In his book “Bliss Brain”, Mr Dawson claims that when you “relax your tongue on the floor of the mouth, [it] sends a signal to your vagus nerve which wanders all over your body, connecting all the major organ systems. It’s the key signaling component of the parasympathetic nervous system, which governs relaxation” (Church, page 31). He is right about vagus nerve but wrong about the position of the tongue. He has misread his source. On page 307, he listed a study by Schmidht, J.E. et al on the “Effects tongue position on mandibular muscle activity and heart rate function” (Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontology, 108(6), 881-888). What does this study say? “Results indicated significantly more activity in the temporalis and suprahyoid muscle regions as well as a significant reduction in heart rate variability when THE TONGUE was positioned on the PALATE compared with TONGUE position on the FLOOR of the mouth.” Not on the floor of the mouth! The authors of this study conclude that “[i]nstructions to place the tongue on the roof of the mouth are not instructions that will promote reduced physiological functioning (i.e., relaxation) but rather promote small, but potentially important increases in overall activity as indexed by muscle tone and cardiac function.”

Can’t deal with mind readers, tarot cards and hypnosis. Hard pass.

This is the best podcast channel for those who want to hear amazing people speak about books they’ve written on the spiritual process from a most talented host, Tami Simon. This is my favorite podcast channel

I listened to the entire show. And while I agreed with some of his tenants, I have to tell you, Tami, that the idea or practice of stoicism — for a good portion of the general population — is a thinly veiled excuse for the decisions and actions of an avoidantly attached person.

While I don’t love all episodes, some more than others, many are excellent. I enjoy Tami’s commitment to quality guests and perspectives, her grounded , wise presence and calming voice. Gabor Mate’s episode sure rattled me at the start. Ouch. However, it is a rich episode and he reflects on his own challenges, defensiveness and growth at last. Good thing we are all still growing and healing, hopefully.

I respect the work of Gabor Mate, but he seems more and more egotistical every time I listen to him. He gets offended easily then pretends he doesn’t. There was a very tense exchange between Gabor and Tami, ( I could feel it) then Tami graciously acknowleges the tension, this was a perfect opportunity for Gabor to exhibit what he teaches but instead he straight up gaslights her. He doesn’t talk about his theory w evidence to back it up and w all the research going on it shouldn’t be that difficult.

Every interview I’ve listened to has been outstanding. Keep up the good work!

Am listening to Andrea Gibson interview second time- wow. Just knew what came their way wasn't against them. It was not their enemy. That deciding- that surrender- that transcendent realization- said so stunningly beautifully! I really appreciated their insight and the language- reflected my own experience in a way I hadn't articulated before. Grateful Naomi

First let me say that what Tami Simon has created with Sounds True is extraordinary. Every product is held to a high standard, and I appreciate that. As an interviewer, she drives me nuts, but I listen to the podcast religiously because of the guests. I always know that I will find leading spiritual voices and life-changing wisdom.

Just listened to the one with Meghan Devine. This podcast and Meghan are a breathe of fresh air. The part about hope at the end was very helpful and a reframe I think I needed to hear. I’ve always had a complicated relationship with hope now I know why! Will definitely listen again! 💛

Cannot get past the host’s voice or cadence.

I just heard Tami on ‘The one you feed’ podcast and very much enjoyed her interview and thought process. I’m looking forward to learning more.

I’ve listened to this podcast for several years. Still have about 300 plus episodes to go! The content and selected guest are soooo relevant. Tami Simon is amazing. Outside of the spirit world, I’m always shocked when no one knows her name? I love Tami’s approach, tone, and wish she’d lead retreats herself! She’s very wise!

I am so impressed by Tami Simon. Her interviewing skills are amazing. She always asks such deep and probing questions in such an intelligent way. I love this podcast.

This podcast is the best! I cannot say enough great things about it. I always walk away a more informed better human after listening to this podcast. Thank you Tami for the impact your making on our world. I am truly grateful for you.

