The Embody Podcast Self-love & Healing

Deepen into this experience with Lauren Maxwell to practice the Gesture of the Inner Secret (Gupta Mudra), explore safety and centeredness, and expand the inner landscape of your mind and channels of the body with this basic meditation and yoga practice leading you towards and preparing you for breathwork.Take in the three healing statements that Lauren brings within this practice:As limiting beliefs are released, I rest in the sanctuary of my true inner being.Breathing in, I know that I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know that I am breathing out.Breathing in, I know that I am centered. Breathing out, I know that I am safe.Lauren is a writer and creative human who offers yoga, ritual, and intuitive coaching meant to help others find spaciousness in the everyday. Her zine, how to uncover SELF in chaotic times, suggests a softer paradigm for success and four everyday containers in which we all might nurture the truth of self. In yoga, Lauren specializes in back care and scoliosis. She loves helping others fi

Where can we soften?How do you invite your bones to change?How can I experience mental, creative, and expansive freedom every day?In this episode, Lauren Maxwell and I explore finding pleasure, how to change the shape of your spine, where we can soften to support and know ourselves, the human task of learning to feel safe in your own truth, uncovering the SELF in chaotic times, using a gentle approach to life to trickle into the world and change patriarchal systems, and having a morning practice to bring creativity, freedom, and expansiveness each day.Lauren is a writer and creative human who offers yoga, ritual, and intuitive coaching meant to help others find spaciousness in the everyday. Her zine, how to uncover SELF in chaotic times, suggests a softer paradigm for success and four everyday containers in which we all might nurture the truth of self. In yoga, Lauren specializes in back care and scoliosis. She loves helping others find pain relief and create soft open space to step into a more loving relatio

I’m on a real adventure! Cleaning horse poop and learning how to be a stronger leader within myself and with horses in Ireland. This is the first time I’m living with and tending to four horses on a farm and it’s a huge challenge.In this episode, I talk candidly about the hardships and the growth that I’m experiencing — the lessons that come with strengthening inner freedom, loneliness and releasing dependencies on familiar comforts and people, how to have clear intentions with big wild animals coming at me, putting on my assertive hat and holding my boundaries and grounding with horses.I truly want to feel that no circumstance can change my insides and I’m definitely thrown for a loop here, but I’m finding more of myself…Explore your own personal boundaries and assertiveness with me on this journey!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.

“How much do you value truth?” ~ Andrew ShykovskyIn this episode we talk about Andrew’s experience and teachings as a Christian Mystic and his path towards his spirituality which included an initial negative impression of Christianity, a “grand spiritual buffet” of out of body experiences, crystals, meditation, I-Ching, and inducing other states of consciousness, the desire for love and truth, challenges with being human and a priest, after-death experience, resolving anger to free yourself from imprisonment, how to manifest and create your reality with respect towards the global reality, and What is God, Christ Consciousness, and Consciousness?Andrew Shykofsky is a Priest and Teacher of Christian Mysticism. He began the Mystical Path in 2004 while living in San Francisco, CA. Andrew was ordained a minister Deacon in Feb. 2006 and then moved from the Bay Area to Chicago to assist in a new Center there. He was ordained a Priest in May 2013. Shortly after his ordination into the Priesthood, Andrew began the Mys

