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  • How To Turn Outrage Into Action In A World At War - Calling All Love Rebels

    Feeling powerless in a world filled with conflict and injustice? Wondering what your responsibility really is, and what REAL action you can take?

    In this episode, Emilie explores what real activism can mean in a world at war, beyond reposting, debating, or donating. Through a personal story and honest reflection, she invites you to look at the everyday moments where responsibility lives: in small acts of courage, in how you respond to others, and in the inner work that shapes how you show up.

    Because real change does not only happen ā€œout there.ā€ It begins much closer: in the way you move through your relationships, your communities, and your own heart.

    If you are ready to move from distant outrage to embodied responsibility, this conversation is your starting point.

    What You'll learn:

    • The difference between intellectual activism and lived responsibility
    • How small everyday interventions create real collective safety
    • The connection between inner healing and outer change
    • What it means to ā€œtake responsibilityā€ without falling into guilt or perfectionism
    • How personal awareness can become a powerful form of activism

    Reflection question:
    Where in your daily life do you have more power to contribute to peace, care, or responsibility than you may realize?

    Reach out:
    You are invited to share your reflections, ideas, or personal experiences that this episode brings up, Emilie loves hearing how these conversations live in the real world.

    → New episodes on Wednesdays
    → Live Community Conversations on Sundays

    Work with me

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    • More info & bookings: emilieiris.com

    Connect with meĀ 

    Instagram: @by.emilieiris
    Substack: emilieiris.substack.com
    Website: emilieiris.com

    šŸ”„ If this episode sparked something, share it with a friend or leave a review, that helps the message reach more Love Rebels like you šŸ”„

    šŸŽ§ Here's to love and liberating, one heart at a time.

    35 min
  • Forgiveness As a Radical Act Of Self Love & Liberation

    In this episode, Emilie questions the traditional idea of forgiveness. Rather than seeing forgiveness as condoning harm or ā€œbeing the bigger person,ā€ she explores it as an embodied process of reclaiming power, restoring self-connection, and releasing the need for apology or validation.

    This episode is an invitation to move beyond mental forgiveness and into truth, boundaries, anger, and integration.

    What you’ll learn

    • Why forgiveness does not mean condoning
    • How waiting for an apology gives away your power
    • The role of anger and boundaries in real healing
    • Why forgiveness is about you, not the other
    • How self-forgiveness and integration create true release

    Get in touch with Emilie by sending an email to [email protected] or connect on IG @by.emilieiris.

    → New episodes on Wednesdays
    → Live Community Conversations on Sundays

    Work with me

    • 1:1 coaching
    • Solidarity Sessions (starting at €25, limited spots)
    • More info & bookings: emilieiris.com

    Connect with meĀ 

    Instagram: @by.emilieiris
    Substack: emilieiris.substack.com
    Website: emilieiris.com

    šŸ”„ If this episode sparked something, share it with a friend or leave a review, that helps the message reach more Love Rebels like you šŸ”„

    šŸŽ§ Here's to love and liberating, one heart at a time.

    33 min
  • Why We Need Men: Moving Beyond Patriarchy & Gender Wars

    In this episode Emilie Plouvier dives into a topic that feels both tender and provocative in today’s cultural landscape: why men and masculinity matter more than ever!

    Speaking as a feminist, an embodiment teacher, and a woman who has both loved deeply and been hurt by men, Emilie offers a nuanced, compassionate reflection on masculinity beyond patriarchy, power struggles, or gender wars. She explores the confusion many men and women feel as traditional roles dissolve, and invites listeners into a more embodied, integrated understanding of masculine and feminine energy, both within ourselves and in relation to each other.

    This is a reflective, honest, and embodied exploration for anyone who feels tired of polarized conversations and longs for a more loving, integrated way forward.

    What you’ll learn

    • How freeing masculinity from rigid expectations benefits everyone
    • Why masculine energy is essential for structure, containment, and sustainable growth
    • How independence has changed the way men and women relate & why that can feel unsettling
    • Why both men and women need access to masculine and feminine energies

    A powerful question to reflect on: What would you do differently if gender wasn’t a limitation?

    CONNECT

    Get in touch with Emilie Plouvier to work together through embodiment, conversation, and practice.

    → New episodes on Wednesdays
    → Live Community Conversations on Sundays

    Work with me

    • 1:1 coaching
    • Solidarity Sessions (starting at €25, limited spots)
    • More info & bookings: emilieiris.com

    Connect with meĀ 

    Instagram: @by.emilieiris
    Substack: emilieiris.substack.com
    Website: emilieiris.com

    šŸ”„ If this episode sparked something, share it with a friend or leave a review, that helps the message reach more Love Rebels like you šŸ”„

    šŸŽ§ Here's to love and liberating, one heart at a time.

    31 min
  • Your Inner Child at the Christmas Table: A Survival Guide For The Holidays

    The holidays are here! And so are the familiar triggers, childhood wounds, and messy family dynamics many of us would prefer to avoid... The bad news is: you can't escape yourself or your family. But the good news is: there are ways to deal wth it!

    In this episode, we dive into why this season can feel so intense and how you can stay grounded, kind, and connected to yourself. Emilie shares a personal story of cutting ties with family as well as how she managed to restore connections. She offers both ideas and practical tools to heal past wounding and create healthy and safe relations, inside and outside your own family system. Ā 

    What You'll Learn:

    • How to find and restore the connection with your own inner child.
    • How to find more safety in your self, your family and the bigger world around you.
    • How boundaries can be a lifeline.
    • The practice of self-reparenting: why your needs are now your responsibility, not your parents’, partner’s, or framily’s.

    What You’ll Hear

    • Why holiday gatherings activate old wounds and emotional patterns.
    • How to distinguish what you feel from what you make it mean, and why that shift gives you power.
    • How family systems shape us long after we leave home & why inner child work matters.Ā 
    • The relevant rise of mental health awareness, chosen family, and ā€œframilyā€ as softer, safer spaces.

    Ask yourself: How would you move through the world if you would look at every single person as a part of our one big family?

    If something resonated and there's anything you would like to share with Emilie, she loves to hear from you! Get in touch via [email protected] or find her on Instagram @by.emilieiris.

    Let's keep loving and liberating, one heart at a time šŸ’›

    → New episodes on Wednesdays
    → Live Community Conversations on Sundays

    Work with me

    • 1:1 coaching
    • Solidarity Sessions (starting at €25, limited spots)
    • More info & bookings: emilieiris.com

    Connect with meĀ 

    Instagram: @by.emilieiris
    Substack: emilieiris.substack.com
    Website: emilieiris.com

    šŸ”„ If this episode sparked something, share it with a friend or leave a review, that helps the message reach more Love Rebels like you šŸ”„

    šŸŽ§ Here's to love and liberating, one heart at a time.

    33 min
  • Why Men Feel Lost in a Changing World

    In today’s episode, we explore an uncomfortable truth: the power shift in genderland. The patriarchal systems are slowly crumbling

    We talk about:

    • how women have been forced to build emotional and human resilience
    • how cultural conditioning has cut men off from vulnerability, intimacy, and even love
    • why men were never taught the same human muscle and why they feel lost now
    • why ā€œpower overā€ is actually a form of disempowerment
    • why women stepping into their power feels threatening, and why it shouldn’t

    This is not a war between genders. This is a conversation about culture, about the systems that have shaped us, numbed us, divided us, and told us lies about who we’re allowed to be.

    It’s a call to remember our humanity, to grow the muscles that were never nurtured, and to return power to where it belongs: within ourselves.

    If this episode sparks something in you, I’d love to hear from you. Share your thoughts, your anger, your softness, your questions: all of it is welcome here.

    Here’s to loving and liberating, one heart at a time.

    → New episodes on Wednesdays
    → Live Community Conversations on Sundays

    Work with me

    • 1:1 coaching
    • Solidarity Sessions (starting at €25, limited spots)
    • More info & bookings: emilieiris.com

    Connect with meĀ 

    Instagram: @by.emilieiris
    Substack: emilieiris.substack.com
    Website: emilieiris.com

    šŸ”„ If this episode sparked something, share it with a friend or leave a review, that helps the message reach more Love Rebels like you šŸ”„

    šŸŽ§ Here's to love and liberating, one heart at a time.

    17 min
  • Our Fear of Feeling: How Killing Pain Is Killing People

    In this week’s episode, Emilie dives deep into our collective relationship with pain, how we numb it, silence it, and in doing so, silencing life itself. From the opioid crisis to our everyday coping mechanisms like scrolling, working, drinking, over-giving, ... she unpacks how disconnection has become a cultural norm and what it truly means to feel again.

