The Spiritual Shitshow with Suzanne Sole

Suzanne Sole
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*The Spiritual Shitshow with Suzanne Sole podcast is on summer hiatus until 9/1/26. See you in September! The Spiritual Shitshow with Suzanne Sole is a 2025 Signal Awards gold winner in Religion & Spirituality and bronze in Comedians Shaping Culture — and also a People’s Choice Podcast Awards finalist in Religion & Spirituality.  Hosted by actor, comedian, and spiritual seeker Suzanne Sole, this show dives into the absolute mess of healing and awakening with equal parts depth and LOLs. Suzanne has been walking the spiritual path for over 25 years. She’s kicked addiction, escaped abuse, and keeps it growing — spiritually, emotionally, and in and her collection of voice memos. She brings all of that wisdom (and a lot of one-liners) into every episode. Expect solo riffs full of insight and irreverence, plus special guest episodes with therapists, ministers, artists, and other humans who have also survived the shitshow and lived to tell the tale. We’re talking the spiritual journey. We’re talking sobriety and recovery. We’re talking spiritual teachings, off-the-wall hilarity, and deeply vulnerable moments you can actually relate to — so you can laugh, nod, cry a little if you need to, and know you are not alone in your journey. Linktree: linktr.ee/suzannesole Official Website: suzannesole.com For more thoughts and feelings subscribe to Suzanne’s Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/suzannesole Thank you for listening!

  1. Oct 27

    The Healing & Spiritual Path Is All Hurly-Burly | 2

    Episode 100 | Season One Finale It's Episode 100! And the Season One finale of The Spiritual Shitshow with Suzanne Sole One hundred episodes of exploring the beautiful, messy, sometimes hilarious, and often completely f****d-up experience of being human. In Part 2 of this two-part exploration of the healing and spiritual path, Suzanne continues the conversation about the therapy journey, dives into sobriety and addiction, and explores how spirituality can help us see ourselves, our lives, and our place in the universe through a much bigger, more magnificent lens. Because sometimes the greatest gift of the spiritual path isn't changing our circumstances. It's discovering an entirely new way of seeing them. And with that, Episode 100 brings Season One of The Spiritual Shitshow to a close. What began two years ago as Suzanne's attempt to make sense of her own life became an exploration of what it means to be human. Suzanne has shared her personal experiences and insights while exploring the complexities of being human. From childhood wounds and the patterns we carry into adulthood to relationships, sobriety, self-worth, unconditional love, and the search for a deeper understanding of ourselves and our place in the universe, the podcast has been an honest exploration of healing and spiritual growth. Through personal storytelling, humor, and self-reflection, Suzanne has examined the beliefs that shape our lives, the ways we contribute to our own suffering, and how greater awareness and self-compassion can change our relationship with ourselves and the world around us. One hundred episodes later, she closes this chapter with gratitude for everyone who has listened and shared in the experience. SOME COOL RESOURCES Books: Healing the Shame the Binds You | John BradshawThe Trauma of Everyday Life | Mark EpsteinWhen Things Fall Apart | Pema ChodronThe Power of Now | Eckhart TolleRadical Acceptance | Tara BrachThe Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself | Michael SingerA Woman's Worth | Marianne WilliamsonThe Four Agreements | Don Miguel RuizThe Diamond in Your Pocket: Discovering Your True Radiance | GangajiFalling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life | Richard RohrThe Road Less Traveled | M. Scott PeckNoble Heart: A Self-Guided Retreat on Befriending Your Obstacles | Pema ChodronThe Work | Byron Katie Videos: The Power of Intention | Wayne DyerThe Power of Myth | Joseph CampbellAny Ram Dass TeachingMichael Singer podcastBrene Brown TED Talk “Listening to Shame”Thank you for listening! Learn more at suzannsole.com Check out Suzanne's spiritual and sassy t-shirts at personallyspiritual.com

  2. Oct 20

    The Healing & Spiritual Path Is All Hurly-Burly | 1

    Nobody starts a healing journey because everything is going swimmingly. Usually, something hurts, something isn't working, or there's a nagging feeling that there's got to be more to life than this. As spiritual teacher Michael Bernard Beckwith says, “The pain pushes until the vision pulls.” In Part 1 of this two-part Season finale, Suzanne explores what draws us to the path of healing and spiritual awakening, how pain can become a catalyst for transformation, and why reaching out for help through therapy can be one of the most important steps we take. Because the healing and spiritual path isn't a straight line toward enlightenment. It's messy, unpredictable, sometimes hilarious, and often downright hurly-burly. Welcome to The Spiritual Shitshow. Thank you for listening! Learn more at suzannsole.com Check out Suzanne's spiritual and sassy t-shirts at personallyspiritual.com

  3. Oct 13

    Feel THIS 3: A Chitty Chat About Pema Chödrön’s "Coming Closer to Ourselves: Making Everything the Path of Awakening"

    In Part 3 of Feel THIS, Suzanne wraps up her chitty chat inspired by Pema Chödrön’s Coming Closer to Ourselves: Making Everything the Path of Awakening. Continuing with the concept of staying with ourselves, making room for the messy, uncomfortable parts of being human, and learning to meet life as it is instead of how we wish it would be. Because this whole awakening business isn’t about getting everything right or never having difficult feelings. It’s about learning to show up for ourselves, again and again, right in the middle of whatever life throws our way. And apparently, all of it is part of the path. Even this shit. Thank you for listening! Learn more at suzannsole.com Check out Suzanne's spiritual and sassy t-shirts at personallyspiritual.com

  4. Oct 6

    Feel THIS 2: A Chitty Chat About Pema Chödrön’s "Coming Closer to Ourselves: Making Everything the Path of Awakening"

    In Part 2 of Feel THIS, Suzanne gets into what it actually means to stay with our feelings, and all the creative shit we humans do to avoid doing exactly that. We distract. We analyze. We fix. We reach outside ourselves. We tell stories. We do pretty much anything we can think of to make an uncomfortable feeling go away instead of staying present with ourselves while it’s here. Inspired by Pema Chödrön’s Coming Closer to Ourselves: Making Everything the Path of Awakening, Suzanne digs into some of her teachings that sound almost simple until you really take them in, and then you realize they’re low-key groundbreaking. What if the goal isn’t to get rid of the feeling? What if we can learn to stay with ourselves while we’re feeling it? Apparently, even the shit we desperately want to escape can become part of the path. Fantastic. Thank you for listening! Learn more at suzannsole.com Check out Suzanne's spiritual and sassy t-shirts at personallyspiritual.com

  5. Sep 29

    Feel THIS: A Chitty Chat About Pema Chödrön’s "Coming Closer to Ourselves: Making Everything the Path of Awakening" | Part 1

    What if the difficult stuff isn’t getting in the way of the path… what if it is the path? In Part One of this conversation inspired by Pema Chödrön’s Coming Closer to Ourselves: Making Everything the Path of Awakening, Suzanne talks about what it actually looks like to stay with ourselves when uncomfortable feelings show up: fear, shame, anxiety, uncertainty, and all the other emotional b******t we’d really rather not feel. Because awakening sounds super Zen until life hands you an opportunity to actually practice it. Like learning to stay with difficult feelings instead of trying to escape them, what it means to stay present with ourselves in the middle of the mess, and how the very experiences we wish would go away can become part of the path. Turns out the way out is through. F*****g fantastic... Thank you for listening! Learn more at suzannsole.com Check out Suzanne's spiritual and sassy t-shirts at personallyspiritual.com

