Frank Words: A Blog About Being Whole

Frank Gasque Dunn
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FRANK WORDS is a podcast exploring what it means to be a whole person, claiming every part of yourself. Frank Dunn honors all aspects of the human person—body, mind, soul, spirit—with the goal of empowering you to embrace your entirety: your emotions, your affections, your intellect, your hopes, your passion.. Realize your amazing potential through knowing you are already whole.

Episodes

  1. Frank Words: Handling Shame and Guilt

    10/25/2025

    Frank Words: Handling Shame and Guilt

    The Very Rev. Jim Kowalski joins Frank in the episode discussing shame and guilt, what they are, how they differ, and how to handle these universal and difficult imposters.

    59 min
  2. Your Story: Finding Your Center

    09/05/2025

    Your Story: Finding Your Center

    Living a whole life, living wholeheartedly, is living from the center of our being. Called by different names—the Self, the soul, our quintessential Nature—our center is the organizing faculty for our whole being. What are we living for, hoping for, caring deeply about? Our answers indicate what our lives center on and center in.

    17 min
  3. Your Story: How You Create

    07/24/2025

    Your Story: How You Create

    In most of our minds "creativity" is something that we imagine the artistic and inventive to own. This episode, with California artisit Richard Fox, delves into how creativity is something that all humans have evolved to do and to share. Our conversation takes a fresh look at how we can find, incorporate, and practice the principles of creativity in all parts of our lives.

    1h 1m
  4. Your Story: Mentors and Teachers

    07/11/2025

    Your Story: Mentors and Teachers

    Who are the people in your life who have taught you, counseled you, guided you? What are the secrets of being a good mentor, qualities that we can practice as we guide our children, our friends, and others?

    1h 8m
  5. Your Story. Derailments: When Things Go Wrong

    06/14/2025

    Your Story. Derailments: When Things Go Wrong

    We cannot always stop the things that interrupt our lives, pulling us off track, interrupting our plans and impeding us from reaching out goals. We do have choices as to how we respond to such derailments. Listen and find out ways to refigure and respond to some of your greatest challenges.

    23 min
  6. Your Story: Your Audience —Whose Approval Do We Want?

    05/26/2025

    Your Story: Your Audience —Whose Approval Do We Want?

    In this, the fourth episode of the series "Your Story,," we examine some of the persons in our lives, both past and present, both negative and positive influences, who comprise the "audience" of the play we are performing that is called "My Life.." Sections of the track include: Who is the audience we are performing for?Pleasing the internalized will of the audienceSometimes we show the audience we're unlike them!What are we getting out of our performances?Healthy people live in positive relationshipsReeling back to ourselves our projectionsLearning how to live our own unique livesYou have the Creator's stamp in your very beingThe joy of living is discovering our gifts

    15 min
  7. Your Story: The Enneagram: Useful Tool for Self-understanding

    05/16/2025

    Your Story: The Enneagram: Useful Tool for Self-understanding

    In the course of his video, the following resources are mentioned: https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/ https://www.thehumanpotentialists.com/ (book) The Wisdom of the Enneagruam

    42 min

  8. 05/08/2025

    Frank Words. Your Story Episode 2 Stories Big and Small

    From earliest memories to the most recent events, our personal stories are wrapped up with the stories of all human beings. Some are quite intimate and personal to us. Others are macro-stories and meta-narratives that include everyone in our species. This is the second in a series exploring how our stories hold the keys to our discovery and appropriation of all parts of ourselves in a self-consistent whole. This is the second is a series exploring our stories from many angles. SECTIONS Macro-stories and Metanarratives The Story Field Choosing a Story Stories are Key to Spirituality Becoming Conscious of Our Stories Stories that Survive and Revive

    28 min

  9. Season 1 Trailer

    Your Story, Episode 2 Stories Big and Small

    From earliest memories to the most recent events, our personal stories are wrapped up with the stories of all human beings. Some are quite intimate and personal to us. Others are macro-stories and meta-narratives that include everyone in our species. This is the second in a series exploring how our stories hold the keys to our discovery and appropriation of all parts of ourselves in a self-consistent whole. SECTIONS Macro-stories and Metanarratives The Story Field Choosing a Story Stories are Key to Spirituality Becoming Conscious of Our Stories Stories that Survive and Revive

    28 min
  10. Your Story:: How Our Origins Shape Our Stories

    04/27/2025

    Your Story:: How Our Origins Shape Our Stories

    The easiest way to get a grip on claiming our own wholeness is to begin with our stories. Our origins shape us. But the shape into which they mold us is not impervious to change. We get to decide what we want to hold on to and what we want to let go of as we move forward into living freer, happier, more rewarding lives.

    17 min
  11. Welcome to Frank Words

    04/19/2025

    Welcome to Frank Words

    An introduction to Frank's philosophy: what does it mean to be a whole person, claiming every part of oneself?

    8 min

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FRANK WORDS is a podcast exploring what it means to be a whole person, claiming every part of yourself. Frank Dunn honors all aspects of the human person—body, mind, soul, spirit—with the goal of empowering you to embrace your entirety: your emotions, your affections, your intellect, your hopes, your passion.. Realize your amazing potential through knowing you are already whole.

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