’ve been drawn to wild horses since I was a little kid. There’s something about them that taps into something deep inside people — the freedom, the instinct, the untamed aliveness.

This summer, my daughter Tegan and I are stepping into something completely new as we train a wild mustang yearling through the Wild Rose Mustang Advocacy Group here in Colorado.

In this episode, I share my history with horses growing up in Montana, becoming a therapeutic riding instructor in my twenties, reconnecting with horses again in midlife, and why this experience feels so meaningful to me right now.

We also talk about the Devil’s Garden mustangs arriving from Northern California, what makes wild horses so fascinating through the lens of the nervous system, and why I think horses have a lot to teach humans right now.

This is the beginning of our summer journey training a wild mustang and I’m taking you along for the ride.

Want to learn more about the Wild Rose Mustang Advocacy Group You can learn more about their work, training programs, and mustang advocacy on their website www.wildrosemagic.org. 

⚠️ Explicit Content Warning: This episode contains conversations around grief, trauma, war, emotional despair, and mental health themes that may be sensitive for some listeners.

In this deeply moving episode of the Landy Peek Podcast, Landy sits down with writer, teacher, mystic, and creative guide Ellen Laura for a conversation about grief, creativity, identity, and the path back to yourself after life changes you forever.

After losing her first husband in the Vietnam War at just 19 years old, Ellen shares how trauma and heartbreak became the catalyst for reclaiming her voice, creativity, and sense of purpose. Together, Landy and Ellen explore how beauty, connection, and small daily acts of creativity can become lifelines during seasons of despair.

This episode is a powerful reminder that healing does not require becoming someone new. Sometimes it begins with listening to music, setting the table beautifully, planting flowers, or allowing yourself to feel connected again.

“You have no choice. If you don’t find a way to reclaim yourself, you will sink into a pit of despair.” — Ellen Laura

“Beauty is the first step to awakening.” — Ellen Laura

“Don’t focus only on what’s misaligned. Nurture what’s still alive.” — Ellen Laura

“Creativity can look like setting the table, planting flowers, turning on music instead of isolating.” — Landy Peek

Ellen Laura is a writer, meditation teacher, mystic, human design analyst, and creative mentor who has spent decades helping others reconnect with creativity, healing, and spiritual insight. Her work explores grief, archetypes, creativity, transformation, and reclaiming meaning after loss.

She is the author of Love in the Shadow of Saigon and the creator of the upcoming creativity reclamation project Blossom.

If this episode resonated with you, please share it with someone who may need this conversation today.

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What happens when you realize the role you’ve been playing in your family, relationships, and life is quietly exhausting you?

In this episode of The Landy Peek Podcast, Landy sits down with spiritual alignment coach and energy healer Christina Fletcher for a grounded, honest conversation about nervous system regulation, parenting, emotional responsibility, self-awareness, and what it looks like to stop over-functioning without shutting down your heart.

Together, they explore the invisible role so many women slip into without realizing it: managing everyone else’s emotions, anticipating needs, smoothing tension, and carrying more than was ever theirs to hold.

This conversation dives into the ways women lose connection with themselves while trying to take care of everyone around them — and how nervous system awareness can shift the way we parent, relate, make decisions, and move through everyday life.

Landy and Christina also talk about the reality of parenting children who don’t fit neatly into societal boxes, the pressure women feel to keep everything running smoothly, and the freedom that comes from allowing both yourself and your children to fully be who they are.

Christina Fletcher is a spiritual alignment coach and energy healer known for her grounded, practical approach to spirituality and self-awareness. Her work helps women reconnect with themselves in real time so they can move through life with more presence, stability, and wholeness.

Drawing from conscious parenting, nervous system awareness, spirituality, and energetic practices, Christina helps people stop abandoning themselves in the process of taking care of everyone else.

https://spirituallyawareliving.com 

https://www.instagram.com/spirituallyawareliving/ 

https://www.facebook.com/spirituallyawareliving 

https://substack.com/@spirituallyawareliving

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If this conversation resonated with you, share it with someone who has been carrying too much for too long.

Someone who is learning that being loving does not mean becoming responsible for everyone else’s emotions, choices, or wellbeing.

Because maybe healing isn’t about becoming someone new.

Maybe it’s about finally allowing yourself to fully be who you already are.

f you feel overwhelmed, reactive, anxious, or stretched too thin in midlife, this episode will help you understand what may be happening in your body.

In this conversation, Landy sits down with Marilu Wren, an energiologist trained in EFT tapping and kinesiology, to explore stress, nervous system responses, emotional safety, grounding, and self-trust.

They discuss why stress can start to feel familiar, how the body holds onto experiences, and how simple practices like tapping and grounding can help you feel more supported and stable.

Stress often happens when the demands on you are greater than the resources available to you.

This episode offers a perspective on how to begin resourcing yourself through simple, supportive practices.

