🎙️ Episode #60 The Dangerous Lie of Alignment

🎙️ Episode #64 The Cage Nobody Talks About: Why Success, Healing & Achievement Still Leave You Feeling Trapped

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2503964/fan_mail/new] What if the thing you think is trapping you isn't actually what's trapping you? Most people spend years trying to improve the conditions inside their cage. * A better job. * More money. * A healthier relationship. * More confidence. * More healing. * More success. But what if the cage itself is the problem? In this deeply personal episode, Dustin Lea Wheeler explores the hidden structures that keep us feeling stuck long after our circumstances change. Through a powerful story about four philanthropists, reflections on grief, and the lessons she learned from her beloved cat Simba, she uncovers why so many people continue searching for freedom while unknowingly carrying the cage with them. This conversation is about more than healing. It's about liberation. You'll discover why freedom isn't the absence of storms, why achievement alone doesn't create fulfillment, and how presence may be the deepest form of love we ever experience. If you've ever wondered why life still feels incomplete even after you've done everything "right," this episode will help you see the door that's been open all along. Because the deepest cage isn't fear. The deepest cage is believing your life exists somewhere other than here. 💗 Connect with Dustin Lea Wheeler: Dustin@spirituallykinky.com 💗 Join The Freedom Bridge Immersive: https://dustinleawheeler.com/the-freedom-bridge [https://dustinleawheeler.com/the-freedom-bridge] 💗 Join the Spiritually Kinky Community: https://www.skool.com/spiritually-kinky-entrepreneur-5210/about?ref=35dc7df58ae145ac815eed1673d081bb [https://www.skool.com/spiritually-kinky-entrepreneur-5210/about?ref=35dc7df58ae145ac815eed1673d081bb]   Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2503964/support]  ✨ Book a Conscious Creation Call with me: https://calendly.com/spirituallykinky/conscious-creation-call [https://calendly.com/spirituallykinky/conscious-creation-call]  🍓 Explore all the Spiritually Kinky magic on the website: www.spirituallykinky.com [http://www.spirituallykinky.com/]

🎙️ Episode #63 Why You Don't Trust Yourself (And How to Rebuild It)

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2503964/fan_mail/new] Most people think they struggle with trust because they've been hurt by other people. But what if the relationship that's hurting the most is the one you have with yourself? In this episode of Spiritually Kinky, I'm exploring Brené Brown's BRAVING framework through a different lens—not as a tool for deciding whether someone else is trustworthy, but as a roadmap for rebuilding trust with ourselves. Because self-trust isn't usually lost in one dramatic moment. It's lost in the small moments. The boundaries we don't hold. The intuition we ignore. The promises we make to ourselves and never keep. The dreams we continue postponing for "someday." Drawing from my own journey of leaving Corporate America and learning how to consciously create a life that felt good on the inside—not just successful on the outside—I share why so many women struggle to trust themselves and what it actually takes to rebuild that relationship. In this episode we explore: • Why self-trust is more important than confidence • The hidden cost of self-abandonment • Brené Brown's BRAVING framework and how it applies to your relationship with yourself • Why boundaries, integrity, accountability, and self-compassion matter • How trust is rebuilt one choice at a time If you've been second-guessing yourself, overthinking every decision, or feeling disconnected from your own inner knowing, this conversation is for you. Because confidence isn't the foundation. Self-trust is. ✨ Ready to stop living from survival and start consciously creating a life you love? Join the Spiritually Kinky Community: Click Here!  [https://www.skool.com/spiritually-kinky-entrepreneur-5210/about?ref=35dc7df58ae145ac815eed1673d081bb] If this episode resonates with you, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs the reminder that trust isn't something you find—it's something you build. Until next time... Keep choosing. Keep creating. Keep becoming. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2503964/support]  ✨ Book a Conscious Creation Call with me: https://calendly.com/spirituallykinky/conscious-creation-call [https://calendly.com/spirituallykinky/conscious-creation-call]  🍓 Explore all the Spiritually Kinky magic on the website: www.spirituallykinky.com [http://www.spirituallykinky.com/]

