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Iyanla: The Inside Fix

OWN

Spiritual coach and author Iyanla Vanzant unpacks 12 iconic episodes of "Iyanla: Fix My Life" from OWN to re-examine the lessons and offer a "fix for you" to align your soul and navigate the world we live in today. Each episode features direct audio from the OWN original series, Iyanla: Inside the Fix. 

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  • 26 episodes
  • weekly
  • Avg 35 min
  • English
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  • Monday · 40 min

    Authenticity Is Sacred

    Iyanla re-examines a "Fix My Life" episode that was both controversial and ahead of its time. Using Jeremyah's story, Iyanla offers fresh lessons in using the truth to heal grief, absolve anger, promote acceptance, and encourage being present. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • October 19 · 39 min

    Belly to the Ground

    Iyanla revisits one of the most emotional season one episodes, offering a modern-day fix for broken mother-daughter bonds, with lessons on healing generational trauma and disrupting negative patterns of behavior. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • October 12 · 39 min

    Family Over Dysfunction

    Iyanla revisits one of her favorite episodes of "Fix My Life," following Uncle Pumpkin, Carrie, and their crowded and divided house, offering new lessons on tolerating dysfunction, addressing unexpressed trauma, and honoring good spiritual hygiene. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • October 5 · 39 min

    Creating a Safe Space for Love

    Iyanla offers new lessons from the trauma poisoning the love between a verbally abusive wife and her silenced husband. She pinpoints where love is both unbalanced and replaced by fear, and how to foster a safe space for healing to begin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • September 28 · 40 min

    Confusing Love with Control

    Iyanla revisits Sasha the Diva's broken bond with her son and offers new lessons of self-reflection and "carefrontation over confrontation," teaching how love without alignment can lead to dysfunction if not careful. It's time to do the work! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • September 21 · 40 min

    Bitterness, Blame, and False Realities

    Iyanla Vanzant unpacks her unfinished business with reality star Sheree Whitfield and ex-husband Bob's unhealthy co-parenting relationship and offers a new "fix" that challenges unexplored bitterness, blame, and "performing" instead of being present. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • September 14 · 39 min

    Unmasking the Truth

    Iyanla Vanzant returns to revisit the healing journey of the Six Brown Chicks of "Fix My Backstabbing Friends" and offer a new "fix" based on self-restoration, accountability, and gathering the courage to drop the mask and find your own truth and healing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • September 7 · 1 min

    Introducing Iyanla: The Inside Fix

    Spiritual coach and author Iyanla Vanzant unpacks 12 iconic episodes of "Iyanla: Fix My Life" from OWN to re-examine the lessons and offer a new "fix for you" to align your soul and navigate the world we live in today. Each episode features direct audio from the OWN original series, Iyanla: Inside the Fix. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • Nov 26, 2019 · 34 min

    Iyanla: Fix My Secret Life As A Gay Pastor: Part 3

    Iyanla seeks to begin the healing process by helping two gay pastors fully accept themselves, encouraging them to come out to those they care most about and having them acknowledge the harm caused by their deceptive pasts.

  • Nov 19, 2019 · 34 min

    Iyanla: Fix My Secret Life As A Gay Pastor: Part 2

    After he reached out with a letter, Pastor Derek sits down with Iyanla. He confides that he has spent years hiding his identity as a gay man. His family has shown open hostility toward gay people and he lives in fear of what would happen if his true identify were revealed to his family and his parishioners. Iyanla works to help Derek understand that his pain will continue to devour him until he faces his greatest fears, and helps him prepare him for the huge step of coming out to his family and

  • Nov 12, 2019 · 33 min

    Iyanla: Fix My Secret Life As A Gay Pastor, Part 1

    In an emotional three-episode podcast series, Iyanla travels to Louisville, Kentucky, to help two pastors whose true identities as gay men have been shrouded in years of lies, secrets and deception. The time has come for both to be true to themselves, while taking the very difficult step of coming out to the people they care about most.

