Why Healing Begins When You Stop Trying to Fix Yourself — What Personal Growth Requires to Finally Surrender
5/21/20261 hr 41 min
In this deeply raw and transformational episode of the WE Podcast, Joe Mittiga shares the truth about healing, surrender, emotional growth, and spiritual awakening through the lens of his own life journey. From surviving childhood sexual abuse and addiction to discovering what true surrender really means, Joe breaks down the difference between trying to “fix yourself” and learning how to reconnect with the deeper parts of who you truly are.
This episode explores the hidden emotional patterns that keep people stuck in pain, addiction, codependency, shame, and self sabotage while revealing how healing actually happens through awareness, support, courage, and personal responsibility. Joe dives into the difference between mental surrender, emotional surrender, and spiritual surrender, while also unpacking concepts like inner child healing, glass empty versus glass full thinking, emotional intelligence, faith, forgiveness, and what it means to live from your divinity instead of your fear.
Whether you are struggling with emotional pain, searching for purpose, rebuilding your life, or simply longing for a deeper connection to yourself and God, this conversation offers powerful insight, honesty, hope, and practical wisdom for anyone walking a path of personal transformation and awakening.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[gentle music] If you felt lonely, isolated, disconnected, with an empty feeling inside, and just yearning for more, knowing something is missing, then this podcast is for you. So here's your host, Joe Mittiga.
Joe Mittiga· Host0:19
[gentle music] Hello, and welcome to We. My name is Joe Mittiga, and I'm the host of the We podcast. For years you've been trying to heal, trying to fix yourself, trying to change yourself, trying to become someone better, someone calmer, someone stronger, someone more peaceful, someone worthy of love. And maybe parts of your life have changed, but you know what? Deep inside most of us, we still feel tired. We still feel overwhelmed, anxious, disconnected. We still carry that heavy burden that kinda leaves us empty. Eventually, I don't know about you, but for myself, I started asking myself the question, "Why am I still hurting?" Like, what am I doing wrong? For years I asked myself that question. For years.