The Embody Podcast Self-love & Healing

 I’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 first 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 fullest expression in the moment.As you listen, I will also share snippets of how you can support your own heart and soul, know yourself, be your fullest, or heal and love yourself.In this episode, I share a vulnerable experience of fear around financially continuing my podcast, the beliefs around investing in myself that came up and and how I healed them with forgiveness, as well as how I was touched by feedback from a listener, and what made me burst into tears around Avicii’s death.

Holly and I come from the same beautiful lineage of young women who opened themselves to the rigor and learning of inner motivation, persistence, and responsibility, hard work, and dedication, who have poured their hearts and souls into a team effort: high school competitive cheerleading team at Rochester High School. We met years after both of us graduated, as we are both cheerleaders in another way to our selves and to our clients that want to do deep healing and growth work with themselves.Holly is a multi-passionate creative entrepreneur who wants to elevate the world through the power of words and connection. She graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in broadcast journalism and has a specialization in Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She has completed a series of advanced coaching and leadership certifications as well as a KRI-accredited Kundalini Yoga certification. Her mission is to help others master their desires through inner-connection, outer-clarity and dai

Everything feels like it is dismantling; falling apart. Parts of me feel that they are disintegrating, lost, shattered, untethered.I don’t know who I am anymore.Why do I exist and what am I here for?What is the meaning of life - of everything?I don’t know why I feel sad and fearful.Reality feels like it is blowing apart.These are some of the thoughts and feelings I’ve had in the last few weeks as I’ve been on a spiritual roller coaster. At times I have felt I have been in spiritual or existential crisis, and other times it’s been more like spiritual flu.Luckily, I am aware that these are just parts of me and more grounded inner parts of me are able to stay calm.The soul is speaking or screaming loudly, ready to share its story and lesson for us when we have intense emotional and physical symptoms. The chance to experience profound healing and expansion, energy and a return to our truth is waiting to be reclaimed within an existential and spiritual crisis.But it can be terrifying and overwhelming! Especially i

In this episode, I share an intimate and enriching conversation with a dear friend, Rachael Huttner, who is Thai Body Worker and Reiki Practitioner.Rachael and I talk about how basketball inspired her Thai Body Work, the importance of tribe and teamwork, how to be in touch with synchronicity, and nurturing and valuing intuition and spirit guides.Rachael’s bodywork practice draws from her studies in Reiki, Thai Bodywork, Trigger Point Therapy, Chinese Medicine and her latest introduction to Shamanic studies. Two components ultimately lay the foundation for the effectiveness of these modalities: making energy and spiritual work approachable to everyone, and creating a collaborative environment. She considers the best teachers and practitioners to be the ones that you need to see less and less as time goes on because they give you the tools needed to draw from your own inner knowledge for health and well-being.Having spent over a decade recovering from a surgery and back injury in her teens and 20s, Rachael disc

Sound Sleep Alchemy AlbumGuided Healing, Meditations, and Resources for Sleep CareQuality Sleep is so important. It can make all the difference in daily life, self fulfillment, well - being, work, and relationships to have good rest each night.This is why I have created the Sound Sleep Alchemy Album. This Album of resources, meditations, and self-exploration was born from inspiration of my own, clients', friends', colleagues', and family's struggles with stressful or restless sleep, insomnia, waking up in the middle of the night, night terrors and nightmares, and more, as simple sleep hygiene tips did not always work. In my own experiences of terrible insomnia, I needed to go deeper to get to deep sleep; to the root. I am happy to share that I now have restful sleep and when I don't, I have ways to support myself.Enjoy this culmination of many ancient and modern traditions including Somatic Experiencing, yoga tantra, Ayurveda, spiritual and energetic practices, scientifically-informed and

Sound Sleep Alchemy AlbumGuided Healing, Meditations, and Resources for Sleep CareThis is a sample meditation included in the Sound Sleep Alchemy Album for better sleep. For more information on this album, please have a look at the site linked below. There you will find more samples as well as a podcast episode about what's included in the whole album.candicewu.com/soundsleep

