In this week’s episode of Humans Decoded, Kiran Trace, Cami Carlow, and Leela Sutter dive deep into the truth behind sibling relationships — the love, the conflict, the trauma, the loyalty, and the complexity that most of us never talk about.

We explore what really happens when uniquely wired humans are forced together under one roof, why sibling bonds often become toxic, and how awareness changes family dynamics as we grow. From jealousy and childhood fights to blended family struggles, boundary violations, and even the unspoken topic of sibling-related trauma, this episode sheds light on one of the most misunderstood human relationships.

You’ll also hear personal stories on navigating:

✨Toxic sibling dynamics

If you’ve ever struggled with your siblings, felt guilt or shame around distancing from family, questioned the “family first” narrative, or are healing from past experiences — this episode is for you.

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00:00 – Intro: Understanding Sibling Dynamics & Family Trauma

01:04 – Why Siblings Shape Your Identity More Than You Realize

02:30 – How Family Systems Create Emotional Triggers

05:34 – Toxic Sibling Roles: Golden Child, Scapegoat, Lost Child

07:05 – Being Forced Together: The Hidden Stress of Siblings Growing Up

12:15 – Sensitive Childhood Experiences

13:15 – The Silent Epidemic: Sibling Boundary Violations

18:50 – How Sibling Dynamics Affect Adult Relationships

23:30 – Not All Siblings Are Toxic: Healthy Bonding Explained

30:10 – Healing Old Family Patterns Through Awareness

37:20 – Rewriting Your Identity Beyond Family Labels

44:45 – Closing Reflection: Stepping Into Your Authentic Self

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What if spiritual awakening isn’t about becoming someone better — but realizing you were never separate to begin with? In this episode, Kiran Trace, Cami and Leela, dive deep into what it really means to awaken into your original nature. Beyond spiritual trends and the search for bliss, this is a raw look at the end of seeking — and the beginning of truth.

Discover how ego death, surrender, and embodied awareness open the doorway to real freedom. This isn’t a self-improvement path — it’s an unlearning.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

✨ What “original nature” really means in awakening
✨ Why enlightenment is not what you think
✨ How to stop chasing awakening and start living it
✨ Signs you’re moving beyond the mind
✨ How surrender reveals your true essence

For a deeper dive into the science and spirit of awakening, check out Kiran’s blog post:  What is Spiritual Awakening? | The Ultimate Guide

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✨✨ Craving deep peace? — Experience Energy Healing sessions with Leela. Held in a field of presence, these sessions help rewire physical or emotional pain so you can live with ease and joy. [Discover More Here]

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Timestamps

0:00 – What Does Awakening Really Mean?
01:00 – The Instagram Enlightenment Trap
04:15 – When ‘Feeling Something’ Isn’t Awakening
06:30 – Awakening Into Original Nature
07:00 – The Death of the Separate Self
09:30 – Recognizing False Enlightenment Claims
12:05 – The Not-Good-Enough Trap
15:55 – When Awakening Amplifies Pain
21:20 – We Need Awake People Everywhere
23:25 – Transformation Through Meeting What Hurts
30:20 – The Aftermath of Awakening & Living Awake
37:25 – Trusting the Karmic Process
41:00 – Final Reflection: Stop Seeking, Start Living

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Are you living in your authentic rhythm, or running at someone else’s pace?

In this episode of Humans Decoded, Kiran Trace, Leela, and Cami explore how each of us moves through life with a unique energetic rhythm — and how misunderstanding it can lead to burnout, control, or self-judgment.

From fairies and elves to hobbits, dwarfs, gnomes, and humans, each avatar rhythm carries a natural intelligence and pace. Yet most of us try to perform in rhythms that aren’t ours — pushing when we’re meant to feel, forcing when we’re meant to flow, or trying to “be efficient” when our magic actually lives in spontaneity.

Through hilarious real-life stories and grounded spiritual insight, this conversation reveals:

✨ How to recognize when you’ve left your authentic rhythm

When you rediscover your authentic rhythm, life stops feeling like effort — and starts feeling like music.

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00:00 — Introduction: Why we lose our true rhythm

01:00 — When “flow” isn’t authentic

01:24 — Discovering your natural rhythm

07:20 — Fairy rhythm: Chaos that leads to magic

13:37 — Elf rhythm: Precision, clarity, and focus

17:10 — Hobbit & gnome rhythms: Slowness as wisdom

22:40 — Dwarf rhythm: Power and perseverance

24:35 — Human rhythm: Roles, pressure, and purpose

27:00 — Breaking free from belief-driven speed

45:21 — Closing reflection: Stop searching, start being

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In Part 2 of Episode 118, Kiran, Leela, and Cami continue exploring how substances and awakening often intertwine on the spiritual path.

Many seekers reach for psychedelics, prescriptions, or supplements hoping for relief. However, what if the real medicine lies beyond the substance itself? This episode invites you to look deeper — beneath the control, the craving, and the quiet deprivation driving your search for peace.

