The Mae B Mindful Podcast

The Power of Attention: How Focus Shapes Feeling, Perception & Peace

In this episode of the Mae B Mindful Podcast, Hannah Mae explores one of the most overlooked yet powerful tools we have as humans: our attention.
Through personal reflection, nervous-system wisdom, and spiritual insight, Hannah unpacks how what we consistently focus on shapes our perception, emotional state, and overall life trajectory. She shares why worry and overthinking don’t create clarity, how sustained attention gives thoughts authority over our feeling state, and how reclaiming discernment restores peace, intuition, and agency.
This conversation also weaves in timely reflections on media consumption, collective trauma, and the importance of safeguarding our inner world—so we can remain grounded, present, and available to truth, joy, and love.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
Why attention is one of our greatest human gifts
The connection between imagination, perception, and focus
How sustained attention gives thoughts authority over feeling state
Why worry creates contraction instead of clarity
The difference between descending into the wound and transmuting it
How perception shifts can completely change your life trajectory
Discernment, spiritual authority, and safeguarding the mind
Media consumption, collective trauma, and nervous system care
Why cultivating peace and joy is not selfish—but necessary
Mentioned in this episode:✨ In the Seat of Your Power — a free upcoming masterclass✨ Hannah’s upcoming self-hypnosis training✨ Tools for restoring clarity, intuition, and inner alignment
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Closing Reflection:What you give your attention to becomes the energy you live inside.Choose wisely—and gently.

Radical Self-Responsibility: Returning to Your Power

What if the thing that keeps stealing your peace isn’t your partner, your children, or your circumstances — but the moment you step out of your own lane? In this episode, I explore radical self-responsibility — not as self-blame, and not as fixing yourself — but as returning to your own inner authority. The kind of responsibility that softens you back into presence, clarity, and grounded power.
I share a real-life story from a recent family trip — navigating sudden travel decisions, teenage pushback, emotional triggers, and the temptation to manage everyone’s experience in order to feel okay myself. And in that moment, I was reminded: the most direct path to harmony in our relationships isn’t changing others. It’s returning to ourselves.
We explore why humility is the doorway to true power, why fixing and controlling others drains us, how witnessing can be more loving than correcting, and why acceptance doesn’t mean liking — it means releasing control. I talk about staying in your lane, not personalizing emotional reactions, setting boundaries without blame, and how taking responsibility for even your “1%” restores peace and agency. We also touch on fear as future-tripping, and gratitude as a stabilizing spiritual force that brings us back to center.
This is a conversation about remaining grounded when everything around you invites reaction — and how peace becomes possible when you stop trying to hold the whole world together.
In this episode, we explore:
• Radical self-responsibility as inner authority• Parenting without personalizing• Staying in your lane instead of controlling• Boundaries without blame• Witnessing instead of fixing• Acceptance as a spiritual practice• Fear as future-tripping• Gratitude as a stabilizing force
If you’ve ever felt responsible for everyone’s emotional state, tried to manage people into harmony, or found yourself exhausted by disappointment in relationships — this episode is for you.
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Spiritual Bypassing Explained: When the Solution Blocks the Healing

In the first episode of 2026, we’re talking about something that’s especially relevant in January — when we’re setting intentions, making spiritual commitments, and declaring who we’re becoming.
But here’s the truth: the soul doesn’t reset like a calendar — it integrates.And when we skip integration and patch the outside, we can accidentally fall into spiritual bypassing.
In this episode, Hannah Mae explains:
What spiritual bypassing is and why it’s usually unconscious
How “holy ideals” can be weaponized against ourselves and others
Why bypassing doesn’t make us well — it deteriorates our spiritual condition over time
How bypassing shows up through forgiveness, toxic positivity, condemnation, activism, fixing others, escapist spirituality, and boundary avoidance
Why suppressed emotions become trapped energy in the body (and how it spills out sideways)
The reframe: fear is a non-event — and healing is often faster than avoidance
The solution: surrender, receptivity, co-regulation, honest emotional processing, subconscious work, and embodiment
If this resonates, you’re not broken — you’ve adapted wisely — and something deeper is calling you forward.
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A Living Conversation: Prayer, Presence, and the Path to Inner Peace

As we close out 2025 and step into a new year, this episode is an invitation to return to what truly sustains us: presence.
In a world that constantly pulls us outward — through technology, noise, fear, and distraction — peace isn’t found by fixing circumstances. It’s found by anchoring inward and strengthening our relationship with presence… what many of us call God.
In this episode, I explore:
Why presence is deeply spiritual — and why it heals
How prayer is meant to change us, not control outcomes
The difference between desperate prayer, surrendered prayer, and believing prayer
Why outcome-based prayers often keep us stuck
How attachment, control, and fear block receptivity
What happens when prayer starts “working” — including disruption, detox, and deep transformation
How surrender and humility open the door to true freedom
Why asking for the feeling you desire is more powerful than asking for the outcome
How prayer, meditation, and self-hypnosis tune the subconscious for clarity and healing
Prayer is not about forcing change outside of you.It’s about becoming receptive to what’s already available — peace, guidance, grace, and truth.
As we move into 2026, may this be a year of deeper presence, trust, and inner authority.
 
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Subconscious Healing, Faith, and the Truth About Hypnosis — A Conversation on Fear and Discernment

In this episode, Hannah opens up about subconscious healing, faith, personal transformation, and why so many people remain stuck in emotional pain even while trying their best to “do the work.” She explores how deep healing happens beneath the surface of the conscious mind, and why fear, misunderstanding, and spiritual confusion often block people from the freedom they’re seeking.
Hannah also speaks candidly about her own journey — addiction recovery, Christ-centered spirituality, hypnobirthing, and her professional path into hypnosis. She addresses common fears within faith-based communities, the difference between discernment and fear, and why subconscious work can be a powerful ally on the spiritual path.
In this episode, we explore:• Why emotional triggers intensify around the holidays• How unhealed wounds show up in everyday interactions• Common Christian fears about hypnosis (and what’s actually true)• The difference between discernment and fear-based rigidity• How the subconscious holds old stories and limiting beliefs• Why self-help strategies don’t create lasting change• How hypnosis mirrors the brain states in deep prayer and contemplation• Hannah’s birth experiences and the power of self-hypnosis• How to discern a grounded, trustworthy practitioner• The role of spirituality and faith in deep inner work
Perfect for anyone curious about subconscious healing, inner transformation, and a faith-aligned path into deeper emotional freedom.
 
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Spiritual Receptivity & Becoming Open to Healing — Where Stillness Makes Space for God

Episode 50 + my 45th birthday = a sacred reflection on spiritual experiences, divine wisdom, and the path of integration.
In this episode, I explore:
The dance between ego and spiritual expansion• Why stillness and presence are essential to clarity• How our nervous system reacts to soul growth• The difference between wants and needs on the spiritual path• Why integration is the real transformation• Receiving divine wisdom through receptivity• Awakening spiritual identity + cellular memory• How self-concept shapes your entire life• Why 2026 will be a year of congruence and inner-outer alignment• The rapid acceleration of the world and why embodiment matters now• How God meets us in the exact moment we open
This is a deeply personal and expansive episode about spiritual fidelity, growth, the holy discomfort of transformation, and the grace that pulls us off the merry-go-round when we finally give permission.
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Coming Home to Yourself: Tools for Nervous System Regulation + Soul Expansion

In today’s episode of The May Be Mindful Podcast, I’m inviting you into something a little different — a gentle, experiential journey back into your body.
If you’ve been feeling disconnected, dysregulated, anxious, or simply not yourself… this episode is your invitation to return home.
I’ll guide you through a self-connection practice to help you:✨ Anchor into the truth of who you are✨ Rebuild trust with your body and your breath✨ Create internal safety in the face of discomfort✨ Break the cycle of avoidance and self-abandonment✨ Access grounded peace — even when life feels chaotic
You’ll also hear how this practice has supported me personally — and how I now guide others to find regulation, presence, and grace through similar tools.
We’ll touch on:🔹 The power of attention and internal attunement🔹 A nervous-system based approach to self-care🔹 The real reason affirmations sometimes don’t work — and how to shift that🔹 A journal practice to dialogue with the parts of you needing support🔹 How to access divine connection through imagination, prayer, and presence
This episode is a deep breath for your nervous system — and a reminder that you are never too far gone to come back to yourself.Important Links for upcoming events and offers. Keep your Pants On: A Mindset & Metabolism Masterclass A new way to work with me - Attune: Hypnosis & Coaching
 
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The Way of Paradox: Finding God in the Contradiction—Where Pain Becomes a Portal

