Tom Rosshirt, CHASING PEACE: A Story of Breakdowns, Breakthroughs, and the Spiritual Power of Neuroscience
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Zibby speaks with Tom Rosshirt about his poignant and transformational new book, CHASING PEACE: A Story of Breakdowns, Breakthroughs, and the Spiritual Power of Neuroscience. Tom shares his extraordinary journey from debilitating chronic illnesses, depression, and anxiety to healing through the latest practices in brain science. He explains how self-directed neuroplasticity—a daily practice of retraining the brain—helped him reorient his relationship with pain, fear, illness, and suppressed feelings. This one’s a must-listen for anyone seeking practical tools for living a fuller, healthier life!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
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| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens. |
| 0:44.5 | Tom Rushert is the author of Chasing Peace, a story of breakdowns, breakthroughs, and the spiritual |
| 0:49.9 | power of neuroscience. |
| 0:51.6 | Tom is a co-founder of Unite, a co-creator of The Dignity Index, and an editor of |
| 0:57.4 | The Call to Unite. Previously, Tom was a high school teacher, a Capitol Hill Press secretary, |
| 1:02.7 | a White House speechwriter, and a co-founder of West Wing writers. Welcome, Tom. I'm so excited to |
| 1:09.0 | have you on the show today to talk about chasing peace, |
| 1:11.6 | a story of breakdowns, breakthroughs, and the spiritual power of neuroscience. |
| 1:16.0 | Congratulations on your book. |
| 1:17.2 | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 1:18.6 | I'm also obsessed with this cover because this is the wallpaper, very close to the wallpaper I have |
| 1:22.8 | in my bookstore in Santa Monica and my home and my office here in New York and like I'm just... |
| 1:28.5 | Zibi, look behind here. You can see that I've got the same color and I didn't even notice it |
| 1:34.0 | until the cover came and I thought they don't know what my wall coloring is on my office. |
| 1:39.4 | But anyway, thank you. I appreciate that. |
| 1:41.5 | I can give you the Farron Ball, you know, wallpaper info if you need another little, you know, matching, matching room. |
| 1:48.4 | But next time I'm in the store, I'll hold your book up and I'll show you. |
| 1:52.1 | But anyway, of course, this is the most superficial way to start because your book is incredibly deep on so many levels and actually is sort of changing the way I think about things. And I was |
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