Wellness + Wisdom Podcast Kyle Cease | I Fasted For 11 Days To Dissolve Trauma (Surrender Experiment)
Jan 6, 2026
Kyle Cease, an ex-comedian turned transformational speaker, shares insights from his journey of fasting and personal growth. He discusses how fasting can reveal emotional hunger and release trauma, emphasizing the importance of surrendering ego-driven goals. Kyle explores the lessons learned through pain, the need to dissolve identity for true self-discovery, and how life reflects our inner work. He stresses that detaching from outcomes can lead to authentic results and guides listeners on embracing presence and love over fear.
01:25:45
Fasting Revealed A Childhood Food Memory
- Kyle describes fasting to know God, not to achieve a result, and how that surrendered control altered outcomes.
- He recounts hunger turning into an emotional memory of seeking love at a Mexican restaurant with his dad, which dissolved during the fast.
Surrender Beats Egoic Goal-Setting
- Kyle realized fasting under egoic goals keeps the ego in control and blocks spiritual surrender.
- When he fasts for God, the controlling 'one' dies and life still yields many of the same results effortlessly.
Opposite Behavior Often Mirrors The Parent
- Trying to be the opposite of a parent often recreates the same pattern in different clothes.
- Kyle points out that reacting against parental patterns usually becomes a mirror of them rather than true freedom.
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Intro
00:00 • 1min
Why Kyle Fasted To Know God
01:17 • 4min
Merging With Soul No Matter The Cost
05:36 • 3min
The Fast's Container And Trauma Release
08:10 • 2min
Becoming The Opposite Of Your Parent
10:23 • 3min
Efforting Versus Effortless Living
13:20 • 3min
Ad break
16:30 • 2min
Listening To Subconscious Needs, Not Action Panic
18:28 • 6min
Alchemizing Trauma Creates Space For God
24:30 • 4min
Life Mirrors Inner Work
28:32 • 4min
Holding Space For A Closed Heart
32:09 • 1min
Detaching From Outcomes Brings Results
33:25 • 7min
Purging Identity To Meet Kyle
40:27 • 3min
From Comedian To Mindset Teacher
43:03 • 14min
Release Of Control As Awakening Doorway
56:54 • 4min
Pain As Teacher And Ongoing Spiral
01:01:18 • 6min
God, Expansion, And Inner Guidance
01:07:36 • 9min
Knowing When To Stay Or Let Go
01:16:50 • 3min
Everything's Okay Practice
01:19:30 • 5min
Outro
01:24:50 • 48sec
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Hawkins uses concepts from particle physics, nonlinear dynamics, and chaos theory, as well as Applied Kinesiology, to support his research.
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Is the discomfort you're trying to fix actually the signal calling you back to your soul instead of another problem to solve?
Josh Trent welcomes Ex-Comedian, Kyle Cease, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 791, to explore how fasting dissolves emotional hunger, why effort and ambition are often trauma driven, how the ego uses goals and problems to stay in control, why pain is a spiritual teacher, and how surrendering identity, outcomes, and the need to be someone can reconnect us to soul, presence, and God.
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In This Episode, Kyle Cease Uncovers: [01:25] Merge with Your Soul- What motivates Kyle to do multi-day fasting.
- How fasting helped him improve his vision and release trauma.
- Why the feeling of hunger comes from an emotion.
- How the ego shouldn't be in charge of our lives.
- Why difficult times want to reconnect us with your soul.
- How Kyle's success came from his being bullied at school.
Resources:
[08:50] The Paradox of Not Wanting to Be Like Your Parents- How each new day provides new revelations.
- Why Kyle didn't want to repress himself just like his father did.
- How us trying not to be like our parents often makes us the same as them.
- Why the opposites are not that different.
- Why effort is an egoic structure.
- How being present reliefs hunger when we're fasting.
- Why many of our ambitions are driven by trauma.
- The importance of listening to our inner voice.
- How the ego protects us from our childhood wounds.
- Why we try to escape the present moment.
- How we can surrender to not knowing.
- Why today's relationships are different from previous generations.
- How what we do is not who we are.
- Why the world is mirroring each person.
- The reason life gives us triggers.
- How Kyle realized his wife can have a closed heart.
Resources:
[30:25] Don't Attach to Your Goals- Why when we're not attached to the outcome, more things happen for us.
- How getting the things Kyle wanted didn't make him happy.
- Why the human consciousness doesn't allow us to grind to achieve our goals.
Resources:
[35:15] Allow Yourself to Feel- How going offline can show us what we actually feel inside.
- Why so many people are now seeking God.
- How Kyle can't remember his childhood well.
- Why we don't need memories.
Resources:
[41:20] Can You Just Be?- How the source became Kyle's fuel source.
- Why wanting to change the world is an egoic desire.
- How people struggle just being and enjoying what is.
Resources:
[45:00] From Comedy to Mindset Work- Why we're always trying to reach another level.
- How Kyle started struggling with anxiety on stage.
- Why he wanted to teach people that they can do anything.
- How other comedians were cynical about Kyle's shift from comedy to mindset.
- What helped Kyle get over what people think about him.
- How suffering comes from the control we're holding onto.
Resources:
[58:25] Pain Is Your Teacher- How doing nothing can create more results than trying too hard.
- Why God uses pain as a teacher.
- How there will always be more wounds to uncover.
- Why God helps us get to him through pain.
Resources:
[01:06:30] How to Move Closer to God- How millions of people have religious shame.
- Why telling the concept of hell as God's punishment on children is abusive.
- How Kyle defines God.
- Why we can feel what will move us towards God.
- How he started fasting to give his best version to his wife.
- Why the reason why we can't is the reason why we should.
- Why letting go can still be egoic.
- How relationships serve as a healing tool.
- Why the ego is built to find problems.
- What has the power to kill the ego.
"I'm not fasting to get something. I'm fasting to know God. I literally spent the last 11 days just watching Kyle die left and right. I noticed that if I fast to get a result like weightloss or becoming healthy, then this fast is under my egoic control. But when I'm doing it for God, all kinds of miraculous things show up. " — Kyle Cease
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Kyle Cease has a gift for merging comedy with personal transformation. As a comedian, Kyle had two #1 Comedy Central specials and was voted #1 on Comedy Central's Stand-up Showdown.
After leaving his job as an award-winning comedian, Kyle dedicated his life to helping others and created Evolving Out Loud, which is a growing community with over 400 thousand members worldwide. Kyle has personally coached over fifteen thousand people.
Kyle has made over 100 TV and movie appearances, including Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Late Late Show, and his speaking events regularly fill large venues across the United States.
He has also spoken with renowned teachers like Eckhart Tolle, Jim Carrey, Michael Beckwith, Louis C.K., Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Louie Anderson, Dick Gregory, and David Wolfe; as well as being a guest speaker at thousands of colleges, summits, and Fortune 500 conferences.