The Embody Podcast Self-love & Healing

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

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

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

There are emotions that take some time to reveal what they are about and sometimes we still don’t know. In this episode, I talk about feeling schooled by overwhelming emotions — the big feeling of an emotion that I had no clue what it was about. Wondering if I could hold my own complexity as well as how to be in intense emotions and feel gracefully incompetent. Plus the stories of intergenerational and cultural trauma that revealed, the visceral pain I discovered in my ancestry and how I healed it… My response that honors the survival and life of the lineage.A Little About A{Live} NowI’ve found that when I share what’s true in the moment, there is so much ALIVENESS and fullness in me.That’s why I started the A{Live} Now mini-series, which is within the Embody Podcast. This is the second episode and I intend to share what’s happening in my real life and in my inner world, what’s truly full and alive now.What’s alive now in me has often been what’s filled the juicy stuff of life: themes, joys, or challenges tha

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

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

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

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

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

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

In this episode I talk about relationships being a mirror and my adventures in leaving the Horse Farm in Ireland back in January – what happened and some clips of my private spoken journal from that time, getting cornered by my host, my experiences with horses blowing me off when I ask them to do something and how I overcame it.Plus, my process in choosing a kind and pleasurable learning situation over one I needed to endure and how relationships serve to show us where we are still needing to learn to love, giving us an opportunity to love ourselves and others more deeply.A Little About A{Live} NowI’ve found that when I share what’s true in the moment, there is so much ALIVENESS and fullness in me.That’s why I started the A{Live} Now mini-series, which is within the Embody Podcast. This is the second episode and I intend to share what’s happening in my real life and in my inner world, what’s truly full and alive now.What’s alive now in me has often been what’s filled the juicy stuff of life: themes, joys, or

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

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

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 ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

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 lifeThe spirituality of the Sitar and RaagBeing an artist as both a self-absorbed and selfless endeavorHis 22-year-old band Funkadesi’s intention: We Are One FamilyRahul’s family lineage story about double migration and how it informs how he SHOWS UP in the worldBringing healing and opening challenging conversations with drummingInternal Family Systems (IFS) and leaning into the difficult places with the parts of ourselvesBringing in the U-shape instead of a circleDr. 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, pe

Learn to receive love and to send love to yourself with this version of the Metta practice of Loving Kindness. This brings a somatic flair to support embodiment because don’t we want to FEEL loved?The main episode about the topic of love is split in two parts and can be found at the link below. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

This energy-based meditation supports shifting the energy of your attention and love from going outward to others to nourishing your own heart and body with your precious love and attention. An adaptation of a meditation from Robin Fisher, an Ayurvedic Practitioner.The main episode about the topic of love is split in two parts and can be found at the link below. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

A somatic and imagery practice to feel into your tender heart’s desire around love: both loving yourself and love from others. Both receiving and taking love have two different qualities. This practice is a healing experience to unfold any blocks you may have in exploring the movement of reaching towards the love you desire.The main episode about the topic of love is split in two parts and can be found at the link below. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Feel into what the energy of love carries for you and what it brings up in you. This experience holds space for you to explore with a compassionate curiosity and non-judgment. This is the first step into allowing the kind of loving you truly desire to unfold in your life.The main episode about the topic of love is split in two parts and can be found at the link below. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

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 ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode