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.

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00:00:00 - Welcome Iyanla Vanzant, author of ‘Spiritual Hygiene’

00:03:40 - Meaning of spiritual hygiene

00:04:15 - Iyanla’s backstory

00:11:08 - 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 freedom

00:19:00 - Everything is energy

00:20:30 - Healing the pain of being a daddy-less daughter

Oprah and Iyanla Vanzant on Daily Care for Your Spiritual Hygiene

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