🎙️ Episode #62 The Secret Fear Nobody Wants To Admit

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2503964/fan_mail/new] What if the thing you've spent your entire life trying to fix... was never broken? In this deeply honest episode, Dustin Wheeler explores one of the most painful and universal fears many people carry in silence: The fear that something is fundamentally wrong with them. The fear that everyone else somehow got the instruction manual for life. The fear that no matter how much healing, growth, achievement, success, or self-improvement they pursue... it never quite feels like enough. Through personal stories, powerful insights, and the lens of conscious creation, Dustin unpacks the hidden identity underneath anxiety, perfectionism, overachievement, loneliness, burnout, and the endless search for "someday." Inside this conversation: *  Why personal development can accidentally reinforce feelings of inadequacy * The hidden "Not-It Identity" driving many people's lives * The dangerous myth that happiness exists somewhere in the future * Why money is often a smoke screen for deeper fears around freedom, authority, choice, and visibility * How survival adaptations become mistaken for personal defects * Why your creations don't create your worth * What it means to stop fixing yourself and start remembering yourself This episode is for anyone who has ever quietly wondered: "What if I'm the problem?" Because maybe there was never anything wrong with you. Maybe there was only a structure convincing you there was. 🎙️ If this episode spoke to you, make sure you follow the podcast, share it with someone you love, and come join us inside the Spiritually Kinky community on Skool where we help high-performing women stop living from survival and start creating from true choice, focus, and flow. Join Here!  Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2503964/support]  ✨ Book a Conscious Creation Call with me: https://calendly.com/spirituallykinky/conscious-creation-call [https://calendly.com/spirituallykinky/conscious-creation-call]  🍓 Explore all the Spiritually Kinky magic on the website: www.spirituallykinky.com [http://www.spirituallykinky.com/]

🎙 Episode #61: The Erotic Tension of Becoming

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2503964/fan_mail/new] What if the reason you feel exhausted… is because you keep trying to become one thing? Only healed. Only certain. Only powerful. Only “aligned.” But life doesn’t move in straight lines. Life moves through contradiction. Through longing. Through heartbreak. Through pleasure. Through grief. Through expansion. Through becoming. And maybe the real kink… is learning how to stay open to life without hardening your heart. In this deeply emotional and existential episode of the Spiritually Kinky Podcast, Dustin Wheeler explores The Erotic Tension of Becoming — and the beautiful contradiction of being both the creative force AND the human experience. This is a conversation about what happens when we stop trying to purify ourselves into perfection… and start learning how to stay open to life again. Together, we explore conscious creation, nervous system healing, emotional healing, self-worth, identity transformation, fulfillment, spirituality, heartbreak, pleasure, play, power, and the deeper meaning behind what Spiritually Kinky truly represents. Because maybe the goal was never to become emotionally untouchable. Maybe the goal is becoming available to life again. To love deeply. To create deeply. To laugh deeply. To feel deeply. To risk deeply. To stay connected to yourself while becoming. If you’ve been feeling emotionally exhausted… disconnected from joy… lost somewhere between healing and becoming… or overwhelmed trying to “fix” yourself into worthiness… this episode will meet you there. Because you are not a machine trying to optimize your humanity. You are a living, breathing human being learning how to dance with life again. Because becoming was never meant to feel sterile. It was meant to feel alive. ✨ Join the Spiritually Kinky Community on Skool [https://www.skool.com/spiritually-kinky-entrepreneur-5210/about?ref=35dc7df58ae145ac815eed1673d081bb] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2503964/support]  ✨ Book a Conscious Creation Call with me: https://calendly.com/spirituallykinky/conscious-creation-call [https://calendly.com/spirituallykinky/conscious-creation-call]  🍓 Explore all the Spiritually Kinky magic on the website: www.spirituallykinky.com [http://www.spirituallykinky.com/]

🎙️ Episode #60 The Dangerous Lie of Alignment

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2503964/fan_mail/new] What if the reason you feel stuck… isn’t because you’re broken — but because you’ve been taught to worship your emotions as truth? In this deep and emotionally raw episode, Dustin Wheeler explores the dangerous lie behind “feeling aligned” and why so many conscious creators, high achievers, and spiritually-minded people end up trapped waiting to feel ready before taking action. This conversation dives into: * nervous system conditioning * emotional regulation * survival mode psychology * manifestation myths * emotional addiction * identity loops * power, choice, focus & flow * burnout cycles * success vs fulfillment * conscious creation * embracing contradiction without abandoning yourself You’ll learn why: * feelings are real but not always truth * emotional familiarity becomes identity * the nervous system mistakes survival for safety * power is the speed between idea and fruition * regulation is not suppression * true creation requires both the creator AND the human This is one of the deepest Spiritually Kinky episodes yet. If you’ve been feeling exhausted, emotionally overwhelmed, stuck in self-development loops, or waiting to “feel aligned” before moving toward your future… this episode will hit differently. Because maybe the goal isn’t becoming less emotional. Maybe the goal is learning how to stay connected to yourself while emotions move through you. ✨ Join the Spiritually Kinky Community for Creators on Skool: [https://www.skool.com/spiritually-kinky-entrepreneur-5210/about] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2503964/support]  ✨ Book a Conscious Creation Call with me: https://calendly.com/spirituallykinky/conscious-creation-call [https://calendly.com/spirituallykinky/conscious-creation-call]  🍓 Explore all the Spiritually Kinky magic on the website: www.spirituallykinky.com [http://www.spirituallykinky.com/]