The Spiritual Shitshow Podcast

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Spiritual Shitshow Podcast, Julie Nguyen breaks down the real difference between gratitude and abundance — and why abundance can actually feel "sticky" once you start really tracking it. Gratitude is easy: you're grateful for your health, your family, your shoes. But abundance? That requires you to notice what's overflowing around you — t...

Send us Fan Mail Manifestation, embodiment, and abundance aren't three separate spiritual buzzwords — they're one continuous bridge, and most people are skipping the middle step. In this episode of [Podcast Name], we're diving deep into Theme One: Embodiment — the missing link between wanting something and actually receiving it. You'll learn why manifestation isn't about w...

Send us Fan Mail If your life feels like it's falling apart — like something died, like nothing makes sense anymore, like you don't recognize the person in the mirror — this episode is for you. In this first episode of The Spiritual Shitshow Podcast , we break down the Hero's Journey — the ancient storytelling framework found in nearly every myth, religion, and personal transformati...

Send us Fan Mail The hardest part of growth isn’t always the pain, it’s the moment you realize you might be ready for more. I had a realization this week that felt equal parts liberating and annoying: I keep thinking about my estrangement from my sister, and I keep asking when it ends. When do I stop replaying it, grieving it, trying to understand it, especially when the person is still alive? The...

Send us Fan Mail You know that moment when you wake up, stare at your calendar, and think: does any of this matter? That’s where I start today, raw and a little over the grind. After years of hustling in a past career and then being forced to rebuild, I hit the kind of frustration that makes you question your gifts, your worth, and whether your creative work is actually making a difference.  Then...

Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to suffer is to treat your first interpretation as reality. I’m sharing a phrase that has genuinely changed how I move through heartbreak, feedback, uncertainty, and those moments when my mind writes a whole negative story in seconds: “the truth has 144 faces.” When I remember that, I can feel the tight grip of certainty loosen and something better take its place:...

Send us Fan Mail You can feel it in your body when you’re performing. The tightness, the self-editing, the constant scanning for how you’re coming across. I talk about that push-pull of wanting recognition while also being terrified of being seen, because being seen means people notice your mistakes, misunderstand you, and have opinions you can’t control. I also name the sneaky ways we try to earn...

Send us Fan Mail Healing can turn into a loop that never ends: another thing to fix, another way to improve, another reason to feel behind. I’m sharing the moment I realized I don’t want to live there anymore, and why the next step isn’t “more healing” but remembering who I am and learning to love her again, even when she’s awkward, eager, messy, or wildly ambitious.  We talk about the power of au...

Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to change your life might be changing one sentence you keep repeating. I’m talking about the power of a reframe, not as fake positivity, but as a spiritual practice that shifts your energy, your focus, and your sense of what’s possible. When I catch myself saying “I have so much work to do” while I’m building and creating, I realize how quickly my own words can tur...

Send us Fan Mail Your past can teach you a lot, but it can also become a portal you keep reopening every time you’re scared to move forward. I’m Julie Nguyen, and I share what I’m living in real time: the moment my guides basically told me to “close the portal on your past,” and the uncomfortable truth that sometimes “I need to heal more” is just a polished version of fear. The real question isn’t...

Send us Fan Mail Healing can save your life and still become a trap. We’ve both seen how easy it is to swap one kind of survival for another: scanning for what’s wrong, chasing the next supplement, the next diagnosis, the next nervous system technique, the next piece of trauma to uncover. When the “work” becomes your identity, it starts to quietly reinforce the belief that you’re broken. We dig in...

Send us Fan Mail Four short lines can sound like a cliché until you try them when your chest is tight, your mind is spinning, and your body is still carrying the charge of what happened. We sit down with the Ho'oponopono prayer, an ancient Hawaiian healing practice, and share how “I’m sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you” becomes less about performing forgiveness and more about cle...

Send us Fan Mail Your manifestations don’t just respond to what you write down, they respond to what you’re willing to feel. We’re sharing a channeled May message with one simple theme that keeps getting repeated for a reason: love and allowance. Not as a fluffy idea, but as a grounded practice that changes how you move through your day, how you make choices, and how safe your body feels while you...

