Discovering Spirit Within

"Plants, our Spiritual Friends" with Deb Accuardi and Celia Coughlin-Surridge | Discovering Spirit Within with Rev. Deborah Philips

This week on Discovering Spirit Within, Celia Coughlin-Surridge and Rev. Deborah Philips visit with Deb Accuardi, Herbalist and Forest Witch.  As a child, Deb had a deep relationship with plants, until her parents told her to stop talking to them.  As an adult, she reconnected with the plants, and now teaches the practical ways we can work with them for healing, food, and craft.  Today we learn how we can develop our own relationship with plants and the natural world.

 

Deb Accuardi is a community herbalist and identifies a forest witch.  She became interested in herbalism in the late 1980s. She has been working with plants her entire adult life as a chef, animal shepherd/healer, dying yarns with natural colors, and working with her local community to offer plant remedies.  She brings all this together to teach the practical ways we can work with plants for healing, food, and craft. For more information go to: chickencoopbotanicals.com

 

Discovering Spirit Within, with Rev. Deborah Phillips is brought to you by Spiritual Life Center. Spiritual Life Center is an Interfaith, Unity community located in Sacramento, California for spiritual seekers and life explorers. We honor the many paths to God and support people of all faiths in learning and applying positive spiritual principles in their daily lives. Follow SLC on Instagram @spiritual.life.center and on Facebook at facebook.com/SpiritualLifeCenter.

"Grounded in Spirit" with Frank Castro-Wehr | Discovering Spirit Within with Rev. Deborah Philips

This week on Discovering Spirit Within, we chat with Frank Castro-Wehr about how we can become Grounded in Spirit.  We sometimes think that being spiritually connected means we live in a floaty "woo-woo" world.  The truth is, when we are properly grounded, we are much better conduits and Spirit works through us. Frank offers wonderful insights into the benefits of Grounding.

Frank Castro-Wehr lives with his wife Dyann in Nevada City, CA.  His bio consists of many interwoven threads. Frank studied chemistry, and then theology in Berkeley.  He has been an EPA emergency responder, and is currently an emergency management consultant.  Simultaneously, he worked part time for Franciscans in Integrity with Creation projects.  When Frank got involved with Unity, he served as a Youth of Unity sponsor, Board Member, Course Teacher, Chaplain, Sunday Speaker, and has since been a Ministerial student since 2017.

 

Discovering Spirit Within, with Rev. Deborah Phillips is brought to you by Spiritual Life Center. Spiritual Life Center is an Interfaith, Unity community located in Sacramento, California for spiritual seekers and life explorers. We honor the many paths to God and support people of all faiths in learning and applying positive spiritual principles in their daily lives. Follow SLC on Instagram @spiritual.life.center and on Facebook at facebook.com/SpiritualLifeCenter.

"Let Your Spirit Soar" with Jon Merriman | Discovering Spirit Within with Rev. Deborah Philips

How do you live a spiritual life without giving up your “regular” life? Do you just try to live in two different worlds at the same time?  In today's episode of Discovering Spirit Within, Jon Merriman and Rev. Deborah Phillips explore ways to integrate spirituality with everyday life.

 

Jon Merriman has been a musician in the Sacramento area for over 30 years best known for his unique style of playing solo acoustic guitar; however, what is not known by many who follow his music, is that he and his wife Stephanie own and operate Merriman Management Support a national management training company that specialized in training managers for natural food grocery co-ops around the country.  

Although his work keeps him busy, at the center of his life had been his on-going quest to develop a deeper relationship with the spiritual world.  Having been visited many times by spiritual beings as a young child, he has walked a lifelong path of exploration in search of answers to the deepest questions of life that we all face.

 

Discovering Spirit Within, with Rev. Deborah Phillips is brought to you by Spiritual Life Center. Spiritual Life Center is an Interfaith, Unity community located in Sacramento, California for spiritual seekers and life explorers. We honor the many paths to God and support people of all faiths in learning and applying positive spiritual principles in their daily lives. Follow SLC on Instagram @spiritual.life.center and on Facebook at facebook.com/SpiritualLifeCenter.

"Finding Silence" with Rev. Janee Marth | Discovering Spirit Within with Rev. Deborah Philips

What is meditation? How do you start? What are the benefits?  When Rev. Janée sits down with Rev. Deborah she openly shares that she was a very reluctant meditator and how, over the years, she developed a deep meditation practice. While many meditation styles emphasize clearing the mind and leaving your body, Rev. Janée’s style actually brings you into your body first. And, she says, it is impossible to completely clear your mind, so the trick is to stop believing in those thoughts.  Come listen to this gentle conversation that can give you insights into how you can develop your own path into the Silence.

 

Janée Marth is an interfaith minister, and lover of Truth.  She was ordained in 2002 and serves as the Youth Minister at Spiritual Life Center in Sacramento, CA.  She loves connecting through talks, group mediations, and remembering our ever-present connection to Stillness.   She has facilitated many book groups that focus on the oneness teachings from Unity and many faith traditions; the teachings that point us inward, to that Stillness that lives as each of us.

Her passion is reminding people of who they really are…connecting at that place of Presence, and remembering together.

