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6th Nov 2025

The Truth About Adversity No One Talks About — Caitlin Cogan Doemner | Ep. 465

Caitlin Doemner is a visionary leader, healer, and founder of the Institute of Energetics, a pioneering organization that bridges science, spirituality, and human evolution.

Her mission is to make energetic literacy and emotional intelligence as essential as mental and physical health — empowering people to understand how energy moves through the body, emotions, and relationships so they can live more conscious, connected, and fulfilled lives.

Through the Institute, Caitlin and her team are building a global movement of facilitators, healers, and educators — all united by one mission: to help humanity remember its wholeness.

It’s not just about healing... it’s about awakening.

In this conversation, Caitlin and Lance explore:

🌪️ How adversity creates friction that leads to personal growth

🔥 Why stress can be reframed as a positive, creative force

💡 The illusion of external success and why fulfillment must come from within

🧘‍♀️ The difference between pain and suffering — and how to transform both

🌈 What it means to live “full-spectrum” and embrace all emotions

💬 How vulnerability and authenticity deepen human connection

⚡ Why real change often requires a breaking point

🧠 The power of visualization and emotional rehearsal in shaping your future

🌍 The role of community in individual and collective healing

🌬️ How breathwork bridges the mind, body, and soul

💫 The vision behind the Institute of Energetics — creating a new paradigm of healing and human potential through energy education and emotional mastery

👉 This episode is a powerful reflection on embracing adversity as the ultimate teacher, integrating your emotions, and stepping fully into the life you’re meant to live.

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Website → Join the Institute of Energetics

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About the Podcast

University of Adversity
Real stories and tools to help you grow through adversity, burnout, and reinvention.
University of Adversity is a show about the moments that change us — especially the ones we didn’t ask for.

I’m Lance Essihos, and I sit down with athletes, bestselling authors, doctors, entrepreneurs, spiritual teachers, and everyday warriors to have real conversations about adversity — the kind that strips away the surface and forces us to face who we really are.

We go deep into the mindset shifts, emotional breakthroughs, and practical tools that helped them rebuild. Not just to survive, but to come back stronger, clearer, and more aligned.

This isn’t motivation.
It’s what happens after the breakdown, when you’re trying to put the pieces back together and make it mean something.

If you’re in a season of uncertainty, burnout, or reinvention — this show is here to walk with you.

We don’t just talk about getting through the hard times.
We talk about who you become because of them.

About your host

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Lance Essihos

As an experienced veteran with adversity, Lance has faced some of life's most difficult challenges. Grinding his way through the hockey ranks to traveling the world as a bartender. Through his personal battle with drugs and alcohol for well over a decade, the tragic loss of his brother to suicide followed by the great loss of his father to cancer only a year later, Lance realized he had hit rock bottom. In the darkest of days, he made a promise to himself that he would create a new life, one that would make an impact and inspire the masses, leaving the world in a better place than he found it. Lance has made it his mission to facilitate the message of positive change through adversity and encourage people to see the light through the darkness of life's worst moments.