Essence Merging: A Journey Into the Sacred Self

Essence Merging: A Journey Into the Sacred Self

What makes a recovery journey feel truly sacred? This conversation between host Valeria Teles and transpersonal psychologist Colleen Quinn brings together psychology, spirituality, breathwork, tantra, and raw human honesty in one sweeping story of healing. You’ll hear Colleen describe herself as “a spiritual being having a human experience” and share her view that “we are the ones we are looking for.

Only our love can heal us.” From childhood trauma and womb memories to near-death experiences and energetic orgasms, she talks openly about how the body stores pain and how conscious breath can gently bring those buried parts into the light. The episode centres on Colleen’s upcoming book *Essence Merging*, an unconventional love story that weaves mystical synchronicities, psychology, ancient tantric traditions, and pop culture.

She explains how slow, integrative breathwork allows the nervous system to soften, the ego to relax, and the soul to step forward, turning “love squeezes” (her phrase for painful challenges) into catalysts for transformation and radical self-acceptance. Valeria and Colleen also dig into union and non-duality, why so many people resist the idea that they are fully divine, and how the longing for purpose is often a deeper longing for reunion with that original wholeness.

There’s practical talk too: conscious breathing in everyday life, setting boundaries without abandoning yourself, and reframing pain as part of a larger curriculum of love. For anyone healing from trauma, feeling spiritually curious, or wanting a gentler way to reconnect with the body, this episode offers a mix of clinical experience, mystical storytelling, and a lot of heart.

It asks big questions with a tender tone: what if your breath is already the doorway home to your sacred self, and joy is simply your natural state, waiting to be remembered?