Fighting for Inner Peace: Joseph Nguyen on Breaking Free from Mental Noise

How to break free from overthinking and choose peace instead

Peace isn’t found in the next milestone.

It’s not something we earn through perfection, productivity, or praise. It’s what’s left when we stop believing the thoughts that say we’re not enough.

In this profound and deeply compassionate episode of Passion Struck, I sit down with spiritual teacher and bestselling author Joseph Nguyen, whose book Don’t Believe Everything You Think has sparked a quiet revolution in how we relate to our minds. Together, we explore the real source of inner peace—and why so many of us feel like it’s just out of reach.

We confront the mental loops that cause suffering, the cultural myths that tie identity to achievement, and the subtle ways we abandon ourselves through overthinking. Joseph shares a radical but liberating truth: you are not your thoughts. And every time you believe otherwise, you’re fighting a battle that doesn’t need to be fought.

He walks us through his personal story, offers expanded teachings from his book, and introduces the powerful PAUSE method—a practice for returning to stillness, presence, and the truth of who you already are.

Here’s what we explore:

Listen ad free to a powerful reminder that peace isn’t out there—it’s within you, waiting to be remembered.