am

n her late teens, Kroeger traveled to Central America and discovered her life’s passion of herbs, food, and nutrition. She says, “I really began to use foods more like medicine in the same way that I had learned to use herbs. . . people love food and food is easy and it’s available everywhere.” She also encourages us to avoid refined foods and, for the most part, when shopping for foods go for the ones that you’ll find in the perimeter of the grocery store instead of the packaged foods found in the center aisles.
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Finding Happiness, Purpose, And Joy with Dan Millman December 4, 2012 | 5:00 am

Earth is a perfect school and it provides us with a core curriculum of required courses. Millman has studied and polled many people and has come up with four purposes to life which answer such questions as: Why am I here? What am I meant to do? What is my purpose? Within the four purposes he has found twelve required courses in the school of life that each of us are taking. These are: Self Worth, Discipline, Well Being, Money, Mind, Intuition, Emotion, Courage, Self-Knowledge, Sexuality, Love, and Service.
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The Science, Philosophy, And Spirituality Of Our Evolving Planet: Part 2 with Carter Phipps November 27, 2012 | 5:00 am

Carter Phipps says, “Evolution is about more than genes and DNA and selection and adaptation or even cultural stages and spirals. It is also about the vast ocean of the cosmos. It is about awe and amazement, humility and perspective. It is not just about our connection to the earth, it is also about our spiritual connection to this immeasurable universe out of which we have emerged.” We are part of a moving process and the ground underneath our feet that we thought was so stationary and static is moving
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The Science, Philosophy, And Spirituality Of Our Evolving Planet: Part I with Carter Phipps November 20, 2012 | 5:00 am

Carter Phipps says, “Evolution is about more than genes and DNA and selection and adaptation or even cultural stages and spirals. It is also about the vast ocean of the cosmos. It is about awe and amazement, humility and perspective. It is not just about our connection to the earth, it is also about our spiritual connection to this immeasurable universe out of which we have emerged.” We are part of a moving process and the ground underneath our feet that we thought was so stationary and static is moving.
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The Journey Of Losing A Soulmate To Cancer with Carla Malden November 13, 2012 | 5:00 am

When you lose someone well-meaning people give you books full of supposedly uplifting platitudes: “time heals all wounds;” “there is a purpose to this;” “you will find closure.” But, as non-religious baby-boomer, Carla Malden says, she found them useless. She shares the highs and lows, sparing nothing in her truth-telling. You will be inspired by her candor and clarity as she speaks about her experience of living through the debilitating disease and death of her husband and work partner.
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Re-Creating The World with Michael Meade November 6, 2012 | 5:00 am

Once again Meade reminds us of the larger story in which life is unfolding. In his masterful way he weaves the Native American story of the Old Woman in the Cave and the ancient Vedic myth of Manu who saves a fish and establishes our interconnection with all life and the natural world. He points out that these myths are re-creation stories as opposed to simply creation myths. He also reminds us that we are narrative beings and part of our creativity comes from finding out where in the story we belong. As fundamentalism tells us a story of the end of the world, Meade says that this is just a limited view.
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A Wild And Laughing God with Tessa Bielecki (repeat) October 30, 2012 | 5:00 am

Have you ever imagined Jesus laughing? Tessa Bielecki has. She also reminds us that he was the one who made sure there was plenty of wine at that wedding party we’ve heard so much about. A lifelong Christian monastic who now lives in a cabin in the desert, she loves to share her vision of the wildness in Jesus, God, and spirituality in general, and will inspire you to bring a fresh, playful, spacious approach to your relationship to the divine. She points out that while modern Christianity has grown terribly dull, the truth is that, “God is like a tsunami. We just never know what we’re going to experience. We’ve turned Christianity into a dull, dry system, and it’s as though we feel we have God in our pocket, sort of at our beck and call, and we can kind of pull him out as our little pet. God isn’t like that.
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Stop Working On Yourself And Start Living with Ariel & Shya Kane October 23, 2012 | 5:00 am

The Kanes spent many years and all their savings working hard on themselves to bring about positive change. Exhausted by it all they discovered that “working on themselves doesn’t work.” They have found that transformation can happen in the instant. Shya Kane tells us, “transformation happens when you notice how you’re being without judging yourself and it’s over. It happens in an instant, outside of time. Transformation happens exponentially in all areas of your life, not just in those areas you think you want to change.”
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Digging A Deep Well To Our Spiritual Waters with Mirabai Starr October 16, 2012 | 5:00 am

Delving into many different spiritual paths can be thought of as digging many shallow wells with the hope of reaching water. However, Starr’s experience tells her that she is using many different tools to dig a single deep well Following the interspiritual path goes beyond simply understanding another’s religion: Rather it means, “Embracing the sacred in multiple traditions with discipline and passion.” She speaks of going through the “dark night of the soul” when we no longer feel a connectedness with our spiritual path.
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The Great Turning Or The Great Unraveling: It’s Our Choice with Joanna Macy, Ph.D. October 9, 2012 | 5:00 am

Macy points out, “Our earth is alive. It’s not a supply house or a sewer, it is our larger living body with vast evolving intelligence that we are totally a part of and we can draw on.” She encourages us to face the facts of our immense planetary challenges. However, rather than allowing these realities to shut us down, we can choose the practice of active hope. She encourages us to choose the story of “The Great Turning” rather than “The Great Unraveling.”
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Moving Into Health Through Energy Healing with Jed Diamond, Ph.D. October 2, 2012 | 5:00 am

More than ever before in history, humans are faced with an overwhelming amount of stress. This leads to debilitating illnesses, addictions, and depression. We need all the help we can get. Jed Diamond suggests that help can be found through energy healing, “[N]o matter how we got sick, no matter what the problem is, if you can get at the energetic under story and be able to heal things at the energetic level, then, in a sense, you also heal all the chemical actions up here But, if you’re only dealing with the top stories you’re not dealing at the roots. You can be taking care of things up here, which we do in modern medicine with symptoms–we get the symptoms to go away–but we never get at the root of the problem.
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Shifting Into A New Era Of Conscious Evolution with Barbara Marx Hubbard, Ph.D. September 25, 2012 | 5:00 am

Hubbard inspires us with a vision of the possibility as we move into a new era of conscious evolution. She says we are at a choice point and describes a tipping point of people who are collectively becoming excited by the changes. By joining together in small groups we are connecting up our creativity and our genius which can ultimately lead us to a life sustaining planet.
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Toward A More Conscious Economy with David Korten, Ph.D. September 18, 2012 | 5:00 am

Many of us are still reeling from the recent economic meltdown. In the face of so much uncertainty, it’s difficult to make sense of the multitude of analyses and predictions about what’s to come. What does it all mean in the context of the broader shifts in global culture and consciousness? At last there’s a voice of reason that brings not only sanity but consciousness to a real understanding of how our economy works – and why it often doesn’t – and how we can apply principles of spirituality and conscious living to the choices we must make for our own financial survival.
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Peace: The Real Game Changer with James O’Dea September 11, 2012 | 5:00 am

O’Dea has been on the front line of peace building and shares with us practical, insightful, and inspiring messages of peace. He tells us that peace is not passive; it is a dynamic force moving across the planet. This conversation includes the spiritual and scientific dimensions of peace building.
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Spiritual Beings In A Material World with Charles Tart, PhD (repeat) September 4, 2012 | 5:00 am

We have this spiritual nature but it’s being denied, and we hurt at some level because of that. Even scientists have this spiritual nature but it’s being denied. So spiritual people and scientists both say, ‘Isn’t the universe wonderful and complex and infinite and beautiful. Let’s be friends.’ That’s nice, but it ignores the fundamental conflict, and materialism says that spirituality is basically all a lot of crap. We’re not facing that root conflict, and that’s what’s got to be faced.” Facing that conflict, and bringing the reality of human spirituality into the public discourse is the work and the mission of Charles Tart.
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Changing Our Story To Save The World with Tom Shadyac (repeat) August 28, 2012 | 5:00 am

