Episodi

  • RISING From Shame
    Jan 10 2026
    Rising from shame isn’t about fixing yourself—it’s about remembering who you are beneath the stories, the past, and the survival patterns that once kept you safe. In this episode, we explore what shame really is, how it lives in the body and mind, and the ways it once shaped our responses—hiding, numbing, striving, or self-abandoning. I share how my relationship with shame has changed over time, and what it looks like today to meet it with presence, compassion, and truth instead of resistance. This conversation is an invitation to pause, listen beneath the noise of judgment, and reconnect with the quieter voice of the soul—the one that reminds us that pain has purpose, darkness can be a doorway, and rising from shame is a practice of returning to love. Perfect for anyone on a healing or recovery path who is ready to stop fighting themselves and begin remembering. FREE BAN SHAME TIP SHEET⁠ EMPOWER YOUR RECOVERY⁠ ⁠YOGA (FREE for Parents in Recovery)⁠ ⁠GIVE BACK⁠ ⁠FOLLOW⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    25 min
  • Rising From Shame, The Light is Always Left On
    Jan 2 2026
    As we step into a new year, this episode is an invitation to slow down and listen to the quiet reminders of your soul calling you inward. We explore what it means to choose the spiritual path, rise above the noise of the mind, and gently release the grip of shame. When we learn to witness our thoughts rather than be ruled by them, the door to the light within us opens. In that rising, pain and darkness begin to reveal their deeper purpose—not as punishment, but as a passage back to wholeness. The light has always been left on inside your heart. My hope is that this year, you sit with it a little longer and get to know it a little deeper. NEWSLETTER As we step into a brand-new year, I want to begin by wishing you a gentle, grounded, and soul-led Happy New Year. A new year has a way of inviting reflection—not in a pressurized “new year, new you” kind of way, but in a quieter, more honest invitation to listen. To pause. To feel. To remember. I’m honored to welcome the year by sharing a new podcast episode that speaks directly to that remembering. This episode is about the subtle, persistent reminders we receive from our soul—the nudges that ask us to go within. The ones that don’t shout or demand, but patiently wait for us to slow down enough to hear them. So often, we look outward for clarity, validation, or direction, when all along there has been a light left on inside our own heart. That light has never gone out. This conversation is also about choosing the spiritual path—again and again. Not as a concept, but as a lived practice. Choosing to rise above the endless loop of thoughts, stories, and old identities that keep us tethered to shame, fear, and self-doubt. Learning how to witness the mind rather than be ruled by it is a radical act of devotion to the soul. Because it is in that rising—rising from shame—that the door to the light opens. And suddenly, something shifts. What once felt like meaningless pain, darkness, or turmoil begins to reveal its deeper purpose. We see that our suffering was not a punishment or a flaw, but a passage. A refining fire. An initiation that softened us, humbled us, and made room for truth, compassion, and connection. Even in seasons of grief, addiction, disconnection, or survival mode—especially then—the light remains. It may feel dim at times, obscured by fear or old conditioning, but it is always there, quietly whispering: Come home. In this episode, we explore what it means to listen to that inner voice again. Not the voice of the mind that rushes, criticizes, or compares—but the deeper voice of the soul that knows. The one that reminds us that wholeness isn’t something we earn or achieve; it’s something we remember. As we enter this next year, my hope for you isn’t that you become someone new. My hope is that you give yourself permission to sit with that inner Light a little longer. To get to know it more deeply. To trust it more fully. To let it guide you—not through force, but through presence. Maybe this year looks like fewer resolutions and more listening. Fewer distractions and more devotion to your inner life. More compassion for where you’ve been, and reverence for what it took to survive. This episode is an invitation—to slow down, to turn inward, and to remember that rising above the mind is not about bypassing pain, but about allowing it to transform you. Thank you for being here. Thank you for choosing awareness. Thank you for walking the path of courage, truth, and heart. May this year be one where you rise—gently, honestly, and soul-first. May you trust the light within you. And may you remember—you were never broken. With love and gratitude, Nadia ------------------------------------------------ FREE BAN SHAME TIP SHEET⁠ EMPOWER YOUR RECOVERY⁠ ⁠YOGA (FREE for Parents in Recovery)⁠ ⁠GIVE BACK⁠ ⁠FOLLOW⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    30 min
  • Coming Home For the Holidays ❤️
    Dec 19 2025
    The holidays often bring family patterns to the surface. In this short episode, I offer a quiet reminder from recovery: when we slow down and see the bigger picture, we create room for compassion, we empower our ability to respond rather than react. Time isn’t linear—old wounds, present moments, and future healing can meet right here. Our parents often respond from what was never healed, and when we choose a different response, we begin to change what gets passed on. This holiday season remember: most anything anyone does is either an active love or a cry for love. That’s how the soul experiences this life! Embrace acts of love AND authentically, let others know that you need it too. This is an invitation to come home to your heart, to the steadiness already within you, and to move through the season with more ease. Happy holidays. FREE BAN SHAME TIP SHEET⁠ EMPOWER YOUR RECOVERY⁠ ⁠YOGA (FREE for Parents in Recovery)⁠ ⁠GIVE BACK⁠ ⁠FOLLOW⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    20 min
  • The Courage to Be You, with Guest Teri Lynn - A Conversation Between Two Women Rising From Within
    Dec 6 2025
    This episode is your permission slip to stop shrinking. In this intimate and beautifully raw conversation, two women in recovery sit together, not as experts or influencers, but as sisters walking the same path—peeling back the layers, naming the truth, and reclaiming the parts of themselves long hidden under shame. Guest Teri Lynn, whose story has never been shared publicly, offers a rare look into the quiet bravery it takes to rise authentically and be who you are. Her honesty doesn’t just inspire—it disrupts the old narratives that tell women to shrink, stay silent, or pretend. This episode is for any woman who's been dimming their light to keep the peace... For the woman who senses there is more to her than the roles she plays... For the woman who pushes down a deep part of her begging to be seen... For the woman who feels the tug of her own power but hesitates to trust it…For the woman who’s ready to break the spell of shame and step into a life that feels real.Nadia and Teri explore what it means to: - Return to yourself - Tune into your intuitive knowing - Speak your story without apology, and - Discover that the very places you once hid are the gateways to your freedom. Together, they will inspire us to embrace the rebellion of choosing yourself, the fire that burns when you step into your truth, and the raw courage it takes to shine in a world that benefits from your silence. Come listen. Come rise. Come remember who you are. FREE BAN SHAME TIP SHEET⁠ EMPOWER YOUR RECOVERY⁠ ⁠YOGA (FREE for Parents in Recovery)⁠ ⁠GIVE BACK⁠ ⁠FOLLOW⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    58 min
  • From Personal Recovery to Heart-Centered Parenting: Turning Sorrow Into Something Beautiful for the Family
    Nov 21 2025
    PART III - Through heartfelt reflection, spiritual insight, and practical everyday tools, this episode Nadia and Janice invites you to breathe into the mystery of life — to honor the finite and the infinite, the body and the soul, the tear and light behind it - ultimately turning sorrow into something beautiful for the whole family. Even with a deeper understanding about death, sorrow still visits. Loss still hurts. And too often, we carry shame for grieving, as if spiritual understanding should make us immune to pain. But grief does not mean we’ve forgotten our infinite nature — it means we have loved deeply. In this episode, Nadia and Janice share their past experiences navigating grief and shame and describe how they handle both differently today with their children, using them as bridges to deeper spiritual connection, providing TOOLS and TIPS to:~ Hold both truths — the ache of physical loss and the peace of eternal connection.~ Release shame around sorrow - honoring it as a sacred expression of love, not weakness.~ Transform fear of death into reverence for the continuity of spirit - tapping into the idea that time is not linear, all experiences are connected.~ Model authentic grieving for our children, family, and community — showing that emotion is not a flaw, but a part of divine wholeness enabling authentic, genuine connection. Nadia Davis, Esq. (Priya Bachan Kaur) is a mom in recovery, Award-Winning Author, Attorney, and Level II Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher with over 8 years experience helping people return to their inner truth. She now offers Sacred Therapy through individual and group sessions, incorporating ancient eastern practices and recovery tools for grounding, calming, and heart-centered living, healing trauma wounds, building self-compassion, connection, love, and empathy for others, to overcome fear, judgement, and shame-based based living. Janice J. Dowd, LMSW, is a mom in recovery, Licensed Master Social Worker, and Speaker with over 20 years experience in family therapy and addiction recovery, as well as Author of the newly released book, ReBuilding Relationships in Recovery, offering groundbreaking tools to heal family bonds after active addiction and alcoholism. FREE BAN SHAME TIP SHEET⁠ EMPOWER YOUR RECOVERY⁠ ⁠YOGA (FREE for Parents in Recovery)⁠ ⁠GIVE BACK⁠ ⁠FOLLOW⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    34 min
  • Go Inward...Today, not tomorrow, nor next week, or next year, now.
