This episode of the Authentic Leadership Podcast explores the deeply personal and transformative journey of Michael Owen—a therapist whose work is shaped by lived experience, adversity, and spiritual discovery.

From an early life marked by instability, separation, and a sense of being an outsider, Michael shares how chronic illness became a turning point rather than an endpoint. Living with chronic fatigue syndrome for over three decades, he describes a life of constant recalibration—learning how to restore energy, listen to the body, and rebuild from within.

Through encounters with energy healing, meditation, and embodied practices, Michael’s path gradually unfolded into the work he does today. His approach is not based on theory alone, but on lived understanding—how the body holds tension, how emotions move, and how healing requires both awareness and presence.

This conversation moves beyond conventional ideas of wellbeing, offering a perspective where healing is not about fixing, but about learning to sit with, sense, and reconnect to what is already within. It is a story of resilience, depth, and the quiet, ongoing process of coming back to oneself.

MICHAEL OWEN~SHEN® THERAPIST/REALIZATION PROCESS TEACHER https://www.emotionalwellbeing.co.nz/