Growing Toward Love

Growing Toward Love

God, Spirituality, Philosophy, Self-Evolution.

Episodes

  1. 07/10/2025

    Imi Lo - Guilt, Shame and How to Start Healing

    Imi Lo has dedicated her career to helping emotionally intense and highly sensitive people turn their depth into strength. Her three books, Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity, The Gift of Intensity, and The Gift of Empathy are translated into multiple languages, are treasured by readers worldwide for their compassionate and astute insights. With two Master's degrees in Mental Health and Buddhist Studies, Imi brings a unique depth to her work. She has trained in philosophical counselling, Jungian theories, art therapy, global cultures, mentalization, and mindfulness-based modalities. Her multicultural perspective has been enriched by living across the UK, Australia, and Asia, alongside her work with organizations such as Doctors Without Borders, the NHS, the mental health charity Mind, and LGBTQ charity London Friend. Throughout her career, she has served as a psychotherapist, suicide crisis counselor, mental health supervisor, and trainer for therapists and coaches. Imi's contributions have been recognized through prestigious awards including the Australian Government Endeavour Award, the HSBC Social Work Scholarship, and a Postgraduate Scholarship for Buddhist Studies. Her expertise has been featured in major publications such as Business Insider, Psychologies, Marie Claire, HuffPost, The Daily Mail, and The Telegraph. Eggshelltherapy.com imiloimilo.com Imi's books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B079Y7PC47 If you have a moment, please like & subscribe. Thanks for watching :) Unlock access to life-changing golden nuggets of wisdom and insight direct to your inbox! No spam, no long emails, no fluff or filler. Sign up for your free dose of meticulously curated (actually by me, not A.I.) golden nuggets: https://stats.sender.net/forms/dPN5G2/view Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growingtowardlove?igsh=MWR2ZG1iMDlmbnIwZQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr If you can, please donate to the channel via PayPayl to help me produce the best possible content, and to offer one on one sessions: https://paypal.me/growingtowardlove?country.x=CA&locale.x=en_US

    48 min
  2. 05/23/2025

    Max Baker Hytch - The Character of God, Meaning in Life and the Bible Through Jesus

    Dr. Max Baker-Hytch is the Academic Advisor at OCCA. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Oxford in 2014. Afterwards, he held two postdoctoral research fellowships, one at Oxford (2014-15), and one at the University of Notre Dame. Separately to his role at OCCA, he is Lecturer in Philosophy at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University. Max’s research interests mainly focus on the intersection of the philosophy of religion and epistemology. Max has published more than a dozen scholarly articles and book chapters on various topics within these fields, which can be accessed on his PhilPapers profile (link below). He has recently published a book with Cambridge University Press entitled God and the Problem of Evidential Ambiguity. He has participated in several public debates on these topics, including on Justin Brierley’s Unbelievable show. If you have a moment, please like & subscribe. Thanks for watching :) Unlock access to life-changing golden nuggets of wisdom and insight direct to your inbox! No spam, no long emails, no fluff or filler. Sign up for your free dose of meticulously curated (actually by me, not A.I.) golden nuggets: https://stats.sender.net/forms/dPN5G2/view Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growingtowardlove?igsh=MWR2ZG1iMDlmbnIwZQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr If you can, please donate to the channel via PayPayl to help me produce the best possible content, and to offer one on one sessions: https://paypal.me/growingtowardlove?country.x=CA&locale.x=en_US

    55 min
  3. 01/24/2025

    Robert Prentner on Consciousness, Free Will, Intuition, Religion, and Working With Donald Hoffman

    Robert Prentner worked with Donald D. Hoffman with respect to the Interface Theory of Perception and Conscious Agent Theory. The publication, "Fact, Fiction and Fitness" is a great place to start in understanding this work: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/5/514 Robert is an interdisciplinary scientist and philosopher building a novel framework of thinking that can integrate scientific research, technological developments (specifically: AI), and insights generated within the humanities. It currently focuses on the interface theory of perception as well as the mathematization of phenomenology, appealing to category and network theory (topology). In the past, Robert received a doctorate in physical chemistry in 2013 and a doctorate in philosophy in 2017 from ETH Zürich. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Humanities at ShanghaiTech University. His Erdős number is 4. If you have a moment, please like & subscribe. Thanks for watching :) Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growingtowardlove?igsh=MWR2ZG1iMDlmbnIwZQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr If you can, please donate to the channel via PayPayl to help me produce the best possible content, and to offer one on one sessions: https://paypal.me/growingtowardlove?country.x=CA&locale.x=en_US Unlock access to life-changing golden nuggets of wisdom and insight direct to your inbox! No spam, no long emails, no fluff or filler. Sign up for your free dose of meticulously curated (actually by me, not A.I.) golden nuggets: https://stats.sender.net/forms/dPN5G2/view #consciousness #philosophy #podcast #religion #spiritualityandscience #spirituality #donhoffman #caseagainstreality

    1h 58m

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God, Spirituality, Philosophy, Self-Evolution.