Is Your Ambition Wrecking Your Health? The Hidden Link Between Burnout, Hormones, and Gut Health

The Energetics of Business: Why Healing Is Your Greatest Strategy with Elyse Falzone

> What if the blocks in your business weren’t strategy… but soul misalignment? > > In this powerful episode, Lauren sits down with Spiritual Strategist + Energy Architect Elyse Falzone to explore how healing your trauma, trusting your intuition, and listening to the soul of your business might be the most profitable strategy of all. > > We talk about: > * The emotional rollercoaster of entrepreneurship (and why it's actually a healing initiation) > * How childhood trauma and illness awakened Elyse’s spiritual gifts > * Seeing your business as its own energetic entity (not your identity) > * Why burnout, pricing drama, and scarcity are often signs of misalignment > * How to co-create with your business like it’s a conscious being > > If you’ve ever felt like your business is both your greatest calling and your biggest mirror, this conversation will crack you wide open (in the best way). 🔗 Connect with Elyse Falzone: 🌐 Website: www.elysefalzone.com [http://www.elysefalzone.com] 📲 Instagram: @_awakenyoursoul [https://www.instagram.com/_awakenyoursoul] ✈️ Upcoming Retreat: Sacred Voyage to Egypt – October 2025 🔗 CONNECT WITH LAUREN MICHELLE JEWEL ✨ Instagram → @laurenmichellejewel [https://www.instagram.com/lauren_michelle_jewel/] & Lauren's Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/Lauren.Jewel/] 💌 Join the Embody This Collective → Join Here [https://www.facebook.com/groups/450026936668157/?ref=share&checkpoint_src=any] 🌐 Website + Work With Me → https://msha.ke/laurenjewel [https://msha.ke/laurenjewel] 🎁 Free Resources → Grab All My Freebies [https://msha.ke/laurenjewel#links-1] 🎙️ Podcast Hashtag → #EmbodyThisPodcast 💬 DM me on Instagram and tell me what resonated most with you from this episode. 📣 Share the show and tag me so more women can reclaim their body, identity, and f*cking life. ⚠️ Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, or replace professional medical advice or mental health care. Always consult with a qualified healthcare provider before making any changes to your health practices.

When the Body Breaks So You Can Heal: What Injury, Stillness & Soul-Level Recovery Really Teach Us with Staci Bennett

What if your body’s breakdown isn’t a setback—but a sacred initiation? In this deeply embodied conversation, I’m joined by Staci Bennett, founder of The Embodied Collective, breathwork facilitator, Reiki Master, and sacred rebel—who recently experienced a profound awakening after breaking her ankle in Mount Shasta. But this isn’t just about physical recovery. It’s about what happens when your nervous system slows you down—and your soul finally gets a word in. We explore: 💥 How trauma stored in the nervous system can manifest as sudden injury or symptoms  🦴 The psychosomatic root of injury and what it means to break down at the foundation  🔥 How healing the wounded masculine is often a nervous system reckoning  🛑 Why the body’s forced stillness can unlock emotional patterns that talking never touched  💔 The fear of unconditional love and what it really means to receive without earning  🌿 Staci’s journey through pain, breath, plant medicine, Akashic Records, and inner child work  🌀 And what it means to walk again—not just physically, but metaphorically Whether you’re navigating burnout, chronic symptoms, or your own sacred pause—this episode is your reminder that sometimes the most powerful healing comes when everything…stops. Connect with Staci Bennett: Instagram: @smlbennett [https://instagram.com/smlbennett] Facebook: The Embodied Collective Website (coming soon): www.theembodiedcollective.com 🔗 Listen now on Apple, Spotify, or your favorite platform ❤️ If this episode resonated, share it and leave a review. Healing is a collective remembering. 🔗 CONNECT WITH LAUREN MICHELLE JEWEL ✨ Instagram → @laurenmichellejewel [https://www.instagram.com/lauren_michelle_jewel/] & Lauren's Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/Lauren.Jewel/] 💌 Join the Embody This Collective → Join Here [https://www.facebook.com/groups/450026936668157/?ref=share&checkpoint_src=any] 🌐 Website + Work With Me → https://msha.ke/laurenjewel [https://msha.ke/laurenjewel] 🎁 Free Resources → Grab All My Freebies [https://msha.ke/laurenjewel#links-1] 🎙️ Podcast Hashtag → #EmbodyThisPodcast 💬 DM me on Instagram and tell me what resonated most with you from this episode. 📣 Share the show and tag me so more women can reclaim their body, identity, and f*cking life. ⚠️ Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, or replace professional medical advice or mental health care. Always consult with a qualified healthcare provider before making any changes to your health practices.

