The Pause Before the Pivot

No Bad Parts: Psychology, Spirituality & Coming Home to Yourself with Kristi DeYoung

One of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves is the willingness to become curious. Not judgemental. Curious. Curious about why we react the way we do. Curious about the stories we've carried for years. Curious about the parts of ourselves we've learned to hide, silence or judge. In this conversation, I sit down with psychologist Kristi DeYoung to explore Internal Family Systems (IFS), or parts work, and the fascinating ways psychology and spirituality often arrive at the same wisdom through different paths. We weave between science and soul, Carl Jung and astrology, childhood conditioning and inner knowing. What emerged was a shared understanding that healing begins when we stop trying to become someone else and start remembering who we've always been. In the conversation, we note how different modalities often point towards the same truth - whether we look through the lens of psychology, astrology, or Human Design, each offers us a different way of understanding ourselves with greater compassion. Each invites us to move beyond judgement & into awareness. Perhaps healing isn't about becoming a better version of ourselves. Perhaps it's about welcoming home every part of who we already are. I hope this conversation leaves you feeling a little more compassionate towards yourself - and reminds you that beneath all the conditioning, your authentic self has been there all along. * Discover Internal Family Systems (IFS) and "parts work", and why it's transforming the way many therapists approach healing * Learn how the different parts of your personality develop to protect you - and why there are no bad parts * Understand what exiled parts are and how compassion helps us reconnect with the aspects of ourselves we've learned to hide * Explore the beautiful parallels between psychology, astrology, Human Design and other frameworks for self-understanding * Hear why Carl Jung's work continues to influence conversations around symbolism, meaning and personal transformation * Reflect on the relationship between science and spirituality, and why they don't have to exist in opposition * Discover why healing isn't about becoming someone new, but remembering who you were before conditioning shaped your beliefs. * Learn how trusting your own inner authority creates greater authenticity, resilience and freedom. * Be reminded that self-awareness is only the beginning -the real transformation comes from living in alignment with who you truly are. Connect with Kristi: Website https://kdypsych.com.au [https://kdypsych.com.au/] Instagram @kristideyoungpsychology And if this conversation resonated with you, perhaps it's an invitation to become a little more curious about yourself. Your unique design holds incredible insight into how you're naturally wired to think, create, connect and make decisions. If you'd like to begin exploring that for yourself, you can download my free Align & Shine Energetic Blueprint [https://www.annmariegrace.com/unique] - a beautiful introduction to understanding your natural energy and living in greater alignment. ✨ And if you're feeling ready to move beyond self-awareness into intentional action, please check out Soul Meets Strategy [https://www.annmariegrace.com/soul-meets-strategy], where we bring soulful insight and practical strategy to help you create a life and business that's deeply aligned with who you truly are. ✨ And for weekly reflections, deeper conversations and a community of like-minded souls, join me over on Substack at Thriving Through Connection [https://thrivingthroughconnection.substack.com/]. Thank you for being here. It's a privilege to share these conversations with you, and I look forward to continuing the journey together. With love, Ann Marie x PS - If something in this conversation stayed with you, I'd love it if you shared the episode with someone who might need to hear it too. And if you're enjoying The Wildly Beautiful Life podcast, following the show and leaving a review helps these conversations reach more people who are ready to reconnect with themselves and create lives that feel deeply aligned.

