The Embody Podcast Self-love & Healing

Hope less to live more. Presence is the true present of living with less hope, being in a place of less expectation and control, more trust, flow, and freedom in my being.This is a deep acceptance of what is in my experience in a fuller way, where I can experience more and not exist from the place where hoping that things would be different was a helpful tool of survival.In this podcast, I share a personal story of what made me break, lose all hope, and become more present to the true moments that exist now.This is an exploration of how hope can be helpful and unhelpful, as well as thoughts about what can be embedded and masked in the concept of hope.The presents or presence of being hope-less? ;) A Little About A{Live} NowI’ve found that when I share what’s true in the moment, there is so much ALIVENESS and fullness in me.That’s why I started the the A{Live} Now mini-series, which is within the Embody Podcast. This is the second episode and I intend to share what’s happening in my real life and in my inner w

Enjoy a deep rest and easeful way to plant the seeds for new intention in this Yoga Nidra meditation from Caitlin Parsons! Yoga Nidra is a powerful way to release stress and trauma, gently restore balance, renew yourself, and find new space inside for new possibility.This meditation is a follow up to the interview that was published on monday. If you'd like to listen to that, please check your favorite podcast player app or go to my website at candicewu.com/caitlin. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

In this podcast, Caitlin shares about 6 ways to stand in your empowerment, finding inner resource, the benefits of yoga nidra and yoga therapy, the loving act of tuning into your body’s needs and non-negotiables, and how to manage dental anxiety.Caitlin’s passion is to create a space for curiosity and the unfolding. She is a teacher, student, nature lover, and adventurer at heart-based in San Diego, California. Caitlin has spent thousands of hours experiencing, studying, teaching, and training in all things therapeutic yoga, meditation, yoga nidra, and sound healing. She is a Certified Yoga Therapist, 500hr E-RYT, and a Wellness Advocate.Caitlin shares her love and passion for transformation through her supporting her students in an online program called The Embodiment Academy, where she takes a deep dive into meditation, mindfulness, movement, breath work, self-care, and self-inquiry. This program involves education, coaching support and strategy for creating daily habits. Caitlin also continues to bridge he

Taking “cutting the cords” to another level, in this guided experience, let the acknowledgement of truth set you free of a relationships that is no longer aligned with your energy now. Perhaps a relationship that haunts you or one that was magical and now you’re on different paths, speaking and experiencing what is needed now may bring an honoring and release so you have space for looking forward and new relationships.This meditation is part of the last episode about "The Past is Over" which can be found at https://candicewu.com/past-is-over. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Close the parts of you, the chapters of your life (or past life), that you’re referencing unconsciously and vibrating with in your life today. The body and nervous system desires this completion so you can be more present and create NOW. With one incident in your life, we take a healing step towards what the soul and body desire for completion.This meditation is part of the last episode about "The Past is Over" which can be found at https://candicewu.com/past-is-over. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

When we have moments in our life that are unintegrated, unfelt for its dark and light, or interrupted, we accumulate energy and movement in the body that gives a residue. We feel heavier over time while being more and more clouded in the present moment. We can’t quite see clearly! Take inventory on what’s stuck in time, what wants completion in your life, ancestry, and past life.This meditation is part of the last episode about "The Past is Over" which can be found at https://candicewu.com/past-is-over. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Love yourself by catching up all the parts of you that are stuck in time so you can feel embodied now.Have you found that your mind knows something but your emotions or your body reacts the same as it always has?This episode is about a very important aspect of loving yourself- loving your whole self and catching yourself up to the present moment by closing the chapters of the past that are left open. Knowing that the past is over, we explore shifting the energy in the body by letting the body catch up to what you know is already over, and completing what’s incomplete.Following this episode are three healing experientials:Taking Inventory on What’s Stuck in TimeCompleting a Chapter in the Past Through the BodyReleasing and Closing a Relationship That Haunts You Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

How can horses help you to release limiting beliefs, fears around money, receive love and feel joyful in your life, become a better parent, or build confidence?I was so excited to learn from special Guest Joy Curran, who offers equine assisted counseling with the help of her amazing horse Chaya. We talk about all the ways that horses can be an embodied and powerful way to learn about yourself, move through blocks and challenges, and build confidence, as well as the spiritual connection, intuitive powers, and love that horses can bring.Listen in on our discussion right on the farm near Perth, Australia, with all of the farm animals surrounding us! We explore how we can move through blocks with interacting with a horse, how working through a horse is a lot like parenting, resolving issues of abundance and money with horses, how sexual trauma and other trauma can be healed with equine therapy, practicing forgiveness, and cultivating JOY.Joy by name, Joy by nature. Joy lives to help others discover joy in life! U

The body holds implicit information, which has been shamed by the echoes of our personal history, collective and archetypal energies, our past lives, and intergenerational family systems.Support your body’s wisdom in taking the lead to open embodiment, healing, insight, and resolve. This healing experience guides you in bringing a gentle loving witness to your unfolding movement, helping you to set your mind aside, to bridge the body into trauma healing mode, and to a feeling of being more in your body.This meditation is part of the last episode about trauma which can be found at https://candicewu.com/trauma. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

 “The body keeps an accurate journal, regardless of what you write down.” —AnonymousWe can’t talk our way out of trauma, anxiety, or depression. It requires the body and heart to move through what it wanted to do that it didn’t get to, and the body will remind (in both subtle and loud ways) us until it happens.The body is the vessel for all of our experiences and holds the energy of what was overwhelming or incomplete in the past, in our ancestry, and our soul history. What involved the body to begin with requires the body to heal.Learn about the key components that give way to healing your nervous system and coming through with more resilience and expansiveness, whether or not you think or believe you have trauma.This episode is about the science, soul, and spirit behind trauma and trauma healing, how our instinctual animal body responds to threat, how the whole body’s function and our experience are impacted by the nervous system’s fight and flight responses, and the connection of the body to spiritual aspe

Gratitude helps create the full and abundant life that we want to live. In this meditation, Patrick guides you to gather and energize your appreciation for your present lives’ beautiful moments, relationships, nature’s gifts, and embodying and welcoming what we would like to have more of in the future.This meditation is part of the interview with Patrick which can be found at https://candicewu.com/patrick. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

How does one bridge spirituality, wanting to make a difference, and family law together?Learn how Patrick Kalscheur, Conscious Family Lawyer, integrated his passions into an empowering practice as a family lawyer, mediator, and coach. Whether or not you are in need of information about family law or divorce, you’ll get some true brightness and abundant insight from Patrick!In this episode, you’ll learn Patrick’s tips on how to move from scarcity towards abundance, embodying desires and envisioning possibilities, how to open a stepping stone of gratitude towards manifestation, the process of moving through fears and challenges of divorce, Patrick’s experience in guiding people from grief to empowerment and being a clair-empath. In addition, if you are on the path of divorce, preparing for it, or contemplating it, you’ll gain plenty of validation and information that can build your confidence through a challenging process.Following this episode (technically the next ‘podcast’) is a powerful guided Gratitude Med

A Family Constellations experiential to support you in clearing up unconscious bonds of responsibility where responsibility is not yours, releasing you of emotions or energies that belong someone else in your lineage, and shifting you into your true and natural position to fully receive the best of your family system while leaving the rest.This meditation is part of the series of healing practices related to the Episode “How To Strengthen Your Energetic Field, Ground & Clear Absorbed Energy” which can be found at https://candicewu.com/energy. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Root into universal order and the grid of the cosmos with a sense of grounding and support by bringing your energy inward through the chakras, the energy centers of the body; the central channel, sushumna; and Alex Grey’s Painting: Theologue.This meditation is part of the series of healing practices related to the Episode “How To Strengthen Your Energetic Field, Ground & Clear Absorbed Energy” which can be found at https://candicewu.com/energy. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

This supports you in sensing any energy that you’ve absorbed from others or that you’ve given away and would like to reclaim so that you feel complete, whole, and within your own energetic signature. This meditation is part of the series of healing practices related to the Episode “How To Strengthen Your Energetic Field, Ground & Clear Absorbed Energy” which can be found at https://candicewu.com/energy. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

What do you do when you’ve absorbed others’ energy or emotions?How do you know if you have?How do you stay grounded and have clear energetic boundaries so that you don’t pick up what’s not yours?Are you an Empath?Do you have the experience that you’re like a magnet or velcro to others’ negative feelings, leaving you fatigued and irritable?Perhaps you’re not sure whether what you feel is yours or someone else’s.This episode is all about energy, how to deal with others’ energies, sorting and releasing absorbed energy or emotions from your own, and strengthening your own energetic field. From tips and tools to stay grounded being an empath or empathic, all the way down to the core beliefs and ways of being that open you up to receiving or feeling responsible for others’ energy.Following the Podcast are three healing experientials to support your energetic strength, clarity and awareness:❤ Sorting and Clearing your Vibration ❤ Getting on the Grid: Grounding and Anchoring into the Universal Order ❤ Healing Experie

 “My son ran into the bedroom and said, “Mom, mom, there’s a man in an orange cape sitting at the table”...I went out into a dining room, and there was a Buddhist monk in full robes, orange robes, sitting at my dining room table. And I was very confused it was a bit surreal....”~ Tammy, Speaking about her book The Buddha at My TableWell...I was definitely intrigued!This episode is an inspiring conversation with Tammy Letherer, a writing coach, blogger, and author, who has such a healing presence in the world! She shares about her path of peace in her new book The Buddha at My Table, and radiates with the messages that you deserve to tell your story and to value your experience, no matter how simple or mundane you think it is. She also explores that moments of shock bring you to full presence and attention.​Tammy lives in Chicago with her three children and enjoys yoga, swing dancing, reading a good novel, Earl Grey tea, and spending time outdoors. Read her blogs about creativity, spirituality, and the writing

This week I am releasing four healing meditations that offer ways to utilize nature as medicine, tuning into the elements, and balancing your energies. This is one of them.This practices supports you in tuning into yourself, your emotions, body, energy, temperature, and thoughts: all that is happening inward and match it with the healing power of nature’s elements. It helps you convert the energy of what’s weighing on you into ease, peace, balance, and flow.This meditation is part of the series of healing practices related to the Episode “From Emotional Numbness to Wholeness” which can be found at https://candicewu.com/nature. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

This week I am releasing four healing meditations that offer ways to utilize nature as medicine, tuning into the elements, and balancing your energies. This is one of them.This simple meditation brings you back into resonance with your true elemental nature: Body Like Mountain, mind Like Sky, water like emotions, breath like wind! We are nature, an iteration of the universe itself.This meditation is part of the series of healing practices related to the Episode “From Emotional Numbness to Wholeness” which can be found at https://candicewu.com/nature. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

This week I am releasing four healing meditations that offer ways to utilize nature as medicine, tuning into the elements, and balancing your energies. This is one of them.Balance your energies, emotions, and body with this upward and downward meditation that cultivates your ability to sense into earth’s resources in this moment to receive and integrate. This meditation is part of the series of healing practices related to the Episode “From Emotional Numbness to Wholeness” which can be found at https://candicewu.com/nature. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode