Lift OneSelf -Podcast

Send us Fan Mail What if the strongest boundary you’ve built isn’t protection at all, yet a polished way to avoid feeling? We hear it all the time: protect your peace, protect your energy, cut people off, listen to your nervous system. And sometimes distance is exactly what you need. Yet sometimes what feels like danger is an old wound being touched. In this episode, I explore the difference betwe...

Send us Fan Mail Your week blows up, your mind starts sprinting, and suddenly it feels like someone dumped every drawer in your life onto the floor. I’m NatNat, and I’m walking through that kind of season right now. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, tense, emotionally drained, or stuck in what feels like quicksand, come join me for an exhale. In this episode, I explore what can sometimes sit undernea...

Send us Fan Mail Your body can start bracing for conflict before a single word is spoken. A tight chest. A clenched jaw. The urge to disappear. The thoughts that say, “Don’t go,” “Don’t say it,” or “You’re too much.” In this episode, I explore what that internal conflict can feel like and what happens when we begin creating space for those feelings instead of immediately letting them decide what w...

Send us Fan Mail We talk about what happens when someone offers a real apology and our hurt still refuses to receive it. Because sometimes the apology is genuine. The accountability is there. The actions are changing. And still, something in us says, “No. Not yet.” In this episode, we explore the difference between protecting yourself and becoming trapped inside the pain, so healing does not requi...

Send us Fan Mail Your chest tightens. Your thoughts speed up. And suddenly, you are not listening anymore. You are building a case. We have all been there. Someone says, “You hurt me,” or “I didn’t feel heard,” and before they even finish, anger has already stepped in to defend your character, your intention, and your version of what happened. In this episode, I’m talking about why anger can becom...

Send us Fan Mail Something is shifting, and you can feel it in your body before you can explain it with words. I sit down with artist and Creative Genius Podcast host Kate Shepherd for a tender, honest conversation about navigating a polarized world without letting fear flatten your humanity. We start with a mindful moment, then move straight into what it means to live at an intersection of beauty...

Send us Fan Mail Joy gets treated like a prize at the end of a long, exhausting race. We’re told to earn it, justify it, and postpone it until we’ve healed enough, worked enough, suffered enough. But that mindset quietly keeps us stuck in survival mode, where scrolling replaces play and “being productive” replaces being alive. We sit together for a short, grounding reset that speaks directly to bu...

Send us Fan Mail What if clarity wasn't something you chased, but something you tuned into? Business and energy expansion coach Kanika joins us to demystify the Akashic Records a living library of soul knowledge that heals root patterns, strengthens identity, and brings your life and business into true alignment. Kanika's story begins where many of us hide: success on paper, emptiness wi...

Send us Fan Mail Fear doesn’t just warn you. It can recruit a whole committee, draft a presentation, and convince your body to brace for a future that hasn’t even happened. In this episode, I explore why fear can feel more familiar than trusting Life, how our nervous system uses the past to predict what comes next, and why trying to control Life can really be an attempt to avoid feeling disappoint...

Send us Fan Mail The world feels shaky, and the easiest trap to fall into is black and white thinking: a clean hero, a clear villain, and a fast emotional hit that keeps us reactive instead of reflective. We want certainty because it feels safe, but that safety can come at a cost. When we numb out or stay permanently triggered, we lose critical thinking, empathy, and the ability to see the full pi...

Send us Fan Mail  You already know who keeps breaking your wings. You've known for a while. So why are you still there? This episode tells the story of a scorpion and a butterfly, two beings who cannot coexist, even when they want to. It's not about good or bad. It's about incompatibility. And sometimes, love cannot grow where someone's patterns keep causing harm. We explore wh...

Send us Fan Mail Why does resilience feel so heavy? Because you're not actually feeling the pain you're bypassing it. In this final episode of the Emotional Sobriety series, I draw a bright line between understanding your patterns and actually embodying change. Real healing doesn't happen in the head alone, and "high-vibe only" positivity isn't healing it's just...

Send us Fan Mail What if anger isn't the problem at all, but the protector standing guard over your boundaries, values, and deepest tenderness? In Episode 2 of the Emotional Sobriety series, we dismantle the myth of the "anger problem" and reveal the truth: anger isn't dangerous, untrained behavior and unprocessed pain are. When you learn to separate feeling from reaction, you...

Send us Fan Mail What if your body is speaking first and your thoughts are just catching up? We kick off a three-part journey into emotional sobriety by reframing feelings and thoughts as information, not identity, and by teaching a grounded, practical way to listen from the neck down. Through personal story, science-informed insights, and a guided practice, we explore how childhood conditioning t...

Send us Fan Mail You're exhausted, but you can't stop. You say yes when you mean no. You override the tightness in your chest and the knot in your stomach because you're supposed to be rational, agreeable, strong. But your body has been trying to tell you something. In this episode, we explore how to read your nervous system's signals, recognize the armor you're wearing, a...

Send us Fan Mail A bite-sized episode on how to actually create change when you're already exhausted. Hint: It starts with one promise. Support the show   READY TO GO DEEPER? 🔥 Emotional Sobriety Workshop – Full nervous system regulation practices and tools to help you live in a feeling body that thinks. Click Here 📞 1:1 Sessions – Work directly on your specific patterns. I specialize assis...

Send us Fan Mail Exhausted from setting boundaries that people keep crossing? The problem isn't them—it's that what you're calling "boundaries" are actually attempts at control. And control never works. In this episode, we break down the difference between: - Boundaries** (what you hold up against yourself) - Sovereignty** (choosing what you will and won't participate...

Send us Fan Mail Trade the noise of ten resolutions for the clarity of one word. We explore how a single intention can act like a compass aligning your goals, calming your nervous system, and making decisions simpler and more honest. Instead of forcing a new identity, we focus on trusting what’s already within you, so progress feels grounded rather than frantic. I share why my word for 2026 is spa...

Send us Fan Mail Forgiveness without access. That single reframe changes how you heal, set boundaries, and stop returning to what hurts. Most of us were taught forgiveness means reconciliation that if you've truly forgiven someone, they get to come back. But forgiveness is releasing the war with reality, not granting someone access to your life. Here's why you keep going back: you can&ap...

Send us Fan Mail Are you settling for crumbs when your life is calling you to the whole meal? We open with a clear look at why so many of us accept scraps of connection and approval texts that trickle in, one-sided friendships, invitations that feel like obligations and why that pattern can feel safer than being alone. The truth is simpler and braver: a worthiness wound trains the nervous system t...

Send us Fan Mail We reframe shame as a protector and guide you through a simple somatic practice to meet what it guards. We share how negative bias binds your story and how gentle curiosity opens space for change and choice. • shame functions as a bodyguard, not a villain • negative bias fuses with identity and narrows choice • looping personal narratives as a false form of safety • somatic check-...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when a high school English paper becomes a 911 call that saves a family? In this deeply vulnerable episode, fractional COO and horsewoman Kallai Plummer takes us through her transformation from survival mode single mother to conscious parent and the therapy journey that made it possible. We open with a grounding breathwork practice before diving into the messy, beauti...

Send us Fan Mail What if mental health isn't something you're diagnosed with—but something you train daily, like physical fitness? Arnold Beekes watched the mental health system fail his sister. Institutions prioritized filling seats over healing people. Two of her classmates died by suicide that same week. That bike ride home changed everything. A former corporate executive turned globa...

Send us Fan Mail "What if the smartest part of your brain is the one that learned to hide?" We start with a grounding practice to meet the body where it is, then sit with therapist and podcast host Malisa Hepner to unpack how the "golden child" mask, complex trauma, and perfectionism can quietly fracture a life—and how she pieced it back together. In this conversation: Trauma a...

Send us Fan Mail The cards wouldn't shuffle. Then "Chop Wood" appeared twice. The universe was insisting on one message: transformation doesn't live in breakthroughs. It lives in what you do every single day. In this episode: Why your nervous system resists simplicity (even when you crave peace) The real reason "just breathe" makes you roll your eyes Who you are when...