Podcasts about Somatic

Today's story explores how we love, how we grieve, and how we eventually find some sort of equilibrium thereafter. This episode is a heartbreaking, yet beautiful story by Colorado-based somatic therapist Darci Meyers about her journey through multiple losses, grief, and ongoing recovery.Support the show! https://www.buzzsprout.com/396871/supportDarci Meyershttp://www.darcimeyers.com/Bringing Therapy into Med Management-- An intensive workshop for psych NPs and PAs, June 3-6 2026 in Ft Collinshttps://www.craigheacockmd.com/bringing-therapy-into-med-management/"I Love You, I Hate You, Are You My Mom?"  An intensive experiential workshop exploring transference and countertransference with Dr. H and Dr. Hillary McBride, June 18-20 2026 in Vancouver/Chilliwack BChttps://www.craigheacockmd.com/i-love-you-i-hate-you-are-you-my-mom/Support the show

Many leaders today are experiencing "Quiet Cracking," a state of Burnout 2.0 where we are expected to remain high-functioning while navigating empathy fatigue and physical exhaustion. The expectation is to "power through," but this move erodes our creative vision and ability to connect with others. If you feel this internal crumbling, know that you aren't failing; you are simply reacting to a culture where logic alone cannot solve our most polarizing global challenges. To help you find your way back, I am sharing a 7-minute somatic centering practice. Why We Center Centering is a practice that helps us stay present, connected, and open - even in the face of suffering. By returning to this physical place in our bodies, we: Counteract "Quiet Cracking". Move from automatically "powering through" to finding a grounding presence to be with what is emerging. Prioritize Human Sustainability. Align your body's biology with your actual capacity for leadership to find a pace that can sustain your available energy rather than deplete it. Reclaim the Present. Stop "leapfrogging" over your life by reconnecting with your tissues to land in the present moment, all that there is. Cultivate Resilience. Create a body-based home to return to when you are stirred or activated, so you respond rather than react to this moment. Practice Highlights In this guided session, you will: Expand Your Awareness. Soften your gaze to move out of the "tunnel vision" of crisis and toward imagining new possibilities. Connect to Purpose. Focus on your breath and your body as you answer: What matters most to me right now? to name the future you desire. Embody Dignity. Feel the length of your body as a reminder that your worth is not tied to your productivity, but simply to the fact that you exist as you are. Show Notes & Resources

Purim is over. Your nervous system might not know that yet. The body doesn't reset the moment the seuda ends. It takes time to unwind from noise, from running, from giving, from holding everything together — or from not quite managing to. The activation lingers. The tension stays tucked into places you might not even notice until you slow down enough to feel them. This week's practice is a somatic tracking exercise — moving through the body with curiosity, resting wherever your attention is drawn, noticing what each part is still holding, and letting it know you're there. There's a line from the practice I want to offer you before you listen: "You might feel like you're not doing very much. But you're doing so much for your system." That's the paradox of this kind of work. Presence — just being with what's there — is not passive. It's how stuck energy begins to move. What is your body most ready to put down after this week? Listen here.

On this inspiring episode of Radio Medium's Spirit Reboot series with Laura Lee, Laura is joined with somatic transformation coach Elizabeth Stauder to explore how pain, illness, and emotional challenges can become powerful messages guiding us toward deeper healing and spiritual awakening. After surviving a life-threatening health crisis, Elizabeth shares how she discovered somatic alchemy; the practice of transforming physical, emotional, and spiritual pain through the wisdom of the bodyand how listening to the body's signals can shift us from survival mode into alignment with our soul's purpose. In this powerful conversation about mind-body connection, trauma healing, somatic awareness, and spiritual transformation, Elizabeth explains how symptoms are not enemies but messages that reveal opportunities for growth, resilience, and self-healing. If you're seeking holistic health insights, spiritual growth, and practical tools for emotional and physical healing, this episode delivers empowering guidance to help you turn life's challenges into transformation. 

Madison Margolin reignites Set & Setting for an energizing conversation on becoming your own medicine with somatic practitioner Rivky Gross.This time on Set & Setting, Madison and her guest talk about: Letting go of the ego in order to accept feedbackBottom-up therapy and focusing on root causes rather than behaviors Quantum energy healing work and the fractal universe we all live inSeeing ourselves as our own healers, our own potent medicineAccessing our inner power and intuition Remembering that we are the stewards of our own energyDeveloping a deep relationship with whatever God you believe in The concept of “medicine without medicine”Doing energy work by being ourselves and setting strong intentionsAbout Rivky Gross:Rivky started off as a therapist/hypnotherapist/somatic practitioner and now works with men, women, businesses and groups all around the world to expand into creating art and making an impact from their soul. She runs retreats in the tri-state area and all over the world (the next one is this April in Morocco). Rivky also co- hosts a podcast called The Possibility in the Universe. Learn more about Rivky's upcoming events and retreats on her website and keep up with Rivky on Instagram."I really believe that I'm not a healer, I believe that you are, that God is, that you are your most potent medicine. I believe that I am a healer for myself, only with God. I always tell my clients I don't have any of your answers, only you have the answer inside of you." –Rivky GrossAbout Madison Margolin:Madison Margolin is a journalist & author straddling California, New York, and Israel-Palestine, focused on psychedelics, cannabis, and Judaism (in jest, she'll say “Jews & Drugs”). She also covers culture, policy, and science. She is passionate and curious about how people can transcend their minds to access something greater than themselves — be it through psychedelics or God, meditating, creating art, or something somatic, she has set out to explore the various ways people nourish their souls. These days, she works as an editor at DoubleBlind, the print and digital magazine she co-founded, covering psychedelics and where they intersect with mental health, spirituality, environmental justice, and social equity. She also co-founded the Jewish Psychedelic Summit and hosts Set & Setting on the Be Here Now Network. Madison released the book Exile & Ecstasy in 2023. Learn more about Madison's work at madisonmargolin.com"When you're able to identify as a soul, a soul-being of God or a piece of the infinite, then we're all so much bigger and more expansive than whatever traumas, whatever scabs upon the soul. The body, even the brain which produces the mind, those are just products of human existence, and we are so much more than that. – Madison MargolinSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ever wonder why some people seem to attract success effortlessly while others stay stuck in a loop of "not yet"? In this opening episode of our two-part series on Quantum Manifestation, we strip away the "polite" version of gratitude and reveal its true power as a biological and energetic signal.Most of us treat gratitude like a thank-you note we send after a gift arrives. But true Manifestation happens when you treat gratitude as the Resonance that calls the gift into being. When you focus on the "gap" between where you are and where you want to be, your internal radio broadcasts a frequency of Lack. In this episode, you'll learn how to shift that dial.We explore the concept of the Body Language of the Psyche and how your nervous system acts as a mirror to the Universe. Using our signature Scent of Success visualization, you will learn to "breathe in" small wins—what we call Blooms—to physically widen your path and brighten your future.In this episode, you will discover:Why "wanting" actually keeps your goals at a distance.The difference between Waiting Resonance and Having Resonance.How to use the Heartbeat Tap to lock in a state of completion.A simple 3-second somatic practice to expand your "Field of Fortune" daily.Stop chasing the horizon and start widening the ground beneath your feet. It's time to move from the "not yet" into the "already."

“El mexicano frecuenta a la muerte, la burla, la acaricia, duerme con ella, la festeja, es uno de sus juguetes favoritos y su amor permanente.” ― Octavio Paz, El Laberinto de la Soledad Lindsay Graham: https://abcnews4.com/news/local/after-laying-out-a-similar-plan-11-years-ago-lindsey-graham-hails-trumps-iran-operation https://youtu.be/wjGgrU8g30c?si=Bly_wZswHLJr8gpw Danielle (00:04): I saw this thing from Lindsay Graham, this clip, and he was saying what we're doing in Iran now is going to ... And Lindsay Grand is a senator here in the United States. And he said he's going to ... What we're doing in Iran, quote, doing, because they're not calling it a war, they're calling it a special operation. He said is going to set the tone in the Middle East for the next 1000 years. And so you can go into your eschatology and your theology after this, Jenny, but he also then proceeded to say that this is a matter of which religion is going to be predominant in the planet. And they talked about Islam and they spoke about Christianity in those terms. And yeah, I wonder what comes up for you as I even just say those brief few sentences about theologically how we grew up or the frame you come from. Jenny (01:03): So much. I mean, so much. I think about how skewed and biased the interpretation of Revelation was in the world that I grew up in. And it was always like fear mongering, like barcodes were the mark of the beast. And then I know people in that same world that said that COVID vaccines were the mark of the beast and just like all of these things. And the mark of the beast was literally the numerical definition of Caesar Nero. It's nothing like we say it is. It was apocalyptic literature that was speaking to the time for a very specific purpose. And yet it has been co-opted. And I really appreciate this book from Bart Erman called Armageddon, and he breaks down the entire historical context for the Book of Revelation and then what has happened to it. And I was thinking about, I was nine, 10 years old when I watched the movie Left Behind with Kirk Cameron and I was terrified that the rapture was going to happen. (02:16): And it was only a year or so, maybe it was even in that same year that I watched the two planes hit the world Trade Center buildings on my family's television. And it was the same television I had just watched Left Behind on that year. And so in my little nine, 10, 11 year old brain, I was like, oh my God, those pilots got raptured and me and my mom are here in our living room and that's what happened.That's how quickly and how much that was associated with my consciousness and what I had been conditioned to. There's many more things that come to mind, but those are some of my first thoughts. Danielle (03:00): Well, even into my young adulthood, and maybe even now, it's been so ... We had to watch when I was little, we went to church and we watched these scenes of the United ... The rapture had happened. And then if you were left behind, then what would happen to you? And the only image I remember from these movies, and I should look them up, is people confessing Jesus because they wouldn't take the mark of the beast. And then they ... I wasn't even in kindergarten, so they put their heads through this guillotine and then they snapped down and people were beheaded. So I remember watching that at church and then at some point coming home and dreaming that the devil was in my room and then running outside and no one was in the garage. So I thought I'd been left behind. And oddly enough, even though I have moved away from that belief entirely about the rapture, if I wake up and everybody's gone or I'm not expecting it, even to this day, something flashes in my mind, "Oh, I wonder if that happened. (04:11): I wonder if I got left. I wonder if I didn't make it. " So those things have a lasting impact. Jenny (04:18): They do. They really do. I mean, I often think about ... So nine eleven happened and then that following summer, me and my mostly white dance studio from Colorado Springs was dancing at the Colorado State Fair to the song Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue. That's literally about bombing and destroying lives and people. And we were doing punches and kicks in these old Navy American flag t-shirts. And it was, again, this fusion of fear of the rapture with this belief in if Israel takes over all of the land around Palestine, then Jesus is going to come back. And I was so conditioned to be excited about the death and decimation of hundreds of thousands and millions of lives of people. And it is so devastating and infuriating to me to think about the rhetoric of those jihad terrorists over there conditioning children for war. (05:31): When I was literally being conditioned for war and the holy war and believing that I was on the side of God and these other people were on the side of Satan, it leads to so much dehumanization and harm. I hate it so much. Danielle (05:50): Yeah. It's almost like apocalyptic or ... I come back to the Handmaid's Tale and it ... Have you watched much of it or any of it? Okay. Well, a lot of people, I won't tell you, but it starts off with like, you don't really know what's happening, but they're escaping in their car, this family of three. And over the series, it flashes back so you get more of the story. But as it flashes back, I began to feel like, "Well, why didn't they get out sooner? What stopped them from leaving sooner? What was it? " And you see this progression both of this story about our Congress losing its powers or seeding its authority to a leader. And when I watched the movie, it was before this elect ... Well, watched the show. It was before this election and kind of during last year a bit. (06:54): But in my mind, I'm like, "Well, how did that happen?" And then as you watch the Senate vote, literally, and they don't vote to reign in war powers for Trump, you wonder what is happening? It's like not every president, but for this large scale of attack, there's no precedent for a president bypassing Congress and shooting the shit out of something, some other person in this scale and not having Congress involved. I mean, for all of Bush's faults and failures and horrors and lies, I mean, he did try to pitch it to Congress. (07:33): And so I'm not a Bush fan anyway, but sometimes I'm like, "Well, that was even better." But then you mix that with Doug Wilson of CREC and Pete Hegseth talking about Armageddon and we're doing this for Jesus. And then it just becomes almost impossible to untangle with people who believe that way. Yeah, Jenny (07:59): It does. It does. And the more I learn about Christian nationalism, the more this has been in the works for the last 50, 60, 70 years. And so we're seeing it in a huge, drastic way, but Bush and others that were elected from the moral majority were all part of that really long game plan to get America back to this very white, patriarchal, heteronormative view of Christianity, which in my mind isn't actually Christianity. It's not a historical version that the brown Jewish man from Palestine promoted. It was the bastardization of that when Constantine created this marriage between military and state and Christianity. And I think since 300s, AD, there's been this snowball that's just continued to grow and grow and grow and we're seeing it play out right now. (09:25): Yeah. I noticed that it puts me in quite a dissociated state, which is very familiar to me. And I think that's largely what my childhood was, was being dissociated and actually thinking that that was a good thing because this life meant nothing.This was all a means to an end until heaven. And so then even as I say that, I feel grief because I've come to feel that this life is really, really significant. I just watched this beautiful documentary called Come See Me in the Good Light about the poet, Andrea Gibson's Journey with Cancer. And it was such a profound image of how meaningful relationships and love and life are. And I didn't know that in this Christian nationalist world. Relationships were always a means to an end to something. My own body was a means to an end to something. And so it takes a lot of work for me to drop back into my body because of this conversation and because of what's playing out in our world. (11:21): And that's really real. Danielle (11:23): Yeah. I just went through that first module of SE training. So I'm all over the language, Jenny. I know what you're talking about. Well, talk to me a little bit about an escapable threat then. When you say that, I think most people think, oh, and then their minds are twirling. I know my mind was when I first started learning about it, and it resonated a lot for me, but walk me through how you think of that for you. Well, first I guess I would have to believe that there was or is an actual political dialogue taking place that I could potentially be a part of. And honestly, I'm not sure that I believe that.

