In this episode of The Internal Shift Show, Debbie Longo speaks with Kanika Vasudeva about grief, surrender, purpose, healing, and the internal transformation that followed the devastating loss of her daughter during pregnancy.

Kanika shares how, on the surface, her life appeared successful and stable. She was working with major global brands, traveling, raising her young son, and preparing for the arrival of her second child. Internally, however, she was struggling with depression, emotional exhaustion, disconnection, and a growing loss of meaning in life.

At 31 weeks pregnant, Kanika experienced the unimaginable loss of her daughter and was forced to deliver a stillborn baby. She describes the shock, emotional devastation, and overwhelming grief that followed, while also trying to continue functioning as a mother to her two-year-old son.

Throughout the conversation, Kanika explains how that tragedy became the moment that forced her to stop running from pain, distraction, and emotional avoidance. Unlike other difficult experiences in her life that she had pushed past by staying busy, this loss completely broke through her coping mechanisms and forced her into deep reflection and surrender.

Kanika shares how surrender became the beginning of her healing process. Instead of trying to control everything, she began asking for help, leaning on spiritual guidance, coaches, teachers, and inner work to slowly rebuild herself emotionally and mentally. She discusses how grief ultimately led her to reconnect with meaning, peace, and purpose in a completely different way than before.

The conversation also explores external validation, anxiety, ambition, emotional healing, spirituality, motherhood, coaching, purpose-driven work, and how painful life experiences can completely redirect someone onto a more meaningful path. Kanika explains that the tragedy shifted her focus away from chasing achievement and toward helping others create businesses and lives aligned with peace, fulfillment, and genuine purpose.

Today, Kanika works with business owners and entrepreneurs to help them build profitable businesses while also creating lives they genuinely enjoy living. She believes that difficult experiences can become powerful invitations to wake up, reevaluate life, and reconnect with deeper meaning.

This episode explores grief, stillbirth, surrender, emotional healing, spirituality, purpose, resilience, motherhood, anxiety, and personal transformation. It reinforces the idea that even the darkest experiences can eventually become the catalyst for healing, growth, and a completely new direction in life.

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In this episode of The Internal Shift Show, Debbie Longo speaks with Carine Van Hee about toxic relationships, emotional abuse, healing from manipulation, self-awareness, and the internal shifts that helped her understand lifelong relationship patterns and rebuild her life.

Carine shares how she grew up believing she came from a loving family, never realizing many of the relationship dynamics she witnessed as a child were emotionally unhealthy and controlling. Although she believed she would never stay in an abusive relationship, she later found herself trapped in toxic emotional patterns without fully understanding what was happening.

A major turning point came while sitting beside her mother’s deathbed, when Carine realized for the first time that her mother had spent more than 65 years in a toxic relationship. That realization forced her to confront painful truths about her own life, including the emotionally abusive relationship she experienced with the father of her son.

Throughout the conversation, Carine explains how confusion, manipulation, isolation, and emotional exhaustion made it difficult to recognize the abuse while she was living through it. Like many survivors, she questioned herself constantly and struggled to understand why the relationship felt unhealthy even when others around her viewed it as normal.

After leaving the relationship with her infant son, Carine focused on protecting and supporting him before eventually realizing she also needed to heal herself. She began therapy, studied family science and psychology later in life, and spent years learning about toxic relationship dynamics, emotional abuse, trauma responses, and healing patterns.

Carine explains that one of the most important internal shifts came through awareness — learning to pause, observe situations clearly, and recognize unhealthy patterns before reacting emotionally. That awareness helped her rebuild confidence, reduce shame, and understand that what happened to her was not her fault.

Today, Carine openly speaks about toxic relationships and emotional abuse to help others recognize harmful patterns sooner and understand that healing and rebuilding are possible.

This episode explores emotional abuse, toxic relationships, trauma recovery, self-awareness, healing, resilience, emotional manipulation, personal growth, and rebuilding life after abuse.

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In this episode of The Internal Shift Show, Debbie Longo speaks with Angell Kelly about burnout, limiting beliefs, spirituality, intuition, personal transformation, and the internal work that completely changed the direction of her life.

Angell shares how she spent years working as a full-time geologist in Canada while living in a constant cycle of overworking, hustling, and attaching her worth to productivity. Although she had already spent years doing inner healing work, improving her finances, relationships, and emotional well-being, she still felt deeply unhappy and disconnected from her career and lifestyle.

Throughout the conversation, Angell explains how limiting beliefs around hard work, achievement, and self-worth kept her trapped in exhausting patterns that no longer aligned with the life she truly wanted. She discusses how journaling, meditation, subconscious work, spirituality, and learning to trust her intuition gradually changed the way she viewed herself and her future.

A major turning point came after her boyfriend proposed during a trip to Greece. That moment created a powerful internal shift where both of them began questioning what kind of life they truly wanted to build together. What started as a dream about restoring a building in Greece slowly became reality through a series of opportunities, connections, and decisions that completely changed their lives.

Within a year, Angell and her fiancé quit their jobs, sold nearly everything they owned, left Canada, and moved permanently to a Greek island to begin restoring a property and creating a slower, more intentional lifestyle. Angell explains that the process required letting go of old identities, beliefs, fears, routines, and patterns that could not come with her into the next chapter of her life.

Debbie and Angell also discuss intuition, mindset, manifestation, faith, emotional healing, limiting beliefs, spirituality, and how people often continue recreating the same struggles until they change what is happening internally first. The conversation reinforces the idea that external change rarely lasts without internal transformation happening underneath it.

This episode explores burnout, self-worth, intuition, personal growth, emotional healing, spirituality, mindset shifts, limiting beliefs, resilience, and creating a life aligned with purpose and peace. It reinforces the idea that the life people truly want is often possible once they stop operating from fear, overwork, and old internal patterns.

Contact Debbie Longo, Executive Behavioral Coach:

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