I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow more. My guest today is trying to bring together two topics that I think are the most critical

for humanity to have a complete understanding of what our

existence in this world is all about. Dr. Lisa Miller is the New York Times best-selling author of the Spiritual Child.

She's a professor in the clinical psychology program at Teachers College, Columbia University.

She is the founder and director

of the spirituality mind body institute,

which is the first Ivy League graduate program in spirituality and psychology really and she has held

over a decade of joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia Medical School.

Her innovative research has been published in more than 100 empirical peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including the American Journal of Psychiatry

and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and now she has a new book which is The

Awakening Brain. The idea of bringing spirituality and science together, honestly, is something that I've spoken about a lot

on Slomo before, so I'm really, really

looking forward to this conversation.

I hope you will enjoy it, Dr. Nisa Miller.

I think where I want to start, Lisa, is to ask you, like I normally do as an

engineering mind, a very rational mind first, to define spirituality.

Because I have a definition, but I have to say it's actually rarely discussed.

People rarely actually know what do we mean by spirituality.

Is that what we get in Judaism and Islam and Christianity?

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