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The upheaval in the world today is evidence that the cultural myth that we in the western world are living under is undergoing a radical evolution. Our old myths are dying. What will be our new myth and will humanity survive the chaotic transformation? Christine shares the stories of two scientists who used astral travel to explore the nature of reality in a systematic way and developed an institute called the Monroe Institute to research the phenomenon of out of body experiences. The results of this research suggest that we each contribute to the evolution of consciousness through our own personal growth. Dreams and meditation enhance this process by reflecting back to us our own particular fears. We take a call from Lucille from Cambria who shares with us her experience of the nine dimensions meditation which leads us to a discussion of somatics or body awareness in personal evolution.  We end with Christine talking about the power of rebirthing breathwork as a healing modality. Christine mentions the books: Memories, Dreams and Reflections by Carl Jung, Quantum Questions by Ken Wilbur, The Answer to Job by Carl Jung and The Miracle of the Breath by Andy Caponigro. Lucille references the book Alchemy of Nine Dimensions by Barbara Hand Clow. BIO: Christine Barrington is a Transformational Coach and supports individuals and groups to artfully engage their inner world through exploring dreams, art, and inner visioning in order to effect potent positive change in their lives. She is highly trained in depth psychology and trauma resolution techniques and uses somatic experiencing as a basis for deep listening into the non-rational sources of wisdom that reside in the embodied subconscious. Join us and hear how she combines these multiple modalities in the service of unlocking our dreams. Contact Christine at her web page BodyBroadcasts.com We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs: (1) The First Element: I Just Dropped in to See What Condition my Condition Was In and (2) Lovely lovely day by Yaya's Kitchen Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for engineering the show and to Tony Russomanno for answering the phones. Show aired on August 6, 2022, originally broadcast November 13, 2021.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms:  Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends. Apple Podcasts Google Play Stitcher  Spotify

Today we talk with author Kelly Lydick about her new release Dream Incubation for Greater Self Awareness. Kelly is a Gateway Dreaming Coach, Reiki Master and is the founder of Waking the Dream. We start off by speaking about the importance of aligning of mind, body and spirit and how dreams bring us into balance and help us manage our self awareness. Kelly give specific suggestions around dream incubation including what kinds of questions to ask and what rituals will enhance the incubation. We also speak about working with colors in dreams using the chakra system and about incubation around creative projects. Kelly suggests that dream recall can be enhanced by trying different body positions when we wake up. We also talk about children and dreams. We take three callers. The first is from Chris from Felton who asks about the possible connection between body position and cerebral spinal fluid. The second is Sandra from Texas who shares a dream about a person in a wheelchair. The third caller is Diana from San Antonio who shares a dream about a little girl and a closet. BIO: Kelly Lydick has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees and is a Reiki Master and a Meditation Facilitator. She has certifications in Music Therapy and Sound Healing, Energy Medicine, and Mindfulness. She is a certified Life Coach and a Gateway Dreaming™ Coach. In 2019, Kelly was a graduate of the inaugural class of Eckhart Tolle’s School of Awakening. She is the author of Mastering the Dream and her book Dream Incubation for Greater Self-Awareness was just released in April 2022. At Waking the Dream, Kelly provides individual creative consulting and group workshops in personal development and creative development including dream work, meditation, and more. Contact Kelly at KellyLydick.com and at PureCarbonPublishing.com. Outro music is Everything by Mood Science. Today's ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel new every week. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on July 30, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms:  Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends. Apple Podcasts Google Play Stitcher  Spotify

