Switching it up for our listeners ~ In the Balance podcast creator and interviewer Susan Lambert is interviewed by her podcast producer Walker Vreeland!
Part two gives truth to the saying ‘therapists are people too!’ as Susan tells her personal story of becoming a therapist. Tune in and get to know the woman whose voice you hear every week on the marvelous podcast series In the Balance.
Switching it up for our listeners, In the Balance podcast creator and interviewer Susan Lambert is interviewed by her podcast producer Walker Vreeland!
In part one Susan takes us into the world of therapy ~ what happens in “the room,” her thoughts on balancing insight work with how-to strategies and the extraordinary opportunity inherent in therapy ~ to have a “pure, private, sacred relationship that’s all about the client’s wellness.”
After writing White Walling: Art, Race, and Protest in Three Acts, Aruna asks - “How do I now organize a professional life knowing what I know? How do I operate ethically in terms of building a sustainable life that’s also one of purpose?”
“To admit ‘I’m not okay’ gave others the permission to admit they were ‘not okay either’” ~ Leslie M. Browning shares her journey from feeling broken to finding the other side of brokenness, and the realization that healing is an ever going procession.
How To Get Run Over By A Truck is a “brave and funny memoir” of a harrowing accident that changed Katie McKenna’s life ~ listen in to hear her story of transformation from Old Katie to New Katie.
Laurie Meadoff says “Connecting makes my heart sing!” Connecting people through the power of the arts - moving borders, dismantling barriers, dissolving prejudices - all this and more is at the heart and soul of Laurie Meadoff’s life work.
“Be in control of social media. Curate your social media life. Change it from comparison and competition to inspiration and challenge.” This is just one of the many valuable suggestions to come out of Susan’s conversation with Liz Miles, a 26 year old “millennial” navigating her life in NYC. Incredibly bright and articulate, Liz talks about her beginning days as an 18 year old college student with anxiety who needed help. She got that help (listen in to hear how) and is now traveling with a tool box full of various practices, ideas, exercises and support. Find out what’s in Liz’s tool box and see what speaks to you!!
Jessica MacLeod, PhD, is the nurse practitioner who takes us inside the world we see in the documentary Invisible Patients ~ She talks with Susan about her five years working with the housebound - the elderly and those with grave illnesses. “We have a healthcare system and a culture that is neglecting those who need health care the most.”
In a review of her writing,Beate Sigriddaughter was told she had “an infectious positive attitude,” and this comes through in her conversation with Susan. She is a poet who is committed to “putting poetry into practice,” taking her ideals of love, joy and gratitude into the world. What could be a higher mission than that?
Laura Harrington chats with Susan about her creative process, the need for beginner’s mind, and her long career as a writer across many genres; award winning playwright, lyricist, librettist, and novelist. She wants to keep moving the bar so she’s not repeating herself, but “Music is in everything I write,” she says. “My ear is smarter than my eye.”
Gabriele Schafer is an actor of film and theater, and co-director of the socially engaged theatre company International Culture Lab. Her mission is to make theatre and film that lets us know “we are not alone in the world,” and helps “liberate us from the fear of not being enough.”
Happy Hour was Gretl Claggett’s first film. A short film born out of the desire to tell her own story, a story of childhood sexual abuse. “It’s up to us to heal ourselves, and the collective, but we can only do that by healing ourselves first.” Gretl has gone through her own deep labyrinth of recovery and is now poised to create powerful stories through the medium of film that entertain and transform consciousness.
Claude Kerven is a filmmaker, screenwriter, director and teacher of filmmaking. His skill is at taking seemingly complex ideas and expressing them in a way anybody can understand. Listen in as Claude and Susan talk about favorite films, storytelling, how to survive the ups and downs of a long career, and the importance of trying to find everyday joy and happiness.
Jett Psaris returns to speak with Susan on Midlife Awakening. “A part of us has to die to transform and a part of us dies if we don’t. Which part will prevail - what has been or what will be?” Midlife is known as the old age of youth and the youth of old age. If we enter this passage as an invitation to learn about ourselves, we will find the deeper rivers of love, wisdom and caring. We will discover that “Everything is deeply ok.”
Is your smartphone your constant companion? Do you turn to your smartphone when you’re bored or in an awkward social situation? Do you fly into a panic when you can’t find your cell phone? Is your smartphone undermining your self control? Dr. Roberts is an expert on smartphone and social media addiction and he is here to help. Listen in as he tells us how we can find a happier balance, the “digital sweet spot” of our technology use!
Dr. Mierlak is a psychiatrist who has specialized in addictions since 1995. He brings his great knowledge and expertise in the treatment of addiction to this fascinating and informative conversation with Susan. He encourages all kinds of techniques, searching to customize the right method, to discover what works best for each individual. “Don’t give up hope. It’s a very difficult process,” he says, “Keep looking until you find the person who you think can help YOU.”
Sugar addiction can be harder to recognize than alcohol, nicotine, or heroin addiction - but it works on the brain in the same way. Dr. Nicole Avena is a research neuroscientist who has studied sugar for years. In this conversation with Susan she illuminates the hidden addiction to sugar and how it affects us physically, emotionally and psychologically.
Cori Thomas talks with Susan about her journey from being a multiracial actress to a playwright, her (now public) sexual harassment encounter with Dustin Hoffman when she was 16, and what we can do to help erase the culture of silence.
Hannah Zimmerman is a socialist activist committed to action. Day after day she gathers her confidence and drive, her passion and her view for a better America onto her college campus and into the world. She is raising her own voice, “yelling over a lot of men,” to fight for income equality and greater diversity in leadership. Hannah is energized and she will energize you - hopefully into action!
Did you know that your gastrointestinal system is called your second brain? Listen in to this fascinating and informative conversation with In the Balance's Associate Producer and Director of Online Media Taryn Kennedy and Katrina Reeve, a Naturopath from Brisbane, Australia, and discover everything you need to know about leaky gut syndrome and gut health with simple tips for improving the health of your ‘second brain’ starting right now!
“Pain is good. It’s the brain’s way of protecting you.” Evelyn Hecht unpacks the confusion surrounding pain, demystifying it so we can take charge of it. “You have the inner skills to heal yourself, through persistence and patience you can retrain your brain’s habitual thought responses to pain, allowing a greater capacity to experience freedom and joy.”
Lou Ritter, a group fitness instructor and personal trainer, can orient us to think about “fitness” in a holistic way. Her classes are about flow, balance, sequencing, careful and connected intensity, and the right motivating music to bring a shared experience which is both individual and collective. Whew!! That’s a great fitness instructor!!! Listen in as Lou Ritter unpacks your new concept of fitness for 2018.
“Our internal dialogue is a manifestation of our reality,” says Paul Pitsaras of The Open Mind Institute (TOMI) but “when you hear it - don’t beat yourself up over it - simply acknowledge it!”
He has much to tell us about mind capability training and how to "ACTIVATE YOUR POTENTIAL". Listen in and start 2018 off mindfully!
Walker Vreeland is an award-winning monologist and radio personality, actor, singer, voice over artist and producer of In the Balance. And he knows a thing or two about gratitude from his life journey so far. He generously shares his insights with Susan, and with us, as 2017 comes to a close.
Buddha Booth is for your overall wellness - a portable retreat from the stress, noise, and bright lights of the world. Meet Francine Steadman Krulak, the founder and CEO of this wonderful socially responsible company and listen to her entrepreneurial tips and words of wisdom as a woman in the business world.