Podcasts about Embodiment

In this episode, we explore a question that feels more urgent than ever: what if healing ourselves and healing the planet are deeply interconnected?Monica is joined by author Lindsay Branham, whose book Heartwood: The Wisdom and Healing Kinship of Trees chronicles her personal journey through chronic illness and toward a deeper relationship with the natural world. Guest co-host Florence Williams, bestselling author of The Nature Fix, also brings her expertise on nature, health, and well-being to this wide-ranging conversation.Together, they explore the story behind Heartwood and the experiences that led Lindsay from a career as a war journalist and Emmy Award–winning documentary filmmaker to an exploration of ecology, spirituality, and embodied healing. The conversation delves into interoception – sometimes called our “eighth sense” – and how tuning into the body's internal signals may help us reconnect with ourselves and the living world around us.From chronic illness and nervous system regulation to reciprocal healing, belonging, and even erotic ecology, this episode examines why so many of us are searching for deeper connection in an increasingly disconnected world and what nature may have to teach us about finding it. If you're interested in the intersection of science, spirituality, and healing, this is a conversation you won't want to miss.Show NotesHeartwood: The Healing Wisdom & Kinship of Trees by Lindsay BranhamHeartwood InstituteLindsay Branham on SubstackFlorence Williams The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams Key Words: biophilia, biophilic design, nature connection, healing, planetary health, human health, ecology, spirituality, interoception, nervous system regulation, forest healing, nature therapy, forest bathing, ecological connection, mindfulness, embodiment, emotional well-being, Florence Williams, Lindsay Branham, Heartwood, The Nature Fix, Biophilic Solutions, sustainability, conservation, healing through nature, wild places, environmental psychology, holistic health, connection, natural world, regenerative living, personal transformation, neuroscience, nature and well-being, eco-spirituality, environmental stewardship, intentional livingBiophilic Solutions is available wherever you get podcasts. Please listen, follow, and give us a five-star review. Follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn and learn more on our website. #NatureHasTheAnswers

In this episode, I share my Human Design story and why I continue to return to the same foundational teachings year after year. These five elements, Determination, Strategy, Authority, Environment, and Cognition, completely changed the way I move through life.Inside this conversation, we explore:• My personal Human Design journey• Why the foundations matter more than advanced information• The five elements I continually return to• How these teachings impact decision-making, relationships, business, health, and alignment• Why embodiment will always outperform informationBecause the goal isn't to know your Human Design.The goal is to live it.RESOURCES:CLICK HERE for the Big 3 in Human Design EpisodeCLICK HERE to order your Alchemy of You manualCLICK HERE to learn about the Find Your WAI membershipCLICK HERE to DM me PHOENIX to learn about my 5-month initiation for the woman standing at the threshold of her next chapter, knowing the current version of herself cannot carry her where her soul is asking her to go next.CLICK HERE to DM me to learn more about the Gauntlet, my 3-6-month private mentorship container, or the Identity Reset Retreat to learn about coming to Austin for a 5-day, 4-night private initiation with me.Support the show✨ Thank you for listening! Check out the links below to connect with me!

This one opened my heart wide open, and I cried with a friend straight after recording it. Chelsea Horton is a somatic coach, educator, and founder of Healing Embodied, where she trains wellness professionals to integrate somatics, creativity, and emotional healing into their work. A former worship leader with a master's in Dance and Movement Therapy, Chelsea went from the most devoted Christian you'd ever meet, engaged to her gay best friend for Jesus, to building a life and practice rooted entirely in embodied truth. Together we explore religious trauma, good girl programming, what embodiment actually means in daily life, and why your emotions are not a problem to solve but raw material for creation. Connect with Chelsea:www.healingembodied.com/connecthttps://www.instagram.com/healing.embodiedWORK WITH ME 1:1:❥Softening into self- 3 month 1:1 with Whats App Support:https://marina-yt.mykajabi.com/offers/PAWQhZHu❥❥1:1 Coaching with me: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWcZM5s9c2OjOLwoGMI5jE6rh_JAzjN2d_vCtuVe7e3pVGxw/viewformDOWNLOAD FOR FREE:Stay or Go: 5 Clarity Questions to Reconnect with Your Inner Knowing: https://marinayt.com/stay-or-go-guideAttatchment Practice: Discover the actual blocks beneath the surface so you can actually have the deep intimacy you crave: https://marinayt.com/attachment-practice Connect & Ground: 10 Incredible Somatic Practices for Nervous System Regulation: https://marinayt.com/connect-and-groundAlive & Aligned: 7 Embodiment Practices For Self Connection: https://marinayt.com/alive-and-alignedTrigger to Rooted: A step by step process of working with your triggers: https://marinayt.com/trigger-2-rooted VIEW MY COURSES & RESOURCES:https://marinayt.com/resources CONNECT WITH  ME:Follow me on Instagram:⁠ ⁠www.instagram.com/marina.y.t⁠⁠ Subscribe to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@marinatriner Top Episode Quotes:"Embodiment is when you live, breathe, become the thing — instead of just knowing it conceptually. It's not a switch you turn on. Your body has to learn a new way of being." — Chelsea Horton"Sometimes what's familiar sucks. Sometimes what's familiar is harming you. But because it feels predictable, it feels safe. That's not embodied safety — that's familiar safety." — Chelsea Horton"The reason people end up in a psych hospital is because the one thing they didn't have enough of was being loved. That is our most fundamental human need." — Chelsea Horton"Your emotions are not a problem to solve. They're an energy with which you can create. Suddenly you become a choreographer of life." — Chelsea Horton"You're sitting on top of a treasure chest and you've never opened it. And what's inside? Your expression. Yourself. Your life. You finally get you back." — Chelsea Hortonreligious trauma healing, embodiment, somatic healing, good girl programming, shame healing, nervous system regulation, inner child healing, creative expression, trauma informed healing, emotional processing, dance movement therapy, familiar safety, embodied safety, deconstruction, people pleasing, deep within podcast, Chelsea Horton, Marina Triner, healing embodied, somatic coaching 

From Insight to Embodiment: Healing, Awakening, and the Power of Relational Safety with Blaise KennedyWhat if real change doesn't happen through insight alone, but through the body, the nervous system, and the relationships that teach us how to become whole?In this deeply grounded and spacious episode of the Sacred Changemakers Podcast, I'm joined by Blaise Kennedy, a teacher and guide working at the intersection of embodied awareness, relational attunement, and spiritual awakening. Blaise supports growth-oriented people who are spiritually curious, emotionally honest, and ready for change that shows up in daily life, not only in meditation or peak experiences. His work was shaped by a major turning point at age 24, when he entered recovery and began a serious path of self-inquiry, healing, and integration. That journey eventually led him to create Developmental Architecture, a staged, embodied map of growth that weaves together awakening, nervous system capacity, trauma repair, and relational maturity into one developmental process.Together, we explore why healing is not a solo project, the difference between insight and embodiment, what the nervous system may really be asking for, and how awakening, healing, and manifestation can be understood as different facets of one living process of consciousness. This conversation has so much value for anyone working in change, whether through coaching, facilitation, leadership, organizational transformation, healing, or community work. It is also deeply relevant for anyone who has done inner work, had powerful insights, or experienced moments of awakening, yet still finds themselves returning to familiar patterns.Blaise brings a rare combination of vulnerability, humility, wisdom, and lived experience. This is not a conversation about change as theory. It is about change that becomes embodied, relational, and real.Key TakeawaysWhy insight alone is not enough to create lasting changeHow the nervous system shapes our capacity for awakening, intimacy, manifestation, and growthWhy healing was never meant to happen in isolation: The importance of relational safety, attunement, and co-regulation in transformationWhat becomes possible when awakening moves from peak experience into daily lifeWhy coaches, leaders, and changemakers need to understand their own nervous system and relational presenceLearn More About Today's GuestBlaise's website ****→ www.blaisekennedy.comBlaise's Instagram →@blaisehereAbout the HostJayne Warrilow is the founder of Sacred Changemakers, a global community and learning space exploring the intersection of human resonance, regenerative change, and conscious leadership.Learn more at sacredchangemakers.com

I have often felt like talking about self love can feel frustrating and confusion. What does loving oneself actually mean and look like? Early in my twenties, I think I thought self love looked and felt like self discipline. I went to yoga and meditated almost every day, I was strict with myself on what and when I would eat, I went to bed early and woke up early. From the outside, it looked like I deeply loved myself through how I cared for myself but that it not the way it felt. I felt trapped, depressed, and disconnected. My routine wasn't bringing me joy or love, it brought short term safety. And that bubble would burst if I did anything outside of that routine where I would then be so cruel with myself. Self love may show up as an act, but now I experience it as a felt sense. It feels like a warmth, a closeness, and an appreciation of my body for all that it does and navigates every day.In this week's episode, I chat with Lulu Essey, Speaker, Mindset Advisor, and host of The Lulu Essey Podcast , about: Understanding the difference between self love and self careThe practice of staying with yourself in all emotions, sensations, and reactionsNavigating discomfortThe role of safety in self loveThe courage to face inner struggles and the importance of asking for supportYou can also read the transcript to this week's episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/what-self-love-really-is-and-how-to-embody-it-every-dayHope you enjoy this week's episode and talk to you more soon! With Compassion and Empathy, Stephanie Mara FoxKeep in touch with Lulu: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@luluessey Website: https://www.luluessey.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucille-marie-essey/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lulu.essey/Support the showKeep in touch with Stephanie Mara:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stephaniemara/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephaniemarafoxWebsite: https://www.stephaniemara.com/https://www.somaticeating.com/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephmara/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stephaniemarafoxContact: support@stephaniemara.comSupport the show:Become a supporter: https://www.buzzsprout.com/809987/supportAll affiliate links: https://www.stephaniemara.com/resourcesReceive 15% off my fave protein powder with code STEPHANIEMARA at checkout here: https://www.equipfoods.com/STEPHANIEMARAUse my Amazon Affiliate link when shopping on Amazon: https://amzn.to/448IyPlSpecial thanks to Bendsound for the music in this episode. www.bensou...

On episode #253 of World Awakenings: The Fast Track to Enlightenment, we welcome Ninette Terhart — author of One Foot in Infinity, award-winning vocalist, national bodybuilding champion, Cirque aerialist, consciousness teacher, and transformational guide. Ninette's extraordinary work bridges the physical body, nervous system healing, emotional integration, embodiment practices, spiritual awakening, and expanded consciousness to help people move beyond limitation patterns and reconnect with their authentic selves.Through a unique blend of movement, breathwork, nervous system regulation, performance psychology, creativity, and deep spiritual inquiry, Ninette helps others embody greater coherence, self-awareness, inner peace, and higher consciousness. Drawing from over a decade of dedicated study and practice of A Course in Miracles, she explores how the nervous system acts as a bridge between human conditioning and spiritual expansion.In this powerful conversation, we explore embodiment, spiritual growth, nervous system integration, healing trauma patterns, consciousness evolution, self-love, creativity, mindfulness, awakening the true self, and what it means to live with one foot in the physical world — and one foot in infinity.You can now watch World Awakenings on New Reality TV!You can connect with Ninette Terhart by going to her website https://www.onefootininfinity.com/her YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@onefootininfinityand her Patreon Portal page https://www.patreon.com/cw/AllThingsSpiritual101SHOW TIMELINE:0:00 – Introduction to Episode #2532:15 – Meeting Ninette Terhart5:20 – What “One Foot in Infinity” Really Means9:45 – The Connection Between the Nervous System & Consciousness14:30 – Human Conditioning vs Spiritual Expansion20:10 – Breathwork, Embodiment & Emotional Integration27:40 – The Power of Presence & Self-Awareness34:15 – A Course in Miracles & Spiritual Transformation41:50 – Moving Beyond Limitation Patterns48:20 – Creativity, Performance & Consciousness54:10 – Living in Alignment with Your Authentic Self59:00 – Final Thoughts with Ninette Terhart1:01:30 – Closing Remarks

