Lisa Miller
speaker
773 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 7 Jul
Lisa Miller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We still have to do the work and engage the journey, but at least two-thirds of the time, depression is not only a medical illness.
It is, in fact, more of a developmental process we might call a developmental depression.
that beckons us into a deepening and opening a growth.
When we look at longitudinal twin studies, we see that there is an increasing amount of heritable inborn contribution to spiritual awareness, starting with puberty, biological puberty from middle to late adolescence into emerging adulthood is a surge of biological clock from the inside out.
What is my purpose?
I mean ultimate purpose.
What is the meaning of life?
I mean sacred purpose.
In fact, the most important work we do in late adolescence, emerging adulthood, is to engage the ultimate questions and the hunger of the heart for spiritual connection.
Developmental depression beckons us.
It is a knock at the door to spiritual awakening.
Developmental depression comes back.
It is not only once that we are hardwired to suffer and then grow.
At midlife, we of course have cultural names, sophomore slump, midlife crisis.
At midlife, we again have an expansion in our spiritual capacity.
And in fact, long-term clinical course studies showed us that those people who were the most spiritually engaged at midlife actually hunger and struggle the most.
Because as our spiritual capacity once again grows at midlife, the more spiritually engaged we are, the more we feel the existential longing.
Perhaps no longer what is my meaning and purpose, but now am I living?
Am I walking the walk of my meaning and purpose?
The third developmental bridge is
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