Truth be told, the term “mental health” doesn’t quite capture the essence of what I have come to experience as recovery or health. In fact, while I am telling the truth, I might also add that the term “mental health” gets my hackles up a bit, triggering a sense that I am somehow flawed or mentally deficient for struggling to live authentically in a world that rewards falsity, for needing help to manage pain in a world that values numbing out, and for not being able to “think myself into a new perspective.”

Each week, we use a topic from one of the chapters in my latest book, A Deeper Yoga as a springboard for discussion and commentary. Shortly after we released our first few episodes, the realities of Covid-19 hit and we recorded additional Covid-19-centered bonus episodes. Our conversations range from studentship to community, from self-compassion to white fragility, from suffering, addictions, and cultural imperatives to faith, wholeness and dogs as perfect beings.