The Vibrant Flow Podcast | Faith-Fueled Confidence, Creativity, Feminine Success, Personal Branding A Cure for Rumination: How to Question Painful Thoughts & Find Peace (S4E32)
Do you ever get stuck in loops of overthinking, rumination, or obsessive thoughts that drain your joy and hijack your peace?
This episode is for you.
In today’s solo teaching, Johanna breaks down a simple yet profoundly transformative tool: the Four Questions of Inquiry, inspired by Byron Katie’s book, Loving What Is. This approach helps you untangle painful thoughts, soften emotional resistance, and free your nervous system from constant tension.
This practice doesn’t bypass your faith or your leadership. Instead, it creates mental clarity, emotional spaciousness, and spiritual receptivity, so you can hear God more clearly and move through life with softness, trust, and inner freedom.
Johanna explains how inquiry works step-by-step using real examples, including the thought “I’m doing this wrong” and the everyday frustration of “my husband should pick up his socks.” You’ll learn how to recognize the hidden thoughts that keep you tense, reactive, and disconnected, and how to release them so you can return to peace, presence, and feminine receptivity.
She also shares how this process ties beautifully into the Heroine’s Journey (the path of feminine wholeness), helping you move out of resistance, back into embodiment, and deeper into your divine assignment.
Why certain thoughts feel “true” even when they’re just mental noise
The 4 Questions of Inquiry and how to use them with any painful thought
How to stop fighting reality, and why acceptance is not passivity
The difference between mental resistance and aligned action
How rumination disconnects you from your feminine flow and presence
Why inquiry creates emotional space for God’s guidance
How to use turnarounds to expand perspective and relieve suffering
How inquiry can be used in relationships, marriage, business, and daily life
How inquiry supports the Heroine’s Journey: wholeness, embodiment, and inner peace
“You can be right or you can be at peace. Which one will you choose?”
“Our thoughts are not truth — they’re stories. Some lead to freedom, some lead to suffering.”
“You can’t rush inquiry. It’s a softening into truth, not a performance.”
“The moment you stop fighting reality, you free up enormous energy to receive what God is giving you.”
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The Heroine’s Journey for Women of Faith & Feminine Leaders PDF GuideA beautifully designed 8-stage workbook to help you reconnect to your feminine essence, wholeness, and divine purpose.👉 Get it here.
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Win The Day Audio Morning Activation
Juicy Guided Embodiment Activations
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You’ll also enjoy:
Ep 31 – The Heroine’s Journey: Back to Wholeness, Femininity & Divine Purpose
Ep 30 – Beauty as Medicine, Devotion & Dignity
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