Authentic Living

Dr. Joan Borysenko appears, for the second time, on the Authentic Living Show today to discuss her latest book, “It’s not the End of the World: Developing Resilience in Times of Change.” One of the most popular and sought after speakers in the field of health, healing and spirituality, Joan is world-renowned for her expertise in the field of Mind/Body medicine. A three-time graduate of Harvard Medical School, with a Doctorate in Medicine (MD) and two post-doctoral fellowships in behavioral medicine and psychoneuroimmunology, her brilliance is uniquely matched by her warmth and inspirational presentations. She is the author of several best-selling books, including her first, “Minding the Body, Mending the Mind,” “Inner Peace for Busy People,” and the topic of last year’s Authentic Living show,“Your Soul’s Compass.” You know, if we are forced to endure these tough times, we might as well get something out of it. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn the art of resilience from Dr. Joan

We are excited that Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD comes this week to tell us about the unveiling of her long awaited audio work and online series called “The Dangerous Old Woman, Myths and Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype.” World renowned author of “Women Who Run With the Wolves,” which was on the NY Times bestseller list for 145 weeks, she is an internationally acclaimed poet, Diplomat Jungian psychoanalyst, post-trauma specialist, award-winning social activist and writer, as well as a cantadora, (keeper of the old stories in the Latina tradition). Dr. E, as she is affectionately called by her many followers, jokes that there have been a few “sightings” over the years, though she disappeared from public view for three decades to write. This week she comes out into the “clattering world” to talk with us about her work. Come and listen to her unique storytelling ability, soothing voice and deep understanding of the complexities of humanity and grow closer to your own soul.

Who is really in charge of your life? Let’s ask that a different way. How much of your life is hanging in the balance of other people’s choices? How much of your life are you choosing, as opposed to excusing? Authentic living is all about taking full responsibility for your life—all of your life, not just the parts that no one else controls. Do you have a secret life that no one knows about? Do you carry a boatload of secret resentments because you do so much for others who do nothing for you? Does your life feel beyond your control? Are you striving and struggling to think only “positive” thoughts and handle no “negative” energy so that you can finally have the life you dream of? Is it raining all over your life? Or do you reign over your life? This show will provide you with a surprise ending to the story you are telling yourself right now. Don’t miss it!

Our guest today is the author of the Australian bestselling book called “Wisdom Man,” a moving and powerfully awakening book about the Aboriginal leader, Banjo Clarke. She is Camilla Chance an Australian who has been deeply involved with the Aboriginal culture for over 27 years. Camilla has been a lyric writer for an international performing group. the Kuban Cossacks, a high school teacher, an editor, a wife and mother, and a book reviewer for two prestigious Australian newspapers—“The Age” and “The Australian.” Her book is the winner of the American USABookNews.com Award for best multicultural work. And she is the first non-Aboriginal to receive the prestigious Unsung Hero Award from Aboriginal people for her dedicated friendship and work for them behind the scenes. Her work has changed her life and philosophy and we are going to learn all about that. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about the wisdom of living close to the earth.

We are very excited to have Colette Baron-Reid on the show today to help us understand the more arcane, deeper aspects of living and how to connect with our own internal messaging system. Colette is an internationally renowned intuitive counselor, educator and best-selling author of several books including, Remembering The Future, Messages From Spirit, The Wisdom of Avalon, and Wisdom of the Hidden Realms. Her newest book, The Enchanted Map of You and companion oracle cards will be released Jan 2011. She has carried her message of hope and healing throughout the United States, Europe and the UK. She is a powerful motivational speaker, broadcast personality, and acclaimed performer, storyteller and recording artist who uses her unique spiritual gifts to empower others to live a life that is “awake and authentic.” Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to access your own internal messaging system!

Back again for the second time, Michael Mirdad is here this week to talk with us about the awakening process. Bestselling author of “The Seven Initiations of the Spiritual Path” and “Sacred Sexuality: A Manual for Living Bliss,” Michael is also a world-renowned spiritual teacher, healer and counselor, who has facilitated thousands of classes, lectures, and workshops throughout the world on mastery, spirituality, relationships and healing. He is suitably named the “teacher’s teacher” and the “healer’s healer,” due to his ability to share the deepest teachings in a clear, applicable manner. Michael’s most recent book “You’re Not Going Crazy, You’re Just Waking Up!” is subtitled: “The Five Stages of Soul Transformation” because of its clear explanation of the transformational process of awakening. From Michael, you can expect to learn all about how to move from dark nights of the soul to a new life. Don’t miss this powerful show!