  6. Sep 22

    WTF is Unconditional Love? | 5

    Part 5: Unconditional Doesn’t Mean Anything Goes So we’re supposed to love unconditionally. But does that mean accepting everything? Having no boundaries? Putting everyone else’s needs ahead of our own? In the final installment of WTF Is Unconditional Love?, Suzanne turns to some ancient texts for wisdom on what love asks of us, and what it doesn’t. She talks about the difference between unconditional love and martyrdom, and why the whole conversation keeps leading back to the same place: self-love. She also looks at what happens when something in another person really gets under our skin. Could some of what we judge, resist, or project onto other people be pointing us toward something in ourselves that’s asking for a little love too? Because loving without conditions doesn’t mean living without boundaries. And learning to offer that love to other people may have a whole lot to do with learning to offer it to ourselves. Some Books Suzanne Read on the Way to Self-Love: Radical Acceptance — Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com/books/radical-acceptance/ Self-Compassion — Kristin Neff. https://self-compassion.org/books-by-kristin-neff The Gifts of Imperfection — Brené Brown https://brenebrown.com/book/the-gifts-of-imperfection When Things Fall Apart — Pema Chödrön https://pemachodronfoundation.org/product/when-things-fall-apart-book/ The Trauma of Everyday Life — Mark Epstein https://www.markepsteinmd.com/the-trauma-of-everyday-life Thank you for listening! Learn more at suzannsole.com Check out Suzanne's spiritual and sassy t-shirts at personallyspiritual.com

  7. Sep 15

    WTF is Unconditional Love? | 4

    Part 4: Apparently, You Have to Love Yourself Too It’s one thing to talk about loving other people unconditionally. But what happens when the person requiring a little unconditional love is... you? In Part 4 of WTF Is Unconditional Love?, Suzanne Sole breaks down why unconditional love has to start with ourselves—and how the way we judge, reject, forgive, and accept ourselves inevitably shows up in our relationships with everyone else. Because it’s awfully hard to offer other people grace when the voice in your own head is running a 24-hour complaint department. Turns out self-love may not be a side quest in unconditional love. It may be where the whole damn thing starts. Thank you for listening! Learn more at suzannsole.com Check out Suzanne's spiritual and sassy t-shirts at personallyspiritual.com

  8. Sep 8

    WTF is Unconditional Love? | 3

    Part 3: Love Everyone. Tell the Truth. What does it actually mean to love everyone? And can you love someone unconditionally while still telling the truth about who they are, what they've done, or how you feel? In Part 3 of WTF Is Unconditional Love?, Suzanne shares the story of Ram Dass and his teacher Maharaji, and a deceptively simple teaching: Love everyone and tell the truth. Because unconditional love doesn't require denying reality. Maybe the real work is learning how love and truth can exist in the same place, even when the truth is difficult, uncomfortable, or downright inconvenient. Thank you for listening! Learn more at suzannsole.com Check out Suzanne's spiritual and sassy t-shirts at personallyspiritual.com

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*The Spiritual Shitshow with Suzanne Sole podcast is on summer hiatus until 9/1/26. See you in September! The Spiritual Shitshow with Suzanne Sole is a 2025 Signal Awards gold winner in Religion & Spirituality and bronze in Comedians Shaping Culture — and also a People’s Choice Podcast Awards finalist in Religion & Spirituality.  Hosted by actor, comedian, and spiritual seeker Suzanne Sole, this show dives into the absolute mess of healing and awakening with equal parts depth and LOLs. Suzanne has been walking the spiritual path for over 25 years. She’s kicked addiction, escaped abuse, and keeps it growing — spiritually, emotionally, and in and her collection of voice memos. She brings all of that wisdom (and a lot of one-liners) into every episode. Expect solo riffs full of insight and irreverence, plus special guest episodes with therapists, ministers, artists, and other humans who have also survived the shitshow and lived to tell the tale. We’re talking the spiritual journey. We’re talking sobriety and recovery. We’re talking spiritual teachings, off-the-wall hilarity, and deeply vulnerable moments you can actually relate to — so you can laugh, nod, cry a little if you need to, and know you are not alone in your journey. Linktree: linktr.ee/suzannesole Official Website: suzannesole.com For more thoughts and feelings subscribe to Suzanne’s Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/suzannesole Thank you for listening!

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