The Embody Podcast Self-love & Healing

It’s quite the human task to be congruent and aligned with ourselves — to feel that who we are on the inside is expressed and reflected on the outside. Then there is all of what is within. Do you sacrifice, sell off, hide, or ignore parts of yourself? What does congruence feel like to you in your body? In this episode, how the Hong Kong Protests challenged me personally to stand up for all the parts of me, not just some, but to have compassion meanwhile. Also, the price we pay when we have codependency or where we are split in our choices, how to feel aligned in your body and congruent outwardly, living from the heart and looking deeper at social issues.Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

“Loving yourself is always a good move.” ~Kerry MaiorcaNo time for meditation? Think you have to be perfect to even start? Don’t wait — this simple guided meditation welcomes you just as you are right now, harnessing your distractions and to-dos to create a more spacious, easeful you.This is an extension of the interview with Kerry Maiorca which you can find on this podcast or at CandiceWu.com/kerry Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

“Loving yourself is always a good move.” ~Kerry MaiorcaIt takes bravery to slow down and recognize you are enough. Kerry Maiorca dismantles the idea you have to be a certain kind of person to practice yoga. She encourages and teaches others to make time within their messy lives to love themselves and to simplify. Kerry asks: Is it self-love or is it self-bullying and shaming? And, is FEAR your CEO? In this episode, she talks about why First Graders are better at meditation than you are, how to begin any practice just as you are, nourishment in the in-between spaces of life, how yoga is real life happening, and to give yourself permission to have joy without other intentions.Kerry’s mission is to inspire you to slow down, breathe more deeply, and do a little less. Specializing in teaching Gentle and Restorative Yoga, Kerry is passionate about sharing the depths of practice in an accessible, individualized, and down-to-earth way.Kerry is the Founder of Bloom Yoga Studio and serves as chair of the board for Yoga

In this episode, I share about the spiritual and earthly wisdom that horses have to share — the magical moments where the horses showed me that when my energy shifted, theirs and the outer world did too, plus Somatic Healing and Horse Constellations.This episode is a continuation of my story of being with horses, communicating with them telepathically and receiving knowledge and wisdom from them. Horses show us that there is no need to be afraid of emotion and enjoy when people are congruent with what they are feeling.I share about magical moments where something in me shifted emotionally and instantly, or synchronously, the horses felt it and moved with me. Where Silver, the oldest of the horses, moved towards me once I released my hand from where I was stuck in codependency, nudging me in what felt like the right direction of inner knowing and trust. Where Meiji, one of the horses, took ONE step at a time with me as my right foot was trying to “unstick” from where it had been. A kind of support that felt so

“So many people had to get something right for us to be here.” ~ Francesca Mason Boring on AncestryFrancesca Mason Boring asks: Who is in this family? Everyone comes from someone — we have roots. There is an innate family soul that tells us that all of us are a part of this family. Our healing can be as simple as this and as complex as seeing this and looking at the hidden dynamics.In this episode, we explore the basics of nature and systemic constellation, the experience of the Earthy Kind of Sacred: the kind of sacred you can dig your toes into, what the difference is between what I believe and what I’ve constructed versus what is true, morphogenetic fields and the access to our knowing, the gifts of acknowledging our ancestors, and the missing ingredients: what we have left out in our experience that ancient traditions can bring. We also explore the Cultural Puzzles in life: Connecting Families and Relationships with all the complexities they bring.She teaches how “the ability to know is always present” an

Take a peek into my adventure with 7 horses — dancing, meditating, and communicating telepathically with horses! I talk about what I learned living off the grid for 5 nights and being connected with things that give you the feeling of being like yourself. I experienced therapeutic touch, being in enoughness, and the magic of meditating with horses. I learned how to talk and listen to horses so they feel respected and interested. And a Poem in gratitude to Silver at the Horse Constellations mentorship with Sara Fancy @SarraaFancy at the Silver Horse Retreat Center. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Rachel offers a brief guided shamanic journey experience for you to dive into the underworld.“Once you look through the looking glass it looks back at you.” ~Rachel WhiteDescribed by her clients as the “Amy Schumer of shamanic practitioners”, Rachel White specializes in demystifying the mystical and arming her clients with practical insights for the real world. Through her Chicago-based practice, TOTEM, Rachel empowers her clients to take the reins of their spiritual lives with tailored, pragmatic shamanic support and informed insights.Rachel has more than ten years of experience as a trained shaman, medium, and meditation coach, she has performed readings and consultations for more than 1,000 clients, and has hosted more than 100 group-guided meditation workshops.The main interview with Rachel can be found at CandiceWu.com/rachelwhite Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

“Once you look through the looking glass it looks back at you.” ~Rachel WhiteDescribed by her clients as the “Amy Schumer of shamanic practitioners”, Rachel White specializes in demystifying the mystical and arming her clients with practical insights for the real world. Through her Chicago-based practice, TOTEM, Rachel empowers her clients to take the reins of their spiritual lives with tailored, pragmatic shamanic support and informed insights.In this episode we cover:The ease of moving energy vs moving the material worldWu Wei and aligning to the invisible rivers of flow, non-attachment, synchronicity, and beingRachel’s agonizing experience of the 4th and 5th dimension, the multiverse, and the Mandala EffectOther realities and co-authoring our lives in empowermentHow would you do it differently if this life weren’t the beginning and end?Spirituality is ingrained in life and is an emerging science where we may have lost some memoryTV shows, Doreen Virtue, and Elon Musk and their relationship to energetic the

Coherence is the quality of being logical and consistent or the quality of forming a unified whole according to Google. Today I talk about the potency of noticing the tiniest moments of healing, subtlety or evidence of what’s shifting or happening. It is a ripple effect of spiritual and emotional homeopathy, which then affects our physical bodies.I invite you to not overlook the potency of a small moment! Let’s take time to notice the coherence and intelligence in our being and bodies. Also, I talk about how the logic of the soul, heart, and body are totally different than the mind’s, such that our bodies are constantly adapting and supporting us.Where are there places you are doing it right? What ways does your body support your well being? Let’s look, truly look, instead of overlooking what’s already happening. Seeing can bring an opening to more. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

I’m grateful to bring this lovely conversation with Kremena Yordanova, who lives her passions in many worlds including yoga, entrepreneurship and the corporate world. I’m inspired by how she looks at the subtleties of patterns in everyday life as ways to know herself and support her students.This conversation is a transmission of energy and medicine straight from Kremena Yordanova and her ancestors: do it like you CHOSE it, let your life unfold and take your sweet time, and how she chose her own path despite pressures to be a full-time yoga teacher, the herbs of Bulgaria.As a self-taught entrepreneur with a full-time corporate career, Kremena is thoroughly aware of the demands of modern life. Kremena was motivated to contact more like-minded yoga teachers to join her YorYoga collective and set on a mission to share the practice of self-healing. Since founding YorYoga seven years ago, Kremena has organized more than 15 international Yoga, Food and Wine retreats, multiple workshops and has taught countless Yoga

There are emotions that take some time to reveal what they are about and sometimes we still don’t know. In this episode, I talk about feeling schooled by overwhelming emotions — the big feeling of an emotion that I had no clue what it was about. Wondering if I could hold my own complexity as well as how to be in intense emotions and feel gracefully incompetent. Plus the stories of intergenerational and cultural trauma that revealed, the visceral pain I discovered in my ancestry and how I healed it… My response that honors the survival and life of the lineage.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 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 tha

This is a divine conversation with my healer/healing coach, Charmayne Kilcup, Ph.D., who introduced me to the power of self-forgiveness. She brings a spacious big love to healing the soul. In this conversation we talk about:How to use Self-Forgiveness to heal your heart and soul and why forgiveness itself doesn’t workWhen selflessness is helpful and when it is notShifting from victimhood to seeing that what happens in our lives truly happen not to but for usHow the mind does not understand the Soul and how to balance this withinHow choosing pleasure and choosing ourselves is in service to allHer spiritual emergency and how this lead her to her journey of self-forgiveness and worthinessBeing worthy of our abundance and material pleasuresThe transmission of primal archetypal feminine energy that is the preparation she needed to feel ready for birthing her babyThe luscious moments she is enjoying sensate pleasureCharmayne is a spiritual coach who helps people transform trauma, and pain into joy, ease, and loving

Balance the shifts, endings, and grief in yourself or your relationship world with tuning into the life, love, playfulness and creative inspiration that is already present or that you’d like to make space for in this self-inquiry and sensing in.This is an experiential that is paired with the main episode 70: Good Grief: Honoring Relationships Ending you can find that full episode and 3 more explorations at CandiceWu.com/relationshipsending. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Give yourself some grace and support your heart and soul with self-forgiveness. We will dig deep into shadow work and also empowerment with forgiving the judgments around belief sets and ways of being that are connected with a relationship challenge or ending.This is an experiential that is paired with the main episode 70: Good Grief: Honoring Relationships Ending you can find that full episode and 3 more explorations at CandiceWu.com/relationshipsending. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Your soul desires for you to heal and love yourself through hurt, pain, or wounds, especially in the ending of a relationship past or present. Use this space to honor your heart and put closure to a relationship.This is an experiential that is paired with the main episode 70: Good Grief: Honoring Relationships Ending you can find that full episode and 3 more explorations at CandiceWu.com/relationshipsending. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

This experiential is to support healing and receiving of the gifts and beauty from a relationship has ended so that you can integrate this embodied knowledge into your being.This is an experiential that is paired with the main episode 70: Good Grief: Honoring Relationships Ending you can find that full episode and 3 more explorations at CandiceWu.com/relationshipsending. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Our relationships show us places in ourselves that our soul desires us to love or claim. The endings of a relationship, which may have brought both beauty and pain, can bring us that opportunity. Whether it is an ending or shift present or past, in an intimate relationship, family, collegial or friendship, we have another opportunity to return to loving ourselves.In this podcast, I share my personal story of my recent relationship ending, how I am honoring it and the pockets of pain and beliefs that I had the opportunity to look at. I talk about how we can see our relationships as places for powerful healing and wisdom, four places we get stuck in grieving or moving forward into new relationships, getting unstuck from beliefs that keep us in lack, and how the mind and soul can be on different agendas.Then join me in the healing experientials that support integrating and claiming the beauty and love from the relationship, healing any pain or wounds, self-forgiveness in your part of the relationship and excavat

In this episode I talk about relationships being a mirror and my adventures in leaving the Horse Farm in Ireland back in January – what happened and some clips of my private spoken journal from that time, getting cornered by my host, my experiences with horses blowing me off when I ask them to do something and how I overcame it.Plus, my process in choosing a kind and pleasurable learning situation over one I needed to endure and how relationships serve to show us where we are still needing to learn to love, giving us an opportunity to love ourselves and others more deeply.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 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

Please join Bianka for a NARM (Neuro-Affective Relational Model) exercise that is focused on connection and can facilitate a deep sense of settling.Bianka Hardin, Psy.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and owner of Centered Therapy Chicago. Dr. Hardin founded CTC in 2014 with the mission to help children, adolescents, and adults improve their mental health and quality of life. Dr. Hardin provides individual and family therapy as well as supervision and consultation services. She also presents in the community on issues related to parenting, child abuse prevention, self-care, mindfulness, trauma stewardship, and cultural issues. She enjoys working with clients who are in the mental health field who could benefit from getting additional support in the important work they are doing, who are struggling with vicarious trauma or burnout, or who are interested receiving case consultation or support in their own professional development. She utilizes a mind/body/spirit approach and is comfortable supplementing tr

I’d like to welcome to the podcast Bianka Hardin, my friend, colleague, and previous supervisor when I was a holistic psychotherapist. Bianka taught me the lived experience of self-care, intention, and the power of visualization.Listen in on our unique story of synchronicity in each other’s lives plus a rich conversation about:Bianka’s journey into developing more safety and enjoyment in her body and working with anxieties and fearsExploring trust and mistrustThe profound experience of realizing she was holding someone else’s fearBianka’s personal journey into exploring the truth of the untold ancestral story as half German and half from the SouthHow to connect with your her own desires as an empathic personPersonal agency and how we can get in our own wayWhat the body-centered and relational model of NARM (Neuro-Affective Relational Model) offersWhen you feel you’ve had a set back it could actually be the natural contraction that happens after expansionBianka Hardin, Psy.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologis