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by Tami Simon
Tami Simon, Founder and Publisher of Sounds True interviews spiritual teachers, visionary writers, and living luminaries about their newest work and current challenges—the growing edge of their inner inquiry and outer contribution to the world.
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- 2 days ago14 min
Just One Question | Francis Weller: How can I find a bottom to my grief?
When grief hits, it can feel bottomless, like freefall with no floor in sight. Psychotherapist and grief ritualist Francis Weller has spent decades helping people find exactly that: a bottom. In this episode, he tells Tami Simon why grief can't be processed alone, and what it actually takes to be held in sorrow instead of drowning in it.Francis Weller is the author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow and one of the most trusted voices working at the intersection of grief, ritual, and community. In this conversation, Tami and Francis explore:Why grief so often shows up as panic instead of pure sorrowThe difference between containment and release, and why grief work needs bothHow community, not solo processing, creates a real "bottom" to fall intoWhy reclaiming our capacity for sorrow is essential to staying alive, awake, and engaged with what Francis calls "the long dark"This one's for anyone who's ever felt like their grief has no floor, and who's ready to learn how ritual, community, and a little honest confession can change that.Taken from the full Insights at the Edge conversation with Francis Weller: https://bit.ly/francis-wellerSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- 4 days ago1h 6m
Dr. Sue Morter: "The Energetic Architecture of Awakening"
Twenty-six years ago, a chiropractor sitting in her first meditation class was transported into a field of light ten times brighter than the desert sun. Dr. Sue Morter, bestselling author of The Energy Codes, joins Tami Simon to map the energetic architecture behind that kind of awakening, and how the rest of us can build the inner circuitry to access it on purpose instead of by accident.Dr. Sue earned her doctorate in chiropractic more than 40 years ago and has spent decades developing a body of work in bioenergetics—the study of how energy flows through, builds, and heals the body. She's the founder of the Body Awake School of Yoga and the Morter Institute, an internationally recognized speaker, and the author of the new book The Anatomy of Awakening: The 5 Hidden Codes to Activate Self-Healing, Unlock Your Higher Consciousness, and Live Your Divine Destiny, which maps five additional energy centers beyond the familiar seven chakras.In this conversation, Tami and Dr. Sue explore:The spiritual experience that reoriented Dr. Sue's entire career and, over time, helped resolve her lifelong scoliosis and migrainesWhy "seeking enlightenment" misses the point, and why embodiment, not transcendence, is the real workThe five additional chakras beyond the traditional seven (eight through twelve), and what each one governs in our energetic architectureHow to build "energetic circuitry" at the site of a trigger instead of getting lost in its storySpherical breathing and Mula Bandha as practical tools for grounding and stabilizing the nervous systemWhat it actually means to regulate your nervous system, and why trying too hard to do it can backfireThis episode is for anyone navigating a season of nervous system dysregulation, energy practitioners and bodyworkers, and listeners drawn to the chakra system who want a more embodied, practical approach to awakening.Listen in for a guided practice you can use the next time you feel triggered, overwhelmed, or ungrounded.Dr. Sue uses a number of visual aids throughout this conversation, so if you'd rather watch than just listen, you can find the video version on YouTube @SoundsTrueManyVoices or on our premium membership platform at soundstrueone.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- 1 weeks ago11 min
Just One Question | Lama Rod Owens: How Can I Receive Love?
