The Sweet Spot Podcasts

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of the Sweet Spot podcast, interviews  Larry Dossey, M.D., author of The Power of Premonitions: How Knowing The Future Can Shape Our Lives published by Dutton Adult.

This distinguished Texas physician, deeply rooted in the scientific world, has become an internationally influential advocate of the role of the mind in health and the role of spirituality in healthcare. Bringing the experience of a practicing internist and the soul of a poet to the discourse, Dr. Larry Dossey offers panoramic insight into the nature and the future of medicine.

Upon graduating with honors from the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Dossey worked as a pharmacist while earning his M.D. degree from Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, 1967. Before completing his residency in internal medicine, he served as a battalion surgeon in Vietnam, where he was decorated for valor. Dr. Dossey helped establish the Dallas Diagnostic Association, the largest group of internal medicine practitioners in that city, and was Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital in 1982.

An education steeped in traditional Western medicine did not prepare Dr. Dossey for patients who were blessed with "miracle cures," remissions that clinical medicine could not explain. "Almost all physicians possess a lavish list of strange happenings unexplainable by normal science," says Dr. Dossey. "A tally of these events would demonstrate, I am convinced, that medical science not only has not had the last word, it has hardly had the first word on how the world works, especially when the mind is involved."

The author of nine books and numerous articles, Dr. Dossey is the former Executive Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine the most widely subscribed-to journal in its field. The primary quality of all of Dr. Dossey's work is scientific legitimacy, with an insistent focus on "what the data show." As a result, his colleagues in medical schools and hospitals all over the country trust him, honor his message, and continually invite him to share his insights with them. He has lectured all over the world, including major medical schools and hospitals in the United States --Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, the Universities of Pennsylvania, California, Washington, Texas, Florida, Minnesota, and the Mayo Clinic.

The impact of Dr. Dossey's work has been remarkable. Before his book Healing Words was published in 1993, only three U.S. medical schools had courses devoted to exploring the role of religious practice and prayer in health; currently, nearly 80 medical schools have instituted such courses, many of which utilize Dr. Dossey's works as textbooks. In his 1989 book Recovering the Soul he introduced the concept of "nonlocal mind" -- mind unconfined to the brain and body, mind spread infinitely throughout space and time. Since then, "nonlocal mind" has been adopted by many leading scientists as an emerging image of consciousness. Dr. Dossey's ever-deepening explication of nonlocal mind provides a legitimate foundation for the merging of spirit and medicine. The ramifications of such a union are radical and call for no less than the reinvention of medicine. Visit his website.

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb interviews Dr. Carol S. Dweck, author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success  published by Ballantine Books.

Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., is widely regarded as one of the world's leading researchers in the fields of personality, social psychology and developmental psychology.  She has been the William B. Ransford Professor of Psychology at Columbia University and is now the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University.

Her scholarly book Self-Theories:Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development was named Book of the Year by the World Education Fellowship.  Her work has been featured in such publications as The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, and she has appeared on Today and 20/20. She lives with her husband in Palo Alto.  Visit Dr. Dweck's website.

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb interviews Ms. Sandra Blakeslee, co-author with her son, Matthew Blakeslee of The  Body Has A Mind Of Its Own: How Mind Maps  In Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better published by Random House.

Sandra Blakeslee  is a regular contributor to The New York Times who specializes in the brain sciences. She has co-written many books, On Intelligence with Jeff Hawkins, and Second Chances: Men, Women, and Children a Decade After Divorce with Judith S. Wallersein. She is the third generation in a family of science writers.

Matthew Blakeslee is a freelance science writer in Los Angeles. He represents the fourth generation of Blakeslee science writers. This is his first book.

Visit Sandra Blakeslee's website and Matthew Blakeslee's website.

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Dr. Lara Honos-Webb interviews Dr. David Ricco, author of The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know published by Shambhala.

David Richo, Ph.D., M.F.T., is a psychotherapist, teacher, workshop leader, and writer who works in Santa Barbara and San Francisco California.  He combines Jungian, transpersonal, and mythic perspectives in his work.  Visit his website.

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Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot, interviews Dr. David Richo, author of The Five Things We Cannot Change: And The Happiness We Find By Embracing Them published by Shambhala.

David Richo, Ph.D., M.F.T., is a psychotherapist, teacher, workshop leader, and writer who works in Santa Barbara and San Francisco California.  He combines Jungian, transpersonal, and mythic perspectives in his work.  Visit his website.

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Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of the The Sweet Spot, interviews Ms. Lisa Sarasohn, "Belly Queen" author of The Woman's Belly Book: Finding Your True Center for More Energy, Confidence, and Pleasure published by New World Library.

Lisa Sarasohn is a veteran yoga instructor and bodywork therapist. Her favorite professional designation is Belly Queen. "These are words," she says, "for a woman who owns herself." Having gained and lost more than 2,000 pounds during twenty years of dieting and bingeing, she's discovered how to move beyond this misery into a fulfilling sense of personal power and purpose. In The Woman's Belly Book, she shares this life-affirming information and these life-saving skills with you. Visit her website.