Visualization is more than imagination. It is the spiritual practice of seeing a new possibility within, feeling it deeply, and beginning to live from that truth now. In this powerful Science of Mind Journey talk, Rev. Lee Wolak explores the connection between visualization, embodiment, spiritual awareness, and personal transformation. You will discover why simply thinking about a better life is not enough. True transformation happens when your thoughts, emotions, beliefs, energy, and actions begin to align with the person you are becoming. Visualization opens the inner doorway, but embodiment is what allows that vision to become your lived experience. This video is for anyone seeking greater spiritual understanding, conscious creation, emotional alignment, inner growth, and a deeper connection to the power within. Learn how to use your imagination consciously, shift your state of being, and begin living from the awareness that your outer world responds to your inner consciousness. Subscribe for more teachings on self-realization, spiritual growth, inner transformation, universal principles, and awakening to the power within. Sign up for my daily thought and weekly newsletter by clicking this link: https://www.agapespiritualcenter.com/free-affirmations If you find value in what Agape offers—spiritually, emotionally, and in community—consider becoming a supporting member. Your recurring contribution helps us continue to share truth, healing, and transformation with the world. Click here to become a supporter: https://www.agapespiritualcenter.com/recurring-contributions/

What does joy look like in the midst of pain and grief? K.J. Ramsey's memoir, The Place Between Our Pains, was written while she was fighting for her life - and in this conversation, she talks about what that actually means. We get into how dependence on others opens us to love in ways independence never could, why grief is a gate into aliveness rather than a place to get stuck, and what it looked like to launch a book about joy while facing a tumor diagnosis and an IV drip on launch day. This is a conversation about the kind of joy that doesn't require a tidy resolution and why that might be the kind we're searching for.K.J. Ramsey is an increasingly feral mystic who is utterly devoted to the joy of being alive. She is a body-centered licensed professional counselor specialized in trauma recovery and an acclaimed author of prose and poetry, including The Book of Common Courage, The Lord Is My Courage, and This Too Shall Last, as well as the bestselling essay Substack Embodied. KJ advocates for fellow autoimmune patients and lives in Colorado with her husband Ryan, a hospice chaplain, and their two velcro dogs.K.J.'s Book:The Place Between Our PainsK.J.'s Recommendation:Project Hail MaryConnect with Joshua: jjohnson@shiftingculturepodcast.comGo to www.shiftingculturepodcast.com to interact and donate. Every donation helps to produce more podcasts for you to enjoy.Follow on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Threads, Bluesky or YouTubeSupport the podcast and the ministry that my wife and I do around the world. Just click on the support the show link below Support the show

This week's quickie is from Bonny Burns about the importance of being connected to your own body and how it can lead to authenticity and pleasure. Follow-up with our webinars and/or stay tuned for more full episodes and quick tips about sex in marriage!

If you've ever felt like: your dreams are "too big" you're "too much" or you know you're capable of more… but you're not living it yet This episode is for you. In this in-studio episode of The Retreat Leaders Podcast, Shannon Jamail sits down with Dr. Kim Dang, a mathematician, reinvention strategist, and founder who has rebuilt her life and career multiple times-from Yale professor to entrepreneur in the retreat and knowledge space. Dr. Kim flew in from New York to record this conversation live in Austin-and it goes deep. This isn't just about retreats. This is about the inner work required to build the life and business you say you want. They dive into: Why high-achievers get stuck despite their potential The identity shifts required for reinvention The "too much" narrative and how it holds people back The comparison trap and how to break it Dr. Kim's 8-point framework used in her retreats and coaching Why clarity and belief systems are the foundation for everything Dr. Kim's work through The Deep Reset retreats is designed for leaders, creatives, and entrepreneurs who are ready to stop circling the same patterns and start building something bigger. This episode is wide, deep, and real. If you have a dream in your heart and you're not living it yet—this is your conversation.   What You'll Learn in This Episode • Why high-performing entrepreneurs still feel stuck • The role of identity in building a retreat business and life • How belief systems shape your results • How to break out of the comparison trap • The foundation of Dr. Kim's 8-point reinvention framework • Why clarity is the first step to actualizing your goals   Key Takeaways Reinvention Starts With Identity Not strategy. Not tactics. Identity. "Too Much" Is Often Untapped Potential What you've been told to suppress… might be your edge. Clarity Is Step One You can't build what you can't clearly define. Belief Systems Drive Everything If you don't change how you think, nothing else changes. Comparison Kills Momentum The more you compare, the less you create. Structure Creates Transformation Reinvention isn't random—there is a process. About Dr. Kim Dang Dr. Kim Dang is a mathematician, reinvention strategist, and founder who has transitioned from academia at Yale to entrepreneurship in the retreat and knowledge industry. Through her Deep Reset retreats and coaching, she helps high-performing creatives and entrepreneurs step into the next version of themselves using a structured, identity-based framework. Learn more: https://drkimdang.com/retreats     The Retreat Leaders Podcast Resources and Links: Learn to Host Retreats Join our private Facebook Group Top 5 Marketing Tools Free Guide Get your legal docs for retreats Join Shannon in Denver at the Retreat Industry Forum  Join our LinkedIn Group Apply to be a guest on our show Grab the AI + SEO Mini Course Thanks for tuning into the Retreat Leaders Podcast. Remember to subscribe for more insightful episodes, and visit our website for additional resources. Let's create a vibrant retreat community together!   Subscribe:  Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify -------- TIMESTAMPS Introducing Dr. Kim Dang (00:01:04) Shannon introduces her guest, Dr. Kim Dang, a mathematician and reinvention strategist who transitioned from a Yale professorship. Dr. Kim's Unique Retreats (00:03:50) Dr. Dang describes her intense, four-day retreats designed to help attendees become the "2.0 version" of themselves. The Pain of Reinvention (00:05:43) Dr. Dang discusses the personal pain and external pushback she faced when shifting her identity and career multiple times. The Feeling of Disconnect (00:08:11) The conversation explores how feeling disconnected from one's passion or career path is a primary driver for reinvention. Embodying Your Future Self (00:09:11) Dr. Dang explains the importance of embodying the feeling of your future goal to ensure it's what you truly want. Who Attends the Retreats (00:12:56) Dr. Dang clarifies her retreats are for ambitious people with big goals who have often been told they are "too much." Creating a Retreat for Yourself (00:15:06) Shannon and Dr. Dang discuss the power of creating a retreat that you yourself would want and need to attend. Motivation Fueled by Pain vs. Love (00:15:47) Dr. Dang shares how her math career was born from pain and the realization that true success comes from love. External Validation vs. Internal Goals (00:19:05) The speakers discuss the pitfalls of pursuing goals for external validation versus finding fulfillment through internal desires and joy. Truth as the Highest Frequency (00:20:28) Dr. Dang explains that authenticity and truth, even in difficult emotions, are the highest vibrational states for personal power. Rupture and Repair (00:22:51) The concept of having the courage to rupture relationships or processes and then repair yourself is explored as essential work. The 8-Step Reinvention Framework (00:25:56) Dr. Dang outlines her eight-step framework for reinvention, covering clarity, beliefs, fuel, action, surrender, and identity shift. The Importance of Embodiment (00:30:54) The discussion highlights how physical practices like yoga and massage are crucial for integrating deep mindset and identity shifts. The Paradox of Surrender (00:33:20) Dr. Dang explains that true success and manifestation often arrive in moments of relaxation and surrender, not forceful pushing. Holding Steady in Your Vision (00:35:37) Mental strength is defined as the ability to hold onto your end goal, even when the path looks uncertain. Is Ambition for Everyone? (00:38:16) Dr. Dang argues that everyone has an inner urge for more and that pursuing dreams reduces judgment and comparison. The Necessity of Inner Work (00:40:05) The conversation concludes that doing the inner work is essential to overcome fear and self-sabotage on the path to success. How to Connect with Dr. Kim Dang (00:42:35) Dr. Dang shares her website and social media handles for listeners who want to learn more about her work.

What if the intuitive gifts you've spent your life hiding are actually the key to your abundance, healing, and purpose?In this deeply expansive episode, Lisa Campion joins Elaine Starling for a powerful conversation about psychic awakening, spiritual alignment, energy sensitivity, and learning to trust the guidance already flowing through you.Lisa shares her extraordinary journey from being a highly psychic child growing up in a haunted house outside Boston to becoming a bestselling author, psychic healer, and teacher helping sensitives, empaths, and spiritual seekers embrace their gifts instead of fearing them. Together, Elaine and Lisa explore how intuition works through the body, why embodiment matters in spiritual growth, how to recognize the signs of psychic opening, and why abundance naturally expands when we stop resisting who we truly are.If you've ever sensed there was “something more” guiding your life… this episode will help you trust it.Topics Covered[0:00] What if your hidden gifts are the key to your abundance?[4:16] The power of Intention, consciousness, and energetic alignment[8:49] Lisa's journey from psychic child to spiritual teacher[12:39] How intuition guides abundance and soul-aligned living[15:59] Why the body always knows first[17:33] Signs you may be experiencing a psychic awakening[20:53] Why resisting intuition creates more struggle[23:44] Healing, spiritual growth, and releasing emotional “gunk”[27:41] The Golden Buddha story and remembering who you truly are[30:25] Lisa's favorite beginner practice: the Psychic Journal[33:40] How to ask angels and guides for support every day[36:03] Shifting from fear to trust in the Universe[37:54] Maintaining a high-vibration state of consciousness[39:00] Lisa's free video training for sensitives and empathsKey Takeaways

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself!Join Wendy for her dreamy Summer Solstice White Party on Saturday June 20, 2026 —an al fresco evening of delicious food, intention-setting, and celebration at the Phineas Wright House. Wear white, gather at the long table in the field, and toast to the season ahead. Save you seat here: phineaswrighthouse.com/the-shop/p/summer-solstice-white-partyIn this episode, Wendy sits down with Darshana Avila, somatic experiencing practitioner and body-based trauma healer. Darshana is a recovering people pleaser who's spent years unwinding the cultural scripts we're all handed unknowingly: the ones about gender roles, perfectionism, and who we're supposed to be.They explore:Why people pleasing is rooted in cultural conditioning (and how to recognize the script you've been reading)How trauma lives in your body and healing means changing your present relationship to the pastWhy forgiveness is a beautifully selfish act that frees you from resentmentDarshana talks about softening into embodiment, surrender as a practice, and what happens when we embrace our wholeness. This is a conversation about unwinding the people-pleasing patterns we didn't know we were practicing, and what becomes possible when we soften into our bodies and choose to lay down our armor.Connect with Darshana:Website: darshanaavila.comInstagram: instagram.com/darshana_avilaDeeper with Darshana Podcast: darshanaavila.com/podcast________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with Wendy:LinkedinInstagram: @wendy.harropFacebook: Phineas Wright HouseWebsite: Phineas Wright House PWH Farm StaysPWH Curated Experience and TravelInterested in being a guest on the show? Send your pitch to podcast@phineaswrighthouse.comPodcast Production By Shannon Warner of Resonant Collective Want to start your own podcast? Let's chat!If this episode resonated, follow Say YES to Yourself! and leave a  5-star review. It helps more women in midlife discover the tools, stories, and community that make saying YES not only possible, but powerful.

In this episode, I'm telling the story of the biggest, scariest, most illogical investment I've ever made, and how it became one of the most transformative decisions of my life.After years of searching through books, mentors, plant medicine, nervous system work, and every modality I could find, one Facebook post cracked something open in me. What followed was a wild chain of synchronicities, a somatic dojo that felt like an ayahuasca ceremony without the medicine, and a body-led decision to invest more money than I had in my bank account.This is a story about capacity, money, nervous system expansion, trusting your body when your mind is screaming “absolutely f*cking not,” and the moment transformation begins: the transaction.A reminder that sometimes the thing that makes no logical sense is the exact portal your future self is asking you to walk through.Support the show✨ Thank you for listening! Check out the links below to connect with me!

