The Mindful Journey

Most of us think boundaries fail because our words aren't firm enough. Boundaries coach Barb Nangle returns to The Mindful Journey to explain why boundaries actually collapse when we don't feel safe enough inside ourselves to hold them. Barb walks through the moment at 52 that led her into twelve-step recovery, how codependency and victim mentality show up in subtle everyday ways, and how learning...

We spend so much time thinking about where we're going, our careers, our goals, the things we want to achieve, and far less time noticing what's happening inside us while we do it all. Swati sits down with Terry Bean, author, executive life coach, and speaker, to talk about mindfulness as something far more accessible than most people assume, and growth as a practice rather than a place you eventu...

The phrase "dark night of the soul" gets used often enough that it can lose its weight, but it's not a bad week, it's a complete disconnection from everything that used to hold meaning. Sana sits down with Reverend Frances Fayden, spiritual mentor, author, and host of the Magnify Your Miracles podcast, to talk about what happened on the other side of hers. Frances walks through the six years she s...

Most couples build their relationship on chemistry alone, and that's exactly why so many struggle once the early romance phase fades. This episode is for anyone who wants their relationship to be intentional rather than left to instinct. Gaylen Wilson joins Sreemedha to share the Monument Method, a practice he and his wife Heather built to stop fights before they start, repair connection quickly,...

When something hard happens, the storm usually passes, but it tends to leave something behind, a quiet wiring that says stay small, stay guarded, don't hope too much. Sana sits down with Fadi Sarieddine, a spiritual healer and author, to talk about the fear that keeps steering decisions long after the hard thing is actually over. Fadi shares the story behind his upcoming book, At the End of a Stor...

Most people don't lose themselves in a single dramatic moment, they lose themselves one ordinary day at a time, and often nobody tells them until years have passed. Sana sits down with executive coach and certified Enneagram trainer Theresa Gale to talk about self-forgetting, self-remembering, and what it actually takes to come back to yourself. Theresa shares how a difficult early childhood exper...

There's a particular kind of tired going around right now, a sense that the old ways of coping aren't quite working and nobody's sure what the new ones look like. Sana sits down with Kate Heartsong, known as the Confidence and Career Coach, to talk about self-esteem, uncertainty, and what she calls humanity's current evolutionary shift. Kate shares the childhood accident that led to undiagnosed he...

Imagine being a child who feels things other people cannot explain away, not fear exactly, more like a knowing, with nobody around you having a word for it. Sana sits down with Daniel Winrose, author of Along Trails of Truth, to talk about growing up in a dysfunctional family, a childhood spiritual encounter that stayed with him for decades, and the long, patient road back to his own heart. Daniel...

You walk into your kitchen and start wondering about the air you're breathing, the water you're drinking, the surfaces your children touch, and suddenly the whole house feels like a problem to solve. Navya sits down with Risa Suzuki, a certified Building Biology Environmental Consultant, to talk about creating a healthier home without turning it into another source of stress. Risa shares two clien...

Have you ever caught your own reflection and needed a half second to recognize the person looking back? Sana sits down with Brian Parana, who has spent more than two decades coaching real people, not Instagram people, on fitness, nutrition, and lifestyle, to talk about the slow drift that happens between who we were and who we've quietly become. Brian shares why health struggles are so often misre...

Many of us spend years searching for healing as though we are broken, and the searching itself can become the obstacle. Zachariah Rehder spent fifteen years accumulating spiritual knowledge before realizing understanding was never the point. An international breathwork facilitator and healer, Zach talks with Sana about why the conscious mind can't grasp the infinite, how breath helps completed fee...

What if neurodiversity isn't something to be fixed, but something to be understood? In this moving episode of The Mindful Journey , neurodiversity advocate and storyteller Thomas R. Wilson shares his remarkable journey from being labeled a "problem" in childhood to becoming a mentor, educator, and champion for people whose minds work differently. Growing up, Thomas faced bullying, misunderstanding...

Most of us override our own knowing dozens of times a day without noticing, that tight feeling in the stomach, that pull in one direction we reason ourselves right out of. Jennifer Halls left a career as a museum curator with no roadmap to become an intuition consultant. Nearly 25,000 consultations later, she joins Sana to talk about dread as a messenger and how to build a relationship with your o...

