The Art Of Listening To Your Body

In this episode, I speak with Louise, an Australian regulatory professional, Air Force reservist and devoted dog mum. Louise shares how discovering Release through a colleague and saying “yes” to the program — despite doubts around time and money — coincided with unexpected promotions, significant pay rises, and deeper ease in her relationship.

We explore how processing emotions and improving communication changed the way Louise shows up at work, negotiates, relates to her partner, and holds a clear vision for her dream home and future.

Links & Next Steps:

As mentioned in the Podcast: Being Curious with Vanessa https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/vanessa-mcevoy

If this episode resonated with you and you’d like to explore this work more deeply, Jin's book is the best place to begin.

Healing Beyond the Diagnosis: The Emotional Work That Creates True Transformation (Available on Amazon world-wide)

Inside, Jin shares the foundations of emotional processing and the Release Process®, and how your body communicates through symptoms, patterns, and life experiences.

You can learn more and read or listen to Chapter 3 for free here: https://drjinong.com/hbd-book

Interested in Release? See if it is open for enrolment here: https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/release-course

You can also connect with Jin on social media:

Instagram: @theartoflisteningtoyourbody

Facebook: @drjinong (personal) or @theartoflisteningtoyourbody

Website: https://drjinong.com and https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com

In this episode, Jin explores the often-overlooked power of processing positive experiences and emotions, not just the painful or uncomfortable ones. Drawing on years of running her signature course Release, Jin explains how “positive releases” can be just as potent as processing negative events—and why they’re sometimes exactly what your nervous system needs.

You’ll hear about:

Why we naturally gravitate toward processing negative experiences first

What a positive release actually is (and what it’s not)

How to keep emotional processing simple, safe, and effective

When focusing on negative memories becomes too much for the body

How positive releases can help you celebrate, integrate, and expand into more joy

If you’ve ever felt like emotional work is “all about the heavy stuff,” this episode will remind you that your past holds moments of joy, pleasure, pride, and celebration that are just as important to process and feel.

If this episode resonated with you and you’d like to explore this work more deeply, my book is the best place to begin.

Healing Beyond the Diagnosis: The Emotional Work That Creates True Transformation (Available on Amazon world-wide)

Inside, I share the foundations of emotional processing and the Release Process®, and how your body communicates through symptoms, patterns, and life experiences.

Link & Next Steps:

Where you can access the basic Release Process ®

Healing Beyond the Diagnosis Book https://drjinong.com/hbd-book

Gateway Experience https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/gateway.

Interested in Release? Learn more here: https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/release-course

You can also connect with me on social media:

Instagram: @theartoflisteningtoyourbody

Facebook: @drjinong (personal) or @theartoflisteningtoyourbody

Website: https://drjinong.com and https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com

In this episode, I explore the often-overlooked power of processing positive experiences and emotions, not just the painful or uncomfortable ones. Drawing on years of running my signature course Release, I share how “Positive Releases” can be just as potent as processing negative events—and why they’re sometimes exactly what your nervous system needs.

You’ll hear about:

• Why we naturally gravitate toward processing negative experiences first
• What a positive release actually is (and what it’s not)
• How to keep emotional processing simple, safe, and effective
• When focusing on negative memories becomes too much for the body
• How positive releases can help you celebrate, integrate, and expand into more joy

If you’ve ever felt like emotional work is “all about the heavy stuff,” this episode will remind you that your past holds moments of joy, pleasure, pride, and celebration that are just as important to process and feel.

Links & Next Steps:

If this episode resonated with you and you’d like to explore this work more deeply, my book is the best place to begin. You can read or listen to Chapter 3 for free.

Healing Beyond the Diagnosis Book https://drjinong.com/hbd-book (Available on Amazon world-wide)

The Gateway Experience https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/gateway.

Interested in Release? Learn more here: https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/release-course

You can also connect with Jin on social media:

Instagram: @theartoflisteningtoyourbody

Facebook: @drjinong (personal) or @theartoflisteningtoyourbody

Website: https://drjinong.com and https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/

In this deeply personal episode I sit down with Jess — a health, life and mindset coach, to trace her journey from long-term emotional work and a hysterectomy through an unexpected ovarian cancer diagnosis, surgery, chemotherapy, and powerful breakthroughs in self-love, creativity and life direction.

Jess shares how the Release work helped her process trauma and physical symptoms, how intuition and community supported her treatment choices, and how she reclaimed creativity and vision through the hardest 18 months of her life.

A brave, honest conversation about falling apart and putting yourself back together; physically, emotionally and creatively. If Jess’s story resonates, listen in, and consider the small consistent practices that support both healing and the life you want to create.

Today we explore:

• Emotional processing can reduce physical symptoms and support recovery: Jess’ nausea and other symptoms reduced after doing the Release work.
• Integrating intuition, medical guidance and complementary support (naturopathy, nutrition, mindset) helped Jess make treatment decisions that felt aligned to her.
• Group space and coached emotional tools (quick releases, written dumps, boundary work) provided practical coping strategies during medical uncertainty and chemo.
• Trauma, grief and big life change can catalyse clarity: through this challenge Jess clarified values, deepened self-love, and reclaimed creative purpose.
• Desire statements, small rituals, and embodied gratitude supported resilience and practical outcomes (including business transitions and personal goals).

Who this episode is for:

• Anyone navigating chronic health issues, major surgery, or cancer treatment.
• Coaches, healers, and helpers who want to see how to receive support while supporting others.
• Listeners curious about the intersection of emotional work, intuitive decision-making, and conventional medical care.
• People considering structured emotional-processing programs like Release.

Links & Next Steps:

Join the Release waitlist & learn about the new way to enter the Release world:

https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/release-course

*Integration support is now included before live rounds begin

The video as mentioned on Endometriosis: https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/endometriosis 

Connect with Jess:

Instagram: @jess.eastwood.coaching

Jess's Website: https://www.jesseastwood.com/

If you have questions about Release or whether it’s right for you, you can reach out via social media

Instagram: @theartoflisteningtoyourbody

Facebook: @drjinong (personal) or @theartoflisteningtoyourbody

Websites: https://drjinong.com/ and https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/

In this episode, I explore why being specific is essential when it comes to processing your emotions. Rather than trying to “release anger” or “clear sadness” in a vague, general way, I explain why it’s far more powerful to work with concrete experiences, memories, events, and interactions where those emotions first arose but were never fully expressed.

I share how true healing happens when we gently revisit these specific moments and finally give our emotions the time, space, and safety they didn’t have at the time.

I also announce some exciting new changes to how you can enter the Release world, including more integration support before live rounds begin.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

• Why trying to “process anger” or “release sadness” in general often isn’t enough
• The real reason emotions like anger, sadness, guilt, shame, and fear get stored in the body
• How unprocessed emotions can manifest physically, mentally, behaviourally, energetically, or spiritually
• Common reasons you didn’t process emotions at the time:

You will also learn the difference between:

• Processing on an emotional state (e.g. anger, sadness)
• Processing on a specific experience, memory, or interaction
• Why specificity makes emotional work more tangible, grounded, and effective

Links & Next Steps:

About Release – Jin’s Signature Emotional Processing Program

Release is Jin’s signature program where she teaches you how to process your emotions through specific experiences, rather than staying in vague emotional labels.

Inside a live support round, you will:

• Share your history at a level that feels comfortable for you
• Have Jin interpret your experiences and highlight which releases to work on
• Be guided toward the most appropriate cheat sheets and process variations
• Move through your releases with support, integration, and a sense of safety

Jin describes what happens for people in Release as “just magic”—because when you finally process the experiences that shaped you, everything else can begin to shift.

Join the Release waitlist & learn about the new way to enter the Release world:

https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/release-course

*Integration support is now included before live rounds begin

**If you have questions about Release or whether it’s right for you, you can reach out to Jin via social media

Instagram: @theartoflisteningtoyourbody

Facebook: @drjinong (personal) or @theartoflisteningtoyourbody

Website: https://drjinong.com and https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/

Get Jin's #1 Bestselling book: Healing Beyond The Diagnosis. You can read or listen to chapter 3 for free here: https://drjinong.com/hbd-book

Jin Ong interviews Gracie about an 18-month transformational journey that began with Jin’s Release emotional-processing program and expanded into major life shifts: ending a toxic relationship, launching into real estate (an 18-unit apartment acquisition), discovering a high‑paying travel nanny career, and receiving unexpected financial support.

This episode covers how emotional work created space for clarity, boundaries, embodiment work that collapsed timelines for her vision, and practical lessons in property management, hiring, self-care and receiving.

Key Takeaways

• Emotional processing creates space to receive opportunities (money, jobs, properties) and clarity about values and boundaries.
• Vision + embodiment work can accelerate long-term goals; follow-through and daily connection to desire statements amplify results.
• Real estate acquisitions often arrive unconventionally (seller financing, negotiation). Persistence, clear communication and relationship-building matter.
• Managing investments requires flexibility: delegate where useful, but be prepared to step in and learn practical skills.
• High‑paying, unconventional roles (like travel nannying) can align with financial and time‑freedom goals.
• Group support and live coaching accelerate integration and provide real-time emotional containment during crises.
• Receiving help, severance or unexpected funds can be part of how tangible support arrives—remain open and grounded.

Links & Next Steps:

If this episode resonated with you and you feel that Release might be the next step in your healing journey you can now join with extra support in the lead up to the next LIVE round.

You can learn more here: https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/release-course

#1 bestselling book Healing Beyond The Diagnosis (Available on Amazon world-wide)

https://drjinong.com/hbd-book

You can also connect with me on social media:

Instagram: @theartoflisteningtoyourbody

Facebook: @drjinong (personal) or @theartoflisteningtoyourbody

Website: https://www.drjinong.com and https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/

Do other people really make you sick?

Or is there something deeper happening inside your body?

In this episode, I unpack one of the most common beliefs in the world of chronic illness and emotional health — that other people, environments, or stressors are the cause of our symptoms.

