Embodied Badass...Change Comes From Within

Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussion of abuse and childhood trauma. In this episode, Kendra shares the moment she stopped searching for who hurt her and began sitting with the inner child it happened to. A conversation about abuse, memory, and the radical shift from investigation to embodiment—choosing presence, protection, and compassion over needing all the answers.

At a crossroads between familiarity and fulfillment, in this episode I unpack vivid dreams that tempt me back into old coping patterns, substances, chaos, and performative intimacy; just as I’m moving toward deeper commitment and cohabitation with my partner. This episode explores how the nervous system clings to what’s recognizable, even when it’s misaligned, and what it takes to feel fear withou...

Shared Episode: All the Medicine is Inside You (Originally aired on Deep Soul Awakenings) In this soul-nourishing shared episode, we’re bringing you a luminous conversation from Deep Soul Awakenings with Millie Franco—featuring none other than our very own Kendra Valentine of Embodied Badass. Together, Millie and Kendra explore a timeless truth: that all the healing, wisdom, and power we seek alre...

This episode honors the grief no one prepares you for—the kind that comes when someone you love dies by suicide, and you're left holding a thousand tangled threads of anger, love, guilt, and silence. I share a deeply personal story about someone I once held close—someone who hurt me, disappeared, and then left this world in a way that made the grief even messier. This isn’t a tidy conversation...

This isn’t your polished, packaged healing story. This is the real, gritty, gut-wrenching truth of surviving childhood sexual assault, and the long, complicated, non-linear path toward reclaiming your body, your voice, and your worth. I talk about how trauma shapes our patterns, why unsafe feels familiar, and what it actually means to hold space for someone in their pain. For survivors, for suppor...

This is the funeral of the nice girl. The one who said yes when her body whispered no. The one who confused access with love. The one who mistook self-abandonment for kindness. In this episode, I sit with the sacred yes that lives in my sacrum, and the sovereign no that echoes through my solar plexus. I talk about what it really took to stop performing niceness and start practicing kindness—from t...

This episode is real, raw, and probably uncomfortable—but it needs to be. We’re talking about consent, not just as a legal checkbox, but as something deeper, messier, and often tangled in layers of conditioning, trauma, and survival. What happens when we say “yes” because we’re afraid, because we’ve been trained to please, or because we don’t even realize we can say no? I’m unpacking my own experi...

Teenage years can be a battleground of self-worth, where the world tries to tell you that your value is tied to what your body can offer instead of who you are. The secrets we carry—the ones we were too young to understand, too afraid to speak—can feel like chains, but they don’t define us. In this episode, we get real about the pressure to equate worth with sex, the fight for autonomy, and the po...

Welcome to Embodied Badass...Change Comes From Within! In this episode, Kendra Valentine, aka Embodied Badass, dives into a recent situationship that tested her intuition, boundaries, and integrity. She shares raw insights on navigating mixed signals, honoring her gut feelings, and learning when to walk away. With honesty and humor, Kendra explores the lessons life presents when we ignore our inne...

Step into a space of radical honesty, deep healing, and unapologetic self-expression. In this podcast, Kendra Valentine invites you into the liminal space—the gray area of transformation—where love, chaos, resilience, and self-discovery collide. This is not a sugar-coated journey. Here, we dismantle the illusions, shed the masks, and embrace the raw, unfiltered truth of being human. No more seekin...