More than a decade after Iyanla: Fix My Life first premiered, Iyanla Vanzant is returning to OWN with Iyanla: The Inside Fix, a soul-searching sequel that revisits the franchise’s most unforgettable moments. The sequence, which premieres Saturday, January 17 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, guarantees to push viewers previous passive watching and into purposeful work.
And whereas she’s excited for this new chapter, Iyanla informed BOSSIP that she by no means imagined the influence Fix My Life would have when it debuted in 2012.
“Absolutely not. Thank goodness,” she mentioned. “I in all probability would have tried to repair it or management it or change it. No, I had no thought, and I’m so grateful I didn’t.” Instead, she says, the present turned what it wanted to be, resonating deeply with audiences hungry for fact, accountability, and emotional honesty.
Now, with The Inside Fix, Vanzant sees the sequence as a “deepening” of that authentic work.
“Where Fix My Life invited us to confront the ache that formed us, The Inside Fix invitations us to fulfill the truths that may free us,” she informed Managing Editor Dani Canada. “This is not only a glance again. This is about how the teachings nonetheless apply and the way we apply them to ourselves.”
The new sequence revisits 12 of essentially the most talked-about episodes from Fix My Life, together with the viral “Six Brown Chicks” confrontation in “Fix My Backstabbing Friends” and the deeply private reckoning of “Fix My Broken Mother.” According to Iyanla, these moments stay related as a result of the core subject hasn’t modified.
“Bad non secular hygiene,” she mentioned bluntly concerning the “Six Brown Chicks” episode specifically. “Those girls had dangerous non secular hygiene. That conduct is occurring each single day.”
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For Iyanla, The Inside Fix would have been useful for them to develop, ranging from inside.
“The Inside Fix is the non secular hygiene,” she defined to BOSSIP. “The instruments for the every day follow. Not as soon as per week on Saturday night time when the present is on, however the every day follow of sustaining, clearing, and cleansing your inside life, your thoughts, the way you suppose; your coronary heart, how you are feeling; your spirit, your soul, the way you stand.”
Unlike the unique sequence, which allowed viewers to watch and draw their very own conclusions, The Inside Fix is designed to be interactive.
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“With Fix My Life, they may watch and draw conclusions, they usually have been form of left on their very own. With The Inside Fix, not solely am I within the present declaring the teachings, each present has a worksheet that you would be able to obtain at no cost and apply it to your self. We provide the prescription proper within the worksheet.”
The servant chief additionally acknowledges the challenges of sustaining non secular hygiene in an period of fixed comparability, burnout, and digital overload.
“Those issues will hinder you. It will,” she mentioned. “So you’ve acquired to choose. What hinders you from brushing your tooth? What hinders you from placing in your make-up? When it turns into vital to you to be balanced, to be at peace, to be regulated, you’ll do the work required. If it’s not vital, then you definately’ll simply complain.”
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Transformation, she stresses, just isn’t a single breakthrough second.
“If you keep your non secular hygiene, the transformation is ongoing. t’s not like this occurs after which woo. Things that you just used to do, you’ll cease doing. Things you as soon as thought have been vital aren’t vital anymore.”
The sequence additionally leans into moments of levity, one thing Vanzant says has all the time been a part of her course of, even when the present went viral with memes embodying her traditional “Not on my watch!” response that is still a TikTok staple to this present day.
“There have been occasions once I would simply crack up laughing,” she recalled. “I didn’t know what a meme was. Somebody informed me, ‘You’ve acquired over 10,000 memes.’ It’s humbling. I simply confirmed as much as do what God informed me to do.”
Now shifting past the laughs and returning to the work as what she calls an elder, Iyanla says her hope is that future generations inherit readability and respect for knowledge.
“We’re all human. We’re all loopy as hell,” she mentioned. “But don’t put on it like a cape or a badge and anticipate particular remedy. This is my loopy, and I’m prepared to deliver it to sanity.”
Iyanla: The Inside Fix premieres Saturday, January 17 at 8 PM ET/PT on OWN!