Many of the podcast I listen to have the same guests around the same time because that person is plugging a book or an event. I don’t mind, and have discovered many people that I really appreciate this way. But something I love about Insights is Tami Simon‘s interview style: she has a way of asking blunt, non-placating, and sometimes unnerving questions that ALWAYS take us to another level of knowing the person, their message, and ourselves. It’s refreshing. Her interviews are my final stop when I’m deciding whether to buy a book or course (if she’s having the person as a guest.) Thank you Tami.

This is the most intelligent, inspiring, and soothing, podcast, all in one. Tami and each and every one of her guests, enlightens, educates, and relaxes you while listening. A rare combination and gem of a podcast.

Excellent interview & master class on Trauma/ Grief.

Thank you for sharing your interview on Roy of Hollywood. You have helped many people in making a better world. Thank you.

Loved this interview, well all of your interviews. It’s people like this that give us the inspiration to forge ahead. I loved her starting at zero, I can relate. We are all connected! We all need role models, pardon the pun, she is one for sure! Love her soul!

One must think she takes herself oh-so-seriously. Lighten up occasionally!

I have been listening to insights at the edge for almost 3 years on a weekly basis now, and I can honestly say Tami’s thought-provoking conversations, the people that Tami brings on to the show and overall helpfulness of the podcast have been life altering for me and guided me on the path to healing and wholeness.

She is a great interviewer, asks all the pertinent questions, plays devils advocate a bit, but in a gentle way.

The questions she asks and the way she conducts the interview is brilliant. Brings such clarification to the interview.

You will learn so much about self-development, spiritual practice and teachings, and some great book and audio recommendations from the best teachers of our time. This is one of the very few podcasts I take time with pencil and paper and truly listen deeply. Tamil is a gifted interview and you will enjoy all the questions she asks of her guests.

I love this podcast… I love the guests and Tami's gifted art of asking profound questions. Jami

This is a podcast that will leave a lasting impression on you that will make you want to learn more. Tami brings on extraordinary guests to have discussions that will blow your mind!

I love this podcast, I learn so much from it and Tami Simon is a fantastic interviewer. Her “Mm-hmm” responses are the best. Each one is a little different from the next and each “Mm-hmm” gives an inkling of what she’s thinking. Haha…she’s awesome. Thank you Tami Simon and Sounds True for helping to raise the world’s vibration.

I want to start by saying that it is coming up on two years since I happened to stumble upon Sounds True. I honestly can’t even recall now how I came to know about Sounds True, but think it was actually a job listing when searching for jobs in the Boulder, CO area in late 2020. I didn’t get the job, but what I did get was more of a blessing to my life then I could have ever imagined or asked for in the first place. I’ve been listening to the weekly podcasts which I receive via email to my inbox every Sunday morning helping me to build a solid foundation along my healing journey. The Sounds True Founder, Tami Simon, somehow manages to search out, learn about, and interview an ever-growing cohort of inspirational and thought-provoking thought leaders whose individual unique perspectives have left me breathless and in tears of happiness, joy, sorrow, and everywhere in between. I’ve never felt more connected and as a part of a community in my life. So much so that I think I’ve finally decided to take the plunge and commit to a year membership for Sounds True One. The value and benefit I’ve received from the weekly podcasts along with a great deal of additional free content shared after signing up for the Insights At The Edge newsletter are immeasurable and it only makes me want to dive deeper and keep searching and learning. All I can say is Thank you to Tami, Sounds True, and everyone else along the way. Thank you for giving me the courage to be myself and move forward fearlessly. Thank you!

I cannot thank you enough for bringing such great content week after week. Your conversations are relevant poignant thought provoking educational expansive challenging progressive. I have listened to many many over and over again.

I am so happy I have discovered this podcast! I love her Tami’s voice and she is perceptive and probing! Love it!

It’s great to hear of others willing to take the leap so the Oneness can expand. We are here to remember and thank you to everyone reminding us of our love vibration. Thanks, Tami, for opening the door.

Great podcast. Much better photo of you!!

