Listener Reflections on the “Settled” Podcast
Listener, friend, and colleague Marian Blum shares her reflections after listening to podcast episode “The Virtues of Settling”:
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Calories, Love, and Growth: Josh LaJaunie on PYP 473
Josh LaJaunie and I talk about new science of metabolism, how Josh lost 230 pounds and kept it off, and how to pursue an authentic human existence.
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Orienting Ourselves to Natural Time with Brian Tourville: PYP 354
Is time linear, or cyclical?
According to analog watches, time goes around in circles.
According to calendars and planners and most of Western culture, time moves ever forward.
And few of us take seriously the cycles of nature when we contemplate time and how we move through it.
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We are Our Own Healers with Benjamin Alter, ND: PYP 342
Benjamin Alter, ND, treats his patients as if they actually have the power to heal themselves.
This power introduces a wonderful and frustrating messiness into the scientific pursuit of truth. It’s hard to control for. It’s hard to randomize for. And it’s hard to replicate.
In fact, science has dealt with this messiness by, at best, pretending it doesn’t exist, and at worst, actively denigrating people’s subjective experiences of illness and healing.
In our conversation, Ben and I talk about his definition of health, and how it connects to freedom.
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Reconnecting with the Healing Power of Plants with Joe Cross: PYP 334
Joe Cross was, in the words of his first film, “Fat, Sick, & Nearly Dead” when he embarked on a 60-day experiment to escape the pain and discomfort of a lifestyle-induced auto-immune disease.
His transformation story, chronicled in that 2010 documentary, has inspired millions of people to start juicing, and to add more plants to their diets.
In our conversation, we catch up on the decade since he became a famous wellness advocate. How has he weathered that kind of public scrutiny?
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We are Nature with Josh LaJaunie: PYP 328
Josh LaJaunie returns to the podcast for a fifth (?) time, for a conversation about our relationship with nature.
We talk about the beauty and grandeur of nature, and the ways human beings benefit and grow from being exposed to that loveliness.
And also about nature’s dangerous and scary and yucky and itchy and hot and humid and freezing and soaking and uncomfortable aspects – and how we need those experiences in equal measure with the pleasurable ones.
Our sport, ultrarunning, is an invitation to both faces of nature. To the beauty and grandeur, and to the hassle and discomfort. To the nurturing and the threatening.
We also explore the lessons nature holds for us; in trees and eddies, in cycles of live and death, growth and service.
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Charles Eisenstein on Climate Reductionism and True Planetary Healing: PYP 309
Charles Eisenstein has been challenging my thinking for about 15 years now, but never more so than with his latest book, Climate: A New Story.
Basically, Eisenstein argues that focusing all our environmental activism on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to combat global warming is a bad idea.
As a card-carrying member of the enlightened, scientifically-literate, progressive wing of the American populace, of course I know that human-created climate change is the single greatest threat to our civilization, and that the biggest thing we can do to combat it is to reduce our carbon footprint, individually and collectively.
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Unleashing Nurses to Revolutionize Patient Care with Caroline Trapp, DNP: PYP 300
Caroline Trapp, DNP (that’s Doctor of Nursing Practice to you and me), is the director of diabetes education and care with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), as well as a nurse practitioner with Premier Internists in Southfield, Michigan.
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Community Innovation and Global Solutions: PYP 294
This past Saturday, I set up my portable recording studio in Cary, North Carolina, to live-podcast the PCRM Kickstart Your Health NC Triangle event.
I chatted with Neal Barnard, MD (not pictured, because he moves too fast to photograph ;), Eric O’Grey (PCRM donor coordinator and elegant man-about-town in a fashionable sweater and gold tie), Whitney Sewell of Farmer Food Share (not pictured), Delphine Sellars of Urban Community AgroNomics (top center), attendee Carol Thibodaux of InfinitePossibilitiesTN.com (bottom center), food vendors Shane MacKinnon of SmallSeedbar.com (top right) and Yachdiyel Webb of SoulyVeganCafe.com (bottom left), and Suzy Amis Cameron of OMD for the Planet (bottom right, next to yours truly).
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Darren Morton on Happiness, Meaning, Longevity, and Smiling Baseball Cards: PYP 259
Darren Morton, PhD, is a Fellow of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine, which means that not only is he wicked-smart about how to live a long and healthy life, but also he shares his insights in a cool Australian accent.
His latest book, Live More Happy, is a treasure trove of theory and practice of How to Live a Happy, Healthy Life.
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