The Place of Permission

In Episode 10 of The Place of Permission , Liz Chandler shares the often unspoken realities of early postpartum life, revealing how becoming a mother dismantled her need for control and perfection as she gained a new perspective on what it means to be someone’s child while caring for her own.  Through stories of breastfeeding challenges, postpartum anxiety, intrusive thoughts, tongue tie releases,...

In this episode of The Place of Permission , Liz Chandler shares an intimate exploration of how birth became a threshold that asked her to surrender not only to the process, but to the deeper layers of protection shaped across generations. Through her journey of fertility challenges, pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum, Liz explores how the opening of life force in the body can bring both power...

In this raw and honest episode, Liz explores the ways shame, hypervigilance, and good girl conditioning shaped her relationship to sexuality, pleasure, and power. Through reflections on childhood trauma, intrusive thoughts, inherited family patterns, and her later reclamation through tantra, internal family systems, and embodied practice, she reveals how shame can disconnect us from our bodies and...

In this deeply personal episode of The Place of Permission, Liz shares the story of how the “very good girl” pattern formed in her life and what it has taken to unravel it.  Through memories of childhood rupture, silence, and emotional isolation, Liz reflects on how she learned early to read the emotional landscape of everyone around her while ignoring the signals of her own body. What began as a...

In this episode of The Place of Permission, Liz explores the quiet but powerful shift from seeking belonging outside of herself to reclaiming it within. Through personal storytelling, she reflects on how early experiences of rupture shaped patterns of hypervigilance, overgiving, and the belief that love and safety had to be earned. Drawing from her work with the Gene Keys, nervous system awareness...

In this episode of The Place of Permission, Liz invites listeners into the small town of Ashburn, Missouri. Here, Liz reflects on the moments when the structures that once defined safety and belonging begin to fracture, whether it be in a family unit, religion, or the inherited and socialized rules about who we are supposed to be. As these external authorities lose their certainty or prove fallabl...

What if the conditioning to become a “good girl” is less about a lack of love and more about generations of nervous systems learning to scan the room for safety? In Episode 4 of The Place of Permission, Liz explores perfectionism in motherhood as inherited protection. She reflects on how daughters can become afraid of the power of their own voices, and how mothers, carrying their own unresolved fe...

In this episode of The Place of Permission, Liz explores how trauma shapes the nervous system in the absence of an empathetic witness. Drawing on somatic wisdom and lived experience, she reflects on how unacknowledged pain teaches the body to stay alert, to scan constantly, and to protect through hypervigilance. Liz speaks to the ways silence in the face of trauma can become a survival strategy, a...

In this opening episode of The Place of Permission, Liz Chandler introduces the heart behind the podcast and the deeper intention guiding her work. She shares how years of holding space for others, as well as her own lived experience, revealed how acutely people are longing for permission to be themselves. Liz reflects on the many moments when clients, strangers, and loved ones have approached her...

Liz invites listeners on a nostalgic journey through the quiet corners of her past to explore the transformative power of play. She reflects on how the stories people told about her as a child often centered on her ability to entertain herself for hours. While she once viewed this independence through a lens of loneliness or neglect, she now sees it as a vital necessity for her nature. As a projec...