Journey of You

Devin, Chris & Felicia

Welcome to The Journey of You Podcast!  Hosted by Dr. Devin DeGreif, a joy enthusiast and author of "Good Grief: The Journey from Grief to Joy," Chris, scientist, coach, illustrator and advocate for guilt-free joy,  and Felicia, an international bowling champion and coach, and  Soulstice Magician! This podcast is your guide to unlocking your inner joy and living a more authentic life.  Get ready to be inspired, laugh along with us, and receive your cosmic permission slip to embrace joy! ✨

  1. Ep 55: Harnessing Your Fire Horse Energy - Sustainable Power Without Burnout

    4D AGO

    Ep 55: Harnessing Your Fire Horse Energy - Sustainable Power Without Burnout

    What if the most powerful way to move through this Fire Horse year is to actually slow down and run wiser, not harder? In this high-vibe episode of Joy: The Journey of You, Devin, Chris, and Felicia dive into how to harness your Fire Horse energy without burning out. As we enter the Chinese New Year of the Fire Horse, we explore how to work with your inner fire in a grounded, sustainable way — so your joy expands instead of your nervous system frazzles. This conversation is an invitation to awaken your inner fire while staying rooted in truth, nervous system regulation, and embodied alignment. We unpack the trap of productivity culture, the illusion of “go-go-go” energy, and the subtle ways we override our bodies in the name of momentum. Instead, we offer a new paradigm: conscious communication with your fire. Through a powerful guided imagery demo, you’ll experience the difference between running yourself into exhaustion and cultivating a slow-burn, sustainable flame — one that fuels personal expansion, creativity, and deep joy all year long. This episode weaves together themes of spiritual growth, nervous system regulation, Ayurvedic elements, authenticity, and grounded power. Because your fire is yours — and when you harness it with awareness, it becomes quiet strength instead of chaos. ✨ Main Takeaways ~Fire energy is powerful, but without grounding, it leads to burnout ~Your nervous system is your compass for sustainable growth ~Rest is productive and essential for long-term expansion ~Authentic joy comes from alignment, not urgency ~You can build a slow-burn fire that sustains you all year This episode is for anyone navigating spiritual awakening, personal growth, or conscious living in high-energy times — and wanting to feel energized, not depleted. 🎧 Listen now and experience the guided Fire Horse meditation for yourself. 💫 Subscribe for weekly conversations on awakening, authenticity, and embodied joy. 🌟 Share this episode with someone ready to gallop into the new year with grounded power. Send a text ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ If you loved what you heard, we'd love for you to spread the joy! ✨ 💗 And if you'd love to get in touch or work with us, you can find us here: Devin's website: https://www.drdevindegreif.com insta: @drdevindegreif Chris: https://linktr.ee/chrisbrandwein Felicia's website: https://www.happieryoucoaching.com insta: @iamfeliciawong ✨ Credits for the fun background music ("The Fun of Everyday Life!" 😁) go to "JK_Production007" on audiojungle!

    34 min
  2. Ep 54: Where You’re Holding Tension | A Somatic Reset for Stress

    FEB 16

    Ep 54: Where You’re Holding Tension | A Somatic Reset for Stress

    What if the tension in your shoulders, your jaw, your belly… is actually your body asking to feel safe enough to be? In this powerful solo episode of the Journey of You podcast, Felicia shares a deeply personal reflection from her time in Mexico with co-host Devin DeGreif—and how the ocean became a mirror for the hidden anxiety and protection she carries in her body. Through stories of walking barefoot on sand, learning to float in powerful waves, and confronting the urge to “be productive,” this episode opens a compassionate doorway into body awareness and healing. We explore how tension isn’t random. It often carries unconscious beliefs about safety, worthiness, and productivity. From clenching the shoulders to bracing the pelvis to tightening the stomach, Felicia reveals how the sympathetic nervous system—our fight, flight, freeze, or fawn response—can quietly shape our daily experience. This is a conversation about: ~Recognizing where you hold stress in the body ~Understanding the nervous system and emotional safety ~Releasing the belief that you must “do” to be worthy ~Practicing somatic awareness to soften and expand Through a guided somatic body scan and gentle movement practice, you’re invited into real-time nervous system regulation—a simple yet profound way to reconnect with your inherent joy. Because joy isn’t something we chase. It’s something we uncover when the body feels safe enough to soften. ✨ Listen now to reconnect with your body’s wisdom. ✨ Subscribe for more conversations on authentic living and embodied joy. ✨ Share this episode with someone who’s ready to release tension and come home to themselves. Send a text ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ If you loved what you heard, we'd love for you to spread the joy! ✨ 💗 And if you'd love to get in touch or work with us, you can find us here: Devin's website: https://www.drdevindegreif.com insta: @drdevindegreif Chris: https://linktr.ee/chrisbrandwein Felicia's website: https://www.happieryoucoaching.com insta: @iamfeliciawong ✨ Credits for the fun background music ("The Fun of Everyday Life!" 😁) go to "JK_Production007" on audiojungle!

