Passing4normal

Tisha Morris is a feng shui expert, best-selling author, and life coach. Tisha and Sharon discuss the relationship between your home, your body, and your life. Tisha tells how to create change in your life through clearing and rearranging your home environment, including clearing your clutter. Earthhome.tv

Dale Bell and Harry Wiland, co-founders of Media Policy Center, are award-winning documentary filmmakers, media producers, and agents of social change. Dale, Harry and Sharon discuss the role media plays in inspiring social change, and their particular model for transforming inspiration into action steps on behalf of essential issues such as: greener cities, the VW emissions scandal, and elder care. Mediapolicenter.org

Have you felt immobilized by the results of this presidential election? Shut down? Off-balance? Somatic psychologist and trauma specialist, Amber Gray, talks with Sharon Weil about how real and imagined terror and fear affect the body, creating either a shutting down response or an impulse towards fight or flight action. She provides essential and helpful insight and tools for finding calm, restoration, and a return to mobility and social engagement after difficult events. These tools apply to any stressful, shocking, or life-altering change. Listen and find comfort in her words.

Wendy Hammers is an outrageous, outspoken, spoken-word artist and champion. As an actress, writer, stand up comic, teacher and the producer of the long-running Tasty Words spoken-word salon in Los Angeles, she presents hilarious, heartwarming, and heartbreaking stories of personal change. A good story is an interaction between the storyteller and the witness that will transform each of them. A funny story quickly provides an unexpected prospective. She spoke with Sharon Weil about creating community, the empowerment of storytelling, and the healing properties at the core of both. If you like this episode, you might enjoy "Creative Translation" with Jackie Welch Schlicher. https://soundcloud.com/sharon-weil/creative-translation-jackie-welch-schlicher-with-sharon-weil

Lorin Roche, PhD is an eclectic meditation master, teacher, and the author of many books, including the acclaimed The Radiance Sutras. Having studied meditation traditions from all over the world, he offers embodied meditation practices for 21st century women and men. He talks with Sharon Weil about the primacy and the simplicity of meditation in order to be more adaptive to change. Lorin says there are many portals to meditation, and a meditation practice can be individual and should be joyous, according to a person’s desires and tendencies. He speaks about how to enter meditation through the senses, not by “quieting the mind.” Listen for an entirely new kind of invitation into deep rest, full presence, and meditation. If you like this episode, you might enjoy "The Anatomy of Anxiety" with Robert Litman. https://soundcloud.com/sharon-weil/the-anatomy-of-anxiety-robert-litman-with-sharon-weil

Kori Tolbert is a health coach and patient advocate who has transformed her own life-long journey with a debilitating illness into teaching young patients to empower themselves and improve their health outcomes by maximizing choice in how they perceive and receive treatment.

Billy Mernit is considered the guru of rom-coms; an expert on the genre and on the entire story-writing process. Listen to him discuss what’s changed in romance and how it’s portrayed, and how the writer changes with the changing genre.

A new, exciting, follow-up discussion with Dr. Anna O'Malley, MD, Integrative and Family Community medical physician and founder/director of Natura Institute for Ecology and Medicine, as she conveys how our food choices and our habits around what we eat can be some of the greatest determinants for our health and well-being—reducing the inflammation and stressors underlying many degenerative conditions.

Dr. Anna O’Malley is an Integrative Family and Community medical doctor seeking a more integrated, self - engaged and restorative model for health and wellness that includes modern medicine, food choices, community and a deep connection to the natural world. She is the founder/director of the Natura Institute for Ecology and Medicine in Bolinas, California, offering nature-based health education programs.

Life Coach, Debbie Spector Weisman, guides people in how to utilize the rich images and messages of the dream world to enact changes in their waking lives. Listen to how you can become more attuned to this wonderful, nightly resource that is always available for self- discovery.

The human body is a creative process, with many portals to health and well-being. Dr. Bonnie Gintis, DO, uniquely combines osteopathy, mindfulness, Continuum, and other body-awareness practices to expand the possibilities of deeply caring for ourselves and others--becoming full participants in our own health and healing.

Do you stress about spending too much while earning too little? Financial Stress Reduction coach and author, Chellie Campbell is lively, wise, and entertaining as she talks about how to change your mindset around all the messages we carry about money --whether you have none or tons. She’ll help you finance the changes you want for your life in peace and prosperity.

Wildfires on the west coast are a new normal; challenging our ability to breathe and to remain calm when the fires burn around us. Breath and movement expert, Robert Litman discusses how to protect your breathing during wildfire season or in times when the air is not suitable. Your life could depend upon it.

Laurie Lipton is a visionary artist whose vision is at once disturbing, ironic, and full of piercing truth. Her intricate pencil drawings are biting social commentary revealing the mechanisms behind the façade, isolation in the age of social media, and questions about control. What is the artist’s role in bringing others to awareness? Find out in this fun and insightful interview.

Paul Loeb, social and political activist, discusses integration and change with John Weeks, integrative medicine practitioner.

Jackie Welch-Schlicher and Rebecca Mark are both artists who have mastered the art of listening deeply, receptivity and response, and playing with the magic of the unexpected. Each of them uses “an open hand” when crafting their work, which allows the artistic expression to reflect the improvisational nature of life. The practice of trust rather than control, receiving rather than forcing, keeps the work fresh and alive no matter what the form or task.

Amber Gray and Fred Sugerman use body-based therapies and practices to inspire hope and change. New possibilities for health, healing, well-being, and pleasure rather than pain, can be discovered through movement, new sensations, and the unwinding of old and painful patterns. When we can reframe our felt experience, we can Have Hope for new outcomes. Listen to how.

Nature is change. Permaculture experts Penny Livingston-Stark and James Stark explore how to facilitate change with more ease when we Align with Nature. The natural world provides all the examples and support we need to adapt to any changing circumstance, both internal and external, real or in metaphor; whether we dwell in the forest or in the middle of the city.

Jacques Verduin and Robert Litman work with bringing awareness to every moment in very different settings. Jacques Verduin is a leader in restorative justice working in prisons, Robert Litman is a breath and movement educator working with clients, many of whom suffer from asthma, anxiety, or other breathing disorders. Their discussion is a lively exploration of how the simplicity of breath and sense awareness is the beginning of any journey to change.

Meditation mentor, Camille Maurine, and intuitive astrologer, Rachel Lang, Spark Fire as they discuss passion, pleasure, and finding your purpose. Uncovering your passion motivates action that can burn through fear, reluctance, and ambivalence. Riding the wild currents of your own passion requires a play of both courage and tenderness. Listen to find out how.