Vienna Pharaon, a Marriage & Family Therapist, shares about: why we may settle in love, making choices from an empowered place, opening our belief system beyond what we know, finding our self-worth, maintaining and deepening connection and intimacy in long term relationship including for parents, honoring our expression even if what we want can't be met, Vienna's shift in perspective to have the love she wanted and more ... Find Vienna here www.newyorkcouplescounseling.com + on instagram: @mindfulmft ~ 

Today our guest is Susan Piver. Susan shares about the four noble truths of love, instability of relationships, what erodes or grows a relationship, whether relationships for everyone, love versus safety, power of giving versus getting love, 3 poisons in relationship, why having our heartbroken may be beneficial, depression versus sadness, non-attachment versus numbing out, why it's terrifying to open our hearts and more ... www.susanpiver.com    

Heidi is an esoteric astrologer, poet, podcaster, and leader of Radiant Life Retreats. Some of what Heidi shares about is her path, astrology basics, living into your potential, unlocking the grip of patterns, the softening and change that understanding can create, life timing and free will, her time in Africa, her healing retreats, poetry, the feeling of urgency, waking up to the now, and transmissions of freedom and love ~ https://www.heidirose.com/

Some of what Lama Tsultrim shares includes: Her path to buddhism, her new book Wisdom Rising, leaving the one ground into dualism, the mandala for bringing the fragmented self back into wholeness, the significance of symbolic imprints, the meaning and importance of dakini in buddhism and in our lives, her natural child birth, holding the masculine and feminine, finding wholeness within ourself, the healing and naturalness of wanting safe intimacy and connection, the whole powerful woman and the purity of our female body, our senses for liberation and a simple practice to support this, relationship as path, working with the darkness, wisdom free of aggression and more.. ~ https://taramandala.org/ + her book: Wisdom Rising: Journey Into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine.

Today our guest is buddhist teacher Scott Tusa. Scott shares about his mother's passing igniting his spiritual path, cherry picking from spiritual traditions, not being a self improvement project, relating to suffering as the first step to healing and awakening, universal compassionate love, seeing flaws in our preferences and seeing others in ourselves, the problem and complexity with wanting to fix or be useful, exhaustion of identify, waffling between the absolute and relative, true failure, lacking genuine self-love, his own leeriness of success, using meditation to transform or to increase self-obsession, the suffering of the body, karma, being a monk to being in relationship, 3 kinds of awareness, the failure of individualism, blowing up our perceptions as real ~ https://scotttusa.com/ 

Anaiya shares about her home in France, Mary Magdalene, not seeking affirmation from the outside, sacred prostitution and sexual energy as a way to help us heal, grow and awaken, ancient healing in temples for post traumatic stress, the future beyond matriarchy or patriarchy, the great work, habits held in the body to pay attention to, the liberation of sacred sexuality, beloved vs soul mate, becoming more sensual, a sovereign path to awaken, the healing and bondage of archetypes, inner marriage, Anaiya's path to and in marriage, anti-awakening influences, the goodness of things being off and more ... www.anaiyasophia.com 

Some of what Beth shares: her motivation for going into 3 year retreat, spiritual connection as the only source of solace, the usefulness of all of our experiences, wisdom wind, the benefits of collective retreat attunement, obstacles when exiting solitary retreat, using the world to enhance spiritual practice, compassion and devotion as markers of our practice, enlightenment as a journey, forgetting and remembering, buddhism + western psychology, laughter and a Great idea for a television producer ~  

Today our guest is Tobin Zivon. Some of what he shares includes: qualities of an amazing lover for both men and women, beyond masculine and feminine, attracting a partner that is in alignment for you, maintaining playfulness and appreciation in long term partnership, when you may be trying to hard to make a relationship work, common obstacles in the intimate realm and moving from division to greater Love, Life. http://tobingiblin.com/

Sarah Drew is the author of Gaia Codex, a poet and mystic mythologist who catalyzes powerful blueprints for the future deeply rooted in the gnosis of the past. In today's episode some of what Sarah shares includes: the death involved in living a life of truth, the wisdom of learning to hold multiple aspects of self, metabolizing grief through the collective, returning home through sacred land, her dark night of the soul, deepening in the feminine through the Goddesses, honoring lineage, guidance on writing a book, and much more ~ To explore Sarah's work and read her incredible book Gaia Codex visit: https://www.gaiacodex.com/ 

In today's episode Olivia offers practical pathways, including a guided meditation, to help alleviate the suffering of those in our life and beyond. When we notice someone suffering, we want to do anything to help them return to well being. Sometimes the actions we take create further suffering, while other times we support the person we care for, as well as ourselves. In this episode, we mainly focus on the many ways we can relate with someone suffering to help them, and all we can learn from the wisdom that suffering reflects to us. ~ To send along future topics to be explored visit Olivia's website and share what you would like to hear about. Also you can sign up for the newsletter at the top of that page or follow Olivia through instragram ~ May this be of benefit ~