  • Nov 5, 2019 · 36 min

    Iyanla: Fix My Abusive Marriage

    Iyanla travels to the Dallas area to support a couple in the midst of a serious marriage crisis. OJ and Janetria both admit that their frequent fights turn physical, but neither seems to think this is a real problem--until Iyanla arrives on their couch and asks them to reenact their latest fight. When their petty argument about the dish drain ends with OJ's hands around his wife's neck, Iyanla kicks him out of the house. In trying to understand why Janetria chooses to stay with a man who is pron

  • Oct 29, 2019 · 37 min

    Iyanla: Fix My Blended Family

    Iyanla goes to Minneapolis to help a woman who says she feels worthless in her life as a wife and mother. Married to her husband for three years, she feels he is detached and unsupportive. Her teenage daughter says that she wishes her mother would leave him. This mom is struggling to hang on to her marriage and deal with unhappy children. She says she has become so good at masking her life that it has become the norm for how she lives her life. She doesn't know if staying in this second marriage

  • Oct 22, 2019 · 36 min

    Iyanla: The Return of Neffe & Soullow

    Former reality stars Neffeteria "Neffe" Pugh and her husband, Shelby (aka "Soullow"), return to Iyanla in an attempt to heal their broken marriage for a second time. Iyanla first meets with Neffe to understand what has changed--or what hasn't changed--since last year's healing work. After listing excuses for why she didn't complete her homework, Neffe admits she has not taken advantage of the tools and resources that Iyanla offered her last year. Neffe chose not to attend the weekend retreat tha

  • Oct 15, 2019 · 36 min

    Iyanla: Fix My Celebrity Parenting Nightmare

    Iyanla travels to Nanuet, New York, to help rapper, actor and reality TV star Saigon and his on-again, off-again lover and mother to his son, Erica Jean. Many know the couple for their tumultuous relationship, displayed on the reality series "Love & Hip Hop: New York." Anger, fighting, resentment and a failure to communicate is threatening their ability to effectively co-parent their young child, Steven. In an emotionally charged episode and a series of heart-to-heart, individual and joint sessi

  • Oct 8, 2019 · 35 min

    Iyanla: Fix My Sexless Marriage

    Iyanla works with a couple from Knoxville, Tennessee, who say they are trapped in a sexless marriage. Tiffany and Nick have been married for five years, but they admit to rarely having sex, sometimes going a full year without being intimate. Tiffany feels that the problem rests with Nick's lack of initiative. Nick says Tiffany's nagging and controlling ways turn him off. But sex is not the real problem here--painful past hurts are tearing this couple apart. Iyanla steps in to address the root ca

  • Oct 1, 2019 · 36 min

    Iyanla: Fix My 600-Pound Secret

    Iyanla travels to Los Angeles to work with Bonnie, a woman whose weight has spiraled to a staggering 600 pounds, confining her to her home and bed for years. Iyanla helps Bonnie examine the emotional road that led to her health crisis, beginning with the death of her mother, and her increasingly deteriorating relationship with her daughter and caretaker, Jamesha. Through one-on-one therapy sessions with Bonnie and revealing joint sessions with Jamesha, Iyanla works to repair the mother-daughter

  • Sep 24, 2019 · 36 min

    Iyanla: Fix My Secret Affair

    Iyanla travels to the suburbs of Detroit to help a husband and wife who are in the midst of a breakdown. Felisha tells Iyanla that her husband's online affair has made her angry and she feels she may never be able to forgive him. Felisha's anger has also been used to cover up her well-kept secret --- her own affair from years past that could ultimately destroy their marriage. While talking with husband Don, he reveals to Iyanla that his wife accused him of deliberately causing a car accident whi

  • Sep 17, 2019 · 37 min

    Iyanla: Fix My Fatherless Family

    Iyanla travels to Newark, New Jersey, to help two sons who are trying to heal from a lifetime of abandonment by their father. Son Isaam tells Iyanla that he has spent decades living in pain because of his distant relationship with his father. He and his brother Chon recall how their father was in and out of their lives, sometimes disappearing for years at a time. Despite trying to mend the relationship, Issam and Chon say their father has continued to disappoint them and to lie to them. Just whe

  • Sep 10, 2019 · 36 min

    Iyanla: Fix My Diva Life

    Iyanla hits the road to help a family in crisis in Stockbridge, Georgia. Popular radio personality "Sasha the Diva" is caught in the middle of a tumultuous relationship between her 42-year-old husband of two years, Kevin, and her 17-year-old son, Dominique. Since remarrying, Sasha's husband's harsh parenting style and her son's rebellious behavior have left the family in ruins. As the damage piles up, Iyanla intervenes to open the lines of communication among all three family members, before it

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