388: What if you woke up in a tsunami?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
After narrowly surviving the devastating tsunami of 2004, a woman begins an unexpected journey through trauma, illness, and profound spiritual transformation to rebuild her life and sense of self.
Today’s episode featured Ani Naqvi. You can email Ani at ani@ultimateresultsgroup.com. Ani’s website: ultimateresultsgroup.com
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Ani’s book is entitled, Tsunami The Wave That Saved My Life And Can Save Yours https://www.amazon.com/Tsunami-Wave-that-Saved-Yours/dp/1637776586
Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Sara Marinelli
Content/Trigger Warnings: Childhood physical abuse, Domestic violence, Emotional abuse, Racism and bullying, Abandonment, Near-drowning / graphic tsunami scenes, Mass disaster / mass death, Survivor’s guilt, Descriptions of injuries and destruction, PTSD and panic responses, Cancer diagnosis (stage 2 and stage 4), Parental death, Spiritual/religious themes, explicit language
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| 0:09.6 | This Is Actually Happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
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| 0:26.7 | Hi, listeners. |
| 0:29.6 | This is the last new episode of 2025. |
| 0:34.9 | For the next three weeks, we'll be rebroadcasting past episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. |
| 0:37.7 | So stay tuned for those rebroadcasts over the holidays. |
| 0:41.7 | We wish you all a beautiful, safe and restorative holiday season. |
| 0:46.0 | And we'll be back with brand new episodes starting January 13th. |
| 0:48.5 | But now onto our new episode today. |
| 0:50.5 | What if you woke up in a tsunami. |
| 1:00.2 | The darkness comes for us to be able to transmute it into light and then be able to be a torchbearer for others. |
| 1:03.8 | I genuinely believe that's what we're all here to do on this planet. |
| 1:15.2 | Yeah. do on this planet. From Wondery, I'm Whit Misseldine. |
| 1:18.8 | You're listening to This Is Actually Happening. |
| 1:25.5 | Episode 388. |
| 1:29.0 | What if you woke up in a tsunami? |
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| 2:04.1 | Are you about to spend five hours in the car with your beloved kids this holiday season? |
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