The Embody Podcast Self-love & Healing

As a gift, Nick Werber has offered one of his favorite audio meditations on the subject of consenting to people and the present moment as they are. The meditation is originally written by German Psychologist Bert Hellinger and is read by Dr. Michael Picucci. Dr. Picucci was one of Nick’s greatest mentors and before he passed, Nick spent a year recording several of his meditations along with an audio version of his book, Focalizing Source Energy. The content of the meditation gets at a universal and enduring truth: that our perception of the world around us shapes the world around us.Listen to the main episode with the Title “106: The Life of an Intention, How Ancestry Intersects, and Black Sheep With Nick Werber” and at the link below. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Nick Werber is back on The Podcast! My good friend, fellow wizard of a healer and Integrative Coach — Whether you enjoyed Nick Werber on The Podcast before or you’ve never heard from him, you’ll just drink up this episode in which Nick and I chat about a secret to our past lives, intentions, and Black Sheep!All about Intentions — how to use body awareness to help with intentions, what to make of the barriers that come, and that as soon as you set your intentions you are saying:“I’m ready to see what has been standing in the way all along.” ~ Nick WerberAlso, a constellations exercise that can support body wisdom and your intentions, and how we may be carrying intentions for someone else in our family ancestry and what to do about this. Find out what needs to be respected in Intention setting, about the process and life of intentions, and my confession about intentions this year.We explore the value of the Black Sheep in the family from a statement by Bert Hellinger, whether or not Nick and I are the Black She

Journey through time by rainbow travel to the past and future selves — The past that can fortify a sense of ok-ness, strength, or feeling like yourself, and the future self or a loving person that gives you a new awareness of whatever you are experiencing now.In this experiential, open a sense of agreement with life as it is now so that it can compel and move you forward with an integration of your experience. Beyond acceptance, love yourself through what is now, appreciating the journey, and inviting your future self to bring any needed or desired support.Also in this episode, I share about some upcoming juicy and sensual topics for the year and what has been going on in my astrology and life. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Imagine standing behind yourself with deep love and power ushering you into life and the New Year. Fortify your ability to stand behind yourself, lean back upon and rely on your deep inner unconditional loving, and embody more of yourself with this experiential.Also, my receding gum lines who cry out for more strength in support, the gall bladder and liver energies and your right to take up space.If you’re looking for something different — especially something embodied — to ring in the New Year, or in addition to your resolutions, themes of focus, and intentions, try this brief experiential that you can use as you cross into 2020.This experiential is a blend of working with inner parts, somatic embodiment, and a Systemic Constellations practice that invites you to stand with more of yourself and all that can support you as you walk forward in life. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

I’ve finally ‘achieved’ something that I’ve been working on for YEARS! It is something I have craved and that has been a life goal (at least for the last 10 years off an on) and left me with some mystery and confusion.Tune in to find out what I’ve finally experienced — I think it may surprise you.Also in this episode: taking up the freedom to shake things up the way it would work for you, recognize where you’re bound by future fears, simplicity, and breathing room for what do you desire. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

“The Akashic realm lives in a space of wanting us to update — so the mind can understand the experiences that transcend the mind.” ~ Susan LipshutzSusan reminds us of what’s beyond the mind’s programming, our innate wisdom, collaborating and interfacing with life as it is now, harvesting our calling, and reawakening the divine feminine. She brings the wisdom of the moon, the akashic realm, and the ancestral wisdom of our elders and earth to mesh with modern life.What is the Akashic Realm? What informs the universe? Susan shares all about her 25-year-old relationship with the Akashic Realm and Records, what they are, and how it can be supportive; how it holds everything the collective has ever been through and where we are going. Susan works with Astrology and the Akashic Records together — with the intention of remembering what is forgotten, offering assistance to someone on their journey.Susan speaks to reframing being a black sheep to a rainbow sheep. She honors her Russian roots and grandmother, while also

Surrender into a state of being that opens curiosity, witness, and spaciousness for a nourishing Daydreaming session. This supports the body in being the container for Mystery and creativity coming through you, parts of yourself being revealed, or supportive rest. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Spend time daydreaming without an agenda. Daydreaming is a way to love yourself. Give space for your deep inner life and Soul to play. Allow breathing room for your Spirit. Daydreaming offers space for creative life energy of the universe to come through you and can be restful, healing, or revealing. Time for the unexpected, the unimagined, and the unplanned is essential for your wild inner life to thrive!In this episode, I talk about the benefits of Daydreaming and ways to enter into a dreamspace. I share how to awaken curiosity and openness that gives space for the depths to emerge.Sometimes what arrives are aspects of yourself that want to be heard, healed, or expressed in your daily life, sometimes it is nonsensical thoughts that spring into practical and inspired ideas, and other times it is to fuel your creative and imaginal spirit and life.Let mystery be alive through your dream time! Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Reconnect with the rivers of your vital energy, your native ecology and inner sexual landscape with this juicy and rich meditation by Roxanne Partridge. Claim and feel your joy, pleasure, arousal, and desire.This episode is an addition to EP100 by Roxanne. For her full interview please check out EP100 on the podcast or go to CandiceWu.com/roxanne Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Who shows up on your menstrual cycle? Roxanne talks about paying attention to the parts of self that come up as a window to our depths, the marginalized parts of self, and our under-worldly soul.Roxanne Partridge, of Embody Period, brings Menstruality - Sexuality Embodiment “From the Depths Up & Out”. She invokes the goddess and wild self in women through luscious words, provocative and artistic expression, imagery, and the depths and darkness.Roxanne supports women in connecting back to the source of themselves and awakening their vital and essential selves, sexuality, highlighting the magic of all stages of a woman’s menstrual cycle, and sharing their stories as they are.Roxanne soulfully shares about:Inner Social Justice: befriending the marginalized parts of self that don’t have representation in day to day lifeWhat happens as marginalized parts of ourselves meet the waking life versions of ourselves?The painful story that created the Menstrual Backdrop to her life and missionSpace and creating space,

In this episode, I draw on lessons from the Horses on giving and taking and from the founder of Family Constellations, Bert Hellinger’s ideas on how we stay innocent when we give and feel guilty when we take. His statement that has brought icy feeling of truth to me at times, “It is better for you to feel obligated to me than for me to feel obligated to you,” is a great place to explore what our relationship to giving and taking is.Where horses take the carrot I give them, I sometimes begrudgingly see my own needs and desires: for the horse to give back to me, love me, kiss me or give me attention… But also the simple lesson of being in complete action and alignment by delighting in the giving.I invite you to notice on subtle levels why you give, from which place are you giving, and who is doing the giving? It takes grit to be honest and have weight in yourself by recognizing what you might silently or secretly expect from others when you give while finding a place for the pure act of giving.Also, I touch on

With this episode, let’s cleanse our personal permission to receive and explore how receiving can relate and be blocked by feelings of betrayal within our ancestry and the collective, saying NO, expectations and attachments, our body’s visceral reactions to receiving and belief sets.A self-exploration on:What is receiving and what does it require us to feel and do?Receiving is all connected to our body’s visceral reactionsOur belief sets (and where they come from) that block us from deepening receiving what we desireWhat do you feel allowed, worthy of, and able to receive? Love, sensuality, abundance, money, compliments, touch…Plus a sharing about a recent experience with a ghost that I now would rather call a spirit or ancestor and my experiences with Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak Dance Company recently around movements born from trauma.This conversation is Part 2 of 3 on the investigation and self-inquiry around taking, receiving, and giving. Last week, I explored the developmental need and assertive tool of taki