Through grounded stories and decades of inner work, Kiran and her co-hosts reveal how chasing healing through substances can reinforce the very patterns we’re trying to escape.

They also share how awareness, presence, and willingness to feel discomfort open a more stable path to transformation.

In this conversation:

✨Why deprivation habits often lead to addiction and control
✨The fine line between using support and relying on a crutch
✨How to meet fear and unworthiness without substances
✨Why presence is the truest form of medicine

By slowing down, listening within, and embracing what’s real, you discover that true freedom doesn’t come from substances — it comes from being fully alive in this moment.

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✨✨ Craving deep peace? — Experience Energy Healing sessions with Leela. Held in a field of presence, these sessions help rewire physical or emotional pain so you can live with ease and joy. [Discover More Here]

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00:00 — Introduction: How substances affect your path to freedom
01:55 — Compulsion, addiction, and the roots of deprivation
03:10 — Why control and deprivation never cure addiction
04:35 — Conscious use vs unconscious reaching for substance
05:15 — The Ozempic movement: a modern spiritual crutch
06:10 — The illusion of success: fame, anxiety, and inner emptiness
07:25 — Chasing wholeness through external fixes
10:45 — Crutches vs real healing: learning from Energy Medicine
13:45 — Faith and true desire: how real healing answers itself
18:40 — Real-life example: supplements, hormones, and control
22:45 — Closing reflections: true healing through presence, not control
25:05 — Outro: Raw dogging the moment — the real medicine

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Are psychedelics and spiritual awakening truly connected? Many seekers believe that plant medicine, ayahuasca, or microdosing can fast-track enlightenment. However, the truth is more nuanced. While these substances can open doors to higher states of consciousness, they can also create subtle forms of dependency and illusion.

In this episode of Humans Decoded, Kiran, Leela, and Cami explore why so many spiritual seekers chase altered states instead of cultivating lasting peace. Through grounded stories and decades of embodied practice, they uncover the difference between real transformation and temporary escape.

In this conversation, you’ll discover:
✨ Why substances can mimic awakening but not sustain it
✨ The difference between altered states and real transformation
✨ How chasing mystical experiences keeps you from stability
✨ What integration and true embodiment actually look like

If you’ve ever wondered whether plant medicine or psychedelics can “fast-track” enlightenment, this episode brings refreshing honesty and wisdom for seekers at every stage.

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✨ Get the book, Tools for Sanity — A deep dive into ego death and the unraveling of identity, with practical tools for integrating Source into daily life. [Purchase Here]

✨✨ Craving deep peace? — Experience Energy Healing sessions with Leela. Held in a field of presence, these sessions help rewire physical or emotional pain so you can live with ease and joy. [Discover More Here]

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Timestamps

00:00 — Introduction: Why we chase substances for peace
01:00 — Quick fixes and the illusion of healing
04:35 — The truth about spiritual ‘openings’ and chemical channels
07:10 — Why freedom can’t come from substances
10:30 — Ram Dass, LSD, and the limits of awakening through drugs
13:20 — The hard truth: substance use as unwillingness
21:10 — PTSD, microdosing, and the myth of scientific healing
23:11 — Kiran’s ‘Get Low’ method: a real way to calm your system
25:00 — Real stories: MDMA, relationships, and false clarity
35:55 — True healing: feeling your emotions without numbing
36:10 — Closing reflections: choosing awareness over crutches
37:15 — Outro: Continuing the conversation with the Decoders

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What if true healing doesn’t come from fixing, but from willingness?

In this episode of Humans Decoded, Kiran explores the quiet power of willingness — how softening your resistance and opening to what is can dissolve layers of pain, control, and effort. Through real-life insights and grounded spiritual wisdom, Kiran unpacks what it means to meet your experience with full presence instead of avoidance or striving.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

 ✨Why willingness is the missing key to real transformation
✨ How control, resistance, and effort keep you stuck in loops of suffering
✨ What openness actually feels like in your nervous system
✨ How to let go — without bypassing or numbing out

Whether you’re on a healing path, deep in spiritual practice, or just tired of “trying so hard,” this conversation will help you return to the natural peace that’s been here all along.

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✨✨ Craving deep peace? — Experience Energy Healing sessions with Leela. Held in a field of presence, these sessions help rewire physical or emotional pain so you can live with ease and joy. Discover more Here

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Timestamps

00:00 — Introduction: What is willingness and why it’s the heart of true healing
02:36 — The subtle difference between trying and being willing
03:00 — How resistance and control block real peace
07:38 — Spiritual healing through presence instead of fixing
11:12 — Embodiment: Feeling your emotions instead of avoiding them
15:14 — When effort becomes a trauma response
18:22 — The nervous system and the art of letting go
23:24 — How willingness ends cycles of inner conflict
24:35 — Real-life stories of awakening through surrender
31:51— Why willingness feels uncomfortable (and why that’s good)
35:38 — Moving beyond spiritual bypassing into embodied peace
38:30 — Closing reflection: Choosing willingness, moment by moment

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Is spirituality just a way to escape the world’s problems — or is it the key to real peace? 🌿

In this week’s conversation, Kiran, Leela, and Cami explore the accusation that spirituality is a form of bypassing — ignoring global crises like war, injustice, or inequality. But what if real activism begins in silence?

