🎙️ Embracing Virtue and Resetting During Pregnancy: A Conversation with Megna Mystery — Episode 27 of The YAM Podcast

In this intimate and healing episode, I sit down with Megna Mystery — writer, mother, and community storyteller — to explore how pregnancy’s intense challenges can become portals to deeper self-reflection and transformation.

Megna bravely shares her personal journey through hyperemesis gravidarum, a severe and often isolating condition that challenged her sense of identity and well-being. She describes how this experience pushed her to embrace daily practices of self-forgiveness, spiritual reset, and aligning with virtues that nourish the soul.

We reflect on the power of using tools like the Virtues Project — a character education initiative that inspires the daily practice of moral excellence — to cultivate a sense of grounded purpose, especially during times of upheaval. Megna’s vivid image of “third-eye resets” becomes a metaphor for pausing, breathing, and stepping into each new moment with clarity and grace.

In This Episode, We Explore:

🔹 Megna’s journey with hyperemesis gravidarum and the lessons it revealed

🔹 The role of daily virtues-based reflections in navigating overwhelming seasons

🔹 How visualizing a “third-eye reset” can help shift energy and open new possibilities

🔹 The difference between resetting and forgetting: integrating reflection with self-compassion

🔹 Why virtue — moral excellence — is a foundation for healing and community-building

🔹 How to carry the message of virtues into homes, communities, and workplaces

💬 This episode is for anyone who has faced a season of profound challenge — whether in pregnancy, parenting, or simply in life — and seeks a gentle reminder that you can begin again, at any moment.