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spiritual wanderlust
PODCAST

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

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.

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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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Podcast Videos

with Interplay co-founder Cynthia Winton-Henry
PLAY: the Secret to Letting Go

With Interplay co-founder Cynthia Winton-Henry

Join us for an inspiring, embodied conversation with Interplay co-founder Cynthia Winton-Henry as she shares how movement, play, and spontaneity awaken the body’s innate wisdom.

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

With Bonnie Badenoch

Have you ever encountered someone whose depth of presence stops you in your tracks and invites you into a deeper listening?

Have you ever wondered what Celtic spirituality is, exactly?
What is Celtic Spirituality?

With Kelly Deutsch

Have you ever wondered what Celtic spirituality really is—and why it continues to captivate seekers today?

Birthing the Holy
Birthing the Holy

With Christine Valters Paintner

In the hush of Advent—darkness and winter in the northern hemisphere—we are invited to curl up, slow down, and wait by the hearth, attentive to the new life stirring quietly within the dark.

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 & Karl Thienes

In this special turn-the-tables episode, guest host Karl Thienes puts Kelly in the hot seat for a candid conversation about the mysteries of the interior life.

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

Avid writers, teachers, interspiritual pioneers, activists, and hermits, they offer a rare depth of wisdom shaped and refined in the crucible of silence.

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

We can’t imagine a more meaningful way to open the season than with a rich, reflective conversation with contemplative teacher Carl McColman.

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 profound deep dive as Father Adam Bucko shares a life-spanning journey—from oppressed Poland to an undocumented life in the U.S.

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 meet in the same deep listening, inviting us into an immersive attentiveness where presence opens us fully to reality.

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