What if your nervous system isn’t something you need to fix, but something you need to listen to?

In this special episode of Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious, Dr. Sandra Marie brings together Sarah Saxby’s three-part Wild Souls Gathering Summit conversation into one complete story.

Sarah shares what it was like to spend much of her life bracing for something to go wrong while using meditation, nutrition, spiritual practices, energy work, and other tools to manage the stress she was experiencing. Eventually, she began questioning whether regulation alone could help while the circumstances of her life remained unchanged.

Her story moves through three distinct experiences: bracing, collapse, and presence.

Sarah discusses leaving an abusive relationship, losing a job and the identities and structures she associated with security, and eventually discovering an internal stillness she had never experienced before.

This isn’t a prescription for dismantling your life. It’s one person’s experience and an invitation to consider a different question:

Are we asking what our discomfort may be trying to tell us?

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In this episode of our Back to Nature mini-series, Dr. Sandra Marie and psychic Kimmie Haliburda explore the profound wisdom of the element of water.

Across many ancient traditions, water has symbolized emotion, intuition, creativity, healing, and transformation. But how can we intentionally work with this element to support emotional balance and nervous system regulation in everyday life?

Together, they discuss practical ways to partner with water, from spending time near rivers and oceans to mindful showers, baths, meditation, dreamwork, and simple daily rituals that help restore calm and reconnect us with ourselves.

Whether you're seeking greater emotional resilience, creative inspiration, or a deeper relationship with nature, this conversation offers thoughtful perspectives and practical ideas you can begin exploring today.

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Healing isn't just about leaving pain behind.

It's about becoming someone who relates to life differently.

In this episode, Dr. Sandra Marie welcomes integrative mental health expert Dr. Cristine Hull for a conversation that bridges psychology, addiction recovery, spirituality, quantum consciousness, and personal transformation.

Together they explore how higher states of consciousness influence healing, and why true transformation often begins long after recovery starts.

If you've ever wondered how science, spirituality, and consciousness can work together to support lasting change, this episode offers a thoughtful perspective grounded in both lived experience and decades of clinical work.

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What if the most difficult season of your life isn't the end of your story, but the beginning of your transformation?

In this episode of Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious, Dr. Sandra Marie welcomes artist, author, and transformational guide Ellen Benfatti to explore the deeply personal journey behind her book, Caterpillar Soup: Memoirs of a Butterfly.

Together they discuss:

• Why transformation often feels messy before it feels meaningful
• The hidden wisdom of the caterpillar and butterfly
• Learning to surrender instead of resisting change
• How creativity became a path to healing
• The surprising role of color in emotional and spiritual growth
• Why the smallest moments can shape an entire lifetime
• Moving from fear to trust during awakening
• Why you're never truly alone on the journey

Whether you're navigating loss, awakening, grief, or simply feeling that life is asking something new of you, this conversation offers hope that even the most uncertain seasons can become the foundation for profound change.

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What if the clarity you’ve been searching for has been within you all along? In this Art of the Nervous System Summit replay, Dr. Sandra Marie talks with intuitive teacher and author Sara Wiseman about intuition, trust, and learning to navigate life from inner knowing rather than fear. They explore why we lose trust in ourselves, how intuition differs from wishful thinking, and why forcing outcomes can sometimes move us further from the clarity we’re seeking.

Together, they look at stillness, nature, spiritual awareness, manifestation versus flow, and the value of developing your own direct experience rather than continually looking outside yourself for answers. At the heart of the conversation is a simple question: What becomes possible when you stop trying so hard to find the answer and begin trusting yourself enough to hear it?

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Why do we repeat the same painful patterns, even when we desperately want our lives to change? 

In this episode of Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious, Dr. Sandra Marie welcomes licensed mental health counselor Ronnie Figueroa for a deeply personal conversation about addiction, trauma, healing, and rebuilding a life from the inside out.  Ronnie shares his extraordinary journey from childhood adversity, alcoholism, homelessness, disability, and profound loss to becoming a successful therapist, endurance athlete, and guide for others seeking lasting change. 

Together they explore why awareness may be the missing piece in healing, the role of vulnerability and trust, why success alone cannot fill emotional wounds, and how simple daily practices can begin transforming even decades of unconscious patterns. 

Whether you're navigating addiction, emotional pain, or simply feeling stuck in repeating the same life experiences, this conversation offers practical wisdom and genuine hope that change is possible at any age. 

Healing Doesn't Begin When Your Life Changes. It Begins When You Notice Your Life. 

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Have you lost your spark? In this episode of the Back to Nature: Understanding the Four Elements mini-series, Dr. Sandra Marie and Kimmie Haliburda explore the ancient symbolism of the Fire Element and its connection to vitality, motivation, transformation, and renewal. From sunlight and movement to creativity, candle meditation, intention, and the symbolism of the Phoenix, they look at practical ways to reconnect with your energy when burnout or change has left you feeling depleted. Fire can consume, but it can also illuminate, transform, and remind us that our spark can be rekindled.

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What if the pressure you’re feeling isn’t about running out of time, but about the way you’ve been taught to measure your life? Dr. Sandra Marie talks with Marie Major about why so many people feel behind and explores a different way of understanding time, not simply as a straight line of deadlines and milestones, but as a spiral that allows us to return, remember, and experience familiar places differently.

Together, they explore inherited timelines, manifestation, divine timing, presence, and the difference between forced and inspired action. The conversation challenges the pressure to be somewhere other than where you are and asks: What changes when you stop measuring your life against where you thought you should be and begin trusting where you actually are?

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What are you tolerating that is quietly shaping your life? Dr. Sandra Marie talks with K. Margaret Solorio about the connection between our inner world and the spaces we inhabit, exploring how seemingly small things like clutter, unfinished projects, objects we no longer want, or a room that simply feels heavy can influence our mood, energy, and sense of ease. Together, they move beyond traditional home energy clearing to examine ease as a practice, the belief that growth has to be difficult, and practical ways to shift our environments through light, air, nature, intention, appreciation, and small conscious choices. This isn’t about creating a perfect home. It’s about noticing what you’ve learned to tolerate and creating a space that supports who you’re becoming.

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Everything is changing, but how do we stay steady when the world around us feels increasingly uncertain? Dr. Sandra Marie talks with Jim Self about self-mastery, conscious creation, energetic awareness, and how to move from fear and automatic reactions toward greater awareness, choice, and well-being.

Together, they explore inherited beliefs and emotional patterns, the power of attention, nervous system regulation, and practical ways to remain grounded during personal and collective change. The conversation also examines service to self and others, the importance of play and joy, and a central idea: the more aware we become of what is driving us, the more choice we have in how we respond.

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