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Diana Stone PhD is a psychologist and Life coach in Asheville, NC. She grew up in Germany, France, England, and India, and has traveled to many other countries and lived in multicultural communities, which has given her an ability to see people beyond the limitations of their cultures and beliefs.
From early on, Diana has been intrigued with learning what really makes a human being happy. At 22 she left home and family to live in an ashram in India, dove into studying meditation, and eventually became a meditation guide, traveling nearly continuously for 6 years, living out of 2 suit cases before settling in Miami and then Asheville.
It was when Diana learned about the qualities of the heart, the center of peace and joy in each person, that her journey to find a true source of happiness took on another dimension and meaning.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well where Diana shares her story of how she discovered the inherent powers of living a heart-centered life and how it is transforming people’s lives!
Living Well with Diana Stone on AshevilleFM, June 28, 2021
*Interview with Diana begins about the one-hour mark of the show
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Diotima is a practicing witch and has been a professional astrologer and tarot reader for more than 25 years. She writes for Witches & Pagans and teaches widely. She uses astrology and the tarot as tools for understanding our lives in the context of a holographic, holistic universe, in which each part reflects and is connected to the whole.
In 2020, Diotima released her book, Touch the Earth, Kiss the Sky: Allowing the Rational Mind to Welcome Magic & Spirituality. In it, Diotima explores a scientific account of consciousness and shows how it relates to magical practice, spirituality, energy and subtle realms. With the fascinating meditations and exercises found within these pages, the reader develops a deeper sense of personal meaning and learn how to make magical changes in one’s life and the larger reality around us.
Enjoy this Living Well where Diotima talks about her new book and what we can do to feel grounded in our lives while also connected to spirit.
Living Well with Diotima Mantenia on AshevilleFM, June 7, 2021
*Interview with Diotima begin at the 2nd hour of Living Well
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Robert Zachary is an independent Chaplain, an inspirational Poet, Storyteller, Singer, Visionary, and Activist. His presentations combine life, music, poetry, history and storytelling with positive and holistic perspectives of how we will win our fight for freedom, justice, and peace. Zach is about to release his first ever book of non-fiction, “Forgotten Stories Remembered”, an intriguing collection of real-life stories on down-home, down-to-earth Black Life.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well where Zachary shares the powerful stories of his life that influenced his life of activism and empowerment for all.
Living Well with Robert Zachary on AshevilleFM, May 3, 2021
*Interview with Zachary starts at the 2nd hour of the Living Well.
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Spotlighted by The New York Times, Huff Post and ABC and NBC news networks, Charley Castex has guided tens of thousands across six continents, pairing his intuitive gift with his passion for empowering others to realize their spiritual potential. Charley’s book: Expand Your Spiritual Bandwidth-(Strategies for Syncing Spirit, Mind & Body) has just been released by Only Love Press. Charley currently lives in Asheville NC, where he has been consistently voted Best Psychic in Asheville, North Carolina for a decade by the Mountain Xpress readers poll.
Enjoy this wonderful Living Well show with Charlie who shares about his book that provides soulful and empowering strategies as an impactful antidote to the stress and overwhelm of modern life.
Living Well with Charley Castex on AshevilleFM, April 12, 2021
*Interview with Charlie begins in the 2nd hour of show.
After surviving numerous relapses connected to addictions, Mark A. Turnipseed found a surprising key to saving his own life. While training for a triathlon, he discovered a way to [...]]]>
Fitness coach and LGBTQ addiction recovery advocate Mark A. Turnipseed is the author of My Suicide Race: Winning Over the Trauma of Addiction, Recovery, and Coming Out.
After surviving numerous relapses connected to addictions, Mark A. Turnipseed found a surprising key to saving his own life. While training for a triathlon, he discovered a way to embrace a fresh commitment to sober health. Offering hope for all who struggle with the shame and self-hatred that fuel addictions, Mark shines a new light on the often-unseen links between addiction, suicide attempts, and the trauma of coming out.
Enjoy this Living Well as Mark shares his powerful life journey to accepting his himself and learning to live a sober, healthy lifestyle.
