Episodi

  • Psychotherapy and Spirituality: Ruthie Smith and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Psychotherapy and Spirituality: Ruthie Smith and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Sep 3 2026
    Ruthie Smith is a psychotherapist, musician, and meditation teacher. In her work, she explores the emerging field of energy psychotherapy, blending traditional talk therapy with practical energy-based techniques to help release trauma, fear, shame, and deeply ingrained emotional patterns. Drawing on insights from neuroscience, epigenetics, biology, quantum physics, and consciousness research, her work shows how healing the body-mind-energy system can foster emotional resilience, personal transformation, and expanded states of awareness in a rapidly changing world. She is the author of the acclaimed book Energy, Soul-Connecting and Awakening Consciousness: Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm. Here she and Dawson discuss:
    • Ruthie's background
    • Chanting and the power of vibrational frequency healing
    • The Heart Sutra
    • Energy psychotherapy
    • Integrating psychotherapy and spirituality
    • Trauma healing
    • A new level of consciousness
    • Humankind moving toward a more egalitarian world
    • Tapping and chakra clearing to heal your triggers
    • Meditation to drop from a busy mind into a peaceful heart
    • Opening to high vibrational living
    • Awareness as our greatest tool
    • Focusing on gratitude, joy, peace
    Ruthie's Transforming Trauma and other trainings can be found at: https://energypsychotherapytraining.co.uk/ Her book, "Energy, Soul-Connecting and Awakening Consciousness: Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm" can be purchased at: https://www.karnacbooks.com/product/energy-soul-connecting-and-awakening-consciousness-psychotherapy-in-a-new-paradigm/97034/ Connect with host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/ To purchase Dawson the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Genie in Your Genes: https://www.amazon.com/Genie-Your-Genes-Epigenetic-Consciousness/dp/1604153202/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #genieinyourgenes #energypsychotherapy #neuroscience #epigenetics
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    48 min
  • Energy Heals: Donna Bach and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Energy Heals: Donna Bach and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Sep 10 2026
    Donna Bach is a naturopath, herbalist and chiropractor. She has been working with the Mind Mirror EEG system for years, evaluating the changes to the brain as people enter healing and transcendent states. One of her scientific studies showed dramatic changes in immunity, blood pressure, pain, and cortisol after a week of energy healing. It has been cited by some 300 other researchers. Here she and Dawson discuss:
    • How to lift ourselves up to a high vibrational frequency
    • Donna's background
    • Living in an entangled universe
    • Love and compassion
    • Listening intently and energetically with grounding
    • Why brain waves change in real time when a person receives energy work
    • EFT - tapping on acupuncture points
    • Why pain, heart, gut issues all improve when stress decreases
    • What a remote Zoom session looks like
    Reach out to Donna at: https://naturalhealthcarecoach.com/ Connect with host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/ To purchase Dawson the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Genie in Your Genes: https://www.amazon.com/Genie-Your-Genes-Epigenetic-Consciousness/dp/1604153202/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #genieinyourgenes #energypsychotherapy #neuroscience #epigenetics #healing #energy #naturopath #tapping
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    47 min
  • Addiction, Friends and Families: Adriana Popescu and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Addiction, Friends and Families: Adriana Popescu and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Sep 17 2026
    Adriana Popescu, PhD, is Chief Clinical Officer at Avery Lane recovery center in Novato, California, and the author of EFT for Addiction. As well as working directly with clients, she provides coaching and mentorship for the Avery Lane clinicians and leadership team. In her practice as a psychologist, she has treated a wide range of issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic pain and grief. Research into Avery Lane’s results has shown that Adriana’s energy psychology methods produce much larger reductions in symptoms and relapse than traditional treatment programs. Here she and Dawson discuss:
