Lesley Turner | Somatic & Intuitive Coach, Nervous System Expert for Midlife Women

The Emotional Truth | Body Based Healing For Midlife Women

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Do you feel like you've done all the work — the therapy, the books, the retreats — and still wake up wondering why nothing has actually changed?  Are you carrying the weight of everyone else's lives while quietly running out of capacity for your own? Do you love your life some days and want to burn it all down on others? If that sounds familiar, you're in the right place. The Emotional Truth is a podcast for the midlife woman who knows something is still running in the background — she just hasn't been able to see it clearly yet. Each episode will help you identify the patterns that have been...

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Lesley Turner | Somatic & Intuitive Coach, Nervous System Expert for Midlife Women

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Education

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www.lesleyturner.ca

Latest episode

Jul 6, 2026

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Episodes

Ep. 30 The Emotional Patterns That Don't Allow High Achieving Women To Slow Down | Jenna Kutcher Got It Half Right 06.07.2026

Send us Fan Mail You hit the goal. You waited for the feeling. Something else showed up instead — and it wasn't gratitude. It was a quiet question: did I do this wrong? Jenna Kutcher wrote something recently that hit a nerve for thousands of women. Her Substack essay The Honey Isn't The Point named the pivot so many high-achieving women are making right now — away from the hustle, toward...

Ep. 29 The Emotional Patterns You Need to Know Before You Start GLP-1 | Somatic Awareness for Weight Loss 29.06.2026

Send us Fan Mail Every woman I've worked with has tried something that worked - until it didn't.  A diet, a program, a medication. The number moved. The clothes fit differently. And then it plateaued, or she stopped, and within weeks she was back where she started wondering what was wrong with her.  Nothing was wrong with her. The pattern that was driving the behaviour was never part of...

Ep. 28 Pinterest Strategy, Pattern Work, and Learning to Trust Your Body with Elaine Timms 22.06.2026

Send us Fan Mail Elaine Timms built a Pinterest strategy business that grew to 100K sessions/month, sold a blog for five figures, and has spent almost eight years helping entrepreneurs get their content working long after they hit publish. She's also someone who spent years in fight-or-flight without knowing it — outsmarting everything, including herself. In this conversation, Elaine and I ta...

Ep. 27 I Had A Lumpectomy | It Wasn't Cancer. Mammograms and Health Anxiety 15.06.2026

Send us Fan Mail You've been telling yourself you're fine. Your shoulders tell a different story.  Five months ago I noticed something. I assessed it - clinically, carefully - and decided it could wait. What followed was a mammogram, a biopsy, a titanium clip, and eventually a day surgery where I showed up in a brown hospital robe to the worst TOGA party in history!  This isn't a me...

Ep. 26 Why You Can't Stick To A Workout | Your Nervous System, Cortisol, Body based movement, and Why Consistency Isn't A Discipline Problem 08.06.2026

Send us Fan Mail If you've tried and quit every workout routine you've ever started, this isn't a discipline problem. It's a nervous system problem.  I share the honest story of every movement format that didn't work for my body - including a spin class that ended disgustingly - and what I finally figured out about why. We get into what cortisol actually does, the differen...

Ep. 25 What We Get Wrong About The Eldest Daughter | Somatic Healing for High Functioning Women and the Pattern Beneath The Burnout 01.06.2026

Send us Fan Mail There are incredible posts about the eldest daughter all over social media. They talk aobut burnout, resentment, the productivity that never stops. They're not wrong. But they're not the full story either. The wound isn't just being asked to do too much - it's that existing without function started to feel like disappearing. This episode goes deeper than the co...

Ep. 24 Coming Back To Herself with Britt Holmes | Resilience, ADHD, and Getting Back Up One More Time 25.05.2026

Send us Fan Mail Britt Holmes built a business, got knocked sideways by life, and came back - not the same way, but more herself. We talk about business, family, ADHD, and what it actually looks like to rebuild after the kind of hard that doesn't have a clean narrative.  Britt is an ads and media specialist, founder of Merit Media and Founders Advisory, and one of the most honest people I kno...

