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What Truly Matters

What Truly Matters

Written by: Svagito Liebermeister & Candra Karlholm
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What Truly Matters is a podcast with internationally renowned psychotherapist, author, and spiritual teacher Svagito Liebermeister and host Candra Karlholm.

Together, they explore what helps us grow in love, presence, and awareness – through intimate, real conversations about topics such as meditation, healing, trauma, creativity, relationships, and the art of working with people.

With over 40 years of experience, Svagito weaves together spiritual clarity, somatic awareness, and deep psychological insight. His teachings and books – including The Roots of Love, The Zen Way of Counseling, Osho Therapy and When Life Stops – integrate family constellation, trauma work, and meditation into embodied pathways of personal transformation.

Candra has studied with Svagito since 2015 and organizes some of his trainings in Sweden and online. She also offers her own work with individuals and groups, grounded in systemic understanding and presence-based practices.

If you’re a seeker, therapist, coach, or simply someone longing to live with more depth and aliveness, this podcast invites you to pause, feel, and listen for what truly matters.

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Episodes
  • Ep. 7 – Meditation
    Jan 19 2026

    What is meditation really — a technique, a discipline, or a state of being?

    In this episode of What Truly Matters, Svagito Liebermeister joins Candra Karlholm for a rich conversation about meditation, practice, and what it means to truly be present with oneself.

    Svagito reflects on the difference between meditation as something we do and meditation as a state that arises when we are no longer identified with the mind. He speaks about witnessing as the core of all meditation, and why practice often feels challenging, boring, or even confronting — especially for the mind that wants to stay in control.

    The conversation explores active meditations such as Dynamic and Kundalini, and how movement, structure, expression, and stillness can help us meet emotions, release tension, and create a sense of inner safety. Rather than pushing toward bliss, meditation is described as a way of learning to allow both pleasure and discomfort — without suppression or avoidance.

    Meditation is also placed in the context of therapy and working with people: how structure can support presence, why we often rush to comfort emotions, and how meditation helps us relate differently to difficulties by gradually learning to say “yes” to what is — without turning that into a demand or ideal.

    This episode invites a way of relating to meditation as a lived practice — learning to witness, to stay present, and to allow both ease and difficulty as they arise. Svagito's recorded meditations based on The book of secrets by Osho is found here: https://online-teachings-with-svagito.mykajabi.com/offers/pBPhwFvW/checkout

    If this speaks to you, we warmly invite you to subscribe, share it with a friend, or leave a review – it really helps others find the show.

    Want to go deeper? This is how:

    Online Teachings with Svagito: https://online-teachings-with-svagito.mykajabi.com/

    Svagito's website: https://www.family-constellation.net/

    Join our community: Facebook group – What Truly Matters https://www.facebook.com/groups/whattrulymatters

    Subscribe to our newsletter: https://online-teachings-with-svagito.mykajabi.com/svagito-opt-in

    Candra's website: https://www.candrakarlholm.com/

    Meera Art Foundation: https://www.meera.de

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    55 mins
  • Ep. 6 – Loneliness and Aloneness
    Dec 28 2025

    Feelings of loneliness or fear of being alone are experiences many people encounter at times. Yet facing our aloneness is also part of human existence and inner growth.

    In this episode of What Truly Matters, Svagito Liebermeister and Candra Karlholm reflect on two inner experiences that may sound similar, yet point to very different realities: loneliness and aloneness.

    Svagito describes aloneness as an existential experience of being centered in oneself, where nothing is missing, while loneliness arises from the feeling of missing someone or something. He speaks about how moments of aloneness — without a sense of lack — can arise through presence, creativity, meditation, or deep engagement, and why these moments often come and go.

    The conversation touches on themes many people struggle with: feeling lonely even while in a relationship, the pull to look outward for relief when something inside feels unsettled, and how attachment patterns and childhood wounds become activated in intimacy. Personal reflections on love, grief, and loss are woven together with a grounded perspective on our biological need for connection and the importance of learning to be with ourselves.

    A thoughtful conversation for anyone navigating relationships, attachment, or the ongoing question of how to feel more whole — both alone and with others.

    If this speaks to you, we warmly invite you to subscribe, share it with a friend, or leave a review – it really helps others find the show.

    Want to go deeper? This is how:

    Online Teachings with Svagito: https://online-teachings-with-svagito.mykajabi.com/

    Svagito's website: https://www.family-constellation.net/

    Join our community: Facebook group – What Truly Matters https://www.facebook.com/groups/whattrulymatters

    Subscribe to our newsletter: https://online-teachings-with-svagito.mykajabi.com/svagito-opt-in

    Candra's website: https://www.candrakarlholm.com/

    Meera Art Foundation: https://www.meera.de

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    31 mins
  • Ep. 5 – The Art of Working with People: Presence, Love and Freedom
    Sep 15 2025

    What truly heals in therapy — the method, or the space we hold?

    In this episode of What Truly Matters, psychotherapist and spiritual teacher Svagito Liebermeister joins Candra Karlholm to explore the subtle art of working with people. Drawing from decades of experience, Svagito speaks about why presence and love matter more than techniques, and how true support always respects the client’s freedom.

    They explore: – Why healing does not come from “fixing” someone – The difference between love and “being nice” – The trap of the helper’s syndrome – Why advice is not therapy – Respecting clients’ parents and avoiding projection – The role of meditation in therapy and the risk of spiritual bypassing – How therapy, spirituality and personal growth must come together in ordinary life

    This conversation is a reminder that real transformation arises not from what we do to others, but from the space of presence, truth and freedom we share with them.

    --- The next working with people training with Svagito is in Sweden, Oct. 3rd - 8th! https://zen-coaching.com/events/working-with-people-workshop-with-svagito/ ---

    If this speaks to you, we warmly invite you to subscribe, share it with a friend, or leave a review – it really helps others find the show.

    Want to go deeper? This is how:

    Online Teachings with Svagito:

    https://online-teachings-with-svagito.mykajabi.com/

    Svagito's website https://www.family-constellation.net/

    Join our community: Facebook group – What Truly Matters https://www.facebook.com/groups/whattrulymatters

    Subscribe to our newsletter https://online-teachings-with-svagito.mykajabi.com/svagito-opt-in

    Candra's website https://www.candrakarlholm.com/

    Meera Art Foundation https://www.meera.de

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    39 mins
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