The Embody Podcast

A podcast about exploring, remembering and embodying your true nature, alignment with Source, inner wisdom, healing and transformation, vulnerability, and self-love. To support personal deepening, it offers healing experientials and meditations from a symphony of Somatic Experiencing, Family Constellations, spiritual approaches, Parts Work, and other embodied practices. Travel with me through interviews, solo-episodes, audio experientials, meditations, and… around the world. From my heart to yours, enjoy!

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  • 193: A Little Shift Makes a Ripple

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 38 min 4 sec0:38:04
    If you’d like something to change, change something! Adjust, Shift, take a different turn… One shift opens many possibilities, a new set of configurations. Me thoughts on this and life recently: groundhogs, bees and hives, music and more. Links, Articles,…
    If you’d like something to change, change something! Adjust, Shift, take a different turn… One shift opens many possibilities, a new set of configurations. Me thoughts on this and life recently: groundhogs, bees and hives, music and more. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/ripple Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 0:00 Intro 1:16 Messages from Her Majesty the Queen 4:38 Messages from Her — Pulling a new Card 7:06 Letters from Your Therapist — David Klow 10:58 New book by Francesca Mason Boring 12:37 Making a Change to Open Possibility 18:00 Kitchen cleaning can also be that 19:37 The Little Statue with Poop on it’s head 22:57 Notice Your Words 25:58 Life Updates 35:26 Outro
  • 192: Leave the Door Open: Give Your Desires Momentum

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 24 min 0:24:00
    Stop slamming the door on yourself. Tune in for a chat on how we slam the door on our own desires — and the invitation to leave it open a little longer, to hang out in the new territory, and welcome the new. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes …
    Stop slamming the door on yourself. Tune in for a chat on how we slam the door on our own desires — and the invitation to leave it open a little longer, to hang out in the new territory, and welcome the new. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/openthedoor Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:28 Opening 02:12 Are You Slamming the Door on Your Desires? 06:17 Do You Enjoy Learning & Growing? 08:06 A New Definition for the Word FEAR 09:05 Updates for the Last Few Weeks 09:45 I Did Not Speak Much 10:33 Developing My Voice in Different Ways 13:40 I’ve Seen some Wild Turtles! 14:29 Learning (Again) to Slow Down More. 18:36 Outlook: My Voice Over Work and Workshops
  • 191: Let Your Emotional Shift Take You Forward

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 24 min 24 sec0:24:24
    Do you go back to the same negative state or loop you were in before? Here are the steps to shifting your perspective in a tough situation: Turn inwards and digest your emotions, let the shift happen, move forward from the shift. Links, Articles, and Reso…
    Do you go back to the same negative state or loop you were in before? Here are the steps to shifting your perspective in a tough situation: Turn inwards and digest your emotions, let the shift happen, move forward from the shift. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/Forward Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:12 What I Have Been up To 03:55 Something Scary Happened 06:29 Really Cool News 06:52 How Many Things Are Connected to My Voice 08:20 New Roommates? 09:52 Main Content: Emotional Shift 18:21 When We Are Triggered or Activated 20:25 Outro
  • 190: When Affirmations or “Letting It Go” Doesn’t Work? Momentum and Density

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 33 min 49 sec0:33:49
    When you can’t just “let it go”, or when you know you want to change but you just can’t get there, when affirmations don’t seem to work… what is behind it? Why?? In this episode, I talk about how to bring compassion in with understanding the spectrum of m…
    When you can’t just “let it go”, or when you know you want to change but you just can’t get there, when affirmations don’t seem to work… what is behind it? Why?? In this episode, I talk about how to bring compassion in with understanding the spectrum of momentum and density of energy at play. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/momentum Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Need better sleep? Get the  Sound Sleep Alchemy Album! The Sound Sleep Alchemy Album 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 embodied healing techniques, Chinese Medicine, and Family & Systemic Constellations. 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:15 Opening 03:30 Lessons in Acceptance 04:41 Full on Gardening Mode 05:17 My Voiceover Work and Tongue Twisters 06:47 Main Topic: Momentum and Density 08:08 Working on my Romantic Relationships 09:35 Why is it hard to let something go? 10:18 Momentum 15:03 Enjoing all the time? 16:08 Where in your life do you recognize Momentum? 18:23 Density 19:55 The Importance of Acceptance vs Identification 23:37 Watching my Healing and Shifting into Wholeness 26:12 About Gardening: Bambooing 29:59 The Sound Sleep Alchemy Album
  • 189: When Tunnel Vision Can Help

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 23 min 17 sec0:23:17
    Tunnel vision can get a bad rap — but it can be so helpful when you need it. If you’re overwhelmed, easily swayed by other’s opinions, or feeling pushed and pulled by life, this can be a focusing agent that can draw you forward to more! Links, Articles, a…
    Tunnel vision can get a bad rap — but it can be so helpful when you need it. If you’re overwhelmed, easily swayed by other’s opinions, or feeling pushed and pulled by life, this can be a focusing agent that can draw you forward to more! Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/tunnelvision Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:04 Life Updates 05:17 Opening: Tunnel Vision & when It Can Help 07:24 Mountain Bike Lesson/Fall 09:32 Life and Tunnel Vision 12:27 when to Use It 18:23 How You Can Use Tunnel Vision? 19:46 Outro
  • 188: A{Live} Now: Lessons from Illness and Emergence

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 27 min 51 sec0:27:51
    I felt like I was falling apart, breaking apart. I was becoming more in line with who I am… but things had to die. Listen in on the lessons from my life concoction of spiritual transition and getting covid 19 at the same time. Catch in on some of the ways…
    I felt like I was falling apart, breaking apart. I was becoming more in line with who I am… but things had to die. Listen in on the lessons from my life concoction of spiritual transition and getting covid 19 at the same time. Catch in on some of the ways that I supported myself through it. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/lessonsfromcovid Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:09 What Happened? 04:30 When New Friends Get to Meet a Different Part of Myself 05:36 Allowing It to Happen & Anchoring to Resources 08:57 What Was Coming Up? 10:08 This Is Part of My Becoming (My Healing Story & Becoming a Healer) 13:10 Caring for Myself Became More Important! 19:08 This Experience Helped Me to Feel More in Sync 20:20 Learning Another Skill & Developing Alternatives 23:36 Thank YOU ❤️ 24:33 We Often Need an Experience to Learn Something New 25:36 Outro 26:00 Teaser: Next Week’s Episode
  • 187: [Reverie] : Mystery & the Moon [A Poem]

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 min 40 sec0:01:40
    When love forces its way and you surrender to the Mystery of what life brings you, the dance of the unknown and the present moment of delight. A poem for lovers who want to control… where Love cannot be tamed. About [reverie] on The Embody Podcast: Spirit…
    When love forces its way and you surrender to the Mystery of what life brings you, the dance of the unknown and the present moment of delight. A poem for lovers who want to control… where Love cannot be tamed. About [reverie] on The Embody Podcast: Spiritual Succulents The sweetness, agony, delight, joy, freshness, and fullness of what is — This is Beauty. Here is my ongoing attempt to embrace the All — all that is — including the depths of the unseen yet known, in a Life of Beauty. [Reverie] emerges as a creative outlet for pieces of me, experiments, parts of process, artistry, in any form that honors or interacts with Being. Conversations with the pulse of Life itself… with Beauty. They are gifts from Life to me and to you if it is for you to hear. As a play with the dimensions of Being, I invite you to listen as if you are speaking and all the same, as I am speaking. Without pressure to make sense but to let what wants to flow into any part of your being do so freely — to get LOST. Enjoy in your own way. The moon The moon nearly full As big as the heart you stole You took it and hid She knew what you did Give it back She screamed But Love still beamed Peeking out uncertain A tender kiss behind the curtain Mystery and Moon whisper a fate Whilst they await her shape No matter, let’s not waste this wane As she makes a round again My darling, my heart and the Moon I’ll see you all until soon Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/reverie13 Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 0:00 Intro 0:52 Poem
  • 186: Support and Soothing Experiential

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 19 min 22 sec0:19:22
    We underestimate the amount of support and soothing our bodies need. Jump into a brief experiential to ease your body to soothe and comfort your nervous system, heart and body. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://Ca…
    We underestimate the amount of support and soothing our bodies need. Jump into a brief experiential to ease your body to soothe and comfort your nervous system, heart and body. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/SupportAndSoothing Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Are you craving touch!? This episode is sponsored by the Online Touch Workshops : Touch in the Time of Physical Distancing. Supportive self touch can deepen your capacity to navigate all that you feel, your pleasure, and ability to heal trauma and be in your body. It can soothe, bring ease, and peace. I am offering a 2-Part Somatic and Energetic Healing Touch series that gives you 9 basic and simple tools, with how to direct your awareness to enhance your own presence and self-support. Part 2 gives you ways to use your wall to release and complete anger, frustration, and fight responses, as well as strengthen your boundaries and feel that you are supported - that someone’s got your back - and that’s you! Find both  online workshops here  where you can tune in at your leisure. For a limited time they are pay what you can/want at a sliding scale. 🎧 Show Notes: 0:00 Intro 1:16 Opening 2:29 Experiential
  • 185: [Reverie] : I Can’t Miss [A Poem for the Lost]

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 min 47 sec0:01:47
    I wrote this poem in the midst of a falling apart, lost, dissembling kind of moment — the moment of dark before the sun… feeling that the sun was coming but not knowing when! About [reverie] on The Embody Podcast: Spiritual Succulents The sweetness, agony…
    I wrote this poem in the midst of a falling apart, lost, dissembling kind of moment — the moment of dark before the sun… feeling that the sun was coming but not knowing when! About [reverie] on The Embody Podcast: Spiritual Succulents The sweetness, agony, delight, joy, freshness, and fullness of what is — This is Beauty. Here is my ongoing attempt to embrace the All — all that is — including the depths of the unseen yet known, in a Life of Beauty. [Reverie] emerges as a creative outlet for pieces of me, experiments, parts of process, artistry, in any form that honors or interacts with Being. Conversations with the pulse of Life itself… with Beauty. They are gifts from Life to me and to you if it is for you to hear. As a play with the dimensions of Being, I invite you to listen as if you are speaking and all the same, as I am speaking. Without pressure to make sense but to let what wants to flow into any part of your being do so freely — to get LOST. Enjoy in your own way. Here I go Through the tunnel again I don’t know who I’ll be On the other end Let go, dissemble Crumble, I sigh How many times In this life Must I die To be The pheonix I must unknow I must get bare To Let me Grow There’s only one flow That is mine So I get in Oh please, be Divine Bittersweet Surrender I give in to the abyss I’m reminded It’s a given …I can’t miss Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/reverie12 Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 0:00 Intro 0:57 Poem
  • 184: Honor the Mothers & The Expansion That Created Your Foundation

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 39 min 48 sec0:39:48
    Join me in this episode to honor the mothers and women of your ancestral lines along with a discussion around how to handle parts of our lineage we reject. The ways of being that may be limitations for us might have been expansion for previous generations…
    Join me in this episode to honor the mothers and women of your ancestral lines along with a discussion around how to handle parts of our lineage we reject. The ways of being that may be limitations for us might have been expansion for previous generations. Turn rejection into resource and shift into your own uncharted expansion! Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/mothers Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Rachael McKee created this beautiful 44-card oracle deck: Messages From Her on Kickstarter . In this episode, Rachael speaks about her deck and pulls a card for me for my birthday month, which also is International Women’s Month! As you’ll hear in the episode, each card comes with a lovely description of each modern woman’s message for daily inspiration. The Kickstarter for the deck and book runs from March 8th to March 31st. The Kickstarter funds go to printing the first print run of the book :) Rachael McKee [email protected] messagesfromher.com https://instagram.com/her_messages Please feel free to share with anyone that you think might like to purchase/fund the project! MESSAGES FROM HER ORACLE DECK and Kickstarter 🎧 Show Notes: 0:00 Intro 1:15 A Card From Rachel 5:06 International Women’s Month 8:13 How to Get in Touch with Our Ancestry 15:43 How You Can Shift Into Your Own Energy 20:33 The Fabric of Your Being 25:27 Our Expansion Is Uniquely Ours 29:13 Experiential: What Was the Expansion Before You? 38:33 Outro
  • 183: A{Live} Now: Settling Into My New Space

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 20 min 55 sec0:20:55
    I’m settling into my new home. A little taste of how I support myself and landed through the transition of buying a new house, moving, and repairs! It’s been a whirlwind in many ways and some things have brought me stillness and ease. Links, Articles, and…
    I’m settling into my new home. A little taste of how I support myself and landed through the transition of buying a new house, moving, and repairs! It’s been a whirlwind in many ways and some things have brought me stillness and ease. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/settling Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 03:54 What I Am Eating & Drinking Today 05:30 The Feeling of Having My Own Space 08:27 Learning to Invest Into Quality 10:09 Taking the Enjoyment in All the Things by Being Present 12:25 Mimicking How Horses Are Present 14:05 A New Baseline 15:02 Coming Back to Yoga Poses 15:25 But Also Deadlifts 15:42 And Sleeping Is Incredible Too 16:21 Going with the Flow 17:35 Invitation to My Circle on Kaigo
  • 182: [Reverie] : Sound Healing – Upon the news of Ukraine Being Invaded

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 11 min 0:11:00
    When I found out that Russia invaded Ukraine, I felt grief, pain, and a desperate desolation and longing. This is a sound healing and transmission using my voice to get in touch with and allow those feelings to flow. If the news has touched you or if you …
    When I found out that Russia invaded Ukraine, I felt grief, pain, and a desperate desolation and longing. This is a sound healing and transmission using my voice to get in touch with and allow those feelings to flow. If the news has touched you or if you are having any emotions in your life, I encourage you to let it come forward. This was my way to honor what was coming through me. I am imagining light around all those impacted. About [reverie] on The Embody Podcast: Spiritual Succulents The sweetness, agony, delight, joy, freshness, and fullness of what is — This is Beauty. Here is my ongoing attempt to embrace the All — all that is — including the depths of the unseen yet known, in a Life of Beauty. [Reverie] emerges as a creative outlet for pieces of me, experiments, parts of process, artistry, in any form that honors or interacts with Being. Conversations with the pulse of Life itself… with Beauty. They are gifts from Life to me and to you if it is for you to hear. As a play with the dimensions of Being, I invite you to listen as if you are speaking and all the same, as I am speaking. Without pressure to make sense but to let what wants to flow into any part of your being do so freely — to get LOST. Enjoy in your own way. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/Ukraine Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 0:00 Intro 2:56 Vocalizing
  • 181: Healing My Preoccupation With Money

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 17 min 57 sec0:17:57
    I thought I had gotten to a peaceful place in my relationship with money and abundance… and this nagging feeling kept staying with me. I felt a part of me was preoccupied with gaining lots of money — but why? Where was it coming from? Find out in this epi…
    I thought I had gotten to a peaceful place in my relationship with money and abundance… and this nagging feeling kept staying with me. I felt a part of me was preoccupied with gaining lots of money — but why? Where was it coming from? Find out in this episode what revealed itself and how I came back to a peaceful place of inner power and freedom. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/moneypreccupation Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Join my Circle The Embody Your Nature Circle at Kaigo! Kaigo is a wellness app that offers connection with different foodies, wellness practitioners, and inspiring people - without the excess of social media. You can unplug and plug into connecting with those that support your wellness in a more intimate space. Join me there! Embody Your Nature Circle 🎧 Show Notes: 0:00 Intro 1:37 Opening 3:32 Money Will Support Me 4:03 The Ancestry and Money 5:01 Do I need to make A LOT of Money? 5:59 Am I respected if I don’t make a lot of money? 7:35 Gardening & Listening to the Mushrooms Sing 9:06 My House and the Coming of Money 11:50 The Energy of Money isn’t spent, it’s converted! 13:24 What do you think about this? And how to shift your views about Money 16:15 Contact me & learn more about my new book
  • 180: Message From Money

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 8 min 15 sec0:08:15
    A channeled message from money - the currency that reflects your energy back to you. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/MessageFromMoney Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter &…
    A channeled message from money - the currency that reflects your energy back to you. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/MessageFromMoney Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Join my circle: The Embody Your Nature Circle at Kaigo! Kaigo is a wellness app that offers connection with different foodies, wellness practitioners, and inspiring people - without the excess of social media. You can unplug and plug into connecting with those that support your wellness in a more intimate space. Join me there! Join My Circle 🎧 Show Notes: 0:00 Intro 1:05 Beginning 6:02 Invitation to my Circle on Kaigo
  • 179: A{Live} Now: Weights, Money and Manifestating: Flexing the muscles on manifestation

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 26 min 28 sec0:26:28
    Flexing the muscle on manifestation! A story about weights I wanted from my sister and my musings and observations around manifesting. A note of self-encouragement and how to focus on creating what you desire. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Note…
    Flexing the muscle on manifestation! A story about weights I wanted from my sister and my musings and observations around manifesting. A note of self-encouragement and how to focus on creating what you desire. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/weights Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:17 It’s the 4th Embody Podcast Birthday 02:54 Opening Meditation 05:01 My Creation Experience 06:06 My new House & Money 07:46 Weights or Gym? It just worked out. 12:04 What I really want is already on its way 13:20 Feeling into already having it 14:37 Everything happens in just the right way 16:42 I, too, need this reminder 20:04 Outro 20:19  Kaigo Invitation
  • 178: Creating vs Reacting

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 32 min 21 sec0:32:21
    With this story on looking deeper at what was living underneath my desires, I explore what creation truly is! Get clear on when you’re reacting and living from the past and when you’re truly creating your experience from present day sovereignty. Links, Ar…
    With this story on looking deeper at what was living underneath my desires, I explore what creation truly is! Get clear on when you’re reacting and living from the past and when you’re truly creating your experience from present day sovereignty. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/creatingvsreacting Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:14 New Year New House 05:19 A Lie Came Up! 11:10 Topic of This Episode: Creating vs Reacting 12:09 A Description of My Surroundings Around the House 13:08 Can I Choose My Emotions? 18:13 What I Mean with Trauma in This Context 19:05 I Had to Face My Trauma 20:19 The New Year Energy of Creating 22:46 What the Creation Feels Like 25:49 Exercise in Coming Back to the Good 26:40 Creating: An Invitation 27:57 One More Thought: Does It Serve Me? 30:33 Outro + Upcoming Podcast Birthday
  • 177: Experiential: Wake Up Your Awareness

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 15 min 16 sec0:15:16
    Nothing complicated here! Simple movements that can deepen your awareness, release tension, and fortify feeling IN your body. You can do this lying down upon waking up, as a break in the day or before bed. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes fo…
    Nothing complicated here! Simple movements that can deepen your awareness, release tension, and fortify feeling IN your body. You can do this lying down upon waking up, as a break in the day or before bed. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/wakeup Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:15 Opening 02:12 Beginning
  • 176: Pleasure Filter

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 25 min 54 sec0:25:54
    Enjoying pleasure in your life requires flexing the muscle of basking in a good feeling. Jump into this episode where I talk about this and how what we appreciate in an embodied form appreciates. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Epi…
    Enjoying pleasure in your life requires flexing the muscle of basking in a good feeling. Jump into this episode where I talk about this and how what we appreciate in an embodied form appreciates. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/pleasurefilter Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Are you craving touch!? This episode is sponsored by the Online Touch Workshops : Touch in the Time of Physical Distancing. Supportive self touch can deepen your capacity to navigate all that you feel, your pleasure, and ability to heal trauma and be in your body. It can soothe, bring ease, and peace. I am offering a 2-Part Somatic and Energetic Healing Touch series that gives you 9 basic and simple tools, with how to direct your awareness to enhance your own presence and self-support. Part 2 gives you ways to use your wall to release and complete anger, frustration, and fight responses, as well as strengthen your boundaries and feel that you are supported - that someone’s got your back - and that’s you! Find both  online workshops here  where you can tune in at your leisure. For a limited time they are pay what you can/want at a sliding scale. Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:05 Opening 02:22 House Update 04:36 Body Update 06:01 Music & Life Update 07:09 Thank you to all my Listeners 07:48 Checking in with natural movement 09:10 My Touch Course 09:53 Having a Joy Filter 13:56 Feeling Joy More of the Time 15:58 Completing Past Pain to find more Joy 19:10 Flexing the Joy Muscle 21:12 Seeing Beauty all around us 22:35 Outro
  • 175: Make Life Yummy

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 12 min 47 sec0:12:47
    Bring in the yum! Inspiration for a beautiful, juicy, delicious, pleasurable day to day life. You GET to feel this good. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/yummy Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu…
    Bring in the yum! Inspiration for a beautiful, juicy, delicious, pleasurable day to day life. You GET to feel this good. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/yummy Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 0:00 Intro 3:39 Bring in the Yummy 7:36 What Might Yummy Be for You? 11:08 Conclusion
  • 174: A{Live} Now: Messages From My Colon, Filtering, & Letting Go With Ease

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 33 min 13 sec0:33:13
    My life has changed tremendously in the last three weeks - who knew colon hydrotherapy could catalyze such huge life shifts! In this Ep: What my colon has shared with me, rehydrating my colon, and some big news. I can LET GO with ease, feel lighter and mo…
    My life has changed tremendously in the last three weeks - who knew colon hydrotherapy could catalyze such huge life shifts! In this Ep: What my colon has shared with me, rehydrating my colon, and some big news. I can LET GO with ease, feel lighter and more joy, filter and digest. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/colonic Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By The Embodied Word Gathering  is coming soon: Nov 19-21, 2021, online. The Gathering is a 3-day event based on the interrelation between body, mind and creative expression in the act of using language. I’ll be sharing an experiential workshop: Sensual Embodiment: Outside In and Inside Out There will be many talks/workshops grounded in embodied mindfulness and bring the body into the creative language experience. The goal of this gathering is to showcase the role of our bodies in language acquisition and self-expression. Unrestrained Creativity. Bodily experience. Meaning-making. Words Three days of bodyfulness, mindfulness and creative verbal experience. Sign up here! Support the Podcast Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 0:00 Intro 1:13 Cleansing My Colon 4:50 My Life is Completely Changing 7:31 Effects on Dating & My Reaction to Things 17:20 Learning to Let the Past Be in the Past 18:33 Exploring Emotional Risk 21:25 A Calling to Figure Out What I Truly Desire 22:52 It’s Ok to Not Know What Your Intuition is Telling You. 28:25 Conclusion 30:09 The Embodied Word Gathering
  • 173: On Your Needs and Wants: You Are Your Own baseline

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 16 min 39 sec0:16:39
    On the topic of your wants and needs being unique to you and not up for debate or comparison, being selfish, and worthiness. Many people have been told by society or those around them that their needs are too much – the baseline of what is too much is som…
    On the topic of your wants and needs being unique to you and not up for debate or comparison, being selfish, and worthiness. Many people have been told by society or those around them that their needs are too much – the baseline of what is too much is someone else’s experience, external. Reset the baseline back to you! Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/yourownbaseline Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:14 Opening 01:37 Finding Yourself not Asserting Boundaries? 03:01 Your Needs are not up for Debate 03:43 Animals Get to have Needs 04:24 We get to have that as well! 08:21 We need to be selfish 09:40 People without Needs are not a Fair Baseline 11:41 How to Feel into Your Worthiness 14:22 Outro
  • 172: Extract and Receive Love in All its Forms

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 33 min 29 sec0:33:29
    Wouldn’t it be great if we could receive love in all the forms it actually comes in, not just the way that we imagine it or feel it should be? For a long time, I could not experience love from my father - in this episode, I talk about how I plugged into t…
    Wouldn’t it be great if we could receive love in all the forms it actually comes in, not just the way that we imagine it or feel it should be? For a long time, I could not experience love from my father - in this episode, I talk about how I plugged into the love that is and was already there and receiving Life as it came to me. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/receivelove Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:41 How is Your Season Transition Going? 02:32 A Shift in my Eating and Connections 06:20 Let’s Connect in this Moment 06:49 The Main Topic: Being Open to Receiving Love 07:21 Episodes about Untangling Energies 09:10 What this Episode is About 09:22 Looking at my Parents & Love 14:33 The Love of My Father 17:48 Understanding Love and Take the Caring 18:50 A Dating Story: Can I feel loved when I am being Criticized? 21:32 The 5 Love Languages 24:29 Quote by Steven Housner: Healing the Needs of the Inner Child 28:03 Seeing our Parents as a Ancestral System 29:36 Looking at Your Life 31:24 Outro
  • 171: [Reverie] : Anatomy of a Kiss [A Poem]

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 2 min 12 sec0:02:12
    The transmission of a kiss :) Desire, longing, seeking, exploring… About [reverie] on The Embody Podcast: Spiritual Succulents The sweetness, agony, delight, joy, freshness, and fullness of what is — This is Beauty. Here is my ongoing attempt to embrace t…
    The transmission of a kiss :) Desire, longing, seeking, exploring… About [reverie] on The Embody Podcast: Spiritual Succulents The sweetness, agony, delight, joy, freshness, and fullness of what is — This is Beauty. Here is my ongoing attempt to embrace the All — all that is — including the depths of the unseen yet known, in a Life of Beauty. [Reverie] emerges as a creative outlet for pieces of me, experiments, parts of process, artistry, in any form that honors or interacts with Being. Conversations with the pulse of Life itself… with Beauty. They are gifts from Life to me and to you if it is for you to hear. As a play with the dimensions of Being, I invite you to listen as if you are speaking and all the same, as I am speaking. Without pressure to make sense but to let what wants to flow into any part of your being do so freely — to get LOST. Enjoy in your own way. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/anatomyofakiss Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 0:00 Intro 0:27 The Poem
  • 170: [Reverie] : To Greet Creativity [A Message]

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 6 min 43 sec0:06:43
    Creative energy wants to live freely breathe its own way. It wants to die freely to — without judgment. How to greet creativity… About [reverie] on The Embody Podcast: Spiritual Succulents The sweetness, agony, delight, joy, freshness, and fullness of wha…
    Creative energy wants to live freely breathe its own way. It wants to die freely to — without judgment. How to greet creativity… About [reverie] on The Embody Podcast: Spiritual Succulents The sweetness, agony, delight, joy, freshness, and fullness of what is — This is Beauty. Here is my ongoing attempt to embrace the All — all that is — including the depths of the unseen yet known, in a Life of Beauty. [Reverie] emerges as a creative outlet for pieces of me, experiments, parts of process, artistry, in any form that honors or interacts with Being. Conversations with the pulse of Life itself… with Beauty. They are gifts from Life to me and to you if it is for you to hear. As a play with the dimensions of Being, I invite you to listen as if you are speaking and all the same, as I am speaking. Without pressure to make sense but to let what wants to flow into any part of your being do so freely — to get LOST. Enjoy in your own way. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/creativity Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 00:27 Last Weeks Episode 01:17 This Week: Creativity 02:40 Reverie 05:55 Closing Thoughts
  • 169: The Past Does Not Define Your Future

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 18 min 26 sec0:18:26
    The present is an outpouring of your past energies and beliefs… not a confirmation of the future. And the past does not define what happens next — you’re a constant creator whether you know it or not. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for Thi…
    The present is an outpouring of your past energies and beliefs… not a confirmation of the future. And the past does not define what happens next — you’re a constant creator whether you know it or not. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/thepast Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 00:39 Opening 01:35 Life Updates 03:03 Main Topic: Have You Said, This Never Goes Well…? 05:14 Shifting to a New Belief 07:02 The Healing Process Can Make Change 08:18 You Are All Possibility 09:40 Being in Touch With Your Desires 10:35 Your Desire is Possible 11:47 Liberation that I Find 12:48 My Reminder for All Possibility 14:33 How to Start the Shift & Noticing 17:01 Closing Thoughts
  • 168: [Reverie] : Rejection [A Poem]

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 min 27 sec0:01:27
    About [reverie] on The Embody Podcast: Spiritual Succulents The sweetness, agony, delight, joy, freshness, and fullness of what is — This is Beauty. Here is my ongoing attempt to embrace the All — all that is — including the depths of the unseen yet known…
    About [reverie] on The Embody Podcast: Spiritual Succulents The sweetness, agony, delight, joy, freshness, and fullness of what is — This is Beauty. Here is my ongoing attempt to embrace the All — all that is — including the depths of the unseen yet known, in a Life of Beauty. [Reverie] emerges as a creative outlet for pieces of me, experiments, parts of process, artistry, in any form that honors or interacts with Being. Conversations with the pulse of Life itself… with Beauty. They are gifts from Life to me and to you if it is for you to hear. As a play with the dimensions of Being, I invite you to listen as if you are speaking and all the same, as I am speaking. Without pressure to make sense but to let what wants to flow into any part of your being do so freely — to get LOST. Enjoy in your own way. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/reverie8 Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 0:00 Intro 0:31 Poem
  • 167: Energy Scrub: Experiential Tool for Integrating Accumulated Energy and Emotions

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 16 min 58 sec0:16:58
    A guided experiential using an imaginary scrubber to shift the accumulated tension, energy, emotions, and anything collected inside. Supports you in coming back to your clarity, presence, and alignment. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for T…
    A guided experiential using an imaginary scrubber to shift the accumulated tension, energy, emotions, and anything collected inside. Supports you in coming back to your clarity, presence, and alignment. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/EnergyScrub Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 0:00 Intro 1:21 Opening 3:20 Experiential 13:26 Outro
  • 166: Receive in Unexpected Ways

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 29 min 59 sec0:29:59
    Let go of form: Hone in on Vibration. On the challenge of letting go of the image or form I dreamt up, envisioned, and planned, only to find delight in receiving exactly what I wanted and more. Everything falls in line when I am aligned and when I can see…
    Let go of form: Hone in on Vibration. On the challenge of letting go of the image or form I dreamt up, envisioned, and planned, only to find delight in receiving exactly what I wanted and more. Everything falls in line when I am aligned and when I can see the pathway - that’s not always that easy though, right? Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/unexpected Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:11 Thank you for your Support & Messages 02:38 The Evolution of this Episode 03:12 Who this Episode is for 06:17 Getting Caught up in the Desire & Format 07:06 My Recent Camping Trip Story 12:37 What should I learn from this? 13:45 Connecting with the Feelings & Alignment 16:18 This Concept in Dating 18:46 Letting go of the Expected Form 20:04 This is Actually Easier 21:09 Noticing the Situations where this is Actually Better than Expected 22:10 A Reminder: You Already Have 22:57 Disclaimer: this is not always easy! 24:03 Outro 25:06 Join Our Clubhouse Talks
  • 165: Micro-Movements for Healing, Tension Release, Presence, and Nervous System Capacity

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 47 min 38 sec0:47:38
    With just a few minutes, you can feel better in your body with these 11 simple (and possibly deep) micro- movements! Shift the tension in your body, to bring more presence, expand your capacity to move through your body’s experience, develop more congruen…
    With just a few minutes, you can feel better in your body with these 11 simple (and possibly deep) micro- movements! Shift the tension in your body, to bring more presence, expand your capacity to move through your body’s experience, develop more congruence and coherence, or stimulate your healing process. Approach them in ways that can support your needs. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/micromovements Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:14 Introduction & Explanation 07:22 Supporting Yourself and the Key 10:15 The Micro Movements 10:23 Push-Up Movement 14:15 Wall Push Movement 17:55 Squat Movement 20:41 Bite Movement 23:18 Pulling Motion 24:46 Slamming Motion 25:32 Screaming Motion 26:37 Wall Squat Movement 31:40 Shaking Something 33:13 Shaking Your Body 34:00 Slow Motion Jog 35:08 How to Select Which One to Do? 37:38 Why It’s Important to Slow the Process Down and Pendulate 44:36 Clubhouse Meetup 47:20 Outro & Greeting
  • 164: Tired Cat? Looking at Root Causes of Fatigue and Exhaustion

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 47 min 49 sec0:47:49
    What’s underneath your tiredness? The ins and outs of how fatigue relates to your nervous system and why, and a few ways to get to the roots of feeling chronically tired, exhausted, and drained. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Epis…
    What’s underneath your tiredness? The ins and outs of how fatigue relates to your nervous system and why, and a few ways to get to the roots of feeling chronically tired, exhausted, and drained. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/fatigue Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 0:00 Intro 1:14 Magical Free Morning 4:43 What to Do About Chronic Fatigue & Feeling Tired 5:23 What if You’re Lazy? 6:14 Shoutout to Cat Aldana/Sager 7:13 Interview on Soul Nectar With Kerri Hummingbird 8:11 What I Do With My Tiredness 9:12 Why Do I Feel Tired? 13:18 Do You Feed Your Soul? 14:12 What Was Going on When I Was Tired and Exhausted 15:17 What I Felt and How I Healed! 17:56 What Are Tiring Beliefs You Hold? 18:14 Sometimes Total Exhaustion is Necessary 23:02 Your Nervous System and Tonic Immobility 24:57 Freeze State and the Polyvagal Nerve 33:02 How You Can Start to Release the Freeze State From Trauma 38:12 Taking on Other People’s Energies 39:16 What to Begin With When You Don’t Know Where to Start 40:55 Look at Your Tiredness and Visualize It 42:52 Re-Grounding & Orienting Together 45:05 Outro & Invitation to Clubhouse
  • 163: A{Live} Now: Gaining Weight & Body Love

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 44 min 43 sec0:44:43
    I’m focused on gaining weight and finding food I love right now! Find out why in this Episode along with the challenges, loving my body, and healing adventures stemming from mystery bodily messages. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This …
    I’m focused on gaining weight and finding food I love right now! Find out why in this Episode along with the challenges, loving my body, and healing adventures stemming from mystery bodily messages. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/gainweight Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 02:50 Working With a Naturopath 04:26 My Food & Body Journey 07:05 Removing the IUD 08:11 Trying to Be Vegan in Mexico 09:27 Working With My Naturopath 12:02 Improving Over 10 Months 13:08 Eating More Protein 13:48 Ancestral Struggle Around Food 18:34 Finding Stephanie Buttermore 22:48 Rediscovering My Food Pleasure 26:09 I Need to Gain Weight 27:55 Feeling Hunger Cues Again 30:03 Joining a Gym 30:59 When My Healing Journey Actually Started 33:17 Rediscovering My New Normal 37:52 What Do You Think About Food, Weight, and Your Belly? 40:30 Outro
  • 162: Experiential: Blur and Transform Residual Energies

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 16 min 12 sec0:16:12
    Got some residual energy from past experiences, fears, relationship dynamics or stressors? Use this pastel technique to blur and transform the energies - letting them dissolve back into the ALL. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Epis…
    Got some residual energy from past experiences, fears, relationship dynamics or stressors? Use this pastel technique to blur and transform the energies - letting them dissolve back into the ALL. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/residualenergy Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:33 Opening 02:38 Blurring Colors with your Fingers 03:41 Experiential 12:37 Outro
  • 161: The Body Talks All the Time…

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 18 min 6 sec0:18:06
    A little tidbit here on how the body talks to you through its symptoms, tension, illness, and emotion. Explore the purpose for these experiences or situations in your life. What is your body and spirit trying to tell you? It’s not about thinking it throug…
    A little tidbit here on how the body talks to you through its symptoms, tension, illness, and emotion. Explore the purpose for these experiences or situations in your life. What is your body and spirit trying to tell you? It’s not about thinking it through, but sensing and opening to the wisdom. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/thebodytalks Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:17 Welcome — Weather You Love? 02:16 What is the Body Saying? 04:56 The Solid Door and my Elbow 06:56 Purpose 08:35 The Body in its Dimensions 09:28 Examples of my Experience 14:35 What Function is This Situation Serving? 16:58 Outro
  • 160: A{Live} Now: Shake it Up with New Things, Appreciating Contrast

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 35 min 34 sec0:35:34
    A bit here on the new things I’m trying and putting myself out there with! How contrast and discomfort are a marker of what you desire making its way to you, and the imperfections and stumbles that make life so enjoyable. Links, Articles, and Resources: A…
    A bit here on the new things I’m trying and putting myself out there with! How contrast and discomfort are a marker of what you desire making its way to you, and the imperfections and stumbles that make life so enjoyable. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/newthings Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Feed Your Wild Voice Can you get the science, herbal, energetic, and the mystical all in one place — all around voice? YES, yes you can. Jackpot! I’m so happy to share that my friend’s program, Feed Your Wild VOICE, is officially open for enrollment until June 7th, 2021. It’s such a rich program and I was delighted about guest teaching in — On the topic of Playing with Silence and Sound. You’ll be greeted by me in the first module! This immersive online program by my friend, Venessa Rodriguez, dazzles me. All in one program, Venessa beautifully wove together practices on voice ecology, energy clearing/healing, embodiment, functional nutrition, herbal medicine, astrology, akashic insights, and soul expression. Find & trust your inner voice Dissolve blocks in your throat chakra Understand the complexities of your throat center & root issues Nourish & revive your soul voice and throat Gain clarity + get out of your own way Be a clear channel & speak your authentic Truth Registration is open now and CLOSES on Weds, May 26 USA time. Program starts on June 7 * Edited Date * 8 module program — Move at Your Pace $444, payment plan available REGISTER with My Affiliate Link at candicewu.com/feedyourwildvoice Sign up through my link and I’ll receive some affiliate/guest teaching funds — thanks 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:24 Welcome 02:07 A Glass of Water 03:52 A Friend Moving Away 05:59 Volleyball, Open Mic, and Singing 07:53 Sponsor: Feed Your Wild Voice Program 09:54 Imperfections of Life 10:53 What We Desire Forms 16:01 Declaring what you Desire 18:44 Letting a Soulmate go 25:02 Difficult can lead to Easy and Good 27:04 I Support You ❤️ 29:09 Outro
  • 159: Microhabits: 42 Little Things I Do For Myself

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 48 min 47 sec0:48:47
    Here I share 42 little micro habits that I do mostly on the daily. I hope this gives you something to inspire pampering, prioritizing, and enjoying yourself. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/microha…
    Here I share 42 little micro habits that I do mostly on the daily. I hope this gives you something to inspire pampering, prioritizing, and enjoying yourself. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/microhabits Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Feed Your Wild Voice Can you get the science, herbal, energetic, and the mystical all in one place — all around voice? YES, yes you can. Jackpot! I’m so happy to share that my friend’s program, Feed Your Wild VOICE, is officially open for enrollment until June 7th, 2021. It’s such a rich program and I was delighted about guest teaching in — On the topic of Playing with Silence and Sound. You’ll be greeted by me in the first module! This immersive online program by my friend, Venessa Rodriguez, dazzles me. All in one program, Venessa beautifully wove together practices on voice ecology, energy clearing/healing, embodiment, functional nutrition, herbal medicine, astrology, akashic insights, and soul expression. Find & trust your inner voice Dissolve blocks in your throat chakra Understand the complexities of your throat center & root issues Nourish & revive your soul voice and throat Gain clarity + get out of your own way Be a clear channel & speak your authentic Truth Registration is open now and CLOSES on Weds, May 26 USA time. Program starts on June 7 * Edited Date * 8 module program — Move at Your Pace $444, payment plan available REGISTER with My Affiliate Link at candicewu.com/feedyourwildvoice Sign up through my link and I’ll receive some affiliate/guest teaching funds — thanks 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:10 Opening 02:54 I heard this Joke and have to share it 03:39 Sponsored by Feed Your Wild Voice 07:06 The Microhabits 07:30 1. Drink lots of Water (1.6 Liters) 10:48 2. Take my Vitamines 12:27 3. Watering my Plants 13:19 4. Open the Curtains 14:08 5. Short Stretch & Excercise 14:32 6. Clearing Inner Energies 15:10 7. Take a 5 Minute Pause 15:50 8. Listen to Music and Move to It 16:20 9. Journaling 17:20 10. Warming up my Voice with Sounding 18:05 11. See Animals and be Present with them 18:44 12. Face Care & 13. Essential Oils 19:59 14. Spraying some Rose Water 20:30 15. Having Healthy & Yummy Meals 20:55 16. Skimming the News or Don’t Look 22:12 17. Giving my Body Touch (Accupuncture) 23:13 18. Resting with Crystals on my Body 23:45 19. Make Sure My Feet Touch Bare Grass 24:09 20. Regularity with Meals 24:52 21. Take a Short Walk Outside 25:10 22. Massage my Head & 23. Memory 26:50 24. Warm Green Juice with Veggies & Fruite 29:02 25. Lie on my Left Side after Eating 29:41 26. Flossing Every Day 31:08 27. Oil Pulling (sometimes) 31:58 28. Time Without my Phone 32:29 29. Love Aloe 32:58 30. Wiggle & Notice my Feet 33:39 31. Touch my Body for Soothing & Support 34:42 32. Orienting & Enjoy the Pleasant 35:27 33. Look at my Calendar 35:52 34. Plan my Walks, Strettches, and Meditation. 36:45 35. Say / Think about what I am loving 38:39 36. Digest the Day at Night 39:12 37. Say No to Some Things 39:58 38. Cleaning 40:54 39. Listening to Encouraging Voices 41:26 40. Abhyanga Massage 42:15 41. Have some Tea 43:12 42. Taking a Salt Bath 45:01 Outro 45:29 Bonus 43. Calling upon my Spirit Guides & Ancestors 46:48 What do you do?
  • 158: Horse Drool and An Inner Shower

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 32 min 0:32:00
    Sounds pleasant huh? Horse drool and an inner shower?! A guided experiential of taking an inner shower and clearing the energies in your body to feel refreshed! Find out why I’m talking about horse drool, and some food for thought on alignment and peace. …
    Sounds pleasant huh? Horse drool and an inner shower?! A guided experiential of taking an inner shower and clearing the energies in your body to feel refreshed! Find out why I’m talking about horse drool, and some food for thought on alignment and peace. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/horsedrool Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By:  Feed Your Wild Voice Can you get the science, herbal, energetic, and the mystical all in one place — all around voice? YES, yes you can. Jackpot! I’m so happy to share that my friend’s program, Feed Your Wild VOICE, is officially open for enrollment for two more days — until May 26, 2021. It’s such a rich program and I was delighted about guest teaching in — On the topic of Playing with Silence and Sound. You’ll be greeted by me in the first module! This immersive online program by my friend, Venessa Rodriguez, dazzles me. All in one program, Venessa beautifully wove together practices on voice ecology, energy clearing/healing, embodiment, functional nutrition, herbal medicine, astrology, akashic insights, and soul expression. Find & trust your inner voice Dissolve blocks in your throat chakra Understand the complexities of your throat center & root issues Nourish & revive your soul voice and throat Gain clarity + get out of your own way Be a clear channel & speak your authentic Truth Registration is open now and CLOSES on Weds, May 26 USA time. Program starts on May 31 8 module program — Move at Your Pace $444, payment plan available REGISTER with My Affiliate Link at candicewu.com/feedyourwildvoice Sign up through my link and I’ll receive some affiliate/guest teaching funds — thanks 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:12 Sponsored by Feed Your Wild Voice 04:42 What do you want to feel? 08:31 Inner Shower 13:21 My Experiences 14:39 Breathing Your Energy Back In - Tantra 18:38 Can You Take From What’s Already Here? 22:20 Playing the Guitar for the Horses 25:54 Outro
  • 157: [Reverie] : The Door. The Pivot Point. My Elbow Joint. [Spoken Word Poetry]

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 3 min 47 sec0:03:47
    Inspired by a Systemic Constellation Process with Pain in my Elbow! How I learned about the Wisdom of Silence in my ancestry… A reason I was shy when I was younger… And revealing why I felt unspeakable loss when I was young. About [reverie] on The Embody …
    Inspired by a Systemic Constellation Process with Pain in my Elbow! How I learned about the Wisdom of Silence in my ancestry… A reason I was shy when I was younger… And revealing why I felt unspeakable loss when I was young. About [reverie] on The Embody Podcast: Spiritual Succulents The sweetness, agony, delight, joy, freshness, and fullness of what is — This is Beauty. Here is my ongoing attempt to embrace the All — all that is — including the depths of the unseen yet known, in a Life of Beauty. [Reverie] emerges as a creative outlet for pieces of me, experiments, parts of process, artistry, in any form that honors or interacts with Being. Conversations with the pulse of Life itself… with Beauty. They are gifts from Life to me and to you if it is for you to hear. As a play with the dimensions of Being, I invite you to listen as if you are speaking and all the same, as I am speaking. Without pressure to make sense but to let what wants to flow into any part of your being do so freely — to get LOST. Enjoy in your own way. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/thedoor Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 0:00 Intro 1:13 The Door. The Pivot Point. My Elbow Joint.
  • 156: Sync Your Past Self to the Present: Parts Work Experiential

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 20 min 40 sec0:20:40
    If your past self or younger self could feel the love, life, and resources you have now, what would your past self feel? Stand in the past looking forward to receive — then come back with more! More than just sending a memo to the past… Integrate and heal…
    If your past self or younger self could feel the love, life, and resources you have now, what would your past self feel? Stand in the past looking forward to receive — then come back with more! More than just sending a memo to the past… Integrate and heal parts of yourself with this timeless experiential through syncing past and present. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/syncpast Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:15 Opening 07:27 Experiential 18:40 Outro
  • 155: A{Live} Now: A Direct Experience of Magic: Wisdom from a Dream

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 20 min 49 sec0:20:49
    A dream gave me the chills and I wanted to share it with you! I woke up from this dream feeling a DIRECT EXPERIENCE OF MAGIC. It showed me how I was making obstacles for myself between me and joy itself — you know — feeling like I had to earn a badge of h…
    A dream gave me the chills and I wanted to share it with you! I woke up from this dream feeling a DIRECT EXPERIENCE OF MAGIC. It showed me how I was making obstacles for myself between me and joy itself — you know — feeling like I had to earn a badge of honor or earn my own worthiness… earn joy. This dream brought me healing and a clear picture of how I could go straight to pleasure and joy. Out of the dream came a poem — one that might stir your own awareness of going straight for what you desire: living directly in your worthiness and in joy. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/directexperienceofmagic Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By To learn more about Dreamwork from an embodied approach, check out Candice’s Dreamwork Classes on Skillshare.  Receive a free 14 day premium trial with this link . Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:22 How I work with Dreams 03:23 The Dream That Came to Me 06:15 Go straight for the Magic 11:42 It is already Inside 15:54 Questions you can ask yourself 17:53 My Dream Classes on Skillshare 19:16 My Poem
  • 154: A{Live} Now: Holding a Vision: Safety, Relating, and Regeneration after Ego Death

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 38 min 35 sec0:38:35
    Existential Death and Renewal, how horses have taught me to hold my vision of the love and partnership I desire, embodying more safety and wholeness, the underlying beliefs of violence, oppression, victimhood, and power abuse… How it all connects with BDS…
    Existential Death and Renewal, how horses have taught me to hold my vision of the love and partnership I desire, embodying more safety and wholeness, the underlying beliefs of violence, oppression, victimhood, and power abuse… How it all connects with BDS*M, and the past lives in which I’ve been the oppressor: All in this episode! …and why I believe we’ve all been the killer before. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/safetyandpower Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:42 The Month of my Birthday 04:22 As I get Clearer… everything starts Percolating 08:24 Feeling Big Emotions — Consciousness is coming through ourselves 11:45 Seeing and Experiencing Confidence with Horses 15:27 A Story about a Bear Mom and her Kids 17:22 Reassurance that there is Safety in this World 18:33 Realizing I was the Perpetrator in another life 21:44 Finding your Safety on the Inside 25:50 Releasing the Unsafe and Building Safety 27:46 Working with Forgiving Yourself 29:00 Using BDSM as a Space for Safety 31:45 I am ready to be cherished 32:31 Questions for You my lovely Listeners 🌸 34:41 Outro
  • 153: [Reverie] : Silver, You Tell Me [A Poem for Old Friends that Connect You To Wisdom and Land]

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 2 min 18 sec0:02:18
    A Spoken Word Poem for Poem for Old Friends that Connect You To Wisdom and Land, written and spoken by yours truly.…
    A Spoken Word Poem for Poem for Old Friends that Connect You To Wisdom and Land, written and spoken by yours truly.
  • 152: [Reverie] : Star Travelers — Spoken Word Poetry for Lovers: Echoes of a Love Story Across Lifetimes

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 4 min 21 sec0:04:21
    A Spoken Word Poem for Lovers, written and spoken by yours truly.…
    A Spoken Word Poem for Lovers, written and spoken by yours truly.
  • 151: Your Natural Voice: Speaking, Sounding, Singing Bare & Beautiful

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 47 min 21 sec0:47:21
    To be in your bare, beautiful and natural voice is to love yourself. Your expression of sound, speaking, and singing is most resonant when it has a solid connection to your inner experience. This episode brings forward the simple but intimate conversation…
    To be in your bare, beautiful and natural voice is to love yourself. Your expression of sound, speaking, and singing is most resonant when it has a solid connection to your inner experience. This episode brings forward the simple but intimate conversation of your relationship with your own voice and sound. Explore a handful of tips to play with and expand the range of your sound, getting comfortable with more of yourself. What masks and layers, polishing or dressing have you put on your own voice and expression? Time to get naked and intimate. Links, Articles, and Resources: All Show Notes for This Episode 📝  https://CandiceWu.com/sound Podcast Homepage 🎧  https://CandiceWu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community 💌  https://CandiceWu.com/embody Donations – Your Support Means So Much! 💝  https://CandiceWu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook 👫  https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram 📷  https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to my website for other options at  CandiceWu.com/support 🎧 Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 01:12 Getting into Archery 04:25 Playing with Young Horses 07:50 Opening: Your Natural Voice 12:23 Where is your Voice coming from? 14:33 The Effect Language has on our Voice 17:28 Connecting with your Resonance 21:20 Exploring the Sound of Aum 25:08 When we make Sound we Create 26:28 You Sound More Authentic when You are Connected 29:20 Is what is Said True? 32:44 Can we be playful? 34:25 Workshop Experience with Nessi Gomes 35:51 Tips for Exploring your Voice and Sound 40:55 Connecting with your Soul Song 41:56 The Related Experiential 42:59 My Questions for your Today 43:57 Outro & Gratitude
  • 150: [Reverie] : Happening - Spoken Word Poetry for a Dreamer

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 2 min 37 sec0:02:37
    A Spoken Word Poem for all Dreamers out there, written and spoken by yours truly.…
    A Spoken Word Poem for all Dreamers out there, written and spoken by yours truly.
  • 149: Mind Play & Energy Alchemy: A Trick to Get Unstuck

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 23 min 18 sec0:23:18
    You are the substance of all possibility! Here’s a simple mind trick that you can play with to step into creative prowess and aspects of yourself that feel blocked. When you act as if you had all the support you needed, or achieved what you desired, or wh…
    You are the substance of all possibility! Here’s a simple mind trick that you can play with to step into creative prowess and aspects of yourself that feel blocked. When you act as if you had all the support you needed, or achieved what you desired, or whatever you wish you were, you can free up some of the energy spent on doubting it for more joy, wholeness, and inspired presence and action. I share a bit about how I am using this with my desire for life partnership and what came of it… Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/actasif  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation @candice-wu-2 on Venmo (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to  my website for other options at CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:27 Opening 05:25 Act as if you have, now. 08:12 Your blocks will come forward, let’s clean the closet 10:06 What if the opposite happens first? 12:07 How would I be/dress/act if I’d be Perfect? 16:51 What am I missing to get there? 19:06 My new Poems 20:39 Outro & Support
  • 148: Healing Grief: Meet Yourself Deeply

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 1 min 27 sec1:01:27
    Grief: our a portal to the essentials of your soul — what you love(d), long(ed) for, and desire. It brings forth, sometimes in tsunamis, echoes of your heart. In this Episode: 8+ tools on how to heal and deeply meet your grief, 8+ tools on how to heal and…
    Grief: our a portal to the essentials of your soul — what you love(d), long(ed) for, and desire. It brings forth, sometimes in tsunamis, echoes of your heart. In this Episode: 8+ tools on how to heal and deeply meet your grief, 8+ tools on how to heal and deeply meet your grief with your body’s wisdom, whether unnamable or unidentifiable grief, death or loss of a loved one or situation, ending or separation, from healing past traumas, shadow work and desires unmet. I also address two myths: time heals and grief never ends These tools offer support for your body and nervous system to metabolize these experiences in a way that allows you to integrate, feel more complete, and come to know yourself on a deep level. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/grief  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Head/Heart Conversations is a webinar series for psychotherapists designed to invite your inner healer to the forefront of your life. This four-part series will help participants learn about themselves as well as enhance their clinical skills. The first webinar on March 5th, led by Sarah Buino is called Conversations with a Wounded Healer. It’s a call to action encouraging therapists to step into their own healing with courage. And as a special thank you to listeners, you can get $10 off your order by using the code EMBODY when you register! For more info and to register,  visit Sarah’s Website . Don’t forget to use the code EMBODY :) Listen to episodes with Sarah Buino — Check out the links below! You can also support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation @candice-wu-2 on Venmo (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to  my website for other options at CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:08 Pre-Podcast Environment Scan 01:51 Topic of This Episode: Meeting Grief 02:59 Be Gentle: Your Body Knows Your Grief Threshold 04:36 Layers of Grief and Your Context 08:54 Sponsored: Head/Heart Conversations With Sarah Buino 12:05 Feeling Relief When I Connect 13:06 Why Grief? 13:54 The Grief of 2020 15:17 Grief of Past Experiences 16:20 The Grief of Expectations 20:09 Myths About Grief: Grief Never Ends 23:40 Myths About Grief: Time Heals 27:10 Moving Through Grief: Tools You Can Use 30:26 Tool: Be With Grief, Body, and Somatic 35:19 Tool: Can You Get Support From Someone? 36:19 Tool: Connect With What You Lost 41:28 Tool: Talk to the Person or Situation You Lost 43:35 Tool: Voice Dialogue With the Grief 45:28 Tool: Look at the Things You Wished for With the Person or Situation 50:32 A Few More Tools 52:55 Carrying My Grief and Living Through 55:06 Be Gentle With Yourself ❤ 56:37 Connect With Me for Healing Work 57:19 Gratitude & Connection 58:22 Outro: Know Your Grief
  • 147: A{Live} Now: Hit With a 2 x 4! Monogamy to Polyamory and Back Again

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    In this Ep: My journey from Monogamy to Polyamory back to Monogamy with openness, holding your vision of what you desire and the reality of what is now, shifting attachments, how life can feel like it’s falling apart when you declare your desires, getting…
    In this Ep: My journey from Monogamy to Polyamory back to Monogamy with openness, holding your vision of what you desire and the reality of what is now, shifting attachments, how life can feel like it’s falling apart when you declare your desires, getting lasiks and working with a naturopath. Tune in to hear what hit me in the head hard, like a 2 x 4! Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/polyjourney  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation @candice-wu-2 on Venmo (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to  my website for other options at CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:28 Check in With Yourself in This New Year 03:39 Life Update — Shifting While in Hermit Mode 05:29 Began Working With a Naturopath 07:38 My IUD Experience and How It Affected Me Long Term 13:20 Now Recording With Eyes Closed Because of Lasik 16:55 Main Topic: Relationship Structure 19:32 First Explorations of Polyamory 25:37 When the Desire for a Life-Partner Emerged 30:20 Freedom in Expression 33:01 Healing Parts of Myself Through Seeing Polyamory Done Well 37:17 Feeling Into the Coming Relationship and Life-Partner 44:17 Patience Has Been Hard! 45:43 Encouragement Toward the Process 47:59 You Are Completely Worthy 48:45 Outro
  • 146: Interview of My After Psychology Grad School Journey by Andriana Frost

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 43 min 22 sec0:43:22
    While this interview by my friend and colleague, Andriana Frost, was designed to speak to students of the psychology and counseling world as they venture out into the world with their degrees in hand, it might be interesting for anyone intrigued or intere…
    While this interview by my friend and colleague, Andriana Frost, was designed to speak to students of the psychology and counseling world as they venture out into the world with their degrees in hand, it might be interesting for anyone intrigued or interested in emerging their own voice in their business or healing practice. Learn about the leaps I took, how I created what I did, and the fears and surprises along the way! Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/candiceinterview  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation @candice-wu-2 on Venmo (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to  my website for other options at CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:51 Opening 03:35 Video Version 03:56 Welcome 04:56 What’s Candices Job or Passion? 08:52 How the Embody Podcast came to be 10:07 A Balanced Life to have the Strength for Others 12:22 An Important Question: What feels right? 13:33 What was your Path in Training and Experience? 15:52 Deciding to go into Psychology 17:10 Quitting the Doctorate because of other Modalities 18:55 Finding my Self Designed Healing 20:01 The Impact of Traveling and Different Spaces 27:16 What are the Skills that have Formed my Practice? 32:04 What do you find most rewarding in your work? 33:11 What do you find most challenging in your work? 36:51 What advice do you have for students? 39:00 Feeling that you have Time 40:48 How to contact Candice? 41:56 Permission to be in Uncertainty 43:06 Outro
  • 145: Inner Trust: 8 Tips to Embody Trust & Intuition

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 34 min 18 sec0:34:18
    Imagine you could naturally trust your knowing, intuition, and trust you can handle anything. To be in the flow of your brilliant body and being… To trust Life as it comes to you, that you are completely capable of creating and having what you desire, and…
    Imagine you could naturally trust your knowing, intuition, and trust you can handle anything. To be in the flow of your brilliant body and being… To trust Life as it comes to you, that you are completely capable of creating and having what you desire, and love yourself through all of it. Being in the flow and trusting is so different from telling yourself over and over to trust. Here are 8 tips on how to embody the state of inner trust. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/innertrust  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation @candice-wu-2 on Venmo (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to  my website for other options at CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:05 Opening 03:37 Listener Request: Topic Self Trust 04:20 What is Trust to You? 07:27 What Does Trust Feel Like Viscerally? 09:50 How I Developed Inner Trust 12:37 Clear Up Areas Where You Could Not Trust Yourself 16:39 The Larger Picture Will Try to Transform You 18:40 Look at What Helps YOU Develop Trust 21:55 Notice Thing That Are Going Your Way and Beauty 23:43 Work Through Your Fears and Be With Them 24:53 Actually That’s What This Whole Podcast is About 26:30 Know That You Are Source Energy 28:59 Connect in Comments 29:40 Shoutout to Anush — Top 100 Self Love Podcasts 29:59 Gratitude & Appreciation
  • 144: 9 Reminders for Your Heart and Spirit

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    Empower yourself into the new year with these as love letters to your heart and spirit! Here’s a compilation of the top 9 reminders that I’ve found myself and my clients needing to hear this year touching on: When you feel like you’re falling back into ol…
    Empower yourself into the new year with these as love letters to your heart and spirit! Here’s a compilation of the top 9 reminders that I’ve found myself and my clients needing to hear this year touching on: When you feel like you’re falling back into old ways Lost a sense of inner knowing Feeling uncertain or stuck That life can be easy The Ego serves Spirit Fighting time/not enough time Being pleasure-worthy Bringing in Beauty Taking life in bite sizes Everything is transformable Healing isn’t everything Change from the inside There might be something here for you! Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/9reminders  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation @candice-wu-2 on Venmo (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to  my website for other options at CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:12 Opening 03:19 Reminder 1: Falling Back Into Old Ways 08:26 Reminder 2: Usher In Beauty 11:23 Reminder 3: Everything is Changeable 15:16 Reminder 4: There is Timelessness 22:33 Reminder 5: The Ego Serves 28:30 Reminder 6: Your Spirit Knows 32:38 Reminder 7: Take Things Bite-Sized & Celebrate 34:55 Reminder 8: Change Happens on the Inside 40:58 Reminder 9: Healing is Not Everything 43:43 Stepping into 2021 and the Unknown 44:33 Outro and other Episodes
  • 143: Celebrate Your Cells! A Guided Meditation Practice

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 20 min 46 sec0:20:46
    Celebrate Yourself! The cells of your body thrive on celebrating your unique being by simple loving presence and acknowledgment. A great way to end the year, end the day, or the moment with some juicy nourishing to your body and soul is to shine a feeling…
    Celebrate Yourself! The cells of your body thrive on celebrating your unique being by simple loving presence and acknowledgment. A great way to end the year, end the day, or the moment with some juicy nourishing to your body and soul is to shine a feeling of celebration on yourself. This is a guided experience to bring you into that acknowledgment and fuel forward movement. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/celebrateyourself  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation @candice-wu-2 on Venmo (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to  my website for other options at CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 0:00 Intro 1:10 Top 100 Self Love Podcasts 2:07 Appreciation is the Same as Growth 2:35 The Experiential 16:33 Outro
  • 142: Awakening + Ego Death: Lie Down as Dead, Meditation by Osho

