The Soul of Life

In this episode of The Soul of Life I speak with Dr. Langer about how a comfort with uncertainty and curiosity--mindfulness--creates powerful changes in the brain. We discuss her famous "counterclockwise" studies and her claims that mindfulness leads to powerful improvements in health generally, and specific improvements in memory, vision, and hearing.

 ✨ And if you enjoyed this archive episode, check out Keith's new podcast Tripping Over Love, now on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, and Substack.

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What really makes a marriage thrive—not just survive?

In this episode, Keith Miller sits down with Dr. Corey Allen, marriage and family therapist and host of Sexy Marriage Radio, to explore the honest, funny, and sometimes uncomfortable truths about intimacy, faith, and long-term desire.

From mismatched libidos to shame, spirituality, and the "long game" of real connection, Corey brings years of wisdom about how sexual issues are life issues—and why every couple can grow, no matter where they start.

If you've ever wondered how to stay connected through change, conflict, and real-life stress, this one's for you.

💬 Leave a comment: What's been the hardest part of keeping intimacy alive in your relationship?

✨ And if you enjoyed this archive episode, check out Keith's new podcast Tripping Over Love, now on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, and Substack.

LISTEN TO TRIPPING OVER LOVE: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tripping-over-love/id1850974406

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6yl3TNTfBM1TutbETEKYNC

Substack: https://trippingoverlove.substack.com/

📱 Follow us Instagram: @trippingoverlovepodcast

TikTok: @trippingoverlove

Facebook: Tripping Over Love Podcast

In this archived episode of The Soul of Life, Keith Miller speaks with Vybarr Cregan-Reid, British scholar and author of Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human. They explore barefoot running, the biomechanics of human evolution, the psychology of running outdoors, the science of the runner's high, shoe design myths, and how modern life has weakened our bodies.

This conversation is full of insights for lifelong runners, beginners, or anyone curious about what the human body is actually designed to do.

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Keith's new show is live — Tripping Over Love, a podcast about relationships, psychedelics, emotional healing, conflict, sex, and the parts of ourselves that trip us up.
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We're launching Tripping Over Love on Tuesday, November 25th. It's the podcast about breakups, breakdowns, and breakthroughs.

We're Courtney Laydon, former journalist, and Keith Miller, a marriage and IFS therapist who found each other while tripping over love. 

We ask one big question: What if the secret to lasting love isn't getting it right… but getting real?

Next week, we're launching our first four episodes—and they're a ride:

• Molly Roden Winter on open marriage, jealousy, honesty, and why real intimacy is way less "sexy" and way more human.

• Dr. Tammy Nelson on sex, intimacy, psychedelic healing, and how ketamine can open more than just your mind.

• Dr. John Krystal, one of the inventors of intranasal ketamine, on the future of psychedelic medicine

• And wild stories from the Keith and Courtney dating experiences...including one that became "ecstatic" and opened Keith up to the kind of dance parties he missed out on as a teen

Tripping Over Love is not a podcast about perfect love. It's about conscious love—the kind that asks you to laugh, feel, grow, and sometimes completely fall apart.

Subscribe now. The mess begins next week.

 👉 Watch the new show here:     / @trippingoverlove  

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In this episode I speak to Norma Stevens, LCPC, the Director of Therapy Operations at Sunstone Therapies in Rockville, Maryland. Sunstone partners with companies like Beckley PsyTech, COMPASS Pathways, MindMed, MAPS (Lykos Theraputics), Reunion Neuroscience, and Usona to run studies that aim to establish the gold standard for psychedelic treatments of complex mental health challenges.

Sunstone offers research trials in a unique partnership with the Acquilino Cancer Center, a research program within Adventist HealthCare. Sunstone works with psilocybin, MDMA, 5-MeO-DMT, and LSD in conjunction with psychotherapy. We discuss the role of psychological integration after a psychedelic journey and the importance of a therapeutic set and setting.

