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.
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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
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