(#104) Gratitude Duality & Practices for When You’re Overwhelmed, Anxious, or Grieving During the Holiday Season
This week’s episode lands just in time for Thanksgiving 🦃 Rae offers a gentle, somatic approach to gratitude, especially for those navigating big emotions, grief, burnout, or overwhelm during the holidays.🎧 Inside this episode, you’ll hear:How to practice gratitude without bypassing what’s hardWhat to do when gratitude doesn’t feel accessibleEmbracing the duality of the holidays: joy + grief, connection + lonelinessHow small sensory moments anchor you into the presentFive journaling prompts to ground your nervous system and connect to gratitudeA self-love practice: write a gratitude letter to yourself✨ Take what you need, pause if you want, and come back anytime you need a reminder that gratitude can be gentle, grounded, and entirely your own.💌 Want to take this work deeper? Get my Free Somatic Breathwork Bundle when you join the Somatic Healing Newsletter. You’ll receive 20+ guided breathwork practices to support you through anxiety, stress, emotional blocks, and more.CONNECT Work With MeThe Somatic Healing NewsletterInstagramWebsiteSubscribe & Review Apple PodcastsFollow & Rate Spotify Disclaimer: Please remember that the information shared on this podcast is intended to inspire, educate, and support you on your personal journey. It does not substitute for professional mental health advice. I am not a psychologist or medical professional. If you are experiencing distress, mental health challenges, or medical conditions, please seek help from a qualified professional.
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(#103) Overthinking, Thought Rumination & Anxiety: A Nervous System and Somatic Tools Approach
In this episode, Rae explores thought rumination, why it happens, and how to break out of looping thoughts using somatic, nervous-system–based tools. If you’ve ever found yourself replaying scenarios, overthinking conversations, or spiraling into “what ifs,” this episode will help you understand what’s happening in your brain and body and how to create relief.You’ll learn:🌿 What rumination really is and how it differs from healthy reflection 🌿 How the nervous system triggers looping thoughts (fight/flight/freeze/fawn) 🌿 Why your brain chases “understanding” as a form of safety + control 🌿 How fawning and people-pleasing create rumination patterns 🌿 The mind-body feedback loop that keeps spirals going 🌿 Somatic practices to interrupt the cycleThis is the perfect episode for anyone navigating anxiety, overthinking, looping thoughts, emotional overwhelm, or fawning patterns and for practitioners supporting clients through these experiences.💌 Sign up for the Somatic Healing Newsletter to access Rae’s free breathwork + meditation resource library and stay connected to her latest offerings.CONNECT Work With MeThe Somatic Healing NewsletterInstagramWebsiteSubscribe & Review Apple PodcastsFollow & Rate Spotify Disclaimer: Please remember that the information shared on this podcast is intended to inspire, educate, and support you on your personal journey. It does not substitute for professional mental health advice. I am not a psychologist or medical professional. If you are experiencing distress, mental health challenges, or medical conditions, please seek help from a qualified professional.
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(#102) Guided Breathwork Meditation for Inner Safety: Affirmations for Self-Compassion, Nervous System Support, and Wholeness
Ready to reconnect with your body, calm your mind, and come home to yourself? In this deeply supportive episode, Rae (somatic coach + breathwork facilitator) leads you through a guided breathwork meditation to cultivate inner safety, emotional wholeness, and self-compassion.Whether you’re feeling anxious, disconnected, or just need a moment of stillness, this practice helps you drop into your body and create a compassionate inner dialogue. Using conscious breathing, body-based awareness, and gentle affirmations, you’ll begin to build your emotional resilience, widen your window of tolerance, and anchor into gratitude and presence.Inside this episode:Guided breathwork for nervous system regulation & groundingSomatic cues to enhance your mind-body connectionInner child & inner teen affirmations for self-compassionA powerful moment of stillness to meet yourself fullyGratitude-based closing to end the practice in alignmentPerfect for your daily regulation practice, self-love ritual, or evening wind-down, this meditation invites you to feel safe in your body and deeply seen by your own inner voice.Note: This is a guided breathwork practice. Please do not listen while driving.💌 Sign up for the Somatic Healing Newsletter to access Rae’s free breathwork + meditation resource library and stay connected to her latest offerings.CONNECT Work With MeThe Somatic Healing NewsletterInstagramWebsiteSubscribe & Review Apple PodcastsFollow & Rate Spotify Disclaimer: Please remember that the information shared on this podcast is intended to inspire, educate, and support you on your personal journey. It does not substitute for professional mental health advice. I am not a psychologist or medical professional. If you are experiencing distress, mental health challenges, or medical conditions, please seek help from a qualified professional.
