As the warmth of spring nears, I wanted to offer a practice that meets this moment of awakening—but one you can return to in any season.

On the Verge of Blooming is a guided meditation for moments when something in you is quietly changing. It's a somatic meditation and embodiment practice designed to support nervous system regulation, gentle emergence, and inner transformation during times of transition.

This meditation may resonate if you're sensing movement beneath the surface but can't yet name what it is. During this full 30-minute practice, we settle into the body through grounding breathwork, somatic body scanning, and gentle visualization—listening for where change is already present and allowing the nervous system to soften at its own pace. There's also space woven in for your intuition to speak.

This practice may feel especially supportive if you're:

• standing on the edge of a new beginning, even if you can’t name it yet
• navigating uncertainty, transition, or quiet internal change
• feeling pressure to “figure it out” or move faster than your body wants to
• longing to trust your timing and soften into what’s unfolding
• seeking calm, grounded intuition rather than activation or urgency

Return to this practice whenever you need to remember: you’re allowed to bloom on your own schedule.

Music

Mad Keys — “Tea & Lemonade”

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youtube.com/@softalchemyspace

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About this space

Soft Alchemy is the evolution of my earlier work, In Case Nobody Told You. While the name has changed, the heart remains the same: creating grounded, honest spaces for healing, reflection, and liberation—especially for sensitive, intuitive, and self-led beings navigating growth in a complicated world.

A gentle note

This podcast isn’t here to fix you.
It’s here to sit with you.
Let it meet you where you are.
Let your evolution unfold in its own time.

I recorded this one while inspired by that late-winter pocket just before the season shifts, where warmth starts flirting with you after the long stretch of cold, and something in you begins to wake up—almost like spirit saying, "not yet… but soon."

This episode is a reflection on the thaw before the bloom, where momentum is building beneath the surface, delays can feel frustrating, and where you’re being asked to keep tending the seeds you've sewn, even when they haven't sprouted yet.

In this episode, we explore:

• expansion and imposter syndrome as your nervous system catches up to your growth
• why delays are spiritual preparation and not punishment
• “not yet, but soon” energy and where it lives in your life
• why winter isn’t a movement season, but a tending season
• how late winter lives in the body
• how to stay grounded before visible proof of transformation arrives

A few reflections to carry with you

You’re welcome to sit with these now, or return to them later—on a walk, while journaling, in the shower, or right before sleep:

• If your body had a weather pattern today, what would it be?
• Where do you feel “not yet, but soon” energy in your life right now?
• Where do you feel the cold—where do you feel like you’re chasing warmth?
• What might this season be trying to show you that you can’t see when you’re rushing?
• Does this scare you because it’s wrong… or because it’s new?
• What would it look like to trust the preparation you’re already in, even if the bloom isn’t visible yet?

Thank you for being here. Thank you for listening. Thank you for letting your presence be part of the medicine.

Music

Mad Keys — “Tea & Lemonade”

Continue the journey

Work with me / explore offerings:
srlwellbeing.com

Watch the podcast on YouTube:
youtube.com/@softalchemyspace

Follow along on Instagram

@softalchemyspace
@srlwellbeing
@iamstevierenee

About this space

Soft Alchemy is the evolution of my earlier work, In Case Nobody Told You. While the name has changed, the heart remains the same: creating grounded, honest spaces for healing, reflection, and liberation—especially for sensitive, intuitive, and self-led beings navigating growth in a complicated world.

A gentle note

This podcast isn’t here to fix you.
It’s here to sit with you.
Let it meet you where you are.
Let your evolution unfold in its own time.

When I was reading through my journal entries and shaping the first episode of Soft Alchemy, I kept noticing how often my writing returned to the theme of pausing. I was in a space where many things in my life felt unresolved, life hadn’t given answers, and I was being asked to sit with it all without reaching for the next step.

This meditation was birthed from that space.

The Quiet Between Things is a guided practice for moments when life feels suspended between chapters and you’re no longer who you were, but not yet who you’re evolving into.

