Feel Safe in Your Body

In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka talks with Tiffany Nicole, a coach who works at the meeting point of belief and the body. Her own story starts in a hard place: anxiety she carried for most of her life without a name for it, a depression in college severe enough that she says she did not want to live, and a panic disorder that sent her to the ER more than once. Content note...

In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Vaishali Bhargava, a soft skills trainer, wellness advocate, content creator, and the founder of NaniMa's Wisdom. At 60, she is living something our culture rarely talks about honestly: the way a whole season of life can quietly disconnect you from yourself. Vaishali is clear that her story is not about one big event. It is th...

In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Emmy Riker, a coach who spent years at a Fortune 200 company, successful by every external measure, until her body started doing something her mind could not argue with. Panic attacks. Depression. Nights that frightened her. Emmy names something Victor sees often: a nervous system rejecting a life that does not fit. The great...

In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Kriti Ghosh, an artist who is autistic and ADHD, and who was misdiagnosed with borderline personality disorder more than once. She talks about what it costs to have your wiring named wrong, and what it took to find her own language instead. For her, that language is art. Kriti names something Victor sees often: expression as n...

In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Evi Kyriakopoulou, who spent fifteen years as a corporate overachiever, a director, an expat climbing the ladder in the Netherlands, the kind of person who could push through anything. Until her body stopped letting her. Evi names something Victor sees everywhere: a nervous system that learned worth had to be earned, and never...

Dr. Adam Anthony learned to read rooms before he could name why. As a same-race Black adoptee who came up in spaces that were not always safe, his body got good at sensing the shift before it happened, knowing who was safe and who was not. He calls it sharp attunement. It kept him safe as a kid, and it did not switch off when he grew up. In this episode, Victor Goenka sits with Adam around one arc...

In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Sherri Grieve, a peer support coach, author, and founder of Life Rewired who works from lived experience. For most of her life Sherri ran on survival mode without knowing that is what it was. From the outside she looked like she had it all together. Single parent, full-time job, putting herself through college, volunteering fo...

In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Keola Grey, a childhood brain tumor survivor from Oahu who has spent over two decades learning how to feel safe in a body that was once the battlefield. Keola was diagnosed as a young child. The tumor was caught early and removed completely, and that is where the harder part of his story begins. He had to start again from grou...

In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Farrah Weir, a life coach and single mother of two from South Africa who rebuilt her own sense of safety through years of moment-to-moment practice. Farrah came on with a simple line: if anyone's nervous system should be shot, it should be hers. A marriage that ended, a business lost, a birth navigated with almost no support,...

In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Derek Notman, a somatic educator and lifelong student of movement and healing arts who teaches people how to come back into their own bodies. Derek has spent more than three decades studying physical culture and philosophy, including years living in China and Southeast Asia training with traditional masters of martial, movemen...

In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Trung Nguyen, a founder who spent ten years and three burnouts learning that the decisions breaking his business were not business decisions. They were nervous system states dressed up as strategy. For years his answer was the same. Push harder, more output, more proving. It looked functional. Underneath it ran on hidden stres...

In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Robyn Riedlinger, a public speaking coach who helps founders and entrepreneurs find stage confidence, and the founder of Your Signature Talk. Public speaking is the most common fear on the planet, and Robyn's premise is that it is not a mindset problem. It is a body problem. The moment you stand in front of a room, your nervou...

In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Braden Hatch, a mortgage lender, real estate agent, author, and podcast host out of Arizona. By every external measure, Braden is a man who handles things. He ran three businesses and thrived on daily crisis. Then the chaos finally quieted, and his body panicked. It is a story a lot of high-functioning people will recognize: a...

In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Maria Arlene, known to her audience as Coach A. A life coach, content creator, operations manager, and a single mother of three, she spent more than a decade rebuilding a nervous system that had only ever known defense mode. Maria names something Victor sees everywhere: the survival strategies we mistake for personality. The o...

In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Aline Kara Harrington, a public school teacher of 25 years, a writer, and a longtime yoga practitioner whose early life was shaped by fear. Severe anxiety and OCD that began in childhood, even as she learned to function, succeed, and carry everyone around her. Aline names something Victor sees everywhere: the survival patterns...

McKayan May spent most of his life as, in his own words, a neurotic, depressed, and compulsive person, with addiction from a young age and a nervous system locked in fight or flight. He brought one frame worth taking seriously: addiction is survival, and performance is worth. The compulsion and the overachieving were never two problems. They were the same nervous system running the same program. T...

In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Meryl Hayton, a trauma-informed inner peace specialist who helps women feel safe in their own minds and bodies. She did not start there. For most of her life she was run by fear. Fear of running out of money. Fear of speaking up. A constant worry about what everyone thought of her, and an anxious grip on the people she loved....

A note before you listen: Rachel's story touches grief, trauma, and addiction. We keep those at the level she chose and do not go into the private parts. Take care of yourself as you listen. For about a decade, Rachel Heather had small burnouts and partial recoveries, always just well enough to keep working, never well enough to actually live. Her words for it are functioning, not living. She was...

In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Oak Mountain, an author, philosopher, and men's mentor who spent years dissociated, numb, and hyper-vigilant, and who calls himself "mid journey" on purpose. This is a story told from the trail, not the summit. Oak is a survivor of complex childhood sexual trauma. He starts where the wiring lived, inside a daily life that did...

In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Thien Harrah, an author, songwriter, and speaker born in Vietnam who writes about healing, exile, and the long road back to the self. Thien describes her nervous system journey as weather. First calm, the kind where you move through your days on autopilot and never stop to ask if you actually want this life. Then, last Septemb...

In this first episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Donya Khandan, an Identity Alchemist based in Dubai certified in hypnotherapy, EFT, and business mindset coaching. In her early 20s, Donya built a finance career from the ground up. She started at 19, became a top agent in Ontario, and led a team of 15. From the outside it worked. On the inside, her body was breaking dow...