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#104
October 5 · 1 hr 9 min
The Currency of Joy - Alignment, Belief, and Coming Back Home | Brian Withers
What if the life you're chasing, the security, the recognition, the right relationship, was never something you had to earn? In this conversation, I sit down again with Brian Withers, a teacher of what he calls the creative process, the idea that we arrive already whole: already worthy, already resourced, already carrying gifts the world is built to receive. Brian argues that life was designed to run on something far simpler than effort, a natural, almost automatic exchange between people expressing who they are and people benefiting from it. Somewhere along the way, most of us picked up a very different script: that we have to prove our worth before we're allowed to feel good, and Brian walks through exactly how that belief takes root and what it actually costs us. We get into the mechanics of it: the difference between the conscious mind and the subconscious one, why repeating a positive thought once doesn't undo decades of conditioning, and why your body's symptoms and your run of bad luck might both be pointing at the same misalignment rather than separate problems needing separate fixes. Brian makes the case that joy itself, not effort, not hustle, noteven money, is the real currency underneath everything we're trying to buy. This conversation explores what it actually takes to stop performing the life you want and start living it. Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers/videos Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/ Brian Withers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@brianwithers357 Socials https://www.instagram.com/theknowledgeoflife/ Site highervibrationsnow.com
#103
September 28 · 59 min
Unlearn Everything, Rediscover Your Childlike Wonder | Hitesh Bhatt
What if everything you are searching for was never lost, only out of sight, like a pair of glasses sitting on your head the whole time? In this conversation, I sit down once again with Hitesh Bhatt, a yoga teacher and YouTube creator, who speaks widely on the ancient traditions and texts. We begin with a simple question: how do you convey teachings that have to be lived to be understood? Hitesh's answer is that every teaching that ever made sense to him already felt familiar, and that books, teachers and friends are only reminders pointing us back to ourselves. We talk about the mind as both the source of our conditioning and the way back out of it, the borders that exist in our heads but not on the Earth, and what he has noticed in people who return to their own nature: a deep relaxation and an acceptance of themselves even when they are not relaxed at all. We discuss the idea that there is no person, only a mask; the limits of language; and why he no longer believes in enlightenment as a destination. This is a conversation about simplicity, belonging and the illusion of safety. At its heart, it asks what changes when you stop treating life as a problem to be fixed. Feelings with Strangers Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/ Youtube https://youtu.be/kmDja4q83i8?si=xIl7TbBrdeCEk5dh Hitesh Bhatt YouTube Echoes of Existence https://www.youtube.com/@EOExistence Instagram https://www.instagram.com/yogawithhitesh Linktree https://linktr.ee/echoesofexistence Substack https://substack.com/@echoesofexistence1 Podcast Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/echoes-of-existence/id1837613927
#102
September 14 · 1 hr 6 min
Evolutionary Astrology & Your Map Home | Steven Forrest
Growing up, I skimmed astrology in the back of a magazine while waiting in line; it felt like random fortune-telling rather than the ancient guiding principles of your archetypes. Steven Forrest is one of the most respected voices in evolutionary astrology. He has spent over fifty years and 50,000 readings deeply understanding this triumph of human consciousness. In this conversation, we cover the difference between a fatalistic approach to your astrological chart and one that points out a way to make informed choices. Steven's approach isn't about fixed personality types; it's about tracking the same restlessness we can all recognise in ourselves, the fact that none of us is the person we were a decade ago, and asking what a birth chart might reveal about the direction that change is already pulling us in. We get into free will and its stranger cousin, the freedom to avoid using it. Steven has a phrase he returns to a few times: informed compassion, the idea that once you understand where someone's fear or defensiveness actually comes from, judgment tends to fall away on its own. If you've ever wondered whether the thing pulling at you beneath the surface has a shape, a logic, or even a kind of map 'home', this conversation will help. Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers/videos Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/ Steven Forrest Site http://forrestastrology.com/ Lila App https://www.lilaverse.app/
#91
September 7 · 57 min
Why Heartbreak Renews Us: Dance, Cancer, and Learning to Feel Again | Adam Barley
Can learning about yourself be done not through more thinking, but through moving your body until the truth comes out? In this conversation, I sit down with Adam Barley, a movement and embodiment facilitator who has spent more than three decades helping people access what words alone can't reach. Adam's own path started almost by accident: a friend's book landed in his hands one frustrated Sunday afternoon, and within two hours he'd decided to leave his job and sell his house to follow it. We talk about the shame and repression he carried from a buttoned-up English upbringing, and how dance gave him a way to feel what he was never given permission to say out loud. We also go somewhere much harder. Two years ago, Adam was diagnosed with an aggressive, fast-moving cancer that took him from perfectly healthy to unable to walk in three weeks. He describes the experience through an old, beloved children's story, of finally having something claw through a skin he could never fully shed on his own, and what it actually took to come out the other side changed, not just recovered. This is a conversation about grief, fear, the strange gift of heartbreak, and why healing doesn't have to look like effort at all. Sometimes it looks like shaking, crying, or dancing with no one watching. If you've ever needed permission to move without knowing why, it's time to begin. Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers/videos Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/ Adam Barley Site https://adambarley.com/ Events & Courses New Course Listening in the Dark https://adambarley.com/events/listeninginthedark/ Adult Addict https://adambarley.com/events/adult-addict/
#101
August 24 · 29 min
How To Break The Pattern Of Negative Thoughts
What if the voice in your head telling you you're not good enough was never actually yours to begin with? In this episode, I sit down alone to talk about the looping thoughts most of us carry every day, and the moment I realised I had a choice in whether to keep believing them. I share how I spent years assuming my negative thinking simply was me, a permanent feature of who I was rather than a pattern I could examine and change. I get into where those thoughts actually come from, the difference between a thought that serves me and one inherited from somewhere else entirely, and why meditation has been the single biggest turning point in learning to create space between a thought and my reaction to it. I also go into the deeper terrain I've come to hold as true: that perception shapes reality far more than we're taught to believe and that the body carries far more than we realise. This is an episode about awareness, self talk, and the long, imperfect practice of choosing love over fear, again and again, even on the days it doesn't come easily. Meditation Course https://meditationsteps.org/ Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers/videos Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/
#100
August 23 · 2 hr 2 min
How To Maximise Your Energy | Mikey Breathes
What if you've been taught to see your body as something to control, discipline, and force into shape, when the only thing separating you from radical transformation is learning to listen to it instead? I sit down again with Mikey Breathes, a world traveller, energy teacher, and the creator of The Guide, for a wide-ranging, unfiltered, and often very funny conversation about energy, self-love, and what happens when you stop fighting your own body. We start from China, where Mikey is three months into a stay he describes as the most physically intense place he's ever lived, and use it as a jumping off point into the real subject of the episode: voltage. Not vibration, not manifestation, but literal energy, what generates it, what discharges it, and why so many of us are walking around running on empty without ever asking why. From there we get into self-love, redefined not as indulgence but as self-preservation, and its opposite, which Mikey argues isn't self-hate but self-ignorance. We talk about the difference between discipline and cooperation, about what it actually means to be present with your body rather than at war with it, and about escapism in all its modern forms: doomscrolling, new age spirituality, waiting for disclosure, outsourcing your thinking to AI. Mikey shares the personal story behind his own health journey, and we get into some genuinely big territory: momentum over manifestation, dependency as a loss of power, and what it means to bring life into every interaction you have, rather than waiting for life to happen to you. A note on tone: this one is loose, playful, and frequently ridiculous, but the message is clear - maybe it's time to begin to listen to your boy rather than trying to control it. Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers/videos Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/ Mickey Breathes Socials https://www.instagram.com/mikeybreathes/ The Life Guide https://theguide.life/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio
#99
August 14 · 58 min
Your Soul Is Calling - And How To Listen | James Hollis Ph.D
What if the depression you can't explain, the boredom that follows your "success," or the sense that something inside you is protesting isn't a malfunction, but your soul trying to get your attention? In this conversation, I sit down with James Hollis, Jungian analyst, author of over twenty books, and one of the most respected voices working in psychology today, to talk about what it actually means to live a meaningful life, and why so few of us are ever given permission to try. We open on something deceptively simple: the gap between what the world wants from us and what our own nature is quietly asking of us. James explains why this estrangement is built into being human, shaped by early adaptation, cultural noise, and a nervous system never designed for the volume of stimulus we live inside today. From there we move into the psyche as a self-repair system, one that will produce depression, addiction, and repetition compulsion not to punish us, but to get our attention. We talk about feelings as autonomous, honest data rather than something we invent, and that meaning is something we're obligated to discern for ourselves, not something a parent, culture, or institution can hand us. James shares his own decision to leave a secure, tenured academic post in his thirties, a choice many around him thought was reckless, and reflects on why honouring what's true for you rarely looks safe from the outside. This conversation moves through grief, permission, the false self, the narcissistic agendas we all carry, and what Jung meant when he said the greatest burden a child carries is the unlived life of a parent. And it closes somewhere unexpectedly tender, on ageing, mortality, and what James calls the quickening of the spirit. If you've ever felt a low hum of dissatisfaction beneath an outwardly "successful" life, this will help. Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers/videos Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/ James Hollis Site https://jameshollis.net/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@JamesHollisFilms Books mentioned in this episode Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Meaning-Second-Half-Life/dp/1982683473 What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life https://www.amazon.com/What-Matters-Most-Living-Considered/dp/1592404200 Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places https://www.amazon.com/Swamplands-STUDIES-JUNGIAN-PSYCHOLOGY-ANALYSTS/dp/0919123740 Autumnal Days: Courage, Integrity, and Ownership of the Soul (forthcoming) https://www.amazon.com/Autumnal-Days-Courage-Integrity-Ownership/dp/1649635028
#98
August 3 · 1 hr 18 min
Why Alignment Is The Key To Everything | Brian Withers
What if life is simply a mirror, and every frustration, delay and setback is showing you exactly what you believe? In this conversation, I sit down once again with Brian Withers, author, life coach and creator of Higher Vibrations Now, for our third conversation together. This time, we move from theory to practice: where action actually fits into manifestation, and real stories of people who have changed their lives by changing their energy. Brian is quick to clarify that he doesn't teach manifestation at all. He teaches alignment, with manifestation as the natural byproduct of the energy flowing from you. From there, we unpack the difference between inspired action and joy action, why we are receivers rather than makers, and how something as ordinary as sitting in traffic can become a conversation with the Law of Attraction. We speak about thought options, the simple but radical idea that we are never obliged to think the thought that arrives first. Brian explains where our thoughts actually come from: generational faulty beliefs, inherited voices passed down from parent to child, running on auto-repeat in the subconscious. That these beliefs, not our genes, are what we truly inherit. We also explore the difference between empathy and compassion, why jumping into the hole with someone helps no one, and the practice Brian calls reparenting: giving ourselves, as adults, the vibrational guidance we never received as children. This is a conversation about energy, patience, momentum, and the stages between wanting a different life and living one. It's about why joy is the currency of abundance, and why the timing of change is different for every single one of us. Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers/videos Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/ Brian Withers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@brianwithers357 Socials https://www.instagram.com/theknowledgeoflife/ Site highervibrationsnow.com
#97
July 28 · 37 min
Water Connects Everything & How It Connects You
Water isn't just something we drink when we're thirsty, but a living, conscious element that carries memory, frequency and the history of everything it has ever passed through. In this solo episode, I explore why water may be the most fundamental and most ignored element of vibrant health. Before we can understand water, though, we need to understand consciousness itself. So this episode begins with a wider inquiry into animism, the reductionist worldview we've inherited over the last 150 years, and what the ancients and many Indigenous cultures have always known: that everything is alive, and nothing exists in isolation. We are, quite literally, water. Anywhere from 50 to 70 per cent of the body is water, and molecularly it is by far our most abundant molecule. So it follows that if we want expanded awareness and a body capable of full, authentic expression, the state of the water we take in matters enormously. I share my honest experience with the many waters and devices I've tried over the years: benchtop filters, Berkeys and reverse osmosis, and why I no longer use them. Spring water, why it was once my favourite, and the heartbreaking reason I stopped drinking it. Distilled water, the arguments against it, and why I still drink it. And finally, hydrogen water, the most impactful addition I've made in the last eighteen months, and why I believe it produces such profound results across body, mind and spirit. The body is the instrument through which we express and experience consciousness, and the simplest practice of all, one that costs nothing: bringing gratitude, love and intention to every glass of water before you drink it will make the most significant difference. This is an episode about remembering that water is not out there, separate from us. It is us. And how we treat it is how we treat ourselves. Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/ My Method For Alive Waters Carbon Distillation https://www.megahomewaterdistillers.com.au/ Medical Grade Hydrogen https://holyhydrogen.com/products/lourdes-hydrofix-premium-edition-new-24-grey-model-complete-bundle Quinton Hypertonic https://www.quicksilverscientific.com/products/original-quinton-r-hypertonic-3-3-ampoules Shilajit https://realhimalayanshilajit.com/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21583369198&gbraid=0AAAAA-FwMI0H0mcid3CrhTgbdzssRjc-x MORNING PROCESS 750 ml of distilled water and 1 Quinton vial into the Holy Hydrogen. Set for half an hour. 250ml of distilled water with 1 serving of Shilajit. Give gratitude to the water. Most IMPORTANT. Drink the hydrogen water as soon as it's ready. Do not let it sit for more than 10 seconds. Add hydrogen water to the shilajit and drink.
#96
July 20 · 1 hr 7 min
You Can Change The Past. How To Rewrite Your Story | Jan Engels-Smith
What if the past isn't fixed? What if the moments that wounded you could be revisited, unravelled, and given a new ending? In this conversation, I sit down for the third time with Jan Engels-Smith, shamanic practitioner, teacher, and author, and one of the most generous and grounded voices I know. If you'd like to hear Jan's founding story and the origins of her work, you'll find our earlier conversations linked below. Jan explains that every event is a matrix of energy that stays in motion until it's interrupted, and that through journeying and attention, it's possible to return to the moment something happened, unwind it, retrieve what was lost, and choose a new ending. The healing is instantaneous in the energetic, but it lands on us to bring it through our thoughts, our words, and our behaviour, until the old story no longer runs the show. We speak about blind beliefs, the ones handed to us at birth that we don't even know we're carrying, and the three places they tend to hide: our beliefs about ourselves, about God or Source, and about money. Jan makes the case that belief systems are choices, nothing more, shaped by culture, era, and family, and that if a belief causes you distress, you're free to put it down and choose one that brings you happiness instead. I also share some of my own experience with this work, including the soul retrieval Jan guided me through, and what's changed since: the practice of catching the old patterns, asking "is this even my belief?", and the slow return of self-love that follows when you stop running and simply look. This is a conversation about the past, and our freedom from it. About choice, belief, self-love, and the quiet army of help that's available to every one of us, if we're willing to ask. If you've ever felt trapped by your story, or suspected that the life you're living was authored by beliefs that were never really yours, this one is for you. Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/ Jan Engels-Smith Site http://www.janengelssmith.com/ Courses https://www.lightsong.net/ Book: Becoming Yourself https://www.amazon.com.au/Becoming-Yourself-Journey-Head-Heart/dp/1500854395 Previous conversations with Jan https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/decoding-reality-how-your-mind-and-heart-create-your/id1737944971?i=1000652799451 https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/shift-your-emotions-shift-your-reality-how-to-create/id1737944971?i=1000667885142
#95
July 14 · 1 hr 17 min
Creating In The Eye Of The Storm | Stephen Jenkinson
There are conversations that seem to happen at the very edge of what language can do. This is one of those. Stephen Jenkinson has spent decades working in what he calls the death trade. Sitting with the dying, bearing witness to the end of life in ways that most of us spend our whole existence carefully avoiding. He wrote about it, spoke about it and then, just over two years ago, he walked into a neurologist's office expecting reassurance, and walked out with a Parkinson's diagnosis, and, as he puts it, never really walked out at all. The man who entered that room didn't survive the encounter. What you are about to hear is what came next. Stephen began writing on the day of his diagnosis, not intentionally, not as a craft, not as therapy, and not for anyone in particular. He wrote because he didn't know what else to do. He wrote the way a person writes when nothing has survived the news. And out of that wreckage came his new book, Trembling Still, a necklace of memory shards, improvised words, and ruptures so acute that even the editing team at his publisher were dumbfounded by what they read. He refused to rehabilitate it. He preserved the dumbfoundedness. Because to clean it up, he said, would have been to tell the wrong story. We speak about what it means when the diagnosis is about your brain, not your liver or your kneecap, but the seat of you. How that forecloses any possibility of distance. How you can get used to anything, and why that realisation is both a mercy and a devastation. About isolation so acute it was almost devilish. About the version of himself that never left the neurologist's office. About hope, and why he remains persuaded that hopefulness and hopelessness have more in common than what separates them. And then, somewhere in the middle of all of this, something extraordinary happens. A conversation about the end of a life becomes a conversation about the quality of attention we bring to whatever life remains. About what it means to abide, even trembling. About whether the skills we develop across a lifetime of doing the work still hold in the moments we cannot afford to waste them. I found Stephen's book laugh-out-loud funny in places, and devastating in others. But the thing that stayed with me longest was something harder to name, a shimmering aliveness underneath the grief. The kind that only comes from someone who is genuinely grappling, in real time, on the page, with what it means to still be here. This is not a conversation about getting better. There is no getting better. But it is, in the most unexpected way, a conversation about what it still means to show up. Come with your full attention. About Stephen Jenkinson Stephen Jenkinson is a teacher, author, activist, and farmer. He holds a Master's degree in Theology from Harvard University and a Master's degree in Social Work from the University of Toronto. He is the founder of the Orphan Wisdom School in Tramore, Canada, a teaching and learning house devoted to the skills of deep living and conscious dying. He is the author of several books, including the seminal Die Wise, as well as Homecoming, Come of Age, Becoming Animal, Matrimony, and his most recent work Trembling Still. He is also one half of the music and spoken word project Knights of Grief and Mystery, alongside musician Gregory Hoskins. Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/ Stephen Jenkinson Stephen Jenkinson — Orphan Wisdom https://www.orphanwisdom.com Trembling Still — New Book https://www.orphanwisdom.com Die Wise — Book https://www.orphanwisdom.com Knights of Grief and Mystery — Caldera (New Album) https://www.orphanwisdom.com/knights-of-grief-and-mystery
#94
July 6 · 1 hr
How To Eat For Your Soul | Dr. Will Tuttle
What if the most radical act available to us right now is not a protest, a policy, or a purchase, but a question? A question about what we are actually participating in every single day at the table. In this conversation, I sit down with Dr Will Tuttle, philosopher, musician, educator, former Zen Buddhist monk, and author of the worldwide bestseller The World Peace Diet, to explore one of the most confronting yet liberating truths: that the food on our plate is not just a personal choice. It is the foundation upon which our entire civilisation is built. And that foundation is far more troubled than most of us have been encouraged to look. That our entire economic culture began with the enslavement, torture and killing of animals. We speak about the herding revolution of 10,000 years ago, and how the decision to own animals as property gave rise, for the first time in human history, to war, slavery, and a ruling class. We speak about intelligence, and how Will's PhD research at UC Berkeley led him to understand that intelligence is simply the capacity to make connections, and how a culture built on not making connections erodes something essential in us. We speak about the inner work, the meditation, the silence, the daily practice of returning to who we actually are beneath the noise of what we have been told to be. But this is not a heavy conversation. It is, in many ways, a deeply hopeful one. Will is 72 years old and has the biological age of a man in his twenties. He has not visited a doctor or taken a prescription in over 50 years. He and his wife Madeleine grow 80 fruit and nut trees on a quarter-acre of land in Northern California, and they have spent their lives travelling the world sharing a message that is, at its heart, extraordinarily simple: we do not have to keep doing this. All beings can be free. There is another way. And it begins with us. This is an invitation to something far more alive, more connected, and more free than the story we have been given. About Dr. Will Tuttle is an award-winning speaker, educator, author, and musician whose work centres on compassion, intuition, meditation, and conscious living. He holds a PhD in education from the University of California, Berkeley, where his dissertation on the role of intuition in education was nominated for the Best Dissertation Award. A former Zen Buddhist monk who trained in South Korea, he has delivered over 4,000 presentations across more than 50 countries. He is the author of the acclaimed The World Peace Diet, now translated into 18 languages, as well as Food for Freedom, The World Peace Way, and numerous other books and recordings. He travels and presents globally alongside his wife Madeleine, a visionary watercolour artist from Switzerland. Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/ Dr. Will Tuttle Site https://www.willtuttle.com/ Socials https://www.instagram.com/WorldPeaceDiet/ Alan Rabinowitz Saving Big Cats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJdnSV5p-Yg
#93
June 28 · 1 hr 28 min
Flow Like Water. Why Forgivness Is The Path To Freedom | Veda Austin
In this episode, I speak with Veda Austin - water researcher, speaker, and one of those rare guests who can move from the deeply personal to the deeply metaphysical without losing warmth or clarity. What begins with a near-fatal story from her youth opens into a wider conversation about forgiveness, self-trust, consciousness, healing, and the intelligence that lives within water. Veda reflects on surviving trauma, forgiving the unforgivable, and the unexpected lessons that came not through certainty, but through relationship - with life, with grief, with herself, and with the element that has become her life’s work. This is a conversation about mystery, pain, forgiveness and freedom. Probably more importantly. It's about learning to allow love to move what force can no longer. If you’ve ever felt drawn to the edges of science, spirit, and human experience, then you'll love this conversation. Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/ Veda Austin Site https://www.vedaaustin.com/ Socials https://www.instagram.com/vedaaustin_water/?hl=en The Frequency Movie Site https://thefrequencymovie.com/ Luc Montagnier DNA Transduction https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26098521/
#92