In this Episode I explore:

• The three forms of stress that impact your immune system
• How emotional suppression affects immune resilience
• Why blaming others weakens your power
• What actually strengthens your immune system
• How to become less susceptible to pathogens, viruses, and bacteria
• The link between emotional processing and physical health
• Your immune system doesn’t just respond to external pathogens. It responds to internal stress load.
• When your emotional cup is full, your body compensates, until it can’t.

This episode is about taking responsibility in a way that creates freedom, not shame. Because when you focus on what you can shift, your body responds.

Links & Next Steps:

If you’re ready to begin processing your emotions in a structured, safe way, explore The Gateway Experience, Jin's foundational emotional processing program.

https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/gateway

You can also connect with Jin on social media:

Instagram: @theartoflisteningtoyourbody

Facebook: @drjinong (personal) or @theartoflisteningtoyourbody

Website: https://drjinong.com and https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/

Welcome back to The Cycles. This is Session Six, recorded on the turn of the Chinese Lunar Year as we move into the Year of the Fire Horse (2026) and this session is being shared on the podcast.

If you'd like to take part of the The Cycles and access the previous replays and any future sessions + contemplation questions on the Facebook group please REGISTER HERE. It is unknown how long this experience will continue for at this stage.

In this session I explore what Fire Horse energy brings forward for so many of us. Freedom, movement, momentum. Courage, action, speed. And I ask the question most people skip.

Do you actually have the capacity to receive that kind of energy, or does it bring up anxiety, pressure, fear, or the feeling of “not enough”?

I’m also sharing transparently what’s been shifting behind the scenes in my business and the way I’m choosing to communicate my work. Because the more I’ve witnessed what’s possible for people through emotional processing, the more I’ve realised something important.

Sometimes the gap becomes too big.

So I’m bringing it back. Back to the foundation. Back to what has always been true in my work.

Processing your emotions is the foundation.

It’s what creates capacity.

It’s what clears space.

It’s what allows support, healing, and momentum to actually land.

Inside this episode we cover:

• The meaning of Fire Horse energy and what it brings up emotionally
• Why “activation” is not the point if your foundation isn’t ready to hold it
• The pattern I’ve seen in my own life. Slow down, then everything speeds up
• How “support” works, and why it changes outcomes
• The difference between knowledge and integration
• Why so many people focus on “nervous system regulation” but avoid the emotional experiences underneath
• How manifestation begins when you stop forcing outcomes and start creating space
• A behind-the-scenes share on simplifying my messaging, returning to the basics, and letting go of controlling how people interact with my work
• An introduction to The Gateway Experience as a self-paced entry point for emotional mastery without overwhelm

This session was originally recorded live inside The Cycles free experience, hosted in a private Facebook group with multiple session replays and contemplation questions you can move through in your own timing.

If The Cycles is still open, you’re welcome to join us. If it isn’t, trust that something else will be available for you when the timing is right.

Join The Cycles

Register here: https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/cycles

If you're ready to start processing your emotions explore The Gateway Experience

https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/gateway

You can also connect with me on social media:

Instagram: @theartoflisteningtoyourbody

Facebook: @drjinong (personal) or @theartoflisteningtoyourbody

Website: https://drjinong.com and https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/

You're listening to the audiobook launch party replay for Healing Beyond the Diagnosis.

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If your body feels drawn to this work — even if quietly — trust that.

There is a reason this book has found its way to you, and a reason this version exists.

Let this be the moment you step deeper into the message your body has been wanting you to hear.

In this episode, I share the story of how I recently got sick, and what it really revealed. It wasn’t about the virus, the fatigue, or even the physical symptoms. It was about the decision I was sitting on. The decision to invest in myself.

Even after all these years of doing the work, guiding others through deep transformation, and making countless powerful investments in my own growth, I still notice how the same questions come up.

“Should I put the money elsewhere?”

"What if it’s the wrong time”

“What if this fails?”

This time, I found myself walking a parallel path with my Release participants, feeling the same discomfort, resistance, and vulnerability that often arise right before we say yes to what’s next. It was humbling and deeply affirming. Expansion doesn’t mean those fears disappear; it means we meet them with more awareness, compassion, and trust.

The body never lies. And when we try to override what we know, it finds a way to slow us down, sometimes through illness, sometimes through unexpected pauses, until we finally listen. This was one of those moments I want to share with you.

If you’ve ever wondered why your body reacts when you’re on the edge of a big decision or opportunity, this episode will help you see it through a new lens.

Because the truth is, every next level will call you to meet the same patterns, but this time, from a higher place.

 Referenced Episodes:

• The Investments I’ve Made in Myself
• Manifestation Horses
• Luxe Launch Replay

If you’re ready to understand the emotional patterns that keep showing up in your life — and actually process them — my signature program, the Release Course is where you’ll learn to do exactly that. It’s the foundational work that helps you build the capacity to meet your next level without your body needing to scream for attention. This opens live twice a year.

If you prefer to read about the connection between your emotions, your health, and your healing journey, you can explore my book Healing Beyond the Diagnosis available now.