Keith Salmon is a world-renowned nature videographer. He shares with Katherine how he was inspired by a series of distressing dreams to leave his academic job to become more connected to nature. He eventually found his calling as a videographer. We talk about the ability of animals to be present in their environment while humans have been sheltered from the consequences of their actions. Keith brings up the idea of Indra’s net of gems as a way of thinking about this web of natural relationships and says that nature invites us to become a gem in a net of gems. We then talk about how to work with the animals that show up in our dreams. Keith recommends exploring our own associations and then also to dig into the science around these animals to find out who they really are. There are times when we can follow our dream animals into waking life by visiting their habitats. Keith then shared some of his own stories about following his dream animals into waking life, and we talk about the quality of enchantment that happens as the veil between dreamtime and awake time thins. We take a call from Sylvia from northern Ontario. She reminds us that we dream not only about wild animals, but also about domesticated animals such as our pets and also talks about how when she dreams for global healing, which is a part of her regular practice, that the dreams that come are often about nature and stillness and peace. Keith quotes several memorable passages, one from writings by Eagle Chief Letakos-Lesa of the Pawnee People, and one from David Wagoner which encourages us that when we feel lost, we should stand still and let the forest find us. And finally he quotes the following: “Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too, just once. And never again. But to have been this once, completely, even if only once: to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing.” — Rainer Maria Rilke (Duino Elegies) We played clips from nature sound recordist Lang Elliot: the Cades Cove Coyotes and the Symphony of Loons, both of which are available on SoundCloud. Bio: Ronald Keith Salmon was raised on a small sheep farm on Vancouver Island, Canada. This intimacy with animals ignited a sense of wonder in the mystery and the miracle of the Natural World. To deepen this sense of wonder, Keith studied animal science at university—where he received a B.Sc. in Animal Science and a Ph.D. in Animal Genetics. After a tenure as a Professor of Animal Biotechnology, Keith’s dreams led him to leave the academic world to engage more directly with the animals and plants who share this planet. Keith interweaves original videography, poetry, prose, sound, and song to explore the intimate relationship between the Natural World and the World of Dreams. His work represents a constellation of the insights and revelations gained through his lifelong exploration of Nature’s mysteries through the lenses of both biological science and art—and his 35-year apprenticeship in the study of dreams. Keith’s performances and presentations awaken a sense of wonder where the creatures in our dreams may become mentors who provide guidance on how we may walk in beauty on this earth. You can connect with Keith Salmon and see some of his nature videos at truenature.earth Live ambient music by Rick Kleffel. Show aired on July 23, 2022 rebroadcast from May 1, 2021.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms:  Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends. Apple Podcasts Google Play Stitcher  Spotify

Eavesdrop in on the Tucson dream conference and find out what is happening at the IASD conference. Guests are Suzanne Maniss, G. Scott Sparrow, Linda Mastrangelo, Curtis Hoffman, Alina Mansfield, Linda again (to answer a listener question from Sharon Reinbott about using dreams in therapy) and ending with Max Deaton. We also play extended versions of two Mood Science pieces featuring the music of Rick Kleffel and the voice of Amy Barnes. Topics of discussion include the use of dreams in therapy, the Five Star method of dreamwork, dream-inspired music and longitudinal dream study of one person's dreams as traced through a 17,000 dream record collected over 31 years. I share a dream in which I discover hidden hierarchical systems in myself. Join us at the 2022 IN PERSON dream conference in Tucson July 17-21. Register and learn more at https://iasdconferences.org/2022/. Outro music is Everything by Mood Science. Today's ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel new every week. (The audio can be found sprinkled throughout the blog at NarrativeSpecies.wordpress.com.) Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on July 16, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms:  Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends. Apple Podcasts Google Play Stitcher  Spotify

Did Covid change the way you dream? We talk today about about the 15,000 pandemic dreams collected so far by Harvard researcher Dr. Deirdre Barrett and what they say about how we respond to crisis. We start with a conversation about how our guest decides which dreams to write down and which to forget and how she uses dreams to inspire her artistic creations. She tells us of the dreams that inspired her to start her Pandemic Dreams project. Dr. Barrett share several stories about her collection of dreams including a description of how mask dreams varied over time and in different parts of the world. BIO: Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D. is a psychologist on the faculty of Harvard where she teaches on dreams and hypnosis. She is Past President of both the International Association for the Study of Dreams and The Society for Psychological Hypnosis. She has written five books including Pandemic Dreams, The Committee of Sleep, and The Pregnant Man. She has also edited four books including Trauma and Dreams. She is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal, DREAMING. Dr. Barrett has published dozens of academic articles and chapters. Her current work focuses on dreams and creative problem solving, lucid dreaming, and dreams about the COVID-19 pandemic. You can contact our guest at her webpage DeirdreBarrett.com. Dr. Barrett will be a keynote at the 2022 IN PERSON dream conference in Tucson July 17-21. Register and learn more at https://iasdconferences.org/2022/ Outro music is Everything by Mood Science. Today's ambient music is called Preternaturalize and was created by Rick Kleffel new again week. (The audio can be found sprinkled throughout the blog at NarrativeSpecies.wordpress.com.) Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on July 9, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms:  Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends. Apple Podcasts Google Play Stitcher  Spotify