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 34 min 10 sec0:34:10
    Like being naked - a tree with the leaves gone. Loss and grief… waiting in the in-between, the void. The place where things are born. I had forgotten what it was like to have the intensity of expansion break my body and shadow world into pieces that deman…
    Like being naked - a tree with the leaves gone. Loss and grief… waiting in the in-between, the void. The place where things are born. I had forgotten what it was like to have the intensity of expansion break my body and shadow world into pieces that demanded to be seen – I felt like I was dying inside. The aloneness - that in some ways (not all!), you must go this journey alone. Until - I read an excerpt from Osho reminding me of what an ego-death experience feels like, and that this is a very human experience! “Enraged in Wrath, Lie Down as Dead.” ~Osho Tune into this episode where I read Osho’s meditation as a guided experience, along with another piece of his writing that offered me soothing and awareness. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/liedownasdead  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By ALLY WITH DEATH Cleanse and release the dead weight! Make space for what’s growing and emerging with you in the Ally With Death Experiential. It is an online experience for you to tune into the energy of Death to let go, release, and purify your being of what needs to die, giving you space for creation, nourishment, and love for this next season.  Find the experience at CandiceWu.com/death. Show Notes 0:00 Intro 1:22 Top 100 Self Love Podcasts 2:19 The Ally With Death Experiential 4:06 An Intense Ending 6:06 Rediscovering The Book of Secrets by Osho 8:41 Shedding Connections and Let the Ego Die 8:53 Experiential Introduction 10:36 The Experiential: Lie Down as Dead as written by Osho 14:54 Sometimes Different is Helpful 17:03 Coming Out of the Experiential 18:28 My Experience With This Experiential 20:27 The Autumn of the Inner Mind — Another Excerpt Reading 27:45 Aloneness is Wholeness 28:34 How This Fits Into Now? 30:18 Outro & Gratitude
  • 141: You Are Pleasure — Worthy And Your Pleasure Lifts Others

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 38 min 40 sec0:38:40
    You are sooo worthy of pleasure! In every area of your life. Pleasure can be tangled up with so much - our worthiness, betrayal of others if we have pleasure, whether we are selfish or self-centered, responsibility, and indulgence. In this episode, I talk…
    You are sooo worthy of pleasure! In every area of your life. Pleasure can be tangled up with so much - our worthiness, betrayal of others if we have pleasure, whether we are selfish or self-centered, responsibility, and indulgence. In this episode, I talk about all this including how being in YOUR pleasure brings more to yourself and others, as well as how we can untangle the soul’s desire to love by not having and allow a deeper way to love - by having and being in your worth. This can connect straight to your bonds to your ancestry and humanity itself. This episode is also a reminder that you are deeply free, and a discussion about what we actually say to others when we decline or deprive our own pleasure. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/pleasureworthy  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation @candice-wu-2 on Venmo (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to  my website for other options at CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:26 Top 100 Self Love Podcasts 02:24 Getting to Know My Pleasure 04:32 Enjoying the Little Things 07:47 There Have Been Times of Denial 08:29 Alignment With Your True Vibration 11:24 To Bein in Joy and See All Others 16:12 My King-Crab-Leg Story — Am I Allowed? 21:41 “You Are Suffering? I Am Going to Suffer Too.” 23:45 I Have Been Called Selfish! 25:36 Is Pleasure an Avoidance? 26:16 Developing More Capacity in Yourself 32:57 Let’s Connect About Pleasure 33:49 More Resources Around the Topic of Pleasure 36:08 Outro
  • 140: Embodiment: The Key to Gratitude Doing Its Magic

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 27 min 10 sec0:27:10
    The full magic of giving thanks can be supported with bringing the body into the experience: staying in the good feels longer & savoring the things you’re grateful for. Plus bonus benefits! Vibration, appreciation & stabilization. Embodied Gratitude suppo…
    The full magic of giving thanks can be supported with bringing the body into the experience: staying in the good feels longer & savoring the things you’re grateful for. Plus bonus benefits! Vibration, appreciation & stabilization. Embodied Gratitude supports your vibrational clarity, it allows the Beauty of your life to appreciate, and brings stability and safety to your nervous system. In this episode, I also talk about how the pleasant can serve the integration and healing of the unpleasant, as well as how a simple mountain biking tip can help you literally and emotionally balance your head through life’s bumps and ditches. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/gratitude  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation @candice-wu-2 on Venmo (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to  my website for other options at CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:16 Shortly After US Thanksgiving 02:08 The Key to Gratitude 03:53 What Embodying Gratitude Can Give You 08:00 Pleasure, Joy, Clarity 09:03 My Gratitude For You 09:34 Shifting: When Things Need to Change 11:26 Keep Looking Forward-and-Through 15:20 Relationship Ending — What Helped Me Through It 17:59 A Mountain Bike Story: How Much Do You Look at the Ditch? 20:47 Your Direction 23:11 Outro 24:23 Supporting the Podcast 25:18 The Podcast Team
  • 139: Reset Into Harmony: Energy Work Experiential

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 30 min 32 sec0:30:32
    We neutralize into harmony knowing that everyone is on their own soul trajectory and is deeply free. What is our full creative power and what is true harmony? In this experiential, you will cleanse your energy from collective and personal relationships, c…
    We neutralize into harmony knowing that everyone is on their own soul trajectory and is deeply free. What is our full creative power and what is true harmony? In this experiential, you will cleanse your energy from collective and personal relationships, collect and harness your energy, and neutralize expectations so that a deeper harmony and freedom emerges. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/resetintoharmony  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation @candice-wu-2 on Venmo (just put a subject line indication it is a donation) or go to  my website for other options Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:20 Opening 02:54 What is Harmony? 08:32 The Horses in Harmony and What We Can Learn From Them! 12:23 Experiential: Introduction 13:58 Experiential: Start 27:56 Outro
  • 138: The Mind Does Not Compute What Belongs to the Heart

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 19 min 9 sec0:19:09
    On navigating the unknown, and how the mind does not compute what belongs to the heart’s digestive system, when your feelings might not match your “reality”, why you might feel bad or uncomfortable feelings when wonderful things happen, tips and tools for…
    On navigating the unknown, and how the mind does not compute what belongs to the heart’s digestive system, when your feelings might not match your “reality”, why you might feel bad or uncomfortable feelings when wonderful things happen, tips and tools for navigating the unknown and the discomfort of not knowing. Get comfortable in the not cleaned up, sensing, temperature, fleshy visceral unnamable experience that can be messy but living and breathing : the wilderness of your being. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/theunknown  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By People Like You This episode is sponsored by the  Embodied Healing Group Monthly Call  and the Personalized Meditations. The Group call is a monthly group online to enjoy embodied support, empowering connection, and healing guidance! A truly powerful exchange of love and transformation for your contribution. If you’re craving this kind of experience, I’ll support you in being at ease in your own body and spirit, tapping into your intuition and wisdom, and somatic and ancestral healing around anything you’re experiencing or challenged with each month. If you’d like to receive a personalized Meditation or Healing Experiential and would like your funds to go to the podcast,  check out the different ways you support here . Your personalized meditation will be based on your specific intentions — I’ll sense in with my intuition to offer something that will support you on your journey. Learn more about how to support The Embody Podcast at  CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 0:00 Intro 1:41 Where I am in my life… Sledge hammering 2:51 Existential Crisis-ish 4:09 When it’s safer, the uncomfortable comes forward! 5:03 Dropping into the Unknown 7:45 The Mind Does Not Compute What Belongs to the Heart 10:42 The challenge of the not knowing 12:54 Tools that can Help Supportive Free Experientials on the Podcast 17:22 Gratitude & Appreciation — Looking for Bazaar things in life 18:17 Ending with a Poem
  • 137: A{Live} Now: Have You Forgotten You Are Free? Trump, Shadow + Energy

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 52 min 39 sec0:52:39
    If you have a reaction to Trump (or to Biden), what does that bring forward for you? How are we just like that which we despise? How can we harness the energy of what we dispose of or discard instead? A reality check on our own shadow and a call to come i…
    If you have a reaction to Trump (or to Biden), what does that bring forward for you? How are we just like that which we despise? How can we harness the energy of what we dispose of or discard instead? A reality check on our own shadow and a call to come into our own empowerment as we near the 2020 presidential election… This episode is on sensing into the deeper energies and dynamics of what’s happening in the world and in your life rather than the surface level information, how Trump has perhaps served a purpose in wholeness, and how we can shift from projection to response-ability and harmony through your shadow. Also a personal sharing about how Trump triggers memories of my childhood father and how a family constellation supported me in balance and healing. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/trumpandshadow  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to  my website for other options at CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:38 Opening — Context for this Episode 02:43 Is Trump’s Purpose Over? 04:30 Is it Trump or is it in us? 08:09 Trump and how he brings forward the Shadow parts of many 09:06 The change in us reflects externally 12:36 “This world is unfair” ~ Unpacking This 14:16 Outcasting Pieces of Yourself is Violent 16:33 Integrating the Outcast in Ourselves. Harnessing the Energy. 20:21 When I look at Trump I see my father. 26:53 Finding Harmony/Equal Response-Ability in both my parents 33:27 What Trump has given us 34:22 Forgiveness for myself and it helped 35:15 My new Friend: a Red Stilbite Crystal 36:05 Honoring Others on their Journey 37:41 About Existence and Harmony 40:36 Harness the Power of being in Fullness 41:10 We have forgotten our own freedom… 42:18 Sometimes… it has to get so big, it slaps us in the face. 44:18 What are we looking at? 46:15 What do you see? 47:42 Going to a Deeper Level 50:59 Outro
  • 136: Pleasure, Beauty, and Capacity

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    Ah, pleasure and Beauty in your life… What if more things could feel pleasurable or good? How about feeling aligned and guided in life from inside? What if you were so present you savored each moment, and even in discomfort, you could extract pleasure fro…
    Ah, pleasure and Beauty in your life… What if more things could feel pleasurable or good? How about feeling aligned and guided in life from inside? What if you were so present you savored each moment, and even in discomfort, you could extract pleasure from it or experience it differently? You can have it all. You are worthy of deep and juicy pleasure. This episode is a primer with six ways to discover and deepen into what pleases you, whether that be simple joys, sexuality, purpose, or sensuality of any kind. Also: Pleasure is the compass to your essential being, enhancing your capacity to feel, releasing shoulds, digesting pleasure and what might come with it, and the Ability to Respond (Response-Ability) to your Spirit. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/pleasureprimer  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Support The Embody Podcast with a small donation! I appreciate you receiving my sharing and if you would like to give back and nourish the Podcast, you can make a one-time donation  @candice-wu-2 on Venmo  (just put a subject line indicating it is a donation) or go to  my website for other options at CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:33 Brought to you by Donations 02:08 The expanse of Pleasure 04:30 Previous Episodes about Pleasure 05:46 How to Open Your sense of Pleasure 06:43 Going for What Feels Good — Learning From Horses 08:29 Basing Joy in Shoulds? Is there a truer way? 09:52 Everyone is Worthy of Pleasure and Joy ❤ 10:15 Discover your Pleasure — Savor Past Moments 14:02 Unblocking Silent Rules 15:33 Digesting Pleasure — more pleasure, more everything 17:30 The Geography of Sorrow — Denying the Difficult 19:09 Will others Suffer if I Have More Joy? 21:46 Looking for Pleasure in Your Space 22:54 Extracting Good from Everyday Moments 23:48 Ask Yourself: “What would give me Pleasure now?” 24:27 Response-Ability to our Spirit 27:39 Teaching My Mom to Feel More Joy : Is Boredom a Pathway? 29:47 Feeling into my Pleasure & Joy 30:17 Outro More Embody Podcast Episodes And Meditations & Experientials
  • 135: Falls and Accidents: Accumulated Nervous System Effects and Renegotiation of Survival Energy

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 58 min 7 sec0:58:07
    The effects of falls and accidents or other impacts on the physical body can accumulate over time if there was something that the body wanted to do that it didn’t get to. Especially when it comes to the need to protect yourself where you didn’t get to, th…
    The effects of falls and accidents or other impacts on the physical body can accumulate over time if there was something that the body wanted to do that it didn’t get to. Especially when it comes to the need to protect yourself where you didn’t get to, the body holds the impulse of that survival energy in its viscera, muscles, and joints. I’ve seen where accidents from years ago can still have an effect on the body, energy, and emotional state now. Sometimes the body, even if the mind knows differently, doesn’t register that you ARE safe and ok. In this Episode: Recognize the symptoms of falls and accidents, how accidents and falls can bring up other trauma including relational, attachment, and sexual, and tips to bring your body back into safety and renegotiate these traumas. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/falls  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Self-Touch supports healing the nervous system on a deep level. This episode is sponsored by the Online Touch Workshops that you can access at your own pace and timing. Supportive self-touch can deepen your capacity to navigate all that you feel, your pleasure, and the ability to heal trauma and be in your body. It can soothe, bring ease, and peace. I am offering a 2-Part Somatic and Energetic Healing Touch series that gives you 9 basic and simple tools, with how to direct your awareness to enhance your own presence and self-support. Part 2 gives you ways to use your wall to release and complete anger, frustration, and fight responses, as well as strengthen your boundaries and feel that you are supported — that someone’s got your back — and that’s you! Find both  online workshops at CandiceWu.com/touch  where you can tune in at your leisure. For a limited time, they are “pay what you can/want” at a sliding scale. Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:16 Update About Me & My Life 02:47 Intro to Accidents and Falls 04:12 Learning About Somatic Experiencing 04:48 One of My Falls in Chicago — Getting Doored 14:28 The Experience on Repeat Falls 18:28 Reintegrating the Accident 20:42 Noticing Symptoms in Your Body Recommended Episode 27:05 Working With a Practitioner 28:13 What You Can Do Yourself or With Others 28:48 Time Compressed 30:11 Renegotiating the Trauma — Helping the Body to Digest 30:47 May Bring Up Relational Experiences 31:44 Working With My Left-Side-Falls and Past Life Trauma 34:21 Handling What Comes Up — The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield 38:19 What You Can Do to Move Toward Healing 52:13 The Process of Healing — Overview 53:22 Uncovering Old Compressions & Healing Those Too 54:12 Outro My Touch Workshop 55:41 Greetings
  • 134: The Play of Money: Money Does the Tango With Your State of Being

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 31 min 57 sec0:31:57
    Money dances with you by showing you your state of being live. Neither good nor evil, it neutrally takes on the beliefs of what you believe both consciously and unconsciously and pours it out into your concrete reality, showing you a playful reflection. M…
    Money dances with you by showing you your state of being live. Neither good nor evil, it neutrally takes on the beliefs of what you believe both consciously and unconsciously and pours it out into your concrete reality, showing you a playful reflection. Money issues may reflect a wound in your soul that desires to be healed. What’s hidden in your money consciousness? What have you inherited about money? In this episode, a chat about the story of money in your psyche, worthiness and value, bringing joy to your relationship with money, and the multidimensional resources you might open to — money being just one of them. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/moneyintro  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Show Notes 00:00 Intro, Inspiration, and Gratitude 05:18 What Money Reflects 07:25 What is your Relationship with Money? 07:25 Relationship with Money and beliefs 10:48 How Money Can Arrive 13:38 restore Your relationship with Money 15:29 “It’s not Your Money” by Tosha Silver 18:08 Shaping my Experience: Stories Inherited 26:50 The Continual Emergence of the Money Talks 27:39 Recommended Episodes about Money 29:10 An Exchange of Joy 30:23 Let’s Connect
  • 133: A{Live} Now: Authentic Relating, Co-Dependency, My Wedding, Falls and Freedom

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 50 min 56 sec0:50:56
    I’m getting married. Ha! In this Episode, how a No Strings Attached Sexual Relationship Experience and a Mountain Bike fall brought me to a more whole unification, marriage with myself, and more expansive freedom within. Conscious dating, self-honesty, au…
    I’m getting married. Ha! In this Episode, how a No Strings Attached Sexual Relationship Experience and a Mountain Bike fall brought me to a more whole unification, marriage with myself, and more expansive freedom within. Conscious dating, self-honesty, authentic relating, existential loss, fluidity between polyamory and monogamy, releasing relationships from co-dependency and control and where I’m doing that, and seeing people from a place of harmony and freedom. The layers of self-discovery and gifts of deep experiencing… Also, a live Angel Card reading for myself :) that is pretty interesting. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/authenticrelating  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Healing Share Sponsorship Program About 25% of my healing sessions are sliding scale with my personal contributions. If you’d like to help me in supporting others in receiving healing sessions, consider sharing your resources to support someone or your community in a unique and important way! Consider contributing to sliding scale sessions for those who need healing support and may not be able to pay a full fee. Healing sessions can be truly life changing for someone, giving them support to integrate any trauma, bring their presence to life, or cultivate self-love. Your support may go to someone who: is an elder, BIPOC, LGBTQIA, or a person that has been affected financially by difference and power Covid19 or Systemic Issues (systemic racism or discrimination), is an unpaid or low paid community organizer, has immigration-related expenses, has children or other dependents, is a student, or receives public assistance. For more information about contributing or receiving from the Healing Share, check out  this link at CandiceWu.com/HealingShare Show Notes 0:00 Intro 1:35 Opening 3:29 Me and Polyamory 4:54 Facebook Dating… No Strings Attached 8:00 Dependency, Co-dependency 12:12 Finding Strings Attached! 14:30 The Wedding Card 17:09 I fell of my Mountain Bike 20:14 The metaphor of the Log Pile Jump 21:37 Wanting Marriage and Poly 22:46 Flow In and out of Relationships 24:50 Returning to My Star Nation Bond 28:35 Authentic Relating — Closing in On What I Want 31:55 Support from a Friend 33:38 Feeling the Larger Trajectory of My Life 34:36 Building Inner Safety 36:40 Live Tarot Card Reading for Me and Maybe You? 38:44 Redefining the Relationship I want 41:48 Update Post-Podcast 42:59 Using Somatic Experiencing to Integrate the Fall 45:38 Everything Flows Once the Path is Cleared 47:18 Stepping Away from a Relationship to Release More Co-dependency 48:12 Outro
  • 132: Restore Ways of Being: Carve Out New Territory + Energy

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 26 min 14 sec0:26:14
    The Body reflects any habitual patterns in your life — shake up the body’s movement and gestures to create something new in your life! The body needs to integrate the new territory and energy to full inhabit what’s unfamiliar. Whether it is more abundance…
    The Body reflects any habitual patterns in your life — shake up the body’s movement and gestures to create something new in your life! The body needs to integrate the new territory and energy to full inhabit what’s unfamiliar. Whether it is more abundance, the ability to receive love, a shift towards a new way of being, etc… this can support that in an embodied way. What’s the opposite movement of the gesture that comes with your typical story, your problem, or what you always experience? This process supports you to develop a pathway between what you are used to and the new road where the body starts to know it organically, fluidly, and flexibly. With all the dismantling and systemic change going on, change the system within to give everything you are doing more weight and life energy.The Body reflects any habitual patterns in your life — shake up the body’s movement and gestures to create something new in your life! The body needs to integrate the new territory and energy to full inhabit what’s unfamiliar. Whether it is more abundance, the ability to receive love, a shift towards a new way of being, etc… this can support that in an embodied way. What’s the opposite movement of the gesture that comes with your typical story, your problem, or what you always experience? This process supports you to develop a pathway between what you are used to and the new road where the body starts to know it organically, fluidly, and flexibly. With all the dismantling and systemic change going on, change the system within to give everything you are doing more weight and life energy. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/newterritory  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Are you craving touch!? This episode is sponsored by the Online Touch Workshops : Touch in the Time of Physical Distancing. Supportive self touch can deepen your capacity to navigate all that you feel, your pleasure, and ability to heal trauma and be in your body. It can soothe, bring ease, and peace. I am offering a 2-Part Somatic and Energetic Healing Touch series that gives you 9 basic and simple tools, with how to direct your awareness to enhance your own presence and self-support. Part 2 gives you ways to use your wall to release and complete anger, frustration, and fight responses, as well as strengthen your boundaries and feel that you are supported — that someone’s got your back — and that’s you! Find both  online workshops at  CandiceWu.com/tough  where you can tune in at your leisure. For a limited time they are pay what you can/want at a sliding scale. Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:28 Sponsored by: Touch Workshop 02:10 Introduction 05:40 Examples 06:43 Preparation 08:04 Experiential Part 1 15:30 Experiential Part 2 21:29 Outro 23:09 Sponsored by: Touch Workshop 23:22 Embody Newsletter
  • 131: How to “Not Take Things Personally” Naturally When Hit With Harshness, Criticism + Gaslighting

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 45 min 58 sec0:45:58
    “Not taking things personally” can be a tough job being a human with emotions and a body! When criticism, harshness, judgment, lashing out, gaslighting, and other reactions from another person can hit us where it hurts, here are some tools to support heal…
    “Not taking things personally” can be a tough job being a human with emotions and a body! When criticism, harshness, judgment, lashing out, gaslighting, and other reactions from another person can hit us where it hurts, here are some tools to support healing and resolving where it hurts so it’s not just a forced “tough skin” but an organic neutrality or wholeness that leaves us able to be present to what is. Work with ways to heal the shadow and allow harmony where others push their shadow parts your way. A deep love for yourself, which is loving for all. At the very least, to digest the emotions we feel when triggered and to experience separation and boundary that gives us room to breathe, feel safer, and more loved from the inside. Two experientials follow this episode next week where I guide you through a shift through distance and space, boundary, forgiveness, and separation from dependency, as well as to look towards and heal the part of us that gets wounded. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/thickerskin  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Healing Share Sponsorship Program About 25% of my healing sessions are sliding scale with my personal contributions. If you’d like to help me in supporting others in receiving healing sessions, consider sharing your resources to support someone or your community in a unique and important way! Consider contributing to sliding scale sessions for those who need healing support and may not be able to pay a full fee. Healing sessions can be truly life-changing for someone, giving them support to integrate any trauma, bring their presence to life, or cultivate self-love. Your support may go to someone who: is an elder, BIPOC, LGBTQIA, or a person that has been affected financially by difference and power Covid19 or Systemic Issues (systemic racism or discrimination), is an unpaid or low paid community organizer, has immigration-related expenses, has children or other dependents, is a student, or receives public assistance. For more information about contributing or receiving from the Healing Share, check out at  CandiceWu.com/healingshare Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:24 Opening — Starting My Garden 03:32 Topic Overview 04:07 Healing Share Program 05:29 A Recent Experience 07:09 It’s Incredibly Hard to Not Take Things Personally 09:14 How to Move Through Experiences That Hurt 12:54 Even Strangers Can Hurt or Trigger 13:46 Learning to Harness My Own Energy and Boundary 16:07 Connecting With the Collective Experience 17:31 Being Shaped by Early Life Experience 18:34 Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn 19:07 Pleasing Others is a Tool but Exhausting 21:53 Tools for a Clearer Way 25:36 Clearing Belief Sets Around Codependency 28:46 Looking at the Conversation and Placing What Was Said 32:27 A Few More Tricks 40:38 Thanking the People 41:51 Upcoming Experientials 44:38 Gratitude 45:03 The Embody Newsletter 45:13 Healing Share Program
  • 130: Anxiety or Energetic Upgrade? Spiritual Emergence, Awakening + Crisis

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 29 min 4 sec0:29:04
    An energetic upgrade can feel like anxiety! If you’re feeling untethered, nervous, racy, unanchored, and restless, excitable — your nervous system may be overwhelmed but also, you may be receiving an energetic upgrade to your system. Tune into this episod…
    An energetic upgrade can feel like anxiety! If you’re feeling untethered, nervous, racy, unanchored, and restless, excitable — your nervous system may be overwhelmed but also, you may be receiving an energetic upgrade to your system. Tune into this episode for a conversation about what an energetic upgrade is and can feel like — as well as questions from a listener about spiritual emergence and crisis, how to build capacity, and what supports ease through intense awakening experiences. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/energeticupgrade  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By If you’d like to share your resources and support someone or your community in a unique and important way, consider contributing to sliding scale sessions for those who need healing support and may not be able to pay a full fee. Healing sessions can be truly life-changing for someone, giving them support to integrate any trauma, bring their presence to life, or cultivate self-love. If you have a need for sliding scale sessions, you may be eligible on a first come first serve basis for supported Sliding Scale Sessions. Contribute to or check out the  Healing Share Sponsorship Program at CandiceWu.com/healingsupport Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:28 Podcast Feature: Podcast Envy 02:24 Healing Share Sponsorship Program 03:36 Opening: Feeling Into an Experience 05:22 The Energetic Upgrade 08:52 What an Upgrade May Feel Like 12:48 Spiritual Emergence & Crisis 16:52 Expanding Through Spiritual Crisis 18:11 Should I Pendulate or Push Through? 23:21 Is the World Having an Energetic Upgrade? 25:31 When Facing Your Desire, the Blocks Show Themselves 26:24 Know the Tools That Give Safety 27:28 Invitation to Connect 27:58 The Embody Newsletter 28:05 Gratitude
  • 129: a{Live} Now: The Unexpected in Worthlessness + The Energy Under Opposition

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 20 min 15 sec0:20:15
    Following the feelings behind worthlessness, I wanted to disappear and dissolve. In a good way! How could that be? Find out in this unexpected experience of dissolution and getting lost what I recovered for myself in terms of my own right to my life. Also…
    Following the feelings behind worthlessness, I wanted to disappear and dissolve. In a good way! How could that be? Find out in this unexpected experience of dissolution and getting lost what I recovered for myself in terms of my own right to my life. Also in this episode, thoughts on how our existences can be in harmony, how polarity and opposition are part of a dynamic that emerges from the same underlying energies and finding the neutral, eventually. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/worthlessness  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Show Notes 0:00 Intro 1:35 Opening — I Want to Dissolve 3:43 Asking My Body Questions 6:28 Shedding a Layer of Existence 7:19 True Harmony — Intention & Connection 8:49 Both Sides Are Part of the Polarity 11:25 My Takeaway 12:40 Why I Wanted to Share This 13:44 Opposition Creates the Same Energy 17:22 Can We Find the Neutral in-Between? 17:55 Outro
  • 128: A{Live} Now: When Discomfort Ripens, Calibrate Pleasure + Systemic Intergenerational Trauma

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 35 min 49 sec0:35:49
    Destruction, dismantling, burning things up. A quiet clearing, despair, grieving, integration, dust settling. Looking. When it’s time to create anew and there’s space for sweet tendrils and sprouts, what do you align, anchor, or calibrate to? For me it’s …
    Destruction, dismantling, burning things up. A quiet clearing, despair, grieving, integration, dust settling. Looking. When it’s time to create anew and there’s space for sweet tendrils and sprouts, what do you align, anchor, or calibrate to? For me it’s pleasure in a deep and whole way, yet sweet and joyful. In this episode, I talk about the ripening of difficult feelings in uncomfortable situations, respecting yourself and seeing the spiritual agenda, and some recent experiences that triggered some Chinese American ancestral dynamics. And that I’m home in Michigan and what I’m doing here now! Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/ep128  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Are you craving touch!? This episode is sponsored by the Online Touch Workshops : Touch in the Time of Physical Distancing. Supportive self-touch can deepen your capacity to navigate all that you feel, your pleasure, and the ability to heal trauma and be in your body. It can soothe, bring ease, and peace. I am offering a 2-Part Somatic and Energetic Healing Touch series that gives you 9 basic and simple tools, with how to direct your awareness to enhance your presence and self-support. Part 2 gives you ways to use your wall to release and complete anger, frustration, and fight responses, as well as strengthen your boundaries and feel that you are supported — that someone’s got your back — and that’s you! Find both  online workshops at CandiceWu.com/touch  where you can tune in at your leisure. For a limited time, they are “pay what you can/want” at a sliding scale. Show Notes 0:00 Intro 0:55 Opening: My Experience With My Own Reverie Episodes 2:21 Rough Past Few Weeks for a Greater Purpose 5:22 What Happened in California 8:07 How Are You Doing? 9:45 Being With the Discomfort 11:48 Giving Too Much? Where is This Feeling Coming From? 14:45 The Systemic Trauma Experience of the Now 16:04 What Should I Do? 18:57 What Do You Crave? 23:11 Restarting: About a Funny Friends Episode and Push Starting My Car 28:31 Little Things That Make Me Very Happy 31:24 Astrology — Mercury Retrograde 32:23 Invitation for You 34:09 The Touch Video Workshop 35:43 Outro
  • 127: [reverie]: A Verse from the Ocean — Get Lost Into Love and The Shape of Now

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 20 min 20 sec0:20:20
    Tentative and tender — quivery and sweet. Get lost into love, get lost from the roadmap. Everything is a nudge, back to home, to yourself. Life exists as you. Play. Whales, the pulse of the Ocean. This [reverie] episode is a channeled message from from th…
    Tentative and tender — quivery and sweet. Get lost into love, get lost from the roadmap. Everything is a nudge, back to home, to yourself. Life exists as you. Play. Whales, the pulse of the Ocean. This [reverie] episode is a channeled message from from the Ocean — While it is spoken through me, they may be your words too. You exist here and inherently belong. It’s a given. Do I let myself change? Do I really let the guards come down? I want to be simply and naturally who I am. Your most important shape is the shape of now. Being in Delight. The way of true being. Get swept away by Life. The Sweetness. That which we already are. I invite you to journey and to take it in as an energetic download — to reveal pieces of yourself, to stir, shake, heal or hug you into yourSelf, into Love. A spiritual succulent like a yummy probiotic: a bit of Candy for the soul. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/theshapeofnow  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature
  • 126: [reverie]: Your Being Knows How to Be

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 12 min 1 sec0:12:01
    Your being knows how to be. Trust in your own being to guide you. Your Aliveness knows its way… I invite you to journey and to take it in as an energetic download — to reveal pieces of yourself, to stir, shake, heal or hug you into yourSelf, into Love. A …
    Your being knows how to be. Trust in your own being to guide you. Your Aliveness knows its way… I invite you to journey and to take it in as an energetic download — to reveal pieces of yourself, to stir, shake, heal or hug you into yourSelf, into Love. A spiritual succulent like a yummy probiotic: a bit of Candy for the soul. About [reverie] on The Embody Podcast: Spiritual Succulents The sweetness, agony, delight, joy, freshness, and fullness of what is — This is Beauty. Here is my ongoing attempt to embrace the All — all that is — including the depths of the unseen yet known, in a Life of Beauty. [Reverie] emerges as a creative outlet for pieces of me, experiments, parts of process, artistry, in any form that honors or interacts with Being. Conversations with the pulse of Life itself… with Beauty. They are gifts from Life to me and to you if it is for you to hear. As a play with the dimensions of Being, I invite you to listen as if you are speaking and all the same, as I am speaking. Without pressure to make sense but to let what wants to flow into any part of your being do so freely — to get LOST. Enjoy in your own way. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/yourbodyknows  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature
  • 125a: A{Live} Now: The Next Adventure: Sound Bites From Off the Grid + Horse Life

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 30 min 30 sec0:30:30
    In this continuation of the field trip — you’ll hear some sound bites in this next adventure of living off the grid and living with five horses at Silver Horse Retreat with Sara Fancy in California. A taste of the basics of living in harmony with Earth an…
    In this continuation of the field trip — you’ll hear some sound bites in this next adventure of living off the grid and living with five horses at Silver Horse Retreat with Sara Fancy in California. A taste of the basics of living in harmony with Earth and horses. This is Part 2 of this A{Live{ Now Episode. In Part 1, I share a bit about my life in Mexico and my travel during the COVID–19 pandemic from Mexico to San Diego. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/horsesoffthegrid  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Are you craving touch!? This episode is sponsored by the Online Touch Workshops : Touch in the Time of Physical Distancing. Supportive self-touch can deepen your capacity to navigate all that you feel, your pleasure, and the ability to heal trauma and be in your body. It can soothe, bring ease, and peace. I am offering a 2-Part Somatic and Energetic Healing Touch series that gives you 9 basic and simple tools, with how to direct your awareness to enhance your own presence and self-support. Part 2 gives you ways to use your wall to release and complete anger, frustration, and fight responses, as well as strengthen your boundaries and feel that you are supported — that someone’s got your back — and that’s you! Find both  online workshops at CandiceWu.com/touch  where you can tune in at your leisure. For a limited time, they are “pay what you can/want” at a sliding scale. Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:37 Starting the Day 03:11 Reflecting on Time 04:05 Being Greeted by Animal Life 05:49 Going from a Condo to the Earth 06:29 Audio Experience of Mucking Out 08:17 Going for Groceries 08:58 Where the Horses Move and Difference to Ireland 14:02 Hello Diva 17:08 The Relationship with Horses 25:03 Presence with Horse and Nature Sounds 27:55 Outro 29:21 The Embody Newsletter 29:34 Greetings from the Horses
  • 125: A{Live} Now: Leaving Mexico and Travel Field Trip: Traveling Out of Mexico During COVID 19

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 30 min 7 sec0:30:07
    This is a field trip Episode! After 4 months in Mexico, 2 months of a pandemic, and Black Lives Matters Protests, I said goodbye. I made my way to California to be with horses, a mentor, and the land and I bring you with me on each step of the way of my j…
    This is a field trip Episode! After 4 months in Mexico, 2 months of a pandemic, and Black Lives Matters Protests, I said goodbye. I made my way to California to be with horses, a mentor, and the land and I bring you with me on each step of the way of my journey back to the US. Here’s to the Ocean that held me, a little review of the things that transpired and transformed in me during the lock-down, and flying two flights out of Mexico to the US during Covid19. This is Part 1 of this A{Live} Now Episode. In Part 2, I share a bit about my life off the grid and with the horses. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/leavingmexico  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Are you craving touch!? This episode is sponsored by the Online Touch Workshops : Touch in the Time of Physical Distancing. Supportive self-touch can deepen your capacity to navigate all that you feel, your pleasure, and the ability to heal trauma and be in your body. It can soothe, bring ease, and peace. I am offering a 2-Part Somatic and Energetic Healing Touch series that gives you 9 basic and simple tools, with how to direct your awareness to enhance your own presence and self-support. Part 2 gives you ways to use your wall to release and complete anger, frustration, and fight responses, as well as strengthen your boundaries and feel that you are supported — that someone’s got your back — and that’s you! Find both  online workshops at CandiceWu.com/touch  where you can tune in at your leisure. For a limited time, they are “pay what you can/want” at a sliding scale. Show Notes 0:00 Intro 3:52 Where in the World Am I Going During covid19 4:55 The Pelicans 6:14 No Direct Flights 7:14 My Last Days in Mexico and What I Have Been Doing 9:44 What I Have Been Working With Internally 13:19 My Love for Mexico 14:28 My New Project Born of the Ocean 15:26 Looking Forward to Being With Horses 18:46 Closing My Mexico Chapter 21:24 About this Time 22:02 Travel During Covid19 - Puerto Vallarta to San Francisco 23:57 About 8 People on the Flight to San Diego 25:55 I Have Arrived! 26:55 Outro 28:04 New Online Class — Touch in a Time of Physical Distancing
  • 124: Experiential: Response-Ability + Liberation: Unveil Your Body’s Reaction to Race + Difference

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 34 min 23 sec0:34:23
    Inner freedom supports freedom for ALL. In this episode: a Conversation about the Amy Cooper and Christian Cooper video, the way my body expressed reactions and perceptions towards Black people, and an experiential here for you to open your own body-based…
    Inner freedom supports freedom for ALL. In this episode: a Conversation about the Amy Cooper and Christian Cooper video, the way my body expressed reactions and perceptions towards Black people, and an experiential here for you to open your own body-based exploration around people who are different from you. It is your body that holds reactions and unconscious sentiments towards others that contribute to racism. No matter who you are, black, brown, white, yellow, and every person in between — going deeper means looking at your body’s reactions. Along with any actions that your heart feels called to, if you want freedom for those you love and care about — for Black people, for all people — hold space for what is held in your own body and digest it. If you don’t involve your own body in healing racism or in anti-racism, or in supporting BLM or another race movement, it has a risk to be only be performative, not go deep enough, or to perpetuate the underlying dynamics. This experiential is an invitation to use systemic constellations and embodied witnessing to look at what may be living in your body that contributes (probably unknowingly) to systemic racism. I invite you to be gentle and honest with yourself and open to what your body’s experience is of the “other” or someone you perceive as different. This is where racism can be healed. When you heal your body’s experience and the unconscious lived experience, the world around changes. Build your ability to respond to your own reactions and to respond in the world instead of react — your Response-ability. This is inner freedom. Inner freedom supports freedom for ALL. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/healingracism  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:22 Opening 02:50 It’s in Your Body! 04:18 Your Respons-Ability to Heal 04:44 Seeing a Trauma Response 09:18 About This Experiential 11:54 This is for Everyone 13:26 Noticing Projections and Reactions 19:12 The Experiential 29:24 Outro 30:25 Upcoming Episodes 32:18 Share Your Experience
  • 123: A{Live} Now: Racism is in the Body, BLM + Hidden Race Wounds

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 32 min 16 sec0:32:16
    I stand with Black people and see you. I stand with all the people who desire that Black people have the right to live and breathe. Witnessing the protests from Mexico that are happening as a result of systemic violence on Black folks (re-ignited by Georg…
    I stand with Black people and see you. I stand with all the people who desire that Black people have the right to live and breathe. Witnessing the protests from Mexico that are happening as a result of systemic violence on Black folks (re-ignited by George Floyd and many that have died at the hands of the police) has inspired me to talk vulnerably and candidly about some experiences where I noticed my own racism coming to the surface — fears that have been held through my ancestry. I speak to how I can have the best of intentions, and still find something that its racist — and what I did about it. Racism is held in the body. No matter how well intentioned it is to say, “I believe in equality,” — there are likely some unconscious ways that your body experiences something else, likely rooting in trauma — a wound of your own, your ancestry’s, your culture’s, or your past lives/dimensional experiences’. This is also an invitation, whoever you are and for all that are interested, to have some gentleness in being with whatever you feel — no matter what it is. That’s the most essential part of healing our systemic race issues — is acknowledging what is there — what you feel and the beliefs and attitudes that reveal through your body. This is an invitation to look at your own lived wounds and beliefs — the ones you hide from yourself — that give way to a collective experiences of racism. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/embodiedracism  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:40 Opening 03:28 Watching the Protests 05:43 For Allies and Others 06:35 It is Important to Feel Whatever You Are Feeling! 07:50 My Own Racism 13:37 See the Pain and Let It Touch You 16:46 Another Experience of My Own Racism 22:21 Could We Have Space for Seeing? 24:11 Zoom Into the Present Moment 25:06 The Unconscious Has a Great Effect 27:41 Topics Coming Up 30:02 Suggestions for Other Episodes 31:16 Experiential: Supporting Your Body Through Nervous System Overwhelm
  • 122: Align to Pleasure + Prajña

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 38 min 0:38:00
    When the structures of your previous ways of being dismantle and crumble — what do you calibrate to? Pleasure! What is for you is coded into your vibrational blueprint through pleasure. In this episode, use pleasure as your compass and embody complete act…
    When the structures of your previous ways of being dismantle and crumble — what do you calibrate to? Pleasure! What is for you is coded into your vibrational blueprint through pleasure. In this episode, use pleasure as your compass and embody complete action: prajña (PRAH-gee-ah). Heal the cycles of constant doing in order “to have and be happy” — come into being and vibrational clarity — creating from a place that is complete unto itself and likely brings gifts beyond fathomable because they are so in line with who you are, and given in your place here. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/completeaction  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Monthly Embodied Healing Group The Monthly Embodied Healing Group is a small online group for soul and body support each month in a compassionate space. This is for you if you would like to refine the embodied tools of moving through the unknown, uncertainty, and Mystery of Life. All the proceeds go towards the Podcast Production and to nourish the love in each episode. Check out the  Monthly Group Call  and other  Patreon Gifts for supporters at CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 00:00 Intro Special Announcement 02:35 Group Healing Sessions 03:15 Opening 03:45 Shoutout: Listener Jeanne 03:59 What is Pragña?? 06:12 It’s not your money - Book Quote 10:10 An Earthquake in my Body 11:45 The Delight of Foals 12:33 Being Close to the Ocean - the waves of unlearning 13:26 Seeing The Shifts through Covid19 14:22 Ancestral Knowledge for the Now 17:31 What gives you pleasure? 18:35 Our State of Being - An alternative to “Doing, Having, and then Being” 24:06 The Key is Connecting with Pleasure 26:01 The Trauma Vortex - Peter Levine 26:50 Start by Feeling in Your Day to Day 33:29 The More I Follow Pleasure the More it Grows 35:27 Where is Pleasure? What if Pleasure Were Your Compass? 35:57 Outro The Embody Newsletter
  • 121: a{Live} now: Belonging to the Stars: Re-Membering Who I Am

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 23 min 34 sec0:23:34
    Have you felt like you don’t belong here? Some intense feelings of grief and existential aloneness led me to finding more of myself: my multidimensional being and a family in the star system. I have mentioned it before, but this time, it demanded a greate…
    Have you felt like you don’t belong here? Some intense feelings of grief and existential aloneness led me to finding more of myself: my multidimensional being and a family in the star system. I have mentioned it before, but this time, it demanded a greater attention and acceptance. This time, I felt a huge loss of having left my spiritual family somewhere out there. If this story interests you or you’re finding yourself on this journey, tune in to this unraveling of an extension of my being, another place I found belonging, resource, and freedom, how my judgments had blocked my intuition, knowing, and peace in my body. A continuation of the Deep Mystery of Life: Embracing What Logic Cannot Explain  Part 1 Part 2 Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/belongingtothestars  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By Your support means so much and goes a long way to support The Embody Podcast and its continuation. Please consider  supporting with a one-time or repeating donation at CandiceWu.com/support , or enjoy some gifts as a thank you. Show Notes 00:00 Hello 01:30 Present Observations and Realizing 05:44 Where am I from? 08:33 Finding Star-Seed 10:30 Feeling the Human Experience 12:14 It’s About Loving My Being on the Journey 13:14 Are You From Star Nation or Multidimensional 15:36 We are all ONE 16:08 What Came After the Realizing 17:16 I Feel More Connected and Open Now 18:14 Tuning Into Questions for You 19:39 It Helps to Know this other Part of my Belonging 21:54 A Big Virtual Hug 22:16 Support the Podcast — Thank You
    star nation, star collective, galactic, celestial being, multidimensional, star system, belonging, awakening, unseen, telepathy, orion
  • 120: Restore Inner Harmony: Guided Experiential: Heal Self-Exploitation With Self-Forgiveness

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 19 min 9 sec0:19:09
    Do you wish to reside in deep harmony and ease with yourself — The place of fertile ground for creative action, contentment, and self-love? Where do you exploit or override your body’s or inner messages — what is the price you pay? Do you push and pressur…
    Do you wish to reside in deep harmony and ease with yourself — The place of fertile ground for creative action, contentment, and self-love? Where do you exploit or override your body’s or inner messages — what is the price you pay? Do you push and pressure yourself to exhaustion or drain? In this guided experience, we will restore gentleness and respect to the body and align to pleasure as an inner compass. We work with self-forgiveness for judgments on yourself — ways you’ve exploited yourself, ways you put too much pressure, feeling not enough, and overriding your body’s needs and desires. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/innerharmony  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature This episode is sponsored by my Dreamwork Classes online at Skillshare Receive two months free on Skillshare Premium and learn about how to feel more embodied so that your dream world can thrive! Here’s a link to three classes that are on Skillshare to support you in feeling more grounded and developing your inner world so that you can remember your dreams and glean dream wisdom. With  this link  you’ll receive two months free on Skillshare Premium. Learn more about the Dreamwork Classes at  CandiceWu.com/dreamclasses Show Notes 00:00 Where can we find harmony? 04:49 Energetic Download Meditation 05:35 Brought to you by my Dreamwork Skillshare Classes 05:58 Tuning in for the Meditation 17:49 Outro
    self forgiveness, forgiveness, self exploitation, overwhelm, override, being enough, negative beliefs
  • 119: Transform Addictions and Cravings Into Presence and Freedom

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 27 min 41 sec0:27:41
    Navigate your cravings and addictions to loosen up their intensity and bring healing in this somatic experiential. In this time of Covid19, there are many things we cannot have or do. We may be stripped to see ourselves bare in some ways. With cravings an…
    Navigate your cravings and addictions to loosen up their intensity and bring healing in this somatic experiential. In this time of Covid19, there are many things we cannot have or do. We may be stripped to see ourselves bare in some ways. With cravings and addictions, we have a keyhole into knowing what it is that lives under the surface that drives these actions and ways of coping. It is also the opening for more empowerment and self-love. Food addictions and cravings, substances, activities, connections, and relationships — depending on how and from which place of ourselves we reach for these may be a dependency or a way to protect ourselves from discomfort. Note: There’s nothing wrong with how you have adapted as your addictions may have their own wisdom, though you may want to find greater freedom and depth of self-knowing. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/cravings  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by my Ally With Death Experiential Cleanse and release the dead weight! Make space for what’s growing and emerging with you in the Ally With Death Experiential. It is an online experience for you to tune into the energy of Death to let go, release, and purify your being of what needs to die, giving you space for creation, nourishment, and love for this next season. Find the experience at  CandiceWu.com/death Show Notes 00:00 Intro Brought to you by the Ally with Death Experiential 02:43 Opening Guest Mention — Jill Massura 05:24 Acknowledging the Wisdom of the Addiction 09:21 Noticing the Need 14:01 Experiential 14:31 Experiential Opening 26:43 Outro The Embody Newsletter Meditations Database Ally with Death Experiential
    addiction, craving, healing addiction, coping, dependency, dependencies, freedom, presence, transformation, empowerment, independence, inner freedom
  • 118: A Journey Revealing Polyamory And Self-Honesty In a Monogamous World with Terri Fernandez

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 26 min 8 sec1:26:08
    What does it mean to be open, transparent, and honest? When it means discovering you are polyamorous, there may be challenges and surprises that come. Dr. Terri Fernandez talks about the journey in discovering she is polyamorous at heart while being compa…
    What does it mean to be open, transparent, and honest? When it means discovering you are polyamorous, there may be challenges and surprises that come. Dr. Terri Fernandez talks about the journey in discovering she is polyamorous at heart while being compassionate in a monogamous marriage. Her experience includes a depth of fear and hurt, as well as joys. She shares her own body reactions, partner reactions and some major losses on the journey. Also, questions about how you set up life as polyamorous especially being in a monogamous marriage and what is commitment? How can you be fully honest? Terri and I mutually discuss past generations and pressures, what family constellations has to do with a Poly view, what life would be like if Poly were always an option, repression is a superpower, how we each discovered our own polyamorous journeys. Clinically trained with a specialization in forensic psychology, Dr. Fernandez now works exclusively with our veterans in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Providing primarily trauma-informed, evidence-based therapies to treat PTSD, she uses her integrative theoretical orientation and certified training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help our veterans process traumatic experiences with present-moment awareness, as well as address other psychological difficulties from a non-judgmental and compassionate approach. Terri Fernandez, Psy.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. Terri is a native Texan, reformed gamer, and wannabe lichenologist. She returned to her hometown of Texas (currently based in Austin) after living and training in Chicago, Kansas City MO, and Gainesville FL. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/terri  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by the Monthly Embodied Group Healing Call Craving some soul and body support each month in a compassionate space? This is for you if you would like to learn tools to move through your experience, tuning into your intuition and developing your empowerment with body wisdom, and clearing limiting beliefs through your entire being. All the proceeds go towards the Podcast Production and to nourish the love in each episode. Check out the  Monthly Group Call  and other  Patreon Gifts for supporters at CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 0:00 Intro Sponsored by the Monthly Embodied Group Healing Call 1:36 Introducing the Topic 6:02 Welcoming Terri and Setting the Scene 7:04 How Songs and Phrases Can Check You Into the Moment 9:15 Letting Go of Pressures From Previous Generations 11:55 Life’s Dividing Moments 13:00 Grad School — Self-Examination 15:18 Terri’s Poly Journey 19:20 Terri’s Superpower — Repression 20:46 Shifting Out of a Catholic Family Structure 22:29 What if Poly Would Have Always Been an Option? 24:13 How Do You Set Up Life & Relationships Around Polyamory? 25:46 What Have Been Surprises Along This Journey? 29:44 How Much Are You Able to Hold? 31:08 Opening Up a New World — Plato’s Allegory Cave 34:07 Different Context of Exploration (In Marriage and Dating) 41:45 Exploring Poly With Family Constellations 43:41 Polyamory in Past Generations 48:21 A Body Reaction and Partner Reaction 52:28 Socially Accepted, Acceptable, or Understandable? 54:40 Emotional Cheating? 55:35 Being Honest and Open Is the Most Painful Peace 57:55 What Does It Mean to Be Open and Honest? What Does It Mean to Be Transparent? What Does Commitment Mean? 1:04:20 The Reality — Little Understanding in Surrounding Couples 1:05:41 The Depth of Fear and Hurt That You Walk Through Discovering Poly 1:08:25 Excavating More of What Is Here 1:12:21 What Parts of the Journey Have You Enjoyed? 1:15:22 All Kinds of Struggles — Poly Turning Mono and Exploring Poly in Marriage 1:20:22 The Doors You Walk Through… There May Be Deaths 1:22:54 Gratitude & Lots of Kindness and Gentleness 1:24:25 Outro
    polyamory, poly life, ethical nonmonogamy, open relationships, self designed relationships, conscious relationship, honesty, trust, intimacy, authenticity, self discovery
  • 117: Build Your Inner Response System, Knowing and Intuition: Blind Constellation Experiential

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 30 min 19 sec0:30:19
    In this guided experiential, develop your relationship to your inner knowing and intuition — strengthen the muscles of your heart, inner attunement, and body wisdom. I lead you through a Blind Constellation of tuning into three pieces of your life so that…
    In this guided experiential, develop your relationship to your inner knowing and intuition — strengthen the muscles of your heart, inner attunement, and body wisdom. I lead you through a Blind Constellation of tuning into three pieces of your life so that you can clarify and fortify your relationship with your many inner messaging systems. It’s so essential to follow what is true to you — and it feels increasingly important in times of uncertainty and unknown. It is vital to loving yourself to do what’s for you to do, and not what you feel you “should” or was part of a past plan. Alignment in the present requires trust in your body’s response system as well as understand where your capacity is in terms of what parts of this response system is disconnected or has static (trauma, unconscious or unintegrated aspects of yourself). Also, a brief exploration about fears and resistances to inner trust. **Sponsored by: Special Offer: Ayurveda Living in Quarantine I have a special invitation and discount for you if you’re interested in Ayurvedic Living — transforming your way of being and lifestyle to be more in harmony with yourself. My friends Zach Zube and Elizabeth Sullivan have co-created a six-week online immersion centered around Ayurveda and Yoga that promises to be rich, beautiful, and full of community connection. Each week, you’ll receive a variety of seasonal self-care practices aimed at your optimal health and wellness including recipes, daily routine actions, prompts for self-study, and invitations for movement and meditation. You’ll also have access to a members-only forum, bonus materials, and all the recordings from the live videos. I haven’t taken the full program myself, but I have had experience with Zach that I deeply resonated with. I also love his ayurvedic sprays and oils. Save $30 off your registration with this specific discount code: With this code, you receive a discount and I also receive a small amount of money as an affiliate — these funds will go straight to fuel The Embody Podcast. Find complete program details at  elementselfcare.com/living-ayurveda  and don’t forget to use my specific code when you register. If you don’t have the funds for the full cost at this time, they will negotiate a cost with you. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/innerknowing  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Show Notes 0:00 Intro 1:50 Sponsored by: Special Offer: Ayurveda Living in Quarantine 5:03 Trusting & Developing your Intuition 11:56 Supporting our Internal Communication System 13:41 Starting to Play with your Senses 15:48 Fear Dissolves in a place of Trust 17:47 Experiential: Blind Constellation
    blind constellation, intuition, self knowing, inner knowing, communication, awareness, pendulum
  • 116: Meditation: Self Love and Forgiveness: Energy Clearing in Hard Times

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 19 min 23 sec0:19:23
    Touch in with a spontaneous meditation to soften at the edges, release the energies of the collective that you’re carrying, bring forgiveness and self-loving to places where you betray, are hard with, or judge yourself. I briefly discuss seeing self-betra…
    Touch in with a spontaneous meditation to soften at the edges, release the energies of the collective that you’re carrying, bring forgiveness and self-loving to places where you betray, are hard with, or judge yourself. I briefly discuss seeing self-betrayal as protection and being truly in agreement, in love, with yourself. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/meditation-self-love-and-forgiveness-energy-clearing-in-hard-times  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:03 Opening 02:16 What is Self Betrayal? 04:08 Protection 04:30 Beginning the Meditation 18:10 Outro
    forgiveness, self forgiveness, energy clearing, energy work, energy healing, covid19, coronavirus healing
  • 115: The Great Mystery Continues with Coronavirus: Presence, Resilience, Alignment

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 22 min 28 sec0:22:28
    We are in an extraordinary time — where drastic insight and awareness can be accelerated. Take this opportunity to be present with your lived experience. In this Episode: my thoughts on what to do with all you are experiencing with Coronavirus / Covid–19,…
    We are in an extraordinary time — where drastic insight and awareness can be accelerated. Take this opportunity to be present with your lived experience. In this Episode: my thoughts on what to do with all you are experiencing with Coronavirus / Covid–19, the Mystery of Life, Ocean, and your ancestors probably did it too — draw upon their medicine and strength. Brought to you from the Ocean and the great Mystery that the Ocean carries…on the Mexican coast — I chose to stay while the US — Mexican border closed to “non-essential travel.” Let’s see what this journey brings…Plus resourcing yourself Beauty and being alive, and a brief guided experience to touch into what is aligned for you now. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/coronavirus  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:11 What Happens When I Surrender? 02:50 The Beginning of the Coronavirus Crisis. 04:28 Where I Am and What You Are Hearing in the Background 05:50 What an Extraordinary Time… 10:18 The Messages We Have in Our Ancestry 13:45 Look Your Experience in the Face — Together 19:33 Shoutout to the People in Healthcare and Parents… 20:17 More Resources for This Special Time 21:20 Closing With an Anecdote
    mystery, presence, alignment, covid19, coronavirus 19, coronavirus, collective healing
  • 114: The Courage to Be Honest As Who You Are Today

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 35 min 1 sec0:35:01
    How much capacity do you have to be honest about who you are today on your journey? Instead of covering up parts of yourself or polishing them to perfection or false prettiness — to move through your life honestly and to see others in their moment to mome…
    How much capacity do you have to be honest about who you are today on your journey? Instead of covering up parts of yourself or polishing them to perfection or false prettiness — to move through your life honestly and to see others in their moment to moment existence, experience, and reactions as well? I’ve often struggled with sharing myself in an honest way. Sometimes that’s my feelings or opinions, and sometimes that’s just fear of certain parts of me being exposed. Listen in on how I feel called to be more directly and clearly myself and all the fears that come up with it. Do you have similar fears of being yourself and speaking your truth? Identity crisis and reinvention, self-honesty and being more fully self-expressed — this is what’s happening with me now — and in my sharing to the outer world and relationships. Also in this episode: how losing hair related to my grandfather’s loss of his parents to starvation, how it brought forward a greater sense of acceptance for my journey and who I am and my body, dependency, and attachment. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/selfhonesty  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:27 Opening 02:42 My Identity Crisis 04:25 A Call for More of Who We Are 06:40 Mention of Liz La Force 07:23 Losing My Hair! Exploration Around It A Recent Astrology Reading by Elena @hiddengiftastrology 16:41 Mother Ocean vs Mother Earth 21:26 Does This Relate to You? Questions to Explore. 27:16 Coming Back to the Present Moment 29:20 My Invitation to You 31:47 Outro 33:17 The Embody Newsletter 33:26 Mariachi Music from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
    courage, honesty, authenticity, being yourself, alignment, empowerment, ease
  • 113: a{Live} now: Let the Flame Burn the Match, Surrender, and No Death

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 34 min 3 sec0:34:03
    The Embody Podcast turned two years old in early February! It is now a toddler. Listen in for some new updates about the podcast in the next coming weeks plus how a deeper surrender and trust called for some hard choices. I share about how I’ve been touch…
    The Embody Podcast turned two years old in early February! It is now a toddler. Listen in for some new updates about the podcast in the next coming weeks plus how a deeper surrender and trust called for some hard choices. I share about how I’ve been touched by people in Mexico here, treating me like family, giving me a deep sense of safety and belonging. I read some excerpts from Thich Nhat Hanh’s Book: No Death, No Fear — his ideas have been touching some of the grief and breaking down constructs of fear in me. I’m loving the clarity that to be in expansion is to let the fire burn the match all the way and all life is a continuation. His ideas helped something click: that my ancestors also belong to me as much as I belong to them and they live in my body, in my every step, in my heart and through my eyes. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/surrender  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored: Free Skillshare Dream Class by Candice Wu Until March 10, 2020, one of my Dream Classes is free on Skillshare. How to Uncover and Awaken Your Dream Life : The Basics of Remembering and Recording Your Dreams, Part 1. . This class supports you in building a nervous system that feels safe and embodied enough to play and open to your dream world, plus ways to record your dreams with ease. Check it out along with other dream classes on Skillshare. There is a free membership for two months at  CandiceWu.com/dreamclassone Show Notes 00:00 Intro 03:14 Sponsored:  Free Skillshare Dream Class by Candice Wu 04:10 Opening With a Soul Check-In Recommendation: Proprioceptive Writing Mexico — Oh Beautiful 09:23 What I’ve Been Receiving 10:46 Challenging Surrender 11:40 What I Found: Change Around the Podcast 14:21 Follow Through on Intuition 15:49 What is Coming… 16:38 We Only Know What We Know 17:26 What Else I’ve Been Learning/Exploring/Finding 20:17 Exploring Dia De Los Muertos and My Ancestors Belong to Me Too 20:17 Dia De Los Muertos and Family Constellation 25:55 Recommended Episode About Family Constellation 26:24 No Death No Fear 28:55 Where Will I Be in 300 Years? Returning to Old Episodes The Embody Newsletter 31:44 Thank You ❤️ 32:08 Outro
    thich nat han, buddhism, no death, fear, death, integration
  • 112: Dare to See Yourself with Liz LaForce

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 54 min 54 sec0:54:54
    “Everything Inside of You Has a Right to Be There” ~ Liz LaForce Liz transmits a purity in her energy that brings me so much ease! In this episode, she talks about how to close the gap between your knowing and the here and now, the process to experiencing…
    “Everything Inside of You Has a Right to Be There” ~ Liz LaForce Liz transmits a purity in her energy that brings me so much ease! In this episode, she talks about how to close the gap between your knowing and the here and now, the process to experiencing yourself and the Process to Self, and playfulness. She touches on working with authenticity through playful techniques including dance, art, and voice. How in the voice, you can hear where you are in your body. Liz talks about how she is letting her “form come” as she moves through unknowing and identity crisis and encourages bringing love towards all the pieces of yourself. Liz had a major turning point in her life at the age of 24. It was the beginning of a totally new life(style) in which her talent by birth to connect with the intangible reopened and started to blossom. She studied with a spiritual master, traveled the world, took classes and sessions on spiritual and personal growth for many years. But mostly learned by tuning into her inner guidance and life itself. She has guided and taught others towards their path for 25 years now as a life coach and personal development trainer. She has been a teacher at the ICM coaching program and lived and worked on Ibiza for 4 years, giving 1 on 1 and group transformational retreats. Nowadays she is based in the Netherlands, her home country. Working globally. Combining her background in business economics, and spirituality to guide business leaders and entrepreneurs back into their core through compassion, connection, and communication. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/lizlaforce  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by The Ally with Death Audio Experiential Cleanse and release the dead weight! Make space for what’s growing and emerging with you in the Ally With Death Experiential. It is an online experience for you to tune into the energy of Death to let go, release, and purify your being of what needs to die, giving you space for creation, nourishment, and love for this next season. Find the experience at  https://CandiceWu.com/death Show Notes 1:02 Sponsored: The Ally With Death Audio Experiential 1:55 Opening — Travel Update 3:51 Introducing Liz 5:24 Conversation Start — Being Called Back to the Netherlands 7:01 Candice’s Last Calling of Where to Be 8:15 When the Calling is Clear, Even if You Think: Really? 9:15 How to Close the Gap Between the Knowing and the Here and Now 10:21 Experiencing Being Yourself — the Process to Self 13:26 Learning to Be More Playful 14:36 What Should We Talk About? What is Alive Right Now? 16:14 The Value of Being Home 16:32 The Becoming of Liz — Quitting, Selling, Travel, and Arriving in Ibiza 22:03 How to Be in Flow With Alignment 24:55 Why Do You Think Unknowing Can Be So Scary? 28:30 I Needed to Know… Now I Am Ok Not Knowing ~ Liz 32:34 Do You Find It a Struggle? 35:34 You Can’t Skip a Part of the Journey. It All Needs to Happen. 37:55 Inner Child Work and Rewriting the Program 40:09 When You Can Stop but Are Addicted to the Healing Work 41:53 Working With Authenticity: Playful Techniques From Dance to Singing 44:00 The Voice: Hearing Where People Are in Their Body 46:12 Everything Inside of You Has a Right to Be There ~ Liz 49:40 Liz’s Experiential 50:23 Anything Else? 51:44 Where You Can Find Liz 52:32 Outro & Liz’s Active Experiential 53:25 What’s Coming… 53:40 The Embody Newsletter 53:58 Thank You
    see yourself, self love, courage
  • 111: Proprioceptive Writing: Your Words Carry Your Embodied Experience