Giving love comes easy, but can you actually receive it? Lama Rod Owens says most of us flinch at being cared for, even by something as simple as the chair we're sitting in. In this practice from his book The New Saints, he walks us through what it takes to actually let love in.Lama Rod Owens, a Black Buddhist Southern Queen, authorized lama in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, and author of The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors, guides Tami Simon (and all of us listening) through a short meditation on receiving care, drawn straight from the pages of his new book.In this conversation, Tami and Lama Rod explore:Feeling supported by the seat or ground beneath youRecalling a time someone, or something, really loved youLetting that love move through the body, including the grief it can stir up along the wayImagining the whole universe wanting you safe, happy, and freeGently returning to the body and closing the practiceThis one's for anyone who finds it easier to give love than to receive it, which, let's be honest, is most of us.Taken from the full Insights at the Edge conversation with Lama Rod Owens. Find the complete interview in this feed or at https://bit.ly/new-saintSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- 1 weeks ago58 min
Terri Cole: “Healing the Worthiness Wound”
Terri Cole calls it an invisible wound: the imprint left when a daughter never receives protection, presence, or emotional attunement from her father. This week, Tami Simon talks with Terri Cole—Sounds True's own Boundary Boss—about her new book, Father Wound, and why even women with loving fathers can carry this wound without ever naming it.Terri Cole, MSW, LCSW, is a licensed psychotherapist, relationship expert, and best-selling author who has spent nearly three decades helping people break dysfunctional patterns and build healthier relationships with themselves and others. With Sounds True, she is the author of the trilogy that began with Boundary Boss and continued with Too Much: A Guide to Breaking the Cycle of High-Functioning Codependency. Her newest book, Father Wound: Break Unhealthy Patterns to Reclaim Your Worth and Power, examines what happens when a father or father figure is absent, abusive, immature, or simply not emotionally attuned—and why daughters of patriarchy carry a version of this wound no matter what kind of father they had.In this conversation, Tami and Terri explore:- How to recognize a father wound even when "my father wasn't that bad"- Why Terri defines the father wound as, at its root, a worthiness wound- The difference between self-parenting and re-parenting, and what healing your inner child looks like in daily decisions- The "father wound trance": how old patterns resurface in adult relationships, and how to work with transference instead of being run by it- Mourning the Dream, Terri's exercise for grieving the father you wished you'd had- Why healing this wound personally is tied to healing patriarchy at a collective, societal levelWho this episode is for: anyone doing inner child work, anyone who keeps finding themselves in the same relationship pattern and wondering why, and anyone ready to ask whether their sense of worth was shaped long before they had any say in it.Listen now, and start reclaiming your worth. →This interview originally aired on Sounds True One, where you can enjoy early, ad-free access to episodes of Insights at the Edge: https://join.soundstrue.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- 2 weeks ago12 min
The Point of Insight | Enter the River
What do Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, a roadside run-in with the law, and conversations with Eckhart Tolle, Caroline Myss, Rob Bell, and Liz Gilbert have in common? In this month's Point of Insight, Tami Simon follows a single image — the river — through her own life and through the teachers she's spent twenty years interviewing, and asks what it means to finally stop resisting the current and enter it.In this Point of Insight, Tami explores:How Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha first introduced her as a young person to the river as a symbol of timelessness and impermanenceA humbling roadside encounter with a police officer that became an unplanned teaching on the dangers of "self-congratulatory" thinkingEckhart Tolle's answer to a question he's asked often at retreats: how do you know if you're making progress on the spiritual path?A practice from Caroline Myss's new Spiritual Homebase community, viewing a current challenge first through the lens of fear, then through the lens of faithAuthor and former megachurch pastor Rob Bell on reframing risk, and why the risk of not taking a risk is often the greater oneElizabeth Gilbert's new memoir, All the Way to the River, her relationship with Rayya Elias, and the "two doors" conversation that changed the course of her lifeThe Buddhist teaching of the "stream-enterer," one of the earliest stages of awakening to an impermanent, flowing natureFor anyone standing at the edge of a change, a risk, or an uncertainty they haven't yet stepped into — press play and enter the river.And if you’re intrigued by any of the guests mentioned in this episode, be sure to visit soundstrue.com/podcast to find their full episodes of Insights at the Edge.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- 2 weeks ago1h 0m
Diane Poole Heller: "The Surprising Superpowers of Insecure Attachment"
