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The Dream Journal

This show explores a range of topics relating to the healing aspects of dreams. Host Katherine Bell talks about her personal dream journey and also about what she"s learned as a dream coach. We will have interviews with experienced dream practitioners and others on the dreamwork path, but the heart of this show is YOU, your dreams, your desires, your hopes for a better life. Dreams really can transform your life! The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Community Radio for the Central

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What Dreams Have to Say about Reality with Tina Tau

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2023/09/25

Is waking life really a kind of theater which we make up along the way? The transformative potential of dreamwork, today with author and certified dreamworker, Tina Tau. Tina shares a dream in which she struggles to swim upstream, then suddenly stands up and realizes the water is not so deep. We speak about how this highlights that our understanding of what’s true in any moment, waking or sleeping, may be radically altered by our expectations. She shares another dream in which she notices

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Anima Dreams, Personal Neurobiology, and Hispanic...

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2023/09/18

An anima dream series and personal neurobiology. Also Dreams about love and, just in time for Hispanic heritage month, Mexican American male identity formation. A conversation with John Valenzuela, PhD. John describes that the anima and animus figures we meet in our dreams are autonomous spiritual beings AND also parts of us and that the gender distinction is probably a cultural artifact. We talk about the distinction between when a dream figure is a someone we know from waking life vs a stranger

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Artificial Intelligence, Yoga Nidra, and More with...

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2023/09/11

Would you let a bot interpret your dreams? Should you? We speak with Joanna of Blue Lotus Queendom about the pleasures and pitfalls of using AI with dreams. Also what is Yoga Nidra and how does it support Dreamwork. Joanna gives many suggestions about how to use AI with our dreams but that list does NOT include asking the AI what your dream means. She urges us to trust our inner knowing instead. This leads to a conversation about the ethics of telling someone else what their dream means. We switch

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Dreaming with, about, and for the Ancestors with...

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2023/09/04

Connecting with our ancestors. Our guest Stephanie R. Burns starts by describing her all-inclusive view of ancestors which is far vaster than our biological lineage, including the most ancient ancestor of them all, the Earth. She says that we can choose to communicate only with benevolent ancestors and are also able to heal the less healthy ancestors and not let ourselves be controlled by them. She suggests using the four elements as part of our rituals around working with these dreams and focusing

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Helplessness, Trauma, and Nightmares with Dr. Greg Mahr

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2023/08/28

Can we predict who will develop PTSD? Our guest, Dr. Greg Mahr, studies patients with acute trauma, and he discovered that their dreams in the days and weeks after their injury suggest who will recover fully and who will be mired in PTSD months later. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a condition that occurs after trauma marked by intense nightmares and increased risk of suicide, but only about 30% of those traumatized go on to develop PTSD. In Dr. Mahr’s acute trauma center in Detroit, he

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Finding Growth in the Face of Great Loss with Roberta...

The Dream Journal ·

2023/08/21

A spiritual lesbian lawyer activist with Jewish roots, our guest, Roberta Kurlioff, tells the story of growing up in an orphanage and then building her home in the woods of Maine, creating a meaningful life even in the face of great losses. Her memoir is “Framing a Life: Building the Space to Be Me.” Roberta describes her life (warning: spoilers!) and her many losses along the way, all of which lead her to want to live her life more fully including exploring her Jewish heritage, delving

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Guiding Spirits Home with Jeanne Van Bronkhorst

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2023/08/14

Companioning the dying through lucid dreams. Our guest shares some of her experiences of psychopompic dreaming. Starting when she was 9 or 10 she would dream of being in a classroom where she learned how to change the dream. Several years later she describes her first experience of helping a dying person happened several years later when she found herself in a dream falling together with a woman who was terrified. She was able to slow their fall by dreaming up first n umbrella then a parachute

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Dream Sharing as Sacred Story Telling with Andrusa...

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2023/08/07

Also urban shamanism and setting sacred space. Our guest today is Andrusa Lawson of Divine by Design. Dreams like myths can be regarded as stories that are not true but that say something true. The essence of setting a sacred space being intentional and finding a common sense of meaning. Andrusa recommends enlisting various people in the group to take turns setting the space. We also speak about non-verbal communication in dreamwork and traditional indigenous oral storytelling. We then speak about

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Creating Soundtracks for Dreams: The Healing Power of...

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2023/07/31

Today’s guest composes music to his patient’s dreams, capturing feelings and moods and deepening the psychotherapeutic process. Dr. Michael Mollura is a PhD licensed clinical psychologist and also an award-winning music composer for TV and movies. Michael started by scoring music to his own dreams and later found out how valuable the practice was in deepening the healing for his psychotherapy clients. We play a clip of one such piece called Scary Path Dream. Michael describes the process of

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The Healing Power of Storytelling with Gerette Buglion

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2023/07/17

Have you ever felt better about yourself after telling someone your story? Today we speak with author and cult survivor Gerette Buglion who guides others to tell their “I got out” stories in a process she calls Writing to Reckon. We start with a question from podcast listener Beth sent via Instagram, “What was your biggest motivation for telling your story and what were your hopes for it in the world?” We go deep into answers to those questions and also address the shame that

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Doing the Opposite with Chris Cunniffe

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2023/07/10

When should you do the opposite of what you usually do? Today we speak about lucid dreaming, shadow work, and dream yoga with Chris Cunniffe. Chris had been a lawyer for 8 years when he had a dream which nudged him onto a more spiritual path. In the dream, Chris was at a Milli Vanilli conference which led him to wonder about what part of his life was a false front. Chris urges us to consider “doing the opposite”. For example: dreaming is meaningless; consider that it might be

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Dream Guidance with Machiel Klerk, founder of the...