I thought I’d point out that at ”59:50 Melissa Brown diverts her thoughts in response to Tami’s question, to having lived in Africa. She references knowledge of tribalism, mentions having seen five year olds with kids on their backs etc etc.. and I have to say I was extremely shocked by this switch/comparison and patronising of poor Africans who have have no sense of agency. My first question was why a universal heart grounding session would switch to referencing poor Africans? What is Melissa’s experience of seeing poverty in Africa meant to communicate in this context? I’ve listened to Sounds True for years and I have to say I found it difficult to continue listening. A discussion that was grounded on nourishing and nurturing should not have allowed that statement to stay put without some wise course-correction by Tami. This podcast reaches a global audience of every kind and creed. I hope such statements are queried or interrogated in the future and that guests can reflect on/ and check their own biases and blindspots, even if it means self-correcting in the course of a grounding exercise. The spiritual discourse should really begin to interrogate attitudes towards non-western cultures and ways of being.

This podcast has become a daily go to. Tami asks thoughtful and sometimes hard questions. The humble, esteemed guests always answer so willingly and even gratefully. I feel affirmed and lifted by each episode as I chart my own healing path. Thank you.

Hi Tami, As a working psychotherapist who deals with individuals with trauma, I thought Mary Firestone had some valuable things to say. It was clear, though, that she doesn’t work (on an ongoing basis) individually with people with trauma histories, despite her education as a client. Yes, that impressive PhD Holocaust survivor is doing well, but to say that you “choose” victimhood or survivor is dangerous. Most trauma survivors do well, and much of the reason the small percentage (I’ve seen a range of 7 - 9%, but would check) for people who don’t do well is due to ongoing interpersonal trauma. That is, usually, abusive parent(s). In addition, those of us lucky enough to have had more than one child know that some babies just are more sensitive, from day 1. I’m very glad that Mary has gotten through her past trauma of sexual abuse, which can be extremely painful. AND (not but) if she had gone through that with abusive parenting, in poverty, she would have likely had a very different outcome. I’m also glad that you brought up $ resources, and wish that you had done so earlier in the podcast. Yes to meditation, EMDR (tapping in), etc., (I would add yoga for trauma, IFS, TIST, and somatic work you can do on your own like the old progressive muscle relaxation) but she basically said that after years of therapy, it was her work with Ketamine and MDMR that provided her breakthrough. Ouch. $. Legality in some places. Clearly this is a woman who has grown up with money and has always had it. Now she takes groups of affluent women to beautiful places, and no doubt does healing work. I’m not saying she doesn’t have a good heart, I’m saying that a focus on words like “choice” and “depersonalization” is dangerous to some people in the abstract. Also, towards the end when you asked about how she deals with anxiety and overwhelm (common emotional trauma symptoms), she said, “I know it will pass” and takes psych drugs. Trauma therapists understand that drugs can be helpful, and sometimes life saving, but generally feel that our AMA culture has an over dependence on meds. We also, when uncomfortable feelings come up, generally ask our clients to sit with those feelings, if they can. If they can’t, we generally recommend that clients accept those feelings and use their bodies to comfort those parts (not just to shake them off). It’s one thing to have a masters in Psychology, but a completely different experience to work for years with people doing their utmost to let go of trauma pain. For many clients, it doesn’t feel like any kind of “choice”. And for that reason, many of us don’t take clients to the Caribbean or start our own lines of perfume; many of us use expensive post graduate training to give clients who can’t afford years of therapy, or whose insurance companies only give them 12 sessions, much reduced sessions. That’s spiritual. Best Wishes, Susan Hanway, LICSW

There have been many times over the past few years when Tami Simon and insights from the edge have felt like a life line, a light in the middle of a tunnel—all the saving metaphors—but today in particular, I needed to hear the clear, calm, intelligent voice of Cheryl Richardson. What a relief to have her confirm that 50 or 60 something is just that, not some treadmill of forever youth I have to climb onto every day. The truth of her understanding rang through me like a bell ❤️thank you.

