In the News
Kirkus Review
“A compelling examination of the correlations between spirituality and mental health…[Miller] has spent much of her career addressing this dichotomy by evidencing a biological basis for spirituality. She interweaves stories of her own struggles with depression and infertility into her professional findings…Potent, profound, and accessible.”
Publishers Weekly
“In this insightful study…those interested in the interplay between spirituality and neuroscience will find much to consider.”
Booklist Review
“This book will give scientists much to consider about spirituality's health benefits as it provides evidence for what the deeply spiritual already intuit. Skeptics, too, should check it out.”
The Wall Street Journal:
"The Mental-Health Benefits of Spiritual Thinking"
Dr. Miller conducts brain scans of people as they’re thinking spiritual thoughts and analyzes large mental-health studies. Her research has found that spirituality helps protect us from depression and helps us become more resilient and make better decisions.
ABC News Live:
"Science Shows Spirituality helps to Awaken Your Brain"
Depression is an invitation for a deepening of spiritual awareness. Right now half of the United States is depressed. But we have what we need right inside of us: The Awakened Brain.
The New York Times:
Building Spiritual Capital
Ignoring spiritual development in the public square is like ignoring intellectual, physical or social development. It is to amputate people in a fundamental way, leading to more depression, drug abuse, alienation and misery.
Time:
Why Kids Who Believe in Something Are Happier and Healthier
Spirituality is more essential to thriving and success than ability to perform. Spiritual children have a sense of inner worth, a sense of the lasting, higher sacred self, much bigger than the day’s win or defeat.
New York Magazine:
Why Kids Need Spirituality
Even the most disbelieving parents can help build spiritual children, she says, simply by being available to and interested in the spiritual journey that naturally occurs in kids, and not quashing it with cynicism or anxiety or impatience. She calls this role “the spiritual ambassador.
Macleans Magazine:
God is the Answer, by Brian Bethune
Spirituality, if properly fostered in children’s formative years, will pay off in spades in adolescence. An intensely felt, transcendental sense of a relationship with God, the universe, nature or whatever the individual identifies as his or her “higher power,” she found, is more protective than any other factor against the big three adolescent dangers.
NBC On-Line:
Today.com
The most important thing we can do for our children is to support their natural spirituality. Adolescents with a strong spirituality are protected against depression, substance abuse and risk-taking, and are far more likely to have meaning, purpose and thrive.
The New York Times:
Merging Spirituality and Clinical Psychology at Columbia
We can grow healthy and move past suffering if we don’t simply look at ourselves as isolated but look at ourselves as part of the greater consciousness of love.
Huffington Post:
Envisioning Global Leadership: The New Ivy League
The intention behind this program [SMBI] is to contribute to the creation of a society with spiritual values. As human beings, we're not just billiard balls bumping into each other. We are all a part of this living, conscious Universe and how we affect each other is of ultimate importance.
Washington Post:
How Moms Set Children’s Spiritual Compass and Why It Matters
It’s less important which religious tradition you observe if your children hear you speak authentically about spirituality and your own relationship to the creator and you let them know the spiritual life is as real as the earth under our feet: We stand on it and we count on it.
Good Housekeeping:
10 Women Changing the Way We See the World
After 50, women develop a depth of wisdom — we are poised to ask questions that benefit society, and this can be seen through a scientific lens. It means we are better able to guide our families, lead at work, and offer something of true meaning to the world.
Watkins:
Meet Lisa Miller
Essentially spiritual parenting calls for inner life, conducted out loud. What does “out loud” sound like in my home? “Thank you for the sunshine, thank you for the children!” “Look at the little bird, ‘what say you, bird?’” These sacred moments get highlighted and shared, constantly.
KATU Northwest:
The Awakened Brain
NPR: Here & Now:
What Does It Mean To Raise A Spiritual Child?
Huffington Live (TV):
The Power Of Encouraging Your Child's Spirituality
NBC:
The Today Show
One World, hosted by Deepak Chopra:
Lisa Miller
