are you tired of being sold a broken brand of beauty?

Dr. Liz Hall is Professor of Psychology at Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University, in La Mirada, California, where she researches and teaches at the intersection of suffering, meaning-making, and Christian spirituality.

In my time with Dr. Hall, we discuss her most recent book, entitled When the Journey Hurts: Finding Meaning in Suffering for Heart, Mind, and Soul . Specifically, she discusses her own personal experience with breast cancer, how suffering can lead to flourishing, how she holds on to God’s goodness and beauty amidst life’s difficulties, and how suffering can open us up to God’s presence.  

Lisa Diers is a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified yoga teacher who specializes in supporting eating disorder and body image recovery. Lisa has a combined over 20 years of experience in nutrition and yoga services and previously served as the National Nutrition and Yoga Director for a large national eating disorder treatment program.

In our time, we discuss current lies associated with diet culture, how nutrition therapy and yoga can bring about reconnection with food and our bodies, and more about the Soul-Deep Beauty Retreat at Hinshon Farms on October 3rd.

In this episode, Lanta Davis helps us better understand the power of our imaginations and how what we dwell on forms who are becoming. 

Lanta Davis is professor of humanities and literature in the John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan University and the author of Becoming by Beholding: The Power of the Imagination in Spiritual Formation. In our time together, she discusses the importance of training our imaginations, why the imagination is a ‘stamp for the soul,’ and how and why it’s important to allow beauty to shape our imaginations.

Emma Ward is a licensed marriage and family therapist who specializes in trauma and relationships, helping people name what they feel so they can heal what they carry.

In this episode, she shares how we are so often taught to fear, suppress, or spiritualize away emotions and how learning to feel is one of the most courageous things we can do. She also discusses why naming our emotions is so important, where she sees beauty in the work of emotional healing, and how love is central to all of it.