• What’s Really Ruling You. How Your Nervous System Decides | Bill McKenna and Liz Larson
    Jan 12 2026

    In this episode, I sit down with Bill McKenna and Liz Larson, the co-creators of Cognomovement, to explore one of the most influential - and least examined - forces shaping our lives: the subconscious patterns running quietly in the background.

    Most of us sense these patterns only when we’re forced to confront them - repeating the same relationship dynamics, sabotaging ourselves around money or health, and reacting in ways we don’t fully understand. We can often see the pattern, but knowing it’s there doesn’t necessarily give us a way out.

    This conversation moves into that gap.

    We talk about the subconscious not as something abstract, but as the nervous system itself - a living, biological process that generates emotion, perception, and reaction before thought ever arrives. Bill and Liz describe how these emotional circuits can act like an “electric fence” around our lives, quietly defining what feels possible, safe, or threatening.

    We do a live, unscripted Cognomovement process around a long-running pattern of mine. What unfolds is not analysis or storytelling, but a direct shift in perception: how something that once felt immediate and charged can suddenly move into the past, creating space for entirely new options to appear.

    We also explore grief, cravings, confirmation bias, projection in relationships, and the strange way reality seems to reorganise itself when an internal pattern collapses.

    If you're looking to break a pattern in your life, then this is the episode for you.

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    1 Std. und 10 Min.
  • The Future Whispers - What Dreams Know First | Theresa Cheung
    Dec 30 2025

    Over the last six months, I’ve been keeping a dream journal, not to “decode” anything perfectly, but to listen. And what’s surprised me most is how the dream-state speaks in a language that doesn’t make sense until it does: symbols that feel abstract…and then, weeks later, land with uncanny precision in waking life.

    My guest today is someone who’s spent decades mapping that invisible terrain, not to make it more mystical, but to make it more usable: as a tool for healing, for creativity, and for self-trust in a world that’s getting louder by the day.

    In this episode, we explore why modern life is quietly eroding dream recall, how emotion and symbol work together like an inner therapist, why meditation and nature can sharpen the signal, and how dreaming might be less about “escaping reality” and more about remembering what we are beneath it.

    This is a conversation about intuition, balance, and the quiet intelligence that’s been with you every night of your life.

    My guest is Theresa Cheung.

    Theresa Cheung is a bestselling author and researcher who has spent over twenty-five years writing about spirituality, dreams, and the paranormal. She studied Theology and English at King’s College, Cambridge, and her work bridges mystical experience with ongoing dialogue in psychology and consciousness research.

    Theresa is the author of numerous international bestsellers, including two Sunday Times Top 10 titles, and her Dream Dictionary from A to Z (HarperCollins) is widely regarded as a modern classic in dream interpretation. Her books have been translated into 40+ languages.

    She’s a regular dreams and spirituality expert across major media — including ITV’s This Morning, and she hosts her own podcast White Shores as well as the weekly UK Health Radio show The Healing Power of Dreams.

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    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/white-shores-with-theresa-cheung/id1475553348

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    35 Min.
  • Being Human Together In a World That’s Forgotten How | Stephen Jenkinson
    Dec 15 2025

    There are conversations that offer answers, and then there are conversations that remove your certainty. This is the latter. In this episode, I’m joined by Stephen Jenkinson—author, cultural activist, former palliative care worker, and relentless truth-teller—whose work refuses comfort in favour of meaning.

    Stephen doesn’t speak in soundbites. He speaks in reckonings.

    What begins as a conversation about his new book, Matrimony, quickly opens into something far wider: a meditation on beauty, elderhood, ritual, grief, marriage, culture, and the quiet devastation of a world that has forgotten how to belong to itself. We talk about what happens when beauty becomes a rumour. When ritual becomes performance. When marriage becomes an event instead of a binding to community. When homes are built without hearths, and lives without elders.

    Stephen asks a question most of us were never taught how to answer: What does it actually cost to be human together?

    This is not a conversation about nostalgia or returning to the past. It’s about conjuring something that no longer lives in living memory. About taking responsibility for what has been lost—without blame, without sentimentality, and without pretending the work is easy. Truths that don’t ask for agreement, only attention. This is a conversation about matrimony, yes. But more than that, it’s a conversation about what we owe each other—and whether we’re willing to pay the price.

    Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW ~ Culture activist/ farmer/author ~

    Stephen teaches internationally and has authored seven books of cultural critique. He is the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School, co-founded with his wife Nathalie Roy in 2010. The School’s new project, The Scriptorium (2025), is creating an archive and library of his life’s work.

