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Becoming Who We Are

by Kendall

Discovering the path of healing and growth to awaken to who we are by probing the depths of religion, spirituality, psychology, etc. What is reality and how can we participate in it more fully to create a better future?

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Episodes

  1. Mistakes, Atonement, and Redemption - with Preston Bryant

    My friend and former Life Coach Preston Bryant joins me to get very vulnerable and honest about his life journey. Preston opens up about his former addictions and exile from his spiritual community. He shares how coming to Christ has helped heal him as well as diving into his creativity through...

  2. Cognitive Ecology, Autism, and systems thinking - with Sher Griffin

    PHD student Sher sat down with me to talk about her journey of discovering she was Autistic and understanding how she experiences and makes sense of the world. We touched on many different subjects like humanism, AI, and the power of inner experience. We talked about how journaling has been so...

  3. Your sensitivity is a calling

    Substack article read. Find it here.

  4. Possessed - On the parts that take over, and how to get your agency back

    I'm starting a new solo episode series, reading my substack articles out loud. If you'd like to read it I will include the link below. Also, as mentioned, I'd love to hear from you--what you've liked, what could be improved, what you want to hear in the future, or anything else. Please reach out…

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  5. Taoism and Paradox - with Prashanthi Amarnath

    Prashanthi joins me to talk about her book "Embracing Paradox," a commentary on the Tao Te Ching. We discuss the mysterious origins of Taoism from Lao Tzu, to the relationship between the Yin and the Yang. We discuss some of the many paradox's within the Tao Te Ching and the unnamable formless…

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  6. The Four Dimensions of Health - Erica Matluck

    Erica joins me to talk about her journey of dealing with serious health conditions to healthy through natural holistic health avenues. She uses her vast experience of treating patients to develop her 4 pillars of health: spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional. Erica believes that all four...

  7. Conflict Resolution - with Trace Bell and Tina Olson

    Trace Bell joins me for a second time with his partner Tina Olson. We ended up talking a lot about relationships including: steelmanning and boundaries. We talked about the trends we're seeing in the collective and in our own lives. Some of those trends include not getting stuck in the ditches of...

  8. Addiction and Relationships - with Hannah Dalby

    Hannah joins me to talk about her life, growing up with addiction to substances and then to healing. She explains the difference between addiction to healing and actual healing and growing. We explore how everything is relationships whether that is with other people, God, the world, or ourselves....

  9. The Alchemy of death - with Brandy Anderson

    Join Brandy and me for a Halloween special discussing ghosts, demons, and death. We share how our modern culture pushes the natural cycle of death to the margins and how Halloween can be an invitation to contemplate and prepare ourselves for the inevitability of death. We talk about how to view…

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  10. An intro to Spiral Dynamics - with Gavin Abeytratne

    Gavin joins me to explain the psychological/sociological model of Spiral Dynamics. We explore how the model can be helpful and ways in which it can be distorted. We connect periods of history and people groups with different stages while acknowledging all the stages are within us and can be...

  11. Fostering, Homosexuality, and Deconstruction - with Juliet Sinklier

    My friend joins me to talk about her journey growing up as a Christian with parents who fostered many kids. She discovered that she was homosexual and began deconstructing Christianity. She now identifies as bi and has found a much more curious, expansive, exploratory phase of discovery in her...

  12. How do we know truth? An exploration of Epistemology - with Taylor Bonner

    My long-time friend Taylor joins me to talk about how we form beliefs have some confidence about their accuracy. We explore truth formation through the lens of the Bible and Christianity before broadening our scope through the conversation of philosophy as a whole. I bring in my perspective…

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  13. How Consciousness forms into physical reality & the human system - with Elizabeth Halligan

    Consciousness researcher Elizabeth Halligan joins me to discuss her upbringing in a cult (7th Day Adventist) and how that led her to question our understanding of reality. We talk about the importance of language in our understanding and experience of life and how we cannot escape subjectivism.…

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  14. Yoga for therapy - with Amanda Baker

    Amanda, a mental health therapist and certified yoga teacher joins me to talk about her therapeutic work and how she learned to integrate yoga within it. We talk about fast paced American culture, burnout, and the importance of slowing down. We discuss the realization and shift in therapy towards...

  15. Dissociation, belonging, and Inner Child Work - with Lauren May

    My friend and Astrologer Lauren joins me again to have a conversation about what's been going on in our lives. We talk about embodying knowledge to become wisdom, leaning into our teaching and using our voices more, and learning to accept rejection. We discuss our natural inclination to…

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  16. Visions of a New Earth - with Christine Smith

    Fellow life coach and friend Christine joins me to talk about her vision for a new earth. She begins by explaining her upbringing as a Christian, but quickly moving to atheism. The miracle of childbirth moved her into spirituality where she learned lessons about unconditional love and seeing the...

  17. The power of HeartMath -- with Diana Gallego

    My fellow West Texan joins me to talk about her journey of dancing, degrees, and burnout. This journey led her to go through a healing journey where she discovered the HeartMath Institute Diana became a HeartMath practitioner, using simple techniques and technology that helps your heart rate...

  18. Male loneliness, patriarchy, and wholeness - with Daniel Bilog

    My friend Daniel joins me to share his journey growing up as a male without understanding the language of emotions and somatics while also being taught to view women as objects. We discuss how the lack of these languages created lack of deep connection between men and loneliness. We go on to...

  19. The Secret to Happiness - with Ryan Bush

    Ryan joins me to talk about his book "become who you are" which explains how to maximum happiness through the lens of the Stoics and Evolutionary Biology. We discuss the 3 axis's of pain to pleasure, loss to gain, and virtue. We explore the cause of depression, the role of self-esteem and self...

  20. An esoteric exploration of Jesus - with Jonas Brand

    My Catholic friend Jonas joins me to talk about who Jesus was. We discussed miracles, the humanity/divinity of Jesus, meaning of the cross, hell, dimensions, ascension, the law, the possible marriage with Mary Magdalene, and much more. This isn't your typical Christian discussion. Check it out!

  21. Color and Sound Therapy - with Amber Tumbleson

    My friend Amber joins me to talk about the future of healing - frequency. We discuss natural law vs. artificial and sterile man-made law. Amber explains how color helps clients connect deeply with their psyche beyond talk therapy. We end by playing a crystal sound bowl and sharing our experience…

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  22. The Seeding of Earth and Open Contact - with Reuben Langden

    Reuben joins me once again to discuss the ancient past and the potential future. We talk about the alternative view of ET's helping seed earth and the evolution of humanity rather than Darwinian Evolution or religious Creationism. Reuben explains the difference between density vs. dimension, the...

  23. Astrology & discovering yourself - with Lauren May

    My distant relative Lauren May joins me to explain what Astrology is, how she came to teach it, and how its been helpful to her and her clients lives. We discuss my chart and how amazingly accurate it is. You can find Lauren on her website here.

  24. What is Unconditional Love? - With Ozzie Santos

    My long-time friend Ozzie Santos joins me to recite his Poem based on his past romantic relationship. We discuss how unconditional love is threatening, educational, happy, and boundaries. We reminisce about our past relationships and what they've taught us. You can find Ozzie and his creativity…

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  25. Kingdom Principles for Transformation - with Nick Carlile

    Fellow Life coach Nick Carlile joins me to talk about his ubringing from going through the motions as a Christian, to partying and drugs, to then actively choosing his faith. We talk about Jesus, the Kingdom of Heaven, what Eden means to us, and much more. Find Nick on his website here.

  26. From Fear to Love - with Elysia Skye

    Coach, actress, producer, fellow podcast host, and more Elysia Sky joins me to talk about her journey through Hollywood learning to conquer fear with love. We discuss the course of miracles, the importance of self-compassion, and finally the beliefs behind making money. You can find Elysia at her...

  27. From Entrepreneur mogul to worldwide traveller - with Andres Schabelman

    Andres joins me to talk about his journey from being a tech startup as one of the first 30 employees at AirBnB and Fiverr to then becoming disillusioned with crony capitalism and corporate greed. Through hard lessons of being drugged and robbed, Andres learned to heal and express himself by...

  28. Preserving the old, looking forward, & Censorship - with Sorina Higgins

    Sorina joins me again to talk about the premise of the book Fahrenheit 451 and the burning of books to introduce to idea of censorship and power. We talk about the importance of old ideas so that we do not repeat the same mistakes in history. We throw around the idea of what should be banned or...

  29. Exploring Astral Travel - with Lance Staggs

    This is one of my favorite conversations I've had in a long time. Lance, an experienced Astral traveler joins me to talk about what Astral travel is. We discuss the difference between lucid dreaming and Astral travel. We explore the different realms and experiences one may have. We talk about how...

  30. How God speaks through Tarot, oracle cards, and nature - with Megan Edge

    Master Healer Megan Edge joins me to talk about her journey becoming a master healer and how nature has always been so healing for her. We talked about how we've found different symbols and messages within nature. Megan discusses her creative process of channeling her oracle card deck and what it...

  31. What dogs can teach us about ourselves - with Bre Charity

    My friend Bre joins me to tell me about her story, from growing up coaching ice skating from a young age, to going through school to become a psychologist trying to figure herself and her family out, to then becoming a life coach and dog trainer. Bre explains how often often our own issues play...

  32. NDE's, Entreuprenership, and learning spiritual maturity- with Rose Hope

    Reverend Rose Hope joins me to talk about her two Near Death Experiences, one as a child and one at the age of 25. She talks about working through perfectionism and even gifting her business away. She eventually found her purpose in becoming a spiritual coach, healer, and leader. We discuss...

  33. Akashic record reading and Past life regression - with Allie Aschmann

    Allie tells us about her journey and how she went from Catholic to spiritual. She explains how past life regression and Akashic records helped her and then how she got into doing these modalities herself. We explain what these two things are and what one can gain from undergoing going. You can…

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  34. Overcoming patriarchy and family expectations - with Tabita Cosme

    Tabita joins me again, this time to talk more about her personal journey from growing up Catholic in Brazil to moving to Europe and discovering many other cultures and religions. Tabita had a spiritual awakening and then went through the healing process of becoming more of who she is while…

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  35. How to help parents with kids who have transformative spiritual experiences - with Neidy Lozado & Jessica Ruby

    Neidy, Ruby, and I continue our conversation from our earlier panel on how parents can best support their children through disorienting spiritual experiences. We talked about negative and positive experiences. How to foster openness in oneself to become a good listener, a safe space, and willing…

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  36. Attachment Styles and God - with Tabata Guerreiro Cosme

    This episode is a recording of an Instagram live. So the audio quality will not be as good and you may hear buzzing from incoming texts. However, I think it was an amazing conversation about the different attachment styles, how they've played out in my own and Tabata's life, and how that's…

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  37. What to do when life doesn't meet our expectations - with Amy Robinson

    Amy joins me again as we talk about our career and creative paths. We talk about the disappointment of reception to our work and what its teaching us. We talk about where our identity and worth come from and how to move forward when life doesn't go as planned. Find Amy and her book at her website...

  38. How coaching principles apply to every day life - with Dr. Rosie Kuhn

    Rosie joins me once again to talk about how what makes a good coach. We discuss how these principles apply in every day life. We talk about principles like curiosity and empathy. Find Rosie on her website Explore Rosie's series on how to be a better coach. Join Rosie's 20245 September advanced...

  39. Christianity to atheism to beyond dualities - with Tim Cooper

    Tim joins me to talk about his extreme Christian fundamentalist upbringings, people pleasing, and group identity. We talk about Tim's shift to angry atheism and then realizing that atheism has many groups within it that also do not have it all figured out. Tim learned to step out beyond group and...

  40. Finding our voice, forgiveness, and parts work - with Neidy Lozada

    My friend and fellow coach Neidy joins me to talk about her journey growing up having her voice cut off from a young, to developing a loud harsh voice, to then becoming confident and finding a softer voice. We discuss the importance and call to take responsibility for our own life and the power…

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  41. Poetry, timelines, and AI - with Amy Robinson

    My friend and Poet Amy Robinson joins me to talk about her story from atheism to spirituality. She explains how she got into psychic readings, energy work, and intuitive poetry. Amy reads a bit from her new book 2318. We discuss the book which goes into AI, timelines, and the idea of life as a...

  42. Exploration, Faith, and Potential - with Dr. Rosie Kuhn

    This was a hard episode to title because Rosie and I had such a delightful conversation about many topics. We started out talking about Rosie's spiritual journey from a dysfunctional family, to becoming a counselor for addiction, to then becoming a transformational life coach. We moved onto…

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  43. Through the Veil Book Interview - with Brandy Anderson

    My friend Brandy Anderson joins me to talk about her new book Through the Veil. We talked about topics such as reincarnation, the devil, the kingdom of heaven, etc. Purchase her book on Amazon when its published on June 18th. You can find Brandy on Instagram here. Or search brandythemystic on…

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  44. Exploring the Kabbalah (Jewish Mysticism) - With Sam Shonkoff

    In this episode Professor Sam Shonkoff joins me to talk about his Jewish upbringing and how he became interested in the Kabbalah. We talk about the history and development of Jewish Mysticism and how the shaping of Western Christianity impacted Judaism. We discuss areas such as the transcendent…

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  45. Year in review & life update

    In this solo episode I briefly review the podcast and how grateful I am about it. I tease some upcoming episodes. I also talk about what's been going on in my life and starting up my life coaching business. If you've enjoyed the podcast I'd love to get a rating/review on apple podcasts or…

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  46. What Near Death Experiences can teach us - with Ryan Rominger

    Psychologist Ryan Rominger joins me once again to talk about the phenomenon and research of NDE's. We talk about the similarities and differences between NDE's and how cultural and religious/spiritual views affect the experience. We discuss the debate between the origins of NDE's as being…

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  47. A pyschologist's Kundalini Awakening - with Ryan Rominger

    Therapist Ryan Rominger joins me to talk about his Kundalini Awakening. I reflect on my own Kundalini Awakening & how after our experiences our relationship with light and energy changed. We discuss our evolving understanding of God. We also compare the pros and difficulties that these awakenings...

  48. The paradox of Surrender vs. Striving - with Sorina Higgins

    Sorina joins me for a pt. 2 to our first episode. We go further in talking about neutral spiritual beings, faith vs. works, is there really such a thing as Christian orthodoxy, and much more!

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Discovering the path of healing and growth to awaken to who we are by probing the depths of religion, spirituality, psychology, etc. What is reality and how can we participate in it more fully to create a better future?

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