It invites you into the liminal space we so often rush past: the threshold, the stillness, the breath before clarity arrives. During this practice, we soften into the body, listen to the wisdom of our breath, and explore what it means to surrender without giving up.

This practice is intentionally spacious and simple. There’s nothing to fix, figure out, or perform. You’re invited to let my voice keep you company while your body settles into its own rhythm—breathing, releasing, and remembering that the existence of quiet often means something is forming that we can't yet perceive.

This practice may feel supportive if you’re:

• moving through an in-between season or life transition
• feeling slowed down, paused, or recalibrated by life
• longing to rest without guilt or urgency
• needing a gentle place to land and listen inward

Come as you are, stay as long as you need, and return whenever the quiet calls you back.

Music

Mad Keys — "Tea & Lemonade"

Continue the journey

Work with me / explore offerings:
srlwellbeing.com

Watch the podcast on YouTube:
youtube.com/@softalchemyspace

Follow along on Instagram

@softalchemyspace
@srlwellbeing
@iamstevierenee

About this space

Soft Alchemy is the evolution of my earlier work, In Case Nobody Told You. While the name has changed, the heart remains the same: creating grounded, honest spaces for healing, reflection, and liberation—especially for sensitive, intuitive, and self-led beings navigating growth in a complicated world.

A gentle note

This podcast isn’t here to fix you.
It’s here to sit with you.
Let it meet you where you are.
Let your evolution unfold in its own time.

Welcome back for the first episode of Soft Alchemy with Stevie Reneé, family. 

I recorded this in the kind of season that asks you to slow down whether you want to or not, and leaves you sitting with yourself long enough to notice what you’ve been [unnecessarily(?)] carrying. This is where Soft Alchemy found me: inside a stillness I didn’t choose and a quiet I didn’t know I needed.

In this opening episode, I share the story behind Soft Alchemy—how it became a practice, a framework, and a way of meeting myself when everything around me felt uncertain. We explore the difference between rest and avoidance, the armor many of us learn to wear to survive, and what becomes possible when we soften just enough to let truth rise to the surface.

This episode is a gentle reflection on:

• outgrowing former versions of yourself
• the stillness that arrives without permission
• learning to trust quiet seasons
• remembering softness as strength — not weakness

If you’ve been moving through change, release, or an in-between season—or if something in you has simply been craving a slower pace—I hope this can be a place where you feel like you can exhale.

A few reflections to carry with you

You’re welcome to sit with these now, or return to them later—in the shower, on a walk, while journaling, or before sleep:

• Where in your life is stillness already happening, even if you didn’t choose it?
• What might that stillness be revealing about who you are beneath performance or productivity?
• Where does resistance show up in your body when you try to slow down — and what might it be trying to protect?
• If you softened just one percent more, what new strength might emerge?

Take your time with these. Allow them to walk with you.

Music

Mad Keys — "Tea & Lemonade"

Continue the journey

Work with me / explore offerings:
srlwellbeing.com

Watch the podcast on YouTube:
youtube.com/@softalchemyspace

Follow along on Instagram

@softalchemyspace
@srlwellbeing
@iamstevierenee

About this space

Soft Alchemy is the evolution of my earlier work, In Case Nobody Told You. While the name has changed, the heart remains the same: creating grounded, honest spaces for healing, reflection, and liberation—especially for sensitive, intuitive, and self-led beings navigating growth in a complicated world.

A gentle note

This podcast isn’t here to fix you.
It’s here to sit with you.
Let it meet you where you are.
Let your evolution unfold in its own time.

Hey, love. I’m really glad you found your way here! Whether this is our first time meeting or you’re returning, it’s so good to see you.

I'm deeply honored to welcome you to Soft Alchemy with Stevie Reneé, an audio-visual podcast and listening sanctuary for transmutation, softness, and return. It’s a space for those of us who are learning how to live more gently, not by bypassing what we’ve been through, but by tending it with care.

