I sit down with my teacher Ann Bradney, founder of Radical Aliveness, to talk about her ground-breaking work facilitating a two-year leadership training program in Israel that brings together Israeli Jews and Palestinians

Within this program, Ann leads deep process groups where participants learn to hold intense emotions, face painful truths, and stay connected across seemingly impossible divides.

The program began before October 7th—and even as terror broke out, leaders from both sides risked their lives to keep meeting. Amidst all the outrage and polarization we see in the media, this quiet, steady peace work has been happening behind the scenes, on the ground.

Ann shares bittersweet, heart-wrenching stories of what unfolds when people from vastly different worlds choose to meet in their differences, stay with the mess, and keep coming back to one another with the hope of creating a different future for generations to come.

We explore:

→The core principles of Radical Aliveness: Knowing I Don’t Know, Being Willing to be Changed, Honoring Multiple Perspectives, Welcoming Everything, Cultivating a Non-Shaming Heart, and Do No Harm/Do Your Part

→What it takes to hold real conflict without forcing resolution

→How a group that began before October 7th continues to meet across checkpoints, grief, and fear

→Why allowing difference—rather than sameness—creates the conditions for peace

This episode is about courage, humility, and the quiet miracle of people staying in the room when the world says they shouldn’t.

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Ayla Nereo “Seeds"

This isn’t a conversation about relational repair—we’re actually doing it in real time. 

Kate (my best friend of 22+ years) and I hit some big ruptures this past month. We were in an intensive training together, then went straight into a retreat that I hosted at my house. We were both at our limit… and we hit three big triggers that needed to be resolved later. 

In this episode, we work through repair for these recent ruptures: 

→ When she missed her flight and I couldn’t show up how she needed

→ A trigger around money and unspoken expectations

→ A painful rupture at the end of a retreat day when we both needed totally different things 

If you’ve ever felt afraid of conflict in your closest relationships, this one’s for you. 

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Ayla Nereo “Seeds" 

This is the other side of the story. 

In this deeply honest follow-up to “Avoidant Men CAN Heal,” we hear from Brittany—somatic experiencing practitioner, attachment re-patterning guide, and James’s partner—about her lived experience navigating anxious attachment, rupture, and the long, disorienting path of healing. 

We talk about what it felt like when James said “you’re not the one” in front of a room full of people, how heartbreak cracked her open, and what it really took to rebuild herself—body, mind, and spirit—after the breakup. 

Brittany shares the tools that held her through the spiral, the rage and tenderness she had to reclaim, and how practicing devotion (not just processing) changed everything. 

We explore:

→ The somatic reality of anxious attachment and what healing actually feels like

→ How to tell the difference between a boundary and an ultimatum

→ Why spiritual compatibility matters—and why it doesn’t mean sameness

→ What intimacy practice looks like now in her marriage to James

→ How relationship can become a sacred, daily path to presence 

This conversation is a balm for anyone who’s ever clung to crumbs of connection, doubted their worth, or wondered if they’d ever feel safe in love again. 

If you're healing, holding on, or learning how to let go—this one is for you. 

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Ayla Nereo “Seeds" 

In this intimate, soul-bearing conversation, James Nepenthe Frank—Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, dharma teacher, and former monk—shares the journey of transforming from emotionally unavailable and intimacy avoidant to a man fully devoted to love. 

We discuss the alchemy of group somatic work, radical honesty, and the quiet, relentless devotion of spiritual practice. 

Together, we explore how healing attachment is not just psychological—it’s spiritual. How relationship, when met with courage and reverence, becomes a living altar. A path to awakening. A place where even avoidant men can heal. 

If you’ve ever felt stuck in longing, shame, or old relational patterns, this conversation will remind you: it’s never too late to choose love. 

Tune in for a transmission on grief, transformation, and the sacred possibility inside every connection. 

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Ayla Nereo “Seeds" 

Catherine Quiring had me on her podcast Who We Are & What We Need to chat about the somatic path of healing, my 6-month program Awakening the Wild Woman, the role of Saints, Goddesses and archetypes like Mary Magdalene, Joan of Arc and Persephone on my path, and what has crystalized in my practice lately from my Sacred Pilgrimages.

I guide my friend Jenny into her body during a live session to explore the complicated relationship she has with money. Her body’s wisdom shows us the generational wounding that needs to be honored and healed in order for her to move forward in her life to receive abundance and reciprocity. 

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Ayla Nereo “Seeds" 

Join me for an inspiring conversation with Sara, founder of Women Rising, 15x award-winning documentary filmmaker, mentor, speaker, and soon-to-be debut author with HarperCollins. Sara is also the visionary behind the first-ever sociological study exploring the link between women’s empowerment and autoimmunity in America. In this episode, Sara shares her powerful journey from self-abandonment to reclaiming her voice and becoming her own advocate in the healthcare system. Learn practical strategies to advocate for your health, uncover the root of unexplained symptoms, and transform from the "good girl" into a cycle-breaker. 

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Ayla Nereo “Seeds" 

Me and my teacher Adriana Rizzolo, founder of Body Temple Dance, nerd out about the importance of right-brain focused therapy and healing the frozen parts of us through performance, dance, song, poetry, and art. I share about my vulnerable experience singing on stage to reclaim my sacred sexuality as a pivotal part of healing from sexual trauma. 

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Ayla Nereo “Seeds" 

Erin and Lisa interview me on their “I Decide Darlings” podcast about my journey of healing from trauma and how it led me to help others do the same. I share my story as a child of an alcoholic, healing the mother wound, and overcoming sexual trauma, bulimia, body dysmorphia, disorganized attachment, depression, suicidal thoughts, anxiety, and low self-worth that consumed a third of my life, before finding my path as a healer. 

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Song: 

Ayla Nereo “Seeds" 

Join me and my BFF for life Kate as we navigate our #1 trigger - TIME. We’ve been best friends for 22 years, and we still trigger each other’s abandonment wound when it comes to this topic. In this episode, we re-count our most recent blow-ups and discuss the multitude of creative ways we’ve learned to navigate conflict resolution, including Existential Kink, Non-Violent Communication, Circling, Radical Aliveness, and Ritual Theater to name a few. Listen to us work out our differences in real time and how we can improve our ability to collaborate better in the future when we trigger the sh*t out of each other again. 

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Song: 

Ayla Nereo “Seeds"