Living Out Your Design: A Live Blueprint Reading with Jane Teresa Anderson

In this extra special episode of The Wildly Beautiful Life Podcast, Ann Marie shares a live Blueprint Reading with Jane Teresa Anderson, a dream analyst, author, podcaster, and lifelong explorer of the inner world. If you've ever wondered, does my soul have a purpose... and can I find out what it is, this episode offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at how Ann Marie weaves together Human Design, Astrology, and Gene Keys to reflect someone’s natural design, soul path, gifts and deeper purpose. Rather than speaking about these systems in theory, this conversation lets you hear the process unfold in real time. Jane receives insight into her Human Design type, authority, profile, incarnation cross, key astrological placements, sixth house stellium, and Gene Keys Genius Sequence - and she reflects on how each piece resonates with her lived experience. Together, Ann Marie & Jane explore what it means to trust the body’s wisdom, honour your natural rhythm, see purpose as something you become rather than force, and recognise the threads of meaning that have been shaping your life. This is a beautiful episode for anyone curious about soul-led self-understanding, energetic alignment, purpose, meaningful work, and what happens when your life is reflected back to you with clarity and compassion. Experience: * What a Blueprint Reading is and how Ann Marie brings together Human Design, Astrology & Gene Keys * Why your chart is not about prediction, but about permission, self-recognition, and deeper alignment * Jane’s Human Design as a Generator with sacral authority and how sacral authority speaks through the body as a clear yes or no response * Why frustration can be a powerful signal that something is out of alignment * The 3/5 profile and the wisdom of learning through trial, error, experience, and leadership * The Incarnation Cross of the Vessel of Love and its themes of connection, emotional expression, belonging, and transformation * The difference between purpose as a profession and purpose as a way of being * Jane’s Capricorn Sun, Sagittarius Moon, and Cancer Rising, and how these placements reflect mastery, exploration, emotional depth, and care * What it means to have a sixth house stellium connected to service, work, wellbeing, and daily devotion * The role of Scorpio in transformation, depth, and the willingness to explore what is often hidden or unspoken * Jane’s Gene Keys themes of naturalness, magnetism, delight, and acceptance * How creativity, humour, and new experiences can support us through grief, transition, and difficult seasons * Why your blueprint can feel less like a revelation and more like a deep remembering Jane’s reading shows how our gifts are not always loud or dramatic. Sometimes they are the things other people have seen in us for years — our naturalness, our steadiness, our ability to lead, our way of holding space, our capacity to find meaning even in the difficult places. This episode is an invitation to look at your life through a different lens — not to fix yourself, but to understand yourself more deeply. Jane Teresa Anderson is a dream analyst, author, podcaster, and speaker whose work explores dreams, the unconscious, transformation, and the symbolic language of the psyche. Jane interviewed me on her 'Dream Show' podcast which you can find here. [https://www.janeteresa.com/ep-305-the-dream-show-live-dream-interpretation-soul-alignment-coach-ann-marie-grace-dreamed-of-a-new-floor/] If you would like to begin understanding your own natural design, you can download Ann Marie’s free Align and Shine Energetic Blueprint at: annmariegrace.com/unique And if this conversation stirred something in you, come deeper into the journey over on Substack at Thriving Through Connection, where Ann Marie continues these conversations through reflections, videos, and a growing community of people learning to live with more self-trust, connection, and soul-alignment. This episode is a beautiful reminder that when we see ourselves clearly, we don’t have to strive so hard to become someone else. We can begin, instead, to trust the life that is already moving through us.

Moving with the Moon: What the Moon Can Teach Us About Life, Business & Letting Go

What if the most powerful thing you could do right now… was pause? In this today's conversation, a clinical EFT practitioner, moonologer, nervous system facilitator, Georgie Hope and Ann Marie share a beautiful exploration of what happens when we stop overriding the body, stop forcing ourselves into systems that were never designed for us, and begin listening to the wisdom that has been there all along. In this episode, we explore The Pause — not as giving up, but as a sacred space for integration, discernment and truth. Georgie shares how the pauses in her life changed everything: leaving a job that wasn’t aligned, letting go of businesses that no longer fit, listening to her body after pregnancy, and learning to parent her children through the lens of their inherent design. Georgie shares her own journey through disordered eating, IBS, emotional override, motherhood, grief, business evolution, and learning to trust the messages her body was giving her. Georgie shares how Human Design gave her a new lens to work with her daughter who wasn’t fitting into the school system’s expectations. Rather than seeing her child as “wrong,” she began to understand her as uniquely designed. That awareness changed the way she parented, the way she supported her family’s rhythms, and the way she trusted her own inner knowing. We also dive into the phases of the moon — not just as something mystical in the sky, but as a living rhythm that mirrors the cycles already moving through our bodies, businesses, relationships and lives. Georgie explains how the dark moon invites stillness, the new moon supports intention, the full moon brings illumination, and the waning moon helps us release what no longer serves. In this episode, we explore: * Why “The Pause” is often where the deepest transformation begins * How Georgie learned to trust the messages coming from her body * The connection between disordered eating, emotional override and nervous system disconnection * How Human Design changed the way Georgie parented her children * Why understanding your child’s inherent design can create more compassion, ease and trust in family life * How the phases of the moon can support emotional release, business planning and life rhythm * The dark moon as a sacred space for stillness, integration and clearing * How to start working with the moon in a simple, grounded way * Why cyclical living can help us do life and business better This episode is for you if… You’ve been pushing, forcing, overthinking or trying to move at a pace that no longer feels right. It’s for you if you’re in a season of life or business where something is asking to be paused, released, reimagined or rebuilt. And it’s especially for you if you’re ready to stop seeing your sensitivity, your cycles, your body, your children or your timing as problems to fix — and start understanding them as wisdom to work with. Join the Upcoming Permission to Be [https://www.annmariegrace.com/events/permission-to-be-workshop-series] series: * Progressed Moon | Emotional Season of Life Workshop [https://www.annmariegrace.com/shop/p/permission-to-be-workshop-series-part-2-849p7] Get Your Soul’s Unique Blueprint: annmariegrace.com/unique [https://www.annmariegrace.com/unique] & Go deeper in the ⁠Thriving Through Connection Membership⁠ [https://www.annmariegrace.com/ttc]on SubStack [http://thrivingthroughconnection.com/] Learn more and connect with Georgie Hope * Visit Georgie’s website: georgiehope.org [https://georgiehope.org/] * Purchase her Moon Aligned Mindfully Aware planner. [https://georgiehope.org/mama-planner-1] * Check out the simple moon app [https://apps.apple.com/au/app/simple-moon-phase-calendar/id1279710898] she recommends.

