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Feel Safe in Your Body
by Victor Goenka
What does it actually take to feel safe in your own body? Psychologist and breathwork coach Victor Goenka sits down with one guest per episode to trace a single arc: the survival wiring they grew up with, the moment it changed, and what safety feels like in their nervous system now. Guests range from authors and clinicians to parents and recovering overachievers. Every conversation translates lived experience into nervous system mechanics in real time. No wellness cliches, no toxic positivity, no trauma voyeurism. Just one honest story per episode and a clear map of how a loud mind finds its way back to calm. New episodes daily. Join the BreathX Collective on Nas!
Episodes
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 21: Your Mind Isn't Against You, with Tiffany Nicole
In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka talks with Tiffany Nicole, a coach who works at the meeting point of belief and the body. Her own story starts in a hard place: anxiety she carried for most of her life without a name for it, a depression in college severe enough that she...
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 20: It's Never Too Late, with Vaishali Bhargava
In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Vaishali Bhargava, a soft skills trainer, wellness advocate, content creator, and the founder of NaniMa's Wisdom. At 60, she is living something our culture rarely talks about honestly: the way a whole season of life can...
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 19: Your Body Knew First, with Emmy Riker
In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Emmy Riker, a coach who spent years at a Fortune 200 company, successful by every external measure, until her body started doing something her mind could not argue with. Panic attacks. Depression. Nights that frightened her....
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 18: Art Is My Language, with Kriti Ghosh
In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Kriti Ghosh, an artist who is autistic and ADHD, and who was misdiagnosed with borderline personality disorder more than once. She talks about what it costs to have your wiring named wrong, and what it took to find her own...
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 17: When the Body Says Stop, with Evi Kyriakopoulou
In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Evi Kyriakopoulou, who spent fifteen years as a corporate overachiever, a director, an expat climbing the ladder in the Netherlands, the kind of person who could push through anything. Until her body stopped letting her. Evi...
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 16: The Radar That Never Switches Off, with Dr. Adam Anthony
Dr. Adam Anthony learned to read rooms before he could name why. As a same-race Black adoptee who came up in spaces that were not always safe, his body got good at sensing the shift before it happened, knowing who was safe and who was not. He calls it sharp attunement. It kept him safe as a kid,...
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 15: You Are Not Your Patterns, with Sherri Grieve
In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Sherri Grieve, a peer support coach, author, and founder of Life Rewired who works from lived experience. For most of her life Sherri ran on survival mode without knowing that is what it was. From the outside she looked like...
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 14: Ground Zero, with Keola Grey
In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Keola Grey, a childhood brain tumor survivor from Oahu who has spent over two decades learning how to feel safe in a body that was once the battlefield. Keola was diagnosed as a young child. The tumor was caught early and...
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 13: Are We Good Today?, with Farrah Weir
In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Farrah Weir, a life coach and single mother of two from South Africa who rebuilt her own sense of safety through years of moment-to-moment practice. Farrah came on with a simple line: if anyone's nervous system should be…
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 12: Nothing Is Wrong Right Now, with Derek Notman
In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Derek Notman, a somatic educator and lifelong student of movement and healing arts who teaches people how to come back into their own bodies. Derek has spent more than three decades studying physical culture and philosophy,...
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 11: You Can't Outrun Your Nervous System, with Trung Nguyen
In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Trung Nguyen, a founder who spent ten years and three burnouts learning that the decisions breaking his business were not business decisions. They were nervous system states dressed up as strategy. For years his answer was…
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 10: Stage Fright Lives in the Body, with Robyn Riedlinger
In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Robyn Riedlinger, a public speaking coach who helps founders and entrepreneurs find stage confidence, and the founder of Your Signature Talk. Public speaking is the most common fear on the planet, and Robyn's premise is that…
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 9: Calm Felt Like a Threat, with Braden Hatch
In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Braden Hatch, a mortgage lender, real estate agent, author, and podcast host out of Arizona. By every external measure, Braden is a man who handles things. He ran three businesses and thrived on daily crisis. Then the chaos...
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 8: Survival Wore a Smile, with Maria Arlene (Coach A)
In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Maria Arlene, known to her audience as Coach A. A life coach, content creator, operations manager, and a single mother of three, she spent more than a decade rebuilding a nervous system that had only ever known defense mode....
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 7: Fear Wearing a Costume, with Aline Harrington
In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Aline Kara Harrington, a public school teacher of 25 years, a writer, and a longtime yoga practitioner whose early life was shaped by fear. Severe anxiety and OCD that began in childhood, even as she learned to function,...
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 6: Addiction Is Survival, with McKayan May
McKayan May spent most of his life as, in his own words, a neurotic, depressed, and compulsive person, with addiction from a young age and a nervous system locked in fight or flight. He brought one frame worth taking seriously: addiction is survival, and performance is worth. The compulsion and…
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 5: Where Fear Lives, with Meryl Hayton
In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Meryl Hayton, a trauma-informed inner peace specialist who helps women feel safe in their own minds and bodies. She did not start there. For most of her life she was run by fear. Fear of running out of money. Fear of speaking...
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 4: Functioning, Not Living, with Rachel Heather
A note before you listen: Rachel's story touches grief, trauma, and addiction. We keep those at the level she chose and do not go into the private parts. Take care of yourself as you listen. For about a decade, Rachel Heather had small burnouts and partial recoveries, always just well enough to...
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 3: When Numb Felt Safe, with Oak Mountain
In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Oak Mountain, an author, philosopher, and men's mentor who spent years dissociated, numb, and hyper-vigilant, and who calls himself "mid journey" on purpose. This is a story told from the trail, not the summit. Oak is a...
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 2: The Tsunami Behind the Smile, with Thien Harrah
In this episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Thien Harrah, an author, songwriter, and speaker born in Vietnam who writes about healing, exile, and the long road back to the self. Thien describes her nervous system journey as weather. First calm, the kind where you move...
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Feel Safe in Your Body, Ep 1: When Calm Felt Wrong, with Donya Khandan
In this first episode of Feel Safe in Your Body, Victor Goenka sits down with Donya Khandan, an Identity Alchemist based in Dubai certified in hypnotherapy, EFT, and business mindset coaching. In her early 20s, Donya built a finance career from the ground up. She started at 19, became a top agent...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
What does it actually take to feel safe in your own body? Psychologist and breathwork coach Victor Goenka sits down with one guest per episode to trace a single arc: the survival wiring they grew up with, the moment it changed, and what safety feels like in their nervous system now. Guests range from authors and clinicians to parents and recovering overachievers. Every conversation translates lived experience into nervous system mechanics in real time. No wellness cliches, no toxic positivity, no trauma voyeurism. Just one honest story per episode and a clear map of how a loud mind finds its way back to calm. New episodes daily. Join the BreathX Collective on Nas!
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What does it actually take to feel safe in your own body? Psychologist and breathwork coach Victor Goenka sits down with one guest per episode to trace a single arc: the survival wiring they grew up with, the moment it changed, and what safety feels like in their nervous system now. Guests range...
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