Writer, Psychologist and Family Nurse Practitioner
EPISODE #77
It is natural and fundamental for living beings to want to be happy, healthy, and free from suffering. Life would not have persisted for nearly four billion years were living things not motivated to, and reasonably good at, seeking favorable circumstances and avoiding unfavorable ones.
It seems human aspirations are doomed to be awkwardly incompatible with the vicissitudes of life. Indeed, in most if not all of us, there is an undercurrent of dis-ease, a fear about what is to come, that the moment of something terrible happening might be in our future, and not just someone else's whom we read about in the news. So, what to do?
If we can detach from that belief that our wishes are more important than reality, we can begin to find real peace. ~ by Josh Sandeman
This episode is about conscious awareness, transformation, freedom, and thoughts in between and my guest is Josh Sandeman.
Josh is a Family Nurse Practitioner working in an underserved population in Oregon. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990 with a degree in American Civilization and Psychology. He then worked as a programmer/analyst and research assistant in Penn's Addiction Treatment Research Center for five years before enrolling in a doctoral program in theoretical neuroscience. For ten years, Josh also worked in Silicon Valley as a software engineer, before switching to medicine, a childhood interest of mine. He is married with two young sons and an avid long-distance runner, and do science as a hobby.
