Take Back Your Mind

🌿 A new year. A renewed vision. Step into 2027 with Michael at his New Year's Meditation Retreat in Costa Rica: https://events.agapelive.com/new-year-retreat/
Our first letter comes from Andrea M.: After four months of unemployment, Andrea is struggling to stay hopeful despite her dedication to prayer, meditation, and visioning. She asks how to keep her faith strong and her anxiety at bay while waiting for a new opportunity—and whether she's holding on too tightly rather than truly trusting divine timing.
Our next letter comes from Nathalie: When someone offers to pray for Nathalie, she sometimes feels spiritually vulnerable, wondering what their intentions might be. She asks how to shift her perception and receive these gestures with love rather than fear, without feeling the need to protect herself.
Finally, Michael leads a guided meditation.
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🌿 A new year. A renewed vision. Step into 2027 with Michael at his New Year's Meditation Retreat in Costa Rica: https://events.agapelive.com/new-year-retreat/
Unpack the hidden ways a father wound can shape self-worth, relationships, ambition, and the ability to receive love—and discover what healing can look like without needing your father to change or even participate.
This episode contains some explicit language.
Today, Michael welcomes licensed psychotherapist, relationship expert, author of Boundary Boss, and host of The Terri Cole Show podcast, Terri Cole. For over two decades, Terri has worked with clients ranging from international pop stars and athletes to thought leaders and Fortune 500 CEOs, while reaching a global community of more than 800,000 people across 189 countries. Blending psychology with Eastern mindfulness practices, Terri makes complex psychological concepts accessible and actionable. Her latest book, Father Wound: Break Unhealthy Patterns to Reclaim Your Worth and Power, explores how our relationships with our fathers can continue shaping self-worth, love, boundaries, and emotional patterns long into adulthood. 
Conversation Highlights Include:
-Why a father wound doesn't require abuse or abandonment, and how emotional absence, lack of attunement, or not receiving what we needed can leave an invisible imprint.
-Why healing a father wound doesn't require blaming your father—or even having him participate—and how telling the truth about what you experienced can be deeply freeing.
-How Terri came to recognize that much of her ambition was driven by a need to prove her worth, rather than by joy or conscious choice.
-What emotional attunement looks like, why it matters so much in childhood, and how our earliest experiences with fathers can influence attachment and relationships with men.
-How childhood survival strategies such as hyper-independence, caretaking, control, and over-responsibility can become limiting patterns in adult relationships.
-Why mourning the father we wished we had, regulating the nervous system, and learning to prioritize our own needs, pleasure, and preferences can be part of reclaiming our worth.
-What men can take from the conversation with their own father wounds, plus, how fathers can help prevent a father wound by giving their daughters uninterrupted attention, listening with curiosity, and showing them that what they have to say matters. 
Next, Michael closes with a meditation on unconditional love, inviting us to bring our attention to the heart and consciously radiate that love outward into our lives and the world.
🪷 Get your copy of Father Wound: Break Unhealthy Patterns to Reclaim Your Worth and Power, sign up for Terri's "Understanding & Transforming Your Father Wound" course, and see Terri's many other offerings here: https://www.terricole.com/.
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Our first letter comes from Birdy: As Birdy faces a difficult custody battle with her former partner, past trauma is triggering overwhelming fear for her young son's safety. She asks how to distinguish spiritual guidance from trauma and fear—and how to protect her children while staying grounded in trust rather than terror.
Our next letter comes from Jade in Boston: After leaving an abusive relationship, Jade has found peace raising her children, but painful memories and emotions continue to resurface. She asks how to truly heal and release the past while maintaining the boundaries needed to protect herself and her family.
Next, Michael leads a guided meditation. 
✨ Got a question about life, love, money, or spiritual growth? Ask Michael at podcast@michaelbeckwith.com. Your question could be featured in an upcoming episode!
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Explore what can happen when astrology becomes less about prediction and more about remembering who you are, understanding your unique design, and returning to the parts of yourself you may have learned to hide.
Today Michael welcomes Debra Silverman. Debra Silverman is an astrologer, psychotherapist, spiritual guide, author, and founder of Debra Silverman Astrology. For nearly 50 years, she has combined her master's degree in Clinical Psychology with a practical, soul-centered approach to astrology, helping people better understand themselves, navigate change, and cultivate greater compassion. She is the author of The Missing Element and I Don't Believe in Astrology: A Therapist's Guide to the Life-Changing Wisdom of the Stars, host of the I Don't Believe in Astrology podcast, and creator of a psychological-spiritual model rooted in astrology and the four Elements. Her Applied Astrology school has educated thousands of students worldwide, and she has worked with figures including Sting, Madonna, Aaron Rodgers, Shailene Woodley, India Arie, and Julianne Hough. At the heart of her work is a simple conviction: astrology is medicine for the soul.
Conversation Highlights Include
-Why astrology can serve as a kind of "true north," giving language to the personality traits, patterns, and inner tensions we may have struggled to understand.
-How the parts of ourselves we once judged as "too much," too quiet, too emotional, too controlling, or too different may actually be expressions of our natural gifts.
-Why self-criticism and the "gremlins" of the mind can pull us away from our authentic nature, and how greater self-understanding can help us come home to ourselves.
-How the four elements—water, air, earth, and fire—can offer a simple framework for understanding personality, balance, and the different ways we move through life.
-Debra's distinction between the ego and the soul, and how she uses the rising sign as a doorway into what she sees as our deeper spiritual nature.
-A conversation on destiny, free will, and why our greatest freedom may lie not in controlling what happens, but in how consciously we meet what life gives us.
-Why relationships and triggers can reveal the very lessons we are here to learn, and how turning inward can free us from trying to change everyone around us.
Next, Michael closes with a guided meditation on becoming still, observing the mind without judgment, and awakening more fully to our real nature and potential. 
🪷 For more on Debra and her work, her books, her courses, and more, visit:  https://debrasilvermanastrology.com/ and follow her across social media. 
✨ Got a question about life, love, money, or spiritual growth? Ask Michael at podcast@michaelbeckwith.com. Your question could be featured in an upcoming episode!
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🌿 Begin your new year with Michael in Costa Rica! Sign up for his New Year's Meditation Retreat: https://events.agapelive.com/new-year-retreat/ 
Our first letter comes from Kamal R.: Kamal has two questions: How do we know what we're being called to forgive versus what we're being called to surrender? And if our perceptions and projections shape our experience, can we consciously project something positive toward others—even those with difficult energy?
Our next letter comes from Derin in Pismo Beach: After his wife was excluded from her own father's funeral, Derin is struggling to forgive the family members responsible, especially as old wounds resurface. He asks where to draw the line between forgiveness and distance—and how to remain open-hearted without allowing further hurt.
Next, Michael leads a guided meditation.
✨ Got a question about life, love, money, or spiritual growth? Ask Michael at podcast@michaelbeckwith.com. Your question could be featured in an upcoming episode!
✍️ Love Take Back Your Mind? Help the podcast grow by leaving a 5-star review or comment. Your support helps more people discover the show.
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🌐 Stay connected with Michael: Visit https://michaelbeckwith.com/ and sign up for inspiration and updates. You'll also receive his guided meditation, "Raise Your Vibration and Be Untouchable." Discover more at https://agapelive.com/.
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🌟 Support the podcast by supporting Agape! Take Back Your Mind is sponsored by the Agape International Spiritual Center, a community dedicated to individual transformation and being a beneficial presence on the planet.
💖 Donate at https://agapelive.com/ and mention "podcast"
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Your generosity helps us continue sharing conversations that uplift and transform!
🌿 Our secondary sponsor is NutriRise, the maker of Michael's AdaptoZen nutrition and supplement line. Explore the collection at https://nutririse.com/collections/adaptozen.