We’ve been taught that the “real world” is one of disconnected individuals needing to compete in a struggle to survive. After talking with many sociologists, biologists, scientists, linguists, spiritual leaders, and social artists, Shadyac is convinced that, this idea of a “real world,” isn’t the real world. He points out that there is, “strong evidence that we are different than we’ve been told. We really are not separate.
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Persevering No Matter What with Margaret J. Wheatley (repeat) August 21, 2012 | 5:00 am

How is it that some people devote their lives to a cause or a person or place, while some others give up and quit? How is it that even in the midst of failures, betrayals, reversals, some people still remain focused and dedicated to their cause? What keeps us persevering? What drags us under when we experience set-backs, failures, criticism? Margaret Wheatley says, “We really don’t know what is going to happen; we don’t know what the future is. We can work as much as we can and with as much diligence and vigilance as we can to create a positive future.
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The Direct Route To Awakening with John de Ruiter (repeat) August 14, 2012 | 5:00 am

We have the capacity to go directly to truth and awakening, but we often get sidetracked by our delusions. As teacher, philosopher John de Ruiter says, “We have the capacity to use our faculties to convince ourselves of something being true, because we need for that to be true. So, there’s a hanging on within the heart supported by an intellectual framework that enables that to happen. But, beyond all of that, we know something quieter, and is that we don’t actually need what we say we need.
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Clutter Busting Is More Than Cleaning Up Our Junk with Brooks Palmer August 7, 2012 | 5:00 am

We all have some clutter in our lives. Whether it’s in our drawers, closets, garages, or computers, we can all do with some letting go of possessions we no longer need. Some of us put off making decisions about our “stuff” by renting storage units–Out of sight-out of mind–Or is it really? Palmer tells us that paying for storage locker is like paying,“junk alimony.”
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Taking Back Our Democracy with Steve Bhaerman AKA Swami Beyondananda July 31, 2012 | 5:00 am

Steve Bhaerman is an author, humorist, and workshop leader. He’s also known as Swami Beyondananda, the “Cosmic Comic.” He’s the author, with Bruce Lipton, of Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here (Hay House 2009), and co-author with Joseph McCormick of Reuniting America: A Toolkit for Changing the Political Game (Samsara Press 2011).
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Intelligent Evolution with Nicki Scully July 24, 2012 | 5:00 am

Healer, Nicki Scully, tells us how it is time for us to move from healing ourselves to healing the planet. We can do this collectively by joining together in circles, in phone-bridges, and in our own personal meditations. Now is the time for us to make a quantum leap in consciousness. We must co-create this movement; we must allow spirit to come in through our hearts and minds. Scully says, “Now is the time of tremendous opportunity for people to put their hearts and minds together–If all of the individuals join in circles, and all the circles join, and we’re all focusing on planetary healing–this uniting of minds and hearts can give us a tremendous opportunity for quantum leap [in consciousness].” (hosted by Justine Willis Toms)
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Living Well On Less Money with John Robbins July 17, 2012 | 5:00 am

John Robbins is the author of the million-coy bestseller, Diet for a New America (revised, H.J. Kramer 1998), which became a PBS series. He is the recipient of the Rachael Carson Award and the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, and is the founder of the nonprofit organization, Earth Save International. He is the author of The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in An Age of Less (Ballantine Books 2010).
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Beyond Humans, Widening Our Circle Of Friends with Priscilla Stuckey, Ph.D. April 30, 2013 | 5:00 am

Stuckey begins this conversation by telling three stories of how an eagle, a bougainvillea bush, and the birch tree of her childhood all communicated with her in some way. We think we are alone but Stuckey points out “we are deeply connected with all others with whom we share our lives.” She encourages us to be aware of our connection with all the life that surrounds us, even in cities. In response to the idea that the world is a community rather than a collection of objects she poses the question: “How do we interact with the more than human world as equal members of community, rather than trying to treat the world around us as if it was created only to serve human needs?”
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Forgiveness Is The Path with Ronita Johnson May 7, 2013 | 5:00 am

ohnson is an African American daughter of a preacher who grew up initially in Louisiana and later in Northern California. Here she tells her story of a severe childhood which left her feeling shame, guilt, bitterness, and a general sense of unworthiness. She shares her journey from a devastating childhood to one of forgiveness and wholeness. Her first discovery of healing was provided by sitting in a women’s circle.
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