EP #184: What If Happiness Is Actually Peace? Inside a Vipassana Meditation Retreat with Anthony Locascio

Anthony Locascio returns to Everyday Endorphins nearly a year after our first conversation — this time, as he puts it, a fundamentally different person.

After a difficult year led him to a 10-day silent Vipassana meditation experience, Anthony was forced to sit with the emotions, patterns, and parts of himself he had spent years trying to escape. What followed completely changed his relationship with discomfort, ego, addiction, creativity, and ultimately, happiness.

We unpack what happens when you stop trying to think your way out of your feelings, why acceptance doesn’t mean avoiding difficult emotions, and whether the happiness we’re all chasing might actually be something much quieter: peace.

A conversation about letting go, sitting with discomfort, trusting life’s timing, and learning to experience the full spectrum of being human.