Open To Happiness

About Open To Happiness

This podcast is guiding trauma survivors through their journey of self-discovery, healing and personal growth. Its host Nicoleta is a Romanian-British Psychologist, Therapist and Trauma Specialist and a survivor of childhood trauma and TNBC herself. Nicoleta is interested in authentic human connection, healing and personal development and loves to help people grow conscious awareness, heal their past, develop relationship attunement, and finally open to happiness.

Publisher

Nicoleta Porojanu

Category

education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Jun 2020

Latest episode

29 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 187 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   29 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   184 - Honouring your ancestors by thriving

   Host Nicoleta explores spirituality and happiness with Intuitive Mark Mezadourian, uncovering how ancestral healing and present-moment freedom lead to thriving.

2. 

   25 Mar 2026

   183 - How AI “performs” love, care and empathy

   In this episode Nicoleta explores trauma and happiness with Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska, academic, TEDx speaker, life coach and author from London. When trauma is channelled in the creative work Married with the Eifel Tower, the award winning documentary Can pain be sublimated completely? The fear behind procrastination Structural trauma living in communism Granddaughter of Auschwitz survivor and transgenerational trauma The abuse in asymmetrical power relationships Understandi...

3. 

   25 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   182 - 101 reasons to not have a secret affair

   In this episode Nicoleta talks about love and happiness with Dr Keith Witt, clinical psychologist, author and teacher from California, USA. A happy baby uncomfortable living in the 60s Alcohol consumption and personality disorders in the family Going through a depressive psychotic episode at 14 Death and rebirth through 23 electroconvulsive treatments The magic of psychotherapy for the entire family system Finding solace and discipline in martial arts Grateful for the live...

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184 - Honouring your ancestors by thriving

Published 29 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And with loving blessings to Armenian culture and understanding there's a huge trauma there of it has to move past victimization and blame. It has to move into a space. And the wording of that that came was, I honor you by thriving. I honor my ancestors by thriving. And just seeing what is that space. And it's not forgetting what happened, but it's understanding what has happened in human history to make it okay to kill people. Like, why is that the solution? And what is it like to introduce the space where that goes off the table? where we do understand that we're all connected, we're all doing the same thing, and everyone on the planet wants peace and love. […]

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

21,623

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100

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Quality

75

Social presence

0

YouTube

85

Engagement

75

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