Open My Eyes Podcast

Season 6: Radical Acceptance

Episode Title:

This Walk Ain't Easy

Episode Description

Healing sounds beautiful until life asks you to confront the one truth you've been avoiding.

In this episode, I open up about a deeply personal week that challenged years of growth, forced me to sit with uncomfortable emotions, and revealed something about myself I had never fully realized. We explore what emotional safety really means, why healing doesn't automatically protect us from unhealthy relationships, and how radical acceptance can become...

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Season 6: Radical Acceptance
Episode 2: Those Silent Moments

There comes a point in life when everything gets quiet.

The relationship doesn't work out. The plans fall apart. The future you imagined begins to disappear, leaving you with questions you never expected to ask.

What if those silent moments aren't empty?

What if they're revealing who you've become all along?

In Season 6: Radical Acceptance, Episode 2, Those Silent Moments, we...

Season 6: Radical Acceptance

Closer

There comes a moment on every healing journey when self-awareness stops feeling like a gift and starts feeling like a burden.

A dream. A realization. A question I wasn't prepared to answer.

Sometimes the greatest shift doesn't happen because life changes. It happens because you finally see what has been there all along.

Growth has a way of changing your relationships. It asks difficult questions, exposes uncomfortable truths, and sometimes strips away people, places, and patterns you thought would be with...

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Season 6: Radical Acceptance

Introduction: The Cost of Becoming

Every version of yourself costs something.

Over the last year, I've learned that healing isn't about pretending the pain never happened. It's about looking at it honestly, accepting what it taught you, and refusing to let it define who you become.

In this introduction to Season 6, I reflect on the lessons that came through broken relationships, betrayal, manipulation, disappointment, and the difficult process of letting people go. More importantly, I talk about what those experiences...

In this season finale, the journey comes full circle with a powerful reflection: we are the Lotus, and we rise through the mud.

When life feels heavy, dark, and discouraging, it’s easy to believe we’re buried. But the truth is, the mud was never meant for our demise — it was meant for our growth. Every layer of pressure, pain, and resistance has been shaping resilience, teaching sustainability, and preparing us to stand in the light.

In this episode, Nate unpacks:

Pulling up a chair with your inner child and sitting with yourself is where true healing begins. You don’t even know who is connected to your freedom — your growth may unlock doors for people you may never meet. We have to learn to sit in the mud, to let it cover us, to allow the roots to deepen. Rushing the process rarely gives lasting fruit. Transformation shows up in silence — when the people you expected to cheer you on don’t, and the strangers you never knew bring you the encouragement you need. That silence pushes y...

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It Came From Those Things

“Because nothing today exists without yesterday.”

-Nate D.

It Came From Those Things is a storytelling and self-reflection podcast that explores how struggles, regrets, heartbreaks, and cave-like moments of silence transform into growth, resilience, and healing. Each episode dives into the hidden value of life’s challenges, showing how beauty can rise from ashes and how scars can turn into lessons.

This podcast speaks to anyone who has ever felt unheard, unseen, undervalued, or unworthy — and reminds listeners that every trial shapes purpose. Vulnerable, raw, and insp...

🎙️ Episode Title: Life Is The Great Teacher

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Life isn’t meant to be fair — life is meant to be a lesson. Every disruption, heartbreak, or detour is not a punishment, but an invitation to grow. When life shakes us, it’s often because we would have stayed stuck without the shake-up.

In this episode, we explore how life is the greatest teacher you’ll ever meet. It humbles you, confronts you, and sets your shadows on the table so you can no longer ignore them. It tests the areas you say y...

Episode Title: Thank You

Life will break you, test you, and sometimes bring you to your knees. But every experience — the heartbreaks, the betrayals, the disappointments — can also be your greatest teacher.

In this episode, I reflect on the lessons hidden inside pain. Instead of looking at the past through bitterness or resentment, I choose gratitude. Thank you to the situations that pushed me to grow. Thank you to the storms that stripped away illusions and forced me to stand stronger. Thank you to the moments that made me feel invisible — because they showed me how de...

There are moments in life that crack the mirror wide open. Not to break you — but to reveal you. This episode is about the power of reflection, emotional accountability, and how the hardest situations are often just mirrors exposing the parts of ourselves we’ve tried to avoid.

It’s not about blame. It’s about the brutal beauty of seeing yourself — even when it hurts. Healing begins when we stop pointing and start seeing.

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🎙️ Revised July 2025 — Bonus Episode | Open My Eyes Podcast

Welcome back!

This is a bonus episode ahead of Season 3, where we'll begin to focus more deeply on relationships—both with others and with ourselves.

In this episode, we’ll explore a powerful question:

Why do we suppress our dreams, goals, and inspirations?

The truth is, pursuing our deepest desires isn’t always easy. The dreams we carry often feel bigger than us—or further away than they appear. And sometimes, we silence them before we even give ourselves a chance to try.

T...

In this raw and powerful episode, we unpack one of the most difficult truths about healing:

Closure doesn’t always come from them — it comes from within.

This episode dives into a hard but freeing truth: sometimes closure doesn’t come from a conversation — it comes from the work you do within.

We talk about how closure can feel like a double-edged sword. We often wait for people to say the right thing or give us an explanation, but sometimes the only closure we’ll ever get is the one we give ou...

🎙️ Podcast Title: RISE

Episode Description:

This episode is not about bounce-backs—it’s about resurrections.

"RISE" dives deep into the spaces where we gave too much, waited too long, and held on to people who couldn’t meet us. It's about the quiet grief of watching someone we loved stay the same while we outgrew the pain. It’s about letting go of roles that drained us, and reclaiming the truth of who we are beneath the ache.

There comes a point when healing stops looking poeti...

Healing sounds beautiful—until you realize what it actually costs.

In this premiere episode of Open My Eyes, I open up about what true healing really looks like: the grief, the silence, the accountability, and the transformation. This isn’t just a conversation—it’s a reflection from a man who had to let go of emotional survival and start walking in spiritual truth.

Real healing costs your ego, comfort, and past self. This one’s for the ones rebuilding in silence. Healing Costs—tune in now.

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In this member's only bonus content, Taming The Control Beast interview with (Brenna A) LAC) We learn the different types of control, the patterns of control, how to recognize control, what control might look like, and offer tips, on how to face issues or control. You will be blown away by the knowledge of our guest speaker, as she takes us into a deep dive of how control shows up, operates, and interferes and controls individual lives.

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Book reference: Codependent No More Melody Beattie.

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In this member's only bonus content, Working To Forgiveness- The series interview with (Brenna A) LAC). to how we see events in Working to forgiveness is a series that will focus on the Ego State Therapy. The Ego State Therapy focuses on the idea that the individual is made-up of parts in those parts contribute our lives, and how we conflict with them. This is a parts series with more information being released, during this interview our guest it's asked the series of questions on how the ego state therapy works, and...

Rejection can really be tough to deal with, have you ever been rejected before? what did that feel like for you? How did you respond after feeling rejected? Rejection can be really intense and cause high levels of anxiety, wondering thoughts, bad judgement calls, payback, high stress, and a loss of emotional self-control to say a few.

In this episode we will cover what happens during the process of being rejected, check out the link below for more details: Rejection: What Is It & How to Deal With It - The Berkeley Well-Being Institute (berkeleywellbeing.com)

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In this episode we take a look into the silent treatment

that we often use in our relationships. Why do we feel the need to be in

control and use Silent Abuse to get our points across and not use other methods

such as healthy communication? Is the Silent Treatment a form of abuse? Today

we will take a deep dive into how we use Silent Treatment Abuse to stay in

control and find ways to gain the attention of others.

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I Wanted It

How often have we been in a place where we wanted what we

wanted? When we think back what did it cost us? Was it worth it? Is it

something that we still have in our lives and if so at what cost? Have we found

reasons to hold on to things and people who are causing damage in our lives?

Have you been in the place where you are putting more time and energy into

making something work? Or find ways to justify...

In this episode Time And Space we look at the need to have

and to set healthy Time And Space boundaries into place. What happens to you

when you find yourself spending too much time with someone? Learning to set healthy

boundaries can really set the tone. Do you find that the mystery and the excitement

have all gone missing? Setting those limits on how much Time we spend with some

can really destroy the chemistry in a potential future relationship. How to we

set those boundaries...

Hello welcome to the start of Season 3, (Intentional Connections)

In this season we will cover different types of attachment, and how they appear in our everyday relationships, friendships, etc.

In this episode we start off with needy behavior and the need to be validated by someone who you're in the relationship with, does this sound familiar? How you every been with someone who needed you to validate them, or have you been the one needing them to validate you?

In this season we will uncover some very overlooked behaviors that we bring into...

SeasoSeason Of The Builder- Final-Week- Push Through It- Wrap-Up

We have reached our final week of  The Build-In-Project. This is the week of Push

Through It, and Wrap Up. With that being said here are a few questions for you

that will assist you in wrapping up this project.

As you reflect back at the last 10 weeks of the Build-in,

can you see a picture, or a path way? What has come to light f...

The Build-In-Project, The Season Of The Builder Week 9 High Emotions

Weekly and Bonus Questions: This week we will address questions dealing with high emotional responses and reactions. These questions come from the Adult Adolescent season one. Feel free to revisit the adult adolescence podcast for additional information and support. The downloadable version can be found at openmyeyes.net

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Week 8 In The Chaos-Build-In Project The Season Of The Builder. In this episode we will address some challenging questions. This will challenge and bring into light the progress we have made over the last several weeks. All documents are available for download at openmyeyes.net.