Nervous System Healing, Love Addiction & Plant Medicine with Jakob Gricar

What if your symptoms weren’t random but sacred signals from a nervous system that finally feels safe? In this episode of Embody This – The No B.S. Healing Podcast, Lauren sits down with trauma-informed somatic coach Jakob Gricar for a raw, soul-deep conversation on what it actually takes to heal—emotionally, physically, and spiritually. From nervous system dysregulation and love addiction to plant medicine, microdosing, and identity collapse—Jakob brings lived experience, not just credentials. His story mirrors so much of Lauren’s own, and together they explore the real, embodied path of healing beyond the books, beyond the hacks, and beyond the ego. 🔥 In this episode, we dive into: * How unresolved trauma shows up as skin flares, gut issues, and anxiety * Why symptoms often worsen when your body finally feels safe * Love addiction, hyper-independence, and nervous system imprinting * Plant medicine, microdosing, and the importance of integration * What it means to stop fixing and start feeling If you’ve been doing all the right things—therapy, supplements, inner work—but still feel stuck, this episode is your mirror. This isn’t a conversation about healing. This is healing. 🎧 Listen now on Apple Podcasts + Spotify  ✨ Connect with Jakob → @jakobgricar [https://www.instagram.com/jakobgricar] | jakobgricar.com [https://jakobgricar.com/ ] | Inner Circle Podcast [https://app.helloaudio.fm/feed/0e67bdac-f779-4b45-9495-ddf6fe234d83/signup] Jakob Gricar is a trauma-informed transformational coach who blends a decade of mastery in somatic work, internal family systems, ontological coaching, NLP, and CBT and other modalities to catalyze profound inner change. From high-impact entrepreneurs to people stepping into their purpose, he guides clients to regulate their nervous systems, dismantle limiting identities, and remember the truth beneath the noise. His journey began at 13, when recovering from a chronic illness ignited a lifelong devotion to spiritual practice. That spark carried him from homelessness to near-death initiations, yogic studies in India, deep plant-medicine studies in the Amazon, and the creation of retreat centers in Guatemala and Mexico. Today, Jakob works with world-renowned coaches, mentors other business leaders, leads Vortex Retreats and runs a multi-six-figure online program.  🔗 CONNECT WITH LAUREN MICHELLE JEWEL ✨ Instagram → @laurenmichellejewel [https://www.instagram.com/lauren_michelle_jewel/] & Lauren's Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/Lauren.Jewel/] 💌 Join the Embody This Collective → Join Here [https://www.facebook.com/groups/450026936668157/?ref=share&checkpoint_src=any] 🌐 Website + Work With Me → https://msha.ke/laurenjewel [https://msha.ke/laurenjewel] 🎁 Free Resources → Grab All My Freebies [https://msha.ke/laurenjewel#links-1] 🎙️ Podcast Hashtag → #EmbodyThisPodcast 💬 DM me on Instagram and tell me what resonated most with you from this episode. 📣 Share the show and tag me so more women can reclaim their body, identity, and f*cking life. ⚠️ Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, or replace professional medical advice or mental health care. Always consult with a qualified healthcare provider before making any changes to your health practices.

Is Your Ambition Wrecking Your Health? The Hidden Link Between Burnout, Hormones, and Gut Health