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(#101) Feeling Good is a Practice: How to Expand Your Nervous System’s Capacity for Joy & Positive Psychology Tools
Why does joy sometimes feel harder to hold than stress? In this episode, Rae explores the emotional complexities of joy and how our nervous systems can struggle to trust happiness, especially after trauma, chronic stress, or survival-mode living.You’ll learn how nervous system regulation, somatic tools, and the science of positive psychology can expand your capacity to feel joy fully and safely. Plus, Rae introduces the PERMA model of well-being and how you can use it to integrate joy, resilience, connection, and meaning into your healing journey.✨ In this episode, Rae explores:Why joy can feel unfamiliar, unsafe, or fleetingHow nervous system responses (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) affect your ability to feel goodThe surprising ways joy can bring up fear, guilt, or discomfortHow to retrain your body to feel safe with happiness and easeThe PERMA model from positive psychology (and how to embody it somatically)Practices like breathwork, glimmers, journaling, and mindful presence to build emotional resilienceWhether you’re navigating trauma healing, burnout recovery, or simply trying to feel more like yourself again, this episode will show you how to nurture joy as a practice, not a performance.💌 Sign up for the Somatic Healing Newsletter to access Rae’s free breathwork + meditation resource library and stay connected to her latest offerings.CONNECT Work With MeThe Somatic Healing NewsletterInstagramWebsiteSubscribe & Review Apple PodcastsFollow & Rate Spotify Disclaimer: Please remember that the information shared on this podcast is intended to inspire, educate, and support you on your personal journey. It does not substitute for professional mental health advice. I am not a psychologist or medical professional. If you are experiencing distress, mental health challenges, or medical conditions, please seek help from a qualified professional.
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(#100) Feeling Stuck? How to Move Through Fear, Freeze & Comparison with Compassion
Feeling stuck, frozen, or like you're falling behind? You're not alone. In this milestone 100th episode, Rae shares a warm behind-the-scenes life update + 5 powerful mindset shifts and somatic tools to help you move through emotional stuckness with compassion, clarity, and momentum.Whether you're navigating a big life transition, feeling creatively blocked, or just caught in a loop of comparison and freeze, this episode will support you in regulating your nervous system, reconnecting to your power, and taking aligned action (even if it’s tiny!).💛 In this episode, Rae shares:A cozy life + creativity update (books, cacao, painting, and porch dreams 🌞)The #1 somatic truth about feeling stuck (hint: it’s temporary)5 tools to gently shift your energy and get out of your headHow movement and micro-actions spark momentumWhy stuckness might actually be a precursor to a breakthroughThe real reason you're not “behind” and how to reframe itIf you've been craving a soft, grounded push forward, or just some cozy somatic inspiration, this is your sign to tune in.💌 Sign up for the Somatic Healing Newsletter to access Rae’s free breathwork + meditation resource library and stay connected to her latest offerings.CONNECT Work With MeThe Somatic Healing NewsletterInstagramWebsiteSubscribe & Review Apple PodcastsFollow & Rate Spotify Disclaimer: Please remember that the information shared on this podcast is intended to inspire, educate, and support you on your personal journey. It does not substitute for professional mental health advice. I am not a psychologist or medical professional. If you are experiencing distress, mental health challenges, or medical conditions, please seek help from a qualified professional.
Welcome to the Somatic Healing Podcast! — a personal growth space for sensitive, ambitious, soulful women who are ready to move beyond anxiety, burnout, and perfectionism… and come home to themselves through the wisdom of the body.Anxiety isn’t just in your mind — it lives in your body. This podcast shows you how to release it, while exploring the intersection of somatics, creativity, wellness, and spirituality. We move beyond people-pleasing and self-doubt and into a life led by inner safety, clarity, and truth.Hosted by Rae, a certified Breathwork Facilitator, Somatic Coach & Therapist, Sound Healer, and Flower Essence Guide each episode offers: nervous system regulation tools, mindfulness & spirituality insights, somatic breathwork practices, emotional processing and integration tools, creative expression as a path to wholeness, and real talk about anxiety, healing, and becoming who you truly are.Rae is a podcaster, writer, creative, and guide on a mission to help women release stored emotions and reclaim their wholeness by reconnecting to the wisdom of the body.Tune in exactly as you are — and leave feeling more grounded, more inspired, and more you.
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