If we’re just meeting, I’m Stevie Reneé—a storyteller, healing practitioner, and embodiment facilitator. For the past decade, my work has been shaped by one ongoing practice: learning how to turn the hard things I’ve lived through into wisdom, medicine, and deeper presence.

Soft Alchemy was born from a question that kept returning to me during a season of deep stillness:

What if the parts of us that hardened to survive aren’t the end of our story... but the beginning of our alchemy?

Beginning February 1, we’ll return to this altar twice a month to explore that question together. Some episodes will feel like sitting across from me with tea as I share intimate reflections and lived stories interwoven with Vedic wisdom. Others will be guided meditations and gentle practices you can return to whenever your nervous system needs a softer landing.

Every episode is an invitation to:

• settle your nervous system
• listen beneath the surface
• remember who you are

If you’re in a season of transformation, or even just a season of listening, this space was made with you in mind.

So take a breath, let your body settle, and welcome home.

Music

MOZɅRT — "A Rose Is A Rose"

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Work with me / explore offerings:
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Watch the podcast on YouTube:
youtube.com/@softalchemyspace

Follow along on Instagram

@softalchemyspace
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About this space

Soft Alchemy is the evolution of my earlier work, In Case Nobody Told You. While the name has changed, the heart remains the same: creating grounded, honest spaces for healing, reflection, and liberation—especially for sensitive, intuitive, and self-led beings navigating growth in a complicated world.

A gentle note

This podcast isn’t here to fix you.
It’s here to sit with you.
Let it meet you where you are.
Let your evolution unfold in its own time.

Hey, family. It’s been a minute, I know. So if you have a moment to get cozy, I have some life updates I'm excited to share with you.

This finale episode is part reflection, part love letter, part sacred pause. I’m sharing why the mic went quiet after February, what’s been stirring beneath the surface, and how life rerouted me into a space I didn’t plan for—but deeply needed.

This isn’t a goodbye, but an evolution. In this final episode of the season, I’m opening up about what it’s meant to release the identity of “Steph R. Long” and step into the wholeness of Stevie Reneé. I’m sharing how YouTube became my new sacred container—and why it now feels like the most aligned expression of my voice, presence, and purpose.

If you’ve ever found resonance in this space, if something I’ve said helped you feel more seen, held, or grounded, then I’d love for you to continue the journey with me over on YouTube: youtube.com/@steviereneewithin

There, you’ll find:
 
• Vibe Checks — honest reflections on healing, grief, growth, and spiritual truth
• Guided Resets — somatic meditations and breath practices to regulate and return
• Channeled Messages — intuitive transmissions to support your path
 
And sometimes I share moon rituals, Ayurveda insights, ancestral wisdom, and more.

This space isn’t ending. It’s just moving to a place where I can show up more fully, visually, and truthfully.

We’re closing this season with a few gentle, grounding reflection prompts, especially for those of you in a season of redirection. Because sometimes the plan isn’t the path. And sometimes, what feels like a pause is actually a sacred recalibration.

Reflection prompts from this episode:

 • What is closing in your life—not because you failed, but because you’ve outgrown it?
 • Where is Spirit whispering (or shouting) that it’s time to move differently?
 • What identity are you being invited to shed?
 • What would it feel like to trust your unfolding, even without a clear plan?

If this lands for you, take a moment to breathe into it. Journal if you feel called. Let it stir what needs to stir.

And know this: wherever you are on your journey is where you’re meant to be. Trust in that.

I'll see you next season, on whatever medium it takes shape.

With so much love,

Stevie

Continue the journey

Work with me / explore offerings:
srlwellbeing.com

Watch the podcast on YouTube:
youtube.com/@softalchemyspace

Follow along on Instagram

@softalchemyspace
@srlwellbeing
@iamstevierenee

About this space

Soft Alchemy is the evolution of my earlier work, In Case Nobody Told You. While the name has changed, the heart remains the same: creating grounded, honest spaces for healing, reflection, and liberation—especially for sensitive, intuitive, and self-led beings navigating growth in a complicated world.