June 21 · 1 hr 20 min
Arguments Against Manifestation. How To Work With Your Mind | Brian Withers
What if manifestation wasn't about magical thinking at all, but about learning how to work with your own mind? In this conversation with Brian Withers, we unpack energy, alignment, desire, resistance, and the stories we've inherited about suffering. They move past the usual language around "raising your vibration" and get into something far more practical: how your thoughts shape your emotional state, how your emotional state shapes your choices, and how those choices quietly build a life. They talk about heartbreak, melancholy, religion, self-worth, business, the law of attraction, and why so much of what we call struggle may actually be a misunderstanding of how life works. Brian makes the case that suffering isn't noble, desire isn't the problem, and the real work is learning to notice resistance and release it before it runs the show. This is a conversation about responsibility, focus, and the possibility of living with more clarity and less fear. Not by denying pain, but by meeting it differently. If you've ever felt sceptical of manifestation language, but still suspect there's something powerful in the way we think, feel, and move through the world, this one is for you. Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers/videos Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/ Brian Withers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@brianwithers357 Socials https://www.instagram.com/theknowledgeoflife/ Site highervibrationsnow.com
#89
June 8 · 1 hr 31 min
Why We Push Love Away | Justin Patrick Pierce
What if the conflict in our relationships is not really between men and women, but between the parts of ourselves we have never learned how to bring together? In this conversation, I sit down with Justin Patrick Pierce, relationship consultant, teacher, writer and long-time student of sacred sexuality, intimacy, polarity and non-duality. Justin’s work moves beyond the usual conversations around masculine and feminine. He is not interested in dragging us back into old gender roles, or giving people another rigid script for how men and women should behave. Instead, he offers a more nuanced and practical language for understanding the forces that move through all of us: awareness and energy, stillness and feeling, desire and surrender, Alpha and Omega. We speak about the crisis many couples are facing now, where two people can love each other deeply, build a life together, and still feel like they are missing each other in the places that matter most. Sex becomes strained. Desire becomes confusing. One person wants closeness while the other wants space. One person feels unseen while the other feels burdened. And slowly, the relationship becomes less a place of intimacy and more a place of quiet conflict. At the heart of Justin’s work is a simple but profound question: how do we stop making our partner the enemy, and begin to see relationship itself as the place where our deepest spiritual practice begins? This is a conversation about love, desire, sacred sex, masculine and feminine polarity, the longing to be free, and the strange ways we sabotage the intimacy we most deeply want. It is also about why trying to escape relationship may be the very thing that keeps us trapped. And what becomes possible when we stop looking for freedom outside the moment, and instead learn how to meet the person in front of us with more presence, more truth, and more love. At its heart, this episode is an invitation to rethink intimacy. Not as something we perform. Not as something we control. But as a living practice, one that asks us to see more clearly, feel more honestly, and come closer to the parts of ourselves and each other we have spent a lifetime trying to avoid. About Justin Patrick Pierce has spent sixteen years in an intimate laboratory: his own marriage to Londin Angel Winters. Developing, testing, and refining a body of work on sacred sexuality and spiritual intimacy. He is not a therapist. He is not a theorist. He is a practitioner who teaches what he lives, and who lives what he teaches. His approach is nondual at its root: beneath the dance of Alpha and Omega, there is one consciousness knowing itself through the polarity of two. Understanding this changes everything about how you meet your partner, your desire, and yourself. Teaching alongside him is Londin Angel Winters, sacred intimacy teacher, devoted practitioner, and the other half of this work. Londin leads the Women's Circle and co-leads the Couples Practice. She is co-author of both books. Her teaching lives in the body, breath, sensation, desire, the places women have learned to shut down. She doesn't teach concepts. She teaches women how to feel again. Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers/videos Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/ Justin Patrick Peirce Site www.JustinPatrickPierce.com Socials https://www.instagram.com/JustinPatrickPierce Books Playing With Fire: The Spiritual Path of Intimate Relationship & The Awakened Woman’s Guide to Everlasting Love,
#90
June 8 · 5 min
Exactly How Your Belief Shapes Your Body | Mikey Breathes
Losing Weight & Building Muscle Mind Mind-set matters | Exercise and the placebo effect https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17425538/
