High Energy Health Podcast

High Energy Health Podcast

Join Dr. Dawson Church, a best-selling science writer, to explore the leading edge of health and happiness, along with practical techniques to maximize your wellbeing.

Episodes

December 29, 2025 45 mins
Greg Mahr, M.D., is a psychiatrist actively involved in teaching and research on acute trauma and nightmares. He is on the faculty of the medical schools at both Michigan State University and Wayne State University and has published more than 30 academic research articles. Greg is the author of The Wisdom of Dreams: Science, Synchronicity and the Language of the Soul. His most recent work, coauthored with Heather Taylor-Zimmerman, ...
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    David Cunningham is a renowned transformational coach and speaker with 40 years’ experience in empowering individuals to live from a place of love, grace, and authenticity. For three decades, at Landmark Worldwide, one of the world’s most powerful transformational programs, he led literally hundreds of thousands of participants to live from a place of love, grace, and authenticity. He is the author of Your Love Does Matter.    Here...
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    Donnie Yance is a Clinical Master Herbalist and Certified Nutritionist, internationally renowned for his pioneering work in botanical and nutritional medicine, particularly the integrative treatment of cancer. Donnie has authored two definitive books on botanical and herbal medicine: "Herbal Medicine, Healing and Cancer" and "Adaptogens in Medical Herbalism."    Here Donnie and Dawson discuss:
    • Donnie's background
    • Why fear d...
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    Monica Evans is a Clinical EFT practitioner and mentor for EFT Universe. Though she studied energy healing for more than 20 years, it was only when she learned Clinical EFT that she was able to release the fear-based reactions that were running her life. Inspired by her own experience, she made sharing these gifts with others her life’s work. Monica’s gentle and trauma-informed approach helps clients heal their inner wounds once an...
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    Brad Yates is known internationally for his creative and often humorous use of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). He is the author of the best-selling children's book "The Wizard's Wish," the co-author of the best-seller "Freedom at Your Fingertips.” Videos on Brad’s YouTube channel have been viewed over 55 million times.    Here he and Dawson reflect on:
    • Brad's background
    • Why behind despair is fear and suffering
    • Energy ...
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    Gene Monterastelli is a teacher, coach, and creator who helps people use tapping to transform the stories that keep them stuck. As the founder of Tapping Q & A and Tapping Mastery Academy, Gene has spent more than fifteen years helping thousands of people release resistance, heal emotional wounds, and take meaningful action in their lives and businesses.    Here he and Dawson reflect on:
    • Gene's background
    • Discovering EF...
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    Fleet Maull, PhD, is a consultant, motivational speaker, social entrepreneur, and authorized teacher in the Zen and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. He also founded Prison Mindfulness Institute and National Prison Hospice Association, catalyzing two national movements, while serving a 14-year mandatory-minimum federal drug sentence from 1985 to 1999. He is the author of Radical Responsibility: How to Move Beyond Blame, Fearlessly Live ...
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    Gurman is a motivational speaker, educator and the author of The Third Testament. He had a 20-year career in law enforcement, where he interacted with every echelon of society, from government leaders to the most under-served communities. He is also an ordained minister and host of the podcast Path of the Audacious Rebel.    Here he and Dawson discuss:
    • Gurman's background 
    • Why 'love your neighbor as yourself' is the foundat...
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    Christy Whitman is a transformational leader and spiritual guide. She is the New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Having It All and The Flow Factor. Christy has appeared on The Today Show, The Morning Show, TedX, and Next Level Soul.    Here she and Dawson discuss:
    • How everyone has access to flow
    • The importance of being present to find out how you’re feeling
    • Why our consciousness lives in words, thoughts, belie...
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    A pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, Paul Levy is a wounded healer in private practice, assisting others who are also awakening to the dreamlike nature of reality. He has authored six books, three of which are on the collective but unconscious psychoses in which we live. His newest book is a revised and expanded edition of The Quantum Revelation: Awakening to the Dreamlike Nature of Reality. An artist, he is deeply steepe...
