Aura Room

Spirit & Healing - 34 Years in a Therapy Room and a Lifetime on the Road Home with Phyllis E. Leavitt

May 23, 2026·27 min
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There is a quieter thread that connects psychological healing and spiritual awakening, and most of us walk both paths without realising they are the same path. On Aura Room, Nazish sits with Phyllis E. Leavitt, a psychotherapist of 34 years and author of The Road Home Series, for a tender, deeply grounded conversation about what it means to come home to yourself.Phyllis shares the moment she realised her hunger for divine love was also a hunger to be loved by people, the messages she began receiving from a divine source that always pointed back to the very wounds psychology heals, and why every person's pain ultimately traces back to an injury to love and safe belonging. If you are carrying old pain, feel far from yourself, or wondering whether real healing is even possible for you, this conversation reaches you gently exactly where you are.About the Guest:Phyllis E. Leavitt, MA, is a psychotherapist with over 34 years of experience treating children, families, couples, and individuals through abuse, dysfunctional family dynamics, and the long sacred work of healing. She holds a Master's degree in Psychology and Counseling from Antioch University and co-directed the Parents United family sexual abuse treatment program in Santa Fe before transitioning to full-time private practice. Now retired and focused on writing and speaking, she is the author of The Road Home Series, including A Light in the Darkness (Book One), Into the Fire (Book Two), and her most recent book America in Therapy: A New Approach to Hope and Healing for a Nation in Crisis. She lives with her husband in Taos, New Mexico. Key Takeaways:Every person's pain ultimately traces back to an injury to love and safe belonging. The stories differ, but the wound is the same.We are not broken, we are wounded. Coping mechanisms that look like flaws are usually the ways a younger version of us found to survive what we could not understand.Psychology and spirituality are not separate paths. The work of healing wounds and the work of opening to divine source eventually meet, gently, in the same room.Divine guidance does not judge or punish. The messages Phyllis received always came through love, asking what her soul came here to transform.Listen to your own inner knowing. Most of us were taught to listen to authority or dogma, not to the deep knowing that has been quietly speaking inside us the whole time.Do what you love. Whatever connects you to love, gardening, art, music, animals, arranging flowers, has the potential to heal you because love is the medicine.We are here to be of service to one another. Real healing was never a solo journey to a private Nirvana, it was always meant to be shared.Connect With the Guest:Website: phyllisleavitt.comLinkedIn: Phyllis LeavittBooks (Amazon, Barnes &amp; Noble, Goodreads, all major booksellers):A Light in the Darkness (Book One of The Road Home Series)Into the Fire (Book Two of The Road Home Series)America in Therapy: A New Approach to Hope and Healing for a Nation in CrisisActive on: Facebook, Instagram, YouTubeEpisode Chapters:[00:00] Welcome to Aura Room — slowing down for the deeper layers[02:30] Phyllis's realization — wanting divine love and human love at the same time[06:30] How psychology and spirituality braided back together for her[10:30] The biggest misconception about healing and where it actually begins[14:30] The core wound — every story leads back to love and safe belonging[18:00] Listening within — trusting your own inner knowing without dogma[22:00] The dark room and the moments of divine love that visited her[26:00] A closing word — what your soul has been quietly working with all along(timestamps approx.)🎙️ Want to Be a Guest on Healthy Mind, Healthy Life?Send me a direct message on PodMatch.👉 DM Me Here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/avik🌱 About Healthy Mind By Avik™️</stro

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