Happy Hour For The Spiritually Curious Podcast

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Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious is a podcast for thoughtful seekers who want more than spiritual soundbites. Hosted by Dr. Sandra Marie, nurse, clinician, and lifelong questioner, this show explores the intersection of spirituality, psychology, healing, and real-world human experience. After years working in healthcare while studying spiritual traditions and energy practices, Sandra saw a gap. Too often, spirituality became abstract, performative, or disconnected from daily life. What was missing were honest conversations,  ones that honor curiosity without dogma and explore practices that can be lived in real relationships, real bodies, and real uncertainty. Each episode invites grounded dialogue about consciousness, trauma, intuition, burnout, sovereignty, and personal transformation. Whether you are just beginning your spiritual journey or recalibrating it, this podcast is a space for inquiry, discernment, and integration.

  1. MAR 25

    What If Your Intuition Is Quiet on Purpose? Why Loud Misleads

    Text us, We would love to her from YOU! In this episode of Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious, Dr. Sandra Marie sits down with Gwyneth Flack to explore the often misunderstood relationship between intuition and intellect. Beginning with a powerful near-death experience at age four, Gwyneth shares how early awareness shaped her understanding of consciousness, creativity, and inner guidance. Together, they unpack why intuition is often subtle, and easily overridden. This conversation brings spirituality back to something grounded and usable, offering practical ways to recognize, trust, and integrate intuitive awareness into everyday life. What We Explore  The difference between intuition, fear, and learned thinking  Why intuition is quiet and doesn’t “argue” for itself  How the intellect and intuition work best as a tag team  The role of creativity in accessing intuitive awareness  Simple ways to build trust in your inner guidance  How intuition impacts relationships and communication  The connection between intuition, burnout, and emotional overload  Why grounding and nature help reset clarity  The importance of human connection in an increasingly isolated worldConnect with Gwyneth Flack  Support the show Please subscribe and follow the show to get updates on new releases. Kindly asking to share with friends who may enjoy or benefit. Support Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious WildSoulsGathering.com Embrace YOUR Wild Soul! https://www.youtube.com/@wildsoulgathering https://www.tiktok.com/@spirituallycurious https://www.twitter.com/@soul_gatherings https://www.instagram.com/wildsoulgatherings https://www.facebook.com/groups/669456900799583

    57 min

  2. MAR 18

    Transforming or Collecting? When Spiritual Work Becomes Addiction

    Text us, We would love to her from YOU! What if the way we’ve been taught to pursue happiness is actually keeping us disconnected from it? In this thought-provoking conversation, Dr. Sandra Marie sits down with Philippe Brouillard, athlete, researcher, teacher, and co-author of Rethinking Happiness, to explore the intersection of quantum physics, consciousness, spirituality, and emotional transformation. Together, they unpack some of the biggest questions many people feel but struggle to articulate: Why do so many people keep chasing healing, happiness, or spiritual growth and still feel stuck?What happens when spirituality becomes another form of self-improvement, consumption, or performance?Are we truly transforming, or just collecting more language, tools, and inspiration?What if happiness is not about pleasure, achievement, or external success, but something much deeper?Philippe shares his unconventional path from elite athletics and performance culture into deep spiritual inquiry, and eventually into scientific research around consciousness, identity, and lived transformation. The conversation challenges surface-level spirituality and explores what it might actually mean to change how we see ourselves, our lives, and the reality we participate in creating. This episode is expansive, provocative, and at times deeply confronting. It invites listeners to reflect on the difference between quick fixes and real inner work, between spiritual language and spiritual embodiment, and between seeking externally and understanding more deeply what it means to live consciously. 🌿 A Few Big Questions This Episode Raises Are we looking outside ourselves for what can only be developed within?Is transformation really about fixing ourselves—or about changing how we understand reality?Have we confused spiritual growth with collecting tools, labels, and experiences?What does it mean to embody insight instead of just talking about it?🔗 Connect with Philippe Learn more about Philippe and his work:  VitaQuantum.com Support the show Please subscribe and follow the show to get updates on new releases. Kindly asking to share with friends who may enjoy or benefit. Support Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious WildSoulsGathering.com Embrace YOUR Wild Soul! https://www.youtube.com/@wildsoulgathering https://www.tiktok.com/@spirituallycurious https://www.twitter.com/@soul_gatherings https://www.instagram.com/wildsoulgatherings https://www.facebook.com/groups/669456900799583

    1 hr

  3. MAR 11

    The Language of the Soul? Exploring Light Language and the Power of Sound

    Text us, We would love to her from YOU! What if communication didn’t require words? In this fascinating conversation from the Art of Nervous System Care Summit, Dr. Sandra Marie welcomes Latonia Dixon, Corey Kashiwagi, and Gloria Hunsberger for an exploration into the mysterious world of light language, a form of energetic expression that many believe bypasses the analytical mind and speaks directly to the body, heart, and nervous system. Unlike traditional language, light language isn’t meant to be understood intellectually. Instead, it’s experienced much like music or vibration often evoking deep emotional responses, energetic shifts, or a sense of profound calm. During this powerful session, each guest shares their unique experience with light language and even demonstrates how it sounds and feels in real time. The result is a moment that many describe as transportive, healing, and surprisingly grounding. Whether you’re deeply familiar with energetic healing or encountering these ideas for the first time, this conversation invites you to experience something beyond explanation. Because sometimes the most meaningful communication… happens beyond words. Support the show Please subscribe and follow the show to get updates on new releases. Kindly asking to share with friends who may enjoy or benefit. Support Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious WildSoulsGathering.com Embrace YOUR Wild Soul! https://www.youtube.com/@wildsoulgathering https://www.tiktok.com/@spirituallycurious https://www.twitter.com/@soul_gatherings https://www.instagram.com/wildsoulgatherings https://www.facebook.com/groups/669456900799583

    24 min

  4. MAR 5

    When Spiritual Insight Dysregulates Your Nervous System

    Text us, We would love to her from YOU! Many people experience powerful spiritual insights through meditation, retreats, plant medicine, or personal growth work. But what happens when those insights don’t translate into real change in daily life? In this episode of Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious, Dr. Sandra Marie sits down with depth hypnosis practitioner, mindfulness teacher, and shamanic counselor Juliana Sloane to explore why awareness alone often isn’t enough to transform emotional patterns, relationships, or nervous system responses. Together, they dive into the often overlooked gap between spiritual insight and true integration, and why many people who are deeply committed to spiritual practice still find themselves repeating the same behaviors, fears, and relationship dynamics. Juliana shares how practices like depth hypnosis, mindfulness, and unconscious mind work can help bridge the gap between intellectual understanding and embodied transformation. This conversation explores how healing happens not just in the mind, but through the body, nervous system, and unconscious patterns that shape our lives. If you’ve ever wondered why you understand your patterns but still feel stuck in them, this episode offers powerful insight into the deeper layers of personal and spiritual growth. Takeaways Spiritual insight must be integrated into daily life.Depth hypnosis allows for deeper exploration than talk therapy.Crisis can be an opportunity for growth and learning.Embodiment is crucial for true understanding of insights.Patterns can be influenced by ancestral lines.Scientific and spiritual practices can complement each other.The unconscious mind plays a significant role in our spiritual lives.Spiritual maturity involves continuous growth and curiosity.Balancing service to self and others is essential.Play and curiosity are vital for spiritual exploration.Link Juliana Sloane Website: https://www.julianasloane.com/ Upcoming events: julianasloane.com/meditationUpcoming Women's Retreat: https://offgridretreats.org/events/april2026deeprestInstagram: instagram.com/julianasloaneSupport the show Please subscribe and follow the show to get updates on new releases. Kindly asking to share with friends who may enjoy or benefit. Support Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious WildSoulsGathering.com Embrace YOUR Wild Soul! https://www.youtube.com/@wildsoulgathering https://www.tiktok.com/@spirituallycurious https://www.twitter.com/@soul_gatherings https://www.instagram.com/wildsoulgatherings https://www.facebook.com/groups/669456900799583

