Chasing Peace
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
4.8 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Today’s conversation with former Clinton/Gore speechwriter Tom Rosshirt left me speechless. In his book Chasing Peace, Tom reveals how crippling anxiety and 'complicated grief' nearly destroyed him—until neuroplasticity and spirituality rewired his brain. We explore fear as the root of physical illness, dissolving self-image traps, and why embracing ALL feelings is the essence of true peace. If you’ve ever felt stuck in perfectionism, avoidance, or unexplained symptoms, this episode is your roadmap to freedom. Plus: My course for therapists on spiritually informed therapy opens soon! Join us as we bridge science and soul.
TIMESTAMPED OVERVIEW
00:00 Tom Rosshirt & Book Intro
00:54 Health Crisis Begins
04:02 Failed Avoidance Strategy
06:27 Devastating Brain Scans
08:21 Fear = Illness Root
09:07 Neuroplasticity Discovery
12:37 Self-Image Trap Exposed
15:46 Presidential Pressure Cooker
21:48 Breakdown to Breakthrough
28:31 Spirituality & Ego Release
33:40 New Success Metrics
39:15 Dignity Index Launch
44:33 Bill Maher Case Study
54:57 Final Takeaways
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| 0:00.0 | Oftentimes, many of you reach out and say, how do you find the guests that you find? |
| 0:05.6 | And oftentimes I have many people who reach out to me. |
| 0:09.1 | I have a list right now, probably 50 people long, who have requested to be on the podcast. |
| 0:14.5 | And sometimes I stumble over guests that I think would be amazing. |
| 0:19.8 | And today was no exception. So Tom Rochert is, |
| 0:24.0 | was, I should say, a speech writer. He was an amazing speech writer during the Clinton |
| 0:30.3 | Gore years and he has an incredible new book out called Chasing Peace. And I think I talk about this a little in the podcast, but I stumbled upon his work |
| 0:39.9 | through Maria Shriver had posted on him. And I loved the name, the title, and everything that he was |
| 0:46.0 | talking about. And the conversation proved to be validating that my intuition was correct. This was an |
| 0:52.9 | incredible interview where Tom just discusses |
| 0:56.3 | his struggles with more physical health issues, but mental health issues that manifested in |
| 1:02.9 | physical health, and how he was able to use spirituality to rewire his brain. It's an amazing deep |
| 1:09.9 | dive into his life, his experiences, and the power that we all |
| 1:14.2 | have to change our thoughts, which then can physically change our responses to our situation. |
| 1:21.6 | Take a listen. I know you're going to love it. We just had an awesome conversation, an awesome |
| 1:26.5 | connection, and a really |
| 1:28.0 | deep dive into what is healing for people. So with that, here's my conversation with Tom |
| 1:35.4 | Rosh. We need at our table of awareness, the logician, but equally we need the intuitive, |
| 1:41.5 | we need the mystic. I was died. I was allowed to go to the very precipice of death, of life and death, and look over the edge. |
| 1:49.8 | And I was allowed to behold what was there and allowed to come back. |
| 1:53.8 | Most people aren't. |
| 1:54.6 | When we talk about being aligned with our self or being aligned with our soul or hearing |
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