Healing the Stories That Shape Us with Dr. Rick Diamond
What if the story you’ve been telling yourself isn’t who you are, and never was?
In this episode of Wild Enthusiasm for Living, I sit down with Dr. Rick Diamond for a rich, honest, and deeply moving conversation about story healing, spiritual awakening, and remembering who we are beneath the roles we’ve been assigned. Dr. Rick is a former English professor and minister turned story healer, and his work is rooted in the simple but radical idea that there is nothing wrong with you and that you are already whole.
We talk about how our identities are shaped by family, culture, religion, and early experiences, and how easily we begin to confuse those stories with our true selves. Dr. Rick shares his own winding journey into story healing and how he now works with people to gently question the beliefs that no longer fit, make space for intuition and inner wisdom, and reimagine what’s possible without forcing change.
This conversation explores what happens when we pause long enough to listen... to our bodies, our souls, our curiosity, and even the parts of us that feel lost or abandoned. We talk about play, permission, spiritual guidance in all its forms, and why transformation doesn’t have to be dramatic to be real. Sometimes it begins with a single question: what do I want instead?
Dr. Rick also shares stories from his retreats, his upcoming book, and the powerful way meaning-making happens when we sit with one another’s stories and realize we are not alone. If you’ve ever felt trapped by an old identity, afraid to change, or quietly curious about something more, this episode is an invitation to remember that your story is not fixed, and neither are you.
More About Dr. Rick Diamond:
www.drrickdiamond.com
Dr. Rick Diamond is a Story Healer. He helps people see what patterns and beliefs have led them to their present moment, and he helps them discover the path their deepest self wants to explore.
Rick was an award-winning college English teacher for a decade. He then had a series of spiritual experiences, attended seminary, and worked as a minister, eventually leading an innovative interfaith community in Austin, Texas. Rick has led thousands of classes in seminaries, universities, and churches. He’s created and led scores of retreats and events about open-heartedness, spiritual awakening, emotional intelligence, personal formation, and more. He helps organizations create strategies to realize their goals.
His worldview embraces both Western and Eastern religious traditions, myth and archetypes, and Indigenous and shamanic practices. He participates in therapy, recovery, men’s work, and in energy medicine and breathwork. Rick is the author of two books and hundreds of articles. He created the Story Healing process by bringing together spirituality, myth, art, literary theory, systems analysis, and the joy of awakening.
