Podcast 1255: Dancing on Coals: Cynthia Moore’s Memoir of Healing, Trauma, and Transformation
Update: 2025-09-09
Description
In this episode of Inside Personal Growth, host Greg Voisen sits down with award-winning playwright, performer, and psychotherapist Cynthia Moore to discuss her powerful memoir, Dancing on Coals: A Memoir of an Overperformer. Cynthia shares her extraordinary journey from being sent away to a Swiss finishing school at age 11, through the intensity of avant-garde theater in the Bay Area, to finding her true calling as a therapist weaving together spirituality, trauma healing, and authenticity.
Her story explores the hunger for external validation, the cost of overperformance, and the profound liberation that comes with turning inward. Listeners will be inspired by her candid reflections on motherhood, marriage, forgiveness, and the spiritual practices that helped her transform pain into peace.
🌱 What Listeners Can Learn
-How childhood trauma can serve as a doorway to spiritual awakening.
-The hidden costs of overperforming and seeking external validation.
-Why embracing emptiness and “enoughness” leads to deeper fulfillment.
-Practical insights from Cynthia’s Buddhist practice and psychotherapy work.
-How to reconcile creativity, ambition, and authenticity in your own life.
Our Guest, Cynthia Moore:
➥ Book: Dancing on Coals: A Memoir of an Overperformer
➥ Buy Now: https://a.co/d/gWxKIek
➥https://www.cynthiamoorewrites.com/books
Learn more about your Inside Personal Growth host, Greg Voisen:
➥ https://gregvoisen.com
➡️Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insidepersonalgrowth/
➡️Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InsidePersonalGrowth/
➡️LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregvoisen/
➡️Twitter/ X: https://twitter.com/lvoisen/
Her story explores the hunger for external validation, the cost of overperformance, and the profound liberation that comes with turning inward. Listeners will be inspired by her candid reflections on motherhood, marriage, forgiveness, and the spiritual practices that helped her transform pain into peace.
🌱 What Listeners Can Learn
-How childhood trauma can serve as a doorway to spiritual awakening.
-The hidden costs of overperforming and seeking external validation.
-Why embracing emptiness and “enoughness” leads to deeper fulfillment.
-Practical insights from Cynthia’s Buddhist practice and psychotherapy work.
-How to reconcile creativity, ambition, and authenticity in your own life.
Our Guest, Cynthia Moore:
➥ Book: Dancing on Coals: A Memoir of an Overperformer
➥ Buy Now: https://a.co/d/gWxKIek
➥https://www.cynthiamoorewrites.com/books
Learn more about your Inside Personal Growth host, Greg Voisen:
➥ https://gregvoisen.com
➡️Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insidepersonalgrowth/
➡️Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InsidePersonalGrowth/
➡️LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregvoisen/
➡️Twitter/ X: https://twitter.com/lvoisen/
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