Touching the Stillness

Someone really smart once said when we engage in self-care, the people in our lives get the best of us rather than what's left of us. In this episode we share a word of encouragement with caregivers who are used to putting others before themselves.

We overwork, overdo, and overschedule ourselves in an attempt to get it all done. But how likely is it that even after all that effort our inbox of life will ever be completely empty? Without conscious acts of self-care, the only thing left empty might well be our soul.

What are some of the benefits of adopting a natural lifestyle? And what does that even mean, anyway? Special guest and naturopathic physician Dr. Debra Rouse clears up the mystique, and in part one of this month's Blissful Living Through Self-Care series, shares why self-care is as nonnegotiable a priority as our meditation and prayer practice.

Did you know when it comes to money you have financial DNA that determines your choices? Financial guru and Science of Mind minister Rev. Kathleen Lenover returns with insights on how our financial personality traits may also provide clues about how we live other areas of our lives-including how we approach our spiritual practice.

Money. We don't really like to talk about it and even feel like we've failed some kind of spiritual test when we don't amass enough of it to meet our commitments. Financial guru and Science of Mind minister Rev. Kathleen Lenover addresses our love-hate relationship with money and misconceptions around how prosperity prayers are answered.

Tune in to hear how the leap of faith journey one Touching the Stillness listener took this past autumn unwittingly became the basis of a plan eventually putting her on a pathway to new prosperity.

We may not be able to see God with our physical eyes. However, in this final episode of our monthlong journey through the senses, series guest Rev. Kelly Isola reveals how by resting in the stillness of prayer and waiting with an open heart, the Divine can come into view-beyond the physical.

We listen to our heart's song and not only discern the inaudible whisper of Spirit but also messages which can come from discomfort and change; during part four of our monthlong journey of sensory body prayers, with series guest Rev. Kelly Isola.

We serve up tasty bites of food for thought and a mouthwatering eating meditation, in part three of our monthlong journey of sensory body prayers with series guest Rev. Kelly Isola.

How can the practice of meditation and prayer break us open when we are touched by the less than comfortable experiences in life? In part two of our monthlong journey of sensory body prayers, our series guest Rev. Kelly Isola shares ideas that may very well touch a chord.

Is there a scent or fragrance that conjures up what is holy for you? Or which serves to remind you of your divinity? Beginning with the spiritual sense of smell, and guided by Unity minister and former Unity Online Radio host Rev. Kelly Isola, we embark on a monthlong journey of sensory body prayers.

"The heart is a ten thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love."-Hafiz Hear how Deborah Beauvais, owner of the Dreamvisions 7 Radio Network, went from being a professional matchmaker to helping others fine-tune their hearts to a deeper kind of love.

This episode comes with a "Listener's discretion advised" warning as in this final part of our three-part series for the month of love, we have the talk-the one about sex. Special guest Rev. Tom Wendt talks candidly with our host about the role our meditation practice can play when it comes to sex and spirituality.

This week might be brimming with hearts and roses in preparation for Valentine's Day, but there's nothing over-romanticized about this episode where, in part two of our three-part series for the month of love; special guest Rev. Myra McFadden candidly speaks to what it's like to be in a life partnership where our spouse does not share the same spiritual path we walk.

Some people do really well together in spiritual love partnerships, as epitomized by this episode's guests, Seat of the Soul author Gary Zukav and his life partner Linda Francis. In this three-part series for the month of love, our host makes a self-disclosure about her own love life and dialogues with the couple about what it's like to walk the same spiritual path with one's life partner.