The Awakened Brain: Lisa Miller and Dawson Church in Conversation
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Dr. Lisa Miller is the author of The Awakened Brain: The Psychology of Spirituality. She is founder of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Columbia University and has authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles on spirituality and mental health in youth and family. She is also the former President of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Society of Psychology & Spirituality, and editor of The Oxford University Press Handbook of Psychology & Spirituality and Editor-in-Chief of the APA journal Spirituality in Clinical Practice.
Here she and Dawson enthusiastically share their insights on:
- We’re born with a natural state of spiritual awareness
- Spirituality is ⅓ innate, and ⅔ culturally formed
- Everyone has an awakened brain naturally
- Dr. Miller’s research
- Depression
- Tsai’s study of 3,000 vets with PTSD
- How trauma can expand our ability for love and forgiveness
- Why our culture has no road map for these spiritual growth spurts
- The different questions we ask ourselves at each life stage
- Seeing that often the awakening takes the form of an existential crisis
- You can access the transcendent through service, meditation, nature, other ways
Dr. Lisa Miller can be reached at: www.lisamillerphd.com
And find host Dr. Dawson Church at: https://dawsonchurch.com/
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