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 43 min 45 sec0:43:45
    Reveal the corners and folds of your soul, what wants to be heard from inside, the wisdom and connection that brings you more fully into YOU. I feel awakened and more vibrantly in my body through a recent Proprioceptive Writing Retreat and I wanted to sha…
    Reveal the corners and folds of your soul, what wants to be heard from inside, the wisdom and connection that brings you more fully into YOU. I feel awakened and more vibrantly in my body through a recent Proprioceptive Writing Retreat and I wanted to share this helpful tool with all of you. Proprioceptive Writing is a process of inner listening, observing and writing down what you hear, as well as asking one essential question with words that have more vibrancy to you. The words we use carry this knowledge: we are moving and emitting information constantly. The unconscious experience living in our bones and cells has a space to come forward, bringing a new dimension to shadow work, knowing yourself, and body awareness. With this process, you can reveal truths to yourself, excavate wisdom that is already living within you, and allow unconscious aspects to come forward into consciousness and healing. Also in this episode are updates about my travel in Mexico, the sounds — complete with some beautiful soundscapes and guitar playing by  Juan Ignacio Rodriguez Zamboprieto , food, and music that are bringing my soul alive and holding me in through another spiritual emergence/crisis and dismantling of parts of me. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/proprioceptivewriting  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored: Free Skillshare Dream Class by Candice Wu For one month from Feb 10 — March 10, 2020, one of my Dream Classes is free on Skillshare!  How to Uncover and Awaken Your Dream Life : The Basics of Remembering and Recording Your Dreams, Part 1. . This class supports you in building a nervous system that feels safe and embodied enough to play and open to your dream world, plus ways to record your dreams with ease. Check it out along with other dream classes on Skillshare. There is a free membership for two months via this  link Learn more and watch the full class at  CandiceWu.com/dreamclassone Show Notes 0:00 Intro 1:11 Sponsored:  Free Skillshare Dream Class by Candice Wu 1:53 Opening — Travel Update 3:16 The Soundscape of Mexico 8:25 My Soul is Coming Alive 9:08 Another Spiritual Crisis 11:00 Listening in and Aligning Together 12:01 Main Topic: Proprioceptive Writing 13:51 What is Proprioceptive Writing? 18:08 The Hard Part… 19:10 A Great Effect: More Aware of Words 19:39 Looking Into Every Corner 20:51 The Process of Proprioceptive Writing 25:04 Writing With Both Hands 26:17 Writing With Family & Friends 28:29 Excerpts of My Experience 38:27 When Things Feel Hard to Talk About 39:18 Recommendation About Trying It Out 40:41 Next Travels and Surrender 42:00 Outro & Gratitude The Embody Newsletter
    proprioceptive writing, writing, intuitive writing, journaling
  • 110: Relationship Cleanse : Honor, Reset, Close, and Renew

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    Get clear with your relationships! Cleanse, reset, end, restore, honor, thank, and give each relationship its place. When we speak truth about a relationship as it was or is, it has a chance to be at peace and unburdened by what’s unintegrated or unsaid. …
    Get clear with your relationships! Cleanse, reset, end, restore, honor, thank, and give each relationship its place. When we speak truth about a relationship as it was or is, it has a chance to be at peace and unburdened by what’s unintegrated or unsaid. The relationship’s meaning can be known more fully, even if we only acknowledge it within our own imagination and body. This episode and the following experiential is for current relationships both pleasant and conflictual, past meaningful relationships of all kinds, and especially that person you just can’t get out of your mind or psyche. Cutting someone out of your life may not give you everything you need to integrate and move forward — how you relate to what they meant to you and all the unconscious associations that are underlaid within this complex system of experience and body memory that is our existence is what lives on — unless the truth is acknowledged. I also share a brief update about my travels to Mexico and a recent new tool that has been very powerful for me in stepping into a fuller self and self-love: Proprioceptive Writing. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/relationshipcleanse  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Free Dream Class on Skillshare For one month from Feb 10 — March 10, 2020, one of my Dream Classes is free on Skillshare!  How to Uncover and Awaken Your Dream Life : The Basics of Remembering and Recording Your Dreams, Part 1. . This class supports you in building a nervous system that feels safe and embodied enough to play and open to your dream world, plus ways to record your dreams with ease. Check it out along with other dream classes on Skillshare. There is a free membership for two months via this  link Take the full Dream Class on Skillshare at  CandiceWu.com/DreamClassOne Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:05 Sponsored:  Free Dream Class on Skillshare 02:22 Opening & Travel Update 04:00 Proprioceptive Writing Retreat 05:41 Let the Soft Animal of Your Body Love What It Loves 08:25 Main Topic: Cleansing Our Relationships 09:09 When a Past Relationship Is Still Tugging on You 13:57 Say Good-Bye to Who You Were… 15:08 Death Is a Good Indicator 15:59 Horses and How They Are Present 17:36 How We Can Digest There Is an Experiential — EP110a 22:26 Speaking of Death:  The Ally With Death Audio Experiential 22:56 Other Related Episodes The Embody Newsletter
    relationships, cleanse, relationship cleanse, breakups, heal your relationship, love
  • 109: Solo Female Travel: Deconstructing Fear, Trusting Your Body, Practical Tips, My Next Adventures

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    I am compelled to follow my sensuality, surrender, and play — doing so leads me to Mexico! Listen in on deconstructing fears, society’s undermining of women RE travel, practical solo travel tips, stories of women who traveled every single country in the w…
    I am compelled to follow my sensuality, surrender, and play — doing so leads me to Mexico! Listen in on deconstructing fears, society’s undermining of women RE travel, practical solo travel tips, stories of women who traveled every single country in the world, some solo. I explore how I build trust in my body and intuition to keep me safe, what it means to trust your instincts and how healing past trauma supports this. Also, apps and hacks for flight searching, and a whole bunch of other ways to protect yourself and prepare yourself for and on travel. A brief review of my last time living and traveling abroad. For anyone that is curious or the wanderlust or adventurer in you or a friend. Shoutout to my friend  Doreen Stelton @verdantfaerie on Instagram Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/solotravel  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by The Ally With Death Experiential “I highly recommend Candice’s healing work. I love her podcasts and the Ally with Death experience was pretty powerful. I loved the music and of course her voice. My heart slipped out of its crusty burnt casing (like a burnt marshmallow) to reveal a vibrant pink thing. I wondered why I let a single person or event ever take my joie de vivre and vowed to dance and shimmer among the stars. Here’s to new beginnings!” ~  Doreen Stelton @verdantfaerie  on Instagram) The Ally With Death Audio Experiential  is still available for cleansing what’s weighing you in this new year. Experience a movement through what needs to die and end in your life, bringing forward your vitality and meaning in this next stretch of your path. All those feelings that have been accumulating, relationships that still feel triggering, or ways you talk to yourself or situations that you’re just “over” — let them truly resolve and heal through this process — giving a clear space for what wants to emerge through you in your life. It can be truly transformative and transmutive, giving a compost that fertilizes new life. Once you order the experience, it’s an mp3 that is yours forever — and you can use it again any time you’d like. It’s lovely to do anytime, especially as we are into the new year, shifting in season, during a moon cycle/new moon or even full moon, or if you’re seeking more clarity, healing, support, and embodiment. If you feel weighed down, heavy, or stuck, this is a great time to tune in and let yourself journey in this process. Learn more and purchase the Ally with Death Experiential at  CandiceWu.com/death Show Notes 00:00 Intro A Customer Review of the Ally With Death Experiential What Happens When I Do the Ally With Death 03:32 My First Travel — Chiang Mai, Thailand 05:03 Coming Home After Being Exhausted and Healing With Family 05:50 Where Am I Traveling Next? 07:04 The Scary Side of Solo Travel — Learning to Handle the New Fears 08:09 Powerful Solo Traveling Women and Their Findings 13:08 My Own Safety Experience While Traveling 18:33 One More Unique Story 22:18 A Poignant Article — Stop Telling Women They’ll Be Assaulted 26:26 A Call to Trusting Our Instinctual, Intuitive, and Energetic Senses When We Have Parts in a Frozen State 30:55 What I Am Doing to Be More Prepared for My Solo Travel 33:47 Practical Suggestions for Solo Travel 34:22 Part Two: A Couple Days Later — A Lot Has Changed and Developed 35:25 App Recommendations (Hopper & Skiplagged) 37:16 Travel Packing List 37:51 Item: Door Stop Alarm 38:32 Item: Handheld Personal Alarm 39:04 Self Defense Classes 41:01 Item: An Extra Lock 41:08 Spread Your Money — Put It in Your Socks 🧦 41:44 A Decoy Wallet 42:02 Storing Money in a Plastic Tampon Applicator 42:36 Bringing Copies of Important Documents 43:00 Get a Local Sim Card 43:52 Download Maps in Offline Storage 44:33 Download Google Translate and the Language Pack 45:27 Speaking (Even a Little) of the Local Language 45:47 Checking Windows & Doors on Arrival 46:07 Lock Things When Possible 46:33 Don’t Say That You Are Alone 47:03 Documenting a Taxi Driver (Or Take Uber) 47:42 Know Where Your Embassy Is 48:04 Know the Local Emergency Numbers 48:14 Try to Know the Common Scams and Typical Crimes in the Area 48:30 Plan a Few Days at Least 49:09 Reach Out to Local Friends & Nourish Supportive Relationships 49:52 Looking Into the Cultural Etiquette 50:36 Know That You Can Say No 51:05 Travel Insurance & Medical Evacuation is Helpful 51:30 Get Some Local Currency 51:52 Letting Your Bank Know That You’ll Be Traveling 52:09 Letting Your Government Know You Are Abroad 52:51 Develop Your Instincts and Trust Yourself — How? Be Aware of Jet-Lag & Feeling Disoriented 56:38 Doing Yoga on Arrival for Grounding Reach Out if You Have Questions 57:18 Looking at Where We Are Fearful 58:45 I’ll Share More About My Experience in Later Episodes Connect With Me The Embody Newsletter 59:38 Sponsored:  The Death Experiential 59:58 Outro
    solo female travel, solo travel, travel, fear, instincts, intuition, trust yourself, trust, mexico
  • 108: Love What You Love

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 29 min 1 sec0:29:01
    A poem by Mary Oliver, Wild Geese, a confession about pleasing others, a story about my Father, immigration and ancestry with the topic of “niceness”, a live self-forgiveness of myself for ways I judge myself, change your life any moment, and What would a…
    A poem by Mary Oliver, Wild Geese, a confession about pleasing others, a story about my Father, immigration and ancestry with the topic of “niceness”, a live self-forgiveness of myself for ways I judge myself, change your life any moment, and What would a horse do? I loved this line from Mary Oliver’s poem, Wild Geese: “You only need to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” This touches deep into my heart and body. It reminds me how simple it can be on some levels — that what we love is what we love. To allow what it is that your body already loves to be. Shoutouts to  Nick Werber Charmayne Kilcup Dr. Kristen Donigan Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/lovewhatyoulove  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature The Embodied Healing Group Call Sponsored the Funds to Produce and Create This Episode The Group call is a monthly group online to enjoy embodied support, empowering connection, and healing guidance! The group is 2–3 people and exists to support you in being at ease in your own body and spirit, tapping into your intuition and wisdom, and somatic and ancestral healing around anything you’re experiencing or challenged with each month. Check it out at  https://CandiceWu.com/product/monthly-embodied-healing-group-session Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:23 Sponsored by My Group Healing Call 02:00 Starting With a Poem 04:27 Not Everybody Will Like Me — and That’s Ok 05:43 Discovering This in My Ancestry 07:06 The Journey of My Father 09:02 My Past Down Experience and Learning to Accept Myself More Deeply 10:59 Sometimes What I Do Feels Heavy — Because I Try to Please Too Many People 12:24 Check-in Questions for You and Me 14:31 What Am I Afraid Of? 16:26 Are There Ways You Are Giving Your Energy Away? 17:16 Experientials You Can Use for Alignment With Yourself 18:23 My Unscripted Self-Forgiveness for Today 23:18 You Do Not Have To… 25:41 What Would a Horse Do? 27:10 We Are Not Limited! 28:51 Outro & Gratitude
    Mary Oliver, Love What You Love, Soft Animal Body, Beauty, Trust
  • 107: Time on Your Side — Play With Time Using Your Imagination For Well-Being, Healing, and Rest: An Embodied Experiental

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 16 min 36 sec0:16:36
    Ever wish you could sleep for days, weeks, or years even? That you’re so tired that you need a century to feel replenished? Or that the sadness or uncomfortable feeling you’re experiencing might last “forever?” Or that you need more time to do something t…
    Ever wish you could sleep for days, weeks, or years even? That you’re so tired that you need a century to feel replenished? Or that the sadness or uncomfortable feeling you’re experiencing might last “forever?” Or that you need more time to do something that you love or would be satisfying or necessary to your well being? Using only a few mins you can feel that you have infinity — or all the time that you need when you feel that you need more. Play with this little trick using imagination and sensing to satisfy the body — to feel as if you had all the time you needed, even forever, or that time could go by so that your emotions would feel easier to navigate. #TimeTravel Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/timetravel  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by People Like You This episode is sponsored by the  Embodied Healing Group Monthly Call  and the Personalized Meditations. The Group call is a monthly group online to enjoy embodied support, empowering connection, and healing guidance! A truly powerful exchange of love and transformation for your contribution. If you’re craving this kind of experience, I’ll support you in being at ease in your own body and spirit, tapping into your intuition and wisdom, and somatic and ancestral healing around anything you’re experiencing or challenged with each month. If you’d like to receive a personalized Meditation or Healing Experiential and would like your funds to go to the podcast,  check out the different ways you support here . Your personalized meditation will be based on your specific intentions — I’ll sense in with my intuition to offer something that will support you on your journey. Learn more about how to support The Embody Podcast at  CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:55 Opening 01:49 An Exploration of Time 03:44 Experiential 12:49 Closing the Experiential 13:56 Gratitude & More Experientials
    Imagination, Time Travel, Time Warp, Healing Time Issues
  • 106: The Life of an Intention, How Ancestry Intersects, and Black Sheep With Nick Werber

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 38 min 48 sec1:38:48
    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 …
    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 Werber Also, 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 Sheep of our families, where we all may have a Black Sheep within us and how that can power the most important parts of us to come forward. A little here about the shadow of the Holocaust and guilt when stepping into what seems like more success than our families. Listen to Nick Werber’s first appearance on the Podcast. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/nickparttwo  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by People Like You This episode is sponsored by the  Embodied Healing Group Monthly Call  and the Personalized Meditations. The Group call is a monthly group online to enjoy embodied support, empowering connection, and healing guidance! A truly powerful exchange of love and transformation for your contribution. If you’re craving this kind of experience, I’ll support you in being at ease in your own body and spirit, tapping into your intuition and wisdom, and somatic and ancestral healing around anything you’re experiencing or challenged with each month. If you’d like to receive a personalized Meditation or Healing Experiential and would like your funds to go to the podcast,  check out the different ways you support here . Your personalized meditation will be based on your specific intentions — I’ll sense in with my intuition to offer something that will support you on your journey. Learn more about how to support The Embody Podcast at  CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 00:00 Intro How You Can Support the Podcast Next Episode — Michael Picucci Experiential — Consenting 03:55 Intro to Nick 04:43 Where to Find Round One With Nick Who is Nick? A Refresher 08:56 Exploring Ancestral Sibling-Ness Between Candice and Nick 10:59 This Time Totally Different the Second Time 12:08 Candice’s Big Mistake — 🙈 12:42 Overview: The Topics of This Episode 13:50 Emerging Words for the New Year and Life 14:56 The Expansion of Nick’s Wedding 16:30 In Creation It All Comes Through 17:37 Living 2020 With Intention 21:13 Using Body Awareness in Intention Setting 22:55 An Intention for This Conversation Honoring Michael Picucci and How He Influenced Nick 29:18 Intention: The Antidote to Goal Setting / Are You Ready for What is Necessary? 29:18 The Antidote to Goal Setting — Intentions Bring Forward the Barriers 37:53 Mention of Dive Video 38:50 Nick’s Experience With Intention Setting 40:24 When is It Time to Re-Evaluate Our Intentions? Is the Diving Board Too High? 42:30 The Three Ways of Working With Intention 44:27 Candice’s Confession About Intentions and Her Free Fall With Spontaneity 50:25 Family & Lineage and Interconnection With Intention 52:12 Your Family’s Intentions for You and the Shadow Sides 57:57 About Respecting Our Parents Intentions Even if We Change Them 01:01:47 Mention of  Suzi Tucker  — Shadow of the Holocaust — Making Yourself Necessary 01:03:43 Intention of Bringing Any Life Into This World 01:07:42 Heart Candy Cartoon — a Whole New Kind of Fucked Up 01:09:04 How Trying to Do It Differently Than Family May Backfire 01:10:28 Black Sheep in Families 01:12:32 How Nick Defines the Black Sheep and is Candice a Black Sheep? 01:17:35 Mention Bert Hellinger Definition of Black Sheep 01:18:07 Nick’s Family and Their Black Sheep Experience 01:20:38 Bert Hellinger Quote & the Importance of the Black Sheep 01:24:13 Where Newness Emerges From — The Black Sheep in Each of Us Nick’s Retreat — Coming Up in February 2020 01:31:31 Where to Find Nick and His Retreat 01:32:06 Checking in With Our Intention 01:34:16 Gratitude 01:35:23 Outro by Candice The Embody Newsletter
    black sheep, Nick Werber, Intention, Ancestry
  • 105: Travel on a Prism — An Experiential to Journey Through time to Support Your Present Day Self

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 34 min 23 sec0:34:23
    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…
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/futureself  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Brought to You My Ally With Death Audio Experiential Ally With Death Audio Experiential  — Sale Ends today, Jan 6, 2020, at midnight Central time — USA. Once you order the experience, it’s an mp3 that is yours forever — and you can use it again any time you’d like. It’s lovely to do anytime, especially as we are into the new year, shifting in season, during a moon cycle/new moon or even full moon, or if you’re seeking more clarity, healing, support, and embodiment. If you feel weighed down, heavy, or stuck, this is a great time to tune in and let yourself journey in this process. Experience a movement through what needs to die and end in your life, bringing forward your vitality and meaning in this next stretch of your path. All those feelings that have been accumulating, relationships that still feel triggering, or ways you talk to yourself or situations that you’re just “over” — let them truly resolve and heal through this process — giving a clear space for what wants to emerge through you in your life. It can be truly transformative and transmutive, giving a compost that fertilizes new life. More about the Experiential at  CandiceWu.com/death Show Notes 00:00 Intro On Sale — The Ally With Death Audio Experiential 03:34 Happy New Year — 2020 04:04 A Few Updates about Candice — Lot’s of Rage and Grief 06:18 Doing a Constellations Workshop With Other Healers 07:24 Coming Into the New Year With a Focus on Pleasure — Experiencing a Sexocology Session 10:31 What’s to Come on the Podcast? 12:07 My Wishes for Your 2020 — More Pleasure 12:29 Todays Topic & Experiential — Transcending Time 13:56 I Don’t Believe Time Heals Necessarily 15:08 Our Experience is to Knowing Ourselves More Deeply 16:54 The Experiential — Inviting Yourself to Travel in Time 28:50 Transitioning and other Experientials On Sale — The Ally With Death Audio Experiential The Embody Newsletter The Embody Experientials Database 31:39 Gratitude
    time travel, time warp, resource, inner strength, body wisdom, self knowing, future self, feel like yourself, authenticity, embodied safety, trauma healing
  • 104: Stand Behind Yourself: An Embodied Experiential to Fortify Inner Support and Resilience

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 29 min 30 sec0:29:30
    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 experi…
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://candicewu.com/standbehindyourself  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Brought to You My Ally With Death Audio Experiential Time to cleanse out this last decade! If you’d like some guided support in a stimulating and transformative experience, check out the  Ally With Death Experiential. It is now a guided audio recording full of moody and provocative music and my voice guiding you through death of old ways of being, habits and beliefs, and a rebirth into what would feel more like you, life-giving, and present. Clear the way for 2020! Embody yourself with more of you — the fertile ground for what’s next on your journey. This is a beautiful recording featuring music from Larry Saint Germain, and editing/production by Chris Spiegl, to shake up the decay and stagnancy inside so that you can create new life. More about the Experiential at  CandiceWu.com/death Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:57 Instructions to Find Experiential 01:22 Hiccups Before Recording Bringing in the new Year — Ending and Beginning Episode On Sale — The Ally With Death Audio Experiential 05:13 The Inspiration for this Episode 06:26 Liver and Gallbladder — Connected with the Akash 08:25 Blocked Creative Energy — Red Energy 11:07 Your Experience is Unique — How I like to discover what is happening Helpful Methodologies 12:49 Talking to my Gums — Healing through Listening 15:31 Today’s Experiential — Giving Your Body Support Where It May Be Lacking 16:02 Let’s Begin — Standing Behind Yourself Experiential 27:41 Gratitude & Wishes for 2020
    support yourself, resource, inner strength, empowerment, embodied wisdom, body wisdom, body intelligence, gall bladder meridian, liver channel, creative energy, trauma healing
  • 103: A{Live Now}: What Took Me Almost 10 Years to Achieve

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    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 finall…
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://candicewu.com/achievement  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Made Possible by YOU — My Listeners Thank you so much for listening to the podcast. If you have felt touched, inspired, or supported by the podcast and would like to support it, I would be so grateful! You can receive a personal meditation from me, or join the Embodied Small Group Healing Sessions, or just drop in a donation of any amount as a one-time contribution or subscription. See all your options on my website at  CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 00:00 Intro Support the Podcast, Thank You ❤ 02:56 Achieving Something Major — Being Bored 05:25 What Does It Feel Like to Be Bored? 06:18 What Do We Do to Fill the Void? 08:22 Sudbury Schools — Boredom Leading to Excitement 10:37 Just Being and Sitting With the Feeling 11:13 Do We Avoid Boredom? Do We Have to Be in Motion All the Time? Fertile Ground for My Book About Money 13:32 Boredom — The Mystery Spot 16:10 What Else Is Alive for You? What if You Gave Your Body What It Wanted? 21:19 Approaching the New Year — 2020 21:50 It’s Not Always Easy and Can Come After a Time of Turmoil — Being Loving Toward Yourself 23:48 With Simplicity, Loving, and Care 25:41 This Was an Outpouring of Randomness 🙈 Closing With Lovingness
    boredom, peace, inner peace, contentment, zen, meditation
  • 102: The Akashic Records & Realm: Download What’s Beyond Mind Into Our Bodies with Susan Lipshutz

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 9 min 12 sec1:09:12
    “The Akashic realm lives in a space of wanting us to update — so the mind can understand the experiences that transcend the mind.” ~ Susan Lipshutz Susan reminds us of what’s beyond the mind’s programming, our innate wisdom, collaborating and interfacing …
    “The Akashic realm lives in a space of wanting us to update — so the mind can understand the experiences that transcend the mind.” ~ Susan Lipshutz Susan 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 speaking to transforming gifts of pain and learning from other unbroken ancestral lines. Also, gridding the space and being in the Love Frequency, downloading the akashic field into the body, intuition, the cosmic memory field, honoring every culture’s connection with the moon cycles and sacred. Also, how Astrology informs the collective systems that are now collapsing, why the Earth Keepers like Greta Thunberg and others are collectively and individually showing up, and her interpretation of the Mayan Calendar ending in 2012 — how we have been here before and blew it, and are approaching again an ascension of consciousness. Susan Lipshutz, LCSW has been a pioneer in the field of Integrative Psychotherapy, women’s empowerment and soul level mentoring for over 35 years. Consultations are tailored to the needs of the individual offering a blend of innovative deep therapeutic approaches with an expanded understanding of the greater self via an astrological and spiritual perspective. Devoted to building meaningful communities that reawaken and integrate the divine feminine into daily life, Susan invites a reclaiming of each woman’s ancestral wisdom, inner guidance and innate understanding of true beauty via a weaving of practices and teachings inspired by many years of dedicated work with global wisdom keepers and evolutionary teachings. Susan is the founder of Everyday Medicine Woman, offering workshops, meditation courses, and retreats. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://candicewu.com/susan  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Brought to you by the Ally with Death Audio Experiential Ally With Death is on Sale until Jan 6th, 2020! In this episode, we talk about cutting the umbilical cords when it’s the right time, cutting the cords to what we need to end. It’s important to let die what needs to die. Our relationship with Death gives us Life — If we do not honor death, can we really know what it is to live? Are we able to assert our lives fully and be present to life? When we resist death, we resist life. Cleanse what needs to energetically and physically go with the  Ally With Death Experiential . It is now a guided audio recording full of moody and provocative music and my voice guiding you through a death of old ways of being, habits and beliefs, and a rebirth into what would feel more like you, life-giving, and present! This is a beautiful recording featuring music from  Larry Saint Germain  and produced by  Chris Spiegl  to shake up the decay and stagnancy inside. If you are feeling stuck, stagnant, ready for what’s next, curious, depressed or anxious about life, uncertain, intrigued about how death can support life, want to get clarity for yourself, or just interested in following nature’s guidance to go inward and let die what needs to die. Learn more about and purchase the Ally with Death Experiential at  CandiceWu.com/death Show Notes 0:00 Intro Brought to you by the Ally with Death Audio Experiential 2:22 Opening by Candice Wu 4:53 Welcoming Susan 6:30 Energy Downloads and Technology Don’t Mix 7:08 Introducing Susan and Her Work and the Wisdom of Grandmothers 12:48 What is Alive in Susan’s Life Right Now? 15:39 Cutting the Cord & Unwinding From What’s No Longer Sustaining 15:39 Finding Old Techniques Again 17:35 What Susan Feels Called to Work on and With 18:45 Why One-Shot Consultation is Not Helpful With Astrology & Akashic Records 21:02 The Understanding of Akashic Records by Susan 21:02 Susan’s Understanding of Akashic Records 26:10 How Susan Was Drawn in — The Buffet of Everything 27:27 Susan’s 25 Year Relationship With the Records 29:49 Peru and the Unbroken Connection to Source 33:33 Why Young Children Are Waking Up With So Much Trauma — They Don’t Have a Future 35:07 The Generational Piece and Forgotten Elders 36:20 Akashic Records Are Like The Cloud and You Can Connect to It 38:04 Gridding the Space — Getting a Lot of Static 39:20 How is Akashic Records Different From Other Psychic Gifts and Abilities? 42:25 One of Susan’s Fav Books —  The Akashic Experience — Science and the Cosmic Memory Field by Ervin Laszlo 46:55 Is There a gap or difference Between Where the Knowledge Began and the New Wave That We Are Experiencing Now? 51:25 Why We Lost the Mystical 52:50 The Akashic is Everything — Political, Gender, Spiritual, and More 53:43 Susans Two Prong Process and the Special Places of Intersection 54:50 Having a Relationship With the Akash — The Importance of a Slow Start 56:59 The Rainbow Sheep 🌈🐑 59:16 Susans Upcoming  The Power of the Circle Retreat in Santa Fe 1:02:41 Anything Else to Share Today? Sharing Gratitude and Impact 1:05:14 How to Work With Susan (Men and Women / Online and in Chicago) Where to Find Susan Online 1:06:09 Outro by Candice Ally with Death is on Sale until 6th of January 2020 1:07:19 Wishes for You All the Meditations / Podcast Episodes 1:08:16 Sendoff and Until Next Time
    akashic records, akash, akashic realm, multidimensional awareness, magic, soul, spiritual database, past life, future self, self love
  • 101: Daydream: Breathing Room for the Spirit

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    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 …
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/daydream  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by the Ally with Death Experiential Come back to your sensual, curious, playful, present self with the  Ally With Death Experiential . Now, it is an AUDIO experience! It’s important to let die what needs to die. Our relationship with Death gives us Life – If we do not honor death, can we really know what it is to live? Are we able to assert our lives fully and be present to life? When we resist death, we resist life. I am thrilled to announce that the  Ally With Death Experiential  is now a guided audio recording full of moody and provocative music and my voice guiding you through a death of old ways of being, habits, and beliefs, and a rebirth into what would feel more like you, life-giving, and present! This is a beautiful recording featuring music from Larry Saint Germain to shake up the decay and stagnancy inside. If you are feeling stuck, stagnant, ready for what’s next, curious, depressed or anxious about life, uncertain, intrigued about how death can support life, want to get clarity for yourself, or just interested in following nature’s guidance to go inward and let die what needs to die. Learn more about the Audio Experiential at  CandiceWu.com/death Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:12 Opening EP101 — Thank You! 01:49 This Episode — A Daydreaming Enthusiast Support the Podcast by Purchasing the Ally With Death Audio Experiential 06:10 Check-in With Yourself — Inward or Outward? 08:27 What Daydreaming is About 11:27 How to Daydream More Consciously — The Allowing Space 13:12 What Happens if You Don’t Allow Space for Daydreaming 15:34 Preparing to Access Your Dream Space 17:43 Ways to Access Your Waking Dream Space 22:59 Do You Allow This for Yourself? 24:00 What is Your Feedback, Your Thoughts? 25:08 Gratitude The Embody Newsletter The Embody Podcast Database 26:43 Sendoff
    dreaming, daydream, dreams
  • 100: Roxanne Partridge: Come Back to Your Native Psychic Land - Menstrual-Sexual Empowered Embodiment From the Depths Up & Out

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 15 min 35 sec1:15:35
    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 - …
    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 life What 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 mission Space and creating space, making space, living in space, taking up space… space poetry Deconstructing the pathologization and silencing of women’s cyclicity and the reduction of the moon cycle to “hormones” and reclaiming the beautiful and magical context of women’s lives Death and Rebirth: the potential of every cycle The sensuality of bleeding Who shows up when you are bleeding or at different parts of your cycle? How do you carry the gift of renewal and imagine it forward into your life? How Soul is revealing Itself to you through your embodied experience Dr. Roxanne Partridge, CHt is known for inspiring and guiding others into embodying their unique, sustainable, fullness. Women, menstruators, and individuals seeking a safe, healing, and inclusive space to explore menstruality, sexuality, and embodied identity, are empowered through Roxanne’s in-depth and creative approach. In her private practice and workshops, as well as in her writing and speaking engagements, she is an advocate for equal rights to imagination for images of female embodied experience. As a healer-scholar-activist, Roxanne has lectured and facilitated workshops at conferences for the Society of Menstrual Cycle Research, Seeing Red, Jungian Society of Scholarly Studies, International Association for Jungian Psychology, and the International Association for Analytical Psychology. Roxanne received her Ph.D. in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. Informed by feminist Post-Jungian, liberational, archetypal, and eco-psychological theory and practices, Depth Psychology is inherently holistic. Depth Psychology attends to the nuances of experience in the context of daily life, cultural and familial backgrounds, and manifestations of the unconscious, such as dreams. Importantly, this paradigm sees troublesome emotional and behavioral symptoms, suffering, and questions of identity as invitations into a deeper and wider understanding of personal purpose, potential, healing, transformation, and embodied autonomy. Roxanne received her Clinical Hypnotherapy certification from the Santa Barbara Institute of Hypnotherapy and trained with revolutionary sex therapist Gina Ogden in her medicine wheel method of relational sexuality. Roxanne’s background in holistic therapies and the arts forms a creative container for deep and catalytic work. Additionally to this episode Roxanne also provides an experiential which is EP100a or available on  CandiceWu.com/roxanne Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://candicewu.com/roxanne  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by the Ally with Death Experiential Come back to your sensual, curious, playful, present self with the  Ally With Death Experiential . Now, it is an AUDIO experience! It’s important to let die what needs to die. Our relationship with Death gives us Life – If we do not honor death, can we really know what it is to live? Are we able to assert our lives fully and be present to life? When we resist death, we resist life. I am thrilled to announce that the  Ally With Death Experiential  is now a guided audio recording full of moody and provocative music and my voice guiding you through a death of old ways of being, habits, and beliefs, and a rebirth into what would feel more like you, life-giving, and present! This is a beautiful recording featuring music from Larry Saint Germain to shake up the decay and stagnancy inside. If you are feeling stuck, stagnant, ready for what’s next, curious, depressed or anxious about life, uncertain, intrigued about how death can support life, want to get clarity for yourself, or just interested in following nature’s guidance to go inward and let die what needs to die. Learn more about the Audio Experiential at  CandiceWu.com/death Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:11 Opening 01:47 This is Episode 100 🎉 About Silver the Horse — Rest in Peace Sponsored by the Ally With Death Audio Experiential 10:03 A Binding Force Between Candice and Roxanne 10:19 Introducing Roxanne 12:27 Opening the Conversation — Juicy Imagery 16:37 Roxanne: Menstrual, Sexual, Empowered Embodiment 19:40 The Surprise Special Connection Between Roxanne and Candice 23:52 A Recent Astrology Reading 25:28 How Did You Get to This Place on Your Journey? 32:22 Menstrual Imagination & Painful Menstrual Experiences 35:08 Patriachical Father Story — Pathologizing Menstruation of Mother 39:45 How the Secret Could Have Been Magically Reframed 41:30 Making Space to Listen to Get to Know Who Shows Up at Different Parts of the Cycle 43:52 What Kind of Personas Do You See? 47:04 Who is Here? What Does She Need? 47:49 Shedding and Letting Go in the Cycle — Death & Rebirth 50:22 Taking and Navigating Spaces — the Inner, Outer, Universe, Everything. 54:56 Roxanne’s Dream Work — Space 01:03:37 Roxanne’s Rewilding Experiential on the Embody Podcast Other Offerings by Roxanne 01:10:02 Soul is Revealing Itself Through Your Embodied Experience… 01:11:52 Gratitude & Appreciation 01:12:18 Outro Roxanne’s Experiential — EP100a The Embody Newsletter Last Words From Roxanne’s Instagram 01:14:16 Sendoff
    menstruality, moon cycle, sexuality, sensuality, pleasure
  • 99: Giving: What Part of You Does it Come From? The Shadow Side and Self-Honesty: Part 3 of Cleanse Your Ideas of Taking, Receiving, and Giving

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 53 min 32 sec0:53:32
    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 …
    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 taking your parents as they are — a piece that I had forgotten to speak to in the episode on taking. This conversation is Part 3 of 3 on the investigation and self-inquiry around taking, receiving, and giving. In  week 1 , I explored the developmental need and assertive tool of taking — the benefits of being able to take and how taking comes before giving in the spectrum of life. In  week 2  I explored receiving and how it is connected to our embodiment and visceral reactions as well as permission, belief sets, saying NO, and our ancestral lineage. Listen to  Part 1: Taking vs. Receiving: Cleanse Your Ideas of Taking Receiving, and Giving Listen to  Deepen Your Capacity to Receive: Part 2 of Cleanse Your Ideas of Taking, Receiving, and Giving Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://candicewu.com/giving  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by the Ally with Death Audio Experiential It’s important to let die what needs to die. Our relationship with Death gives us Life — If we do not honor death, can we really know what it is to live? Are we able to assert our lives fully and be present to life? When we resist death, we resist life. I am thrilled to announce that the  Ally With Death Experiential  is now a guided audio recording full of moody and provocative music and my voice guiding you through a death of old ways of being, habits and beliefs, and a rebirth into what would feel more like you, life-giving, and present! This is a beautiful recording featuring music from Larry Saint Germain to shake up the decay and stagnancy inside. If you are feeling stuck, stagnant, ready for what’s next, curious, depressed or anxious about life, uncertain, intrigued about how death can support life, want to get clarity for yourself, or just interested in following nature’s guidance to go inward and let die what needs to die. Learn more about the Ally with Death at  CandiceWu.com/death Show Notes 00:00 Intro Sponsored by the Ally with Death Audio Experiential 06:15 Opening & Preparation 07:43 Life Update Reviewing Part 1 and 2 of This Series 10:06 Taking Your Place in Your Essence and Lineage, Taking Your Parents as They Are Where to find Part 1 and 2 11:05 Taking Our Parents as They Are: Are You Rejecting Yourself Through Them? 16:46 Honoring Who is Behind You 17:39 Giving: It Can Be Overrated. Where is the Giving Coming From? 18:43 My Own Story Around Giving 19:46 Exploring Your Relationship With Giving 20:29 Words That Come Up Around Giving for Me 21:02 The Polarity of Giving 21:31 Excerpts From Bert Hellinger’s Book:  Love’s Hidden Symmetry 23:31 My Understanding and How These Words Feel in Me 25:05 The Helper Syndrome: Fundamentally Hostile to Relationships 26:23 Endless Cycle of Expectations 27:16 Questions to Ask Yourself, Are You Able to Receive? 28:14 Fully Taking and Fully Receiving Creates Equality 29:36 Can Giving Really Be Selfless Giving? Does It Need to Be? 31:48 Giving and Taking With Horses 33:51 Exercise Between Humans: What if Someone Just Took What You Gave With No Reaction? 36:22 It’s Ok to Want Care, Love, and Validation. 38:51 How Do We Align With a True Loving Act of Giving and Receiving? 39:20 Vedic Science: Pragña — the Concept of pure/complete Action 43:11 How Do I Feel When I Do Not Give but Others Are? 45:05 Have You Experienced What Happens When You Do Not Give? 45:25 Cleansing the Taking and Giving — Reaching for Alignment 47:32 Approaching Thanksgiving — a Fuller Way of Saying Thanks 49:11 Giving Thanks to Myself and Sharing Gratitude How I Started the Podcast as a Way of Expansion for Myself This is Episode 99 52:43 Outro
    giving and taking, balance of give and take, receiving, Money, abundance
  • 98: Taking vs. Receiving — Part 2 — Deepen Your Capacity to Receive… Cleanse Your Ideas of Taking, Receiving, and Giving

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 59 min 3 sec0:59:03
    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 …
    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 reactions Our belief sets (and where they come from) that block us from deepening receiving what we desire What 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 taking — the benefits of being able to take and how taking comes before giving in the spectrum of life. Listen to  Part 1: Taking vs. Receiving: Cleanse Your Ideas of Taking Receiving, and Giving Next week — Part 3: Giving With Awareness Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://candicewu.com/receiving  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by the Ally with Death Audio Experiential It’s important to let die what needs to die. Our relationship with Death gives us Life — If we do not honor death, can we really know what it is to live? Are we able to assert our lives fully and be present to life? When we resist death, we resist life. I am thrilled to announce that the  Ally With Death Experiential  is now a guided audio recording full of moody and provocative music and my voice guiding you through a death of old ways of being, habits, and beliefs, and a rebirth into what would feel more like you, life-giving, and present! This is a beautiful recording featuring music from Larry Saint Germain to shake up the decay and stagnancy inside. If you are feeling stuck, stagnant, ready for what’s next, curious, depressed or anxious about life, uncertain, intrigued about how death can support life, want to get clarity for yourself, or just interested in following nature’s guidance to go inward and let die what needs to die. Learn more about and purchase the Ally with Death Audio Experiential at  CandiceWu.com/death Show Notes 00:00 Intro Finally! The Release of the Ally With Death Experiential 03:36 Grounding in This Moment 04:25 Where I Am: Dance Company Work 06:28 My Ghost Room in Buxton Inn A New Astrology Reading by Elena Review of Part 1 of This Series 14:47 Receiving: What is Receiving? 15:23 The Biggest Thing About Receiving: It is All in the Body! 19:18 Mention Abraham Hicks — the Receptive Mode 20:25 We Come Into This Life Through and With a Family & Cultural System 22:41 The Personal — mother/father Nervous System Safety 23:14 What Was Your Impression When You Entered This Life? 24:24 Nature vs. Nurture — a Collaboration 25:02 Receiving: What Comes to Mind for You? My Story 26:36 We Can Receive Wanted and Unwanted… 28:44 Asking Yourself What Receiving Has Been Like in Your Life? 30:44 Painful Receiving? Beautiful Receiving Within Healing 32:17 What Causes a Blockage of Receiving? 37:55 We Are Interconnected With Love and All Creatures — is the Suffering of Other Beings Blocking You From Having? Story: My Ancestors Suffering is Not My Suffering 42:01 Learn the Ability to Say “No” 42:38 Fear of Not Having It if There is Attachment 43:42 We All Have the Right to Receive 44:55 Reflection of Beliefs Around Receiving — Questions for You 49:30 Forgiveness Statements 51:32 When You Receive: Check How You Receive It? Mention Ken Honda 54:18 Resources to Building More Capacity in Yourself to Receive 55:44 As You Receive, Others Have More Permission to Receive Supporting the Embody Podcast The Embody Newsletter
    giving and taking, balance of give and take, receiving, Money, abundance
  • 97: Taking vs. Receiving — Part 1 — Permission to Take… Cleanse Your Ideas of Taking, Receiving, and Giving

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 45 min 20 sec0:45:20
    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 m…
    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 Giving. Next week: Opening Your Capacity to Receive Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://candicewu.com/taking  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by the Ally With Death Audio Experiential It’s important to let die what needs to die. Our relationship with Death gives us Life — if we do not honor death, can we really know what it is to live? Are we able to assert our lives fully and be present to life? When we resist death, we resist life. I am thrilled to announce that the  Ally With Death Experiential  is now a guided audio recording full of moody and provocative music and my voice guiding you through a death of old ways of being, habits, and beliefs, and a rebirth into what would feel more like you, life-giving, and present! This is a beautiful recording featuring music from Larry Saint Germain to shake up the decay and stagnancy inside. If you are feeling stuck, stagnant, ready for what’s next, curious, depressed or anxious about life, uncertain, intrigued about how death can support life, want to get clarity for yourself, or just interested in following nature’s guidance to go inward and let die what needs to die. On Sale now until Nov. 15, 2019. Learn more and order the Ally With Death at  CandiceWu.com/death Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:11 Opening Sponsored by the Ally With Death Audio Experiential 05:50 Birthing New by Embracing Death 07:08 Letting Go of Protecting Others Around My Desires 08:22 Opening Up Through Forgiveness Statements 09:34 Feeling More Aligned With the Present Moment… Less Attached to the Future and Outcomes 10:39 Horses Just Go for What They Want! 11:05 This Does Not Mean Not to Think About the Future 11:31 What in You is Dying? 12:27 Honoring Ourselves Around the Holiday Season 13:26 Meditation: Take This Moment With Some Letting Go and Being With Yourself 15:21 Taking - Part 1: The Meaning 16:50 Clearing the Stigma Around Taking 18:06 the Overvaluing of Giving: Depleting Yourself, Why Are You Giving? 19:42 the Developmental Experience of Taking: Taking Before You Can Give 23:13 Being Able to Ask for What We Want and Take It 24:15 Taking: Not What is Not Yours or More Than You Need 25:38 Greed: Taking What is Not Mine as a Proxy to Fix Basic Needs 27:26 Check-in: What is Your Relationship With Taking? 31:12 Our Place in the World: The Right Place is Always Taken, Not Given - Suzi Tucker 37:42 Messages and Judgments We Hear When We Take 38:34 You Decide What You Need, and What You Need is What You Need 39:17 You Have a Place in This World. That’s a Given. 40:11 Check-in: What Kinds of Beliefs Come Up for You? 41:10 Having and Creating Boundaries for Yourself to Take What You Need 42:04 Outro — Part 2 Comes Next Week The Embody Newsletter My Gratitude & Support Options for the Podcast The Embody Meditations Database 44:25 Sending You Into the Week
    giving and taking, balance of give and take, receiving, Money, abundance
  • 96: Creating a Subversive Sisterhood of Saints + Holy Women Icons Project With Angela Yarber

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 0 min59 sec1:00:59
    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 spiritual…
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://candicewu.com/angelayarber  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by The Ally With Death Experiential End the year with letting go, letting die, and releasing what’s needed to make more space for life with the  Ally With Death Audio Experiential . This is the audio-guided version that is set to moody and provocative music to bring you deeply into the experience of death and letting die so that you can rebirth and clear the clutter that is ready to be transformed into the compost for life-giving next steps. Get the Ally With Death Audio Experiential at  CandiceWu.com/death Show Notes 0:00 Intro 1:32 About This Episode Sponsored by the Ally With Death Experiential 5:36 Introducing Angela 5:54 Opening 6:57 From Performing Arts to Religious Christian Conversion Experience and Back 12:06 Mention — Story of Lilith (First Woman in the Garden of Eden) 13:49 About the Holy Women Icons Project 16:29 Learning to Be What We Can’t See: How Angela Makes These Women From History Visible 19:06 The Subversive Sisterhood of Saints: Who is Guiding Angela Today? The Story of Pauli Murray 26:12 Lifting the Women of Color Because They Show a Resilience We Rarely Find in Other Places 27:22 Finding Yourself in Queer / Women of Color Stories Even Though Angela is a White Queer Woman (Alternative: Lifting Others Without the Need to Shine a Light on Oneself or Appropriating) 30:10 Sexuality and Sensuality in the Spiritual Understanding 31:05 Mention — Shulamite Story: The History of the Belly Dance 36:58 Reclaiming Your Define Connection in Yourself and Everything — “Educating the Mind Without Educating the Heart is No Education at All.” —Aristotle 39:46 Ritual Exercises Mean Much More When Done Than Reading About It 42:19 Angela’s Upcoming Retreat: Holy Woman Within: A New Year’s Retreat for Spiritual Creatives 42:35 Mention —  Darshan Mendoza 44:12 Women’s Empowerment Work — Like a Power Saw — Let’s Switch Out the Power System 53:14 Preaching in All Kinds of Different Ways That This World is Beautiful and Injust, Let’s Change That. 54:42 Creating More Expansion: Burning Down in Creation 55:41 Special Retreat Offer for Angela’s Holy Women Retreat 57:38 Closing Blessing by Angela Yarber Find Angela’s Work Online 59:24 Outro The Holy Women Icons Project and Retreat The Embody Newsletter 1:00:44 Sendoff
    sisterhood, women, healing, subversive sisterhood
  • 95: A{Live} Now: Piecing Together Past Lives + Reclaiming Magic From Other Worlds

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 31 min 20 sec0:31:20
    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 ancie…
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://candicewu.com/reclaimingmagic  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by my One-on-One Retreats One-on-one retreats, immersions and mentorships in any location are available and an opportunity to dive deeply into your healing process, or your professional development in business, somatic or Family Constellations training, journeying into healing with horses as your collaborator, or anything that calls you on your transformative journey!  Learn more at CandiceWu.com/personal-retreats Show Notes Intro 01:15 Opening — Going-ons, Healing Immersion, and Current Astrological Happenings 02:48 The Past Week — Lot’s of Grief and Old Patterns 04:10 How Astrological Overload Can Show Itself? Intro Meditation — Feeling Into the Moment 06:09 How I Have Been Slowing Down and Appreciate Myself? Today’s Topics: Experiences That Have Enlivened in Me 08:36 What I See in Observing Myself Right Now 10:10 How Past Lives Come to Me 10:50 The Ojibwe Life Exploration With My Friend From Kenya: Dragon or Human? One Life That Didn’t Get Lived. 15:40 Curiosity: How Are You Reacting to This Story? Resistance? Skepticism? Acceptance? Joy? 16:11 The Endless Grief of the World: Disconnection of Family & All That Is 21:59 Bringing the Lost Magic to This Life 23:22 Not Knowing What You Are Realizing/How to Receive Messages Coming to You 25:26 What I Am Noticing for Myself in This Healing Work: Energetical Change in My Resonance. 26:15 Sometimes the Process is Painful and Sometimes Delightful 26:52 My Wishes for You This Week The Embody Newsletter 27:41 And for fun — What’s Going on: The NOW list
    magic, past lives, other dimensions, dragons
  • 94: The Teeny Tiny Shifts and Changes in the Nervous System That Your Body Builds On

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 39 min 53 sec0:39:53
    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 the…
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://candicewu.com/teenytinyshifts  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by the Embodied Healing Group Call The Embodied Healing Group Call sponsored the funds to produce and create this episode. The Group call is a monthly group online to enjoy embodied support, empowering connection, and healing guidance! A truly powerful exchange of love and transformation for your contribution. If you’re craving this kind of experience, I’ll support you in being at ease in your own body and spirit, tapping into your intuition and wisdom, and somatic and ancestral healing around anything you’re experiencing or challenged with each month. Each Group Healing Session is limited to 4 patrons and will be 60 mins long, once a month online. Learn more about the Group Call at  CandiceWu.com/groupcall Show Notes 00:00 Intro Sponsored by the Embodied Group Healing Call Funny — I Already Did This Episode 03:40 Opening — Just Finished SE Training Adv. 2 05:59 Mind & Touch Communication With the Horses Review — EP92 — Nervous System Overwhelm & Its Signs 10:17 In This Episode: Let’s Have Ease Instead of Toughness or Pain 10:58 Noticing the Positive in Yourself & Being Grateful 15:34 Something Went Wright in Your Family Lineage for You to Be Here 18:12 The Power of Your Awareness 21:46 The Tiny Shifts You Might Notice 22:54 1. Spontaneous Organic Breath 23:42 2. Micro or Large Movement in Your Body 26:08 3. Seeing Differently 27:32 4. Settling, Spaciousness, or Lightness in Your Body 28:19 5. Digestion Coming Back Online 29:23 6. Sensation, Energy, or Heat — Tingling in Your Body 29:49 7. Better Hearing 30:12 8. More Resource or Pleasure 31:40 9. Skin Tone Changes 32:07 10. Emotions Changing 32:44 What You Can Do With These Shifts, What’s Different Right Now? 35:08 Learning to Notice With Help From a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner 36:17 The Experiential for This Episode 37:13 Outro and an Invitation to Notice the Small Things The Embody Newsletter The Meditations Database
    Somatic Experiencing, Peter Levine, Coherence
  • 93: Between Worlds: Birth Photography and the Power of Imagery With Chinelle Rojas, Knowing Our Birthing Options Can Save Lives

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 3 min 47 sec1:03:47
    “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 Rojas Chinelle brings awareness to birthing options that can save lives, especia…
    “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 Rojas Chinelle 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 United States have a mortality rate of 3–4 times higher than white women, and Chinelle believes that one of the major reasons is lack of representation and WOC in the birth community and the visibility of different options available. That’s why she created The Melanated Birth - to offer just that. From this down-to-earth wife, mom, advocate, logo designer, and birth photographer and videographer currently located in Tampa, Florida, you will learn why diversity in the birth world is greatly needed and be reminded of the reality and magic of birthing. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://candicewu.com/chinelle  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by My Personal Healing Immersions, Retreats, and Trainings This episode is sponsored by my personal healing immersions, retreats, and trainings. People who are interested in diving deep in their healing and transformation, or in learning from Candice can reach out to her to set up a personal retreat in a location of your choice. Time and length, as well as the content of the retreat is completely collaborative and intuited based on what you desire and need! Couples and Ethically non-monogamous and Polyamorous relationships are also supported. Learn More at CandiceWu.com/offerings Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:01 Opening Brought to You by My Client Work and One-on-One Immersions The Meditations Database Transcriptions of the Embody Podcast 04:38 How We Are in the World With Pictures 06:34 Introducing Chinelle and Her Work 08:16 Opening the Conversation 08:44 What draws you into the world of Birth Photography? 12:47 Learnings from Being with Birthing Families 18:10 An Extra Lens — Seeing Things You Do Not Remember 20:45 The Baby Shows Up — Feeling Humans, Emotions, and Life 23:27 Chinelle’s Regret with her own Births — Not Hiring an Actual Birth Photographer 25:02 What is Important for you in the moment of birth? Which photos do you want to see? 26:28 Talking about Birth with Women of Color — The Power of Sharing 30:55 Why are Black Americans Dying more often during or after childbirth? 33:05 Chinelle’s Project — Unto Us a Slave Is Born 38:21 Ancestors asking for this to be seen 40:31 The Thoughts Provoked by Chinelle’s Series 41:52 Let’s Talk about Ancestry — Using Black instead of only African 44:49 Moving Kids into Different Cultures that they are connected with 46:12 Trinidad and the Emancipation Day 47:36 What’s Chinelle’s Plan with moving between the US and Trinidad? 48:35 Retreats for Birth Photographers 50:06 About The Melanated Birth: Birth in different Settings is Possible for Everyone 51:56 The Goddess Between Worlds — Child & Mother 55:25 Who passed away while this birth happened? 56:34 Chinelle’s Video Work 57:59 Ancestral Trauma — How Things Stick Around Where to find Chinelle Rojas? 01:00:49 Outro & Gratitude The Embody Newsletter
    Birth Photography, Birthing, Slavery, Birth
  • 92: Nervous System Overwhelm: Notice the Signs, Polyvagal Theory Basics, and 12 Tools Towards Healing Trauma, Depression, Shut Down, and Overwhelm

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 4 min 53 sec1:04:53
    This episode is a rerun of a previous episode on The Embody Podcast while I am on a short restorative hiatus. When you’re depressed, paralyzed, shut down, or dissociated — knowing what is happening can support healing and a compassionate look at the body …
    This episode is a rerun of a previous episode on The Embody Podcast while I am on a short restorative hiatus. 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 nervous systems through animal behavior? Find out in this episode. I also bring forward questions I like to ask myself: How much of me is here? Where is my awareness/what is the quality of it? How am I in my body? Next week, I will share three experientials that are connected to this episode. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://candicewu.com/overwhelm  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by My Personal Healing Immersions and Retreats This episode is sponsored by my personal healing immersions, retreats, and trainings. People who are interested in diving deep in their healing and transformation, or in learning from Candice can reach out to her to set up a personal retreat in a location of your choice. Time and length, as well as the content of the retreat is completely collaborative and intuited based on what you desire and need! Couples and Ethically non-monogamous and Polyamorous relationships are also supported. Learn More About My Personal Mentorship at  CandiceWu.com/mentorship Show Notes 0:00 Intro Brought to You by My Client Work and One-on-One Immersions The Meditations Database Transcriptions of the Embody Podcast Opening: How Anger Can Be Helpful 5:41 Nervous System Overwhelm: The Freeze Response 8:04 Story Nervous System & Check-in for How Much Is Here Right Now? 15:00 Question for You: How Much of Me Is Here Right Now? 19:19 Let’s Talk About Polyvagal Theory 20:27 an Image to Understand Polyvagal Theory: The Lion and Gazelle 22:15 The Three States of Polyvagal Theory 24:26 The Nervous System Needs Safety — Even if the Threat Is Decades-Old or Not Even in Your Lifetime 25:39 What Are the Signs of the Freeze State? 29:35 Shifting Out of Freeze 31:32 Navigating the Body Between These States 32:14 Unresolved Trauma From Past Lives Is Part of This as Well 33:22 Relating Trauma to Depression 34:03 Healing at a Deeper Level: What Happens When You Come Out of Freeze State 36:42 Talking About Implicit Memory 37:29 Mention Past Life and the Deep Mystery Podcast Episode 38:40 Key Principle: Provide What Wasn’t Had 39:12 12 Tips and Tricks to Heal Trauma and Tonic Immobility 39:22 1)  Orient Yourself and Notice Your Surroundings 40:49 2)  Touch Your Body From Head to Toe 41:43 3) Recognize That You Are Alive and Safe Right Now 42:28 4)  Resource a Safe Person 44:06 5) Be With a Safe Person or Animal or Be in a Safe Place 44:35 6) Slowing Down Your Experience and Notice 44:54 7)  Pendulate Between Safety and the Challenge 46:16 8) Use Movement to Support Yourself / Shake Up the Energy 47:41 9) Run and Slow It Down 49:03 10)  Reveal or Allow Anger 49:30 11) Practice Assertiveness 49:57 12) Tune Into a Moment That You Felt Like Yourself or Ok Be Prepared for Emotions and Body Sensations 54:09 Information Overload — Freeze State? 54:58 My Experience With These Tools and Signs to Look Out For 57:43 This Week’s Experientials (Will Be Next Week Instead of This Week) 58:45 I Didn’t Learn How to Do This on My Own: Connect With Someone 1:01:02 Outro: Ending With Something Light a Poem by Cameron Awkward Rich 1:03:00 13) Leaving You With Music The Embody Newsletter to Stay Up to Date
    Coherence, Polyvagal Theory, Polyvagus Nerve, Polyvagal, Overwhelm, Freeze, Shut Down, Depression, Healing Trauma
  • 92: Nervous System Overwhelm: Notice the Signs, Polyvagal Theory Basics, and 12 Tools Towards Healing Trauma, Depression, Shut Down, and Overwhelm

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 4 min 38 sec1:04:38
    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 a…
    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 nervous systems through animal behavior? Find out in this episode. I also bring forward questions I like to ask myself: How much of me is here? Where is my awareness/what is the quality of it? How am I in my body? Next week, I will share three experientials that are connected to this episode. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://candicewu.com/overwhelm  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by My Personal Healing Immersions and Retreats This episode is sponsored by my personal healing immersions, retreats, and trainings. People who are interested in diving deep in their healing and transformation, or in learning from Candice can reach out to her to set up a personal retreat in a location of your choice. Time and length, as well as the content of the retreat is completely collaborative and intuited based on what you desire and need! Couples and Ethically non-monogamous and Polyamorous relationships are also supported. Learn More About My Personal Mentorship at  CandiceWu.com/mentorship Show Notes 0:00 Intro Brought to You by My Client Work and One-on-One Immersions The Meditations Database Transcriptions of the Embody Podcast Opening: How Anger Can Be Helpful 5:41 Nervous System Overwhelm: The Freeze Response 8:04 Story Nervous System & Check-in for How Much Is Here Right Now? 15:00 Question for You: How Much of Me Is Here Right Now? 19:19 Let’s Talk About Polyvagal Theory 20:27 an Image to Understand Polyvagal Theory: The Lion and Gazelle 22:15 The Three States of Polyvagal Theory 24:26 The Nervous System Needs Safety — Even if the Threat Is Decades-Old or Not Even in Your Lifetime 25:39 What Are the Signs of the Freeze State? 29:35 Shifting Out of Freeze 31:32 Navigating the Body Between These States 32:14 Unresolved Trauma From Past Lives Is Part of This as Well 33:22 Relating Trauma to Depression 34:03 Healing at a Deeper Level: What Happens When You Come Out of Freeze State 36:42 Talking About Implicit Memory 37:29 Mention Past Life and the Deep Mystery Podcast Episode 38:40 Key Principle: Provide What Wasn’t Had 39:12 12 Tips and Tricks to Heal Trauma and Tonic Immobility 39:22 1)  Orient Yourself and Notice Your Surroundings 40:49 2)  Touch Your Body From Head to Toe 41:43 3) Recognize That You Are Alive and Safe Right Now 42:28 4)  Resource a Safe Person 44:06 5) Be With a Safe Person or Animal or Be in a Safe Place 44:35 6) Slowing Down Your Experience and Notice 44:54 7)  Pendulate Between Safety and the Challenge 46:16 8) Use Movement to Support Yourself / Shake Up the Energy 47:41 9) Run and Slow It Down 49:03 10)  Reveal or Allow Anger 49:30 11) Practice Assertiveness 49:57 12) Tune Into a Moment That You Felt Like Yourself or Ok Be Prepared for Emotions and Body Sensations 54:09 Information Overload — Freeze State? 54:58 My Experience With These Tools and Signs to Look Out For 57:43 This Week’s Experientials (Will Be Next Week Instead of This Week) 58:45 I Didn’t Learn How to Do This on My Own: Connect With Someone 1:01:02 Outro: Ending With Something Light a Poem by Cameron Awkward Rich 1:03:00 13) Leaving You With Music The Embody Newsletter to Stay Up to Date
    Coherence, Polyvagal Theory, Polyvagus Nerve, Polyvagal, Overwhelm, Freeze, Shut Down, Depression, Healing Trauma
  • 91: Ken Honda — Is Your Money Smiling? The Japanese Art of Making Peace With Your Money

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 8 min 44 sec1:08:44
    “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 yo…
    “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 garbage into our relationship with money, which can clutter and cloud it. Ken talks about embracing your ability to receive, how to cleanse family shame around abundance, how to be vulnerable and ask for support, how the rich and poor have unhappy relationships to money, and how we can compel a planetary shift with a happy relationship to money. “We are born for expressing our who we are and being authentic self.” ~ Ken Honda Ken Honda is the author of Happy Money: The Japanese Art of Making Peace with Your Money. He is a bestselling author of self-development books and has sold more than seven million copies worldwide. While his financial expertise comes from owning and managing several businesses, his writings bridge the topics of finance and self-help, focusing on creating and generating personal wealth and happiness through deeper self-honesty. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/ken  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored and Supported by People Like You Thank YOU, listeners, for your support! If the Embody Podcast has inspired you, helped, or spoken to you, it would mean the world to me if you would show your support through a  contribution Each episode is a lovingly made from my soul and takes anywhere from weeks to a few days to develop and produce. I gladly pay an editor who supports me in polishing and creating high-quality episodes. Recently contributions went to support transcriptions of all podcasts and a searchable database of experientials/meditations. You can find all the transcriptions at each  podcast  link AND all the  meditations/experientials are searchable in The Embody Podcast database by keyword/topics !! For the ones that are not there yet, they will be there soon :) Plus you can receive some sweet personalized healing gifts from me that can deepen your embodiment on your own journey. I am excited to share these with you. I am so appreciative that you are considering supporting me in this way. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! ❤ Your Support is Lovingly Appreciated:  CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 00:00 Intro Sponsored by You With Donations 03:25 Introducing Ken Honda 05:18 Opening 05:40 The Zen Millionaire — How Did You Get Here? 06:52 How Early Childhood Memories Affected Ken — The Introduction of Happy and Unhappy Money 09:04 How Seeing Family Suicide Changed Ken Forever 11:48 We Are Confused and Have “Money Related Problems” Not “Money Problems” 12:55 Do You Use Money or Does Money Use You? 14:16 Giving Ourselves Permission to Enjoy Money 16:01 With Food We Let Go, With Money, We Always Want to “Eat More” 17:01 Looking at Money as a Person and the Story of It in the Ancestry 17:28 Money Divided People / River Anektote 18:37 How Do You Teach People to Get in the Flow of Money? Appreciate Life and Everything Around You 19:13 Arigato in and Arigato Out 23:50 How Do We Root Through Our Emotional Garbage Around Money? 25:10 Doing What You Love Helps 26:35 The Fear of Having Money vs The Actual Lack of Money 27:52 Sometimes It’s Not Even Our Own Fear (Ancestry, Family Lineage, Past Lives) 31:41 Money Related Shame Cleansing 35:52 Doing a Global Money Cleansing: Guilt and Shame 37:33 Our Money Emotions Influence What We Buy and Sell, It Influences if We Regard the Plant, the Environment, or Other People 39:54 We Are Already Evolving and Shifting 40:40 Being Appreciative Helps to Have More, Enjoy More, and Shift Toward a Better World 41:22 A Lot of Our Money Issues Come Because We Simply Spend Too Much 44:26 What is Enough? Understanding That and Feeling There Will Always Be Enough 47:41 What to Do With the Challenges? Trust Your Friends and Life 49:29 Trust Life and Ask for Help When You Need It 49:30 Ask for Help 50:26 Where Are We Blocked in Our Trust and Abundance? 51:55 Once We Start Trusting Life, Asking for Support: You Uplift Yourself 52:25 Candice’s Example of Trusting Life in Austin, Texas 54:19 Ethnic Tension Around Money and Thoughts About Being in That? The Distance to Happiness is Always the Same No Matter if You Have a Lot of Little Money. 01:02:23 Right Now is Temporary. You Can Change It. 01:03:04 An Appeal You the Listeners: Thank Your Money 01:04:06 Gratitude Where You Can Find Ken Honda 01:05:40 Outro 01:06:23 Special Drawing to Win a Hardcopy of Kens Book “Happy Money” Where to Find Ken Honda The Embody Newsletter
    money, abundance, receiving, peace, contentment, prosperity
  • 90: My Story and What I offer at Embody Your Nature

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 11 min 40 sec0:11:40
    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 …
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://candicewu.com/mindbodyradio  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:55 Opening 01:06 Embracing and Embodying Your Nature How Does Candice Describe Herself? 03:04 What Inspired Candice to Do the Healing Work? The Embody Podcast What Kind of Clients Come to You and in What Format? 08:36 What’s Up With Candice Right Now and in the Future? 10:18 Where to Find Candice 11:11 Outro
    mindbody radio
  • 88: The Deep Mystery of Life Part 2: Dots Connect with Land, Horse, and Reconnected Souls

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 0 min2 sec1:00:02
    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,…
    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 Life — EP84  and a brief part in the intro in  The Shadow Side of Empathy — EP86 Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://candicewu.com/deepmystery2  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored and Supported by People Like You Support  the behind the scenes of the podcast! Your contribution is truly appreciated and utilized greatly. Recently contributions went to support transcriptions of all podcasts and a searchable database of experientials/meditations. You can find all the transcriptions at each  candicewu.com/podcast  link AND all the  meditations/experientials are searchable in The Embody Podcast database by keyword/topics at candicewu.com/meditation ! For the ones that are not there yet, they will be there soon 🤗. Your Support is Lovingly Appreciated:  CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 00:00 Intro The Embody Podcast Meditations Database Is Up Written Transcripts for the Podcast Online All Made Possible by Your Support 03:59 Opening — Checking in With Your Own Body 06:18 Update About Where I Am and What I Am Doing 08:04 Going Camping Around Ohio & Hocking Hills This Story Started Unfolding Over a Year Ago (Referencing Other Episodes) 15:36 Where I Am Standing Now — Part 2 of the Deep Mystery of Life 17:41 Taking Up Self Defense, Archery, and Sharp Weapons Training 22:45 My Story With Horse, Cloud-walker 28:28 Connecting With Humans Around My Past Life — My Native American Sister Found in This Life Again 33:43 Soul Recognition of Past Life Connections Receiving an Akashic Reading From Venessa 36:12 Heading Out to Ohio and Finding Horses & Pine Trees 41:01 Feathers & Meditating in Ash Cave in Hocking Hills National Park — Coming Home 49:27 Doubt in Me / Checking What Feels Like Home or Is It Just My Mind? 52:04 Poem: The Foolish Journey by Candice 54:17 Threading Pieces Together and Making Art Out of Experience 56:08 Gratitude 57:03 Signs Directing You, Without Clear Reason The Embody Newsletter Transcripts of the Podcast Meditations Easy to Find
    horses, horselove, healing with horses, past lives, land, soul, twin flame, nature
  • 87: Lessons From a Volcano, Luminary Transformation of Heaven on Earth With Darshan Mendoza

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 17 min 7 sec1:17:07
    “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 man…
    “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 Be Darshan 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 adventurous life, and Darshan’s message to embody the Hopi saying "we are the ones we have been hoping for.” Also in this episode, her connection with friend, Anutosh Foo, and the most beautiful experience of dying, and the chapter of her life that is happening now: trusting intuition and seeing the divine. Darshan Mendoza is the spiritual director of  Akuahā, a healing retreat in Volcano,  Hawai’i. She curates personalized journeys of healing, transformation, and visionary incubation for her guests and clients for planetary transformation. In 2019, she launches The Luminary Journey, a new-moon-to-new-moon program and residency, where Luminaries birth their visions in a holistic and embodied way into the world. Darshan was born in Manila, Philippines and moved to Chicago with her family at the age of seven. She graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a BA in political science and minors in English and philosophy. She explored the world of law as a student at the John Marshall Law School and the world of creative writing at Columbia College Chicago. She worked as a paralegal, journalist and editor before her spontaneous Kundalini Awakening which led her onto a Healer’s Path. Soon enough the Ancestors of Hawai’i called Darshan to The Big Island where she began an accelerated decade-long Mystery School where she learned from wisdom keepers from the Philippines, Hawai’i, India, Tibet, the Black Foot and Navajo Nations, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Mexico, Japan, China, New Zealand, the Bioenergetics Quantum Field, and the Kundalini Yoga and Meditation Lineage. The simplest way to describe Darshan is that of a visionary, healer, and teacher. She is committed to anchor in heaven on earth by creating healing centers, visionary incubation labs, and schools all over the world and supporting Luminaries in discovering their genius and sharing it with the world. She finds home in Hawai’i, Chicago, and the Philippines. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/darshan  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by YOU : Receive a Personalized Meditation Receive a nourishing personal meditation as a gift in support of the Embody Podcast!  Share your donation  of any amount, or click on  Personal Meditation on this link  to receive a one-time or quarterly healing experiential or meditation delivered to your email for you to download and use. Candice intuitively tunes into any words or desires you share with her to create a 10–20 minute meditation. This is also great as a gift. All the proceeds go towards  The Embody Podcast To Support the Show With a Donation:  CandiceWu.com/support To Receive a Personalized Healing Meditation:  CandiceWu.com/personalmeditation Show Notes 0:00 Intro Sponsored by YOU : Receive a Personalized Meditation Transcripts of The Embody Podcast 4:54 Introducing Darshan 8:59 Welcoming Darshan 9:39 Darshan’s Name, Resetting Our Vibration Through Our Name 11:30 That’s Not Your Name 15:18 Tapping Into the Words That Describe Us 17:32 Candice’s Different Names 20:30 Having a Secret Super Hero Name and the Power That Comes With It 22:17 Shifting Names to Americanize but the Real One Comes With So Much More 22:52 Accepting a new name & Learning the Connection to Herself 25:58 A Story About Darshan’s Great Grandmother: From China to the Philippines, Trust in the World, and Staying Secret 31:31 Snippets from Darshan’s Book 34:11 What Darshan Experienced: The New Earth & Spiritual Journey 39:10 We are Going to Transform Heaven on Earth 41:43 Experiencing the Transformation not only on Hawai’i 44:29 The Transformation on Media 45:49 Seeing the Transformation inside the Devastation 47:07 Life is Accelerating & Healing Transformation is the Key 50:34 Is this reality or a dream? 51:40 One of Darshan’s Mentor: Anutosh Fu 54:48 Sharing the Most Beautiful Experience of Dying 58:11 What would be the chapter title of right now? 1:04:44 Trusting Intuition & Seeing The Divine 1:04:45 (Interference on the audio starts here - oh my!) 1:06:41 Sharing Gratitude 1:08:13 Where can you find Darshan Mendoza and her Book? 1:11:26 Anything Else? 1:13:09 Outro, Gratitude, and Advanced Reader Copy The Embody Newsletter 1:15:33 Thoughts & Feelings from Candice
    volcano, heaven on earth, nature, medicine
  • 86: The Shadow Side of Empathy: When Empathy Goes Awry

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 10 min 1:10:00
    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 th…
    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 conversation about empathy. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/empathyshadow  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Thank YOU for your support! If the Embody Podcast has inspired you, helped, or spoken to you, it would mean the world to me if you would show your support through a contribution. I am shifting from Patreon to housing the  support page on my website  so more of your contribution can go straight to the podcast. Each episode is a lovingly made from my soul and takes anywhere from weeks to a few days to develop and produce. I gladly pay an editor who supports me in polishing and creating high-quality episodes. Any support you give nourishes the podcast to continue to have life and cover the costs. Plus you’ll receive some sweet personalized healing gifts from me that can deepen your embodiment on your own journey. I am excited to share these with you. I am so appreciative that you are considering supporting me in this way. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! ❤ To learn more about how you can contribute you can go to  CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 00:00 Intro Thank You for Your Support 04:10 Loving Michigan and the Call to Be on the Ground 06:11 Following my Feeling Sense and what Feels Easy and Light Update About EP84 - Claiming the Past Life Experience 18:13 When Empathy Goes Too Far the Layers of Who You Are Now 21:42 How I Am Now? 25:22 I Was the Function of the Healing Not Just the Healer 37:34 How Are We Using Our Gifts? 38:11 About Empathy: My Story 39:52 When Empathy Hurts and a Healthy Vision 44:05 Why the “Empath, Savior, or Parental” Figure Position? 45:07 Narcissist / Empath Dynamic 47:36 When We Put the Needs of Others Over Our Own (Out of Balance Mother Child Dynamic) 52:25 Value of Selfless and Selfishness 57:06 Selflessness Can Be Actually Avoidance 58:53 Being a Care - Taker vs Being Caring The Archetype of the Wounded Healer 01:00:58 Endings and Death: Respecting Everyones’ Path 01:04:00 Questions for You to Explore Your Feedback & Thoughts? 01:06:33 Credits & Podcast Mentions in This Episode The Embody Newsletter 01:09:06 Gratitude
    empathy, shadow work, projection
  • 85: Shannon Weber on Agility In Giving and Receiving + Growing Your Empathy Muscle

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 12 min 29 sec1:12:29
    “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 Adventuring Shannon Weber believes you can thrive at the intersection…
    “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 Adventuring Shannon 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 compassion in between, how Shannon has cultivated healthy dialogue with her son, reimagining our own true script for life, noticing white fragility and saviourism in all of us with gentleness, lead instead of saving people, and how “boundary creates connection in other spaces.” The icing on the cake: a Love Note for YOU, the Listener.
    giving and receiving, empathy, empathy adventure, love notes
  • 84: The Deep Mystery of Life + Elbow Wisdom : Embracing What Logic Cannot Explain

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 2 min 8 sec1:02:08
    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, ho…
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/deepmystery  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by My Monthly Group Healing Calls The Embodied Healing Group Call sponsored the funds to produce and create this episode! The Group call is a monthly group online to enjoy embodied support, empowering connection, and healing guidance! A truly powerful exchange of love and transformation for your contribution. If you’re craving this kind of experience, I’ll support you in being at ease in your own body and spirit, tapping into your intuition and wisdom, and somatic and ancestral healing around anything you’re experiencing or challenged with each month. Check out the group online CandiceWu.com/patreon  or contact  Candice (CandiceWu.com/connect)  for more info. Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:51 Trigger Warnings and Such 01:43 Overview 03:14 Elbow Pain: Time to Reclaim More of Myself Parts of Ourselves and Our Body (Experientials in Last Week’s Episode) Visiting My Acupuncturist Brent Garcia 10:11 Getting to Chicago — Hatchback Camping 14:01 Trigger: Past Life Rape 15:21 Trigger End 15:22 Arriving in Chicago — Lovely Workshops & Connection 16:13 Trauma Prevention and Resilience 18:22 Reaching Out to Male Energy 19:46 How Imagination & Feeling Can Be Enough for Healing (Even if It’s Not “Factual”) 21:34 Connecting With a Past Life Father, Horses, and Indigenous Time 22:50 Trigger: Rape Story 30:38 Trigger End 31:57 Trigger: UTI Experience Reference Episode About UTI, the Feminine, and Anger 33:34 Trigger End 33:35 Back on the Acupuncture Table: Connecting Everything to My Body and Past Life 34:50 Feeling at Peace & Resolved With Men, Horses, Women, the Earth, and Tribes 35:29 Trigger: Rape Story Cont’d & Violence 35:52 Trigger End 38:03 Is This Woo Woo? Is This Out There? What if I Don’t Have Proof? 38:48 More Things I Can Not Prove: Recommendation of the Sophia Code 39:52 Trigger: Sex Trafficking 40:12 Trigger End 42:15 Connecting With Things That Might Make Others Believe You Are Nuts 42:15 Let Go of the Need for Rational / Believe and Trust Your Self 45:59 My Younger Self Would Not Believe My Now Self 47:00 Remembering Your Sovereignty and the Sovereignty of All Beings 49:25 Sophia Code Channeling of Different Archetype Energies 50:08 Taking What Resonates, Leaving the Rest 51:13 Do You Experience Things That You Cannot Explain but Mean So Much for You? 52:37 Life Is a Deep Mystery: Scrapping Previous Knowing to Find New Knowing 54:09 How You Can Support Yourself 55:43 Aquaman Reference: Fear Shows You That You Are Ready 57:11 Outro This Week’s Experiential Related Podcast Episodes The Embody Newsletter Support the Podcast 01:00:47 Gratitude & Appreciation
    soulwork, acupuncture, emotions, mystery
  • 83: Richard Moss: Loving Love, With a Capital L

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 19 min 40 sec1:19:40
    “Love brings us as close to Source as we can be.” ~ Richard Moss Richard 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 wit…
    “Love brings us as close to Source as we can be.” ~ Richard Moss Richard 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 planet, recycling, and social issues. Richard says, “we don’t leave behind patriarchy without a profound change of identity” and “If you love love what else is there to do?” In 1977 Richard Moss was a practicing physician when he experienced a spontaneous state of illumination that irreversibly changed his life and profoundly transformed his understanding of human consciousness and behavior. With this opening came a new level of sensibility including a heightened intuition, subtle insight into mystical and spiritual teachings, and the ability to sense human body-energy fields. Impelled by this opening and its intensity which required virtually continuous self-examination, he took a sabbatical from his medical practice and began a period of withdrawal from his usual activities for nearly a year. During this time he spontaneously meditated for hours each day and read extensively in the spiritual and psychoanalytic literature, as well as poetry, and mythology. Above all, he made a careful observation of the new quality of energy moving in his body, and how his thoughts instantly generated emotions and sensations. “He who loves, loves love, and loving love forms a circle so complete, there is no end to love." Saint Bernard, quoted by Richard Moss in the February 2017 seminar in Hameaux de l’Etoile, France From this introspective period grew his understanding that the root cause of most unnecessary human suffering and conflict comes from two basic forms of ignorance: Unquestioned identification with thinking, especially our judgments and beliefs, and secondly, the general inability in most people to engage threatening feeling in an aware, vulnerable, and creative way. Richard’s work is about catalyzing you to live as fully and creatively as you were born to live. His goal is that you don’t just follow his or anyone’s work, but that you learn to become your own teacher. Following this podcast, there will be a meditation provided by Richard, it’s called “83a: Touch this Moment with Richard Moss” and can be found on the link below. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/richardmoss  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by My Monthly Group Healing Calls This 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 open up to what your soul, body, or heart want to explore and allow the magic of your being to show us what’s needed. Find it by contributing at the $55 level on  Patreon Show Notes 0:00 Intro Sponsored by my Group Healing Call 2:03 Opening 4:51 Conversation Start 6:13 Richard’s Way of Loving Love 6:48 The Capital L Love and Richards Story of Finding That in an Er Room 10:52 Not Personal Love, It’s About Loving Love With Others 11:32 Another Calling in French: Who Loves Loves Love, and Loving Love Forms a Circle So Complete There is No End to Love. 12:47 Loving Love is Like Having a Third Consciousness 15:13 It Holds Everything Yet It’s Not Easy 17:03 Why the Embody Podcast is Called the Embody Podcast 18:28 How This Third Consciousness Can Grow After the Passing of Humans 19:09 Mention of Jack Zimmerman (Flesh and Spirit / the Last Years of exploration/relationship After Death Book) 19:41 The Body as a Portal for Our Experience / as It Ages the Body Becomes More Sensitive 22:44 Embodiment is Going Toward Love While Visiting Fear 22:47 Plant a Tree in Fear and Sit Until It Grows 25:13 Richard Asking Candice: What Does Embodiment Mean for You? 28:52 Each Stage of Completion is the Portal of the Next Opportunity for Forgiveness 32:51 What’s Richard’s Current Deepening, Struggle, or Opportunity? 33:15 Borrowed Identity and Sense of Security From Future / It Will Teach You 35:10 An Acceleration to Deepening Into Loving Love 38:42 Dying Into Love and This Moment 39:47 The Destruction of Borrowed Future in Our Planet With Global Warming 43:35 Not Depending on the Future 45:12 When Future and Safety Suddenly Shifts… 46:44 Teaching of Impermanence / Learn to Land Deeply in Yourself and in the Shared Heart 49:38 The Only Security in the Shared Heart, Would That Describe Intimacy? 53:52 The Exploration of This With Horses / It’s All in the Moment 57:06 Speaking About the Experience of the Hong Kong Protests Against the Extradition Law 58:13 Power of Your Own Awareness 58:57 What Do We Do With All the Suffering Going on in the World? 1:00:38 Essence of Love is Nonviolence — Being Non-Violent in Yourself 1:02:25 The Societies and Democracies Are a Reflection of Us 1:05:36 Loving All Love Starts With Ourselves, the Root of Who We Are. 1:06:35 Recycling, Purchasing Decisions and More 1:08:05 If It Hurts or is Saddening, Feel the Pain! Even if It is Numbing. 1:08:51 Gratitude Find Richard’s Retreats and Individual Work Find Richard’s Current and Future Books 1:14:28 How All the Different Parts Inside of Us Serve Us 1:15:17 Being a Teacher for Oneself 1:16:46 Outro Richards Meditation — EP83a Where to Find Richard and His Work More Episodes & Experientials The Embody Newsletter 1:18:42 Quote & Gratitude
    loving love, fear, mystery, life lessons
  • 82: Conversations with the Body: Body Love and Multi-Language

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 53 min 0:53:00
    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 h…
    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 bringing healing to one part of the body, learning to be with and translate its multi-lingual conversation. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/conversations-with-the-body  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature This Weeks Sponsor: My Dream Classes on Skillshare Our dreams offer access to energies and parts of ourselves that are hidden or unseen and wanting to be revealed. Check out my Skillshare class on Dream Work: Dreaming: Embodiment Practices to Prepare Your Physiology For a Thriving Dream Life This class offers specific breathing techniques, yogic and body-centered practices, and meditations that you can use to ground yourself and develop safety and playfulness for your dreams to thrive. These practices will support your nervous system in feeling a level of deep rest and relaxation, giving the capacity for you to remember your dreams even better than before or for the first time. Find all the Dreamwork Classes Online and enjoy a Skillshare promo of two months free here All the proceeds from Skillshare go towards supporting the Embody Podcast. Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:33 Sponsored by My Dream Work Classes on Skillshare 03:21 It’s Hard to Get Started Sometimes! Tiny Steps Make a Difference 05:16 Experience With My Latest Riding Session and the Body Language of a New Horse 08:03 My Early Life & Flat Experience of Body 08:52 How It Looks When the Body Is Telling You Something 10:26 We Are Here to Learn and Deepen in the Experience of Who We Are 12:58 Stories About My Body Work 14:14 Numbness in One Side of My Body 15:45 Muscle Testing Showed Me What My Body Already Knew 17:48 EMDR: Learning to Feel the Answer and Not Overuse the Mind 20:06 Food Testing and Feeling My Body Answer 20:30 The Importance of “The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield” in My Life 22:29 Talking About Koshas in Another Episode 22:57 IRL — in Real Life 28:56 Now, Working With a New Pain in My Elbow 31:24 When We Listen, We Can Advance Very Quickly 32:12 Our Body Is Our Friend and Giving Us Information 33:48 Our Body Will Hold on to Things Until We Recognize What Needs to Be Felt. 38:47 Experientials Around Being in the Body 39:18 Experiential: Five Senses Body Scan — EP59b 39:37 Experiential: Letting the Body Lead — EP32a 40:01 New Experiential: Orienting in the Body — EP82a 41:53 Experiential: Grounding Touch — EP47a 42:01 New Experiential: Claim Your Body Through Touch — EP82b 42:19 New Experiential: Talking to the Body — EP82c 43:01 Experiential: Body Love Ritual — EP55c 43:22 Experiential: Conversations With Your Gut — EP26c 43:56 Building the Tools to Help Your Healing 44:50 Gratitude & Love for Your Body Right Now 49:43 Outro 50:06 The Embody Newsletter 50:34 More Experientials Form Me and My Guests
    body language, body, heal your body, body love, talking with your body
  • 81: Heal it Before it Hits You In the Face And Gratitude for Your Nemesis with Joffre McClung

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    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 g…
    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 HOW TO LIVE/2015, on spiritual growth because of the profound experiences of seeing her best friend battle breast cancer. Joffre began her career as a theatre actress and producer, having spent most of her adult life in New York City, where she acted and produced several Off-Broadway productions. An avid student of spiritual literature and techniques since the early 1980s, Joffre taught herself filmmaking and formed Sweet Moon Pictures Production Company back in the 1990s. She wrote, produced, and directed two independent films with spiritual themes or overtones: Out of the Blue (1995) and Best Wishes (2002; winner of the “Spirit of the West Award”). Before moving back to Texas to care for her dying mother, she worked as a senior producer and director for a media broadcast Production Company in New York City for over fifteen years. Her newest book, THE HEART OF THE MATTER (A Workbook and Guide to Finding Your Way Back to Self-love) 2017, was born out of the work she did within to heal her wounds and beliefs of the past and move successfully and fully into self-love. Joffre’s passion — now through her book, talks, and videos — is to help everyone wake up, take the journey of self-discovery, and empower themselves through self-love. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/joffre  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by My Restore the Flow of Love Workshop in Chicago, IL I have an upcoming Constellations Healing Workshops in Chicago Whether related to abundance, money, love, dis-ease/health, relationships, career, etc., our struggles connect with our early unconscious and unspoken ways of belonging and flow of love. This connection with our lineage is carried through our bodies: the cells, viscera, the heart, energy, dis-ease, our fluidity, and freedom. Where those before us didn’t get to integrate a loss or trauma or where there was an imbalance in relationship, the flow of love is disrupted as a placeholder for where there is energy, love, and strength waiting to open and flow forward towards us. In Family + Systemic Constellations, we constellate and acknowledge the dynamics in the undercurrent of the systems you are part of whether known or unknown. We reveal the essential movements towards healing with others in the group as representative of the parts of your family or systems (community, workplace, parts of self, past life, etc.). We restore the flow of love giving more natural space, ease, and freedom to move in the world with fuller embodiment, authenticity, and truth. Join me for Restore the Flow of Love — Chicago, Illinois — July 21, 2019 and for future and other workshops look here Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:00 Opening 02:43 Conversation Start 03:05 Joffre’s Next Book (Update of Heart of the Matter) 04:31 Quote About Inner Orphans 07:52 Heal Before It Hits You in the Face 09:27 Story About One of Joffre’s First Dark Night That Woke Her Up 11:52 Something Not Quite Right With Me 14:01 Don’t Forget the Heart, It’s Holding All the Pain — Being Embodied is Important — Affirmations Only Do So Much Without Healing 15:07 Shelving Everything and Everything is Our Fault When Young 16:45 Introducing Yourself to Your Own Tools (Positive Imagination, Because We Are Already Really Good at Negative Imagination) 20:03 Definition of Self Love 20:03 A Definition of What Self Love Means 21:49 There is a Great Treasure With the Orphans 24:01 You May Not Know What is Needed, but It Gets Easier 28:27 You Need Your Books, but Everything Is Within! 29:18 What Challenges or Struggles Have You Had Lately? 35:02 Separating Relational and Spiritual Learning From Each Other / Understanding the Hurt of People That Are Hurting You 37:59 Life is Here to Teach Us Something — Even When It’s About Jealousy and Bullying 38:22 What’s the Title of Joffre’s Current Life Chapter? 40:20 The Refreshing Space of Making New Choices 47:12 Writing Wasn’t the Plan But Life Has a Way 49:19 We Are Leaving Clues for Ourselves 50:13 Don’t Look Too Far Ahead, It’s Gonna Change Anyway. 52:37 Dreams About Water Bottle and Little Foxes / Working With Dreams 57:38 What Role Do You Play in Your Group of Friends? 58:41 “You Got to Play, People!” ~ Joffre Mcclung 59:57 What Kind of Roles Did You Play as an Actress in the Past and What Would You Play. Now? 01:02:06 Check Out Joffre’s Books or Classes 01:02:25 Where You People Find Joffre? 01:02:40 Gratitude 01:03:13 Outro / Where to Find Joffre and Her Experiential 01:03:45 Check Out Other Interviews and Episodes on The Embody Podcast 01:03:55 The Embody Newsletter to Stay Informed About Retreats, Workshops, and New Episodes 01:04:10 Where Can You Begin Again?
    gratitude, inner child
  • 80: Congruence Inside & Out: Stand For All Of You

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    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? Wha…
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/congruence-inside-and-out-stand-for-all-of-you  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by My Restore the Flow of Love Workshop in Chicago, IL Join me for the Restore the Flow of Love Family Constellations Workshop in Chicago — July 21, 2019 Whether related to abundance, money, love, dis-ease/health, relationships, career, etc., our struggles connect with our early unconscious and unspoken ways of belonging and flow of love. This connection with our lineage is carried through our bodies: the cells, viscera, the heart, energy, dis-ease, our fluidity, and freedom. Where those before us didn’t get to integrate a loss or trauma or where there was an imbalance in relationship, the flow of love is disrupted as a placeholder for where there is energy, love, and strength waiting to open and flow forward towards us. In Family + Systemic Constellations, we constellate and acknowledge the dynamics in the undercurrent of the systems you are part of whether known or unknown. We reveal the essential movements towards healing with others in the group as representative of the parts of your family or systems (community, workplace, parts of self, past life, etc.). We restore the flow of love giving more natural space, ease, and freedom to move in the world with fuller embodiment, authenticity, and truth. Read more about Family Constellations and what it means to have a Constellation or Represent/Witness Join me for Restore the Flow of Love — Chicago, Illinois — July 21, 2019 and for future and other workshops look here Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:16 Sponsored by My Workshops 03:44 Opening — Independence Day and Freedom — Shadow Side 05:30 How Do We Stand for All of Ourselves? 06:00 Parts Work — How Do We Hold All Our Parts in Harmony? 07:26 Episode About Parts Work 07:44 Seeing the Hong Kong Protests and Why It is Moving Me 09:06 My History and Lineage in Hong Kong 10:40 Willing to Stand for Freedoms — Even When It Doesn’t Affect You Directly 12:30 What This Episode is About: It’s About Ourselves! 14:48 The Question to Myself: Am I Standing Up for All the Parts of Myself? 16:32 Suzi Tucker — Judgement is an Indicator for Movement and Emotions 18:50 Twila — Questioning: Where Are We Turning Sacred Into Commodities? 21:28 Body Saying “Yes” 22:48 How Can I Support All Parts Of Me and Congruent Action 23:53 Relationships Ending and Relief 25:14 Seeing Injustices Around Us, It’s Impossible to Stand Up for All, but What Do I Feel and What Do I Want to Be Doing? 27:08 What I Decided to Do about Hong Kong 28:03 Seeing What is Drawing Our Hearts 29:42 Where Are You Sacrificing Part of Yourself? 30:11 Feel a Real “Yes” — the Experiential Later This Week 31:21 Circling Back to Freedom: It’s About Choice and the Freedom to Choose 31:53 Discussion About Protecting Ourselves Which is Also Important and Good 33:00 Gratitude 33:48 The Bi-Monthly Embody Newsletter 34:09 Related Episodes
    congruence, supporting yourself, healing from within, social justice
  • 79: Being Brave to Do What is Enough and Not More With Kerry Maiorca

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    “Loving yourself is always a good move.” ~Kerry Maiorca It 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 …
    “Loving yourself is always a good move.” ~Kerry Maiorca It 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 Alliance. She’s been teaching yoga for over 20 years and loves mentoring new and experienced yoga teachers to help them authentically shine. In September 2019, Kerry will be co-leading the Nourished Life Retreat in Aspen, CO, complete with Gentle Yoga, Culinary Nutrition Classes, Hiking, a Creativity Reboot, and more! Read Kerry’s writing and see all that she’s up to at  KerryMaiorca.com Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/kerry  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by My Restore the Flow of Love Workshop in Chicago, IL Join me for the  Restore the Flow of Love Family Constellations Workshop  in Chicago — July 21, 2019 Whether related to abundance, money, love, dis-ease/health, relationships, career, etc., our struggles connect with our early unconscious and unspoken ways of belonging and flow of love. This connection with our lineage is carried through our bodies: the cells, viscera, the heart, energy, dis-ease, our fluidity, and freedom. Where those before us didn’t get to integrate a loss or trauma or where there was an imbalance in relationship, the flow of love is disrupted as a placeholder for where there is energy, love, and strength waiting to open and flow forward towards us. In Family + Systemic Constellations, we constellate and acknowledge the dynamics in the undercurrent of the systems you are part of whether known or unknown. We reveal the essential movements towards healing with others in the group as representative of the parts of your family or systems (community, workplace, parts of self, past life, etc.). We restore the flow of love giving more natural space, ease, and freedom to move in the world with fuller embodiment, authenticity, and truth. Read more about  Family Constellations and what it means to have a Constellation or Represent/Witness Learn more about this and future events at  CandiceWu.com/events Show Notes 0:00 Intro Invitation to my Workshops 2:51 Opening 5:10 Conversation Start 5:29 Where I Met Kerry, What Is Alive for You Now? 6:25 What the Yoga Studio Bloom Stands For 7:49 Still Yoga Is Other 10:25 Being Brave to Slow Down 10:52 Does Not Have to Be Serious 12:51 When Something “Wrecks” Your Plans for Yoga or Other Practice 15:36 The Mindset of That Is the Yoga 19:41 Yoga Is Not Separate From Daily Life 20:51 You Don’t Have to Wait Until You Are Not Busy 23:22 Don’t Let Fear Be Your CEO 23:44 It’s Not About Blaming, but Noticing and Becoming Aware 26:03 the in Between of on and Off Is Where It’s At 27:28 See What Small Timeslots Can Bring 29:20 What Are You Struggling With Today? Finding What Is Enough. 34:17 What Does It Mean to Be Nourished? 36:22 Self Love Without Being Checked Out 38:04 Self Bullying / Self Shaming in Our Self Love Practices 38:45 Loving Yourself Is Always a Good Move 39:58 Trusting That You Know Better Than the Latest Article or Book (Listening Inside Instead of What the World Is Telling Us) 42:05 Kerry’s Retreat With Laura: Restorative Yoga & Culinary Nutrition 45:18 Having a Creativity Night 48:03 Giving Yourself Permission to Have Joy Without Intention 48:51 How You Can Find the Retreat 51:50 Kerry’s Yoga Teacher Mentorship Program Kerry’s Experiential on the Embody Podcast 57:00 Anything Else to Share? 59:05 How 1st Graders Are Better at Meditating Than You Are 1:03:52 Outro & Gratitude Where to Find Kerry 1:05:42 Other Guests and Experientials on the Embody Podcast The Embody Newsletter Your Feedback Means So Much 1:06:45 Ending Meditation
    brave, being enough, enough, simplicity, breath, beliefs, belief sets
  • 78: A{Live} Now: Horse Constellations & Somatic Healing

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 37 min 44 sec0:37:44
    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…
    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 needed and empowering, and where Jackie, another horse stood between me and the tree that symbolized codependency, giving me the message: don’t go back! These experiences gave me the deeper knowing that our inner worlds give the expression of the outer world that we experience around us — that they go hand in hand. Listen to the  Dancing and Meditating With Horses  episode where I share the first part of my experience with  Sara Fancy @SaraAFancy at Silver Horse Retreat Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/horseconstellations  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by My Restore the Flow of Love Workshop in Chicago, IL I have an upcoming  Constellations Healing Workshops in Chicago Whether related to abundance, money, love, dis-ease/health, relationships, career, etc., our struggles connect with our early unconscious and unspoken ways of belonging and flow of love. This connection with our lineage is carried through our bodies: the cells, viscera, the heart, energy, dis-ease, our fluidity, and freedom. Where those before us didn’t get to integrate a loss or trauma or where there was an imbalance in relationship, the flow of love is disrupted as a placeholder for where there is energy, love, and strength waiting to open and flow forward towards us. In Family + Systemic Constellations, we constellate and acknowledge the dynamics in the undercurrent of the systems you are part of whether known or unknown. We reveal the essential movements towards healing with others in the group as representative of the parts of your family or systems (community, workplace, parts of self, past life, etc.). We restore the flow of love giving more natural space, ease, and freedom to move in the world with fuller embodiment, authenticity, and truth. Join me for  Restore the Flow of Love — Chicago, Illinois — July 21, 2019  and for future and other workshops  look here Show Notes 0:00 Intro Invitation to My Workshops Around the World 2:29 Opening 3:48 Judging the Darkness of Your Emotions 7:34 Horses Feel Those Moments Clearly 8:38 Horses Show Us That There Is No Need to Be Afraid of Emotion 9:02 Learning to Facilitate Horse Constellations 9:30 Horses Were at Liberty in the Living Space / Arena 9:54 My First Experience: Defining an Intention for Myself 22:14 The Wisdom of This Somatic Experience With Horses 22:47 The Connection With the Spiritual World Through Horses / I Will Start Offering These Kinds of Experiences 23:38 Horse Constellations More Specifically: What Are Horse Constellations? 25:07 My Horse Constellation Experience 32:31 What We Do in Constellations 33:40 You Can Experience This Too (With Me, Others, or Sara Fancy) 34:37 Gratitude Equine Assisted Learning With Joy Curran (Podcast & Video) Learn More About Sara Fancy Bi-Monthly Embody Newsletter Other Podcast Episodes Around Trauma, Family Constellations, and Guests 36:47 Outro & Connect
    horse constellations, horses, horse love, sara fancy, healing with horses
  • 77: Nature Constellations, The Earthy Kind of Sacred With Francesca Mason Boring

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    “So many people had to get something right for us to be here.” ~ Francesca Mason Boring on Ancestry Francesca 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 u…
    “So many people had to get something right for us to be here.” ~ Francesca Mason Boring on Ancestry Francesca 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” and seeing the hidden dynamic, that nature is a teacher for life, and where there is trauma that is too much that nature can often help. She explores how we dance in our current life with history, miracles, and tragedies. Francesca Mason Boring, a bicultural woman enrolled with the Western Shoshone Tribe, facilitates Family, Human & Natural Systems Constellation & Constellation as Ceremony as transformational work. She is an author, international facilitator, teacher, and lecturer, working with universal indigenous fields in family constellation she has supported the development of constellation as ceremony, community constellations, and nature constellations. Walking with the ancestors, Francesca introduces respect and the incorporation of ancient healing wisdom traditions and ritual in life and systems constellation. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/francesca  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Invitation to my Workshops Around the World Support for the podcast comes from my in-person workshops! Join me for the  Restore the Flow of Love Family Constellations Workshop  in Chicago — July 21, 2019 Whether related to abundance, money, love, dis-ease/health, relationships, career, etc., our struggles connect with our early unconscious and unspoken ways of belonging and flow of love. This connection with our lineage is carried through our bodies: the cells, viscera, the heart, energy, dis-ease, our fluidity, and freedom. Where those before us didn’t get to integrate a loss or trauma or where there was an imbalance in relationship, the flow of love is disrupted as a placeholder for where there is energy, love, and strength waiting to open and flow forward towards us. In Family + Systemic Constellations, we constellate and acknowledge the dynamics in the undercurrent of the systems you are part of whether known or unknown. We reveal the essential movements towards healing with others in the group as representative of the parts of your family or systems (community, workplace, parts of self, past life, etc.). We restore the flow of love giving more natural space, ease, and freedom to move in the world with fuller embodiment, authenticity, and truth. Read more about  Family Constellations and what it means to have a Constellation or Represent/Witness Learn more about this and future events at  CandiceWu.com/events Show Notes 0:00 Intro Invitation to my Workshops 3:14 Opening 5:15 Conversation Start 5:34 How Candice and Francesca Met 6:00 How Francesca Interprets Constellations Work and How They Affect the World 9:40 Opening and Holding This Space With Ancestors and Nature / Saying Thank You and Realizing That There Is Ancestry Behind Everybody 13:05 Genuine Awe When Learning to Draw Upon the Resources 14:57 The Basics of Constellation (Nature and systemic/family Constellation) 24:03 Nature as a Teacher for Life 28:15 Sometimes It Is Too Much Trauma and Nature Can Help 31:26 What Are You Excited About? 33:14 Expanding the Reach With Her New Book 34:26 Seeing Where Constellations Work Came From 36:57 What Else Is Happening in Francesca’s Life? 39:27 Constellations as a Way of Being… to Spread Into the Life 43:10 Spreading This Work for All People 46:52 Cultural Puzzles in Life With Connecting Families and Relationships 50:54 Francesca’s Personal Challenge: Befriending and Becoming Comfortable With Technology 56:32 Honoring the Challenge 58:25 Anything as We Close? 1:00:17 Where Can You Find Francesca? 1:02:03 Gratitude 1:02:38 Outro 1:03:06 The Ability to Know is Always Present. ~ Francesca More Podcast Episodes
    nature constellations, sacred, earth, nature, medicine, earth medicine
  • 76: A{Live} Now: Dancing and Meditating With Horses

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    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.…
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/dancingwithhorses  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by My Workshops in Rochester, MI, and Chicago, IL I have two upcoming  Constellations Healing Workshops in Michigan and Chicago Whether related to abundance, money, love, dis-ease/health, relationships, career, etc., our struggles connect with our early unconscious and unspoken ways of belonging and flow of love. This connection with our lineage is carried through our bodies: the cells, viscera, the heart, energy, dis-ease, our fluidity, and freedom. Where those before us didn’t get to integrate a loss or trauma or where there was an imbalance in relationship, the flow of love is disrupted as a placeholder for where there is energy, love, and strength waiting to open and flow forward towards us. In Family + Systemic Constellations, we constellate and acknowledge the dynamics in the undercurrent of the systems you are part of whether known or unknown. We reveal the essential movements towards healing with others in the group as representative of the parts of your family or systems (community, workplace, parts of self, past life, etc.). We restore the flow of love giving more natural space, ease, and freedom to move in the world with fuller embodiment, authenticity, and truth. Learn more about this and future events at  CandiceWu.com/events A few spaces left for  Being in Beauty — Rochester, Michigan — June 15, 2019 Join me for  Restore the Flow of Love — Chicago, Illinois — July 21, 2019 Show Notes 00:00 Intro Inviting You to My Workshops in Rochester, MI, and Chicago, IL 05:06 Opening 07:13 Introducing Sara Fancy and the Kind Rodeo 08:34 a Completely New Way of Connecting With Horses 09:23 One of the Biggest Shifts: Inviting Horses at Liberty 14:42 Day 1 of Meditating With Silver 21:36 Day 2 of Meditating with Silver 24:27 Mention — The Abundance Book by John Randolph Price 25:15 Finding my Intention for the Day: Can I make an impact? 26:59 Day 3 of Meditating with Silver 28:49 The Strength of Silver and my Great-Grandmother 34:07 Dancing with the Horses 34:31 Sara Dancing with Diva 36:10 Gratitude and My Future Episode about Horse Constellations 37:55 Messages from the Horses 39:08 Poem about Silver 40:42 Sharing Gratitude & Appreciation 41:49 Someday I Will Have a Space to Be With Horses 43:06 The Embody Newsletter 43:26 Sending Love and Gratitude — You Are Enough
    meditation, horse meditation, horses, horselove, horses at liberty, healing with horses, dancing with horses, dancing
  • 75: Pragmatic Shamanism and Co-Authoring Our Lives with Rachel White

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 8 min 18 sec1:08:18
    “Once you look through the looking glass it looks back at you.” ~Rachel White Described 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…
    “Once you look through the looking glass it looks back at you.” ~Rachel White Described 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 world Wu Wei and aligning to the invisible rivers of flow, non-attachment, synchronicity, and being Rachel’s agonizing experience of the 4th and 5th dimension, the multiverse, and the Mandala Effect Other realities and co-authoring our lives in empowerment How 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 memory TV shows, Doreen Virtue, and Elon Musk and their relationship to energetic themes How Rachel manages a job in corporate America and her shamanic work with TOTEM Shamanic Reiki BONUS: A practical and spiritual Tarot reading for me and you, the audience 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. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/rachelwhite  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by My Be in Beauty Workshop in Rochester, MI I’d like to invite you to a healing workshop and experience in Michigan, my home state. This workshop is about Being in Beauty - Beauty touches everything under the sun that feels important, sacred, awe-inspiring, or sweet to you. It’s the experience of being in the feeling of yourself at your core, in touch with your beingness. Whether it is specific or broad, this workshop is intuitively supported for your desires and needs. Please share or pass it along to anyone you feel may benefit or be interested. I’d greatly appreciate the support as I rebuild my roots here in Michigan and share this beautiful work. Thank you so much. Learn more about this and future events at  CandiceWu.com/events Being in Beauty Workshop Saturday, June 15 10 am – 5 pm Rochester, MI, USA Show Notes 0:00 Intro Sponsored by My Workshop in Rochester, MI 4:07 Opening 6:03 Conversation Start 8:36 How Do You Help People Connect With Their Spirit Guides? 8:47 The Act of Coming in and Spending the Time or Money Means Everything 11:09 Tarot Should Be Choice-Based 12:36 Opening Up a New World in Chicago Through Guided Meditation 13:15 Spiritual Work Is Just as Real as Corporate Is Real / Life Can Be So Easy in the Spiritual Realm 14:07 I Blame the Puritans 14:58 Dream Virtue — Shifted to the Opposite Energies 17:37 Shaking the Idea of Good & Bad 19:19 Agnostic and Free (Drinking Whiskey After Meditation) 20:08 How Do You Describe Spirituality? Elon Musk / We Are in a Simulation Theory 20:38 TV Show Talk on Westworld 22:03 Shamanism and the Individual Experience of the Divine 23:32 More About Multiverses and Jumping Dimensions 27:09 TV Show Magicians 27:30 Having a Wrong Memory 28:54 Steven Hawkins’ Last Paper Multiverse 29:28 We Are in the Hardest Version of Our Universe 30:55 We Are Co-Authoring Our Lives 32:06 What if This Universe Is Not the Beginning and End? What if It’s Just the Middle? Wu wei 35:52 Book The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield 37:11 Just Making Sure You Didn’t Slip Into Another Dimension… 37:31 Experience of Multiverse With My Black Dog | German Black Forest 39:48 What Is Going on in Rachel’s Life Right Now? 41:46 We Are All Mediums in One Way or Another / Listen to What You Speak 43:18 The Spiritual Path Is Hard 46:25 Everybody at Work Thinks I Am a Witch Anyways 48:13 Spirituality Is Way Less Crazy Than the Medical Industry & Corporate America 48:52 Peter Thele 50:03 Movie The Big Short 51:11 How Do You Work With Shamanism? Staying in a Learning Mindset. 53:20 Shamanism X Reiki and Data Visualization at the Energy Body 54:58 Accessing Individuals Spirituality Through Rachel’s Tarot Deck 56:35 American Gods 57:07 Bonus: Pulling Tarot Cards for Candice & the Show 57:49 Emma Cook (Designer of the Tarot Deck) 58:24 2 of Moons — Candice’s First Card 1:00:00 8 of Crystals — Candice’s Second Card 1:01:52 3 of Christals — Audience Card 1:03:57 Explanation of Other Suits in the Deck 1:04:13 Gratitude for Open Conversations 1:04:42 Anything Else? Take Your Spiritual Development Into Your Own Hands. 1:05:20 Rachel’s Shamanic Experiential on the Embody Podcast 1:05:48 Where to Find Rachel White Outro & Gratitude
    shamanism, medicine, astrology, collaboration, cocreation, creativity, divine
  • 74: The Potency of Tiny Movements, Subtlety, and Coherence

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    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 …
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/coherence  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Invite to my June Workshop in Rochester, MI I’d like to invite you to a healing workshop and experience of Family Constellations combined with Somatic Experiencing and Self-Forgiveness in Michigan. This workshop is to enliven Beauty - Beauty touches everything under the sun that feels important, sacred, awe-inspiring, or sweet to you. It’s the experience of being in the feeling of yourself at your core, in touch with your beingness. Whether it is specific or broad, this workshop is intuitively supported for your desires and needs. Learn more about  Family Constellations If you’ve been to my workshop before or refer someone and they join too, you’ll receive an additional $15 off the registration. Learn more about this and future events at  CandiceWu.com/events Being in Beauty Workshop Saturday, June 15 10 am – 5 pm Rochester, MI, USA Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:59 Invite to My June Workshop in Rochester, MI 03:17 Opening Meditation 04:29 When Someone Noticed Something About You 06:52 Coherence: The Subtle Tiny Healing Movements 07:16 Joshua Silvae 09:35 Noticing the Soul History and Lineage Movements Koshas Episode 11:37 Coherence: Synonyms and Noticing the Small Things… Homeopathy 15:34 Horsemanship Lesson With Sue and Delta 17:01 Mothers Can Be Hard on Themselves 18:22 Noticing the Smallest Thing Can Have a Ripple Effect 19:21 Subtle Changes in Family Constellations 20:49 Do We Bother to Look at the Small Things to be Grateful For? 22:42 I Might Not Bother to Look… Seeing Something New Can Disrupt the Structure 23:40 What is Getting in the Way? Are We in Our Own Way? 25:51 Are There Places in Your Life Where You Are Resisting? 28:35 How Symptoms Can Be Seen in Family Constellations 29:42 Story of Pain That’s Kept Through Generations 31:15 Good Things Come in Small Packages: Examples of Somatic Shifts That You Can Learn to Notice 38:37 Ladybug Story 41:22 Gratitude
    coherence, Polyvagal Theory, Polyvagus Nerve, Polyvagal, Overwhelm, Freeze, Shut Down, Depression, Healing Trauma
  • 73: Take Your Sweet Time with Kremena Yordanova

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 3 min 22 sec1:03:22
    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 …
    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 classes. She fuses the philosophy of yoga with modern day life as the basis of her teachings. Her realistic, grounded and contemporary approach has made her a sought-after teacher in Amsterdam, with weekly practices in leading studios, as well as boutique workshops at the W Hotel Amsterdam. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/kremena  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by My Be in Beauty Workshop in Rochester, MI I’d like to invite you to a healing workshop and experience in Michigan, my home state. This workshop is about Being in Beauty - Beauty touches everything under the sun that feels important, sacred, awe-inspiring, or sweet to you. It’s the experience of being in the feeling of yourself at your core, in touch with your beingness. Whether it is specific or broad, this workshop is intuitively supported for your desires and needs. Please share or pass it along to anyone you feel may benefit or be interested. I’d greatly appreciate the support as I rebuild my roots here in Michigan and share this beautiful work. Thank you so much. Learn more about this and future events at  CandiceWu.com/events Being in Beauty Workshop Saturday, June 15 10 am – 5 pm Rochester, MI, USA Show Notes 0:00 Intro Sponsored by My Workshop in Rochester, June 15th 3:47 Opening 4:52 Conversation Start 5:32 Combining Full-Time Work and a Passion for Yoga 7:14 How Do You Combine Corporate Life and Yoga? 9:49 Pressure to Go Full Time 11:52 You Already Know the Answer 12:04 When Students Come Already Knowing 13:03 Looking for External Validation 15:25 What About Kremena’s Is Her Passion and Moves Her Deeply? 18:01 Detaching From Daily Life to Give Space on Retreats 19:24 How Do You Support People in Finding Answers? 21:52 the Coffee After Yoga Is the Best Part 22:25 Recognize That It’s a Choice 22:32 Do It Like You Chose It 23:52 When Lessons Happen Again and Again: Undervaluing Ourselves 29:06 Doing Things at the Right Time 31:36 Questioning Oneself 33:48 Kremena’s Ancestry: Syberia, Bulgaria, and the Netherlands 35:45 Finding Yoga Through Bad Weather in the Netherlands 37:40 Taking Your Sweet Time 40:30 The Feeling of Everything Takes Too Long and Re-Framing It 45:30 How Culture Shapes Us / Unable to Locate Kremena’s Roots When People Try 53:17 What to Expect When Coming to Bulgaria: Rich Culture and Beautiful Nature 54:16 Suffering Can Be Story and Growth When Told / the Richness When Coming Back and Bringing Retreats to Bulgaria 56:11 More Information About Retreats by Kremena 58:30 How to Connect Kremena 59:59 Anything Else? 1:00:35 Outro Where you can find Kremena Embody Newsletter
    time, pleasure
  • 72: A{Live} Now: Getting Schooled by Ancestry and Emotions

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 42 min 48 sec0:42:48
    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…
    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} Now 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 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 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. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/schooled  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by YOU on Patreon If you’ve been touched or supported by the podcast, please consider contributing to the production and labor of love through my  Patreon page ! I deeply appreciate it. Find the experience at  CandiceWu.com/patreon Show Notes 0:00 Intro 1:02 Opening 2:08 Mention of  Existential Crisis Episode 3:48 How I Feel When I Am Being Schooled by My Emotions 6:22 We Are All Evolving — What I Recorded in the Past, Allowing for Being Different 8:07 Where It All Began 9:56 New Relationship Brings New Parts of Myself Alive 11:02 Fear of Losing My Chineseness and Complexity 12:29 What Our Family Systems Can Bring Us 14:23 Can I Hold My Own Complexity? 14:40 Can You Take Care of Me? 17:26 Next Up: The Feeling of Being Left to Die 18:58 My Response to My Great-Grand-Parents 19:38 My Mother Told Me More of Our Story: The Woodworker and the Door That Saved Us 22:03 My Honoring Response to My Ancestry in This Story 22:47 Honoring the Ancestral Experience and Not Take It on as My Own 23:56 Processing Other Ancestral Not Necessarily Connected Experiences 25:41 Working Hard but Keeping the Grief Alive 26:36 Giving the Pain to the Rightful Place and Sharing Appreciation 28:40 Gratitude & Allowing the Space 31:29 Placing Words in Context When We Think We’re Losing It 32:56 Diving Deeper Into the Family Line 33:55 Encouraging You to Take Your Own Words and Let Them Flow Into the Soul Space 35:21 May 5th #NativeWomenRunning 36:20 Some Practical Tips to Move Through 37:48 Gratitude 38:00 Quotes by  Nayyirah Waheed 39:45 Sponsored by You on Patreon Other Embody Podcast Episodes 41:17 Updates in the Embody Newsletter 41:46 Sending You All the Love
    emotions, ancestry, mystery, humility, human
  • 71: Charmayne Kilcup on Self-Forgiveness and Choosing Ourselves

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 2 min 51 sec1:02:51
    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…
    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 work When selflessness is helpful and when it is not Shifting from victimhood to seeing that what happens in our lives truly happen not to but for us How the mind does not understand the Soul and how to balance this within How choosing pleasure and choosing ourselves is in service to all Her spiritual emergency and how this lead her to her journey of self-forgiveness and worthiness Being worthy of our abundance and material pleasures The transmission of primal archetypal feminine energy that is the preparation she needed to feel ready for birthing her baby The luscious moments she is enjoying sensate pleasure Charmayne is a spiritual coach who helps people transform trauma, and pain into joy, ease, and loving. Trained as a counselor, psychologist, and energy worker, Dr. Kilcup has found that self-forgiveness and self-love the are keys to healing that most healing modalities are missing. They were the game-changers that helped her transform an eating disorder, depression, and anxiety into a life of joy and delight. Since that time, Dr. Kilcup has dedicated her career to helping people learn how to use self-forgiveness to transform the negativity in their lives. Currently, she maintains a private practice and is the co-founder of the Institute of Spiritual Coaching which trains people to use self-love and self-forgiveness in their private practices. Her first book, Heal Your Heart: How to Awaken the Soul with Self-Forgiveness released in January 2019. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/charmayne  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by my Ally With Death Experiential Cleanse and release the dead weight! Make space for what’s growing and emerging with you in the Ally With Death Experiential. It is an online experience for you to tune into the energy of Death to let go, release, and purify your being of what needs to die, giving you space for creation, nourishment, and love for this next season. Find the experience at  CandiceWu.com/death Show Notes 0:00 Intro 0:57 Sponsored by my  Ally With Death Experiential  & Spring Cleansing Tuning into Nature & the Shift of Spring 8:56 Opening the Episode 12:37 Introducing Charmayne — My Healer 13:33 Who Is Charmayne in Her Own Words? 15:15 What Is Alive in Her World? 15:41 How Do You Prepare for a Baby Being Born? 18:00 Charmayne’s Book: Heal Your Heart — How to Waken Your Soul With Self Forgiveness 18:06 Spiritual Emergency and Awakening at 23 20:47 Mind Does Not Understand Soul 22:05 Balance of Mind & Heart 23:51 Not Much Joy When Living in the Mind 24:59 Forgiveness & Self Forgiveness 27:12 Disclaimer: Sexual Abuse (Talking About How Survivors Feel Like It’s Their Fault, Going Into Self Forgiveness to Release That Self Judgement) 27:57 Disclaimer End 27:58 Method of Self Forgiveness 28:34 Exercising Self Forgiveness Around Her Pregnancy and Being a Bad Mother 29:29 Self Forgiveness Can Lead to Forgiving Others (But It Does Not Have To) 30:36 Self Forgiveness: The Level of Responsibility and Freedom 31:14 Self Forgiveness Over Forgiving Others 32:45 the Antidote to Shame & Unworthiness 34:22 How Did You Get in Touch With Your Own Shame? 34:46 Western College of Santa Fe 35:50 Shame Around Relationships 39:04 Shame Around Abundance and Feeling Like You Have to Only Serve Others 43:10 It Might Have Been Helpful in the Past 44:57 Is It Connected to Selflessness (Young vs. Old Souls) 47:03 Can I Claim My Worthiness? 48:27 Choosing Myself for Myself Is Enough 50:11 Victimhood — What Happens in Our Lives Truly Happen Not To but for Us 53:07 What Are You Challenged With Right Now? 56:13 What Brings You Joy Right Now? 57:26 Anything Else? 57:49 Gratitude & Where to Find Charmayne 59:07 Outro Charmayne’s Book and More Resources Gratitude & Connect Embody Newsletter 1:01:09 Ending Meditation
    belief sets, healing beliefs, self-love, self-forgiveness, forgiveness, beliefs, worthiness, self-love
  • 70: Good Grief: Honoring Relationships Ending

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 55 min 1 sec0:55:01
    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 int…
    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 excavating the beliefs that emerged, making space for the new, playfulness and life. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/ep70  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by YOU, my Listeners Thank YOU, listeners, for your support! If the Embody Podcast has inspired you, helped, or spoken to you, it would mean the world to me if you would show your support through a  contribution on Patreon Each episode is a lovingly made from my soul and takes anywhere from weeks to a few days to develop and produce. I gladly pay an editor who supports me in polishing and creating high-quality episodes. As little as $1 a month would nourish the podcast to continue to have life and cover the costs. Plus you’ll receive some sweet personalized healing gifts from me that can deepen your embodiment on your own journey. I am excited to share these with you. I am so appreciative that you are considering supporting me in this way. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! ❤ Show Notes 00:00 Intro Sponsored by People Like You 02:14 Opening — Ending Relationships Is Present All Around Me 03:36 People Say: Grief Takes Its Own Process and It Never Ends 04:47 Overview for This Episode Charmayne  “Where There Isn’t Loving, There Is Something Else to Be Learned” 05:55 Our Soul Is on a Journey to Be Loved Inside and Outside 09:33 My Previous Partner — Christoph 11:20 the Honoring of Our Relationship 17:58 the Ending of the Relationship and My Grieving in the Process 20:09 What I Found Out While I Was Grieving 21:57 Wondering “Does He Really Love Me?” + Healing 24:16 Our Relationships Are Deeply Sensitive and Vulnerable 24:50 Spiritual Service Satsang / Relationship Comes With Two Partners Who Are Connected in Each Lesson 26:07 How to Grieve and Glean the Wisdom From the Relationship 26:25 That This Relationship Has Something to Show to You 27:18 Getting Unstuck: #1 - Beliefs Like "This Is How It Is for Me” or “I Always Get Left,” Etc. 31:04 Getting Unstuck: #2 “No Other Person Will Be as Good for Me as This Last Partner” 34:01 Experientials: Integrate, Embody, and Making Space for All Possibility 35:03 The Push to Move Forward as Soon as Possible // Claiming the Beauty of the Relationship 37:30 Getting Unstuck: #3 the Soul and Mind Having Two Separate Agendas 44:53 Heartache and Pain: An Opportunity for Healing 45:55 Getting Unstuck: #4 the Mind and Ego Agenda Can Try to Make Things Permanent 46:43 Choosing the Surrender to the Souls Journey to Love 47:34 Finding the Life That Is Here Embody Podcast Episode: The Past Is Over Experientials Connected to This Episode 51:22 Give Yourself Tenderness and Time 52:45 Outro & Sharing Love Embody Newsletter
    breakups, ending relationships, grief, grieving, toxic relationships, cleansing relationships, healing relationships
  • 69: A{Live Now}: Reflections from the Horse Farm and Relationship Mirrors