    Emilie shares her own raw and personal experiences of sitting with pain, from heartbreak to grief, and offers a way to meet discomfort with honesty, breath, and embodiment.

    This episode is not about glorifying pain but about reclaiming its purpose. Pain isn’t punishment; it’s information. It’s the body’s way of saying: something needs your love, your attention, your presence.

    Because the only way to truly ā€œkillā€ pain is to feel it.

    šŸ’« What you’ll learn

    • Why numbing pain slowly disconnects us from life and from each other
    • How pain can become a teacher, not an enemy
    • The hidden link between pain, sensitivity, and creativity
    • Simple ways to move with pain instead of fighting it

    🧠 Reflections to Sit With

    • What’s one sensation or emotion you’ve been avoiding lately?
    • What happens if, instead of fixing or fleeing, you simply stay with it?
    • Who in your life could use your presence — not your advice — as they move through pain?

    šŸ’Œ Share Your Experience

    I’d love to hear how this episode lands for you — your thoughts, stories, reflections. Send me a message on Instagram @by.emilieiris
    or by email at [email protected] - I read every single one.

    Your experiences are part of this collective conversation šŸ’œ

    → New episodes on Wednesdays
    → Live Community Conversations on Sundays

    Work with me

    • 1:1 coaching
    • Solidarity Sessions (starting at €25, limited spots)
    • More info & bookings: emilieiris.com

    Connect with meĀ 

    Instagram: @by.emilieiris
    Substack: emilieiris.substack.com
    Website: emilieiris.com

    šŸ”„ If this episode sparked something, share it with a friend or leave a review, that helps the message reach more Love Rebels like you šŸ”„

    šŸŽ§ Here's to love and liberating, one heart at a time.

    36 min
  • When Life Is Just Too Heavy: The Will to Live & The Freedom to Die

    In this episode, Emilie opens a raw and often-avoided conversation about suicide. Not as a personal failure, but as a mirror of the world we’ve created. She shares her own experience with not wanting to be here anymore, and questions the narratives we hold about life, death, and responsibility.

    Why do we call it unnatural to want to die, when the world itself has become so deeply unnatural? Why do we treat those who no longer want to live as the problem, instead of seeing them as proof of a collective disconnect. What if they are our canaries in the coal mine, showing us that something is off?

    This conversation is not about glorifying death, but about humanizing pain, and about the humility it takes to listen to what suicide reveals about us as a society.

    What you’ll hear in this episode:

    • A deeply honest reflection on the will to live and the freedom to die.
    • Why suicide is not an individual problem, but a collective symptom
    • How our social, economic, and political systems distribute suffering unequally.
    • Why giving people the right to leave can be an act of collective responsibility
    • How privilege blinds us from the weight some are forced to carry

    Disclaimer:
    This episode contains sensitive topics including suicide and suicidal thoughts.
    If you’re struggling, please reach out. You’re not alone.

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    Work with me

    • 1:1 coaching
    • Solidarity Sessions (starting at €25, limited spots)
    • More info & bookings: emilieiris.com

    Connect with meĀ 

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    Substack: emilieiris.substack.com
    Website: emilieiris.com

    šŸ”„ If this episode sparked something, share it with a friend or leave a review, that helps the message reach more Love Rebels like you šŸ”„

    šŸŽ§ Here's to love and liberating, one heart at a time.

    3 min
  • The Weird Wisdom of Road Rage: What It Reveals About You & How To Use It For Growth

    Listen to discover What Road Rage Reveals About you & What You Can Learn From it! In this episode, Emilie dives into the phenomenon of road rage - not as a superficial traffic issue, but as a mirror of our emotional lives.Ā 

    Why do we lose it behind the wheel? What does our reaction say about how we move through society, handle frustration, or project our inner chaos onto others?

    Through humor, storytelling, and psychological insight, she explores how the car can become a barometer for our nervous system.

    Featuring a few laughs and a humbling moment of self-awareness, this episode invites you to reflect on how you move, not just through traffic, but through life.

    šŸ’” What you’ll learn

    • Why road rage isn’t about driving but about living.
    • How your car mirrors your nervous system.
    • The real meaning of Hostile Attribution Bias and The Shield Effect.
    • Why it’s hard to hate up close.
    • How control and territory show up everywhere.
    • What your rage reveals about your relationship with yourself.

    We want to know:

     ✨ What’s your version of road rage and what does it reveal about you?

    šŸ’Œ Share your reflections with Emilie via Instagram @by.emilieiris
    or at [email protected] šŸ’Œ

    → New episodes on Wednesdays
    → Live Community Conversations on Sundays

    Work with me

    • 1:1 coaching
    • Solidarity Sessions (starting at €25, limited spots)
    • More info & bookings: emilieiris.com

    Connect with meĀ 

    Instagram: @by.emilieiris
    Substack: emilieiris.substack.com
    Website: emilieiris.com

    šŸ”„ If this episode sparked something, share it with a friend or leave a review, that helps the message reach more Love Rebels like you šŸ”„

    šŸŽ§ Here's to love and liberating, one heart at a time.

    38 min
  • How ā€˜Transformational’ Became a Marketing Trick & How To Transform For Free

    In this episode of Love & Liberate, Emilie dives into the modern obsession with ā€œtransformation.ā€ Why does every offer, retreat, or product promise to change your life? And what does that say about the way we see ourselves?

    From the rise of ā€œtransformationalā€ everything to the capitalist chase for constant self-improvement, Emilie unpacks how this narrative keeps us striving instead of feeling, through honest reflection, humor, and a loving reality check.

    She then shares a deeply personal story, one of love, jealousy, and unexpected sisterhood, showing what real transformation looks like when it’s not bought, branded, or forced… but lived.

    Just like Emilie herself, this episode is raw, surprising and deeply human.

    šŸ’” What you’ll learn:

    • Why the word ā€œtransformationalā€ became a marketing spell
    • The subtle self-rejection hidden in the wellness industry
    • The difference between performing transformation and living it
    • How jealousy can become a portal to leadership and connection
    • A simple embodied practice to face emotional triggers with love

    Maybe transformation isn’t something you buy, but something you allow. Real transformation will cost you nothing, but courage.

    → New episodes on Wednesdays
    → Live Community Conversations on Sundays

    Work with me

    • 1:1 coaching
    • Solidarity Sessions (starting at €25, limited spots)
    • More info & bookings: emilieiris.com

    Connect with meĀ 

    Instagram: @by.emilieiris
    Substack: emilieiris.substack.com
    Website: emilieiris.com

    šŸ”„ If this episode sparked something, share it with a friend or leave a review, that helps the message reach more Love Rebels like you šŸ”„

    šŸŽ§ Here's to love and liberating, one heart at a time.

    34 min
  • The Flip Side of Freedom: Rethinking Structure & Healing The Masculine

    In this vulnerable episode, Emilie gets real about her love-hate relationship with structure. After years of living without structure, she realized that the absence of boundaries can quietly breed stress, disconnection, and even self-betrayal.Ā 

    Through a personal story about being late, memories from her upbringing, and a deep reflection on masculine energy, Emilie opens a conversation about what it really means to find freedom within form and why learning to trust the masculine again can be one of the most radical acts of self-love.

    This conversation dives into:

    • The illusion of ā€œno rulesā€ culture and why it can feel unsafe
    • How rebellion can mask a longing for safety and containment
    • The connection between structure, trauma, and trust in the masculine
    • Why understanding isn’t the same as healing
    • Reflection prompts to help you find your own balance between flow and form

    ✨ Reflections for you:

    Where in your life have you mistaken chaos for freedom?
    And where could a little more structure actually help you feel more alive?

    Connect with Emilie on Instagram @by.emilieiris
    or via [email protected]

    → New episodes on Wednesdays
    → Live Community Conversations on Sundays

    Work with me

    • 1:1 coaching
    • Solidarity Sessions (starting at €25, limited spots)
    • More info & bookings: emilieiris.com

    Connect with meĀ 

    Instagram: @by.emilieiris
    Substack: emilieiris.substack.com
    Website: emilieiris.com

    šŸ”„ If this episode sparked something, share it with a friend or leave a review, that helps the message reach more Love Rebels like you šŸ”„

    šŸŽ§ Here's to love and liberating, one heart at a time.

    29 min

About Love & Liberate

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Love & Liberate is a raw and real podcast about coming home to your body, your truth, and your power, one rebellious act of love at a time.


Hosted by Emilie Iris,…