The Embody Podcast | Alignment + Loving Yourself

This conversation offers an investigation and self-inquiry around taking, receiving, and giving. We often overvalue giving and stigmatize taking — that taking is selfish, impolite, or that we shouldn’t… we certainly shouldn’t take too much. And we often moralize that it is better to receive than to take. Does that limit us in our fullness? We need to be able to take. It is an assertive action we c...

Angela brings forward the Goddess within along with the stories and lives of women of color and queer women through history that have been often hidden or left in the dark corners! She supports women who have been hurt or confined by versions of spirituality, those who are exhausted by the larger constructs that can oppress, and those who bring their own empowering life forward through her life jo...

In this brief episode, I share how two more past lives have been revealed to me through my grief and darkness and the magic I have reclaimed because of it. Time-traveling really far back — one life as a dragon and one in Lemuria — I am recalibrating ancient knowings that never previously made sense but do now through a part of me that has known all along. Listen in for a life that was never lived,...

Being with what’s going well and letting the body and awareness register it can make all the difference to boost the body’s innate healing and bring an immediate level of safety and release. Take the time to appreciate what you’ve done right instead of overlooking the little things.   Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://candicewu.com/teenytinyshifts  Podcast Ho...

Noticing our body’s level of coherence and vibrating with the rightness of our being brings even more trust and healing. In this podcast, I talk about the things you can notice that your body does to tell you that healing is happening. When you notice these, you can develop your body trust and boost your innate healing. The nervous system builds upon this to develop body trust and innate healing,...

“A world where our little pebble of documenting births can make waves on the mortality rate of mothers across the country or the world. How amazing would that be?” ~ Chinelle Rojas Chinelle brings awareness to birthing options that can save lives, especially women of color through her intimate, raw, tender, powerful, and revealing photography. She tells a story of women in their goddess selves and...

This Somatic Experiencing support guides you from anxiety or a tonic immobility (frozen) state of the nervous system to arriving at safety through a completed movement of running towards a safe person, place, or situation that you imagine and move with. The parent episode for this experiential is called “92: Nervous System Overwhelm: Notice the Signs, Polyvagal Theory Basics, and 12 Tools Towards...

In this basic Somatic Experiencing practice, we bring up simple and often overlooked moments that you felt like yourself or felt safe or even “ok,” as well as a time you got through a challenge and a current unresolved issue. This gives a reminder to your nervous system of your strength, ability to move through life, and that you can feel or begin to feel like yourself and safe. The parent episode...

Safety in the nervous system and body can be restored when we let it register to our bodies that we are alive and that you have your basic needs met (if you do). Take a moment to support more safety in your body with this guided experience that is simple but can feel so helpful. The parent episode for this experiential is called “92: Nervous System Overwhelm: Notice the Signs, Polyvagal Theory Bas...

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 the nervous system in overwhelm or trauma. By noticing the signs, you can support your body in feeling more safe...

“Arigato in, Arigato out” is Ken’s mantra with money, and he promises, it’s not going to cost you anything! Ken Honda of Tokyo, Japan, known to be the Marie Kondo of money, talks on the podcast about the Japanese art of making peace with your money. Do you use money or does money use you? Is your money happy or unhappy? Ken encourages permission to enjoy money and cleansing our relationship to mon...

A ten-minute taste of my story in becoming a healing facilitator and the ways in which I support people in the science and the spirituality of being at home in their bodies and loving and feeling like themselves. If you’ve wondered how Embody Your Nature could support you in your deepening, inner wisdom, and knowing of yourself or your relationships, how my work is different from talk therapy and...

The continuation of one of past life stories has opened up unimaginable experiences and knowings! In my willingness to surrender into the unbelievable aspects of my experience and in listening to the Ohio land, a beautiful horse I met that showed me more, how a police officer guided me towards the right land where I have been hundreds of years ago, and a new friend,  Amélie , that gave me more pie...

