What does self-care actually look like when life breaks you open — and there’s no shortcut back?
In this episode of
Self Care, host
Geraldine Hardy sits down with movement teacher and mentor
Perry Idyll for an unfiltered conversation about depression, embodiment, nervous system regulation, and the long road back to inner stability.
Perry shares his journey from a conventional upbringing and music career in Los Angeles to a complete life reset in Thailand — shaped by years of depression, isolation during COVID, meditation, and deep somatic practices including Tai Chi and Qigong. Together, they explore why healing is not about optimization, positivity, or avoidance — but about learning how to stay present with discomfort, soften resistance, and rebuild trust in the body.
This conversation moves through movement as medicine, somatic awareness, spiritual deconstruction, emotional pain, and self-sovereignty — without performance, platitudes, or pressure to “fix” yourself.
This is not aspirational wellness.
This is lived, embodied self-care.
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