A gentle note

This podcast isn’t here to fix you.
It’s here to sit with you.
Let it meet you where you are.
Let your evolution unfold in its own time.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the stories you’ve been telling yourself about who you are and what you’re capable of aren’t even true. In this episode, we dive deep into the narratives that limit us, questioning the doubts and fears that shape our lives. The good news is you have the power to rewrite them—and I'm hoping this episode helps you begin to do just that.

I’m sharing a personal story about how I once believed my voice didn’t matter and how I finally broke free from that limiting belief. We'll also reflect on how these stories often stem from childhood or societal conditioning, and why they don’t have to define you. It’s time to challenge the narratives that hold you back and step into the truth of who you really are, friend.

If you're ready to rewrite your own story, there's also a guided exercise in here to help you identify and reframe the beliefs that are no longer serving you. This episode is all about shifting your mindset and embracing the belief that you are more than enough—and always have been. You'll wanna grab a journal for this one.

Reflection prompts from this episode:

• What is a belief that has been limiting you? 

• Where did this belief come from? 

•  Is this an absolute truth? Is there any evidence that contradicts this belief? Challenge the belief with facts and experiences that prove it wrong.

• Rewrite this belief into one that empowers you.

• Now that you’ve reframed the belief, it’s time to breathe life into it. Speak it out loud.

• Close your eyes and imagine yourself fully embodying this new belief. Visualize what your life would look like if you truly believed this story, then write down what you see.

Credits:

Music - "I Enjoy My Space" by Sarah, The Illstrumentalist (via Epidemic Sound)

Other episodes that may resonate:

Hold Space for Self-Doubt, but Don't Stay for Tea

Affirmations to Fill Your Cup

Transforming Pain into Purpose

Continue the journey

Work with me / explore offerings:
srlwellbeing.com

Watch the podcast on YouTube:
youtube.com/@softalchemyspace

Follow along on Instagram

@softalchemyspace
@srlwellbeing
@iamstevierenee

About this space

Soft Alchemy is the evolution of my earlier work, In Case Nobody Told You. While the name has changed, the heart remains the same: creating grounded, honest spaces for healing, reflection, and liberation—especially for sensitive, intuitive, and self-led beings navigating growth in a complicated world.

A gentle note

This podcast isn’t here to fix you.
It’s here to sit with you.
Let it meet you where you are.
Let your evolution unfold in its own time.

Sometimes everything you thought was a setback is actually a sign that you’re exactly where you need to be.

In this episode, I’m reflecting on turning 35—not as a milestone, but as a moment of deep surrender. I used to have a vision of who I’d be by now, and honestly? It doesn’t match my reality. But instead of resisting, I’m learning to lean in, trust the unfolding, and release the pressure of "shoulds."

We’re talking about letting go of timelines, reframing setbacks, and embracing the discomfort of not knowing. Because growth isn’t a straight path—it’s messy, uncertain, yet still full of magic.

Credits:

Music - "I Enjoy My Space" by Sarah, The Illstrumentalist (via Epidemic Sound)

Other episodes that may resonate:

Embracing Surrender: Overcoming Fear and Unlocking Your Resilience

Setbacks Are Necessary

Let Things Go and Let Them Flow

Continue the journey

Work with me / explore offerings:
srlwellbeing.com

Watch the podcast on YouTube:
youtube.com/@softalchemyspace

Follow along on Instagram

@softalchemyspace
@srlwellbeing
@iamstevierenee

About this space

Soft Alchemy is the evolution of my earlier work, In Case Nobody Told You. While the name has changed, the heart remains the same: creating grounded, honest spaces for healing, reflection, and liberation—especially for sensitive, intuitive, and self-led beings navigating growth in a complicated world.

A gentle note

This podcast isn’t here to fix you.
It’s here to sit with you.
Let it meet you where you are.
Let your evolution unfold in its own time.

