Dave Brisbin 3.9.25
Years ago, at the lowest point in my life, a friend invited me to her church, marking a return to Christianity after fifteen years away. First thing, I booked a lunch with the pastor, and halfway through, across my untouched plate, he said he saw “divine dissatisfaction” in me. Strange phrase. I didn’t see anything divine in my dissatisfaction or speed-questions, but then, there I was. Asking a pastor.

Years later, I looked it up. I’m pretty sure he didn’t know he was quoting a dancer. He was much more a football quoter. But Martha Graham said that artists have a divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest, that keeps them marching and more alive than others. Pastor saw that unrest in me. Though it didn’t feel divine or blessed, it certainly was motivating. Kept me marching, desiring, seeking, doubting. I doubted everything I’d ever been taught about spiritual life, which only made me desire it more.

Remember Doubting Thomas?

When the rest of the Twelve of Jesus’ inner circle said they had seen Jesus risen and alive, Thomas says he would not believe until he literally put his hands in Jesus’ wounds. That one line has made Thomas a meme for faithlessness for two thousand years and counting. But is that fair? Every one of Jesus’ friends doubted. None of them recognized him when they first saw him again, their doubting minds filtering out the possibility of the impossible until they had a personal experience that broke them through to new reality. Thomas was the only one honest about his doubt, bold enough to state it, and we’ve punished him for it.

All Thomas said was that he was dissatisfied with a second-hand report, hearsay. That only a personal experience could break him through to trust the impossible. Thomas is our hero, showing us doubt as a gift. It stokes us with the dissatisfaction we need to admit that even the Bible is a second-hand report. It points us toward our own personal experience, but it’s not the experience itself.

This Lent, can we see our doubt and dissatisfaction not as weakness, but a gift…a divine call past hearsay to a personal experience of the new life Easter represents?

The Gift of Doubt

In the Wilderness

ความปลอดภัยทางจิตวิทยา" (Psychological Safety) ปัจจุบันกลายเป็นคำที่พบได้ทั่วไปในองค์กรและการฝึกอบรมผู้นำ อย่างไรก็ตาม ความนิยมที่เพิ่มขึ้นนี้ก็มาพร้อมกับความเข้าใจผิดจำนวนมาก ซึ่งอาจทำให้การนำเอาไปใช้จริง เกิดความผิดพลาดตามมา เรามาดู 6 ความเข้าใจผิดที่พบบ่อย ว่ามีอะไรบ้าง

EP. 1321 สิ่งที่คนเข้าใจผิดเกี่ยวกับ ความปลอดภัยทางจิตวิทยา

The 639 Hz Solfeggio frequency is associated with openness, connection, and relationship healing. It's believed to promote harmony, understanding, and compassion in interpersonal relationships, whether with family, partners, friends, or social circles. This frequency is also linked to the heart chakra and can be used in sound therapy and meditation to foster inner peace and emotional well-being. 

639 Hz - Celestial Connections

639 Hz - Bonds Across the Cosmos

639 Hz - Awakening the Sacred Bond

639 Hz - Aligning the Universe Within

639 Hz - Balancing the Soul

A song I wrote for my brother and his Fiancee for their wedding. It is a song about letting go and trusting someone with your all your heart, and having a deep sense of trust with that person.

New Life

Jerry Rigg writes songs to document the places, people and moments he experiences encounters as he travels the UK and beyond. 

With little to no musical training or instruction, he relies heavily on intuition and feel to capture the feeling of his experiences. Over being precise, he likes to capture the feel of a song or melody.

In addition to his songwriting, Jerry Rigg has great passion for covering songs from his idols, such as the Doors, Buffalo Springfield, Paolo Nutini and more.

Praying With The Eyes is a ministry of Family of Christ Lutheran Church in Colorado Springs which combines the beauty of God's Word with the beauty of his creation.

Eternal Healing is a transformative music project dedicated to the power of sound as medicine. Focused on healing frequencies—such as 432 Hz, 528 Hz, and other solfeggio tones—Eternal Healing creates immersive soundscapes designed to restore balance, reduce stress, and promote emotional and spiritual well-being. Each track is carefully composed to tap into the natural rhythms of the body and mind, guiding listeners into states of deep relaxation, inner clarity, and energetic alignment. Whether used for meditation, sleep, yoga, or quiet reflection, Eternal Healing offers a sanctuary of sound where peace and renewal can be found.

This project is more than music—it's a sonic journey into the heart of healing.

Audio podcasts delivered at theeffect church in San Clemente, CA. theeffect is a community of imperfect people working together to find the emotional recovery and spiritual transformation that is theeffect of God’s love by unlearning limiting perceptions, beliefs, and compulsions, and engaging a first century Jesus in a non-religious and transforming way. See more at theeffect.org.

We deliver HR knowledge directly to your place.

True North with Dave Brisbin is a podcast about the things that can bring you back to center, whether God, spirituality, community or family or all of them. Never esoteric or abstract for its own sake; always practical and full of common sense, we’re interested in exploring the effect of what we believe on our lives and questioning what we believe in light of the deep connection we’re meant to live. Dave Brisbin is an author, speaker, coach, and songwriter. He is the teaching pastor of theeffect, a faith community and recovery ministry in San Clemente, CA and executive director of Encompass Recovery, an addiction treatment center in San Juan Capistrano. For more on finding deeper spiritual expression free from limiting beliefs and behavior, go to davebrisbin.com.

New tracks tagged #openness