    • Energy Psychology
    • Addiction as a family disease
    • Why it is essential to include significant loved ones in the treatment plan
    • The misperception that the client is the person with the problem
    • Start with information about how families are a system
    • Case history of the clients who drank together
    • The difference between healthy support and enabling
    • The neuroscience of stress and recovery
    • Recognizing the slippery slope that leads to relapse
    • How grief and trauma can often trigger old ways of coping
    • How to produce sustained lifetime success at the end of treatment
    Find Adriana at: https://www.adrianapopescu.org/ Purchase EFT for Addiction at: https://www.amazon.com/EFT-Addiction-Adriana-Popescu-PhD/dp/1604153164/ Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/ To purchase Dawson the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Genie in Your Genes: https://www.amazon.com/Genie-Your-Genes-Epigenetic-Consciousness/dp/1604153202/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #emotionalhealing #genieinyourgenes #trauma #addiction #eftforaddiction #energypsychology
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    46 min
  • Tapping With the Angels: Susan Browne and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Tapping With the Angels: Susan Browne and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Sep 24 2026
    Susan Browne is a spiritual and wellbeing coach who focuses on helping people raise their vibration and connect with angels. She has trained in EFT and energy healing and is the author of the books Ask Your Angel Guides and Tapping With the Angels. Here she and Dawson discuss:
    • Susan's background
    • Synchronicities
    • Angel guides
    • Traditions that talk about the light around angels and masters
    • How we all have a light around us though rarely visible
    • Why angels present in a way that is useful for us
    • How to use EFT with angels
    • The new Golden Age
    • The ways getting sucked into drama brings your vibration down
    • How you can send light in your meditation to suffering people and places
    • Exercise: moving from a lower to a higher vibrational level
    • How to ask the angels to step into your energy field
    You can find more information about Susan at: https://angeleft.com/ Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/ To purchase Dawson the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Genie in Your Genes: https://www.amazon.com/Genie-Your-Genes-Epigenetic-Consciousness/dp/1604153202/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #angels #goldenage #tappingwiththeangels
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    46 min
  • Die Without Fear: Dale Borglum and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Die Without Fear: Dale Borglum and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Aug 13 2026
    RamDev Dale Borglum is the author of How to Live So You Can Die Without Fear and the executive director of The Living/Dying Project. A pioneering figure in the conscious dying movement, he has spent decades helping individuals face death — and life — with greater awareness and has collaborated with leaders in the field including Ram Dass, Stephen Levine, and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Drawing on his background as a mathematician, meditation teacher, lover of God, and devoted practitioner of both Eastern and Western healing traditions, Borglum offers a uniquely practical and accessible map to the healing path. Here he and Dawson discuss:
    • Why it’s hard to feel safe where the world isn’t supportive
    • When we focus on what we’re afraid of and not what fear feels like in the body
    • Exercise 1: What do I fear, and where to I feel it in my body
    • Meditation
    • The Tantric Three-Step
    • Step 1: Can I feel it in my heart
    • Step 2: Is compassion keeping your heart open when there’s suffering
    • Step 3: It’s all part of life; pleasant and unpleasant
    • The fundamental spiritual practice: to identify with who and what we really are
    • Exercise: Feel warm, connected, compassionate, spacious heart?
