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Join clinician and author Lisa Dale Miller at the leading edge of integrative mental health! We deliver thoughtful dialogues with innovative clinicians, researchers and contemplatives that unite health science research and profound wisdom traditions, inform about somatic psychotherapies and Buddhist psychology, and we do it all with big dose of intelligence, clarity, curiosity and openheartedness.
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The Beginningless Beginning from 2023-12-13T18:13:18.343274
Welcome to the first episode of The Groundless Ground Podcast! I have worn many creative hats in my life and I recently decided, in addition to seeing patients in my private practice, why not do...
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The Value of Non-harming and the Practice of Equanimity from 2023-12-13T18:13:18.338866
Though I recorded this episode over two weeks ago, the most recent horrific school shooting has once again highlighted the importance of actively working to end violence in America; especially g...
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Karma and Reincarnation in Early Buddhism from 2023-12-13T18:13:18.299228
Episode 6 features a dharma talk given by Lisa Dale Miller at Marin Sangha on May 6, 2018. Lisa treads on the somewhat proble...
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Contemplative Neuroscience and Integrative Medicine: Exactly what is mindfulness good for? from 2023-12-13T18:13:18.290223
David Vago, PhD offers a neuroscience of mindfulness update providing clarity on what mindfulness is, is not, can and cannot do, and what is known about effective prescribing and dosing of medit...
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Deconstructing The Five Aggregates And Their Deathless Nature from 2023-12-13T18:13:18.281462
This last episode of the Groundless Ground Season One features two consecutive dharma talks recently given by Lisa Dale Miller on the five a...
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Stuart Eisendrath: Healing Depression When Antidepressants Aren't Enough from 2023-12-13T18:13:18.256356
Depression is a relapsing disease and preventing future depressive episodes is critical for lifelong mental health. Psychiatrist and UCSF Professor Emeritus Stuart Eisendrath’s new book, When...
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James Gordon: Heal Trauma and Transform Now! from 2023-12-13T18:13:18.252876
Psychiatrist James S. Gordon pioneered a mind-body methodology widely used around the world for healing psychologic...
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Lama Rod Owens: Liberation through anger from 2023-12-13T18:13:18.237518
Lama Rod Owens, African-American author and Tibetan Buddhist teacher, describes himself as, “black, queer, cisgender, and male-identified, ...
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VOTE! Be On Fire Without Being Aflame from 2023-12-13T18:13:18.197223
This episode is a dharma talk I gave online at Marin Sangha on 9/13, when we were experiencing insane wildfires burning throughout our area. The talk uses the Fire Sutta to explore collective co...
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Bill Plotkin on the Journey of the Soul from 2023-12-13T18:13:18.177030
Soul initiation is an essential and hazardous spiritual adventure that most modern cultures have forgotten. Eco-psychologist Bill Plotkin discusses this mythopoetic, life-altering journey which ...
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Rodney Dietert on Microbiome-First Medicine from 2023-12-13T18:13:18.163675
Get ready for a microbiome geek-fest with Cornell Professor Emeritus, health scientist, and author Rodney Dietert, as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of his pioneering book, Listen
Neurobiology of Trauma and MDMA for PTSD from 2023-12-13T18:13:18.156028
Psychologist Jim Hopper and I discuss the neurobiology of trauma, MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD, the critical role embodied treatment modalities play in trauma healing, and use of Buddhist psyc...
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MORE Research Update from 2023-12-13T18:13:18.133309
Eric Garland, PhD, LCSW, and I discuss exciting new research on the effectiveness of Mindfulness Oriented Recovery En...
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Embodying Emotions from 2023-12-13T18:13:18.099279
Psychologist Raja Selvam, discusses his new book, The Practice of Embod...
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Meditation Beyond Optimization from 2023-12-13T18:13:18.094407
This is a very special and quite different kind of episode to finish out the Groundless Ground’s 5th season. I have a frank discussion about the pitfalls of packaging and delivering meditation a...
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Basic Human Goodness from 2023-03-28T13:27:59
This is a recording of a dharma talk Lisa Dale Miller gave March 19, 2003 at Marin Sangha.
Recently neuroscientist Richard Davidson reiterated a long-held tenet of Tibetan Buddhism that al...
Mental Health Renaissance from 2023-02-13T16:00
Psychologist, researcher, and executive Cassandra Vieten and I dialogue about a wide range of interventions that can shift the ment...
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Turn on Love and Intimacy from 2022-10-24T15:13:46
Alison Ash PhD is a sex and intimacy coach, educator, and creator of many sex positive workshops including her upcoming, very popular S...
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Science of Psychotherapy from 2022-07-25T15:00
Richard Hill and Matthew Dahlitz have written a comprehensive, definitively modern psychotherapy textbook titled, "Practitioners Guide to the S...
