After twenty years in HR, Sonika Cottman heard the voice in her head and realized, for the first time, that it was not her. Nothing on the outside changed. Same home, same job, same children. Everything on the inside did. In this gentle conversation, Sonika and Dr. Doug explore awareness,…
Nami Prakash spent 20 years as a healthcare communications leader before discovering, at 40, that she had complex PTSD rooted in childhood bullying, abandonment, and abuse. In this conversation with Dr. Doug, she shares how high performance can be a survival strategy, what it means to turn dark into light,…
After a stroke, Chip Scholz's wife bought him a lathe, and it opened something he did not know was there. Chip talks about hollow forms, the vessels with a hidden inside that nobody ever sees, and why a forty two year marriage is shaped the same way. They also walk…
Self improvement is where most of us begin. But what comes after, once we have studied ourselves and named our patterns? Richard, a university professor, coach, and author of A Phenomenal Life, joins Dr. Doug to talk about human becoming: letting go in small pieces, listening to what our triggers…
Most of us are living by default. Saying yes when we mean no. Chasing a version of life that looks good from the outside but never quite settles inside. Author and strategic life coach Kirana Sidin joins Dr. Doug from Jakarta to talk about the simplest practice she knows: pause…
Dr. Doug welcomes back counselor and author Faust Ruggiero for a quiet conversation about what we are really doing when we reach for something outside ourselves. They talk about plant medicine and meditation, the childhood imprints that shape how we react, the difference between losing something and gaining something, and…
Dr. Doug sits down with therapist and compatibility strategist Jena Jake to explore why we keep falling in love with the same person in a different body. Chemistry, Jena explains, is often just familiarity recognizing itself, and familiarity is not the same as compatibility. Together they talk about awareness, boundaries,…
Dr. Doug sits down with Tara Mae Temple, author of Life Hacks for Healing and Harmony, to talk about the quiet stories we start believing about ourselves early on. Tara shares years of feeling like she did not belong, the practice she calls negative thought cancellation, and what shifted when…
Alan Gillanders joins Dr. Doug for an unhurried conversation about the long way home to self, a shattered wedding ring, an answered prayer, and the ancient teaching of "I Am." Together they explore synchronicity, the frequency beneath all things, and what it means to remember the divine we never actually…
Many of us are living a life someone else chose for us. Author and longtime coach Chip Scholz joins Dr. Doug to talk about what happens when identity gets tied to a title, a family business, or a role we were expected to fill, and what remains when those things…
Gaylen Wilson nearly died three times before his heart transplant gave him a second chance at love. Now he teaches couples the "Monument Method”, protecting a relationship one kind word at a time. This episode covers attachment theory, fighting fair, erectile dysfunction and marriage, and why purpose is the antidote…
Gaylen Wilson nearly died three times before his heart transplant gave him a second chance at love. Now he teaches couples the "Monument Method”, protecting a relationship one kind word at a time. This episode covers attachment theory, fighting fair, erectile dysfunction and marriage, and why purpose is the antidote…
Dr. Doug sits down with transformational life strategist Tori Jenae for an unhurried conversation about healing and remembering who we really are. Born into addiction and loss, Tori shares how she transformed her deepest wounds into purpose. Together they explore the "not enough" wound, why healing isn't about fixing but…
Relationship coach Valerie Greene opens up about her own journey through conflict, divorce, and hard-won healing to share why we keep attracting what we've always known, and how to finally choose differently. In this conversation, she and Dr. Doug explore emotional availability, attachment, and what it means to stop repeating…
Author Terry Bean joins Dr. Doug to talk about the children's book Abracadabra and the tender work of helping a child trust themselves. They reflect on acknowledging a child's feelings instead of rushing to fix them, the difference between guiding a child and living through them, and how a single…
Author Terry Bean joins Dr. Doug to talk about the children's book Abracadabra and the tender work of helping a child trust themselves. They reflect on acknowledging a child's feelings instead of rushing to fix them, the difference between guiding a child and living through them, and how a single…
Ben Oofana spent decades learning from Native American healers, Taoist masters, and Hindu-Vedic teachers, not as an academic pursuit, but as a survivor seeking his own healing. In this conversation, he shares how unprocessed emotion lives in the body, why patterns repeat, and how breath and movement can finally help…
