Passing4normal

Sharon Weil engages in a lively and playful conversation with Camille Maurine, women’s embodiment teacher and co-author of "Meditation Secrets for Women, Discovering your Passion, Pleasure and Inner Peace." Camille knows that women need a sensually embodied approach to meditation and spiritual practice that is full of the life force of Eros. Hear her secrets for women on how to access inner power and the higher realms through the heightened senses of the body. If you like this episode, you might enjoy "Changing the Conversation about Women" with Naama Bloom. Sharon-weil – Passing-4-normal-podcast-season-4-episode-1-naama-bloom

Passing 4 Normal Podcast, hosted by Sharon Weil, is a show about Change. Her guests are remarkable, everyday heroes who create and adapt to change in their own unique and inspiring ways…and inform how you can too! Join us for lively discussions, fascinating insight, and valuable information about the one certainty in life…Change. This acclaimed podcast has inspired the book, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change (available on amazon)

Sharon Weil talks with Claire Hope Cummings, renowned environmental lawyer, journalist, and author of the seminal book about GMO’s, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds. Claire’s expertise on food, farming and genetic modification technology provides us with new insight as to why GMOs are perilous for agriculture.

Sharon Weil conspires with Robert Litman, movement and breath teacher of The Breathable Body, about how all change, internal and external, is initiated by breath. Certain held breathing patterns put us into constant fight or flight response, putting enormous stress on the body, expressed as anxiety, asthma, sleep apnea and more. Can we really change our world by changing how we breathe?

Sharon Weil talks with Deena Metzger, esteemed storyteller, poet, author, teacher, healer, about Revisioning Medicine, healing the individual and the Earth. Drawing deeply upon story, spirit, and the healing practices of indigenous traditions, she presents a new vision for the culture of medicine and the global integration of healing.

Why are the arts such a potent portal into self-discovery, empowerment, and mental health and well-being? Ping Ho, founding director of UCLArts and Healing discusses the transformational power of art, music, dance, writing, and drama, and the integrative healing that can be invoked through our immersion and participation in creative forms.

Where do dreams come from and what do they tell us? Psychotherapist and magician, Tom Verner, talks about the magical realm of the dream world, and how our dreams inform and activate us in the waking world—revealing to us our soul’s purpose and desire. Tom Verner and Stephen Larsen co-authored the definitive book, The Transformational Power of Dreaming.

Miguel Rivera is a deeply regarded musician, ceremony leader, and mentor guide facilitating people to find healing in community, in connection to the earth, and in connection to Native American earth-based traditions. His work with at-risk youth and veterans provide rites of passage, energetic transformation, and ways of restoring wholeness where belonging has long been fragmented.

Are you a woman asking, “What’s Next?” Amy Nobile and her co-author and business partner, Trisha Ashworth are rewriting the rules of midlife for the next generation with great humor and candor in their book Just When You’re Comfortable in Your Own Skin, It Starts to Sag. Amy reframes how women can find balance, purpose, and fulfillment as they embrace the next phase of life after 40, 50 and beyond.

Have you ever felt so strongly about an issue that you were compelled to take action, or even start a movement? Writer, producer, and movement educator Cheryl Montelle created Mil-Tree in order to provide a place of belonging: bringing together veterans, active military, and civilians to address the soul-wounds of war through community, communication, and artful expression.

Resilience is the most necessary quality to possess in order to meet the changes, upheavals, and setbacks of life. That response of strength and flexibility comes more easily to some than others, but it’s a skill that can be developed. Dr. Susan Mecca and Sharon Weil discuss what is needed to build increased resilience in any and all situations in order to walk back from crisis or loss, and thrive. If you like this conversation, listen to "The Gift of Crisis" with Dr. Susan Mecca. https://soundcloud.com/sharon-weil/the-gift-of-crisis-with-susan-mecca-phd

Can young voters impact the midterm elections? Citizen activist and author, and speaker, Paul Rogat Loeb founded the nonpartisan Campus Election Engagement Project to engage twenty million college students across the country in the election process: to register, volunteer in campaigns, educate themselves and turn out at the polls. Find out how you can make your vote count. If you like this episode, you might enjoy "Soul of a Citizen" with Paul Loeb. https://soundcloud.com/sharon-weil/soul-of-a-citizen-paul-loeb-with-sharon-weil

A cancer diagnosis can bring overwhelming and frightening change. The Cancer Support Community (CSC) is the nation’s leading provider of psychosocial education and support services to cancer patients, their families, and caregivers. Executive director, Julia Forth and Program Director, Dr. Shannon La Cava of CSC Los Angeles discuss the essential connection between emotional wellbeing and physical wellbeing in treating the disease of cancer while living full lives with cancer--and perhaps even fuller lives because of cancer. If you like this episode, you might enjoy "Communities are Ecosystems" with James Stark. https://soundcloud.com/sharon-weil/communities-are-ecosystems-james-stark-with-sharon-weil-1

What is your clutter actually covering up? Author, healer, designer and feng shui expert, Tisha Morris, talks about all the underlying reasons we hold on to our stuff, and compassionately offers ways to align with the lives we want – freed of what’s keeping us stuck. If everything in your home is an extension of your identity, who do you now want to be? If you like this episode, you might like "Change, One Box at a Time" with Amy McEachern. https://soundcloud.com/sharon-weil/change-one-box-at-a-time-amy-mceachern-with-sharon-weil

Honest talk empowers women. OB/GYN, author, and health expert, Dr. Sherry, provides positive, shameless conversation about women’s bodies, health, and sex. She speaks about her recent book, She-ology, The Definitive Guide to Women’s Intimate Health. Period. and about the vagina dialogue at every phase, including the later, sometimes forgotten, stages of a woman’s life. If you like this episode, you might enjoy "Embodiment Secrets for Women" with Camille Maurine. https://soundcloud.com/sharon-weil/embodiment-secrets-for-women-camille-maurine-with-sharon-weil

Crisis can bring us to our knees or teach us to grow. As a therapist, organizational consultant, author and speaker, Dr. Susan Mecca guides others to find their best selves in the worst of times. Here, she discusses her recent book, The Gift of Crisis, and offers specific tools for surviving and thriving serious times of disruption and sudden change. If you like this conversation, listen to "Building Resilience" with Dr. Susan Mecca. https://soundcloud.com/sharon-weil/building-resilience-with-dr-susan-mecca

Does the way a woman talks about her body determine how she will engage with the world? Naama Bloom, founder of Hello Flo, has been opening up the conversation for young women about their bodies and their health through humor and straight answers. Her book, Hello Flo: The Guide, Period. empowers young women to ask questions, make good choices, change the conversation and change their lives.

In this interview, Frankie and Sharon discuss change and Sharon Weil's latest book. For more information about the show, visit the website: http://www.frankieboyer.com/

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This is a recording of the show, Conversations, on Kansas Public Radio. In this show, host Dan Skinner discusses change with Sharon Weil, author of ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change. For more information, follow this link... http://kansaspublicradio.org/conversations