    Apprenticed to a master storyteller as a young man, he worked extensively with dying people and their families. He is former programme director in a major Canadian hospital and former assistant professor in a prominent Canadian medical school. Stephen has Masters’ degrees from Harvard University (Theology) and the University of Toronto (Social Work).

    In 2023 Stephen received a Distinguished Alumni Honours Award from Harvard University for “helping people navigate grief, exploring the liminal space between life and death, and connecting humanity through ceremony and storytelling.”

    Stephen’s newest book: Matrimony: Ritual, Culture, and the Heart’s Work.

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    https://orphanwisdom.com/

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    https://orphanwisdom.com/events-list/

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    1 Std. und 1 Min.
  • How Questions Shape Your Life | Stephen Jenkinson
    Dec 14 2025
    It's not often I feel nervous. I worked for many years as a photographer and met people from every stratum of society, from the wealthy and famous to the outcast and downtrodden. One thing I learnt early on is that nerves resulted in bad imagery. So when it came time for this podcast with Stephen Jenkinson, a man whose work I've followed for nearly a decade, I was nervous. It's not that Stephen is difficult to talk to or combative; it's because Stephen is a master of the English language, and each word he uses is carefully chosen based on its etymology. He also doesn't let you get away with anything if he believes you've incorrectly identified something. My nerves quickly abated once I felt Stephen's generosity of spirit. This is one of the most meaningful conversations I've had. Stephen traverses: - What we have lost in our modern societies, if there is a way back, and if there were, to what we think we are to return to. - Death and our lack of education around the ultimate which every life faces. - What it truly means to cultivate a mindset that sees us creating genuine connections to one another to create communities that will benefit future generations. Most of all, Stephen reminded me that our lives are shaped by the questions we ask rather than the answers we seek—in his own words, "I'm far more in favour of the wonder of the question than the certainty of the answer." As the great poet E.E. Cummings phrased it, "Always the most beautiful answer to he who asks the most beautiful question." It was an honor to speak with Stephen, and I know you'll get something significant from his life-long pursuit of asking the most beautiful questions. It was an honor to speak with Stephen, and I know you'll get something significant from his life-long pursuit of asking the most beautiful questions. About Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW ~ Culture activist/ farmer/author ~ Stephen teaches internationally and has authored seven books of cultural critique. He is the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School, co-founded with his wife Nathalie Roy in 2010. The School’s new project, The Scriptorium (2025), is creating an archive and library of his life’s work. Apprenticed to a master storyteller as a young man, he worked extensively with dying people and their families. He is former programme director in a major Canadian hospital and former assistant professor in a prominent Canadian medical school. Stephen has Masters’ degrees from Harvard University (Theology) and the University of Toronto (Social Work). In 2023 Stephen received a Distinguished Alumni Honours Award from Harvard University for “helping people navigate grief, exploring the liminal space between life and death, and connecting humanity through ceremony and storytelling.” In August 2025, Sounds True will release Stephen’s newest book: Matrimony: Ritual, Culture, and the Heart’s Work. He is also the author of Reckoning (co-written with Kimberly Ann Johnson in 2022), A Generation’s Worth: Spirit Work While the Crisis Reigns (2021), Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble (2018), the award-winning Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul (2015), Homecoming: The Haiku Sessions (a live teaching from 2013), How it All Could Be: A workbook for dying people and those who love them (2009), Angel and Executioner: Grief and the Love of Life (a live teaching from 2009), and Money and The Soul’s Desires: A Meditation (2002). He was a contributing author to Palliative Care – Core Skills and Clinical Competencies (2007). Since co-founding the Nights of Grief and Mystery project with singer/ songwriter Gregory Hoskins in 2015, he has toured this musical/ tent show revival/ storytelling/ ceremony of a show across North America, U.K., Ireland, Israel, Australia and New Zealand. They released their first Nights of Grief & Mystery album in 2017, and at the end of 2020 released two new records: Dark Roads and Rough Gods. A new album release is planned for 2025. Stephen Jenkinson is also the subject of the feature length documentary film Griefwalker (National Film Board of Canada, 2008, dir. Tim Wilson), a portrait of his work with dying people, and Lost Nation Road, a shorter documentary on the crafting of the Nights of Grief and Mystery tours (2019, dir. Ian Mackenzie). He was a stone sculptor turned wood-carver, and learned the arts of traditional birch bark canoe building. His first house won a Governor General’s Award for architecture. He now lives on a small scale organic farm in an off-grid straw bale house. The 120 year old abandoned granary from across the river which appeared in Griefwalker was dismantled last year and re-erected at the Orphan Wisdom farm, where it is again a working barn. Site https://orphanwisdom.com/ Events https://orphanwisdom.com/events-list/ Feelings with Strangers Socials https://...
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  • How To Talk With Animals. The Language Of Nature And How To Speak It | Anna Breytenbach
    Dec 4 2025

    I had the privilege of speaking with someone whose work has profoundly shaped my own understanding of connection: Anna Breytenbach, the world-renowned interspecies communicator, conservationist, and activist.