This conversation offers an investigation and self-inquiry around taking, receiving, and giving. We often overvalue giving and stigmatize taking — that taking is selfish, impolite, or that we shouldn’t… we certainly shouldn’t take too much. And we often moralize that it is better to receive than to take. Does that limit us in our fullness?We need to be able to take. It is an assertive action we can play with and use when we need it. Taking space, taking your own time, taking up space, taking what we need, and ultimately taking our place. My teacher, Suzi Tucker, says that it is first “take, then give.” Taking comes before giving.In this episode, I discuss our developmental need to take, what beliefs may interfere with our ability to assert and take what we need or desire, taking too much and its relationship with scarcity, and the wounds and messages we may have received and internalized that make it hard for us to take and receive.This is part one of the series: Cleanse Your Ideas of Taking Receiving, and Gi

Angela brings forward the Goddess within along with the stories and lives of women of color and queer women through history that have been often hidden or left in the dark corners! She supports women who have been hurt or confined by versions of spirituality, those who are exhausted by the larger constructs that can oppress, and those who bring their own empowering life forward through her life journey as well as her programs at Holy Women Icons Project.In this podcast, Angela discusses bringing forward stories that call up a reflection of our self-worth, love, resilience, and strength; her experiences of microaggression in the spiritual community, and her experiences of being a queer clergywoman for 14 years. We have discussions about how the spirituality that was handed to her was a version that felt too confining for the essence of her being that was passionate about dance, arts, and writing. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

In this brief episode, I share how two more past lives have been revealed to me through my grief and darkness and the magic I have reclaimed because of it. Time-traveling really far back — one life as a dragon and one in Lemuria — I am recalibrating ancient knowings that never previously made sense but do now through a part of me that has known all along. Listen in for a life that was never lived, and bringing utopia to life as it is now. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Being with what’s going well and letting the body and awareness register it can make all the difference to boost the body’s innate healing and bring an immediate level of safety and release. Take the time to appreciate what you’ve done right instead of overlooking the little things. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Noticing our body’s level of coherence and vibrating with the rightness of our being brings even more trust and healing. In this podcast, I talk about the things you can notice that your body does to tell you that healing is happening. When you notice these, you can develop your body trust and boost your innate healing.The nervous system builds upon this to develop body trust and innate healing, the experience that you can trust that your body innately knows its way and allow it to lead. This can also help when you feel stuck or have that thought that nothing’s changing in your life or your healing process, for when you feel down on yourself or overwhelmed.Look for teeny tiny things that are already happening and transforming to support you. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

“A world where our little pebble of documenting births can make waves on the mortality rate of mothers across the country or the world. How amazing would that be?” ~ Chinelle RojasChinelle brings awareness to birthing options that can save lives, especially women of color through her intimate, raw, tender, powerful, and revealing photography. She tells a story of women in their goddess selves and “between worlds” with their babies and families, capturing the powerful moment of life coming into the world.Chinelle’s eye for honesty in her photographs is inspiring and unearthing silenced or quieted areas of our humanity into conversation through images. In this podcast, she candidly speaks about her own birthing experiences and stories of being witness to the profound process of birthing. She shared how her curiosity of how slave women birthed lead to her creating provocative photographs that were sparse or missing in her Google search and how she is able to heal her ancestors.Statistically, black women in the U

This Somatic Experiencing support guides you from anxiety or a tonic immobility (frozen) state of the nervous system to arriving at safety through a completed movement of running towards a safe person, place, or situation that you imagine and move with.The parent episode for this experiential is called “92: Nervous System Overwhelm: Notice the Signs, Polyvagal Theory Basics, and 12 Tools Towards Healing Trauma, Depression, Shut Down, and Overwhelm” and can be found at CandiceWu.com/overwhelm. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

In this basic Somatic Experiencing practice, we bring up simple and often overlooked moments that you felt like yourself or felt safe or even “ok,” as well as a time you got through a challenge and a current unresolved issue. This gives a reminder to your nervous system of your strength, ability to move through life, and that you can feel or begin to feel like yourself and safe.The parent episode for this experiential is called “92: Nervous System Overwhelm: Notice the Signs, Polyvagal Theory Basics, and 12 Tools Towards Healing Trauma, Depression, Shut Down, and Overwhelm” and can be found at CandiceWu.com/overwhelm. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode