The Safe Passage Podcast

Moving abroad can look exciting from the outside while quietly creating stress, grief, disorientation, and a loss of confidence underneath.

In this episode, Nikki Muller shares a deeply personal story about a simple mistake with a new car in Switzer... more

Every transition begins with an ending, and most of us have been trained to move through that ending as quickly as possible. In this episode, Dr. Doug Ota and Nikki Muller explore what actually happens when we don't say a proper goodbye: how unacknow... more

Moving to a new place can look fine on the outside, while something much harder is happening underneath. In this episode of Safe Passage, Dr. Doug Ota and Nikki Muller explore belonging as a biological need, not a social nicety, and what it costs peo... more

Children going through a move, a divorce, or a change of school often look like they're coping, and that appearance is exactly what makes the hidden distress so easy to miss. In this episode, Dr. Doug Ota and Nikki Muller explore what is actually hap... more

Change is an event. Transition is everything happening underneath it, and it runs on its own schedule, not yours. In this episode, Dr. Doug Ota and Nikki Muller do something unusual: they show up in their own transitions rather than above them.

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This is The Safe Passage Podcast, a show about the transitions we move through, the belonging we search for, and the quiet courage it takes to begin again.

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