Inner Work with Steli Efti

Inner Work with Steli Efti


Latest Episodes

154: Don't Be Spiritual. Be Honest Instead.
June 07, 2022

There’s a quote by Byron Katie that’s been stuck in my mind. It reads, “Don’t be spiritual, be honest instead. It’s very painful to pretend yourself beyond your true evolution.” I love it because it t

153: How to Do the Work - I’m Overwhelming Everything Right Now
June 02, 2022

I recently came back to a book I read many years ago called Loving What Is by Byron Katie. She has a really great self-inquiry method called The Work that I’ve been putting into practice daily for the

152: Treat Everyone Like a Child (Especially Yourself)
May 31, 2022

I've been pondering a quote lately from my favorite Dostoevsky book, The Brothers Karamazov, which reads, "we ought to treat everyone like little children, and most importantly ourselves." It got me t

151: When Our Plans Don't Pan Out
May 26, 2022

When I was 18 all I wanted to be was successful, which at that time to me just meant rich. I pictured myself with the fancy car, expensive apartment and crushing it as a business man like Gordon Gecko

150: How the Crushing Weight of My Expectations Made Me Wanna Quit on Life
May 24, 2022

Ever wake up and think of all the things you gotta do, and it just destroys you? I can't tell you how many times I woke up feeling miserable because of everything I'd have to tackle on that day. In my

149: All your problems start with a lie (Dostoyevsky's truth)
May 19, 2022

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth", wrote Dostoyevsky. And the longer I live, the more I realize this to be accurate. So many of life's problems boil down to struggles with truth

148: The Only Reason You’re Ever in a Hurry
May 17, 2022

How often in life are we hurrying from one task to another on any given day? Or rushing hastily to reach the next big milestone ahead of us? I've been pondering this recently and had the realization t

147: This Has Been Tried. This Is Certain (Love Conquers All Doubt)
May 12, 2022

I've experienced love in so many new ways over the past year, have deepened and widened my relationship with and understanding of love so much—I was almost tempted to call this episode "The Power of L

146: The Numbing Speed of Life (What Coming Out of Darkness Has Taught Me)
May 10, 2022

Spending a week in complete darkness would be an intense experience. That I knew. What I didn’t anticipate was how intense it would be to come out of the darkness. In fact, re-entering normal life was

145: The Light of Inner Darkness (My Dark Retreat Experience, Part 2)
May 08, 2022

Darkness has illuminated my inner world. With nothing to see outside of me, I began to see things clear within: fears I didn’t know I grappled with. My complicated relationship with love. Mysterious l