Kyle Cease | I Fasted For 11 Days To Dissolve Trauma (Surrender Experiment)
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Is the discomfort you’re trying to fix actually the signal calling you back to your soul instead of another problem to solve?
Josh Trent welcomes Ex-Comedian, Kyle Cease, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 791, to explore how fasting dissolves emotional hunger, why effort and ambition are often trauma driven, how the ego uses goals and problems to stay in control, why pain is a spiritual teacher, and how surrendering identity, outcomes, and the need to be someone can reconnect us to soul, presence, and God.
In This Episode, Kyle Cease Uncovers:
- (01:28) Fasting to “know God” vs fasting for results
- (03:23) Hunger as emotion: food, love, and childhood safety patterns
- (10:29) The paradox of “not being your parent” (opposite clothes)
- (18:38) Efforting vs effortless: force as an argument with God
- (20:50) “What do I do?” is often fear — ask “What’s here?” instead
- (33:10) If you need a circumstance to be happy, you’ve made it your God
- (49:38) Kyle’s awakening: backlash, panic, hotel room, and separating from thoughts
- (01:08:10) Defining God beyond religious trauma
- (01:19:47) The practice: “Everything is okay” and doing life from overflow
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| 0:00.0 | You're on day 11 of your fast. You said, I'm not fasting to get something. I'm fasting to know God. |
| 0:06.0 | I literally spent the last 11 days just watching Kyle die left and right. I notice that if I fast |
| 0:11.3 | to get a result, I'm going to do this so I can lose weight. I'm going to do this so I can become |
| 0:15.5 | healthy. I'm going to do this for any other reason than God. Then this fast is under my egoic control. But when I go, |
| 0:22.9 | I'm going to God, all kinds of other miraculous things show up too. Doing nothing in 11 days has |
| 0:28.9 | caused more results than if I was working out every day really hard trying to make it happen. |
| 0:33.4 | My vision has become much better. I can actually see much clearer. I can see much easier, farther away. |
| 0:39.7 | And the more I'm not attached to an outcome, the more it seems to happen. |
| 0:45.1 | I went from suicidal anxiety to number one Comedy Central special in 2006. In 2009, I won this |
| 0:51.4 | Comedy Central Best Comedian of the Year. And one day, I started hearing through the grapevine that different comics that were peers of mine were now talking crap about me. |
| 0:59.8 | I was so paralyzed with fear and pain. |
| 1:03.1 | And I was just in panic and fight or flight every second. |
| 1:06.3 | I started seeing stuff and I went crazy. |
| 1:08.7 | And we went to the hospital and they had to put me to sleep. And I realized that's not me. And then like everything fell off and I went crazy. And we went to the hospital and they had to put me to sleep. |
| 1:11.5 | And I realized that's not me. |
| 1:12.8 | And then like everything fell off and I just felt this freedom. |
| 1:16.0 | And what part of your journey did you start to embody this where you didn't have to force it anymore? |
| 1:27.2 | What drew you to fasting? I think it's really interesting. You're on day 11 of the fast right now. |
| 1:31.7 | There is some spiritual calling inside of you that drove you to know God in a deeper way. |
| 1:36.6 | Yeah. That maybe you've never done before. What was that for you? |
| 1:39.6 | Well, it's so weird because I have fasted several times and they've been successful in some ways, |
| 1:45.5 | but I notice that if I fast to get a result, I'm going to do this so I can lose weight, I'm going to |
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