Michele Harper | Beauty in Breaking

People who are genuinely engaged in spiritual practice live longer, experience 30% lower all-cause mortality, report more meaning, and suffer less depression. The data are remarkably clear. And yet, more people are leaving organized religion than at any point in modern history. S ...  Show more

Elena Brower spent two decades as one of the most visible yoga and meditation teachers in the world, stages of thousands, a growing platform, the whole forward-facing life. Then she started doing the opposite. She got quieter. She trained as a chaplain. She began sitting with peo ...  Show more

“It’s the possibility of greater change that rejuvenates me,” says Michele Harper, MD. “That’s what makes it possible for me to keep going.” Harper is an emergency room physician who has worked as chief resident at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx and in the emergency departme ...  Show more

The conversation of this hour always rises as an early experience that imprinted everything that came after at On Being. Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen is one of the wise people in our world. She trained as a doctor in a generation that understood death as a failure of medicine. Yet her ...  Show more

On today's episode host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C speaks to Donna Jackson Nakazawa about her forthcoming book, The Angel and The Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine. Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning journalist and internationally-recognized spea ...  Show more

Happy Wednesday Heal Squad. We have such an amazing episode today as author, producer, and former Ambassador to the Bahamas Nicole Avant joins us today to share the inspiration behind her book ‘Think You’ll Be Happy: Moving Through Grief with Grit, Grace, and Gratitude”. Nicole g ...  Show more