“A New Earth began to form beneath our feet. Volcanic ashes filled the air. Sulfuric particles embedded themselves into our hair, onto our skin and tongues. My mouth was coated in ashes, my lungs were processing the particles alongside the grief of so many things passing, burning too quickly for my heart to comprehend. I found these notes and postings I had written during the first month of the er...

The dark side of empathy. There’s nothing wrong with empathy or helping, but where it is coming from? Is the way you are seeing people when you support ultimately disempowering them? Who are you being in experiences where you support, help, heal, or be there for others? This episode is not just for healers, empaths, wellness practitioners, or those in the helping profession — this is for everybody...

Bridging an empathy gap takes practice and skills. Learn how an empathy adventure can guide us to expand our capacity for connection and creating change. Shannon discusses the magic of being more expansive in your empathy and encourages you to grow your empathy muscle. To listen to the full episode, please find the episode title “85: Shannon Weber on Agility In Giving and Receiving + Growing Your...

“We risk falling in love. We risk feeling deep connection. We risk changing our own mind. We risk returning from this empathy adventure as a different person.” ~Shannon Weber on Empathy Adventuring Shannon Weber believes you can thrive at the intersection of empathy and resilience. Shannon leads efforts to end HIV by day and hangs anonymous love notes in public spaces with her three teenagers by n...

The deep mystery of life is you. You are the way. You are love. This is a guided meditation to nourish ways of intuitive and innate knowing that live in your cells, in who you are, in all the messages of the body and spirit. This episode is based on the main episode “84: The Deep Mystery of Life + Elbow Wisdom : Embracing What Logic Cannot Explain”. To listen to the main episode, please find it on...

There are things we just cannot explain that have a deep impact on our hearts, bodies, and souls. We are in the deep mystery of life — but do we flatten it by feeding everything through the rational? What do a camping trip, sleeping with a steak knife, horses, my uterus, and men have to do with each other?? In this episode tune into how a camping trip, sleeping with a steak knife in hand, revealed...

“Love brings us as close to Source as we can be.” ~ Richard Moss Richard guides us in a beautiful meditation that reminds us that “There is only now — the body is always in the now” and that “breathing is like a friend that has never abandoned you your whole life.” Bring a new frame for understanding and touch the moment with a quality of awareness that moves you into purposeless from the point of...

“Love brings us as close to Source as we can be.” ~ Richard Moss Richard Moss has dedicated his life to loving Love with a Capital L. In this episode, receive the invitation to connect with the wildness of the soul, the part of you that wants to dance with love and “die into love.” Richard shares about experiencing life challenges as the deeper opportunity of our lives to love, the way towards int...

Your body wants you to listen and understand so that you know yourself more deeply, while it communicates multilingually. Be present witness to one part of the body that is calling you: a tension, pain, illness, organ, or emotion, etc. Learn to honor and converse with this part of the body to support your movement towards healing. If you’d like to learn more about Body Love, please see the parent...

This is my body. These are my arms… What would it be like to claim all the parts of your body in your way? Your body holds implicit memory — the memories that are unconscious in your awareness. In this experiential, you’ll be giving yourself gentle and compassionate touch, gratitude for what the body does for you, and claiming each part of the body as yours. If you’d like to learn more about Body...

The most basic thing of sensing and looking around in your surroundings supports you in deepening in your human experience like animals do when they arrive in space. Your nervous system has the chance to realize that it is safe now and enjoy what is pleasant. Take ten minutes to deepen yourself into the here and now with orienting, a Somatic Experiencing practice. If you’d like to learn more about...

Your body wants to ally with you! It is a brilliant, intelligent, adaptable vessel and wants to bring you towards peace, pleasure, aliveness, and who you deeply are. But what about all the aches and pains? In this episode: stomach issues, falling into a hole and twisting my ankle, emotions and elbow pain — stories of how I’ve had conversations with my body and the colorful and dimensional ways in...