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In this episode, I sit down with soul led entrepreneur, busines strategist and author Justine Harrington to trace how a whisper to create a sanctuary for the soul became a living, breathing community space: Soul Sanctuary. A place for healing, movement, meditation, breath, and connectio are treated as everyday tools for coming home to yourself.
We walk right into the messy middle together—what it’s actually like to open a physical space post-COVID, shift careers, and move through healing as a spiral where old patterns resurface at deeper layers. Justine opens up about the practices that truly help in those seasons: mentorship, therapy, systems that reduce the chaos, and the courage to say no. We talk boundaries (and how they have to be relearned as you grow), leadership that doesn’t cost you your soul, and the myth of overnight success.
We also get into intuition, fear, and the art of discernment—how to feel alignment in your body as something that changes over time, and how meditation becomes practical when you treat it not as “clearing the mind,” but as watching your thoughts pass like trains and choosing which ones you’re actually getting on.
Plus, Justine shares what’s new at the studio: weekly yoga and dance classes, sound baths, breathwork, donation-based offerings like the Thanksgiving class supporting the Rhode Island Food Bank, a group mediumship event, and a 200-hour yoga teacher training on the horizon. Soul Sanctuary is becoming a true collaborative home for holistic practitioners, creative expression, and community care.
Whether you’re a founder, a creative, or someone on your own healing path, you’ll walk away with grounded, practical tools you can bring into daily life—micro-shifts, intuitive nudges, and reminders that you don’t have to do any of this alone.
If this conversation resonates, share it with someone who needs it, leave a quick review, and come be part of the community: check out the full schedule at soulsanctuaryri.com/the-studio. And if you’re curious about Justine’s book Homecoming: A Guide to Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Heart, you can find it on Amazon.
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Chapters
1. Welcome & Purpose Of The Show (00:00:00)
2. Meet Justine Harrington (00:00:26)
3. Why Soul Sanctuary Was Born (00:01:24)
4. Community Over Isolation (00:03:15)
5. Collaboration Inside The Sanctuary (00:06:58)
6. Opening A Space Post‑COVID Realities (00:10:45)
7. Leap Of Faith And Career Pivot (00:14:20)
8. Validation, Purpose, And Hard Work (00:18:20)
9. Studio Launch And Holistic Offerings (00:21:55)
10. Healing Tools And Nonlinear Growth (00:25:00)
11. Boundaries, Leadership, And Learning (00:29:20)
12. The Myth Of Overnight Success (00:33:30)
13. Advice For Ideas: Find A Mentor (00:36:40)
14. What Alignment Feels Like (00:39:35)
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