Welcome back to enthusiastically spiritual podcast. I'm your host Theresa. Finding balance within your life is important. It can help you be more in tune with your

energy, work with your inner guidance, and really help you flow with all that comes your way.

Finding stillness adds a whole new dimension to life and how you view it.

And that's the road we're going to be going down today with my guest

Jesse Asia Kanser who was born in the Soviet Union at the age of eight she

immigrated with her family to Brooklyn. Her childhood as a Russian

immigrant in post-Cold War America heightened her insecurity and

threatened her identity desperate as was to fit into culture that was alien at best and hostile at worst.

This loss and eventual reclamation of herself, sense of self, center on a spiritual journey during what she discovered the Tao Teixing, which changed everything for her.

The Tao taught her that there was power and stillness and that all struggles come bearing gifts if you know how to recognize them.

She's a writer and former reporter and actress.

Her work has appeared on The Washington Post, New York Daily News, Wall Street Journal, The Independent, The New York Times,

Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, Ravishling, and Rumper.

Jesse lives with her two daughters and husband in Dobbs Ferry, New York.

Welcome, Jesse. Thank you so much for having me.

Oh, a pleasure and I am so looking forward to talking about the importance of stillness.

Yes, it is a topic that is very relevant in our hyper busy world, right?

Without a doubt.

And as you were thinking about that,

I was thinking like the complexity

of our intellectual collective consciousness,

like it's constantly on.

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