The Embody Podcast Self-love & Healing

Cynthia Langtiw shares an experience to support you in understanding and becoming aware of your own transformative process and engagement with your own creations, research, or projects in this reflection of Interlogs.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. Lan

Jump into Part 2 of Cynthia Langtiw’s interview where we dive in and explore:Connection to Ancestry, Past, and Future as ResourceThe Power of Stories and Books to HealThe Soul’s Yearning for the Messy Truth and the Draw to Only Show Our Shiny PartsHow Can We Have True Intimacy?How Trauma Is Something That Isn’t Finished or ResolvedHow Trauma Affects Couples and RelationshipsBetrayal Trauma : Micro and MacroWhat It Takes to Be in Good Relationship With Self and OtherBringing Your Whole SelfShedding 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

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

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

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 HealingThe power of sexual energyPermission to feel good about yourself and feel pleasureThe human condition of masochism and the pleasure in painHow 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 clientsAleta’s kundalini

Give yourself some grace! There are tanglings from our childhood and the past where we depend on others to give us our sense of self, safety, worth, value, or lovability. In this experiential, we open up self-forgiveness around judgments where we have felt tied to or dependent on others. This frees us up to have more inner resource and wholeness.This episode belongs to a parent episode called “Lessons in Self Love : Toxic Ancestors and Family Relationships — EP61”. Please see the link below for that and the other experientials.Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Tune into this guided healing process using Parts Work and somatic healing — giving support, love, and healing to the inner child in you that has a reaction to a family member or difficult relationship in your life.This episode belongs to a parent episode called “Lessons in Self Love : Toxic Ancestors and Family Relationships — EP61”. Please see the link below for that and the other experientials.Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

We can bring healing and wholeness to ourselves by imagining what our ancestry or an individual within our ancestry needs, and let the change ripple through the system and you. This experiential will guide you through a Family Constellation and Somatic Healing experience with a “toxic” or difficult family relationship you have.This episode belongs to a parent episode called “Lessons in Self Love : Toxic Ancestors and Family Relationships — EP61”. Please see the link below for that and the other experientials.Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

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 sel

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

Using the five senses outward and then inward, we bring our awareness to a deep level of sensing with sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch (Pratyahara) — Feeling the body from the inside out. Then we take a journey in the inner landscape of the body to build awareness and healing with a Body Scan. This experiential is part of the episode 59 which is all about “Why Feel? Emotions & Embodiment for the Skeptic in You”.Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

Where do I start? For a refresher or a full buffet and arrangement of what to do, look for and sense into when you are feeling into your body, tune into this Felt Sense Menu to bring embodiment and healing. This experiential is part of the episode 59 which is all about “Why Feel? Emotions & Embodiment for the Skeptic in You”.Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode

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 la

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

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

I’m on a real adventure! Cleaning horse poop and learning how to be a stronger leader within myself and with horses in Ireland. This is the first time I’m living with and tending to four horses on a farm and it’s a huge challenge.In this episode, I talk candidly about the hardships and the growth that I’m experiencing — the lessons that come with strengthening inner freedom, loneliness and releasing dependencies on familiar comforts and people, how to have clear intentions with big wild animals coming at me, putting on my assertive hat and holding my boundaries and grounding with horses.I truly want to feel that no circumstance can change my insides and I’m definitely thrown for a loop here, but I’m finding more of myself…Explore your own personal boundaries and assertiveness with me on this journey!A Little About A{Live} NowI’ve found that when I share what’s true in the moment, there is so much ALIVENESS and fullness in me.That’s why I started the A{Live} Now mini-series, which is within the Embody Podcast.

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

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

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

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