You know we spend the first half of our adjustment to any circumstance trying to figure out why it happened just the way it did. Even the good circumstances. We try to make them mean something. All too often, our interpretations of the events in our lives turn out to mean that we are not good enough yet for the good stuff. Just so, our dualistic thinking keeps us bargaining with our realities in ways that stifle our growth. But every single growth experience we have ever had, from taking our first step to growing through the dark nights of the soul, mean that we started somewhere and ended up somewhere else. If we really grew, our identity changed with each curve in the road. We became different than who we were before. So, what do we do when things don’t turn out the way we hoped? That’s what this show is all about. Don’t wave that white flag yet. Tune in, instead.

Today, another exciting guest, Dr. Orloff is the author of the New York Times international bestseller “Emotional Freedom” and the newly released “Second Sight.” She is the assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry at UCLA where she also mentors medical students and psychiatry-residents-in-training. Dr. Orloff is about the business of transforming the face of psychiatry as she synthesizes the pearls of traditional medicine with cutting edge knowledge of intuition, energy and spirituality. She advocates for “a democracy of healing” in which every aspect of our being gets a vote in the process of total health and has been celebrated for her unique approach to mental well-being by proving that the links between physical, emotional and spiritual health cannot be ignored. And so today we are going to be talking to her about her newly released book, which chronicles her own challenges and triumphs in embracing her intuition and integrating it into medicine.

What do you do when the pain of loss is so overwhelming that you don’t know what to do with yourself? David Ord is back for the second time on Authentic Living to talk with us about his new audio “Lessons in Loving” in which we are taken on a journey to the center of our being, to a place where there is unbroken peace, boundless joy and infinite love. There, in the groundedness of our own essence, we find the creativity to reimage our broken lives. David, the Editorial Director of Namaste Publishing, is also the author of “Your Forgotten Self” a book that clarifies the character of Jesus as a mirror for the forgotten self—our true essential nature. If this part of yours’ or a loved one’s journey is painful or difficult, don’t miss this show.

We are excited that Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD comes this week to tell us about the unveiling of her long awaited audio work and online series called “The Dangerous Old Woman, Myths and Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype.” World renowned author of “Women Who Run With the Wolves,” which was on the NY Times bestseller list for 145 weeks, she is an internationally acclaimed poet, Diplomat Jungian psychoanalyst, post-trauma specialist, award-winning social activist and writer, as well as a cantadora, (keeper of the old stories in the Latina tradition). Dr. E, as she is affectionately called by her many followers, jokes that there have been a few “sightings” over the years, though she disappeared from public view for three decades to write. This week she comes out into the “clattering world” to talk with us about her work. Come and listen to her unique storytelling ability, soothing voice and deep understanding of the complexities of humanity and grow closer to your own soul.

Has life ever been so difficult that you wondered how you would make it through? You are far from alone. Many of us have had that experience. But today we are going to talk about how to make it through. Our guest today is the author of the book “Overcomers, Inc.” With this book, Lynn Klippel offers us ageless wisdom on how to overcome any life challenge with grace, regardless of what life has in store for us. Today’s show is going to be all about how even the darkest situations can be the greatest blessings of our lives. What if adversity was meant to help us become who we were really meant to be? If that were true how can we facilitate that kind of awakening? We don’t have to be extraordinary people to do this. So if you are troubled, don’t miss this opportunity to become an overcomer!

Do you know what your shadow knows? The shadow is getting kind of a bad rap these days. More than anything else, the gossip about the shadow has it that the shadow is filled to overflowing with all the “evil” we are hiding in there. And there is a primal darkness there in the secret regions of our psyches. But primal darkness is not necessarily evil. And more importantly, there is much, much more hidden in our shadows then all the scary things we imagine. In fact, you may be profoundly surprised to learn of amazing power and the Universal promises that have been hidden away in the closet of your psyche. So what does the shadow know? Tune in to find out.

“Counsel the victim, help one person. Counsel the guru-gone-bad, help hundreds -- if not thousands, says Chavah Aima, guru interventionist. Her perspective is more relevant than ever after the 2009 deaths and injuries in an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony raised new questions about trust in spiritual leaders. A psychotherapist formerly specializing in trauma treatment and addiction recovery, Chavah spent 14 years studying a wide variety of Eastern and Western esoteric traditions. Her upcoming book In the Shadow of the Guru: Spiritual Empowerment and the Dark Side is based on her years in India studying and getting to know many gurus. The book reveals techniques used by Eastern and Western gurus to recruit and keep followers. On this show we will be learning, not only how to tell a true leader from a false guru, but some of the warning signs that your guru may have “gone bad,” and how to recover your personal power after surrendering it to a false guru. Don’t miss this one!

