MC Somatics: Rebuilding The Self

In this week’s episode, I talk about self-trust, discernment, and what it means to get honest about who truly deserves a seat at the table in our lives. I explore the shift that happens when we stop making excuses for low-effort friendships, inconsistent support, and people who barely show up, yet still expect access to us. I also talk about trusting ourselves enough to choose better, to stop over...

In this week’s podcast, I talk about how to listen for emotional availability in ordinary moments. For example, when someone asks how you are, and you say, “Not great,” and they immediately respond with, “Oh, but look on the bright side,” that tells you something. Not about your emotions being too much. About their inability to stay with discomfort. That is not support, that is information. I talk...

In this week’s episode, I talk about surviving the boogeyman, not just the situation itself, but what it brought up in me and what it revealed. I share how my friends showed up for me in the ways I actually needed, including simply being there at the rink, and why that kind of grounded support matters more than people often realize. I also explore the relationship between perspective and perceptio...

In this week’s episode, I talk about the self-imposed prisons we can end up living in, mortgages, relationships, responsibilities, and other choices made in survival mode that later leave us feeling stuck and trapped. I also share more about my PTSD symptoms and how a recent situation with a past partner activated those familiar feelings of constriction, helplessness, and being unable to breathe i...

In this episode, I talk about the pits, which is depression, anxiety, and grief—and the difficult wisdom they carry. These are the places most people try to escape, numb, fix, or spiritually bypass, but I explore what they can teach us if we stay with them long enough to truly listen. I also talk about emotional bypassing, how quick reassurance, forced positivity, and people’s discomfort with pain...

What Is Love? What is love after disillusionment? In this episode, I explore love as a choice, one we make with clearer eyes, stronger inner boundaries, and a deeper respect for what we know we can and cannot live with. I talk about the real stuck points that matter in relationships: money, taxes, step-parenting, everyday habits, and the misalignments that may seem small at first but can become fa...

What if the songs that move you the most are actually reflecting something your soul already knows? In this episode, I explore a deeply personal realization: music has always been the language through which my inner world speaks. Certain songs have followed me through different chapters of my life, sometimes long before I understood what they were showing me. Looking back, I can see how music mirr...

Some songs that don’t just play in the background of our lives, they hold us. In this episode, I talk about the music that carried me through different chapters of my life. The anthems that steadied me during heartbreak. The lyrics that named what I couldn’t yet say. The melodies that helped me metabolize grief, anger, freedom, longing, and becoming. Music has been more than entertainment for me....

Are You Lonely? It’s a question people tend to ask when they see someone who spends a lot of time alone. But what if aloneness isn’t emptiness? In this episode, I talk about what it’s like to live as an introverted intuitive whose internal world is vivid, layered, relational, and deeply alive. My solitude isn’t a waiting room for connection; it is  connection. Conversations are conversations happe...

We all learn how to shrink. We shrink our voices to keep the peace. We shrink our needs so we don’t seem “too much.” We shrink our bodies, our dreams, our opinions, our boundaries, and sometimes our entire lives, just to fit into spaces that were never built for us. In this episode, I explore the many subtle and not-so-subtle ways we make ourselves small: fawning, over-explaining, apologizing for...

In this episode of  Soul Notes , I explore what happens when we begin to truly listen to the quiet wisdom of our own soul. I talk openly about boundary violations, how they show up, how easily we minimize them, and how often our bodies and intuition are already trying to tell us the truth long before our minds catch up. This is a conversation about learning to trust those inner signals: the discom...

This episode lives in the desert phase of individuation—the stretch where familiar identities fall away, external validation dries up, and the only thing left is your willingness to stay. Ride or Die Radio is for the moments when you’re not seen, not mirrored, not celebrated, and you choose yourself anyway. Show Notes: Individuation Process Overview Song of the Week: Ride or Die Radio by Kassi Ash...

Shame doesn’t just live in our thoughts — it lives in our bodies, our choices, and the parts of ourselves we learned to hide in order to belong. In this episode, I share an overview of  David Bedrick’s Unshaming Way  — a radical and compassionate approach that defines shame in a way that our body and mind can understand. Alongside this framework, I reflect on my own lived experiences of shame — th...

In Jungian language, every temperament corresponds to an archetype. For some of us, the archetype is the working dog — hyper-intelligent, attuned, driven by purpose, and mildly feral when under-utilized. In this episode, I explore what it means to carry that archetype as a human, not after it’s found its calling, but while it’s still looking for one. This is an episode about the gifts and the grie...

In this episode, I explore a quiet but powerful ethical tension that doesn’t get talked about enough in healing spaces: The tension between  staying in a relationship to “work through it”  and  choosing aloneness because it’s where your life force actually returns . So much mainstream psychology and relational advice assumes that healing must happen inside romantic partnership — that leaving is av...

In this week’s episode, I reflect on isolation and how it can become both a refuge and a defense, and the quiet ways it shapes how we relate to ourselves and others. From there, I share my process of working through and healing another survival pattern that developed to keep me safe. This episode offers an honest, real-time look at healing as it unfolds: layered, imperfect, and deeply human. Show...

In this EDGY and Spicy episode, we explore what it’s actually like to encounter emotionally immature people and why those dynamics can feel so confusing, activating, or painful over time. Rather than framing emotional immaturity as something to diagnose or fix, this conversation looks at how  we  tend to expose ourselves in three distinct stages when connection begins. Each stage reveals different...

In this episode, I explore a survival pattern rooted in growing up around people who were emotionally unavailable or inconsistent. We look at how early family dynamics can train the nervous system to equate love with waiting, effort, and responsiveness that never quite arrives. This pattern often shows up later as chasing connection with people who are not responsive, not because we want to suffer...

In this week’s episode, I explore existential hopelessness, the idea of hope as an action rather than a feeling, and what it means to be a hope merchant in a world that often asks us to bypass reality. I examine why hopelessness can be a rational, even healthy response to systemic pressure and disillusionment, and how reclaiming agency doesn’t stem from forced optimism, but from small, intentional...

In this episode, I explore the different shapes of loneliness, the impact of PTSD, the role of trauma-recovery modalities, and how we slowly rebuild capacity after trauma. Show Notes: Book Suggestions: Anxiety RX - Dr. Russ Kennedy Concepts: Window of Tolerance Brainspotting EMDR Capacity Podcasts: Luis Mojica Music: Song of the week Show Playlist MC Somatics Website

In this episode, I talk about my dog Kay — the relationship that shaped me, held me, and revealed more about my nervous system than any human ever has. Through her story, I explore dissociation, the patterns we develop to survive, and how grief becomes a teacher long after the loss itself. Show Notes Book references: Mother Hunger The Unshaming Way Song of the Week: Hunter Metts Paper Moon Show Pl...

A look at the emotional wreckage we carry after divorce or heartbreak, and why so many of us invite others into lives still torn apart by the storm. This episode explores the debris, the nervous-system fallout, and what it really takes to rebuild your inner home. Featuring my Song of the Week. Show Notes: Song of the Week: https://open.spotify.com/track/6JWYMfs0pJdNrf3b6aP5Xu?si=AdCcgycDQ6O56wQ-hr...