Reset Your Mind & Soul: How to Find Peace When Life Feels Overwhelming
Mel Robbins (host), Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) (guest)
In this episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast, featuring Mel Robbins and Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo), Reset Your Mind & Soul: How to Find Peace When Life Feels Overwhelming explores stop Running From Yourself: Yung Pueblo’s Guide To Inner Peace Mel Robbins interviews writer and meditator Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) about moving from emotional avoidance, addiction, and chaos toward self-awareness, inner peace, and healthier relationships.
Stop Running From Yourself: Yung Pueblo’s Guide To Inner Peace
Mel Robbins interviews writer and meditator Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) about moving from emotional avoidance, addiction, and chaos toward self-awareness, inner peace, and healthier relationships.
Diego explains that transformation doesn’t require rock bottom; it begins with small, subtle choices to feel your emotions instead of numbing them, and to slow down in a distraction-heavy world.
They explore how embracing change, cultivating self-love, and building a “home within yourself” improve mental health, relationships, boundaries, and decision-making.
The conversation ends with concrete habits, journal prompts, and mindsets to help listeners create peace in everyday life rather than waiting for external circumstances to change.
Key Takeaways
You don’t need to hit rock bottom to change your life.
Transformation can start with a quiet moment of awareness—recognizing you’re not okay and choosing to do something slightly different, like pausing instead of numbing, rather than waiting for a crisis.
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Healing begins with feeling your emotions, not distracting from them.
Diego frames addiction and over-distraction as attempts to fill a void that actually needs your own attention; sitting with discomfort, even for five minutes, weakens the pull of habits like drugs, alcohol, or constant phone use.
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You can honor your emotions without letting them control your actions.
Inner peace is not being emotionless; it’s noticing sadness, anger, or tension, feeling them in the body, and choosing not to act from them impulsively—this subtle distance between feeling and reacting changes your life trajectory.
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Your relationship with yourself sets the ceiling for all other relationships.
If you are disconnected from yourself and afraid of vulnerability, you’ll repeat shallow or chaotic relationship patterns; cultivating self-honesty, self-love, and a sense of “home” within you enables deeper, more stable connections.
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Healthy relationships require growth, kindness, and genuine compassion.
Diego emphasizes that love alone is not enough; good relationships involve two people willing to grow, communicate calmly, respect boundaries, see beyond their own perspective, and support each other’s individual healing.
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Boundaries are essential self-love; people-pleasing keeps you in chaos.
A boundary is simply what you will and won’t accept; saying no—especially when your nervous system is overwhelmed—protects your peace and energy, while chronic people-pleasing comes from fear of rejection and low self-worth.
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Embracing change and listening to intuition make life smoother and fuller.
Life is made of constant change; fighting it creates suffering. ...
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Notable Quotes
“The biggest factor in your healing is not time. It is your ability to face emotions that you used to run away from.”
— Yung Pueblo (Diego Perez)
“I was never addicted to one thing. I was addicted to filling a void within myself with things other than my own love.”
— Yung Pueblo (Diego Perez)
“You can honor the truth of your emotions without letting them control you.”
— Yung Pueblo (Diego Perez)
“If you are wondering who your people are, they are the ones who make your heart feel seen and your nervous system feel calm.”
— Yung Pueblo (Diego Perez)
“A peaceful mind is a powerful mind.”
— Yung Pueblo (Diego Perez)
Questions Answered in This Episode
What specific emotion or situation do I habitually run from, and what would it look like to sit with it for five minutes instead of distracting myself?
Mel Robbins interviews writer and meditator Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) about moving from emotional avoidance, addiction, and chaos toward self-awareness, inner peace, and healthier relationships.
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In what ways am I outsourcing my sense of ‘home’ and happiness to relationships, achievements, or validation rather than building it within myself?
Diego explains that transformation doesn’t require rock bottom; it begins with small, subtle choices to feel your emotions instead of numbing them, and to slow down in a distraction-heavy world.
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Which patterns from my past relationships keep repeating, and what do they reveal about my own unhealed triggers or avoidance?
They explore how embracing change, cultivating self-love, and building a “home within yourself” improve mental health, relationships, boundaries, and decision-making.
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Where in my life am I fighting inevitable change, and how might things feel different if I chose to work with that change instead of resisting it?
The conversation ends with concrete habits, journal prompts, and mindsets to help listeners create peace in everyday life rather than waiting for external circumstances to change.
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What boundaries or ‘no’s’ could I put in place this week to protect my nervous system and create more inner peace without turning those boundaries into rigid walls?
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Transcript Preview
(instrumental music plays) Have you ever read something and thought, "How do they know exactly what I'm feeling right now?" Writing so powerful you just keep coming back to it again and again? Today, you're gonna meet a number one New York Times best-selling writer whose work and words have helped millions of people, including me, be happier, heal, and live a more peaceful and fulfilling life. He writes under the pen name Yung Pueblo.
We live in such a fast-paced world that it really does feel like a form of rebellion to slow down. It's an investment in your own inner peace.
People say you're afraid to feel your emotions. I think most of us just don't want to deal with them. What do you say to somebody who feels that way?
The biggest factor in your healing is not time. It is your ability to face emotions that you used to run away from. You can crave distraction because you're afraid to feel your emotions, and when I was very much committed to running away from myself, the medicine was giving myself my own attention. If I'm running away from my emotion, I have to feel it. If I'm lying to myself, I need to start telling myself the truth. You can honor the truth of your emotions without letting them control you. I mean, that's the beginning of a different life. (clock ticks)
Diego-
Wow.
... welcome to Mel Robbins' podcast.
Thank you so much, Mel. It's an honor to be here.
You know, I've never met somebody in real life that has a pen name.
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
And so I feel almost like I'm doing something wrong by calling you Diego. (laughs)
(laughs) No, Diego's the right name, that's the name my mother gave me, but Yung Pueblo's a pen name. Having a pen name just helps me be really honest. It helps me be in touch with what's true and what's difficult about my own story, and just have the freedom to really go deeply into suffering, the suffering that we all experience.
Wow. Well, what I'd love to have you do is I'd love to have you speak directly-
Yeah.
... to the person who is with us right now, they're somewhere in the world-
Mm-hmm.
... and they've found and made the time to be here with you and me and learn from you and learn something about themselves. Could you share with them what they might experience about their life that could be different if they take everything you're about to teach us today to heart?
If you're gonna come hang out with us today, I think the main things that you're gonna get are inner peace, a new sense of gratitude, and new clarity around how to best show up in your relationship.
Wow. Okay. You're, we're gonna accomplish that in this conversation.
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