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    Maria Toso is a Danish-born author, spiritual teacher, and somatic healing coach based in Minnesota. Her book, Heal What Hurts: How to Heal Emotional Triggers (Llewellyn Worldwide, September 2025), guides people to release emotional triggers that shape the lens through which we see others and ourselves. Her method helps people become emotionally free, no longer dependent on others to change or on numbing agents to cope. Maria also ...
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    Seth Stewart is a longtime performer and creator in the entertainment industry, acting in major roles in some of Broadway’s greatest hits - including “In the Heights” and “Hamilton”- and performing with artists like Madonna, Jay-Z, Jennifer Lopez, and Mariah Carey. Seth followed a deep spiritual calling that led him from the spotlight to the silence of the forest, building an off-grid cabin in the forest where he spent three years ...
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    Tama Kieves, an honors graduate of Harvard Law School, left her law practice with a prestigious corporate law firm to write and help others unlock the extraordinary faculties within them. She’s the best-selling author of Learning to Trust Yourself and other books. Featured in USA Today, the Huffington Post, Forbes, as well as on ABC News, Oprah Media and other national media, she is a sought-after speaker and visionary career succe...
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    Peter Ralston is one of the founders of the consciousness movement of the 1960s. He is a martial artist and has spent thousands of hours in contemplation which have led to notable enlightenment experiences. He is the author of several books including The Book of Not Knowing and Ending Unnecessary Suffering.    Here Peter and Dawson talk about: 
    • Why we do things that make us suffer
    • Not connecting the action we’re taking with...
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    Jenny Johnston is the founder of Quantum EFT for the soul and author of Tapping into Past Lives and Your Past Life Inheritance. Jenny was an Occupational Therapist for 31 years, but after a spinal injury in 2005, began a new career in hypnotherapy and Clinical EFT. She has been a trainer for EFT Universe since 2010. She has worked with many veterans with PTSD which led her to connect with Dawson in 2009 because of his research with...
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    Rollin McCraty, Ph.D. is Director of Research at the Institute of HeartMath. Research interests include the physiology of emotion, intuition and optimal functioning. His work focuses on the mechanisms by which emotions influence cognitive processes, behavior, and health as well as the global interconnectivity between people and the earth’s energetic systems.    Here he and Dawson discuss:
    • Rollin's background and interest in t...
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    Jackie Jackson is a yoga teacher certified in Somatic EMDR. She is the author of Urge Overkill: A Story of Breaking Free, a self-help book on based on her own experience and her work at a domestic violence and rape shelter. Her second book is Holistic Trauma Healing: Strategies to Integrate the Body, Mind, and Spirit, exploring how to use conventional with complementary modalities. Jackie is also a group facilitator with Other Pare...
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    Sol Smith spent nearly two decades as a college professor, always feeling and doing things out of step with everyone else, before realizing that he was autistic. He works with individuals, as well as offering educational seminars about neurodiversity. He is the author of The Autistic’s Guide to Self-Discovery.   Here he and Dawson talk about: 
    • Sol's story
    • Masking; feeling like an impostor
    • Why sharing puts us into a vulner...
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    Linda Backman is a psychologist and regression therapist. She has been guiding a process she calls Soul Regressions for 30 years and has conducted thousands of Past Life and Between Lives Soul Regressions. Among her books are Soul Design, Souls on Earth, The Evolving Soul and Bringing Your Soul to Light. They describe how reincarnation plays a pivotal role in our personal growth and relationships.   Here she and Dawson talk about: ...
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    Dr. Bernard Beitman is a graduate of Yale Medical School and did his psychiatric residency at Stanford University. He is the author of Life-Changing Synchronicities: A Doctor’s Journey of Coincidence and Serendipity. Dr Beitman is the former chair of psychiatry of the University of Missouri-Columbia Medical School for 17 years; he writes a blog for Psychology Today on coincidence and is the coauthor of the award-winning book Learni...
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