KIZUKI the Podcast

Mae reflects on a slow New Year’s beginning in Japan and a journaling insight about nervous system safety. She explores how balance and equanimity are not achievements but natural states that arise when the body feels safe—offering a reframe on rest, regulation, and trust in nature. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful tool for self-awarene...

Mae reflects on a childhood memory that wired her nervous system to associate wanting more with shame and danger. Through a quiet, healing moment many years later, she explores how safety, worth, and the capacity to receive can be rewired—not through force, but through lived experience. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful tool for self-awa...

Mae explores how high-achievers internalize constant self-measurement. She invites listeners to question timelines, resolutions, and the mind’s obsession with “what’s next,” offering a kizuki on living more fully in the present without a countdown. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful tool for self-awareness and transformation. A pioneer in...

Mae reflects on growing up in a family of models and how early exposure to beauty as a commodity subtly shaped her sense of worth. Through a small but meaningful realization, she explores how external beauty once subtracted from her self-value, and how shifting her attention toward presence, service, and soul-centered beauty transformed her relationship with herself. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is...

Mae reflects on a moment that revealed love as action rather than intention, and how showing up—especially when it disrupts comfort—can change a relationship forever. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful tool for self-awareness and transformation. A pioneer in wellness and personal development, Mae was the first Japanese woman authorized by...

Mae reflects on the subtle but powerful ways this year shaped her. It’s an intimate look at growth, softness, and the quiet pride that comes from honoring your becoming. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful tool for self-awareness and transformation. A pioneer in wellness and personal development, Mae was the first Japanese woman authorized...

Mae reflects on how beginnings often mask the truth of who people are, and how endings reveal everything. Through stories of past relationships, divorce, and the sudden death of her second husband, she explores how rupture uncovers tenderness, avoidance, integrity, or love. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful tool for self-awareness and tr...

Mae shares a deeply personal moment when clarity arrived only after surrender, leading her to make a difficult decision that created friction. She explores the courage required when internal integrity outweighs external harmony, and how the soul leads us into freedom even when the small self aches. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful tool...

Mae explores why adults sometimes slip into childlike behavior when conversations get uncomfortable. Through real moments and psychological insight, she reveals how these “cute” reactions are often unconscious bids for emotional safety — and how recognizing them can transform the way we communicate. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful tool...

Mae revisits a long-ago love and discovers that true love doesn’t end when relationships do. Through a message from her past, she realizes how love can outlive form—how even decades later, a single tear can remind us of what never truly leaves. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful tool for self-awareness and transformation. A pioneer in wel...

After years of walking through life as a lone wolf, Mae reflects on how preparing for her TEDx talk became a turning point—from independence born of protection to connection born of trust. A heartfelt episode on the power of allowing ourselves to be held. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful tool for self-awareness and transformation. A pio...

Mae explores the subtle ways guilt disguises itself as humility, asking women to shrink in the name of modesty. Through personal stories and cultural reflection, she invites us to remember: we were never meant to play small. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful tool for self-awareness and transformation. A pioneer in wellness and personal d...

As Mae prepares for her TEDx debut, she confronts the fear of public speaking—and the deeper fear of being judged. Through practice, community, and a powerful kizuki , she discovers that readiness isn’t about perfection. It’s about dissolving the illusion of separation—and realizing we were never alone to begin with. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™...

A surprise meeting in Tokyo sparks a vivid memory from Mae’s twenties—when a single decision led her to witness one of nature’s most miraculous phenomena. In this episode, she reflects on how serendipity is never the final destination—but a sacred invitation to walk deeper into Life. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful tool for self-awaren...

A single sentence from a friend opens Mae’s heart to something she hadn’t realized she’d closed. In this episode, she reflects on how pain can harden us—and how we can still choose to open again, not because it’s safe, but because it’s true. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful tool for self-awareness and transformation. A pioneer in wellne...

Mae departs from her usual storytelling to share an original poem, written in spring 2025. A meditation on presence, legacy, and love’s quiet transformation of loss, it invites the listener to pause and receive life exactly as it is—in all its forms. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful tool for self-awareness and transformation. A pioneer...

Mae unpacks how the search for answers can quietly become a form of self-punishment—especially when we judge the version of ourselves in the middle of becoming. Drawing inspiration from Frida Kahlo’s raw self-portraits, this episode is a love letter to the not-yet, the still-cooking, and the deeply real. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful...

Mae shares a powerful reflection on how emotions don't always appear in their purest form. Through her own journey, she explores how grief can unlock long-buried anger, revealing that when we peel back the layers of what we feel, we touch what’s most real. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful tool for self-awareness and transformation. A pi...

Mae shares a personal story of practicing her TEDx talk with her teenage son—only to find him asleep mid-speech. What could have been frustrating turned into a grounding kizuki : the reminder that some people uplift, some challenge, and some simply keep us human. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful tool for self-awareness and transformatio...

Mae explores the outsized language of “great” and “radical” in American culture, contrasting it with Japan’s reverence for subtle perception. She reflects on how language shapes reality—and why naming the quiet truths may be the most radical act of all. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful tool for self-awareness and transformation. A pione...

Mae shares how a fleeting thought at lunch with a friend revealed a hidden entitlement rooted in generational victimhood. She reframes the cycle, offering a path from pain and “being owed” to freedom, honor, and the joy of giving from fullness. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful tool for self-awareness and transformation. A pioneer in wel...

Mae reflects on cynicism as her old survival mechanism—how it shaped her identity, how her late husband’s neutrality mirrored it back, and how grief revealed its true cost. Inspired by Kyle Cease’s reflections on comedy, she invites listeners to notice the patterns they picked up in childhood that no longer serve them—and to consider what it would feel like to lay them down. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yosh...

Mae shares a deeply personal realization from her summer trip to the Philippines, where witnessing her children’s care and emotional maturity helped her body release decades-old tension. She reflects on how small acts of safety can heal nervous system patterns rooted in childhood, and how gentle love can rewrite the past. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y me...

Mae revisits her first heartbreak—a relationship that ended not in betrayal, but in distance and care. She explores the emotional contradiction of grieving without wrongdoing, and reflects on the powerful kizuki that sometimes, leaving is the deepest form of love. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful tool for self-awareness and transformati...

Mae reflects on how early childhood shaped her relationship to trust, and how love can’t truly land unless it first feels safe. Drawing from attachment theory, somatic healing, and her own kizuki moments, she explores why our nervous systems might block the very thing we long for—the longing to be held. Mae Yoshikawa Mae Yoshikawa is the creator of the Kizuki Journaling MAE Y method™ , a powerful...