Dr. Sue Morter: "The Energetic Architecture of Awakening"

Twenty-six years ago, a chiropractor sitting in her first meditation class was transported into a field of light ten times brighter than the desert sun. Dr. Sue Morter, bestselling author of The Energy Codes, joins Tami Simon to map the energetic architecture behind that kind of awakening, and how the rest of us can build the inner circuitry to access it on purpose instead of by accident.

Dr. Sue earned her doctorate in chiropractic more than 40 years ago and has spent decades developing a body of work in bioenergetics—the study of how energy flows through, builds, and heals the body. She’s the founder of the Body Awake School of Yoga and the Morter Institute, an internationally recognized speaker, and the author of the new book The Anatomy of Awakening: The 5 Hidden Codes to Activate Self-Healing, Unlock Your Higher Consciousness, and Live Your Divine Destiny, which maps five additional energy centers beyond the familiar seven chakras.

In this conversation, Tami and Dr. Sue explore:

The spiritual experience that reoriented Dr. Sue’s entire career and, over time, helped resolve her lifelong scoliosis and migraines
Why “seeking enlightenment” misses the point, and why embodiment, not transcendence, is the real work
The five additional chakras beyond the traditional seven (eight through twelve), and what each one governs in our energetic architecture
How to build “energetic circuitry” at the site of a trigger instead of getting lost in its story
Spherical breathing and Mula Bandha as practical tools for grounding and stabilizing the nervous system
What it actually means to regulate your nervous system, and why trying too hard to do it can backfire

This episode is for anyone navigating a season of nervous system dysregulation, energy practitioners and bodyworkers, and listeners drawn to the chakra system who want a more embodied, practical approach to awakening.

Listen in for a guided practice you can use the next time you feel triggered, overwhelmed, or ungrounded.

Dr. Sue uses a number of visual aids throughout this conversation, so if you’d rather watch than just listen, you can find the video version on YouTube @SoundsTrueManyVoices or on our premium membership platform at soundstrueone.com

Just One Question | Francis Weller: How can I find a b...

Francis Weller — November 12, 2026

When grief hits, it can feel bottomless, like freefall with no floor in sight. Psychotherapist and grief ritualist Francis Weller has spent decades helping people find exactly that: a bottom. In this episode, he tells Tami Simon why grief can’t be processed alone, and what it actually takes to be held in sorrow instead of drowning in it.

Francis Weller is the author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow and one of the most trusted voices working at the intersection of grief, ritual, and community. In this conversation, Tami and Francis explore:

Why grief so often shows up as panic instead of pure sorrow
The difference between containment and release, and why grief work needs both
How community, not solo processing, creates a real “bottom” to fall into
Why reclaiming our capacity for sorrow is essential to staying alive, awake, and engaged with what Francis calls “the long dark”

This one’s for anyone who’s ever felt like their grief has no floor, and who’s ready to learn how ritual, community, and a little honest confession can change that.

Taken from the full Insights at the Edge conversation with Francis Weller: https://bit.ly/francis-weller

Just One Question | Lama Rod Owens: How Can I Receive ...

Giving love comes easy, but can you actually receive it? Lama Rod Owens says most of us flinch at being cared for, even by something as simple as the chair we’re sitting in. In this practice from his book The New Saints, he walks us through what it takes to actually let love in.

Lama Rod Owens, a Black Buddhist Southern Queen, authorized lama in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, and author of The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors, guides Tami Simon (and all of us listening) through a short meditation on receiving care, drawn straight from the pages of his new book.

In this conversation, Tami and Lama Rod explore:

Feeling supported by the seat or ground beneath you
Recalling a time someone, or something, really loved you
Letting that love move through the body, including the grief it can stir up along the way
Imagining the whole universe wanting you safe, happy, and free
Gently returning to the body and closing the practice

This one’s for anyone who finds it easier to give love than to receive it, which, let’s be honest, is most of us.

Taken from the full Insights at the Edge conversation with Lama Rod Owens. Find the complete interview in this feed or at https://bit.ly/new-saint

Terri Cole: “Healing the Worthiness Wound”

Terri Cole — November 3, 2026

Terri Cole calls it an invisible wound: the imprint left when a daughter never receives protection, presence, or emotional attunement from her father. This week, Tami Simon talks with Terri Cole—Sounds True’s own Boundary Boss—about her new book, Father Wound, and why even women with loving fathers can carry this wound without ever naming it.

Terri Cole, MSW, LCSW, is a licensed psychotherapist, relationship expert, and best-selling author who has spent nearly three decades helping people break dysfunctional patterns and build healthier relationships with themselves and others. With Sounds True, she is the author of the trilogy that began with Boundary Boss and continued with Too Much: A Guide to Breaking the Cycle of High-Functioning Codependency. Her newest book, Father Wound: Break Unhealthy Patterns to Reclaim Your Worth and Power, examines what happens when a father or father figure is absent, abusive, immature, or simply not emotionally attuned—and why daughters of patriarchy carry a version of this wound no matter what kind of father they had.

In this conversation, Tami and Terri explore:

How to recognize a father wound even when “my father wasn’t that bad”
Why Terri defines the father wound as, at its root, a worthiness wound
The difference between self-parenting and re-parenting, and what healing your inner child looks like in daily decisions
The “father wound trance”: how old patterns resurface in adult relationships, and how to work with transference instead of being run by it
Mourning the Dream, Terri’s exercise for grieving the father you wished you’d had
Why healing this wound personally is tied to healing patriarchy at a collective, societal level

Who this episode is for: anyone doing inner child work, anyone who keeps finding themselves in the same relationship pattern and wondering why, and anyone ready to ask whether their sense of worth was shaped long before they had any say in it.

Listen now, and start reclaiming your worth. →

This interview originally aired on Sounds True One, where you can enjoy early, ad-free access to episodes of Insights at the Edge: https://join.soundstrue.com/