On this episode of The Healer Revolution Podcast, I sit down with Blaise Kennedy, spiritual teacher and creator of Developmental Architecture, a framework that bridges consciousness, nervous system healing, relational growth, embodiment, and emotional development.Blaise's work focuses on helping people move beyond insight alone and into actual lived transformation. Instead of chasing peak experiences or spiritual bypassing, he teaches a grounded approach to healing that includes nervous system capacity, relational safety, emotional honesty, embodiment, and integration.In this conversation, we discuss:• The difference between insight and embodiment• Why healing often does not happen in isolation• Nervous system regulation and spiritual growth• Attachment, relationships, and emotional maturity• Why people can feel “aware” but still stuck• Moving from awakening into lived changeThis was one of my favorite conversations on spirituality and healing because it felt deeply human, practical, and honest.https://www.blaisekennedy.com/media-podcasts/thr✨ Working with Amanda

I've been through a similar trajectory that so many have in food and body image recovery. In my twenties, I got to a place where food was less of a concern. I wasn't skipping meals anymore and I was balancing those meals and eating all macronutrients. I felt much more grounded and regulated. But, the body image struggles continued to hang around. I felt good in my body but I still hated the way my body looked. So, I tried every mainstream approach. I tried the stronger over skinny approach where I lifted a lot of heavy weights and gained a lot of muscle. Yet still, it felt like it was never enough. So, I tried the unconditional body love approach and tried to love my body as it was. No matter how much I tried to challenge my internalized beliefs about my body, nothing would budge. I still looked in the mirror every day and internally said, "ick". When I started somatic therapy, it wasn't with the intention of trying to heal my body image. I was focused on healing from a trauma response. What I wasn't expecting was that I would find myself caring less and less about how my body looked the safer I felt. In this week's episode, I chat about: A somatic, nervous system, attachment perspective to body image struggles Research that points to body image struggles are more about alterations in your brain and nervous system than it is about your body Strategies to increase interoception, a key part of body image recoveryYou can read the transcript to this episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/reframe-your-reflectionI've opened the doors back up for the next 48 hours until midnight on Tuesday 5/26 to the Somatic Eating® Program. The first class has already occurred so you will be able to watch the replay of the first class and reach out in the already active community to ask questions and receive support. Something I wished I had as I navigated my food and body image interactions was someone who would have guided me on how to listen to myself, rather than give me a bunch of advice that didn't work for my body. That is what I do in the program: support you in cultivating trust in yourself that you know what is best for you and how to discover that for yourself after you've been away from your body for years. Join now here: https://www.somaticeating.com/#readyIf you have any questions, respond to this email anytime! With Compassion and Empathy, Stephanie Mara FoxSupport the showKeep in touch with Stephanie Mara:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stephaniemara/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephaniemarafoxWebsite: https://www.stephaniemara.com/https://www.somaticeating.com/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephmara/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stephaniemarafoxContact: support@stephaniemara.comSupport the show:Become a supporter: https://www.buzzsprout.com/809987/supportAll affiliate links: https://www.stephaniemara.com/resourcesReceive 15% off my fave protein powder with code STEPHANIEMARA at checkout here: https://www.equipfoods.com/STEPHANIEMARAUse my Amazon Affiliate link when shopping on Amazon: https://amzn.to/448IyPlSpecial thanks to Bendsound for the music in this episode. www.bensou...

Send us Fan MailIn this inspiring episode of Meet the Authors, Caryl Westmore interviews three remarkable co-authors from the global bestselling book Tap Into Your Best Life, EFT Tapping Stories of Real-Life Transformation and Healing.Lou Lachman shares her journey from growing up in a cult to discovering embodiment, emotional safety, and healing through EFT Tapping.Lori Lamont reveals how childhood poverty (living in a chicken barn) and hidden emotional stress affected her family for years (including a daughter with a dental phobia) — until tapping transformed her relationship with fear, dentistry, and parenting. And she found her purpose teaching EFT Tapping and Matrix Reimprinting.Tania A. Prince, one of the original EFT Masters, NLP expert and creator of MBIR (Mindfulness-Based Inner Repatterning), discusses panic attacks, trauma healing, nervous system regulation, and the evolution of her groundbreaking therapeutic work.Together, these stories reveal the extraordinary power of EFT Tapping, Matrix Reimprinting, mindfulness, and energy psychology to help people reconnect with themselves and eventually find their life purpose.Topics include:• EFT Tapping and emotional healing• Trauma and nervous system regulation• Embodiment and inner peace• Panic attacks and anxiety relief• Matrix Reimprinting• MBIR (Mindfulness-Based Inner Repatterning)• Personal transformation stories• Healing childhood programmingHosted by bestselling author and AI Book Coach and founder of Best Life Publishing, Caryl Westmore.#EFTTapping #EnergyPsychology #TraumaHealing #HealingStories #Podcast #MatrixReimprinting #Mindfulness #PersonalGrowth #Transformation✅ Buy the book:  on Amazon https://books2read.com/u/3RAGKnNow a global bestseller in 6 countries✅ Connect with Caryl Westmore https://www.carylwestmore.com!✅  Connect with Caryl Westmore on social media!https://www.facebook.com/carylwestmoreauthorhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/bookinsideyouhttps://twitter.com/carylwestmoreukShow Sponsors: Books by Caryl Westmore: [For nonfiction writers]ChatGPT AI Book Writing Formula; [For Coaches and Healers] Tap into Your Best Life 

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Bargh. “Incidental Haptic Sensations Influence Social Judgments and Decisions.” Science 328, no. 5986 (2010): 1712–1715. Key use: Haptics, touch, weight, texture, hardness, and the idea that physical sensation can influence judgment and social interpretation. This supports the tactile layer of the episode: heavy doors, cold stone, worn rails, kneelers, relic cases, and sacred matter as meaningful contact.Higuera-Trujillo, Juan Luis, Carmen Llinares, and Eduardo Macagno. “The Cognitive-Emotional Design and Study of Architectural Space: A Scoping Review of Neuroarchitecture and Its Precursor Approaches.” Sensors 21, no. 6 (2021): 2193. Key use: Neuroarchitecture, emotional response to built environments, and the idea that architecture can be studied as a cognitive-emotional stimulus rather than only as art or style.Kilde, Jeanne Halgren. Sacred Power, Sacred Space: An Introduction to Christian Architecture and Worship. Oxford University Press, 2008. Key use: Major backbone source for Christian architecture as a system of worship, power, spatial order, and embodied religious experience. Oxford's description emphasizes Kilde's argument that church buildings represent and reify different forms of power, especially divine power.Morgan, David. The Sacred Gaze: Religious Visual Culture in Theory and Practice. University of California Press, 2005. Key use: Religious seeing, visual culture, sacred images, and the idea that vision is an active religious practice that can invest images, persons, times, and places with spiritual meaning.Taves, Ann. Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things. Princeton University Press, 2009. Key use: Helps frame religious experience without reducing it to one fixed category. Useful for the episode's approach to how experiences become interpreted, named, and treated as religious or sacred.Clark, Andy. Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind. Oxford University Press, 2016. Key use: Predictive processing, active inference, and the idea that perception is not passive recording but active prediction and model-building. This supports the “brain does not enter a church like a camera” argument.Krueger, Joel. “Extended Mind and Religious Cognition.” 2016. Key use: Extended and embodied cognition applied to religious practice, ritual objects, and environments. Useful for arguing that worship is not only inside the head but supported by bodies, tools, spaces, and shared action.Oxford Academic. “Embodied Cognition in Ecclesial Practices.” In Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology, 2023. Key use: Christian practices, embodied cognition, Eucharistic action, and religious material culture as cognitively significant rather than merely symbolic.Piff, Paul K., Pia Dietze, Matthew Feinberg, Daniel M. Stancato, and Dacher Keltner. “Awe, the Small Self, and Prosocial Behavior.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 108, no. 6 (2015): 883–899. Key use: Awe, vastness, the “small self,” and the psychological effects of encountering something perceived as larger than the ordinary self. This supports the cathedral-scale and sacred-vastness argument.Tarr, Bronwyn, Jacques Launay, and Robin I. M. Dunbar. “Music and Social Bonding: ‘Self-Other' Merging and Neurohormonal Mechanisms.” Frontiers in Psychology 5 (2014): 1096. Key use: Music, synchrony, social bonding, rhythmic action, and group cohesion. This supports the sections on chant, group singing, ritual synchrony, and bodies acting together in sacred space.Ittyerah, Miriam. “Memory for Curvature of Objects: Haptic Touch vs. Vision.” 2007. Key use: Haptic memory, touch-based object recognition, and the idea that touch can produce durable memory traces. Useful for worn rails, thresholds, beads, icons, relic cases, and repeated sacred contact.Lange, Lisa S., et al. “Tactile Memory Impairments in Younger and Older Adults.” Scientific Reports, 2024. Key use: Modern tactile-memory framing; useful for the claim that tactile experience is remembered and retrieved as part of embodied life.Freedberg, David. The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response. University of Chicago Press, 1989. Key use: Image response, embodied reaction to sacred or charged images, and why religious images can provoke devotion, fear, destruction, reverence, or bodily response.Plate, S. Brent. A History of Religion in 5½ Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses. Beacon Press, 2014. Key use: Material religion, objects, sensory experience, and the idea that religion is encountered through things, not only beliefs.Meyer, Birgit. Mediation and the Genesis of Presence: Toward a Material Approach to Religion. Key use: Material religion, mediation, presence, and how religious traditions use media, objects, images, sounds, and spaces to make the sacred present.Pallasmaa, Juhani. The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses. Key use: Architecture as a multisensory experience, especially touch, materiality, atmosphere, and the limits of treating architecture as only visual.Mallgrave, Harry Francis. The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Key use: Architecture and neuroscience, built form, emotion, perception, and embodied response to space.Robinson, Sarah, and Juhani Pallasmaa, eds. Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design. MIT Press, 2015. Key use: Embodiment, neuroscience, architectural perception, and how built environments shape lived experience.Eliade, Mircea. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion. Key use: Sacred space, threshold, center, axis mundi, and the distinction between ordinary space and holy space. This becomes more important in Episode 2, but it also supports Episode 1's general sacred-space framework.van Gennep, Arnold. The Rites of Passage. Key use: Separation, threshold, and incorporation. Useful for the threshold logic that runs through the whole series.Turner, Victor. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Key use: Liminality, transition, communitas, and the ritual power of in-between states.Tuan, Yi-Fu. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Key use: Lived place, memory, experience, and the difference between abstract space and meaningful place.Smith, Jonathan Z. To Take Place: Toward Theory in Ritual. Key use: Ritual as place-making; sacred places are produced through repeated action, interpretation, and return.Morgan, David. Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images. Key use: Popular religious images, devotional seeing, sacred practice, and how visual material becomes part of lived religion.Kieckhefer, Richard. Theology in Stone: Church Architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley. Key use: Church architecture as theology in built form, useful as a broad Christian architectural bridge source.Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball. A

You can meditate, journal, attend workshops, read the books, and still feel stuck.Why?Because awareness alone does not create transformation.In this deeply powerful episode of Mindset Mastery Moments, Dr. Alisa Whyte sits down with spiritual teacher and creator of Developmental Architecture, Blaise Kennedy, to unpack the critical difference between insight and embodiment — and why healing was never meant to happen in isolation.Together, they explore nervous system regulation, relational safety, trauma, emotional capacity, manifestation, consciousness, and the hidden ways high performers, leaders, and spiritually aware individuals unintentionally bypass real growth.Blaise explains how our past lives in the body, why the nervous system resists change, and how relational healing creates the foundation for true transformation, abundance, intimacy, and higher consciousness.This conversation is for the person who knows there's another level… but can't quite break through.If you've ever wondered:Why you still repeat patterns despite “doing the work”Why self-awareness hasn't fully changed your lifeWhy healing feels exhausting aloneOr why your nervous system may be blocking your next level…This episode will shift your perspective permanently.Listen now and begin the journey from awareness to embodiment.Exclusive Resources for ListenersBlaise is offering special resources and opportunities to go deeper into this work:Weekly Guided Meditations: Join Blaise for live, free guided sessions to begin your embodiment journey.Special Offers: Visit the dedicated landing page for podcast listeners to access unique training and materials: www.blaisekennedy.com/media-podcasts/mmmConnect with Blaise KennedyOfficial Website: www.blaisekennedy.comInstagram: @blaisehereYouTube: Watch Blaise KennedyFacebook: Connect with Blaise"Healing isn't a solo project. It's a relational process of returning to the safety of your own body."Send us Fan MailSupport the show