    Many of you may know Anna from the viral documentary The Animal Communicator, and from the now-iconic encounter with a black leopard named Diablo — a moment that opened millions of hearts to the possibility that our relationship with the natural world is far deeper and more intelligent than we’ve been taught.

    This episode goes far beyond the usual conversation about intuition or “animal communication.” Anna takes us back to something far more original and intimate: The innate capacity every human being is born with to perceive truth beyond the five senses.

    In this conversation, we explore:

    • The real story behind her awakening as a communicator

    • How tracking animals taught her to “see through their eyes”

    • Why intuition is not mystical — but our original evolutionary intelligence

    • How animals perceive death, suffering, presence, fear, and the human world

    • What wildlife teaches us about grace, humility, and eldership

    • Why our culture has become disconnected from the wider web of life

    • How to begin cultivating intuitive connection in your own life

    • The dangers of spiritual ego and the need for genuine emptiness

    • And how returning to nature is ultimately a returning to ourselves

    This is one of the most beautiful and revealing conversations I’ve had. Anna doesn’t just speak about animals — she speaks from a place of attunement that reconfigures your sense of what being alive even means.

    If you’ve ever felt, even as a child, that animals carried messages we weren’t taught to listen for…

    If you’ve ever had a moment where intuition arrived more clearly than thought…

    If you’ve wondered whether our consciousness is part of something much larger…

    This episode will feel like coming home.

    Anna is an internationally respected telepathic animal communicator with nearly two decades of experience working with wildlife, conservation NGOs, rehabilitation centres, and endangered species programs. She is the founder of AnimalSpirit — a platform dedicated to conscious connection with the more-than-human world — and she offers her conservation consulting work entirely pro bono, driven by a profound devotion to the dignity of all life.

    Her work bridges Indigenous knowledge systems, quantum science, deep ecology, and an embodied spiritual sensibility that reminds us that communication is not merely something we do — it is something we are.

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    Site / NGO: https://www.animalspirit.org

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    https://www.youtube.com/@AnimalSpirit

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    https://www.animalspirit.org/donations

    The Animal Communicator Documentary

    https://youtu.be/T2vhV63lx2k?si=P6oR7vNw83EzsniE

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    1 Std. und 13 Min.
  • Judgement, The Hidden Addiction Holding You Back | Dr Dain Heer
    Nov 24 2025

    What if the real source of suffering in your life isn’t your circumstances, but the quiet, constant stream of judgment you’re swimming in – of yourself, of others, of how life “should” be?

    In this episode, I’m joined again by Dr. Dain Heer – author, co-creator of Access Consciousness, and someone who has spent decades sitting with people in their most contracted, painful moments and helping them find a way through that oesn’t rely on more fixing or more “work”. We explore a radical but disarmingly simple idea: that freedom begins when everything becomes just an “interesting point of view.” Dain walks us through a live exercise using that phrase – first with something upsetting in my own life, and then in the context of relationships – and you’ll hear, in real time, how quickly the charge, tension and tightness start to dissolve.

    From there we open up a much bigger territory: How judgment masquerades as love and caring, especially in families and intimate relationships. Why we’re addicted to controlling other people’s choices – and why it never works. The difference between fear and awareness, and why many of us are actually far less “afraid” than we think. How our stories about who we are and what’s possible quietly run our lives – and what it takes to step beyond them. We also go into the body: illness, “mystery” symptoms, and what might be underneath them. Dain shares some of the questions he uses with clients – including “What are you dying to get out of?” and “What are you sick of?” – and how, when we’re willing to be radically honest, those questions can start to unwind years of stuck energy.

    Underneath all of this is a very different definition of consciousness: a space where everything exists and nothing is judged. From that space, vulnerability stops being weakness and becomes real power. The need to be right softens. The nervous system exhales. And life – health, relationship, creativity, money – can be shaped from choice rather than from old, inherited scripts. If you’ve ever felt trapped in your own reactions, exhausted by your inner critic, or confused about why you keep recreating the same patterns, this conversation is an invitation to try another way. Not as a belief system, but as a set of tools you can test in the trenches of your actual life.

