Groundless Ground Podcast
1) Endless Ending
It's time to say farewell to the GG Podcast. This is an invitation to all the GG listeners to subscribe and listen to my new Buddhist Psychology Podcast. Thank you for all your support over these 6 ye...Show More
2) Sound therapies with somatic experiencing
Clinician Paula Scatoloni returns to the Groundless Ground and shares the evolution of her clinical work which now integrates sound therapies and energy medicine techniques along with somatic psychoth...Show More
3) Simile of the Vipers
How can mental health professionals understand mental confusion from a Buddhist psychological perspective? This episode is a dharma talk by Lisa Dale Miller featuring an informative Sutta from the Pal...Show More
4) Awakened Heartmind
This dharma talk is a reminder that every moment is an invitation to decrease the mass of human suffering. Lisa explicates why cultivating Bodhicitta is the ultimate path to accomplishing that aim in ...Show More
5) Basic Human Goodness
The Buddha taught unconditioned mindâpurification via contemplative effort. Later Buddhism taught innate basic goodness or Buddhanature. I compare these two frameworks using suttas and affective neuro...Show More
6) Mental Health Renaissance
Cassandra Vieten and I discuss shifting the mental health crisis into a mental health renaissance. Cassieâs work has helped psychology integrate many mind-body interventions for human flourishing. Lea...Show More
7) Meditation Beyond Optimization
Season 5 concludes with a pointed and timely discussion of the pitfalls of packaging and delivering meditation as a performative act in health contexts with Donna Sherman, clinical social worker and y...Show More
8) Turn on Love and Intimacy
Alison Ash, educator and creator of sex positive workshops discusses consent skills, sexual pleasure and intimacy, varied forms of coupling, and why erotica is not pornography. We cover the harmful ef...Show More
9) Embodying Emotions
Raja Selvam, PhD, discusses his new book on Integral Somatic Psychology⢠(ISPâ˘), an effective somatic therapy that encourages optimal mental health by fully embodying emotions. ISP is a useful complem...Show More
10) Science of Psychotherapy
Richard Hill and Matthew Dahlitz discuss their comprehensive, modern psychotherapy textbook that covers basic neuroscience, body-brain systems, genetic processes and the application of integrative psy...Show More