Awakin Calls is an initiative of ServiceSpace, a global, all volunteer-run community dedicated to inner change and outer service. In Awakin Calls, we engage in deep conversations with individuals gently shaking the world, and inspiring us to transformative action. In this conversation + guided practice, Dr. Li talks with her long-time mentor and friend, Michael Lerner, a pioneer in integrative healing and environmental health. The promise of effortless healing and flow, if we

"Wait, I can't remember," I said. “Remind me, where did you go?” It happened again, just the other night at dinner with my daughter Sonia. She was telling me about her recent trip to Europe, and despite picturing it in great detail from earlier photos, I couldn't recall the last of three cities she'd visited. Sonia looked at me as if I'd lost my mind. In a way, I had. I was smiling to myself, though. This wasn't the "brain fog” I'd so often experienced in the past, when chro

Any page I turned to offered me a gem of insight and instruction. I’ll turn to it again and again. — Anne Lamott, activist and NYT bestselling author of Bird by Bird Optimize your body’s innate healing abilities...in a seemingly effortless way. Are you one of the millions who suffer from chronic illness? Have you tried everything—conventional or alternative—only to find that you still aren’t healing? Do you struggle daily with anxiety, stress, or overwhelm? Most of us have be