Media
Here’s a chance to go deeper into some of the topics that may come up in our work together.
Portal to the Soul Symposium on Gnostic TV
Chop Wood, Carry Water:
Hope Miller on Integrating Spiritual Practice Into Everyday Life
Are you looking to bring more presence, meaning and understanding into your daily life? In this video, I explore how to do just that.
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You’ve heard the saying, ‘Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.’ But how do we actually live that truth?
In this episode, Hope Miller explores how to stay connected to our spiritual practice while navigating the responsibilities of everyday life. Through simple, accessible practices, she shares ways to integrate the sacred into the mundane—so awareness doesn’t live only in special moments, but in how we show up day to day. This conversation is an invitation to bring presence, meaning, and gentle self-understanding into ordinary life.
A certified Gestalt coach, Hope Miller helps people integrate confusing, profound, and everyday life experiences so they don’t stay fragmented or unresolved. Her work supports deeper awareness, emotional coherence, and embodied understanding—bridging the mystical and the mundane so insight becomes lived wisdom. Hope’s approach to integration helps people find meaning in what they’ve been through, allowing clarity, connection, and self-trust to naturally emerge.
In this episode, Hope Miller explores the nuanced terrain between spiritual emergence and psychosis, offering grounded guidance on how to remain curious, calm, and supported during periods of profound inner change. She shares practical considerations for navigating the sometimes-stormy process of integration with steadiness and self-trust.
Hope is a certified Gestalt coach and integration guide who helps individuals make sense of confusing, profound, or challenging experiences. Her work supports people in metabolizing both the extraordinary and the everyday—so they can live with greater awareness, coherence, and authentic connection. Through grounded presence and reflective inquiry, Hope creates space for insight to become integration—and for experience to become embodied understanding.
Medicine Garden Symposium on Gnostic TV
Spiritual Emergence vs Psychosis: Hope Miller on Plant Medicine Integration, Discernment, and Steady Support
Stan Grof defines spiritual emergence as “the movement of an individual toward a more expanded way of being.” He also shares that “the potential for spiritual emergence is an innate characteristic of human beings.”
Finding yourself opening up in new and different ways can happen as we encounter non-ordinary states of consciousness. In this video, I share a personal story and offer a framework for understanding and interpreting this type of experience.
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When we sit with plant medicine, we enter into relationship with another form of consciousness. At times, this interaction can catalyze what is known as spiritual emergence — the sudden unfolding of an expanded state of awareness. But how do we discern awakening from overwhelm? Insight from instability?
In this episode, Hope Miller explores the nuanced terrain between spiritual emergence and psychosis, offering grounded guidance on how to remain curious, calm, and supported during periods of profound inner change. She shares practical considerations for navigating the sometimes-stormy process of integration with steadiness and self-trust.
Hope is a certified Gestalt coach and integration guide who helps individuals make sense of confusing, profound, or challenging experiences. Her work supports people in metabolizing both the extraordinary and the everyday—so they can live with greater awareness, coherence, and authentic connection. Through grounded presence and reflective inquiry, Hope creates space for insight to become integration—and for experience to become embodied understanding.
The Real Healing Institute Podcast with Michelle Sinclair
What Comes After the Insight
with Hope Miller
Dive even deeper into the topics above, in conversation between me and Michelle Sinclair, a certified hypnotherapist and intuitive guide. In this 30 minute conversation, we offer an overview of the two videos above.
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Michelle and Hope discuss integration and self awareness in this informative talk. Hope has been a part of several recent symposiums and shares her insight, talent, and skills with the audience in this light-hearted discussion.