The Embody Podcast Self-love & Healing

Safety in the nervous system and body can be restored when we let it register to our bodies that we are alive and that you have your basic needs met (if you do). Take a moment to support more safety in your body with this guided experience that is simple but can feel so helpful.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

When you’re depressed, paralyzed, shut down, or dissociated — knowing what is happening can support healing and a compassionate look at the body and how it’s trying to protect us and adapt. This episode is a practical and scientifically-based discussion about understanding the basics of the nervous system in overwhelm or trauma. By noticing the signs, you can support your body in feeling more safety, resilience, and capacity with very basic tools.We are so used to going in the hard stuff of our lives and overriding and pushing beyond what our bodies need. This can create an auto override and autopilot — are we really here in our hearts and bodies?In this episode, I share many signs of nervous system overwhelm, 12 things to do to support and heal trauma, a bit of Polyvagal Theory and Somatic Experiencing, and the way our nervous systems can be affected in relationships. The more I have understood the nervous system, the more compassion I have been able to feel for others and humanity.How can we understand our

“Arigato in, Arigato out” is Ken’s mantra with money, and he promises, it’s not going to cost you anything!Ken Honda of Tokyo, Japan, known to be the Marie Kondo of money, talks on the podcast about the Japanese art of making peace with your money. Do you use money or does money use you? Is your money happy or unhappy? Ken encourages permission to enjoy money and cleansing our relationship to money.Ken encourages permission to enjoy money! He shares the confusion and devastation with money and a person’s death that marked his journey of meaning, and how he came to support millions of people in gratitude, following your heart, and finding your gifts as part of the path to money that appreciates.Ken explains that the distance to happiness is amazingly equal and always same regardless of your circumstances and identities. While it may not be uncomfortable to realize that money is not the problem, Ken brings this conversation to a deep level of self where money is a neutral energy. We put lots of emotional garbag

A ten-minute taste of my story in becoming a healing facilitator and the ways in which I support people in the science and the spirituality of being at home in their bodies and loving and feeling like themselves.If you’ve wondered how Embody Your Nature could support you in your deepening, inner wisdom, and knowing of yourself or your relationships, how my work is different from talk therapy and other spiritual work, or how horse experiences provide healing, hop into this brief appearance I had on Mind-Body Radio.I share about the types of clients that come to me from those experiencing tension or illness in their bodies, emotional imbalance, patterns in their lives, or desires that they are moving towards. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

The continuation of one of past life stories has opened up unimaginable experiences and knowings! In my willingness to surrender into the unbelievable aspects of my experience and in listening to the Ohio land, a beautiful horse I met that showed me more, how a police officer guided me towards the right land where I have been hundreds of years ago, and a new friend, Amélie, that gave me more pieces of my story and… well, I won’t give it all away here. It’s nothing short of magical, so much I can barely believe it myself. And through it, I’m experiencing more of myself, trusting deeper, and living in the flow of the deep mystery.Also in this episode a brief share about a new trauma/movement collaboration with dancers in Molly Shanahan / Mad Shak Choreography and a poem I wrote to express the Constellation of my soul’s past life lineage and family.This is Part 2 of Deep Mystery of Life. The Story thread of this Past Life began in this episode last year: Past Life Trauma — Ep 49 and continued in Deep Mystery of

“A New Earth began to form beneath our feet. Volcanic ashes filled the air. Sulfuric particles embedded themselves into our hair, onto our skin and tongues. My mouth was coated in ashes, my lungs were processing the particles alongside the grief of so many things passing, burning too quickly for my heart to comprehend. I found these notes and postings I had written during the first month of the eruption.” ~ Darshan Mendoza, from her book The Luminary Journey: Lessons from a Volcano in Creating a Healing Center and Becoming the Leader You Were Born to BeDarshan is an incredible visionary and sees the magic that nature is showing us! She is alive and awake to share the lessons and experience from the Big Island of Hawai’i Volcano erupting in 2018. She shares her beautiful journey in seeing transformation through devastation; the acceleration of a new Earth emerging, which catapulted her into a whole new life.We talk on the podcast about resetting our vibration with our names, her grandmother’s secret and advent