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In this episode we interviewed Jason H, we discussed the topic of a lifestyle of entitlement, and how the sense of entitlement led to other issues. Issues such as dysfunctional relationships, control, verbal and emotional abuse and neglect. We discussed how when entitlement is left unaddressed how it penetrates into our later years and calls destruction and promotes other unhealthy behaviors and or may lead to issues of substance abuse. Breaking your chains takes a deep dive into understanding the importance of working through life issues that may stem from childhood, recognizing the patterns, control, entitlement, dysfunctionality, and disruptive...

Week7-The Build-In -Project-Season 2-Guilt Weekly-Bonus questions.

In this week's question we will ask some different questions around guilt and the feelings of guilt, you don't want to miss this one!

All weekly and bonus questions are available to download at openmyeyes.net

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Happy New Year!! 2023

Hello Podcaster's! Are you ready to start this year of with the continuation of The Build-In- Project? This week we will focus upon Pay Attention! This podcast includes the weekly and the bonus questions. If you would like a refresher, feel to go back to season one and listen to the Pay Attention podcast. The questions are available for download at openmyeyes.net

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Week 5 Season 2 Season Of The Builder-Broken Trust, Powerful

Rules weekly and bonus questions.

In this episode you will find weeks Season 2 Season Of The Builder Broken Trust Powerful Rulers weekly questions, as well as the bonus question. This document is also available for download at openmyeyes.net

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The Build-In-Project- The Season Of The Builder-Week 4

Unsure Me Weekly questions. Week four season of the builder, the building project here you will find the continuation of the building project questions week 4 dealing with the unsure me. Unsure Me podcast was completed in week one, episode four season one! if you would like to follow up you can by listening to the Unsure me podcast in season one episode 4. All podcasts can be found at:

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In this episode Time Revealed you will experience some concepts that may challenge the way you think about time and healing. This is a follow out for week three season 2 season of the builder, questions on time and healing. This is part of the building project series.

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Build-In-Project-Season Of The Builder Week 3 Time and Healing.

In this weekly Build-In-Project-Season Of The Builder Week 3 we will address the issues of Time and Healing. If you would like to download the questions, they can be found at openmyeyes.net.

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In this episode you find This week's weekly questions for Season 2 Season Of The Builder week 2. Mark your calendars for every Wednesday for the weekly bonus questions. They will be posted Wednesday morning. you can also find the weekly to questions via website at openmyeyes.net available for download!

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The full details and written instructions can be found at openmyeyes.net under the Build-In-Project tab.

Things to Consider

1.You may want to consider getting a few notebooks, pens, color pencils, a timer, anything that will help you documents anything that might assist you with managing your week-to-week progress.

2. If you haven’t already you may want to consider refreshing through season one’s episodes. There you will get the basic ideal and concept of some of the materials that we will be covering.

3. Try to prepare yourself for group interactions, poss...

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Build-In-Project- The Season Of The Builder Season 2- Week One Values

Question one is a two-part question

1. What Is Value to you, how do you apply value to your life?

1.1 As I value myself do I consider my mental and physical health?

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2.  What d...

In this episode ( Push Through It) we address learning to push through when times are difficult and are not going the way the way that we expected them to go. We would dive deep into the difficulties of staying consistent through our process and being persistent in completing our journey in life. Sometimes in life things do not happen as we predict them to, as we hope for them to, we will look at some of the setbacks. Here we will take time to uncover some of the struggles that we face internally when it comes to throwing in...

In The Chaos in this episode, we talk about staying persistent and our life pursuits. We are encouraged to continue to move forward throughout all of the life issues, circumstances, trials, tribulations, unfortunate events, that might present themselves to us. During this episode we are encouraged to stay persistent in the fight that leads us to our purpose place. We will see how the everyday events might lead into exactly where we need to go! We will learn how to see through the troubles of life they present themselves as a detour, or distraction. We will learn how to...

In this episode we learn to address and put down feelings of guilt. Guilt can be a very powerful emotion to manage and to learn to face and take ownership over. When it is paired with pride, embarrassment and shame it can become even more powerful and difficult to address.

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Have you been paying attention?

Pay Attention deals with the things that we commonly neglect, the things that we turn a blind eye to that we sometimes refuse to see. In this episode we would delve deeply into understanding the present things, we will unravel the mystery behind the riddles as to why I am represented was similar, or the same lessons.

Look around you. What's happening? What's going on in your world? What have you been thinking about? What's on your mind? Has anything shown up in your dreams? Have you dripped it off...

I once heard someone say that trust for them "Once trust is broken it's broken it's the hardest thing to rebuild and repair" Rebuilding and repairing trust that is broken is hard to deal with to have someone violate and break you trust disregard it and not considering you can strike a blow that is difficult to come back from. When someone breaks your trust really doesn't really have anything to do with you, but more to do with that individual and what's going on with that individual. Trust is a very fragile thing it takes time build, But...

Unsure me, In Unsure me we will take a look into some of the challenges that one might face internally. The conflict of not being good enough, not being confident enough, not being enough has it ever crossed your mind? In this episode we will take a deep dive into the internal conflict of being unsure of oneself!

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