Skila Ramirez--yoga therapist, YogaFit Master Trainer, and owner of Sankalpa Wellness--joins me to discuss how trauma affects us and what we can do to reclaim our peace. Skila is the author of A Way to Heal: Recalibrate the Nervous System, Optimize Immunity, Support Healing, which you can find at SankalpaWellness.com.

M. Heather Carver, a professor of performance studies and a 20-year breast cancer survivor, joins me to discuss how the ability to show one’s unmasked self and be appreciated is critical to both personal happiness and to a healthy society. Be your clowny or anxiously grumpy selves, folks!

I am joined in this episode by Dr. Mamta Saxena, a Senior Assistant Dean of Decision Support and Academic Quality Assessment at Northeastern University. She discusses the path to understanding happiness within an individualistic society as an immigrant from a collectivist culture, and why modern arranged marriages are not like many people in the West assume.