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 44 min 30 sec0:44:30
    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 h…
    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} Now 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 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 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. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/ep69  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by Humans Like You This episode is sponsored by supporters on  Patreon . I appreciate all the love and contributions on Patreon, which all go towards the production of the podcast and all the creations, meditations, and healing experiences that you can access on the Embody Podcast. If this has inspired, touched, or supported you, please consider supporting the continuation and life of the podcast. Learn more at  CandiceWu.com/patreon Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:52 Opening 02:03 Spoken Word Journal & Encouragement to Share 04:29 January 26th - Getting Cornered & Experiencing Stronger Boundaries 10:36 Greediness & Enoughness 13:08 Working With the Alpha Horse / Establishing Leadership 19:04 Everything Was Overwhelmed All at Once (Learning, the Space, Personal Conflict, and So Much) 21:32 The Most Important Question: Why Am I Enduring This? 23:33 I Don’t Have to Learn in All Areas of Life Right Now 24:54 Taking a Step to Go Home & Enjoy 26:11 Newsletter: Inner Freedom, Enjoyment, and Manifesting 26:55 Skipping Over the Good Things 28:00 Reflecting on the Endings: What We Attract in Relationships 31:47 Relationships for More Self Loving 35:13 Recovering With a New Teacher & Horsemanship Lessons Back in Michigan 39:17 My Connection With Horses is Growing 39:44 The Last Day in Ireland: A New Connection With a Different Teacher 40:47 My Horse Adventures Continue 41:54 Following Podcast About Relationship Endings 43:21 Gratitude & Appreciation
    horses, horse life, horse love, shadow work
  • 68: The Untold Story, Get Out of Your Own Way, and NARM with Bianka Hardin

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    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 s…
    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 fears Exploring trust and mistrust The profound experience of realizing she was holding someone else’s fear Bianka’s personal journey into exploring the truth of the untold ancestral story as half German and half from the South How to connect with your her own desires as an empathic person Personal agency and how we can get in our own way What the body-centered and relational model of NARM (Neuro-Affective Relational Model) offers When you feel you’ve had a set back it could actually be the natural contraction that happens after expansion 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 traditional psychotherapy with mindfulness, relational interventions, and body focused psychotherapy such as Somatic Experiencing (SE) or Neuro-Affective Relational Model (NARM). Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/bianka  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by the Embodied Healing Group Call This 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 open up to what your soul, body, or heart want to explore and allow the magic of your being to show us what’s needed. Find it by contributing at the $55 level on  Patreon (candicewu.com/patreon) Show Notes Intro 00:58 Supported by the  Embodied Healing Group Call Introduction 04:07 Opening — Our Story Together, Synchronicities 06:04 Manifestation through Meditation & Prayer 08:26 What is interesting for Bianka now? 10:46 Half German & Half from the South: Learning about the History & Untold 14:48 Healing Trauma to finally enjoy the moment 14:48 Safety on a Road Trip 16:11 Deep Desire to know the Truth & Story 17:24 Markers & Acknowledgement can be Healing 19:07 Contextualizing Mistrust, Safety Issues Makes Sense in the Past 22:06 Someone Else’s Fear 25:59 Bianka’s Experience with NARM 27:17 Attuning to Others — Good Skill for a Therapist — Breaking the Bubble to find Self Again 30:03 What NARM could do what Traditional Therapy couldn’t 33:35 How does NARM work? Understanding the process helps in healing. 35:18 Enjoying the Ride and Pendulating to a Fear Moment — It’s part of the process 37:27 Working with Agency in NARM / Performance Anxiety before the Show 39:57 Noticing Flaws and letting go of Achieving Perfection 42:15 What brings Bianka joy right now? 43:53 Appreciating what’s close & Forest Bathing 43:53 Forest Bathing 46:25 Supervision Meetings Outside between Bianka and Candice 47:27 Too Much Screen Time — Switching it up with Nature 48:06 Thanks & Gratitude 48:50 Bianka’s NARM Workshops and Training Offerings 50:39 Where can you find Bianka? 51:19 Outro Biankas NARM Experiential Embody Newsletter Connect with Me Gratitude
    NARM, Attunement, Attachment, Developmental Trauma, Anxiety, Fear, Story
  • 67: Key to Manifesting: Surrender to the Map of Your Self

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 55 min 16 sec0:55:16
    Disclaimer: May not be suitable for all audiences, contains sexual content. We are always manifesting something, but how do we manifest what we desire? In this episode, I explore the key to manifesting what you desire — finding the map to YOU and surrende…
    Disclaimer: May not be suitable for all audiences, contains sexual content. We are always manifesting something, but how do we manifest what we desire? In this episode, I explore the key to manifesting what you desire — finding the map to YOU and surrendering to your deepest, truest, clearest Self. I also share a true and vulnerable story of a recent flow and manifesting experience, discuss how we can’t be anything in the world; we can only be ourselves and offer a healing experience of embodying a time you feel most like yourself, touching into your desires, and resolving unworthiness and fears. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/manifesting  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by my Online Group Healing Sessions Learn about how to feel more embodied so that your dream world can thrive! Here’s a link to three classes that are on Skillshare to support you in feeling more grounded and developing your inner world so that you can remember your dreams and glean dream wisdom. With  this link  you’ll receive two months free on Skillshare Premium. Learn more at  CandiceWu.com/dreamclasses Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:27 Disclaimer: Not for All Audiences 00:40 Intro 01:16 Sponsored by my  Dream Classes on Skillshare 02:23 Welcome 03:02 Opening the Topic 03:17 Why This Topic? 03:44 Talking to My Healer and What I Want Right Now 06:24 DISCLAIMER: Pleasuring Myself for Deeper Manifestation 07:45 Am I Really Worthy to Have the Kind of Love & Life I Desire? 08:44 Feeling Turned on by Our Desires 09:35 DISCLAIMER END 09:35 Thinking: How Impossible? 10:02 Two Weeks Later and San Diego 11:40 How Did All of This Even Happen? 12:27 Second Manifestation Story: Choosing the Path of Joy in This Moment 13:06 Surrender to What is and Surrender to Who You Are 13:26 Embracing All the Pleasant & Unpleasant & What Comes 13:41 Getting Closer to What I Desire — Not What My Wounds Need 14:34 We Are Always Manifesting 14:34 We Are Always Manifesting 16:53 We Should Not Judge Our Own Believes as Good or Bad 17:19 “You Can have/do/be Anything” — FOMO 19:10 Bottom Line: Everything is Possible 20:39 in This Life, Maybe Not Everything is Possible (Human Body Limitation) 22:07 Manifesting: Getting to the Core and Loving Connection 23:17 Completing the Wounds We Are Trapped In 24:21 About Completion in the Body 25:49 Self Inquiry: How in Touch With My Essence, Core, and True Self, Am I? 27:46 Working With Our Vibration 28:50 Invitation to the Journey of Unfolding, Healing, Seeing, Loving, and So Much More. 29:25 Fear: Depending on the Outcome 30:32 Karma Yoga: Resolving the Wounding Process 32:21 Connecting With the Flow: We Are All Worthy, What We Desire is Possible. 33:16 the Desires That Are Not Worthy 33:50 the Desires Which Are Worthy 34:18 Our True Nature — Wholeness 35:00 Mention of “The Magicians Episode 7” 35:54 Experiential: Connecting With Who You Truly Are and What You Desire 49:12 Gratitude 49:37 DISCLAIMER: Pleasuring Yourself as an Exploration Mention Embody Podcast Episode: Harmony Mention Embody Podcast Episode: Worthiness Mention Embody Podcast Episode: Parts Work 51:53 DISCLAIMER END 51:54 Thank You for Being Here The Embody Podcast Overview Embody Bi-Monthly-Newsletter Wishing You LOVE
    Manifesting, Sexuality, Desire, Pleasure, Surrender, Spirit
  • 66: Insisting We All Belong and CHAI with Rahul Sharma

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    I’m delighted to share this podcast with Dr. Rahul Sharma where he offers his Sitar music live and shares about these fabulous topics of life. How do we insist that we all belong? Rahul’s CHAI Recipe — a yummy recipe for the Self and how to be in life The…
    I’m delighted to share this podcast with Dr. Rahul Sharma where he offers his Sitar music live and shares about these fabulous topics of life. How do we insist that we all belong? Rahul’s CHAI Recipe — a yummy recipe for the Self and how to be in life The spirituality of the Sitar and Raag Being an artist as both a self-absorbed and selfless endeavor His 22-year-old band Funkadesi’s intention: We Are One Family Rahul’s family lineage story about double migration and how it informs how he SHOWS UP in the world Bringing healing and opening challenging conversations with drumming Internal Family Systems (IFS) and leaning into the difficult places with the parts of ourselves Bringing in the U-shape instead of a circle Dr. Sharma is an accomplished and passionate Consultant, Artist, Experiential Learning Innovator, Psychologist, and an expert in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, leadership & growth. He is the founder of Funkadesi, an inclusive musical group. Whether working as a therapist, coach, consultant, performer, or producer — he recognizes expertise is needed in creating unique spaces for people to grow, produce, and flourish. Rahul combines emotional intelligence, creativity, knowledge, transparency, honesty, and skill in assessing and intervening, resulting in effective and lasting solutions. Grab a CHAI or a lovely refresher and tune in with us. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/rahul  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by my Online Group Healing Sessions The Embodied Healing Group Call sponsored the production and creation of this episode. The Group call is a monthly group online to enjoy embodied support, empowering connection, and healing guidance! A truly powerful exchange of love and transformation for your contribution. If you’re craving this kind of experience, I’ll support you in being at ease in your own body and spirit, tapping into your intuition and wisdom, and somatic and ancestral healing around anything you’re experiencing or challenged with each month. Each Group Healing Session is limited to 4 people and is $55 a month per person. Register on Patreon at the $55 level of contribution, visit  https://candicewu.com/patreon Show Notes 0:00 Intro 1:09 Sponsored by  My Online Group Healing Sessions 1:53 Opening & Background 5:40 Opening Conversation 7:23 Rahul’s Family Lineage Story about Double Migration 9:09 Sharing Rahul’s Grandfathers Story 15:31 What this story meant for Rahul’s self-discovery 19:09 Forgetting the Heritage — A Moment of not being from the US 20:01 Knowing where You come from through music 20:46 The Spirituality of Sitar 22:15 Rahul’s Sitar Improv 22:26 Rahul Playing the Sitar 25:32 Tuning into The Raag & Crossing Genres 28:18 Being an Artist A self-absorbed and selfless endeavor 28:54 Improvising, Self Absorbed Artist 30:02 Funkadesi — We All Belong to one Family 30:45 The CHAI Recipe 34:14 Insistence in Life— Make sure that things are on the table 35:40 Striving for Full Humanity For Everybody 36:42 Insistence — We need this! 38:12 Accountability on Social Media / Repeating the Cycle of the Hurt 38:52 Internal Family Systems — Acknowledging that there are many parts 40:29 Belonging — What have you found in the Band on Belonging? 43:54 A U-Shape vs the Circle — Inviting of the New 43:54 U-Shape vs Circle 46:16 Having many Healers in the Band 47:05 Where are you in the journey of your Self? 48:17 The Multi-Cultural Summit Band Story — A Crazy Adventure of Connection 53:01 Multi-Cultural Drumming for Difficult Dialogues — Domestic Violence Conference 55:55 Health Rhythms by Remote Drums 57:22 Soul Songs — What is the Movement of your Soul Song? 57:51 If you like it, use it! 58:45 Not Just Being Face to Face… 59:46 Make Music Together — And then have Conversations 1:03:21 Embracing Many of Our Parts 1:04:08 Thank you, Rahul, for sharing today 1:04:46 Anything Else to Share? 1:05:28 Rahul Playing the Sitar 1:06:53 Gratitude Newsletter & Website
    Belonging, Multicultural Awareness, Inclusion, Music
  • 65: Untangling Love Part 2: All of You is Worthy of Love

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    We are all worthy of love and ALL of us is worthy of love. Love is the direction of attention. In this episode, I open with a brief “tuning into” the energy of love. What revealed was an experiential for sensing in deeper to the energy of love as well as …
    We are all worthy of love and ALL of us is worthy of love. Love is the direction of attention. In this episode, I open with a brief “tuning into” the energy of love. What revealed was an experiential for sensing in deeper to the energy of love as well as noticing different parts of us that want love and have different ideas, agendas, and needs around love. I share personal experiences of the kind of love my 5-year-old self-desires, codependency, and what a clear and pure love might look like. I talk about the desires that we have and our worthiness in having the love that we desire. I also share a Dream I had about loving and being worthy of my own desires. Listen to Part 1 of this Topic at https://candicewu.com/love Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/lovepart2  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by People Like You This episode is sponsored by supporters (like you) on  Patreon . I appreciate all the love and contributions on Patreon, which all go towards the production of the podcast and all the creations, meditations, and healing experiences that you can access on the Embody Podcast. If this has inspired, touched, or supported you, please consider supporting the continuation and life of the podcast. Learn more at  CandiceWu.com/patreon Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:14 Opening 02:35 Tuning in To The Topic of Love 04:08 Parts of us that seek Love 07:48 How to Learn to Love Ourselves? The Process 08:54 The Leader, Critique, Wisdom, and Aware Self 08:57 What Part Needs What? 10:14 Our Ability to Receive Love When There Are Beliefs of Unworthiness Worthiness Meditation 12:22 Life Journey of Learning how to Love Myself 12:26 My Own Worthiness Without Question 14:32 When Parts get Activated — An Opportunity for Love 17:08 What does Loving Myself Look like? Parts Work Podcast Experientials Around Love 21:01 Gratitude Newsletter Dream Work Classes on Skillshare 22:35 Dream Exploration: Box of Crabs and King Shrimp 27:28 Outro
    loving love, worthiness, mystery, life lessons, cleansing
  • 64a: Yearning for the Messy Truth, True Intimacy & Trauma With Cynthia Langtiw [Part 2/2]

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 50 min 24 sec0:50:24
    Jump into Part 2 of Cynthia Langtiw’s interview where we dive in and explore: Connection to Ancestry, Past, and Future as Resource The Power of Stories and Books to Heal The Soul’s Yearning for the Messy Truth and the Draw to Only Show Our Shiny Parts How…
    Jump into Part 2 of Cynthia Langtiw’s interview where we dive in and explore: Connection to Ancestry, Past, and Future as Resource The Power of Stories and Books to Heal The Soul’s Yearning for the Messy Truth and the Draw to Only Show Our Shiny Parts How Can We Have True Intimacy? How Trauma Is Something That Isn’t Finished or Resolved How Trauma Affects Couples and Relationships Betrayal Trauma : Micro and Macro What It Takes to Be in Good Relationship With Self and Other Bringing Your Whole Self Shedding Past Experiences With a Thank You! Dr. Cynthia Lubin Langtiw is a Haitian American licensed clinical psychologist and full professor in the clinical psychology program at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She has served as a supervising psychologist at Mount Sinai Hospital and currently consults with their doctoral clinical training program. Dr. Langtiw is a volunteer psychologist and clinical supervisor with The Marjorie Kovler Center for Survivors of Torture. She also provides training on psychological trauma for the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights. Her clinical work reflects a strong systemic/community sensibility that integrates a relational cultural perspective. Much of her clinical work has been helping youth, adults, families, and communities utilize their own resources to heal from trauma. Dr. Langtiw has a strong passion for teaching, qualitative research, clinical training and enjoys supporting students in finding their voice in psychology. Listen to Part 1 of the Conversation with Cynthia about Unknowing and Finding Your Own Knowing at candicewu.com/cynthia. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/cynthia  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by my Dream Work Class on Skillshare A few weeks ago, I published a new class on Dream Work, which supports people who are interested in developing a stronger ability to remember their dreams and a connected relationship to their dream wisdom with embodiment practices. Dreaming: Embodiment Practices to Prepare Your Physiology For a Thriving Dream Life Our dreams offer access to energies and parts of ourselves that are hidden or unseen and wanting to be revealed. This class offers specific breathing techniques, yogic and body-centered practices, and meditations that you can use to ground yourself and develop safety and playfulness for your dreams to thrive. These practices will support your nervous system in feeling a level of deep rest and relaxation, giving the capacity for you to remember your dreams even better than before or for the first time. Find all the Dreamwork Classes Online and enjoy a Skillshare promo of two months free here. All the proceeds from Skillshare to me go towards supporting the Embody Podcast. Learn more about this and other classes by me at CandiceWu.com/classes Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:04 Sponsored by You 01:50 Opening 03:12 Conversation Start 03:50 Utilizing Your Own Resources in Trauma Healing 08:34 Where Do We Learn the Building Blocks? 09:07 Is Everything Relating to Trauma? Things That Aren't Finished. 09:07 Trauma Incomplete 11:49 What Happens When You Communicate Your Trauma? 11:50 What Happened When You Told Someone 12:51 When You Receive Love, Compassion, and Vulnerability… 13:35 Cynthia Would Be a Librarian / Healing Through Books 14:33 Book: The Bluest Eye 15:15 Book that Drew Candice and Connected with Past Life Trauma- Number the Stars 17:00 Feeling Grounded Across Time and Space for Finding Resource 17:34 Lonely and Connected to Ancestry 20:25 Trauma Work With Couples and Relationships — Cynthia's New Book 23:45 Paper by Susan Sans "What Is Dissociated” 24:08 Trauma Bring Disconnection to Protect 25:37 Shedding Past Experiences With a Thank You! 26:27 How Can We Have True Intimacy? 27:00 Dr. Tracy Rodgers — Bringing Your Whole Self 28:00 True Intimacy With the Not So Shiny Parts 29:53 Our Souls Yearning for the Messy Truth and Shiny Parts 31:17 The Tricky Balance Between Accepting Self and the Other 32:18 Accepting All of Self and Other 33:58 What It Takes to Be in a Good Relationship 35:23 Betrayal Trauma : Micro and Macro 35:44 Jennifer Freyd’s Definition of Betrayal Trauma 43:11 Validating Someone’s Experience as Real 44:54 Appreciation 46:48 Outro & Interlogs Experiential 48:09 Newsletter 48:35 Reach Out to Cynthia 49:01 Connecting With Candice
    truth, knowing, inner knowing, belonging
  • 64: Unknowing and Finding Your Own Knowing With Cynthia Langtiw [Part 1/2]

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 38 min 25 sec0:38:25
    Experience the energy of belief, inspiration, and love in this episode where Cynthia Langtiw and I explore the wobbly place of ‘unknowing’ and the process of finding your own knowing, the power of belief in oneself and in a group with inspiration, decolon…
    Experience the energy of belief, inspiration, and love in this episode where Cynthia Langtiw and I explore the wobbly place of ‘unknowing’ and the process of finding your own knowing, the power of belief in oneself and in a group with inspiration, decolonization of research methods in western research, the importance of silence, lifting each other up, and being a mother and psychologist. Dr. Cynthia Lubin Langtiw is a Haitian American licensed clinical psychologist and full professor in the clinical psychology program at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She has served as a supervising psychologist at Mount Sinai Hospital and currently consults with their doctoral clinical training program. Dr. Langtiw is a volunteer psychologist and clinical supervisor with The Marjorie Kovler Center for Survivors of Torture. She also provides training on psychological trauma for the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights. Her clinical work reflects a strong systemic/community sensibility that integrates a relational cultural perspective. Much of her clinical work has been helping youth, adults, families, and communities utilize their own resources to heal from trauma. Dr. Langtiw has a strong passion for teaching, qualitative research, clinical training and enjoys supporting students in finding their voice in psychology. Listen to Part 2 of the Conversation with Cynthia about Resourcing Past and Future, Couples and Trauma, Intimacy, Betrayal Trauma, and the Messy Truth at candicewu.com/cynthia. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/cynthia  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by my Dream Work Class on Skillshare A few weeks ago, I published a new class on Dream Work, which supports people who are interested in developing a stronger ability to remember their dreams and a connected relationship to their dream wisdom with embodiment practices. Dreaming: Embodiment Practices to Prepare Your Physiology For a Thriving Dream Life Our dreams offer access to energies and parts of ourselves that are hidden or unseen and wanting to be revealed. This class offers specific breathing techniques, yogic and body-centered practices, and meditations that you can use to ground yourself and develop safety and playfulness for your dreams to thrive. These practices will support your nervous system in feeling a level of deep rest and relaxation, giving the capacity for you to remember your dreams even better than before or for the first time. Find all the Dreamwork Classes Online and enjoy a Skillshare promo of two months free here. All the proceeds from Skillshare to me go towards supporting the Embody Podcast. Learn more about this and other classes by me at CandiceWu.com/classes Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:00 Opening 02:50 Harriet the Spy — Cynthia’s Alter Ego 05:26 How Do You See Yourself on Your Journey Right Now? 08:45 Touching Quote by Margaret Mead 09:37 Lifting Each Other Up 13:39 Transforming Knowing — the Interlogs 19:01 We Can't Be Removed From Our Research 21:26 Decolonizing Methodologies in Western Research 23:46 What Goes on in Us That Influences What We Think About Another Person? 24:11 The Best 25:12 Learning to Disconnect Knowings 27:26 Being a Mother & Psychologist — Knowing and Checking In 27:37 Doing the Best One Can 29:06 Finding Your Own Knowing 30:22 The Importance of Silence and Being With Self 31:48 What's Your Indulgence for Pleasure? 32:56 Closing 33:25 Where to Find Cynthia 34:04 Outro 35:47 Overview of Part Two 36:30 Learning More About Interlogs — Experiential 37:08 Acceptance of Unknowing
    truth, knowing, inner knowing, belonging
  • 63: What is Love? Untangling Love from Protection & Fear

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 58 min 18 sec0:58:18
    Our soul’s deepest desire is to love and know love. To know what love truly is — and isn’t. I’ve experienced a sorting process in this life of how to love, what is love and what isn’t loving — both to myself and others. But often our ideas of love and lov…
    Our soul’s deepest desire is to love and know love. To know what love truly is — and isn’t. I’ve experienced a sorting process in this life of how to love, what is love and what isn’t loving — both to myself and others. But often our ideas of love and loving are warped. What if abuse got mixed in there, or staying silent?? We grow up confused and learning that loving means to do xyz (let’s discover!), and pure loving that is without survival attached becomes distorted. It is deeply ingrained in our systems, even our ancestral systems, and society. It is deeply in our unconscious — in the way the body is held, moves, and doesn’t move. This episode is an exploration of free and wholehearted love…the capacity to witness fullness and bareness in ourselves and others. I discuss how to untangle destructive ways of being that have been paired with love or being loved. In the last quarter of the episode, I guide you through a journaling or meditation experience to explore what loving meant in your early life, untangling love from protection, fear and other ways of being that were associated, and connecting you to what love is in its clearest form. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/love  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by my Dream Classes on Skillshare Our dreams offer access to energies and parts of ourselves that are hidden or unseen and wanting to be revealed. Check out my Skillshare class on Dream Work: Dreaming: Embodiment Practices to Prepare Your Physiology For a Thriving Dream Life This class offers specific breathing techniques, yogic and body-centered practices, and meditations that you can use to ground yourself and develop safety and playfulness for your dreams to thrive. These practices will support your nervous system in feeling a level of deep rest and relaxation, giving the capacity for you to remember your dreams even better than before or for the first time. Find all my  Dreamwork Classes Online and enjoy a Skillshare promo of two months free on CandiceWu.com/classes All the proceeds from Skillshare to me go towards supporting the Embody Podcast. Show Notes 00:00 Intro Sponsored by My Dream Classes on Skillshare 03:59 Opening 04:21 This Episode’s Inspiring Question 05:09 Talking About Beauty 06:24 The Beauty in Ballet - YUMMY 08:40 What Brings Beauty and Awe for You? 09:35 My Early Healing Journey — Tuning Into Beauty to Accelerate the Healing 10:28 Mention of Somatic Experiencing & Peter Levine 12:06 Blog Posts & Episodes About Pleasure 12:19 The Topic of Love 13:34 Love Is a Full Experience in the Body 14:11 We Are All Here to Love 14:42 What I Mean With Love : A Description 16:18 Love in Family Constellations 18:57 Love Is Attention 18:57 Love Is Attention 20:43 Self Love as a Way to More Love 24:16 Mention of Carl Rodgers 24:41 It’s Not About Romantic Love — Agape 25:37 Agape : Universal, Spiritual, and All-Encompassing Love 27:47 Why Have We Confused Love? 31:49 What Love Can Be Mix With… 36:58 Love Mixed Up With Sex and Relationship 38:44 Love Mixed Up With Money 39:28 What Has Loving Been Mixed With in Your Life, Soul, and Being? 40:29 Do You Love Out of Fear or Freedom? 42:33 Great Beginnings : True Love 43:13 JOURNALING: Inquiry and Exploration Questions for You 54:10 Mary Oliver Poem — A Summer Day Outro, Feedback, and Newsletter Future Experientials Thank You for Tuning In
    loving love, worthiness, mystery, life lessons, cleansing
  • 62: Aleta Cai & The Human Condition: Self Love, Sensuality, Permission & Submission

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    This episode with Aleta Kai was truly invigorating! Aleta’s energetic concoction of spirituality, sensuality, sexuality, power, and loving yourself, mixed with biology and the body brings a stimulating conversation. Aleta Cai is an NYC based healer and do…
    This episode with Aleta Kai was truly invigorating! Aleta’s energetic concoction of spirituality, sensuality, sexuality, power, and loving yourself, mixed with biology and the body brings a stimulating conversation. Aleta Cai is an NYC based healer and dominatrix who combines her experiences in both into a unique form of somatic and energetic healing. She focuses on embodiment, empowerment and processing trauma. Through her methodology of integrating submission, her clients are able to surrender into their own vulnerabilities in a transformative way. In this episode we explore: Aleta’s Journey to a BDSM Dungeon and into her Energy Healing The power of sexual energy Permission to feel good about yourself and feel pleasure The human condition of masochism and the pleasure in pain How Aleta uses BDSM techniques from more than only a sexual angle — but to awaken the energy of the sacral area in both men and women — as a somatic healing practice to reveal more and open up more for herself and her clients Aleta’s kundalini awakening and the emergence The lived and unlived life Feeling safe in the body — being in the body instead of spiritually bypassing Using submission and dominance to explore our core being Showing up in the world vs hiding Being Chinese and shifting the belief sets that came through culture and lineage Aleta holds a BA in Psychology as well as an MA in Film Studies, both from NYU. After a few years working in Fashion, she followed both her curiosity and fear into a BDSM dungeon. It ignited a path of healing and integration she never foresaw, and she not only “learned the ropes” there, but learned the ropes for a new way of understanding the human condition. A kundalini awakening further catapulted her towards her life calling of healing and she began her pursuit of the healing arts first through Reiki, hypnosis, clairvoyance and integrative life coaching. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/aleta  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by my new Dream Work Class on Skillshare A few weeks ago, I published a new class on Dream Work, which supports people who are interested in developing a stronger ability to remember their dreams and a connected relationship to their dream wisdom with embodiment practices. Dreaming: Embodiment Practices to Prepare Your Physiology For a Thriving Dream Life Our dreams offer access to energies and parts of ourselves that are hidden or unseen and wanting to be revealed. This class offers specific breathing techniques, yogic and body-centered practices, and meditations that you can use to ground yourself and develop safety and playfulness for your dreams to thrive. These practices will support your nervous system in feeling a level of deep rest and relaxation, giving the capacity for you to remember your dreams even better than before or for the first time. Find all the  Dreamwork Classes Online and enjoy a Skillshare promo of two months free here All the proceeds from Skillshare to me go towards supporting the Embody Podcast. Learn more about this and other classes by me at  CandiceWu.com/classes Show Notes Intro 0:32 Disclaimer Sponsored by My Dream Classes on Skillshare 3:42 Opening Introducing Aleta 7:19 Hiding a Part of Myself (Being a Dominatrix) 8:13 Kundalini Awakening 8:43 The First Sessions after the Awakening were like nothing else! 10:17 What was the shift and the new energy? 12:48 Phases of Dark before Awakening 14:28 How to support yourself through the healing? 17:31 Incorporating BDSM in a new way 20:37 How do you use dominance and submission? 21:16 Societal Core Identities 22:25 The Pressure of Society and what is underneath 25:01 Power in Relationship — The Second Chakra 25:47 Aleta’s Gratitude for her Practice 27:27 The Duality of Healing 27:27 Duality of Healing 28:42 About being Visible in your Work 32:05 You are Invisible 33:04 Learning that it’s not about you — Showing up for the other person 35:08 What struggles is Aleta having now? 37:07 Where are your decisions coming from? 39:28 What delights Aleta right now? 41:51 Sensuality, Pleasure, and Permission / Self Love 44:04 Finding Tantra 45:30 The Power in Sexual Energy 47:30 When life opens up to be pleasurable 49:09 Guilt and Shame for Feeling Pleasure? 50:47 What does Aleta’s Ancestry bring to the experience of Pleasure? 54:22 Thoughts about Self Love 57:04 Pulling Self Love Inside 58:36 Allowing Pleasure and Reward 58:36 Permission to feel good about yourself 59:21 Self Love or Self Masochism? 1:05:50 Butterfly needs Struggle of Emergence 1:06:21 Anything else to share today? Audience Gift 1:07:17 Outro 1:08:09 The Embody Podcast Birthday — A Thank You The Embody Newsletter
    BDSM, sexuality, sensuality, body, permission, dominance, submission, self love, sex
  • 61: Lessons in Self Love : Toxic Ancestors and Family Relationships

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    In this episode, I explore a question from a listener: “Can you receive love and strength from ancestors or relatives still alive if they are mentally sick/toxic/unhealthy?” I discuss tuning into the soul of our family members that we feel challenged by t…
    In this episode, I explore a question from a listener: “Can you receive love and strength from ancestors or relatives still alive if they are mentally sick/toxic/unhealthy?” I discuss tuning into the soul of our family members that we feel challenged by to receive more than their human form can give us, how our “toxic dynamics or relationships” are the opening to the story of pain or loss in the family, and how these can be taken up as an opportunity to become aware of our gaps in self-love. I explore how our expectations on others to be different may be our own dependencies — how do we shift out of these? We expand your capacity to love yourself and offer self-forgiveness. I also briefly talk about what needs mending in ourselves, what love is and sorting out what love isn’t, and untangling abuse and other ideas tied to love. Check out the experientials where you can heal a part of your ancestry and recover love within yourself, shift a family relationship that is toxic by healing your inner child or younger self and bringing self-forgiveness to the judgments we hold about ourselves, particularly around dependency on others to provide us what we need. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by my new Skillshare Class on Dream Physiology I published a new class on Dream Work, which supports people who are interested in developing a stronger ability to remember their dreams and a connected relationship to their dream wisdom with embodiment practices. Dreaming: Embodiment Practices to Prepare Your Physiology For a Thriving Dream Life Our dreams offer access to energies and parts of ourselves that are hidden or unseen and wanting to be revealed. This class offers specific breathing techniques, yogic and body-centered practices, and meditations that you can use to ground yourself and develop safety and playfulness for your dreams to thrive. These practices will support your nervous system in feeling a level of deep rest and relaxation, giving the capacity for you to remember your dreams even better than before or for the first time. Learn more about my Dream Classes on Skillshare at  candicewu.com/classes Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:05 Opening: What Needs Mending? Sponsored by My New Dream Physiology Class on Skillshare Life Updates: Blizzards in Michigan 08:03 Working With the Challenges of the Ireland Experience 09:50 Bouncing Out of Social Into Doing Things - Energy Towards Myself 10:51 My Own Healing Journey 12:13 New Back Pain - What is My Back Saying? 14:47 Wanting to Be Held — Human and Childhood Needs 15:44 Connecting My Experience to Family Ancestry Trauma 17:31 More Enjoyment on My Healing Journey 19:07 This Week’s Topic: Receiving From Unhealthy and Toxic Relationships and Ancestors 20:52 Toxic Relationships Within the Your Family Line 27:02 Wishing That People Were Different — the Expectations and Dependency of It 27:55 Adult Now 28:54 Emotionally Distance Yourself // Compassion May Not Be the End All 30:33 Can We Cut Our Own Emotional Luggage? 32:44 It’s About You. Underlying Family Constellations 39:03 Seeing the Soul of Someone Who Is Challenging Us 40:24 Using the Image of Someone Who Loves You Working With Your Inner Parts Around Challenging Relationships 42:44 Asking Yourself: What Is Love? 43:57 Love in Families and People With Challenges 45:03 What if a Family System Has Accepted and Integrated Abuse as Love? 47:34 Work in Healing Ourselves Other Interesting Episodes and Resources This Week’s Healing Experientials 52:23 Closing — Tuning Into Where Your Heart Is Now Embody Newsletter 54:38 Thank You for Being Here ❤
    ancestry, ancestral healing, toxic relationships, spirituality in family relationships, challenging family dynamics, shifting family patterns, self love, toxic dynamics
  • 60: Legacy Burdens Cross-Cultural Healing With Ifs & Embrace Your Unicorn Self With Deran Young

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    In this poignant and powerful conversation with Deran Young, founder of Black Therapists Rock, learn all about Internal Family Systems (IFS) and how you can use that to claim unseen parts of yourself as well as heal racism and racial and cross-cultural wo…
    In this poignant and powerful conversation with Deran Young, founder of Black Therapists Rock, learn all about Internal Family Systems (IFS) and how you can use that to claim unseen parts of yourself as well as heal racism and racial and cross-cultural wounds. Deran shares about her perspectives on the Legacy Burden of the Black Community, in herself, and encourages us all to look at our own Legacy Burdens in our ancestries. We explore the importance of racial trauma and cross-cultural conversations in society and using IFS as a platform safe and productive healing, as well as her experiences of being Muslim for 5 years, in the US Air Force for 17, and her fascination with the magic of Unicorns. Deran previously served in the U.S. Air Force for 17 years! Deran is an Internationally experienced clinician, who has practiced in over 5 countries, most recently supporting a week-long IFS training in China in October of 2018. Black Therapists Rock is a non-profit organization Deran founded, geared towards increasing awareness of social and emotional challenges impacting marginalized populations. She has also been featured in the Huffington Post as one of the “10 Black Female Therapists You Should Know”. In 2018 she was selected as a Facebook Community Partner and is currently working to fulfill a proposal towards creating a burnout prevention project for mental health professionals called Healing the Healer. She obtained her undergraduate education in Social Psychology and received her Masters in Social Work at the University of Texas. She also holds a Masters in Public Administration (with emphasis on leadership, diversity, and organizational culture). She has personally traveled to over 32 countries and conducted her final semester of grad school in Ghana, West Africa, where she established a High School counseling center. Through her work with Black Therapists Rock, she is focused on education and outreach, while leading over 20,000 professionals. She was acknowledged by the Mayor of Baltimore for “helping to educate the public on mental illness and end the stigma that is often associated with it”. Her hard work and dedication to raising awareness of mental health issues resulted in her work being highlighted by the acclaimed Psychotherapy Networker magazine, and she has also been featured in the Huffington Post as one of the “10 Black Female Therapists You Should Know”. In 2018 she was selected as a Facebook Community Partner and is currently working to fulfill a proposal towards creating a burnout prevention project for mental health professionals called Healing the Healer. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/deran  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by my new Skillshare Class on Dream Physiology I am excited to share a passion project of mine: the  online Dream Work Series Dreamwork is a deep way to cultivate a connection with yourself, and build empowerment and self-love. Our dreams offer access to parts of ourselves that are hidden or unseen and wanting to be revealed for higher wisdom and awareness. The most recent class I created is to support people who are interested in dreamwork to support their bodies in the safety, playfulness, and openness to better remember their dreams —  Dreaming: Embodiment Practices to Prepare Your Physiology For a Thriving Dream Life This course offers specific breathing techniques, yogic and body-centered practices, and meditations that you can use to ground yourself and develop safety and playfulness for your dreams to thrive. These practices will support your nervous system in feeling a level of deep rest and relaxation, giving the capacity for you to remember your dreams even better than before or for the first time. You can use these meditations any time to feel embodied, restful, and centered, but we will use them here to specifically develop your dream life. I’ll walk you through every step and you can use these daily, if they resonate with you. This is Part 1 of 2, where you will learn how to build your capacity for remembering your dreams through body-centered practices. In Part 2, coming soon, I’ll walk you through Visualizations combined with Somatic Experiencing and Somatic Practices that support the nervous system in playfulness, pleasure, daydreaming, imagination, and openness so that your dream life can thrive! Learn more about this and other classes by me at  CandiceWu.com/classes Show Notes 0:00 Intro Sponsored by My New Physiology Dream Class 3:48 Introducing Deran 5:32 Opening the Conversation 6:18 How Did You End Up Where You Are Now? 7:58 Internal Family Systems and Self Love 12:41 IFS, Grace and Not Knowing 14:00 The Legacy Burden in the Black Community 16:32 How to Address Social and Emotional Challenges of Marginalized Groups 19:56 Candice - Story of Being Part of the Minority 20:48 The Importance of This Conversation in Society 22:59 How Can We Begin These Conversations With Safety? 25:24 Integrating the Soul, The Core Being, and Spirituality 26:21 Open Hearted Spirituality 28:28 Being Muslim for 5 Years? What Stands Out for You? 29:35 Cultural Differences & Learning From Different Energies 31:14 What Was the Air Force Like for Deran? 32:01 What I Loved About the Military 34:13 What Challenges Deran Right Now? 36:57 Learning to Do for You! 39:29 Fascination With Unicorns and Believing 41:46 Lightning Round 41:55 What’s a Recent Dream You Have Had? 43:48 What Parts Are You Working With Right Now? 47:04 How Are You Affected by the Moon? 47:26 Mention of Daphne Fuller — Black Minds in Meditations 48:59 Sharing Healing Techniques Within the Black Community 49:23 IFS to Help Claim Unseen Parts 51:38 Results of Patriarchy 52:57 Anything Else to Share? Polarization — When Do You Disagree? 53:15 Disagreements and How to Handle Them 55:00 Where People Can Find Deran and Her  Organization Black Therapists Rock 57:39 A Note About Family Constellations and Their Relationship to IFS 1:03:16 Outro Where to Find Deran Thank You for Joining Us
    legacy burdens, ancestry, family ancestry, ancestral healing, internal family systems, unicorn self, unicorns, self love, black therapists rock, black therapist, derran young
  • 59: Why Feel? Emotions & Embodiment for the Skeptic in You

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    Sometimes people wonder why feel our emotions? What good does it do when it is so uncomfortable? Have you ever felt the chasm between your mind and body - where you think something or have a plan, but your body and your emotions do something else? Where y…
    Sometimes people wonder why feel our emotions? What good does it do when it is so uncomfortable? Have you ever felt the chasm between your mind and body - where you think something or have a plan, but your body and your emotions do something else? Where you think something positive about yourself, but you FEEL differently in your body – Like you think you’re good enough and worthy, but somehow you don’t quite feel it in your being or you manifest something else? Being in our bodies and feeling expands us into the unknown and what we cannot control, but gives us a world of wisdom, self-knowing, and self-love. In this episode, I talk about embodiment 101 for the skeptic in you, what qualities and capacities healing and integration requires, moving from rationalizing to feeling, the steps to feeling, the myths about being still or quiet, and accessing your wisdom. Also, listen in for updates about my adventures in Ireland being with horses, challenging learnings I have had, and where I am now in the world! Tune in later this week for the Felt Sense Menu and Five Senses Body Scan. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/embodiment101  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by YOU, my Patrons Thank YOU, Patrons, for your support! If the Embody Podcast has inspired you, helped, or spoken to you, it would mean the world to me if you would show your support through a  contribution on Patreon Each episode is a lovingly made from my soul and takes anywhere from weeks to a few days to develop and produce. I gladly pay an editor who supports me in polishing and creating high-quality episodes. As little as $1 a month would nourish the podcast to continue to have life and cover the costs. Plus you’ll receive some sweet personalized healing gifts from me that can deepen your embodiment on your own journey. I am excited to share these with you. I am so appreciative that you are considering supporting me in this way. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! ❤ Learn more at  candicewu.com/patreon Show Notes 00:00 Intro Sponsored by You — My Patrons 02:21 Opening — I’m in Dublin Now 🙈 04:29 Earth Told Me: I’ve Got Your Back - Re-Sourcing 06:09 The More We Have Around Us to Resource, The More Joy and Safety We Can Have 07:25 Re-Sourcing My Father 09:23 What Brings You a Sense of Safety, Beauty, or Contentment? Resources for Resourcing 11:18 Why Would We Feel Our Emotions? 12:28 Update on Leaving Ireland 14:10 I Chose to Leave and Love Myself 16:07 Accepting Other People Having Views of Me 17:40 I’m Not Going to Fight for Everything 18:03 In Dublin - Heading Home Tomorrow! 18:31 Concluding My Experience With My Host — Looking at What’s There. 19:58 I Don’t Want More Resistance 21:38 Why Should We Even Get Into Our Body Experience and Felt Sense? 26:07 Mental Process About Something Felt (The Irony 🙈) 27:32 Experience of Mental and Thought Is the Only Way. 29:04 If You Are “In Your Head a Lot” — That’s Good Information to Have! 30:08 Feeling Requires to Be Able to Handle the Unknown 31:09 Dismissing Feelings and Just Solving the Pain With Western Medicine 32:02 Mention of  Jim Kulackoski  — “If There Is Not a Spiritual Space for Disease, There Will Be a Physical One” Mention of the Koshas Podcast Episode 32:44 Reiterating What We’ve Talked About 33:27 Healing and Integration Through Moments of Noticing 34:20 Working With the Body Through Leaning Into discomfort/breaks When Necessary 35:58 Supporting Yourself Through Resourcing Is Important 37:50 When You Don’t Know Where to Begin… 40:03 A Real-Life Example — Changing a Relationship Through Family Constellations 45:50 It’s Not Easy to Feel but It Changes Things. 48:00 The Steps of Embodiment 50:49 Feeling 101 51:50 Following Experientials With This Episode Other Recommendations : Emotions EP24 Other Recommendations : Self Touch and Grounding EP47 Other Recommendations : Sound Sleep Album 56:40 Ending With a Poem by Mary Oliver Reach Out for Support Newsletter & Community The Dream Class Dream Class Newsletter & Embody Community 58:46 Mary Oliver Quote
    emotions, human, nervous system, somatic experiencing, bodywise, body wisdom, body intelligence, intuition
  • 58: Where can we soften? With Lauren Maxwell

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    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…
    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 relationship with themselves. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/lauren  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by My Dream Class on Skillshare Dreams are constantly revealing yourself to you and each bring a whole world of embedded knowledge and wisdom, waiting to be seen and bringing you new energies to cultivate in your life, possibility, and connection. Do you remember your dreams? It was actually a dream of being in Chiang Mai, Thailand, which unfolded into a lifestyle of location-independent living beginning with Thailand, a travel and romantic partner, practicing my healing work online with clients all over the world, and lots of new found inner and outer freedom and empowerment. If you’re interested in dreaming, I’ve started a series of  dream work classes  that will support remembering and harvesting dreams, and there’s much more to come about embodying the energies, wisdom, and messages of your dreams. This first class is about the basics: unfolding and awakening your dream life so that you can harness the power of dreams, how to cultivate the ability to remember your dreams, creating intentions and ways to record and harvest your dreams. This class is free through the end of Jan. ⠀⠀ Sweet dreams to you…❤ Learn more at  CandiceWu.com/dreamclass1 Show Notes 0:00 Intro Sponsored by my Dream Class on Skillshare Update on my Travels Introducing Lauren 5:18 Conversation Opening 6:10 Intro to Lauren’s World 7:20 What Was It Like to Bring All These Parts Into Your Life? 7:47 How the Spine, Back, and Inner World Is Connected With Everything 9:29 The Misinterpretation of Chakras 10:34 How Do You Soften? 11:17 Mention of Book Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown 13:09 Learning to Feel Into Pleasure and Moving Out Side of Patterns 14:12 Mention Writer and Tarot Reader Sarah Gottesdiener 15:12 Lauren’s Story About Changing the Shape of Her Spine Through Yoga 19:48 Locked Up, Shifting Out of Pushing to Actually Heal 21:37 Circling Through Experiences — Even as Simple as Our Phone Addictions 21:37 Cell Phone Cycle 23:23 What Was the Practice That Shifted Everything? 24:31 Yoga Teacher Alison West, Yoga Union NYC 24:37 Yoga for Scoliosis Ayengar System by Elise Browning Miller 24:57 Inviting the Bones to Change — Physical, Energetic, and Emotional Release 26:57 Relating to Ourselves in Pain. Listening to What’s Underneath 28:52 Tapping Into the Truth and Opening the Creative and Spiritual Channels More Freely 29:24 The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron 29:54 Practice: Morning Pages — Free Flowing Text 30:50 Having a Morning Practice — Engaging With Yourself Before Jumping Into the Rest of the World 32:05 Where Is Lauren on Her Journey and What Are Her Struggles? 34:01 How Can I Experience Mental, Creative, and Expansive Freedom Every Day? 35:42 Were Is Your Home? My Home Is My Body. A Grounding Practice. 37:41 What Can Make You Feel Grounded? 37:57 Laurens Zine — How to Uncover Self in Chaotic Times 38:07 Talking About Shifting From Suffering for Success to Wellbeing and Pleasure | Using White Privilege to Do Good 39:42 Thinker Leo Lethard 39:46 Mention of Rachel Cargle 41:15 Taking Care of Self & Revealing Self | Building a Backbone for Moral and Social Justice 42:50 Seeking Collaboration and Ways to Communicate 43:28 Learning Safety With Your Own Truth and Surrounding Yourself With the Right People / Values? 44:05 Opening of the Spine Through Energetic Connection and Reducing Constrictions 44:57 Finding Strength in Community (There Are Others) — Learning From the Oak Tree Families Standing Strong 46:52 The Craving to Find Your People — Stepping Into It 47:59 Speed Lightning Round 48:11 What Curious Dream Have You Had Lately? 50:07 What Is One Daily Ritual That You Have? 50:58 What Do You Have Doubts About? 52:44 What Job Would You Be Horrible At? 53:51 Last Words From Lauren 54:24 Audience Special Offer | Gift: Free Consultation and Discount 55:31 Where You Can Find Lauren and Her Zine 55:57 Gratitude Sharing 56:35 Outro Dream Class Newsletter & Embody Community 58:46 Mary Oliver Quote
    lauren maxwell, soften, breathwork, self love
  • 57: A{Live} Now: Lessons From Horses, Boundaries, and my new Assertive Hat

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    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 …
    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} Now 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 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 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. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/horselifeireland
  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by People Like You This episode is sponsored by supporters (like you) on  Patreon . I appreciate all the love and contributions on Patreon, which all go towards the production of the podcast and all the creations, meditations, and healing experiences that you can access on the Embody Podcast. If this has inspired, touched, or supported you, please consider supporting the continuation and life of the podcast. Learn more at  CandiceWu.com/patreon Show Notes 00:00 Intro 01:08 Opening: I am in a Different World 02:05 Ireland — Snow, Rain, and Mud 03:18 I Had No Idea What I Was Getting Into… 04:09 Natural Horsemanship: Learning Alongside the Horses 04:46 Northwest Ireland — Making the Space Home 06:31 Releasing My Reliance on Comforts 07:07 Why Did I Come Here? Complete Inner Freedom 08:56 Disruptions With Attachment: Wanting It From the Outside 09:44 Reminding Myself That I Am Alive and Breathing! 10:40 How It’s Been Here — After the Initial Reaction / and Some of the Learning 10:55 Witnessing All 4 Horses and My Teacher (Playing Out Dominance Game) 13:58 Learning to Assert Boundaries Around Horses Makes Me Feel Stronger 16:13 Are You Someone Who Is Moved or Do You Move Others? 19:23 How I Have Been Treating Myself With Acceptance #Lovingmyself 21:02 Working on Being Assertive — Putting a Big Assertive Hat On 23:39 Do You Desire to Be More Assertive? 25:10 I Don’t Do It All Alone 26:00 I Continue On 26:44 Still Getting to Know the Space, the Horses, My Host, and Everything.
    horse love, horse life, healing with horses, assertive, boundaries, strengthen boundaries, saying no
  • 56: Andrew Shkyovsky: Consciousness, Mysticism, and the Direct Perception of Reality

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 15 min 20 sec1:15:20
    “How much do you value truth?” ~ Andrew Shykovsky In 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…
    “How much do you value truth?” ~ Andrew Shykovsky In 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 Mystical Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois where he provided classes and Services in Christian Mysticism. The community grew and another minister was ordained to preside over Services. Andrew relocated to Charleston, SC in Jan. 2018. He was ordained a Master Teacher in June 2018. He currently presides at the Mystical Church of Christ in Charleston, SC. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/andrew
  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by My Client Work Shoutout to any of my clients listening - I love my work with my clients and that work supports this podcast! I facilitate healing, spirituality, and a deeper knowing of the self — supporting the body wisdom and experiential tools for completing trauma and negative beliefs of self, spiritual crises, self-love, and understanding of self, while feeling at ease and at home in the simplicity of being human. I inspire people with tools to love themselves through the entire process of healing and transformation. Individual sessions are for people who want to feel more and experience the depths and truth of themselves. For shifting beliefs and what’s held in the body that keeps them stuck and feeling negatively about themselves — towards joy and aliveness, and greater freedom. Sometimes these can begin with pain or tension in the body and other times with a feeling that there’s’ something deeper you desire in life and you’d like to discover it, or feeling like you want to truly love yourself and trust your intuition and body. I offer ongoing  one-on-one work  at the pace and frequency that works best for you, retreats, workshops,  Group Healing Calls , embodied couples work as well as in polyamorous and open relationships. Reach out  for a no pressure exploratory conversation to see if it is a good fit and what you desire, or to be offered referrals for someone that would work well for you. Learn more at  CandiceWu.com/packages Show Notes & Timestamps  00:00 Intro 01:05 Sponsored by  My Client Work 03:10 Opening 03:29 Intro to  Andrew Shykofsky 04:34 Conversation Opening 05:47 the Quest Towards Truth and Love 07:48 A Prayer for Love 08:25 Andrew’s Path to Becoming a Priest 10:48 Resistance About Christianity & Listening to Each Other 13:53 Discussions About Being a Good Listener 17:15 Awareness & Consciousness Changed (No Longer Angry When People Don’t Listen / A Path to Acceptance) 18:40 Being Aware in Sharing and Listening / the Vulnerable Two Way Connection 20:17 What Is Consciousness for Andrew? 21:51 Rough Edges & Absolute Awareness 24:04 Andrew Asks: Do You Recognize the Discrepancy Between the Intent of People and What They Are Actually Doing? 25:29 Christ Consciousness = Direct Perception of Reality as It Is 30:24 Other Words for Christ Consciousness and the Capital “S” Self 35:21 What’s Your Idea of the Other Side? After Death? 37:36 Debate About “This Is My Last Incarnation” (Coming Back or Not…) 40:32 Doing Things to Help Other People 44:04 Where Are You on Your Journey? 47:29 How Do You Stay in Love With Passive Aggressiveness? 49:21 Disclaimer: Start of Child Molestation Conversation 50:57 Disclaimer: End of Child Molestation Conversation 52:17 Forgiveness Before God and Resolving Conflict 53:03 Liberating Yourself: Resolving Anger Because It Imprisons You 56:52 Rooted in Truth / How Much Do You Value Truth? 57:42 Dirty Water 58:39 What Brings Andrew Alive in the Moment? 01:00:58 Andrew Loves Teaching the Gospel Story 01:03:32 Being Discrete Talking About Christian Things (Finding the Overlap) Video: Do We Create Reality? Audience Gift: Half Off Level 1 Meditation Course 01:09:21 Where Can You Find Andrew? Online Meditation Course 01:10:24 Any Last Words? Don’t Give Up Hope! 01:12:04 Closing Video: Do We Create Reality? Audience Gift: Half Off Level 1 Meditation Course in Charleston 01:13:54 Thank You for Being Here
    consciousness, mysticism, christian mystic, perception, reality, awareness, andrew shykovsky,
  • 55: Ritual and Embodiment

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 46 min 55 sec0:46:55
    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 …
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/ritual
  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by my Dream Class on Skillshare One of my favorite rituals is to record and harvest the wisdom of my dreams. ⠀⠀ Dreams are constantly revealing yourself to you and each one brings a whole world of embedded knowledge and wisdom, waiting to be seen and bringing you new energies to cultivate in your life, possibility, and connection. It connects us back to parts of ourselves we have hidden or left behind, forgotten about, or disconnected from, to bring us into our wholeness and true power. If you’re interested in dreaming, I’ve started a series of  dream work classes that will support remembering and harvesting dreams, and there’s much more to come about embodying the energies, wisdom, and messages of your dreams. This first class is about the basics: unfolding and awakening your dream life so that you can harness the power of dreams, how to cultivate the ability to remember your dreams, creating intentions and ways to record and harvest your dreams. This class is free through the end of Jan. Receive two free months of a premium Skillshare account with  this link . This is an affiliate link and proceeds go towards the podcast production. Sweet dreams to you…❤ Learn more at  candicewu.com/dreamclass1 Show Notes & Timestamps  00:00 Intro Sponsored by the Dream Class One 04:38 Opening: This Is About Rituals 05:23 New Year to Create Ritual 06:44 Future Plans and New Rituals in Daily Life 08:12 What Does “Ritual” Mean to You? 09:22 What Rituals Do You Have and What Are They Doing for You? 10:12 Rituals Can Be Disembodying 10:56 Attention and Awareness in Rituals 11:15 Anything Can Be a Ritual 12:16 Rituals Throughout History 13:09 Greeting Each Other, Meditation, Circumcision, Yoga as a Ritual (Rituals Can Be Healing or Not) 14:57 Rituals in Different Cultures / Trauma Because Something Wasn’t Complete 17:12 Rituals as a Transition Marker 17:47 The Idea of Belonging: Pressure in Groups to Stay in Belonging 19:19 This Happens in Society, in Families, Everywhere 20:03 Experiences With Gender, Differences, Identity 20:20 What Are Your Rituals That You Love? What Are the Ones You Disagree With? 20:40 Story: My Most Beautiful Rituals 21:47 Honoring and Acknowledgement in Family Constellations 22:14 Rituals Around Death and Greave 22:40 Ritual at It’s Best 23:52 Ritual Supports Belonging and Self Expression 25:01 Rituals That I Want to Create 25:37 We Are All Unique Beings 26:24 What to Do Before Creating Your Own Rituals 27:21 Abhyanga Massage as a Ritual 28:33 One of My Rituals: Speak Honestly 29:01 Healing Rituals Are Important for Me 29:29 Work Sessions: Ritual of Opening With Love and Tuning In 30:11 Using My Pendulum as a Ritual 31:03 Ritual Movements: Lotus Mudra 31:40 Ritual of Embodying and Visualization 32:00 Noticing My Surroundings and Recognizing That I Am Safe 32:43 Having Tea With Myself 32:53 New Rituals in Ireland? Building Trust With Horses 33:29 Connecting With My Spirit’s Song and Dance 34:49 Rituals With My Ancestry and Family 36:40 Let’s Connect With What Makes You Feel Joy 39:03 What Rituals Do You Want to Have in Your Life? 39:46 Jim - Purpose of Life Is to Give Meaning 40:57 Following This Episode: Experientials 41:55 Closing Together: Experiential More Episodes & Feedback Newsletter & Community Dream Class
    Ritual, Body Wisdom, Body Wise, Rituals for the Body, Healing, Self Love
  • 54: Mia Park on Hope, Ancestor Survival, and Creative Resource

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 57 min 1 sec0:57:01
    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 ever…
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/ep54
  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by my Dream Class on Skillshare It was actually a dream image of Chiang Mai, Thailand, which unfolded into a lifestyle of location-independent living beginning with Thailand, a travel and romantic partner, doing my healing work online and all over the world, and lots of new found inner and outer freedom and empowerment. If you’re interested in dreaming, I’ve started a series of  dream work classes  that will support remembering and harvesting dreams, and there’s much more to come about embodying the energies, wisdom, and messages of your dreams. This first class is about the basics: unfolding and awakening your dream life so that you can harness the power of dreams, how to cultivate the ability to remember your dreams, creating intentions and ways to record and harvest your dreams. This class is free through the end of Jan. ⠀⠀ Dreams are constantly revealing yourself to you and each bring a whole world of embedded knowledge and wisdom, waiting to be seen and bringing you new energies to cultivate in your life, possibility and connection. Sweet dreams to you…❤ Learn more at  candicewu.com/dreamclass1 Show Notes & Timestamps  0:00 Intro 1:05 Sponsored by Dream Class 2:44 Opening — Happy New Year 4:00 Ending the Year Episode 4:23 Experiencing With More Ease 5:45 Introducing Mia Park 7:23 Conversation 7:50 What Are You Not? 9:30 What's Your Story? How Did You Get Here? 10:32 Mia — Always Driven by Hope 11:52 Where Is Mia From — Family and Childhood Trauma? 13:01 Escaping With Creativity 13:36 Growing Up Around Church and a White Bearded Man as a Savior 15:59 Rebellion and Longing for Spirituality 16:27 On Drugs and Moving to Korea Moving Around the World 18:29 I Am Lucky but I Am Also Super Driven 19:59 Mia’s Ancestry Story and Her Real Life 21:02 Japan, Korea, Nagasaki, and the Atomic Bomb 22:48 Starting a New Life in South Korea 23:25 Mother Born and Raised in North Korea and the Escape 24:06 Korean War 25:12 No Coincidences 28:28 Let's Not Talk About It (Elderly Dismiss the Conversation) 29:48 How Does Knowing Your Story Affect You? 30:29 Creative With Resources / Wrapping Gifts With Rice Gift 31:56 Eating Money for Storage and Survival 35:47 The Americans 36:31 Working on Sensitivity in Material Arts 37:58 Ancestry Survivor Sense Is Coming Out of the System / Abuse of Mia’s Body 39:51 The Abuse Tied to the Female Lineage 40:27 Listening to What Little Mia Needs 42:24 Connecting Hip Pain and Surgeries to the Ancestry 45:16 What's It Like to Teach Yoga in Jails? 47:17 What's the Lesson With Nurse Beth (Character of Tv Show)? 50:52 How Can Women Step Into Their Own Leadership? 55:41 Outro
    tantra, yoga nidra, yoga, spirituality, ancestry, hope, creative resource, creativity, mia park, asian actress, acting, empowerment, yogic sleep
  • 53: Ending and Beginning the Year With Grace; Cleansing, Impermanence, and Integration

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 41 min 50 sec0:41:50
    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…
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/ep53
 Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by the Ally With Death Experiential Ally With Death Visualization  gives a powerful way to release what needs to go or end, what’s keeping in you in slow decay, and what is absorbing your life energy so you can feel clear, at ease, and in the spark of your true being. Let this clear the way for new life and what is life-giving! It is now $6 for a limited time. Learn more at  candicewu.com/death Show Notes & Timestamps   00:00 Intro 00:56 Sponsored by  Ally With Death 01:43 Opening. It’s About Embracing Death. 03:45 Change Is Such an Important Aspect 04:57 Last Year — I Wanted Congruency 06:36 Asking Yourself: What Do You Desire? 07:19 Death and the Energy of Impermanence 08:27 Bring the Force of Death Into Our Lives 09:12 What Happens When We Don’t Feel the Dark. Brené Brown Ted Talk 10:33 Feelings Can Be Backlogged (Even Into the Ancestry) 10:52 Let’s Also Look at the Wonderful Things 11:53 Meditation: Let’s Cleanse Last Year Out 13:48 January 15:48 February 16:56 March 17:18 April 17:56 May 18:25 June 18:57 July 19:12 August 19:35 September 19:46 October 20:03 November 20:26 December 21:09 The Full Year 21:09 Shifting Into the New Year 22:02 True Desires 24:27 If You Die Tomorrow, What Would You Be Compelled to Say, Do, or Change? 26:21 What Do You Want to Feel in the New Year? 28:50 Feel as if It’s Already Happened 29:52 Are There Things You Need to Let Go Off? 30:44 How Can You Love Yourself Through This Year? 31:38 Notice & Acknowledge What Comes Up 33:06 Creating a Ritual 33:51 Secret About Me: I Don’t Do Yoga Every Day 36:25 Thank You 36:58 Ending the Year With a Quote Ally With Death Dream Class on Skillshare 40:04 You Are Worthy
    cleanse for the new year, new years ritual, new year intentions, impermanence, integration, embodied wisdom, body wisdom
  • 52: Parts Work: Embrace the Many Parts of You