In this episode of The Vital Goddess Podcast, we explore a radically different approach to feminine awakening…one rooted not in performance, pressure, optimization, or “hacking” your femininity…but in relationship.Dianne shares her personal journey from approaching embodiment through striving and self-improvement…to discovering that the feminine opens through rhythm, nourishment, sensuality, devotion, and deep relationship with the body.Together we explore:• Why you can't hack the feminine• Midlife as a sacred awakening into deeper embodiment• Venus as a path of relationship, beauty, pleasure, and remembrance• The difference between transforming yourself and transforming how you relate to yourself• Why pleasure is nourishment — not indulgence• Relationship → Remembrance → Reclamation• How patriarchal conditioning disconnects women from the wisdom of the body• Why women need “Temple” spaces devoted to rhythm, embodiment, beauty, and support• Dianne's Anti-Hack Formula for reclaiming the feminine• The power of weekly deep dives, daily rituals, and microdosing pleasure• Why the feminine unfolds through spaciousness, rhythm, and repetition• A guided “Toes in the Sand” Venusian meditation to reconnect you to your body, breath,sensuality, and radianceDownload the Toes in the Sand meditation here.

What if the darkest chapter of your life turned out to be the very thing that saved it? Sean Clayton is a serial entrepreneur, marketing expert, and founder of Myosin and Mindful Ventures. He has helped bring nine brands to exit totaling over a billion dollars through direct-to-consumer marketing. Today, he is building AI-first marketing products, investing in over 30 companies, and teaching people how to unlock their highest self through integrated spirituality and radical inner work. In this conversation on The Greatness Machine, Darius and Sean dig into one of the most remarkable origin stories you'll hear on this show. Sean opens up about childhood sexual abuse and the deep wounds it left behind, the people-pleasing and affirmation-seeking patterns it created, and the moment he tried to end his life before everything fell apart. He shares how a federal conviction and nearly three years behind bars paradoxically became the turning point that broke a cycle that could have killed him, and how he rebuilt his life from the ground up, starting at a car dealership in a halfway house with $200 in ads and a hunger to prove the world wrong. Sean also shares the spiritual framework he now teaches through the Miracle Academy, including how to get in communion with your inner child, why everything happening outside of you is simply a feedback loop of your internal world, how to recognize and create from life's patterns, and what it truly means to stop efforting through life and start walking in greatness. In this episode, Darius and Sean will discuss: (00:00) Welcome to The Greatness Machine (02:56) Sean Clayton's Journey in Marketing (05:45) Overcoming Adversity: Sean's Personal Story (08:31) The Impact of Criminal Charges on Life (11:35) Navigating the Prison System (14:06) Lessons Learned and Marketing Success (17:12) The Future of Marketing and AI (21:20) From Harvard to Houston: A Journey of Rebellion (28:05) Navigating Corporate Challenges: The Rise and Fall of Innovations (36:02) Transforming Trauma: Finding Purpose Through Pain (41:41) The Gift of Trauma: Testing Worthiness and Growth (44:10) The Influence of the Inner Child (46:49) Aligning with Your Higher Self (50:01) Miracles of Life and Purpose (01:03:14) Embodiment and Self-Truth Sean Clayton is a visionary entrepreneur and marketing expert with a rare ability to blend data-driven strategy with human-centered storytelling. He is the founder of Myosin, a full-service growth marketing accelerator, and has helped bring nine brands to exit totaling over a billion dollars in value through direct-to-consumer marketing. His work spans venture growth, regenerative health, Web3 user acquisition, and holistic well-being, with notable partnerships alongside industry giants like Lionsgate, Sony, and Fox. Previously serving as Chief Solution Officer at WPP, Sean has built sustainable growth infrastructures for some of the world's leading brands. He is also the creator of the Miracle Academy, a platform dedicated to integrated spirituality, emotional freedom, and personal transformation. A recognized speaker and thought leader, Sean's insights have been featured in TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and Martech Series. His life and career are a testament to what becomes possible when business acumen meets deep inner work. Connect with Sean: Website: https://www.themiracleacademy.com/  Website: https://myosin.io/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Abundance10000  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abundance10000/  Connect with Darius: Website: https://therealdarius.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dariusmirshahzadeh/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imthedarius/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Thegreatnessmachine  Book: The Core Value Equation https://www.amazon.com/Core-Value-Equation-Framework-Limitless/dp/1544506708 Write a review for The Greatness Machine using this link: https://ratethispodcast.com/spreadinggreatness.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Embodiment is the wisdom that comes through from the state you're in." In this episode, Heather and Laura Wieck explore what it really means to live embodied, not as another perfectionist performance, but as a practice of honesty, presence, and listening to the wisdom already alive inside you. Through the lens of parenting a child with autism and the unraveling of old identities, this conversation opens up a powerful dialogue around the ways our bodies hold emotion, where we disconnect from ourselves in the name of 'coping', and how healing often begins with simply noticing what's true without rushing to fix it. This episode is an invitation to soften the performance, reconnect with your internal guidance, and create a way of being that feels alive from the inside out. What to listen for: ☑️ Sitting with uncomfortable emotions and seeing them as the data they are ☑️ How an autism diagnosis taught Laura more about embodied communication "So many women, especially if you're coming from perfectionism or people-pleasing, think, 'If I can get this idea of embodiment right, everything else will just fall into place.' But physiologically speaking, it actually goes the opposite way." ☑️ Our bodies store emotions in our fascia, and how to identify stuck energy ☑️ The power of embodiment is tuning into the wisdom that's already present ☑️ Understanding the three brains in our body that determine alignment "Embodiment starts with noticing the sensations that are present in your body. And the key here is to notice it without the label." ☑️ Two questions you can ask yourself to stop internalizing other people's rules ☑️ Staying connected to your body so that you can hear its wisdom and guidance ☑️ How to get back into alignment while still honoring your children's needs "The more moments you create with yourself to go there, the more you deeply trust your journey of being human and not performing your way through motherhood and life and your career." ☑️ Navigating the difficulty and emotional toll that comes with getting what you want ☑️ What our children teach us and how the body keeps the score to hold healing boundaries **** About Laura Wieck: As the Founder of BodyMind Coaching, Laura has integrated coaching with embodiment practices to help individuals reconnect with their inner wisdom and achieve holistic well-being. Her process, which can be found in The BodyMind Method© book, gives heart-centered, holistic-based professionals the steps to provide deep transformation for their clients and greater impact and income in their business.  With over two decades of experience, Laura is an author, speaker, and coach with a BA in Biology, a Licensed Massage Therapist, an ICF PCC Credentialed Coach, and an Equity-Centered Certified Leader. Through her books, workshops, and training programs, she provides tools to overcome disconnection and cultivate meaningful connections. Connect with Laura: Website: www.laurawieck.com  Facebook: www.facebook.com/laurawieckthebodymindcoach/  Instagram: www.instagram.com/laurawieck/  *** For those of you who are ready to stop feeling drained, overextended, and out of alignment… join me inside the Energetic Time Management Accelerator, a focused experience designed to help high-achieving women uncover what's draining them, clarify what truly matters, and create a simple plan that fits their life. We'll pinpoint your biggest time + energy leaks, identify the top areas to focus on for quick momentum, and map out exactly what to let go of so you can reclaim your energy, your time, and your joy. Ready to make your time work for you without adding more to your plate? Join the Energetic Time Management Accelerator: www.heatherchauvin.com/time Explore the top episodes listeners come back to when they're stuck, burned out, or standing at the edge of a big shift: www.heatherchauvin.com/10 Follow Heather on Instagram: www.instagram.com/heatherchauvin_

Everyone wants intuition. Purpose. Manifestation. Peace. Connection. Answers. But most people are trying to build their lives from a completely ungrounded nervous system. We live in a world that keeps pulling us out of our bodies and into stress, distraction, overwhelm, comparison, fear, overthinking, and information overload. Then we wonder why we feel anxious, exhausted, disconnected, and all over the place. In this episode, we're talking about grounding. Real grounding. Not just “go stand barefoot in the grass” grounding. We talk about: what grounding actually means why so many spiritual people still feel unstable the obsession with upper chakras while ignoring the roots nervous systems, presence, and living in reality instead of constantly escaping it why grounding is the foundation for healing, intuition, clarity, purpose, and real transformation We also talk about community and connection… because roots were never meant to grow alone. Nature already knows this. Trees communicate and support each other through the mycelium beneath the surface. The strongest roots are connected roots. And honestly? I think humanity has forgotten that. This conversation is an invitation to slow down, come back into your body, reconnect to what actually matters, and build a foundation strong enough to hold the life you say you want. Because grounding isn't what limits your spirituality. It's what allows it to become real. New episodes of Cacao Conversations drop weekly. Sip. Connect. Awaken. Hey! Thanks for listening! If you liked this episode, please send us a message. We'd love to hear from you!Your cup is full, your journey awaits. Let's sip, chat, and transform together. Find out more at https://www.bodyandsoulevents.love/ Julietta Wenzel Founder of Body & Soul Ministries, Julietta is a healer, guide, and visionary dedicated to helping others remember their true selves and step into their authentic power. With a background as a physical therapist turned spiritual practitioner, she combines individual healing sessions, sacred ceremonies, and transformative retreats to guide her community toward joy, fulfillment, and alignment. https://bodyandsoulministries.love/ Instagram: @bodyandsoulministries Dorice Ross Elder of Body & Soul Ministries, Dorice is a healer, educator, and guide devoted to supporting others in remembering their divinity and lived experience of Oneness. With a background in physical therapy and university-level teaching, her path has always bridged the body, mind, and spirit. Rooted in both psychology and energy healing, and inspired by diverse spiritual traditions, Dorice creates safe, compassionate spaces where healing unfolds naturally. Her work is guided by love, deep listening, and trust in the wisdom of Source.  Instagram: @rossdoriceShine bright and have a magical day!Julietta & Dorice

When you hear the word erotic, what comes up for you?For most of us it immediately conjures images of sex, the taboo, or something forbidden. But eroticism is so much bigger than that. At its core, the erotic is about aliveness. It is our capacity to feel present, connected, awake to beauty, pleasure, desire, creativity, and the experience of being fully in our bodies.And it is something so many women lose touch with, especially in midlife, when stress, caregiving, hormonal shifts, and the relentless pace of everyday life leave us feeling disconnected from ourselves.In this episode of Pleasure in the Pause, Gabriela welcomes back somatic psychotherapist, sex therapist, and author Carly Mountain for one of the most expansive and thought-provoking conversations this show has ever had. Carly's new book, Untamed Pleasure: Unleash Your True Erotic Nature, is an invitation to examine the invisible cages that have domesticated our pleasure, and to find the keys that live inside us to open them.Carly Mountain is a somatic psychotherapist, sex therapist, sacred space holder and author of Descent & Rising: Women's Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth and Untamed Pleasure: Unleash Your True Erotic Nature. She is passionate about facilitating people to reconnect with their inherent erotic aliveness, power and pleasure. She lives in Sheffield, England with her husband and two daughters.  Highlights from our discussion include:What eros and eroticism actually mean and why they are so much bigger than sexThe cages — cultural and personal — that domesticate women's pleasure and how to start finding the keysWhy midlife may actually be the most erotic chapter of a woman's lifeHow communication is the skeleton key that opens every single cageThe six bodies framework and why giving the emotional body its own wisdom is so important for womenCreative transgression as a pathway back to erotic aliveness and what that can look like in practice When pleasure has gone quiet in your life, Carly says it is not a sign that something is over. It is a compass pointing you toward where you need to go next. The cages are real. And so are the keys. They have been inside you all along. If you're seeking to reclaim your pleasure and vitality, join Gabriella at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.pleasureinthepause.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for this enlightening journey into the heart of female pleasure and empowerment.CONNECT WITH CARLY MOUNTAIN:WebsiteInstagramEp 10: Carly MountainCONNECT WITH GABRIELLA ESPINOSA:InstagramLinkedInWork with Gabriella! Full episodes on YouTube.The information shared on Pleasure in the Pause is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. Always consult your healthcare provider before making any decisions about your health or treatment. The views expressed by guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the host or Pleasure in the Pause.

