Peel the Onion Podcast by Olivia Maxwell

The wall you keep hitting - it's not you. It's lineage. w/ Olivia Maxwell #26

If you have done years of personal development and still keep hitting the same wall - this episode is for you. Not because something is wrong with you. Because something was handed to you before you had words for it. In this minisode, I walk through five signs that the loop you keep experiencing is lineage trauma - not personal failure. And beneath each sign, what actually becomes possible when it finally releases from the body. You will hear about: * Why you absorb everyone's emotions and what changes when that wiring finally updates * The nervous system pattern underneath working hard to earn your right to exist * Why knowing the pattern intellectually never stops it - and what does * The grief that feels bigger than your own story * The role you were assigned before you could speak - and how it gets released This is not about understanding your wounds better. It is about feeling what life looks like on the other side of them. Not transcendence. Presence. Your actual life - inhabited fully. | Olivia Maxwell | Olivia Maxwell is a former psychologist, EMDR practitioner, breathwork facilitator and Akashic Records practitioner based on Sydney's Northern Beaches. She works with people at the point where the old identity is no longer sustainable and something deeper is asking to emerge. Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/awakened_mbs/ [https://www.instagram.com/awakened_mbs/] Website | https://awakenedmbs.com.au/ [https://awakenedmbs.com.au/] Learn more about Kangen Water | https://consciouswater.org/?a=rdx43 [https://consciouswater.org/?a=rdx43]

New beginnings don't start with excitement. They start with grief. Minisode w/ Olivia Maxwell #25

We have been sold a story about new beginnings. That they arrive with clarity, momentum, and a kind of electric aliveness that tells you - yes, this is it. But more often, new beginnings feel like loss first. Because every genuine new beginning requires the ending of something else. A relationship. A career. A version of yourself you have been performing for so long you mistook it for who you actually are. And endings - even the ones we choose, even the ones that are clearly right - involve grief. In this minisode, Olivia explores why grief is not a sign you made the wrong choice but a sign the ending was real. She introduces the rite of passage framework - separation, the in-between, and arrival - and why the in-between is not the obstacle to your new beginning. It is where you are being remade. If you are somewhere between who you were and who you are becoming, and it feels more like grief than excitement - this one is for you. Rooted. Alive. Full out. ✦ | Olivia Maxwell | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/awakened_mbs/ [https://www.instagram.com/awakened_mbs/] Website | https://awakenedmbs.com.au/ [https://awakenedmbs.com.au/]

Why Meditation Kept Me Stuck — When Spiritual Seeking Becomes Spiritual Bypassing w/ Olivia Maxwell #24

In this minisode, Olivia gets honest about the loop she lived in for years - touching genuine bliss in meditation and returning to the same anxiety, the same inner critic, the same suffering every single time. This episode names what nobody in the spiritual space wants to say out loud: that meditation without body safety can become its own form of escape. That going up and out can feel like healing while the nervous system stays stuck in the same patterns below. Olivia shares why no amount of mental or spiritual practice alone can reach body safety and what finally changed when she stopped escaping and started inhabiting with the help of EMDR Therapy & somatic work such as Breathwork. If you have done all the right things and still run the same loop - this episode is for you. In this episode: * The bliss above, suffering below loop - what it actually feels like from the inside * Why meditation can reinforce dissociation rather than heal it * What somatic work, EMDR and breathwork reach that meditation cannot * The moment the bliss finally landed - in the body, in ordinary life * Why the goal was never to stop meditating - it was to bring what you find there back into your body and live from it | Olivia Maxwell | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/awakened_mbs/ [https://www.instagram.com/awakened_mbs/] Website | https://awakenedmbs.com.au/ [https://awakenedmbs.com.au/] Learn more about Kangen Water | https://consciouswater.org/?a=rdx43 [https://consciouswater.org/?a=rdx43] Subscribe to Peel the Onion Podcast: Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/show/74wJX83vBjA9YnSQUqp3wH?si=8c27354003324d76 [https://open.spotify.com/show/74wJX83vBjA9YnSQUqp3wH?si=8c27354003324d76] iTunes | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/peel-the-onion-podcast-by-olivia-maxwell/id1783706492 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/peel-the-onion-podcast-by-olivia-maxwell/id1783706492]

Divine Transmissions: Holding Your Energy Through Change w/ Olivia Maxwell #23

In this solo minisode, I share channelled guidance from my team of light and the collective field of the Peel the Onion community and the wider community at large. We explore the momentum of change currently unfolding, and what it truly means to stay steady in your energy as life moves quickly around you. This is a reminder that your power isn’t in controlling what’s happening - it’s in anchoring into your own frequency. Stay grounded. Stay clear. Stay in what’s yours. | Olivia Maxwell | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/awakened_mbs/ [https://www.instagram.com/awakened_mbs/] Website | https://awakenedmbs.com.au/ [https://awakenedmbs.com.au/] Learn more about Kangen Water | https://consciouswater.org/?a=rdx43 [https://consciouswater.org/?a=rdx43] Subscribe to Peel the Onion Podcast: Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/show/74wJX83vBjA9YnSQUqp3wH?si=8c27354003324d76 [https://open.spotify.com/show/74wJX83vBjA9YnSQUqp3wH?si=8c27354003324d76] iTunes | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/peel-the-onion-podcast-by-olivia-maxwell/id1783706492 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/peel-the-onion-podcast-by-olivia-maxwell/id1783706492]

Can You Trust the Unseen? Life Transitions & Changes Minisode w/ Olivia Maxwell #22

You don’t need to have it all figured out to move forward. This minisode is about life transitions, self-trust, and the power of choosing differently now - without certainty. A reflection on being guided into alignment while embracing both your humanity and your divinity. | Olivia Maxwell | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/awakened_mbs/ [https://www.instagram.com/awakened_mbs/] Website | https://awakenedmbs.com.au/ [https://awakenedmbs.com.au/] Learn more about Kangen Water | https://consciouswater.org/?a=rdx43 [https://consciouswater.org/?a=rdx43] Subscribe to Peel the Onion Podcast: Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/show/74wJX83vBjA9YnSQUqp3wH?si=8c27354003324d76 [https://open.spotify.com/show/74wJX83vBjA9YnSQUqp3wH?si=8c27354003324d76] iTunes | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/peel-the-onion-podcast-by-olivia-maxwell/id1783706492 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/peel-the-onion-podcast-by-olivia-maxwell/id1783706492]