Ever wondered how to translate your trauma into growth? Sah and military Psychologist, Dr. Erin McKee, dive into the difference between post-traumatic stress disorder and post-traumatic growth, the intersections of Buddhist psychology and trauma recovery, and the complexities of being a female psychologist in the military.

Tune in to hear them chat about:

1. Approaching psychological care for the military and veterans AS a military veteran.

2. Why is military burnout such a common crisis?

3. Punitive justice in the military and Dr.McKee’s fight to make it more restorative.

4. Understanding punitive vs restorative justice from a psychological perspective.

5. The plague of anti-trans and anti-gay sentiment in the military.

6. Overcoming PTSD with the help of spirituality and Buddhist psychology.

Dr. Erin McKee Psy.D., M.A., is an experienced Clinical Psychologist, trauma expert, Certified Mindfulness Meditation teacher, and military veteran. Dr. McKee’s areas of expertise include attachment disorders, traumatic stress, and PTSD, relationships, Buddhist psychology, ADHD, veteran trauma, healthcare worker work/life balance, anxiety disorders, and panic disorders including OCD.

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What if you could learn to feel your feelings without trying to fix or change them? Sah and integral psychologist Natasha Nair get deep into somatic approaches to healing and the freedom we can find by learning to be in our feelings.

Tune in to hear them chat about:

1. The freedom in learning to be with your feelings without trying to fix or change them.

2. The magic of how somatic healing can teach us to be in our bodies.

3. Remembering that everyone is the protagonist of their own story helps inform forgiveness.

4. Forgiveness as the biggest act of self-love.

5. The impermanence of our knowledge and perceptions, and how we're ever-evolving.

Natasha holds a masters in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco. Subsequently, she trained in Integral Somatic Psychology with Dr. Raja Selvam, as well as in Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing.

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Struggling to overcome a dogmatic religious upbringing and find your way back into spirituality? This week, Sah and spiritual recovery coach Kevin Garcia get into the dangers of bad theology and how spirituality fits into modern belief systems, religious dogma, and more.

Tune in to hear them chat about:

1. Theology vs Spirituality: What's the difference?

2. How “Bad Theology" affects people, and how they can recover from an unhealthy religious upbringing.

3. What it means to be mad at god, and how to reckon with that anger.

4. How to deal with the unfairness of life while believing in God.

5. How to navigate grief from your spiritual heart.

6. What people can do when their life has completely fallen apart

7. The idea that our purpose is just to be alive, and ever-expanding

Kevin Garcia is a spiritual recovery coach, a mystical theologian + practitioner, an author/speaker, and a wild lover of life, based in Atlanta, GA. Kevin’s the author of Bad Theology Kills: undoing toxic beliefs and reclaiming your spiritual authority.

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This week, Sah welcomes Brandon Beachum, an entrepreneur, thought leader, author, and host of The Positive Head Podcast, as well as the late-night style talk show, Optimystic.

Today, Brandon’s primary focus is on helping people shift their perspectives to innerstand the “ultimate nature of reality’’ and create more of what they want to see in their world! In an effort to do so, Brandon's first book, The Golden Key: Modern Alchemy to Unlock Infinite Abundance, shares the 8 keys of abundance, which he has unlocked over 25 years of experience and deep exploration.

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In this episode, Sah and Brandon discuss...

• reframing triggers as treasures

• shifting our lens to find the gifts behind our challenges

• the 8 keys of abundance in Brandon's book, The Golden Key

• Brandon's own "hero's journey" toward forgiveness

• mindblowing mystical experiences

• opening yourself to gratitude, even in your darkest hour

• and more...

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This week, Sah welcomes Jai Dev Singh, world-renowned Kundalini yoga teacher, Ayurvedic specialist, and founder of Life-Force Academy (LFA), a yoga, meditation, and wellness company that helps people connect to their inner confidence and genuine purpose.

In this episode, Sah and Jai Dev discuss...

• the impermanence of life and how fighting it leads to misery

• embracing all of life as expressions of bliss, wisdom, and divinity

• the real meaning of “feeling your feelings” and how to practice it

• compassion as the antidote to an emotional spiral

• Jai’s views on astrology, not as a prediction tool, but more of a weather report

• Kundalini yoga as a doorway to mystical experiences

• and more...

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This week, Sah welcomes Dr. Jennifer Mullan (she/her), a Clinical Psychologist and published author, currently serving communities as a consultant for behavioral and mental health organizations and schools. Dr. Mullan is an ancestral wound worker and CEO and founder of Decolonizing Therapy, LLC. — seeking to unpack the oppressive legacy of modern mental health practices and reconnect practitioners and clients to the roots of our wounding and healing within a sociopolitical lens — most particularly for Queer Indigenous Black Brown People of Color (QIBPOC).

In this episode, Sah and Dr. Mullan discuss...

