Happy New Year, and welcome to 2026!! In this episode of Somatic Healing for Wellness‑Focused Women, Rae explores the energy of 2026 through the lens of the Chinese Zodiac, focusing on the Year of the Fire Horse and what it means for intention, leadership, creativity, and pacing yourself in the year ahead.

If 2025 felt quieter, more inward, or reflective, 2026 brings a very different tone of more movement, expression, visibility, and bold action. This episode offers both insight and grounding so you can work with this energy rather than burning out.

🎧 In this episode, you’ll explore:

• What the Year of the Fire Horse (2026) symbolizes in the Chinese Zodiac
• How 2026 differs energetically from 2025’s Year of the Snake
• Why pacing, nervous system awareness, and rest will be essential this year
• 4 powerful journaling prompts to help you reflect, envision, and set intentions for 2026

The guided journaling prompts support you in:

• Trusting yourself more deeply
• Clarifying your top goals (without overwhelm)
• Understanding how you want to respond to fear or uncertainty
• Defining a clear, embodied intention for 2026

This episode is perfect if you’re:

• Feeling inspired but want to avoid burnout in the new year
• Transitioning out of reflection and into intentional action
• Looking for a gentle yet empowering way to set your 2026 vision

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Feeling overwhelmed this holiday season? Need a moment of calm before stepping into the new year? In this special episode of Somatic Healing for Wellness-Focused Women, Rae guides you through a gentle, grounding breathwork practice designed to calm your nervous system and connect you to a sense of inner peace.

Perfect for the holidays, year-end reflection, or anytime you feel the need to reset, this breathwork session will help you return to your body and reclaim your center.

🎧 In this calming episode:

• Practice two simple but powerful breathing techniques: Bliss Breath & Halo Active
• Regulate your nervous system with gentle cues for grounding and presence
• Use the healing mantra: "All is well. I am grounded, centered, and safe."

🫶 This practice is perfect if you're feeling:

• Anxious or overstimulated by the holidays
• Emotionally heavy or disconnected from your body
• Ready to begin the new year with a clear and centered mind

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In this cozy, reflective episode, Rae shares her favorite books from 2025 and the powerful mental, emotional, and somatic benefits of reading.

Whether you're a bookworm or a curious beginner, you'll walk away feeling inspired to make reading a bigger part of your wellness toolkit.

📖 Inside this episode:

• How reading boosts nervous system health, creativity & cognitive function
• Why it helps with stress relief, better sleep, and emotional resilience
• Rae’s favorite way to alternate fiction & nonfiction based on her mood
• Reflections on reading for personal development, healing & client work
• Tips for reading more often (even if you're busy or overwhelmed)
• How certain books deepened her work around nervous system regulation, neurodiversity, shame, and self-worth
• Rae’s top 2 nonfiction & 3 fiction picks of 2025, plus what she’s reading now

🌟 You'll also hear about:

• How Rae organically brings books into her coaching & therapy sessions
• Her “just for fun” favorites and the book that kicked off her 78-book year
• Why audiobooks, e-readers, and flexible formats can help you fall back in love with reading

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Can’t fall asleep... or stay asleep? This episode is a must-listen if your nights feel restless and your mind won’t shut off.

In this powerful guest interview, Rae speaks with Jessica Fink, LCSW-S, a Texas-based CBT-I therapist who specializes in treating insomnia, sleep anxiety, PTSD, OCD, chronic pain, and over-control. Together, they explore how trying too hard to sleep may actually be what’s keeping you awake and what to do instead.

Inside this episode:

• The difference between being tired vs. being sleepy
• Why sleep anxiety and overthinking hijack your nervous system at night
• What “sleep effort” is and why it’s sabotaging your rest
• Somatic tools + mindset shifts to reduce nighttime tension and reclaim your rest
• What to do during a sleepless night that actually helps (and what to avoid)

Whether you're a high-achieving perfectionist, a chronic overthinker, or just someone curious about better sleep hygiene, this episode offers practical, non-medication-based tools for lasting change.

💤 Stay Connected with Jessica on Youtube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or in her Monthly Newsletter

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🎧 Save this episode to revisit before your next sleepless night, and be sure to share it with a friend who needs some gentle, grounded support around sleep.

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Feeling the pull to reflect on this past year in a way that’s intentional, embodied, and grounded? In this cozy and contemplative episode, Rae guides you through a somatic end-of-year practice to help you integrate the lessons of 2025 and gently prepare for the energy of 2026.

✨ Using the lens of the Chinese Zodiac, Rae explores:

• The meaning of 2025 as the Year of the Snake and the Wood element
• Why this year may have felt more quiet, inward, and transformational
• What to expect in 2026: the bold, adventurous Year of the Fire Horse
• The power of personal shedding, integration, and spiritual growth

Plus, you’ll receive 4 guided journaling prompts to help you:

• Reflect on your growth, self-soothing, and identity shifts
• Acknowledge where you’ve shown courage
• Recognize the inner and outer strengths you discovered
• Celebrate creative expression and nervous system resilience

🎧 Whether your 2025 felt spacious or sticky, tender or transformational, this episode will support you in closing the year with presence, intention, and compassion.

