April 14, 2020
Mother Shapiro, the mythical, mystical character, finder of parking spots, lost things and health, was birthed by Barbara Sarah 33 years ago. Ever the entertainer and compassionate social artist, Barbara shares zany stories of her coterie of beings, including Tante Sarah, who ran for president against Bush in 1992 and who might be chosen soon as the Democrat's VP running mate!
April 7, 2020
With time on our hands as we stay at home, it’s a good time to review Chapter 15 from my book, CWCTW, called Using Time to Transform. Building on previous podcasts on Time, it gives insights into how to change personally as well as globally for a changing world.
Change Within, Change the World by Dr. Jane Battenberg
March 31, 2020
Using his isolation to create an inspirational poem titled Sing of the Cocoon, Professor Dalton gives many ways to take advantage of our stay-at-home time. While many turn to closet-cleaning, he suggests we clear our thoughts of "judgment viruses" reminding us we are not our thoughts. Starting with his poem and ending with a song he wrote, he is ever the entertainer and thought provoker. His book, I Am Not My Thoughts, is available on Amazon.
I Am Not My Thoughts by Dick Dalton
Books by Jane Battenberg:
Change Within, Change the World
Eye Yoga: How you see is how you think
March 17, 2020
Author-read Chapter 13 on Spring Forward, Fall Back: Eternal Cycles talks about the focus needed to pull ourselves out of habitual negative patterns. As many of us move into daylight savings time, it is a good time to reflect on the cycles in our lives and what needs to be reviewed and renewed.
Change Within, Change the World by Dr. Jane Battenberg
March 10, 2020
Author-read Chapter 12, But I Have No Choice! continues the theme of my previous podcast with Lenita Newberg to get out of old habits and patterns in order to see new options. Creating choices is a learned skill that lets you reclaim your power and move out of victim to taking back energy and your ability to respond to situations.
Change Within, Change the World by Dr. Jane Battenberg
March 3, 2020
Lenita Newberg uses her expertise as a psychoanalyst to encourage us to name our negative emotions in order to tame them. She draws from movies – Frozen 2 and Mr. Rogers – and her rich background as a psychoanalyst to show a path for self reflection and to get us out of old habits and patterns to see new options.
Change Within, Change the World
February 25, 2020
As a renown classical and Shakespearean actor, Peggy Rubin shares her work with Sacred Theater, Mystery School and her favorite topic, the creation of happiness. She says it is quite a feat to sustain joy in the face of multiple, daunting crises of today. Joy is a state rather than an emotion and if sustained can lead to scintillating bliss. It can allow us to deeply experience the pains of the world without being overcome by them. She gives courage in a time when it is much needed. Order her book to delve deeper:
To Be and How To by Dr. Peggy Rubin by Dr. Peggy Rubin
February 18, 2020
Author-read Chapter 14 of my book, Change Within, Change the World, builds on my previous podcast with Denise Kester on Drawing on the Dream. I talk about imaging something into reality, using the genius of your inner space, that in-between state between waking and dreaming. The complexity of our world seems to demand we go deeper in search for new paradigms and then to cultivate those gestative seeds into reality.
Change Within, Change the World