The Liberated Life - When Did You Last Feel Free?

Why We All Just Need to Boast a Bit More

You can talk about your struggles for hours. You can share your shame, your fears, your failures, the parts of yourself you are still working on. That part is easy. But ask you to spend three minutes bragging about what you are genuinely brilliant at, and something tightens. Something goes quiet. Something finds a reason to say I don't really know where to start. In this episode, Lucy comes back from leading the Liberated Life Retreat with something she did not expect to find there. A practice that cracked her open more than almost anything else that week. A bragging practice. And the discovery that for the highest achievers in the room, it was by far the hardest thing they did all week. You will understand why shitting on yourself has become your fuel, and why that fuel has a very specific cost. You will hear why staying small and staying relatable have become so tangled together that most of us cannot tell them apart anymore. And you will leave with a very simple invitation that might feel more uncomfortable than it sounds. This one is short, fired up, and recorded on a rainy London afternoon straight from the integration of something real. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com [http://www.lucymaeve.com]. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve [https://www.instagram.com/lucy__maeve] https://lucymaeve133.lpages.co/sevendaysbacktoyou/ [https://lucymaeve133.lpages.co/sevendaysbacktoyou/]

How To Deal With Stress Without Just Telling Yourself To Calm Down, with Stephanie Nelson

You have been told to calm down. You have told yourself to calm down. And it has never once worked. In this episode, Lucy sits down with somatic practitioner Stephanie Nelson to talk about why that advice is not just unhelpful but actually works against the very thing you are trying to do. You will understand what is really happening in your body when you cannot stop yourself doing the thing you know you should not do, why the rational brain goes completely offline under stress, and why so many high-achieving people are not actually calm but in shutdown, which are two very different things. You will hear why the obsession with nervous system regulation might be making your world smaller rather than bigger, and what it actually means to meet the anxious, angry, terrified parts of yourself rather than trying to manage them into a box. You will also leave with a practical five step practice you can use in 60 seconds that changes everything about how you relate to what is coming up in your body. Stephanie's own story, from being told at 12 she would need a wheelchair by 30 to being completely free of chronic pain, is one of the most quietly radical things this podcast has aired. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com [http://www.lucymaeve.com]. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve [https://www.instagram.com/lucy__maeve] https://lucymaeve133.lpages.co/sevendaysbacktoyou/ [https://lucymaeve133.lpages.co/sevendaysbacktoyou/] https://www.thestresshealers.com/ [https://www.thestresshealers.com/] https://www.thestresshealers.com/resourced [https://www.thestresshealers.com/resourced]

What To Do When Your ‘Single’ Friend Meets Someone And You Feel Abandoned

You have felt it before. A close friend meets someone, or falls pregnant, or gets the thing you have quietly been waiting for. And you feel happy for her, you genuinely do, and also something else entirely. Something that does not have a polite name. Something you push down because you are not supposed to feel it. In this episode, Lucy and her close friend Tessa sit down to dissect, in real time, what actually happened between them when Tessa met her now husband while they were both living as single women in Mexico City. They had built one of those friendships that functions almost like a relationship, the kind where you are each other's anchor, each other's safety, each other's person. And then one of them found another person. This conversation is raw and unscripted and genuinely healing to witness. You will leave understanding why the jealousy and grief that comes up in these moments is one of the most normal and least talked about experiences in female friendship. Why shame makes it worse. Why sometimes the most loving thing is to say the true thing out loud rather than performing okayness until the whole thing quietly breaks. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com [http://www.lucymaeve.com]. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve [https://www.instagram.com/lucy__maeve] https://lucymaeve133.lpages.co/sevendaysbacktoyou/ [https://lucymaeve133.lpages.co/sevendaysbacktoyou/]

BEST OF: Why Ambition Isn’t Always A Good Thing

You have built your entire identity around being excellent at things. And for a long time, that worked. The grades, the career, the reputation. There was always somewhere to point to and say, look, I am doing well. But there are parts of your life that have been sitting quietly in the corner for years, underdeveloped, untouched, a little frozen in time. Intimate relationships. Play. Creativity. Emotional vulnerability. The things that don't come with a performance review or a clear metric for success. In this episode, you will understand exactly why high-achieving women tend to hide in their areas of competence, and what it actually costs over time. You will hear why being bad at something feels so unbearable when your whole sense of worth has been built on excellence, and what is really underneath that discomfort. And you will leave with a much more honest question to sit with than the ones you usually ask yourself. This is a solo episode, short and direct, and it might be the one that names something you have been quietly aware of for a while. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com [http://www.lucymaeve.com]. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve [https://www.instagram.com/lucy__maeve] https://lucymaeve133.lpages.co/sevendaysbacktoyou/ [https://lucymaeve133.lpages.co/sevendaysbacktoyou/]

How to embrace joy, creativity and disco balls as a straight laced corporate gal with Camille Akass

There is a version of you that got very good at living inside the rules. The career, the calendar, the careful performance of having it together. And somewhere underneath all of that, something else entirely has been waiting. In this episode, Lucy sits down with Camille Akass, a woman who went from burnout coach navigating the corporate world to dancing twelve hours a day at festivals and crying on the floor on the way home, and found that both were part of the same thing. You will understand why creativity is a life force and why so many high-achieving women have spent years treating it like a threat. You will hear about desire as a navigation system, what it actually means to live from turn-on, and why the gray flat-line of control and safety is its own kind of suffering. And you will leave with something you probably needed permission to hear. That you are allowed to do things purely because they feel good. That play is serious work. That the weird, feral, slightly chaotic version of you is the one who knows the way. This is one of those conversations that is hard to describe and easy to feel. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com [http://www.lucymaeve.com]. https://www.instagram.com/you_arethefrequency/