Simona Irwin is a Toronto-based mindfulness teacher, somatic practitioner and family constellation facilitator who weaves nervous system tending, deep ecology, and embodied movement into spaces of belonging and aliveness.

This is a conversation about healing, but not in a neat or prescriptive way. It’s about what it means to live through something difficult, to change because of it, and to keep meeting yourself as that change continues.

What we cover in this episode:

🌊 The practice of letting life change you (instead of trying to control every outcome)
🧠 Chronic illness, fear, and the surprising role of the nervous system in healing
🔥 The exhausting loop of trying everything—and what happens when you stop
💔 Mother wounds, grief, and the complexity of showing up at the end of a life
🪶 What “willingness” actually looks like in real time (not the Instagram version)
🌀 The tension between mystical experiences and being a grounded, practical human
🌱 How giving others grace can quietly open the door to giving it to yourself
🧍🏻‍♀️ The parts of us that resist healing—and why they might not be wrong

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https://turningtowards.me/
https://www.instagram.com/turningtowards/

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Kyley and Eva sit down to talk about what has been happening in North America around ICE, immigration enforcement, and the wave of fear, grief, rage, confusion, and moral distress many people are carrying in their bodies right now.

They explore what happens when institutions dehumanize people, how fear spreads through communities, and why numbness can start to feel like a survival strategy. At the same time, they reflect on the quiet, often unglamorous work of staying human: letting grief be present, allowing anger without letting it harden into hatred, and remembering that compassion does not require self-destruction.

This is a conversation for anyone who feels torn between caring deeply and needing to protect their own mental and emotional health.

What we cover
🧠 How the nervous system responds to ongoing political and social threat
💔 The emotional impact of ICE enforcement on individuals and communities
🧍‍♀️ Why numbness, shutdown, and overwhelm are understandable responses
🔥 Making space for anger without letting it turn into dehumanization
🌊 Grief as a natural response to witnessing harm and loss of safety
🧭 The difference between staying informed and being constantly flooded
🛑 Boundaries as a form of care, not avoidance
🤝 How to hold compassion without collapsing into helplessness

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After years of unravelling inherited belief systems, questioning authority, and prying spirituality out of the grip of shame, she finds herself back in conversation with Catholicism.

What we cover in this episode:
✝️ Kyley’s complicated return to Catholicism and what “return” actually means here
🕯️ Ritual, repetition, and why the body remembers faith even when the mind resists it
🌀 Leaving a religion without leaving the parts that shaped you
🔥 Spiritual rebellion, authority wounds, and the long shadow of shame
🤍 Grief, belonging, and the tenderness of being spiritually homeless
🗝️ Letting spirituality be messy, unresolved, and deeply personal

If you’ve ever felt spiritually in-between or you’ve ever missed something you thought you were done with, this one's for you!

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