Elaine Germano educates and advocates for midwifery in the USA. — Want to become a midwife? http://www.midwife.org/ — Want to find a midwife? www.findamidwife.org

Dr. Brenda Shoshanna, psychologist, Zen practitioner and author of Fearless (The 7 Principles of Peace of Mind). Brenda shares her knowledge and experience of facing fear head on in order to defeat and deflate it. Fear is a bully.

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Sensei, is the spiritual director of the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism, and the abbot of the Zen Center of NYC. Among other projects, Shugen is concerned with fostering an integration of  religious practice with environmental awareness.

Joan Henry of Mill Street Loft and some of the young women of Project AWARE (Adolescent Women Are Realizing Empowerment) join us.

Peter Muir, co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Music and Health (IMH). IMH is a center based in New York’s Hudson Valley providing specialized training and service for those interested in using music for wellness. If you can’t listen to the whole interview, be sure not to miss the completely heart-felt version of Over the Rainbow sung by an autistic boy that starts at about 50 minutes in.

Louise Montello is a practicing psychoanalyst, music therapist, and award-winning author of Essential Music Intelligence. She has a workshop coming up in April at Kripalu: The Voice of Trauma: A Sound Approach to Healing the Wounds of Childhood Trauma.

We speak to Nurit Nardi about why she does not call herself a healer, and how she helps people to heal themselves. Besides her background in the performing arts, Nurit holds a Master of Arts in Transpersonal Psychology, and is a licensed Massage Therapist. She combines energy-based psychotherapy with somatic and diverse bodywork modalities.

“Herbal Medicine is People’s Medicine.” Herbalist Susun Weed explains the uses of several plants that grow wild in your lawn. We get a very brief history of the Wise Woman’s role in the history of human healing, and learn about slowing down enough to  listen to plants.

We air a dharma discourse given by the late John Daido Loori, Roshi, founder of the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism, and inspiration for Be the Change Radio.

John Bradley,the acting executive director of Integrity USA. Integrity is a nonprofit organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender [LGBT] Episcopalians and straight friends.  Since its founding by Dr. Louie Crew in rural Georgia in 1974, Integrity has been the leading grassroots voice for the full inclusion of LGBT persons in the Episcopal Church and equal access to its rites.