{"id":26290,"date":"2026-08-04T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=26290"},"modified":"2026-08-04T12:14:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:14:52","slug":"michelle-wadleigh-i-demand-to-be-me","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/podcast\/michelle-wadleigh-i-demand-to-be-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Wadleigh: &#8220;I Demand to Be Me&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; border: 0 none;\" src=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/shows\/1632d73c-91ea-42a8-a3db-a62b135d081c\/episodes\/fbfec71c-315a-4475-9e1d-7b1428d4abe5\/embed?theme=light-gray-orange\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;You have to want the freedom more than you want to be right about it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s what Reverend Dr. Michelle Wadleigh offers to anyone who has tried forgiveness and found that it didn&#8217;t take. Not a technique. A decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week, Tami Simon speaks with Wadleigh\u2014ordained minister in Centers for Spiritual Living, retreat facilitator, co-founder of the Planned Happiness Institute, and author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forgiveness<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shadow Work<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the new <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dance Like Nobody&#8217;s Watching: The Soul&#8217;s Journey to Courage, Authenticity, and Self-Love<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014about what it actually takes to stop living at the mercy of our own stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join Tami and Michelle to explore:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why forgiveness practices fail when they skip the body and the subconscious\u2014and what to do instead<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How shadow work and forgiveness depend on each other, and why projection drives so much of the divisiveness we see<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Functioning on top of dysfunction&#8221;: our addictions to being nice and being liked, and how they train us to dumb ourselves down<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 15 to 20 minutes before sleep, when the mind turns porous\u2014and how Michelle guards that window<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fire walking, cold plunges, and the discovery that fear is a choice rather than an automatic<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What it means to demand to be me without excuses\u2014and who, exactly, that demand is addressed to<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why a book about bold self-expression closes with instructions for a solo silent retreat<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Presence as a practice, learned while walking beside a dying husband<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michelle speaks throughout from the middle of her own hardest passage, which gives everything she says about buoyancy, beauty, and determination a weight it would not otherwise carry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listen now. \u2192<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This conversation offers genuine transmission, not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together, and originally aired on<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/join.soundstrue.com\/free-month-trial-membership\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sounds True One<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insights at the Edge<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is supported by Omega Institute, a global gathering hub for lifelong learning and spiritual exploration. 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