Ritual at its best brings us towards a feeling of acknowledgment, embodiment, and honoring of our true selves. It bonds us to our values and our deepest self or brings us to shared humanity, purpose, or meaning.Give healing attention and presence to a part of your body that needs it, allowing the power of our body intelligence to begin to innately heal tension, pain, discomfort or dis-ease.The full exploration and more of my thoughts about rituals can be found in Episode 55 of the Embody Podcast or at candicewu.com/ep55.Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Ritual at its best brings us towards a feeling of acknowledgment, embodiment, and honoring of our true selves. It bonds us to our values and our deepest self or brings us to shared humanity, purpose, or meaning.Center, ground, and fortify your alignment to yourself with this three chakra energy and awareness practice. It’s a great way to feel present and that you’re inhabiting your body or find clarity and power in who you are (even if you don’t know who you are).The full exploration and more of my thoughts about rituals can be found in Episode 55 of the Embody Podcast or at candicewu.com/ep55.Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Ritual at its best brings us towards a feeling of acknowledgment, embodiment, and honoring of our true selves. It bonds us to our values and our deepest self or brings us to shared humanity, purpose, or meaning.Give space, tune in and listen to your inner being. A basic daily practice to support embodiment, self-love and clarifying your needs, desires, and congruent action for the day.The full exploration and more of my thoughts about rituals can be found in Episode 55 of the Embody Podcast or at candicewu.com/ep55.Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Ritual at its best brings us towards a feeling of acknowledgment, embodiment, and honoring of our true selves. It bonds us to our values and our deepest self or brings us to shared humanity, purpose, or meaning. In this episode, I explore how rituals can serve embodiment or disembodiment, examining what rituals we already have in place, the rituals I enjoy and designing your own rituals.This intro episode is followed by three basic rituals that you can try out and integrate as your own or inspire your own ideas. The experientials are called Space for Self Ritual, Energy and Embodiment Ritual, and a Body Love Ritual. Please enjoy and give yourself space.Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Mia guides you through coming into the alchemy of life-giving breath, listening to and being in the body in this five minute meditation.Mia Park is powered by hope and engagement. As a Chicago based multidisciplinary artist, Mia shares her passion for discovery through acting, teaching yoga, writing, playing music, producing events, and volunteering. She is fiercely herself and takes every opportunity to live and experience.The full interview and more of Mias Story can be found in Episode 54 of the Embody Podcast or at candicewu.com/ep54 Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Mia Park is powered by hope and engagement. As a Chicago based multidisciplinary artist, Mia shares her passion for discovery through acting, teaching yoga, writing, playing music, producing events, and volunteering. She is fiercely herself and takes every opportunity to live and experience.In this episode, we explore Mia’s incredible ancestral story of escaping North Korea, the challenges and joys of acting — being Nurse Beth on the show Chicago Med, the lessons of the self in teaching prenatal yoga in jails, and how women can explore their relationship to being a leader.This episode is followed by a meditation recorded by Mia Park.Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Honor your year and your inner being with gentleness and embracing impermanence and death. This episode brings you into the fresh new year with a guided experiential process of cleansing the energy of and integrating this last year as well as honing in on how you want to be and feel in this new year. Let the body and energy release for you what is still left hanging so you have available space for new life.Happy New Year to you all. May you have a new year full of what you desire!Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

In this guided healing experiential, Voice Dialogue with an inner part of yourself by stepping into that part with your whole body. Explore their fears and desires, emotion and physical experience, purpose, and function, what they need to feel supported, and what messages they have for you now to bring a deeper awareness and intentional Self-Leadership.This is an experiential connected to Episode 52 about Parts Work. You can find the full episode at candicewu.com/partswork.Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

We have many parts of ourselves that may take the lead at different moments in our lives or hide away when we most need them. Each part of ourselves, whether the inner child, higher self, inner critic, protector, etc., brings gifts and wisdom and also may desire to heal. In this exercise, journey with me to dialogue with an inner part by visualizing and connecting with this part.This is an experiential connected to Episode 52 about Parts Work. You can find the full episode at candicewu.com/partswork.Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

This episode is about how to sort out your inner chatter and reactive patterns with Parts Work. If you’ve seen the movie Inside Out, you’ve gotten a simplified taste of how your inner world may look. With many parts of us talking and acting at different times, it’s helpful to know their motives, fears, desires, agendas, purpose, and function in your inner dynamic.Explore and embrace the parts of yourself so you can feel clarity and deeper awareness, heal the wounded or diminished parts, know what part of yourself is acting in various situations, and lead from your Self - from aligned intention. The idea that we have everything within us to heal can be easily accessed with Voice Dialogue as we open up inner gifts, wisdom, and strengths while healing wounds within.Enjoy guided healing experiences that will walk you through dialoguing with and embodying the parts of yourself.Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

This episode contains explicit and sexual content/language. It is not suitable for all audiences or ages.Kinky or not, dive into your hottest sexual fantasy. Harmony walks you through a Somatica Practice of embodying your hottest sexual fantasy that is specific to YOU, and in zeroing in on the core erotic themes that turn you on.This episode visualization experiential is a follow up to the interview with Harmony which you can find at candicewu.com/harmony.Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

This episode contains explicit and sexual content/language. It may not be suitable for all audiences or ages.This episode is about the juicy creativity of life: sex! Harmony, the founder of Kink From the Couch — a Somatica® counseling practice based in San Francisco, and I explore:Ritual in relationshipsBDSM as the “New Romance”Her experiences as a professional dominant and Somatica PractitionerDominance and submissionAcceptance around “unacceptable” for oneself / Releasing shame around fantasiesTouching into core desire in your erotic themesSeamless verbal and nonverbal consent and the #MeToo movementShadow and archetype in sexualityEmbodying fantasiesThe Somatica Method recognizes that we learn primarily through our bodies. Using a combination of talk therapy and experiential exercises, Harmony leads clients to embrace their full sexual selves without shame. Under her guidance you will find your own erotic embodiment, while developing your negotiation and practical BDSM skills, and other vital practices nee

Design your Holidays the way you want them. To love yourself is to RESPECT yourself and your desires. In this podcast, I explore 8 embodied ways you can love yourself and design your holidays including your state of being, shifting out of autopilot and into the presence, intention, how to deal with feeling like you’re five years old again at a family function, loving your inner child, the permission to be unavailable and more. This is your life and holiday season.Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Past life traumas know no time and space - therefore they live in our bodies, ways of being, and our beliefs and conflicts in this life. We can gain an incredible amount of freedom and release through honoring what may be located in a past life.But how? Ease into this episode about the relevance of past life stories to being yourself and loving yourself, my personal stories of past life and past life trauma, and 4 ways that you can begin to access the wisdom and parts of you that transcend time!Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Erin Diedling walks us through an Abundance Meditation with your dreams, goals and “mockups” bringing new possibility, all that you desire, and love into your life! Erin reminds us not to go with the economy here; go big with your abundance!Erin Diedling, M.Ed., LCPC, SEP, is a Clinical Psychotherapist, neuro-bio regulation Touch Therapist, and Somatic Experience Practitioner. She is passionate about treating trauma and helping her clients heal past complex trauma, eating disorders, childhood development/attachment ruptures and artists with creativity/performance anxiety.Erin is also a psychic medium and energy healer. She grew up in New Orleans where she first became aware of her intuitive gifts. She works in two worlds: science and spirit. She draws on all her skillsets to know how best to be of service. Her mission is to relieve mental, spiritual and physical suffering in the world. She is passionate about helping her clients manifest their dreams and bring about love, joy, beauty, and truth. Erin paints,

We have Erin Diedling on the show today!We had so much fun talking about the science and spirit relating to:Cultivating your psychic and intuitive giftsWorking with the Inner Baby, Birth and Pre-natal trauma, developmental trauma, and neurological sequential developmentVisual and body narrativesHow trauma goes into the tissues and cellular memory if it doesn’t have anywhere to goHealth problems, Fibromyalgia, and other syndromes, and their connection to early years of life traumaHow the soul moves out of the way in early traumaClearing out the beautiful garbage of what’s stuck so we can fully trust and be in our powersErin Diedling, M.Ed., LCPC, SEP, is a Clinical Psychotherapist, neuro-bio regulation Touch Therapist and Somatic Experience Practitioner. She is passionate about treating trauma and helping her clients heal past complex trauma, eating disorders, childhood development/attachment ruptures and aritists with creativity/performance anxiety.Erin is also a psychic medium and energy healer. She grew up