The Pause Before the Pivot

In this personal episode, Ann Marie shares the story of her realization of just how expensive compromise can be. She shares powerful reflections on intuition, compromise, silence, and the importance of creating intentional space to hear your inner wisdom. Ann Marie shares the story of a beautiful beachside property that felt undeniably meant for her, the ways she overrode her heart with logic, and the hard lessons that have followed: when we make decisions from our head instead of our heart, we often create lives that look good on paper but do not feel right in our body. This deeply personal episode is an invitation to pause. To step away from the noise. To stop forcing. To stop compromising - but rather to listen for what your heart has been trying to tell you. In it, Ann Marie share: * How noise, busyness, and overstimulation can dysregulate the nervous system * Why time away can offer clarity, healing, and perspective * The difference between making decisions from your head versus your heart * Her experience leaving behind a business that no longer aligned * The intuitive messages that guided her back toward painting, creativity, the beach, and community * Her expensive lesson of compromise - and what happens when we settle for less than what we truly want * Why creating silence and space is essential if you want to hear your intuition * The importance of intentional pauses during seasons of transition and uncertainty * How stillness, meditation, nature, and time alone can reconnect you to your truth * Why the most wildly beautiful life is created through deliberate, aligned choices You do not need to have all the answers immediately. Sometimes the next right step is not more doing, more forcing, or more overthinking. Sometimes what you need most is space. A pause. A moment to step away from the noise and reconnect to the subtle whispers of your heart. If you would like to go deeper, you're invited on a journey back to your heart through your inner wisdom and connection to you inherent design. Join us at Thriving Through Connection on Substack [ThrivingThroughConnection.com] and download your free ⁠Align & Shine Energetic Blueprint⁠ [annmariegrace.com/unique] to support your journey.

Permission to be me - through the Human Design Lens

What if “finding yourself” isn’t about fixing anything… it’s about finally understanding the design you came here with? In this episode, Ann Marie Grace opens the door to a brand-new journey inside Thriving Through Connection — a monthly unfolding and learning how to embrace the uniquely beautifully soul that you are - weaving together psychology + neuroscience with astrology, Human Design, and Gene Keys. You’ll hear why this work creates the kind of permission that changes everything - the permission to stop forcing, stop performing and start living in a way that actually fits you. Ann Marie also shares a real-life moment from the tennis court that sparked a deeper reflection on parenting, conditioning, and the hidden stories we absorb in our first years of life - and how awareness gives us choice. * Why your blueprint can become a compass for self-trust and self-acceptance * The “blank canvas” moment that began Ann Marie’s deconditioning journey (moving from the US to Australia in 2004) * How early conditioning forms your default patterns (and why this isn’t your fault) * The invitation to suspend judgment and explore new ways of understanding yourself * A walkthrough of how to access your RAV Mandala / Human Design BodyGraph * The Human Design basics: Type, Strategy, Authority, Profile * The 5 energy types and how each one is designed to thrive: * Generator (sustainable energy + satisfaction / frustration) * Manifesting Generator (multi-passionate speed + pivoting without burnout) * Manifestor (initiator energy + peace / anger + the power of informing) * Projector (guidance energy + deep rest + waiting for the invitation) * Reflector (mirror of the environment + 28-day clarity + sensitivity) * What your Profile means (your life path archetype) — and why knowing yours can feel like a permission slip You’re joining at the beginning of a year-long Thriving Through Connection unfolding: Season 1: Permission to Be Me * March: Understanding your blueprint foundations * April: The pause + awareness (becoming the observer) * May: Breath as your superpower (nervous system regulation) * June: Connecting to the layers of your being (integration + embodiment) …and it all builds from there. Get your free Align & Shine Energetic Blueprint: annmariegrace.com/unique Join the community on Substack: annmariegrace.com/ttc Thriving Through Connection — deeper reflections, videos, and connection calls. Next week on Thriving Through Connection, we will widen the lens and explore the astrological influences that underpin your energetics — and how your chart adds even more nuance to your blueprint. If something in you is craving clarity… not more advice — start with your blueprint. Download your free Align & Shine Energetic Blueprint at annmariegrace.com/unique, then come join us at Thriving Through Connection on Substack so we can walk this journey together through real conversation, reflection, and lived integration. If this episode landed for you, share it with a friend, hit subscribe, and come say hello in the community.