In this edition of the podcast, Anna speaks with Dr Athene Knufer, neuroscience researcher, somatic 'mindbody' coach, and yoga nidra guide. Athene first studied psychology with neuroscience, and then went on to complete a PhD in Developmental Neuroscience. Athene has suffered from serious MECFS, but is now forging ahead with their own work as a somatic practitioner, guiding others into flourishing. Athene specialises in working with the nervous system, and as this conversation reveals, is fully committed to the collective and structural dimensions of healing. This is a wide-ranging conversation in which Anna and Athene draw together personal experience, science, questions of justice, and the idea of moving beyond mere recovery to something much richer.You can find more of Athene's excellent work here: https://www.instagram.com/feltsensesomaticshttps://www.befriendyourmindbody.com/aboutFeel free to send a text! We can't respond via text unfortunately, but we can sometimes answer a question on a future podcast episode. We always appreciate feedback. Support the showPlease rate and review this show. It really does help to support it. Please share it.To find out about working with Anna, please visit www.hypnocatalyst.com Anna specialises in profound healing work. Her approach addresses all the layers of human well-being: body, mind, emotions and spirit. You can take her uniquely life-changing healing course 'Somatic Liberation: The Deep Intelligence Healing System' by going to her website. The course has been described as: 'This is some kind of magical'. 'It feels as if what came before was mere apprenticeship'.'Highly engaging. Deeply immersive'.'This is a course in a class of its own, offering transformation at a deep level'.'I've never felt more in awe, more empowered and more intrigued'.There is nothing else like it out there for nervous system transformation, brainwork magic, partnering with your own unconscious mind and transforming your relationship with your body, forever.

In diesem Gespräch erkunden wir, wie Selbstbewusstsein durch Stimme und Embodiment gestärkt werden kann. Laura Wällnitz teilt praktische Übungen und Einblicke, um innere Sicherheit und authentisches Auftreten zu fördern. Alex spricht mit Laura über Die Verbindung von Stimme, Embodiment und innerer Sicherheit, praktische Übungen zur Stärkung des Selbstbewusstsein und die Rolle von innerer Arbeit und Glaubenssätzen.

Beauty As Survival: Breath, Embodiment, and The First Instrument A conversation with Whitney LynnIn this episode, I sit down with embodiment coach, creative director, and longtime Breath and The Clay collaborator Whitney Lynn to explore the intersections of breath, beauty, embodiment, and the creative life.Whitney's work centers on “returning the body to the body,” helping people come home to themselves in a culture that so often pulls us toward dissociation. Together, we explore how breath is far more than a biological necessity; it is a sacred creative force, a pathway into nervous system regulation, healing, and flow. Through breathwork, we discuss how the body becomes not an obstacle to spiritual life, but our first instrument of artistry, intuition, and connection.This conversation continues on themes from our series on The Pace of Beauty, expanding the idea that beauty is not a luxury or superficial pursuit, but a necessary force for survival. Whitney offers insight into how beauty regulates us, heals trauma, and awakens us to deeper intimacy with ourselves, others, and God.Together, we also confront the inherited fear of the body present in many faith spaces, tracing how distorted ideas around embodiment have often disconnected spirituality from physical presence. Whitney invites us into a richer vision—one where the body is not something to escape, but a sacred vessel through which creativity, healing, and divine encounter unfold.Send us Fan MailSupport the showJOIN US FOR BOOK CLUB! Every Tuesday at 8 pm EST in June 2026, we will be reading James's book online in our Patreon community! We'd love to have you with us. Visit patreon.com/makersandmystics to RSVP. Sign Up for Our Newsletter! http://eepurl.com/g49Ks1Give a one-time donation https://buy.stripe.com/9AQeYj7431fD12waEOJoin the Makers & Mystics Creative Collective https://www.patreon.com/c/makersandmystics

In this episode, I'm reintroducing myself, my work, and the deeper mission behind Find Your WAI.After almost a decade of healing, therapy, personal development, Human Design, plant medicine, nervous system work, courses, mentors, and doing “all the things,” I hit the point so many of us secretly reach:What the f*ck is wrong with me?Why am I still struggling with money, business, love, visibility, receiving, and actually living the life I know I'm here for?This episode is the story of how Find Your WAI was born from the question “Who am I?” and how my work has evolved from healing and information into something much deeper: embodiment, capacity, Human Design, somatic work, and learning how actually to hold the life you keep calling in.I share the behind-the-scenes of my own death and rebirth season, the investment that logically made no sense but changed everything, the somatic work that cracked open my body, and the creation of Alchemy of You, my 70+ page customized Human Design operating manual for your mind and body.Because you don't get what you want.You get what you can hold.And this new era of Find Your WAI is here to help you answer who you are, increase your capacity, and start living by your design.Find Your WAI Offer Suite: 

Most people who feel disconnected from their desire, their body, or their partner aren't broken. They're just exiled — from themselves. And nobody ever taught them the way back.This episode is about what it actually feels like when you find it. The felt sense of coming home to your own body's sexuality — as a resource, a grounding force, and the place from which real confidence, real connection, and real intimacy become possible.I was skeptical this even existed. Then my teacher demonstrated it on me with nothing but eye contact — and my body responded before my brain could catch up.In this episode:What sexual energy actually is — grounded, demystified, no woo requiredWhy most of us have it locked away (and what that actually feels like from the inside)The breathwork and mind-body practice that opened it up for me — and how I now use it with clientsWhat becomes possible from this place: confidence, connection, intensity, and desire that doesn't require performanceWhy this isn't something you have to earn or learn from scratch — you already have itA note on group settings, charismatic facilitators, and who this actually belongs to (you)If you've ever felt like you were performing intimacy instead of inhabiting it — this one's for you.Get my free guide: Get Out of Your Head: A Starter Guide to Releasing the Pressure, Shame, and "Shoulds" Around Intimacy at https://laurajurgens.com/guideFind out more about my offerings and read the blog: https://laurajurgens.com/Copyright notice: All content in this podcast is copyrighted and copying, scraping, data mining, or using the content to train AI is prohibited. 

In this week's episode, I chat about: I read 3 different food recovery Reddit stories I talk about recovery into a world that is just going to want to push you back into your food behaviors Grieving the time that has passed since your food coping behaviors began The comfort with being in the sympathetic nervous system making it difficult to recover The optimal pace of food recoveryThere are 4 days left to sign up for the Somatic Eating® Program! 

Welcome to the Personal Development Trailblazers Podcast! In today's episode, we're talking about how to stop playing small and fix the life you find yourself hating. Adriana Marvel is a self-leadership coach and transformational speaker based in Edmonton, Canada. She works with capable women who are done outsourcing their power and ready to lead themselves, through discipline, not endless processing. She created the A.R.E. Method (Awareness, Responsibility, Embodiment), a framework built around one uncomfortable truth: you can't change what you won't own. Her work draws on Demartini's perceptual balancing, the universal laws, and her own lived experience including emigration, an eight-year marriage where she lost her voice, and the decision to stop pretending. She runs Power Within, a coaching ecosystem that includes a 10-week group program, a 3-month 1:1 intensive, and a private inner circle. She speaks on self-leadership, money mindset, the real cost of pleasing people, and why women's rage is not an anger problem but an identity one.Connect with Adriana Here: https://www.instagram.com/adrianad.marvelhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/adriana-d-marvel-94baa967?https://www.facebook.com/adriana.vandermerwehttps://adrianamarvel.com/ Grab the freebie here: Register for upcoming event: https://powerfulwe-2uep8atp.manus.space===================================If you enjoyed this episode, remember to hit the like button and subscribe. Then share this episode with your friends.Thanks for watching the Personal Development Trailblazers Podcast. This podcast is part of the Digital Trailblazer family of podcasts. To learn more about Digital Trailblazer and what we do to help entrepreneurs, go to DigitalTrailblazer.com.Are you a coach, consultant, expert, or online course creator? Then we'd love to invite you to our FREE Facebook Group where you can learn the best strategies to land more high-ticket clients and customers. QUICK LINKS: APPLY TO BE FEATURED: https://app.digitaltrailblazer.com/podcast-guest-applicationDIGITAL TRAILBLAZER: https://digitaltrailblazer.com/

✨ TIMESTAMPS ✨  00:00 Overgiving & Under Receiving  02:50 Level 1 — Nervous System  06:26 Level 2 — Emotions 10:06  Level 3 — Mental 12:31  Level 4 — Body Behaviours 15:45  Level 5 — Relationships 17:40  Level 6 — Financial Level 24:21  Level 7 — Energy Level (How It All Connects)  If you are a coach, healer, empath, lightworker or cycle breaker that constantly overgives but struggles to receive love, money, support, abundance or reciprocity… this video is for you.  In this episode we go DEEP into the trauma pattern of overgiving and under receiving — and why this pattern keeps repeating even after years of healing and inner work.  I share: ✨ Why overgiving is a nervous system survival response  ✨ The childhood roots of overgiving & hyper-independence  ✨ Why receiving can feel unsafe in the body  ✨ How this pattern impacts money, relationships, health & business  ✨ The 7 levels you need to heal to shift from survival into overflow  ✨ The frequency shift from overgiving → receiving  This video is especially for sensitive souls, coaches, healers, empaths and cycle breakers who are ready to stop abandoning themselves and finally create a life that feels reciprocal, nourishing and soul aligned. You are worthy of more than enough. You are worthy of receiving with ease. You do not have to overextend yourself to deserve love, abundance or success. ✨ JOIN THE EXPANSION CODE ✨ A 5-day live activation to move from Healing → Having June 1st–5th | 5pm UK £11 activation experience  buy ticket here:   #Overgiving #UnderReceiving #NervousSystemHealing #TraumaHealing #Manifestation #SelfConcept #Lightworker #EmpathHealing #SpiritualAwakening #CycleBreaker #HealingJourney #Embodiment #SoulLedBusiness #MoneyMindset #Receiving #InnerChildHealing #RelationshipHealing #AbundanceMindset #SpiritualGrowth #Healer Free resources & work with me hereJoin my community IT ENDS WITH ME hereJoin my year programme for entrepreneurs and light works for business and money expansion aligned to overflow here Follow me on socials: Instagram: Tik tok: You tube:Substack: Details on how to work with me here

In this episode, Narayani & Kelsey Elizabeth Myers explore the intersection of creativity, embodiment, healing, and spiritual self-expression. Together, they dive into how art, movement, ritual, and embodied awareness can help us reconnect to ourselves, reclaim our voice, and live with greater authenticity and presence. Check out all things EMBODIMENT & CREATIVE HEALING – especially… Using creativity and art as tools for healing and transformation Reclaiming spiritual authority and authentic self-expression Embodiment practices for grounding, safety, and connection The relationship between the body, emotions, and personal identity Integrating spirituality into everyday life without self-abandonment ✨ Connect with Kelsey www.dialogicalpersona.com Awakening is not about escaping your humanity. It is learning how to fully inhabit it. ✨ Awakening Map Course www.Narayanigaia.com/course ✨ Start Meditating Now – Mini Course https://bit.ly/3JEkQVu ✨ Reach out to Narayani www.Narayanigaia.com/contact ✨ Awakening Map Book www.Narayanigaia.com/book/

In this third episode of the Mindful in May series, Heidi Hadley explores one of the most important skills you can develop in today's world:The ability to create calm, even when life feels chaotic.So often, we wait for life to settle before we allow ourselves to feel calm.But the truth is: Life may not always feel predictable  External uncertainty may continue  Challenges will come and go Yet,Your internal state is something you can influence.Your nervous system can be supported.Your body can learn how to return to a place of steadiness.In this episode, Heidi guides you through a simple yet powerful shift:Calm is not something you wait for. It is something you practise.

