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EPISODE · Dec 30, 2025 · 58 MIN

Oprah and Iyanla Vanzant on Daily Care for Your Spiritual Hygiene

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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.BUY THE BOOK!https://amzn.to/4yPSegO00:00:00 - Welcome Iyanla Vanzant, author of ‘Spiritual Hygiene’ 00:03:40 - Meaning of spiritual hygiene 00:04:15 - Iyanla’s backstory00:11:08 - 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 freedom00:19:00 - Everything is energy 00:20:30 - Healing the pain of being a daddy-less daughter00:30:20 - Create your own spiritual hygiene 00:33:15 - How to be expressive with family 00:37:40 - Reorder your story00:38:10 - 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 purposeFollow Oprah Winfrey on Social:https://www.instagram.com/oprahpodcast/https://www.facebook.com/oprahwinfrey/Listen to the full podcast:https://open.spotify.com/show/0tEVrfNp92a7lbjDe6GMLIhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-oprah-podcast/id1782960381

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