This episode offers a  reframe of our understanding of pain, struggle, and life’s contradictions by introducing a radical spiritual lens: The Way of Paradox. Through the tension of opposites — grief and love, fear and faith, surrender and striving — we uncover not only the path to healing but the very ground where God meets us.
Drawing inspiration from mystics like Meister Eckhart and depth psychologist Carl Jung, Hannah explores how true transformation doesn’t come from bypassing pain, but from walking through it — holding space for both light and dark. She shares a moving story from a funeral that sparked this reflection, and connects it with how Conversational Hypnosishelps us shift perspective, access the subconscious, and experience profound healing.
If you’ve ever felt trapped in your struggle or disillusioned by surface-level “fixes,” this conversation offers you something deeper: a doorway to the divine within the very contradiction you’re facing.
💡 Topics Covered:
The sacred paradox: why true growth often begins in tension
Why light is accessed through darkness — not in spite of it
The tension of opposites and its role in psychological/spiritual individuation
Meister Eckhart’s teaching: God is the ground where opposites meet
The spiritual trap of judging experiences as “good” or “bad”
How grief can become despair — or a doorway to grace
Carl Jung’s “third way” and what it means for your healing
The Cross as a cosmic paradox of death and transcendence
The power of subconscious work to reframe unsolvable problems
Real-life insights from a recent client session (and the surprising message Hannah received herself)
Why awareness of spiritual warfare is important — but fear doesn’t get the final say
 If you're in the stretch…
If you’re in the middle of your own undoing, unraveling, or contradiction — this episode is here to offer illumination, not answers.You’re not broken. You’re becoming.And your healing might just begin in the paradox you're trying to avoid.
✨ Mentioned in This Episode:
The Way of Paradox (teachings on Meister Eckhart)
Carl Jung’s writings on the tension of opposites
The Conversational Hypnosis approach
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Self-Regulation vs. Spiritual Connection: The Breath That Lands You at Your Center

Ep. 47In a world overflowing with tools, teachings, and tactics for "healing"—why do so many of us still feel disconnected?
In this powerful solo episode, Hannah invites you into a deeper conversation about embodiment, spiritual sovereignty, and the difference between regulating your nervous system… and being truly reconnected to Spirit.
Whether you consider yourself religious, spiritual-but-not-religious, or just curious, this is a soul-stirring reminder that the ultimate tether isn’t found in the tools—but in what we make space for within.
You’ll hear about:
A moment of deep spiritual clarity through ancient ritual and stillness
Why we can’t expect to carry the Spirit when we’re filled with trauma, striving, or self-will
How externalizing our spirituality—through people, practices, or substances—keeps us from true embodiment
What breathwork, brainwaves, and embodiment reveal about our spiritual design
A candid reflection on psychedelics, plant medicine, and spiritual hunger
And the pivotal question: what are YOU tethered to when the storm comes?
This is an invitation to clear space—so that Spirit can breathe unobstructed through you.
✨ Key Quotes:
“You will embody what you pay attention to. So what are you giving space to inside your soul?”
“Regulation is powerful. But it’s not God. Tools are not the destination.”
“God doesn’t force. He waits for your yes.”
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From Chaos to Coherence: Reclaiming Joy in Motherhood | With Dr. Sherrie Papa

🎙 Guest: Dr. Sherry Papa, Holistic Family Chiropractor & Acupuncturist🎧 Host: Hannah Mae
What if the overwhelm you’re feeling as a mom isn’t a personal failure… but a sign that your nervous system is just doing too much?
In this heartfelt and eye-opening conversation, Dr. Sherry Papa and Hannah Mae explore how our bodies hold the stories we don’t always speak—and how self-regulation might be the simplest, most loving thing we can do as caregivers.
Between them, they’re raising 9 kids… and they’re here to tell the truth about what it really takes to reclaim calm, coherence, and joy in motherhood.
From nervous system mirroring to fascia, family patterns, and fascia (yes—your body remembers), this episode connects the dots between self-care and the health of your entire household.
You’ll walk away with:
A totally new understanding of how your energy impacts your kids
Tangible shifts to help you feel better without adding more to your to-do list
The science and soul behind why slowing down is powerful—and productive
Why your fascia might be holding trauma (and how to gently release it)
The surprising way play transforms your nervous system (and your family)
🌿 Plus: an invitation to the Reclaiming Joy Micro-Retreat in Tennessee!Think: hypnosis, acupuncture, dance, connection, joy… and nervous system repair in real time.
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✨ Here’s to mothering from coherence, not chaos.✨ To letting joy lead.✨ To finally putting your feet in the grass and remembering who you really are.
 
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