23. Following Your Intuition

27. Days That Feel Off

In this week’s episode, I’m sharing honestly about moving through a period of low energy, functional freeze, and feeling disconnected while still showing up for life and responsibilities. We explore what happens when we stop judging ourselves for these experiences and begin relating to them as information instead. This conversation touches on nervous system states, self-compassion, and the importance of meeting ourselves where we are—especially during seasons of growth, transition, or inner change. I also share more about the heart of my work and the whole-person approach that guides Embodied Journey: supporting healing and awareness across mind, body, emotions, nervous system, energy, and soul. This episode includes a gentle somatic practice to help you connect with what is already supporting you and explore what it feels like to soften into that support. Together we explore: * Functional freeze and feeling disconnected * Naming our experience without shame or self-judgment * Nervous system care during growth and expansion * Why harder seasons are part of being human * A whole-person approach to healing and transformation * A grounding somatic practice for safety and support If you’ve been feeling “off,” low energy, disconnected, or simply in an in-between season, this episode is an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and remember that you don’t have to navigate it alone. Take a breath. Let’s slow down together. Connect with me: 🌱⁠⁠⁠⁠Ways to work with me⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://linktr.ee/embodiedjourney_] 🌱⁠⁠Online Embodiment Sessions⁠ [https://www.embodiedjourney.ca/embodiment-sessions] 🌱⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow me on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/embodiedjourney_/] 🌱⁠⁠⁠⁠Join my weekly newsletter 'The Sunday Slowdown'⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.embodiedjourney.ca/05073a10-ec79-437f-836c-52f51db537a5?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaed_TWQZIzdxdu81R25WA2ThmwEBMQbeIngp5d2LcbeSzlJXty32AshDgi9iA_aem_FUiNr_RACaUU8n8wrgC5Lw] Email: hello@embodiedjourney.ca Be sure to hit "Subscribe" or "Follow" so you don't miss an episode!

26. Sitting With Discomfort

This week’s episode explores our relationship with discomfort and the ways we move toward busyness, distraction, or disconnection when life feels hard. Through personal reflection, we explore why slowing down can feel uncomfortable, what begins to surface when we create more space, and how sensations in the body can offer insight into our emotional experience. This conversation isn’t about forcing ourselves to sit in overwhelm or suffering. It’s about becoming curious enough to stay present with what’s here, rather than automatically moving away from it. This episode includes a gentle somatic shake practice to help release tension, move energy, and reconnect with the body. Together we explore: * Why we stay busy and avoid slowing down * The body's response to discomfort and uncertainty * Physical sensations like heaviness, tightness, tension, and bracing * Awareness, authenticity, and emotional honesty * Creating space without forcing or overwhelming ourselves * A grounding somatic movement practice to support regulation and release If you’ve been feeling stretched, uncertain, disconnected, or simply curious about what slowing down might reveal, this episode offers a compassionate invitation to pause, notice, and stay a little closer to yourself. Take a breath, let's slow down together.

25. Being In the In-Between

This week’s episode explores the feeling of being in-between versions of ourselves. The space where something is shifting, but the next chapter hasn’t fully revealed itself yet. Through reflections on seasonal change, gardening, nervous system awareness, and personal growth, we explore how the contraction before the expansion can show up in our bodies and lives. The urge to disconnect, the desire to change, the tension between wanting to figure things out and needing to create more space… these experiences are all part of the process. This episode includes a simple grounding somatic practice to help settle the nervous system and reconnect with the body during seasons of movement and transition. Together we explore: * Seasonal shifts and internal change * Contraction and expansion as part of growth * Nervous system cues like tension, bracing, and disconnection * The in-between phase of transformation * Creating space to hear what’s emerging * A gentle grounding practice you can return to anytime As you move through your week, this episode invites you to make room for stillness, notice what’s underneath the noise, and trust that not everything needs to be figured out all at once. Take a breath. Let’s slow down together. Connect with me: 🌱⁠⁠⁠⁠Ways to work with me⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://linktr.ee/embodiedjourney_] 🌱⁠⁠Online Embodiment Sessions⁠ [https://www.embodiedjourney.ca/embodiment-sessions] 🌱⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow me on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/embodiedjourney_/] 🌱⁠⁠⁠⁠Join my weekly newsletter 'The Sunday Slowdown'⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.embodiedjourney.ca/05073a10-ec79-437f-836c-52f51db537a5?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaed_TWQZIzdxdu81R25WA2ThmwEBMQbeIngp5d2LcbeSzlJXty32AshDgi9iA_aem_FUiNr_RACaUU8n8wrgC5Lw] Email: hello@embodiedjourney.ca Be sure to hit "Subscribe" or "Follow" so you don't miss an episode!

24. Listening to your Body

This week’s episode explores the mind-body connection and the many ways the body communicates through sensation. Together, we look at what it means to slow down enough to notice tightness, tension, heaviness, restlessness, numbness, and other sensations that can hold information beneath the surface. Through reflection and a guided somatic practice, this episode invites you to move away from immediately fixing or analyzing what you feel, and instead practice staying with it—breathing, moving, listening, and becoming curious about what your body might be trying to communicate. We also explore the importance of discernment, self-trust, and balancing emotional awareness with grounded physical care. This episode includes a gentle lying-down somatic practice to help you connect with sensation, intuitive movement, and the quieter layers of yourself through the body. Take a breath. Let’s slow down together. Connect with me: 🌱⁠⁠⁠Ways to work with me⁠⁠⁠ [https://linktr.ee/embodiedjourney_] 🌱⁠Online Embodiment Sessions [https://www.embodiedjourney.ca/embodiment-sessions] 🌱⁠⁠⁠Follow me on Instagram⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/embodiedjourney_/] 🌱⁠⁠⁠Join my weekly newsletter 'The Sunday Slowdown'⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.embodiedjourney.ca/05073a10-ec79-437f-836c-52f51db537a5?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaed_TWQZIzdxdu81R25WA2ThmwEBMQbeIngp5d2LcbeSzlJXty32AshDgi9iA_aem_FUiNr_RACaUU8n8wrgC5Lw] Email: hello@embodiedjourney.ca Be sure to hit "Subscribe" or "Follow" so you don't miss an episode!

23. Following Your Intuition

This week’s episode explores the quiet ways intuition speaks to us, and how easy it is to miss when we’re moving through life on autopilot. Through a personal story and reflection, we look at how small nudges, like a thought, a song, a feeling, can gently guide us back into connection with ourselves. When we slow down enough to notice and follow those first impulses, life can begin to feel less like a list of things to manage, and more like something we’re moving with. This episode includes a simple somatic practice to help you tune into your body, trust the first thing that arises, and begin building a relationship with your intuition in a grounded, accessible way. Take a breath. Let’s slow down together. Connect with me: 🌱⁠⁠⁠Ways to work with me⁠⁠⁠ [https://linktr.ee/embodiedjourney_] 🌱⁠Online Embodiment Sessions [https://www.embodiedjourney.ca/embodiment-sessions] 🌱⁠⁠⁠Follow me on Instagram⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/embodiedjourney_/] 🌱⁠⁠⁠Join my weekly newsletter 'The Sunday Slowdown'⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.embodiedjourney.ca/05073a10-ec79-437f-836c-52f51db537a5?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaed_TWQZIzdxdu81R25WA2ThmwEBMQbeIngp5d2LcbeSzlJXty32AshDgi9iA_aem_FUiNr_RACaUU8n8wrgC5Lw] Email: hello@embodiedjourney.ca Be sure to hit "Subscribe" or "Follow" so you don't miss an episode!