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2023/07/03

Connect to the soul using dream incubation! We speak with Machiel Klerk starting with the dream that inspired his creation of the fabulous Jung Platform, a site offering online courses, lectures, and certificate programs that are inspired by Jungian psychology. We go deep into dream incubation: what it is, what kind of questions to ask, how to set up a meaningful ritual to improve your changes for success, and how to recognize and work with the answer. We also talk about nightmares which Machiel

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The Natural Dream, a Rodger Kamenetz Replay

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2023/06/26

Instead of puzzling over the meaning of your dreams, bring them to life with Natural Dreamwork. This show originally aired last Fall. Katherine speaks with poet and author Rodger Kamenetz. He suggests a practice of exploring dreams which starts with counting your blessings. He also spoke about dreams as symbolic in the same way that poems are and about dreaming as a sacred encounter. We take calls from Kat from Delaware who dreams about a baby with a too long neck and from Maureen who dreams about

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Hogwarts Live from the 40th Annual IASD Dream Conference

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2023/06/19

Why do we go to all the trouble and expense to come to a conference anyway? I ask six dreamers what they find here and the answers vary: family, inspiration, friendship, understanding, plus going to conference is like going to Hogwarts! My guests are Victoria Rabinowe, Curt Hoffman, Marcia Emery, and Bob Krumhansl in the first half, and Linda Schiller and Lauren Schneider (with a reprise from Victoria) in the second. The conversation ranges on from my original question and includes topics like why

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Nightmares Demystified with Dr. Leslie Ellis

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2023/06/12

Nightmares: what’s their cause and cure? Our guest is clinician and dream demystifier, Dr. Leslie Ellis. Nightmares seem to be caused by anything upsetting whether in recent life or from long ago. Luckily, we don’t need to know what is causing a nightmare to work with it. Dreaming helps us metabolize emotions but nightmares can wake us up, interrupting the process. She describes a dream as a picture of our current or habitual nervous system condition (ala Eugene Gendlin). It can be helpful to

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Death and Lucid Living with Sahlah Dubel

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2023/06/05

Dreaming can help us prepare for and recover from loss, but how do we continue to engage with Spirit during our waking lives? Today, we have a conversation about Lucid Living with Sahlah Dubel. This is a rebroadcast of a August 2022 show. Stay tuned for updates about Divine by Design at the end of the show. Sahlah shares several stories about the recent passage of her mother and how her dreams both prepared her for the event and helped her process her grief around it. She speaks about practices she

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Dreaming and Theater with Professor Angel Morgan

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2023/05/29

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on…” Dreams and the theater with guest Professor Angel Morgan. Angel starts by describing lucid dream drama where the dreamer is performer, director, audience and also playwright, getting to chose whether to change the dream or not, saying that this kind of dream exploration helps build the muscle for lucid dreaming. Angel talks about her presentations at the upcoming IASD conference in Ashland (June 18-22), which are all related to dreaming and

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Dreams Are Healing Our Emotions Every Night with...

The Dream Journal ·

2023/05/22

A Viet Nam combat vet with PTSD. What do 137 of his dreams over 45 years reveal about how dreams help us process emotion? Also tips for dealing with nightmares and highlights from the upcoming IASD conference. Katherine speaks with IASD conference co-chair and founder of Dream Science Robert Hoss. Bob describes that after a traumatic event, dreams can be direct replays, but over time, as symptoms ease, dreams morph into metaphors related to the event. Bob gives examples of how dreams offer us

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Dreaming and Enchantment with Writer Andy Couturier

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2023/05/15

My personal writing mentor, Andy Couturier, is helping me through the birth of my book about dreaming. Andy is also an avid dreamer in his own right, and he has lots of say about using dreams to deepen our enchantment and sense of magic in the world. We start with Andy sharing an early childhood dream of bookcases full of presents which he thinks of as the gifts of life to come. He says that dreams are a welcome non-utilitarian part of my life and quotes from Thomas Moore’s book The

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Dream Inspired Poetry with Gilda Syverson

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2023/05/08

In this rebroadcast from Jan 2022, Gilda Morina Syverson reads three of her dream-inspired poems throughout the show starting off with one about connecting with her ancestors. Gilda then talks about her Italian-American father and how his interest in dreams sparked her life-long interest. We speak about spiritual guides, guardian angels and animal guides (which can appear in either dreams or waking life) and also the dream revolution, day dreaming and potholders (yes potholders). It’s a banner

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