Send us Fan Mail A stranger looks past my head and says I “brought a lot of people” with me. Minutes later, a mystic across a tea table asks the kind of question that makes your stomach drop: Do you know who you are? Not what you do. Not what you’ve survived. Not what your gifts are. Who you are.  I’m Julie Nguyen, and I’m sharing a dreamlike night from 2020 when I was overseas teaching dance righ...

Send us Fan Mail Holding a beloved pet through their final breath is one of the clearest, most heartbreaking mirrors life can offer. I’m recording for the first time without my little dog Jack beside me, and I share what it was like to walk him through the dying process after 17 years together, including the tender details we rarely say out loud: the pauses, the fighting, the peace, and the moment...

Send us Fan Mail A goodbye can be the most honest spiritual practice you’ll ever touch. I’m sitting in my living room in Colorado with the window open on a snowy May day, recording while my sweet dog Jack rests beside me at the edge of his transition. This isn’t polished, and it isn’t meant to be uplifting in a performative way. It’s grief in real time, and it’s also a love letter to what it means...

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve been calling it “healing” but it feels like you’re stuck in a daily scan for what’s wrong, this conversation offers a different doorway. I talk about shifting from a healing journey to a remembering journey so your growth stops feeling like self-correction and starts feeling like coming home to your real identity, your life force, and your one of one uniqueness. We go de...

Send us Fan Mail Family estrangement is a kind of grief that doesn’t fit neatly into the usual boxes. When the person you miss is still alive, still nearby, and still tangled up in your history, the sadness can feel endless and strangely invisible. I open up about my own rupture, what it cost me to leave an emotionally abusive and financially abusive relationship, and the deeper family fallout tha...

Send us Fan Mail You are not here to become someone else. That is the heartbeat of this Spiritual Shit Show solo, where I get blunt and tender about what self-love actually is and what it is not. If you have been treating your healing like a constant self-improvement project, consider this your reset: the whole journey is learning how to love yourself, not fix yourself into a perfect, polished, “e...

Send us Fan Mail Your nervous system might be the real narrator of your life and if it never learned safety, it will keep writing every scene like a threat is coming. We get honest about what it feels like to live revved up all the time, how that shapes relationships and self-image, and why “doing more healing” can turn into another survival strategy instead of real relief. I walk through the turn...

Send us Fan Mail Your life can fall apart and still be a gift, but only after you stop trying to rebuild the same old version of you. I’m sharing the raw story behind a major rupture in my world: building a successful dance studio in my twenties, living in nonstop pressure, then being forced to walk away and losing far more than a job. When the community disappears, the identity dissolves, and the...

Send us Fan Mail The weirdest part of healing is when it finally works. The chaos quiets down, your nervous system stops scanning for danger, and instead of instant bliss you feel… disoriented. If you’ve spent years doing therapy, trauma healing, inner child work, journaling, retreats, plant medicine, and personal development, that empty space can mess with your head. Your mind starts whispering:...

Send us Fan Mail Healing can feel amazing right up until it starts to feel like a drug. On 4/20, we play with the idea of “getting high” in a different way: getting so hooked on personal growth, therapy, journaling, shadow work, manifestation, and spiritual work that we forget how to simply live. If you have ever thought, “I have done the work… so now what?” you are going to feel seen.  We dig int...

Send us Fan Mail Your mind can understand what happened and still feel hijacked by it. That’s the reality of rupture and repair, and it’s why I keep coming back to the nervous system. When a relationship breaks, a family bond strains, or grief hits out of nowhere, the hardest part isn’t always the story. It’s the body reliving the charge through triggers, contraction, panic, numbness, or sudden te...

Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to lose yourself is to confuse your role with your essence and the slowest way back is learning who you are without the title. I’m recording from my dining room table, no lights and no performance, because this story needs the kind of honesty that can actually hold it.  I start with a question that can change everything: what identity feels most comfortable for you...