The Inner Practice-Stories of Healing from the Yoga mat into Life
Sep 30, 2026 · 59 min · 12 segments
What happens after recovery? What comes beyond sobriety, survival, and simply getting through the day? In this episode of *The Inner Practice*, Jackie Vandertuin sits down with therapeutic…
Yeah, you know, I love this, particularly, again, I'm a visual person, but like your analogy of feeding and caring for a sapling and then putting it back into its environment, it's not going to survive.
So I love the fact that, you know, you change the environment, you change the behavior as well, because they have that, it sounds like they would have that support of, environment to be able to support them when they're struggling but just to provide some context Vince can you are you okay to share a little bit about your own journey from your addictions to recovery and then how did that bring you into the field of healing
yeah great yeah great question so so I mean I'm nobody special I was just raised in kind of a religious cult And that was very all about repression, condemnation, shaming, humiliation, and forcing a person to do, you know, to be part of that sector, whatever you call that.
So I'm grateful for all that because, you know, there was a lot of ancestral stuff that's all worked into that as well.
And I believe that, like my elders say, that the healing work we do today affects the next seven generations for sure.
And our ancestors were too busy deking out from arrows, dodging from bullets, hiding from bombs to ever do the work.
So anyway, after I chose to remove myself from that cult at 19, I remember saying, this is it.
And I remember telling this elder guy, and then when the door closed behind me, it went with this thud, and I'll never forget that thud.
It echoes through my consciousness all the time because it's like, oh, shit, what have I done?
What have I done? Because that was what you knew.
Yeah, you know, I love this, particularly, again, I'm a visual person, but like your analogy of feeding and caring for a sapling and then putting it back into its environment, it's not going to survive.
So I love the fact that, you know, you change the environment, you change the behavior as well, because they have that, it sounds like they would have that support of, environment to be able to support them when they're struggling but just to provide some context Vince can you are you okay to share a little bit about your own journey from your addictions to recovery and then how did that bring you into the field of healing
yeah great yeah great question so so I mean I'm nobody special I was just raised in kind of a religious cult And that was very all about repression, condemnation, shaming, humiliation, and forcing a person to do, you know, to be part of that sector, whatever you call that.
So I'm grateful for all that because, you know, there was a lot of ancestral stuff that's all worked into that as well.
And I believe that, like my elders say, that the healing work we do today affects the next seven generations for sure.
And our ancestors were too busy deking out from arrows, dodging from bullets, hiding from bombs to ever do the work.
So anyway, after I chose to remove myself from that cult at 19, I remember saying, this is it.
And I remember telling this elder guy, and then when the door closed behind me, it went with this thud, and I'll never forget that thud.
It echoes through my consciousness all the time because it's like, oh, shit, what have I done?
What have I done? Because that was what you knew.
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