Paradigm Expansions
Welcome to Day 2 of AWAKEN
Today's interviews focus on the science of
Consciousness, Healing, and Intuition
Keep your journal handy to write down "aha" moments!
Meet Today's Speakers:
Dr. Marilyn Schlitz, PhD
Social Scientist, Best Selling Author, Public Speaker
Dr. Anna Yusim, MD
Psychiatrist, Executive Coach, Author, Speaker
Cheryl Petersen
Author, Spiritual Healer, Farmer
Dr. Emmett Miller, MD
"Father" of Mind-Body Medicine and Guided Imagery
Dr. Marilyn Schlitz: Profound Insights from Studying Consciousness: Love, Intention, and Surrender
In this AWAKEN series interview, your host Stephanie Rouch interviews acclaimed social scientist, award-winning author, and charismatic public speaker, Dr. Marilyn Schlitz. Dr. Schlitz shares her experience of realizing from a young age that there is more to consciousness than the body. As a deeply curious person, she has enjoyed pushing the frontier on the cultural discourse and acceptance around the nature of the mind-body-spirit connection, transformation, and integrated healing. She discussed how grief, loss, and death are often the pathways to transformation. Her decades of dedicated research studying varying aspects of consciousness included a deep dive into how spouses of people with cancer can be taught to send compassionate love to their partners - and when they do so even from another room, there are statistically significant physiological benefits for their loved ones. This type of research, along with her own life journey, informed her newest book and first novel “Love study” explores a fascinating study of blending evidence and experience in the power of compassionate love, intention, and surrender. Check out the book - available at the link below for only 99 cents for a limited time: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Study-Marilyn-Schlitz-ebook/dp/B0DPDWXXV7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Marilyn's Free Gift
Marilyn's free offering is an invitation to read the science manifesto. This incredible document shares how leading researchers around the world are championing a ‘post-materialist science’ given their experiences rigorously and successfully studying the nature of consciousness.
Kim Chestney:
How Quantum Physics Supports the Power of Intuition
In this AWAKEN series interview, your host Stephanie Rouch interviews intuition expert, author, and founder of Intuition Lab - Kim Chestney. We discuss Kim’s path to teaching people to get in touch with their intuition. Like many spiritual teachers, she can trace back her calling as an intuition teacher to childhood - where she experienced synchronicities happening all around her. After working at a prestigious technology council for 20 years, she was getting further internal nudges to step into the role of teaching people to access their intuition. She started practicing honing her skill of intuition in her 30s and realized this was accessible to anyone! Just like learning any new skill from a musical instrument to a sport to a new theory, Kim describes that ANYONE can develop through INTUITIVE ABILITIES through practice. WIth practice and intention, it will strengthen! Her books and courses are dedicated to providing accessible ways for anyone to start to strengthen their intuitive muscles.
Kim's Free Gift
Kim is offering a beautiful guidebook and intuition card deck available to listeners to get started on strengthening the connection to their own intuitive voice.
Dr. Anna Yusim:
Integrating Science and Spirituality to Heal the World
In this AWAKEN series interview, your host Stephanie Rouch sits down with internationally-recognized, award-winning psychiatrist, executive coach, and author, Dr. Anna Yusim, MD. With her Stanford and Yale education and over a decade of experience, Dr. Yusim has dedicated her career to bridging the worlds of science and spirituality. Dr. Yusim shares her personal journey of discovery, where her work as a psychiatrist revealed powerful and inexplicable connections between her and her patients. These “coincidences” prompted her to explore the interconnectedness of all beings and opened her mind to the profound ways spirituality can complement science. Drawing on insights from her bestselling book, Fulfilled, Dr. Yusim speaks about the importance of living authentically and discovering your unique place in the world. She also offered a sneak peek into her upcoming book on the science of miracles—a fascinating exploration of how gratitude, surrender, and an open mind can make the improbable more likely. For those beginning their own journey to living a more fulfilled life, Dr. Yusim suggests a simple yet powerful practice: asking yourself, “What is it I truly want?” There’s no wrong answer—this exercise is about tuning into your innermost desires and connecting with your authentic self.
Dr. Yusim's Free Gift
Anna is generously offering a free mini-series of guided meditations to support your journey inward.
Cheryl Petersen: The Science of Spirituality:
Exploring Infinite Consciousness
In this AWAKEN series interview, your host Stephanie Rouch interviews author, spiritual healer, and farmer Cheryl Petersen. We discuss Cheryl’s perspective on the intersection of science and spirituality. Cheryl describes science and spirituality as a flower blooming—rather than dissecting individual petals, she encourages embracing the whole. She draws parallels between plowing fields and plowing thoughts, explaining that while fields are plowed infrequently, the process turns the soil, allowing layers to mix. Similarly, when thoughts are stirred up, they create space for gratitude, patience, and goodness to rise to the "topsoil" of the mind. Cheryl’s latest book on the science of spirituality was revised with the understanding that truth is timeless yet ever-relevant. She updated it to incorporate modern conversations, including AI and contemporary relationships, while streamlining the content to be more accessible. She emphasizes that past, present, and future are all interconnected in the now. For truth seekers, Cheryl offers an exercise: Ask, Experiment, Smile. Ask: What is the infinite truth? Experiment with different ways of being, smile, and enjoy the journey.
Cheryl's Free Gift
Cheryl is generously gifting listeners a PDF of her revised book on the Science of Spirituality.
Use password AWAKEN to access.
Dr. Emmett Miller: Awakening the Mind-Body Connection: Healing, Hypnosis, and the Power of Presence
In this AWAKEN series interview, your host Stephanie Rouch speaks with Dr. Emmett Miller, a pioneer in mind-body medicine and guided imagery. Dr. Miller’s journey into healing began in childhood, when he questioned the world around him—first after reading about the Holocaust in fifth grade, noticing the apathy of adults, and later recognizing contradictions among religious leaders who each claimed to hold the sole truth. His search for understanding led him to a profound realization: expectation plays a crucial role in healing. As a young doctor, a hypnosis session revealed deep layers of consciousness he had long sought, leading him to dedicate his life to mind-body medicine. During our conversation, Dr. Miller shared the wisdom gained from decades of experience. He spoke about the power of presence in hypnosis, how deep relaxation can quiet the "monkey mind" that seeks to keep us safe, and how accessing our higher selves allows us to make creative decisions that shape our future. He reminds us that healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken—it’s about awakening to our full potential. Dr. Miller also led us through a transformative guided visualization, inviting us into deep relaxation, connecting with our best selves, and choosing to integrate that highest version of who we are into the present moment.
Dr. Miller's Free Gifts
For those eager to explore his work further, Dr. Miller is offers multiple generous gifts,
including coaching, mentorship, guided meditations on his website.
Thank you for tuning in!
What messages sparked your curiosity today?
Write down your reflections and follow-up questions in your journal.
Tomorrow's interviews will focus on embodiment and presence - where you can start to play with the truth that the present moment,
the eternal now,
holds the freedom, joy, choice, and abundance you seek.
Continue to open your mind and heart to the truths these conversations are awakening within you.
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