The Embody Podcast | Alignment + Loving Yourself

I’m getting married. Ha! In this Episode, how a No Strings Attached Sexual Relationship Experience and a Mountain Bike fall brought me to a more whole unification, marriage with myself, and more expansive freedom within. Conscious dating, self-honesty, authentic relating, existential loss, fluidity between polyamory and monogamy, releasing relationships from co-dependency and control and where I’m...

How can you harness the energy of anger to LOVE YOURSELF and feel confident? We have been conditioned (and sometimes by experience) to believe that anger is a bad thing or that it is destructive. While it can turn ugly, let’s get back to Anger’s TRUE intentions: to show us our deeper desires, to protect us, and to give us the embodied knowledge that we are powerful, capable and creative. Anger get...

This episode is a rerun of a previous episode on The Embody Podcast while I am on a short restorative hiatus. When you’re depressed, paralyzed, shut down, or dissociated — knowing what is happening can support healing and a compassionate look at the body and how it’s trying to protect us and adapt. This episode is a practical and scientifically-based discussion about understanding the basics of th...

The Body reflects any habitual patterns in your life — shake up the body’s movement and gestures to create something new in your life! The body needs to integrate the new territory and energy to full inhabit what’s unfamiliar. Whether it is more abundance, the ability to receive love, a shift towards a new way of being, etc… this can support that in an embodied way. What’s the opposite movement of...

Be with and witness the part of you that is wounded when a situation or person’s actions trigger you. In this guided experiential, we give loving space to the part of you that got wounded and move the frequencies of certain belief sets that are at the root of it with self-forgiveness… Bringing the organic feeling of neutrality that allows you to not take things personally. This episode is a follow...

It’s uncomfortable when someone discards or disavows a hurt part of themselves, their shadow, and it comes lashing towards you. Or, when you’re triggered and you need some distance and boundary to feel emotionally safe. This experiential is to support sensing the context of the other person, creating harmony with distance, and restoring energetic and physical boundaries. This episode is a follow u...

“Not taking things personally” can be a tough job being a human with emotions and a body! When criticism, harshness, judgment, lashing out, gaslighting, and other reactions from another person can hit us where it hurts, here are some tools to support healing and resolving where it hurts so it’s not just a forced “tough skin” but an organic neutrality or wholeness that leaves us able to be present...

An energetic upgrade can feel like anxiety! If you’re feeling untethered, nervous, racy, unanchored, and restless, excitable — your nervous system may be overwhelmed but also, you may be receiving an energetic upgrade to your system. Tune into this episode for a conversation about what an energetic upgrade is and can feel like — as well as questions from a listener about spiritual emergence and cr...

Following the feelings behind worthlessness, I wanted to disappear and dissolve. In a good way! How could that be? Find out in this unexpected experience of dissolution and getting lost what I recovered for myself in terms of my own right to my life. Also in this episode, thoughts on how our existences can be in harmony, how polarity and opposition are part of a dynamic that emerges from the same...

Destruction, dismantling, burning things up. A quiet clearing, despair, grieving, integration, dust settling. Looking. When it’s time to create anew and there’s space for sweet tendrils and sprouts, what do you align, anchor, or calibrate to? For me it’s pleasure in a deep and whole way, yet sweet and joyful. In this episode, I talk about the ripening of difficult feelings in uncomfortable situati...

Tentative and tender — quivery and sweet. Get lost into love, get lost from the roadmap. Everything is a nudge, back to home, to yourself. Life exists as you. Play. Whales, the pulse of the Ocean. This [reverie] episode is a channeled message from from the Ocean — While it is spoken through me, they may be your words too. You exist here and inherently belong. It’s a given. Do I let myself change?...

Your being knows how to be. Trust in your own being to guide you. Your Aliveness knows its way… I invite you to journey and to take it in as an energetic download — to reveal pieces of yourself, to stir, shake, heal or hug you into yourSelf, into Love. A spiritual succulent like a yummy probiotic: a bit of Candy for the soul. About [reverie] on The Embody Podcast: Spiritual Succulents The sweetnes...

In this continuation of the field trip — you’ll hear some sound bites in this next adventure of living off the grid and living with five horses at Silver Horse Retreat with Sara Fancy in California. A taste of the basics of living in harmony with Earth and horses. This is Part 2 of this A{Live{ Now Episode. In Part 1, I share a bit about my life in Mexico and my travel during the COVID–19 pandemic...

This is a field trip Episode! After 4 months in Mexico, 2 months of a pandemic, and Black Lives Matters Protests, I said goodbye. I made my way to California to be with horses, a mentor, and the land and I bring you with me on each step of the way of my journey back to the US. Here’s to the Ocean that held me, a little review of the things that transpired and transformed in me during the lock-down...

Inner freedom supports freedom for ALL. In this episode: a Conversation about the Amy Cooper and Christian Cooper video, the way my body expressed reactions and perceptions towards Black people, and an experiential here for you to open your own body-based exploration around people who are different from you. It is your body that holds reactions and unconscious sentiments towards others that contri...

I stand with Black people and see you. I stand with all the people who desire that Black people have the right to live and breathe. Witnessing the protests from Mexico that are happening as a result of systemic violence on Black folks (re-ignited by George Floyd and many that have died at the hands of the police) has inspired me to talk vulnerably and candidly about some experiences where I notice...

When the structures of your previous ways of being dismantle and crumble — what do you calibrate to? Pleasure! What is for you is coded into your vibrational blueprint through pleasure. In this episode, use pleasure as your compass and embody complete action: prajña (PRAH-gee-ah). Heal the cycles of constant doing in order “to have and be happy” — come into being and vibrational clarity — creating...

Have you felt like you don’t belong here? Some intense feelings of grief and existential aloneness led me to finding more of myself: my multidimensional being and a family in the star system. I have mentioned it before, but this time, it demanded a greater attention and acceptance. This time, I felt a huge loss of having left my spiritual family somewhere out there. If this story interests you or...

This episode is a rerun of a previous episode on The Embody Podcast while I am on a short restorative hiatus. This episode is about how to sort out your inner chatter and reactive patterns with Parts Work. If you’ve seen the movie Inside Out, you’ve gotten a simplified taste of how your inner world may look. With many parts of us talking and acting at different times, it’s helpful to know their mo...

Do you wish to reside in deep harmony and ease with yourself — The place of fertile ground for creative action, contentment, and self-love? Where do you exploit or override your body’s or inner messages — what is the price you pay? Do you push and pressure yourself to exhaustion or drain? In this guided experience, we will restore gentleness and respect to the body and align to pleasure as an inne...

Navigate your cravings and addictions to loosen up their intensity and bring healing in this somatic experiential. In this time of Covid19, there are many things we cannot have or do. We may be stripped to see ourselves bare in some ways. With cravings and addictions, we have a keyhole into knowing what it is that lives under the surface that drives these actions and ways of coping. It is also the...

In this Meditation, Terri Fernandez guides you through deep breathing, gentle body scanning, and progressive tension and relaxation to open your awareness. Take inventory of how you’re feeling and come to rest your awareness in your body. Listen to the full episode at  CandiceWu.com/terri   Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/terri  Podcast Homepa...

What does it mean to be open, transparent, and honest? When it means discovering you are polyamorous, there may be challenges and surprises that come. Dr. Terri Fernandez talks about the journey in discovering she is polyamorous at heart while being compassionate in a monogamous marriage. Her experience includes a depth of fear and hurt, as well as joys. She shares her own body reactions, partner...

In this guided experiential, develop your relationship to your inner knowing and intuition — strengthen the muscles of your heart, inner attunement, and body wisdom. I lead you through a Blind Constellation of tuning into three pieces of your life so that you can clarify and fortify your relationship with your many inner messaging systems. It’s so essential to follow what is true to you — and it f...

Touch in with a spontaneous meditation to soften at the edges, release the energies of the collective that you’re carrying, bring forgiveness and self-loving to places where you betray, are hard with, or judge yourself. I briefly discuss seeing self-betrayal as protection and being truly in agreement, in love, with yourself.   Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https:...