The Embody Podcast | Alignment + Loving Yourself

Learn to receive love and to send love to yourself with this version of the Metta practice of Loving Kindness. This brings a somatic flair to support embodiment because don’t we want to FEEL loved? The main episode about the topic of love is split in two parts and can be found at the link below.   Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://candicewu.com/lovepart2  Pod...

This energy-based meditation supports shifting the energy of your attention and love from going outward to others to nourishing your own heart and body with your precious love and attention. An adaptation of a meditation from Robin Fisher, an Ayurvedic Practitioner. The main episode about the topic of love is split in two parts and can be found at the link below.   Links, Article, and Resources Al...

A somatic and imagery practice to feel into your tender heart’s desire around love: both loving yourself and love from others. Both receiving and taking love have two different qualities. This practice is a healing experience to unfold any blocks you may have in exploring the movement of reaching towards the love you desire. The main episode about the topic of love is split in two parts and can be...

Feel into what the energy of love carries for you and what it brings up in you. This experience holds space for you to explore with a compassionate curiosity and non-judgment. This is the first step into allowing the kind of loving you truly desire to unfold in your life. The main episode about the topic of love is split in two parts and can be found at the link below.   Links, Article, and Resour...

We are all worthy of love and ALL of us is worthy of love. Love is the direction of attention. In this episode, I open with a brief “tuning into” the energy of love. What revealed was an experiential for sensing in deeper to the energy of love as well as noticing different parts of us that want love and have different ideas, agendas, and needs around love. I share personal experiences of the kind...

Cynthia Langtiw shares an experience to support you in understanding and becoming aware of your own transformative process and engagement with your own creations, research, or projects in this reflection of Interlogs. Dr. Cynthia Lubin Langtiw is a Haitian American licensed clinical psychologist and full professor in the clinical psychology program at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology....

Jump into Part 2 of Cynthia Langtiw’s interview where we dive in and explore: Connection to Ancestry, Past, and Future as Resource The Power of Stories and Books to Heal The Soul’s Yearning for the Messy Truth and the Draw to Only Show Our Shiny Parts How Can We Have True Intimacy? How Trauma Is Something That Isn’t Finished or Resolved How Trauma Affects Couples and Relationships Betrayal Trauma...

Experience the energy of belief, inspiration, and love in this episode where Cynthia Langtiw and I explore the wobbly place of ‘unknowing’ and the process of finding your own knowing, the power of belief in oneself and in a group with inspiration, decolonization of research methods in western research, the importance of silence, lifting each other up, and being a mother and psychologist. Dr. Cynth...

Our soul’s deepest desire is to love and know love. To know what love truly is — and isn’t. I’ve experienced a sorting process in this life of how to love, what is love and what isn’t loving — both to myself and others. But often our ideas of love and loving are warped. What if abuse got mixed in there, or staying silent?? We grow up confused and learning that loving means to do xyz (let’s discove...

This episode with Aleta Kai was truly invigorating! Aleta’s energetic concoction of spirituality, sensuality, sexuality, power, and loving yourself, mixed with biology and the body brings a stimulating conversation. Aleta Cai is an NYC based healer and dominatrix who combines her experiences in both into a unique form of somatic and energetic healing. She focuses on embodiment, empowerment and pro...

Give yourself some grace! There are tanglings from our childhood and the past where we depend on others to give us our sense of self, safety, worth, value, or lovability. In this experiential, we open up self-forgiveness around judgments where we have felt tied to or dependent on others. This frees us up to have more inner resource and wholeness. This episode belongs to a parent episode called “Le...

Tune into this guided healing process using Parts Work and somatic healing — giving support, love, and healing to the inner child in you that has a reaction to a family member or difficult relationship in your life. This episode belongs to a parent episode called “Lessons in Self Love : Toxic Ancestors and Family Relationships — EP61”. Please see the link below for that and the other experientials...

We can bring healing and wholeness to ourselves by imagining what our ancestry or an individual within our ancestry needs, and let the change ripple through the system and you. This experiential will guide you through a Family Constellation and Somatic Healing experience with a “toxic” or difficult family relationship you have. This episode belongs to a parent episode called “Lessons in Self Love...

In this episode, I explore a question from a listener: “Can you receive love and strength from ancestors or relatives still alive if they are mentally sick/toxic/unhealthy?” I discuss tuning into the soul of our family members that we feel challenged by to receive more than their human form can give us, how our “toxic dynamics or relationships” are the opening to the story of pain or loss in the f...

In this poignant and powerful conversation with Deran Young, founder of Black Therapists Rock, learn all about Internal Family Systems (IFS) and how you can use that to claim unseen parts of yourself as well as heal racism and racial and cross-cultural wounds. Deran shares about her perspectives on the Legacy Burden of the Black Community, in herself, and encourages us all to look at our own Legac...

Using the five senses outward and then inward, we bring our awareness to a deep level of sensing with sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch (Pratyahara) — Feeling the body from the inside out. Then we take a journey in the inner landscape of the body to build awareness and healing with a Body Scan. This experiential is part of the episode 59 which is all about “Why Feel? Emotions & Embodiment...

Where do I start? For a refresher or a full buffet and arrangement of what to do, look for and sense into when you are feeling into your body, tune into this Felt Sense Menu to bring embodiment and healing. This experiential is part of the episode 59 which is all about “Why Feel? Emotions & Embodiment for the Skeptic in You”. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 htt...

Sometimes people wonder why feel our emotions? What good does it do when it is so uncomfortable? Have you ever felt the chasm between your mind and body - where you think something or have a plan, but your body and your emotions do something else? Where you think something positive about yourself, but you FEEL differently in your body – Like you think you’re good enough and worthy, but somehow you...

Deepen into this experience with Lauren Maxwell to practice the Gesture of the Inner Secret (Gupta Mudra), explore safety and centeredness, and expand the inner landscape of your mind and channels of the body with this basic meditation and yoga practice leading you towards and preparing you for breathwork. Take in the three healing statements that Lauren brings within this practice: As limiting be...

Where can we soften? How do you invite your bones to change? How can I experience mental, creative, and expansive freedom every day? In this episode, Lauren Maxwell and I explore finding pleasure, how to change the shape of your spine, where we can soften to support and know ourselves, the human task of learning to feel safe in your own truth, uncovering the SELF in chaotic times, using a gentle a...

I’m on a real adventure! Cleaning horse poop and learning how to be a stronger leader within myself and with horses in Ireland. This is the first time I’m living with and tending to four horses on a farm and it’s a huge challenge. In this episode, I talk candidly about the hardships and the growth that I’m experiencing — the lessons that come with strengthening inner freedom, loneliness and releas...

“How much do you value truth?” ~ Andrew Shykovsky In this episode we talk about Andrew’s experience and teachings as a Christian Mystic and his path towards his spirituality which included an initial negative impression of Christianity, a “grand spiritual buffet” of out of body experiences, crystals, meditation, I-Ching, and inducing other states of consciousness, the desire for love and truth, ch...

Ritual at its best brings us towards a feeling of acknowledgment, embodiment, and honoring of our true selves. It bonds us to our values and our deepest self or brings us to shared humanity, purpose, or meaning. Give healing attention and presence to a part of your body that needs it, allowing the power of our body intelligence to begin to innately heal tension, pain, discomfort or dis-ease. The f...

Ritual at its best brings us towards a feeling of acknowledgment, embodiment, and honoring of our true selves. It bonds us to our values and our deepest self or brings us to shared humanity, purpose, or meaning. Center, ground, and fortify your alignment to yourself with this three chakra energy and awareness practice. It’s a great way to feel present and that you’re inhabiting your body or find c...

Ritual at its best brings us towards a feeling of acknowledgment, embodiment, and honoring of our true selves. It bonds us to our values and our deepest self or brings us to shared humanity, purpose, or meaning. Give space, tune in and listen to your inner being. A basic daily practice to support embodiment, self-love and clarifying your needs, desires, and congruent action for the day. The full e...