"NARM® opened a whole new world to me... it's not just something you put on. NARM is, for me, a way of life. It's not just something you throw at somebody." - Elizabeth Remic Simonian   On this episode of Transforming Trauma, host Emily Ruth welcomes Elizabeth Remic Simonian, an integrative and somatic therapist based in Rotterdam, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, and trained jazz vocalist, for a deeply heartful conversation about how the NeuroAffective Relational Model® (NARM®) transformed not only her clinical work but her entire way of being in relationship with others.   Elizabeth traces her journey from conservatory-trained musician to trauma therapist, sharing the pivotal moments that called her toward depth and healing. She reflects on how encountering NARM for the first time revealed something she had never experienced in years of therapy: being asked what she actually wanted. From there, Elizabeth explores the profound shifts that unfolded as she began tracking her own efforting, reclaiming authenticity, and understanding that leaving yourself out of the equation is its own form of disconnection. She also shares how bringing NARM's relational presence into her music teaching created a palpable shift in her students' openness and creative freedom, and how singing with more embodiment and less shame changed her relationship with her own voice. The conversation closes with a tender example from Elizabeth's clinical practice, illustrating what it looks like to meet a client's vulnerability with genuine humanity rather than professional distance.   We invite you to listen to the full episode and follow Transforming Trauma on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast app. *** SPACE: SPACE is an Inner Development Program of Support and Self-Discovery for Therapists on the Personal, Interpersonal, and Transpersonal Levels offered by the Complex Trauma Training Center. This experiential learning program offers an immersive group experience designed to cultivate space for self-care, community support, and deepening vitality in our professional role as therapists. Learn more about how to join. *** The Complex Trauma Training Center: https://complextraumatrainingcenter.com View upcoming trainings: https://complextraumatrainingcenter.com/schedule/ *** The Complex Trauma Training Center (CTTC) is a professional organization providing clinical training, education, consultation, and mentorship for psychotherapists and mental health professionals working with individuals and communities impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Complex Trauma (C-PTSD). CTTC provides NARM® Therapist and NARM® Master Therapist Training programs, as well as ongoing monthly groups in support of those learning NARM. CTTC also offers the SPACE Inner Development Program for Therapists, providing a depth-oriented professional community for those seeking a supportive network of therapists focused on three levels of shared human experience: personal, interpersonal & transpersonal. The Transforming Trauma podcast embodies the spirit of CTTC – best described by its three keywords: depth, connection, and heart - and offers guidance to those interested in effective, transformational trauma-informed care.   *** We want to connect with you! Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/complextraumatrainingcenter/ Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/complextraumatrainingcenter/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/complex-trauma-training-center/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@ComplexTraumaTrainingCenter X https://x.com/CTTC_Training  

Guests: Kyra Klein, Physiotherapist & Shamanic Healer | Matthew Johnson, Somatic Therapist Business: Body Language | Squamish, BC | trainbodylanguage.com   What if the pain you feel in your body is actually the voice of something your mind hasn't found words for yet? In this episode, hosts Harmony Slater and Russell Case sit down with two extraordinary healers—Kyra Klein and Matthew Johnson, co-creators of Body Language in Squamish, British Columbia—to explore what it really means to heal the whole human system.   Kyra is Harmony's cousin, reunited through Ancestry.com in one of the most unexpected family stories you'll ever hear. A trained physiotherapist, yoga teacher, and shamanic practitioner, Kyra has spent over a decade learning to read the body's deepest stories through touch, intuition, and energy work. Her partner Matt came to healing through a radically different path—as a nationally ranked sport climbing coach who suppressed his emotions with elite precision, until a family loss and near-death illness shattered everything he thought he knew.   Together, Kyra and Matt have built a practice that bridges physiotherapy, somatic therapy, breathwork, shamanic ceremony, and psychedelic integration—because they've learned that no single modality can heal the whole person.   In this conversation, you'll discover: Why the body stores emotional and traumatic history in physical form How Matt's three-month health crisis—where he lost a third of his body weight and negotiated with death itself—became his initiation into healing What somatic therapy offers that traditional talk therapy cannot How Kyra reads the emotional story underneath physical symptoms through touch The difference between caring for someone and carrying them Why breathwork ceremony can be as powerful as psychedelic medicine What the Pacha Mesa shamanic tradition teaches about reconnecting to the natural world How integration is the missing piece in most healing journeys Why the West is finally waking up to what indigenous and Eastern traditions have always known   This conversation is rich, tender, occasionally hilarious, and deeply grounded in the lived experience of two people who chose to turn toward their own healing—and built a business helping others do the same.   ⭐ Want to go deeper? The full conversation about Harmony and Russell's personal journeys with Kyra and Matt—including their integration experiences—is available exclusively inside the Finding Harmony Community: community-harmonyslater.com   Timestamps [00:00] Welcome to Finding Harmony [01:00] Introducing Today's Theme: Whole Human Healing [03:00] Meet Kyra Klein & Matthew Johnson: Body Language, Squamish BC [06:00] The Ancestry.com Discovery: How Harmony Found Her Cousin [09:00] Soul Collision: How Kyra and Matt Met on Hinge and Knew Immediately [12:00] What It Means to Build a Relationship Around Healing [14:00] Matt's Background: Canadian National Sport Climbing Coach [15:30] The Moment Everything Broke: A Family Loss and a Health Crisis [18:00] Three Months Without Food: Negotiating with Death [21:00] Cashews, Consciousness, and Coming Back [24:00] Kyra's Spiritual Awakening: Spirits in Her Bedroom as a Child [28:00] From High-Performance Sport to Physiotherapy: The Body as Teacher [32:00] Kyra's Approach: Reading the Emotional Story Beneath Physical Symptoms [38:00] The Mind-Body Split: What Western Medicine Got Wrong [40:00] Somatic Therapy: Getting Out of the Story and Back into the Body [44:00] Why Intense Practice Can Be a Way to Avoid Feeling [47:00] Body Language: Learning to Understand What Your Body Is Saying [52:00] How Healing Happens in Stillness [56:00] Matt's Spiritual Awakening Through Meditation [59:00] Kyra's First Psilocybin Journey and the Birth of Something New [01:01:00] Integration: Why Openings Without Integration Don't Stick [01:04:00] The Pacha Mesa Shamanic Tradition: Earth-Honoring Philosophy [01:09:00] Cultural Appropriation and Sacred Transmission [01:11:00] Ceremony, Ritual, and What We've Lost as a Culture [01:14:00] How Kyra and Matt Set Sacred Space for Breathwork Ceremonies [01:18:00] The Power of Collective Healing [01:19:00] Where to Find Body Language   Connect with Kyra & Matt Website: trainbodylanguage.com Instagram: @trainbodylanguage Somatic therapy & psychedelic integration support available virtually (sliding scale pricing) Physiotherapy, shamanic therapy, and holistic sessions in Squamish, BC   Resources Mentioned Gabor Maté – Compassionate Inquiry Professional Training Pacha Mesa Tradition teachers: Robin and Darcy Heart of the Healer tradition How to Change Your Mind – Michael Pollan Ancestry.com   Key Takeaways The body stores emotional and traumatic history as physical pattern Healing is a lifelong path—you either turn toward yourself or you don't Somatic therapy gets you out of your story and back into felt experience Integration is the missing piece in most spiritual and healing journeys Breathwork ceremony can occasion mystical experience without plant medicine You can become addicted to anything—even spiritual practice—as a way to avoid feeling Genuine spiritual connection to the natural world is what the West is hungry for Your outer healer helps clear the path; the healing intelligence lives inside you  

Do you think about how to stop people pleasing…but feel guilty or frustrated every time you try? We're exploring how to self advocate and use somatic healing practices plus self compassion to put yourself first so that YOU feel good and then support others.  Together with Suzy Reading, we explore how the pattern of people pleasing is rooted in our nervous system and early childhood experiences. In this episode: How to stop people pleasing without guilt  The nervous system patterns behind emotional burnout Somatic healing practices that bring you back into your body Self compassion techniques that replace pressure  How to set boundaries  It's about remembering who you were before you felt like you had to earn your worth. If you're used to looking out for everyone else first, setting boundaries can feel uncomfortable, selfish—even unsafe. We unpack why people pleasing isn't just a habit, but a pattern rooted in your nervous system, and how to begin shifting it in a way that feels natural. About the Guest Suzy Reading is a psychologist and author who supports people through stress, grief, and life's tender transitions. Her work weaves together somatic healing practices and nervous system regulation techniques to help you reconnect with yourself in a way that feels safe and nourishing. Key Moments 00:00 – Why we lose ourselves in people pleasing 03:06 – The guilt of self-care + why it feels selfish 09:15 – Giving yourself permission to feel 17:28 – Emotional boundaries: how to stop overgiving 25:50 – Nervous system regulation techniques + somatic exercise for stress This Episode Is For You If… You're searching for how to stop people pleasing, learning how to self advocate more, or exploring nervous system regulation techniques to feel more empowered. Connect with Suzy Reading Website: https://www.suzyreading.co.uk/ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/suzyreading/ Get her book: How to Be Selfish, Seven Steps to Taking Back Your Power Listen to Next Ep 329 Are you Really Living Now?   

Feeling stuck under a toxic boss who uses fear to control you? In this episode of The Vibe With Ky Podcast, Ky explores how to reclaim your power.This season is proudly sponsored by Sucreabeille. Check out our collaborative scent "Why Did I Walk Into This Room?" here:https://sucreabeille.com/products/why-did-i-walk-into-this-roomKy sits down with CEO coach and whistleblower Kate Lowry to discuss the rise of fear-based leadership in the corporate world. Kate shares her personal fight against a venture capital giant after being targeted for her mental health accommodations. Listeners will learn practical tools to protect their peace, regulate their nervous systems, and survive hostile work environments without losing their authenticity.Takeaways:How to spot fear-based leaders and stop internalizing their toxic behavior.Why needing mental health accommodations makes you a stronger employee.Somatic grounding techniques to calm your mind during stressful work days.Guest Links:Guest Website: https://katelowry.comScaleheart: https://scaleheart.coInstagram: https://instagram.com/kateunbreakablelowrySubstack: https://katelowry.substack.comSupport & Resources:Join The Vibe With Ky: https://thevibewithky.comMental Health Hub: https://thevibewithky.com/mental-health-resources-hubInstagram: https://instagram.com/thevibewithkyPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/thevibewithkyFacebook Subscriber Hub: https://www.facebook.com/thevibewithky/subscribe/Disclaimer: I am not a licensed mental health professional. Please seek professional help if needed.

Episode Title: Three Somatic Questions for Locating Your Healing Progress Host: Nia Guest: Jean Dorff Episode Overview In this insightful episode of the Empowering Story Podcast, host Nia welcomes somatic healing expert Jean Dorff to explore a transformative approach to healing. Rather than viewing healing as a distant destination, Jean Dorff guides listeners through embracing healing as an ongoing process—one rooted in self-location, gentle presence, and nervous system awareness. Drawing from somatic methodologies and the Six Voice States framework, this conversation offers practical tools for tuning into the body's signals, building self-compassion, and making sustainable progress without force or self-judgment. Key Topics & Takeaways Redefining Healing: Healing isn't about arriving somewhere "better"—it's about learning to stay with yourself in the present moment, as Nia notes in the episode opening. 3 Somatic Questions for Progress: Shawn Dorff introduces three powerful questions to map your real-time healing: Where do you leave yourself? (Identifying disconnection and avoidance behaviors) Where does safety already exist? (Locating micro-moments of ease and neutrality) What truth are you holding at a distance? (Recognizing what you aren't yet ready to face) The Gap Between Knowing and Feeling: Cognitive understanding doesn't always mean emotional or bodily readiness. The nervous system's pace must be respected for true integration. Why Micro-Moments Matter: Healing is cumulative—it happens in small moments of contact, pauses for breath, and gentle self-awareness, not in major epiphanies. Permissive vs. Absolute Language: Shawn Dorff explains how gentle, "even slightly" language helps lower the nervous system's defenses, allowing for authentic presence and healing. Self-Compassion in Practice: Recognizing that avoidance and "stuckness" are intelligent adaptations—not personal failures. The tools shared support nervous system participation and self-compassion. Who Should Listen? Anyone on a healing journey seeking practical, science-informed somatic tools Therapists, coaches, and trauma-informed practitioners interested in nervous system-aware language Listeners feeling "stuck" and wanting self-understanding and compassion Notable Quotes "Healing is not a destination, but the ability to locate yourself in real time." — Jean Dorff "You can understand your pain, explain your patterns, and still feel dysregulated… Cognition outpaces nervous system readiness." — Jean Dorff "Healing is not a dramatic transformation. It is the accumulation of micro-moments of contact." — Jean Dorff Resources & Frameworks Mentioned Six Voice States Framework Concepts from somatic psychology and nervous system regulation The power of "positioning questions" for self-discovery Connect & Subscribe Thank you for joining the Empowering Story Podcast. For more episodes and resources on trauma healing, nervous system health, and embodied living, subscribe and share your feedback! Search Optimization Tags (SEO/EEAT): Somatic healing, nervous system health, trauma recovery tools, somatic psychology, self-compassion, healing journey, presence, mindfulness, micro-moments, personal growth, Shawn Dorff, Nia, Empowering Story Podcast Disclaimer: The somatic tools and perspectives shared are for self-discovery and support. They are not substitutes for clinical therapy. Always consult a qualified professional for personal mental health concerns.

Send a textWhat if your leadership challenges are just as much physiological as they are strategic?In this episode of Get Jasched, Jess Jasch explores how somatic awareness — your ability to notice what's happening in your body — directly impacts leadership presence, stress regulation, and decision-making.Drawing on research in embodied cognition and interoception, Jess breaks down why leadership skills require this nervous system skillset.You'll learn:How your body signals stress before your mind catches upWhy “gut instinct” is grounded in neuroscienceHow interoception improves emotional intelligence and regulationThe role of nervous system regulation in team culture and psychological safetyPractical ways to build somatic awareness in high-stakes momentsBecause your team responds more to your state than your strategy.If you want clearer thinking, calmer communication, and more authentic leadership — it starts with noticing what your body is telling you.

Melanie Smithson is a Licensed Somatic Psychotherapist, Business Owner, Certified Spiritual Integration Hypnotherapist, and the award-winning author with a new book, Shake Yourself Free. For thirty years, Melanie has been sharing the wisdom of the body and the power of movement with her therapy clients and group participants and she is dedicated to broadening access to somatic practices to alleviate suffering, live light-heartedly, and foster a deeper connection to one's inner nature. For a 20% discount on services, please visit smithsonclinic.com.Please rate us on Apple and/or Spotify and subscribe to our YouTube channel This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mikeyopp.substack.com/subscribe

▷ 本集引導在開始之前，先跟著我，吐一口氣。不是為了冷靜，而是為了——讓你的身體，先卸下它正在「撐住」的狀態。你不需要撐著聽。這一集，不是要你更理性。▷ 本集寫給誰如果你是在高壓、快節奏、長期需要做決策的環境裡工作的人—— 你可能會在這一集裡，被說中。你可能在金融、科技、創業、投資或管理層。你習慣分析、判斷、評估風險。你很清楚：情緒不能亂來。但你也可能最近開始發現一件事——你不是不理性，可是你的人生，開始走不太動。決策變慢了。能量變低了。不是焦慮，而是一種說不上來的卡住。▷ 本集核心我們常常被教導，要「處理情緒」。冷靜一點。理性一點。不要被影響。但從神經系統與身體的角度來看，這裡有一個關鍵誤解：情緒不是事件，而是一個需要被完成的生理反應循環。當反應被啟動，卻沒有走完，它不會消失。它會留在身體裡，佔用你的 nervous system capacity。這就是為什麼你明明沒有情緒化，卻開始出現——決策疲勞、反應過大、關鍵時刻卡住，或是什麼都不想決定。不是你不夠理性，而是你的系統，已經被太多「未完成的反應」佔滿了。▷ Burnout 的真相Burnout 很少只是累。從 somatic 的角度來看，它更像是一個訊號：你的情緒循環，已經沒有空間被完成了。你沒有時間失望，於是失望變成冷漠。你沒有時間憤怒，於是憤怒變成疲憊。你沒有時間害怕，於是害怕變成拖延。最後你會進入一個狀態：「我沒有什麼情緒，但我什麼都不想動。」那不是你不想要人生，而是你的身體在說：我不能再承受任何新的東西了。▷ Season 2 的關鍵推進Season 1，我們說的是：情緒是資訊，是理解，是 Reset。Season 2，我們要往前一步問：如果你已經懂了情緒，為什麼人生還是卡住？答案常常不是因為你沒聽懂，而是因為——情緒從來沒有被身體完成。這一集，是把情緒，從「我懂了」，帶到「我為什麼走不動」。▷ Somatic Practice｜完成，而不是處理這不是宣洩，也不是分析。而是一個 very subtle、但關鍵的 somatic completion 練習。當你想到一件最近讓你有壓力、卻「沒有時間處理」的事，覺察身體第一個反應。不是去改變它，而是讓它多存在幾秒。然後問身體一句話：「如果你可以完成這個反應，你會想做什麼？」可能只是呼吸、伸展、後退半步、鬆一鬆肩膀。讓身體完成它原本就想完成的動作。這，就是完成。▷ 本集不是要你「立刻前進」如果你聽完有一點點鬆，很好。但你也可能發現，回到生活後，那些反應還是會回來。這不是你沒學會，而是因為——高壓環境，從來沒有為完成預留空間。而一個人，很難在高壓結構裡，為自己 hold space。▷ 為什麼「完成」不是一個人能做的事我們被教導要成熟、要自己處理情緒。但這其實違反了人類神經系統的設計。因為情緒反應，本來就是在「被接住」的情境裡完成的。你之所以卡住，不是因為你做錯了什麼，而是因為你一直試圖—— 一個人走完一個需要容器的過程。▷ Work with LolaThe Lola System™ 90 不是讓你更會處理情緒，而是讓你在一個不需要再撐、不需要再切斷身體反應的場域裡， 完成那些你一個人走不完的循環。如果你在聽這一集時，心裡很清楚地浮現一句話：「這不是我一個人可以完成的。」Apply for The Lola System™ 90 https://lolalinocean.com/apply這是一個邀請制的入口，為「準備好真正改變，但不想再撐」的女性而設。▷ Connect with LolaWebsite｜https://lolalinocean.com Instagram｜https://www.instagram.com/lolalolalin LinkedIn｜https://www.linkedin.com/in/lolalin