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Beyond Distraction from 2022-06-10T20:27:02
This episode features a rich, in-depth dialogue with Buddhist teacher and author Shaila Catherine on her new book, Listen
Being Wise in a Time of War from 2022-03-21T14:00
It’s been a very disturbing few weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine. Coincident with the initiation of war, clinician, author and dharma teacher Listen
Mark Solms on Consciousness from 2022-02-14T15:47:39
Consciousness remains a scientific puzzle: what it is, what creates it, and though all known conscious systems are alive, not all living systems are conscious. These days cortical-based theories...
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Somatic Horsemanship from 2022-01-10T18:00:46
This is a very special episode with Beverley Kane, MD, discussing her book Equine-imity: Stress Reduction and Emotional Self-Regulation ...
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Rescuing Virtue from 2021-12-12T22:03:11
Stuart Shanker, MD and I address the loss of virtue as a fundamental part of societal and individual conduct and how to reinvigorate it. He notes with sadness the quaint overtones and ironic sar...
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Kindness vs Niceness from 2021-09-30T15:03:45
Two recent dharma talks given by Lisa Dale Miller at Marin Sangha explicate what kindness is from Buddhist psychological perspective and ...
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Stuart Shanker on Reframing for a Just Society from 2021-08-31T16:02:07
Stuart Shanker, PhD is a world-renown author, researcher and scholar on self-regulation science and creator of the groundbreaking Self-Reg method for cultivating mental and physical well-...
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Jeremy Lent on The Web of Meaning from 2021-06-29T15:35:48
Jeremy Lent’s new book, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe offers a coherent worldview of deep interconnectedness by integrat...
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Tibetan Buddhist Foundational Practices from 2021-05-31T14:14
This is a very special episode featuring Anne C. Klein, PhD, aka Lama Rigzin Drolma; Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University, Buddhist Studies scholar and Tibetan translator, author, a...
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Jud Brewer: Unwind Your Anxiety Habit from 2021-04-26T13:49:54
Psychiatrist, renown mindfulness and habit change researcher, Jud Brewer, MD, PhD once again disrupts conventional framing of mental health disorders and their treatment. This t...
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Kathy Kain On Somatic Interventions from 2021-03-14T16:28:29
Kathy L. Kain, PhD returns to share her unparalleled expertise on effective use of somatic interventions in in-person and online psychotherapy. She gets very specific about what interventions wo...
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Opening To Grief from 2020-12-20T23:00:40
In this year of radical loss, Opening to Grief: Finding your way from loss to peace is an essential guidebook for anyone navigatin...
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Evan Thompson On Why He Is Not A Buddhist from 2020-11-27T16:07:42
My second dialogue with Evan Thompson covers his latest and most controversial book, Why I Am Not A Buddhist, Listen
Teja Bell on Chinese Internal Arts from 2020-07-13T19:23:05
This episode is a celebration of Teja Bell, a lifelong practitioner and teacher of Aikido, Taijiquan, Qigong, Neigong, Buddhism and Ta...
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Eric Garland: Mindfulness and Addiction Recovery from 2020-06-16T16:36:36
Eric Garland, PhD, LCSW, is a rare combination of rigorous researcher and compassionate clinician. His unique integration of CBT and mindfulness led him to create Listen
Kristin Andrews on Animal Minds from 2020-05-19T13:11:11
Are non-human animals conscious? Do non-human animal minds have concepts, intelligence, memory, intentionality, ethics, and social behavior? Kristin Andrews, professor of philosophy, author, and...
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Sylver Quevedo: Psychedelic-assisted Therapies from 2020-04-21T14:39:08
Psychedelic-assisted interventions appear to be all the rage these days. Though there are many psychedelic evangelists I wanted to find a credible medical resource to discuss these treatments. D...
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Staying Sane While Staying At Home from 2020-03-28T21:57:42
Lisa Dale Miller, psychotherapist and dharma teacher, shares three invaluable daily practices for maintaining sanity in our “new normal” of staying at home all the time.
1) Three G...
COVID-19: Advice For Awakening from 2020-03-15T14:40:33
The COVID-19 outbreak is the very time for meditative practice because chaos and uncertainty are the rich soil of awakening! Of great help is to shift your mindset into a compas...
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2020: See Clearly and Act Wisely from 2020-01-13T23:40:37
Last week a patient greeted me with these words, “2020. Clear vision.” That declaration of clear knowing, exemplifies every wish I have for our world as we step into a new decade. See clearly, c...
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Buddhist Psychology of Climate Denial from 2019-12-16T16:33:36
Welcome to the end of the year, the end of the decade, and the last episode in GG Season Two. From the creator’s side, GG Season 3 looks like the ...
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Anthony Aguirre: Cosmological Koans from 2019-11-21T22:00:50
If it is not by now fully apparent how much I love science, this conversation, well more accurately this rare chance to sit at the feet of a science master, is proof that there is nothing more s...
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Loch Kelly: The Way of Effortless Mindfulness from 2019-10-21T15:42:37
Loch Kelly’s new book, The Way of Effortless Mindfulness, is a practice manual for living a fully embodied, open-hearted life. Loch insists the goal of effortless mindfulness is not to es...
