The Finding Her Way Podcast

This is SO important!!! Especially if you are this combo: 

woman + neurodivergent + creative

You are not like the majority. Therefore, you have non-majority needs, and it is vital (literally how you either burn out or feel so wonderfully alive) that you be able to validate those needs for yourself, regardless of what others think, feel, perceive or say. 

If you'd like to explore this together you can email me to book 1:1 somatic sessions, [email protected]. 

If your body hasn't learned to feel safe to simply be, which is what happens to most adults as we grow up, then you end up living a life focused on keeping up a performance, leaving no room for mistakes, and no space to explore and experience freely.

In other words, we stop being able to play, and this is truly the thing we are working at reclaiming through the process of healing trauma.

The ability to simply be and to move through the world trying what interests us and seeing how that goes, without needing to predict or control the outcome, is play.

When it comes down to it, our pursuit of joy, fulfillment, satisfaction, peace, all really benefit from being able to access the necessary internal permission to play again.

It's the fck around and find out energy that we need when carving our own path, doing things our way. 

If you would like to explore building the internal capacity to free your body's ability to play and move freely through your life, you can email me about 1:1 somatic sessions at [email protected]

Lots of love! 

Islay 

Shame is such a sneaky thing and this episode focuses on how it can block us from our healing and liberation, my hope is that this supports you in noticing the parts of your life experiences that you've felt ashamed of, and to develop the capacity to hold yourself with validation and compassion, so that shame doesn't keep shutting you down and keeping you stuck.

There is no shame in devoting to freeing yourself from painful, historical, systemic, familial patterns that cause you harm. In fact, it's something to be very proud of. 

Want to explore how somatics could support your healing and liberation process? Send me an email! [email protected]. 

If you find yourself questioning what it is you truly want, feeling like your "YES" is out of reach, or like you can't really trust yourself to move towards what you feel called to, you likely need to start with building a relationship with your "NO". 

For those of us who have experienced trauma, whose bodies never felt safe enough to tune into our own feelings and desires, our YES & NO have often been defined by the world around us, and more specifically, by our perception of what we believe will help us meet our needs. 

Somatics supports us in turning inwards, in cultivating the safety necessary for the body's truth to begin expressing itself, so that over time, we learn to trust our authentic selves, our internal authority, so that it can lead the way in our lives, creating a life we actually want to say YES to, with the full confidence that our NO will be there to care for us whenever necessary. 

If you want to build an embodied relationship with your yes and no and get your life-force back, email me to explore 1:1 somatic sessions [email protected] 

It is a very common pattern to feel like no matter how hard you try, you are "never enough", and in this episode I share what I see as the root cause of this embodied belief. 

When we aren't getting our needs met as children, we develop mechanisms to get those needs met. And while they can and often do support us for a time, they are maladaptive in the sense that we grow up practicing these patterns stemming from a survival need, and take them into adulthood. 

This can lead to being women who do, do, do, cannot rest, are never satisfied with what they accomplish and cannot celebrate themselves, low self-esteem and lack of confidence and self love (I know because I have lived it and am actively healing this). 

The path to healing and freeing ourselves from these patterns is to start to learn how to attune to ourselves, which is what we needed in childhood but did not receive. Attuning to our needs through our bodies, gently builds our capacity to meet those needs, which are often actually emotional & spiritual once the basics are covered, allows us to start living a life in which we take action from a place of sovereign choice based in desire, instead of reactively due to unmet foundational needs for being well within ourselves. 

If you resonated and are interested in 1:1 somatic work, you can email me [email protected]

Do you actually want the things you want?

Or are you chasing what you believe will make you feel a certain way?

This episode explores a reframe on our definitions of success from a somatic perspective, inviting you to get curious about how you want to feel, instead of what you think you need to get in order to feel a certain way. This is a trap of the mind, and teaching your body how to have capacity to feel fully, avoids having this trap run your life, allowing you to make the sovereign choices that are necessary for a life that truly feels good to you. 

If you're curious about somatics and working together, you can reach out via email! 

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You know what they say, the truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. That's good. Get mad. Get sad. Get clear about what hurts. Learn to hold it and to witness it fully. It's this very process that allows for healing to occur. We cannot skip this step. 

To explore 1:1 somatic sessions you can email me, [email protected]

It can feel exhausting, lonely and hopeless when you're in the middle of it — noticing pattern after pattern, your body speaking louder and louder, the people around you seeming to go on with their lives as usual, all while you're asking yourself "what the heck is going on and why is no one else noticing this". 

REMINDER: There is nothing wrong with you, you are life reclaiming itself <3

P.S. — Once you're listened I would love to hear your reflections. What have you been moving through? Which patterns are you noticing? How did this episode land and did it give you any insights into your path? 

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The fear, the fire, two sides of the same truth. Time to rise. 

Every experience you have ever had lives in your body. This includes the imprint of collective memory; the experiences of past generations that have been passed down through nervous systems & culture. 

In this episode we are exploring somatics as a way of healing trauma and reclaiming our natural power as creative beings. To explain this I share my story of pursuing songwriting and the challenges I had along the way; and how somatics has enabled me to move past the doubt and judgement into authentic expression. 

This episode is for any woman who is in a devoted pursuit of creating a life she loves and believe in, and leaves you with the bigger message that your desires are the compass to your authentic self and accessing your creative potential through your body is how you can heal and create new realities. 

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