    26 min
  3. Ep 53: The Power of Your Joy in Time of Sadness

    FEB 9

    Ep 53: The Power of Your Joy in Time of Sadness

    What if the most powerful thing you can offer a hurting world isn’t more grief—but your joy? In this solo episode of Joy: The Journey of You, Dr. Devin explores the power of joy in times of sadness, inviting listeners to stop hiding their light and start orienting toward their truth. In a world saturated with grief, darkness, and heavy dialogue, this episode reframes joy not as bypassing—but as a conscious, courageous choice that creates real impact. Through personal story, lived wisdom, and a guided experiential demonstration, you’ll feel the difference between defaulting to the sadness in the field and choosing your inherent, effortless joy as your core orientation. This episode is a reminder that when you are authentically in your joy—especially when others are not—you create a multiplication effect that uplifts both you and the collective. Main takeaways: ~Why hiding your joy doesn’t help the world—and how choosing joy actually does ~How authenticity and truth amplify your impact during collective sadness ~A guided visualization to experience the energetic difference between sadness and joy ~How your presence alone can spread light, without denying reality ~If you’re ready to reconnect with your authentic joy, expand your personal power, and bring something genuinely healing to the world, this episode is your permission slip. 🎧 Listen now, ✨ Subscribe for weekly joy-centered episodes, 💛 and share this with someone who needs a reminder that joy still matters. Send a text ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ If you loved what you heard, we'd love for you to spread the joy! ✨ 💗 And if you'd love to get in touch or work with us, you can find us here: Devin's website: https://www.drdevindegreif.com insta: @drdevindegreif Chris: https://linktr.ee/chrisbrandwein Felicia's website: https://www.happieryoucoaching.com insta: @iamfeliciawong ✨ Credits for the fun background music ("The Fun of Everyday Life!" 😁) go to "JK_Production007" on audiojungle!

    12 min
  4. Ep 52: Busting a Manifestation Myth

    FEB 2

    Ep 52: Busting a Manifestation Myth

    In this solo episode of JOY – The Journey of You, Chris dismantles a common manifestation myth: that conscious manifestation means a life without challenges. Many people on a spiritual or self-development path assume that difficulties indicate low vibration, wrong thinking, or failure.  When you learn the art of true manifestation, you learn how to make lemonade out of the lemons that life gives you. You learn to roll with the punches and surf the waves. Because challenges are your Soul's invitations for growth, trust, surrender, patience, and self-leadership.  What essentially shapes our reality is therefore not whether or not we face difficulties in our lives, but how we choose meet them. As Chris shares her personal experience of a profound health journey, she shares how meeting challenges with openness allows the lessons to integrate faster and with more ease, whereas when we try to "manifest" the challenges away, they will persist - as Felicia shared in Ep 51! So when we stop fighting the current reality, and instead ask, “What is this here to teach me? What is the gold in this?”, life can begin to flow again. Chris guides you through a short grounding and visualization practice to help you connect with your future self and receive insight into the deeper purpose of your current challenges – supporting nervous system regulation, clarity, and emotional balance. This episode invites you to stop self-blame, release perfectionism, and learn how to truly surf life, even - or especially - when the waves feel big. Good things are coming your way! So listen in! ✨ Send a text ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ If you loved what you heard, we'd love for you to spread the joy! ✨ 💗 And if you'd love to get in touch or work with us, you can find us here: Devin's website: https://www.drdevindegreif.com insta: @drdevindegreif Chris: https://linktr.ee/chrisbrandwein Felicia's website: https://www.happieryoucoaching.com insta: @iamfeliciawong ✨ Credits for the fun background music ("The Fun of Everyday Life!" 😁) go to "JK_Production007" on audiojungle!

    16 min
  5. Ep 51: What is Your Resistance Telling You?

    JAN 27

    Ep 51: What is Your Resistance Telling You?

    What if the very thing you’re avoiding is the doorway to your freedom—and your joy? ✨ In this solo episode of Journey of You JoyCast, Felicia tenderly unpacks the truth that what we resist, persists, inviting you into a compassionate, embodied exploration of resistance as a powerful teacher rather than an obstacle. Through personal storytelling, gentle inquiry, and a guided somatic practice, this episode becomes a living permission slip to be seen, to feel, and to choose joy anyway. Rooted in authentic self-expression, emotional awareness, and personal expansion, this conversation reminds us that resistance isn’t a failure—it’s information. When we meet our fear, vulnerability, and old belief systems with curiosity and grace, density softens, energy moves, and truth rises to the surface. This is conscious awakening work made human, relatable, and deeply kind. In this episode, you will explore: Why resisting emotions or situations keeps us stuck—and how allowing them creates flowHow fear of being seen blocks joy, and how self-compassion reopens the doorA simple, embodied practice to sit with resistance and gently upgrade your inner dialogueThe liberating truth that joy doesn’t require perfection—only presenceThis episode naturally weaves themes of inner joy, emotional healing, and spiritual growth, offering a grounded yet sparkly reminder that joy is your birthright—and you’re allowed to claim it. ✨ If this episode resonates, listen all the way through, subscribe to Journey of You JoyCast for more conversations on joy and truth, and share it with someone who might need permission to soften, feel, and expand today. Send a text ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ If you loved what you heard, we'd love for you to spread the joy! ✨ 💗 And if you'd love to get in touch or work with us, you can find us here: Devin's website: https://www.drdevindegreif.com insta: @drdevindegreif Chris: https://linktr.ee/chrisbrandwein Felicia's website: https://www.happieryoucoaching.com insta: @iamfeliciawong ✨ Credits for the fun background music ("The Fun of Everyday Life!" 😁) go to "JK_Production007" on audiojungle!

