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When We Are Healed022. What if depression isn’t wrong?If you’ve been feeling some density and heaviness lately, you’re not alone, and you’re not doing anything wrong!When we experience depression, anxiety, or any emotional state that feel uncomfortable, there’s a tendency to judge it, resist it, and try to make it go away – which actually leads to prolonging the suffering.This episode is about seeing “negative” emotions in a completely different light than what society has taught us. I talk about my own experience hitting rock bottom with a debilitating depression many years ago, and how I’ve since learned to surf...2025-07-2432 min
When We Are Healed021. Psilocybin therapy: A sacred journey within – with Aphyna ZoeSeveral months ago, I had a life-changing experience with psychedelic-assisted therapy using psilocybin, a.k.a. “magic” mushrooms. It was the most powerful, emotional catharsis that cracked me open – and I’m deeply grateful for my amazing facilitator Aphyna Zoe, who is here with us today!Aphyna Zoe is a licensed facilitator for psychedelic-assisted therapy, a sound healer, astrologer, and ceremonial guide called to support those on the precipice of change. Aphyna weaves sound healing into her work, using vibration and frequency to guide others into deep states of relaxation, soothing the nervous system and creating space for the...2025-07-0254 min
When We Are Healed020. Rewriting the story of your life and career – with Nicole WittIf you’ve ever felt stuck in a job that you’re doing mostly for the money, or felt lost or frustrated that you don’t know what you want to do with your life, this episode is for you! I sat down with my dear friend Nicole Witt to talk about finding true purpose through the practice of A Course In Miracles.Nicole Witt is a spiritual teacher, mentor, and coach. Using the principles and practices of A Course in Miracles, she helps women redefine their life and their story so that they can truly embody a life...2025-06-181h 03
When We Are Healed019. Free up your voice by embracing fearThis is a no-holds-barred, honest talk about the fear, resistance, and creative block that I’ve struggled with as a podcaster.I take you behind the scenes of podcasting and share everything about how I’ve been writing and recording my solo episodes, and the various ways fear pops up for me in the creative process as perfectionism, procrastination, comparison, overthinking, self-censorship, or imposter syndrome.All of these were coming up particularly strongly in making this episode. After many days of writing and editing, I wasn’t making much progress and even wondered if I should...2025-06-0432 min
When We Are Healed018. The power of gratitude and your feeling body – with Dr. Mario Torres-LeónEarlier in 2025, I stumbled across a program called the 28-day Gratitude Launchpad with Dr. Mario Torres-León, which blew my mind and cracked my heart open. Even though I had practiced gratitude for many years, it wasn’t until I learned to actually feel the energy of gratitude in my body as Dr. Mario teaches, that I began to experience true healing. I’m feeling more consistently happy than ever before, and opportunities are coming into my life in a way that I never thought was possible. I’m deeply grateful for Dr. Mario and couldn’t be more honored t...2025-05-1457 min
When We Are Healed017. Conscious wellness: Nurturing ourselves to true health – with Valerie RobinsonThere’s a very exciting movement taking root in the health & wellness space – one that’s guided by the energy and wisdom of the divine feminine. It’s a call to soften, listen, and flow with natural rhythms instead of pushing ourselves harder. To love and nourish ourselves instead of whipping ourselves into shape. To become quiet and turn within for guidance instead of inundating ourselves with external information.Today’s guest is someone who not only leads this movement but really lives it. Valerie Robinson is a holistic wellness coach, homeschooling mother of two, and founde...2025-04-301h 14
When We Are Healed016. How do I release chronic pain?Chronic pain – physical and emotional – has been hands down one of the most grueling things I’ve worked with on my healing journey. But it’s also been my greatest teacher of self-love and compassion.In this episode, I share the insights and tools that have helped me see and experience pain differently. Through ongoing practice, my relationship to my body and to the sensations we call pain, has been shifting from fear, resentment, and guilt – to presence, compassion, and harmony.I also introduce 3 powerhouse teachers who have changed my life through their mind-body approach to healing...2025-04-1627 min