Sleep loss is at epidemic levels today. What are we missing out on? How can dreams help cure insomnia? Because of what our guest calls, "Wake centrism," Americans are subject to hyperarousal, and 60-70 million of us have some level of insomnia. This is an epidemic levels of sleep and dream loss. We also talk about consciousness: our fear of it and our innate need to expand it. Dr. Naiman proposes that dreaming is a dialogue with the unconscious and that sleeping can be approached as a kind of spiritual practice. He describes our fear of the unconscious and our innate need to expand consciousness. Dr. Naiman will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming Tucson conference for the International Association for the Study of Dreams. BIO: Rubin Naiman, PhD, is a psychologist, sleep and dream specialist and clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Arizona’s Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Naiman is a pioneer in the development of integrative approaches to sleep and dream disorders, integrating conventional sleep science with depth psychological and transpersonal perspectives. He founded and directed sleep programs at Canyon Ranch and Miraval Health Resorts. He is also the director of NewMoon Sleep, LLC, an organization that offers a range of sleep and dream related services, trainings and consultation internationally. Dr. Naiman maintains a global telehealth practice and has worked with a diverse clientele including Fortune 500 CEOs, professional athletes, statesmen and entertainers. He is the author of several groundbreaking works on sleep and dreams including consumer books, audiobooks and articles as well as medical book chapters and papers. Dr. Naiman’s primary interest is the field of consciousness, which includes the flow of sleep, dreams and waking. He believes that these states can be best understood in context, that is, in relationship to one another. Dr Naiman has long been concerned about evidence suggesting that we are at least as dream deprived as we are sleep deprived. This silent epidemic of dream loss is symptomatic of our culture’s devaluation of dreaming, which stems in large part from a mistrust of the unconscious. He sees cultivating a relationship with the dream world as a personal spiritual practice that has positive transpersonal ramifications. Join us at the 2022 IN PERSON dream conference in Tucson July 17-21. Register and learn more at https://iasdconferences.org/2022/ Outro music is Everything by Mood Science. Today's ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel new every week. (The audio can be found sprinkled throughout the blog at NarrativeSpecies.wordpress.com.) Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on July 2, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms:  Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends. Apple Podcasts Google Play Stitcher  Spotify

Today Katherine talks to Gregg about some mysteries including what people fear and why many people may be not interested in or even fear their own dreams. This is a popular replay show from December 2019. Gregg Levoy has written two books: Callings, Finding and Following an Authentic Life and Vital Signs: Discovering and Sustaining Your Passion for Life. He is a lecturer and seminar-leader in the business, educational, governmental, faith-based and human-potential arenas, and has keynoted and presented workshops at venues ranging from the EPA, Microsoft and British Petroleum to universities, churches and Esalen. Join us at the 2022 IN PERSON dream conference in Tucson July 17-21. Register and learn more at https://iasdconferences.org/2022/ Outro music is Everything by Mood Science. Today's ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel new every week. (The audio can be found sprinkled throughout the blog at NarrativeSpecies.wordpress.com.) Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on June  25, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms:  Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends. Apple Podcasts Google Play Stitcher  Spotify

Are you ready for a dream revolution? If our guest Dr. Catherine Shainberg reads it right, this could be as big as the 16th century reformation. Catherine starts by describing how she was told as a child to stop "dreaming her life away", and yet here she is now with a full-time career of teaching people through the School of Images to bring more imagination into their lives. Dr. Shainberg offers to explore Katherine's recent dream of a mysterious and apparently unstable stone edifice. She associates the wall with my recent feelings of anxiety and encourages me to erase the image. She helps me to find a new image to replace it. We then speak about how the modern world floods us with images so that our inner faculty for imagination is atrophied. Catherine says that dreams show us the truth of our current situation which isn't always a pretty picture and so our dreams are not always peaceful. She describes that we are in the midst of a Dream Revolution in which we are finally realizing that mental processes are not enough to solve our problems. In the final segment, Ray calls in from Santa Cruz, and Dr. Shainberg leads him on a visualization to help him discover which of his burning questions are the most important. BIO: Catherine Shainberg, Ph.D., is an internationally renowned transpersonal psychologist, lecturer,  teacher, visionary, and award-winning author.  Grounded in the Kabbalah of Light, her work integrates timeless wisdom with modern Western traditions to catalyze creative manifestation at all levels, in all areas of life - personal and professional, communal and global. She created the School of Images® based on her profound realization about the power of images to create, manifest and transform. As a master of this work, she has developed an approach and body of techniques using dreams, images and inner gazing to communicate with our subconscious and change our lives. Websites: SchoolofImages.com Twitter: SchoolofImages @SchoolofImages Facebook: SchoolofImages Join us at the 2022 IN PERSON dream conference in Tucson July 17-21. Register and learn more at https://iasdconferences.org/2022/ Outro music is Everything by Mood Science. Today's ambient music is called Stealth Shadows and is created by Rick Kleffel new every week. The audio can be found sprinkled throughout the blog at NarrativeSpecies.wordpress.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on June 18, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms:  Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends. Apple Podcasts Google Play Stitcher  Spotify

Near death experiences (NDEs) provide evidence that consciousness exists outside of the body. We speak today with scientist, lucid dreamer and instigator in-chief at the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Robert J. Hoss. Bob shares evidence from his study of over 4000 published NDEs suggesting near universal experiences around death independent of religious or cultural background. Bob then relates his own lucid near death experience which was one of the factors that woke up in him his abiding interest in dreaming. We then talk about Bob's research into the psychological effect of color in both waking life and in dreams. Color often contains concealed emotions in dreams. Bob describes his research with over 4000 dreams from one subject tracking their emotional life with color in dreams. Check out Bob's free Color Questionnaire at DreamScience.org We take a call from Lucille from Cambria who wonders if she only dreams in black and white. Bob quotes studies that suggest we all dream in color and says we can learn to pay attention to the colors that are there. Bob and Katherine talk about what they are most looking forward to about the July Tucson IASD conference. BIO: Robert Hoss, MS is an IASD Director, past President and Conference Director, directs the Dream Science Foundation for research grants and is a Haden Institute faculty instructor. Author/editor of 4 books: Dreams; Dreams that Change Our Lives; Dream to Freedom; Dream Language and is published in 12 other books and journals. www.dreamscience.org Bob Hoss’s website: DreamScience.org where you can download the free book there called Dream Language as well as the color questionnaire. Website for the IASD: ASDreams.org Join us at the 2022 IN PERSON dream conference in Tucson July 17-21. Register and learn more at https://iasdconferences.org/2022/ Outro music is Everything by Mood Science. Today's ambient music is called The Sky Divided and was created by Rick Kleffel. (The audio can be found sprinkled throughout the blog at NarrativeSpecies.wordpress.com.) Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on June 11, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms:  Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends. Apple Podcasts Google Play Stitcher  Spotify

We speak about nightmares and the nervous system using an approach combining polyvagal theory and embodied experiential approaches including Gendlin's practice of Focusing. She argues that learning to find a sense of safety is not just necessary for treatment to proceed but that the sense of safety is the treatment itself. Dr. Ellis also speaks about her work on teaching clinicians to welcome their clients' dreams in therapy including why clinicians are so intimidated by dreams. These simple techniques can also be used when sharing dreams with friends and partners. Such dream-sharing has been shown to increase a sense of intimacy and trust in the relationship. We end with Leslie helping me to unpack my dream of being a zombie in a compound and seeing a dancing half-mechanical elephant. BIO: Dr. Leslie Ellis is a leading expert in embodied experiential approaches to working with dreams and nightmares. She is author of 'A Clinician's Guide to Dream Therapy' and offers a range of online and zoom classes for professionals wanting to deepen their skills in working with client dreams. She has written numerous book chapters and articles on dreams and focusing-oriented therapy, which is a gentle, yet profound way of inquiring into the body. She is currently vice president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. Web: drleslieellis.com, IG: dreamsdemystified Join us at the 2022 IN PERSON dream conference in Tucson July 17-21. Register and learn more at https://iasdconferences.org/2022/ We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs: Outro music is Everything by Mood Science. Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. (The audio can be found sprinkled throughout the blog at NarrativeSpecies.wordpress.com.) Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on June 4, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms:  Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends. Apple Podcasts Google Play Stitcher  Spotify

How Dreams Impact Our Mental Health. Our guest today is IASD president, Michelle Carr, PhD. We talk about Michelle's research in which cognitive methods are used to induce lucid dreaming in the sleep laboratory and about using lucid dreams to treat nightmares. Michelle describes some of the new dream engineering tools that are available including devices to induce lucid dreams or to deepen sleep. Michelle will be giving a keynote speech at the July Tucson IASD conference entitled "From Nightmares to Lucid Dreams: How Dreams Impact Our Mental Health." Bio: Michelle Carr, PhD, is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester in New York, where she works in the Sleep and Neurophysiology Laboratory. Michelle mainly studies the structure and functions of dreaming – what’s happening in the brain and body while we dream, and how this influences our waking life. She studies treatments for nightmares including lucid dreaming and also dream engineering—new techniques and technologies designed to influence dreams to benefit well-being. Michelle Carr is President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. She writes for Psychology Today, and other magazines. You can find out more about Michelle Carr at the following sites: TheDreamEngineers.com PsychologyToday.com/us/blog/dream-factory Join us at the 2022 IN PERSON dream conference in Tucson July 17-21. Register and learn more at https://iasdconferences.org/2022/ We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs: Outro music is Everything by Mood Science. Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. (The audio can be found sprinkled throughout the blog at NarrativeSpecies.wordpress.com.) Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on May 28, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms:  Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends. Apple Podcasts Google Play Stitcher  Spotify

Metaphors and the Self in a Zombie Pandemic Dream. We talk with Professor Jeannette Mageo, PhD about her lifelong work and many books on dreams and also about her upcoming keynote presentation at the IASD conference in Tucson in July. Jeannette lived in Santa Cruz for years getting her PhD in the UCSC history of consciousness department and has a fond spot in her heart for the town. We discussed the idea that Jung's views, though typical for the time, would currently be described as racist. As part of her position with Washington State University, she has an extensive dream collection and describes the three typical kinds of dream metaphors that she finds: sensory, cultural and personal. Typical American metaphors include the American dream model for achieving success and the pin-up model of feminine sexuality. We talk about how doing our inner work contributes to cultural evolution and how nightmares are usually about threats to our identity. We take a call from Skyler in Pullman WA who shares with us some of her research into how dreams changed pre-pandemic to during the pandemic. BIO: Jeannette Mageo is Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University.  Her work focuses on dreaming and the self, on child development, and on how subjectivity, identity, and emotion evolve out of cultural and historical experiences. Her manifold writings on dreams show that cultural models tie the most profound aspects of subjectivity to politics and public culture, inscribing relations of privileging and marginalization within the self that generate anxiety and resistances registered and negotiated in the imaginary realm. Professor Mageo has published 11 books with major academic presses, including 4 on dreams. Find her here: https://anthro.wsu.edu/faculty-and-staff/jeannette-mageo/ Her books include: Jeannette Mageo. 2022. The Mimetic Nature of Dream Mentation: American Selves in Re-formation. Palgrave Macmillan. Jeannette Mageo and Robin Sheriff (eds.). 2021. New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming. New York: Routledge. Jeannette Mageo. 2016. Dreaming Culture: Meanings, Models, and Power in U.S. American Dreams. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, paperback edition. Jeannette Mageo (ed.). 2003. Dreaming and the Self: New Perspectives on Subjectivity, Identity, and Emotion. State University of New York Press. Join us at the 2022 IN PERSON dream conference in Tucson July 17-21. Register and learn more at https://iasdconferences.org/2022/ We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs: Outro music is Everything by Mood Science. Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. (The audio can be found sprinkled throughout the blog at NarrativeSpecies.wordpress.com.) Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on May 21, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call

Lucid dreaming and dream-inspired music. Our guest this week is host of the podcast "The Dreams That Shape Us." Steven Ernenwein's interest in dreaming started with a spontaneous lucid dream he had in college. He shares it with us and how it changed his life, moving him toward a place where he has grown deeper into trusting his inner voice and an awareness that this is a spiritual universe. We talk about whether all of a dreams parts are parts of the dreamer or whether outside influences appear in our dreams. Plus, Steven talks about the ethics of controlling your lucid dream and describes his voyage with nightmarish characters from vanquishing them to learning to have compassion for them. We talk a call from Ray from Santa Cruz with questions about lucid dreaming. Steven has suggestions about how to address the dream consciousness in the dream once lucid. We end by talking about his podcast The Dreams That Shape Us and about his presentation at the upcoming IASD conference in Tucson in July. BIO: Steven Ernenwein is a dream-inspired hip hop/singer songwriter and has been a dreamworker and avid lucid dreamer for the past 17 years. Steven also cohost's the storytelling podcast, The Dreams that Shape Us, with J.M. DeBord where they are obliterating the Western myth that dreams mean nothing, by offering up story after story of how dreams have deeply impacted and shaped the dreamer's inner and outer lives. Hi podcast can be found at www.anchor.fm/dreamsthatshapeus Contact Steven on IG: www.Instagram.com/aq_dreamwalker (my music) www.Instagram.com/dreamsthatshapeus (the podcast) Lucid dreaming and dream-inspired music. Our guest this week is Steven Ernenwein, podcast host of “the dreams that shape us“. Join us at the 2022 IN PERSON dream conference in Tucson July 17-21. Register and learn more at https://iasdconferences.org/2022/ We play clips from the following two guest-CREATED songs: To Feel This Again and Song of Praise. Outro music is Everything by Mood Science. Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on May 14, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms:  Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends. Apple Podcasts Google Play

We know that humanity originated in Africa. Africa is therefore at the root of all that makes us human: our spirituality, civilization, arts, sciences, philosophy, and even our conscious and unconscious minds. Today we welcome back poet and author Dr. Edward Bruce Bynum. We talk about his new book Our African Unconscious: The Black Origins of Mysticism and Psychology and about what he will be presenting at his welcoming keynote at the IASD Tucson conference in July. Bruce starts by marveling about how little we have changed biologically in 50,000 years yet how far we have come culturally and scientifically. We talk about how mysticism emerges out of physical and biological experiences and about the flexibility of our experience of time. We go into the history of mysticism and how it was not always dominated by old, white men including discussion of female priests of the ancient Asclepion temples and the growing modern recognition of Native Americans and other aboriginal cultures. We touch on OBEs, NDEs, precognitive dreams and pyramids as places if initiation. We take a call from Ray from Santa Cruz who brings up topics of life after death and past lives. He shares a short, powerful dream about a scarab. Bruce ends by reading his poem, “I dream”. BIO: Edward Bruce Bynum, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and Diplomat in clinical psychology. He is nationally certified in biofeedback and is a senior fellow in the National Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. His focus is psychosomatic medicine, hypnosis and individual psychotherapy, and he is currently in private practice in Hadley Massachusetts. His most recent books include Our African Unconscious, Dark Light Consciousness (both of which are now available in audio form) and The Dreamlife of Families. New poetry books include The First Bird, The Magdalene Poems, The Luminous Heretic, and Gospel of the Dark Orisha. He recently received an APA award for “an outstanding and lasting contribution to the exploration of the farther reaches of the human spirit”. Contact him at ObeliskFoundation.com. Get your dreams out of lockdown at the 2022 IASD dream conference in Tucson July 17-21. Register and learn more at https://iasdconferences.org/2022/ We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs: Dream Weaver by Gary Wright and the Moody Blues, Ride My Seesaw. Outro music is Everything by Mood Science. Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on May 7, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms:  Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

Trickster energy, shadow work and learning to love the nightmare. Andrusa describes how he pursued personal growth as a way to move beyond his poverty-stricken and violent childhood. Andrusa starts by describing a powerful Red Dream in which he asks to meet his shadow. The resulting healing moment involves the TV character Alf. Red dreams help us make deep bodily shifts and are often lucid. We then talk about nightmares and trickster energy. Andrusa shares a powerful dream from the night before about his mother who is close to making the transition from this life to the next in which undersea eels appear as trickster animal guides. In the last segment, we touch on mundane dreams. Andrusa describes his creation of Divine by Design and on his artistic offerings at the upcoming IASD Tucson conference in July (IASDconferences.org/2022/). Katherine shares a lucid dream sent by listener Jason Althaver which led him to make a life changing decision. Thank you for your donations to KSQD.org/donate! Your funding keeps us on the air. Tell them you are a Dream Journal listener. BIO. Andrusa's formative years entailed an early exposure to inner-city violence and poverty. For him, salvation came in the form of a profound love of the arts, both material and traditional. After years of channeling physical aggression into dynamic energy, he began a deep study of the metaphysical and a shift into techniques to enhance meditation and emotional introspection. His continued passion for creative expression led to the founding of Divine by Design with other members of his family. His current projects seek to highlight the interconnectivity between individuals and recognize the organic patterns that exist in every form of transformative communication. Website: DivinebyDesign.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DivinebyDesignTeam/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/divinebydesigninc/ Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFQXeQ0U2gd4GGyryWATulg/about We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs: “Gold vs the right things to do” by Lupe Fiasco and “Glory(from the motion picture selma)” by common, John Legend. Outro music is Everything by Mood Science. Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week, this week featuring the glorious vocals and dulcet flute of Amy Barnes. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on April 30, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. You ca

