EXCLUSIVE: Iyanla Vanzant Returns To OWN With ‘IYANLA: THE INSIDE FIX’

‘IYANLA: THE INSIDE FIX,’ Courtesy of OWN By Okla Jones ·Updated November 18, 2025 < /> Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

Iyanla Vanzant is back. The renowned spiritual teacher, New York Times bestselling author, and beloved host returns to OWN with an all-new series, IYANLA: THE INSIDE FIX—a fresh, more seasoned perspective on the healing journeys that touched millions.

A decade ago, Iyanla: Fix My Life became a hit. Through honest, often emotionally raw conversations with celebrity guests like Shereé Whitfield, Karrueche Tran, Evelyn Lozada, and DMX—and with everyday people navigating wounds that mirrored our own—the series created space for vulnerable truth-telling long before today’s mainstream dialogues on trauma, inner child work, or generational healing.

But Iyanla says she didn’t fully grasp the cultural magnitude of what she was doing back then. “Doing the show back then from 2012 to 2020 or 2021, I didn’t really have a healthy awareness or respect for how groundbreaking the show was,” she tells ESSENCE. “I now understand that what I was doing back then was spiritual hygiene—teaching people how to brush their mind, how to floss their heart, how to cleanse their spirit, how to nourish their body.”

Now, she’s ready to return to the work with deeper clarity and a responsibility she describes as part of perhaps the most important time in her life. “When I say I’m back,” she says, “I’m back as an elder in my legacy years, creating a pattern and a process and a >OWN.

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