Path to Peace with Todd Perelmuter
Surviving is not the same as living. On Path to Peace, Todd Perelmuter guides you toward joy, inner peace, and the deep sense of oneness with the universe that your soul has been longing for.
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Episodes
198 episodes
Success Won’t Make You Happy (This Will)
We’ve been taught that success, money, and achievement will eventually make us happy.But no matter how much we reach, it never feels like enough.In this podcast, you’ll learn why ambition can’t give you lasting happiness — and h...
How to Handle Family Drama Without Losing Your Peace
Family drama can feel impossible to escape. Someone says something hurtful, crosses a boundary, or brings a storm of negativity into the room — and suddenly your peace is gone too.In this talk, we explore how to deal with difficult fami...
How to Make Peace With the Choices You Made
At some point, we all wonder: Did I make the right choices in life?We replay the past, think about “what could have been,” and question whether we wasted time or missed our chance at a better life.But what if nothing actually went w...
Why Chasing Happiness Makes Us Unhappy — and What Actually Brings Peace
We live in a world that tells us we should always be happy.So we smile, say we’re “doing great,” and hide what we’re really feeling — even from the people closest to us.But what if this constant pressure to be happy is actually maki...
How to Let Go of the Person You Used to Be — Dissolve and Disidentify with the Ego
When a role ends — a job, a marriage, a season of parenthood, a version of yourself you carried for decades — it can feel like you are losing part of who you are. But the suffering does not come from change itself. It comes from at...
Why Trying to Help Sometimes Makes Things Worse
Watching someone we love suffer can be one of the most painful experiences in life. Often, it’s even harder than dealing with our own suffering.It becomes especially difficult when the person we love is contributing to their own pain — ...
Why You Feel Stuck (And How to Break Free)
Feeling stuck is one of the most common human experiences.But what if the problem isn’t your job, your city, your relationship… or your circumstances?In this podcast, we explore why change doesn’t always create freedom — and how...
The Power of Acceptance — When Letting Go Heals More Than Fighting
When someone hurts us or repeatedly creates conflict in our lives, we often hear the same advice online: “Cut them out.”Remove them. Block them. Never speak to them again.But cutting someone out doesn’t always free us.Someti...
You’re Worrying About the Wrong Thing — This Isn't Real
We worry about our legacy.How we’ll be remembered.Whether we mattered.But what if that entire burden was imagined?What if the thing you’re stressing about… doesn’t actually exist the way you think it does?This po...
What It Really Means to Be Human
I am fascinated by those timeless thoughts that every generations ponders: Who am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose? What is the meaning of life?For tens of thousands of years, humans have looked to the skies and wondered about these ...
How I Learned to Be Okay With Being Misunderstood
We know that people will lie. We know that people will say hurtful things because they've been hurt. We know that what people say about us can have absolutely nothing to do with us. And we know that people judge, blame, and criticize in ways th...
How I Overcame Road Rage (And You Can Too)
How is it that so many kind, loving people can turn into rage monsters on the road? How can people who would never be unkind suddenly start screaming expletives at sweet old ladies?Road rage is no laughing matter. Kids and family members...
Your Job Is to Find Out Why — Short Reflections
Slow down, close your eyes, and meditate on these reflections on consciousness, the universe, and our place in the cosmos.Please enjoy other episodes where I share meditation techniques, tips and spiritual lessons from around the world f...
The Best Way to Achieve Everything in Life with Ease — Does Contentment Lead to Inaction?
Does being on the spiritual path mean that we will become lazy? How to be motivated AND be peaceful? Don't we need stress to succeed?In this podcast, I answer these questions and more. I dive into the topic of what it means to spiritual...
The Missing Skill for a Peaceful Life — How to Stay Calm When People Are Being Super Jerks
We all know that expression, "One day I'll look back on this and laugh." Usually, it takes a few years. But is there a way to speed up that process? Is there a way to laugh and enjoy each moment as if we were looking back on it years from now?<...
Finite Beings in an Infinite Universe — Short Reflections
What does it mean to be both finite beings in an infinite universe? Who are you? Who am I? How to sense oneness? What is eternity? What is our true nature?In this weekly short podcast, let's explore these answers and more — our infi...
When the People We Lean on Can’t Be There Forever
There is a stage of adulthood that no one talks about and no one prepares us for. It is the hardest stage to grow into. It is the stage we fear and try to avoid our whole life. But it's coming for all of us.No, it's not the mid-life cri...
Is "Tomorrow" Stealing Your Life?
When we realize the root cause of what is stealing our joy, it becomes easy to rip that cause out from the roots so that it never grows back. In this podcast, I share the #1 reason we are not loving life to the fullest. And I discuss how we can...
Is Your Mind Playing These 4 Tricks on You? How to Take Back Control of Your Mind
Our bodies respond to the thoughts in our head. We make choices because of our thoughts. And if we have a scary thought, we feel fear. If our thoughts are angry in nature, we feel anger. If we have worrying thoughts, we feel stressed and anxiou...
Why You React Before You Think and How to Stop — A 2-Step Process
We all have trouble thinking before we speak and act. We want to be present and flow, but we also want to be careful and thoughtful of what we do. So how do we think before we act and still be present? How do we stop impulsive beha...
How to Stay Calm When Someone Triggers You
Why do we suffer from mean words? What is the real root cause of this suffering? Why do words directed at us hurt more than watching those same words on TV? What is getting hurt? And is there a way to stop getting angry and upset by the cruelty...
How to Let Go of People Who Left (and Those You Must Leave)
One of the hardest times in anyone's life is when we lose someone who is still alive. Perhaps they cut us off, perhaps we cut them off, or perhaps it was mutual. But either way, the pain, regret, blame, and open wound of hope make this type of ...
I Tried Everything to Quit Bad Habits. Only This Worked
Is it possible to change? Why do we find it so hard? What prevents us from changing? And why do we keep failing?In this podcast episode, I share the answer to these questions and more. I share some personal stories of my own struggles. I...
What Are We Really Looking for? The Trap We Don't See
We are all searching for something. We are all on a journey. And to some extent, we all have a restless mind. It is the nature of being alive. We move, we age, we learn and we grow.The question is, what are we searching for? Are we stayi...