NO. 242 Letting Life Change You with Simona Irwin
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