Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.

To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.

Welcome friends. I'm glad you can join me in this conversation with Dr. Mark Hyman.

This has been recorded for his podcast. It's a leading health podcast called The Doctors Pharmacy.

So a bit about Mark, who's a friend I really hold in the highest regard.

Mark's a practicing family physician. He's a best-selling author. He's an internationally

recognized leader, speaker, and educator, an advocate in the field of functional medicine.

And he's also a very awake, open-hearted human. So today, Mark will be interviewing me and our theme

is radical acceptance, really how our healing and freedom unfolds as we bring a mindful

allowing presence to our moments. And we'll look at how we wake up out of the stories that can

keep us in fear and self-doubt and how we discover a true intimacy with ourselves, with our world.

I hope you enjoy. Welcome. So good to be with you, Mark.

Yeah, so I'm so happy you're here. And we're going to talk about stuff. It's often, you know,

in the spiritual world, in the psychological world, often kind of gets brushed aside a little bit.

And I think sometimes the dark and the shadows is where the light actually starts to come in.

And I know you've suffered a number of really challenging situations in your life, your mother's

alcoholism, miscarriage, genetic issues that you have that you struggle with. I've certainly had

issues, you know, health crises and family issues and relationship stuff. And you know, and just

life itself. And some people can be really in some ways poisoned by those experiences and turn

dark and be there in angry and hurt and isolated. And yet many people find a different way out

of those experiences into a very different way of being. So for you, how your hardship shaped you

and how those difficulties led you to find your way towards mindfulness? Well, first, I want to

...