Spirituality

Show Notes: Art Was A Way We Remember?- Story, Faith, & A Hindi Lutheran Pastor Reverend Tuhina Verma Rasche (she/her) is a second-generation South Asian American raised in a devout Hindu household. She currently serves as one of the digital pastors of the Anam Cara Community, a digital first mission of the North Carolina Synod. She's served in multiple capacities within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), including parish pastor, community organizing traine

Show Notes: In this What If conversation, we explore what peacebuilding can look like in everyday life — through the stories and experiences of Uzbek women within Muslim communities. In honor of AAPI Heritage Month, this episode highlights perspectives from Central Asia, offering a deeper understanding of how faith, culture, and community shape the ways women contribute to healing, connection, and peace. Through lived experiences, we reflect on how acts of care, compassion,

Show Notes: In this edition of Shelf Talk, I sit with a voice actor whose understanding of voice extends far beyond performance. Together, we explore what it means to treat voice as something sacred — shaped by love, culture, and the stories we inherit. He reflects on how the values passed down by his mother shaped the way he helped care for his father, who lived with schizophrenia, and how Filipino belief systems informed what it meant to show up with presence and compassion

Show Notes: Michi Marks (she/they) is a Hmong American Marriage and Family Therapist–in-training, integration and implementation coach, and spiritual practitioner whose work bridges Western psychotherapy with ancestral animist traditions. Their approach draws from liberation psychology, experiential therapies, and systems thinking, with a focus on relational, embodied, and contextual healing. Michi identifies as neurodivergent, queer, genderfluid, and bicultural — identitie

Show Notes: In this episode, we explore the layers of intergenerational trauma —the emotional wounds and patterns silently passed from one generation to the next. Through the lens of depth psychology , we look at how unconscious material, family narratives, and ancestral experiences continue to shape the way we show up in everyday life. From relationship dynamics and self-worth struggles to the ways we cope with stress, these inherited imprints often linger beneath the surfac

Show Notes: In this episode of the What If segment, we talk about what does it mean to be a shaman, can other people pratice shamanism,...