Exploring dreams is a powerful way to integrate psychedelic experiences. Our guest is Dr Tom Whalen. We talk about differences and similarities between dreaming and psychedelics in brain activation and in the abundance of various neuro transmitters. Tom talks about the importance of working with dreams non-interpretively since offered ideas can overrule the innate wisdom of the dreamer. We talk about Guru Yoga and also Tom's approach to working with dreams which he calls a Dream Koan practice. He will be presenting his work at the IASD conference in Tucson in July. We end with Tom demonstrating his non-interpretive approach by exploring a dream with Katherine. BIO: Tom Whalen is an MD practicing pain medicine. For the last 15 years, he’s been following advances in neuroscience, including the use of psychedelics to treat addiction and PTSD. His passion lies in the realms of spiritual practice. He has been practicing Zen since 1971 and Archetypal Dreamwork since 1989. With these two practices, he has synthesized a “new” form of Zen practice, which he calls Dream-Koan practice. He currently offers this practice with Rick Issan Elkin, through the Eighth Wave Community at EighthWave.org.  Also Look for Dr. Whalen at nogatezencenter.org and  promotionofpeace.org. We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs: 'Jackie' James McMurtry and 'The Dirty Monk' Kevin Eubanks (album Zen Food). Outro music is Everything by Mood Science. Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Dr. Tom Whalen also appeared on the Dream Journal in October 2020. KSQD.org/zen-and-psychedelics-with-dr-tom-whalen/ Show aired on April 23, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms:  Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends. Apple Podcasts Google Play

Want to bypass your standard train of thought and get unstuck? Sleep on it! We talk about how dreaming is a kind of supercharged brainstorming with today's guest Nicoline Douwes Isema who calls her work Thinking in Your Sleep. We start by talking about how when we are in a state of focused thinking, the brain can't do all of the maintenance things that it needs to do, plus it's not free to be creative! Enter the dreams which provided rich fields of creativity and brainstorming. Niko speaks about how we think our thoughts are linear and how thoughts help us decide what to do when actually thinking is more like a good press agent that explains what we just did. And did you know that intention setting can be as simple and as natural as worrying about a problem? Niko is passionate about dream sharing and gives simple steps that we can all do to support people when they share their dreams with us. Nicoline is very active on Clubhouse as @dreamexpert. You can find her there or at ThinkinginYourSleep.com BIO: Nicoline Douwes Isema is a Dutch dream expert and sleep activist. She is on a mission to help everyone wake up with new ideas and fresh insights. Since beginning her work on dreams over 15 years ago, Nicoline has co-authored a book in Dutch which teaches people to interpret their own dreams, and has been frequently featured on radio, podcasts, television, and in print in both Dutch and English, promoting the power of intentional dreaming. Nicoline loves dream research and sleeping in. We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs both by DephCut: My Soul and Daydream. You can find their music on iTunes or on SoundCloud. Outro music is Everything by Mood Science. Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on April 16, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms:  Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends. Apple Podcasts Google Play Stitcher  Spotify

Re-creation through recreation. Our guest is Rev Ryan Althaus and topics include mental health, spirituality and psychedelics. Ryan starts by describing his history with mental health issues and says his goal now is to get his laugh back by recognizing that maybe he is not crazy but kooky. He describes some of his psychedelic experiences and how they helped him to learn how to surrender and to open to more of a sense of playfulness and innocence. We touch on yoga, breathwork, spirituality and daydreaming. We end by going back and forth sharing our recent dreams. NOTE: I am collecting recordings of people speaking their dreams out loud to play on future shows. Please send audio or video files to katherine(at)ksqd.org The Kooky Side of Crazy airs every other Thursday at 6pm at KSQD.org or recordings can be found here: http://sweatysheep.com/discover/sweaty-sheep-goes-radio/ BIO: Rev Ryan Althaus is the Regional Presbyterian Hunger and Inclusivity affiliate of the National Presbyterian church, an up and coming author, and leader of Sweaty Sheep — a local ministry rooted in the utilization of recreation as a means of uniting our a diverse community of faiths, abilities, and labels. Ryan is also an advocate of mental health awareness and destigmatization, and this passion has motivated his management of a 14 person sobriety home in Santa Cruz and his hosting a bi-weekly radio show, ‘The Kooky side of Crazy,’ Thursday evenings on KSQD 90.7FM. Captain Mango, as his salty sailing fellowship calls him, is a coast guard licensed Captain who hosts free sailing excursions on his 40 ft. Catamaran for individuals with disabilities, in the addiction recovery process, or working their way out of homelessness. He is also the Minister of Interfaith Relations of the Santa Cruz Unitarian Fellowship and you can learn more about his programs, listen to past sermons,  find links to his writings, and more at sweatysheep.com and contact him at 443-223-7334 or ryan@sweatysheep.com. We play clips from the following guest-selected song: Kooky Little Coconut by Brent Holmes. Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on April 9, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms:  Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends. Apple Podcasts Google Play Stitcher  Spotify

