The Jōrni Podcast

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By: Petra Brunnbauer

A podcast about challenging narratives around health, healing, and wellbeing, and rethinking what thriving looks like in today’s world. Real talk about becoming human and the messy journey of figuring it all out. 

Episode 375 - Energy Psychology with Mary Sise
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April 7, 2026
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Episode 375 - Energy Psychology with Mary Sise

Many of us learned early on to hold it together and keep going, even when something inside shut down. Those early survival responses can follow us into adulthood, shaping our reactions, our relationships, and the way we deal with everyday pressures.

We discuss how these patterns form and what it takes to shift them at the level where they were created. As the nervous system heals, we often experience ourselves differently in our bodies, in our choices, and in h...


HYPNOTIKA Part 1 - The Myths of Hypnosis with Craig Meriwether
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April 6, 2026
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HYPNOTIKA Part 1 - The Myths of Hypnosis with Craig Meriwether

In this first part of the HYPNOTIKA series, we explore some of the most common myths and misunderstandings surrounding hypnosis. We explain what hypnosis truly is and reveal why this powerful therapeutic tool has helped thousands of people heal anxiety, trauma, and limiting beliefs.

Coming from a grounded, science-based understanding of how hypnosis actually works, we highlight why it is far more practical and safe than we might assume. Usually last on a long list of c...


Episode 374 - Mind-Body Medicine with Dr. Helané Wahbeh
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Last Friday at 4:00 AM

April 3, 2026
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Episode 374 - Mind-Body Medicine with Dr. Helané Wahbeh

Healing involves more than managing symptoms and invites us to recognize what may interfere with our innate capacity to restore balance. When we include consciousness, intention, and physiology within the same frame, chronic illness is understood through a multidimensional lens that reflects the complexity of lived experience.

We consider how attention shapes experience, how intention produces measurable effects, and how recurring symptoms may connect to deeper mental, emotional, or energetic patterns. From this perspective, healing expands into a pr...


Episode 373 - Brainspotting with Dr. David Grand
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03/31/2026

March 31, 2026
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Episode 373 - Brainspotting with Dr. David Grand

What if the direction of your gaze could shift what you feel and open access to experiences that words alone cannot reach? A subtle change in eye position becomes a doorway into deeper layers of the nervous system, pointing to healing processes that do not rely on analysis or explanation.

We explore why certainty in therapy can be limiting, how our internal systems guide the work, and what happens when the thinking mind is no longer in charge. If y...


Episode 372 - Living Beyond Survival with Lynda Samphire
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03/27/2026

March 27, 2026
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Episode 372 - Living Beyond Survival with Lynda Samphire

This episode contains adult subject matter and some listeners may be triggered by this content. Listener discretion is advised.

Living beyond survival starts with noticing how the body expresses our experiences in sleep, dreams, and daily patterns. And the nervous system survival responses formed early in our lives continue to shape what safety, connection, and trust feel like as adults.

In our sleep and dreams, these patterns often become most visible and create a profound opening f...


Episode 371 - Transforming from Within with Angélica Fuentes
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03/24/2026

March 24, 2026
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Episode 371 - Transforming from Within with Angélica Fuentes

Wellness gets treated like a luxury we will invest in later, once we have more time or money or space in our lives. We wait for circumstances to change while running on beliefs about our worth that were installed decades ago and never updated.

The transformation we are chasing doesn't require more resources or better timing. It requires reconnecting with something that is already there, something we forgot how to access because we've been too busy looking ev...


Episode 370 - Relearn Love with Eri Kardos
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03/20/2026

March 20, 2026
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Episode 370 - Relearn Love with Eri Kardos

We spend years optimizing our careers, our health routines, our productivity systems, while our relationships quietly determine whether any of it actually matters. The version of love we learned before we could tie our shoes is still running the show, and most of us never thought to question whether it's the only version available.

ERI KARDOS

Eri Kardos is the founder and lead coach of Relearn Love, LLC.

In addition to being a T...


Episode 369 - Shine from the Inside with Angie Hawkins
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03/17/2026

March 17, 2026
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Episode 369 - Shine from the Inside with Angie Hawkins

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We can achieve everything on paper, look successful from the outside, and still feel empty inside. The validation we chase gives us gratification and a hit that may last for a little while, before we are right back to searching for the next thing that will finally make us feel worthy.

We might spend our lives l...


Episode 368 - Overcoming Fear and Anxiety with Hypnotherapy with Craig Meriwether
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03/13/2026

March 13, 2026
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Episode 368 - Overcoming Fear and Anxiety with Hypnotherapy with Craig Meriwether

The same part of our mind that heals a paper cut without us thinking about it is also running protection programs we might not need anymore. Most of us have no idea how much power is accessible in our subconscious intelligence, or that we can work with it directly.

When we bypass the conscious mind and go straight to where these programs live in the subconscious, a whole new world of healing can open up. A...


Episode 367 - The Missing Links of Healing with Erin Cutrone
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03/10/2026

March 10, 2026
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Episode 367 - The Missing Links of Healing with Erin Cutrone

We can process our trauma and do all the healing and therapeutic work. Years might pass with us feeling stable and fine, until something shifts and suddenly old wounds start reopening in new ways.

Our bodies might need genuine safety before they can release what has been stored. When we find that safety, what rises up can feel like falling apart when it might actually be the body doing the deeper healing work it could not r...


Episode 366 - The 7 Pillars of Health with Dr. Donese Worden
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03/06/2026

March 6, 2026
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Episode 366 - The 7 Pillars of Health with Dr. Donese Worden

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The best checkup you can have might actually be the one you give yourself. Labs can be inaccurate, supplements are often contaminated, and spending thousands on tests might not tell you what a simple honest assessment of your own life already can.

Trusting our own innate observations moves us from passive recipients to active participants i...


Episode 365 - Multi-Dimensional Intelligence with Dr. Carol Talbot
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03/03/2026

March 3, 2026
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Episode 365 - Multi-Dimensional Intelligence with Dr. Carol Talbot

We have been conditioned to believe there are hard limits to what our bodies and minds can do. Every sound we hear, every piece of food we eat, every belief we inherit about what is possible has been shaping our DNA and our reality.

The version of ourselves we are living right now might be operating at a fraction of our actual capacity. Capabilities might sit dormant in us that we have been taught to ignore, and finding t...


Episode 364 - Healing from Chronic Pain with Nora Rodden
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02/27/2026

February 27, 2026
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Episode 364 - Healing from Chronic Pain with Nora Rodden

Many of us with chronic pain have tried everything and spent years searching for what is wrong. At some point, we may be inclined to accept that this might just be how life is now.

Often, the pain is coming from somewhere we would never even think to look, somewhere that does not show up on any scan or test. Maybe it really is all in our heads, just not in the way we have been made t...


Episode 363 - Building REAL Confidence with Simone Knego
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02/24/2026

February 24, 2026
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Episode 363 - Building REAL Confidence with Simone Knego

We can try career after career and still feel like something is missing. Accomplishing things and checking boxes does not always fill the void, and sometimes the connection between what happened years ago and why we struggle now isn’t always very obvious.

The voice that whispers we are not good enough shows up for many of us, and it can feel like some people were just born with confidence we will never have. What if confidence is not...


Episode 362 - Reversing Aging with Richard Gordon
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02/20/2026

February 20, 2026
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Episode 362 - Reversing Aging with Richard Gordon

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Bones moving into alignment in seconds without force or manipulation. Bunions straightening out in minutes. These things sound impossible until we see them happen, and then we have to reconsider what we thought we knew about healing.

We might believe we need experts to fix us, but what if our bodies already know exactly what to do? The c...