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 59 min 47 sec0:59:47
    This episode is a rerun of a previous episode on The Embody Podcast while I am on a short restorative hiatus. 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 gotte…
    This episode is a rerun of a previous episode on The Embody Podcast while I am on a short restorative hiatus. 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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/partswork  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature This episode is sponsored by my Dreamwork Classes online at Skillshare Receive two months free on Skillshare Premium and learn about how to feel more embodied so that your dream world can thrive! Here’s a link to three classes that are on Skillshare to support you in feeling more grounded and developing your inner world so that you can remember your dreams and glean dream wisdom. With  this link  you’ll receive two months free on Skillshare Premium. Learn more about the Dreamwork Classes at  CandiceWu.com/dreamclasses Show Notes 0:00 Intro 1:49 Sponsored by my Skillshare Dream Classes 2:26 Opening EP53 3:15 Holiday Check in — How Are You Feeling? 4:03 A Morning Experience of Discomfort and Loving Myself 5:21 Parts Work — Teenage Self 7:35 Dialoguing With My Teenage Self 9:01 Survival Mode 9:49 Giving Support From My Present Self 11:25 Connecting the Story to Parts Work 12:22 Diving Into Parts Work 12:37 Internal Family Systems 12:57 Voice Dialoging 13:47 I Like to Bring in the Body 14:30 We Have Many Different Inner Parts 17:43 Inside Out — Movie 18:46 Think Yourself Into a Situation 18:46 Mini Experiential 19:43 One of My Easiest Ways to Work With Inner Parts (What Age and Is It Me?) 21:49 Other Kinds of Parts 22:34 Parental / Family Parts 23:54 Creatures, Animals, and Energy Blobs 24:27 No Getting Rid of Parts 25:23 Abandonment & Pushing Parts Aside 26:00 Outer and Inner World Weaves / Parts’ Desires 27:28 Fun Exploring 29:14 Acknowledgment for All Parts: A Team 30:17 Story: “Life Is So Hard” 33:39 How We Can Use Parts Work in Relationships 35:25 Exploring Your Own Relationships 37:05 Spotting Different Parts Reacting 38:17 Interviewing the Parts 42:55 Parts Work Is Perfect for Analysts 43:25 “Who Is Lost?” Parts Work Shifts and Heals the System 45:02 Activity — Start Slowing an Interaction Down 46:04 Naming Parts Can Be Magical 47:53 Activity Mapping Out Your Inner Self 49:57 Working — With the Mapped Version of You 50:16 Using All the Resources of the Many Parts of You - Everything Within 52:00 The Experientials in This Segment - 2 Coming Up 54:34 Outro 55:24 Let’s Feel Your Being 57:41 Closing Invitation
    Voice Dialogue, Internal Family Systems, IFS, Parts Work, Inner Child, Inner Critic, Firefighter, Inner Wisdom, Inner Sage, Resourcing, Aware Ego, Awareness, Consciousness
  • 52: Parts Work: Embrace the Many Parts of You

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 0 min12 sec1:00:12
    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 t…
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/partswork
 Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Special Message  Dreamwork is one of my passions and gets me connected with myself and the many parts of me - I’ve shared a  Dream Class on Skillshare , free until Jan 2019, on how to cultivate your dream life and remember your dreams. One way to work with dreams is to see every part of the dream as part of yourself, gaining wisdom and messages from each symbol and image. Learn more at  candicewu.com/dreamclass1 Show Notes & Timestamps   00:00 Intro 00:55 Introducing  the Dream Course  (And It’s Connection to Parts Work) 02:52 Opening Update (Location: Germany) 03:42 Holiday Check in — How Are You Feeling? 04:30 A Morning Experience of Discomfort and Loving Myself 05:48 Parts Work — Teenage Self 08:02 Dialoguing With My Teenage Self 09:28 Survival Mode 10:16 Giving Support From My Present Self 11:52 Connecting the Story to Parts Work 12:49 Diving Into Parts Work 13:04 Internal Family Systems 13:24 Voice Dialoging 14:14 I Like to Bring in the Body 14:57 We Have Many Different Inner Parts 18:10 Inside Out — Movie 19:13 Think Yourself Into a Situation 19:13 Mini Experiential 20:10 One of My Easiest Ways to Work With Inner Parts (What Age and Is It Me?) 22:16 Other Kinds of Parts 23:01 Parental / Family Parts 24:21 Creatures, Animals, and Energy Blobs 24:54 No Getting Rid of Parts 25:50 Abandonment & Pushing Parts Aside 26:27 Outer and Inner World Weaves / Parts’ Desires 27:55 Fun Exploring 29:41 Acknowledgment for All Parts: A Team 30:44 Story: “Life Is So Hard” 34:06 How We Can Use Parts Work in Relationships 35:52 Exploring Your Own Relationships 37:32 Spotting Different Parts Reacting 38:44 Interviewing the Parts 43:22 Parts Work Is Perfect for Analysts 43:52 “Who Is Lost?” Parts Work Shifts and Heals the System 45:29 Activity — Start Slowing an Interaction Down 46:31 Naming Parts Can Be Magical 48:20 Activity Mapping Out Your Inner Self 50:24 Working — With the Mapped Version of You 50:43 Using All the Resources of the Many Parts of You - Everything Within 52:27 The Experientials in This Segment - 2 Coming Up 55:01 Outro 55:51 Let’s Feel Your Being 58:08 Closing Invitation
    Voice Dialogue, Internal Family Systems, IFS, Parts Work, Inner Child, Inner Critic, Firefighter, Inner Wisdom, Inner Sage, Resourcing, Aware Ego, Awareness, Consciousness
  • 51: Core Erotic Themes Fantasy & BDSM with Harmony

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 11 min 23 sec1:11:23
    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 S…
    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 relationships BDSM as the “New Romance” Her experiences as a professional dominant and Somatica Practitioner Dominance and submission Acceptance around “unacceptable” for oneself / Releasing shame around fantasies Touching into core desire in your erotic themes Seamless verbal and nonverbal consent and the #MeToo movement Shadow and archetype in sexuality Embodying fantasies The 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 needed to bring healthy kink into your relationships. Harmony’s path to becoming a sex counselor took her through many vibrant Bay Area communities, including tantra, orgasmic meditation, the human potential movement, and NLP. She was an independent professional dominant for a decade. She developed her D/s skills at Cleo Dubois’ Academy of SM Arts and studied bondage with Midori. From 2009–11, she wrote educational articles about BDSM as the editor for the Society of Janus, the Bay Area’s oldest kink non-profit. Her current practice synthesizes all the wisdom she’s gained along that winding road. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/harmony
 Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by The Sound Sleep Album Do you wish for better sleep for the holidays? This episode is brought to you by the  Sound Sleep Alchemy Album . An album of 11 healing experientials and meditations, yoga poses, marma points, and spiritual guide that will help you feel more grounded, restful, and easeful in your sleep and throughout the day. It is the stepping stone towards healing trauma, feeling embodied, bringing your nervous system to a baseline where you feel relaxed and calm, and looking at the deeper aspects of sleep issues. Your support by ordering an album helps me make more healing albums, content, and produce more podcast episodes. The Sound Sleep Album is on sale through the new year for $11 (until 2019–01–05). Thank you for your support! Learn more at  candicewu.com/soundsleep Show Notes & Timestamps   Intro Sponsored by the Sound Sleep Album Opening December 17th 6:15 Conversation Start 7:09 Harmony’s Journey of Being a Pro-Domme to Kink from the Couch 8:02 How Did You Know You Found Your Calling? 9:25 Listening to Clients’ Fantasies 10:41 How to Talk to Your Partner About Your Fantasies 12:08 Core Desire — Having What You Want Is a Big Step 14:36 What Have You Learned About Yourself Through Fantasy? 18:19 Her Experience as a Dominatrix | Awareness Good for Life 18:19 Yes, Yes, and Yes… Empowering, Challenging, Healing 20:06 What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do… 21:39 Don’t Be Afraid to Go Slow 21:39 Moments of Up, Up, Up, and Savor 23:08 Dominance in Other Areas (Horses) 23:42 Step Into Your Dominant Self 25:45 Dominance Can Have Connotations / Design It for Yourself 27:39 Shadow Aspects of Harmony’s Work and Experiences 28:26 Shadow Stuff Coming Out 29:54 The Power of Creating a Safe Container 30:40 Feeling in Control in One Part of Life Gives You the Ability to Give Up Control in Others 32:47 Submissive Role Can Give a Pause on Controlling Things in Life 33:26 Alive Right Now | #Metoo and Consent 36:47 Non-Verbal Consent Techniques 37:32 Practicing Boundaries & Revisiting Them (Not Scared to Touch the Boundaries) 39:12 Somatica FAQ 39:40 Consent and Negotiations 41:11 Working With Sexual Archetypes 42:20 Archetype Gives Space for Authenticity in the Role 44:41 How Is Touch Incorporated in Somatica? 48:03 Learnings From Somatica for Harmony 48:40 Audience Gift : Exploring Core Erotic Themes 50:27 How External Input Can Change Your View on a Fantasy 52:21 A Story About Fantasies Showing a Piece of Yourself 55:57 Fantasy Going Against Your Beliefs (Cock-Sucking = Not Feminist?) 56:52 Submissive Is Not About Being Weak but Proving to Yourself That You Are Strong 58:33 Knowing Fantasies Brings Conscious Solutions Rather Than Destructive in Relationships 59:11 Story About Cock-Sucking & Foot Fetish 1:00:24 Creating Fantasies Intentionally So They Aren’t Destructive but Pleasurable 1:02:00 Acceptance Around Unacceptable for Oneself 1:02:49 Pleasure in the Poignancy of the Pain 1:03:52 Some of the Moments I Felt Most Alive Have Been in BDSM Contacts With Extreme Pain 1:04:16 When Did I Last Check in With My Fantasies? Where Can People Find Harmony? Outro Embody Community & Newsletter
    Harmony Niles, BDSM, Bondage, Dominance, Submission, D/s, eroticism, sexuality, sexual, sensual, erotic themes, fantasy, sexual fantasy, sexual health, femine wisdom
  • 50: Respect + Love Yourself Through the Holidays

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 47 min 20 sec0:47:20
    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 in…
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/holidays
 Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by YOU, my Patreons If you want to give a gift to a good cause — consider donating to the  Embody Podcast  where your money will support this podcast to continue with all of its guests, healing experiences, and production behind the scenes. Your money will be in direct connection with supporting people in loving themselves and becoming truer to themselves, which is what this podcast is all about. donate  in someone else’s name! Someone who likes the podcast or would benefit from a gift of personalized healing meditations quarterly for a friend or family member who needs a little love. Learn more at  candicewu.com/patreon Show Notes & Timestamps   00:00 Intro Sponsored by Patrons 01:59 Let’s Have Some Tea or a Lovely Drink 02:42 Checking In 03:11 Holiday Update: My Travels 03:37 Preparing January 03:48 Where to go? Desires to Be With Horses 04:49 Embrace Change 05:28 Fear and Uncertainty 06:16 So… in January - My Story So Far 07:08 Be Compassionate and Respectful to yourself 08:21 Respect around Horses - Predatorial behaviors 11:09 Intro to Respect Yourself, Design Your Life, Create Your Holidays 12:28 This is YOUR life! 13:15 Refer to Instagram Note &  Blog Post 14:00 Tip #1: Align Yourself with your State of Being 18:48 Tip #2: Design Your Holiday Season 24:36 Tip #3: Balance Giving and Receiving 27:05 Giving and Receiving in Family Constellations 28:04 Tip #4: Give Yourself Permission to be Unavailable 31:07 Tip #5: Attune to Pleasure and Joy 34:16 Tip #6: Loving Your Inner Child 41:09 Tip #7: Support Your Body 43:15 Tip #8: Take a Break 44:01 Closing Thoughts — Our Experience is our Responsibility 45:06 Happy Holidays 45:48 Thank you Connect with me Embody Community & Newsletter 49:20 4 Ways to Open up Your Past Life Experiences. Open Up the Trust for Yourself - Start Listening 52:58 Embodiment, Connect with Inner Knowing, Open to Seeing Your Life Like a Dream and Unfolding Source of Knowing 53:15 Wrapping Up One-on-One Work 54:22 I’m Smiling :) Embody Community & Newsletter
    self worth, self respect, holidays, dealing with the holidays, boundaries
  • 49: Past Life Trauma: Unfolding Freedom

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 56 min 48 sec0:56:48
    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? …
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/past-life-trauma
 Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by YOU, my Patreons If the Embody Podcast, my writing, or guided healing meditations have inspired you, helped, or spoken to you, it would mean the world to me if you would show your support through a small contribution. Each creation is lovingly made from my soul and takes anywhere from weeks to a few days to develop and produce. I gladly pay an editor who supports me in polishing and creating high quality content. As little as $1 a month would nourish my podcast and other creations to continue to have life and cover costs. Plus you’ll receive some sweet personalized healing gifts from me that can deepen your embodiment on your own journey. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I am so appreciative. Learn more at  candicewu.com/patreon Show Notes & Timestamps   00:00 Intro Sponsored by Patreon Contributions Update on Where I Am 04:01 How Much Pleasure Am I Allowed to Have? 06:05 Do You Explore What Brings You Joy? And Do You Allow Yourself to Have It? 06:43 Opening of the Topic - First Encounter With Past Life 06:54 Book: Many Lives Many Masters 08:03 Becoming Fascinated With the Story About Shanti Davi 08:18 Mention Carol Boman’s Website 08:37 Story Excerpt - Dr. k.s. Rawat 13:09 How the Story Spread 13:55 4 Year Old Speaking About Her Past Life! 14:31 Time and Space Don’t Matter to the Soul and Heart 16:33 Family Constellations - Resonance Travels Through Time 17:56 Example: Heartbreak Will Get Passed on Over Hundreds of Years if It’s Never Felt 18:15 Family Constellations & Past Life 19:04 Key Factor: Don’t Try to Explain It All 19:45 Why Now and Today? Story About Falling From a Horse… Twice… 22:51 Working With the Falls - Fear 23:51 There Must Be Something Deeper 24:22 Experiences Can Layer Upon One Another 24:56 Bursting Into Tears as a Signal: “Could This Be Past Life Trauma?” 25:34 “Does the Story Need to Be Known?” 26:00 My Healer Saw an Image / Story - Explains My Stubbornness! 27:28 Validation in the Now 28:27 Grief - I Had Died on the Horse 29:00 Not Important to Prove the Facts if It Supports Your Healing 29:39 Riding Again and the Fear Shifted 30:27 Trying to Remember What I Have Gained 32:21 First Time Being Near a Horse - I Was Scared Already 32:56 Other Experiences That Resonated 34:34 Past Life Experience of Being a Shaman or Witch 34:47 Story in Episode 13 Spiritual Crisis 36:29 Not Attached to the Past Life Story but Freeing Myself 37:12 Feeling Judged in This Life for Non-Western Practices 39:20 More Past Life Stories: Working With My Feet (Foot Binding). 42:07 Why Is This Important? 42:31 Relevant to Patterns, Ways of Being and Beliefs Now 43:47 Want More Freedom? 44:58 Seeing the Soul as the Expanse Over Lives 45:48 I Can Love More of Myself. Clearer and More Authentic to My Spirit. 46:44 How Do You Know Something Is Past Life and Who Can Help You? 49:20 4 Ways to Open up Your Past Life Experiences. Open Up the Trust for Yourself - Start Listening 52:58 Embodiment, Connect with Inner Knowing, Open to Seeing Your Life Like a Dream and Unfolding Source of Knowing 53:15 Wrapping Up One-on-One Work 54:22 I’m Smiling :) Embody Community & Newsletter
    past life, trauma, past life trauma, healing trauma, past life regression, freedom, intuition, insight, past life resource, past lives
  • 48: Inner Baby & Beautiful Garbage with Erin Diedling

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 15 min 50 sec1:15:50
    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 gifts Working with the Inner Baby, Birth and Pre-natal trauma, developmental trauma, and neurological sequ…
    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 gifts Working with the Inner Baby, Birth and Pre-natal trauma, developmental trauma, and neurological sequential development Visual and body narratives How trauma goes into the tissues and cellular memory if it doesn’t have anywhere to go Health problems, Fibromyalgia, and other syndromes, and their connection to early years of life trauma How the soul moves out of the way in early trauma Clearing out the beautiful garbage of what’s stuck so we can fully trust and be in our powers 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 aritists 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, writes and swims in Chicago. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/erin Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by the Monthly Embody Group Call The Embodied Healing Group Call sponsored the funds to produce and create this episode. The Group call is a monthly group online to enjoy embodied support, empowering connection, and healing guidance! A truly powerful exchange of love and transformation for your contribution. If you’re craving this kind of experience, I’ll support you in being at ease in your own body and spirit, tapping into your intuition and wisdom, and somatic and ancestral healing around anything you’re experiencing or challenged with each month. Each Group Healing Session is limited to 4 patrons and will be 60 mins long, once a month online. Learn more at  candicewu.com/patreon Show Notes & Timestamps   00:00 Intro 01:02 Disclaimer Sponsored by the Monthly Healing Group 01:51 Opening 02:54 Interview 03:23 How Erin and I Met 04:45 Where Erin’s Story Begins 07:01 Working With the Inner Baby 08:34 Education Around the Impact of Trauma 08:42 Separation of Families at the Border 10:26 Energetic Side of Trauma / Fibromyalgia 10:42 Mention of Local Chicago Doctor Book About Fibromyalgia 11:33 “The Deepest Well” 12:06 Mention Dr David Edelberg and Fibromyalgia 12:48 Sensitive Topic Start: Sexual Trauma Topic - How the Soul Moves Out of the Body 13:15 Sensitive Topic End 13:16 Inoperable Cancer / You Can Have My Body but Not My Soul 15:04 Sensitive Topic Start: Murder & Haunted Houses 15:04 Erin’s Work and Life: Ghosts in Our House 19:24 Sensitive Topic End 19:25 Trauma Opens Channels to Higher Support 20:39 Sensitive Topic: Sexual Abuse 21:30 Sensitive Topic End 21:30 the Therapist That Inspired Erin 23:41 What’s Up With All That Medical Stuff? 25:18 How Do You Regulate a Therapist? 26:47 Why Are You Here and How Do You See Your Path Spiritually? 28:36 Near Death Experience Gave Erin Back Her Fight 29:51 Developmental Trauma “I Am Not Going to Hurt Myself, but if I Go in My Sleep No Problem” 31:17 Food and Nourishment - the Fight Around What Almost Killed Erin 32:30 if You Didn’t Get Nourishment You Subconsciously Register That You Don’t Deserve It 33:01 Hypnotic State - Developmental Trauma 33:52 Inner Baby Work & Pre-Birth-Work 36:43 Starting to Work With Pre-Birth / the Little-Nervous-System Knows 38:31 Candice’s Experience With Pre-Birth Healing 42:00 Preemies Are in Two Places 43:42 Preemies in Family Constellations (Alternative: Rebirthing Experience?) 46:53 How We Come Into This World Shapes What We Do 47:43 Sensitive Topic Start: Suicide 48:44 Sensitive Topic End 48:48 How Birth Changes Life 49:14 Mention Birth in the Show “Crown” 50:37 Patterns Show Up So That They Can Be Healed 50:59 When Psychic or Energetic Gifts Turn on (Erin’s Work With People That Are Discovering Their Gifts) 53:19 the Work Can’t Be Done in a Vacuum 57:17 When You Are Just Learning You Have Gifts / Ripping of the Weird Band-Aid 01:00:02 Clearing the “Garbage” or Beliefs That Clutter the Inner Space 01:00:32 Trusting the Intuition Is a Learning Experience / Having Permission 01:02:38 What Is One Thing People Can Do Harness Their Gifts? 01:03:13 Mention of Word Up Show 01:05:45 Reading for the You the Community 01:10:40 Mention Word Up Episode about Touch Work Where to Find Erin Outro
    inner baby, inner parts, beautiful garbage, healing trauma, trauma, developmental trauma, somatic experiencing, somatic, body wisdom, inner mother, erin diedling
  • 47: Alignment: How to Come Back When You Spiral Down

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 33 min 9 sec0:33:09
    Let’s talk about how to realign to your essence when you’re ‘spiraling downward’ or hanging by a thread emotionally. I offer tips that you can practice on how I support my body in feeling more grounded, coming back to clarity, transcending beliefs, and al…
    Let’s talk about how to realign to your essence when you’re ‘spiraling downward’ or hanging by a thread emotionally. I offer tips that you can practice on how I support my body in feeling more grounded, coming back to clarity, transcending beliefs, and aligning my vibration towards ease and trust in the roughest of moments. Sometimes it feels like it’s just survival, but we have the capacity to go beyond survival and connect back with Source and alignment - here are some avenues to cultivate that for yourself. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/alignment
 Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Show Notes & Timestamps   00:00 Intro 00:53 Opening (Where I Am and What I See) 02:31 How Do You Feel That You Are Spiraling Down 03:02 Even Healers and Therapists of Course 03:20 My Recent Activating Experience 05:51 The Spiral Takes Away the Trust 06:41 There Is a Time for Healing, But… 07:33 Offerings in This Episode 08:01 Vibrational Alignment With Source 09:07 Mention of Abraham Hicks 09:52 Vibration Does Not Care About the Act Itself 10:41 How to Tap Into the Vibration? 12:35 Another Idea? Divine Creative Energy (White and Black Ray Light) 14:42 I Did Not Resonate With This Idea From the Start 15:35 You Can Tap Into Your Self 16:14 Mention of Jim Kulackoski 16:14 Be => Do => Have / We Get Confirmation of What We Send Out 18:52 One More Thing 🙈 18:52 White Ray Light Is Free of Beliefs 20:10 This Wasn’t Easy for Me / “If That’s Not Easy for You…” 20:32 Something That Helps Me Almost Immediately 24:32 Self Touch - Support Your Body Exercise 28:39 More in the Head / Deep Breath / Ask Yourself “What Do I Need”? 30:30 Outro 31:21 Thanks So Much ❤ Facebook Embody Community Personal 1:1 Support Newsletter 32:07 Sendoff
    dealing with emotions, emotions, coming back to yourself, healing, zen, peace, contentment, feeling centered
  • 46: Soul Body Retreat: The Aftermath of Co-Creation

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 58 min 7 sec0:58:07
    “It’s bigger than self love — I would say that really what I’ve honed in on the past few days [on the Retreat] has been self respect and, and trust in oneself. With specific tools like resourcing, knowing that I have all the tools I need within myself, an…
    “It’s bigger than self love — I would say that really what I’ve honed in on the past few days [on the Retreat] has been self respect and, and trust in oneself. With specific tools like resourcing, knowing that I have all the tools I need within myself, and whatever environment I’m in to nourish myself and bring myself to a better place when I’m feeling activated. For the first time in my life, I’m really feeling the impacts of coming from a place of nourishment and love for oneself.” ~ Elena, Retreat Member I love hearing the voices of the women of the Soul Body Retreat! Here is inside scoop, from members of the Soul Body Women’s Retreat, of what was experienced, what they got out of it, and how we honored ourselves, earth, our lineage and powers. If you’ve ever been curious about what a retreat with transformational prowess and multidimensionality might do for you, listen in. Thank you to all those who contributed to its life force. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/soul-body-cocreation
 Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Show Notes & Timestamps   00:00 Intro Update on Where I Am in the World 01:44 Being in Spain - Challenges and Joys 02:57 Horseback Riding Fall and Revealing a Past Life 05:16 Not Just Riding 🙈 (Finding a Place, Working With Clients, Podcasting) Newsletter / Won’t Sacrifice Timing With Clients 06:40 The Soul Body Women’s Retreat 07:27 True North Villa / Name, Crystals, Beauty 08:19 Intuitive Space Choosing / Tribes in Zion 08:48 The Red Land / Rich and Rooted 09:14 Explanation of the Theme 10:12 Co-Creating This Retreat and the Intentions 11:13 What We Did / Yoga, Mediation in Caves, Etc… 11:55 Sam’s Angel’s Landing Story 13:54 The Deepest Work / Family Constellations & Healing 14:21 Individual Constellations 14:44 What People Came in With (Desires and Challenges) 15:10 i.e. Money Issues, Death 15:33 Deep & Meaningful Work With Fun & Play in Between 15:48 Food Was a Huge Part of Nourishment 16:51 Themes That Emerged 17:58 Creating Space Like a Womb 18:20 Yoni Cave Meditation 19:12 Looking at All the Belief Sets of Who We Are 19:24 After the Retreat 20:30 Voices of the Retreat - Sam, Elena, Jana: Different From Talk Therapy, Embodiment, Transformative Experiences 24:27 Hearing From the Women About Their Desires and What They Gained Jana: A Better Sense of Who I Am and What’s Important, More Empowered to Manifest, Solidify a New Way of Being Myself Naturally. Sam: Clarity and Moving Some Personal Blocks, Evolve and Expand Myself, Enjoyment and Connecting With Like-Minded Souls, a New Way to See Myself. Elena: Regardless of Outcomes in Career Change, I Have Self-Love and Self-Respect, Energy and Invigoration, Confidence and Full of Possibility! 30:17 Let’s Hear From Robin, Ayurvedic-Inspired Food and How She Stirred the Stews, Adjusting to Your Dosha 36:23 How Food Brought Love and Nourishment for the Soul 38:01 Things That Cannot Be Described | What Was Received and Gained 45:08 Held in Safe Space 53:23 Gratitude for the Magical Experience 55:41 Closing Thought About Retreats Future Retreats/Info 57:04 Outro
    soul body retreat, retreat, cocreation, creativity, healing retreat, spiritual retreat, spirituality, inner parts, constellations, self love, feeling like yourself, empowerment, healing immersion, ancestral healing
  • 45: Seeing and Communicating with Your Heart — Emily Blefeld & Dan Cohen

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 2 min 43 sec1:02:43
    This episode is with special guests Dan Cohen and Emily Blefeld! They are amazing family constellations facilitators and do powerful work with people in healing and moving towards the life of their dreams. “All of us – the inspired, bewildered, angry, hop…
    This episode is with special guests Dan Cohen and Emily Blefeld! They are amazing family constellations facilitators and do powerful work with people in healing and moving towards the life of their dreams. “All of us – the inspired, bewildered, angry, hopeful, and unaware – hold the potential to free our hearts from the binds of ancestral entanglements.” ~Emily and Dan In this episode we explore how the heart can perceive, see and communicate silently, the powerful inner work that can develop consciousness, bringing compassion and understanding to a larger tapestry of your life, the dynamics of victimhood and perpetrator, and feminine and masculine balance. We had a lot of fun at the end where Dan, Emily and I sense into the imagery and energy of the moment of our conversation, and offer some messages for our listeners. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/danandemily Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by The Embody Group Call This episode is sponsored by the Monthly Embodied Group Call - there are two calls beginning November 2018 that will be offered where you can receive support transforming anything that comes up or strengthening your energy or intentions on your journey right now. This is for you if you would like some soul and body healing, support moving through your emotions, tuning into your intuition and developing your empowerment with body wisdom, and clearing limiting beliefs through your entire being to strengthen your knowing and your intentions. All the proceeds go towards the Podcast Production and to nourish the love in each episode. The Monthly call  is $55 a month -  sign up here  or check out other  Gifts for Patreon supporters Show Notes & Timestamps   0:00 Intro Sponsored by the Embody Group Call 2:15 Opening 4:43 Introducing Dan & Emily 5:39 Two Facilitators and How it Works 7:36 Seeing With Your Heart Program 7:58 How Dan & Emily Met 8:49 Dan: Finding Family Constellations 9:42 Emily: Wisdom-Preneur 10:37 Emily: Finding Family Constellations 12:21 Working With the Subtleties 12:33 Dan: Discovering the Mystical in Manhatton 13:23 Not Only Spirit Medium 14:03 Emily: Explaining the Way of Mystery, Trauma, and Life 16:11 How Does It Feel to Work Together? 17:03 Emily: Dan’s External Memory 18:27 Emily: Struggling to See Your Own Value Next to Someone Else 19:39 Emily: Communicating in Silence Between Our Hearts 20:29 Dan: Masculine & Feminine 21:09 Emily: What Are You Doing in This Field of Consciousness? 21:42 Dan: Expectations for a Jewish Baby Boomer 22:44 Dan: Arrogance of a Baby Boomer White Male 23:12 Dan: Between the Two of Us 23:55 Emily: Working With the Shadow of Polarity 25:11 Candice: Reclaiming Your Full Resonance 25:56 Dan: To the Core of Family Constellations 26:05 Dan: Carrying the Victim Energy or Perpetrator 26:56 Dan: Roles in the Family but Also in the History 27:32 Dan: Building a Relationship Between Parts of a Person (Victim, Perpetrator) 28:17 Emily: Getting Off the Fence & Start Moving 30:14 Candice: Speaking the Language 30:55 Candice: What Challenges Do You Find in This Area of Ancestry? 31:07 Emily: Spiritual & Psychic Hygiene 31:21 Emily: A Consciousness Waiting Room 33:02 Dan: Eagerness in Mental Health Discussions 35:15 Emily: Accepting the Things That Bring Me Alive 37:00 Candice: My Struggle With Accepting the Suffering of the World 38:23 Dan: I’d Love for You to Save the World 🙈 39:06 Dan: Exploring Candice’s Background 39:47 Dan: Each of Us Can Play a Part 40:16 Emily: Feedback About Candice’s Work 41:16 Candice: Tell Me About the Consciousness Call 42:03 Emily: The Global Community of the Call 42:22 Candice: How Does the Call Work? 42:35 Emily: Explains 43:34 Dan: Explains Core Teaching Quantum Consciousness / Akashic Records 45:17 Candice: Sense of Holding Everything in Relationship 45:58 How to Connect With Dan & Emily 46:52 Tuning in to What Is Here — Right Now 47:43 Candice: Image of Sadness Leaving 48:42 Dan: Feeling a Listener 51:45 Emily: A Bathtub Session With Shooting Pain 52:33 Emily: Image of Candice and the Women Behind Her 54:38 Candice: Tears… 54:53 Emily: Imagine Who You Could Be 55:28 Candice: It’s an Honor 56:54 Emily & Dan: Thank You 57:49 Candice: Presence of Masculine & Feminine 59:00 Last Words? 1:00:28 Outro Embody Community & Newsletter
    dan and emily, seeing with your heart, heart healing, soul healing, the eyes of the soul, channeling, consciousness
  • 44: You Could Not Be More Worthy

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 43 min 20 sec0:43:20
    This episode is a rerun of a previous episode on The Embody Podcast while I am on a short restorative hiatus. We are born worthy. Where have we forgotten? I invite you into the energy of this episode as a download of self-worthiness — a reminder of the tr…
    This episode is a rerun of a previous episode on The Embody Podcast while I am on a short restorative hiatus. We are born worthy. Where have we forgotten? I invite you into the energy of this episode as a download of self-worthiness — a reminder of the truth of you — to awaken your knowing! It’s a given you are enough and worthy of love, prosperity, joy, and all that you desire. It’s what you’re made for. Sit back with a cup of tea and a cozy blanket and breathe this episode in. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://candicewu.com/you-could-not-be-more-worthy/  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by my Dream Classes on Skillshare Our dreams offer access to energies and parts of ourselves that are hidden or unseen and wanting to be revealed. Check out my Skillshare class on Dream Work: Dreaming: Embodiment Practices to Prepare Your Physiology For a Thriving Dream Life This class offers specific breathing techniques, yogic and body-centered practices, and meditations that you can use to ground yourself and develop safety and playfulness for your dreams to thrive. These practices will support your nervous system in feeling a level of deep rest and relaxation, giving the capacity for you to remember your dreams even better than before or for the first time. Find all my  Dreamwork Classes Online and enjoy a Skillshare promo of two months free on CandiceWu.com/classes Show Notes 0:00 Intro 1:46 Sponsored by my Dream Classes 3:34 Intro of Rerun Episode 3:47 Listener Feedback about the Anger Podcast Episode 7:51 Updates (where I am, what I am doing, and the inner healing of self worth) 8:51 Questioning Self Worth / Seeing the Signals 10:19 This Episode is like a Download of Energy 11:18 Beginning of the Download 13:09 You are Worthy of Your Existence 14:28 We needed Mirroring (as children) 16:34 Are you worthy of Abundance? 17:35 Your Inner Being Knows 18:25 You can not be more worthy 19:13 Tied up in other people’s ideas 20:55 We can’t ignore 22:04 We are made to experience Pleasure 23:50 You are worthy of Optimal Health & Energy 24:32 You can not be more worthy 25:14 When you are not in your Joy, Pleasure, or Alignment 26:40 Loving by Acknowledging Ourselves 28:40 Everybody is in Their Right Place 30:10 Our Belief are sending mixed messages 31:45 What are the Mixed Messages? 33:16 How to feel into your own worthiness 35:01 What if you imagine all the people you feel are worthy? 37:49 Coming to the end — You Can Not be More Worthy! 38:46 Thank You ❤ and Ending Music
    worthiness, self worth, self love, beliefs, esther hicks, abraham hicks, body wisdom, healing, energy work, energy healing
  • 44: You Could Not Be More Worthy

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 41 min 50 sec0:41:50
    We are born worthy. Where have we forgotten? I invite you into the energy of this episode as a download of self-worthiness — a reminder of the truth of you — to awaken your knowing! It’s a given you are enough and worthy of love, prosperity, joy, and all …
    We are born worthy. Where have we forgotten? I invite you into the energy of this episode as a download of self-worthiness — a reminder of the truth of you — to awaken your knowing! It’s a given you are enough and worthy of love, prosperity, joy, and all that you desire. It’s what you’re made for. Sit back with a cup of tea and a cozy blanket and breathe this episode in. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/worthy Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by YOU, my Patrons Would you like some soul and body support each month? This is for you if you would like some guidance moving through your emotions, tuning into your intuition and developing your empowerment with body wisdom, and clearing limiting beliefs through your entire being. A lovely way to both receive healing support at a lower cost than individual sessions AND support my work/podcast is to sign up as a supporter on Patreon. This Monthly call  is $55 a month. The first group is every second Tuesday at 10 am CDT/CST beginning Nov. 13. All the proceeds go towards the Podcast Production and to nourish the love in each episode. Check out the  Monthly Group Call  and other  Patreon Gifts for supporters Show Notes & Timestamps   0:00 Intro 0:47 Sponsored by the  Monthly Group Call 2:11 Listener Feedback about the  Anger Podcast Episode 6:16 Updates (where I am, what I am doing, and the inner healing of self worth) 7:16 Questioning Self Worth / Seeing the Signals 8:44 This Episode is like a Download of Energy 9:43 Beginning of the Download 11:34 You are Worthy of Your Existence 12:53 We needed Mirroring (as children) 14:59 Are you worthy of Abundance? 16:00 Your Inner Being Knows 16:50 You can not be more worthy 17:38 Tied up in other people’s ideas 19:20 We can’t ignore 20:29 We are made to experience Pleasure 22:15 You are worthy of Optimal Health & Energy 22:57 You can not be more worthy 23:39 When you are not in your Joy, Pleasure, or Alignment 25:05 Loving by Acknowledging Ourselves 27:05 Everybody is in Their Right Place 28:35 Our Belief are sending mixed messages 30:10 What are the Mixed Messages? 31:41 How to feel into your own worthiness 33:26 What if you imagine all the people you feel are worthy? 36:14 Coming to the end — You Can Not be More Worthy! 37:11 Thank You ❤ and Ending Music
    worthiness, self worth, self love, beliefs, esther hicks, abraham hicks, body wisdom, healing, energy work, energy healing
  • 43: Permission to Be You & Addiction’s Gift with Jill Massura

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 4 min 16 sec1:04:16
    “If you knew what it did for me, you’d never take it away.” ~Jill Massura Jump in on an insightful and inspired conversation with Jill Massura. We explore the gifts and challenge of showing up as human and vulnerable, how addiction ended up being the grea…
    “If you knew what it did for me, you’d never take it away.” ~Jill Massura Jump in on an insightful and inspired conversation with Jill Massura. We explore the gifts and challenge of showing up as human and vulnerable, how addiction ended up being the greatest gift of Jill’s life, seeing our life through wisdom lenses and neutrality, and inquiring deeper and distilling what is going on underneath our life situations. I love Jill’s direct and simply no BS look at life! Jill is a personal empowerment coach. With her support, her clients discover how to live their lives with excitement, free from negative thoughts and behaviors. She is committed to helping people improve their lives through working in the personal areas that impact them the deepest and bring about the most significant change. She believes your relationship with yourself sets the stage for all of the other relationships in your life – from career, to health, to your personal relationships – how you feel about yourself is what will set you up for success in every area. Almost 8 yrs ago, she began her career helping people as a massage therapist. It was through this work, and supporting clients in their release of physical pain, that she began to study the power of our mind/body connection. She discovered a whole new world of information about our ability to heal ourself, when given the right tools. Over the course of time, her practice has evolved to include Tapping/EFT and empowerment/self love coaching. Jill believes anything you want in your life is POSSIBLE. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/jill Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Shout Out to My Clients The work I am doing here with the podcast would not be possible if it weren’t for my 1-on–1 and couples/relationships clients. I feel incredibly grateful for the trust that is placed in me as a healer by you. You inspire me every day, give me ideas for new topics, and I love working with you. If you feel drawn to my work, would like to explore the different healing modalities which I offer, or would like to connect in a free consultation, please reach out. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I am so appreciative. Learn More & Connect With Me on My Website: CandiceWu.com/connect Show Notes & Timestamps   0:00 Intro 0:54 Shoutout to my Clients 2:08 Introduction 3:18 Interview 3:39 Closet — Last Podcast (Redo) 7:30 Who is Jill? 8:34 Presence and Realness 10:13 How do you Distill to the Root? 10:56 What are you checking yourself on? 13:41 Relationship — Safety Begins Inside 15:05 Avoiding is not Digesting 15:05 Digestion 15:44 Stomach — The Holder of Information 16:58 Check-In — Have I taken on too much? 18:14 Integration — Fluid, Calm, and Important 19:00 What does Tired mean? 20:01 Responsibility Can be Weight 21:15 Putting Yourself on the Calendar 22:23 Being Vulnerable never becomes normal 24:24 Jill’s Story with Food and Addiction 25:05 Finding the Root is the Way 26:46 Change starts with Acceptance & Awareness 27:16 Food and Alcohol temporarily was helpful 28:39 If you knew what it did for me, you’d never take it away. 29:22 Being your own first client 29:56 Separation is a great first step 31:05 Honoring what the Addiction gave you 33:24 Candice Asks: How do you feel telling this story now? 34:39 Best thing Ever 36:15 Learning from the resistance 38:17 Mother Earth vs Mother Ocean 38:32 Jimmy Buffet Song, Mother Ocean? 39:30 Proverb Earth Tells Water where to go, but water tells earth how to look 40:25 Polarity Theory — Earth and Water reside together 42:56 Drawn to the Sense of Wisdom 44:12 What Stories are we choosing to tell? 45:07 Does it have to be a good ending? 46:00 Being the Neutral Observer in Life 48:07 The Universe doesn’t really care // Being Neutral is Hard 49:22 The Family had the Symptoms of Addiction 50:21 Retrieving Life Experiences in the Space of ME 51:48 I am as normal as anybody 52:36 If only we would know before hand (that the wisdom is in the path) 54:01 Permission to be YOU — NOW (Letting go when I want to, permission to be ridiculous, stopping when I feel like stopping) 56:43 Thank you, Jill! 57:05 Jill’s upcoming workshop — The Passion Project: Women’s Empowerment Weekend/Rise 59:31 Mention of the  Holly Podcast 59:50 Declaration is great, then the resistance comes in 1:01:24 Where can you find Jill? 1:01:31 Jill’s Offering — EFT Tapping around Purpose 1:02:56 Outro
    healing addiction, permission to be you, being yourself, gifts of addiction, jill massura, inner critic, self love
  • 42: The Anatomy of Healing and Expression — How Who We Are Takes Form

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 47 min 17 sec0:47:17
    The most subtle aspects of our inner being give rise and are the blueprint to the physical body. These many layers of us aren’t just related, they are ONE. We are one cohesive being with our physical body, energy, mind/emotions, soul, and Spirit. While he…
    The most subtle aspects of our inner being give rise and are the blueprint to the physical body. These many layers of us aren’t just related, they are ONE. We are one cohesive being with our physical body, energy, mind/emotions, soul, and Spirit. While healing can take place at any of the levels, there is a place where healing is most powerful- at the root. But what does this mean? How can we tune into our most empowering resource and our wholeness? Each of the levels must be online and flowing in its natural states for true transformation to be embodied - so you feel the difference in your being. In this podcast, I talk about the 5 levels of our physiology, the Koshas, and the essential understanding of how they work together in the growth and healing process. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/koshas Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by YOU, my Patreons Thank YOU Patrons for your support! Many of you who have been touched, helped or inspired by the podcast have contributed and also received Personalized Meditations emailed right to you. This month I am introducing a monthly 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. You’ll be supported in moving through your emotions, tuning into your intuition and developing your empowerment with body wisdom, and clearing limiting beliefs through your entire being. Visit my Patreon Page Show Notes & Timestamps   00:00 Intro Sponsored by YOU on Patron 02:11 Opening & Where I am 02:43 What my time with the horses is giving me 04:23 I can be impulsive! 05:08 What gives you joy, excitement, and growth? 05:39 The Koshas and The Most Powerful Healing 07:19 Going more Concrete with the Koshas 09:02 The Layers of our Physiology 09:38 Why I like understanding the layers 10:27 Every Possibility — AUM 11:35 The Bliss Level 13:37 The Intellectual/Spiritual Level 15:18 Samskaras at the Ego Consciousness Level 17:57 Painting our Reality 18:01 Headliner - Reality Around Us 19:29 We are Creating our Physical Bodies 20:49 The Mental Body Level 22:55 The Energy Body Level 24:25 Energy Centers in the Body 24:51 Everything is Connected 25:39 The Physical Body Level 26:40 Physical Body = Food Body 26:40 Physical Body 28:06 Taking Care of Lifestyle 30:12 The Koshas in Client Work — Ripple Effect 30:12 Circle Effect 31:50 Changing Beliefs at the Root 34:25 Your Physical, Mental, and Energetic Body have to be prepared for the Transformation! 34:25 Physical, Mental, and Energy Body 35:56 We Have to Support All Levels 36:32 What is Spirit vs Soul? 38:10 We are the Hero and the Villain… 39:41 Reclaiming Yourself through understanding the Koshas 40:37 Differentiate What Healers/Therapists Are Offering 41:42 Talking with my Friends 42:30 How you create your reality 44:24 Kosha Additional Materials (PDF) 44:51 More in the Future 45:19 Questions & Feedback 45:40 My Wish for You Embody Community & Newsletter
    anatomy of healing, who am i?, spiritual healing, karma yoga, jñana yoga, koshas, layers of physiology, spiritual self, mental body, energy body, physical body, spiritual body, causal body, astral body, emotional body, calming the mind
  • 41: Perfectionism is a Fluid Concept with Suzi Tucker

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 3 min 26 sec1:03:26
    Suzi Tucker, one of my Family Constellations teachers and colleagues, brings such a humble and grounded experience as a gifted Facilitator and human! Her artful, nuanced, and poignant way of seeing life highlights the resonance of those who came before us…
    Suzi Tucker, one of my Family Constellations teachers and colleagues, brings such a humble and grounded experience as a gifted Facilitator and human! Her artful, nuanced, and poignant way of seeing life highlights the resonance of those who came before us, bringing peace and freedom. In this episode, we explore: Do we bother to take ourselves seriously? Can we look instead of not look in order to honor our experiences? And do we let ourselves complete things so that we can feel our own competence? Do we hoard our own expression and why? How nuance requires courage Perfection as a fluid concept Moving out of trance Listening to your own words and creating Life Sentences Moving outside the limits and parameters of our ancestors Suzi helps people see reality as it is in present time, discover the fluidity and power of gratitude, and recognize that you have the depth of being to release old emotions that have been festering, perhaps for decades. She looks for the systemic characteristics that you may be experiencing as obstacles – for instance, loyalty to others’ failure, sadness, or pain – and then I look for ways within your family system to jumpstart your sense of permission and possibility. Whoever you are, she can speak your language. Suzi’s book  Gather Enough Fireflies  is available on  Amazon . She is also coeditor and contributing author to  Messengers of Healing  (2005), contributing author to  Ten Commandments for Couples: For Every Aspect of Your Relationship Journey  (2011), and contributing author to several related journals. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/suzi Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by YOU, my Patrons If the Embody Podcast or guided healing meditations have inspired you, helped, or spoken to you, it would mean the world to me if you would show your support. This month I am introducing a monthly 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 and the podcast podcast. You’ll be supported in moving through your emotions, tuning into your intuition and developing your empowerment with body wisdom, and clearing limiting beliefs through your entire being. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I am so appreciative. Visit my Patreon Page Show Notes & Timestamps  00:00 Intro Special Patreon Group Healing Call 02:03 Opening 04:12 Interview 05:30 Opening of Portals of Expression 07:11 Hoarding 09:37 Pebbles - Throwing One At a Time 10:38 Small Completion / Connecting with each Creation 13:29 Feeling Shoulder to Shoulder 15:16 Who is Suzi Tucker? 20:35 The Idea of Who I am now is passing 22:59 Words to the Paint / Story about Parents sitting down 25:52 What some… no… what I feel / Words are Underneath in the Family System 29:11 It’s all about LOVE but LOVE is not necessarily positive 30:13 "The Right to Write” 32:43 Perfection is a Fluid Concept 32:43 Fluid Perfection 34:34 “Insight leads to Action and Action leads to Insight” ~ Bert Hellinger 36:45 Movement & Parameters in the Lineage 39:03 So Cynical 39:47 What kind of words are you saying 44:35 Good Life Sentences / Seed Sentences 46:15 Lots of Death Sentences for Candice (LOL) 47:08 The Impact of Self Talk: Moving out of a Trance 49:37 The Allowance for Meaning / Bother to Take it Seriously 50:41 What Challenges do you find for yourself now? 51:58 The World Without Me 52:45 What is Enlightenment? 55:16 Grounded with Compass 58:15 “I See You” a sentence for Facilitators 59:18 Anything Else? 59:46 Exploring Competency 01:01:03 Outro Intro Music by  Nick Werber instagram.com/nwerber
    perfectionism, suzi tucker, belonging, family dynamics, healing the ancestry, the flow of love, ancestral healing, bert hellinger
  • 40: Anger: Our Innate Tool for Empowered Creative Life #AngerGetsABadRap

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 3 min 36 sec1:03:36
    How can you harness the energy of anger to LOVE YOURSELF and feel confident? We have been conditioned (and sometimes by experience) to believe that anger is a bad thing or that it is destructive. While it can turn ugly, let’s get back to Anger’s TRUE inte…
    How can you harness the energy of anger to LOVE YOURSELF and feel confident? We have been conditioned (and sometimes by experience) to believe that anger is a bad thing or that it is destructive. While it can turn ugly, let’s get back to Anger’s TRUE intentions: to show us our deeper desires, to protect us, and to give us the embodied knowledge that we are powerful, capable and creative. Anger gets a bad rap! We need to reclaim it so we can truly heal and know ourselves, to be back in alignment with our ease and truth. In this Episode, we explore: The messages we get about anger and what stops us from expressing The depression, numbness, lack of confidence, shame, physical illnesses and other symptoms that happen when we repress our anger Global and community repercussions of not claiming our own anger How to work with your own anger to discharge the energy, use it intentionally and constructively Respecting the power of anger and it’s true desires: to protect our creative freedom, safety, and where we need to grow Check out the Healing Experientials to support a completion of your anger/fight responses, feeling more ease in your body as you release the tension of the “red energy.” This episode comes with three additional experientials which are released in the week following this podcast. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/anger  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by My Personal Healing Immersions and Retreats If the Embody Podcast, my writing, or guided healing meditations have inspired you, helped, or spoken to you, it would mean the world to me if you would show your support through a small donation. Each creation is lovingly made from my soul and takes anywhere from weeks to a few days to develop and produce. I gladly pay an editor who supports me in polishing and creating high quality content. As little as $1 a month would nourish my podcast and other creations to continue to have life and cover costs. Plus you’ll receive some sweet personalized healing gifts from me that can deepen your embodiment on your own journey. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I am so appreciative. Visit my Support Page at CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 0:00 Intro 1:19 Sponsored by YOU, my Patrons 2:42 Disclaimer about Anger 4:06 Connected to the Commitment & Conviction Episode 4:41 My experience 5:41 Story about Anger 11:46 Reflection 12:43 Anger Charged – but not expressed 14:06 What is Anger? 15:29 Energy of Anger – Physiologically 16:12 The Amazing Thing about Anger 16:39 Observations in the Animal World – How Anger is Used 17:03 Let Anger Inform Us 17:12 Anger = Divine Creativity / Energetic Channels that Anger Functions Through 19:50 Anger & Depression 21:00 We can reclaim our Power! 22:42 The Destruction of Holding Anger Inside 22:57 Peter Levine & Somatic Experiencing 24:07 Groups and Repressed Anger 25:09 Anger in Groups – Tavistock Model 25:30 In Family Systems & Constellations 26:21 Shadow Work 26:52 Terror Zones & Areas of Peace – Displaced Anger? 27:56 Being Dependent on others taking their share 28:46 Anger = Red Energy by Maggie Kline 29:32 Messages I’ve received about Anger 31:17 Just because you dismiss it doesn’t make it go away 31:58 It can be Gendered 32:39 Anger unexpressed – Even When Who you’re angry with is not in the room 33:18 Ideas why Anger seems so threatening 36:04 Has Been Paired with Aggression or Violence 37:05 Anger and Shame 37:39 Anger and Abandonment 38:00 “Anger is Childish” 39:16 Abandoning Children or Ourselves when we are Angry 39:33 Videos of Parent staying with Child through tantrums 40:11 Anger can be destructive, of course! 40:56 Alternative Ways to Understand and Use Anger 41:32 Working with Anger in a Loving Relationship 42:13 Anger with a Stranger that’s attacking you 42:57 Anger Energy Release (completing fight responses) 44:25 Working with a Trained Trauma-Informed Professional 45:27 Suggestion – look for professional that’s attuned to developmental dynamics 46:13 When Working with Anger – It can get overwhelming 48:11 What to do with Anger / How to work with it 49:34 Some Basic Tips when working with Anger 51:24 Tangible Tips to work with Anger 51:57 Recommendation: Pendulation and Resourcing First 55:59 Rage Rooms 56:28 Controversy – Turning to Rage and Violence? 57:58 In working through Anger, take off the social-appropriate-ness-lense 59:10 Let’s make it fun! 1:00:23 This Week’s Experientials 1:01:14 Outro 1:02:44 The Embody Podcast – More 1:02:56 The Embody Community
    anger, healing anger, working with anger, red energy, empowerment, creativity, gall bladder and liver, liver energy, somatic experiencing, polyvagal theory, polyvagus nerve, fight response, healing trauma
  • 40: Anger: Our Innate Tool for Empowered Creative Life #AngerGetsABadRap

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 5 min 11 sec1:05:11
    How can you harness the energy of anger to LOVE YOURSELF and feel confident? We have been conditioned (and sometimes by experience) to believe that anger is a bad thing or that it is destructive. While it can turn ugly, let’s get back to Anger’s TRUE inte…
    How can you harness the energy of anger to LOVE YOURSELF and feel confident? We have been conditioned (and sometimes by experience) to believe that anger is a bad thing or that it is destructive. While it can turn ugly, let’s get back to Anger’s TRUE intentions: to show us our deeper desires, to protect us, and to give us the embodied knowledge that we are powerful, capable and creative. Anger gets a bad rap! We need to reclaim it so we can truly heal and know ourselves, to be back in alignment with our ease and truth. In this Episode, we explore: The messages we get about anger and what stops us from expressing The depression, numbness, lack of confidence, shame, physical illnesses and other symptoms that happen when we repress our anger Global and community repercussions of not claiming our own anger How to work with your own anger to discharge the energy, use it intentionally and constructively Respecting the power of anger and it’s true desires: to protect our creative freedom, safety, and where we need to grow Check out the Healing Experientials to support a completion of your anger/fight responses, feeling more ease in your body as you release the tension of the “red energy.” This episode comes with three additional experientials which are released in the week following this podcast. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/anger Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by YOU, my Patreons If the Embody Podcast, my writing, or guided healing meditations have inspired you, helped, or spoken to you, it would mean the world to me if you would show your support through a small donation. Each creation is lovingly made from my soul and takes anywhere from weeks to a few days to develop and produce. I gladly pay an editor who supports me in polishing and creating high quality content. As little as $1 a month would nourish my podcast and other creations to continue to have life and cover costs. Plus you’ll receive some sweet personalized healing gifts from me that can deepen your embodiment on your own journey. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I am so appreciative. Visit my Patreon Page Show Notes & Timestamps   00:00 Intro 00:57 Sponsored by YOU, my Patrons 02:09 Where in the World is Candice Now? 04:15 Disclaimer about Anger 05:39 Connected to the  Commitment & Conviction Episode 06:14 My experience 07:14 Story about Anger 13:19 Reflection 14:16 Anger Charged - but not expressed 15:39 What is Anger? 17:02 Energy of Anger - Physiologically 17:45 The Amazing Thing about Anger 18:12 Observations in the Animal World - How Anger is Used 18:36 Let Anger Inform us 18:45 Anger = Divine Creativity / Energetic Channels that Anger Functions Through 21:23 Anger & Depression 22:33 We can reclaim our Power! 24:15 The Destruction of Holding Anger Inside 24:30 Peter Levine & Somatic Experiencing 25:40 Groups and Repressed Anger 26:42 Anger in Groups - Tavistock Model 27:03 In Family Systems & Constellations 27:54 Shadow Work 28:25 Terror Zones & Areas of Peace - Displaced Anger? 29:29 Being Dependent on others taking their share 30:19 Anger = Red Energy by Maggie Kline 31:05 Messages I’ve received about Anger 32:50 Just because you dismiss it doesn’t make it go away 33:31 It can be Gendered 34:12 Anger unexpressed - Even When Who you’re angry with is not in the room 34:51 Ideas why Anger seems so threatening 37:37 Has Been Paired with Aggression or Violence 38:38 Anger and Shame 39:12 Anger and Abandonment 39:33 “Anger is Childish” 40:49 Abandoning Children or Ourselves when we are Angry 41:06 Videos of Parent staying with Child through tantrums 41:44 Anger can be destructive, of course! 42:29 Alternative Ways to Understand and Use Anger 43:05 Working with Anger in a Loving Relationship 43:46 Anger with a Stranger that’s attacking you 44:30 Anger Energy Release (completing fight responses) 45:58 Working with a Trained Trauma-Informed Professional 47:00 Suggestion - look for professional that’s attuned to developmental dynamics 47:46 When Working with Anger - It can get overwhelming 49:44 What to do with Anger / How to work with it 51:07 Some Basic Tips when working with Anger 52:57 Tangible Tips to work with Anger 53:30 Recommendation:  Pendulation and Resourcing Rage Rooms 58:01 Controversy - Turning to Rage and Violence? 59:31 In working through Anger, take off the social-appropriate-ness-lense 01:00:43 Let’s make it fun! 01:01:56 This Week’s Experientials 01:02:47 Outro 01:04:17 The Embody Podcast - More 01:04:29 The Embody Community
    anger, healing anger, working with anger, red energy, empowerment, creativity, gall bladder and liver, liver energy, somatic experiencing, polyvagal theory, polyvagus nerve, fight response, healing trauma
  • 39: Spiritual Appropriation & Oral Histories with Hiroki Keaveney

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 4 min 37 sec1:04:37
    In this episode, the lovely Hiroki Keaveney and I discuss The lineage and story behind reiki How we can be sensitive and aware about cultural and spiritual appropriation of healing work Spiritual theft and how to respect the lineage of a healing tradition…
    In this episode, the lovely Hiroki Keaveney and I discuss The lineage and story behind reiki How we can be sensitive and aware about cultural and spiritual appropriation of healing work Spiritual theft and how to respect the lineage of a healing tradition How you impact your ancestors and they influence you How transgender identity is an ongoing and deeply spiritual process for Hiroki The importance of oral histories and where we come from How they support others in healing by learning the ways of their ancestors Hiroki Keaveney is a 4th generation Japanese American and certified Reiki Master. Their mixed-race background as both East Asian and Irish, informs the work they do and how and why they practice these healing traditions. The founder of Dragonfly Intergenerational Healing Services, Hiroki’s work is based on community and familial love. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/hiroki Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Shoutout to my Clients The work I am doing here with the podcast would not be possible if it weren't for my 1-on-1 and couples/relationships clients. I feel incredibly grateful for the trust that is placed in me as a healer by you. You inspire me every day, give me ideas for new topics, and I love working with you. If you feel drawn to my work, would like to explore the different healing modalities which I offer, or would like to connect in a free consultation, please reach out. Let's work together: CandiceWu.com/connect Show Notes & Timestamps  0:00 Opening 0:20 Intro 1:54 Shoutout to My Clients 3:05 Jumping Into the Interview 3:25 Who Is Hiroki? 4:09 How Do You Impact the Ancestry and How Does It Impact You? 5:18 Working With Future Generations 6:29 Example: Mainstream Media Knows the Term “Transgender” 7:53 Being the Truest Version of Yourself 9:00 First Generation Japanese-American-Irish-Queer 12:32 Learning in the Asian American Experience 16:09 One of the Life Lessons? 16:53 Learn Your Heritage: Gain Self Worth 17:54 Family History / Restorative for Sense of Worthiness 20:49 Reasons that Family Secrets Exist 21:14 Spiritual vs. Human Experience 25:23 Hiroki’s Spirits and Their Messages 26:59 Spirituality Now Is Connection to Ancestors 28:51 Cultural Appropriation in Healing Work 30:32 Cultural & Spiritual Theft 32:34 How Do We Even Know if We Are Disrespectful? 34:05 Japanese Roots but No Country (Meaning: It’s Been Appropriated to the Point That Even Japanese People Don’t Know Where It’s Coming Form) 36:40 Reiki - How It Came to the Us & Was Used in War 38:39 Reiki - Banned in Japan 39:22 Practice Used for Good & Bad 39:55 How Cultural History Shapes Future Generations (Hiroki Talks About How It Is to Life With a History of a Country That Brutalized but Also Got Imprisoned) 41:04 British Imperialism in Ireland and Irish in the USA 42:02 Reiki - Reborn in the Spiritual Movement 44:51 Reiki - Meaning of the Word 46:20 When We Don’t Know That We Are Appropriating 47:21 Struggles Reclaiming Something Because of Shame 54:40 Anything Else? 56:42 Small T-Truth / the Search for Big-T-Truth 58:01 Getting to Know Your Family Story 59:39 Extra Outside Witness in Family Constellations 1:01:49 Speaking for Others 1:02:55 Outro 1:03:43 The Embody Podcast 1:03:54 The Embody Community Intro Music by  Nick Werber instagram.com/nwerber
    hiroki keaveney, ancestral healing, ancestry, japanese american, lgbt, non binary, spiritual appropriation, cultural appropriation, reiki, history of reiki
  • 38: Commitment & Conviction: Being Unruffled in Collaborating With the Universe

