Can Surrender Turn Emotional Pain Into Joy. A Course in Miracles In Real Life with Susan Michel

In this episode of The Soul Mirror, host Shreya sits down with spiritual teacher and author Susan Michel, whose journey from suicidal despair to deep serenity is rooted in over thirty years of practicing A Course in Miracles. They unpack how emotional pain can become a portal to healing instead of a life sentence, why chasing external success never fills the inner void, and how surrender and prayer create real inner safety.

Susan breaks down her practical four step method for meeting emotional triggers, talks honestly about control, fear and the ego, and explains why our true nature is love even when we feel disconnected. If you are navigating grief, anxiety, burnout, or just that quiet sense of emptiness, this conversation gives you grounded spiritual tools you can actually use in daily life.

About the guest:

Susan Michel is a spiritual teacher, writer and mentor who has devoted more than three decades to A Course in Miracles. After reaching a point of suicidal despair despite having everything she thought she wanted, she began a deep path of inner work that led to lasting serenity and joy. She is the author of “Surrender to Joy. From Suicide to Serenity” and offers Course in Miracles based healing sessions that focus on surrender, forgiveness, and practical spirituality for everyday life.

Key takeaways:

• Emotional pain is not a punishment. It is often a wake up call that the external chase for the perfect job, partner or body will never heal inner emptiness.

• A Course in Miracles teaches that we can learn through pain or through joy. Most people start changing only when pain gets loud enough to interrupt their automatic patterns.

• Susan’s four step “Four P” process for triggers. Pause, own the Pain, Process it, then Pray for help from the Holy Spirit or a higher power.

• What we resist persists. When we refuse to feel our hurt, we project it onto partners, colleagues and the world instead of dissolving it.

• Surrender is the opposite of control. Letting go of ego based planning opens us to a life that is often larger and kinder than anything we could have designed.

• Our true nature is love, but inner “blocks” like guilt, fear and old trauma cover it. The work is not to become lovable. It is to remove what blocks awareness of love.

• Forgiveness of others and self is the shortcut to peace in A Course in Miracles. Only when we see our own innocence can we genuinely extend love to others.

How to connect with the guest  

You can connect with Susan Michel and explore her work here.

• Website. www.surrendertojoy.net

• Book. “Surrender to Joy. From Suicide to Serenity” by Susan Michel. Available on Amazon.

• Email for A Course in Miracles based healing sessions and complimentary discovery calls. [e-mail]

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