Episode 361 - Regulating the Nervous System with Kiara Armstrong
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02/17/2026

February 17, 2026
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Episode 361 - Regulating the Nervous System with Kiara Armstrong

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Trying to find relief for years while nothing seems to help can break us down. When the treatments keep failing, we start to wonder if there is something fundamental being missed about what is actually wrong.

Something most of us are not getting enough of in our daily lives might be exactly what our nervous systems n...


Episode 360 - Working with Impossible Conditions with Matt Johnson
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02/13/2026

February 13, 2026
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Episode 360 - Working with Impossible Conditions with Matt Johnson

Being told there is nothing more that can be done can feel like a door closing. Many of us stop there, accept it as the final word, and settle into whatever limitation we have been handed.

We can be making real progress and still have symptoms that will not resolve. The root cause might be operating in the subconscious mind outside our awareness, and finding it might be the missing piece in our healing journey.


Episode 359 - The Power of Choice with Martyn Williams
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02/10/2026

February 10, 2026
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Episode 359 - The Power of Choice with Martyn Williams

The next thing we are chasing might not be what we actually need. So much energy goes into getting somewhere better than where we are, and the moments we are running from might hold exactly what we have been searching for all along.

Sitting in traffic, dealing with a difficult day, feeling stuck in frustration, these moments can shift into something else entirely. Asking one simple question about the moment we are in can change everything about h...


Episode 358 - Regulate Your Emotions with Dr. Mitch Abrams
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02/06/2026

February 6, 2026
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Episode 358 - Regulate Your Emotions with Dr. Mitch Abrams

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We have been told our entire lives that anger is the emotion we need to eliminate, that feeling it at all means something is wrong with us, and that good people do not get angry. The shame we carry about this emotion is more profound than almost any other emotion, and that shame is exactly what keeps us t...


Episode 357 - Hormone Health with Dr. Nayan Patel
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02/03/2026

February 3, 2026
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Episode 357 - Hormone Health with Dr. Nayan Patel

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Why does talking about certain parts of our health still feel like something we need to whisper about in private, while we discuss heart disease and diabetes freely at dinner tables? We have been conditioned to believe that managing symptoms for the rest of our lives is the same thing as solving a problem, and somewhere along the way w...


Episode 356 - Growing up with Schizoid Personality Disorder with Blair Sorrel
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01/30/2026

January 30, 2026
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Episode 356 - Growing up with Schizoid Personality Disorder with Blair Sorrel

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What does it feel like to know something is profoundly wrong but have no language for the pain, to spend decades being told to just try harder when the very act of trying pushes you further into isolation? Some of us carry defenses formed so early in childhood that we mistake them for who we are, a...


Episode 355 - Connecting with Your Authenticity with Marcia Martin
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01/27/2026

January 27, 2026
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Episode 355 - Connecting with Your Authenticity with Marcia Martin

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We spend so much energy searching for the person or program or practice that will finally show us who we are, but what happens when the very thing promising transformation becomes the thing that pulls us furthest from ourselves? The patterns we develop in childhood about power, approval, and worthiness do not disappear when we enter spiritual or p...


Episode 354 - Rewiring Stress and Money Blocks with Michelle Masters
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01/23/2026

January 23, 2026
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Episode 354 - Rewiring Stress and Money Blocks with Michelle Masters

We can work ourselves into the ground and still feel like we are never quite safe. The anxiety about money can show up whether we have billions or barely enough, and the number itself might not be what needs fixing.

Old beliefs might be running automatically beneath what we think we want, and they sound like truth. They are patterns stored in parts of us we often have difficulty accessing, but there are ways to release t...


Episode 353 - Healing in the Heart of Nature with Aaron Poochigian
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01/20/2026

January 20, 2026
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Episode 353 - Healing in the Heart of Nature with Aaron Poochigian

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What do we reach for when the life we built stops working, when creativity vanishes and the world shrinks down to something unbearable? The path back from that edge can look nothing like we expect, and sometimes it starts with a commitment we make to ourselves about where we will show up and what we refuse t...