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 34 min 25 sec0:34:25
    Being yourself and manifesting what you desire requires meaning it… commitment to what you want and the conviction to get you there. All the while collaborating with the universe, surrendering, and staying unruffled when things don’t go your way. It’s a l…
    Being yourself and manifesting what you desire requires meaning it… commitment to what you want and the conviction to get you there. All the while collaborating with the universe, surrendering, and staying unruffled when things don’t go your way. It’s a little tough love towards what you desire and the journey along the way. In this episode, learn about: The story of getting schooled by my horse in COMMITING while horseback riding How learning to growl, reclaiming the ability to be angry, and resolving trauma, has made me more able to receive what I want Staying unruffled and on your course are powerful in manifestation And how to listen and collaborate with the universe without sending it mixed messages A Little About A{Live} Now 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 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 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. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/commitment-and-conviction/ Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by YOU, my Patreons If the Embody Podcast, my writing, or guided healing meditations have inspired you, helped, or spoken to you, it would mean the world to me if you would show your support through a small donation. Each creation is lovingly made from my soul and takes anywhere from weeks to a few days to develop and produce. I gladly pay an editor who supports me in polishing and creating high quality content. As little as $1 a month would nourish my podcast and other creations to continue to have life and cover costs. Plus you’ll receive some sweet  personalized healing gifts  from me that can deepen your embodiment on your own journey. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I am so appreciative. Visit my Patreon Page https://candicewu.com/patreon Show Notes & Timestamps   0:00 Intro 0:47 Sponsored by YOU, My Clients 1:46 Where I am and what I am doing :) 3:01 Still Room at the Retreat 3:35 What is A{Live} Now? 4:07 Today’s Topics starts with a Horse Story 6:38 Teacher Says: You have to commit! 7:04 What does it look like to commit? 8:27 Conflicts about how to stay committed and work with horses 9:03 Committing, Growling, and Going Through 10:10 Similar to working with kids 10:51 Loving Relationship & Consequences 11:15 Growling at Sage 11:43 Why this story… What happens day-to-day? 12:03 Fear of your own goals / actually being committed in the face of the universe 12:57 Knowing and Believing 13:43 Agreement From the Universe 14:22 How Sage reacted to my conviction… 14:45 Transferring Conviction into Life 15:17 Completing Trauma to be Free 16:47 How do I collaborate with (not dominate) the universe? 17:54 Staying the Course & Rest & Getting back On 19:00 Zen Buddhism: Dealing with Reactions 19:33 Is what I want in accordance with the Universe? 20:09 Yoga = Union 21:05 Sharing my Desires & Shifting into Spirit 21:43 What place am I acting from? 23:12 What do I want, what’s for me? 24:07 Energy of Conviction & Clarity 24:36 Voice Lessons: Learning to Express & Getting Unstuck 26:14 Masculine/Directed Energy 26:46 We are here to learn in every possibility 28:18 Firmness Vs Anger 🙈 29:33 Encouraging YOU: Ask yourself these Questions! 32:20 Outro 32:55 Podcast Website 33:10 Embody Community & Newsletter Intro Music by Nick Werber Featured Photo by  Nikki Jeffrey Unsplash
    commitment, conviction, collaboration with the universe, horses, horse love, healing with horses, freedom, empowerment
  • 37: Nick Werber: Death Opens Possibility and Connection

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 18 min 17 sec1:18:17
    In this podcast, Nick and I exchange lively conversation about: Family Constellations and Focalizing, Death’s power to bring more possibility and connection, how to move deeper than the mind for empowerment, trauma that isn’t ours, rules of belonging, col…
    In this podcast, Nick and I exchange lively conversation about: Family Constellations and Focalizing, Death’s power to bring more possibility and connection, how to move deeper than the mind for empowerment, trauma that isn’t ours, rules of belonging, collective trauma, and filters that we live through.  Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/nick Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by the Ally With Death Visualization This episode is sponsored by the Ally With Death Visualization experience which stirs your inner world and soul to cleanse out the old and bring in new energy and life. What needs to be cleansed out and die? What brings you purpose and lights you up now? Do this with me in the Ally with Death Experience A New Audio experience will be released soon, which will offer you the chance to dive deeply with me in a truly guided process. If you order the Ally With Death Experience now, you will also receive the new Audio version once it is released for free. Learn more at CandiceWu.com/death Show Notes & Timestamps  0:00 Intro 0:53 Sponsored by Ally With Death 1:53 Overview 3:47 Interview 4:45 Nick’s Work, the Where, What, and How 7:11 Focalizing and Somatic Therapy 8:46 Retelling a Story Does Not Help 13:30 How Do You Bring These Parts Together? 14:51 Nick’s Story 16:27 Mention of Peter Levine 16:46 Dr. Michael Picucci, Nick’s Treasured Mentor 19:20 Suzi Tucker, Teacher 20:25 Nick’s Story Around Trauma Healing & Focalizing 20:28 What if You Didn’t Directly Experience the Trauma? 22:38 Trauma Work When It Wasn’t Your Trauma 25:11 a Unique Perspective of Trauma and the Filters We Use to Manage Life 25:11 Stephan Hausner’s Work 26:31 Filters - What Are These? 27:48 What’s Exciting in Ancestral Healing 28:46 Resource and Belonging 32:08 Death! What’s So Interesting About Death…? 33:39 Memento Mori Coin & You Could Leave Life Right Now. Let That Determine What You Do and Say and Think. 34:05 What About Death When Working With Clients? 36:50 What Does Candice See in the Work With Death? 38:48 Dying Right Now 41:11 When Someone Gets to Know Family Constellations for the First Time… 43:24 the Impact of Constellations : Story 52:30 What Challenges Nick 55:55 What Do You Do to Nourish Your Body and Yourself? 56:45 Nutritionist Allison (Website: Feel Awesome Be Awesome) 57:18 Eating Organic & Competition 59:01 to You the Listener: It’s Not About the Philosophy, It’s About the Work 59:38 Protection of Others by Not Competing 1:02:47 What’s the Answer? How Can Two Experiences Exist? 1:03:05 Group Dynamics 1:03:09 Tying in Game of Thrones & the 100 1:06:29 Stepping Out of Patterns by Doing the Work 1:12:32 Audience Gift & Thanks 1:15:11 How to Find Nick 1:16:10 Outro 1:16:52 Support this Show on Patron 1:17:34 Newsletter & Community Intro Music by  Nick Werber instagram.com/nwerber
    death, possibility, connection, family belonging, belonging, ancestral healing, ancestry, healing your roots, focalizing, integration, integrative coach, nick werber
  • 36: A{Live} Now: Hope Less & Live More, The Presents of Letting Go of Hope

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 21 min 16 sec0:21:16
    Hope less to live more. Presence is the true present of living with less hope, being in a place of less expectation and control, more trust, flow, and freedom in my being. This is a deep acceptance of what is in my experience in a fuller way, where I can …
    Hope less to live more. Presence is the true present of living with less hope, being in a place of less expectation and control, more trust, flow, and freedom in my being. This is a deep acceptance of what is in my experience in a fuller way, where I can experience more and not exist from the place where hoping that things would be different was a helpful tool of survival. In this podcast, I share a personal story of what made me break, lose all hope, and become more present to the true moments that exist now. This is an exploration of how hope can be helpful and unhelpful, as well as thoughts about what can be embedded and masked in the concept of hope. The presents or presence of being hope-less? ;) A Little About A{Live} Now 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 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 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. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/alive-now-hope-less-and-live-more/ Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by YOU, my Patreons If the Embody Podcast, my writing, or guided healing meditations have inspired you, helped, or spoken to you, it would mean the world to me if you would show your support through a small donation. Each creation is lovingly made from my soul and takes anywhere from weeks to a few days to develop and produce. I gladly pay an editor who supports me in polishing and creating high quality content. As little as $1 a month would nourish my podcast and other creations to continue to have life and cover costs. Plus you’ll receive some sweet  personalized healing gifts  from me that can deepen your embodiment on your own journey. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I am so appreciative. Visit my Patreon Page https://candicewu.com/patreon Show Notes & Timestamps   00:00 Intro 00:44 Powered by Patreon Support 01:19 Opening 01:48 Let’s Lose Hope 03:13 Hope = Control 03:19 Is Hope Serving You Right Now? 05:01 Hope as a Survival Mechanism 06:06 Realizing That Having Hope is Hurting Me 06:53 Being Able to Feel More Now 09:31 Hope Being Control: An Exploration 10:41 Opening to Not Knowing 10:59 Hope Creates Inherent Distance 12:00 I Hope I Can Do It 12:35 When We Hope for Others 13:04 How Hope Can Be Disempowering 13:49 A Time of Hoping Less 14:48 Tied to a Previous Experience 15:17 Take a Look at the Energy of Hope 16:26 Disclaimer: Personal Experiences 16:38 Hope is Helpful & Holding Hope for Each Other 17:45 Ask Yourself: What is Underlying Hope? What Amount of Control Are You Inferring? 19:38 I Hope This is an Interesting Podcast (Lol) 20:14 Let’s Connect 20:28 Embody Community Intro Music by Nick Werber Featured Photos by  Robin Spielmann Stéphane Gachet Unsplash
    hopelessness, let go of hope, aliveness, healing trauma, developmental trauma
  • 35: Caitlin Parsons ❤ Find Your Non-Negotiables

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 53 min 39 sec0:53:39
    In this podcast, Caitlin shares about 6 ways to stand in your empowerment, finding inner resource, the benefits of yoga nidra and yoga therapy, the loving act of tuning into your body’s needs and non-negotiables, and how to manage dental anxiety. Caitlin’…
    In this podcast, Caitlin shares about 6 ways to stand in your empowerment, finding inner resource, the benefits of yoga nidra and yoga therapy, the loving act of tuning into your body’s needs and non-negotiables, and how to manage dental anxiety. Caitlin’s passion is to create a space for curiosity and the unfolding. She is a teacher, student, nature lover, and adventurer at heart-based in San Diego, California. Caitlin has spent thousands of hours experiencing, studying, teaching, and training in all things therapeutic yoga, meditation, yoga nidra, and sound healing. She is a Certified Yoga Therapist, 500hr E-RYT, and a Wellness Advocate. Caitlin shares her love and passion for transformation through her supporting her students in an online program called The Embodiment Academy, where she takes a deep dive into meditation, mindfulness, movement, breath work, self-care, and self-inquiry. This program involves education, coaching support and strategy for creating daily habits. Caitlin also continues to bridge her therapeutic knowledge and practice into her education as a Dental Hygienist to help those suffering from physical, mental or emotional discomfort or pain through her 6-week Online Yoga Therapy Program and offering continuing education courses. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/caitlin Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by The Soul Body Women’s Retreat This episode is brought to you by the Soul Body Women’s Retreat that will adventure in October 2018. The Soul Body Women's Retreat is a spiritual journey for women who deeply desire to sync Soul and Body, to live effortlessly and at home in themselves — from the heart and in their creative brilliance — and to transform, reclaim, and call up all of who they TRULY are. A sacred week of nourishing and healing through sisterhood, nature, embodied healing practices, Family and Spiritual Constellations, yoga and meditation - while immersing in the depths and reaches of earth and sky in Zion National Park, Utah.  For this and future retreats, you can find out more information here . Your support in sharing or joining a retreat helps me make more healing albums, content, and create more podcast episodes. I am grateful for your support! For This and Future Retreats Visit CandiceWu.com/retreats Show Notes & Timestamps  0:00 Intro 0:57 Sponsored by the Soul Body Women’s Retreat 1:44 Introduction 2:36 Opening 2:55 What Caitlin Does and How She Got Started 4:26 What Did Your First Yoga Class Feel Like? 6:34 Caitlin’s Inspiration to Do the 1000-Hour Yoga Teacher Training (Which Tradition and What Are You Using Today)? 8:10 Mention San Diego Soul of Yoga in Encinitas 8:51 How Do You See Meditation, Yoga, and Sound Healing? 10:45 The Pain From Childhood 12:05 Mention of Energetic Boundaries Podcast Episode 12:56 How Do You Support Others to Be in Alignment? 15:26 How Do You Guide Clients to More Inner Resource? 16:28 What Continues to Show Up for You? 18:37 Inner Resource: How Do You See This, How It Expands in Your Work, and How You Help People Connect to It? 20:04 Attunement, Holding Space, Never General 20:04 Yoga Nidra and Why It’s So Powerful 22:11 Mentioning Yoga Nidra Meditation Coming Up 22:37 What Is Yoga Nidra? 24:16 Mention of Richard Miller, Phd - Work Through Yoga Nidra With Ptsd 24:26 Mention of Nischala Joy Devi - Finding Your Inner Resource 25:45 6 Ways to Learn How to Stand in Your Essence 30:39 What Are Your Non-Negotiables? And Starting the Morning Magical 32:52 Her Non-Negotiable: Do Not Jump on Social Media in the Morning 33:59 What Else Nourishes You Right Now? 35:12 Meditation About Dental Anxiety 39:20 Fear of Loosing Teeth, Dreamworld 41:05 Lightning Round 41:24 What Are Some of the Ways That Life Has Surprised You? 41:43 What’s the First Thing You’d Say or Do After Being Frozen for a Long Time? 42:32 What Question Would You Most Like the Answer To? 43:09 Mention of Embodiment Academy 44:20 What’s an Opinion That’s You Have That Is Against the Grain? 45:26 Do You Remember Your Dreams? 46:39 Yoga Nidra Practice and Other Extras 47:38 Where Can People Find You? 48:14 The Embodiment Academy Group 50:28 Thank You to Caitlin 50:52 Sendoff 51:07 Outro 52:11 Embody Community 52:40 Your Support Matters Intro Music by  Nick Werber instagram.com/nwerber
    yoga, caitlin parsons, non negotiables, boundaries, empowerment, self care, self love
  • 34: Loving Yourself ❤ The Past is Over

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 32 min 42 sec0:32:42
    Love yourself by catching up all the parts of you that are stuck in time so you can feel embodied now. Have you found that your mind knows something but your emotions or your body reacts the same as it always has? This episode is about a very important as…
    Love yourself by catching up all the parts of you that are stuck in time so you can feel embodied now. Have you found that your mind knows something but your emotions or your body reacts the same as it always has? This episode is about a very important aspect of loving yourself- loving your whole self and catching yourself up to the present moment by closing the chapters of the past that are left open. Knowing that the past is over, we explore shifting the energy in the body by letting the body catch up to what you know is already over, and completing what’s incomplete. Following this episode are three healing experientials: Taking Inventory on What’s Stuck in Time Completing a Chapter in the Past Through the Body Releasing and Closing a Relationship That Haunts You Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/past-is-over Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsorship Message This episode is sponsored by the Ally with Death Visualization . It’s a DIY online experience that you can do any time, with a friend or by yourself. The energy of death is powerful to ally with - it gives us the energy to end things or let things die that need to in our lives, to make way for new creations, new energy, and a freer truer version of ourselves. Especially with this episode of embodying that the past is over, it can help you take inventory of what is living inside you or your dynamics, your relationship to yourself or your outer world that needs to end or be recognized that it is already over. Things feel overwhelming or weighing on you, make some time to do this for yourself - a great reset for the Spirit. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I am so appreciative. Learn More About Ally With Death candicewu.com/ally Show Notes & Timestamps   00:00 Intro 01:04 Sponsored by Ally With Death 02:04 Update on Me & Taking Pleasure 02:54 People Have Been Very Overwhelmed 04:12 Opening / Following the Trauma Episode 04:58 Introducing Today’s Episode (Being Present is Where We Can Receive) 06:11 Loving Yourself - Finding the Best Ways to Nourish All the Parts of Your Being 07:16 the Body Needs to Catch Up to Speed 07:43 When We Are Not Ourselves, It's Usually That Something is Incomplete in the Past 08:06 Cleanse It All 09:04 We Can Complete as Much as We Can 09:39 Our Consciousness is More Open to Tools and Energies 10:53 How Can We Be More of Our Own Inner Spark and Light? 11:39 Inspiration for This Episode: The Past is Over. 12:39 Personal Story About Childhood and Developmental Trauma 13:03 Looking Towards and Giving Space to My Younger Self 14:12 Closing Past Chapters / Closing & Changing the Radio Station 14:47 Parts of Us That Are Stuck in Time (What I Mean by That) 16:03 Incomplete Situations Hold & Block Energy 17:12 We Need That Energy to Move Forward! 17:40 It Needs to Move Through the Body 18:25 the Body is Not as Evolved as the Mind 19:15 Giving the Body the Experience It Needs 20:48 Soul Healing / Past Life 21:33 Tactic: Asking if It's Actually Over. 23:55 Going Deeper With Our Younger Selves 25:43 Meaning of "The Past is Over" 26:50 the Resources We Have Now 27:39 Where You Can Use This for Healing 28:42 Healing Experientials in the Next Week 28:58 Intro to Experiential: Taking Inventory 29:13 Intro to Experiential: Close a Chapter 29:38 Intro to Experiential: Completing Something Open 30:22 Closing 30:51 Patreon 31:20 Embody Community 31:32 Send Off: Find More of Yourself Intro Music by  Nick Werber instagram.com/nwerber Featured Photo by  carole smile Unsplash
    letting go of the past, past is over, self love, healing trauma, presence, being present
  • 33: Healing with Horses A Conversation about Equine Therapy with Joy Curran

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 1 hour 10 min 17 sec1:10:17
    How can horses help you to release limiting beliefs, fears around money, receive love and feel joyful in your life, become a better parent, or build confidence? I was so excited to learn from special Guest Joy Curran, who offers equine assisted counseling…
    How can horses help you to release limiting beliefs, fears around money, receive love and feel joyful in your life, become a better parent, or build confidence? I was so excited to learn from special Guest Joy Curran, who offers equine assisted counseling with the help of her amazing horse Chaya. We talk about all the ways that horses can be an embodied and powerful way to learn about yourself, move through blocks and challenges, and build confidence, as well as the spiritual connection, intuitive powers, and love that horses can bring. Listen in on our discussion right on the farm near Perth, Australia, with all of the farm animals surrounding us! We explore how we can move through blocks with interacting with a horse, how working through a horse is a lot like parenting, resolving issues of abundance and money with horses, how sexual trauma and other trauma can be healed with equine therapy, practicing forgiveness, and cultivating JOY. Joy by name, Joy by nature. Joy lives to help others discover joy in life! Using her own experiences of overcoming anxiety and depression, Joy is able to relate deeply to others going through similar struggles. Based in sunny Perth, Joy Curran offers equine assisted counseling and learning services with the help of her amazing horse Chaya. Joy is a qualified counsellor who uses her intuition to select from a wide range of counseling techniques and equine activities. Chaya’s name is of Hebrew origin and means ‘to sustain life, live prosperously, live for ever, be quickened, be restored to health’. These are the things that we are hoping to share with our guests. Joy has a gentle and natural way of relating to people which helps to put you at ease right away. If you are open to it, Joy would love to pray for you and bless you. Looking for a miracle? Anything’s possible! Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/joy Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by the Sound Sleep Album This episode is brought to you by the Sound Sleep Album. An album of 11 healing experientials inspired by Somatic Experiencing, Family Constellations, Yoga, Ayurveda and meditations that will help you feel more grounded, restful, and easeful in your sleep and throughout the day. It is the stepping stone towards healing trauma, bringing your nervous system to a baseline where you feel relaxed, calm, and looking at the deeper aspects of sleep issues. Learn more at CandiceWu.com/soundsleep Show Notes & Timestamps  0:00 Intro 0:58 Sponsored by The Sound Sleep Album 1:42 Opening with my time in Perth 4:51 Introducing Joy 5:16 Opening Prayer 5:50 At the Farm - the Setting 6:52 Who is Joy? 8:24 Sheep Assisted Learning 😉 9:02 You can't expect anything. They just express. 9:34 Understanding Being so Big 10:19 How did you get into working with horses? 11:31 Centaurs 12:24 Being One With Horse : How? 13:53 Connection Cannot be Forced 14:37 We try to force Human Connection - And it does not work 15:53 Working on Communication 17:21 The Many Levels of Communication with Horses (physical, voice, heart, spiritual) 20:26 Joy’s Understanding of the Spiritual Realm 23:03 Natural Realm & Spiritual Realm - Heart Rate Assimilation 25:31 Equine Therapy can work with so many aspects of life! 26:23 Family: Working with a horse is a lot like parenting 28:36 Horse-onality: The Quality of Family within the Horses 30:17 Mention of Carolyn Resnick 31:47 A sense of Togetherness 32:51 Story About the Emu Coming 33:45 Chicago vs. being on the Farm - Forced to be in my body 34:53 How do You Work With abundance and money? 35:25 Siri Wants to Help LOL 35:45 Money Set Up: What are you going to do to receive / invite the horse forward? 36:29 Story about the Girl that could not go to school 37:55 Relating to Family Constellations 39:47 Working with Trauma 40:36 Learning Safety with Brushing a Horse 42:34 Working with Sexual Trauma and Development 44:16 Horse Processing for Humans 45:13 Questions from Instagram Followers: Fibromyalgia 46:01 Do you Recommend Repetition and Continued Sessions in Equine Therapy/Learning? 48:58 Challenges: What kind of Challenges do you see in your work or life? 50:01 How do you work on limited energy with yourself and the horses? 51:50 The Journey with the Joy's Name 52:59 One Tip for people for Cultivating and Being in Joy 54:04 Where do you feel Joy in Your Body? 54:31 Importance of Forgiveness 59:46 Blessing & Prayer / Where is it coming from and how do you use it? 1:05:30 Where can people find you? 1:06:33 Anything else before we end? 1:06:59 Finishing with a Blessing 1:07:35 Outro Intro Music by  Nick Werber instagram.com/nwerber
    healing with horses, joy curran, equine therapy, horse love
  • 32: Embodied Trauma Healing: From Science to Soul and Spirit

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 51 min 26 sec0:51:26
    “The body keeps an accurate journal, regardless of what you write down.” —Anonymous We can’t talk our way out of trauma, anxiety, or depression. It requires the body and heart to move through what it wanted to do that it didn’t get to, and the body will r…
    “The body keeps an accurate journal, regardless of what you write down.” —Anonymous We can’t talk our way out of trauma, anxiety, or depression. It requires the body and heart to move through what it wanted to do that it didn’t get to, and the body will remind (in both subtle and loud ways) us until it happens. The body is the vessel for all of our experiences and holds the energy of what was overwhelming or incomplete in the past, in our ancestry, and our soul history. What involved the body to begin with requires the body to heal. Learn about the key components that give way to healing your nervous system and coming through with more resilience and expansiveness, whether or not you think or believe you have trauma. This episode is about the science, soul, and spirit behind trauma and trauma healing, how our instinctual animal body responds to threat, how the whole body’s function and our experience are impacted by the nervous system’s fight and flight responses, and the connection of the body to spiritual aspects of trauma. This episode will be followed by a body-centered trauma healing experiential that supports you in unfolding body memory and organic healing. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/trauma Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsorship Message If the Embody Podcast, my writing, or guided healing meditations have inspired you, helped, or spoken to you, it would mean the world to me if you would show your support through a small donation. Each creation is lovingly made from my soul and takes anywhere from weeks to a few days to develop and produce. I gladly pay an editor who supports me in polishing and creating high quality content. As little as $1 a month would nourish my podcast and other creations to continue to have life and cover costs. Plus you’ll receive some sweet  personalized healing gifts  from me that can deepen your embodiment on your own journey. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I am so appreciative. Visit my Patreon Page candicewu.com/patreon Show Notes & Timestamps  00:00 Intro 00:56 Sponsored by You 01:47 Update on My Travels: Michigan 04:58 Opening of the Episode 05:16 When I First Started Therapy 06:23 Opening to Embodiment 07:07 I Couldn’t Just “Calm Down” or “Let Go” 07:46 Nervous System - Duality of Protection & Growth 09:22 Shifting the Trauma / Compassion for Myself 10:33 Trauma Healing From a Body-Centered Perspective 11:20 What Is Trauma? 12:12 the Spectrum of Trauma (Large T Trauma, Small T Trauma) 14:47 Empowering Trauma by Defining It as a Response That Could Not Be Had 15:44 Referencing Family Constellations and Ancestry With Trauma Passed Down the Line 17:31 Working With the Body, We Don’t Necessarily Need to Know the Details 18:13 Trauma by History 18:34 Something New Can Happen 19:08 Science and Soul Around Embodied Trauma Healing 19:28 Difference From Talk Therapy 20:15 “Time Will Heal All Wounds” - (Myth or Reality) Part 1: Science Behind Trauma 21:27 Science Behind Trauma 21:39 Mention of Somatic Experiencing by Peter Levine 22:09 Animals and Trauma - How Animals Respond to Threat 23:39 Example Video - the Impala Playing Dead 24:14 Humans Response to Traumatic Experiences / Avoid, Skip, or Ignore 25:38 Sometimes “I’m Fine” Is Also Numbness 26:40 What Peter Levine Created 27:25 Techniques I Use in My Work / Combining Somatic Experiencing With Family Constellations 28:07 A Healthy Nervous System 29:37 Fight, Flight, and Freeze Are Supposed to Only Last a Few Minutes 30:06 We Are Not Exactly the Same as Animals (We Need a Lot of Love and Care Before We Can Handle the World) 30:50 Donald Winnicott : Good Enough Mother 31:30 Our Expansive & Rational Self - Placed in a Body That Needs Co-Regulation 32:01 More Science: The Polyvagus Nerve 32:08 Mention Polyvagal Theory by Stephen Porges 33:27 The Vagus Nerve and All the Organ Systems 35:07 Why Look at Trauma? 35:54 The Body Knows Even if the Mind Doesn't! 36:22 An Example of This Showing Up in Family Constellations 36:57 Empowered by Knowing That There Is a Way to Heal 37:32 How Are We Affected if We Have Trauma? Part 2: Soul & Spirit 39:37 Soul & Spirit 40:29 Asking Questions / What the Soul Asks Us to Learn About This Situation? 41:34 From Soul to Spirit / the Part That Is Untouched & Unwounded 42:51 Clear the Soul Level Trauma 43:21 There Are Endless Tools to Heal Trauma (Or Quick Summary: Healing Trauma Through Completion and Embodiment) 45:53 Who to Work With? 46:45 Getting on the Grid on the Embody podcast/episode on Energy 46:54 Body Like Mountain on the Embody Podcast / Nature 47:02 Resource Safety & Emotional Capacity With Pendulation on the Embody Podcast / Emotions 47:19 Being in the Body With Love on the Embody Podcast / Embody 47:39 Following the Body to Organically Heal / the Meditation That Comes With This Podcast / Trauma 48:17 Why I Am So Excited About Trauma Work 49:57 Contact Me 50:16 Outro Intro Music by  Nick Werber instagram.com/nwerber Cover Photo by  psychoballerina photography Unsplash
    trauma healing, body wisdom, polyvagal theory, polyvagus nerve, fight and flight, fff responses, freeze, tonic immobility, animal body, soul healing, past life trauma, body memory, ancestry, ancestral healing, intergenerational trauma
  • 31: A Whole New Set of Realities: Patrick Kalscheur

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    How does one bridge spirituality, wanting to make a difference, and family law together? Learn how Patrick Kalscheur, Conscious Family Lawyer, integrated his passions into an empowering practice as a family lawyer, mediator, and coach. Whether or not you …
    How does one bridge spirituality, wanting to make a difference, and family law together? Learn how Patrick Kalscheur, Conscious Family Lawyer, integrated his passions into an empowering practice as a family lawyer, mediator, and coach. Whether or not you are in need of information about family law or divorce, you’ll get some true brightness and abundant insight from Patrick! In this episode, you’ll learn Patrick’s tips on how to move from scarcity towards abundance, embodying desires and envisioning possibilities, how to open a stepping stone of gratitude towards manifestation, the process of moving through fears and challenges of divorce, Patrick’s experience in guiding people from grief to empowerment and being a clair-empath. In addition, if you are on the path of divorce, preparing for it, or contemplating it, you’ll gain plenty of validation and information that can build your confidence through a challenging process. Following this episode (technically the next ‘podcast’) is a powerful guided Gratitude Meditation by Patrick Kalscheur to support you in deepening in your own abundant self. Patrick is a Conscious family lawyer. He combines spirituality and consciousness practices with his legal expertise to assist families going through one of life’s greatest transitions—divorce. Patrick begins by reframing divorce from a process of grief, depression, and the end of a relationship to also a process that offers healing growth and a new beginning. By working with other healers and practitioners and working with his client’s strengths, he builds a support system and uses practices like meditation and visualization to help facilitate a process of growth for his clients. In addition to representing clients individually, Patrick also works as a mediator and life coach. As a mediator, Patrick can help the whole family going through a transition, and as a life coach, he uses many of the same techniques to help people ground themselves, visualize the life they want to live, and take steps to make those visions a reality. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/patrick Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature This episode is brought to you by the  Soul Body Women’s Retreat  that will adventure in October 2018. The Soul Body Women’s Retreat is a spiritual and healing retreat inspired to support connecting Soul and Body, the elements of Earth and Sky within, Feminine and Masculine, and all of the opposing energies within. It is a sacred intensive of meditations, yoga, family constellations, somatic healing, and soul work to deeply heal stuckness, beliefs, or ancestral bonds and embody freedom and specific personal intentions. For this and future retreats, you can find out more information at  https://candicewu.com/retreats . Your support in sharing or joining a retreat helps me make more healing albums, content, and create more podcast episodes. I am grateful for your support! For This and Future Retreats Visit CandiceWu.com/retreats Show Notes & Timestamps  00:00 Intro 00:55 Sponsored by Soul Body Retreat 01:37 Introducing Patrick 02:54 Interview 03:11 Patrick’s Journey 06:17 Life Pointing the Direction 07:50 Through Divorce and Beyond 09:01 Divorce Nicely 10:39 Reframing Divorce 11:06 Different Tools for the Process 12:24 What are the types of healing practitioners that seem to be a good fit for your client? 14:58 Candice Experience / What do people experience through divorce? (mainly talking about scarcity, not being enough after this point) 16:50 Big Fear: Sense of Loss 17:22 Big Fear: Will the Children be Ok? 17:41 Let's work with those! Move from Scarcity to Abundance, how to have enough, and more... 18:59 Deliverance from Fear into Empowerment 19:37 Mention of Spiritual Detox Podcast 20:18 It's about how far the clients wants to go 21:50 Mediation 24:03 Mediator and Lawyer? 25:55 Self-care as a Clair-Empath 28:09 What nourishes your soul | What fulfills you? 28:48 Dive Deeper: Scarcity to Abundance 32:09 Introducing Patrick’s Meditation 34:44 Lightning Round 34:53 What's the title of the current chapter of your life? 36:01 If you could do a 20 second phone call to yourself, when would you call and what would you say? 37:15 What job would you be horrible at? 37:53 What's an interesting or strange dream you remember? 41:04 Anything else? 42:01 Where to find Patrick 42:27 What does your work as a life coach look like? 44:25 Thank you and Outro 45:05 More Episodes at CandiceWu.com/podcast 45:32 Your Support Matters Intro Music by  Nick Werber instagram.com/nwerber
    possibility, perception, reality, open your reality, patrick kalscheur, meditation, family law, conscious law, divorce and mediation, divorce law, lawyer, conscious lawyer, gratitude, abundance, healing money issues, values
  • 30: Energetic Boundaries: How To Strengthen Your Energetic Field, Ground & Clear Absorbed Energy

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 50 min 3 sec0:50:03
    This episode is a rerun of EP30 which was originally published on 2018–07–23. What do you do when you’ve absorbed others’ energy or emotions? How do you know if you have? How do you stay grounded and have clear energetic boundaries so that you don’t pick …
    This episode is a rerun of EP30 which was originally published on 2018–07–23. What do you do when you’ve absorbed others’ energy or emotions? How do you know if you have? How do you stay grounded and have clear energetic boundaries so that you don’t pick up what’s not yours? Are you an Empath? Do you have the experience that you’re like a magnet or velcro to others’ negative feelings, leaving you fatigued and irritable? Perhaps you’re not sure whether what you feel is yours or someone else’s. This episode is all about energy, how to deal with others’ energies, sorting and releasing absorbed energy or emotions from your own, and strengthening your own energetic field. From tips and tools to stay grounded being an empath or empathic, all the way down to the core beliefs and ways of being that open you up to receiving or feeling responsible for others’ energy. Following the Podcast are three healing experientials to support your energetic strength, clarity and awareness: Sorting and Clearing your Vibration Getting on the Grid: Grounding and Anchoring into the Universal Order Healing Experiential: Ancestral Order – Clearing up Energetic Responsibility and Receiving the Best A Family Constellations experiential to support you in clearing up unconscious bonds of responsibility where responsibility is not yours, releasing you of emotions or energies that belong someone else in your lineage, and shifting you into your true and natural position to fully receive the best of your family system while leaving the rest. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/ep30  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored By This episode is sponsored by the  Embodied Healing Group Monthly Call  and the Personalized Meditations. The Group call is a monthly group online to enjoy embodied support, empowering connection, and healing guidance! A truly powerful exchange of love and transformation for your contribution. If you’re craving this kind of experience, I’ll support you in being at ease in your own body and spirit, tapping into your intuition and wisdom, and somatic and ancestral healing around anything you’re experiencing or challenged with each month. If you’d like to receive a personalized Meditation or Healing Experiential and would like your funds to go to the podcast,  check out the different ways you support here . Your personalized meditation will be based on your specific intentions — I’ll sense in with my intuition to offer something that will support you on your journey. Learn more about how to support The Embody Podcast at  CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 0:00 Intro 2:19 Opening + Picking Up the Energy of a Room 4:19 Understanding Where It’s Coming From 5:17 What I’ve Learned to Navigate 5:49 Do You Absorb Energy? 7:11 Whose Energy Is It? 7:29 5 Parts of This Podcast Part 1: How We Can Understand Absorbing Others’ Energy 8:27 What Is an Empath? 10:32 My Most Natural State 10:58 We All Have the Ability / Vata in Ayurveda 13:35 It’s Really Hard for the Nervous System to Develop if There Has Been Disruption or Trauma in Childhood 14:29 in Family Constellations: Child Comes in to Take Responsibility for What’s Missing 15:38 Narcissism Parents 16:07 Projective Identification 17:28 Rocks as an Example 18:46 Balanced State 19:12 How Your Physical & Energetic Boundary Can Be Broken 19:56 Most Powerful Is a Place of Choice Part 2: How to Stay grounded/tips of the Trade 20:13 Staying Grounded & Strengthening Your Energy Boundary 20:25 Finding Distance 20:45 Sending Energy Down | 500 Pounds 21:10 Imagine Your Energy Boundary 23:12 Be Like an Animal 24:02 Body Scan 24:47 Setting Healthy Boundaries | No 25:13 Giving Away Your Energy. Always Saying Yes. It’s a Parasite. 25:45 Sri Lanka Story – Parasites 26:14 Most Vulnerable When I Don’t Want to Be in the Situation 26:35 Eating Grounding Foods 27:11 Lots of Information ???? 27:26 Zip Up Technique 28:03 Getting on the Grid 28:12 Inspiration From Alex Grey Artwork 28:59 the Approach Around People Part 3: What Do You Do if You Have Picked Up Other’s Energy?Knowing What’s Yours and What’s Not 29:59 How Do You Know if You Have Picked Energy? 30:11 How to Cleanse 30:41 Lion’s Breath | Coughing Up Energy 32:22 Checking in When Not Sure 32:41 the Strongest Tool | Checking in With Myself 33:46 Talking to My Body | Whose Is This? 34:04 Clearing Someone Else’s Energy 34:49 if Energy Does Not Want to Go… Asking What It Needs to Release or Go Part 4 + 5: Strengthen Your Own boundary/healing Up the Ruptures 35:11 Whatever Is Left Is Probably Mine | Ruptured Boundary 36:03 Example: Immigration Story 38:47 Strengthening Your Own Boundaries 39:19 Slowly, Slowly 40:48 Hands for Receiving 41:49 Moving Responsibility / It’s Not My Job. 42:47 Being Worthy of Receiving 44:02 I’m Bigger, Better, or Smarter! (Seriously?) 45:14 Let’s Look at the Root – Why Do You Absorb? 45:30 “I Forgive Myself, for Judging Myself, for Believing…” 46:31 Human Consciousness | Distorted Beliefs 46:49 Outro 48:11 Patreon
    boundaries, healing boundaries, strengthen your boundaries, energetic boundary, energy field, clear your energy, clearing the chakras, clearing your chakras, energy vampire, fortify your energy, release responsibility
  • 30: Energetic Boundaries: How To Strengthen Your Energetic Field, Ground & Clear Absorbed Energy

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 49 min 56 sec0:49:56
    What do you do when you’ve absorbed others’ energy or emotions? How do you know if you have? How do you stay grounded and have clear energetic boundaries so that you don’t pick up what’s not yours? Are you an Empath? Do you have the experience that you’re…
    What do you do when you’ve absorbed others’ energy or emotions? How do you know if you have? How do you stay grounded and have clear energetic boundaries so that you don’t pick up what’s not yours? Are you an Empath? Do you have the experience that you’re like a magnet or velcro to others’ negative feelings, leaving you fatigued and irritable? Perhaps you’re not sure whether what you feel is yours or someone else’s. This episode is all about energy, how to deal with others’ energies, sorting and releasing absorbed energy or emotions from your own, and strengthening your own energetic field. From tips and tools to stay grounded being an empath or empathic, all the way down to the core beliefs and ways of being that open you up to receiving or feeling responsible for others’ energy. Following the Podcast are three healing experientials to support your energetic strength, clarity and awareness: ❤ Sorting and Clearing your Vibration ❤ Getting on the Grid: Grounding and Anchoring into the Universal Order ❤ Healing Experiential: Ancestral Order - Clearing up Energetic Responsibility and Receiving the Best A Family Constellations experiential to support you in clearing up unconscious bonds of responsibility where responsibility is not yours, releasing you of emotions or energies that belong someone else in your lineage, and shifting you into your true and natural position to fully receive the best of your family system while leaving the rest. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/energy Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsorship Message This episode is brought to you by the  Soul Body Women’s Retreat  that will adventure in October 2018. The Soul Body Women’s Retreat is a spiritual and healing retreat inspired to support connecting Soul and Body, the elements of Earth and Sky within, Feminine and Masculine, and all of the opposing energies within. It is a sacred intensive of meditations, yoga, family constellations, somatic healing, and soul work to deeply heal stuckness, beliefs, or ancestral bonds and embody freedom and specific personal intentions. For this and future retreats, you can find out more information  here . Your support in sharing or joining a retreat helps me make more healing albums, content, and create more podcast episodes. I am grateful for your support! For This and Future Retreats Visit CandiceWu.com/retreats   Show Notes & Timestamps  00:00 Intro 01:06 Sponsorship 02:06 Opening + Picking Up the Energy of a Room 04:06 Understanding Where It’s Coming From 05:04 What I’ve Learned to Navigate 05:36 Do You Absorb Energy? 06:58 Whose Energy Is It? 07:16 5 Parts of This Podcast Part 1: How We Can Understand Absorbing Others’ Energy 08:14 What Is an Empath? 10:19 My Most Natural State 10:45 We All Have the Ability / Vata in Ayurveda 13:22 It’s Really Hard for the Nervous System to Develop if There Has Been Disruption or Trauma in Childhood 14:16 in Family Constellations: Child Comes in to Take Responsibility for What’s Missing 15:25 Narcissism Parents 15:54 Projective Identification 17:15 Rocks as an Example 18:33 Balanced State 18:59 How Your Physical & Energetic Boundary Can Be Broken 19:43 Most Powerful Is a Place of Choice Part 2: How to Stay grounded/tips of the Trade 20:00 Staying Grounded & Strengthening Your Energy Boundary 20:12 Finding Distance 20:32 Sending Energy Down | 500 Pounds 20:57 Imagine Your Energy Boundary 22:59 Be Like an Animal 23:49 Body Scan 24:34 Setting Healthy Boundaries | No 25:00 Giving Away Your Energy. Always Saying Yes. It’s a Parasite. 25:32 Sri Lanka Story - Parasites 26:01 Most Vulnerable When I Don’t Want to Be in the Situation 26:22 Eating Grounding Foods 26:58 Lots of Information 🙈 27:13 Zip Up Technique 27:50 Getting on the Grid 27:59 Inspiration From Alex Grey Artwork 28:46 the Approach Around People Part 3: What Do You Do if You Have Picked Up Other’s Energy?Knowing What’s Yours and What’s Not 29:46 How Do You Know if You Have Picked Energy? 29:58 How to Cleanse 30:28 Lion’s Breath | Coughing Up Energy 32:09 Checking in When Not Sure 32:28 the Strongest Tool | Checking in With Myself 33:33 Talking to My Body | Whose Is This? 33:51 Clearing Someone Else’s Energy 34:36 if Energy Does Not Want to Go… Asking What It Needs to Release or Go Part 4 + 5: Strengthen Your Own boundary/healing Up the Ruptures | Deep Release of Conscious and Unconscious Beliefs, Past Conditioning, Projections Internalized 34:58 Whatever Is Left Is Probably Mine | Ruptured Boundary 35:50 Example: Immigration Story 38:34 Strengthening Your Own Boundaries 39:06 Slowly, Slowly 40:35 Hands for Receiving 41:36 Moving Responsibility / It’s Not My Job. 42:34 Being Worthy of Receiving 43:49 I’m Bigger, Better, or Smarter! (Seriously?) 45:01 Let’s Look at the Root - Why Do You Absorb? 45:17 “I Forgive Myself, for Judging Myself, for Believing…” 46:18 Human Consciousness | Distorted Beliefs 46:36 Outro 47:58 Patreon Intro Music by  Nick Werber instagram.com/nwerber Cover Photo by  Oliver Sjöström Unsplash
    boundaries, healing boundaries, strengthen your boundaries, energetic boundary, energy field, clear your energy, clearing the chakras, clearing your chakras, energy vampire, fortify your energy, release responsibility
  • 29: Tammy Letherer: You Can’t Plan an Inspired Life

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    “My son ran into the bedroom and said, “Mom, mom, there’s a man in an orange cape sitting at the table”...I went out into a dining room, and there was a Buddhist monk in full robes, orange robes, sitting at my dining room table. And I was very confused it…
    “My son ran into the bedroom and said, “Mom, mom, there’s a man in an orange cape sitting at the table”...I went out into a dining room, and there was a Buddhist monk in full robes, orange robes, sitting at my dining room table. And I was very confused it was a bit surreal....” ~ Tammy, Speaking about her book The Buddha at My Table Well...I was definitely intrigued! This episode is an inspiring conversation with Tammy Letherer, a writing coach, blogger, and author, who has such a healing presence in the world! She shares about her path of peace in her new book The Buddha at My Table, and radiates with the messages that you deserve to tell your story and to value your experience, no matter how simple or mundane you think it is. She also explores that moments of shock bring you to full presence and attention. ​Tammy lives in Chicago with her three children and enjoys yoga, swing dancing, reading a good novel, Earl Grey tea, and spending time outdoors. Read her blogs about creativity, spirituality, and the writing life on the Huffington Post or visit her at TammyLetherer.com. Her Latest book, The Buddha at My Table: How I Found Peace in Betrayal and Divorce, will be released on October 16, 2018. In this memoir, she describes--in honest, sometimes painful detail--the dismantling of a marriage that encompasses the ordinary and surreal, including the night she finds a silent, smiling Thai monk sitting at her dining room table. It's this unexpected visitation, this personification of peace, that helps her find the blessing in her husband's betrayal. Ultimately, it's when she realizes that she is participating in her life, not at its mercy, that she discovers the path to freedom. ​ Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/tammy Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature This episode is brought to you by the  Soul Body Women’s Retreat  that will adventure in October 2018. The Soul Body Women’s Retreat is a spiritual and healing retreat inspired to support connecting Soul and Body, the elements of Earth and Sky within, Feminine and Masculine, and all of the opposing energies within. It is a sacred intensive of meditations, yoga, family constellations, somatic healing, and soul work to deeply heal stuckness, beliefs, or ancestral bonds and embody freedom and specific personal intentions. For this and future retreats, you can find out more information at  https://candicewu.com/retreats . Your support in sharing or joining a retreat helps me make more healing albums, content, and create more podcast episodes. I am grateful for your support! For This and Future Retreats Visit CandiceWu.com/retreats Show Notes & Timestamps   00:00 Intro 00:56 Sponsor: Soul Body Women’s Retreat 01:52 Opening 03:06 Let's Begin! 03:24 Being and Presence in Writing 05:47 Writing for Healing (How Does Tammy See Herself) 08:27 Learning to Value Your Own Story 10:26 Going From What You Learned to Something New 14:43 Tammy’s New Book: The Buddha at My Table 17:08 Buddhist Monk at My Table 19:40 That Moment That Keeps Inspiring 20:34 Writing About What Is Right in Front of Me 24:42 You Can't Plan an Inspired Life 26:09 Moments of Shock Deliver (On the Floor, Pay Attention, Observer, and So Much More 🙈) 30:06 Lightning Question Round 30:25 What Do You Wish You Knew More About? 31:03 Where Do You Feel Joy and What Feeds You? 33:18 What Is a Controversial Opinion That You Have? 34:23 What Is the Most Heart Warming Thing You Have Ever Seen? 35:36 What Is the Strangest Dream You Ever Had? 38:00 Audience Gift 39:28 Tammy’s Book for Preorder 40:15 Anything Else? 40:54 Outro Intro Music by  Nick Werber instagram.com/nwerber
    tammy letherer, writing coach, inspired life, surrender, listen, inner listening, share your story, buddha at my table, buddhist monk, divorce, finding peace, peace, betrayal, healing betrayal
  • 28: The Inner Workings of Nature’s Healing & Elemental Medicine

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 26 min 7 sec0:26:07
    Learn about the inner workings of Nature as Nourishment and medicine, the tantras, the universe, and the earth! Tune into how we can very simply and easefully tap into the earth and aspects of nature for healing, and how to use your ability to visualize t…
    Learn about the inner workings of Nature as Nourishment and medicine, the tantras, the universe, and the earth! Tune into how we can very simply and easefully tap into the earth and aspects of nature for healing, and how to use your ability to visualize to bring yourself balance and healing. Following this podcast intro will be four healing meditations that offer ways to utilize nature as medicine, tuning into the elements, and balancing your energies. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/nature Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsorship Message This episode is brought to you by the  Soul Body Women’s Retreat  that will adventure in October 2018. The Soul Body Women’s Retreat is a spiritual and healing retreat inspired to support connecting Soul and Body, the elements of Earth and Sky within, Feminine and Masculine, and all of the opposing energies within. It is a sacred intensive of meditations, yoga, family constellations, somatic healing, and soul work to deeply heal stuckness, beliefs, or ancestral bonds and embody freedom and specific personal intentions. For this and future retreats, you can find out more information  here . Your support in sharing or joining a retreat helps me make more healing albums, content, and create more podcast episodes. I am grateful for your support! For This and Future Retreats Visit CandiceWu.com/retreats   Show Notes & Timestamps   00:00 Intro 01:00 Sponsored by The Soul Body Women's Retreat 01:51 Beginning 02:06 From Bali to Perth 02:16 Nature all around 02:55 Tracing Tree Lines - Natural Healing 03:56 The Power of Environment 04:32 Behind the Organic Lines 05:57 House & Cat Sitting 06:15 Highly Sensitive Beings 06:43 Tantra: You Are the Universe 07:49 Aum - Podcast Episode with Jim Kulackoski 08:54 Tantra: Who Are You? 09:33 Nature: Awe and Beauty 10:03 Nature As Medicine 10:41 Energy Mirroring (Chiang Mai vs Bali) 12:39 Energy of Perth, Australia 13:11 Sensing into your own space 14:03 The Soul Body Women's Retreat - Immersion into Nature 16:09 The Earth of Zion National Park 17:20 The Tanmatras 18:09 Apple vs Lemon: Imagination activates everything 19:03 Tanmatras: Power Externally and Internally 19:46 Tuning into the Energy of Elements, Animals, Nature 20:45 Energy in Information 21:55 About the Meditations this Week 23:34 Outro 24:04 Mention of Venessa Rodrigues - What would nature do? 24:44 Patreon: Your Support Means So Much Intro Music by  Nick Werber instagram.com/nwerber Omer Salom Unsplash
    nature constellations, sacred, earth, nature, medicine, earth medicine, nature as medicine, plant medicine, tantra, elemental medicine, resourcing, resource
  • 27: Getting to the Root, Living a Good Life & Essential Oils with Monique Wheeler

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    Join me with Licensed Acupuncturist and Chinese Herbalist, Monique Wheeler in our conversations around finding the root causes of dis-ease through human complexity, using muscle testing, intuition, and essential oils to treat the body, trauma and traditio…
    Join me with Licensed Acupuncturist and Chinese Herbalist, Monique Wheeler in our conversations around finding the root causes of dis-ease through human complexity, using muscle testing, intuition, and essential oils to treat the body, trauma and traditional Chinese Medicine. She shares about chronic Lyme disease and the tenacity it takes to do her own work, getting rid of emotional gunk and living a good life. Monique’s practice is Meridian 87: Chicago Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, Inc., located in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago. In June of 2018 she celebrated her 10 year practice anniversary! Monique loves being an acupuncturist and working with patients to achieve their health goals - whatever they are. She trained at the Chicago campus of the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, receiving a Master's Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2008. Since graduating Monique has studied women's health and fertility, orthopedic acupuncture, and using essential oils with acupuncture treatment. She has a passion for working with patients who struggle with respiratory issues, chronic diseases, fertility and women's health, as well as pain and orthopedic conditions. She doesn't limit her practice to these issues, though, and is always learning more with and through her patients. Monique loves her job and finds the human body, and condition, fascinating. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/monique Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature This episode is brought to you by the  Soul Body Women’s Retreat  that will adventure in October 2018. The Soul Body Women’s Retreat is a spiritual and healing retreat inspired to support connecting Soul and Body, the elements of Earth and Sky within, Feminine and Masculine, and all of the opposing energies within. It is a sacred intensive of meditations, yoga, family constellations, somatic healing, and soul work to deeply heal stuckness, beliefs, or ancestral bonds and embody freedom and specific personal intentions. For this and future retreats, you can find out more information at  https://candicewu.com/retreats . Your support in sharing or joining a retreat helps me make more healing albums, content, and create more podcast episodes. I am grateful for your support! For This and Future Retreats Visit CandiceWu.com/retreats Show Notes & Timestamps  00:00 Intro 00:53 Sponsored by The Soul Body Women's Retreat 01:43 Introducing Monique 02:40 Welcoming Monique 03:00 Monique’s 10 Year Practice Anniversary 03:14 How Monique’s practice has changed over time 05:06 Integrating Essential Oils & Supplements 05:53 Shelby Baylor 06:06 Michelle Merrimore 06:32 Chinese Medicine and the Channels 06:44 Muscle Testing the Body for Essential Oils 08:18 What is Muscle Testing? 09:14 Using Essential Oils 09:21 Young Living Company (Essential Oils Production Company) 10:22 What goes on in your mind to got to the root of the situation? 12:11 Treating one thing, magically other things heal 13:20 Healing as a side effect 14:51 Sometimes we don't even know that something is different 15:16 Common Themes in TCM & Trauma? 17:35 Working with EMDR 18:27 Michael Smith (EMDR Protocol) 19:48 Trauma is Stored in You & the Lineage 21:06 Family Constellations for Countries, Society, and the World 23:37 Intuition in Monique’s work 24:29 Stephanie Mage 25:43 Getting rid of Emotional Gunk & Living a Good Life 26:12 Being a Seeker, Doing the Work 27:10 Family Constellations: a piece at a time 27:37 Facing the Future, leaving the past. 28:35 How do you experience yourself? Challenges for Monique right now 29:20 Chronic Lyme Disease 33:43 Magic Antidote to Mold 34:30 Being tenacious 35:10 Lightning Round! 35:24 If you were an organ channel, which one would you be? 35:55 If you did not have to sleep, what would you do with your extra time? 36:46 What has required the most courage in your life so far? 37:17 What was your first Job ever? 38:36 What is the strangest dream you ever had? 39:22 Throw back question 🙈. 41:01 Closing and Gratitude 41:54 Outro Intro Music by Nick Werber instagram.com/nwerber
    healing at the root, acupuncture, Monique Wheeler, essential oils, simplicity, herbalism, women's issues, female issues
  • 26: Loving Your Gut & Food Attachment

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    In this podcast I share my recent travel challenges with food, attachment and addiction to food, the legacy of food in my ancestry, how to clear out beliefs around food and nourishment, and having a healthy relationship with your gut. This week, I’ll rele…
    In this podcast I share my recent travel challenges with food, attachment and addiction to food, the legacy of food in my ancestry, how to clear out beliefs around food and nourishment, and having a healthy relationship with your gut. This week, I’ll release three healing experientials to offer guidance in moving beyond food cravings, talking to your gut, and your own ancestral legacy of food that lives in your bones. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/food Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsorship Message This episode is brought to you by the Soul Body Women’s Retreat that will adventure in October 2018. The Soul Body Women’s Retreat is a spiritual and healing retreat inspired to support connecting Soul and Body, the elements of Earth and Sky within, Feminine and Masculine, and all of the opposing energies within. It is a sacred intensive of meditations, yoga, family constellations, somatic healing, and soul work to deeply heal stuckness, beliefs, or ancestral bonds and embody freedom and specific personal intentions. For this and future retreats, you can find out more information here . Your support in sharing or joining a retreat helps me make more healing albums, content, and create more podcast episodes. I am grateful for your support! For This and Future Retreats Visit CandiceWu.com/retreats   Show Notes & Timestamps   00:00 Intro 00:59 Sponsor: The Soul Body Women's Retreat 01:55 Opening 03:07 My Story with Food 04:48 The Rice Pillow 05:34 Addicted to Food, Rock Bottom, Intuitive Eating 07:01 Food is Medicine 07:53 Balancing Food in Proportion to Stress 08:09 Am I Vegetarian or Vegan? 09:14 Food is Anything You Take In 09:54 Spiritual Crisis & Death of my Grandma 10:35 Returning to Lombok, Indonesia 11:56 Ramadan : Taking in Sound 12:54 Challenging myself Spiritually? 13:38 My Body was Pissed! 13:59 Attachment to Self Cooked Food & Meat 15:12 It's Deeper Than Food & Talking to my Gut 15:53 Asking: What are you? 16:19 Checking with my Healing Coach 17:03 Ancestral Story about Starvation 17:42 Soul History Stays in the Stomach 18:43 I Don't Have to Repeat It, but Recognize It 19:13 Is Food My Source of Living? 19:57 Do I Have to Suffer to be Seen? 21:11 Arriving Back on Bali with Cravings 21:36 What Am I Truly Craving? 21:56 When the Body is Available 22:27 How You Can Explore Food for Yourself 22:56 What Types of Food Nourish You? 24:15 Follow-Up Meditations this Week 25:38 Outro
    food addiction, addiction, food issues, healing your relationship with food, attachment, empowerment, freedom, healing your gut, conversations with your body, parts work, talk to your body, inner listening
  • 25: Cat Aldana: See That Your Life is Enough

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     Introducing, Cat Aldana ! She is a friend and colleague who transforms lives with lighthearted and simple reminders to breathe, pause, see that your life is enough, and stepping into your power. She gets deep with sharing her stories of her ancestral epi…
     Introducing, Cat Aldana ! She is a friend and colleague who transforms lives with lighthearted and simple reminders to breathe, pause, see that your life is enough, and stepping into your power. She gets deep with sharing her stories of her ancestral epiphanies and healing in her lineage. Cat is a delight to the world and so encouraging to all those around her...And a nap is always welcome in her world. Cat Aldana is the Founder of  EAT STRETCH NAP™  + Cat Aldana International . She is a 6+ year Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 500), a Master Aerial Yoga Teacher Trainer of the nationwide chain, AIR® Aerial Fitness and a widely sought after corporate wellness consultant and speaker. Her passion for yoga stems from her contagious love for dance, holistic wellness and personal + professional development. Cat's fun loving + energetic personality, deep empathy, and gentle motivation create an extraordinary atmosphere of calm in all her classes and inspire her students to trust their inner wisdom and strength. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/cat Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature This episode is brought to you by the Soul Body Women’s Retreat that will adventure in October 2018. The Soul Body Women’s Retreat is a spiritual and healing retreat inspired to support connecting Soul and Body, the elements of Earth and Sky within, Feminine and Masculine, and all of the opposing energies within. It is a sacred intensive of meditations, yoga, family constellations, somatic healing, and soul work to deeply heal stuckness, beliefs, or ancestral bonds and embody freedom and specific personal intentions. For this and future retreats, you can find out more information at https://candicewu.com/retreats . Your support in sharing or joining a retreat helps me make more healing albums, content, and create more podcast episodes. I am grateful for your support! For This and Future Retreats Visit CandiceWu.com/retreats Show Notes & Timestamps  00:00 Quick Intro 00:15 Musical Intro 00:57 Sponsored Message: Soul Body Retreat 01:33 Overview About Cat and This Episode 02:55 Introduction of Cat 03:24 From Bali to Chicago 04:14 the Chicago Rooftop - the Only Place for Calm 05:00 How Cat and Candice Met 05:20 How Cat Started (Teaching Yoga) 06:41 the Birth of “Eat Stretch Nap” 08:29 Doing With Ease 09:06 Feeling Into Purity / Gratitude 10:57 Realizing That You Already Have Enough 12:14 Not Interested in the Hustle 12:25 Not Working So Hard / Chinese-American Family 13:03 How Cat Handled That (Being Phiipino-American First Generation) 13:38 the Impact of Family Constellations on Cat 14:17 the Magic of Healing Through Constellations : Seeing Without the Real People There 15:07 Learning About Yoga Philosophy 15:29 What’s Alive Now: Akashic Records 16:44 Akashic Records - a Whole World That Can Open Up 17:22 Stepping Into Power and Transforming Her Business 19:11 the Answer to Everything or When You Need Focus 19:18 Meditation = Focus Bootcamp 20:28 Pausing & Breathing Can Be Overwhelming 21:01 Meditation is Simple But... 21:56 Getting Fun & Techy 22:56 Everything is Ok in the End 23:29 What Are Cat's Challenges in Showing Up Bigger? 24:07 Healing From the Outside-In 25:37 Setting Your Surroundings Up to Feel How You Want to Feel 26:06 It's About Congruency 26:26 Internal Negative Self Talk 27:36 Shame Keeps It in Even Though Everybody Seems to Feel It 28:04 What Does Cat Do With Shame? 28:13 "The Untethered Soul" 29:13 Words Inherited From Our Lineage: Stays With You Until Expressed 31:00 Having the Thought of "I Am Alone" 32:42 Being Misunderstood, Strange, or Crazy 33:20 Feeling Better by Understanding the Past Life 33:33 Cat’s Story About Meditating & Being an Orphan in a Past Life 35:28 Lightning Round! 35:45 What Makes You Feel Alive Lately? 36:39 Mention Maksim Music to Throw Your Body Around 37:12 What Was Your First Job? 37:50 What's the First Thing You'd Do After Sleeping for a reeeeaaaaaaaaly Long Time 38:43 What Would You Do if You Would Not Have to Sleep? 39:17 What's the Most Controversial Opinion You Have? 42:07 Anything Else You'd Like to Add? Audience Gift 43:47 Where Can People Find You? 43:59 Last Words 44:46 Outro
    Cat Aldana, Eat Stretch Nap, being enough, simplicity, resource, support yourself
  • 24: From Emotional Numbness to Wholeness

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 43 min 29 sec0:43:29
    This episode is about my personal story of moving from emotional numbness to wholeness, navigating and developing a range of emotions, my perspective on how emotional experience changes over time, and an integrative blend of practices that can help develo…
    This episode is about my personal story of moving from emotional numbness to wholeness, navigating and developing a range of emotions, my perspective on how emotional experience changes over time, and an integrative blend of practices that can help develop emotional capacity and resilience. In individual podcasts over the week, I will offer healing meditations that you can practice to develop your own emotional capacity. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/emotions Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature If the Embody Podcast, my writing, or guided healing meditations have inspired you, helped, or spoken to you, it would mean the world to me if you would show your support through a small donation. Each creation is lovingly made from my soul and takes anywhere from weeks to a few days to develop and produce. I gladly pay an editor who supports me in polishing and creating high quality content. As little as $1 a month would nourish my podcast and other creations to continue to have life and cover costs. Plus you’ll receive some sweet  personalized healing gifts  from me that can deepen your embodiment on your own journey. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I am so appreciative. Visit my Patreon Page https://candicewu.com/patreon Show Notes & Timestamps   00:00 Brief Overview of This Episode 00:32 New Intro With Music! 01:10 Thank You to Nick 01:42 Sponsored by You via Patreon 02:16 Update About My Travels 05:18 Start of the Show : How Can I Have Such a Capacity for Emotions and Did I Always Have It? 05:38 I Only Started Feeling 9 Years Ago 05:57 Growing Up in a Chinese Family 06:29 Being a Sensitive Child 06:46 Rebelling in Middle School 07:00 Bringing Emotions Home 07:10 Elders in China 07:43 No Idea How to Handle the Emotions Inside 08:06 EMDR : What is It? 09:19 How It Helped (Feeling in the Body / Naming Emotions) 09:42 Small “t” Trauma : Experiencing Neglect, Abandonment, Emotional & Verbal Relational Abuse 10:13 Visiting a Body Centered Therapist 10:49 Faking My Way Through Life 11:16 Developing My Range : I Could Experience Only 5 Emotions 12:55 Why EMDR is Interesting 13:56 Seeing Progress : Rating Emotions & Sensations 14:56 Brainwave Vibration 15:40 How Yoga Reflects the Same Practice 16:37 This is Not Easy! 17:20 How I Got From There to Where I Am Today 18:23 Leap of Faith Into Grad School for Clinical Psychology 19:04 Finding Family Constellations 21:01 Somatic Experiencing; More Science Behind Emotions and Trauma 22:05 Learning That Emotions Are Completely Helpful 22:38 Mention Brené Brown 22:41 We Can't Numb Out “Negative” Feelings Without Numbing Out the Rest 23:32 10 Years Ago : How Can I Get Rid of My Emotions? 23:53 Now : Allying With Emotions 24:51 Trauma : The Experience of Something Incomplete | The Gift of Trauma in My Life 26:46 The Emotional Evolution Spectrum 27:34 Stage 1: Repression & Protection 28:40 Stage 2: Ability to Experience in My Body With a Safe Person 30:51 Stage 3: feel/tolerate Some Challenging Emotions Alone 32:23 Stage 4: Learning to Enjoy My Experiences, Emotions, and Feelings 33:24 Stage 5: Beginning to Feeling Pleasure in Almost Every Single Emotion : I Am Not My Emotions 34:39 Stage 6: Shifting to Easier Ways to Move Through 35:57 Embodied Experience / Using Different Spiritual / Embodied Technologies to Shift 36:53 Spiritual Bypass 37:37 Resisting body/emotional Experience to Finding Wisdom in Them 38:14 Now I Can't Imagine to Live Without the Emotions 38:30 Doing This Podcast Three Times / Resistance / Recognizing / Moving Through 40:01 Your Takeaway 40:14 Offerings: The Upcoming Three Meditations 41:48 Outro
    emotions, dealing with emotions, EMDR, wholeness, healing your capacity, trauma healing, build your capacity, expansion, freedom, emotions as your ally, ally with your body
  • 23: Men’s Healing & Reclaiming Vulnerability with Brent Garcia

