Peel the Onion Podcast by Olivia Maxwell

Simplify to Amplify - Navigating the Current Shifting Frequencies Minisode #32

The frequencies are shifting - and if you've been feeling it in your body, your moods, your energy, you are not imagining it. This short minisode is an invitation to soften. To let it move through rather than brace against it. To look honestly at what is complexifying your energy and your alignment - and to let it go. Less is more right now. Simplification is not a step back. For those on the awakened path, it is the work.  Simplify to amplify. Peel the Onion with Olivia Maxwell explores the intersection of psychology and soul. Find Olivia on Instagram @awakened_mbs or at awakenedmbs.com.au.

Not Up. In - Why Healing Isn't Rising Above, It's Coming Home to Your Body, Your Nervous System and Your Full Human Experience Minisode w/ Olivia Maxwell #31

We talk a lot about ascension. About expanding into something bigger than the human experience. But what if the real work is descent? Coming back into the body. Back into the feeling. Back into the full, messy, tender reality of being human. In this minisode I speak to what it actually means to return to your full essence - not by transcending what's hard, but by letting yourself feel it. All of it. The moments you are triggered by others. The stored stress. The emotions your body has been holding on behalf of generations before you. Healing is coming back to your essence - your wholeness of who you are here to be. Allow this to happen by being human AND divine. Rooted. Alive. Full out. ✦

Remember Who You Are - A Post Solstice Transmission w/ Olivia Maxwell #30

This is a different kind of episode. In this minisode I'm transmitting directly from my guides - a message for this exact moment in time, post-solstice, as the energy shifts into a season of rebalancing and amplified light. This transmission covers: * What the post-solstice energy is asking of you right now * Remembering your essence - who you actually are beneath the noise * Discerning truth from the increasing stimulation and distortion designed to pull you off course * Why healing is not the purpose of this lifetime - and what choosing yourself actually looks like * The illusion-based structures currently playing out and how to stay rooted in what is real * Honouring the simplicity and stillness of winter as a sacred act This is not a time to push. This is a time to remember. Rooted. Alive. Full out. ✦ | Olivia Maxwell | Olivia Maxwell is a former psychologist and intuitive guide based on Sydney's Northern Beaches, working with people at the threshold where the old identity no longer fits and something deeper is asking to emerge. Blending Trauma-informed psychology with Akashic Records, breathwork and somatic work, she guides high-functioning, soulful people out of the loop and into a life that's rooted, alive, and fully their own.  Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/awakened_mbs/ [https://www.instagram.com/awakened_mbs/] Website | https://awakenedmbs.com.au/ [https://awakenedmbs.com.au/] Book a Private Session Here | https://awakenedmbs.com.au/book-a-session/ [https://awakenedmbs.com.au/book-a-session/] Learn more about Kangen Water | https://consciouswater.org/?a=rdx43 [https://consciouswater.org/?a=rdx43]

Laughter, the Nervous System & Breaking the Stress Loop w/ Bianca Spears #29

What if the way out of burnout wasn't more discipline - but more play? In this episode I sit down with Bianca Spears, a thought leader shaking up the coaching and facilitation world by blending neuroscience, nervous system regulation and a whole lot of laughter into what she calls the NeuroPLAYstic Way. We get right into the onion. Bianca shares the burnout that cracked her open in 2021 - the 2am wake-ups, the can't-switch-off loop, the chronic stress that no amount of "doing it right" could fix. I share my own version from my consulting years: the meditation, the fitness, the clean foundations all in place, and still that inner voice waiting in the chair - you're not enough, do more, prove yourself. Together we explore why high-functioning, Type-A, caretaking people so often burn their wick all the way down, and what actually breaks the pattern when willpower can't. In this conversation:  ✦ Why a dysregulated nervous system keeps you stuck in the same survival loop  ✦ The difference between understanding burnout and actually healing it  ✦ How laughter moves the body out of fight-or-flight and into safety  ✦ Neurons that fire together wire together - and how to rewire them  ✦ A live demo you can feel through the screen This one is for the high-achievers, the carers, the ones who can't seem to stop - and are ready to come home to their bodies and live, not just function. Rooted. Alive. Full out. ✦ | Bianca Spears | Bianca Spears is a thought leader shaking up the coaching and facilitation world in the most playful way possible. She blends coaching, neuroscience, and psychology with a whole lot of laughter in her science-backed method, The NeuroPLAYstic Way. Bianca helps leaders, coaches, and facilitators grow their impact, attract more clients, and create transformational sessions, all while having fun. The NeuroPLAYstic Way Facilitator Training (enrolment closes 6 July) | https://neuroplay-cjhfamvm.manus.space/ [https://neuroplay-cjhfamvm.manus.space/] Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/bianca.spears [https://www.instagram.com/bianca.spears] Website | https://www.biancaspears.com [https://www.biancaspears.com/] Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/bianca.spears [https://www.facebook.com/bianca.spears] YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/biancaspears [https://www.youtube.com/biancaspears] | Olivia Maxwell | Olivia Maxwell is a former psychologist and intuitive guide based on Sydney's Northern Beaches, working with people at the threshold where the old identity no longer fits and something deeper is asking to emerge. Blending psychology with Akashic Records, breathwork and somatic work, she guides high-functioning, soulful people out of the loop and into a life that's rooted, alive, and fully their own.  Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/awakened_mbs/ [https://www.instagram.com/awakened_mbs/] Website | https://awakenedmbs.com.au/ [https://awakenedmbs.com.au/] Book a Private Session Here | https://awakenedmbs.com.au/book-a-session/ [https://awakenedmbs.com.au/book-a-session/] Learn more about Kangen Water | https://consciouswater.org/?a=rdx43 [https://consciouswater.org/?a=rdx43]

The Threshold Nobody Prepares You For - Becoming a Mother, Breaking the Lineage, and Mothering from Wholeness w/ Olivia Maxwell #28

A year ago I held a mothers blessing ceremony in my home. One week later, I gave birth. And what followed was the most profound identity dissolution of my life - one I had no language for, no framework to hold, and no amount of psychology training had prepared me for. In this episode I'm going all the way in on the threshold of motherhood. Not the curated version. The real one - the one that peels you back to who you actually are beneath every role you've played and every version of yourself you've carefully constructed. In this episode we cover: — The identity dissolution that happens when you become a mother, and why it is not a crisis but the most ancient initiation a woman can pass through — Why the lineage patterns you thought you'd healed come flooding back in pregnancy: the people pleasing, the fitting in, the keeping the peace, and why the timing makes complete biological and spiritual sense — What it means to break the cycle: the healing you do now is not just for you, it is for the soul you are bringing in — The real difference between mothering from wound and mothering from wholeness — not as a concept but as a nervous system state you can feel in your body on an ordinary Tuesday — The tension of building a soul-led business while devoting yourself to raising a daughter consciously and presently — and the only compass that has never led me wrong — Who I am, one year on from crossing that threshold. Unrecognisable. And not for a single second sorry for the dissolving that got me here. This one is for the woman about to cross the threshold of birth. For the woman in early postpartum who is mid-dissolving and has no name for it yet. For the woman a year, two years, five years on — who is still becoming. Your dissolving is not an ending. It is the beginning of building yourself from the ground up, with a wisdom, strength and crystal clarity that nothing else could have given you. Let yourself dissolve. She is already there on the other side. | 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/] Meet You Session Booking | https://awakenedmbs.com.au/book-a-session/ [https://awakenedmbs.com.au/book-a-session/] Learn more about Kangen Water | https://consciouswater.org/?a=rdx43 [https://consciouswater.org/?a=rdx43]