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This body scan breathing practice offers a gentle way to help the body soften and the nervous system settle. You'll be guided to notice your breath and your body in a way that supports grounding and regulation with surprising ease. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a soothing breathing practice that combines slow, regulating breath with gentle interoceptive awareness. This combination sends clear cues of safety through the system and can create a noticeable shift in how grounded, centered, and at ease you feel. As attention moves through the body alongside the breath, many people notice tension easing, stress releasing, and a greater sense of presence in their bodies. The practice doesn't require much effort and is designed to be supportive and accessible, even when you're feeling tired, stressed, or overwhelmed. Listen now and take this time to reconnect with your body in a way that genuinely supports regulation. Perfect for grounding, soothing the nervous system, regulating stress, and easing tension in both body and mind In this episode: About Body Scan Breathing: A Simple Practice That Gently Regulates the Nervous System Body Scan Breathing Practice Related: More Deep Relaxation Meditations Get on the Priority Waitlist for my Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica 2027 so you'll be the first to get access to early bird pricing! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You're invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. Inside, you'll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There's also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. Learn more and enroll now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This practice uses the physical boundary between your body and the surface supporting you as a way to sense into relational boundaries — where you end and another person begins. When to use this practice: Before a conversation where you need to set a boundary When you're not sure if you're taking on someone else's emotions After listening to "His Reaction Is Not Your Responsibility" When you know you need to say no but feel guilty about it Anytime you're struggling to distinguish between what's yours and what's theirs What you'll need: 10-15 minutes of quiet A comfortable place to sit or lie down A boundary situation that has some charge, but isn't your most intense one (around 3/10) Note: Boundaries aren't meant to control the other person's reaction. They're for you — to know what's yours to hold and what isn't.

10-Minute Somatic Reset for February BurnoutIs the mid-winter slump catching up with you? By late February, many of us feel the weight of "February Burnout"—that specific moment where New Year energy fades and the pressure of the year sets in. This 10-minute guided meditation is designed to move your body from survival mode into a state of deep, restorative safety.Clinical hypnotherapist Martin guides you through a Somatic Nervous System Reset. Step away from the digital noise and the hustle of 2026 to reclaim your internal peace through scientifically-backed breathing and visualization.+1In This Episode, You Will Experience:Somatic Breathwork: A 4-2-6 breathing technique to physically signal safety to your brain.Cortisol Release: A guided body scan to soften the jaw and neck, helping you release stored stress hormones.+1Future-Self Anchoring: A visualization exercise to write a calm, capable version of yourself into the "fabric of your mind".+1The 5-5-5 Rule: A quick grounding technique to stop overwhelm in its tracks.Timestamps:00:00 – Nervous System Reset Intro 00:55 – Finding Your Quiet Space 01:35 – 4-2-6 Somatic Breathing Exercise 02:56 – Full Body Relaxation Scan 05:01 – Visualization: Your 6-Month Future Self 06:08 – Affirmations for Peace & Self-Worth 07:58 – 3 Caring Tips for Daily Calm 09:23 – Final Closing & Kindness Reminder Three Tips for a Calmer Day:The 5-5-5 Rule: Name 5 things you see, 5 you hear, and 5 you feel to ground yourself instantly.Digital Sunset: Protect your peace with 20 minutes of no-screen time after waking.Micro-Wins: Celebrate one small success today—even just finishing this session.Support the Show: If this session helped you find a breath of fresh air, please leave a 5-star review or share this episode with a friend.Connect with us:Subscribe for daily resets.Remember: Be kind to yourself, especially when you see your reflection

Panelists give tips on how to increase pleasure when you're super stressed. Host Karen Yates delivers her Sermon on the Pubic Mound on getting grounded. And the audience tells us the weirdest places they've had sex. From our Seventh Anniversary show October 12, 2025. The October live show's main show sponsor was Rowan Tree Counseling. On this episode:Matthew Amador, therapistDr. Jennifer Litner, sex therapistZeuben Painter-Edington, surrogate partnerHost Karen Yates  - host, somatic sex educator, energy workerWant more Wild & Sublime? Join The Afterglow for bonus content and Wild & Sublime goodies! Or show your love for sex-positive podcasting: Leave a lil' tip!Check out our new line of tees and accessories! Be wild & sublime every day! Shipping discounts for orders over $50.Do you feel stuck? Work with host Karen Yates in Zoom groups and one-on-one as she uses the energy of sound to reduce stress and help repattern behavior. Learn more about Biofield Tuning.Get tickets to our Valentine's Kick Off in Chicago! Burlesque, standup and lively conversation about sex. Sunday Feb 8 at 6pm at the Lincoln Lodge! Tickets here!Support the showFollow Wild & Sublime on Instagram and Facebook!

  Paul Krauss, MA LPC's conversation with Marcia Bonato Warren MA, MA LPC centers on her somatic, cross-cultural approach to understanding identity, belonging, and the body, as developed in her work on Embodied Code-Switching® and her new book on multicultural identity and somatic healing. They explore how culture, ancestry, and trauma live in the nervous system, how the body can become a "cultural home," and how movement, sensation, and body-based awareness help people who navigate multiple cultural worlds reclaim agency and coherence in their sense of self. Throughout the discussion, Marcia weaves her personal story and clinical lens with reflections on social justice, intergenerational trauma, and the role of contemplative, somatic practice in healing within and across communities. Marcia Bonato Warren, MA, MA LPC (she/her) is a trauma-informed Somatic Counselor/Body Psychotherapist, interculturalist, and author with more than 30 years of cross-cultural experience spanning somatic counseling and education, international educational exchange, Native American policy and advocacy, minority business development, and community-based social justice work. She holds a Master of Arts in Somatic Counseling/Body Psychotherapy from Naropa University, where she now serves as adjunct faculty and guest lecturer in the Buddhist-Informed Contemplative Counseling and Somatic Counseling graduate programs, and she maintains a private practice providing counseling, clinical supervision, training, and consultation in culturally responsive, body-based approaches to trauma, identity, and belonging. Her published work includes her foundational chapter on Embodied Code-Switching® and co-authored scholarly writing on the body as cultural home, and her recent book extends this somatic, culture-centered lens to clinicians and communities seeking liberatory, embodied ways to heal across differences. Get involved with the National Violence Prevention Hotline: 501(c)(3) Donate Share with your network Write your congressperson Sign our Petition Preview an Online Video Course for the Parents of Young Adults (Parenting Issues) Unique and low cost learning opportunities through Shion Consulting Paul Krauss MA LPC is a Cofounder of Health for Life Counseling Grand Rapids, home of The Trauma-Informed Counseling Center of Grand Rapids. Paul is also a Private Practice Psychotherapist, an Approved EMDRIA Consultant , host of the Intentional Clinician podcast, Behavioral Health Consultant, Clinical Trainer, Counseling Supervisor, and Meditation Teacher. Paul is now offering consulting for a few individuals and organizations. Paul is the creator of the National Violence Prevention Hotline as well as the Intentional Clinician Training Program for Counselors. Paul has been quoted in the Washington Post, NBC News, Wired Magazine, and Counseling Today. Questions? Call the office at 616-200-4433.  If you are looking for EMDRIA consulting groups, Paul Krauss MA LPC is now hosting a weekly online group.  For details, click here. For general behavioral and mental health consulting for you or your organization. Follow Health for Life Counseling- Grand Rapids: Instagram   |   Facebook     |     Youtube Original Music: ”Alright” from the album Mystic by PAWL (Spotify) ”Champion” from the album Radiate Like This by Warpaint (Spotify)  

If you've ever said, “I know my patterns — so why can't I change them?” the answer may not be in your mind, but in your body. On this episode of The Dr. Hyman Show, I sit down with Dr. Nicole LePera, The Holistic Psychologist, to explore how early experiences become your body's default state—shaping your stress response, your relationships, and your risk for chronic disease. Watch the full conversation on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. In this conversation, you'll learn: • How to recognize when your body is stuck in stress — even if your mind says you're “fine” • Why people-pleasing, overworking, or shutting down can become your default response • What simple daily practices can calm your nervous system and support long-term health • How creating safety in your body improves sleep, energy, and stress recovery When you create safety in your body, you don't just change your mood. You change your biology, your relationships, and your capacity to heal. Resources mentioned in this episode: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Questionnaire View Show Notes From This Episode Get Free Weekly Health Tips from Dr. Hyman https://drhyman.com/pages/picks?utm_campaign=shownotes&utm_medium=banner&utm_source=podcast Sign Up for Dr. Hyman's Weekly Longevity Journal https://drhyman.com/pages/longevity?utm_campaign=shownotes&utm_medium=banner&utm_source=podcast Join the 10-Day Detox to Reset Your Health https://drhyman.com/pages/10-day-detox Join the Hyman Hive for Expert Support and Real Results https://drhyman.com/pages/hyman-hive This episode is brought to you by Pique, Timeline, PerfectAmino, Qualia, Paleovalley and BIOptimizers. Secure 20% off your order plus a free starter kit at piquelife.com/hyman. Receive 35% off  a subscription at timeline.com/drhyman. Go to bodyhealth.com and use code HYMAN20 to get 20% off your first order. Go to qualialife.com/hyman and use code HYMAN at checkout for an extra 15% off. Head to paleovalley.com and use code HYMAN20 for 20% off your first order. Head to bioptimizers.com/hyman and use promo code HYMAN at checkout to save 15%. (0:00) Introduction and personal experiences with anxiety (0:23) Nicole LePera's background and the holistic psychology approach (1:10) Tools for nervous system regulation (3:19) Hyman's profound experience with Ibogaine and reparenting the inner child (6:33) LePera's journey and mind-body connection insights (9:32) Impact of childhood environments and ACES (13:20) Attachment disruption, generational trauma, and epigenetics (18:42) Understanding the inner child and adult behavior (22:13) Emotional regulation, parental modeling, and the role of shame (25:36) Reparenting, nervous system practices, and societal influences (29:21) Reframing mental health and attachment frameworks (37:38) The five developmental spheres (40:21) Creating safety and security in the body (43:48) Somatic therapy and stress management (50:00) Progress in habit formation and reconnecting with the authentic self (54:31) Purpose, fulfillment, and relational neuroplasticity (59:09) Dr. Nicole LePera's resources

Psychotherapist Ilona Varo joins Erin on The Well Within Podcast to discuss the transformative power of somatic work and EMDR. Ilona's unique background in beauty and entertainment in Los Angeles led her to a career in psychotherapy with a focus on helping patients with eating disorders, self esteem, and trauma. You'll hear about: How Ilona transitioned from a Hollywood publicist to a Hollywood therapist Signs and symptoms that a person is not fully in alignment with themselves The importance of having a relationship with yourself Using the five love languages to better your relationship with yourself How EMDR and somatic work with a trusted therapist can support you in your healing journey Learn more about Ilona and her work at https://www.ilonavaro.com/ or on IG @ilonavaroJoin Well Within, a 6-week group experience for women who want to grow with clarity, steadiness, and self-trust.https://erintreloar.com/well-within-methodConnect with Erin:⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠Website Support Our Sponsors: COWBOY COLOSTRUM - Use code RAWBEAUTYTALKS at CowboyColostrum.com for 25%offJONES ROAD BEAUTY - Get a free Cool Gloss on your first purchase when you use the code ERIN at checkout https://www.jonesroadbeauty.com/HELLOFRESH - Go to hellofresh.ca and use the code RAWBEAUTYTALKS for 50% off your next order. KNIX - Go to knix.com and use code RAWBEAUTYTALKS for 20% off your next order.MITOPURE GUMMIES - Go to ⁠Timeline.com/ERIN⁠ and use the code ERIN for 20% off. LOLA BLANKETS - Go to LolaBlankets.com and use the code RAWBEAUTYTALKS for 35% off. SUPERBELLY POWDERS - Go to ⁠www.itsblume.com⁠ and use code RAWBEAUTYTALKS for 15% off.AQUTRU WATER FILTERS - Go to www.aquatru.com and use code RAWBEAUTYTALKS for 20% off. Please use link on left side of checkout page, not the coupon code box on the right. ⁠Leave Well Within a rating and a review on Apple Podcasts⁠! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What if healing your mind started with how you move your body?In this transformative episode of Normalize The Conversation, Peggi Honig joins Francesca Reicherter to explore the Feldenkrais Method — a powerful somatic approach that connects physical movement, awareness, and emotional healing.Peggi shares how learning through movement can rewire the brain, release stored tension, and create more ease in how we live and feel. Together, they discuss how the Feldenkrais philosophy, “Make the impossible possible, make the possible easy, make the easy pleasant,” invites us to replace perfectionism with presence and curiosity.Tune in to discover how to:Use gentle movement for nervous system regulationBuild mind-body awareness that supports emotional healingTransform habits, stress, and pain through curiosityRedefine perfection and embrace learning through mistakesListen now to The Feldenkrais Method: Somatic Healing for Mind & Body with Peggi Honig — and learn how small, mindful shifts can lead to profound transformation.

What an important conversation with wise seasoned clinician, writer, and somatic couples therapist Jordan Dann we have for you today. Jordan illuminates how implicit attachment dynamics play out in couples (that alone is worth the listen!), we talk about the drama triangle (something that was so powerful for me to learn and work with in the last year), shifting from codependence to interdependence, and we really touch on and tackle this exact moment, where these dynamics are playing out on the national stage. She talks about "trauma porn," and this exact moment our society is in, witnessing heaps of harm without repair and what that does to our systems, and we both get teary talking about the human-to-human connection we can have in the streets, the post office, and how it feeds the field of humanity we're all swimming in. This was such an honor to speak with Jordan, and anyone struggling with their partner right now would so benefit from her work! She has a course for couples on her website here: https://jordandann.com/And her IG links all of her work, including her passionate wise Substack. Enjoy the episode!! 

Today's conversation is for the woman who feels disconnected from her body, her voice, her intuition… or maybe even herself.So many of us learned how to survive — how to push through, stay strong, keep going — but we were never taught how to feel safe inside of our own bodies after life, love, trauma, or survival pulled us away.In this episode, I'm joined by Cathy Williams, a trailblazer in body-based healing and creative arts therapy and founder of Intuitive Self. We talk about real healing — not the pretty version, not the Instagram version — but the slow, non-linear, deeply human process of coming back home to yourself.We get into:What disconnection actually feels like (emotionally, physically, spiritually)Somatic healing explained in a way that finally makes senseWhy survival mode can look like “I'm fine” while your body is still reactingHow to heal trauma you don't consciously rememberThe difference between intuition and fear (and how to tell)Why creativity is a powerful doorway back to selfIf you've been tired, numb, overproductive, anxious, or stuck in autopilot… this episode is a deep exhale.

In this heartfelt episode, I open up about two painful breakups and the unexpected healing that came from allowing myself to be witnessed in my most vulnerable moments. I explore the idea of disconfirming experiences — moments where the body learns safety in ways it never has before — and why they are so essential for healing childhood wounds, especially when it comes to emotions, expression, and receiving care.Through personal stories and client examples, I unpack how our nervous systems hold onto the past, how somatic work can gently begin to shift those deep patterns, and why going slow, honoring resistance, and cultivating safe relationships is the key to emotional freedom.If you've ever wanted to cry but felt like you couldn't, or longed to be seen but feared it was too much — this episode will help you understand why and what to do next.❥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/viewform❥❥❥Stay or Go Course: ⁠https://marinayt.com/stay-or-go⁠ ❥❥❥❥ FREE RESOURCE: a step-by-step process of working with your triggersTRIGGERED TO ROOTED: A ROADMAP TO CREATE TREASURES FROM YOUR TRIGGERSThis powerful step by step process will walk you through how to somatically move through a trigger, ground yourself, allow the emotions to come up and experience massive growth in your lifeDownload here:⁠ ⁠https://marinayt.com/trigger-2-rooted⁠⁠Follow me on Instagram:⁠ ⁠www.instagram.com/marina.y.t⁠⁠ Subscribe to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@marinatriner Top Episode Quotes:"It took me a long time to get to the point where I actually allowed people to witness me crying.""Your body is not sabotaging you — it's protecting you based on what it learned in childhood.""Disconfirming experiences teach the nervous system something new — not through theory, but through real, safe, felt experience.""The first step is not to push the protector away, but to honor it. That part of you kept you alive."somatic healing, emotional healing, nervous system regulation, inner child work, disconfirming experiences, trauma recovery, self expression, somatic therapy, Marina Yanay-Triner, compassionate coaching, healing through relationships, vulnerability, emotional release, solo episode, trauma-informed, crying in front of others, emotional safety, nervous system healing, somatic coach

On the podcast Resilience Unravelled, Russell speaks with Susan Inouye in Los Angeles about resilience themes in homes, products, and organisational culture, including companies that post values but don't live them. They discuss generational differences at work, with Susan describing shifts from command-and-control leadership toward belonging, meaning, and authenticity, and noting that millennials are now a large portion of the workforce. Susan also shares that millennials are complaining about Gen Z, arguing it's often about age and development, and references brain development and the influence of how generations were raised. She emphasises that leadership change requires embodied practices, not just advice, explaining that transformation happens through the body and somatic intelligence, with HeartMath Institute research as an example. Susan tells a client story about an event-production leader whose gift for planning became controlling behaviour; using the Sawubona (“I see you”) gift-centered approach, rituals for letting go, and trapeze lessons, the client replaced fear with freedom and became more trusting at work. Susan's book, "Leadership's Perfect Storm: What Millennials Are Teaching Us About Possibility, Passion, and Purpose," is aimed at leaders, includes stories and a coach's corner with practices, is used in over 30 countries, is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and donates all proceeds to the nonprofit Youth Mentoring Connection. She notes Sawubona Leadership originated in South Central Los Angeles through Tony LeRae's mentoring work.00:00 Welcome 01:05 Resilience, building standards & planned obsolescence03:00 Corporate values vs reality: authenticity and truth-telling at work04:47 Millennials & Gen Z reshape leadership expectations06:28 Are generational stereotypes real? Command-and-control vs belonging10:24 Brain science, upbringing & why each new cohort gets judged15:40 From advice to embodiment: practices, somatics & emotional intelligence19:17 Client story: planning as a gift—and learning to let go (trapeze breakthrough)25:49 The book: Leadership's Perfect Storm—who it's for & what's inside27:21 Where to buy + proceeds to youth mentoring; Sawubona ‘I see you' origins28:34 Wrap-upYou can contact us at info@qedod.comResources can be found online or link to our website https://resilienceunravelled.com

In episode 526 I chat with Mike who has kindly agreed to share his OCD story with us.  We discuss sexual orientation themed OCD, existential themed OCD, somatic themed OCD, harm themed OCD, compulsing around the recovery process, getting therapy, working with Dr Steven Phillipson and Dr Michael Alcee, words of hope and much more. Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/mike-526 (Episode includes explicit language) The podcast is made possible by NOCD. NOCD offers effective, convenient therapy available in the US and outside the US. To find out more about NOCD, their therapy plans and if they currently take your insurance head over to https://go.treatmyocd.com/theocdstories Join many other listeners getting our weekly emails. Never miss a podcast episode or update: https://theocdstories.com/newsletter 

Stop trying to "fix" your thoughts and start regulating your biology.In this 10-minute somatic meditation, Martin guides you through a "Nervous System Defrag" designed specifically for the high-intensity energy of the 2026 Sun Year. If you've been feeling overstimulated by digital static, this session uses proven techniques like cyclic sighing and somatic tracking to move you out of cognitive overload and into a state of deep, grounded safety.Inside this episode, you will discover:Nervous System Regulation: How to signal to your vagus nerve that the threat has passed.Somatic Tracking: A practice to witness and soften physical knots of anxiety without fighting them.The Golden Ray: A visualization to neutralize "butterflies" and reclaim your solar plexus power.Daily Caring Tips: Three actionable habits for light integration and digital detox.3 Tips for a Happier You Today:Sensory Fast: Dim the lights and cut screens 60 minutes before bed to reset your melatonin.Somatic Check-In: Stop three times today to ask "Where am I holding the world?" and drop the tension.The "Maybe" Mindset: Counter anxious thoughts by leaving room for "maybe" to be good.Ready for more calm? If this session helped you find a moment of low-stimulation peace, please Follow the show on Apple Podcasts and share this episode with one person who needs to ground their energy today. Join us in the quiet space all week long.

Do you get a pit in your stomach when you listen to the news? Maybe your body tightens, as each headline adds to the heaviness of the collective trauma we're living through right now?When institutions protect powerful people instead of holding them accountable, survivors can experience secondary victimization, as the harm continues instead of being addressed. If this is something you can  relate to you, support exists and emotional safety can be rebuilt.In this episode, I'm covering:The visceral impact of the Epstein files and the patriarchy of protection.Startling statistics on the epidemic of childhood abuse and its link to trauma recovery.My personal healing journey and breaking the silence around family secrets.How to use somatic healing to discharge trapped energy that may be stored in your body.Four specific somatic practices to restore nervous system regulation.Why finding a community of survivor support is a vital lifeline when systems fail to protect us.This conversation is a bridge to help you move from a state of freeze into a place of empowerment. By practicing these tools and increasing your body awareness, you can signal to your nervous system that you are safe in the here and now.You are worthy of protection, LaurieCall the DOJ ScriptClick here to listen to my podcast on Overwhelm Click here to learn about my NEW “Nervous System Regulation Starter Kit” Click here to purchase my book: Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting GoFree ResourcesClick here to schedule a FREE inquiry call with me.Click here for my FREE “Beginner's Guide to Somatic Healing”Click here for my FREE Core Values ExerciseWebsitePlease leave me feedback. I cannot respond so if you'd like me to respond, please leave your email***********************DISCLAIMER: THE COMMENTARY AND OPINIONS AVAILABLE ON THIS PODCAST ARE FOR INFORMATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY AND NOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING LEGAL, MEDICAL OR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LICENSED THERAPIST IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING SUICIDAL THOUGHTS. YOU SHOULD CONTACT AN ATTORNEY IN YOUR STATE TO OBTAIN LEGAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LICENSED MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL WITH RESPECT TO ANY MEDICAL ISSUE OR PROBLEM.

One line from Brené Brown's Atlas of the Heart hit me like lightning during my own post-divorce unraveling—exposing the exact shame trigger I'd carried for years, the hidden identity fueling quiet resentment, self-criticism, and that exhausting push-pull of “too much” versus “not enough.”In this powerful episode, I take you straight into the moment it landed (page 30, in the section on resentment), share the raw, tender answers that flooded in when I texted the question to my inner circle (“weak,” “bitch,” “lazy,” “fake,” “unmotivated”…), and walk through my own vulnerable evolution—from “too much or not enough” to fully owning “too much” as the big, intense, storm-cloud-and-sunshine truth of who I am.Through a trauma-informed, spiritually grounded lens, we explore:How this single sentence stem reveals our deepest unwanted identity—the shame elicitor Brené says is the most powerful trigger.Why resentment after divorce often stems from failing to claim what we need, and how naming the fear (“It's really important for me not to be perceived as…”) cracks open the door to radical self-acceptance.Somatic practices to locate the trigger in your body (that chest tightness, belly clench, or heat rising) and meet it with fierce compassion instead of more judgment.The spiritual invitation: transmuting the exiled parts (your intensity, your darkness, your bigness) into medicine—because divorce isn't just loss; it's the sacred threshold to reclaiming your full aliveness.This isn't passive listening—it's an embodied exercise we do together. I guide you to answer the question in real time, feel what surfaces, and begin pouring love exactly where you've withheld it. The more we love the vulnerability we've feared, the clearer we become about who belongs in our next chapter… and who we lovingly release.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyCoachDawnInstagram: (@dawnwiggins)Instagram: (@coachtiffini)On the Web: https://www.mycoachdawn.comA podcast exploring the journey of life after divorce, delving into topics like divorce grief, loneliness, anxiety, manifesting, the impact of different attachment styles and codependency, setting healthy boundaries, energy healing with homeopathy, managing the nervous system during divorce depression, understanding the stages of divorce grief, and using the Law of Attraction and EMDR therapy in the process of building your confidence, forgiveness and letting go.Support the show✨Join the Cocoon Community - your people are waiting! ✨ Stress-Less Flower Essence

In this episode, Jeremiah and E discuss grounding in tactile, sensory rich experiences outside of the demands of digital life.  Vinyl and film cameras and paper books, letter writing and manual engines.  Opportunities for interacting with life in analog formats are usually less convenient, but more meaningful.  Analog experiences offer a chance for slowness and foster some amount of cognitive rest.As always, thank you for listening along with us.  If you'd like to know more about the podcast or if you'd like to connect with us, please visit our website at https://goodtotalk.co. Also, for more rich media content, check out our sister project Good To Self at https://goodtoself.co.

Jenny (02:14): I have been thinking about conversations that I've been having and things that I've been seeing lately about this new found anger and rage for MAGA friends and family members. And I think this facade of hope for a long time that I had been called Hyperbolic and I'd been saying I was overreacting or I was paranoid, and then when things continued to escalate, there was the sense of, okay, now they'll see. Now they'll see. And really feeling like there's pretty much not more that could happen that would lift the veil of where we are in this current moment. And so then to still have family members not rejecting Trump, not rejecting Christian nationalism, not rejecting white supremacy, it has been really challenging to think through what does relationship mean right now? What does it mean from a privileged body too? I'm really hesitant, and Danielle and I have talked a lot about this, that it's a very white thing to be like, ah, I'm just going to not talk to you and I don't feel like that's necessary. And if people are saying, you just need to not talk about politics with me, what does it look like to hold my own integrity and be in relationship with people in this moment? I am struggling to know what that looks like and how to do that. Rebecca (04:20): It makes me think I'm getting ready to do, you guys probably saw this, but I'm going to do starting Monday, a group with Jen Murphy, and the name of it is Rebuilding Hope. And I think Hope has something to do with what you just said, Jenny. I am not sure how it plugs in, but I do think there's, what I hear is what do I do? Do I just give into the, they're never going to get there, and what does that mean for our capacity to stay connected in any way? Or do I still hold something of this hope that might even feel foolish in this moment of someday? Maybe somebody's going to get there. (05:18): And it reminds me a little bit of, I probably said this before in here too, there's a podcast between a conversation between Tahi cos and Ezra Klein, and in some ways they end up talking about this question of hope, although I don't think they use the word necessarily, but one of the questions that Ezra Klein it keeps asking is like, why do you keep putting everything in this long historical arc? Every single thing that we're talking about in this moment is sort of this question to Tanya. She comes like, why do you keep putting it in this long arc of history? Because that feels too heavy. It's too much, right? That's too dark. And in part I think at least the way I interpret coats as an answer is because that's where you access this kind of hope that over the long arc of history, something will shift and bend towards something that feels like justice. And that's sort of bringing Martin Luther King into this conversation about the long arc of justice. But I think Coates's answer is something of that's where we gather the capacity and the strength from the past in order to actually stay in the present with the kind of insistence for something good to come out of all of this. So I don't know, there's something in that sort of narrative and that history that I want to borrow from to say, unfortunately, this is not a new conversation in this country. (07:13): It feels that way because it's new in my lifetime. It's new in our lifetime, it's new in our generation, but it's not actually new to the country. And when you look over time, there has always forever been this strain of Christian nationalism and white supremacy, and yet we are still here and we are still here with moments like Bad Bunny in the Super Bowl still happening. And so I think, at least for me, in part, the answer to your question is I have to borrow from that space in order to have the capacity to stay in this one. And it occurs to me that I was born in the seventies post civil rights legislation by the time I was in high school applying to college, affirmative action was the law of the land (08:21): I have lived in. We have lived in the harvest of someone else's labor. We have lived in a time when rights were continually being added to the conversation in our lifetime, women could vote in our lifetime. Women can own property, they can have credit cards, they can hold all of these things. And this is the first time in my lifetime I have lived through a retraction of rights, a retraction of oxygen, a retraction of space, and it feels excruciating, but it's not the first time this country has been through that kind of rhythm and our ancestors survived and we will survive, right? At least for me, that's maybe not an answer to the question of how do you relate to your family? But it's the only way I have to go with it is to just say, somehow we will actually survive this. I don't know how, and I dunno what will be left when we start the process of rebuilding, but I have to borrow from that history to feel like I can breathe on a Thursday morning. Jenny (10:08): Yeah. I think that's part of what I am thinking of, and it's almost this existential, what is relationship if we can't see reality, if we can't acknowledge reality, if you're asking me to swallow my own reality and this collective reality, and I think it feels connected even to what you were sharing, Rebecca is like, there's something I feel particular in this moment where as far as I know, I don't have personal ancestry of resistance. I have ancestry of complicity. And so what does it look like to draw from the past with white ancestors who chose to assimilate to adopt whiteness rather than work against it and resist how we got here? Because it is like I don't want to appropriate the civil rights movement and I don't want to appropriate these resistances that I have so much respect for, and they weren't my collective or my ancestral resistance. And so I feel that even in this moment where there's this tension with my white community, my white family, the white spaces, I know it feels like there's so much tension there. I think Rebecca (11:45): Mean, the thing that I would say is that when I say the word ancestor as a black American person, I don't actually mean bloodline. And even if I did, I likely couldn't prove it because the records are either lost or weren't created. You can only go so far back before lineage because of the slave trade is not reported as people is reported as property. And so you can't track it past, once you run into slave owner, you can no longer track bloodline. I think what's true in collective cultures is this very broad collective tissue that means blood or not. (12:53): You are family that means blood or not. There is a recognition of some connective tissue between us because of our shared collective experience. And so I have no freaking idea if I'm related to Rosa Parks, I'm probably not right. But when I say that I'm borrowing from the strength of my ancestry, I'm still borrowing from her narrative and from what her contribution to our collective narrative. And so I think one of the things that I have noticed in my sort of limited lifespan is that when I say the word ancestry to someone who is white, they hear something very different than what I hear when I say that word. And so I don't feel the restriction of only being able to borrow from the story of people in my bloodline. I feel permission to borrow from the larger, wider collective that is the black American experience, that is the African Diasphoric experience. (14:08): And I would say I even feel permission to borrow things from other cultures. And I say this to Daniel all the time, I'm going to steal that from you, right? I'm going to borrow that, right? And I will give credit where credit is due. I will say, I'm borrowing something from the Latinx experience. If you watch the black interpretation of Bad Bunny, literally there's stuff on social media that's like, why do you care? We're not Latinx. And then it cuts to this clip of this, I don't know what it's, it looks like Bad Bunny in a tiny desk concert, but behind him is this black African drummer who's going off. And then the answer is, because I feel this music in my soul. So you can hear that we are intentionally borrowing something that feels familiar to us because we feel permission to borrow it. (15:13): And then there's a lot of conversations in the black community about Bad Bunny that's like, I don't need to understand Spanish to feel what cultural pride looks like, and I'm down for that all day long. But you can feel that sense of, I feel permission to borrow something that feels familiar. I won't name it as borrowing, so I won't appropriate it, but I do feel that permission. And so that's probably what I would say to you, not as a pass for what might be true in your actual blood lineage, but I think that there's a strong strain of resistance for people of European descent around race and racism in this country. It's buried and it's untold for probably really intentional reasons, but it's there. And what does it mean to actually be given permission to give yourself permission to borrow from that and to name it as, I'm actually going to pull something from someone else and I'm going to borrow their collective strength. I'm going to add it to mine so that we could go in a different direction. Well, first I guess I would have to believe that there was or is an actual political dialogue taking place that I could potentially be a part of. And honestly, I'm not sure that I believe that.

Finding tranquility in a busy world shouldn't be another task on your to-do list. This episode of Calming Anxiety offers a 10-minute somatic reset designed to help you transition from "optimization mode" to a state of restorative peace.Overcome Stress and Reclaim Your Inner PeaceIn this guided session, we practice glimmer hunting—the mindful art of noticing micro-moments of safety and joy, such as the warmth of a morning coffee or a patch of golden sunlight. By shifting your focus from external triggers to internal safety, you can effectively retrain your nervous system to choose calm over panic.Inside This 10-Minute Mindfulness Session:The Double Inhale Technique: Learn the fastest, science-backed breathing method to hack your nervous system and instantly turn off the panic response.Progressive Somatic Release: A guided body scan to identify where the day has "clenched" and manually release tension from your jaw, shoulders, and core.Daily Affirmations for Worthiness: Deepen your subconscious belief in your own value with our daily intention: "I am open to the good that is here".3 Practical Caring Tips: Actionable advice on setting "glimmer goals," using the "somatic shake" to discharge physical stress, and protecting your mental health with a 10-minute morning digital fast.Why Listen to Calming Anxiety?Whether you are a beginner to meditation or seeking deep anxiety relief, this podcast provides a sanctuary for your consciousness. Join our community of over 10 million downloads as we set daily intentions for clarity, balance, and self-worth.Take a breath. Honor all that you are. And as always, be kind

What happens when a personal trainer loses the ability to walk and discovers a power she never knew existed? In episode 248 of Joy Found Here, Isabelle Daikeler shares how spending over a decade unable to move without pain after giving birth forced her into complete surrender. That breaking point became her awakening—when her body began moving on its own for three days, when channeling started, and when she discovered what she calls our "third limb": an aspect of ourselves we've all forgotten we have.In This Episode, You Will Learn:(04:59) From Skeptic to Healer(07:18) The Car Crash That Changed Everything(10:30) Discovering Adaptogenic Medicine(15:13) Giving Birth and Losing Mobility(17:10) The Prayer of Surrender(22:00) Three Days of Somatic Unwinding(24:30) Discovering the "Third Limb"(30:44) Living with Inner Guidance(34:08) Your Body's Ancestral Wisdom(39:37) Inside the Harmonic Egg(44:48) Why Knowing is FreedomAs the founder of Authenticity – The Malibu Sound & Light Healing Center, Isabelle Daikeler guides individuals toward inner alignment through intuitive channeling and the revolutionary Harmonic Egg chamber. Her journey into this work wasn't sought—it found her. After giving birth to her son seventeen years ago, she spent over a decade unable to walk, stripped of her identity as a strong, athletic personal trainer. Broken and surrendering in prayer on the floor of her Kauai home, her connection to divine guidance—what she calls her third "limb"—awakened through three days of involuntary somatic unwinding and the beginning of channeling. Her devastating loss became the doorway to a different kind of strength: one built from the inside out.In this episode, Isabelle shares why surrender is the most essential step in healing, how our bodies hold ancestral wisdom and current-life lessons in every moment, and why the negative emotions we resist are actually our greatest teachers. She introduces the Harmonic Egg—a sacred geometry chamber using personalized sound and light frequencies to reset the nervous system and shift us from reactive to responsive. Whether you've spent years searching for answers or you're carrying pain that won't let go, Isabelle's message is clear: the wisdom you need is already within you, accessible here and now, and knowing—truly knowing—is the gateway to freedom.Connect with Isabelle Daikeler:WebsiteInstagramFacebookLet's Connect:WebsiteInstagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Calming Anxiety: Guided Meditation & Mindfulness for Mental FitnessDo you feel like your mind is a browser with far too many tabs open? Are you stuck in a loop of overthinking, rehearsing disasters, or feeling the weight of mid-winter burnout? Welcome to Calming Anxiety, your daily sanctuary for anxiety relief, inner peace, and somatic resets.Hosted by Martin, a clinical hypnotherapist, this podcast provides professional-grade guided meditations designed to manually turn off the stress switch and retrain your nervous system. Whether you are seeking mindfulness for beginners, burnout prevention, or deep relaxation, each 10-minute episode helps you set daily intentions for success and reclaim your mental space.Why listen to Calming Anxiety?Somatic Healing: Use proven techniques like the "Double Inhale" to hack the vagus nerve and stop the panic response instantly.Daily Affirmations: Strengthen your subconscious with powerful intentions like "My peace is my priority" to build long-term winter resilience.Practical Mindfulness: Every episode concludes with 3 Caring Tips—practical, real-world tools to maintain your "shield of warmth" throughout the day.A Community of Calm: Join a global audience dedicated to manifestation, self-love, and positive energy.With a catalog of over 2,000 sessions, make mindfulness a core part of your 2026 routine. From sleep rescue and dopamine resets to boundary setting and emotional fitness, we provide the tools to help you stop absorbing the chaos and start observing it.Subscribe now to step out of the river of overthinking and back into control. Protect your energy, find your glimmer, and remember: to your beautiful self, be kind.

Somatic work is becoming increasingly popular in coaching and personal growth spaces — and for good reason. Many practitioners are discovering that insight alone isn't always enough to create lasting change for clients. When fear, resistance, self-sabotage, or stuck patterns show up, the nervous system and body often need to be part of the work. In this episode, Joanna explores why somatic work matters, what it actually supports beneath the surface, and why working with the body requires real skill, presence, and training — not just a few techniques added on to cognitive coaching. Drawing on nearly 25 years of experience working somatically with clients, Joanna makes the case for integrating body-based approaches into coaching work in a way that is ethical, trauma-informed, and deeply effective. This is not a step-by-step how-to episode. Instead, it's a mastery-level conversation about what makes somatic work powerful — and what can quietly undermine it when it's rushed, overly cognitive, or poorly contained. In this episode, Joanna explores: Why cognitive insight doesn't always lead to behavioral or emotional change How fear, resistance, and self-sabotage are often driven by nervous system patterns What somatic work actually helps update at the level of the body and nervous system Why many clients "understand everything" yet remain stuck The role of presence, pacing, and regulation in effective somatic work How a practitioner's own nervous system impacts the depth of client transformation Why simple, body-oriented approaches often outperform complex questioning The importance of safety, ethics, and scope when working somatically Joanna also shares personal stories and practitioner insights that illustrate how outdated protective strategies form — and why working with the body is often the missing piece when clients want change but can't seem to access it through insight alone. If you're a coach or practitioner who feels drawn to somatic work — or already uses it and wants to refine your approach — this episode will help you understand so of what actually makes somatic work effective, and why depth comes from skill, not speed.   Want to deepen your somatic skills? Joanna trains coaches and practitioners in trauma-informed, ethical somatic work inside Sacred Depths, where the focus is not just on techniques, but on presence, nervous system awareness, pacing, and practitioner mastery.   Free Training: Help Clients Get Off the Wheel of Self-Sabotage I walk you through a simple, powerful model for understanding why self-sabotage happens and how to work with it in a way that's compassionate, nervous-system informed, and actually effective (without pushing, fixing, or over-strategizing). This training is designed for coaches and practitioners who want to help clients create real change — not just insight — and who care deeply about doing this work with integrity and depth. Learn more and register here!

Your body can learn safety again even when grief, anger, or hyper-alert energy takes over. I'll walk you through a gentle, guided somatic practice that alternates between a curling posture and an open, lifted posture to restore rhythm in the nervous system. If this resonates, subscribe, share with a friend who needs a gentle reset, and leave a quick review to help more women find these tools. Want deeper, personalized support? Learn about 1:1 coaching at KarinNelsonCoaching.com.To download your FREE GUIDE: "7-Day Self Trust Reset" click here. To schedule your complimentary consult with Karin click here. If this podcast resonated with you in any way, please take a minute to follow and give me a rating wherever you listen to podcasts.

Where do emotions actually live in the body?Why does anxiety sit in the stomach…grief ache in the chest…and confidence collapse under pressure?In this calming and deeply grounding episode, we explore the chakras — not as mystical concepts, but as a practical map of human experience inside the nervous system.You'll discover how fear, safety, connection, expression, and meaning are felt physically, and how understanding these body responses can gently restore balance.This episode blends psychology, physiology, and ancient wisdom into a compassionate explanation of how the body remembers life — and how awareness itself can become healing.Perfect for listeners interested in:• Chakras explained simply• Mind-body connection• Anxiety and nervous system regulation• Trauma stored in the body• Emotional healing• Meditation and relaxation• Somatic awareness• Personal growth and self-understandingIncludes a gentle guided visualization to help you reconnect with your body safely and calmly.The goal is not to fix anything — only to understand yourself with kindness.Your body has carried you through more than you know.

We're kicking off our Feminine Embodiment Coaching Certification with a special Orientation Week. → We start 2 March 2026. → You can find all the details here → —------------ Want to learn the structure of a potent somatic session?   When I was first working with clients it started with… have a chat, hope it worked!    Each time I was drawing on my intuition &

Feeling the weight of "optimization mode"? If you woke up today feeling like your motivation has worn off, you are not alone. In this 10-minute session, clinical hypnotherapist Martin guides you through a "hard reset" for your nervous system to reclaim your inner peace and resilience.Whether you are navigating burnout or seeking a powerful morning boost, this meditation uses somatic healing and vagus nerve stimulation to anchor you in the present moment. Learn to turn off the stress switch and manifest a day where challenges are handled with absolute ease.

This episode of Calming Anxiety focuses on transitioning from survival mode to a state of soul alignment and spiritual grounding. In Part 3 of our "Winter Radiant Journey," titled The Energy Bloom, your guide Martin leads you through a somatic healing breath exercise designed to thaw internal tension and transform isolation into intentional connection.Experience a deep nervous system reset as you visualize a vibrant emerald green light dissolving the "cold spots" of stress in your body. Whether you are navigating high-functioning anxiety or burnout recovery, this session provides the energetic hygiene needed to create your own climate of inner peace.Episode Chapters00:00 – Finding Your Sanctuary: Transitioning from Survival to Alignment01:30 – Somatic Healing Breath: Thawing Internal Tension02:20 – Emerald Green Light Visualization for Holistic Healing03:45 – The Energy Bloom: Visualizing Your Inner Golden Light05:00 – Affirmations for Manifesting Peace & Overcoming Compassion Fatigue07:50 – 3 Caring Tips for a Positive Life09:20 – Grounding Back into the Present Moment3 Tips for a Happier, Energy-Aligned LifeThe Digital Sunset: Protect your subconscious by putting your phone in another room 30 minutes before bed.Micro-Moments of Awe: Spend 60 seconds daily observing nature (a leaf, a cloud, or light) to shift your brain from survival to appreciation mode and aid in cortisol reduction.The Power of "Not Now": Protect your energy by practicing the phrase, "I can't commit to that right now"—a kind way for empaths to hold boundaries.Join Our Community If this meditation helped you find your warmth today, please subscribe and hit the notification bell so you never miss a step in your healing journey.This show is a solo project, and your support keeps it on the road. Consider joining our Supporters Club for just $5 a month to enjoy an ad-free experience.A favor to ask: If you know someone shivering in the dark, please share this episode on your social media. You might just be the light they need today.Smile often, and to your beautiful self—be kind.

A Strong Heart with Compassion with Michael J. Shea Michael J. Shea, PhD, holds a doctorate in somatic psychology from the Union Institute and a master's degree in Buddhist Psychology from Naropa University. He has taught at the Upledger Institute, the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, and the International University for Professional Studies. He is a craniosacral therapist, licensed massage therapist, and educator with the Shea Educational Group that is a center for the study of the human heart. He is author of Somatic Psychology and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy – Volumes 1 through 5; Myofasical Release Therapy: A Visual Guide to Clinical Application; Myofascial Release Therapy and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy: The Heart of the Practice; The Biodynamics of the Immune System: Balancing the Energies of the Body with the Cosmos; and The Biodynamic Heart: Somatic Compassion Practices for a Clear and Vital Heart. His website is sheaheart.com. Michael details how being in a terrorist bombing resulted in a near-death experience and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that shaped his understanding of the heart’s role in emotional and physical health. He describes how the heart develops from embryonic tissue and is the center of the universe with an infinite capacity to expand in compassion. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:08 Journey to compassion 00:13:03 Removing a gun from the heart 00:18:46 Metabolism and the heart 00:28:12 Craniosacral therapy and the still point 00:34:21 Somatic psychology and spirituality 00:50:52 Infinite capacity to expand 00:57:03 Compassion and Tonglen meditation 01:09:52 Heart as center of the universe 01:15:51 Conclusion New Thinking Allowed CoHost, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, is a licensed occupational therapist, intuitive healer and coach, and spiritual guide based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Emmy is the founder of the Intuitive Connections and Holistic OT communities. She is the author of Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. Her website is https://emmyvadnais.com (Recorded on December 5, 2025) For a short video on How to Get the Most From New Thinking Allowed, go to https://youtu.be/aVbfPFGxv9o Check out our new website for the New Thinking Allowed Foundation at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. There you will find our incredible, searchable database as well as our new, FREE QUARTERLY MAGAZINE. Also, opportunities to shop and to support our video productions. There, you can also subscribe to our FREE, WEEKLY NEWSLETTER! For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see https://newthinkingallowed.com/Listings.html. Check out New Thinking Allowed’s AI chatbot. You can create a free account at https://ai.servicespace.org When you enter the space, you will see that our chatbot is one of several you can interact with. While it is still a work in progress, it has been trained on 1,600 NTA transcripts. It can provide intelligent answers about the contents of our interviews. It’s almost like having a conversation with Jeffrey Mishlove. To buy a high-quality, printed version of the New Thinking Allowed Magazine, go to nta-magazine.magcloud.com. To join the NTA Psi Experience Community on Facebook, see https://www.facebook.com/groups/1953031791426543/. To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, visit our podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-thinking-allowed-audio-podcast/id1435178031. Download and read Jeffrey Mishlove’s Grand Prize essay in the Bigelow Institute competition, Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death. https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/docs/1st.pdf If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to friends@newthinkingallowed.com. To order Intuitive Development by Emmy Vadnais, click here: https://amzn.to/35sbLIA. To order The Biodynamic Heart by Michael J. Shea, go to: https://amzn.to/4jKdEVr To order New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on https://amzn.to/3LzLA7Y To order Russell Targ: Ninety Years of ESP, Remote Viewing, and Timeless Awareness, go to https://amzn.to/4aw2iyr To order UFOs and UAP – Are We Really Alone?, go to https://amzn.to/3Y0VOVh To order a copy of Charles T. Tart: Seventy Years of Exploring Consciousness and Parapsychology, go to https://amzn.to/4oOUJLn

Stop waiting for the perfect circumstances to feel joy. In this 10-minute mindfulness for beginners journey, we shift your mindset from reactive to intentional, providing deep anxiety relief and restorative power for those experiencing seasonal burnout or chronic stress.Success is measured by your ability to choose calm in the chaos. Today, we use powerful affirmations and nervous system regulation techniques—including the "double inhale" and somatic squeezing—to help you stop overthinking and silence racing thoughts. Whether you are looking for a morning meditation to set a daily intention or a way to unwind before sleep, this session provides a sanctuary for your consciousness.Inside This Episode, You Will Discover:The Double Inhale Technique: A physiological sigh to release immediate tension.The Golden Thread Visualization: A practice for heart-opening and grounding.Affirmation Power: Planting the seeds of happiness with the mantra: "I give myself permission to be happy."Mind-Body Connection: A focused scan to melt the "gray mist" of tension behind the eyes and jaw.Renewable Energy: A visualization of walking into a new season of abundance.3 Caring Tips for a Happier, More Positive LifeGlimmer Hunting: Find three tiny moments of safety or joy throughout your day.The Play Intervention: Spend five minutes daily on something purely tactile and "unproductive," like drawing or dancing, to reset your nervous system.Somatic Squeezing: When stress arises, squeeze every muscle tight for five seconds and release to signal to your brain that the stress cycle is over.Timestamps for Deep Relaxation00:00 – Cold Open: The permission to be happy.00:27 – Introduction to Mindfulness for Beginners.01:08 – The Double Inhale: Breathwork for stress release.02:00 – Body Scan: Softening the "gray mist" of tension.03:43 – Affirmation Session: "I give myself permission to be happy."05:36 – Visualization: The glowing ember of the solar plexus.06:54 – 3 Caring Tips for a positive life.08:58 – Outro: Protecting your newly awakened energy.Join the SeriesThis episode is part of our "Protecting Your Energy" mini-series. Be sure to join us tomorrow for Part 2, where we explore how to maintain this inner peace and guard your renewable energy against external negativity.Subscribe to Calming Anxiety for daily guided meditations, sleep hypnosis, and panic attack relief.

In this episode of the Imagine Belonging Podcast, Rhodes Perry invites listeners to shift their relationship with gratitude—from a passive reaction when things go well to an intentional practice of resilience. Drawing on the rich sensory experiences of a recent pilgrimage to India, Rhodes guides listeners through a deep, 20-minute somatic meditation designed to metabolize safety and build the resilience required to lead through collapse and chaos. Rather than bypassing the difficulties of leadership or "white-knuckling" through stress, Rhodes challenges leaders to ground themselves in the material, the communal, and the spiritual to access a generative state. This episode offers a sanctuary for the busy executive mind, teaching you to show up in your own power, express yourself without apology, and claim the agency you need to be the authentic leader your team is waiting for and needs. Key Reflections & Timestamps: [0:00] The Practice of Gratitude: Why gratitude is a mood we must practice to build leadership resilience, not just a reaction to good news. [3:00] Grounding in the Material: A somatic inquiry into the Earth and systems that support us, allowing leaders to feel held without needing to control everything. [7:00] The Community of Trust: Visualizing the mentors and guides who create safety, and how to metabolize that support to lower hyper-vigilance. [11:00] The Sky & Spirit: Expanding perspective beyond the immediate "to-do" list to access intuition and the bigger picture. [15:00] Unapologetic Self-Gratitude: A powerful invitation to thank yourself for your own courage, healing, and the choice to prioritize authenticity over people-pleasing. [18:00] Integration & Affirmations: Locking in the generative state to carry into your next meeting or decision.

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Stop running on optimization mode. Today, we change your metric of success from productivity to the miracles existing right in front of you. This 10-minute somatic reset is a guided journey designed for mindfulness for beginners and deep anxiety relief. Join Martin on the Calming Anxiety Podcast as we find the gap between who you are and the noise of your thoughts. Through specialized breathing techniques and restorative visualizations, you will flip the switch from "fight or flight" to "rest and digest." In This Episode, You Will Experience:The Double Inhale Breath: A proven "nervous system hack" to instantly turn off the panic response. Somatic Release: A guided body scan to unclench the jaw and offload the "heavy backpack" of weekly stress. Mind-Body Connection: Visualizing grey mist dissolving into clarity and peace. Affirmations for Presence: Internalizing truths like "I am honoring my capacity, not just my output." Winter Radiance Visualization: A journey to a peaceful cabin to rediscover your inner "pilot light" and the miracles of new beginnings. 3 Caring Tips for a Happier, More Positive LifeTo help you carry this peace into your day, practice these three simple habits: Glimmer Hunting: Challenge yourself to find three tiny things that feel good (a nice smell, a song) and acknowledge them as "glimmers" to train your brain away from anxiety. The Fresh Air First Rule: Step outside for five minutes before looking at any screens to remind your body the world is big and open. Unspoken Gratitude: Look at someone tonight and silently list three things you appreciate about them to naturally shift the atmosphere around you. Connect With UsIf this session helped you find your center, please subscribe and share this episode to help grow our community of kindness. Remember, when you look in the mirror, smile often and be kind.

In this Mid Winter session, Martin guides you through a profound ten-minute journey into the heart of peace. As we navigate the complexities of the season, this episode serves as your "coffee break for the soul," offering a sanctuary of silence through somatic grounding for seasonal affective shifts and intentional breathing. We explore the power of internal light to drive away self-doubt and panic, while establishing a foundation for nervous system regulation for high-performance living.By focusing on the hypnotic rhythm of the breath, you will engage in vagal toning for deep stress recovery, allowing your mind and body to reunite in a state of true calm. This session isn't just a holiday pause; it is emotional fitness training for the new year, designed to help you master mindful self-compassion for holiday gatherings and beyond.Time-Stamped Chapters00:00 – Finding your quiet space and entering the sanctuary.00:41 – Somatic grounding through rhythmic breathing and chest expansion.01:54 – The Golden Light visualization: Adding fuel to your internal energy.0:12 – Expanding warmth: Pushing away worry and driving out the cold chill of winter.04:25 – Deep relaxation: Finding peace within the sanctuary of consciousness.05:17 – Emotional fitness training: Affirmations for priority and peace.06:20 – Visualizing grace: Staying centered amidst the noise of tomorrow.07:00 – Circadian reset for deep restorative sleep through silence.08:05 – Three Caring Tips for a happier, more positive life.09:20 – Proactive burnout prevention through stillness: Returning to the now.3 Caring Tips for a Happier, More Positive LifeThe One-Minute Digital Fast: Leave your phone in another room for at least five minutes today to create space for authentic human connection over digital consumption.Practice Unspoken Gratitude: Silently list three things you appreciate about someone you are with tonight to naturally improve the room's atmosphere.The Evening Reflection: Write down one "hidden win"—a small personal success—to reinforce a positive mindset for long-term well-being.Connect with Calming AnxietySupport the Show: Join our Supporters Club for just $5 a month to enjoy advert-free episodes and exclusive content.Share the Peace: If this helped you, please like, subscribe, and share on social media to help others find their center.Final Thought: Smile often, and above all, be kind.Break the Cycle of Anxiety Today Are you ready to stop the spiral? Join me in the Anxiety Circuit Breaker course, specifically designed to help you regain control and find your calm in just minutes. You can access the full course and take the first step toward a quieter mind by visiting calminganxiety.fm.