Holistically Awakened

If you’ve ever felt like you feel everything a little too much—or maybe not at all—you’re going to love this conversation. I’m joined by somatic practitioner and embodiment coach Victoria Mercedes Rose to explore what it really means to be a deep feeler, empath, or highly sensitive person. We break down the signs you might be disconnected from your body and why healing isn’t just about mindset—it’s about coming home to your body. You’ll walk away with simple, powerful ways to start regulating your nervous system, feel your emotions again, and create real safety through connection.

Episode Highlights:

• Signs you might be a highly sensitive person or empath in everyday life
• Does sensitivity affect women more?
• How your childhood shapes your nervous system (+ what you can do about it as an adult)
• Fear vs. Intuition: How to tell the difference
• What is dissociation? Subtle signs you’re disconnected from your body
• Why embodiment is essential for emotional resilience and nervous system healing
• Why feeling your emotions can feel unsafe—and how to gently build capacity to feel again
• Guided body-based practices that you can use anytime to regulate your nervous system 
• The power of co-regulation: Healing through connection, not isolation
• How you can use movement to release stuck emotions and move energy

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Ever found yourself in that weird, uncomfortable space where nothing feels like you anymore, but you’re not quite sure who you’re becoming? That’s the void—the sacred, disorienting in-between where your old life doesn’t fit, but the new one hasn’t landed yet. In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on why this season feels so hard, why you can’t rush it, and how to trust yourself through the unknown. If your business, your style, your home, your relationships, your whole life suddenly feels misaligned—this is your sign: you’re not stuck, you’re in transition. 

And the other side is worth it.

• What the void actually is 
• Common signs you’re in the void
• Why rushing this part will only prolong it
• How to stop forcing clarity and start trusting the breadcrumbs
• The power of self-trust, nervous system regulation, and feminine energy during this phase
• How to ask better questions that move you forward
• The gifts waiting for you on the other side of the void

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If you keep writing down the same goal week after week and still don’t follow through—you’re not lazy or broken. You’re likely trying to meet a real need in a not-so-ideal way. In this episode, I share a personal (and kind of funny) realization about my own habit loop and how we can shift from self-sabotage to self-alignment. It’s not about cutting the habit cold turkey—it’s about understanding why it’s there in the first place. Because real change starts when you stop going to war with yourself.

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Ever catch yourself spiraling after something hard happens? 

This is the second arrow concept— the judgment, shame, and stories we pile on top of pain. In this episode, we unpack how we unknowingly add to our own suffering and how awareness can set us free. If you've ever thought, “I should be over this by now” or “Why am I like this?” Or “this should not be happening” this one’s for you. Let’s talk about ditching the second arrow and meeting ourselves with more compassion and reducing the stress load that is completely unavoidable

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• The difference between performing confidence vs. embodying it
• The confidence formula - and how to build it daily
• How building confidence can help women avoid burnout
• Balancing the masculine hustle with feminine flow and creativity
• The myth of “feeling aligned” - confidence doesn’t always feel good
• Simple daily habits to rewire your confidence from the inside out
• Morning routines that rewire your mindset 
• A tapping (EFT) session to activate confidence on a cellular level

Sasha Gary is a Life Wellness & EFT Coach dedicated to helping women unlock deep confidence, emotional freedom, and vibrant health. Through a holistic blend of mindset work, emotional freedom techniques (EFT tapping), and sustainable wellness practices, Sasha empowers her clients to release limiting beliefs, step into their authentic power, and create lives they truly love. Her mission is to guide women toward feeling confident, balanced, and magnetic

- inside and out.

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Website:

https://www.wanderandrefresh.blog

YouTube:

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• Why you keep manifesting what you don’t want - Are you actually energetically aligned with the life you say you want?
• How this work starts shifting your reality from the inside out and can collapse time
• Why you keep attracting the same people, patterns and problems – Is it circumstantial, or is it a subconscious program?
• Identity vs. mindset Work – Why affirmations don’t work when your identity hasn’t shifted.
• How to change your identity as an adult and create a new personality that is authentic to YOU, not your past conditioning
• How your childhood programming is secretly running the show in areas of money, career, love, and health
• What stories do you keep telling yourself? Using self talk to shift your reality
• The Mind-Body Connection – What your health symptoms can reveal about your subconscious patterns and how to support healing in the body 
• Tangible tools to super charge your visualizations and affirmations so they actually work
• And more!

Mindi is a Mindset Mastery Expert obsessed with helping high-achieving female entrepreneurs remove the subconscious roadblocks that keep them from growing & scaling their businesses with WAY MORE EASE!

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• Signs of fight, flight, or freeze showing up in your body and business
• Why your strategy might not be the problem in your business
• How the witch wound shows up in female entrepreneurs
• Managing the fear of being seen, playing bigger, and handling trolls or criticism online
• How your business and relationships amplify your inner shit and can also help you heal
• The dysregulating and toxic side to the coaching industry and how to find the right mentors and coaches for you
• What it actually means to stop hustling into burnout—and how to build a business that honors your nervous system
• The boundaries that matter most as female business owners and high achieving women
• How to break the addiction to busy work, deprogram your need to “earn your rest,” and make space for clarity and aligned action to come through

Meet Trish — The Business Therapist.

She helps entrepreneurs stop performing and start leading. Through nervous system regulation, identity recalibration, and real-talk strategy, Trish guides high-level humans back to their truth — so they can build businesses that actually feel like them. No fluff. No burnout. Just powerful proximity, embodied leadership, and a business that feels like home.

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If you’ve ever questioned whether all the time, money, and energy you’ve poured into your growth, healing, or business was worth it—this episode is for you. If you’ve ever felt discouraged after investing in your growth with little to show for it—this perspective might change everything for you.

Apply to The Whole Woman Experience - early bird enrolment closes May16th 

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• Physical signs of stress and high cortisol (puffy face, weight gain, fertility issues, menstrual issues, bloating, hair loss, acne…)
• “Healthy habits” that are secretly adding more stress on the female body 
• Hidden stressors in your daily habits and environment
• How your  “stress bucket” load will affect your tolerability to stress and how you will be impacted by stress
• Our world nowadays is toxic and overly stressful, so what can we do?
• What does a stressful diet look like?
• Lifestyle habits and practices that will help you to decrease cortisol levels
• What is anxiety? Why does it show up?
• What does inner work look like and how to get to the root causes to anxiety

Anita Oh is a Certified Nutritional Practitioner with over 8 years of experience supporting clients around the world. She brings both passion and knowledge of orthomolecular medicine and herbal medicine with an innate gift for inspiring, empowering, and educating others on their journey to holistic wellness. She advocates for greater well-being and graceful longevity through a balanced approach that integrates holistic nutrition, intentional movement, and mindfulness practices.

In addition to her work as a Life Coach, Anita is the founder of the GLOW Mastermind Community and the visionary behind the Women’s Entrepreneurship & Empowerment Workshops in Da Nang, Vietnam.

Her work blends soulful leadership with practical tools to help women heal, rise, and lead with clarity and purpose.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thehealthyasian

Instagram: https://instagram.com/the.healthy.asian

GLOW Mastermind Community: https://thehealthyasian.carrd.co

Book an appointment: https://calendly.com/thehealthyasian/30min

Email: [email protected]

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• How do you get clear on what you want if you just don’t know?
• How suppressing your desires can show up in your life and body
• The fear of success and the war on happy - why do people feel weird about thriving? 
• Duality of success - if you want something different you will have to stand out and be misunderstood
• How envy and jealousy are low-key keeping you broke and bitter - and why celebrating other people having what you want will serve you more
• The widespread scarcity belief that has people limiting themselves
• Normalizing spaces where women support each other to WIN
• Manifesting isn’t about fake positivity — here’s what really works when the affirmations aren’t cutting it
• The missing pieces to manifestation no one talks about when the affirmations aren’t enough

Dalia is a life and mindset coach who empowers the "black sheep" to step into their power and have the courage to live without regret. With a Master’s in Psychology and Organizational Behavior & Development, and a personal journey of breaking free from cultural and societal expectations, Dalia helps women build lives that feel just as good on the inside as they look on the outside. Her approach blends soul and strategy, helping her clients to rewrite the rules and finally feel at home in their own story.

CONNECT WITH DALIA:

https://www.instagram.com/daliakemble/

https://citytohippie.kit.com/596406f9a2

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