    18 min
  6. JAN 19

    Ep 50: Winning the Game of Self-Doubt

    What if self-doubt is not something you need to fix, but something you can learn to recognize and move beyond? In this episode, we explore how self-doubt quietly weaves itself into everyday decisions and how it loosens its hold the moment it is seen clearly. This conversation invites you back into honesty with yourself, where authenticity replaces self judgement and joy begins to return naturally. Rather than treating self-doubt as a problem, this episode offers a different perspective. Self-doubt is often learned, repeated, and reinforced through experience. When met with awareness instead of resistance, it starts to lose its authority. From that place, self trust grows and personal expansion becomes possible. You will hear how choosing truth over inner stories allows space for joy, ease, and clearer decisions. This episode is for anyone who has felt stuck, hesitant, or unsure of themselves and is ready to meet life with more confidence and self compassion. In this episode, you will explore: • Why self-doubt is rarely personal • How authenticity builds self trust • The subtle ways doubt interrupts joy • How awareness changes the inner conversation 🎧 Listen now and reconnect with your inner clarity. ✨ Subscribe, share, and pass this episode to someone who needs encouragement today. Send a text ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ If you loved what you heard, we'd love for you to spread the joy! ✨ 💗 And if you'd love to get in touch or work with us, you can find us here: Devin's website: https://www.drdevindegreif.com insta: @drdevindegreif Chris: https://linktr.ee/chrisbrandwein Felicia's website: https://www.happieryoucoaching.com insta: @iamfeliciawong ✨ Credits for the fun background music ("The Fun of Everyday Life!" 😁) go to "JK_Production007" on audiojungle!

    40 min
  7. JAN 12

    Ep 49: The Secret to allowing Life to Flow

    What if the secret to an easier, more joyful life isn’t effort at all—but learning how to allow the flow? ✨ In this heart-opening episode of the Journey of You Joycast, the hosts explore the art of surrender and alignment, inviting you into a gentler, truer way of living where joy doesn’t need to be chased—it naturally arises. This conversation is a loving reminder that when you release control and listen deeply to your inner truth, life begins to move with you rather than against you. Through honest reflection, lived experience, and soulful insight, this episode illuminates how authenticity and trust are the gateways to personal expansion. You’ll feel what happens when you stop forcing outcomes, soften into presence, and give yourself full permission for joy—not someday, but now. Themes of allowing the flow, conscious surrender, and embodied truth weave together to awaken a deeper sense of ease, aliveness, and connection. Main takeaways from this episode: How letting go of resistance creates more clarity, energy, and joyWhy surrender is an act of personal power, not passivityThe link between authenticity, nervous system ease, and natural flowHow to align with truth so life unfolds with greater grace and meaningThis episode is an invitation to remember that joy is your natural state—and flow is what happens when you stop getting in your own way. 🎧 Listen now to feel into the truth of allowing the flow.  ✨ Subscribe to the Journey of You Joycast for more conversations on joy, authenticity, and conscious expansion.  💫 Share this episode with someone who’s ready to soften, trust, and come home to themselves. Send a text ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ If you loved what you heard, we'd love for you to spread the joy! ✨ 💗 And if you'd love to get in touch or work with us, you can find us here: Devin's website: https://www.drdevindegreif.com insta: @drdevindegreif Chris: https://linktr.ee/chrisbrandwein Felicia's website: https://www.happieryoucoaching.com insta: @iamfeliciawong ✨ Credits for the fun background music ("The Fun of Everyday Life!" 😁) go to "JK_Production007" on audiojungle!

    25 min

About

Welcome to The Journey of You Podcast!  Hosted by Dr. Devin DeGreif, a joy enthusiast and author of "Good Grief: The Journey from Grief to Joy," Chris, scientist, coach, illustrator and advocate for guilt-free joy,  and Felicia, an international bowling champion and coach, and  Soulstice Magician! This podcast is your guide to unlocking your inner joy and living a more authentic life.  Get ready to be inspired, laugh along with us, and receive your cosmic permission slip to embrace joy! ✨