Send us Fan MailToday's guest is Lori Montry — somatic healing practitioner, author of You're Not the Problem, and creator of The Freedom Formula, a nervous system-based roadmap for sustainable behavior change. Lori helps people who feel stuck in stress, overwhelm, or self-sabotage understand the survival patterns driving their choices so they can build the safety, capacity, and clarity needed to take aligned action in every area of their lives.There is so much resonance in this conversation — between Lori's work and Ayurveda, between the Freedom Formula and what we talk about every week on this podcast. I think you're going to feel it too.What we cover:Why Lori uses the word adaptation instead of problem, habit, or failure — and why that single reframe changes everything about how we relate to ourselves and our patternsThe most common adaptation she sees in women: I'm not enough — and the Mississippi River of coping mechanisms, people-pleasing, overachieving, and self-sabotage that flows from itWhat is actually happening at the nervous system level when you know what to do and still don't do it — and why it has nothing to do with willpowerThe three things the nervous system needs before behavior change is even possible: safety, capacity, and energy — and why trying to change without these in place is like expecting a seed to bloom in a dark closet with no waterWhy nervous system tools sometimes make things worse — and what to do insteadThe difference between managing stress and befriending it — and why safety lives in the body, not in the mindThe resonance between Lori's framework and Ayurveda — being situated in the self, the sattvic state, and why regulated nervous systems see reality more clearlyLori's vision of reaching 50 million people with the message that they are not the problem — and why a more somatic-literate world is one of the most urgent things we need right nowConnect with Laurie:Website: www.LoriMontry.com Youtube: Lori Montry -Somatic Healing Practitioner - YouTubeFacebook:  www.facebook.com/LoriMontryInstagram: Instagram Email List : https://www.lorimontry.com/book-introResources:Free Masterclass:  The Alchemy of the Perimenopause PortalAyurvedic Dosha Quick Reference GuideAbhyanga Self Massage GuideWeekend Nervous System ResetNourished For Resilience Workbook Find me at www.nourishednervoussystem.comand @nourishednervoussytem on Instagram

What if hormone imbalances aren't just physical?In this episode, we sit down with women's health and hormone coach Sam “The Hormone Goddess” to explore the deeper emotional, nervous system, and societal roots behind so many women's health struggles.We dive into the connection between trauma, stress, suppressed anger, feminine energy, and hormone health, and why so many women feel disconnected from their bodies in modern culture.From painful periods and burnout to nervous system dysregulation and people-pleasing, this conversation unpacks the hidden layers influencing women's health and healing.We also discuss female rage, womb work, joy, pleasure, circadian rhythm, somatic healing, and what it actually means to reconnect with yourself as a woman.If you've ever struggled with PMS, anxiety, exhaustion, hormone imbalances, fertility challenges, or feeling disconnected from your body, this episode is for you.00:00 Intro + Trailer01:36 Meet Samantha Hadadi01:56 Sam's Hormone Healing Journey04:46 Trauma, Stress & Hormone Imbalances05:51 Why Women Aren't Taught About Their Bodies07:36 Shame Around Periods & Womanhood08:46 Why Society Fears Women's Power13:41 Female Anger & Hormonal Health17:36 Suppressed Anger, Liver Health & Hormones20:56 Somatic Practices for Releasing Anger23:56 Trauma Release & Emotional Processing25:51 The Healing Power of Movement & Community26:46 Nervous System & Hormone Connection29:56 Trauma, Stress & Women's Health32:16 Root Causes of Hormonal Imbalances36:06 What Is Womb Work?40:16 The Missing Piece in Hormone Healing40:46 Joy, Pleasure & Feminine Energy42:36 Productivity Culture & Women's Health47:36 Healing Through Dance & Movement50:06 Hormones as Messengers51:36 Reconnecting to Your Authentic Self52:41 Final Message for Women54:26 Supporting the Next Generation of Girls57:36 Where to Find SamResources From This Episode:Dr. Leah's Womanhood Wellness MembershipFollow Samantha on InstagramHealthy As A Mother Podcast | YouTubeHealthy As A Mother Podcast | InstagramHealthy As A Mother Podcast | TikTokHealthy As A Mother Podcast | Merch StoreFind more from Dr. Leah:Dr. Leah Gordon | InstagramDr. Leah Gordon | WebsiteWomanhood Wellness | WebsiteFind more from Dr. Morgan:Dr. Morgan MacDermott | InstagramDr. Morgan MacDermott | WebsiteUse code HEALTHYMOTHER and save 10% at EarthleyUse code HEALTHYMOTHER and save 15% at RedmondFor 20% off your first order at Needed, use code HEALTHYMOTHERSave $260 at Lumebox, use code HEALTHYASAMOTHERUse code HAAM and save 10% at Fond

Some of the patterns running your life are not personality traits. They're old survival strategies wearing your clothes.   That reaction you keep having? That relationship cycle you keep repeating? That habit you swear you're done with until life presses the right bruise? Yeah. That might be your shadow talking. In this episode of Triggered AF Podcast, Alechia and Dani sit down with Dr. Sanaa Jaman for a powerful conversation about shadow work, breaking patterns, emotional healing, trauma, intuition, and reconnecting with the body. This conversation pulls shadow work out of the spooky corner of the internet and brings it back to where it belongs: the nervous system, the emotions we buried, and the parts of ourselves we learned to silence in order to survive. Because shadow work is not about becoming darker, it's about being honest. Dr. Sanaa breaks down how anger, grief, shame, guilt, jealousy, fear, and even manipulation can become disowned parts of us when we numb, avoid, or tuck them away for too long. But buried does not mean gone, those emotions still speak. They show up in our reactions, habits, relationships, and the quiet ways we disconnect from ourselves.   Alechia, Dani, and Dr. Sanaa also explore the difference between trauma and painful life experiences, why community can transform pain into initiation, and how intuition is not something you think your way into. It is something your body feels before your mind can explain it.   ✨ SPONSORED BY: Just Thrive Now Dinner Series | http://justthrivenow.com   Triggered Truths We Unpack in This Episode: Shadow work isn't bad or scary. It's the process of reconnecting with the parts of yourself you've suppressed, rejected, or avoided. Anger, grief, shame, guilt, jealousy & fear don't disappear when ignored. They show up in your habits, reactions, and relationships. Dissociation from the body disconnects us from intuition, emotional awareness, and our true needs. Emotions are tools filled with information designed to prepare us for life's inevitable storms. If you don't feel it, you can't heal it. Avoidance delays healing. It does not prevent pain. Trauma is not simply a bad experience. It is what happens when painful experiences are not witnessed, held, or supported. Community can transform pain into initiation, growth, and deeper self-understanding. Intuition is felt, not thought. Your body often knows before your mind can explain. Embodiment means learning to trust the signals your body has been sending all along.

As healers, we understand clinical work. We know how to help what hurts in our clients. But very few of us are taught how to build a business at all - much less one that genuinely fits who we are.Today, I'm joined by somatic coach & educator Chelsea Horton for a rich conversation about creativity, embodiment, and building a private practice around an unconventional modality — dance and movement therapy — without losing what makes it unique in the first place.Chelsea is the founder of Healing Embodied, where she trains therapists, coaches, and wellness professionals to integrate somatic work, nervous system healing, creativity, and emotional processing into the way they serve clients. But this conversation goes far beyond somatic work.What struck me most about her story is this: while her work is deeply intuitive and body-centered, she is also incredibly thoughtful and strategic in the way she has built her business. (Though I'm not sure she even realized that until this convo.)She didn't just “follow her passion.” Nope.She paid attention to outcomes, listened closely to client feedback, developed a unique methodology, refined her messaging, created a progression of offers, and intentionally positioned herself as what she calls a “category of one.”Oh my beating heart.

There are moments in human history when something ancient begins to rise again. Not because the world is ending, but because it is ready to return to balance. In this episode, we explore the re-emergence of the Divine Feminine frequency and its profound role in healing both the individual and the collective.This is not about gender. It is about energy. The feminine vibration lives within all of us as intuition, receptivity, compassion, and embodied wisdom. As the world moves through rapid change, burnout, and disconnection, this energy offers something radically different: regulation rather than force, presence rather than performance, and love as a stabilizing, intelligent power.We'll explore how Divine Mother energy is showing up right now—in your body, your emotions, and your awareness—and why so many are feeling called to slow down, reconnect, and live more authentically. You'll also be guided through simple, grounded ways to reconnect with this frequency, along with insights into the spiritual beings and archetypes that hold this vibration of love, healing, and wisdom.This episode is an invitation—not to become something new, but to remember what has always been within you.Topics include: • What the Divine Feminine really is (beyond gender) • Why is this energy rising now • The link between love and nervous system regulation • Signs you are reconnecting to feminine wisdom • How to embody Divine Mother energy in everyday life • Archangels, deities, and guides aligned with this frequencyYou are not here to force your way forward. You are here to return to balance.Listen now and reconnect to the frequency of love that restores, regulates, and remembers who you truly are.#DivineFeminine, #DivineMother, #FeminineEnergy, #SpiritualAwakening, #ConsciousnessShift, #EnergyHealing, #NervousSystemHealing, #EmotionalHealing, #IntuitiveLiving, #Embodiment, #SacredBalance, #SpiritualGrowth, #AwakenYourSoul, #InnerWisdom, #HealingJourney, #CollectiveAwakening, #HeartCentered, #SoulAlignment, #SpiritualPodcast, #MessagesFromTheUniverse, #LaurieWondra, #HighVibrations, #FrequencyShift, #SacredEnergy, #ReturnToLove Send us Fan MailSupport the showThanks for listening -  For questions or comments email Laurie at Laurie@yourlifecore.comInstagram @yourlifecore  or Twitter @yourlifecore Facebook https://www.facebook.com/YourLifecoreWebsite www.yourlifecore.com

What happens when you relate to parts of autism, ADHD, giftedness, sensory sensitivity, masking, and trauma, but never fully fit into one diagnosis or label? In this timely conversation, Dr. Marianne Miller sits down with neuro-affirming clinical psychologist Dr. Emma Offord to explore “neurohybridity,” a term Emma developed to describe the fluid, overlapping, and mosaic-like nature of neurodivergent identity. Together, they unpack why so many late-diagnosed autistic and ADHD adults, especially women and marginalized people, feel unseen by rigid diagnostic systems and traditional mental health models. This episode explores late-diagnosed autism, ADHD in adults, masking, giftedness, medically unexplained symptoms, trauma, neurodivergence in midlife, and the limitations of the DSM and medicalized language. Dr. Emma Offord shares how safety, environment, nervous system regulation, identity, and lived experience can shape how neurodivergent traits appear and why many people feel they do not fully belong within one category. If you have ever questioned whether you are “autistic enough,” “ADHD enough,” too emotional to be autistic, or too complicated for a single diagnosis, this conversation may help you feel seen in a completely different way. What Is Neurohybridity? Dr. Emma Offord describes neurohybridity as an invitation to move beyond rigid diagnostic boxes and recognize the dynamic nature of neurodivergent experience. Rather than viewing people through fixed categories, neurohybridity acknowledges that many individuals identify with multiple neurotypes, sensory experiences, cognitive styles, and ways of moving through the world. Marianne and Emma discuss how neurodivergent traits can shift depending on context, stress, environment, nervous system safety, masking, trauma, and support systems. They also explore how someone can feel sensory-seeking in one moment and sensory-avoidant in another, emotionally expressive yet highly masked, or deeply connected to multiple neurodivergent identities at once. The conversation also examines how many people become trapped between diagnostic categories and how current systems often fail individuals whose experiences do not fit neatly into one lane. Late-Diagnosed Autism, ADHD, & Misdiagnosis Many neurodivergent adults grow up feeling different without having language for their experiences. Dr. Emma Offord shares how traveling extensively as a child, experiencing grief and loss, and later discovering neurodivergence shaped her understanding of identity and belonging. Marianne and Emma discuss how outdated autism and ADHD stereotypes continue to affect diagnosis, especially for women, emotionally expressive people, and those who have spent years masking. They also explore how traditional diagnostic models can overlook the complexity of lived experience, particularly for people who move between different neurodivergent presentations over time. This episode speaks directly to people who have felt misdiagnosed, unseen, invalidated, or confused by rigid definitions of neurodivergence. The Limits of the Medical Model Marianne and Emma also explore the emotional and systemic consequences of reducing people to diagnostic checklists and symptom categories. They discuss how diagnosis can simultaneously provide access to protection, accommodations, and community while also limiting how people understand themselves. The conversation touches on medical trauma, medically unexplained symptoms, intersectionality, research bias, and the ways historically marginalized groups are often excluded from dominant mental health narratives. Together, they explore the need for more collaborative, flexible, neurodivergent-affirming systems of care that allow people to exist beyond narrow definitions. About Dr. Emma Offord Dr. Emma Offord is a neuro-affirming clinical psychologist, coach, speaker, and founder of Divergent Life. Her work focuses on neurodivergence, masking, trauma-informed care, relational safety, identity, and the lived experience of late-discovered neurodivergence. Emma developed the concept of neurohybridity to describe the fluid, dynamic, and interconnected nature of neurodivergent identity. She is currently writing a book exploring these ideas and amplifying the voices of people who have felt unseen or misunderstood within traditional diagnostic systems. Connect With Dr. Emma Offord You can connect with Dr. Emma Offord on Instagram at @divergentlives, through the Divergent Life website, and through This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast. Related Episodes With Dr. Emma Offord and on Neurodivergent Needs and Experiences Unmasking, Embodiment, & Trust: A Neurodivergent Approach to Eating Disorder Recovery With Dr. Emma Offord @divergentlives on Apple & Spotify. Why Eating Still Breaks Down for Neurodivergent People With Long-Term Eating Disorders on Apple & Spotify. Unmasking in Eating Disorder Recovery: What Neurodivergent People Need to Know About Safety & Healing via Apple & Spotify. Autism & Anorexia: When Masking Looks Like Restriction, & Recovery Feels Unsafe via Apple & Spotify. Recovering Again: Navigating Eating Disorders After a Late Neurodivergent Diagnosis (Part 1) With Stacie Fanelli, LCSW @edadhd_therapist via Apple & Spotify. Work With Dr. Marianne Dr. Marianne Miller is an eating disorder therapist and LMFT specializing in ARFID, binge eating disorder, autism, ADHD, neurodivergence, and eating disorder recovery. She offers therapy services for clients in California, Washington, D.C., and globally through coaching support. For therapy, coaching, podcast episodes, courses, and other resources, visit Dr. Marianne's website and follow along on Instagram @drmariannemiller.

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The Great Awakening Has Begun: Pleiadian Messages for Humanity's Consciousness Shift with Sar Ra. Jill welcomes back SAR Ra — Oracle, awakening catalyst, and channel for the Ascended Masters and Pleiadian Council — for a profound conversation on coherence, frequency, heart intelligence, and humanity's spiritual evolution. This transformative episode culminates in a stunning live channeling from the Pleiadian Council of Nine delivering healing messages about self-love, energetic transformation, light body activation, and humanity's shift into higher consciousness. Jill and Sar Ra explore the awakening body, ascension symptoms, astrology, human design, gene keys, trauma healing, divine feminine wisdom, and how to move from mental fear into heart-centered consciousness. The Language of the Awakened Soul with SAR Ra. SAR Ra shares deep teachings on: Heart-brain coherence and energetic alignment The body as the sacred instrument of awakening Divine feminine wisdom and Mother Mary's teachings Human Design, Gene Keys, and astrology as soul maps Trauma healing and nervous system transformation Light body activation and frequency transmission Moving from mental programming into heart consciousness Living authentically in alignment with soul purpose Humanity's collective shift into higher dimensional awareness Throughout the episode, Jill and SAR Ra discuss how the human nervous system is evolving beyond fear-based conditioning and how the heart field acts as humanity's true intelligence center. SAR Ra explains coherence as a regenerative field of self-acceptance, balance, compassion, and unity consciousness — a state where the mind and heart harmonize to create authentic manifestation and spiritual embodiment. Across platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and major podcast outlets such as Apple and Spotify, the buzz is on Ascended Masters, Channeling and awakening the Light Body. The Great Awakening Has Begun: Pleiadian Messages for Humanity's Consciousness Shift with Sar Ra. Jill welcomes back SAR Ra — Oracle, awakening catalyst, and channel for the Ascended Masters and Pleiadian Council — for a profound conversation on coherence, frequency, heart intelligence, and humanity's spiritual evolution. This transformative episode culminates in a stunning live channeling from the Pleiadian Council of Nine delivering healing messages about self-love, energetic transformation, light body activation, and humanity's shift into higher consciousness. A major highlight of this episode is SAR Ra's deeply moving channeling from the Pleiadian Council of Nine, who deliver powerful wisdom about: Ascension symptoms and physical transformation Healing the collective body of humanity The importance of self-love and emotional awareness Frequency healing and vibrational medicine Connecting with higher dimensional beings and galactic consciousness Nature, joy, and embodiment as pathways to coherence The Pleiadian transmission offers listeners healing frequencies, guidance for navigating spiritual awakening, and reassurance during humanity's current planetary transformation. 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Step into a fiery, embodied, and deeply human conversation with Danielle Gertner, speaker, MC, and embodiment-based leadership coach, on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. Known for her raw truth, infectious presence, and unapologetic devotion to ownering one's sh*t, Danielle helps high-performing leaders stop outsourcing their power and start leading their lives from the body, not just the mind. Danielle shares her journey of stepping off the "conveyor belt" of doing what was expected, blowing up a life that looked good on paper, and choosing radical self-responsibility instead of blame. What began as fitness coaching evolved into deep self-mastery work when she realized that confidence built on appearance alone never touches the soul. We explore how true embodiment became the foundation of her leadership, relationships, and work. Danielle speaks vulnerably about anger, shame, inherited family patterns, and learning to trust her body's signals, especially in love. She shares how listening to a felt pull or push, even when logic disagreed, taught her a new level of self-trust and integrity. The conversation moves into love, boundaries, and conscious uncoupling. Danielle reflects on ending a long-term partnership with honesty and reverence, allowing love to evolve rather than die, and redefining boundaries as the distance where she can love herself and another unconditionally. Her devotion to truth over performance is palpable. We also talk about: -Radical self-ownership as the gateway to freedom -Embodiment as the root of real confidence -Listening to the body over logic or conditioning -Mirror work, self-forgiveness, and self-trust rituals -Grief, loss, and allowing joy to coexist with pain -Outrageous joy and rapturous glory as lived practices -Leading crowds through presence rather than hype -Feminine leadership, slowing down, and letting yourself be supported The episode comes full circle weaving in the painful yet beautiful lessons of losing her brother. Danielle gifts us with a powerful conversation and reminder that confidence is not something you perform. It is something you inhabit. Danielle's story invites us to slow down, feel what is alive, trust the body's wisdom, and choose a life led from truth, courage, and devotion to self. You can connect with Danielle, explore her work, and find Warrior Women ATX at daniellegertner.com, or follow her on Instagram for movement, embodiment, and truth-telling in real time.   Go deeper with me inside The Intimate World. patreon.com/AllanaPratt #TheIntimateWorld About Danielle:   Danielle Gertner is a speaker, emcee, and embodiment-based leadership coach known for delivering raw truth that moves people from motivation into embodied confidence and real-world ownership. She helps high-performing leaders stop outsourcing their power and start leading their lives, businesses, and communities with self-trust, clarity, and emotional resilience. Danielle's core philosophy is simple and uncompromising: Ownership is the new leadership, and your life was not meant to be rented, it was meant to be owned. Her work lives at the intersection of mindset, embodiment, and leadership, blending tools from NLP, somatic practices, habit transformation, and nervous system regulation to create transformation that lasts beyond inspiration. Danielle doesn't teach people how to perform confidence, she teaches them how to build it from the inside out. Danielle is the founder of Warrior Women ATX, Austin's most empowering community for women, and the creator of multiple transformational programs including the Own Your Shit Self Mastery Program and the Radical Confidence Blueprint. She is also THE Queen of Hype and emcee for HYROX North America, where she has energized and inspired hundreds of thousands of athletes across the country. Whether she's on stage, behind a mic, or leading a room through movement and conversation, Danielle creates spaces where people feel safe to tell the truth, brave enough to choose themselves, and supported enough to take radical responsibility for the lives they are building.   Website: https://daniellegertner.com Instagram URL https://www.instagram.com/daniellegertner/ Book Your Intimacy Breakthrough Experience with Allana https://allanapratt.com/connect Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

In this episode, I sit down with clinical psychologist Andrew Hartz to explore emotional dysregulation, attention, and embodiment in the context of modern life and culture. We look at why so many people feel overwhelmed, reactive, or disconnected from themselves in increasingly fast and fragmented environments. Andrew suggests that what often appears as ideological or cultural conflict can be better understood through the lens of emotional regulation—specifically the difficulty of tolerating complexity, ambiguity, and discomfort. From an embodiment perspective, we explore how these patterns are not just cognitive, but deeply physiological and rooted in the nervous system. We also discuss "splitting" as a psychological pattern of black-and-white thinking, and how it shapes perception, identity, and interpersonal conflict. Alongside this, we explore the role of over-labeling, self-diagnosis, and the limitations of purely conceptual ways of understanding human experience. Finally, we examine how modern technology, attention fragmentation, and reduced embodied presence may be impacting regulation, connection, and wellbeing, and what it might take to rebuild a more grounded, integrated way of being in a complex world.     ---------------------------------------------- Become a certified embodiment coach. Coach beyond mere words and support clients to transform their lives: https://embodimentunlimited.com/cec/ ----------------------------------------------- Check out our YouTube channel for more coaching tips and our Podcast channel for full episode videos