• Punitive vs restorative approaches to justice and how they relate to forgiveness

• Mystical experiences and what they have to teach us

• Rage as a vessel of expression & healing

• Spirituality & decolonization (appropriation & cultural freedom

• How Dr. Mullen felt spiritually called to be a "paradigm crusher"

• Ancestral and migrant trauma and their lasting effects on a family system

• How to use ancestral wisdom to engage in our current reality

• and more...

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This week, Sah welcomes Christena Cleveland, Ph.D., a social psychologist, public theologian, author, and activist. She is the founder and director of the Center for Justice + Renewal as well as its sister organization, Sacred Folk, which creates resources to stimulate people’s spiritual imaginations and support their journeys toward liberation. An award-winning researcher and former professor at Duke University’s Divinity School, Christena lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

In this episode, Sah and Christena discuss...

• the quest for perfection and how anti-spiritual that mentality can be

• how we can take back our sovereign power over how we interact with the world.

• somatic awareness as a pathway to emotional freedom

• setting healthy boundaries in a loving, spiritual, self-aware way

• how the pathways to liberation vary depending on your privilege

• Christina's book, God is a Black Woman, and her walking journey across France, to meet Black Madonnas

• the patriarchal and colonial impact on how we perceive spiritual history and our Gods

• how to pray to the Black Madonna and access her wisdom

• and more...

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This week, Sah welcomes Patita Pavan Das, founder of the Hanuman Project which is known for creating devotional and musical spaces that are full of joy, powerful, and accessible.

The Hanuman Project is a grassroots and cutting-edge devotional music ensemble specializing in sacred mantra chant. They weave together a vibrant blend of mantra, bhajan, and South American medicine music. This group is dissolving boundaries and creating accessibility for devotional culture in the Yoga, Bhakti, and Conscious Dance communities, worldwide.

https://linktr.ee/hanumanproject

In this episode, Sah and Pavan discuss...

• Kirtan as a refuge for the unpredictable times in which we're living

• Pavan's journey into spirituality, yoga, and his unlikely path into Kirtan

• the experience of spiritual pilgrimage and its power as a catalyst of transformation

• spiritual vortices, and how we can leverage their mystical and transformative energy

• brushing against the inability to forgive, and how to work through it

and more...

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This week, Sah welcomes Jessie Inchauspé: badass biochemist, author of The Glucose Revolution, and creator of the Glucose Goddess movement. Jessie shares cutting-edge science with people to help them balance their blood sugar levels and feel amazing. Find Jessie on IG @glucosegoddess.

In this episode, Sah and Jessie discuss...

• "the code" that Jessie has cracked regarding behavior improvement and translating medical science to help people regulate their blood sugar.

• why glucose matters, and how glucose spikes can affect our mental and physical wellbeing, our energy levels, and our lives.

• the "Ten Commandments" of the Glucose Goddess Method and how you can use them to change your life.

• how the order in which you eat your food dramatically impacts the way your body processes sugar.

• how you can still eat sugar and enjoy dessert without having a major glucose spike afterward.

• how Jessie is changing the world through living her mission.

and more...

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This week, Sah welcomes Deborah Eden Tull. She is the founder of Mindful Living Revolution, a Zen meditation, and engaged dharma teacher, author, spiritual activist, and sustainability educator. She emphasizes the connection between personal awakening and collective transformation.

Eden spent seven years training as a Buddhist monk at a silent Zen monastery. Her teaching style is grounded in mindful inquiry, fierce compassion, and the essential wisdom of nature, drawing upon diverse wisdom streams to make timeless teachings relevant to today’s world.

In this episode, Sah and Eden discuss...

• the 7 years Eden spent training as a nun at a silent Zen monastery

• Eden's book "Luminous Darkness" and her spiritual perception of darkness

• dispelling binary thought around darkness vs light, and learning to embrace our own darkness

• The true Buddhist philosophy about emptiness

• Eden's calling to spiritual activism

• Our collective fear of silence, despite its healing and teaching powers

and more...

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This week, Sah welcomes author Mary Firestone, who has an MA in clinical psychology and is on a mission to let others know they are not alone + there is light on the other side of the darkness of PTSD. Her new book, Trusting the Dawn, is the story of Mary’s survival and transformation through healing. Mary’s transformative epiphanies led her and her sister Lucy to launch their company, Firestone Sisters, Inc, to provide others with healing and growth opportunities through experiences and products.

In this episode, Sah and Mary discuss...

• The PTSD that Mary experienced, and how she found her way through healing.

• EDMR, Craniosacral therapy, ketamine, flower essences, and other body-based healing modalities as complements to more traditional mind-based therapies.

• The body's wisdom and how we can connect to it for healing.

• How to fit spiritual moments of practice into a busy, hectic daily lifestyle.

• Mary's book, Trusting the Dawn, and the treasures it holds for people healing from trauma.

• The role of forgiveness in healing from trauma

and more...

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