173: Voices of Courage with Ken D. Foster & guest Beatty Carmichael173: Voices of Courage with Ken D. Foster & guest Beatty Carmichael
UK Health Radio Podcast
Ken D. Foster talks with Beatty Carmichael about awakening inner peace through spiritual ‘release’ practices rather than relying on external fixes. They discuss anxiety, addiction recovery, trauma, and how daily letting go can ease fear and emotional pain.
44:02•20 Jun 2026
Outrageous Peace: Beatty Carmichael on Silencing Fear and Awakening Inner Calm
Episode Overview
- Peace is presented as something awakened from within, not created by perfect external circumstances.
- Health is framed as resting on three pillars – physical, mental and spiritual – with many issues tied to the often‑ignored spiritual side.
- Simple ‘release’ practices, including acknowledging and letting go of fear, guilt and bitterness, are described as key to easing anxiety and other symptoms.
- Environments and relationships, especially caustic or traumatic ones, are said to strongly influence emotional states and should be changed or limited where possible.
- Making release a daily habit is recommended so that painful emotions never take deep root and long‑term peace is more likely.
“Releasing a day keeps the peace intact.”
What can we learn from those who have battled addiction, anxiety and inner chaos? This conversation on UK Health Radio’s Voices of Courage zooms in on one central theme: peace that doesn’t depend on circumstances. Host Ken D. Foster chats with returning guest Beatty Carmichael, a business leader turned spiritual teacher and author of *Outrageous Peace*, *The Prayer of Freedom* and *The Prayer of Peace*.
Beatty shares how he moved from the corporate world into helping people who feel stuck in “anxiety, depression, just constant irritability” and how he now works with women in an addiction recovery centre, where he reports high success in easing panic, fear and even chronic pain. Rather than treating anxiety and relapse risk as life sentences, Beatty offers a different framework: a “third leg” of health – the spiritual side – alongside the physical and mental.
He explains how unhealed guilt, fear, bitterness and even careless phrases like “I could just die” may act like knots in that spiritual leg. Using simple release practices, he says those knots can be untied remarkably fast.
As he puts it, “Releasing a day keeps the peace intact.” The episode blends spiritual ideas from ancient texts with very down‑to‑earth stories: a man whose anxiety lifted in minutes, Beatty’s wife’s lifelong panic attacks easing, and women in recovery finding relief from the pull of past relationships. Ken adds his own experience of three decades of meditation, stressing the power of becoming the “observer” and letting go quickly, just as easily as dropping an object from your hand.
If you’re sober or cutting down and still feel that heavy emotional backpack on your shoulders, this chat offers practical tools, fresh language and plenty to reflect on. What might change for you if peace was something you awakened, rather than chased?
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