 

Discovering Spirit Within, with Rev. Deborah Phillips is brough to you by Spiritual Life Center. Spiritual Life Center is an Interfaith, Unity community located in Sacramento, California for spiritual seekers and life explorers. We honor the many paths to God and support people of all faiths in learning and applying positive spiritual principles in their daily lives. Follow SLC on Instagram @spiritual.life.center and on Facebook at facebook.com/SpiritualLifeCenter.

"Our Call to Spirituality" with Donna Apidone | Discovering Spirit Within with Rev. Deborah Philips

Within each one of us lies the potential to be a useful, productive, positive human being.  Our Call to Spirituality with Rev. Deborah Phillips and Rev. Donna Apidone takes a look at how difficult times are actually a call for us to look more deeply within, to get to know ourselves better, and discover that we each have a purpose for being here.

Donna Apidone is well-known for her work with CapRadio as host of Morning Edition and CapRadio Reads. She is also an interfaith minister, ordained in New York in 2009. She is a speaker at a half dozen congregations, and the teacher/designer of the TransForMission Path.

 

Discovering Spirit Within, with Rev. Deborah Phillips is brough to you by Spiritual Life Center. Spiritual Life Center is an Interfaith, Unity community located in Sacramento, California for spiritual seekers and life explorers. We honor the many paths to God and support people of all faiths in learning and applying positive spiritual principles in their daily lives. Follow SLC on Instagram @spiritual.life.center and on Facebook at facebook.com/SpiritualLifeCenter.

"Our Spiritual Schedule" with Rev. Cherie Larkin | Discovering Spirit Within with Rev. Deborah Philips

What are we waiting for? How do we make things move faster? Slow things down? During this this lively spiritual conversation Rev. Deborah and Rev. Cherie explore the idea that timing is always perfect, even though it doesn’t always seem so.  In times of great change, we actually need more time to adjust and transform. This calls us to learn to live with ambiguity.  When we can do that, we are exactly on schedule.

Cherie Larkin is a minister, international teacher, and spiritual mentor. For more than four decades she’s been teaching people how to tap the divine potential within them, so they defeat the soul-eroding habits of lack and limitation, so that wild success and amazing accomplishments become an “every day” way of life.

Her lessons gather wisdom from new-thought and metaphysical teachers and include her own unique, insightful interpretation of scripture, and she’s just released her new Masterclass:

EPIC Prosperity. . .  7 proven spiritual principles of prosperity for building a consciousness of abundance.

The course is an 8-week, step-by-step training that will lead you through radical: mental, emotional, and financial recovery.  You’ll find 40 video lessons with soulful content that  systematically walk you through the “how-to’s” for building a consciousness of abundance so lack and limitation become a thing of the past.  You’ll gain the know-how to bring your desires from the invisible realm of Spirit into visible reality in your life, so you live happy and fulfilled. You can get all the details for the course at CherieLarkin.com.

 

Discovering Spirit Within, with Rev. Deborah Phillips is brought to you by Spiritual Life Center. Spiritual Life Center is an Interfaith, Unity community located in Sacramento, California for spiritual seekers and life explorers. We honor the many paths to God and support people of all faiths in learning and applying positive spiritual principles in their daily lives. Follow SLC on Instagram @spiritual.life.center and on Facebook at facebook.com/SpiritualLifeCenter.

"Spiritual Solutions for Anxiety" with Celia Coughlin-Surridge | Discovering Spirit Within with Deborah Philips

How do you work through bouts of worry and anxiety in this revved up, spinning world? In this episode of Discovering Spirit Within, Rev. Deborah Phillips and Celia Coughlin-Surridge discuss ways to cope with anxiety through spiritual practices. They talk about their own process, and then Rev. Deborah offers a short meditative process to help you become more grounded again.

*Please note that this is a spiritual discussion and is not intended to replace professional medical or mental health care.

 

Discovering Spirit Within, with Rev. Deborah Phillips is brough to you by Spiritual Life Center. Spiritual Life Center is an Interfaith, Unity community located in Sacramento, California for spiritual seekers and life explorers. We honor the many paths to God and support people of all faiths in learning and applying positive spiritual principles in their daily lives. Follow SLC on Instagram @spiritual.life.center and on Facebook at facebook.com/SpiritualLifeCenter.

"The Power of Prayer" with Sheri Rain | Discovering Spirit Within with Rev. Deborah Philips

We are happy to introduce Discovering Spirit Within a podcast dedicated to spiritual discussion and insights.  In our first episode, Rev. Deborah Phillips talks with Sheri Rain about the Power of Prayer. Sheri is SLC’s Prayer Chaplain coordinator and together they explore how they each came to have a prayer practice and the delve into the process and results of positive prayer.

Discovering Spirit Within, with Rev. Deborah Phillips is brought to you by Spiritual Life Center. Spiritual Life Center is an Interfaith, Unity community located in Sacramento, California for spiritual seekers and life explorers. We honor the many paths to God and support people of all faiths in learning and applying positive spiritual principles in their daily lives.

Follow SLC on Instagram @spiritual.life.center and on Facebook at facebook.com/SpiritualLifeCenter.