Freud, Jung, Perls, Taylor and Hillman. So many dream experts are old white men. Today we talk about the importance of supporting a movement towards inclusion and diversity within the historically white field of dreamwork. Our guests are brother and sister team Andrusa Lawson and Sahlah Dubel, founders of Divine by Design. Our guests start out talking about surviving their childhoods in inner city Baltimore including poverty, living with substance abusers and racial violence. We talk about what Obama called "the original sin" of slavery in our country and about how we are working out cultural issues in our dreams as well as own personal psychological issues. We touch on the dangers of Euro-centric thought and barriers to support to people of color including cost, difficulty finding practitioners with similar experience and the priority of survival over growth. We also talk about silence as a catalyst for change, working with intuition and the power of community in creating change. They end by describing their vision for a sacred space dreaming group. We take a call from Santa Cruz local Ahlene with a dream to share in which she found herself being guided down lengthy dark halls. Sahlah and Andrusa suggest that she pay attention to the feelings in the dream and consider that these are the key gifts of the dream. Perhaps "the seeing is in the doing": no interpretation needed. BIO: Andrusa and Sahlah come from a family of exceptional dreamers. Growing up in inner-city Baltimore meant balancing the need for spiritual growth against the realities of homelessness and exposure to substance abuse. Their journeys led to exploring immersive meditation practices (including Tibetan, Jungian, and Amazonian practices), strategies for detoxification, the healing qualities of movement, song, prayer, and the elements of Nature. Andrusa and Sahlah are co-founders of Divine By Design, a social benefit corporation dedicated to supporting the resilience of communities. Their lucid dreaming workshop series entitled, AWAKE, shares practical techniques and tools to navigate dreaming experiences. They are now members of the International Association for the Study of Dreams participating in the 2022 cohort of the Dreams and Ethnicity course. https://www.divinebydesign.org https://www.facebook.com/DivinebyDesignTeam/ https://www.instagram.com/divinebydesigninc/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFQXeQ0U2gd4GGyryWATulg/abou director(at)divinebydesign.org We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs:  Weightless by Reina Williams, Black is the Colour by Tia Blake, Breathe by Sweet Honey in the Rock. Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on April 2, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms:  Rate it, revi

Our guest says that she likes to view dreamwork as a kind of puzzle where the goal is to decode what waking life situation the dream is referring to. Layne describes and gives examples for her six point method of dream entry. The points of entry are feelings, plot, word play, symbols, repetition and action: what is the dreamer doing in the dream. Layne works with one of Katherine's dreams in which she poops more even though in the dream she said she has already had a bowel movement. Under Layne's guidance, Katherine realizes that there is more to say to herself around her feelings of shame around liking to be in control. We take a call from Paula who asks What is the use of old dreams? She shares an old dream that she was curious about in which there are alligators next to her RV. Paula realizes this brings up feelings around her incipient retirement. Layne is offering a three week dream group starting April 23. Sign up here for that workshop: TheDreamAnalyst.com/private-dream-group/ BIO: Layne Dalfen, author of Have A Great Dream, Book 1; The Overview and Have A Great Dream, Book 2; A Deeper Discussion has lectured at Concordia University in Montreal since 2005. She has a Certificate in Gestalt Counseling and was a Board Member of The International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD). Besides numerous TV, radio, podcast, and speaking appearances, Layne writes monthly columns at OprahDaily, Psychology Today, and Hampton Sheet. Her goal is to introduce the general public to the value of understanding the language of our sophisticated unconscious mind. TheDreamAnalyst.com We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs both by James Taylor: Shower the People and Fire and Rain. Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on March 26, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms:  Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends. Apple Podcasts Google Play Stitcher  Spotify