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Welcome to Spiritual Wanderlust, the podcast exploring the wild, untamed frontiers of the interior life.

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In each episode, I talk with inspiring guests—contemplative teachers, embodiment experts, neuropsychologists, and mystics—about their spiritual practices, path to healing, and search for the divine.

I'm your host, Kelly Deutsch. As a former nun and neuroscience aficionado, I bring you 19 years of contemplative practice and curiosity

With a wily blend of ancient wisdom, scientific research, and outright mischief, we'll explore topics like divine intimacy, trauma, somatic tools, and how our vulnerability leads us to wholeness.

Launched in August 2021 as a live video podcast, it has already attracted tens of thousands of weekly listeners. Listen to our latest episodes below, and be sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode!

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Videos

with Interplay co-founder Cynthia Winton-Henry

PLAY: the Secret to Letting Go

with Interplay co-founder Cynthia Winton-Henry

Join us for a rich, embodied conversation with our very special guest today, Cynthia Winton-Henry. Cynthia is the co-founder of Interplay, a worldwide “movement” movement - a community of practice that uses dance and play and spontaneity to unlock the wisdom of the body.

Both avid writers, teachers, interspiritual pioneers, activists, and hermits–they share a depth of wisdom that is borne of silence.

Modern Day Merton

with Dave Denny

It’s not a stretch to say Dave Denny is what Thomas Merton would have looked like today, had he lived. Both avid writers, teachers, interspiritual pioneers, activists, and hermits–they share a depth of wisdom that is borne of silence.

Have you ever been struck by someone’s depth of presence?

The Neurobiology of Presence

with Bonnie Badenoch

Have you ever been struck by someone’s depth of presence? Like when you meet a wise, holy person. The depth of their presence overwhelms us, floods our body with their peace.

I can’t think of a better way to start the season than a conversation with contemplative teacher, Carl McColman.

The Buddha, Bible, and Gender - with Carl McColman

with Carl McColman

I can’t think of a better way to start the season than a conversation with contemplative teacher, Carl McColman.

Have you ever wondered what Celtic spirituality is, exactly?

What is Celtic Spirituality?

with Kelly Deutsch

Get ready for a real deep dive, ya’ll. From his childhood in oppressed Poland, to being an undocumented immigrant in the US, meeting Christ in India, and founding a new monastic community, Father Adam Bucko’s story has given him a razor-sharp vision into the meaning of life.

Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide

with Adam Bucko

Get ready for a real deep dive, ya’ll. From his childhood in oppressed Poland, to being an undocumented immigrant in the US, meeting Christ in India, and founding a new monastic community, Father Adam Bucko’s story has given him a razor-sharp vision into the meaning of life.

Birthing the Holy

Birthing the Holy

with Christine Valters Paintner

During this time of Advent - of darkness and winter in the northern hemisphere - our bodies are inclined to hibernate. We curl up by the hearth and wait, attentive to the life pregnant in the darkness.

Poetry and the Contemplative life share a lot in common. Both require an attentiveness to life, a depth of presence, a sort of immersion in reality.

The Poetic Imagination

with Kathy Henderson Staudt

Poetry and the Contemplative life share a lot in common. Both require an attentiveness to life, a depth of presence, a sort of immersion in reality.

In this episode, we turn the tables! Our guest host Karl Thienes puts Kelly in the hot seat to ask her all sorts of burning questions about interior life.

Mysticism & Longing - with Kelly Deutsch

with Kelly Deutsch & Karl Thienes

Our guest host Karl Thienes puts Kelly in the hot seat to ask her all sorts of burning questions about interior life.

I’m excited to introduce to you a little-known poet, whose work deserves wide attention. (I’ve been sharing her writing with all of my friends!)  She reminds me of a modern day Rumi or Hafiz. –And if you haven’t read Rumi or Hafiz, start there, and then pick up the work of our guest, Chelan Harkin!

A Female Rumi

with Chelan Harkin

I’m excited to introduce to you a little-known poet, whose work deserves wide attention. (I’ve been sharing her writing with all of my friends!) She reminds me of a modern day Rumi or Hafiz. –And if you haven’t read Rumi or Hafiz, start there, and then pick up the work of our guest, Chelan Harkin!

What do the mystics mean by “divine union”? Why is suffering such a big deal for them - and what role does it play in our contemplative path?

The infinite is inside of us

with Ronald Rolheiser

What do the mystics mean by “divine union”? Why is suffering such a big deal for them - and what role does it play in our contemplative path?

In this episode, host Kelly Deutsch shares frankly about her difficulty accepting her chronic illness, while returning guest Karl Thienes shares his momentary identity crisis.

Loving Acceptance of our Helplessness

wtih Karl Thienes

In this episode, host Kelly Deutsch shares frankly about her difficulty accepting her chronic illness, while returning guest Karl Thienes shares his momentary identity crisis.

Today I have joined a unique guest who has spent much of his life as a hermit, and is now in charge of the cause for canonization of a Russian mystic.

The Making of a Saint - with Fr. Bob Wild

with Fr. Bob Wild

Today I have joined a unique guest who has spent much of his life as a hermit, and is now in charge of the cause for canonization of a Russian mystic.

I bet you haven’t heard of Catherine de Hueck Doherty. But she was one of Thomas Merton’s mentors! She’s this Russian spitfire with a life that reads like a movie.

Revealed: Little Known Russian Mystic

Here are 4 reasons why you need to know Catherine!

I bet you haven’t heard of Catherine de Hueck Doherty.

If I have a spacious and spritely spirituality, Dr. Regis Martin is partially to thank. He was my first ever theology professor, and he opened my eyes to this magical universe so alight with wonder.

Glimmers: Finding the Divine in Everything with Regis Martin

with Regis Martin

If I have a spacious and spritely spirituality, Dr. Regis Martin is partially to thank. He was my first ever theology professor, and he opened my eyes to this magical universe so alight with wonder.

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