Thank you, Tami, for interviewing the outstanding Oren Jay Sofer. Just hearing his voice had a beneficial, calming-but-uplifting effect on me. Which leads me, also, to express appreciation for the excellent audio quality of this interview. I'm not sure if you've returned to doing studio recordings, or if he just did a very good job of home recording. If the latter, it reminds us of the high quality of remote recording that is obtainable when care is devoted to the technical aspects (good microphone well placed, solid ethernet connection, and lack of noise suppression processing). Hearing his voice with good fidelity and a lack of distortion is not only a breath of fresh air after countless, god-awful pandemic-era home recordings, it helps us better to appreciate his wisdom. Thank you both.

Insights at the Edge is a regular podcast for me. Tami is very prepared for her interviews. Her guests have a wide range of expertise and she approaches her conversation with an authentic, open and curious manner. She strives to understand the perspective and knowledge of the guest which is helpful to the listener who is new to the topic. There is always an opportunity to learn something new and grow.

I was looking for a podcast to learn more about Dr. Schwartz’s new book “no bad parts.” dr. Schwartz was amazing, super informative, calm and vulnerable - just amazing in every way. And I loved hearing about the new book. But Tami Simon interviewed him like she just caught him selling cocaine to a 12 year old. Her tone was so adversarial that her questions felt like she just wanted to blow on our eyeballs. There must be a serial killer somewhere that she could be more comfortable interviewing. Yeah she was just horrible. Dr. Schwartz handled everything beautifully of course

The guests have the deepest, most fascinating insights to share. Tami is hands down the best interviewer on the planet. I feel so blessed to be able to listen in on these conversations. My wildest dream is to take a year long sabbatical and live among Tami and her guests, immersing myself in their worlds. My next best dream is my reality: to listen to every podcast and try to implement something I learn each time. Sounds True is a gift to humanity.

I enjoy some of the interviews, but the show notes always only give the first name of the guest, and I find this disrespectful to the guest. Sometimes the guest is promoting a book, or people might want to look for their website. This is not just a one-time oversight, it seems to be how they’ve chosen to write the notes. On the other hand, the host’s full name is always given.

This podcast is a reliable resource for the exploration of what matters most navigating our life in these changing times. Exceptional. Highly recommended

Tami, I've listened to a quite a few Sounds True podcasts over the past two years as I've been going through a very simliar experience as Matt Kahn explains in The Art Of Holding Space. In this episode he echoes everything I've come to believe is most essential to humanity right now on an interpersonal level. And even more in this episode than some others I've listened to, you are so present, so engaged, and so honest & humorous from a very personal place, and that made the episode really resonate on an emotiopnal level. It drew me right in and touched me in a deeper place. I thank you for what you do with Sounds True - you, through this platform - are holding the space for all of us to listen dynamically and ask the deeper questions we need to answer for ourselves to take us another step on our journey of awareness and healing.

Variety of topics and guests to help us improve our lives and understanding true meaning of what we are here for Thank you!

I’m am so grateful for your podcasts, Tami! You choose such timely topics with guests who offer so much insights and knowledge that I can’t wait to receive your email for the next interview.You offer such enthusiasm and in-depth questions in your interview that it misled me want to read the books written. Looking forward to next week’s interview. Thank you!

Very interesting, truly enjoyed listening to the interview with Michael Singer, author of Living Untethered - much food for thought!

I love Sounds True and all the work they’re doing. I do believe that Tami’s interviewing style regularly crosses the boundary from assertive to aggressive. The guests, many of whom I’ve listened to on other podcasts, can seem shaken and lose confidence. For me, it does not add value and feels discordant with the spiritual messaging of the podcast.

I’ve LOVED your conversations with Deb Dana. As a therapist in an all-male prison, I appreciate conversations being had surrounding the nervous system. I work with a population of dysregulated nervous systems and I love learning all I can on how to help my clients. Took soooooo many notes. Thank you for creating these conversations.

Dear Tami, Thank you for knowing how to ask interesting people the most interesting questions. Thank you for your open mind. I especially appreciate that your open mind includes openness to skepticism. Thank you for accompanying me on many walks especially throughout the pandemic. Walking in the woods and listening to an episode of Sounds True has become my favorite spiritual practice.