What if your struggles weren’t meant to break you but to guide you? In this episode, we’re diving into the idea that pain—whether personal or collective—can be a powerful teacher if we let it.

From global crises and political unrest to deeply personal battles, the weight of the world can feel overwhelming. Together, we’ll pause to honor these challenges, reflect on what they’re teaching us, and explore how to turn that pain into fuel for growth, healing, and action.

I’ll share my own recent journey of navigating personal challenges—from financial strain to self-doubt—and how leaning into sacred practices, community, and self-reflection has anchored me through it all. We’ll also explore transformative journaling prompts to help you uncover the lessons your struggles are offering and reconnect with your resilience and purpose.

This is an episode about embracing life’s hardest moments as doorways to clarity and change. Tune in if you’ve been feeling the weight of it all lately.

Journal prompts from this episode:

1. What is one struggle I am currently facing, either personally or in the world around me?

2. How has this struggle been teaching me something about my resilience or my purpose?

3. In what ways am I trying to avoid or push away this struggle, and how might I lean into it instead?

4. What small action can I take today that will help me transform this struggle into something empowering?

5. If this struggle were a message, what would it be trying to tell me?

Credits:

Music - "I Enjoy My Space" by Sarah, The Illstrumentalist (via Epidemic Sound)

Other episodes that may resonate:

Embracing Surrender: Overcoming Fear and Unlocking Your Resilience

A Guided Mid-Day Meditation for Stress Relief and Balance

Aligned and Liberated: Unlocking Your Purpose and Decolonizing Wellness Through Dharma’s Wisdom

Continue the journey

Work with me / explore offerings:
srlwellbeing.com

Watch the podcast on YouTube:
youtube.com/@softalchemyspace

Follow along on Instagram

@softalchemyspace
@srlwellbeing
@iamstevierenee

About this space

Soft Alchemy is the evolution of my earlier work, In Case Nobody Told You. While the name has changed, the heart remains the same: creating grounded, honest spaces for healing, reflection, and liberation—especially for sensitive, intuitive, and self-led beings navigating growth in a complicated world.

A gentle note

This podcast isn’t here to fix you.
It’s here to sit with you.
Let it meet you where you are.
Let your evolution unfold in its own time.

What are you here to do? What’s your soul’s purpose?

In this episode, I’m diving into dharma—the unique path you’re meant to walk in this lifetime. In Ayurveda, dharma is more than just purpose; it’s the essence of who you are and why you’re here. But reconnecting with your dharma isn’t just about personal fulfillment—it’s a radical act of resistance against systems that profit from keeping us disconnected from ourselves.

I’m sharing my journey from burnout and anxiety in the digital media world to rediscovering alignment through embodiment and Ayurveda. We’ll unpack what dharma is (and what it’s not), why living in alignment with your purpose is deeply healing, and how decolonizing wellness is part of this liberatory work.

This episode is for you if you’re feeling stuck, restless, or unsure about your next steps. It’s for anyone ready to leave behind the grind and reclaim the ease, flow, and deep sense of fulfillment that comes with living your truth.

Ready to align? Press play and let’s get into it.

Credits:

Music - "I Enjoy My Space" by Sarah, The Illstrumentalist (via Epidemic Sound)

Other episodes that may resonate:

Discovering and Aligning with Your Core Values for Self-Liberation

Continue the journey

Work with me / explore offerings:
srlwellbeing.com

Watch the podcast on YouTube:
youtube.com/@softalchemyspace

Follow along on Instagram

@softalchemyspace
@srlwellbeing
@iamstevierenee

About this space

Soft Alchemy is the evolution of my earlier work, In Case Nobody Told You. While the name has changed, the heart remains the same: creating grounded, honest spaces for healing, reflection, and liberation—especially for sensitive, intuitive, and self-led beings navigating growth in a complicated world.

A gentle note

This podcast isn’t here to fix you.
It’s here to sit with you.
Let it meet you where you are.
Let your evolution unfold in its own time.