#88
June 1 · 1 hr 43 min
The Body Conscious. How To Shape Your Body With Awareness | Mikey Breathes
What if you could become younger, lose weight, and build muscle without treatments, calorie counting, or working out? In this conversation, I sit down with MikeyBreathes - a teacher, traveller, unintentional provocateur, and one of the more unique voices in the modern health and embodiment space. Mikey’s work sits far outside the usual language of wellness. He is not speaking about another supplement, protocol, diet, or biohack. His central idea sits far outside the usual textbooks on human health and biology: that the power we are searching for is already within us, and that the body is not a machine to be fixed but an expression of consciousness, belief, attention, and energy. We speak about health, ageing, fasting, identity, illness, belief, embodiment, and what happens when we stop outsourcing our power to authority figures, systems, experts, and inherited ideas about what is possible. Mikey shares his own story, growing up in poverty, experiencing deep childhood difficulty, developing gynecomastia as a young boy, and beginning a lifelong inquiry into the body, the mind, and the hidden architecture of belief. His claims are challenging, sometimes might appear outrageous, and will undoubtedly stretch the limits of what many people are willing to consider. But beneath this is a deeper invitation: to question how much of what we call biology is also shaped by perception, identity, fear, and the stories we unconsciously live inside. This is a conversation about the body as a divine instrument. About the difference between living and simply not dying. About why so much of modern health is built on fear, control, and disconnection. And about what might become possible when we stop trying to escape the body and instead come all the way back into it. At its heart, this episode is an invitation to stay curious. To ask better questions. Mentioned Studies Dwarf to Giant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Rainer Losing Weight & Building Muscle Mind Mind-set matters Exercise and the placebo effect https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17425538/ Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers/videos Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/ Mickey Breathes Socials https://www.instagram.com/mikeybreathes/ The Life Guide https://theguide.life/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio
#87
May 21 · 1 hr 12 min
You're Projecting Everything. How To Reprogram Your Reality | Brian Withers
In this conversation, I sit down with Brian Withers, author, life coach, and creator of Higher Vibrations Now, to explore manifestation from a different lens. Manifestation, not as wishful thinking. Not as forcing the universe to give us what we want. But as a deeper education in thought, emotion, vibration, and the power we have to choose the meaning we give to life. Brian’s work centres on personal empowerment, that our emotions are not random but offer guidance. That the way we think about ourselves, our experiences, our struggles, and our desires shapes the energy we live from. And that when we begin to change the way we see, speak, and respond to life, the world we experience begins to change with us. We speak about contrast, grief, childhood programming, the stories we inherit, and why so many of us unconsciously create from old beliefs rather than from who we truly are. Brian explains what he calls the “creative process,” the role of the Law of Attraction, and why negative emotion may not be something to fear, but a signal pointing us back towards a truer perspective. This is also a conversation about responsibility in the most liberating sense. The responsibility to notice our thoughts. To choose our focus. To stop letting the outside world dictate our inner state. And to remember that the energy we carry into the world is not just personal; it contributes to the collective. At its heart, this episode is about reclaiming authorship of your life. About learning to tell a new story. And perhaps, about realising that nothing has gone wrong, we have simply forgotten how powerful we are. About Brian Brian Withers, HCT, CECP, is a life coach, author, personal empowerment teacher, and the creator of Higher Vibrations Now. His work focuses on helping people understand and shift their personal energy vibration through present-moment thought choices, emotional awareness, and what he describes as personal vibration training. He is the author of Higher Vibrations for Health, Happiness and Harmony, Higher Vibrations for a Healthy, Happy and Harmonious Relationship, and The Book of Life. His first book includes a 20-week programme designed to help people shift into a more positively focused mind, while The Book of Life explores what Brian calls the Creative Process Cycle, a framework for understanding why we are here, who we are, and how life works. Brian holds a certification in Health and Wellness Coaching and is also a Certified Emotion Code Practitioner. Through his books, coaching, online teachings, and YouTube channel, he shares practical tools for changing thought patterns, understanding emotional guidance, and returning to what he describes as our natural high-vibration state. His work is rooted in the belief that health, happiness, harmony, and personal transformation are available to everyone when we learn how to work with our own thoughts, emotions, and energy. Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers/videos Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/ Brian Withers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@brianwithers357 Socials https://www.instagram.com/theknowledgeoflife/ Site highervibrationsnow.com
