Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Meredith Springle, a researcher in integrative and complementary medicine, and Mojda Stone, a breast cancer patient and storyteller. They discuss MD Anderson’s biofield research and surprising surgical findings. They cover study designs that test energy healing, observed effects on cancer growth and mitochondria, and personal accounts of remote healing sessions.

Geneen Roth, bestselling author known for work on emotional eating and self-understanding, shares a six-step process that transformed a lifelong wound into liberation. She recounts a decisive turning point, explains why fully feeling old pain matters, and reframes eating and self-belief with practical, present-focused guidance.

Zabie Yamasaki, founder of Transcending Trauma Through Yoga and author of Protect Your Energy, offers trauma-informed somatic tools in this conversation. She explores nervous system regulation, why healing often needs less not more, somatic boundaries, practical rest shapes like supported bridge, and saying no to protect capacity. Warm, grounded, and deeply practical.

Michael Singer, spiritual teacher and author of The Untethered Soul; Tony Robbins, peak-performance coach and philanthropist; Sage Robbins, author and speaker grounded in surrender and relationship. They explore letting go as life’s central question. They discuss intuition versus mental chatter, prayer as liberation and service, facing fear with relaxation and action, and honoring each moment’s unique presence.

Cortland Dahl, contemplative scientist and translator bridging Buddhist wisdom and science. Richard Davidson, neuroscientist who studies emotion, plasticity, and contemplative practice. They explore four trainable skills—awareness, connection, insight, purpose. Short daily practices, piggybacking into everyday life, and how flourishing spreads through relationships and attention.

Tamala Floyd, psychotherapist, IFS trainer and author who blends ancestral wisdom with parts work, and Richard Schwartz, founder of Internal Family Systems and trauma healer, discuss ancestral lines, legacy burdens, and multigenerational unburdening. They explore guided meditations, how ancestors appear in sessions, heirloom gifts passed forward, and ways to stop transmitting inherited pain to future generations.

Banafsheh Sayyad, a master Iranian sacred dancer and founder of Dance of Oneness, blends Sufi and Persian movement with healing and devotion. She talks about whirling as spiritual practice. She explores discipline paired with surrender, embodied techniques for releasing grief and reclaiming sensuality, and movement as a form of resistance and luminous heart-centered presence.

Tian Dayton, clinical psychologist and psychodramatist who helps repair relational trauma, discusses how addiction reshapes whole families and creates lifelong patterns. She explores psychodrama, body-based practices, co-regulation, naming feelings, and why disciplined, embodied work is key to healing. Practical tools like timelines, letters, and role reversal are highlighted.

Peter Russell, physicist and consciousness teacher behind The Global Brain, discusses navigating exponential technological change with calm presence. He explores AI’s role, human qualities beyond machines, meditation as an essential stabilizer, and facing big cultural shifts with practical, effortless methods. Short, clear reflections on attention, compassion, and staying steady amid accelerating change.

Cody Cook-Parrott, a writer, artist, and movement practitioner who guides creative practice, discusses social media addiction and leaving platforms to reclaim focus. They explore soft structures, Pomodoro for writing, attention audits, balancing workaholism and play, attention-as-prayer, and building supportive gatherings to protect creative attention.