The deepest wound in complex trauma is not emotional intensity. It is the learned loss of connection to yourself. In this episode, Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristof open the next chapter of the CPT series by starting where the roots go deepest: self-abandonment. This is the pattern they chose to name first—and intentionally so—because when the nervous system learns that staying connected to the self is unsafe, nearly every other complex trauma response grows from that adaptation. Self-abandonment is not a personality flaw or a lack of self-awareness. It is a body-based survival strategy. From a neurosomatic perspective, it is a state-dependent loss of interoceptive access—a patterned inhibition of internal signals that the nervous system learned in order to stay attached, stay safe, and maintain stability in the relational environment. And like every other output explored in this series, it made complete sense at the time it formed. The conversation moves through the neuroscience of dissociation and how it is inseparable from self-abandonment, the brain regions involved, and what their altered activity actually looks like in everyday life. It explores the fawn response—including its lesser-discussed dimension of sexual fawning—and the specific pathways through which emotional neglect and parentification set the stage for chronic self-erasure. Jennifer and Elisabeth also trace how masking—whether in the context of neurodivergence, complex trauma, or systemic oppression—is another expression of the same root pattern: authenticity does not feel safe, so the self gets hidden. But this episode does not stop at the wound. Both hosts share what the growth edge of this pattern has actually looked like for them—what building interoceptive capacity from the ground up felt like in practice—and how self-attunement, the skill of staying present with internal experience without becoming overwhelmed by it, gradually became accessible rather than threatening. This is not a quick-fix episode. It is an honest, grounded map of one of the most pervasive and least visible patterns in complex trauma—and a clear-eyed account of what actually changes it.   In This Episode, You Will Learn: Why self abandonment is a survival adaptation rooted in the nervous system, not a character flaw How interoceptive access becomes inhibited under chronic relational threat, and what that feels like day to day The neuroscience of dissociation: which brain regions are involved and how their altered activity drives functional disconnection Why emotional neglect, even without overt harm, sets the stage for chronic self erasure How parentification creates a nervous system template of self abandonment that persists long into adulthood What fawn response is, how it operates neurologically, and why sexual fawning is a real and undernamed expression of it How masking across contexts including neurodivergence, complex trauma, and racial and systemic oppression overlaps with and compounds self abandonment What self attunement actually is as a nervous system skill and how it is different from insight or emotional processing alone Why healing is capacity-based rather than cathartic, and what that means for pacing How both hosts have rebuilt interoceptive access over time and what that process has opened up for them Chapters 0:00 - The Deepest Wound in Complex Trauma Is Not Emotional Intensity 0:38 - Welcome: Who This Episode Is For 1:27 - Introducing the CPT Series and Why We Start With Self Abandonment 2:53 - Defining Self Abandonment as a Nervous System Output 4:21 - Pete Walker, Fawn Responses, and How the Child Learns to Attune Outward 4:47 - The Neuro Somatic View: Interoceptive Access Under Chronic Threat 6:08 - Embodiment as the Opposite of Self Abandonment 6:35 - Collective and Intergenerational Dimensions of Self Abandonment 7:55 - What Self Abandonment Looks Like in Real Life: A Case Study 9:21 - Dissociation: What It Actually Is and Why It Is Inseparable From Self Abandonment 10:42 - Brain Science: The Insula, Hippocampus, Amygdala, and Thalamus 14:35 - The Fawn Response and Sexual Fawning 18:17 - Self Attunement: The Opposite of Self Abandonment 21:06 - Rebuilding Interoception: Starting Small 27:19 - Emotional Neglect as the Root of Self Abandonment 29:13 - Parentification and the Template of Self Erasure 31:21 - Masking: Neurodivergence, Systemic Oppression, and Complex Trauma 36:19 - What Growth Has Actually Looked Like for Jennifer and Elisabeth 40:20 - Stress Bucket Dysmorphia and Learning Your Real Capacity Resources and Links NSI Foundations Bundle for coaches and practitioners: neurosomaticintelligence.com/foundations Two week Rewire Trial of guided neuro somatic training: rewiretrial.com Learn more about Jennifer's work at her YouTube channel: Sacred Synapse https://www.youtube.com/@sacredsynapse-23   Trauma Rewired podcast  is intended to educate and inform but does not constitute medical, psychological or other professional advice or services. 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Alignment rarely arrives as a feeling of breakthrough. This episode names what reinforcement actually looks like — the quiet evidence of integration that shows up as absence, not presence, in the moments that used to pull you under.There's a form of evidence most high-capacity humans walk right past — not because it isn't there, but because it arrives as absence rather than presence.This episode is the Reinforcement stage of Week 15: Integration Across Life. Thursday's job has always been to name what practicing alignment looks like in ordinary life. Here in Week 15, that practice is quieter than it's ever been: the reaction that didn't come, the story that didn't build, the pull that simply wasn't as strong.What we name in this episode:Why the most honest evidence of alignment can't be tracked or loggedThe specific moment high-capacity humans mistake groundedness for going softWhy the absence of a reaction is more significant than the presence of a good oneWhat it means for a leader when the default has changed in the roomWhy reinforcement at this stage requires noticing — not performanceThis isn't a conversation about trying harder or holding it together better. When identity shifts at the root level, the nervous system updates its default. The pull weakens. The story stops building. The bracing quiets. Not because of effort in the moment — because of work that already happened.Today's Micro Recalibration: Where did something move through recently that used to settle in? Notice it. Don't grade it. Just acknowledge it as evidence.Explore Identity-Level Recalibration→ Schedule a conversation with Julie to see if The Recalibration is a fit for you→ Learn about The Recalibration Cohort→ Join the next Friday Recalibration Live experience → Take your listening deeper! Subscribe to The Weekly Recalibration Companion to receive reflections and extensions to each week's podcast episodes.→ Follow Julie Holly on LinkedIn for more recalibration insights→ Download the Misalignment Audit→ Subscribe to the weekly newsletter→ Books to read  (Tidy categories on Amazon- I've read/listened to each recommended title.)→  One link to all things...

High capacity humans often wait to feel more different before they trust the change is real. This episode names what identity-led living actually looks like — and why the most honest evidence arrives in the moments you didn't plan.There's a moment in every significant season of growth when the evidence stops arriving in the places you've been watching — and starts showing up in the ones you weren't.This episode is the Reclamation stage of Week 15: Integration Across Life. Not a new truth to learn — a recognition of what's already true. What we're reclaiming today is the evidence that identity-led living isn't something we're building toward. It's something already happening in the ordinary moments of our actual relationships.What we name in this episode:Why the most honest evidence of integration arrives in unplanned relational momentsThe specific skepticism high-capacity humans bring to evidence of real changeWhy trying to replicate the unplanned response turns it from evidence into strategyWhat it means to receive the evidence without immediately qualifying itWhy reclaimed identity doesn't require maintenance — only returnThis isn't a conversation about trying harder or showing up better. Identity-Level Recalibration works at the root — when the identity shifts, the unplanned responses shift with it. Not because of effort in the moment, but because of work that went deep enough to change the default.Today's Micro Recalibration: Think of one relationship that has historically carried weight. Where did you show up differently recently — without planning to? Notice it. Receive it as evidence. Don't immediately qualify it.Explore Identity-Level Recalibration→ Schedule a conversation with Julie to see if The Recalibration is a fit for you→ Learn about The Recalibration Cohort→ Join the next Friday Recalibration Live experience → Take your listening deeper! Subscribe to The Weekly Recalibration Companion to receive reflections and extensions to each week's podcast episodes.→ Follow Julie Holly on LinkedIn for more recalibration insights→ Download the Misalignment Audit→ Subscribe to the weekly newsletter→ Books to read  (Tidy categories on Amazon- I've read/listened to each recommended title.)→  One link to all things...

In this expansive and heart-opening conversation, we sit down with Tessa Frommer, Human Design coach and Founder of Social Alchemy Institute, to explore what it truly means to live in alignment with your design. Tessa shares her deeply embodied journey—from studying Human Design intellectually to fully integrating it through lived, somatic experience—and how that transformation reshaped her life, relationships, and business. We dive into the nuances of emotional authority, sacral response, the transition into the new paradigm, and the importance of community, authenticity, and self-trust. This episode is a powerful reminder that Human Design is not just a system to learn, but an experiment to live—and that our greatest gift is giving others permission to be fully themselves. Key Takeaways: How true alignment comes from living and embodying your design—not just studying it. Why emotional authority requires patience, as clarity unfolds over time—and why honoring your emotional wave is key. How Human Design can be used as a tool for empowerment, not a rigid rulebook—and why it's essential to trust your inner authority above all else. How being in alignment gives others permission to do the same: when you fully embody your authentic self, you naturally create space for others to be themselves. Why thriving in the future means embracing your uniqueness while intentionally cultivating real, in-person community. Connect with Tessa Frommer: Social Alchemy Institute Instagram: @socialalchemyinstitute Life Force Radio Podcast DayLuna: FREE Transits & The Harmonic Gate Mini-Course FREE Human Design Readings 101 Masterclass Book a Reading With Us Here! Human Design Chart Software: BodygraphChart.com Use code: DAYLUNA for 50% off your first 12 months! Get our book: Your Human Design! Online Human Design Reader Training Digital Products & Video Courses daylunalife.com Instagram: @‌d.a.y.l.u.n.a  

Identity shifts can leave high achievers in unfamiliar territory — not because something is wrong, but because the version of you who was still learning is ready to step aside. This episode names that quiet, bittersweet release.There's a specific feeling that comes at the end of a season you worked hard to walk through. It's not just relief. It's something more complicated — a bittersweetness toward the version of you who didn't know, at the beginning, whether you'd make it.This episode is the Release stage of Week 15: Integration Across Life. Not releasing a burden or a wound. Releasing the identity of the person who was still figuring it out — so the person who has figured it out can step forward.What we name in this episode:Why high achievers become attached to the identity of the learnerThe quiet disorientation of ordinary wholeness after a hard-earned seasonWhy feeling less charged doesn't mean you've lost what you gainedThe difference between honoring the season and staying inside itWhy releasing the former version isn't loss — it's the most honest thing growth asks of usThis isn't a conversation about letting go of the past. It's a conversation about recognizing that the becoming has resolved into being — and that ordinary fluency is the evidence of real integration, not the absence of it.Today's Micro Recalibration: Bring to mind the version of yourself who walked this season. Just acknowledge them: you worked hard, you came back every time, you can rest now.New here? I'm Julie Holly. I help high-capacity humans stop living from pressure and performance and start living from alignment. Follow for daily recalibration.Explore Identity-Level Recalibration→ Schedule a conversation with Julie to see if The Recalibration is a fit for you→ Learn about The Recalibration Cohort→ Join the next Friday Recalibration Live experience → Take your listening deeper! Subscribe to The Weekly Recalibration Companion to receive reflections and extensions to each week's podcast episodes.→ Follow Julie Holly on LinkedIn for more recalibration insights→ Download the Misalignment Audit→ Subscribe to the weekly newsletter→ Books to read  (Tidy categories on Amazon- I've read/listened to each recommended title.)→  One link to all things...

Integration doesn't announce itself — but if you've been doing this work, you may have already started noticing it. This episode names the quiet alignment shift high achievers often miss.Something shifted in you this season. You may not have announced it. The people around you may not have named it. But if you've been walking this pathway — through grief, through trust, through fourteen weeks of ordinary recalibration — it's already in you.This episode is the Recognition stage of Week 15: Integration Across Life. Not a new tension to work through — a widening of the lens. An invitation to look across your relationships, your decisions, your daily responses, and notice what's already different.What we name in this episode:The decision that arrived without the usual internal debateThe boundary that came without the guilt spiral that used to followThe conversation that used to cost you a full day of recovery — that somehow didn'tThe moment your body registered something was off before your mind had words for itWhy the change doesn't need a witness to be realWhy the absence of straining is not the absence of growthHigh achievers are prone to missing this specific thing: when integration is real, it stops feeling like work. It starts feeling like you. The ordinary Tuesday that follows isn't the absence of progress. It's the evidence of it.This isn't another mindset shift or performance strategy. Identity-Level Recalibration works at the root — on the nervous system, the relational patterns, the internal identity that drives every behavior. When the identity shifts, everything above it shifts with it.Today's Micro Recalibration: Pause once today and ask — where did I respond differently than I would have a year ago? Don't reach for big moments. The ordinary ones carry the real evidence.New here? I'm Julie Holly. I help high-capacity humans stop living from pressure and performance and start living from alignment. Follow for daily recalibration.Explore Identity-Level Recalibration→ Schedule a conversation with Julie to see if The Recalibration is a fit for you→ Learn about The Recalibration Cohort→ Join the next Friday Recalibration Live experience → Take your listening deeper! Subscribe to The Weekly Recalibration Companion to receive reflections and extensions to each week's podcast episodes.→ Follow Julie Holly on LinkedIn for more recalibration insights→ Download the Misalignment Audit→ Subscribe to the weekly newsletter→ Books to read  (Tidy categories on Amazon- I've read/listened to each recommended title.)→  One link to all things...