The dark side of empathy. There’s nothing wrong with empathy or helping, but where it is coming from? Is the way you are seeing people when you support ultimately disempowering them? Who are you being in experiences where you support, help, heal, or be there for others?This episode is not just for healers, empaths, wellness practitioners, or those in the helping profession — this is for everybody who has relationships to themselves and others. An Empathy Cleanse so that we can truly be honoring of each other in this life.In this episode: where empathy can go wrong or too far, how we might put ourselves aside and where empathy supports self-avoidance or abandonment, my story of shifting in consciousness around being a healer, respecting others’ in their wholeness, and SEEING.Also, a bit here on how supporting others, acceptance of death, respecting each others’ journeys, ancestry or past life, narcissist/empath and other victim/perpetrator agreements and dynamics, and codependency all connect in this conversat

Bridging an empathy gap takes practice and skills. Learn how an empathy adventure can guide us to expand our capacity for connection and creating change. Shannon discusses the magic of being more expansive in your empathy and encourages you to grow your empathy muscle.To listen to the full episode, please find the episode title “85: Shannon Weber on Agility In Giving and Receiving + Growing Your Empathy Muscle” or go to the post linked below. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

“We risk falling in love. We risk feeling deep connection. We risk changing our own mind. We risk returning from this empathy adventure as a different person.” ~Shannon Weber on Empathy AdventuringShannon Weber believes you can thrive at the intersection of empathy and resilience.Shannon leads efforts to end HIV by day and hangs anonymous love notes in public spaces with her three teenagers by night. She is a serial social entrepreneur, having launched several HIV-informed sexual and reproductive health initiatives that have served thousands locally and impacted tens of thousands around the globe. Shannon has a Master’s of Social Work from Tulane University, New Orleans, received the 2018 UCSF Chancellor’s Award for Public Service, and has taught on stages from Durban to Hong Kong. She is the author of Show Up Hard: A Road Map For Helpers In Crisis.In this episode: From missed connections to vulnerability and intimacy, the craving for meaning in life, moving from enmeshed or co-dependent relationships to comp

The deep mystery of life is you. You are the way. You are love. This is a guided meditation to nourish ways of intuitive and innate knowing that live in your cells, in who you are, in all the messages of the body and spirit.This episode is based on the main episode “84: The Deep Mystery of Life + Elbow Wisdom : Embracing What Logic Cannot Explain”. To listen to the main episode, please find it on the podcast, or on my website linked below. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

There are things we just cannot explain that have a deep impact on our hearts, bodies, and souls. We are in the deep mystery of life — but do we flatten it by feeding everything through the rational?What do a camping trip, sleeping with a steak knife, horses, my uterus, and men have to do with each other??In this episode tune into how a camping trip, sleeping with a steak knife in hand, revealed a past life experience, the story of my uterus and elbow — the thread of the past life trauma experience that emerged on the Acupuncture Table, my bond with the white man as a native American in this past experience, a recent energetic download and expansion, believing and trusting in yourself, scrapping previous knowing to discover new knowing, remembering your sovereignty and the sovereignty of all beings, and fear shows that you may be ready. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

“Love brings us as close to Source as we can be.” ~ Richard MossRichard guides us in a beautiful meditation that reminds us that “There is only now — the body is always in the now” and that “breathing is like a friend that has never abandoned you your whole life.” Bring a new frame for understanding and touch the moment with a quality of awareness that moves you into purposeless from the point of view of the ego, as Richard describes.To listen to the full interview with Richard Moss, please find EP83 on the podcast feed, or go to the blog post linked below. Sponsored by My Monthly Group Healing CallsThis episode is supported by the Embodied Healing Group Call — this is a transformative way to both receive healing support at a lower cost than individual sessions AND support my work/podcast.In each online call, you’ll receive loving support in moving through your emotions, tuning into your intuition and developing your empowerment with body wisdom, and clearing limiting beliefs through your entire being. We ope

“Love brings us as close to Source as we can be.” ~ Richard MossRichard Moss has dedicated his life to loving Love with a Capital L. In this episode, receive the invitation to connect with the wildness of the soul, the part of you that wants to dance with love and “die into love.” Richard shares about experiencing life challenges as the deeper opportunity of our lives to love, the way towards intimacy, and planting a tree in fear.In this episode: Relationship as a way to accelerate loving Love, Why is this called the Embody Podcast? Embodiment as a beginning-less and endless journey, being obedient to nature, and thinner skin and more sensitivity in aging. Richard looks truth and present happenings in the face — he vulnerably shares how his financial challenge is accelerating his deepening, the reality that there are no guarantees of identity or security in life even if we borrow it from the past or future, that democracy is only as good as the people in it and being seduced, and the root of our hurting the p

