Stories & Reflections

"It’s easy to feel discouraged and disheartened, defeated and destroyed. It’s easy to want to give in and give up, to want to throw in the towel and walk away. Don't do it!"Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

"My birthdays, and the weeks on either side of them, have often marked significant shifts and turning points in my life...portals that I pass through from an old way of being and into a new one." Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

“The crazy, whiplash-fast miracle that catapulted me back to my heart's home in Sedona.” Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

"What are you holding on to right now that’s getting in the way of your journey, your empowerment, your life? Whatever it is, it's time to let go."Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

“Synchronicity, that bumper-car-like vortex of words, thoughts, dreams, memories and experiences that smash into each other in a way that seems random but isn't, is the magic that unexpectedly birthed one of my books…then pushed me into a sequelr. Some (all?) stories refuse to end.”Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

"Every car I've ever owned has shown up in a conventionally impossible way: loans that should have been denied...model choices that made no sense...down payments I could never cover. Yet through some logic-defying force I grew to trust, I always got my car."Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

"California pushed and pulled at me for 30 chaotic years...until I was finally able to say thank you for all its gifts, even the uncomfortable ones."Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

Your intuition is an expression of your highest wisdom. Trust it to guide you to the best possible outcome…one your conscious mind could never dream up!Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

“Enter into the magical realm, where everything is possible, and where miracles occur with each breath.”Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

"Just like it did 29 years ago, the phoenix is burning away my old life, taking with it outdated fears and unhealthy attachments. And just like last time, the new life it’s birthing for me is bound to be extraordinary, beyond anything I can imagine." Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

"When it comes to following my intuition and inner guidance, I’ve come to know that resistance truly is futile."Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

“Had I stayed, it wouldn't have been an act of spiritual surrender. It would have been a retreat for all the wrong reasons: running away from the world, and from a destiny I could sense but not yet touch.”Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

“I have lived in many places over the years that I would call places of the heart. Only one has kept calling me back again and again…for 29 years.”Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

"Not all my real life experiences make it into my fiction, yet a surprising number do, including my 2002 experience at an ancient Hawaiian temple on Maui. This excerpt from my fantasy novel The SunQuest, is the fictionalized version." (Hear the real-life version in Episode 25.)Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

"As hard as it can be to see some days, I'm more certain than ever that when I listen for the voice of that higher consciousness — when I listen for it, listen to it, trust it, surrender to it and act on it — I'm always on the right path. And I'm always taken care of."Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

That’s Emmeline Mandeville: unapologetically feisty, singularly eccentric and incorrigibly herself. I want to be just like her when I grow up!Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

"Whoever and whatever you are at this moment in your life, be you. Fully you. Authentically you. Unapologetically you. The you only you can be. Just be you!"Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

“Come out of hiding as whoever and whatever you are, however you can, and celebrate yourself. And if you can and if it’s safe, tell your stories. They won’t open every heart and change every mind, but they’ll open more hearts and change more minds than you can imagine.”Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

“Who are you? You are a powerful being of passion, light and love,  a transcendent expression of the Divine in human form. Remember that. Remember who you are!”Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

“Maybe now, finally, I can be free to shine my light, unapologetically and unequivocally into the world.  And maybe I can inspire you to do the same. It’s time.”Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

“Whether or not you’re a writer or any kind of creative artist, you’re a storyteller…because we all are. And that means you can make a difference. Your stories can make a difference.” Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

“Instead of the quest for ‘home’ that I’ve been on for so long, I’m turning that inside out — from an external search for a particular place to an inner recognition that I’m already home…because I always have been.”Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

Leaps of Faith, those blind, profoundly trusting and often terrifying deep dives into the unknown and unknowable: That’s where all life’s magic and miracles are waiting for us. Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

"That’s the thing about our stories, the ones we live from the heart of our beingness as much as the ones we write from that same place. It can be hugely challenging, even impossible, to recognize their perfection in the moment. Somehow, though, that perfection is still present…waiting for the moment when we can acknowledge it…and maybe even celebrate it."Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

When we listen to the voice of our heart, to the call of our intuitive knowingness, to those messages from that place of highest consciousness…if we listen, trust and take the leaps of faith that inner imperative demands of us, the stars always align for us. Always.Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

I talk often but how my stories are smarter than I am. But that isn’t just about me. Whenever we write from the heart, from those deepest places within us, our stories are always more compelling, more evocative and, more prescient than we are. Then we ever could be. That is the magic of storytelling. And that was and remains a big part of the magic of The MoonQuest. Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

"I’ve told many stories over the years…in my books, in my workshops and, more recently, in my podcast. Still the one I tell in this episode (#13) of “Stories & Reflections” is one I’ve never shared before…not with anyone. Sharing it now, especially on video, was hard. Really hard. But it was also freeing."Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

"Even in the midst of my all frustrations and crises of faith, even through all those many, many times when I have wanted to give up – or, for a few moments or a few weeks, have given up – that intuitive knowingness, that still, small voice of infinite wisdom we all carry has never, ever steered me wrong or let me down. Why would it start now?"Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

“Embrace your strengths, even the ones that scare you. Especially the ones that scare you. Embrace your power, even if it scares you. Even if it scares others. Especially if it scares you or others. And if you find yourself saying 'no' to people and opportunities out of fear, as I’ve too often done in the past, feel that fear. Then pass through it to the other side, where your destiny awaits. Whatever that destiny is, it’s more wondrous than anything you could possible imagine. So…just say yes!”Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

In this heartfelt episode, Mark David shares his adventures with Roxy, one of the dogs in his life. Through stories of joy, humor and challenge, he describes how trusting his inner voice and intuitive guidance shaped and deepened his journey…and can shape and deepen yours. Discover how listening to your heart, trusting Infinite Mind and embracing synchronicity can lead to a life filled with magic, miracles…and joy.Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

In this episode, Mark David Gerson shares a personal update following his recent surgery and reflects on the significance of new beginnings. He talks about the importance of vulnerability in life as well as in storytelling and about how embracing authenticity can foster deeper connections with others. Sharing our truths not only liberates ourselves, he says, but also encourages others to do the same, ultimately leading to a more connected and compassionate world.Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

When we listen with our hearts to the story we're living as much as to the one we're writing, amazing things happen, unexpected things happen, things we could never have imagined happen! So listen with your heart, and free your story to show you the way...on the page and in your life.Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

For all I share about my challenging relationship with my father, this isn’t an episode about anger, hurt, pain or resentment. It's about resolution and reconciliation. It’s about moving forward and moving on. It’s about love. Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

What dreams of yours have you stuffed at the back of a drawer? What dreams of yours have you decided are impractical? Unreasonable? Unreachable? Whatever they are, reach your hand into that drawer and pull them out. Reawaken them. Rekindle them. Reignite them. Whether you're 20, 50 or 80, it's never too late to follow your dreams!Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

Every choice I make, right down to the choice I made to record this podcast episode, is another step on the journey that takes me to that point where everything changes, to that moment of shift, where nothing is ever the same again.Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

When we get out of our heads and listen to our heart, when we follow our intuition, our inner guidance, our inner wisdom or whatever you choose to call that innate, indwelling presences that resides in each of us, we open up an amazing treasure chest of magic, miracles and opportunities. And life is never, ever the same.Become a Stories & Reflections supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

There are three stories of how I came to be: the conventional one, the one close family and friends were told...and the truth.Become a Stories & Reflections supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

Many authors say, "Oh, I've always known I wanted to be a writer" or "I've always known I wanted to write books" or "I started making books out of construction paper even before I could read or write." None of those writers is me!Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

Storytelling is as natural as breathing, and we're always doing it...all day long! Long before there was spoken or written language, our cave dweller ancestors grunted and mimed their adventures around the fire pit. You and I did something similar as infants, with gurgles and gestures, long before we had language. Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores

1-minute intro to Stories & Reflections, where my stories are also yours...Become a "Stories & Reflections" supporter and listen ad-free!••• Listen Ad-Free!Follow Mark David on your favorite social media sites...FacebookThreadsBlueskyYouTubeX (Twitter)Read Mark David's StoriesSigned Copies of Mark David's Books Mark David on AmazonMark David in Indie Bookstores