The Deeper Pulse with Candice Schutter

What if you can live life authentically while exuding an internal power that liberates you from the weight of other people's opinions? What if you can cultivate a capacity within you that offers an alternative to cutting ties and erecting walls? What if it's possible to go beyond boundaries ? In part 1 of the two-part sovereignty series, we explore what it looks like to swap self-protect...

Let’s get real about self-sacrifice and what, if anything, it has to do with empathy. Candice shares a few hard-earned lessons she learned about ‘service’ while waiting tables, along with an intimate peek into how she and her partner often mess things up when it comes to offering empathy to one another. We’ll explore how hijacking vulnerability isn’t the same thing as helping, and explore options...

Candice is coming to you with a brief personal story & another timely reminder to trust your own natural rhythms, even when it means defying conventional wisdom or disappointing others. Effectively immediately, TDP episodes will be rolling out bi-monthly… because 'being seen' with consistency isn't at all the same as 'being known' for the deeper pulse that lives within...

Empathy. It’s the 4th key of courageous self-expression and lubricant for connection. Building upon the first three keys, Candice invites you to look closely at how you show up to support others, particularly when strong emotions are at play. She offers a variety of personal stories to illustrate, revealing shameful mistakes she’s made along the way, moments when she failed to offer what was neede...

Candice launches the Summer Season of TDP with a continued exploration of the 3rd key of courageous self-expression - vulnerability . She opens the episode with a story from her past and a peek into an intimate therapeutic breakthrough. She speaks about how social conditioning shapes our relationship to emotional expression, and the role that privilege (or lack thereof) plays in the development of...

It's officially summer & The Deeper Pulse is back! Listen to the trailer for the Summer 2021 Season. Candice walks you through upcoming episodes, reveals the message at the heart of her work, and invites you to be a part of the social impact she envisions moving into 2022. Support the show The stories and opinions shared in this episode are based on personal experience and are not intende...

The first in a two-part series, this episode offers an introduction to the 3rd key of courageous self-expression - vulnerability . Candice speaks intimately about her childhood and how a legacy of trauma has informed her path in life. She speaks about the power and privilege of healthy emotional expression. In order to express what is most alive within our hearts, we must feel safe, seen, and held...

Let's talk change. Braving uncertainty requires a higher vantage point and in this episode, Candice introduces you to a helpful visual model she developed over the course of her many years working as a life coach. The Growth Spiral is a theoretical model detailing the six stages of change. It is a tool of self-awareness that supports us as let go of what no longer serves us and risk a reach i...

Candice is taking a week off and will be back with Episode 7 soon. In the meantime, she's sharing from the heart how courageous self-expression has helped her strike the delicate balance between outside expectations & her own honest rhythms. If you consider yourself an introvert or if you sometimes struggle with taking a much-needed timeout, this interlude is for you. Support the show The...

In a final wrap-up of a three-part series on humility, Candice shares intimately about her recent choice to sell her home and most of her belongings to travel indefinitely. She speaks about the limits of the rational mind, and invites you to align with your intuition - not as a reflexive mechanism, but as a soulular intelligence that can point you toward meaning-driven choices. You’ll soar with he...

In this episode, Candice shares more personal stories that inform further exploration of the second key of courageous self-expression - humility . She explores Ernest Becker's and his ground-breaking work that offers a staggering look at how unconscious denial of mortality keeps us stuck and unavailable to live life fully. Candice spends the second half of the episode detailing 5 Tenets of Hu...

Humility is the second key of courageous self-expression. It requires courage to turn unflinchingly toward the honest anxiety at the center of our lives. In this episode, Candice shares her first memory as a child and how being raised in a protestant/atheist home shaped her emotional landscapes and world view. She offers a peek into her two decade struggle with a panic disorder and how, to her eve...

Candice builds upon our foundational understanding of the first key of courageous self-expression: authority — our ability to live and express our lives as we see fit. This episode is a deep dive into personal power. What is it? And why do those of us who are more empathically wired so often shy away from self-expressing at full potential? You’ve likely heard a lot of talk about the higher self, b...

In this episode, Candice discusses the importance of our personal and collective stories, how they shapes our minds, our hearts, and our view of the world. She offers an intimate glimpse into her childhood, revealing a repeating narrative that kept her in a paradoxical holding pattern well into adulthood and introduces the 1st key of courageous self-expression: authority . Candice walks you throug...

[DISCLAIMER:  When I started this podcast in 2021, I was scared shitless and you might be able to tell in these early releases where I am trying oh-so-hard. Point being: If you begin with Ep.1, you'll hear a VERY different voice emerge over time. This is the point of this project... that with time and practice, we each find our voice.] Welcome to the introductory episode of The Deeper Pulse....