The Science of Spirituality + Mental Health with Dr. Lisa Miller: From the Vault PH298

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Lisa Miller, Ph.D., is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and a professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the Founder and Director of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, the first Ivy League graduate program and research institute in spirituality and psychology, and has held over a decade of joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical School. Her innovative research has been published in more than one hundred peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Cerebral Cortex, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Miller is Editor of the Oxford University Press Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality, Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the APA journal Spirituality in Clinical Practice, an elected Fellow of The American Psychological Association (APA) and the two-time President of the APA Society for Psychology and Spirituality. A graduate of Yale University and University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her doctorate under the founder of positive psychology, Martin Seligman, she has served as Principal Investigator on multiple grant funded research studies. Dr. Miller speaks and consults around The Awakened Brain and The Spiritual Child for the US Military, businesses (including tech, finance, HR and sales), personal development, faith based organizations, schools and universities, and for mental health and wellness initiatives. You can connect with Dr. Miller via Instagram. @dr.lisamiller and her website lisamillerphd.com. You can access her book, The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life, via Amazon. Check out her Ted Talk on Depression and Spiritual Awakening via YouTube. Related Episodes: Ep 149 - The Science of Spontaneous Health with Dr. Jeffrey Rediger Ep 267 - Elijah Muhammad: Always Positive Energy If you like this episode, please subscribe to Pursuing Health on iTunes and give it a rating or share your feedback on social media using the hashtag #PursuingHealth. I look forward to bringing you future episodes with inspiring individuals and ideas about health every week. Disclaimer: This podcast is for general information only, and does not provide medical advice. I recommend that you seek assistance from your personal physician for any health conditions or concerns.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello to my pursuing health listeners. It's crazy to think that we are quickly
0:14.4	approaching nine years and 300 episodes of the pursuing health
0:19.1	podcast this has been one of the most fun and rewarding endeavors of my life and I'm not planning to stop anytime soon
0:27.1	But I thought it would be fun as we approach episode 300 to go back and
0:32.1	Revisit some of my all-time favorite episodes.
0:35.5	Through this process, I have enjoyed meeting
0:38.4	so many interesting people, hearing incredible stories,
0:42.1	and connecting with all of you. So hopefully you
0:45.2	will enjoy this episode and look forward to many more to come.
0:49.1	Well welcome back to pursuing health. I'm so excited to have a guest on today who is Dr. Lisa Miller.
0:59.0	So a little bit of background on her before we dive in. She's a professor and founder of the spirituality
1:04.7	mind-body Institute at Teachers College Columbia University. She is a graduate of
1:09.4	Yale and the University of Pennsylvania and is a leading national expert on spirituality, health,
1:14.4	and thriving in development. She's authored over 100 peer review articles on spirituality
1:19.7	and mental health and youth and family. She's a grant funded clinical scientist,
1:24.3	a fellow of the American Psychological Association
1:26.7	and former president of the APA Society of Psychology
1:29.5	and Spirituality, editor of the Oxford University
1:32.4	Press Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality and
1:35.2	Editor and Chief of Spirituality and Clinical Practice. She consults, conducts
1:39.5	workshops and trainings and speaks extensively in the United States
1:42.8	internationally on the topic.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Julie Foucher MD, MS, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Julie Foucher MD, MS and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.