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 55 min 46 sec0:55:46
    In this lively episode, Brent Garcia and I talk about toxic comparison, reintroducing presence, how society is not set up for men being vulnerable, reclaiming vulnerability as a man, the experience of admitting pain and asking for help, the courage to see…
    In this lively episode, Brent Garcia and I talk about toxic comparison, reintroducing presence, how society is not set up for men being vulnerable, reclaiming vulnerability as a man, the experience of admitting pain and asking for help, the courage to see your own shame, how he changed his entire life in his forties, the dance of the healer and inner healer in clients/patients, and Western Medicine and Traditional Eastern Medicine working in Tandem! Brent is an elite body mechanic. He came to Traditional East Asian Medicine and bodywork because he needed relief from an old Achilles tendon injury. After receiving acupuncture and massage treatments, Brent was able to function at a much higher level than he had for the previous 10 years. This motivated him to study traditional East Asian healing arts including acupuncture, herbal medicine, Asian bodywork and Tai Chi, as well as Reiki. In 2015, Brent graduated from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in Chicago with a Master of Science in Traditional Oriental Medicine (MSTOM). He received his massage training from Pacific College as well. Now, as licensed practitioner, he continues to study anything that will help him be a better, more effective healer for his clients. Combining traditional and modern systems of East Asian Medicine with bodywork and trigger point therapy, Brent provides custom treatments to eliminate pain and cultivate well-being in his patients. He maintains a private practice in Chicago, Illinois. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/brent Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature If the Embody Podcast, my writing, or guided healing meditations have inspired you, helped, or spoken to you, it would mean the world to me if you would show your support through a small donation. Each creation is lovingly made from my soul and takes anywhere from weeks to a few days to develop and produce. I gladly pay an editor who supports me in polishing and creating high quality content. As little as $1 a month would nourish my podcast and other creations to continue to have life and cover costs. Plus you’ll receive some sweet  personalized healing gifts  from me that can deepen your embodiment on your own journey. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I am so appreciative. Visit my Patreon Page https://candicewu.com/patreon Show Notes & Timestamps  00:00 Introduction of Brent Garcia 02:16 Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! 03:20 Opening 04:09 Brent - the Elite Body Mechanic 06:13 Reintroducing Presence 06:57 Being Present 100% With Clients 07:46 quitting smoking and getting into Acupuncture 09:50 Brent’s Decision to Study Eastern Medicine 11:37 The Japanese Version of Acupuncture 11:48 What Makes the difference? 12:22 Instant Feedback for patient and practitioner 13:37 It's a Dance 14:07 The limits of Acupuncture 14:33 Holding the light and dark / space between western and eastern mind 14:59 What Patients Seem to Need 15:15 Working in Tandem with Western Medicine: an example story 17:02 Dance between Western and Eastern for safety of the patient 18:10 Working with Men 18:19 Society is not setup for men to be vulnerable in pain ... 18:53 Personal Suffering. Admitting Pain. Not asking for help. 19:44 The Courage to Ask, Being A resource for Men 20:39 Finding a man as a Mentor? 21:16 Experience in a Men’s Group 21:53 What has been the challenge in being vulnerable? 22:48 Puffery & Machismo 23:26 The Middle Ground of Being in your emotions 23:51 What makes you alive? What restores you? 24:10 The effects of being a good sleeper 25:37 Jumping into Strength Training 26:56 Story about Strength Training & Presence 28:49 What's been on your heart / mind lately? 29:41 Struggles with Toxic Comparison 30:32 Discovering your path 31:07 Going Inward and Sticking with Yourself 32:29 Outside Support Instead of Doing it All By Yourself 33:54 Sharing with Friends vs Sharing with Colleges 35:22 Debunking the Bad and Scary 35:52 How did Brent get HERE? 36:04 Process Group and Massive Transformation 38:27 Difference between feedback & advice 39:33 The Primary Aspect of Relating 39:46 Going back to: How am I feeling when someone...? 40:17 What stuck with Brent from the Responses? {un}hiding shame. 41:08 Shame over Shame double whammy 41:32 Courage to speak to it 42:02 Somatic Experience of Shame & Family Constellations 43:06 Dis-ease Pattern of Shame 43:31 Brent’s Gift of Intuition around Staying with Shame 45:28 Wild Fire Round 46:11 What is the strangest dream you ever had? 46:40 What question would you ask this dream? 47:35 What do you bring with you everywhere you go? 48:07 If you would not need to sleep, what would you do with the extra time? 48:15 What would you read? 48:42 Mention the War of Art & Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield 48:52 Mention of Eckart Tolle & A New Earth 49:06 Timely every single time again - A New Earth 49:59 Mention of Fantasy Novels and Pulp Fiction Novels 50:24 What is a controversial opinion you have? 50:36 “There are Stupid Questions” 50:51 Story time: Teaching High School Chemistry 52:43 Bill Hicks Quote "I don't always choose wisely, but I am committed" 52:56 Last Thoughts? 53:29 How You Can Find Brent? 54:10 Closing 54:43 Sendoff
    mens healing, mens health, vulnerability, shame, Brent Garcia, Acupuncture, mens empowerment, masculine healing, toxic masculine, showing up
  • 22: Honoring My Grandmother & Death’s Offering

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    Experiencing my grandmother’s death has brought me to honor her in a very big way - in honoring her worth to me, and her worth to all those sharing a piece of her story, I must honor my own worth -- and this has brought me new levels of abundance and self…
    Experiencing my grandmother’s death has brought me to honor her in a very big way - in honoring her worth to me, and her worth to all those sharing a piece of her story, I must honor my own worth -- and this has brought me new levels of abundance and self-love. In this episode, I share my grandmother’s story, and mine with her, explore some recent thoughts on death, and how I am integrating the wisdom I am gaining from her life. I jump into shadow work and how we can use loss to bring us to more wholeness, and we can use our imagination to empower us now. I share three ways in which one can explore death to breathe in life and to know oneself more deeply. To ignore death is to ignore life. So here’s to embracing it to bring more and to know more of ourselves. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/sarah Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Patreon – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/patreon Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature If the Embody Podcast, my writing, or guided healing meditations have inspired you, helped, or spoken to you, it would mean the world to me if you would show your support through a small donation. Each creation is lovingly made from my soul and takes anywhere from weeks to a few days to develop and produce. I gladly pay an editor who supports me in polishing and creating high quality content. As little as $1 a month would nourish my podcast and other creations to continue to have life and cover costs. Plus you’ll receive some sweet personalized healing gifts from me that can deepen your embodiment on your own journey. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I am so appreciative. Visit my Patreon Page Show Notes & Timestamps  00:00 Intro 01:06 Sharing Gratitude & Becoming a Patron of the Embody Podcast 02:09 Travel Update (Bali > Hong Kong > Kl) 03:15 Let's Jump Into the Topic: Death 03:27 No Judgement Around Reactions to Death 04:19 Notice What's Coming Up 04:26 Death: A Sharp Opportunity to See Your Projections, Existence, and Spirituality 05:30 Clear Stop to What Connects Us Consciously and Unconsciously 06:21 Jungian Theory - Bringing the Shadow to the Surface 06:49 Not Knowing Why You Feel What You Feel 07:36 Sorting the Intergenerational Dynamics 08:28 How Grief Has Been Processed in Your Ancestry Affects You Now 09:18 Grief Demands to Be Felt in the Soul of the Family 09:50 My Personal Story With My Grandma 10:14 How the Morning Is to Be Had 11:21 Funeral Experience Great Grandmother 11:45 My Grandmother’s Arrival to the Us 12:22 Dog Poop Rice! 13:41 a Drastic Change in 2002 14:12 Visiting Hong Kong: Every Time Felt Like the Last Time. 14:28 Her 96th Birthday Party 14:54 Learning More About Someone After They Passed 15:31 Her Good Deeds 16:13 My Family’s Part in Saving Many Chinese During the Japan Invasion of China 16:59 Going Back for Two Village Children 18:03 Proud That She's My Grandmother 18:12 Being Enough 19:36 We Are a Reflection of Worthiness Before Us 20:16 Abundance in Life 21:11 Seeing My Mother More Clearly and Where I Belong 22:04 Abundance Equated With Working Hard in the Past 23:14 My Grandmother the Feminist 24:12 Working Easy = Shifting 25:18 Guilt for Working Easy 25:56 She's Living in Me and Through Me... 26:23 Mention Faith Hill Song "Everywhere I Am, There You'll Be" 26:37 Ideas and Exercises to Explore Death for Yourself 26:50 Looking at Death Gives You More Life 27:40 the Shaman’s Death 28:22 Mention of Ally With Death 28:29 Writing Your Own Eulogy 29:10 Imagine the People You Worry About Dying 32:28 Cultivating the Qualities in Yourself 34:03 Shaman’s Death in Reverse 35:04 a Choice to Explore Death 35:37 Experience and Gentleness 35:53 Ally With Death - My Shaman’s Death Online Experiencial 36:48 Last Thoughts About Death 36:54 Honoring Death Is Honoring Life 37:10 Denial of Death Is Like Denial of Life 38:14 Thank You for Joining Me Today & Listening 38:57 Patreon 39:21 Outro & Newsletter
    grandmother, grandma, ancestry, ancestors, resource, death, ally with death, honoring death, grieving, grief, loss, hong kong, grandmas story
  • 21: Sarah Buino: Shifting Shame & Being Visible

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    In this chat with the spunky Sarah Buino , we discuss her story of “Kicking and Screaming to be able to be [her] own self” and how she started her unique therapy practice, perfectionism, shifting out shame, the healing vibration in the expression of music…
    In this chat with the spunky Sarah Buino , we discuss her story of “Kicking and Screaming to be able to be [her] own self” and how she started her unique therapy practice, perfectionism, shifting out shame, the healing vibration in the expression of music, being visible, and how she nourishes herself to be able to be who she is in the world. Sarah Buino, LCSW, CADC, CDWF is the founder of Head/Heart Therapy, Inc. She is a licensed clinical social worker, certified addictions counselor, Certified Daring WayTM facilitator, and adjunct faculty member at Loyola University. She holds a masters degree from Loyola University in Chicago and specializes in shame and substance use disorders. From an early age, Sarah began to share the stage with her mother who was a professional singer. She sings in a local Chicago band on weekends. Sarah integrates her knowledge of complementary healing modalities such as music, yoga, reiki, and the chakra system into her clinical practice to help clients enhance their authenticity. She’s also the host of a podcast Conversations With a Wounded Healer which examines the role of one’s own healing while being a care-giving professional. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/sarah Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature This episode is brought to you by the  Soul Body Women’s Retreat  that will adventure in October 2018. The Soul Body Women’s Retreat is a spiritual and healing retreat inspired to support connecting Soul and Body, the elements of Earth and Sky within, Feminine and Masculine, and all of the opposing energies within. It is a sacred intensive of meditations, yoga, family constellations, somatic healing, and soul work to deeply heal stuckness, beliefs, or ancestral bonds and embody freedom and specific personal intentions. For this and future retreats, you can find out more information at   https://candicewu.com/retreats . Your support in sharing or joining a retreat helps me make more healing albums, content, and create more podcast episodes. I am grateful for your support! Show Notes & Timestamps  00:00 Introducing Sarahs Work 01:32 Sponsored Message 02:46 Welcome Sarah 03:07 Who Is Sarah & head/heart Therapy 04:39 Mention of Sarah’s Podcast 04:46 Centering in Yourself 05:07 Kicking and Screaming to Be Able to Be My Own Self 05:44 Her Song About Perfectionism 06:54 What Do You Feel Is the Key to Healing? 07:55 Mention of Brené Brown’s Work 08:21 Shame Story About Parties 10:10 What Surprised You in the Work of Shame? 11:05 What Brings Shame to Sarah? 12:08 Chicago Beeping vs Sri Lanka & Bali 14:21 Daring Life Facilitator 14:51 Addictions Are About Relationships 16:11 Addiction Becomes the Placeholder for Loss of Connection 17:05 Client Has All the Answers but They Have No Idea 17:50 What Song Is Lighting Sarah Up? 19:05 Patty Griffin - Living With Ghosts - Moses 19:24 With Livia Budrys for Brunch 19:41 Reclaiming After Grieving 19:52 Susan Lipshutz’s Support 20:35 A Home in Music 20:56 Singing to Melt Away the Pain 21:29 Vibration of Singing / Music 22:02 Being Visible by Choice (Even Unknowingly) 23:23 Nourishing Myself / Investing in Myself 24:18 Mention of Bianka Hardin 24:41 What Challenges Sarah? Building a New IOP? 24:54 Mention of Robert 26:17 Lovett Center 28:09 Lack of Health in Treatment Centers 28:50 Holding Each Other and Yourself Accountable 29:29 Seeing Everything, Allowing It to Be Spoken, and Trusting It 29:51 Doing Your Own Work Works! 30:14 Podcasting Is Not Cheap but Worth It 31:18 Healers & Therapists Are Human #NotZenAllDay 31:35 Perfectionism & Being Bad at Things in Business 35:31 Parallel Processes Between Healer and Client 36:02 Lightning Round 36:21 Q: What Job Would You Be Terrible At? 36:37 Q: What Do You Spend the Most Time Thinking About? 36:49 Q: What's Something You Like to Do the Old-Fashioned Way? 37:09 Mercer Mayor in Social Media 37:09 Shifting the Shame Out of Things 37:26 Crossed Out Quote "I Felt Like Crying but I Was Brave Instead" 38:10 Q: When Was the Last Time You Changed Your Opinion on Something? 39:24 Q: What Is Something Most Don't Know About You? 39:59 Pet Stories 41:29 Anything Else Sarah Would Like to Share 41:56 How to Connect With Sarah 42:17 Her and Livia’s Retreat for Therapists 42:47 Outro
    Sarah Buino, Conversations with A Wounded Healer, Shame, Healing Shame, visibility, showing up
  • 20: Nourish Your Intuition & Know What To Listen To

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    Love and be in continual alignment with yourself with the most important tool you have: your intuition! This week I share my recent collected insights on the topic of listening inward and intuition, nourishing a relationship with your body’s messages, and…
    Love and be in continual alignment with yourself with the most important tool you have: your intuition! This week I share my recent collected insights on the topic of listening inward and intuition, nourishing a relationship with your body’s messages, and discerning between intuition and fear-based decision-making! In the first segment of the podcast, I explore ways in which I and my clients have cleared space for intuition to be opened and heard. I talk about releasing morality, letting go of attachments to past commitments and plans, and continual “not knowing” to refresh your ability to listen inward. But the question still looms, how do you know you are listening to intuition? Find out my thoughts in a rich discussion of getting to the essence of the energy behind your knowing, dialoguing with the body and emotions, how to decipher whether it is a fear or love/joy-based decision, and building a trusting relationship with your wise self. The last segment of the podcast, I share a brief healing exercise to build inner listening, grounding, and strengthen and fortify the trust you already have within by supporting you in imprinting a memory in which you trusted yourself and it worked out. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/nourish-your-intuition-and-know-what-to-listen-to Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Show Notes & Timestamps 00:00 Updates From Me: Where I Am, What I Am Doing 01:45 Resting and Continued Healing 02:44 My Gratitude to You 03:24 Opening the Question Around Intuition 04:18 What This Episode Is About 05:04 A) Making Space 05:45 Intuition Can Be Surprising 07:33 Releasing Our Binds to Past Ideas and Commitments 08:50 Judgments Around Wanting Something Else, Am I Just Quitting? 09:42 B) Shifting Out Past Agreements With Self and Others to Refresh 11:12 Making Space for Intuition Has Helped Me to See What New Information Wants to Come Through 11:57 C) Shifting Out of Morality, Good and Bad 13:17 Even Alcoholism Might Have a Message of Wisdom 14:00 Quote: The Right Thing at a Wrong Time Is a Wrong Thing by Joshua Harris 14:59 Shifting Out Right & Wrong as a Framework 16:01 D) Clearing Limiting Beliefs 16:56 Healing Wants Completion: Past Things Repeat if They Don't Complete 17:54 Some Experiences Are Stuck in Time 19:46 Healing Is Never Done. It's a Continual Process. 21:00 When You Are Receiving Intuition, How Do You Know if It's Something to Listen To? 21:27 Levels of Us (Emotions, Heart, ...) 21:58 The Koshas in Yoga 22:33 Something Simple Today 22:50 Getting to the Essence of Why I Want Something... What's the Energy Behind the Information 23:17 My Intuition Is a Whisper at Times 23:42 Opening to Listening to the Whispers 23:51 Checking in With Myself - How Do I Feel? 24:14 Sad Doesn't Mean It's the Wrong Answer... What’s the Nature of the Sadness? 25:03 Dialoging With the Feeling 26:15 Even if It's Pure Love, I Go Into It. See What's There. 26:36 It Wasn't Natural for Me. I've Practiced a Lot. 27:47 Getting to the Essence... 28:06 Trust - All of It Relies on This 28:38 Mention Book : The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield 28:50 How Has Life Worked Out for You Up to This Point? 29:27 My Experience With That Process 30:30 Astrology Reading: The Maybe Space and Obvious Yes 32:06 Thinking Isn't Bad 32:37 Mention Pendulum as a Tool 33:25 Intuition Isn't a Cut and Dry Process Part 2 34:02 A Healing Meditation That Supports Building Trust 37:28 Beginning, Grounding, Recalling a Time, Somatic Experiencing 41:48 Ending the Experience 42:18 One More Thing 44:56 Thank You for Listening 45:41 Sendoff
    intuition, nourish, nourish intuition, trusting yourself, trust, inner trust, inner knowing, pendulum, parts work, voice dialogue, emotions, ally with your emotions, trauma, surrender
  • 19: A{Live} Now: The Consequence of What Goes Unspoken

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    What is unspoken, undone, and unacknowledged - what needs to be expressed and doesn’t get air time - goes back in and rots inside of us. The Consequence of Sound a song by Regina Spektor, has been inspiring me to explore the consequence of what goes unspo…
    What is unspoken, undone, and unacknowledged - what needs to be expressed and doesn’t get air time - goes back in and rots inside of us. The Consequence of Sound a song by Regina Spektor, has been inspiring me to explore the consequence of what goes unspoken, and how it affects the world we live in and our bodies. Learn about ways you can shift and use your voice and expression to have a healthier body and how the language of Sanskrit connects with this song. A Little About A{Live} Now 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 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 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. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/alive-now-the-consequence-of-what-goes-unspoken Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Show Notes & Timestamps 00:00 Intro & Welcome 00:44 Sponsored by the Soul Body Women’s Retreat 02:16 Getting to the Song: “The Consequence of Sounds" 02:50 Spoken Word 03:27 Exploring the Consequence of Things Unspoken 04:24 Words Going Back Inside 06:10 Not All Doom and Gloom 07:19 Food Is Anything You Take in Through the Senses 07:57 How We Digest Experiences in Live 08:40 What Can We Do? Clearing Out the Gunk 🙈. 09:21 Healing Trauma: One Step 10:29 Family Constellations - Working With What is Inherited 11:19 Another Technique: Journaling 11:38 Using My Voice to Express 12:26 What Wants to Have Expression in the Moment? 13:02 Feeling Into What's Alive Presently 13:39 How Does My Body Want to Move or Be? 14:02 What Wants to Come Through Is Essential to the Planet |the Energy Needs to Move Through Us 15:06 More About the Song: Maintenance Mode 15:43 Quote "Getting Stuck in the Machine" 16:09 Quote "National Geographic Was Being Too Graphic ..." 16:26 Quote "The World That Has Made Us Can No Longer Contain Us ..." 16:36 if We Keep Holding in What We Have to Say, We Affect the World. 16:59 in Sync With Sanskrit 18:12 Encourage You to Listen (To the Song), and Notice .... 19:48 Ally With Death 21:26 Question of the Day: "What's Alive Now?" 21:43 Sendoff
    unspoken, ancestors, integration, Regina Spektor
  • 18: Venessa Rodriguez - What Would Nature Do?

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 50 min 57 sec0:50:57
    In this episode, Venessa and I talk about nourishment on all levels, Akashic Records, What feeds Venessa’s Wild, Ant Medicine, belonging and relationship to what we give ourselves to, coming out of the spiritual closet, hunger and digesting love, and the …
    In this episode, Venessa and I talk about nourishment on all levels, Akashic Records, What feeds Venessa’s Wild, Ant Medicine, belonging and relationship to what we give ourselves to, coming out of the spiritual closet, hunger and digesting love, and the question - What would nature do? Venessa Rodriguez, M.S., C.H.C. is a functional nutritionist, intuitive nourishment guide and host of the Feed Your Wild Podcast. Her mission is to awaken the innate healing capacity of women struggling with chronic dis-ease, by reconnecting them to their own medicine and nature through food, spirit, and love. Venessa supports wild-hearted change-makers build physical health & vitality through her work combining the science + spirituality of food using a modern functional approach, intuitive guidance with Akashic Records, and ancestral wisdom from earth-honoring traditions. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/venessa Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature This episode is brought to you by the Soul Body Women’s Retreat that will adventure in October 2018. The Soul Body Women’s Retreat is a spiritual and healing retreat inspired to support connecting Soul and Body, the elements of Earth and Sky within, Feminine and Masculine, and all of the opposing energies within. It is a sacred intensive of meditations, yoga, family constellations, somatic healing, and soul work to deeply heal stuckness, beliefs, or ancestral bonds and embody freedom and specific personal intentions. For this and future retreats, you can find out more information at  https://candicewu.com/retreats . Your support in sharing or joining a retreat helps me make more healing albums, content, and create more podcast episodes. I am grateful for your support! Show Notes & Timestamps 00:00 Intro, Contents, and Soul Body Retreat 03:35 Introducing Venessa 05:02 Venessa Sharing Her Passion and Work 07:27 Akashic Records: What Are They? 07:56 Metaphor of the iCloud 09:05 An Example of an Akashic Record 10:18 Tapping Into That Space in Between Can Be Healing 10:55 How Venessa Got Introduced to the Akasha 11:25 the First Contact 13:07 Literally the Same Week... 14:31 Coming Out of the Spiritual Closet 15:03 Breaking Through the Potential Judgement / Boundaries 15:31 What Feeds Venessa’s Wild? 17:40 Bali Ant Rescue Mission 21:01 Ant Medicine 22:48 Ants Predicting Weather 23:14 Tribes & People 23:29 Mention of "Feed Your Wild" Podcast 23:59 What Would Nature Do? 24:17 When Nature Bubbles Up, It Just Blows 25:03 How Do You Tune in to Nature? 26:59 Humans Think They Can Have Stillness...? 28:02 What Is Most on Venessa’s Heart and Mind 29:04 Human Accessories 29:27 Belonging 29:58 What Venessa Is Reading: Secrets of the Talking Jaguar 30:03 Belonging,No Time, Only Relation 31:38 Mention of the Book "Belonging, Remembering Ourselves Home" 33:14 The Concept of Time 35:19 Guidance Into the Akashic Records 37:41 Your Thoughts Belong to the Ego 38:09 Wildfire Questions 38:33 Favorite Animal Medicine 38:44 What Would You Rate a 10/10 38:53 What Mistake Do You Keep Remaking? 39:28 What Kind of Art Do You Enjoy the Most? 39:50 First Question After Being Frozen for 100 Years? 40:21 What Are You Hungry For? 40:32 Satiated Yet Always Hungry - for Love 41:03 Eliminating Food but Needs More Later 41:27 Love Hoarders 42:01 Audience Gift 45:49 Experience Candice and Akashic Records Reading 47:03 Last Words One Step Forward Into Nature and Into Love 48:52 Thanks to Venessa 49:13 Wildly Rooted Podcast / Episode With Candice 49:49 Outro
    Venessa Rodriguez, wildly rooted, nourishment, nature as medicine, medicine, healing yourself, plant medicine, herbalism, herbs
  • 17: A{Live} Now: Good Morning, Perfectionist & Inner Critic

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    Waking up with fear is never fun for me. Who is feeling the fear? Ah… Good morning, Perfectionist and Inner Critic - what are doing here right now?? In this episode you’ll get an inside look at my waking up with fear, exploring perfectionism, how I give l…
    Waking up with fear is never fun for me. Who is feeling the fear? Ah… Good morning, Perfectionist and Inner Critic - what are doing here right now?? In this episode you’ll get an inside look at my waking up with fear, exploring perfectionism, how I give love to my inner critic and inner perfectionist so they don’t get out of hand, exploring the roots of protection and purpose behind the perfectionism, and the inspiration I got knowing that Madonna has reinvented herself 14 times (maybe more at this point). A Little About A{Live} Now 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 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 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. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/alive-now-good-morning-perfectionist-inner-critic Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Show Notes & Timestamps 00:00 Intro & Welcome 00:43 Sharing Vulnerably in the Last Podcast: Part 2 of Spiritual Crisis 01:16 Waking up With Fear 02:00 Vulnerability Hangover? What is this fear? 02:10 Let's Talk About Perfectionism 02:56 An Artist’s Work is Never Done 03:16 Perfectionism as a Choice 03:51 Giving Ourselves Space to Evolve and Have Humility 04:32 Be who we are today 04:45 Don't be hurtful, but stand behind yourself NOW 05:13 Standing Behind my Voice 05:48 The Team of Inner Destruction: Perfectionist & Critic 06:36 The Power they Have and why they are important 07:01 Protection Can Get Out of Hand: Antidote is love and assurance 08:06 It's safe to be imperfect 08:27 Memo to your inner critic/perfectionist 09:53 How & When I Check In with them 10:52 Be Gentle 11:02 Madonna Reinvented herself 14x 12:20 Bringing Back the Artist 13:47 You don't have to pick one thing 14:33 Thanks for listening in 15:06 Parts Work and Voice Dialogue 15:50 Sendoff
    perfectionism, inner critic, inner criticism, judgment, self judgment, protection, parts work, internal family systems, voice dialogue,
  • 16: Soul and Body Support for the Mystery + Magic Behind Spiritual Crisis (Part 2 of Freedom + Expansion: The Terrifying Gifts of Spiritual and Existential Crisis)

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 42 min 8 sec0:42:08
    What’s on the other end of the “Am I Crazy??” Experiences? Here we go- the sequel to Freedom + Expansion: The Terrifying Gifts of Spiritual and Existential Crisis Find out in Part A what it’s been like since I felt pieces of my existence shatter, the way …
    What’s on the other end of the “Am I Crazy??” Experiences? Here we go- the sequel to Freedom + Expansion: The Terrifying Gifts of Spiritual and Existential Crisis Find out in Part A what it’s been like since I felt pieces of my existence shatter, the way my bladder was screaming, how I transformed pain into wisdom and revealed the mysteries behind my symptoms, sorting and clearing the ancestral and collective energies that came up, and the actual gifts + magic that I’ve received on the other end. Part B, Soul and Body Support, is all for you! I’ve had many listeners ask for more meditations and guided experiences for healing. In four segments that you can use at your own pace, I guide you through: Soothing self-touch and grounding your body into safety Immersing yourself in an imaginary Healing Sanctuary for deeper release Talking and listening to your body using the language of the body, love, to learn the wisdom beneath your body symptoms Using your story of your physical and emotional symptoms as a tool to explore deeper into the soul’s messages These can help anyone find deeper healing, grounding, and self-love. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/soul-body-support-for-the-mystery-magic-behind-spiritual-crisis Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsorship Message This episode is brought to you by the Soul Body Women’s Retreat in October 2018 . This is a spiritual and healing retreat inspired to support connecting Soul and Body with lots of love and playfulness! In this retreat, we connect the elements of Earth and Sky within, Feminine and Masculine, and all of the opposing energies within. It is a sacred intensive of meditations, yoga, family constellations, somatic healing, and soul work to deeply heal stuckness, beliefs, or ancestral bonds and embody freedom and specific personal intentions. For this and future retreats, you can find out more information on CandiceWu.com/retreats Your support in sharing this or joining a retreat helps me make more healing albums, content, and create more podcast episodes. I am grateful for your support! Show Notes  00:00 Intro & Welcome 00:51 Thank You to My Listeners! 01:24 Sponsored Message: Soul Body Women’s Retreat 02:47 Let’s Get to It 02:53 Mention of the Episode: The Terrifying Gifts... & Short Recap 04:15 What I Talk About in This Episode Part A 04:34 What I Experienced Since Last Time 05:01 What Is Sharing Too Much? 05:38 Released Some of the Shame, It's More Important to Share 05:53 Disclaimer for TMI 06:11 Urinary Tract Infection / Wildfire 07:15 Mention of Game of Thrones: Daenerys’ Blazing Fire Dragons 07:47 Anger! Anger! Anger! 08:31 Past Life Coming: Shaman or Witch 09:24 Heat in My Bladder Matching the Climate in Bali 10:04 Anger Shifting 11:07 The Females in My Chinese Lineage 11:35 Feminine Power & Room for Masculine 12:31 Forceful Syncing With My Body’s Timing 13:23 What I was Embarrassed By 14:15 What Spiritual Crises Is Really About 15:16 “If There Isn’t a Spiritual Place for Dis-Ease, There Wouldn’t Be a Physical One.” 16:29 What Have I Gained? Why Not Just a Quick Fix? 17:26 I Get to Define Who I Am... 18:02 Cleaning Your Home & Soul 20:05 Making a Mess Before the Clean 20:36 A New Draw to My Intuition 21:10 A Loving Message to My Bladder Part B 21:32 Body and Soul Support 22:10 First Exercise [6 Min]: Grounding, Self-Touch and Feeling Into Your Safety Right Now 28:14 Second Exercise [4 Min]: Healing Sanctuary 32:09 Third Exercise [5 Min]: Inner Listening 37:16 Fourth Exercise [3 Min]: Physical Symptoms Word Play 40:30 End of Part B 41:33 Sponsored Message 41:59 Sendoff
    soul support, magic, mystery, spiritual crisis, healing the feminine, feminine masculine balancing, existential crisis, holistic healing
  • 15: A{Live} Now : Investing in Yourself and Forgiveness

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    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 happe…
    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. I invite you to join in your own inner knowing and vulnerability around investing in yourself, forgiveness, and what your body and soul know you need as well! Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/alive-now-investing-in-yourself-and-forgiveness Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Show Notes & Timestamps 00:00 Intro - a New Mini-Series 01:06 Multiple Meanings of a{Live} Now 01:46 This Moment: Filled With Emotions & Complex 02:26 Synchronicity in Healing 03:13 What's Alive Right Now in Me 04:04 The Fear Thread & Eye Opening Experience 04:56 An Hour of No Sleep 05:46 Sitting and Talking to the Fear of Not Feeling Worthy 06:40 Unearthing What Will Reveal Itself 07:45 A Deep Realization 08:15 Going In (Grief + Forgiveness) 09:22 Feeling Renewed 09:42 The Contrast of My Partner’s Story 10:29 Explore How You Invest in Yourself 11:03 Gratitude for My Listeners 13:03 Oh! - The [Podcast Episode](https://candicewu.com/spiritual-and-existential-crisis/) I’m Talking About… 13:30 Thank You So for Your Notes! 13:57 The Feedback That Helps Me Continue 14:41 The Death of Avicii & A Mirror For Myself 17:55 What Are You Needing? Checking in With Yourself 18:57 What Do You Want to Bring Forgiveness Around? How is the World Affecting You? 19:28 Outro
    forgiveness, invest in yourself, worthiness, worth, self worth, value, self forgiveness, healing self criticism
  • 14: Dial in With Your Spiritual Cell Phone with Holly Mihelic

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    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: hig…
    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 daily consistency. On top of coaching, Holly is a writer whose work has been featured on popular online publications like the Huffington Post, Thrive Global and Thought Catalog. She authors a weekly Q&A Lifestyle Column titled “ Hey Holl .” Holly also regularly posts tips and inspiration on Instagram @hey.holl I am delighted to have Holly today on the show, where we talk about her personal story of driving towards being a magazine writer, to writing towards her gifts of the soul and self-help, connecting with the angels and using other spiritual tools (even if you are a skeptic), the practice of working out your intuitive muscles, and how to have fun getting to know yourself and shift your life. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/holly Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsorship Message This episode is brought to you by the Soul Body Women’s Retreat  that will adventure in October 2018. The Soul Body Women’s Retreat is a spiritual and healing retreat inspired to support connecting Soul and Body, the elements of Earth and Sky within, Feminine and Masculine, and all of the opposing energies within. It is a sacred intensive of meditations, yoga, family constellations, somatic healing, and soul work to deeply heal stuckness, beliefs, or ancestral bonds and embody freedom and specific personal intentions. For this and future retreats, you can find out more information at  candicewu.com/retreats . Your support in sharing or joining a retreat helps me make more healing albums, content, and create more podcast episodes. I am grateful for your support! Show Notes & Timestamps 00:00 Introduction to Holly Mihelic 02:40 Sponsored Message: Soul Body Women’s Retreat 03:43 Getting to Know Holly 04:53 Spring and Change 07:49 Who Is Holly and What Does She Do? 09:50 What Happens When You Are in Flow 12:05 The Most Challenging “@Hey Holl” Question 12:38 Heartbreak, Anything to Help? 13:51 Heartbreak at 18: What Got Holly Deeper Into Self Help 16:26 Addressing Deep Hurt 17:17 Mental Health Hacking Controversy 18:07 The Pressure to Be Happy 20:58 Being Limited by Someone Else’s Judgment + Beliefs 21:56 Walking into Soul Space 22:10 A Writing Assignment That Changed Everything 23:24 A Question that Gets You Towards Your Purpose 25:22 What Feeds Candice’s & Holly’s Soul? 26:30 How the External World Can Shape What You Think You Like | Disregarding What You Truly Want 28:18 Working With Divine Energy and the Secret to Angels’ Help 29:49 Drawing the Card of Archangel Gabriel 31:49 Using a Spiritual Cell Phone 32:26 Does It Matter if You Don't Know About the Angels? 33:14 How Holly Started Divine Communication 36:33 Diving Into Meta-Physical 37:10 Revisiting That Hey Holl Question 39:09 The Difference Between Intuition and Your Mind Making Stuff Up 40:02 Opening Up the Channels to Energy 41:02 Developing Your Gift (Picasso vs Stick Figures) 41:43 How to Develop Your Intuition 42:21 What You Eat Matters 42:49 Being Connected via Media & The Impact of Consumption 43:41 Going Back to a Flip Phone 44:43 Phone Addiction, the Modern Day Zombie Apocalypse 46:40 Candice’s Twisted Ankle / What Can We Do About Our Dis-Ease? 47:51 We Probably All Have a Form of Phone Addiction 48:29 Experiment: You Are in an Episode of “Friends” for a Week 51:13 Are We Allowed to Have Pagers? 51:30 Being Available Only Certain Times of the Day on the Other Side of the World 52:13 Hey You: Holly’s Book! 55:45 Audience Gift 58:08 Where to Find Holly 59:01 Holly’s Favorite Quote 59:13 Quote by Glennon Doyle Melton: "People Who Need Help Sometimes Look Like People Like That Don't Need Help..." 60:58 Outro
    Holly Mihelic, spiritual cell phone, spirit guides, spirit animals, crystals, clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, intuition, trust, inner knowing
  • 13: Freedom + Expansion : The Terrifying Gifts of Spiritual and Existential Crisis AKA WTF is Going on? #AmIGoingCrazy?

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    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 …
    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 if you’re not sure what’s happening. Some of the feelings one can have related to archetypal, ancestral, past life, or collective unconscious material that may have no words to describe. In this week’s episode of the Embody Podcast, I share my personal and present experience of spiritual flu and crisis, what has helped me through it, and what might be helpful if you or someone you know is experiencing emotional intensity, physical symptoms/illness, or other experiences that may be hard to give a name or find the cause of. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/spiritual-and-existential-crisis Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Show Notes 00:47 Sponsored by the Sound Sleep Alchemy Album by Yours Truly 01:11 Intro of the Episode / Setting the Stage 02:15 “Even Monkeys Fall Out of Trees” Quote / is Candice Actually Human? 03:11 Wandering and Exploring as a Healing Act 03:37 Sharing a Real Human Experience 03:52 When I Think of Vulnerability 04:04 Brené Brown’s Definition of Vulnerability 04:17 Exploring Spiritual Flu 04:29 Being Playful and Open While Healing 05:04 Why I Am Sharing This Today 06:05 We Are All Human: On Being Messy and Unpolished 06:24 My Experience Going From Box to Box 07:12 So What Have I Been Going Through? 07:35 Dismantling and Existential Questions Pouring Out of Me 08:08 How It All Started 08:29 Handling Pain in the Body - to Go or Not to Go to the Doctor? 09:56 the Feminine Archetype and Pain Carried by Women 10:40 Body Shame 10:56 Personal, Ancestral & Archetypal Wounding 12:17 Unconscious Energies - Not Everything Can Be Named or Makes Sense in Spiritual Crisis 12:31 Feeling Unanchored 13:00 Underneath the Physical Pain 14:14 How Spiritual and Emotional Work Was Shifting the Body Symptoms 15:33 a Wildfire in My Body. 15:56 Riding the Wave of the Feelings and Symptoms 16:42 in Better Spirits 17:29 Grateful for Past Learning 🙈 18:31 Feeling Grounded, Knowing Myself, and Feeling the Intensity 19:07 Pendulation 19:23 Shout Out to Birthday Podcast Episode 19:53 Not Attaching the Experience to My Identity 20:41 Opening Up Internally - Trauma and Pleasure Can Surface 21:07 a Nervous System Perspective of Crisis 21:36 Helpful Practice of Voice Dialogue 22:53 Shifting Gears and How I Almost Saw It All Coming for Myself 24:23 What Do I Mean by Spiritual? 25:24 Spiritual Crisis, Sickness, Flu, and Everyday Experiences - a Spectrum on the Lens of Spirituality 26:19 the Spiritual is the Most Subtle Level 26:53 Layers of the Physiology - Koshas in Yoga 27:56 Belief Sets We Hold 28:21 Healing at the Root - the Most Powerful Angle 29:30 More About Existential & Spiritual Crisis 29:34 Transpersonal Psychology and Dr. Stanislov and Dr. Christina Grof 30:31 Symptoms You Can Experience in an Existential Crisis 31:23 Some Triggers of Spiritual Crisis 32:25 on the Other Side of Crisis (Big S-Self and Small S-Self) 34:17 Mention of Marlyse Carroll (Author of Am I Going Mad?) 35:36 Cultural Misunderstandings Around the Transpersonal | Creating Ease and Understanding Around Spiritual Crisis 37:04 Quote by Dr. Carl Jung - “...Attempt of the Mind to Find Wholeness” 37:39 Spiritual Madness 38:02 "What is Psychosis"? 38:34 Self - Care and Getting Through Spiritual Crisis | What I’ve Been Doing | What You Can Do 40:56 Calling Upon Angels and Spirit Guides 43:22 Voice Dialoging - Talking to Parts That Are Screaming 44:18 Some Other Ideas for You in a Crisis 46:44 Outro
    freedom, spiritual crisis, existential crisis, bali, travel, UTI, feminine balancing, anger, expansion, healing crisis, distruction, dismantling
  • 12: Sinking Into Synchronicity With Rachael Huttner

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    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,…
    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 discovered that lasting healing truly begins once you address the emotional, mental, and spiritual components. Rachael saw countless doctors and specialists and became very frustrated with the brief visits, multiple diagnoses, and feeling of helplessness over the decline in her quality of well-being. Thankfully, she was young and stubborn at the time and promised herself that she would find a way to heal that was less confusing and invasive. This desire carried her to a community acupuncture clinic in her late 20s. There, she felt deep compassion from her practitioner, she felt heard and was truly supported for the first time on her quest towards a pain-free life. What an empowering approach! This was the turning point in Rachael’s journey of healing. Rachael continued to receive care from some holistic practitioners, and each contributed in their own way towards lasting healing and full recovery (in a mere two years). The lessons she learned from this journey have left their imprint on Rachael’s vision for her bodywork sessions. She attunes herself to her client’s goals and works with the relevant information that presents itself during a session. She also encourages her clients to listen to sensations and emotions following a session, as this not only prolongs the benefits of bodywork and Reiki but also empowers them to develop true autonomy over their bodies and well-being. Rachael is sincerely grateful to everyone that helped her as she healed and embarked on this mission to have her own bodywork practice. Compassion, patience, and encouragement were the special ingredients expressed by loved ones. Rachael carries this support in her heart each day with the sincere wish to share these gifts with others. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/rachael Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature
    synchronicity, trust, intuition, surrender, basketball, rachael huttner
  • 11: Sound Sleep Alchemy Album Introduction

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    Sound Sleep Alchemy AlbumGuided Healing, Meditations, and Resources for Sleep Care Quality 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 w…
    Sound Sleep Alchemy AlbumGuided Healing, Meditations, and Resources for Sleep Care Quality 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 embodied healing techniques, Chinese Medicine, and Family & Systemic Constellations. Buy the Album @  candicewu.com/soundsleep  Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/shifting-out-of-self-betrayal/ Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Show Notes & Timestamps 0:07 Birth of the Album 1:05 Culmination of Different Practices 1:29 What's Included for You 1:54 The Resource Guide 2:21 Levels of Your Being 2:57 Purpose of the Meditations 3:04 Down to Earth Body Scan 3:30 Organic Breathing 3:58 Resourcing Safety, Love, and Peace 4:38 Southing Self Touch and Body Care 5:27 Digesting the Day 6:08 Taking Internal Inventory 6:50 Yoga Nidra / Yogic Sleep 7:59 A Dose of Moonlight 8:36 Rest Recovery & Middle of the Night Release 9:42 Loving Kindness Meditation 10:12 Illuminating Your Ancestral Sleep Story 11:30 Additionally Also Includes 11:44 Marma Points 12:42 Journal Exploratories With Questions 13:25 Letting Die What Is Decaying 13:40 Yoga Poses 14:01 What This Album Is Meant to Give You 14:52 Outro
    sleep, insomnia, better sleep, heal sleep issues, ayurveda, heal at the root
  • 10: Shifting Out of Self-Betrayal

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    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 conne…
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode https://candicewu.com/shifting-out-of-self-betrayal/ Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Candice Wu Page on Facebook https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Show Notes & Timestamps 0:00 Intro and Welcome From Bali 0:53 the Theme of Self-Betrayal 1:01 Last Week’s Episode - Being You 1:12 Synonyms of Betrayal 1:53 Where Does Self - Betrayal Root? 2:47 What Are the Parts of You That You Betray? 3:03 Examples of Self- Betrayal in Your Life 3:56 Clues for Where There Is Self - Betrayal 4:07 Another Layer : Lying to Yourself / Deception 4:48 Let Go of Criticism 5:06 What Is the Purpose Behind Turning Against Some Parts of Yourself? 5:14 Example in a Monogamous Relationship 6:48 Subtle Ways of Self - Betrayal 7:17 Protecting Yourself by Protecting Others 7:37 Energy and Power That May Be Scary 7:55 Why You Choose to Turn Against Aspects, Questions to Ask Yourself 8:27 Family Constellations: Hidden Loyalties 9:14 Bonds to Those Who May Be Silenced 9:36 How We Inherit Pain and Trauma 10:53 a Way We Learn to Belong (As Children) 11:48 Expressing Yourself and Reactions From Others 12:34 Questions of Exploration About Where You Have Turned Against Yourself 13:44 Taking Responsibility 14:11 Do You Overbook Your Calendar? 15:00 Shifting Out of Self - Betrayal With Embodiment 16:04 Who You Have Been Does Not Define Who You Can Be | Release Berating Your Past Self. 17:09 Anäis Nin Quote and Suggestions 18:21 Outro
    betrayal, self betrayal, self awareness, shadow work, shadow, healing your shadow
  • 9: Heather Fraelick Talks to Our Fascia

    Listen | Blog Post | Duration: 47 min 20 sec0:47:20
    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…
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode Podcast Homepage Newsletter & Embody Community Candice Wu Page on Facebook Follow Candice on Instagram Show Notes & Timestamps 1:10 Opening 2:25 Heather’s Dancer Moves Her Healing Work 4:31 Conversing With the Body 4:56 Facilitating Healing Vs. Helping 5:35 Not Fixing, Inspiring the Body 6:56 "Everybody’s Body and Being Has the Capacity" 7:09 if Our Fascia Could Talk, What Would It Be Saying 7:34 Avatar (The Movie) and Fascia Storing Memories 9:17 Working with Chakras and Women’s Circles 12:01 Myth : That Suddenly We Are “Healed” 14:08 Nobody Has It All Together! 14:32 the Reason Heather Got Into This Work 15:27 Experiencing It Yourself First to Then Give to Clients 16:05 How Heather Does Self-Care and Nourishment 17:13 "If You Don't Help Yourself, You Literally Can't Help Other People." 18:11 Giving to Much and Overbooking Your Schedule 20:51 Struggles With Turning 40 and Trusting Intuition 22:12 Trusting Your Intuition / Feeling Your Gut 22:34 Cari Rodgers Quote: “When it feels light and right!" 23:07 Not an obvious Yes? It's a No 24:04 Giving Yourself Permission 25:03 Waiting for Someone to Give You Permission 25:58 the Need for Safety From Someone Else 27:03 the Collective Nervous System / Tools to Support Building Safety 29:11 Story of Dandelions 30:28 How Do You Spread Seeds of Positivity in the Winter? 32:02 Aligning With the Cycle of the Year and Finding Gratitude With *What Is* 32:46 How Heather Does Not Take on the Clients’ Energy? 35:13 What if You Have Picked Up Other Peoples Emotions or Energies? 36:24 Shamanic Practices and Prayers 37:14 Heather’s Practice Challenges 38:54 Missing the Achievement 39:20 Advice for Practitioners That Are Starting Off 41:51 What Do You Do When You Are Hard on Yourself? 44:01 What's Heathers Message? 45:18 the Meaning of Heathers Last Name 46:01 Outro and Send Off
    heather fraelick, fascia, myofascial release, body wisdom, healing the body, massage, reiki, talking to your body, inner listening
  • 8: The Deepest Form of Self — Love : Being YOU

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    This episode is a rerun of a previous episode on The Embody Podcast while I am on a short restorative hiatus. When we are not in alignment with the true version of ourselves, we put ourselves at risk for disease. With coronavirus at the surface, this is a…
    This episode is a rerun of a previous episode on The Embody Podcast while I am on a short restorative hiatus. When we are not in alignment with the true version of ourselves, we put ourselves at risk for disease. With coronavirus at the surface, this is a strong invitation to fortify who you are and be in deeper connection with yourself. When you are in that place, there is no receptivity for dis-ease, as did-ease gives us impetus to rebalance. 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). Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode 📝 https://CandiceWu.com/deepest-form-of-self-love-being-you/  Podcast Homepage https://candicewu.com/podcast Newsletter & Embody Community https://candicewu.com/embody-community Donations – Your Support Means So Much! https://candicewu.com/support Candice Wu Page on Facebook https:///EmbodyYourNature Follow Candice on Instagram https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by People Like You This episode is sponsored by the  Embodied Healing Group Monthly Call  and the Personalized Meditations. The Group call is a monthly group online to enjoy embodied support, empowering connection, and healing guidance! A truly powerful exchange of love and transformation for your contribution. If you’re craving this kind of experience, I’ll support you in being at ease in your own body and spirit, tapping into your intuition and wisdom, and somatic and ancestral healing around anything you’re experiencing or challenged with each month. If you’d like to receive a personalized Meditation or Healing Experiential and would like your funds to go to the podcast,  check out the different ways you support here . Your personalized meditation will be based on your specific intentions — I’ll sense in with my intuition to offer something that will support you on your journey. Learn more about how to support The Embody Podcast at  CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes 0:00 Intro 1:46 Sponsored by YOU 2:58 Start of EP8 4:27 Message Beginning 4:47 Emptying the Trash 5:40 My Message to You 7:28 Notice Your Dreams / Dream Experiences Personal Story 9:09 You Must Share Your Essence 9:38 the Maintenance of Your Life Holding You Back? 10:13 Feeling Like Yourself 10:49 “This is How I Die” 11:46 Death as a Forceful Reminder of Life 12:09 Tavistock and Shadow Work : Seeing Destruction 12:49 When Will It Be More or Equally Important to Share Who You Truly Are? 13:09 The Conviction of War 14:12 Your Dream Already Lives in You 15:37 Embrace Your Potentiality With Ease 16:20 Does Judgement Stop You? 17:00 It Doesn’t Matter What People Think / Important to Be in Your Full Expression 17:09 Tantric Philosophy / Aum 18:16 Start Valuing Your Own Existence 18:29 Not Knowing Your Life Purpose 20:01 My Fear / Family Lineage 22:11 Release With Healing Work 24:21 My Purpose of Experiencing Everything 24:58 What Are You Here For? 26:13 Let’s Break Free 27:17 Ally With Death Meditation 29:00 Invite to the Group Intensive & Soul Body Retreat 30:19 Outro
    being yourself, self love, being you, empowerment, energetic signature, consciousness
  • 8: The Deepest Form of Self - Love : Being YOU

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    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 l…
    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). Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode Podcast Homepage Newsletter & Embody Community Candice Wu Page on Facebook Follow Candice on Instagram Show Notes & Timestamps 00:00 Intro & Opening 01:27 Message Beginning 01:47 Emptying the Trash 02:40 My Message to You 04:01 Self - Betrayal / Exploratory Questions: "What Do You Spend Your Time Doing?” 04:28 Notice Your Dreams / Dream Experiences Personal Story 06:09 You Must Share Your Essence 06:38 the Maintenance of Your Life Holding You Back? 07:13 Feeling Like Yourself 07:49 “This is How I Die” 08:46 Death as a Forceful Reminder of Life 09:09 Tavistock and Shadow Work : Seeing Destruction 09:49 When Will It Be More or Equally Important to Share Who You Truly Are? 10:09 The Conviction of War 11:12 Your Dream Already Lives in You 12:37 Embrace Your Potentiality With Ease 13:20 Does Judgement Stop You? 14:00 It Doesn't Matter What People Think / Important to Be in Your Full Expression 14:09 Tantric Philosophy / Aum 15:16 Start Valuing Your Own Existence 15:29 Not Knowing Your Life Purpose 17:01 My Fear / Family Lineage 19:11 Release With Healing Work 21:21 My Purpose of Experiencing Everything 21:58 What Are You Here For? 23:13 Let's Break Free 24:17 Ally With Death Meditation 26:00 Invite to the Group Intensive & Soul Body Retreat 26:44 Inspirational Ending Quote "Be Faithful...” 27:19 Outro
    being yourself, self love, being you, empowerment, energetic signature, consciousness
  • 7: Trusting My inner Guidance : Review of 2017

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    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 …
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode Podcast Homepage Newsletter & Embody Community Candice Wu Page on Facebook Follow Candice on Instagram Show Notes & Timestamps 00:00 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 Online Healing Work 06:30 Being in Charge of My Own Time, Trusting 07:05 Time in Michigan 07:25 First International Retreat, SE Training, Hong Kong 08:27 Adjusting to an Asian country 08:42 Arriving in Chiang Mai, Thailand 09:23 Not Without Anxiety and Fear 09:51 Purposelessness / Another Level of Being Enough 11:05 Tuning into Abundance 12:00 Thai Energies and “Sabai” 13:24 Not Good For Ballet! 13:57 Trusting Inner Guidance and Wisdom 14:44 Colonialistic Travel and Self-Exploration 16:48 Connection With My Own Family (Chinese American Upbringing) 19:20 Anniversary of Thai King Passing 19:58 Facilitating Retreats More Ethically 20:59 Finding a Life Partner 21:29 Challenging Myself to Express More Through Media 21:45 Visit Back to the States 22:50 Trusting My Inner Intuition 23:22 New Retreat - Soul Body 23:40 Back in HK + What I Notice Now 24:45 Transition Shifting to Bali 26:16 Staying Connected
    inner trust, guidance, trust yourself, empowerment, travel, solo travel, living abroad, solo female travel, starting a podcast
  • 6: Beth Shares Her Journey to Roots & Wings

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    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 …
    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 always felt that there was 'something more' she had to offer in the healing field. She followed her heart into Energy Medicine and is so grateful for the awareness and alignment she feels in her life. She loves the study and exploration of the traditions and science of Energy Medicine and interacting with the language of the energies. Her comprehensive training in Energy Medicine allowed her to ‘fill in the gaps’ of conventional medicine, opening up to a wider view of caring for the body, mind, and spirit. Beth is passionate about working with women’s health, heart and empowerment issues to help allow more flow, health, and ease into your life. She also loves working with kids groups. She is married and the mother of three beautiful and spirited children and lives the labyrinth nature of being a parent. A few things she loves are kindness, connection to others, yoga, the fresh feeling of being outside in nature spending time with family, friends and of course their Bernese Mountain Dog. Eden Energy Medicine techniques incorporate Traditional Chinese Medicine, acupressure involving meridians, aura, Five Element Theory, chakras, along with Qi Gong and Yoga influence, all help to keep your energies flowing and you feeling better inside and out. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode Podcast Homepage Newsletter & Embody Community Candice Wu Page on Facebook Follow Candice on Instagram Show Notes & Timestamps 01:40 Welcoming Beth & Introduction 03:02 Energy Work - Filling the Gaps in Nursing 04:26 Origins of Roots & Wings : Her Practice 06:09 Beth’s Personal Growth Shift 07:14 Beth Shares Energy Practices 08:41 The Hook Up Energy Practice 10:11 What’s Exciting Beth Now 10:59 Being a Leader in Your Own Life 12:03 What is Really Important to You and What Brings you Back to Yourself? 14:21 Following Your Own Light 15:33 Is it even worth it? What am I doing? 15:47 Opening yourself up to "What Else is a possibility" 15:59 Stepping Out of the Shadow Even if You Don’t Like the Spotlight 16:25 Being Feminine and a Leader 17:24 What Blocks You? 19:03 What does it look like to be a Feminine Leader? 20:44 Boundaries 21:32 Losing left side of brain / book My Stroke of Insight 22:29 The Space of Unacknowledged and Unsaid 22:44 Having a face on, but feeling totally different. 23:24 Kids as the greatest teacher 24:06 Being Hard on yourself and Acceptance 24:44 What Beth has learned in her Practice 25:46 Starting out her practice and Feeling inadequate 27:08 Energy Work Practice for those inadequacy feelings 28:51 Water = Balancing 29:34 Exercise: frustration and anger 30:46 Anger - the hard emotion. Where does that come up for you? 32:01 The Inner Critic 32:12 Energy Work can help + Chakras 33:17 Mentor said "Get to have both, worthy and unworthy" 34:14 Book "Celestine Prophecy" - We bring messages to each other: What is your message for me as Candice? 35:49 Message for Yourself: Stay with what you feel not how it makes others feel 37:13 Letting Go to let something else in 38:17 Music as a teacher 39:49 Flow + learning to play with something that is painful when new 41:46 About Contracting and Opening up 42:06 Outro and Ending
    energy work, energy healing, barbara brennen, empowerment, holistic healing, roots and wings, beth lynch, worthiness, being enough
  • 5: Ancestral Medicine: Family Constellations Healing

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    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 …
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode Podcast Homepage Newsletter & Embody Community Candice Wu Page on Facebook Follow Candice on Instagram Show Notes & Timestamps 00:00 Introduction of the Topic: Family Constellations 00:37 Brief Description of Family Constellations 01:38 Movie Coco – Spoiler Alert 02:13 What’s the Movie About? 06:06 What is Family Constellations? 07:15 Ideal Family Example 09:12 Example of a Typical Family Situation 09:47 Impact of Family History on Current Life Challenges 10:53 The Body’s Knowing: From Women Who Run With the Wolves 12:44 How the Body Knows on Many Levels 14:45 Acknowledging What Is 15:09 Losses and Traumas That Can Be Inherited 17:15 What is Trauma? 17:37 Seeing into the Past Supports Your Future and Now 18:01 Personal Story About Unconscious Impact 22:05 The Power of Constellations 22:33 Ancestral Homeopathy 23:32 Working with Parts or Symbols 23:55 What’s the Point? 25:29 Beginning of the Workings / Exercises 25:40 Exercise 1: The Resource And The Challenge 33:36 Exercise 2: Tuning Into Your Parents 42:24 Exercise 3: Going Beyond 47:00 Thanking Yourself 47:39 End of the Exercises, Outro, Offering
    Systemic constellations, ancestry, ancestral medicine, medicine, ancient knowledge, miscarriage, abortion, babies, silenced ancestors, toxic ancestors, relationships, love, intimacy, illness, disease, money
  • 4: Jim Shares His Transformational Study of Spirituality

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    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 wo…
    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 physical health and personal development. Jim is known for his unique ability to inspire others to achieve physical, spiritual, and emotional integration. He is also a published author, classical musician, amateur linguist and a lifelong student of oriental medicine. Jim works with clients that include professional athletes, celebrities, government officials, and CFO's of major companies as well as colleges and universities who have sought him out for his expertise. He can be found at  www.darshancenter.com Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode Podcast Homepage Newsletter & Embody Community Candice Wu Page on Facebook Follow Candice on Instagram Show Notes & Timestamps 01:52 Who is Jim? 03:32 What is Spirituality? 05:57 How Jim got into Yoga and Vedic Philosophy 07:52 Learning from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 10:52 Vedantic Philosophy – Transcending and Ability to Direct Attention 11:52 Bhavagad Gita – Karma, Possibility, and our part in the Evolution of Consciousness 13:22 Alignment with Pure Consciousness: The Purpose of Yoga 16:02 True Freedom + Choice, Transcending identification with Samskaras 19:22 What is a Samskara? 24:52 Who and What Are We? 26:37 Yugas – the Grand Cycles of the Universe 30:12 Personal Responsibility vs. Defaulting on Morality 37:02 Tantra Talk 47:22 Getting Personal: Jim’s Struggles
    Jim Kulackoski, yoga tantra, tantric yoga, tantra, spirituality, yoga, asana, chakras, alignment, inner alignment, universe
  • 3: Heart Love + Speaking From the Heart

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    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 y…
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode Podcast Homepage Newsletter & Embody Community Candice Wu Page on Facebook Follow 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 Meditation
    heart meditation, healing your heart, expression, self expression, heart healing, heart based healing
  • 2: Gina Fitzpatrick Reminds us to Listen + Love

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    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 eve…
    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. Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode Podcast Homepage Newsletter & Embody Community Candice Wu Page on Facebook Follow Candice on Instagram
    inner listening, authenticity, love, moving knowledge, body, helaing your body, heal your heart, divorce
  • 1: Building Empowerment for New Beginnings and Challenges

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    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 exp…
    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 Resources All Show Notes for This Episode Podcast Homepage Newsletter & Embody Community Candice Wu Page on Facebook Follow Candice on Instagram
    new beginnings, motivation, starting, challenges, empowerment, launching, birthing

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