You know how corporations change policy and procedure by adding a revision? You know how it is that the interpretation of our laws changes through the process of precedence-setting? Well today we are going to do a little revising and reinterpreting of our own, based on precedence. Do you really want to have everything you want? You can. But you have to know the missing piece to the puzzle—a piece not provided to you through the current literature on the laws of attraction. Do you want to fulfill your truest desires? Don’t miss this show.

Do you really think that what we believe makes a difference? Well this week we are going to be talking to one of the world’s scientific authorities, one who helps us bridge the gaps between science and spirit. Internationally recognized for his research on the energy that works below the level of our genes, Bruce Lipton began his career as a cell biologist focusing on molecular mechanisms. Then, with Dr. Ed Schultz, he worked with experimental tissue transplantation techniques later employed in human genetic engineering. But in 1982 he began examining the principles of quantum physics. His discoveries there ran counter to the established scientific views, but have led to the important field of epigenetics. He took his work to the public, and has since become an internationally recognized authority, through his bestselling book The Biology of Belief, and recently, Spontaneous Evolution, as well as his TV and radio appearances, workshops and lecture. Don’t you dare miss this one!

Neale Donald Walsch is a modern day spiritual messenger whose work continues to touch the world in profound ways. With an early and deeply felt connection to spirituality, Neale spent the majority of his life searching for spiritual meaning before beginning his very public Conversation with God, a NY Times Bestselling series that has touched and inspired millions around the world. In addition, he has published 16 other works, and a number of video and audio programs. Neale’s work has redefined God and shifted spiritual paradigms around the globe, and because of that redefining process and the response to it, he built the Conversations with God Foundation, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to inspiring the community of the world to move from violence, confusion and anger, to peace, clarity and love. And this week we’ll be talking to Neale about change, based on his bestselling book “When Everything Changes, Change Everything.” Don’t miss it!

The process of self-healing must, at its most effective, include mindfulness. Our guest for this week is Sue PattonThoele, author of the book The Mindful Woman, along with several others, is here to talk with us about what it means to be mindful. The process of mindfulness is exactly that, a process. And its most important feature is the ability to look within without judgment. This means we don’t label our thoughts, feelings, beliefs or even our life events and our responses to them as either good or bad, wrong or right. We simply see them and even learn to sit with them. Sue’s work is mostly for women, but the same process applies to all genders. Would you like to learn more about how you can apply this peaceful process to your life? Don’t miss this show.

The root of all evil? The elusive dream? The pragmatic principle of food on the table and a roof over your head? Let’s talk about money. What is it really? What does it represent? How and why should we make more of it? How does the law of attraction apply to money? Are you aware of all of the archetypal drags on your consciousness related to money? If not, you may need to tune into this show in which we will uncover this weighty unconscious material that keep us from experiencing both material and immaterial life to its fullest measure. Come on, let’s be brave and talk about the scariest subject on planet earth.

The pathway of the authentic Self is the way of the peaceful warrior. Dan Millman, our guest today, has come to tell us some real life stories of the way of the peaceful warrior a way that bridges the gap between worlds. Most well known for his bestselling books, including “Way of the Peaceful Warrior,” “The Laws of Spirit,” and “The Life You Were Born to Live;” Dan was first known as a world trampoline champion and hall of fame gymnast. His books have inspired millions of people in more than twenty languages. And as most of us know, his book “Way of the Peaceful Warrior” has been turned into a movie, “Peaceful Warrior”—a breakthrough film that doesn’t just inform the audience of a change in the lead character, but allows members of the audience to leave changed or reminded of some deeper aspect of Self. The man has simply combined more than one lifetime into this one! Don’t miss this opportunity to hear, and if you choose, talk to one of the world’s foremost spiritual leaders!

Ever wonder why it is that we seem to be drawn to primary relationships? Ever wonder about your own life’s purpose? This whole idea of purpose is one that can either drive us insane or motivate us toward meaning. Our guest this week will help us to learn about purpose as it applies to both our relationships and our lives in general. Dorothy Ratusny is a Canadian Psychotherapist specializing in Cognitive Therapy, who combines that effort with knowledge of Eastern philosophy, Christian Theology, Mysticism and Metaphysics to offer her clients tools of self-discovery toward personal empowerment and authentic living. She is the author of “The Purpose of Love” and “Live Your Life’s Purpose,” a consultant for numerous corporations, a frequent guest of various radio shows and, recently, the co-host of the radio show Womyn’s Word. Don’t miss this opportunity to start the New Year by exploring your purpose!