What if the parts of you that feel the most "broken" in relationships are actually superpowers in disguise? Tami Simon speaks with psychologist and attachment expert Dr. Diane Poole Heller about her new book, The Attachment Workbook, and why insecure attachment patterns aren't flaws to fix, but adaptive responses to understand—and heal.Dr. Diane Poole Heller is an internationally recognized expert, author, and speaker specializing in adult attachment theory and trauma resolution. A former senior faculty member for Somatic Experiencing International, she studied for decades alongside trauma pioneer Dr. Peter Levine before developing DARE (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning Experience), a somatic framework for healing insecure attachment. She is the author of The Power of Attachment and, most recently, The Attachment Workbook: Practical Exercises to Understand Your Patterns, Strengthen Connection, and Build Secure Relationships, part of Sounds True's Inner Workbook series.In this conversation, Tami and Diane explore:Why secure attachment is biological—something we're all wired for, not something only some people getThe hidden "superpowers" of avoidant, ambivalent, and disorganized attachment stylesHow attachment wounds get physically trapped in the nervous system, and how the body completes what it couldn't finishThe near-death experience that redirected Diane's life's work toward love and connectionWhy healing attachment doesn't require a partner, and how your relationship with yourself can be the starting pointThe research-backed power of repair in relationships, and why learning to apologize well may matter more than never rupturing at allPractical visualization exercises from The Attachment Workbook, including inviting in an imagined protector and healing the "attachment gaze"This episode is for anyone who has wondered why connection feels so hard—whether you're a therapist, a partner, a parent, or simply someone ready to understand your own relational patterns with more compassion.Listen now to discover why secure attachment isn't a fixed trait—it's a skill, and it's never too late to learn it.This interview originally aired on Sounds True One, where you can enjoy early, ad-free access to episodes of Insights at the Edge: https://join.soundstrue.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- 3 weeks ago9 min
Just One Question | Jeffrey Rutstein: Did I Inherit My Nervous System?
Ever notice how a tiny criticism can send you into a full-blown spiral, and then you spend the rest of the day furious at yourself for spiraling? Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein has a theory about why that happens, and it starts before you ever had a say in the matter: with the nervous system you were born with.Rutstein, a clinical psychologist, Hakomi-certified somatic psychotherapist, and host of Sounds True's Healing Trauma Program, talks with Tami Simon about inheriting his own mother's fight-or-flight wiring, and how a childhood encounter with Indra Devi's Yoga for Americans sent him down a decades-long path through pranayama, Hatha yoga, and Zen practice.In this conversation, Tami and Jeffrey explore:Why your baseline nervous system state is more inheritance than character flawHow naming that inheritance can interrupt years of self-blame and shameThe difference between a fixed nervous system and one you can learn to shiftThis one's for anyone who's ever hated themselves for "overreacting.” So…pretty much everyone.Taken from the full Insights at the Edge conversation with Jeffrey Rutstein titled “Not Being a Prisoner To Your Nervous System.” Find the complete interview: https://bit.ly/iate-jeffrey-rutsteinSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- 3 weeks ago1h 15m
Beatrice Chestnut: "Going Deeper with the Enneagram”
What if the type you've been typing yourself as isn't the whole story? Tami Simon sits down with Enneagram pioneer Beatrice Chestnut to mark the re-release of her classic guide, The Complete Enneagram, and to ask why facing our shadow, not avoiding it, is the real path to waking up.Beatrice Chestnut, PhD, is a global expert, researcher, and educator on the Enneagram. She holds a PhD in communication studies and a master's degree in clinical psychology, and is a licensed psychotherapist, coach, and business consultant based in San Francisco. She is the author of several acclaimed books on the Enneagram, including the newly re-released edition of The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge, widely considered a classic in Enneagram literature.In this conversation, Tami and Beatrice explore:The difference between personality (the protective "false self" formed in childhood) and our essential, true natureWhy each of the nine Enneagram types has its own distinct shadow challenge to confront and integrateThe 27 subtypes, and why Beatrice believes they matter far more than Enneagram "wings"How the connecting lines, or arrows, reveal each type's specific growth pathway — and why the order mattersWhat each type looks like at its highest, most evolved expressionWhy more people may be ready to "wake up" to who they really are now than ever beforeThis episode is for anyone who's taken an Enneagram test and wondered what to do next, as well as therapists, coaches, and longtime students of the system looking to go deeper with the subtypes.Listen now to discover your own path to greater self-knowledge. →This conversation offers genuine transmission, not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together, and it originally aired on Sounds True One.Get a FREE month of membership at https://bit.ly/STOne-Free-Month.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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