{"podcast":{"title":"Loving Everything","slug":"loving-everything-7095918","podcast_index_feed_id":7095918,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/479166/rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/love-everything","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/1/4/7/3/14738c6ee399aa0427a2322813b393ee/LE1_coverart.jpg","author":"Andrea Love","episode_count":71,"summary":"When it comes to healing trauma, the best medicine is love. A commitment to a way of thinking and behaving that honors interconnectedness, compassion and kindness. In Loving Everything, I invite you to experience intimacy as art. To awaken you to the opportunity for depth and intensity, and the visceral nature between these connections. To help inspire you to give the greatest gift to humanity by embracing your own suffering with the greatest of care, curiosity, consistency, and affection, in order to pursue your true destiny and incredible potential. To seek love deeply, expansively, and unconditionally, and to love everything you find. Find out more about Andrea Love, and her services here: https://andrea.love All production by Cody Maxwell. Artwork by Cody Maxwell. https://sharkfyn.com https://maxwellskitchenpodcast.com Opening graphic assets by arakelov and Envato Elements.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/loving-everything-7095918"},"episode":{"title":"EP61: When Law Contradicts Faith - Ethics, Religion, and Freedom","slug":"ep61-when-law-contradicts-faith-ethics-religion-and-freedom","published_at":"2025-12-20T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/loving-everything-7095918/ep61-when-law-contradicts-faith-ethics-religion-and-freedom","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/loving-everything-7095918","url":"https://0438819a-8b40-4615-9607-9800d88d4c35.libsyn.com/ep61-when-law-contradicts-faith-ethics-religion-and-freedom","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/0438819a-8b40-4615-9607-9800d88d4c35/E61_-_Alex_Podlinev_-_When_Law_Contradicts_Faith.mp3?dest-id=4073217","summary":"Aleksey Podlinov returns to explore the tension between religious obedience, personal truth, and the lived experience of spiritual transformation. Alex first shared the origins of his journey in Episode 40, The Gift of Self-Reliance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGmz-l0uSbQ&t=3s ), where he described how the sudden death of his father at 15 shattered his worldview and set him on a decades-long search for meaning through ancient Russian Christian writings, Greek and Egyptian spirituality, Hindu texts, and the lived realities of being a husband, father, and immigrant rebuilding identity in America. We explore how fear disguises itself as righteousness, how obedience shifts from rule-following to relationship, and how spiritual pride dissolves when life brings you to your knees. Alex reflects on sleep paralysis, mystical experiences, masculinity, migration grief, fatherhood, marriage, raising sons, and the uncomfortable truths revealed during his wife's surgery and recovery. He speaks openly about leaving religious radio after realizing critique without love becomes cruelty, and how he now challenges his tradition without contempt. This conversation is for women in midlife who are deconstructing inherited beliefs, healing family pain, confronting their own moral values, and searching for spiritual freedom beyond fear, dogma, or perfectionism. ✨ Subscribe for more content on trauma recovery, psychology, and personal growth. ___ Find out more about Andrea Love and her services here: andrea.love Find out more about The House of Healing & Love here: thehouseofhealing.love ___ All production by Cody Maxwell. sharkfyn.com Artwork by Heather Grace Gordy. Opening graphic assets by arakelov and Envato Elements.","meta_description":"Aleksey Podlinov returns to explore the tension between religious obedience, personal truth, and the lived experience of spiritual transformation. Alex fi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6215,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/loving-everything-7095918/episodes/ep61-when-law-contradicts-faith-ethics-religion-and-freedom/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/loving-everything-7095918/ep61-when-law-contradicts-faith-ethics-religion-and-freedom.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}