It's Now Again - Your Daily Mindfulness Training Session

About It's Now Again - Your Daily Mindfulness Training Session

It’s Now Again is a podcast of slow, honest conversations with people who have inspired me. I’m Jeremy West, a mindfulness teacher and guide with a secular, psychology based approach, and each episode is a chance to pause and listen in on a real conversation rather than a performance or an interview. Some guests are artists, comedians, teachers, carers, thinkers, or quiet changemakers. Some are people whose way of being in the world has stayed with me over time. Mindfulness is a recurring thread, because it’s been central in my own life, but the conversations are not limited to any single topic or framework. We talk about meaning, change, fear, creativity, love, loss, belief, uncertainty, and what it’s like to live honestly inside a human nervous system. There’s no fixing here. No advice to follow. No conclusions to land on. Just presence, curiosity, and conversation. Alongside the podcast, I host Calm Hours, a free, secular sanctuary where people can rest together without pressure, sharing, or performance. This work is community supported. You can learn more about the podcast, the sanctuary, and what I’m building at jeremywest.net (http://jeremywest.net). It’s now again.

Publisher

Jeremy West

Category

education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Aug 2024

Latest episode

12 Jan 2026

Latest episodes

120 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Jan 2026

   3.2 Belief, Doubt, and Staying in the Room Together

   In this episode, I’m joined by Matthew Boswell for a slow, open conversation across difference. Matt and I come from very different backgrounds. I approach mindfulness from a secular, psychology based perspective. Matt moved through atheism and later returned to Christianity, and now serves as a pastor. Rather than debating beliefs or trying to persuade each other, we talk about how belief forms, how doubt lives in the body, and what belonging can mean when people hold very different worldviews. We explore upbringing, identity, faith, secularism, certainty, uncertainty, and what it takes to stay present and curious in conversations where agreement is not the goal. This episode is about listening without needing to win. About understanding without collapsing difference. And about what becomes possible when people remain in relationship across belief. Matthew is the pastor of Redemption Church in Duvall, Washington, which you can find at iamrc.org (http://iamrc.org). He also hosts a podcast called Everyday Missionary, available at everyday-missionary.com (http://everyday-missionary.com), where he reflects on faith and everyday life. Alongside this podcast, I host Calm Hours, a free, secular sanctuary where people can rest together without fixing, sharing, or performing. This work is community supported. You can learn more at jeremywest.net (http://jeremywest.net)

2. 

   1 Jan 2026

   3.1 Ayahuasca, Fear, Love, and Not Knowing with Myq Kaplan

   Join comedian (and philosopher?) Myq Kaplan and I for a long, reflective conversation about his experiences with ayahuasca. Rather than offering advice or instruction, Myq speaks openly about what these experiences were like for him, how they shifted his relationship with fear, death, love, and belief, and how he now holds uncertainty with more ease. We talk about psychedelic experiences not as answers, but as moments that can reframe questions. About surrender, humility, and the difference between insight and integration. About spirituality without dogma, and meaning without certainty. Myq also shares how these experiences influenced his comedy, including his album AKA, which is largely shaped by his ayahuasca journeys and is available via his website at myqkaplan.com (http://myqkaplan.com). His handle on all the socials is @myqkaplan. His newer special Rini is available on YouTube. This is not a guide to ayahuasca. It’s a thoughtful, human conversation about experience, interpretation, and living honestly with not knowing. Alongside this podcast, I host Calm Hours, a free, secular sanctuary where people can rest together without fixing, sharing, or performance. This work is community supported. You can learn more at jeremywest.net (http://jeremywest.net)

3. 

   9 Dec 2024

   2.26 Navigating the Unknown: Finding Peace After Religious Trauma

   Mindfulness coach and trauma expert, [missing guest name], guides listeners in navigating conversations with family after religious trauma by cultivating peace in the unknown and setting compassionate boundaries.

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