Episode 352 - The Flow State with Carolyn Litton
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01/16/2026

January 16, 2026
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Episode 352 - The Flow State with Carolyn Litton

Most of us work harder to get more done, but what if slowing down is what creates the real momentum? There is a state where things feel effortless, where we are moving with something rather than against it.

That magnetic pull toward what we actually want does not come from pushing. It comes from getting quiet enough to receive what is already trying to reach us, even when we might not quite be able to see how it w...


Episode 351 - Why Our Healing Systems Don’t Heal with Devin Scott
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01/13/2026

January 13, 2026
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Episode 351 - Why Our Healing Systems Don’t Heal with Devin Scott

Many of us know what it is like to work hard on ourselves and still feel disconnected or unsure why things are not improving. When we hear someone speak openly about dissociation, chronic stress, and the boundaries of talk-only approaches, it becomes easier to recognize parts of our own experience.

The body carries dissociation, tension, and old survival patterns long after the mind believes the story has been resolved. When we finally look at wha...


Episode 350 - The Healing Power of Slowing Down with Renee Blodgett
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01/09/2026

January 9, 2026
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Episode 350 - The Healing Power of Slowing Down with Renee Blodgett

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In this episode, we explore what happens when the pace of success begins to take more than it gives. Years of being “always on” in a world that rewards doing over being can slowly pull us away from meaning, connection, and the natural rhythms that keep us grounded. What follows is an awakening that often begins not i...


Episode 349 - Untangling the Mind with Dr. Lesley Kirkpatrick
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01/06/2026

January 6, 2026
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Episode 349 - Untangling the Mind with Dr. Lesley Kirkpatrick

When we experience stress and our emotions begin to rise, our minds can feel crowded and difficult to untangle. Understanding those patterns helps bring attention back to what is happening inside us and opens space to respond with more intention and compassion.

As technology evolves, digital support for mental health is becoming more personal and accessible. We explore how technology is profoundly changing the landscape of mental health care, opening possibilities that are transforming not only how w...


Episode 348 - Social Anxiety Meets Artificial Intelligence with Jamie Pastrano and Brittany Moser
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01/02/2026

January 2, 2026
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Episode 348 - Social Anxiety Meets Artificial Intelligence with Jamie Pastrano and Brittany Moser

For many neurodivergent adults, building connection can create anxiety and uneasiness. This episode explores how emerging technology is offering ways to make social interaction feel safer, easier, and more authentic.

JAMIE PASTRANO

As the mother of a son with autism, Jamie Pastrano has both personal and professional experience with autism, and has been navigating support services since his diagnosis at age two.

Professionally, Jamie received a Master o...


Episode 347 - Awakening into Your Highest Potential with Yasmina Ellins
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12/30/2025

December 30, 2025
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Episode 347 - Awakening into Your Highest Potential with Yasmina Ellins

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Transformation begins when we reconnect with the deeper layers of who we are. It starts when life cracks us open just enough to feel, to listen, and to reconnect with what makes us come alive. This episode explores how pain might become a catalyst for awakening and how heart alignment can lead toward our highest potential.


Episode 346 - Breaking the Cycle of Limiting Beliefs with Lawrence Harris
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12/26/2025

December 26, 2025
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Episode 346 - Breaking the Cycle of Limiting Beliefs with Lawrence Harris

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The stories we grow up with can become invisible limits, guiding our choices long after we’ve outgrown them. This episode looks at how those early beliefs take hold and what happens when we finally begin to question them.

Change begins the moment we recognize that our past doesn’t decide our future. In this...


Episode 345 - How to Be Less Miserable with Lybi Ma
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12/23/2025

December 23, 2025
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Episode 345 - How to Be Less Miserable with Lybi Ma

It is easy to forget that peace of mind is not about chasing constant happiness, but about learning to live with the full range of our emotions. This episode explores how we can find an even keel in an unpredictable world and why acceptance may be one of the most overlooked skills for wellbeing.