You're in for a treat! Kathryn and Zach are two friends and colleagues who are also therapists that got roped into joining one of Calliope's ketamine-therapy retreats. Actually they both volunteered, each for interesting personal reasons. Each of the several ketamine experiences I facilitated for them were always equally profound, hilarious, and eye-opening. You'll get to hear what The Universe told Zack, once he reached its edge, and why Kathryn got "Money! Love! Power!" tattooed on her brain after one journey. Both informative and entertaining, these two had fun along the way.

In this episode I interview the brainchild behind an increasingly influential online wiki for psychological healing, The Integral Guide to Well-Being. Levi, who prefers to stay behind-the-scenes and doesn't publicize his identity, created an interactive, graphic notebook that has around 1,300 pages, and has tens of thousands of unique readers each month.

The Integral Guide is a choose-your-own-adventure field guide that Levi began writing to aid his personal trauma recovery and self-development and to feel empowered and better-equipped to lead an enriched life. He explains that when he was debilitated by symptoms of Complex PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, and OCD he wanted clear and useful help, and especially disliked people trying to "sell healing" to him.

You can find The Integral Guide at www.integralguide.com

This episode features Paula Marie Scatoloni, a psychotherapist that uses sound vibrations to reset hyper- or hypo-active nervous systems after trauma. This method is called psychoacoustics, and Paula uses a tool called the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) to stimulate the tiny muscles of the inner ear, "massaging" the polyvagal nerve, and activating the body's safety, belonging, and relaxation system. SSP has been shown to relieve symptoms of dissociative depression, and anxiety.

SSP was originally designed to treat Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) but has been widely used to treat a range of mental health and health symptoms. The Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP) is a creative intervention based on the polyvagal theory (Steven Porges) for improving social communication impairments by reducing auditory hypersensitivity and improving human speech processing.

The SSP rehabilitates the middle ear muscle function using filtered music that is tuned to the specific frequency of human speech. Previous studies of children with ASD using an early version of SSP reported significant improvements in their sensory problems, including auditory processing, listening, and hearing sensitivities.

From the rhythmic beats of indigenous drums to the delicate tones of Tibetan bowls, sound therapy has evolved and translated across cultural boundaries for centuries. Ancient Wisdom traditions know the benefits of using sound medicinally to supersede the mind and influence the body and nervous system. In yogic traditions that use chanting and manta, sound is vibration and vibration is the essence of all things.

Paula Marie Scatoloni holds a Master's in Social Work and is a certified Healing Arts Practitioner in NC. She is trained in many cutting-edge perspectives on trauma and the nervous system including Somatic Experiencing. Paula serves as a mentor and consultant for the Safe and Sound Protocol. She is a co-developer of the Embodied Recovery Institute and has been at the leading edge of her field for decades developing treatment programs, teaching, and leading teams at institutions such as Duke University. Paula seamlessly blends science and spirituality together in her unique programs that integrate psychology, neuroscience, and somatics with sound and bioenergetic approaches such as Reiki. Her unique programs and services can be deeply transformative for practitioners who are interested in blending Eastern and Western perspectives. Paula's website is https://paulascatoloni.com/

I believe that therapists, doctors, nurses and psychiatrists who recommend ketamine--and more and more are doing just that--should have a firsthand experience of ketamine themselves. 

Today I speak with Maria Hernandez, a psychotherapist in Philadelphia, who did just that. Maria was a participant at our Bethesda, Maryland ketamine assisted psychotherapy clinic, Calliope Health. 

We talk about the personal reasons each of us was attracted to ketamine for our own mental health and the overlap between the disassociative effects of ketamine and the hypnotic technique of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. I talk about my depression and how ketamine helped me get over my horrible fear of a divorce that needed to happen and Maria shares about how her ketamine and psychedelic journeys have helped her connect in healing ways to her son Andrew, who took his own life a few years ago.