Beyond Names: Spirituality for Anyone and Everyone
This is a podcast for seekers, skeptics, believers, and the spiritually curious — for anyone who longs for deeper meaning, connection, and peace, whether you're rooted in a tradition or not.
Drawing from his own journey — from conservative Christianity to Islamic mysticism, through loss, healing, and awakening — Dr. Habib explores the sacred beyond doctrine and the Divine beyond names. Through soulful reflections, honest storytelling, and conversations with guests from diverse backgrounds, we open up the many ways spirituality shows up in our lives — in art, nature, social justice, relationships, and everyday experiences.
Each episode is an invitation to return to your True Self, to reconnect with Source however you understand it, and to grow in compassion, clarity, and courage. You’ll also be guided through accessible spiritual practices to help you deepen your own journey — wherever you're starting from.
If you’ve ever felt like you didn’t quite fit in traditional spiritual spaces, or if you’re simply looking for a space of heart-centered exploration — you’re in the right place.
Let’s go beyond the names — and listen for the truth that speaks to us all.
To make an spiritual counseling appointment with Dr. Habib, visit https://www.habibboerger.com/.
Episodes
46 episodes
How to Heal Your Grief: Thomas Attig on Loss, Meaning, & Relearning Life
In this deeply moving conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger sits down with philosopher and grief scholar Dr. Thomas Attig to explore grief not as something to “get over,” but as an invitation into deeper humanity, meaning, and connection.Drawi...
Everything Is a Conversation with God: Breathwork, Love, and Awakening with Dr. Colleen Quinn
In this deeply expansive and intimate conversation, Dr. Habib Boerger sits with psychologist, mystic breathwork practitioner, and author Dr. Colleen Quinn to explore the transformative power of breath, love, and spiritual awakening.Colle...
From Wounding to Wholeness — Embodied Islam, Healing, and the Path of Rahmah with Dr. Rose Aslan
In this deeply honest and expansive conversation, Dr. Habib Boerger is joined by Dr. Rose Aslan—community healing practitioner, former professor, and guide in somatics, breathwork, and embodied spirituality. Together, they explore the powerful ...
The Repetition of War & the Call to Consciousness
In this powerful and timely conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger is joined by returning guest Abdul-Karim Pinckney—musical artist, former imam, and spiritual thinker—to explore the deeper meaning behind his unreleased single, “Here We Go Again.”...
Put Love First: Transforming Conflict into Connection
In this deeply insightful conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger sits down with psychotherapist and relationship expert Ray Rivers to explore what it truly means to put love first—not as a feeling, but as a way of being.Drawing from de...
From Separation to Unity: Spiritual Awakening, Truth & What Is Ours to Do with Cathy Antunes
What happens when a single moment reveals the truth of reality—and changes everything? In this deeply moving and wide-ranging conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger sits down with radio host Cathy Antunes to explore a profound spiritual awakening that...
You Ain’t Gotta Believe Me: Faith, Freedom, and the Courage to Choose
In this episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habīb Boerger is joined once again by musical artist, former imam, and spiritual thinker Abdul-Karim Pinckney for a powerful conversation centered on his new single, “You Ain’t Gotta Believe Me.”
A Practice for Peace: Prayer, Breath, and the Light of the Heart
In times of violence, hatred, and deep collective pain, many of us are asking the same question: How do we stay rooted in peace without turning away from the suffering of the world?In this special episode, Dr. Habīb offers somet...
Secular Chaplaincy & Spiritual Seeking: Finding the Sacred Everywhere
What happens when our spiritual experience expands beyond what we’ve been taught about religion?In this episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habīb Boerger speaks with actor, writer, and secular chaplain Elizabeth Morton about the lifelo...
The Inner Struggle to Do the Right Thing — A Conversation with Dr. Jihad Turk
In this powerful and deeply personal conversation, Dr. Habib Boerger sits down with Dr. Jihad Turk, founding president of Bayan Islamic graduate school, to explore the beauty of religion when it is lived with depth, discipline, and love....
With Hardship Comes Ease – Illness, Surrender & the Return to Oneness
In this deeply moving conversation, Dr. Habib sits with interfaith minister and author Liza Rankow, whose book Soul Medicine for a Fractured World explores the healing that emerges from our deepest fractures.Together they reflec...