Marilu Wren is a wellbeing practitioner, speaker, and mother of four based in the southwest of England. Her work centers on helping people feel safer in their bodies so they can move out of stress, overwhelm, and inner conflict with more ease.

With over two decades of personal and professional exploration, Marilu supports clients to understand their nervous system responses rather than fight them. Her approach is grounded, compassionate, and practical, focusing on regulation, emotional safety, and restoring balance at the root.

Website: www.mariluwren.com 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mariluwrenenergeologist 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marilu.wren/ 
Linktree: linktr.ee/mariluwren

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In this episode of The Landy Peek Podcast, Landy sits down with Kelly Harris for a powerful conversation about storytelling, leadership, and the real reason your lived experience matters more than you think.

Kelly shares how the stories you have lived — even the ordinary, messy, everyday ones — can become the very thing that helps you connect more deeply, lead more clearly, and attract the right people into your life and work.

Together, they explore why storytelling is not just for business owners, but for any woman navigating leadership in motherhood, work, relationships, or personal growth. This conversation unpacks how everyday moments can hold deeper meaning, how to recognize the lesson inside the mess, and how the right story can become a bridge to trust, resonance, and growth.

Kelly also introduces her MESS framework — Moment, Emotion, Shift, Share — as a practical way to turn lived experience into meaningful content, insight, or leadership.

They dive into:

This episode is for the woman who knows she has something to say… but hesitates to say it.

Your story matters. And sharing it well might be the very thing that changes everything.

Connect with Kelly:

Website: www.kellyharriscreative.com

Instagram: @kellyharriscreative

Email: [email protected]

What if the book you have been thinking about is not impossible to write?
What if you have just been trying to write it in a way that does not actually fit how your brain works?

In this rich and energizing conversation, Landy sits down with Leslie Capps to talk about women’s voices, writing books, authority, visibility, storytelling, and the self-doubt that shows up the second we consider sharing our work in a bigger way.

Together, they explore why so many women have meaningful stories, ideas, and expertise to share, yet still hesitate to put themselves fully out into the world. They talk about the pressure to get it right, the fear of being seen, and the ways women have been conditioned to shrink, stay quiet, or wait for permission.

One of the most freeing parts of this conversation is the idea that writing a book does not have to begin with sitting at a computer and forcing polished words onto a page. Leslie shares how speaking her ideas out loud changed the process completely, and how verbal processing, structure, and AI can support women in getting their real voice onto the page.

Landy and Leslie also talk about what happens emotionally while creating: the self-doubt, the scrambled brain, the “I’m a fraud” spiral, and the temptation to walk away. Instead of treating that as proof you should stop, Leslie reframes it as part of the creative process itself.

This conversation goes beyond mechanics. It gets to the deeper truth that a book is not just a marketing tool. It can help you hear yourself more clearly, trust yourself more deeply, and claim your authority in a new way.

They also explore a powerful reframe around expertise: you do not have to know everything to help someone. You only need to be one step ahead of the person you are here to guide.

This episode also touches on storytelling, visibility, and the importance of structure. Instead of dumping everything you know into one book, Leslie encourages women to think about the journey they want to take the reader on and how their message can open the door to deeper work.

If you know there is a message in you, a story in you, or a book in you, this episode will meet you right there.

In this episode, we talk about:

Connect with Leslie Capps:

Website: https://lesliecapps.com/ 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliecapps 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leslie.capps.9/ 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lesliejcapps/ 
Author In 30: https://authorin30.com/about-us

Can you be surrounded by people and still feel deeply alone?

In this conversation, Landy sits down with relationship coach and author Stacey Rocklein to talk about the kind of loneliness many women experience but rarely have language for: the loneliness of not feeling seen, heard, or truly understood inside their closest relationships.

Together, they unpack how disconnection can quietly build in marriage, motherhood, and midlife, even when life looks full from the outside. They explore emotional intimacy, recurring relationship patterns, conflict, repair, boundaries, and what it really takes to feel closer to your partner again.

This episode is a powerful reminder that conflict is not the problem. The real issue is what happens after it. Landy and Stacey talk about how to understand what is underneath the same repeated fights, how to communicate your needs more clearly, and how to create more safety, honesty, and connection in your relationship.

They also share practical tools for moving through emotional activation, supporting yourself in hard moments, and shifting from resentment and disconnection into deeper intimacy.

If you have ever felt lonely in a relationship, stuck in the same patterns, or unsure how to ask for what you need without creating more tension, this episode is for you.

In this episode, we cover:

How to connect with Stacey:
Website: stacyrocklein.com
Instagram: @stacyrocklein
YouTube: Stacy Rocklein
Facebook: Stacy Rocklein
LinkedIn: Stacy Rocklein
Email: [email protected]

What if the discomfort you are feeling is not a sign that something is wrong… but a sign that you are outgrowing who you had to be?

In this powerful conversation, Landy sits down with Leanne Jamison, licensed psychotherapist, founder of the Institute for Female Trailblazers, and co-host of the Crooked Talk Straight podcast, to talk about the identity shifts so many women experience in midlife but rarely have language for.

