Devi sits down with designer Tiffany Howell (Night Palm Studio) to talk about why your home isn’t just décor—it’s emotional support. Tiffany’s main point is simple and powerful: “Beauty is medicine,” and your space can help “reset your nervous system” when life feels hard. She shares how she helps clients find their aesthetic by asking sensory questions: favorite smells, textures, colors you dislike...because it’s “them getting to know themselves again,” and she treats each home like “its own living creature” that evolves with you. This is an opportunity to take away practical steps even without a full redesign: choose colors that make you feel safe, make daily rituals easier, and keep “three things…that bring you joy,” like a candle, a book, or a light you love turning on.

Connect with Tiffany Howell:

Website: https://www.nightpalm.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nightpalm

Connect with Devi:

Website: https://devibrownwellbeing.com/

Substack: https://substack.com/@devibrown

Living In Wisdom Book: https://www.devibrown.com/book

Living in Wisdom Retreat: https://www.eomega.org/workshops/living-wisdom

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/devibrown/

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Devi reminds us that a real wellness practice isn’t about looking impressive or “creating an ideal version of yourself,” it’s about “building a relationship with yourself that you can return to consistently….It’s not difficult, it’s effortful,” and “wanting healing without devotion… is not possible.”

You’ll come away with permission to stop performing your self-care, to trust small moments of real-life integration (one breath before responding counts), and to build a flexible practice across mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual needs.

The soul work is simple: ask, “What do I need right now?” then write down what comes up without judgment.

Connect with Devi:

Website: https://devibrownwellbeing.com/

Substack: https://substack.com/@devibrown

Living In Wisdom Book: https://www.devibrown.com/book

Living in Wisdom Retreat: https://www.eomega.org/workshops/living-wisdom

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/devibrown/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deeplywellpod/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/devibrown?s=21&t=…

Merch: https://devibrown.myshopify.com/

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This episode feels like a permission slip to stop carrying what was never yours in the first place. Devi talks with intuitive healer and Family Constellation Therapy facilitator Karie Gonia about how inherited trauma, silence, and loyalty to our family systems can shape our relationships and choices, often without us realizing it. Karie explains why this work can create change fast: “Family Constellation therapy is the deep end of the pool”.

Their grief conversation is especially grounding. Karie shares how losing her dad changed her understanding of it, and how witnessing matters more than fixing.

Listeners walk away with a simple body-based practice to feel ancestral support, notice what pulls you back, and practice stepping toward what you want.

Connect with Karie Gonia

Karie Gonia Website: https://www.kariegonia.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kariegonia/

Connect with Devi:

Website: https://devibrownwellbeing.com/

Substack: https://substack.com/@devibrown

Living In Wisdom Book: https://www.devibrown.com/book

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/devibrown/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deeplywellpod/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/devibrown?s=21&t=…

Merch: https://devibrown.myshopify.com/

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Dr. Marc Brackett joins us today to talk about what emotional intelligence actually is—and why it’s not just “being a deep feeler” or a good talker. He breaks it down with his RULER framework (recognizing, understanding, labeling, expressing, regulating) and pushes for more precise language than “good,” because nuance changes everything.

One of the biggest takeaways: emotional skills don’t grow without “permission to feel,” and most people didn’t have an “emotional ally” growing up—someone “non-judgmental” who offers presence instead of fixing. He also shares practical regulation tools: “never worry alone,” watch your self-talk, and set identity-based intentions (like being “cherished” and “alive” as a parent). He reminds parents, including Devi, that it’s “effortful, but it is not difficult,” and sleep is often the hidden barrier.

Connect with Marc
Website: https://marcbrackett.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marc.brackett/

Read: Dealing With Feeling

Connect with Devi:
Website: https://devibrownwellbeing.com/

Substack: https://substack.com/@devibrown

Living In Wisdom Book: https://www.devibrown.com/book

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/devibrown/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deeplywellpod/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/devibrown?s=21&t=…

Merch: https://devibrown.myshopify.com/

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Some things cannot be resolved. They can only be held. This episode is about paradox as a practice. Not a philosophy, not a concept, but a real and living skill for an era that is pulling us in every direction at once. We move through what it means to stop forcing clarity where life is asking for capacity, and why emotional maturity might be the most important work of this particular moment in human history.

At the heart of this episode is a deeply personal story of receiving the devastating news of the loss of a friend, whose life was taken. Devi shares how this impacted her and what practices she reached for when she was carrying something so fresh and heavy, all while showing up for a room full of women excited to deepen into their lives and purpose.

Substack is live.

The Living Wisdom Retreat at the Omega Institute runs July 5–10.

Connect with Devi:
Website: https://devibrownwellbeing.com/

Substack: https://substack.com/@devibrown

Living In Wisdom Book: https://www.devibrown.com/book

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/devibrown/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deeplywellpod/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/devibrown?s=21&t=…

Merch: https://devibrown.myshopify.com/

Airbnb Experience: Find your calm in a meditation with Devi Brown

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You don't just listen to Deeply Well, you return to it. Season 5 begins the way all good things do, with a breath. Devi Brown returns with a new studio, a new chapter, and a deepened commitment to living well from the inside out, not perfectly, but honestly, with all the complexity, the paradox, the beauty, and the wonder. This season is about ways to live your wisdom, an invitation to go further into integration, into joy, into the practices that genuinely sustain you, the ones that work when life is actually happening. Expect guests who have truly earned their wisdom, more of Devi's own reflections and practices, and your voices are coming to the show, too. Find her on Substack with Self-Care Simplified, where an entire experience awaits after every episode: Easter eggs, playlists, soul work, and more. And if you're ready to go even further, join Devi at the Omega Institute for the Living in Wisdom retreat, July 5 through 10, 2026. So glad you're here!

Connect with Devi:
Website: https://devibrownwellbeing.com/

Substack: https://substack.com/@devibrown

Living In Wisdom Book: https://www.devibrown.com/book

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/devibrown/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deeplywellpod/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/devibrown?s=21&t=…

Merch: https://devibrown.myshopify.com/

Airbnb Experience: Find your calm in a meditation with Devi Brown

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