Caroline Myss: Breaking Through Fear—Welcome to Spiritual Home Base

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July 14, 2026

Caroline Myss: Breaking Through Fear—Welcome to Spiritual Home Base

Caroline Myss July 14, 2026

Why does the world feel so unstable right now—and why does the fear so many of us are feeling seem to have no clear target?

In this special episode, Tami Simon shares an excerpt from medical intuitive and New York Times bestselling author Caroline Myss’s opening presentation for Spiritual Home Base, the new online community where Caroline serves as spiritual director. In her session, “Breaking Through Fear,” Caroline offers a wide-lens view of this moment in human evolution—and closes with a live Q&A drawn directly from program participants.

Join Caroline to explore:

  • Why humanity appears to be moving through a collective “download” in consciousness—and why so much of today’s fear doesn’t seem to have a clear target
  • The real difference between what causes us pain and what causes us to suffer or break down
  • How our relationship to time, technology, and attention is reshaping our sense of personal power
  • Why an old, punishing image of God is giving way to a more expansive understanding rooted in love, light, and law
  • A practical teaching on staying “impersonal” with fear and old stories—without becoming uncaring
  • Live questions from program participants on grief, loneliness, faith, and staying spiritually grounded amid world events

Whether you’re feeling the weight of the world or searching for steadier ground, this excerpt offers both a map for making sense of the moment and practical tools for meeting it with more trust and less fear. 

Learn more and join at myss.com/spiritual-homebase.

Listen now, and step into Spiritual Home Base. →

Caroline Myss is a five-time New York Times bestselling author and internationally renowned speaker in the fields of human consciousness, spirituality and mysticism, health, energy medicine, and the science of medical intuition. Her many groundbreaking books include Anatomy of the SpiritSacred ContractsInvisible Acts of Power, and Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can. She holds degrees in journalism, theology, intuition, and energy medicine, and in 2003 established her own educational institute: CMED (Caroline Myss Education). For more information about workshops and seminars with Caroline Myss, please visit myss.com.

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In this special episode, Tami Simon shares an excerpt from medical intuitive and New York Times bestselling author Caroline Myss’s opening presentation for Spiritual Home Base, the new online community where Caroline serves as spiritual director. In her session, “Breaking Through Fear,” Caroline offers a wide-lens view of this moment in human evolution—and closes with a live Q&A drawn directly from program participants.

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  • How our relationship to time, technology, and attention is reshaping our sense of personal power
  • Why an old, punishing image of God is giving way to a more expansive understanding rooted in love, light, and law
  • A practical teaching on staying “impersonal” with fear and old stories—without becoming uncaring
  • Live questions from program participants on grief, loneliness, faith, and staying spiritually grounded amid world events

Whether you’re feeling the weight of the world or searching for steadier ground, this excerpt offers both a map for making sense of the moment and practical tools for meeting it with more trust and less fear. 

Learn more and join at myss.com/spiritual-homebase.

Listen now, and step into Spiritual Home Base. →

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