High Energy Health Podcast

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/
 
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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

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

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

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