Feeling tired no matter how much you sleep? Running on caffeine, cortisol, and constant pressure to "do more"? This episode is your wake-up call — not because you're broken, but because your nervous system has been performing worth like a full-time job. In this powerful deep-dive, Lauren unpacks the Burnout Pillar and its three survival-based archetypes: * 🔥 The Exhausted Visionary (a.k.a. the Sleepless Entrepreneur) * 🔥 The Perfectionist High Achiever * 🔥 The Overcommitted Achiever We’re breaking down: * How your nervous system mistakes productivity for safety * Why your supplements aren’t working (hint: your body doesn’t trust rest) * The real root cause of your fatigue, inflammation, hormone chaos, and emotional shutdown * The identity loops and core wounds keeping you in cycles of burnout * How to shift from performing healing to actually embodying it This episode explores fight, flight, freeze, and fawn survival patterns in high-functioning women — and how they’re quietly destroying your health while the world claps for your exhaustion. You’ll also meet: 💥 Caitlyn, a real-life client case study who went from hustling through migraines and missed moments to finally resting without guilt 💥 The hidden Wellness Limiters & Levers keeping you stuck — and the nervous system rewiring tools that set you free 💥 The 4-Part EMBODIED Framework to help you shift from stress-driven to soul-led This episode is for you if: * You wake up tired and still push through * You feel guilty when you rest and anxious when you don’t * You’ve tried all the healing protocols… but nothing sticks * You’re ready to stop chasing health and start receiving it 💡 What You’ll Learn: * Why exhaustion isn’t a mindset problem — it’s a nervous system adaptation * How core emotional wounds drive gut issues, hormone imbalances, and burnout * Why healing won’t land if your identity is still wired for survival * How to interrupt the trauma patterns that masquerade as discipline and ambition * Real tools to start unhooking your worth from productivity Next week: We explore The Self-Sacrificer Pillar — for the woman who disappears into everyone else’s needs but secretly longs to come home to herself. 🔗 CONNECT WITH LAUREN MICHELLE JEWEL ✨ Instagram → @laurenmichellejewel [https://www.instagram.com/lauren_michelle_jewel/] & Lauren's Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/Lauren.Jewel/] 💌 Join the Embody This Collective → Join Here [https://www.facebook.com/groups/450026936668157/?ref=share&checkpoint_src=any] 🌐 Website + Work With Me → https://msha.ke/laurenjewel [https://msha.ke/laurenjewel] 🎁 Free Resources → Grab All My Freebies [https://msha.ke/laurenjewel#links-1] 🎙️ Podcast Hashtag → #EmbodyThisPodcast 💬 DM me on Instagram and tell me what resonated most with you from this episode. 📣 Share the show and tag me so more women can reclaim their body, identity, and f*cking life. ⚠️ Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, or replace professional medical advice or mental health care. Always consult with a qualified healthcare provider before making any changes to your health practices.

Stop Chasing Symptoms: Meet the 5 Survival Archetypes Blocking Your Healing

You’ve done it all—gut protocols, therapy, somatics, supplements, shadow work—and still feel stuck. WTF, right? This episode pulls back the curtain on why you’re exhausted, anxious, bloated, burnt out, and still not healing (even though you’re doing everything right). In this bold, no-bullshit breakdown, Lauren Michelle Jewel exposes the real root of your chronic symptoms: nervous system survival patterns. You’ll learn: ✨ Why your “healthy habits” might still be rooted in fear  ✨ The 4 energy bodies (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual) and how they shape your health  ✨ The science behind survival mode—HPA axis dysregulation, cortisol chaos, gut-brain disruption, and more  ✨ The 5 Nervous System Archetypes keeping you stuck in stress, burnout, people-pleasing, and shutdown  ✨ How identity, trauma, and biology are shaping your symptoms, your behaviors, and your beliefs This is the episode for the woman who’s tried everything and still feels disconnected from her body, her power, and her truth. 👁‍🗨 Mentioned in this episode: 💥 Pleasure, Power + The Plate Workshop [https://my.practicebetter.io/#/625472c74a79d4c137a30728/bookings?c=68196d4d9b1e18b22cb45eac] → Explore the 6 food + body shadow archetypes and how to reclaim safety, nourishment, and embodied power. 🌀 Body Love Blueprint [https://my.practicebetter.io/#/625472c74a79d4c137a30728/bookings?c=66c5149437700cc23fc594ca] → Go deeper into healing the 4 bodies (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual). 📲 DM “PLEASURE” to @laurenmichellejewel [https://instagram.com/laurenmichellejewel] on Instagram to get the replay. 🎧 Subscribe to Embody This – The No-BS Healing Podcast and leave a review if this episode cracked something open. 🔗 CONNECT WITH LAUREN MICHELLE JEWEL ✨ Instagram → @laurenmichellejewel [https://www.instagram.com/lauren_michelle_jewel/] & Lauren's Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/Lauren.Jewel/] 💌 Join the Embody This Collective → Join Here [https://www.facebook.com/groups/450026936668157/?ref=share&checkpoint_src=any] 🌐 Website + Work With Me → https://msha.ke/laurenjewel [https://msha.ke/laurenjewel] 🎁 Free Resources → Grab All My Freebies [https://msha.ke/laurenjewel#links-1] 🎙️ Podcast Hashtag → #EmbodyThisPodcast 💬 DM me on Instagram and tell me what resonated most with you from this episode. 📣 Share the show and tag me so more women can reclaim their body, identity, and f*cking life. ⚠️ Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, or replace professional medical advice or mental health care. Always consult with a qualified healthcare provider before making any changes to your health practices.