Oprah and Iyanla: New Year Refresh on Your “Spiritual Hygiene”
12/30/202559 min
Oprah sits down with world-renowned spiritual teacher, bestselling author and “fixer" Iyanla Vanzant for a powerful, soul-shifting conversation about her newest book "Spiritual Hygiene: A Practical Path for Clean Living, for Inner Authority, and for Divine Freedom." In this intimate and deeply personal episode Iyanla explains the transformative concept of spiritual hygiene—the idea that just as we tend to our physical hygiene our mental, emotional and spiritual well-being also require conscious, daily care. Iyanla shares what she’s learned and how she’s healed from her own childhood trauma as well as losing two of her adult daughters, Gemmia in 2003 and Nisa in 2023. Oprah and Iyanla are joined by audience members who bravely ask how they can cleanse their spirits of the pain, heaviness and generational burdens they’ve carried throughout their lives. Together they explore how spiritual hygiene offers clarity, courage and a way forward. This episode is a moving invitation to let go and step into a more grounded, spiritually spacious life. BUY THE BOOK! https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Spiritual-Hygiene/Iyanla-Vanzant/9781668214121 00:00:00 - Welcome Iyanla Vanzant, author of ‘Spiritual Hygiene’ 00:03:40 - Meaning of spiritual hygiene 00:04:15 - Iyanla’s backstory 00:11:08 - The power of grief 00:13:30 - Parenting with spiritual hygiene 00:14:00 - Iyanla says she was a horrible mother 00:15:25 - The distinction between wrong and bad 00:17:50 - The meaning of divine freedom 00:19:00 - Everything is energy 00:20:30 - Healing the pain of being a daddy-less daughter 00:30:20 - Create your own spiritual hygiene 00:33:15 - How to be expressive with family 00:37:40 - Reorder your story 00:38:10 - The life you signed up for 00:40:00 - Look at far you’ve come 00:41:40 - The guilt of choosing yourself 00:46:15 - Always choose yourself 00:48:02 - A sacred no and a spiritual yes 00:52:00 - Everything has a purpose Follow Oprah Winfrey on Social: https://www.instagram.com/oprahpodcast/ https://www.facebook.com/oprahwinfrey/ Listen to the full podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0tEVrfNp92a7lbjDe6GMLI https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-oprah-podcast/id1782960381 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsIyanla Vanzant· Guest0:00
Somebody else can't learn their lessons in your life. Only you can learn your lessons- Somebody else can't learn their lessons in your life. ... lessons in your life. And if you don't enjoy your life, your mother's misery will.
Oprah Winfrey· Host0:13
Mm. Hmm. Mm. Oh, my, my, my.
Iyanla Vanzant· Guest0:15
(laughs) So you've got to enjoy your life.
Oprah Winfrey· Host0:18
Church is over. (laughs) Welcome to the Oprah Podcast. Hello to this beautiful audience of our listeners in New York City.
Jenna0:34
Whoo!
Oprah Winfrey· Host0:36
(applause) I just love saying New York, New York. It's great to be here, even on a rainy day. So I wanna ask the audience just a few questions. Um, am I seeing clearly? Ask yourself that. Am I seeing clearly or through a lens of pain? Am I trying to control, fix, or rescue anybody other than myself? Am I present enough to sit with what is? All of these questions are in Iyanla Vanzant's new book that she asks us to ask of ourselves. So, what's missing? What my guest calls divine freedom is what's missing from so many of our lives. She says we each have a sacred responsibility and it's our job to find out what is that responsibility. She is one of the most