    • Fact: Everyone is afraid
    • Why the world needs more people of compassion
    For more information on The Living/Dying Project: https://livingdying.org/ Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/ To purchase Dawson the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Genie in Your Genes: https://www.amazon.com/Genie-Your-Genes-Epigenetic-Consciousness/dp/1604153202/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #genieinyourgenes #energypsychology #death #grief #diewithoutfear #livingdyingproject
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    48 min
  • Releasing Addiction: Adriana Popescu and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Releasing Addiction: Adriana Popescu and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Aug 6 2026
    Adriana Popescu, PhD, is Chief Clinical Officer at Avery Lane recovery center in Novato, California, and the author of EFT for Addiction. As well as working directly with clients, she provides coaching and mentorship for the Avery Lane clinicians and leadership team. In her practice as a psychologist, she has treated a wide range of issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic pain, and grief. Research into Avery Lane’s results has shown that Adriana’s energy psychology methods produce much larger reductions in symptoms and relapse than traditional treatment programs. Here she and Dawson discuss:
    • Adriana's background
    • Discovering EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques)
    • Using The Prochaska Stages of Change Model to determine readiness to change
    • The importance of numerical assessment of symptoms
    • Partnering with Vista Research to collect data using standardized instruments
    • Assessments of patients in addiction treatment programs
    • The fight flight freeze response
    • The limitations of traditional talk therapy
    • How tapping calms the nervous system
    • The way EFT can reach the brain through the connective tissue and calms the amygdala
    • How to apply tapping with someone in the throes of an addiction craving
    • Tapping on being willing and open to change
    • Tapping on specific cravings with addiction treatment
    Find Adriana at: https://www.adrianapopescu.org/ And to purchase EFT for Addiction: https://www.amazon.com/EFT-Addiction-Adriana-Popescu-PhD/dp/1604153164/ Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/ To purchase Dawson the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Genie in Your Genes: https://www.amazon.com/Genie-Your-Genes-Epigenetic-Consciousness/dp/1604153202/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #emotionalhealing #genieinyourgenes #trauma #addiction #eftforaddiction #energypsychology
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    52 min
  • Emotional Wounding and Identity: Gina Goldfeder and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Emotional Wounding and Identity: Gina Goldfeder and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Jul 30 2026
    Gina Goldfeder is a psychologist and the author of Releasing the Emotional Wound: Shamanic and Psychological Tools to Release Trauma and Rebuild Your Life. Her work draws on her training in shamanism, dream interpretation, psychdrama, and sacred geometry. She helps individuals and couples find core wounds and uses both psychological and spiritual techniques to release them to build a new and functional identity. Here she and Dawson discuss:
    • Great psychology as spiritual
    • The wound as the portal to healing
    • Why we shouldn't be in a hurry to fix your wounds
    • Exercise: Write about the you with this wound and the you without it
    • The ways we wear armor and eventually we forget we even have it on
    • Our strategies to avoid suffering that disconnect us from who we really are
    • Exercise: In what ways am I armored?
    • Why some people seek help and others do not
    • How for some people, suffering becomes the purpose of life
    • The practice of owning your life and being responsible
    • Exercise: Where have I gotten comfortable with my wounds?
    • Why at some point there are no more words or thoughts, you need more
    • Exercise: What ritual can I use to release what I no longer need?
    Learn more about Gina and her work at: https://ginagoldfeder.com/ Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/ To purchase Dawson's book, Spiritual Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #emotionalhealing #genieinyourgenes #trauma
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    42 min
  • Passion Purpose and Play in Midlife: Wendy Valentine and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Passion Purpose and Play in Midlife: Wendy Valentine and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Jul 23 2026
    Wendy Valentine is author of Women Waking Up: The Midlife Manifesto for Passion, Purpose, and Play and host of The Midlife Makeover Show, which is a top-rated podcast for women in midlife. Wendy helps women kick fear to the curb, reignite their spark, and wake up to what’s possible. She lives on the island of Madeira, Portugal. She and Dawson share about:
    • Midlife experiences
    • Wendy's background and personal story
    • The inner critic and enemy voice
    • Exercise: Who is the you who is waiting in the wings?
    • Enjoying the process of being messy as it doesn’t all have to be perfect
    • “Wonder Wendy”
    • Focusing on a new future self and just keep moving ahead
    • The first and most important step... is to believe
    • How negative thoughts are like weeds growing in the mind
    • Self-love
    • “Soul-scribing”
    • Allowing emotions to flow
    • How to stop camping out in low frequency emotions
    To learn more about Wendy: https://wendyvalentine.com/ Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/ To purchase Dawson's book, Spiritual Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #midlife #genieinyourgenes #reigniteyourspark
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    51 min