    51 min

  5. FEB 24

    The Hidden Struggles of Emotionally Over-Responsible Women

    Text us, We would love to her from YOU! If you’re the kind of woman who can “handle everything” the fixer, the achiever, the one who keeps it together, this episode is for you. In this conversation, Tracy Doyle (author, resilience expert, and creator of the Aurora Method) shares what burnout really looks like beneath the surface: not just exhaustion, but disconnection from self, emotional implosion/explosion, and the quiet belief that you must earn belonging through over-giving. We talk about the patterns that keep high-functioning women stuck, why awareness isn’t enough, and what actually creates change: daily practice, nervous system regulation in real life, and learning to shift the beliefs that drive the “always responsible” identity. In This Episode, You’ll Learn Why success doesn’t always equal fulfillment (and what that disconnect is signaling)How emotionally over-responsible women drift into self-abandonmentThe real burnout progression: stress → overwhelm → conflict → implosion/explosionWhy insight alone doesn’t change behavior (and what does)Tracy’s “reaction cascade” + how beliefs trigger emotional patternsHow daily practices create nervous system regulation and relational repairWhat it means to reclaim internal authority emotionally, not just intellectuallyThe difference between breakthrough moments and sustainable changePractical ways to stop over-functioning and rebuild connection to your voiceLinks:  Tracy Doyle  Website: https://www.tracydoyle.life Support the show Please subscribe and follow the show to get updates on new releases. Kindly asking to share with friends who may enjoy or benefit. Support Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious WildSoulsGathering.com Embrace YOUR Wild Soul! https://www.youtube.com/@wildsoulgathering https://www.tiktok.com/@spirituallycurious https://www.twitter.com/@soul_gatherings https://www.instagram.com/wildsoulgatherings https://www.facebook.com/groups/669456900799583

    37 min

  6. FEB 10 ·  BONUS

    Laughter Is Medicine: Joy as a Nervous System Reset

    Text us, We would love to her from YOU! What if laughter isn’t a break from healing… but part of the healing itself? In this uplifting and surprisingly practical conversation, Dr. Sandra Marie welcomes intuitive reader and teacher Melissa Abell to explore how humor, play, and spiritual lightness help regulate the body, restore perspective, and reconnect us with a sense of safety. While so much growth work focuses on effort, processing, and fixing what’s wrong, Melissa opens another doorway, one available in ordinary moments, shared smiles, absurd mishaps, and even deliberate practice. Together they bridge neuroscience, trauma recovery, intuitive guidance, and lived experience to ask: 👉 What if joy is not a reward at the end of the journey?  👉 What if it’s fuel for the path itself? You’ll hear stories of “pre-emptive joy,” the biology of laughter, how connection changes our state, and why many therapists believe trauma healing is impossible without moments of play. The episode closes with a gentle, guided 90-second nervous system reset you can return to anytime. ✨ In this conversation: Why laughter immediately shifts us into the present momentWhat happens in the body during humor and connectionThe role of shared laughter in co-regulationHow children naturally access vitality through playBuilding a personal “laughter library”Why joy can prepare us for difficult experiencesThe difference between supportive lightness and avoidanceHow humor shows up in caregiving, emergency settings, and hospiceLaughter as a fast track to alignmentSimple ways to weave more ease into daily lifeEnjoy this The Art of Nervous System Care Summit replay. Connect with Melissa email:  soulawakeningsession@gmail.com Support the show Please subscribe and follow the show to get updates on new releases. Kindly asking to share with friends who may enjoy or benefit. Support Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious WildSoulsGathering.com Embrace YOUR Wild Soul! https://www.youtube.com/@wildsoulgathering https://www.tiktok.com/@spirituallycurious https://www.twitter.com/@soul_gatherings https://www.instagram.com/wildsoulgatherings https://www.facebook.com/groups/669456900799583