Leela shares powerful reflections from her “School of Peace” weekend with participants from Gaza, Ukraine, Afghanistan, and reps from the UN — showing how peace begins within the body. Kiran challenges the misconception that spiritual practice is passive, revealing how the most awake beings throughout history — from Jesus to Gandhi — were also the greatest changemakers.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

✨ Why embodied awareness transforms activism
✨ How inner peace impacts global peace
✨ What it means to act from silence, not separation
✨ Why fighting injustice from identification keeps the world in conflict
✨ The simple 10-minute practice that can change the collective field

If you’ve ever wondered whether spirituality means “doing nothing,” this conversation will shift your understanding of what true action really is.

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✨✨ Craving deep peace? — Experience Energy Healing sessions with Leela. Held in a field of presence, these sessions help rewire physical or emotional pain so you can live with ease and joy. Discover more Here

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0:00 – Introduction: Is Spirituality a Bypass?
1:05 – Leela’s Story: Finding Peace in Diversity
2:50 – The Myth of Spiritual Bypassing & True Awareness
6:25 – Embodied Activism: Leading from the Body, Not the Head
9:23 – When Activism Becomes Another Fight
11:35 – From Changing the World to Being the Change
16:12 – Awareness as the Deepest Form of Activism
18:28 – “But What Do We Do?”: The Call to Conscious Action
25:30 – Imagining New Worlds from Awareness
29:02 – The Mirror of Peace: Seeing What You Are
33:34 – Final Blessing: Seeing Your Own Face in Every Face

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What happens when spiritual practice feels less like effort — and more like play? ✨

In this episode, Kiran, Leela, and Cami take you inside Leela’s annual retreat in Switzerland. This unique gathering is all about embodiment, joy, and healing through play. Unlike traditional retreats, it’s not about striving or fixing — it’s about listening deeply to the body, following your “delicious yes,” and discovering how freedom opens when you let yourself move, laugh, float, and be held.

In this conversation, you’ll discover:

If you’re curious about embodiment, non-dual healing, or playful spirituality, this episode offers a glimpse into how community, presence, and body-centered practices can transform your relationship with life.

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Show Notes

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✨✨ Craving deep peace? — Experience Energy Healing sessions with Leela. Held in a field of presence, these sessions help rewire physical or emotional pain so you can live with ease and joy. Discover more Here

0:00 – Introduction to Switzerland Embodiment Retreat

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Is astrology just a story we tell ourselves, or does it reveal real energetic influences shaping our lives? 🌙💫

In this episode of Humans Decoded, Kiran, Leela, and Cami explore the fascinating intersection of astrology, cosmic energy, and non-dual awakening. From the moon’s pull on tides and hormones, to the magnetosphere and ionosphere shaping how cosmic waves hit Earth — we ask: what’s really affecting us?

Through candid stories and lived examples, the conversation dives into:

Whether you’ve binged astrology apps, lived through spot-on horoscopes, or wondered if planetary movements really shape human experience — this episode gives you a grounded, soulful lens on astrology and awakening.

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0:00 – Intro: Why talk about astrology?

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Everyone is doing it –Kim is now Shanti. Brian is now Kashmir, should I change my name to let people know I’m woke? Why seekers change names, how it shapes identity, and what it means in non-duality.

In this episode, Kiran, Leela, and Cami explore the fascinating world of spiritual names—why seekers feel called to change them, how names reflect identity, and what it means to take on a“true name” in non-duality. —this conversation reveals the deep relationship between names, awakening, and authenticity.

What you’ll learn:

 ✨Why names often don’t reflect who we truly are
✨How spiritual names can support awakening and transformation
✨Personal stories of name changes in non-dual practice
✨ How identity, freedom, and authenticity are tied to what we call ourselves

This conversation isn’t about whether you “should” have a spiritual name—it’s about uncovering what’s alive beneath the surface, and how even names can be used as doorways into freedom.

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✨✨ Craving deep peace? — Experience Energy Healing sessions with Leela. Held in a field of presence, these sessions help rewire physical or emotional pain so you can live with ease and joy. [Discover More Here]

00:00 – Intro: What’s in a name?
02:30 – Why do spiritual seekers change names?
07:15 – Kiran’s journey from Tracy → Trace → Kiran
15:40 – The meaning of “Kiran” in Sanskrit and awakening
20:55 – Cami’s naming ceremony with Mooji (Sitarama)
28:30 – Leela’s shift from Deborah to Leela (Divine Play)
37:45 – Nicknames, identity, and what actually “sticks”
43:20 – Embarrassing names & letting them go
49:15 – The deeper meaning of names in prophecy and scripture
55:00 – Why it’s okay to reinvent yourself multiple times
1:01:20 – Closing reflections + invitation to share your name story

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