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Oprah and Iyanla Vanzant on Daily Care for Your Spiritual Hygiene

The Oprah Podcast

Harpo

December 30, 2025

Show Notes

Oprah sits down with world-renowned spiritual teacher, bestselling author and “fixer" Iyanla Vanzant for a powerful, soul-shifting conversation about her newest book "Spiritual Hygiene: A Practical Path for Clean Living, for Inner Authority, and for Divine Freedom." In this intimate and deeply personal episode Iyanla explains the transformative concept of spiritual hygiene—the idea that just as we tend to our physical hygiene our mental, emotional and spiritual well-being also require conscious, daily care. Iyanla shares what she’s learned and how she’s healed from her own childhood trauma as well as losing two of her adult daughters, Gemmia in 2003and Nisa in 2023.Oprah and Iyanla are joined by audience members who bravely ask how they can cleanse their spirits of the pain, heaviness and generational burdens they’ve carried throughout their lives. Together they explore how spiritual hygiene offers clarity, courage and a way forward. This episode is a moving invitation to let go and step into a more grounded, spiritually spacious life.


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- Welcome Iyanla Vanzant, author of ‘Spiritual Hygiene’

- Meaning of spiritual hygiene

- Iyanla’s backstory

- The power of grief

- Parenting with spiritual hygiene

- Iyanla says she was a horrible mother

- The distinction between wrong and bad

- The meaning of divine freedom

- Everything is energy

- Healing the pain of being a daddy-less daughter

- Create your own spiritual hygiene

- How to be expressive with family

- Reorder your story

- The life you signed up for

- Look at far you’ve come

- The guilt of choosing yourself

- Always choose yourself

- A sacred no and a spiritual yes

- Everything has a purpose


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