Naming the Real

S4E5 The Center of Distortion (A Third Way, Pt. 5)

As surrounding culture increasingly finds methods of justifying behavior, the pervasive habit of identifying as the victim in any situation (typically contrary to objective reality) creates an…

S4E4 World Without Facts (A Third Way, Part IV)

S4E3 When Decency Dies: The Third Moral Fallacy

What happens when basic human decency disappears from public life? When power replaces restraint, the line between stability and chaos grows dangerously thin.

S4E2 Might Makes Right? (A Third Way, Part II)

S4E1 The Yeah, But Fallacy: Why Moral Reasoning Is Breaking—and How to Stop It (A Third Way, Part I)

What happens when moral reasoning is replaced by comparison and outrage? In this episode, we name what may be the greatest moral fallacy of our time: the "yeah, but" fallacy—the habit of justifying…

S3E100 Embodying What We Didn't Know How: Using the Body's Core Energy to Break the Stress and Trauma Loop (Somatics IV)

In this fourth installment of the Somatic Series, we explore how trauma is embedded not simply through overwhelming event but through the body's incomplete survival responses. Stress, overwhelm, and…

S3E99 Getting Unstuck: Navigating the Stress and Trauma Spectrum (Somatics III)

To be human is experience stress as well as being on a trauma spectrum. In this episode—part three of the Somatics Series—we define trauma in relationship to stress, in connection with Polyvagal…

S3E98 Tracking Tigers: Polyvagal Theory and the Art of Navigating Your Nervous System (Somatics II)

In this second episode in the Somatics series, we explore Polyvagal Theory as a tool for raising awareness and befriending your body. Exploring the three central states in Polyvagal Theory…

S3E97 Your Body for a Change: Raising Your "Felt Sense" For Sustained Transformation (Somatics I)

In this episode—the first in a new series about befriending our bodies—we explore how awareness of our body's feelings, experience, and sensation is the engine of sustained change. In a society in…

S3E96 Finding the Light All Around Us: Reflections on the Lives of Rabindranath Tagore, Etty Hillesum, and Edwin Muir (A Final Conversation with John Phillip Newell)

In this final conversation with Celtic thinker and author John Philip Newell about his book 'The Great Search,' we explore themes of returning to the wisdom of childhood and learning to encounter the…

S3E95 Dystopic Distortions: Grounding in Calm and Joy (No Matter How Many Facts Are Called Fake) (Our Cultural Crisis XXI)

At the center of our cultural crisis is a battle for reality—for the role of facts, objective law, and thought itself. As mainstream media is derided as "fake news" and blatant lies become rampant,…

S3E94 A Culture of Winners and Losers: Transcending the Animal Kingdom in President Trump's America (Our Cultural Crisis XX)

At the center of our cultural crisis is a clash of values. The current administration's actions reflect an age-old paradigm: us versus them, winners versus losers. It is driven by animal kingdom…

S3E93 Blindness, Outrage, and the Quest for Power: The 9 Mechanisms Driving Our Cultural Crisis (Our Cultural Crisis XIX)

We are living through perilous times—an age of anxiety, crisis, and polarization. In this return to the Our Cultural Crisis series, we explore the 9 mechanisms—emotivism, blindness, tribalism,…

S4 A NtR Short: The 100 Glimmer Challenge

Transformation ultimately has less to do with thinking our way into change than living into it in bodies that have been trained to feel and be fully present. In this episode, we explore a way to…

S4E92 A Psychologist, a Saint, and a Sufi Walk Into Oneness: Jung, Julian, and Rumi on Vibrant Spirituality (A Third Conversation with John Phillip Newell)

In this third conversation with John Phillip Newell, author of The Great Search and numerous books on spirituality, we explore what we talk about when we talk about "oneness." Oneness, as Carl Jung,…

S4 A NtR Short: The Happiness Formula: The Tale of Abd al-Rahman III's 14 Days

There are many competing formulas for happiness. In this episode, exploring the tale of Abd al-Rahman III and his fourteen days of fulfillment, we look at two such formulas. What emerges is a…

S4E91 Life and Breath: The Art and Science of Wim Hof Breathing, Cold Plunge, and Building New Neural Networks (A Conversation with Nolan Kim, Part II)

In this second conversation with Nolan Kim, director of Power Coaching, we explore more practices for befriending the body. We begin with a dive into the science behind cold plunging and how a simple…

S4E90 Life and Breath: The Art and Science of Befriending the Body through Mindful Breathing (A Conversation with Nolan Kim)

Breathing well is central to living well. In this conversation with Nolan Kim, director of Power Coaching, we explore the simplest practices for transforming your sense of presence and power through…

S3E89 The End of All Stories: From Shame to Compassion (with Yelling and Groaning Along the Way)

One of our most profound capacities as humans is the ability to re-story our lives. In this final episode of the storytelling series, we explore the movement from shame to compassion/self-compassion.…

S3E88 The Hardest Thing We Ever Do: Self-Compassion as a Core Practice (Storytelling V)

As a conclusion to the storytelling series, we explore one of the hardest things we ever learn to do: refusing self-judgment and embracing every part of us with compassion. Self-compassion has…