Ep 8: Remembering the Body: Returning to Safety, Sensation, and Aliveness

Ep 8: Remembering the Body: Returning to Safety, Sensation, and Aliveness

In this deeply grounding and experiential episode of The Rediscovered Self, Erica explores the journey so many of us experience of disconnecting from the body — and the gentle path of returning home to ourselves again. Together, we explore how stress, trauma, overwhelm, cultural conditioning, survival responses, and painful life experiences can slowly pull us away from the felt sense of being alive and embodied. Erica reflects on the ways many of us learn to fear sensation, suppress emotion, or disconnect from the wisdom of the body in order to survive. This episode includes a guided embodied reflection and gentle nervous system supportive practice to help listeners reconnect with safety, sensation, awe, gratitude, and the experience of simply being present within the body again. Inside this episode: * The connection between embodiment, nervous system states, and aliveness * How disconnection from the body develops over time * Why many people feel numb, exhausted, disconnected, or “not fully here” * A compassionate guided embodiment and grounding practice * Relearning safety within the body * Moving from disconnection toward presence, softness, and self-inhabitation * The relationship between spirituality, healing, and embodiment This episode is an invitation to slow down, soften, and remember: Your body is not the enemy. Your body is an important part of your path and purpose. If this episode resonates, Erica would love to hear from you. Feel free to share your reflections, experiences, or the parts of the practice that felt most supportive for you. You can send Erica a DM on Instagram @TheRediscoveredSelf. Website and email address coming soon. Don't forget to follow and rate the show on Apple Podcast and to share this episode with a friend!

Ep 7: From Survival Mode to Sacred Connection: Understanding Motherhood Overwhelm

*** This episode has a companion guided practice to help you gently connect with a felt sense of safety and support in your body. Click the link below to join my email list and the link to the practice will be sent your way***  https://the-rediscovered-self.kit.com In this episode of The Rediscovered Self, Erica explores motherhood overwhelm through the lens of the nervous system — not as a personal weakness, failure, or character flaw, but as an intelligent response from a body carrying too much for too long. If you have been feeling reactive, overstimulated, exhausted, touched out, emotionally stretched thin, or quietly wondering why you “can’t just get it together,” this conversation is an invitation to see yourself with more compassion. Together, we explore the invisible load so many mothers carry — emotional labor, decision fatigue, mental tabs, sensory overload, constant planning, and the pressure to hold everything together — and how this chronic demand can shape the way the autonomic nervous system responds. Through a grounded and accessible introduction to the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system, Erica shares how fight, flight, fawn, and shutdown can show up in motherhood, parenting, relationships, creativity, and daily life. This episode offers a reframe: your overwhelm may not be proof that you are failing. It may be your nervous system asking for more safety, support, restoration, and reconnection. This is a conversation about moving from self-blame to self-understanding, from survival mode to sacred safety, and from inner criticism to a more compassionate relationship with your body, mind, and heart. Because healing is not about becoming someone new. Healing is remembering how to come home to yourself. This coming home to self will foster safety, connection, and healing within that will ripple out to your loved ones around you.     *** This episode has a companion guided practice to help you gently connect with a felt sense of safety and support in your body. Click the link below to join my email list and the link to the practice will be sent your way***  https://the-rediscovered-self.kit.com   Thanks for being here! With love, Erica

Ep 6: Staying With Yourself When Everything Feels Too Heavy

There are moments in life when everything just feels… heavy. When everything feels overwhelming in a quiet, yet consuming way that makes even the smallest steps feel impossible. In this episode of The Rediscovered Self, we explore what’s really happening in those moments—not from a place of judgment, but through the lens of the nervous system, mindful awareness, and self-compassion. If you’ve ever found yourself shutting down, losing motivation, craving comfort, or feeling like all of your progress disappears when things get hard… this episode is for you. You’ll learn: * Why your nervous system moves into shutdown or collapse * How your responses are not failures—but protective patterns * The difference between trying to “fix” yourself and actually supporting yourself * A simple, gentle 3-part practice to help you move through overwhelm Most importantly, this episode introduces a powerful shift: Learning how to stay with yourself… instead of abandoning yourself in the moments you need support the most. This is not about pushing through. It’s about meeting yourself differently.

Ep 5: Anything But Nothing: An Gentle Way Out of Procrastination & Perfectionism

In this episode, I share a simple but powerful mantra that came to me during one of the hardest seasons of my life—postpartum depression—and how it continues to shape the way I move through procrastination, perfectionism, and taking action today. “Anything but nothing.” What started as a survival tool—helping me to take even the smallest steps when everything felt too overwhelming—has become a grounded, compassionate practice for moving forward when I feel stuck. And it can support you, too, in moving toward your soul's purpose and highest expression of self ... today.  Because often, what looks like procrastination isn’t laziness. It's protection. Often, what looks likes diligence and efficiency, isn't actually getting you where you want to go.  It’s-- you guessed it-- protection.   It’s the nervous system trying to keep us safe from failure, judgment, being seen, and from the vulnerability that comes with stepping into something meaningful.   In this episode, we explore: * How perfectionism quietly keeps you stuck (even when it looks well-intentioned) * How procrastination is often rooted in nervous system protection * The hidden cost of waiting until everything is “just right” * How to gently move forward without forcing or overwhelming yourself * A simple, supportive way to take action—even when it feels hard This is not about pushing harder, being more disciplined, or finally “getting it together.” It’s about learning how to work with yourself (and your protector parts) To listen. To soften. And to take one small step at a time. Because you don’t need to do everything. But you do need to do something. Anything… but nothing.     Reflection to take with you: * What is your version of “not starting the dishwasher”? * What is it costing you to not start? * What would it look like today… to make one small action?    * When you feel stuck in overwhelm and/or freeze, take this mantra with you... "Anything but nothing" * or... "I don't have to do it all; I just need to do something."   🎧 Want support reconnecting with yourself? Join my email list + receive my Return Meditation → [Coming Soon]   📲 Connect with me on Instagram: @therediscoveredself   I'd love to hear how these episodes are resonating for you, and to create a community to support each other in the journey of self remembrance.  Please subscribe to and rate the show on Apple Podcast and share this episode with a friend who could use the reminder that Anything But Nothing... is enough! <3 You got this!

Bonus: The Original Transmission of The Missing Piece in Your Healing Journey and Why It's not Your Fault

HI Friends, I kept feeling this quiet tug to share the original, raw download and transmission of Episode 4: The Missing Piece in Your Healing Journey and Why it's Not Your Fault.   Last Monday, April 13th, 2026, I received this message. It came through me without any planning or preparation. I had simply been moved while listening to music while driving home from drop off that morning. I came home ready to record an episode around the power of music in regulating our nervous systems, and out came this episode around: -my own healing journey -the importance to stay with modalities that are "safe enough" while you find your more synchronistic space or person to do the work (especially when you know you need support) -How I knew I had found my "right person & container" during my own dark night of the soul -& more!    In last weeks episode, I spoke from a more structured truth-- from an outline and bulleted notes ...in an attempt to make what flowed through me in *this episode* in a more chaotic way...make more sense to you, my sweet listener.  However, in doing so, it felt like there was something special that was lost in that re-recording.  If you do happen to listen to both, I invite you to let me know which style of transmission comes across better for you: Do you prefer more scripted and structured messages , as in Episode 4? Or do you prefer a channeled raw message, even if it feels a bit more "all over the place"? Please, let me know over on instagram @therediscoveredself in my DMs! I'd be so grateful to hear your thoughts.   In this episode, I share about my own nervous system dysregulation, the difference between understanding healing conceptually and actually experiencing it in the body, and how I began to recognize what true support felt like in a therapeutic relationship. This original episode landed with a natural guided practice that invites you to tune into a felt sense of safety and support that is available to you in any moment-- without you having to do or be anything at all-- (other than being willing to notice what might be possible).   Inside this episode, I explore: * why education is important, but not always the first thing the body needs * how to recognize when a healing space feels safe enough *for you* * the role of connection, co-regulation, and presence in deep healing * how your nervous system may be protecting you (not working against you)   This episode is for anyone who has ever: –felt stuck in their healing –blamed themselves for not “doing the work well enough” or for not “being motivated enough to make changes” –or has ever wondered why change isn’t lasting when what they may have really needed was a more aligned, supportive, and safe container for their unique and wise nervous system. This is not about blame. This is about unapologetically honoring your body’s unique and sacred wisdom.   Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the guidance of a qualified healthcare provider with any questions you may have regarding your health or wellbeing.