In this episode, Susan talks with poet and professor Jericho Brown about the juxtaposition of love and violence in our every day lives, resilience and thriving through the current normalization of evil, and his newest stunning collection of poetry “The Tradition.”
Do you know someone who is highly sensitive to and sometimes absorbs the emotions, physical symptoms or energy of other people? You might know an empath! In this week’s episode, Susan talks with Integrative Energy Healer April Walker about using energy to overcome barriers for healing, and the gifts and struggles of being an empath.
In this week’s episode Susan talks with actress, singer, and writer Anita Hollander about the loss of her leg in young adulthood to cancer and the journey that followed, and the extraordinary lengths we have to go to and the heroic healing we undertake when we lose fundamental pieces of ourselves.
This week on In the Balance, Associate Producer Taryn talks with nutritionist and food blogger Anjali Shah about "picky eaters," roadblocks to healthy eating and how to overcome them, and why it's important to introduce healthy foods to children as early as possible.
Choreographer and dancer Jody Oberfelder discusses her work, and how she uses her pieces to immerse the audience in the body: the heart, the gut, and the brain, and explores the connections between neuroscience and movement.
Susan talks with award winning writer, poet, playwright Irene O’Garden, about growing up surrounded by emotional distress, the power of finding our identity, witnessing love and acceptance, and using risk to heal and grow.
Julie Flanders teaches us how to recognise ourselves in new ways, helping us navigate the rocky passages of change, our personal unknowns, and find the well of creativity within ourselves - all so we can achieve and reinvent our dreams.
In this episode, Iyengar yoga instructor Jennifer Kagan talks with Susan about the universality of loss and heartbreak, why it’s something we don’t talk about, and how we can use it to harness our compassion, courage and generosity.
Susan talks with best-selling author, psychotherapist, former monk, and renaissance man Thomas Moore about the deepest work we can do - curating and cultivating the soul in our every day lives. Together they explore the sacredness of accepting who we are, and clarify the mysterious idea of the soul and our inner life.
Rolfing®. What’s is it? How does it work? Why is it helpful? And why is this weeks’ guest Paul Wirth so passionate about it? Find out the answers to these questions in more in this week’s episode!
Poet, writer, teacher and badass woman and warrior Arminé Iknadossian talks about her journey: from fleeing the civil war in Beruit as a child, to finding her voice and her confidence in the spoken word. Together Arminé and Susan discuss the universality of poetry and how it serves to bring to light the stories we need to hear.
Dr. Barbara Shoshanna is a psychologist, author, speaker, and zen buddhist who weaves the philosophies of both East and West into her practice. In this episode she discusses zen and the practices that relate to falling in love and being in love - with a partner but also with all of life!
In this week's new episode, Susan talks to Michelle Bitting - a poet with a mission! Together they discuss poetry, process, the crisis our culture is in, and from whence her art comes and how it gets on the page.
Susan talks with author, poet, grief counsellor, and award-winning translator of mystics Mirabai Starr, who uses timeless language to make the wisdom of the mystics accessible to us in this contemporary, modern day life. Together they discuss inter-spirituality, the pursuit of wisdom, the transformation of loss and more!
Susan talks with psychoanalyst Dr. Claudia Luiz about finding our own stories through therapy. She believes the core and effectiveness of the therapeutic process is delving into the unconscious - to uncover it, explore it, and make it less intimidating and mysterious. “Listen for what is still unsaid,” she tells us, as a way to connect with those thoughts and feelings that drive us. Join her and Susan as they talk about using psychoanalysis to go on an emotional journey to find ourselves and our own stories.
2018 has officially drawn to a close and we are welcoming and embracing 2019 with Barbara Biziou, a modern day “urban priestess.” In this insightful episode, she discusses powerful rituals, setting intentions, gathering tools, and opening our hearts as we go through our endings and beginnings.
Teodora Pavkovich is an international traveler and a voracious learner. She is a person who strives to build community wherever she goes through connection, healing, teaching, and being 100% present. Currently her work is centered around the world of parents and children, and how they can thrive in this modern world of technology.
“We are all teachers and students of this classroom of life” says Linda Glick, a singer and voice coach who resonates and emanates love in all that she does.
Listen in to her and Susan as they discuss the power and vulnerability of singing and the grace of learning through love.
Romy Phillips is a true Renaissance woman - from her beginnings as an art historian, to dance and movement, right up to today as an interdisciplinary yoga instructor, her focus has been building the mind/body connection within herself and within others.
Find out more about her story and strategies, and her new book in this insightful episode!
We have lost touch with the natural world - but we can get it back through our senses - by “diving deep/ into the soil and breathing it all in.” Scott Edward Anderson’s conversation with Susan explores the ideas behind his new book Dwelling: an ecopoem.
Lisa Jason is weaving her art and her life into song and performance ~ using the pain, the sorrow, the love and the joy ~ “It’s never too late to be vulnerable. Everything is important when it comes to you.”
“Don’t get locked into what you think you want ~ keep your eyes open for opportunities!” Elisa Pupko tells us how Treasure Trunk Theater, her camp program for kids, came into being.
Katharine Hargreaves wants you to live your own individual definition of freedom. She stands ready to help you design your freedom by helping you design your world ~ “My superpower is designing the conditions and holding the space for transformation to happen.”
Dr. Kimya N. Dennis is a prolific writer, college professor, community organiser, and a believer in interconnectedness and breaking down barriers. Her work combines the worlds of criminology and sociology, looking at cultural differences and encouraging a multidisciplinary approach for all doctors and mental health professionals where diversity is discussed every day instead of in workshops and seminars.
She wants to shatter the myth that “only white people have mental health issues,” challenging our stereotypes, assumptions and beliefs about suicide, mental health and depression at every level - from the individual, all the way up to the organisations and institutions who are training the future health and wellness practitioners of tomorrow.
Taryn Kennedy, Associate Producer & Director of Online Media for In the Balance talks with Susan in our continuing series Meet The Team. “I want to have no regrets, I’d rather try and fail, than not take a risk.”