🎤 Ho’oponopono Instructor Interview

We all carry moments we wish we could undo — words we said, things we did, silences we kept. Sometimes, in the middle of an ordinary day, one of those memories surfaces without warning, and suddenly we want to hide.

In this interview, Irene Taira asks Ho’oponopono instructor Irene Schwonek about the weight of shame, regret, and the habit of comparing ourselves to others. Irene Schwonek’s response is both simple and profound: shame is a memory, and that memory wants to be released. There is no need to enter the story, to analyze, or to go deep. The cleaning tools are enough.

When it comes to regret toward someone we can no longer reach, Irene reminds us that cleaning transcends time and space. What we feel now can be made right now. “It’s never too late,” she says. “Never.”

Irene also shares how Ho’oponopono became her lifestyle — not through certainty, but through surrender. When everything she once believed in failed, she chose to simply practice and trust. Doubt is part of being human. But through practice, clarity comes.