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Andrew Holecek: Dream and Sleep Yogas and the Bardos from 2019-09-16T03:25:10
This episode is a dive deep into the extraordinary Tibetan Buddhist teachings on Dream Yoga, Sleep Yoga, and the Bardos, with Andrew Hole...
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How Buddhism Regards Those Who Harm Others from 2019-08-19T04:32:32
This episode features a dharma talk given by Lisa Dale Miller at Marin Sangha in March 2019. The talk begins with a discussion of teachers and their fall...
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The Buddha in Jail: Cuong Lu on Interbeing from 2019-07-18T17:18:56
My dialogue with Cuong Lu, Buddhist teacher and prison chaplain in the Netherlands, was by far the most moving experience of my podcasting life. Cuong’s wisdom and limitless compassion brought m...
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Ron Purser: McMindfulness And Its Discontents from 2019-06-23T01:34:48
It seems the more mindfulness is mainstreamed, the more its claims are being questioned. Ron Purser, Professor of Manageme...
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Anna Lembke: Chronic Pain, Dual-Diagnosis and Addiction Treatment from 2019-05-20T17:46:18
This episode features Anna Lembke, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University Medical School and author of the massively influential book Drug Deale...
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Gabrielle Hartley: How to divorce wisely from 2019-04-20T22:11:19
Divorce is almost as much a part of life as marriage. Yet most couples are in the dark about pro-social, non-toxic approaches to divorce. Enter Listen
Judson Brewer On Mastering the Addictive Mind from 2019-03-17T22:36:40
This is a very special episode featuring Judson Brewer, MD, PhD, addiction psychiatrist, author, app developer, and associate professor of psychiatry at Bro...
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More Than You Think It Is: John Astin on nondual reality from 2019-02-20T17:07:28
Describing what is ultimately indescribable, that which transcends language, is really challenging. Yet psychologist John Astin accomplishes this daunting task so beautifully in his new book,
Healing Collective Trauma: The Key to Sustainable Peacemaking from 2019-01-27T18:30:25
This dialogue with visionary psychotherapist Gina Ross—a pioneer in understanding and healing collective trauma—is both informative and deeply moving. A Syrian Jew with empathy for both Israeli ...
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Alaine Duncan on the Tao of Trauma and Trauma-Informed Acupuncture from 2018-12-30T22:57:04
Happy New Year! I am very excited to launch GG Season Two by dialoging with Alaine Duncan, Doctor of Chinese Med...
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Jeremy Lent on Systems Theory, Wisdom Traditions and a Path to Sustainability from 2018-11-11T02:35:43
This dialogue with Jeremy Lent is chockfull of insights and guidance on how individuals can make lasting, positive impacts and change the collective current disastrous course humanity appears to...
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Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders: A dialogue with Paula Scatoloni, LCSW from 2018-10-18T23:28:11
Paula Scatoloni, a somatic psychotherapist and Certified Eating Disorders Specialist, explicates the insufficiency of standardized cognitive and behavioral eating disorder treatment, and introd...
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Raising Responsible Adults: Ken Wilgus on effective parenting of teens from 2018-09-26T18:32:58
This episode is an educational and fun dialogue with Ken Wilgus, PhD, the author of Feeding The Mouth That Bites You<...
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Embodied Cognition and Embodied Mindfulness from 2018-08-17T03:08:25
Evan Thompson discusses Embodied Cognition, 4E Cognition, and the problems with studying the mechanisms of mindfulness from a brain-only perspective. Evan is a writer and professor of philosophy...
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Phillip Moffitt on Awakening the Subtle Body in Meditation from 2018-07-25T02:20:38
Phillip Moffitt, author, yogi, and Theravada Buddhist meditation teacher discusses his most recent book, Awakening Throug...
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Nurturing Resilience: A dialogue with Kathy L Kain from 2018-06-23T16:37:34
This episode features an in-depth dialogue with Kathy L. Kain, on how to work somatically and psychotherapeutically with patients suffering the effects of developmental trauma and complex trauma...
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Cortland Dahl: The union of Buddhist practice and scientific inquiry from 2018-05-20T14:00:09
Cortland Dahl, PhD exemplifies a rare mix of contemplative and scientific talent. He is a longtime Buddhist practitioner, scholar, translator of Dzogchen and Mahāmudrā Tibetan Buddhist texts, an...
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Integrative Psychiatry from 2018-04-17T22:56:36
This episode features Jose Calderón-Abbo, MD. A native of Mexico City, Dr. Calderón is board certified in psychiatry and addiction medicine, with an additional certification in mind-body medicin...
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Healing PTSD with iRest Yoga Nidra: A dialogue with Richard Miller from 2018-03-23T23:18:55
About 220 million people will experience a traumatic event and 20% of them will subsequently develop symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Rates of PTSD are even higher among US combat vet...
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Clinical Use of Qigong with Peter Payne from 2018-02-26T19:33:55
Welcome back to the Groundless Ground Podcast! This first in a series of dialogues on the clinical use of embodied contemplative interventions features Peter Payne, researcher at Geisel...
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