Living Well with Mark Turnipseed on AshevilleFM, March 22, 2021
*Interview with Mark begins in the 2nd hour of show.
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Kat is a psychologist and a coach engaged deeply in the evolution of human consciousness. She is the co-founder of Forest Farmacy that offers medicine for body & soul on a 30 acre forest farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Kat uses eco-therapy, coaching, depth psychology, story telling and wilderness rites of passage to help people embrace their shadow and dismantle internalized systems of oppression – including racism, classism, sexism. Kat is an environmental and social justice activist focused on a community’s rights to make decisions about where they live and to establish the rights of nature (see her TedX talk); she co-founded Community Roots to support this work in Asheville, North Carolina. Fascinated by the intersection of psyche and culture, Kat is working to co-create a more beautiful world and be part of our collective liberation.
Enjoy this Living Well with Kat who shares about the soulful work of embracing our interconnectedness with this world and learning to live in harmony with our ecology.
Living Well with Kat Houghton on AshevilleFM, March 15, 2021
*Interview with Kat begins in the 2nd hour of show
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Rebecca graduated from UNC Greensboro in 2006 with a doctorate in counseling and counselor education. She ran a small private practice serving English and Spanish speaking women and children, and she taught part time in the graduate counseling programs at Western Carolina University and Lenoir Rhyne. She joined the Our VOICE team in 2015 as the bilingual counselor, providing therapy to English and Spanish speaking survivors of sexual assault. Since 2018 she has served as the counseling program director at Our VOICE.
Our VOICE is a non-profit crisis intervention and prevention agency which serves victims of sexual violence, age 13 through adult, in Buncombe County. Our VOICE was founded in 1974 as an all-volunteer, grassroots organization and now, more than 45 years and considerable growth later, Our VOICE employs 21 paid staff working to inspire hope and healing while ending sexual violence and human trafficking through education, counseling, and advocacy.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well where Rebecca talks about the nature of sexual trauma and the many ways Our VOICE is serving the Asheville community and beyond.
Living Well with Rebecca Withrow on AshevilleFM, March 8, 2021
* Interview with Rebecca begins in the 2nd hour of show.
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Monica Antonazzo is the founding Executive Director of Horizons at Carolina Day. She is passionate about making authentic connections with children and families in order to work together for equity and social justice. She has worked at Carolina Day since 2016 in various roles, including Director of the Tutoring Connection and High School French teacher. Previously, Monica was the Director of Prevention, Education & Outreach at Our VOICE, Asheville’s rape crisis center. She also served in the Peace Corps in South Africa 2006-2008 and taught English in France prior to that. She has one daughter, who loves the chance to be a part of the Horizons family!
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well with Monica who shares how Horizons is positively impacting the lives of children facing inequity in Asheville and helping them fall in love with learning while developing the skills and confidence to succeed.
Living Well with Monica Antonazzo on AshevilleFM, February 22, 2021
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Ned Doyle first came to Western North Carolina in 1979 to work at the original Mother Earth News Eco Village Research Center. Ned spent the past four decades as a sustainable energy and environmental activist and advocate. No stranger to radio, Ned produced and hosted “Our Southern Community”, intelligent talk radio that shares the stories of the people and the issues of the environment, energy and economics. Former Steering Committee member of the Western North Carolina Alliance and past Board Member of the NC Sustainable Energy Association, Ned remains active with the Energy Innovation Task Force (EITF) and The Blue Horizons Project– an initiative jointly undertaken by the City of Asheville, Buncombe County and Duke Energy.
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Amy lives/works in the intentional community, BeLoved Asheville. She was school educated at Converse College and Columbia Theological Seminary and street educated in Harlem, NY; Ponce DeLeon Ave, Atlanta; and on South French Broad Ave and Grove Streets in downtown Asheville. She is a pastor in Presbyterian Church, USA. She loves being mom to twin six year olds. She loves the color purple, playing guitar, and studying movement history.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well podcast as Amy shares the work of BeLoved Asheville to care for the most vulnerable of our Asheville community in the midst of a pandemic and the cold of winter.
Living Well with Rev. Amy Cantrell on AshevilleFM, December 21, 2020
*Interview begins in the 2nd hour of the show
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