Proactive Mindfulness podcast
This podcast explores how mindful presence shapes personal growth, from healing trauma to living mindfully. It features short talks and conversations with thoughtful guests.
The Proactive Mindfulness podcast is available on all major podcast apps. You will also find every episode on this site, most of them as video. They are listed below in chronological order (most recent on top).
You can see separately: Exploring Mindfulness, | Exploring Therapy | Inspirational Talks. You can also see an Alphabetical list of all conversations
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Inside a Trauma Therapist’s Mind with Glenn Fleisch
Step inside a therapist’s process for an immersive look at how decoding physical posture heals developmental trauma from the inside out.
Somatic therapy without body mindfulness?
Struggling when a therapy client has low body awareness? See how shifting to a relational process transforms stuck somatic moments.
Aziz & Maoz: An Israeli and a Palestinian Refuse to Be Enemies
After losing family to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, here’s how Maoz Inon and Aziz Abu Sarah chose peace over revenge — and became brothers.
Presence Over Polarization: Discovering the Vibrant Center with Kirk Schneider
How can we engage political polarization without falling into passive neutrality or extremism? Dr. Kirk Schneider on presence, openness, and discernment as a path forward.
Procrastination as a freeze response: Everyday Somatics with Jennifer Tantia
Learn why procrastination is an autonomic freeze response and how everyday somatics helps you move past task avoidance using bottom-up regulation and curiosity.
Beyond Screen Addiction: Reclaiming Presence in the Attention Economy
This article puts screen addiction within a larger context and draws practical conclusions. The environment in which human attention evolved has changed so dramatically that mindfulness is becoming an essential human capacity rather than an optional spiritual practice.
Meditation as a Living Process: Moving Beyond Forced Stillness
Stop trying to force stillness. Discover an experiential meditation process to move from automatic tension to embodied presence through physical sensing.
Systemic shame & trauma healing: From isolation to connection: Merete Holm Brantbjerg
Merete Holm Brantbjerg talks about trauma, systemic shame, and the body’s hidden survival responses, starting from her own experience of female-to-female sexual perpetration at age 14.
Janina Fisher: Healing Trauma & Unblending From Our Fragmented Selves
Janina Fisher explains what it means to heal your trauma. She describes her trauma-informed parts approach, where these reactions are understood as parts of ourselves that once helped us survive, not as problems to eliminate.
Looking Past Political Autopilot: Scary Does Not Mean Powerful
What happens when you look past political outrage? Discover how mindfulness interrupts automatic reactions and reveals the vulnerability beneath the surface.
Gentle Presence with John Amodeo: Turning Anxiety & Defensiveness into Connection
Explore how gentle presence helps you drop out of your head and into your body. John Amodeo shares how pausing and welcoming what you feel shifts automatic reaction into mindful connection.
Memory Reconsolidation: How Real Therapeutic Change Happens
Why doesn’t insight create lasting change? Discover how memory reconsolidation and corrective emotional experiences allow real, embodied therapeutic transformation.
Meditation as Engagement: Mindfulness Is Not a Spectator Sport
Mindfulness is more than passive observation. Discover how active, embodied engagement—from meditation to somatics—helps you move from automatic reaction to conscious response.
When embodied experience is missing from somatic therapy
What happens when a somatic question meets silence or intellectualizing? Learn how to track embodied therapy when the client’s body doesn’t answer.
Mindful Presence & Embodiment: A Conversation with Andrew Rosenstock
Andrew Rosenstock and Serge Prengel explore embodiment, self-regulation, and how to stay grounded in felt body awareness during live conversation.
Stephen Batchelor: Mindfulness Beyond Dogma & Rigid Rules
Stephen Batchelor discusses how returning to early Buddhist sources and Greek philosophy helps us move beyond rigid dogma, cultivate ethical judgment, and bring mindful presence to life’s choices.
Embracing mindful connection & its transformational power
Serge Prengel and Bruce Nayowith explore the power of mindful human connections and their vital role in personal growth.
Andrea Ruhland: Autism & Mindful Parenting
Andrea’s journey as a mother to a daughter on the autism spectrum. This heartfelt conversation conveys a down-to-earth sense of the complexities and rewards of mindful parenting.
What we mean by mindful engagement
Engagement in everyday life involves being present in the moment. Here is a simple, down-to-earth example of how it works in everyday life.