Proper Madness
Proper Madness
Sabi Dhillon
Proper Madness™ is a mental wellness podcast hosted by Sabi Dhillon. Our madness becomes the muse for our purpose. Through her own personal journey, Sabi delves into how challenging times can serve as catalysts for personal empowerment and authenticity. By sharing her experiences with depression, anxiety, relationships, and PTSD, Sabi offers practical tools, guidance, and advice to inspire listeners on their own paths to mental wellness. Join Sabi as she interviews everyday individuals, sharing their stories and insights, to demonstrate how we can alchemize adversity into purpose, art and resilience.
113. The People Around You Are Either Adding to Your Life or Pulling From It (Bonus Sunday Episode)
This one came out of nowhere on a Sunday morning. Unedited. No plan. Just something I needed to say. I've been thinking a lot lately about how much the people we surround ourselves with — our friends, our partners, the people we're dating, the people we share energy with — directly impact our creativity, our confidence, and our ability to show up as ourselves. I get into why love bombing isn't malicious, it's just someone who doesn't know how to fill their own cup. What it actually feels like...
Aug 30
18 min
112. We Are All Artists... You Just Forgot.
Everyone online is telling you the old you has to die. New identity. New era. Kill off who you were. Become someone else. In this episode I'm calling that out — because I think it's one of the most dangerous things being taught right now, and I think a lot of people in the spiritual and self development space are using it as a way to keep you dependent on them instead of yourself. The truth is your shadow self, the parts of you that you've been told are too much, too messy, too dark, too comp...
Aug 16
22 min
111. How Shame Around Pleasure & Desire Is Keeping You From Your Creative Power
This one gets personal. Really personal. In this solo episode I'm getting into something nobody talks about honestly — the direct link between pleasure, desire, sensuality and your ability to express yourself, create freely and take up space in the world. I share my own story with this. Growing up in a strict, culturally conditioned household where freedom was always conditional. My first love at 16 and the moment I learned that being seen and desired meant someone would eventually leave. The...
Jul 31
34 min
110. The Jealousy You Keep Avoiding Is the Key to Knowing Yourself Better
Jealousy is one of those emotions we've been conditioned to treat like a character flaw. Avoid it, suppress it, spiritually bypass it -and definitely don't admit you feel it. But what if jealousy is actually the most honest thing your nervous system has ever said to you? In this solo episode I'm getting into why jealousy and envy are not emotions to run from — they're shadow emotions that are showing you exactly where you've been neglecting yourself, abandoning your creativity, and not showin...
Jul 23
20 min
109. Being Seen, Being Perceived & Why We Make Ourselves Invisible
In this episode discuss the difference between being seen and being perceived, and why I've spent most of my life quietly making myself invisible even when I desperately wanted to take up space. I talk about growing up with body insecurities, learning disabilities, social anxiety, and neurodivergence - and how all of that stacked up into a subconscious decision I made about myself before I even knew I was making it. We're stepping into the spotlight whether we're ready or not.
Jun 24
27 min
108. The Uncomfortable Truth About Manifesting Your Next Level (ft. Kelly Rayos)
In this episode, I sit down in person with Kelly, founder of Luna Love in Whittier, California, a spiritual shop specializing in candles, oils, ritual tools, crystals, and classes — for one of the most grounded and honest conversations I've had about quantum leaping and timeline jumping. Because we're not here to sell you the idea that manifesting your next level is all flow and ease. It's not. It's your body getting sick. It's your knee giving out. It's people around you suddenly acting weir...
May 8
32 min
107. When Everything Changes: Environment, Creativity & Learning to Create From Peace
I'm back. New space, new walls, and honestly a lot to yap about. In this solo episode I'm having the conversation I've been sitting with for a while. I moved, I turned another year older, I became a published photographer, and somewhere in the middle of all of that expansion - my creativity went completely quiet. And I had to figure out why. This episode is about what happens to your identity when your environment shifts. I spent years building my creativity, my business, my whole aesthetic o...
May 1
28 min
106. Living in the Paradox: Shame Alchemy & the Freedom to Be You (ft. Nino Palacio)
What does it mean to live as an infinite being inside a finite human experience — and how do you stop fighting that paradox? This week on Proper Madness, I'm joined by Nino Palacio: behavioral coach, breathwork guide, mystic, poet, and retreat facilitator. Nino's work lives at the intersection of psychology, philosophy, and spiritual practice, and this conversation goes places I didn't expect. We talk about discovering autism later in life, losing his best friend to psychosis, and why that ...
Mar 20
1 hr 1 min
105. Who Are You When You Stop Running? Identity, Healing & Starting Over (feat. Ranela Perez)
In this episode, Sabi sits down with Ranela- marriage and family therapist, life coach, actress, and host of The Life Edit podcast - for a deeply honest conversation about what it actually takes to rebuild yourself from the ground up. Ranela shares her journey from a life heavily rooted in religion to a full identity deconstruction at 27. They go deep on codependency, attachment patterns, what it means to live between cultures as South Asian women in the West, and why the loneliest and most n...
Mar 3
57 min
104. The Spiritual Closet, Soul Mirrors & Why You're Not Crazy (feat. Kayleigh Alexa)
In this episode, I sit down with psychic, spiritual content creator, and all-around iconic human Kayleigh Alexa for an unfiltered conversation about what it actually means to be a spiritual woman navigating dating, self-trust, and showing up online without losing your soul in the process. We chat about the the spiritual closet, what it means to hide your gifts because you're afraid of rejection, and why that same wound shows up in your relationships, your dating patterns, and even your conten...
Feb 24
38 min
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