    I hope you feel the same thing I did speaking with Dain: a sense that there is far more freedom available, right here, than we’ve been taught to expect.

    About Dain:

    Dr. Dain Heer is a seeker, speaker, and energetic facilitator who has spent the last two decades inviting people to explore what else is possible—beyond judgment, beyond limitation, and beyond the boxes we’ve been told to live in.

    He is the author of Being You, Changing the World and the founder of International Being You Day, a global celebration of uniqueness, joy, and choice. Through his work, Dain offers practical tools for transformation and a space for people to remember the gift they truly are.

    He is also the co-creator of Access Consciousness®️, a global personal development movement practiced in 176 countries. A visionary in conscious leadership, Dain is known for leading with kindness, inclusivity, and the unwavering belief that true leadership is about empowering others to rise. drdainheer.com.

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    1 Std. und 6 Min.
  • The Program of Ageing | And how to Change It
    Nov 14 2025

    For well over a decade, I’ve been fascinated—friends might say obsessed—with what’s truly possible for human biology, especially when it comes to longevity and ageing. Like many, I began on the mechanistic path: studying hydration, nutrition, and supplementation, endlessly experimenting, convinced that health was a formula I could optimise into perfection. But in time, I realised something deeper.

    Beyond hydration, clean foods, and sleep—beyond all the science we can measure—lies the consciousness we bring to the process of ageing itself. The way we speak to our bodies, the patterns we reinforce through thought, emotion, and self-perception—all of it shapes how we grow older, or perhaps, how we don’t.

    In this episode, I want to explore that intersection: where biology meets awareness. Where the body listens to the stories we tell it. These are the principles and practices I’ve lived with for years—bridging science and spirit—to slow the biological clock and expand what we think is possible for our human form.

    By the end of this episode, if nothing else, I hope you feel 45 minutes younger.

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    References

    Lauren Roxbourg

    Youtube: https://youtu.be/Uim35PSof9g?si=zLwq0axvZsz5c5WG

    Website: laurenroxburgh.com

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loroxburgh/...

    Markus Rothkranz

    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@MarkusRothkranz

    Tat Wale Baba

    https://amritananda-natha-saraswati.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_21.html#:~:text=Tat%20Wale%20Baba%20was%20born,his%20birth%20at%20about%201890.

    Sunlight, Spirit, and Sanity | Audience Q&A with Ziad K. Dahhaj on the Sun & Circadian Biology https://youtu.be/ci_nNENctoY?si=2tmzd6GL2JQWa_6k

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    48 Min.
  • Sunlight, Spirit, and Sanity | Audience Q&A with Zaid K. Dahhaj on the Sun & Circadian Biology
    Oct 27 2025

    An ice-cream truck rolls past as we hit record—an oddly perfect cue for where this conversation goes: modern life’s noise versus the quiet wisdom of biology.

    Today, we welcome back Zaid K. Dahhaj to answer viewer questions about the sun. We explore how light, time, and place shape our minds and bodies.

    In standard Feelings with Strangers fashion, we braid science, lived experience, and spirit—from circadian clocks and biophotonics to the constriction of our natural processes by cities and the sanity that returns when we sync with sun and darkness. Zaid makes a clear, compassionate case for alignment over avoidance: why full-spectrum sunlight (used wisely) behaves differently than isolated UV; when sunglasses can be useful and when they short-circuit the body’s own photoprotection; why most sunscreen narratives miss circadian context; and how melatonin, vitamin D, and peripheral clocks knit together repair, mood, and resilience. We even name the captivity we’ve normalised—what Zaid calls the zoo-mind of indoor life—and map a path back to coherence.

    In this episode, we cover:

    - Sunglasses, glare, & melanin: safety use-cases vs. circadian tradeoffs

    - Sunscreen & photoaging: what changes when you consider full spectrum light, not just UV in isolation

    - City stress & “zoo-cosis”: why indoor, blue-heavy environments fray our nervous systems

    - Burns, hormesis, & “progressive overload” with sunlight: building tolerance like training Vitamin D (without pills)

    Seasonal strategy, cold exposure, and light from within Spiritual through-line: “as above, so below”—how alignment in light/dark supports alignment in life.

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    https://www.instagram.com/zaidkdahhaj/

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    The 2am Podcast https://www.instagram.com/the2ampodcast/

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    The 2am Podcast YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@the2ampodcast

    Circadian Course

    https://themetawarrior.mykajabi.com/courses

    Substack

    https://zaidkdahhaj.substack.com/ Work with Zaid https://www.zaidkdahhaj.com/coaching

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    44 Min.