They unpack the very real and often disorienting season where the version of you that built the life, held it all together, led the team, raised the family, and kept everything moving… starts to feel like it no longer fits.

This episode is for the woman who is successful, capable, deeply responsible, and suddenly wondering:
Why does what used to work not work anymore?
Why do I feel off, anxious, unmotivated, or stretched thin when I usually handle everything?
Why does growth feel so messy in this season of life?

Leanne introduces her framework around identity thresholds and the phases women move through when they are no longer aligned with the identity that once kept them safe, successful, and in control. Together, she and Landy explore the grief, nervous system activation, deconstruction, and rebuilding that often happen when women begin stepping into a new level of leadership, self-trust, and capacity.

They also talk about the hidden cost of being “the capable one,” “the strong one,” or “the responsible one,” and why the very identities that helped you survive and succeed can eventually become the ones that keep you stuck.

This is a rich conversation about midlife reinvention, nervous system regulation, grief, identity expansion, leadership, motherhood, partnership, and the courage it takes to stop overfunctioning and begin living in a different way.

Leanne Jamison is a licensed psychotherapist with 20 years of experience, the founder of the Institute for Female Trailblazers, and the co-host of the Crooked Talk Straight podcast. Her work helps women understand the identity shifts they move through in life and leadership so they can navigate change with more clarity, compassion, and confidence.

https://www.instituteforfemaletrailblazers.com/

https://www.facebook.com/leanne.jamison.trailblazer

https://www.instagram.com/institute_female_trailblazers/

If you have been feeling the tension of becoming someone new while grieving who you had to be, this episode will make you feel deeply seen.

Why does it feel like you are trying to share your experience, your feelings, or your hurt… and somehow he hears it as criticism?

In this episode, Landy Peek unpacks one of the most painful relationship dynamics so many women live inside: the moment you try to express what is going on for you, and the conversation immediately shifts. Instead of feeling heard, you are met with defensiveness. Instead of feeling closer, you feel even more alone. Instead of your feelings being received, he feels criticized, blamed, or like he is failing.

This is a no-blame conversation about emotional misattunement, nervous system patterns, and the exhausting cycle that happens when one person is trying to share their inner experience and the other experiences that sharing as accusation. Because most women are not trying to attack. They are trying to be understood. They are trying to express hurt, disconnection, loneliness, resentment, or overwhelm before it turns into something bigger. But when that expression is repeatedly received as criticism, the relationship can start to feel deeply painful for both people.

Landy explores why this dynamic happens, why so many women start questioning themselves when they are simply trying to communicate honestly, and why this becomes even more charged in midlife and perimenopause, when the capacity to keep softening, filtering, and carrying the emotional weight of the relationship often starts to run out.

This episode is for the woman who is tired of walking away from conversations feeling misunderstood, tired of being seen as “too much” when she is trying to share what is true for her, and tired of wondering how something as vulnerable as sharing a feeling turns into a conversation about his defensiveness.

If you have ever thought, I wasn’t attacking you. I was trying to tell you how I feel, this episode will hit home.

In this episode, we cover:

You care about what is happening in the world.
You want to help.
You want to use your voice.
But between kids, work, mental load, and the nonstop overwhelm of life, it can feel impossible to know where to start.

In this episode, Landy sits down with Cynthia Changyit Levin — author, advocate, and mom — to talk about what advocacy can actually look like in real life. Cynthia is the author of From Changing Diapers to Changing the World and Advocacy Made Easy, and her work helps people turn concern into practical, grounded action.

This conversation is for the woman who cares deeply but does not have the capacity to become a full-time activist.

You’ll hear how to find your starting point, why you do not have to do something huge to make a difference, how to connect with organizations already doing meaningful work, and why taking action can actually help lower anxiety by giving you a place to put your care, your voice, and your energy.

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, or powerless, this episode will help advocacy feel more possible, more practical, and more human.

How to start advocating when you care deeply but feel overwhelmed

Why you do not need to create something massive to make a difference

The best first steps for busy moms who want to use their voice

How to find causes and organizations already doing good work

Simple ways to advocate, including letters, op-eds, calls, and meetings

Why action can reduce anxiety and help you feel less powerless

How advocacy can support identity, purpose, and meaning in midlife

What advocacy can look like with young kids in the mix

The power of community, connection, and “play dates with purpose”

Why your personal story matters more than you think

Website: https://www.changyit.com/ 
Advocacy Made Easy: https://www.changyit.com/product-page/advocacy-made-easy 
From Changing Diapers to Changing the World: https://www.changyit.com/product-page/from-changing-diapers-to-changing-the-world 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccylevin/ 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CynthiaChangyitLevin/ 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthiachangyitlevin 
X: https://x.com/ccylevin 

If this conversation resonated, send it to the woman who cares deeply, wants to help, and has been wondering where to begin.