The Embody Podcast Self-love & Healing

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! U

The body holds implicit information, which has been shamed by the echoes of our personal history, collective and archetypal energies, our past lives, and intergenerational family systems.Support your body’s wisdom in taking the lead to open embodiment, healing, insight, and resolve. This healing experience guides you in bringing a gentle loving witness to your unfolding movement, helping you to set your mind aside, to bridge the body into trauma healing mode, and to a feeling of being more in your body.This meditation is part of the last episode about trauma which can be found at https://candicewu.com/trauma. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

 “The body keeps an accurate journal, regardless of what you write down.” —AnonymousWe 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 aspe

Gratitude helps create the full and abundant life that we want to live. In this meditation, Patrick guides you to gather and energize your appreciation for your present lives’ beautiful moments, relationships, nature’s gifts, and embodying and welcoming what we would like to have more of in the future.This meditation is part of the interview with Patrick which can be found at https://candicewu.com/patrick. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

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 Med

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.This meditation is part of the series of healing practices related to the Episode “How To Strengthen Your Energetic Field, Ground & Clear Absorbed Energy” which can be found at https://candicewu.com/energy. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Root into universal order and the grid of the cosmos with a sense of grounding and support by bringing your energy inward through the chakras, the energy centers of the body; the central channel, sushumna; and Alex Grey’s Painting: Theologue.This meditation is part of the series of healing practices related to the Episode “How To Strengthen Your Energetic Field, Ground & Clear Absorbed Energy” which can be found at https://candicewu.com/energy. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

This supports you in sensing any energy that you’ve absorbed from others or that you’ve given away and would like to reclaim so that you feel complete, whole, and within your own energetic signature. This meditation is part of the series of healing practices related to the Episode “How To Strengthen Your Energetic Field, Ground & Clear Absorbed Energy” which can be found at https://candicewu.com/energy. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

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 Experie

 “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 TableWell...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

This week I am releasing four healing meditations that offer ways to utilize nature as medicine, tuning into the elements, and balancing your energies. This is one of them.This practices supports you in tuning into yourself, your emotions, body, energy, temperature, and thoughts: all that is happening inward and match it with the healing power of nature’s elements. It helps you convert the energy of what’s weighing on you into ease, peace, balance, and flow.This meditation is part of the series of healing practices related to the Episode “From Emotional Numbness to Wholeness” which can be found at https://candicewu.com/nature. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

This week I am releasing four healing meditations that offer ways to utilize nature as medicine, tuning into the elements, and balancing your energies. This is one of them.This simple meditation brings you back into resonance with your true elemental nature: Body Like Mountain, mind Like Sky, water like emotions, breath like wind! We are nature, an iteration of the universe itself.This meditation is part of the series of healing practices related to the Episode “From Emotional Numbness to Wholeness” which can be found at https://candicewu.com/nature. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

This week I am releasing four healing meditations that offer ways to utilize nature as medicine, tuning into the elements, and balancing your energies. This is one of them.Balance your energies, emotions, and body with this upward and downward meditation that cultivates your ability to sense into earth’s resources in this moment to receive and integrate. This meditation is part of the series of healing practices related to the Episode “From Emotional Numbness to Wholeness” which can be found at https://candicewu.com/nature. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

This week I am releasing four healing meditations that offer ways to utilize nature as medicine, tuning into the elements, and balancing your energies. This is one of them.Root into your essence and natural self with your eyes and outlining the organic lines of trees. Cleanse the eyes through the movement and release the stress of the nervous system and liver to come to your creative and natural desires, your ability to innovate, and feel spacious and open. This meditation is part of the series of healing practices related to the Episode “From Emotional Numbness to Wholeness” which can be found at https://candicewu.com/nature. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

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 ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

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. S

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.This meditation is part of the series of healing practices related to the Episode “From Emotional Numbness to Wholeness” which can be found at https://candicewu.com/food. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Your stomach is the holder of all information, and when backed up by too much or undigested experiences, emotions, thoughts, and senses, it can become overwhelmed, bloated, anxious or dis-eased.Have a conversation with your gut so that it can receive all the wisdom and nourishment of any experience and physical food. Build a loving relationship so that you are in harmony and working together, metabolizing life with ease, and moving in alignment with your optimal self.This meditation is part of the series of healing practices related to the Episode “From Emotional Numbness to Wholeness” which can be found at https://candicewu.com/food. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Food is anything you take in through all of your senses. In this healing experience with Family Constellations, we unfold the multiplicity of meanings of food, love, and nourishment that you receive and inherit both consciously and unconsciously in the legacy of your family ancestry. With this new awareness, we will metabolize and release the ways of being, beliefs, or Food that is not yours or serving you, giving you more clarity and openness to receive the nourishment that is strengthening. This meditation is part of the series of healing practices related to the Episode “From Emotional Numbness to Wholeness” which can be found at https://candicewu.com/food. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

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 ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode