Meditation, Wellness, and the Quiet Work of Becoming Someone You Can Live With: A Conversation with Fernando Ruiz
About this episode
Fernando Ruiz shares his journey of recovery through meditation and personal responsibility.
Some practices arrive softly. Others are forged in fire. For Fernando Ruiz, meditation did not begin in a quiet studio. It began in a prison cell, in the middle of trauma, addiction, and a life that had collapsed under the weight of an emotional language no one had ever taught him to speak. On Wellness Reimagined, Fernando joins Nazish to talk about what it actually takes to come home to yourself. He shares the four practices that quietly rebuilt his life, taking responsibility, meditating, being present, and learning to let go, and offers something rare in the wellness world: a lived account of why none of this is performance, and all of it is permission to meet who you really are underneath the noise. About the Guest: Fernando Ruiz is the founder of TRUhope Recovery, a meditation teacher trained in the Vedic tradition under Swami Ganand, and the author of two books with a third on the way, including Addiction, Prayers & TRUhope . He works in the medical field, teaches self-inquiry meditation in the lineage of Ramana Maharshi, and brings the rare credibility of having lived through addiction, homelessness, and incarceration before finding the practice that quietly rebuilt…
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