Your body wants you to listen and understand so that you know yourself more deeply, while it communicates multilingually. Be present witness to one part of the body that is calling you: a tension, pain, illness, organ, or emotion, etc. Learn to honor and converse with this part of the body to support your movement towards healing.If you’d like to learn more about Body Love, please see the parent episode (“82: Conversations with the Body: Body Love and Multi-Language”) or the link to the blogpost below. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

This is my body. These are my arms… What would it be like to claim all the parts of your body in your way? Your body holds implicit memory — the memories that are unconscious in your awareness. In this experiential, you’ll be giving yourself gentle and compassionate touch, gratitude for what the body does for you, and claiming each part of the body as yours.If you’d like to learn more about Body Love, please see the parent episode (“82: Conversations with the Body: Body Love and Multi-Language”) or the link to the blogpost below. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

The most basic thing of sensing and looking around in your surroundings supports you in deepening in your human experience like animals do when they arrive in space. Your nervous system has the chance to realize that it is safe now and enjoy what is pleasant. Take ten minutes to deepen yourself into the here and now with orienting, a Somatic Experiencing practice.If you’d like to learn more about Body Love, please see the parent episode (“82: Conversations with the Body: Body Love and Multi-Language”) or the link to the blogpost below. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Your body wants to ally with you! It is a brilliant, intelligent, adaptable vessel and wants to bring you towards peace, pleasure, aliveness, and who you deeply are. But what about all the aches and pains? In this episode: stomach issues, falling into a hole and twisting my ankle, emotions and elbow pain — stories of how I’ve had conversations with my body and the colorful and dimensional ways in which the body communicates what it wants you to resolve. Where the body reveals the heart of the soul, our most tender desires, ancestral pain, belief sets, and stores experiences that are incomplete.What would your body say if it could talk? The body doesn’t lie and is the opening to more. Tune in for a conversation about the multidimensional multilingual body calling you to listen to and reveal who you deeply are.Plus three experiential this week that support you in orienting and a deep presence in the here and now, claiming all the parts of your body as yours with gratitude and witness, and working with and bring

Joffre guides you in a giant hug to your orphaned self — any part of you that you’ve forgotten about, abandoned, or hidden. You’ll connect with your higher and divine loving self to support you in being in a safe space while entering the cave of your orphaned self to heal any wounds, and restore wholeness, love, and worthiness.This meditation is part of an interview with Joffre McClung on The Embody Podcast. To listen to the full episode you can listen on the link below or find the episode title “81: Heal it Before it Hits You In the Face And Gratitude for Your Nemesis”. Enjoy.Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Joffre shows us self-love with sass, swagger, and a big laugh. In this podcast episode: how leaning into the dark night of the soul can bring a new lens on reality, finishing up the Matrix of Love, Joffre’s story of how she had done everything to have a good life and rock bottom at age 29, and shifting from mental masturbation and the mind doing double lifting to heart healing.Joffre discusses beginning again, healing before it hits you in the face, using positive vs negative imagination, and emotions as a navigational system. There is already a part of you that knows it is one with the divine and we leave clues for ourselves. She talks about how challenging people and situations around cancer brought her to more self-love. And when you don’t take up the practice of loving all the parts of you, the orphaned parts may shout to wake you up!Joffre is a Spiritual/Personal Growth Author, Motivational Speaker, and Common Sense Advocate who was compelled to write her first book, HOW LEARNING TO SAY GOODBYE TAUGHT ME

Fortify your body’s sense of when you feel a YES inside, when you agree with the experience and the experience agrees with you. This Somatic Practice supports the body’s wisdom, connection with intuition, knowing who you are, and making choices with ease, clarity, and discernment.This is a Meditation Experiential which belongs to the parent episode called “Congruence Inside & Out: Stand For All Of You — EP80”. To check the full episode out, please head over to the link below.Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode