Episode 57: “One Breath” with Debra Denker—Music by Todd Lowry

In the latest episode of The Celebrate Happiness Roadshow podcast, we are talking with Debra Denker, Santa Fe-based writer, photographer, and filmmaker who has been creating media about international environmental, social justice, and peace issues since the late 70s. Starting in 1986, Debra worked and taught in the healing arts, including energy healing, spiritual counseling, and animal communication with companion animals and wild-living ones. She is an ordained graduate of the Healing Light Center Church, where she studied with Rev. Rosalyn Bruyere and served on the faculty for five years. As a certified Healing Touch Practitioner in 2002 and as an instructor in 2006, Debra currently sees clients in private practice in both Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Alaska. Debra has also taught Healing Touch courses in Tibet and South Africa, and is planning to establish a healing center in Vancouver, British Columbia, called Rasa Catalyst Healing In addition, Debra is the author of the cli-fi time travel novel Weather Menders and a novel set in Afghanistan during the 1980 war, Love and War in the Land of Cain, which won first place in the 2022 National Federation of Press Women contest. She has written for diverse publications, including National Geographic, the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian. She is a longtime member and current board member of the Society of Women Geographers. Debra is also the founder and director of the Global Diversity Film Project (GDFP), an initiative of Perception International, which makes films in association with her production company, Catalyst Artistic Productions. Her films on Afghanistan and Tibet have been exhibited in many film festivals, and her short films are accessible on YouTube and Vimeo, including Community Garden: New Mexico/South Africa, which screened at the New Mexico Filmmakers Showcase, and a trailer for a film on ancient Hawaiian spirituality, One Breath: One Life. Join us for this moving episode in which Debra shares her insights into our deep interconnectedness with all beings, the power of energy work, finding fulfillment through acts of service, and more.