The Embody Podcast Self-love & Healing

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.Root into your essence and natural self with your eyes and outlining the organic lines of trees. Cleanse the eyes through the movement and release the stress of the nervous system and liver to come to your creative and natural desires, your ability to innovate, and feel spacious and open. 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

Learn about the inner workings of Nature as Nourishment and medicine, the tantras, the universe, and the earth! Tune into how we can very simply and easefully tap into the earth and aspects of nature for healing, and how to use your ability to visualize to bring yourself balance and healing.Following this podcast intro will be four healing meditations that offer ways to utilize nature as medicine, tuning into the elements, and balancing your energies. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Join me with Licensed Acupuncturist and Chinese Herbalist, Monique Wheeler in our conversations around finding the root causes of dis-ease through human complexity, using muscle testing, intuition, and essential oils to treat the body, trauma and traditional Chinese Medicine. She shares about chronic Lyme disease and the tenacity it takes to do her own work, getting rid of emotional gunk and living a good life.Monique’s practice is Meridian 87: Chicago Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, Inc., located in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago. In June of 2018 she celebrated her 10 year practice anniversary!Monique loves being an acupuncturist and working with patients to achieve their health goals - whatever they are. She trained at the Chicago campus of the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, receiving a Master's Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2008.Since graduating Monique has studied women's health and fertility, orthopedic acupuncture, and using essential oils with acupuncture treatment. S

In this podcast I share my recent travel challenges with food, attachment and addiction to food, the legacy of food in my ancestry, how to clear out beliefs around food and nourishment, and having a healthy relationship with your gut.This week, I’ll release three healing experientials to offer guidance in moving beyond food cravings, talking to your gut, and your own ancestral legacy of food that lives in your bones.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/food. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Your stomach is the holder of all information, and when backed up by too much or undigested experiences, emotions, thoughts, and senses, it can become overwhelmed, bloated, anxious or dis-eased.Have a conversation with your gut so that it can receive all the wisdom and nourishment of any experience and physical food. Build a loving relationship so that you are in harmony and working together, metabolizing life with ease, and moving in alignment with your optimal self.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/food. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Food is anything you take in through all of your senses. In this healing experience with Family Constellations, we unfold the multiplicity of meanings of food, love, and nourishment that you receive and inherit both consciously and unconsciously in the legacy of your family ancestry. With this new awareness, we will metabolize and release the ways of being, beliefs, or Food that is not yours or serving you, giving you more clarity and openness to receive the nourishment that is strengthening. 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/food. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

In this podcast I share my recent travel challenges with food, attachment and addiction to food, the legacy of food in my ancestry, how to clear out beliefs around food and nourishment, and having a healthy relationship with your gut.This week, I’ll release three healing experientials to offer guidance in moving beyond food cravings, talking to your gut, and your own ancestral legacy of food that lives in your bones. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

 Introducing, Cat Aldana! She is a friend and colleague who transforms lives with lighthearted and simple reminders to breathe, pause, see that your life is enough, and stepping into your power. She gets deep with sharing her stories of her ancestral epiphanies and healing in her lineage. Cat is a delight to the world and so encouraging to all those around her...And a nap is always welcome in her world.Cat Aldana is the Founder of EAT STRETCH NAP™ + Cat Aldana International. She is a 6+ year Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 500), a Master Aerial Yoga Teacher Trainer of the nationwide chain, AIR® Aerial Fitness and a widely sought after corporate wellness consultant and speaker. Her passion for yoga stems from her contagious love for dance, holistic wellness and personal + professional development. Cat's fun loving + energetic personality, deep empathy, and gentle motivation create an extraordinary atmosphere of calm in all her classes and inspire her students to trust their inner wisdom and stre

Use this practice to deepen and synchronize with your emotions, to support you in clarity in identifying your emotions and stronger connection with you and your bodies messages.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/emotionsIntro Music by Nick Werber (nicknwerber.com) Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Move through challenging emotions and trauma with embodied ease and safety in the nervous system with this guided somatic practice. 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/emotionsIntro Music by Nick Werber (nicknwerber.com)Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

To feel ease in moving through emotions and in healing trauma, this guided practice can support you in developing an inner resource that can stand behind you with safety and love any time you need it.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/emotionsIntro Music by Nick Werber (nicknwerber.com)Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

This episode is about my personal story of moving from emotional numbness to wholeness, navigating and developing a range of emotions, my perspective on how emotional experience changes over time, and an integrative blend of practices that can help develop emotional capacity and resilience. In individual podcasts over the week, I will offer healing meditations that you can practice to develop your own emotional capacity. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

In this lively episode, Brent Garcia and I talk about toxic comparison, reintroducing presence, how society is not set up for men being vulnerable, reclaiming vulnerability as a man, the experience of admitting pain and asking for help, the courage to see your own shame, how he changed his entire life in his forties, the dance of the healer and inner healer in clients/patients, and Western Medicine and Traditional Eastern Medicine working in Tandem!Brent is an elite body mechanic. He came to Traditional East Asian Medicine and bodywork because he needed relief from an old Achilles tendon injury. After receiving acupuncture and massage treatments, Brent was able to function at a much higher level than he had for the previous 10 years. This motivated him to study traditional East Asian healing arts including acupuncture, herbal medicine, Asian bodywork and Tai Chi, as well as Reiki.In 2015, Brent graduated from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in Chicago with a Master of Science in Traditional Oriental

Experiencing my grandmother’s death has brought me to honor her in a very big way - in honoring her worth to me, and her worth to all those sharing a piece of her story, I must honor my own worth -- and this has brought me new levels of abundance and self-love.In this episode, I share my grandmother’s story, and mine with her, explore some recent thoughts on death, and how I am integrating the wisdom I am gaining from her life.I jump into shadow work and how we can use loss to bring us to more wholeness, and we can use our imagination to empower us now. I share three ways in which one can explore death to breathe in life and to know oneself more deeply.To ignore death is to ignore life. So here’s to embracing it to bring more and to know more of ourselves. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

In this chat with the spunky Sarah Buino, we discuss her story of “Kicking and Screaming to be able to be [her] own self” and how she started her unique therapy practice, perfectionism, shifting out shame, the healing vibration in the expression of music, being visible, and how she nourishes herself to be able to be who she is in the world.Sarah Buino, LCSW, CADC, CDWF is the founder of Head/Heart Therapy, Inc. She is a licensed clinical social worker, certified addictions counselor, Certified Daring WayTM facilitator, and adjunct faculty member at Loyola University. She holds a masters degree from Loyola University in Chicago and specializes in shame and substance use disorders.From an early age, Sarah began to share the stage with her mother who was a professional singer. She sings in a local Chicago band on weekends.Sarah integrates her knowledge of complementary healing modalities such as music, yoga, reiki, and the chakra system into her clinical practice to help clients enhance their authenticity. She’s

Love and be in continual alignment with yourself with the most important tool you have: your intuition!This week I share my recent collected insights on the topic of listening inward and intuition, nourishing a relationship with your body’s messages, and discerning between intuition and fear-based decision-making!In the first segment of the podcast, I explore ways in which I and my clients have cleared space for intuition to be opened and heard. I talk about releasing morality, letting go of attachments to past commitments and plans, and continual “not knowing” to refresh your ability to listen inward.But the question still looms, how do you know you are listening to intuition?Find out my thoughts in a rich discussion of getting to the essence of the energy behind your knowing, dialoguing with the body and emotions, how to decipher whether it is a fear or love/joy-based decision, and building a trusting relationship with your wise self.The last segment of the podcast, I share a brief healing exercise to build

What is unspoken, undone, and unacknowledged - what needs to be expressed and doesn’t get air time - goes back in and rots inside of us. The Consequence of Sound a song by Regina Spektor, has been inspiring me to explore the consequence of what goes unspoken, and how it affects the world we live in and our bodies.Learn about ways you can shift and use your voice and expression to have a healthier body and how the language of Sanskrit connects with this song. 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 world, what’s truly full and alive now.What’s alive now in me has often been what’s filled the juicy stuff of life: themes, joys, or challenges that others may also be experiencing, a fear and other emotions that bring me to the edge of my fulle

In this episode, Venessa and I talk about nourishment on all levels, Akashic Records, What feeds Venessa’s Wild, Ant Medicine, belonging and relationship to what we give ourselves to, coming out of the spiritual closet, hunger and digesting love, and the question - What would nature do?Venessa Rodriguez, M.S., C.H.C. is a functional nutritionist, intuitive nourishment guide and host of the Feed Your Wild Podcast. Her mission is to awaken the innate healing capacity of women struggling with chronic dis-ease, by reconnecting them to their own medicine and nature through food, spirit, and love. Venessa supports wild-hearted change-makers build physical health & vitality through her work combining the science + spirituality of food using a modern functional approach, intuitive guidance with Akashic Records, and ancestral wisdom from earth-honoring traditions. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Waking up with fear is never fun for me. Who is feeling the fear? Ah… Good morning, Perfectionist and Inner Critic - what are doing here right now??In this episode you’ll get an inside look at my waking up with fear, exploring perfectionism, how I give love to my inner critic and inner perfectionist so they don’t get out of hand, exploring the roots of protection and purpose behind the perfectionism, and the inspiration I got knowing that Madonna has reinvented herself 14 times (maybe more at this point). 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 world, what’s truly full and alive now.What’s alive now in me has often been what’s filled the juicy stuff of life: themes, joys, or challenges that others may also be experiencing, a fear and othe

What’s on the other end of the “Am I Crazy??” Experiences?Here we go- the sequel to Freedom + Expansion: The Terrifying Gifts of Spiritual and Existential Crisis!Find out in Part A what it’s been like since I felt pieces of my existence shatter, the way my bladder was screaming, how I transformed pain into wisdom and revealed the mysteries behind my symptoms, sorting and clearing the ancestral and collective energies that came up, and the actual gifts + magic that I’ve received on the other end.Part B, Soul and Body Support, is all for you! I’ve had many listeners ask for more meditations and guided experiences for healing. In four segments that you can use at your own pace, I guide you through:Soothing self-touch and grounding your body into safetyImmersing yourself in an imaginary Healing Sanctuary for deeper releaseTalking and listening to your body using the language of the body, love, to learn the wisdom beneath your body symptomsUsing your story of your physical and emotional symptoms as a tool to explo