📌 Mentioned in this episode:

🌱 Core Values Discovery Sessions – book yours via this link

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In this empowering episode of Somatic Healing for Wellness-Focused Women, Rae explores what confidence really is from a nervous system-informed, trauma-sensitive lens. Confidence isn’t about pretending you have it all together. It’s about feeling safe in your body, connected to your truth, and rooted in who you are.

🎙️ You’ll learn:

• Why confidence is an embodied state not just a mindset
• How nervous system regulation plays a role in feeling safe to be seen
• Why your inner child might be blocking your confidence (and how to reparent)
• How to up-level your inner voice and practice compassionate self-talk
• The self-trust formula: self-knowledge ➡️ self-trust ➡️ self-confidence

✨ Whether you’re in a season of self-doubt or ready to step into your next level, this episode will leave you feeling seen, grounded, and deeply supported.

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This week’s episode lands just in time for Thanksgiving 🦃  Rae offers a gentle, somatic approach to gratitude, especially for those navigating big emotions, grief, burnout, or overwhelm during the holidays.

🎧 Inside this episode, you’ll hear:

• How to practice gratitude without bypassing what’s hard
• What to do when gratitude doesn’t feel accessible
• Embracing the duality of the holidays: joy + grief, connection + loneliness
• How small sensory moments anchor you into the present
• Five journaling prompts to ground your nervous system and connect to gratitude
• A self-love practice: write a gratitude letter to yourself

✨ Take what you need, pause if you want, and come back anytime you need a reminder that gratitude can be gentle, grounded, and entirely your own.

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In this episode, Rae explores thought rumination, why it happens, and how to break out of looping thoughts using somatic, nervous-system–based tools. If you’ve ever found yourself replaying scenarios, overthinking conversations, or spiraling into “what ifs,” this episode will help you understand what’s happening in your brain and body and how to create relief.

You’ll learn:

🌿 What rumination really is and how it differs from healthy reflection
🌿 How the nervous system triggers looping thoughts (fight/flight/freeze/fawn)
🌿 Why your brain chases “understanding” as a form of safety + control
🌿 How fawning and people-pleasing create rumination patterns
🌿 The mind-body feedback loop that keeps spirals going
🌿 Somatic practices to interrupt the cycle

This is the perfect episode for anyone navigating anxiety, overthinking, looping thoughts, emotional overwhelm, or fawning patterns and for practitioners supporting clients through these experiences.

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Ready to reconnect with your body, calm your mind, and come home to yourself? In this deeply supportive episode, Rae (somatic coach + breathwork facilitator) leads you through a guided breathwork meditation to cultivate inner safety, emotional wholeness, and self-compassion.

Whether you’re feeling anxious, disconnected, or just need a moment of stillness, this practice helps you drop into your body and create a compassionate inner dialogue. Using conscious breathing, body-based awareness, and gentle affirmations, you’ll begin to build your emotional resilience, widen your window of tolerance, and anchor into gratitude and presence.

Inside this episode:

• Guided breathwork for nervous system regulation & grounding
• Somatic cues to enhance your mind-body connection
• Inner child & inner teen affirmations for self-compassion
• A powerful moment of stillness to meet yourself fully
• Gratitude-based closing to end the practice in alignment

Perfect for your daily regulation practice, self-love ritual, or evening wind-down, this meditation invites you to feel safe in your body and deeply seen by your own inner voice.

Note: This is a guided breathwork practice. Please do not listen while driving.

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Why does joy sometimes feel harder to hold than stress? In this episode, Rae explores the emotional complexities of joy and how our nervous systems can struggle to trust happiness, especially after trauma, chronic stress, or survival-mode living.

You’ll learn how nervous system regulation, somatic tools, and the science of positive psychology can expand your capacity to feel joy fully and safely. Plus, Rae introduces the PERMA model of well-being and how you can use it to integrate joy, resilience, connection, and meaning into your healing journey.

✨ In this episode, Rae explores:

• Why joy can feel unfamiliar, unsafe, or fleeting
• How nervous system responses (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) affect your ability to feel good
• The surprising ways joy can bring up fear, guilt, or discomfort
• How to retrain your body to feel safe with happiness and ease
• The PERMA model from positive psychology (and how to embody it somatically)
• Practices like breathwork, glimmers, journaling, and mindful presence to build emotional resilience

Whether you’re navigating trauma healing, burnout recovery, or simply trying to feel more like yourself again, this episode will show you how to nurture joy as a practice, not a performance.

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