Ep. 23 Bumble Dating & A Full Body No | How Somatics Works in Real Life Decisions, Dating Online 18.05.2026

Send us Fan Mail Within 60 seconds on a dating app, I knew.  Not with my brain - with my whole body. This episode is about what it felt like to have a full-body yes and a full-body no, and how that same somatic awareness showed up in my business long before I had a name for it. If you've ever second-guessed what you already knew, this is that episode. Book 1:1 here

Ep. 22 I Don't Feel Mom Guilt | Parenting Confessions, What Mom Guilt Actually Is and Why Reframing It Keeps You Stuck 11.05.2026

Send us Fan Mail I don't feel mom guilt. Not saying that to be provocative - I'm saying it because the way we talk about mom guilt is keeping women stuck in smallness. This episode is about what mom guilt actually is, where it comes from in the nervous system, and why all the reframing in the world doesn't touch it. And what starts to happen when it finally begins to loosen. Book 1:...

Ep. 21 My Nervous System Spent $15,000 | What Happens When an Emotional Pattern Makes Your Decisions 04.05.2026

Send us Fan Mail I paid $15,000 for a program my intuition told me to walk away from. And when it came time to say it wasn't working - I didn't ask for a single dollar back. That wasn't a financial decision. That was a pattern making decisions on my behalf. The over-explaining. The going cold. The avoiding until it becomes a crisis. The shrinking when you need to stay present. That&...

Ep. 20 Nobody Abandoned Themselves This Week | The Turtle Costume (What Self-Abandonment Actually Looks Like in the Small Moments) 27.04.2026

Send us Fan Mail Nobody in my family abandoned themselves this week. Not Tyson. Not Jarrett. Not me - even when it would have been easier to push through, perform fine, and call it responsible. This episode is about what it actually looks like to not disappear in the small moments. The costume on the table. The cancelled week. The thing you've been carrying and calling not a big deal. Your bo...

Ep.19 You're Not Stuck In Your Emotional Patterns, Your Ancestors Were | Epigenetics and Body Level Pattern Work 20.04.2026

Send us Fan Mail You've done the therapy. Read the books. You can name the pattern, trace it back, explain exactly where it started. And you're still doing it.  This episode is about why - and it's not what most people tell you. We get into the difference between understanding a pattern and actually completing it, why you can't think your way out of body-level encoding, and wha...

Ep. 18 Unlearning Success: How Your Body Knew Before Your Brain Did with Puja Malhotra | Immigrant Success Culture and Body Based Knowing 13.04.2026

Send us Fan Mail She had a full-body no. She said yes anyway. Puja Malhotra of Roop Creative Agency joins me to talk about growing up inside immigrant success culture, what it costs to override what your body already knows, and the moment it finally said enough before her brain caught up. This conversation goes deep into the places where identity, achievement, and nervous system patterns collide....

Ep. 17 The Right Room | What Happens When an Emotional Pattern Releases in Public 06.04.2026

Send us Fan Mail lost my voice at a women's event. Not metaphorically - I actually lost it. And it turned out to be the most visible I'd ever felt. This episode is about what it looks like when a pattern releases somewhere you didn't plan, a room full of women who actually get it, and what I built on the other side of that moment. The Intuitive Circle membership is open Book 1:1 her...

Ep. 16 The Anger Passed Down From Grandma | Generational Anger and What Your Body Inherited 30.03.2026

Send us Fan Mail What if the anger you're carrying isn't even yours? This episode pulls on a thread I've been sitting with for a while - one that goes deeper than coping skills and breathing techniques.  The Anger Tree is a framework for understanding where anger actually lives in the body, where it comes from, and what it's trying to tell you. We're not unpacking the whol...

Ep. 15 Part 2: The System Wasn't Built For Us.. And This Is What I Did About It | How the Medical System Fails Women and What Body-Based Healing Offers Instead 23.03.2026

Send us Fan Mail In Part 1, I told you why I walked away. In Part 2, I go into why the medical system has been failing women for decades — what the research actually says, what I kept seeing in my practice that changed everything, and what becomes possible when you stop outsourcing your answers. This episode is for any woman who has ever been dismissed, minimized, or handed a prescription when som...