Living in These Lands: Staying True to God in a World of Noise
What does it mean to remain faithful while navigating injustice, distraction, social pressure, and the constant pull of the ego?In this powerful episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habib Boerger sits down with returning guest Abdul-Kar...
Nothing Between You and Love: Zen Wisdom for Troubled Times
Dr. Habib sits down with Zen teacher, author, and spiritual director Busshō Lahn for a deeply timely conversation about awakening, truth, and what it means to live from love in a world marked by suffering.Raised within the Catholic tradi...
Belovedness, Unbinding, and the Thread That Holds Us: A Soulful Conversation with Susannah Crolius
In this deeply moving conversation, Dr. Habib Boerger is joined by artist, spiritual companion, and grief tender Susannah Crolius for a wide-ranging exploration of spirituality as movement, unbinding, and belovedness.Susannah shares her ...
All Life, Embodied Faith, and the Decolonization of Spirit | Rev. Dr. Tomeka Jacobs
In this powerful and deeply moving conversation, Dr. Habib Boerger is joined by Rev. Dr. Tomeka Jacobs, theologian, former chaplain, and author of Ecocosmological Spirituality of Southern Queer Black Women: Remembering and Reconnecting Iden...
Sonic Theology: Sufism, Sound, and the Remembrance That Heals
In this deeply moving and contemplative conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger is joined by Hossam Ibn Yusuf, musician, Sufi practitioner, and spiritual seeker whose life has been shaped by sound, nature, and surrender.Hossam shares his remarka...
Breaking the Tomb: A Journey into Love, Integration, and Social Justice
In this deeply moving episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habib Boerger is joined by Abdullah Pat Aylward—board chair of the Shadhiliyya Sufi Communities and founding leader of the Sufi Center Minnesota—for a wide-ranging and heartfelt conver...
Everything but Nothing: Creativity, the Body, and Returning to the True Self
In this deeply moving conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger is joined by spiritual healer and artist Michele Hamida Rabinowitz for a rich exploration of spirituality lived through the body, creativity, and presence.Michele shares her life stor...
A Heart That Can Break: Dr. Sabrina N’Diaye on Spiritual Memoir, Mothering Souls, and the Healing Power of Love
In this deeply moving episode of Beyond Names, Dr. Habib Boerger is joined by Dr. Sabrina N’Diaye—therapist, teacher, author, peacebuilder, and founder of the HeartNest Center for Peace and Healing—for a wide-ranging conversation on sp...
From Anxiety to Integration: Healing the Nervous System through Heart, Body, and Spirit
In this deeply honest and compassionate conversation, Dr. Habib Boerger is joined by writer, speaker, and professor Dr. Alane Daugherty to explore the lived intersection of spirituality, somatic awareness, trauma healing, and emotional resilien...
Mercy, Oneness, and the Inner Path: A Conversation with Dr. Rosina Fawzia Al-Rawi
In this luminous episode, Dr. Habib sits down with renowned Sufi teacher and author Dr. Rosina Fawzia Al-Rawi for a conversation that moves from the streets of Cairo to the heart of Jerusalem, from the inner meaning of la ilaha illallah
Embracing Our Full Humanity: Nina Lau-Branson on Freedom in our Relationship to Ourselves and to the Divine
Dr. Habīb welcomes spiritual director and emotional-integration practitioner Nina Lau-Branson for a deeply compassionate exploration of the inner life. Nina shares her powerful spiritual story — from growing up in a Chinese immigrant family, to...
Everything Is Love: Healing Fear, Food, and the Feminine with Debra Mastura Graugnard
In this powerful and deeply human conversation, Dr. Habīb Boerger is joined by healer, teacher, and author Debra Mastura Graugnard for a journey into awakening, embodiment, and healing the sacred feminine. Debra shares her extraordinary spiritu...
Art as a Path Home: Healing, Unity, and Spiritual Creativity with Cindy Libman
In this rich and heartfelt conversation, Dr. Habib sits down with psychotherapist-turned-spiritual-healer and painter Yasmine Rahmana Cindy Libman to explore the transformative power of creativity. Cindy shares her journey from lifelong anxiety...
The Unbroken Chain: Discovering Equanimity and Spiritual Lineage with Margaret Cullen
What happens when a meditation retreat unveils a hidden ancestral truth—and transforms how we understand peace itself? In this intimate conversation, Dr. Habib welcomes psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and author Margaret Cullen, whose upco...