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What’s Hijacking Your Healing? Preston Smiles Reveals How to Turn Trauma into Abundance

Release Date: 06/24/2025

What’s Hijacking Your Healing? Preston Smiles Reveals How to Turn Trauma into Abundance

Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent

What if true freedom demands separation from old beliefs? Josh Trent welcomes , Abundance and Money Coach, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 752, to reveal how our need for external validation hijacks our true potential and abundance, what it really takes to break free from generational wounds, and why the commodification of spirituality will only be undone by uncompromising honesty and a relaxed nervous system. In This Episode, Preston Smiles Uncovers: [01:10] Why Most Self-Development Is “Blind Leading the Blind” Why healing doesn't have a hierarchy. How all fathers hold the...

From Self-Sabotage to Freedom: Josh Trent Shares How to Master Nature’s Laws + Rewrite Your Destiny

Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent

In this powerful episode with Josh Trent as a guest on ’ Bridging Connections Podcast, Josh dives into what it truly means to live a liberated life. In this conversation, Josh unpacks: Nature’s Universal Laws: How metaphysical principles like reciprocity, oneness and polarity guide us toward wholeness, and why we’re only as liberated as our capacity to align with them. Emotional Epigenetics™: The science of how our inherited beliefs and emotional patterns switch genes on or off, influencing everything from stress response to inner peace. The Wellness Pentagon™: Josh’s...

How AI Doctors, Blood Biomarkers + Epigenetics Will Unlock 140-Year Lifespans (Nathan Graville)

Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent

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LLS | The Shadow Side of Awareness: Why Being Aware of An Issue Doesn't Fix It

Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent

Wellness + Wisdom: Liberated Life Series | Episode 749 Join , host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, and , co-host of the Liberated Life Series, as they shine a light on the shadow side of awareness, revealing why simply knowing what needs to change rarely ignites transformation. In this episode, they journey into the hidden inner-child wounds that shape our beliefs about worthiness and love, and share actionable insights for moving beyond awareness into genuine growth. We ALL have problems. Stop hiding. Start living life liberated. Learn how to set yourself free from self-sabotage,...

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Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent

Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 748 Are your unresolved childhood wounds hijacking your relationships and keeping you stuck in depression or anxiety? Neuro-Rewiring Expert joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 748, to share how healing your protector parts can transform conflict into deeper connection and trust, why psychedelics can reopen critical social learning periods and give you access to the hidden programming of your mind, and how to move from fear-driven protector parts into authentic flow state. "Our core longing as human beings is connection and love. We think...

LLS | 10 Things That Changed My Life... They’ll Change Yours Too

Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent

Wellness + Wisdom: Liberated Life Series | Episode 747 Wellness + Wisdom Podcast Host, , shares the top 10 things that changed his life and led him on a deeper journey of self-discovery and transformation. He explores the profound impact of breathwork and conscious relationships, revealing how these practices can unlock emotional freedom and inner peace. We ALL have problems. Stop hiding. Start living life liberated. Learn how to set yourself free from self-sabotage, limiting beliefs, thoughts, and behaviors so you will have lifelong confidence and clarity of purpose through a thriving...

Marc Gafni | Why Soulmate Relationships Don't Work: The Secret Whole Mate Code to Cosmic Love

Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent

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LLS | Emotional Epigenetics™: You're Not Broken, You're Bio-Energically Burdened (How To Heal Your Past, Present + Future)

Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent

Wellness + Wisdom: Liberated Life Series | Episode 745 Wellness + Wisdom Podcast Host, , shares that emotional epigenetics demonstrates how inherited traumas and patterns can be transformed through conscious healing, empowering individuals to break free from limiting beliefs and positively influence their lineage and future generations. We ALL have problems. Stop hiding. Start living life liberated. Learn how to set yourself free from self-sabotage, limiting beliefs, thoughts, and behaviors so you will have lifelong confidence and clarity of purpose through a thriving community and practical...

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Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent

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Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent

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What if true freedom demands separation from old beliefs?

Josh Trent welcomes Preston Smiles, Abundance and Money Coach, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 752, to reveal how our need for external validation hijacks our true potential and abundance, what it really takes to break free from generational wounds, and why the commodification of spirituality will only be undone by uncompromising honesty and a relaxed nervous system.

In This Episode, Preston Smiles Uncovers:

[01:10] Why Most Self-Development Is “Blind Leading the Blind”

Why healing doesn't have a hierarchy.
How all fathers hold the hard things inside.
Why nobody is better than anybody.
What makes us chase the feeling of significance.
How we're taught to seek validation outside of ourselves.
Why most self-development is blind leading the blind.