Ep. 14 Part 1 I Was Called Dr. Les for 11 Years | Why I Left Naturopathic Medicine and Built Something New 09.03.2026

Send us Fan Mail I had the title. The license. The patients I loved. And a slow-burning anger I kept pushing down for years. This is the episode I haven't told on the podcast yet - why I walked away from naturopathic medicine after 11 years, how my own emotions were trying to tell me something long before I was ready to listen, and where the SEER Method actually came from.  Spoiler: it starte...

Ep. 13 When AC/DC Influences Your Kid | What We Pass Down Beyond the Wounds, Parenting In Your 40's 26.02.2026

Send us Fan Mail We spend so much energy trying not to pass down our pain - we forget we're also passing down our magic. The songs. The rituals. The way we recover after we lose it. The way we honour a quiet no. This episode started with Thunderstruck playing in a delivery room and ended with a six-year-old teaching me about boundaries. It's about generational patterns - the ones worth k...

Ep. 12 Marriage Is Energetic | Nervous System Co-Regulation in Relationships 16.02.2026

Send us Fan Mail In long-term relationships we don't just communicate with words - we communicate through our nervous systems. This episode is about the difference between attunement and enmeshment, why you can feel your partner's stress before they've said a single word, and how childhood conditioning shapes that sensitivity. If you've ever wondered why you're anxious or...

Ep. 11 The Energetics of Money, Mission & Self-Trust - With Chelsea Schreiner (When Business Alignment Starts in the Body) 09.02.2026

Send us Fan Mail What does it actually mean to magnetize your business - and what happens when the energy is off? I sit down with Chelsea Schreiner (@ alignedbychelsea ) to talk about the energetics of running a business, why so many women keep hitting the same invisible ceiling, and where self-trust and money are more connected than we think. This one goes places. Book 1:1 here

Ep. 10 I Thought I'd Sail Through This | A Perimenopause Reckoning, Body Based Perspective 02.02.2026

Send us Fan Mail I'm a former naturopath and current somatic practitioner. I should know this body inside and out. And yet. This episode is me speaking from the messy middle of perimenopause - not from the other side, not with a protocol. We talk about pain, irritability, cravings, and how stress hits differently when your body is in a hormonal season. The inner work doesn't make us immu...

Ep. 9 The Day I Backed Into A Parked Car...again | Understanding Emotional Triggers and Nervous System Patterns 26.01.2026

Send us Fan Mail It wasn't really about the car. The moment it happened I felt something in my body that had nothing to do with a parking lot - and everything to do with patterns I'd lived inside for years. This episode is about what it looks like when your nervous system reacts to a perceived threat based on old experience, how to stay present when you're triggered, and what self-c...

Ep. 8 What Cardboard Mailboxes Taught Me About Regulation (Nervous System Regulation Through Play) 19.01.2026

Send us Fan Mail I woke up grumpy. Tyson wanted to build cardboard mailboxes. What happened next reminded me that nervous system regulation doesn't always look like breathwork and stillness - sometimes it looks like cutting up boxes on the kitchen floor. This episode is about the shift from seriousness to play, why joy is actually a regulation tool, and what happens in your body when you stop...

Ep. 7 I Thought I Wasn't Enough (Healing the "Not Enough" Pattern) 12.01.2026

Send us Fan Mail I've carried a quiet "not enough" wound for as long as I can remember. It's the pattern my ego defaults to when things get quiet. This episode came out of a single conversation that reminded me how much I actually know h and how what feels completely obvious to me can shift someone in real time. If you feel behind, inadequate, or like you're still waiting...

Ep. 6 Running With The Truth (How to Stop Ego-Based Striving and Trust Your Inner Voice) 05.01.2026

Send us Fan Mail The year of the horse has a different energy - and if you felt a shift coming, you weren't imagining it. This episode is about what it actually means to step into a new year after a season of shedding what was never really yours. We talk about letting go of striving that comes from ego rather than truth, reclaiming your inner voice, and what it looks like to start a year alig...

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