When We Are Healed015. Healing addiction and childhood sexual trauma – with Mark Anthony LordWhat if there’s joy and freedom on the other side of our greatest pain? Today’s guest is a living testament to how even the most debilitating addiction or unspeakable trauma can be healed when we embrace a full commitment to forgive, surrender, and trust the higher power inside of us.Mark Anthony Lord is a Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister, and Recovery Guide who has dedicated his life to bridging the gap between structured recovery and spiritual awakening. He is also the founder of Bodhi Spiritual Center in Chicago and co-founder of Living The Course—a virtua...2025-03-2650 min
When We Are Healed014. Transform your life with gratitude!We’ve been taught that gratitude is the key to happiness, but do we really know how powerful it actually is? How it can magically change our lives? And how much fun we can have with it?Confession: I actually used to think gratitude was kind of… boring! As someone who’s been on the spiritual path for a long time, I honestly thought I had gratitude down. I knew it was important and was practicing it to the best of my ability, but in retrospect, my heart wasn’t fully in it yet.In this epi...2025-03-1234 min
When We Are Healed013. Journey through breast cancer, breathwork, and embodying the light – with Tina Marie Bertoli“You have aggressive cancer” may be the scariest words for any of us to hear. But for our guest today, it turned out to the beginning of an epic journey of coming home to herself.Tina Marie Bertoli is a Breathwork Facilitator & Trainer, Mind Body Medicine Mentor, Intuitive Counselor, and the host of the I AM Rising Podcast. She helps people breathe new life into their bodies to access the wisdom of their soul, and has taught in more than 20 countries.In this episode, Tina shares about her epic journey through the darkness and into the...2025-02-261h 00
When We Are Healed012. Do I need a life purpose?Have you been feeling stuck trying to find your life purpose? Do you worry that you’re not doing enough to fulfill your true purpose?Purpose anxiety is so common – even the wealthiest and most successful people grapple with it!For the longest time, I thought I wasn’t living the kind of purpose that other people seemed to have found, and judged myself harshly for it. I searched long and hard for my purpose, which I used to believe was some kind of career, something I’m incredibly good at that people would love me for a...2025-02-1231 min
When We Are Healed011. Awakening through chronic illness and pain – with Lisa NatoliCan we be happy while our bodies are sick? I have a very special guest today who’ll tell you, “Yes, we can.”Lisa Natoli is a teacher of non-duality as well as A Course in Miracles. Lisa struggled for 5 years with physical sickness and pain, and in 2018 had a realization of truth that led to her “waking up” to the insanity of false thoughts and beliefs she held about herself.She saw what she doing all of these previous years unconsciously: suffering, fighting herself, attacking herself, living in guilt and self-doubt and she recognized that was t...2025-01-291h 04
When We Are Healed010. Joy reawakened: My breakthrough with psilocybin therapyPhew! If you’ve been feeling some intense energy in the last month, you’re not alone. The holiday season can be a particularly busy and challenging time for many of us, with plenty of opportunities for things to get triggered (and healed).One profound insight that I’ve had this year, however, was that as more and more of our negative emotions are felt and let go, what is now free to express itself through our body is JOY. As it turns out, joy really is our true nature.In this solo episode, I’m sharin...2024-12-1819 min
When We Are Healed009. Nature speaks: A new relationship for a New Earth – with Carrie TriffetAll of life is the beloved. Join award-winning author Carrie Triffet for a mind-blowing conversation about Nature: what it truly is, what it’s teaching us, and what becomes possible when we embrace our place in the sacred oneness of all life. You may already be familiar with the idea that we are one with Nature, or that everything in Nature is conscious – but Carrie is inviting us to go even deeper and really begin to embody this truth in our day-to-day relationship with Nature.I felt so inspired by her stories of lessons and miracles from the...2024-12-041h 14
When We Are Healed008. Motherhood, surrender, and connecting with God – with Kris DariaWe live in a culture where independence and self-sufficiency are celebrated, and asking for help is often seen as a weakness. As a result, many of us have been conditioned to try to figure everything out on our own even when we need help. This can make life feel very hard, stressful, and isolating.But what if there is a higher loving power that is always ready and available to guide you, bringing you solutions and blessings you couldn’t have even thought of? And what if all you need to do to access it, is to si...2024-11-1357 min