Sound Sleep Alchemy AlbumGuided Healing, Meditations, and Resources for Sleep CareThis is a sample meditation included in the Sound Sleep Alchemy Album for better sleep. For more information on this album, please have a look at the site linked below. There you will find more samples as well as a podcast episode about what's included in the whole album.candicewu.com/soundsleep

To live a truer and more congruent life, one that allows your soul to thrive and be nourished, you might become more aware of the ways you betray or turn against yourself. Go deeper into the complexities of what purpose this serves and how it may be connected to the loyalties to loved ones or past ways of being. Explore how you can shift out of it with awareness and embodiment. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

In this podcast, Heather Fraelick shares her gifts: herself! She is joy, as the meaning of her last name describes, and reminds us all that we are human in process. She discusses her dance career has been an essential part of her life and offerings, being human and feeling, the myth that we are “healed” or “zen” at some point, saying “No” and having healthy boundaries, and how the body talks to us.Heather has a beautiful gift of talking with our fascia, muscles and body, and teaches this to all those around her. She brings a lightness, joy, and ease in self care of the body, heart and soul.In essence, Heather brings forth a compassionate, listening ear to each session, workshop, or circle, and enjoys helping clients empower themselves on their road to recovery!Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This EpisodePodcast HomepageNewsletter & Embody CommunityCandice Wu Page on FacebookFollow Candice on Instagram Show Notes & Timestamps1:10 Opening 2:25 Heather’s Dancer Moves Her Healing Work 4:31

It’s time to LOVE your voice, become fully self - expressed and show yourself the deepest form of self - love: Living Your Truth shamelessly and wildly. Simply Being YOU.On my 35th birthday, I felt this message move through me - a message that gives me life and purpose.Listen in on my realistic inspiration to you about **bringing yourself to life**. How essential it is that you share your specific desires and gifts, validate yourself, and be fully in your being!Of course, I know that it’s not that simple...Enjoy this encouraging note to be gentle, yet fierce in acknowledging the self - betrayal, hiding, and facades you may carry, death and how it forces the acknowledgement of life, and what would be a life worth living for. Also, I share some personal stories of challenges with being myself, fear, and hiding.Appreciate and give yourself the birth of YOU (the TRUE YOU).~CandiceLinks, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This EpisodePodcast HomepageNewsletter & Embody CommunityCandice Wu Page on Faceboo

In this episode, I share about the experience of being caught up with myself, that I am very present and living my dream life! I am delighted to share my story about all the transitions and learnings in 2017 including how I trusted my inner guidance, the way my night dreams helped me get to Thailand, incorporating the theme of purposelessness, and exploring how I interact in new spaces and cultures when I travel and facing colonialism in travel. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This EpisodePodcast HomepageNewsletter & Embody CommunityCandice Wu Page on FacebookFollow Candice on Instagram Show Notes & Timestamps00:00 Intro 00:42 Where I am in Hong Kong 01:43 Feeling “Caught up with myself” 02:21 The first big transition - Stepping into My Practice 03:02 Taking a leap 03:54 Excited about Womens Circle, Clients and Dream Groups 04:05 Dreams about Thailand 04:31 Time to declutter and Release Belongings 05:05 Chiang Mai 05:13 Cleaning Up, Releasing, Becoming Minimalist 05:43 Shifting to Onli

In this episode, Beth Lynch shares with me her journey to Roots and Wings, not just her own energy work practice, but in herself- how she continues to unfold who she is in her life, her challenges, and her joys. Learn a few energy work practices that she teaches most commonly and what energy work can do for you. Beth and I connected instantly the first time we met and we have been colleagues and friends since. I truly admire her light, magical, and joyful energy that she brings in every movement and word.Beth Lynch, RN, APN is an Eden Energy Medicine Certified Practitioner, Eden Energy Medicine Authorized Instructor, with a commitment to supporting and empowering you on your own journey to heal, evolve and optimize wellness through energy work. Working with your energy systems can help find your physical, emotional or spiritual blocks or ‘sticking points’ that may be holding you back from fulfillment in yourself and in your life.Beth began her journey in the health field as a nurse with holistic roots. Beth a

In this episode, I talk about Family Constellations Healing, how it works and how it can support profound transformation. I guide you through three powerful Constellations Exercises that can bring you deeper awareness and healing as well as share stories from the Movie Coco and personal experience to illustrate examples of the impact of the lineage on one’s life.Family or Systemic Constellations illuminate the internalized images of our inner dynamics and can intuitively show us where our current life challenges may have a previous context in your ancestry’s losses.Ancestral healing work can restore and access the love and strength that is innate, build your capacity to feel and experience everything and strengthen your ability to use your body’s wisdom and knowledge. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This EpisodePodcast HomepageNewsletter & Embody CommunityCandice Wu Page on FacebookFollow Candice on Instagram Show Notes & Timestamps00:00 Introduction of the Topic: Family Constellations

Jim is one of the most significant spiritual and yoga teachers in my life. By his very existence and his applied teachings, he has taught me the deeper meaning of aum, that everything is truly possible, and a how to understand the way that the universe works, according to Tantric and Vedic Sciences.Through his teachings I am able to understand the way something functions, who I truly am, how to heal at a deeper level, a deeper spirituality and being, and how to create from a place of freedom. I feel a continually level of integration and truer to my genuine self.Jim has devoted the majority of his life to the study, preservation, and teaching of yoga, the Vedas and the Vedic and Tantric Sciences. His extensive quest to understanding the nature of the universe led him to to the study of several rare and highly advanced systems of Tantra.He is the creator of the Darshan Method, a systematic approach to these philosophies and practices which can be applied to any aspect of life producing exceptional results in p

Give some love and balancing to your heart with 3 meditations and by exploring how to speak from your heart. You'll learn an alignment and grounding meditation, a heart balancing energy meditation, and a turning inward with love meditation. Working with your ancient ability to heal yourself, these guided meditations will support you in releasing emotions, heart health, feeling more centered, shifting your ability to communicate from a heart-centered place. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This EpisodePodcast HomepageNewsletter & Embody CommunityCandice Wu Page on FacebookFollow Candice on Instagram Show Notes & Timestamps 00:50 Speaking from the Heart Exploration 08:30 Exploration Around Emotional Range – What Emotions Can You Express? 10:50 Introduction to the Alignment Meditation to Help with Speaking From the Heart 11:55 Begin the Alignment Meditation 19:00 Intro to Heart Energy Balancing Meditation 19:25 Begin Heart Energy Balancing Meditation 26:00 Turning Inward With Love Medi

I’m delighted to explore with Gina Fitzpatrick, the independent owner of One Key Yoga in Chicago, IL, and mother of four very interesting humans.You can find her in the studio nestled in the Ravenswood/Lincoln Square neighborhood teaching yoga for every body or having tea with friends.Poised for Joy and a tomato connoisseur, Gina is a seeker of truth and the worst bad pun.Here in this podcast, we talk about how Gina's studio began, including the sweet origin of the name of her studio- One Key Yoga, how she and David Bowie are bonded, the struggle and beauty of moving through grief and being seen, and her current mantra of “I am listening.”Gina offers spiritually grounded workshops to explore yummy cosmic energies including dreams and spirit totems, but all the way down to the pelvic floor and the body. Last year she began providing an amazing yoga therapy program.She truly brings her gift, herself, to her practice and to her studio. Thank you, for your beautiful existence and reminder to us all to LISTEN.

In this first episode, I invite you to journey in moving through new beginnings and challenges. We explore why you’re doing what you’re doing and who you are being behind your new beginning or challenge. I will guide you through three healing embodied experiences/meditations to support you in connecting deeply with your reasons for action, to build emotional capacity, resilience and strength, and to resolve and move through fears that may show up when beginning something new or challenging. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This EpisodePodcast HomepageNewsletter & Embody CommunityCandice Wu Page on FacebookFollow Candice on Instagram