Through honest reflection and grounded wisdom, the conversation invites a gentler view of being human. Sometimes, becoming less miserable is not about a...


Episode 344 - Healing with the Akashic Records with Shima Shad Rouh
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12/19/2025

December 19, 2025
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Episode 344 - Healing with the Akashic Records with Shima Shad Rouh

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When healing reaches into the unseen dimensions of who we are, it opens a path that logic alone cannot explain. This episode explores how accessing the deeper intelligence of the soul can bring understanding to experiences that once felt beyond reach.

Through stories of transformation and insight, we are reminded that healing is not o...


Episode 343 - The Functional Freeze Paradox with Petra Brunnbauer
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12/16/2025

December 16, 2025
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Episode 343 - The Functional Freeze Paradox with Petra Brunnbauer

There is a profound exhaustion that can seep into our lives that comes from trying to hold yourself together for far too long. If you have ever felt functional on the outside while wired, numb, or overwhelmed on the inside, this episode will feel uncomfortably familiar in the best possible way.

We explore the paradox of chronic stress that never truly resolves, and why so many of us feel stuck without understanding why. You will be guided t...


Episode 342 - What Success Doesn’t Heal with Dr. Agnieszka Piotrowska
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12/12/2025

December 12, 2025
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Episode 342 - What Success Doesn’t Heal with Dr. Agnieszka Piotrowska

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In this episode, we explore what lingers when success on the outside doesn’t touch what feels unsettled within. It is possible to meet every expectation, build the life others admire, and still find ourselves searching for something more.

We spend time with the difference between achievement and meaning, and how easily the two becom...


Episode 341 - Healing at the Speed of Resonance with Sam Kukathas
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12/09/2025

December 9, 2025
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Episode 341 - Healing at the Speed of Resonance with Sam Kukathas

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In this episode, we sit with the idea that healing can move at the speed of resonance. Rather than pushing through the mind or retelling the same stories, we begin to notice how the body speaks through sensation, tension, and subtle shifts of energy.

We explore how sound and frequency can meet us in p...


Episode 340 - Energy Healing with Shannon Leischner
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12/05/2025

December 5, 2025
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Episode 340 - Energy Healing with Shannon Leischner

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In this episode, we explore how working with energy can create openings for both physical and emotional renewal. The conversation highlights how beliefs, emotions, and even daily interactions carry energetic signals that shape the way we feel and respond.

We consider what happens when energy becomes part of our approach to healing, rather than something left out of t...


Episode 339 - Your Big Fat Juicy Life with Stephanie James
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12/02/2025

December 2, 2025
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Episode 339 - Your Big Fat Juicy Life with Stephanie James

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In this episode, we explore what it means to embrace all of life, not only the moments that feel light and easy but also the ones that test us. Beneath the resistance we carry, we find hidden invitations into a deeper way of being present with ourselves.

The conversation opens space to consider how we b...


Episode 338 - Conscious Communication with Jem Fuller
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11/28/2025

November 28, 2025
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Episode 338 - Conscious Communication with Jem Fuller

In this episode, we explore how the way we connect with each other in the smallest moments can ripple far beyond the conversation itself. Sometimes it is as simple as showing genuine interest in another person’s world that opens the door to connection.

Our discussion unfolds into a reflection on presence, compassion, and curiosity as everyday practices. What begins at home and in our closest relationships can deeply influence how we show up in our communities and the gre...


Episode 337 - From Survival to Self-Worth with Erin Mills
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11/25/2025

November 25, 2025
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Episode 337 - From Survival to Self-Worth with Erin Mills

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In this episode, we look at how easy it is to move through life on autopilot, doing what is expected while feeling more and more distant from ourselves. It can seem like survival is enough, until a moment comes that makes us question if there is more.

What follows is the difficult work of noticing what w...