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Catherine Duncan

At the age of 11, facing death opened me into a consciousness of God and life. I will help you open your heart and soul to what it means to feel fully alive.

Bestselling Author of Everyday Awakening
Integrative Spiritual Consultant
Podcast Host🎙️Everyday Awakening - We are Here to Awaken, Daily I am an Integrative Spiritual Consultant, Holistic Healer, Inspirational Speaker, and Blogger, committed to whole-person healing with a focus on emotional and spiritual health. As a childhood cancer survivor and having lived through a NDE, I am guided by both my professional and personal experiences. Connect with me and reconnect with yourself.

11/24/2025

I invite you to pause and turn inward: What is stirring inside you? What is your soul whispering?

We are all being guided. The real question is: How do you experience that guidance within yourself?

In this solo podcast episode, I share a full-circle moment that unfolded while helping my 97-year-old mother transition into a group home. Among her things, I discovered a cassette tape labeled "Catherine's Senior Assembly Speech." At 18, I stood in front of my school speaking about not taking life for granted and wisdom born from facing dying at age 11.

Listening back decades later, three messages still ring true: Life is here and now. Don't take this moment for granted. Being alive is a gift. These early truths shaped my path, even after a long detour through the corporate world, and eventually led me back to theology, chaplaincy, and the work I do today.

Click on the link below to listen to this episode:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/everyday-awakening/id1811913208?i=1000738054489

11/22/2025

Try this and notice how your day starts off on the right foot. Studies show that holding gratitude improves your physical, emotional, and spiritual health. This takes only a few minutes and it will positively set the tone for your whole day.

11/20/2025

Isn’t it curious how when we witness pain, discomfort, trauma, in another person, we feel it in our body? This is because our brains mirror what we are witnessing.

When we connect with another, we start with empathy. To prevent empathic distress, it is critical to move into compassion to more effectively help another and to protect our health and wellbeing.

Great conversation with Ben Rein, PhD on what empathy means. Check out Ben’s recently released book, Why Brains Need Friends, an inspiring and important read in this field. Thank you Ben for joining my podcast! Love your work!

11/19/2025

I recently found an old cassette tape of my high school senior speech. Even then, I spoke about not taking life for granted. After facing death at 11, something in me cracked open. I voraciously read books on meaning and spirituality, trying to understand what I had lived through - long before I had the language or the support to integrate it with a skilled therapist.

What held me at 11, and still holds me now, is opening into God - this universal, loving intelligence that met me when I needed it most.

Life isn’t waiting for us somewhere in the future. It’s here. It’s now.

How can you open into the preciousness of being alive today?

11/18/2025

Awakening isn’t some far-off destination or something only “special” people experience. It’s softening into yourself. A quiet moment when your breath deepens, your heart opens, and your mind slows down.

The truth is: this is available to every single one of us, right now.

You don’t have to go anywhere to awaken, you just have to return to yourself.

11/17/2025

What if I told you there was a way you can increase longevity as you age?

I recently spoke with Ben Rein, PhD, on the latest episode of Everyday Awakening, and together we explored how we can continually form new positive neural pathways throughout our lives. We discuss why connection and friendship matter, and the neuroscience that proves it.

Our bodies are actually rewarded when we're with others, while isolation triggers a stress response. Human connection doesn't just feel good, it reshapes our biology and helps us live longer.

Ben Rein, PdD is an award-winning neuroscientist and has published over 20 peer-reviewed papers studying the neuroscience of social behavior. He just released his new book - Why Brains Need Friends: The Neuroscience of Social Connection.

This was such a great conversation. If you're ready to heal, awaken, and deepen inwardly, this conversation is one to press play on.

Click the link below to hear this episode:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/everyday-awakening/id1811913208?i=1000736949427

11/15/2025

Wanted to share my take on what Dr. Lisa Miller said on the Mel Robbins Podcast.

She makes incredible points, and I wanted to take it one step further.

Let me know in the comments below if this resonates with you!

11/13/2025

Sometimes magic interrupts dinner. The other night, the sky asked us to step outside and remember we are alive.

We drove to the lake near our home and stood under the Northern Lights hovering over Minneapolis. Breath slowed. Hands found each other. Words were not necessary.

It is wild how beauty can arrive in the most ordinary moments.

May you find your own sky this week. Step outside, even for one breath. Let beauty find you.

If this resonates, share it with someone you love.

11/12/2025

Fun trip to LA to meet Dr. Christian Gonzalez and be on his incredible podcast, Heal Thy Self.

This was one of my favorite podcast conversations yet. We explored spirituality, healing, and what happens when we die.

I’ve witnessed time and time again that we can heal right up until our final moments. Our hearts crack open and we realize love is all that matters.

Thank you, Dr. G, for such an inspiring and soulful conversation.

✨ Listen to our talk - link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvODcjDLIgY&t=3211s

11/10/2025

Contentment is emotional freedom - no more chasing shiny objects, no longer ruled by the pull of “more.”

When you loosen your grip and embrace the life you have now, you naturally fall into your deeper calling.

Being at peace with where you are, right here and now, is true freedom.

Today’s episode of Everyday Awakening is with Seline Shenoy, founder of The Dream Catcher. Seline is an author, blogger, and podcaster whose work focuses on personal development, self-esteem, productivity and culture.

Seline’s new book, The Nomadic Soul: A Seeker’s Guide to Finding a Sense of Self and Belonging in the Modern World released this past year. Her online community, The Dream Catcher, connects and encourages thousands of readers and listeners every month from all over the world to live their dream lives and make a difference.

Delighted to meet Seline, streaming in from Dubai! Click this link to hear our conversation:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/everyday-awakening/id1811913208?i=1000735880841

11/07/2025

I recently found an old cassette of my senior high school speech from 1983—and heard my father’s voice for the first time in nineteen years. Time collapsed.

At 18, I stood at a wooden podium in front of my entire high school and said, “Life is no guarantee… we are blessed to be alive.”

Forty years later, that truth still lives in me. Every morning begins with thank you.

Life is fragile. Life is precious.

How do you want to live this day?

Click this link to read my blog:
https://www.catherineduncan.org/blog/taking-life-for-granted

11/05/2025

The guidance you’re searching for?

It’s already within.

Slow down and you will begin to hear it.

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