The Embody Podcast Self-love & Healing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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