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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Feeling stuck, frozen, or like you're falling behind? You're not alone. In this milestone 100th episode, Rae shares a warm behind-the-scenes life update + 5 powerful mindset shifts and somatic tools to help you move through emotional stuckness with compassion, clarity, and momentum.

Whether you're navigating a big life transition, feeling creatively blocked, or just caught in a loop of comparison and freeze, this episode will support you in regulating your nervous system, reconnecting to your power, and taking aligned action (even if it’s tiny!).

💛 In this episode, Rae shares:

• A cozy life + creativity update (books, cacao, painting, and porch dreams 🌞)
• The #1 somatic truth about feeling stuck (hint: it’s temporary)
• 5 tools to gently shift your energy and get out of your head
• How movement and micro-actions spark momentum
• Why stuckness might actually be a precursor to a breakthrough
• The real reason you're not “behind” and how to reframe it

If you've been craving a soft, grounded push forward, or just some cozy somatic inspiration, this is your sign to tune in.

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Authenticity over avoidance, boundaries over burnout, and empowerment over dependency. In this raw and insightful conversation, Rae is joined by returning guest and energy healer Erin Bishop Pedone of Reiki Shores to unpack the nuanced and often-unspoken dynamics of spiritual codependency, emotional bypassing, and what true healing actually looks like.

Together, they explore how spiritual work can sometimes become a mask for avoiding discomfort and how to recognize when helping others turns into abandoning yourself. They also unpack the importance of healthy energetic boundaries, how grief and anger are sacred messengers, and why real growth requires self-trust, integrity, and occasional rupture.

Whether you’re a wellness practitioner, a spiritual seeker, or someone on a healing journey looking to reclaim your power, this episode is a grounded and heart-expanding reminder to come back home to yourself again and again.

🌿 In this episode, we explore:

• What is spiritual codependency (and how to spot it)?
• The signs of bypassing emotions in the name of being “high vibe”
• How unresolved grief and anger are sacred signals, not symptoms
• Why setting energetic and emotional boundaries is crucial for healing
• What rupture and repair can teach us about deeper relationships
• How to remain an empowered client AND an integral practitioner
• The importance of self-trust, discernment, and following your inner “ping”

🎧 Whether you’re new to energy work or years into your healing path, this conversation will give you the clarity and tools to walk your journey with more honesty, sovereignty, and soul.

Stay Connected with Erin: Follow on Instagram, Like on Facebook, Reiki Shores Website, Use code RAEDIANT to save 10% on a private session with Erin!

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In this powerful and informative episode of Somatic Healing for Wellness‑Focused Women, Rae dives deeper into the connection between grief, trauma, and the body—exploring how our nervous system, brain, and somatic awareness hold the key to healing.

Building on last week’s episode, Rae breaks down complex trauma science into simple, compassionate language you can understand. You’ll learn how trauma impacts the brain’s alarm system (amygdala), speech center, and body memory, why the body “keeps the score,” and how true healing begins when we involve both mind and body in the process.

Drawing from The Body Keeps the Score by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, her background in social work, and years of trauma‑informed practice, Rae shares somatic healing modalities—like breathwork, yoga, body awareness, creativity, and mindful connection—that help you move from survival mode to safety, empowerment, and integration.

Whether you’re personally healing from trauma or you support others on this path, this episode will help you understand what’s really happening in your body, why it makes sense, and how to start cultivating safety again from the inside out.

✨ In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What trauma really is and how it affects the brain and body
• Why the body “keeps the score” and how to release stored experiences
• Somatic modalities that support trauma recovery (breathwork, movement, art, EMDR, yoga)
• Four key themes for trauma healing: Safety, Connection, Empowerment, and Integration
• How to rebuild a sense of safety and trust in your body
• Why healing isn’t about being “fully healed,” but about expanding your capacity to feel safe

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In this heartfelt episode of Somatic Healing for Wellness-Focused Women, Rae opens her new mini-series on grief, trauma, and somatic healing by exploring the body-based experience of grief and how to move through loss with compassion and awareness.

Building on her powerful workshop at Transcend Fest, Rae shares her own journey with grief and offers supportive insights for anyone navigating loss, whether it’s the death of a loved one, a breakup, a career change, or grieving an older version of yourself.

You’ll learn how grief can manifest physically (tightness in the chest, exhaustion, numbness, stomach issues), why these sensations arise, and how to work with your nervous system instead of against it. Rae also shares gentle somatic tools, like breathwork, supportive body postures, and self-compassion practices, that help your body metabolize emotions rather than suppress them.

This episode is an invitation to slow down, honor your own process, and remember that grief is not something to “fix,” but a sacred journey of feeling and healing.

🌸 In this episode, you’ll discover:

• How grief shows up in the body beyond loss of a loved one
• The nervous system’s response to grief, trauma, and change
• Somatic practices to support emotional release (like legs-up-the-wall + hand-to-heart)
• How to offer yourself compassion while navigating difficult emotions
• Why grief work is a sacred, powerful part of your healing path

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In this calming and supportive episode of Somatic Healing for Wellness-Focused Women, Rae guides you through a gentle, trauma-informed breathwork practice designed to help you regulate your nervous system, find inner safety, and return to a state of grounding and presence.

This episode builds on the concept of the window of tolerance and is ideal for anyone experiencing anxiety, stress, or emotional overwhelm. Through a soothing blend of orienting, mindful breath cues, and somatic awareness, Rae helps you reconnect with your body and shift back into a sense of peace, wholeness, and self-trust.

Whether you're new to breathwork or a seasoned practitioner, this is a beautiful nervous system reset you can return to anytime you need it.

🌿 In this episode, you’ll experience:

• A guided somatic breathwork practice (4-1-6 breath)
• Orientation and body-based grounding techniques
• Support for regulating stress, anxiety, and overwhelm
• Gentle reminders that your emotions are valid and you are safe
• Breath cues for self-soothing and releasing tension
• A felt experience of connecting mind and body

⚠️ Please do not listen to this practice while driving. Find a quiet, comfortable space where you can be fully present.

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Do your emotions ever feel like the absolute truth? In this episode, we're breaking down one of the most common (and sneaky) mental traps: emotional reasoning—the idea that “if I feel it, it must be real.”

💭 “I feel anxious, so something must be wrong.”
 💭 “I feel guilty, so I must’ve done something bad.”
 💭 “I feel overwhelmed, so I probably can’t handle this.”

Sound familiar? You're not alone. This pattern can spiral fast and it’s deeply tied to nervous system dysregulation and unprocessed emotional experiences.

In today’s episode, I’m sharing:
🌿 Why your brain & body often confuse past fear with present danger
🌿 How to identify when you’re being the emotion vs feeling it
🌿 5 somatic practices to bring regulation, clarity, and grounded safety back into your body
🌿 How to stop letting feelings override your self-trust and intuition
🌿 What it really means to relate to your emotions instead of resist them

Whether you identify as a big feeler, a highly sensitive soul, or just someone who’s been riding an anxious wave lately, this episode is for you. Tune in for honest reflections, somatic tools, and mindset shifts that help you reclaim your power without bypassing your emotions.

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