Holistic Healing + Spiritual Transformation: Moving to Your True Self with Lauren Vaknine
You cannot heal from a place of fear.
That's the truth at the center of everything Lauren Vaknine does. And once you hear her say it and hear the story that led her to it you can't unhear it.
In this episode, I sit down with Lauren Vaknine, holistic healer, identity coach, and founder of the RISE membership, for one of the most layered and insightful conversations on healing I've had on this show.
Lauren was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis at 23 months old. At 18, a chemo-based drug spread it to every joint in her body and left her in a wheelchair. Eleven years later, after piecing together every layer of healing, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, she reached remission. That was 13 years ago. She has been able-bodied since.
The root of her healing wasn't a protocol. It was identity.
This conversation gets into all of it - why nothing heals in isolation, what the biohacking world gets wrong, how trapped emotions become illness, what identity shifting actually means, and why the most powerful healing tools in the world are completely free.
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Key insights:
27 years of rheumatoid arthritis, a wheelchair at 18, and the decision that changed everything
Holistic means whole, not natural. Why healing one part requires healing all parts.
The 18-wheeler analogy: one flat tire and the whole vehicle is off
Why you cannot heal from fear and why most of the biohacking world is operating from exactly that
Trapped emotions and what happens when they don't move through the body
Identity shifting as the root of all healing and why "my arthritis" is a language Lauren won't allow
The RISE membership
The biohacking lie: the stuff that actually heals you costs nothing
Women heal more deeply in community and why Lauren built her whole program around that
Her book I'm Fine — coming later this year
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The conversations don’t end here, they ripple into real life.
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