Season Four · Episode Four · Sophie Malahieude
Beyond Everything Is Love
Processing Grief and Difficult Emotions
What changes when we stop judging an emotion and start listening to it?
Sophie is the author of Beyond Emotions and creator of The Emotion Process, a practical approach that helps people understand emotions through the body rather than overthinking them in the mind.
For more than 28 years, she has studied and taught yoga, Ayurveda, mindfulness, breathwork and self-awareness practices. Her work helps people build a different relationship with their emotions so they can move forward with greater clarity, self-trust and intention.
Before · The change · What came next
Before
Growing up in a small village in France, Sophie was sensitive, curious and deeply interested in what feelings were trying to say. Yoga later became the first practice that felt like a way inward rather than another set of rules.
The change
After her mother died, Sophie believed she was coping well. Persistent breathlessness, after a medical checkup had not identified a physical cause, prompted her to recognize that she had been trying to stay positive instead of fully grieving.
What came next
Sophie returned to body awareness, movement, breathwork and self-inquiry. By tracing emotions instead of suppressing them, she began relating differently to grief, fear, family and the old stories she had carried about love.
“Beyond everything is love.”
Sophie
Listen to Sophie’s story
Beyond Everything Is Love is planned for October 27, 2026. Listening links will be added when the episode is released.
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