    Nov 14 2025
    Are you ready to unlock the doors and COME HOME to a place WITHIN that has felt distant for a long time? A space that seems unreachable amidst thoughts and emotions seemingly pulling you away? Are you confused about why, how, and where to start on a personal journey of awakening? Ok, let's get you there, let's start. A home within is but a breath away. It already gently speaks to you in the heart-strings and gut intuitions you might be pushing away. In this episode, Nadia shares a relatable personal journey of finally making a decision to GO INWARD and listen to her heart and soul, reflecting on an important question about life - Why is it most of us wait, resist, or risk it all before we make that decision? What she discovered along the way reveals much about the workings of our mind and the development of "ego" during our earlier years, how a false sense of emptiness and separation are created, yet all the while there is an infinite love readily available to us from within. It's time to GO HOME friends! Don't wait till tomorrow, next week, or next year. Enter this holiday season with a new sense of purpose, wholeness, and joy. MANTRA FREE BAN SHAME TIP SHEET⁠ EMPOWER YOUR RECOVERY⁠ ⁠YOGA (FREE for Parents in Recovery)⁠ ⁠GIVE BACK⁠ ⁠FOLLOW⁠ #holidayprep #goinward #comehome #gohome #awakening Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    28 min
  • PART II - Transforming Death, Grief, and Shame Into Spiritual Connection for Our Children
    Nov 7 2025
    Please listen to last week's episode prior to this one. PART II - This conversation continues an invitation for us to look at physical death, not as an end, but as a doorway — an opening to the infinite spirit that has never truly left, both us and our children. Yet, even with this knowing, sorrow still visits. Loss still hurts. And too often, we carry shame for grieving, as if spiritual understanding should make us immune to pain. But grief does not mean we’ve forgotten our infinite nature — it means we have loved deeply.In this episode, Nadia and Janice explore how to navigate grief and shame BOTH as daughters AND parents, providing TOOLS and TIPS to:~ Hold both truths — the ache of physical loss and the peace of eternal connection.~ Release shame around sorrow - honoring it as a sacred expression of love, not weakness.~ Transform fear of death into reverence for the continuity of spirit - tapping into the idea that time is not linear, all experiences are connected.~ Model authentic grieving for our children and community — showing that emotion is not a flaw, but a part of divine wholeness enabling authentic, genuine connection.Through heartfelt reflection, spiritual insight, and practical every day tools, this episode invites you to breathe into the mystery of life — to honor the finite and the infinite, the body and the soul, the tear and the light behind it - as well as turn sorrow into something beautiful for the whole family. Nadia Davis (Priya Bachan Kaur) is a mom in recovery, Award-Winning Author, Attorney, and Level II Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher with over 8 years experience helping people return to their inner truth. She now offers Sacred Therapy through individual and group sessions, incorporating ancient eastern practices and recovery tools for grounding, calming, and heart-centered living, healing trauma wounds, building self-compassion, connection, love, and empathy for others, to overcome fear, judgement, and shame-based based living. Janice J. Dowd, LMSW, is a mom in recovery, Licensed Master Social Worker, and Speaker with over 20 years experience in family therapy and addiction recovery, as well as Author of the newly released book, ReBuilding Relationships in Recovery, offering groundbreaking tools to heal family bonds after active addiction and alcoholism. MANTRA Janice V. Johnson Dowd, MSSW, LMSW FREE BAN SHAME TIP SHEET⁠ EMPOWER YOUR RECOVERY⁠ ⁠YOGA (FREE for Parents in Recovery)⁠ ⁠GIVE BACK⁠ ⁠FOLLOW⁠ #InfiniteLife #ProcessingSorrow #SpiritualHealing #HeartCenteredParenting #RecoveryJourney #ConsciousGrief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    32 min
  • PART I - Transforming Death, Sorrow, and Shame Into Spiritual Connection for Our Children
    Oct 31 2025
    It's Halloween! As deathly beings decorate yards and creepy creatures run afar, death seems scary, frightening, gory, so very hard. But isn't death something so much more? There is a truth that transcends death — the awareness that life itself is infinite. Our essence cannot perish. It calls us to remember who we are beneath the physical form — timeless beings walking through temporary experiences, TOGETHER, right here, right now. Yet even with this knowing, sorrow still visits. Loss still hurts. And too often, parents carry shame for grieving, as if spiritual understanding should make us immune to pain. So the question becomes: How do we balance managing our own sorrow and still be there for our kids during their grieving process? Remember: Grief does not mean we’ve forgotten our infinite nature, as shame would have us believe — it means we have loved deeply, lived fully, and are actually life itself. In this episode, Host Nadia Davis, Mother of three sons, Author, Kundalini Yoga Teacher, Attorney, and Intuitive Coach, and Janice J. Dowd, LMSW, Mother of four, Licensed Social Worker, Author, and Speaker, explore how to: ~ Hold both truths — the ache of physical loss and the peace of eternal connection.~ Release shame around sorrow, honoring it as a sacred expression of love, not weakness.~ Transform fear of death into reverence for the continuity of spirit.~ Model authentic grieving for our children and community — showing that emotion is not a flaw, but part of divine wholeness. * PLUS, TIPS you can use as a parent in recovery TODAY, without skipping a beat of this beautiful life, right here, right now, always! Nadia and Janice share personal stories of grief and loss, what it was like before recovery, and what it is like today using recovery tools throughout the grieving process, which empowers their children to ban shame and connect to their infinite nature. Through heartfelt reflection and spiritual insight, this episode invites you to breathe into the mystery — to honor the finite and the infinite, the body and the soul, the tear and the light behind it. MANTRA Janice J. Dowd, LMSW FREE BAN SHAME TIP SHEET⁠ EMPOWER YOUR RECOVERY⁠ ⁠YOGA (FREE for Parents in Recovery)⁠ ⁠GIVE BACK⁠ ⁠FOLLOW⁠ #Akaal #InfiniteLife #ProcessingSorrow #SpiritualHealing #HeartCenteredParenting #RecoveryJourney #ConsciousGrief #PodcastAnnouncement Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    26 min