You can be functioning, even impressively, and still not be living. Survival mode is quiet like that. It stops feeling like a crisis and starts feeling normal. Paul Padgett has spent four decades rebuilding lives after disasters, and his own more than once. He sits with Sana to name the loop and explore what shifts when clarity replaces confusion and action replaces reaction. ABOUT THE GUEST: Paul...

Meet Jihane Laraichi, energy coach and certified therapist, who joins Mindful Journey to talk about staying grounded through serious illness, including cancer diagnosis and recovery. Listeners will hear gentle grounding practices to sit alongside medical care, not replace it, for moments fear feels loudest. About the Guest: Jihane Laraichi is an energy coach and certified therapist in Barcelona, w...

This episode is for anyone who learned early to keep their emotions tidy and useful instead of honest. Author and disability advocate Elisa Neven-Pugh joins The Mindful Journey to talk about what it actually means to be real with what you feel, especially in the middle of something hard. Elisa shares how her faith reshaped her relationship with strength and vulnerability, why she calls anger and g...

This episode is for anyone whose mind won't stop talking, replaying conversations, rehearsing worries, and second-guessing decisions before they're even made. Life coach and Akashic Records consultant Claudia Gallegos joins The Mindful Journey to talk about negotiating with an overactive mind instead of being run by it. Claudia shares why suppressing your thoughts only makes them louder, how a sim...

There is a question almost no one says aloud, though most of us are asking it. It shows up as an ache at the end of a long day. What about me? Am I enough? Do I matter? Tom Anderson joins host Sana to sit with that question. Where it comes from, why it is so universal, and what it actually wants from us when it shows up. About the Guest: Tom Anderson is a writer and speaker on identity and spiritu...

Twelve walks on the Camino de Santiago, and the same discovery each time. Weeks of walking strip away everything that is not essential, until what is left is you. Reino Gevers joins host Sana to talk about burnout, buried memory, and the difference between covering history and finally sitting with your own. About the Guest: Reino Gevers is a South African born journalist, author and speaker based...

If healing has started to feel like one more thing you are failing at, this conversation is for you. The protocols, the routines, the quiet pressure to do it all correctly. Dr. Ellyn Hilliard-McLeod joins host Sana to explore holistic nutrition, the core beliefs we form about food, and what changes when wholeness is something you remember rather than earn. About the Guest: Dr. Ellyn Hilliard-McLeo...

For over twenty years, Dr. Jeffrey Bone sat across from people whose bodies had stopped cooperating with their lives. Then his own diagnosis asked him to walk the same road. In this Mindful Journey conversation, Jeffrey and Sana move slowly through what it means to heal inside a world built for productivity, not humanness. On silence, on being disbelieved, and on finding your own voice again. Abou...

For anyone who senses a quiet voice asking "is this really it?" while everything looks fine from the outside. Sana sits with spiritual healer Shawngela Pierce to explore what awakening actually looks like: gentle, gradual, rarely dramatic. You will leave with a softer way to notice divine guidance, why the body holds what the mind avoids, and how to stay with an awakening long after the inspired m...

This episode is for anyone who's been told the world outside is dangerous and quietly organizes their life around that fear. Joe Hehn, a mindset expert and consciousness teacher who spent a decade traveling after the loss of his wife, joins host Sana on The Mindful Journey to make the case for a different starting belief: that the world is kind. Joe shares what nearly 40 countries and years of tra...

This episode is for anyone facing something so heavy it feels impossible to carry, and wondering how to keep showing up anyway. Jonathan Brandt joins host Sana on The Mindful Journey to share his and his late wife Christy's story: back-to-back cancer diagnoses, and the philosophy they built together called Go Out Living. Jonathan reflects on the attitude that carried them through years of treatmen...

There's a quiet frustration many people carry. They have done the work: meditation, journaling, therapy, books, podcasts. They know their patterns by name. And yet something keeps repeating, something that awareness alone cannot seem to reach. Ali Christos has spent years sitting with people in exactly that place. On The Mindful Journey, he joins Sana to explore what quantum healing hypnosis opens...