The Inner Alchemy Podcast with Becca Clegg: Empowering You to Create Your Dream Life Using the Magic Within

You know that phrase "I feel seen right now"? Well, it's safe to say that I felt super seen during this interview with confidence expert and leadership coach, Barbara Churchill, on the Inner Alchemy Podcast. Imposter syndrome is a mindset that many of us have ascribed to, making us believe that we are unworthy and we constantly have to be striving for perfection and accomplishment. Barbara imparts incredible wisdom about overcoming imposter syndrome, the fun of failure, and Glennon Doyle's cheetah quote. If you have perfectionist tendencies, identify as a workaholic, or feel like you're always chasing, you're going to want to tune into this one.

In last week's episode, I talked about pandemic burnout and the effects that this time has had on our nervous systems. We're following up this week with Jamie Singleteary, Regional Outreach Manager at Monte Nido and Affiliates, to give you tangible tips on how to work through that pandemic wall. Jamie is well-versed in the art of navigating the mental health system, and as we experience a therapy shortage in post-COVID America, Jamie enlightens us on how to find the support you need. Tune in to hear about Jamie's Michael Jackson spotlight moment, assuming too much responsibility in our youth, and more.

As we start to make strides towards a post-COVID world, but it still remains a very real thing that presents very real challenges, I wanted to chat a little bit about pandemic burnout. As humans, we are really skilled at adapting mentally, but our nervous systems are still feeling the effects of a pretty traumatic year. In this episode, we'll talk about self-judgment, finding support, and adopting a new mantra: "It's not you, it's the pandemic."

This episode of the Inner Alchemy Podcast highlights the healing power of couples’ counseling with relationship coach and therapist, Mika Ross. Mika talks about the cultural disparity between the expectations of moms and dads, as well as the misconception that couples have to wait until the relationship is too far gone to seek help. She also shares her recipe for the perfect morning coffee, as well as the secret behind getting rid of your to-go cups.

I have been anxiously awaiting my interview with iconoclast and poet, Katie Vie, and it’s finally here! Katie joins me on the Inner Alchemy Podcast to discuss something I have always found so fascinating– archetypes. Archetypes are symbols that, whether you know it or not, have become engrained in your own life and ways of communication. Katie dives into just how powerful archetypes can be as a gateway to self-understanding, as well as how aligning to nature can allow us to rest the many facets of ourselves. You won’t want to miss this one. 

Amy Jaynes joins us on the Inner Alchemy Podcast to discuss the unique approach of emotionally focused therapy to the healing process. Emotionally focused therapy, or EFT as you might hear it referred to, has become the “gold standard” of therapy, and it’s easy to tell why after hearing Amy’s insight into the process. By establishing both a cognitive understanding and a felt sense of our interaction in relationships, we can learn to better communicate with both ourselves and others. Tune in to hear us talk all things couples’ counseling and early 2000’s hip hop.

Our culture has created a damning narrative around how we feel about our bodies, and we are so grateful to Inner Alchemy Podcast guest, Heidi Lynn Andersen, for joining us on this episode to tell us more about reclaiming the true definition of beauty. Our bodies hold such a wealth of wisdom, but we are conditioned to ignore it entirely. This episode explores the burning question: What can we learn from our bodies, and what can we do with that information once we know it? Join us as we chat heart wisdom, cleaning the house, and more.

On this episode of the Inner Alchemy Podcast, Diane Hilleary and I dial in on self-compassion, which is a little something we could all use a lot more of. Diane is a psychotherapist and mindfulness therapist, and she shares with us a number of insights and mantras that can reframe how we interact with ourselves on a daily basis. We have to spend a lot of time with ourselves; we might as well be just as kind to ourselves as we would to other people.

Mazi Robinson joins us on this episode of The Inner Alchemy Podcast to talk about shame and vulnerability and just how powerful both of these things can be in our lives. We talk about the small steps and big leaps to becoming more unabashedly vulnerable,  the "no shame" behind Mazi still using hot rollers, and saying "no" if you just really don't want to go to Chili's.

This episode couldn’t come at a better time. In a time of uncertainty and anxiety, we, as humans, are getting a crash course in surrendering. Crystal Bowlby joins us on The Inner Alchemy Podcast to discuss how transformative it can be to choose surrender, rather than use it as a last resort when we don’t know what else to do. While there are certainly choices to be made throughout life, Crystal shares her insights on the power of simply being with our fear and ourselves, inviting the universe to take over. We talk Kirk Cameron, Days of Our Lives, and #itgetsbetter, too.