When We Are Healed007. How do I love my enemies?With the 2024 Presidential Election coming up, the political divide and polarization here in the U.S. have been at an all-time high. When we’re caught up in the narrative of us-versus-them and perceiving others as enemies that need to be defeated, we feel so justified in attacking them. This mindset – enemy consciousness – is the basis for all the wars, violence, and conflict we see playing out in the world.I used to feel so depressed that “all these people out there” were waging wars and perpetuating cycles of violence and hatred – until I learned the radical spiritual pri...2024-10-3029 min
When We Are Healed006. From imagined unworthiness to freedom – with Rosalyn Rourke, MSWMany of us go on a spiritual path seeking lasting inner peace and freedom from suffering. We meditate, we say affirmations, we go to workshops and retreats, … we do all kinds of things for years and years to try to achieve that “awakened” state. But what if that peace and freedom we long for were actually available to us right here and now? That is what today’s guest, my dear friend and bestselling author Rosalyn Rourke, is here to help us explore and experience.Rosalyn Rourke, MSW, has worked deeply in the field of psychotherapy for over 30...2024-10-161h 10
When We Are Healed005. Art and connection in unexpected places – with Chere KrakovskyAs we’re becoming increasingly tied to technology, the need for genuine human connection and inspired creativity has never been greater. Today’s guest, Chere Krakovsky, is a New York-based visual and performance artist who is on a mission to create welcoming spaces for spontaneous, real-life interactions in unusual places.In this episode, Chere shares about her work, the challenges she’s faced as an artist, and how she became aware of—and released—limiting beliefs about herself and about art, to create a life of joy and freedom.When we let go of preconceived notions ab...2024-10-021h 03
When We Are Healed004. How do I love myself when I don’t like myself?“Love yourself” has become a popular adage in the self-help and spirituality space. But there also seems to be some confusion, resistance, and stress around the idea of self-love. I know people who are so kind and loving to others but can be shockingly hard on themselves. I’ve also seen many spiritual students beating themselves up for having judgmental thoughts, giving into addictive behavior, or not being able to keep up with their self-care routine—myself included!In this solo episode, I’m looking back at my own journey in learning to love myself and exploring the practi...2024-09-1834 min
When We Are Healed003. Emotions are meant to be felt, not figured out – with Allison PelotMost of us learned to ignore or suppress our emotions in order to get by in this world. Even as spiritual seekers and self-help enthusiasts, we may still avoid feeling our emotions by judging, analyzing, and trying to control them. Suppressed emotions get trapped in our bodies and begin to cry out for attention in different ways such as chronic stress, looping negative thoughts, waves of even more turbulent emotions, or physical dis-ease.But as bestselling author Allison Pelot explains in this episode, an emotion is energy-in-motion. By simply acknowledging and feeling it, it can begin to...2024-09-041h 03
When We Are Healed002. Healing relationships at the core through ACIM – with Meghan CefaluSo much of the stress and heartbreak we experience in our relationships come from wanting the other person to fulfill us, and trying to control them so that we can be happy. A Course In Miracles calls this a special relationship—a relationship based on fear, separation, and conditions.In this episode, ACIM-based spiritual counselor Meghan Cefalu shares about the process that she and her husband went through to give their relationship over to the Holy Spirit, or their highest self, and allowed it to be transformed over the course of a decade—from a special relationship to a...2024-08-211h 01
When We Are Healed001. Introductions – My healing journey and our path aheadHello and welcome! I’m Rieko Yamanaka, a certified spiritual counselor, creative professional, and the host of this podcast. In this very first episode, I give an introduction of the show and share a little bit about myself and my healing journey.I talk about:* An overview of this podcast* A Course In Miracles workbook lesson that inspired the title* My backstory: Years of not feeling good enough* How practicing ACIM changed my life* A prayer for your healing journeyConnect with Rieko...2024-08-0630 min