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The Empowered Living Podcast

Unlock Tools for Lasting Change

Are you ready to expand your understanding of mental health and addiction while discovering transformative tools for personal growth?

The Empowered Living Podcast invites you into a unique journey of healing and self-awareness — where modern psychology meets ancient wisdom.

Here’s what you’ll experience:
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Insightful episodes on key topics in mental health and human behavior
- Practical strategies you can use in your everyday life
- A rich blend of science-backed methods and time-tested spiritual teachings

Whether you're on a path of recovery, personal development, or professional growth, this podcast is your companion for deepening resilience, cultivating insight, and living more consciously.

Start listening today — and take your next step toward an empowered life.

Podcast Guest Appearances

Greg Vorst and Michael Nolan, co‑founders of Embodied Recovery and the nonprofit Melos, share their passion for healing and soulful living on podcasts. They speak from the heart about recovery and the power of mindfulness practices like Sundo.

Click the episodes to listen and discover tools for living a more grounded, authentic life.

Path Home: Recovery, Embodiment, and the Power of Human Connection

Therapist and host, Malisa Hepner, sits down with Michael Nolan and Greg Vorst for a powerful exploration of recovery, vulnerability, and the path to emotional freedom. Together, they dive deep into the human side of healing—where accountability meets compassion and breath becomes a bridge to peace. Through stories of friendship, embodiment, and community, they reveal how emotional safety and shared experience form the foundation for lasting transformation. Healing happens in the spaces where honesty meets love—where breath softens the armor and connection reminds us we were never meant to do it alone.

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New Normal Big Life: The Secret to Recovery

What if recovery isn’t about gripping harder, but about becoming someone new? Greg Vorst and Michael Nolan, co-founders of Embodied Recovery, join us to reframe suffering as a portal to soul growth and show how accountability and honesty can reset a life. Their message doesn’t romanticize pain; it transforms it. By shifting from abstinence-only goals to embodied practices, they reveal a path where peace, purpose, and joy are the outcome of daily choices lived in the body.

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Book 101 Review

In this episode, Greg and Michael talk with Daniel Lucas about recovery and the books that have changed their lives.

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Mindfulness, Embodiment & Real Recovery

In this powerful episode of The Mindful Journey, host Sana sits down with Greg Vorst and Michael Nolan, co-founders of Embodied Recovery, a transformative treatment center based in Silicon Valley. Together, they explore how mindfulness and embodiment serve as vital tools for healing addiction, trauma, and chronic dysregulation—not just as coping strategies, but as life-changing daily practices.

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Healing Beyond Diagnosis

In this episode of Healthy Waves, host Avik Chakraborty sits down with Greg Vorst and Michael Nolan, co-founders of Embodied Recovery, to explore the deeper roots of addiction and mental health struggles. Together, they unpack the powerful idea that “the illness is often in the personality,” and how true recovery requires more than abstinence—it demands transformation of how we live, breathe, and relate to ourselves and others.

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Undoing Resistance to Love's Presence

In this powerful and intimate episode of The Soul Mirror, host Shreya sits down with Greg Vorst and Michael, co-founders of Embodied Recovery, to explore why we often resist the very thing we crave most—love. This conversation dives deep into the intersection of breath, trauma healing, shame, and embodied spirituality. Greg and Michael share grounded wisdom from years of guiding others through addiction, disconnection, and shame into radical presence and self-acceptance.

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The Power of Breathwork in Addiction Recovery

In this episode of Brainwaves by Opus, Humberto sits down with Greg Vorst (therapist) and Michael Nolan (certified addiction counselor in long-term recovery), co-founders of Embodied Recovery in California. Greg and Michael share how their personal experiences in recovery, one through addiction, one through spiritual seeking, shaped their mission to build a treatment center that treats the whole person. Their model blends trauma-informed therapy, mindfulness, body-based healing, and breathwork (Sundo) to help clients create lasting change.

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