#86
May 14 · 1 hr 3 min
How Trauma Creates Time & And What To Do To Break Free | Bryan Hubbard
What if time isn’t just something we move through, but something that lives inside us? In this conversation, I sit down with Bryan Hubbard, philosopher, journalist, author, and the creator of Time-Light Therapy, to explore the idea that trauma may not simply be stored in the body but expressed through our relationship with time. Bryan’s work turns much of the conventional language around healing on its head. Rather than seeing ourselves as fixed individuals carrying depression, anxiety, anger, self-sabotage, or old wounds, he suggests that what we call the self is a creation of the past shaped by unresolved energies, inherited stories, and the moments we were never fully able to meet. We speak about childhood trauma, the emotional patterns that quietly repeat through our lives, why the past keeps seeking vindication in the present, and how so many of the behaviours we judge ourselves for may not be “who we are” at all, but expressions of something deeper asking to be seen. This is also a conversation about hope. Not the shallow kind. But the kind that comes from recognising that no matter how heavy the past has become, there may still be a way through. That healing is not about becoming someone new, but remembering the part of us that was never truly damaged. Bryan also shares the deeply personal origins of Time-Light, how his own experience of childhood abuse, chronic depression, and eventual revelation led him to develop a therapeutic model centred around time, trauma, consciousness, and the possibility of becoming fully alive in the present. At its heart, this episode is about the courage to look within. To see the patterns. To stop mistaking the mask for the self. And perhaps to remember that the revolution we keep waiting for out there has always had to begin in the heart. About Bryan Hubbard Bryan Hubbard is a philosopher, journalist, author, publisher, and the creator of Time-Light Therapy, a spiritual therapeutic method that explores trauma through our relationship with time. He is the author of Time-Light and The Untrue Story of You, and is co-editor of the international magazine What Doctors Don’t Tell You. His work brings together philosophy, trauma healing, spirituality, journalism, and personal inquiry to offer a new way of understanding the self, the past, and the possibility of freedom. Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers/videos Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/ Bryan Hubbard Site https://www.timelighttherapy.com/
#85
May 7 · 1 hr 19 min
Seeing Without Sight & Future Humans | Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan
In this conversation, I sit down with Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan, a practitioner of Chinese medicine, a researcher of human potential, and someone who, quite literally, had her world turned inside out through a single, profound experience during meditation. What followed wasn’t a neat spiritual awakening. It was years of questioning… of trying to reconcile what she had felt. A state of complete love, peace, and contentment with the density of everyday human life. From that moment on, her work has been about one thing: how we return to what we already are. We explore what it means to be human, not just biologically, but energetically. The idea that much of what we experience as limitation may simply be unpractised capacity. That intuition isn’t something mystical, but something we’ve forgotten how to use. This is where our true human capacities may go beyond anything we can currently imagine, such as learning to literally see without sight. But underneath all of it is something far simpler. A return to self-awareness. To self-care. To self-love. Because maybe the most radical idea in all of this, is that we’re not lacking anything. We’ve just forgotten how to look. Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan is a holistic Chinese medicine doctor, consciousness and human potential coach, author, speaker, and educator. Her work focuses on meditation, human potential, intuition, wellness, “blindfold vision,” conscious parenting, and what she describes as “new human possibilities.” She combines traditional Chinese medicine, spirituality, meditation practices, and human potential coaching. Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers/videos Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/ Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan Website Dr Edith Ubuntu Chan Website School / Organisation The School of Dan Tian Wellness School of Dan Tian Wellness Course Portal Kajabi Course Portal Dr Edith Course Portal Socials https://www.instagram.com/dredithubuntu/ YouTube Dr Edith Ubuntu Chan YouTube Blindfold Trainings (Kids, Adults & Facilitator training) http://Blindfold.Vision

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