    56 min

  7. FEB 4

    Erotic Mysticism: How Pleasure Expands Consciousness & Sovereignty

    Text us, We would love to her from YOU! What if pleasure isn’t a distraction from your spiritual path, but a doorway into deeper consciousness?  In this episode of Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious, Dr. Sandra Marie is joined by erotic mystic and author Sharon Marie Scott for a grounded, thoughtful conversation on embodiment, pleasure literacy, and the intelligence of the body. Together, they explore how aliveness, sensation, and desire can become tools for spiritual growth, integration, sovereignty, and self-trust without bypassing, discernment, or nervous system regulation. This episode invites listeners to reconsider pleasure not as indulgence, but as a form of spiritual intelligence and embodied wisdom. Key Topics Covered Pleasure as a pathway to spiritual mastery and consciousnessThe difference between pleasure and the “relief of suffering”Shadow work vs. pleasure alchemyPleasure literacy and listening to the body as an oracleNervous system regulation and capacity for sensationSovereignty, power, and embodiment in spiritual and erotic spacesIntegration after peak experiencesDesire, myth-making, and the cultural narrative around pleasureReceiving, abundance, and the capacity for joyAbout This Episode In this conversation, Sharon Marie Scott shares her perspective on what she calls the Pleasure Renaissance a cultural shift toward restoring pleasure, embodiment, and Eros as valid and essential dimensions of spiritual life. Rather than framing desire as something to transcend or control, Sharon invites listeners to explore how sensation, aliveness, and the erotic body can become portals to intuition, integration, and personal sovereignty. Dr. Sandra Marie brings the conversation into grounded territory, exploring nervous system regulation, discernment, integration, and the ethics of working with embodied and initiatory practices. This episode is for anyone who is spiritually curious, embodied, or exploring the intersection of intuition, healing, and consciousness, especially those sensing that the body itself holds wisdom we’ve been taught to ignore. Connect with Sharon Website: https://sharonmariescott.com Substack: Life Turned On Instagram / TikTok / YouTube: @LifeTurnedOn Facebook Group: Life Turned On Support the show Please subscribe and follow the show to get updates on new releases. Kindly asking to share with friends who may enjoy or benefit. Support Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious WildSoulsGathering.com Embrace YOUR Wild Soul! https://www.youtube.com/@wildsoulgathering https://www.tiktok.com/@spirituallycurious https://www.twitter.com/@soul_gatherings https://www.instagram.com/wildsoulgatherings https://www.facebook.com/groups/669456900799583

    38 min

  8. JAN 22

    The Shocking Truth About Consciousness, Spirituality, and Energy Healing

    Text us, We would love to her from YOU! Are you ready to unlock the hidden power of consciousness, spirituality, and energy healing? In this episode of Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious Podcast, I sit down with the brilliant Dr. Sharnael Wolverton-Sehon, an expert in energy work, quantum healing, and spiritual transformation.  With the growing awareness of consciousness, spirituality, and energy healing, more and more people are awakening to the realization that we are energetic beings. Studies show that over 80% of people now believe in some form of energy healing, and the global alternative medicine market is expected to reach $296.3 billion by 2027!  Dr. Sharnael shares her groundbreaking insights into how energy work influences our well-being, why spirituality and science are not separate, and how our biofield holds the key to healing. Whether you're a skeptic or a believer, this episode will shake your understanding of what’s possible in the realms of consciousness, spirituality, and energy healing.   Topics Covered: The SCIENCE behind energy healing The connection between spirituality and quantum physics How to tap into your consciousness for rapid healing Why mainstream medicine doesn’t want you to know about energy work The ancient secrets of spirituality and energy medicine How to break free from the programming keeping you stuck in low-frequency states The shocking impact of energy imbalances on your health The one thing blocking your consciousness from expanding  Learn more about Dr. Sharnael Wolverton-Sehon here: 👉 Visit Dr. Sharnael’s Website Support the show Please subscribe and follow the show to get updates on new releases. Kindly asking to share with friends who may enjoy or benefit. Support Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious WildSoulsGathering.com Embrace YOUR Wild Soul! https://www.youtube.com/@wildsoulgathering https://www.tiktok.com/@spirituallycurious https://www.twitter.com/@soul_gatherings https://www.instagram.com/wildsoulgatherings https://www.facebook.com/groups/669456900799583

    41 min
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Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious is a podcast for thoughtful seekers who want more than spiritual soundbites. Hosted by Dr. Sandra Marie, nurse, clinician, and lifelong questioner, this show explores the intersection of spirituality, psychology, healing, and real-world human experience. After years working in healthcare while studying spiritual traditions and energy practices, Sandra saw a gap. Too often, spirituality became abstract, performative, or disconnected from daily life. What was missing were honest conversations,  ones that honor curiosity without dogma and explore practices that can be lived in real relationships, real bodies, and real uncertainty. Each episode invites grounded dialogue about consciousness, trauma, intuition, burnout, sovereignty, and personal transformation. Whether you are just beginning your spiritual journey or recalibrating it, this podcast is a space for inquiry, discernment, and integration.

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