Linda Atwell and her strong-willed daughter, Lindsey, a high functioning young adult with intellectual disabilities, always had a complicated relationship. But when Lindsey graduated from high school at nineteen, she got a job at a Goodwill and she moved into a cottage…
Susie with her family Susie Rinehart is an award-winning author, champion ultra-runner, life coach, activist and mother of two young children. On June 30, 2016, she was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive tumor on her brainstem. Her doctor told her, “Without surgery, you…
In my interview with Dr. Larry Dossey this week – which was published as a podcast titled “We Are All One” – he speaks of the deep connection between all of us as one of the most important things in our existence. He cites…
I’m honored to bring you the thinking of New York Times best-selling author Dr. Larry Dossey, on issues he has championed for nearly 40 years. Larry and I will be discussing a range of topics, such as the nature of consciousness, our…
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On a frigid winter day exactly 109 years ago, my father John Rempel Schmidt was born in a small farmhouse in a Plautdietsch (Low-German) Mennonite community in south central Kansas. I dedicate my very first podcast to my father’s memory. The show “We Are…
I’m launching a new podcast next week and I’m excited to share it with you! At the end of 2019, I wrote about the elderly in our society, whom we sadly treat as invisible and voiceless. Here’s the other side of this: I have been…