Resources:

[09:35] Being Honest with Your Children

Why honesty is a gift to our children.
How Preston's children witnessed a conflict between him and his wife.
Why he apologized to his wife in front of his children after they had a fight.
How being a demonstration is what lands the most for people.

[13:00] How to Repair After Conflict

Why God only hears 'yes.'
How the body stores everything we've ever been through.
What creates neurotags in the body.
How not addressing our neurotags makes us harden.
Why most of us didn't learn how to clear guilt, shame, and trauma from our body.
The importance of having proactive practices to prevent disease.

[18:30] The Role of A Father

Why most of Preston's childhood friends didn't fulfil their potential because their fathers weren't present.
How his father encouraged him to be a leader.
Why most people don't have a father that's loving and present.

Resources:

Dead Poets Society (1989)

[23:35] How to Be Free

Why Preston quit being a reverend twice in his life.
Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes
The importance of questioning our answers.
What is behind our belief that money is hard to come by.
How questioning our path can set us free from generational wounds and beliefs.

Resources:

Spiritual Millionaire by Preston Smiles

[29:00] Why Elevation Requires Separation

How repair provides a space to ask each other questions.
How we become like the people we spend time with.
Why his wife was the first person Preston ever made love with.
What led him to go deep into esoterics and conspiracies.

[35:20] You Can Heal Yourself

The difference between healthy and toxic fear.
How Preston developed a skin disease and fell into shame when he was a teenager.
Why he needed to process the abuse he went through as a child.
How acknowledgment helped him heal.
Why he did 31 ayahuasca ceremonies in a year.
How people began to be part of Preston's healing.

Resources:

You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay

[40:25] The Next Level of Law of Attraction

The missing link to the law of attraction.
Why the work is constant remembering of what is actually here.
How learning to love what is opens up the door for us.
Why we need to choose but not want.
What we can't stop thinking about, it's our calling.
How Preston connects with God.
Why hearing God's voice when he was 15 saved his life.
How he met his wife through listening and trusting God.

Resources:

[49:20] Healing Porn Addiction

What made Josh realize that porn addiction was his own choice.
How Preston approaches his children's sexuality.
Why pornography is a tool of control.
How he finally chose to see sex as a sacred act.

[56:50] Is Demonic Energy Ever Good?

How even demonic energy can serve us to awaken.
Why the demonic energy is not the urge but the marketing machine that sold us the urge.
How the bad things in our lives are our teachers on a soul level.

[01:01:35] The Wounded Ego

Why it's not our fault when we fall into addiction.
How social media glorifies toughness.
Why Preston's team didn't stop working when he decided to let them go.
How he used to feel better than everyone.

[01:08:05] How Much Money Do You Really Need to Be Happy?

How Josh has worked through his relationship and money wounds to get where he is now.
Why there is a point where money doesn't matter anymore.
How Preston learned to appreciate his tiny apartment back in the day.
Why get more if we can't love what we have now.
How some rich people identify with the status of money and get controlled by it.
Why Preston doesn't keep the things that make him attach to his ego.

[01:14:45] Cheaters Don't Last

How people have used Preston to climb the career ladder.
Why his friend stole his workshop.
How people who cheat other people don't last long in the game.

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[01:22:05] Spiritual Commodification

Why the antidote to the commodification of spirituality is honesty.
The importance of crediting those we've learned from.
Why scarcity tells us there's not enough for everyone to share.
How abundance comes from a relaxed nervous system.
Why most people have a very small window of tolerance.

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Power Quotes From Preston Smiles

"Most of the self-development space is the blind leading the blind. They're not embodied. And if who we're mimicking and following is not embodied, then we're going to stay stuck in a vicious cycle." — Preston Smiles

"The body is a living library that stores everything we've ever been through. Over time, if we do not address the stored paid, the body starts to become dense and the fluidity of the system hardens. If we don't have healthy, intentional, proactive practices, the body will turn on itself and begin to create cancer cells because it is not flowing like it should be." — Preston Smiles

"Get your questions answered and your answers questioned. If you accept the answer, that is what you will experience. But if you question the answer, what do you get? You get freedom." — Preston Smiles

In This Episode, Preston Smiles Uncovers:

[01:10] Why Most Self-Development Is “Blind Leading the Blind”

[09:35] Being Honest with Your Children

[13:00] How to Repair After Conflict

[18:30] The Role of A Father

[23:35] How to Be Free

[29:00] Why Elevation Requires Separation

[35:20] You Can Heal Yourself

[40:25] The Next Level of Law of Attraction

[49:20] Healing Porn Addiction

[56:50] Is Demonic Energy Ever Good?

[01:01:35] The Wounded Ego

[01:08:05] How Much Money Do You Really Need to Be Happy?

[01:14:45] Cheaters Don't Last

[01:22:05] Spiritual Commodification

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Power Quotes From Preston Smiles

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