The Liberated Life - When Did You Last Feel Free?

Listen to your body. You have heard this a thousand times. It is everywhere in the personal development world right now, and for good reason. A lot of us have spent years living entirely in our heads, cut off from what is happening below the neck. And learning to drop awareness into the body is genuinely important work. But there is something missing from the way this advice gets shared online, and Lucy has been sitting with it for a while. Because sometimes the body is not speaking truth. Sometimes it is speaking history. And if you act on those signals without stopping to ask which one it is, you can spend years running away from things that are good for you and towards things that are destroying you, all while telling yourself you are following your intuition. In this episode, you will find out why fear and intuition can feel almost identical in the body. Why the nervous system will reject safe love if safe love has never been familiar. And what the question is that is almost always missing from the blanket advice. Get curious about your body. But do not always do what it says. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com.

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What happens when you have spent 20 years learning two completely different languages, the language of capital markets and due diligence, and the language of Reiki, cacao ceremony and ancestral wisdom, and you finally stop treating them as separate? In this episode, Lucy sits down with Natalie, a transformational coach and impact investor who has spent two decades dancing between those worlds, and decided to stop choosing between them. You will hear why the resistance to a system is sometimes the very thing keeping you stuck inside it. Why the personal development world risks becoming its own form of separation from the very people and systems it claims to want to change. What it looks like to make a 180-degree life shift in two years, through a separation, a move to a new country, a renegotiation of friendships and everything in between, and still trust the process. And what to actually do if you are stuck on a hamster wheel in a high pressure job and want to start moving toward something that feels more true, without blowing everything up first. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com.

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She walked onto the stage, said she was terrified to admit this out loud, and then said it anyway. Men need more support. In this episode, Lucy sits down with Eve Stanway, psychotherapist, divorce coach and author with 25 years of experience, for a conversation that goes somewhere most podcasts in this space will not. You will hear why the men in your life are not emotionally unavailable by nature, and what actually happened along the way. Why the division between men and women that has come out of the last decade of feminist work is quietly making things worse in relationships, dating and families. Why the suicide rate for men after divorce is four times higher than for women, and what that has to do with a collective failure to support male emotional life. And why knowing there is a little boy inside the man who is driving you crazy might be the most useful thing you can hold onto when a conversation goes sideways. Eve also shares the story of her own childhood, which is one of the most remarkable things Lucy has heard, and why her father's death this year brought her the clearest understanding she has ever had of why this work matters. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com.

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Everything is relational. Your relationship with your partner, your friends, your money, your work, your body. The attachment patterns that show up when someone goes quiet on you are the same ones running in the background when your boss gives you praise, or when a friendship gets too close, or when you keep every door slightly open just in case. In this episode, Lucy joins Louise Lewis on her podcast for a conversation about why relational work is the piece that solo healing so often misses. You will understand why knowing your attachment style is not the same as changing anything. Why personal empowerment, done in isolation, can actually make you less capable of real connection. Why the moments in a relationship that feel unbearable are often the most important ones to stay curious about. And why the function of intimate relationship, when you stop expecting it to just be nice, becomes one of the most powerful containers for healing that exists. This conversation is honest in a way that is slightly uncomfortable and completely worth it. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com.

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You are anxious. But you cannot quite tell whether this anxiety is your nervous system telling you to leave, or your nervous system telling you that you are growing. Whether the relationship, the job, the city is actually wrong for you, or whether you just need to stay with the discomfort and work through it. In this episode, Lucy makes the distinction that she wishes she had understood years earlier. Not all anxiety means the same thing. Not all discomfort is a red flag. And not all discomfort is a growth edge either. You will understand why blanket advice like regulate yourself through it or if it's not a full body yes it's a no is not only unhelpful but can actively lead you away from good things and keep you in wrong ones. You will hear the specific question Lucy uses to figure out which kind of anxiety she is sitting in at any given moment. And you will find out what she realised about her flat after a week of house-sitting, and why she is moving. This is a short, practical, quietly important episode. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com.

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You used to love it. Or at least, it made sense. The career that paid well, that impressed people at dinner parties, that gave you something clean and respected to say when someone asked what you did. And now something has shifted and the idea of changing everything feels about as appealing as starting from nothing at forty. So you keep the head down and carry on. In this episode, Lucy sits down with Ivana, who has navigated four major career transitions across investment banking, entrepreneurship and venture capital, lived in six countries and built a portfolio career with two toddlers, to talk about what actually keeps people stuck in careers that stopped fitting years ago. You will understand the specific role that identity plays when your job title has been doing the work of telling the world who you are. You will hear why your relationship with money is almost never about how much is in your bank account. And you will find out what a portfolio career actually is, why it might be the third option you did not know existed, and how to start building one without blowing everything up first. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com.

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She was always the single one. The one at every wedding on her own. The one who told herself she intimidated men, or that she was just a work person, or that she simply hadn't met the right one yet. The one who, somewhere underneath all of that, was holding a pain she hadn't told almost anyone about. In this episode, Lucy shares the part of her story she has been sitting with for a while. The years of being perpetually single, of feeling like there was something fundamentally wrong with her, of watching everyone around her get chosen while she built an increasingly impressive career to have something to say for herself. You will hear what she actually understands now about why it was happening, which has nothing to do with being too intimidating or too busy or not pretty enough. You will understand what it means to be emotionally unavailable without knowing it. What protectors are and how they form. And why the golden egg at the end of all this is not the relationship. This is one of the most tender and honest episodes Lucy has recorded. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com.

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You were into him. Things were going well. And then he put his hand on the small of your back and something in you just... no. Full body repulsion. You told yourself he was boring, or too keen, or something you couldn't quite name. You ghosted. You moved on. And it kept happening, with the kind ones, with the available ones, never with the ones who were half-ignoring you. In this episode, Lucy talks about the ick. Not the version where you explain it away as pickiness or protection or your body just knowing. The version where you start to wonder why the ick only shows up with the men who are actually good to you. You will understand what is really happening underneath the repulsion, the little girl underneath the protector, and why calm keeps getting mistaken for boring by a nervous system that learned to confuse chaos with love. You will also hear how to start telling the difference between the ick as fear and the ick as genuine signal, and why you cannot usually do that alone. This is one of Lucy's most personal episodes and one of the most practically useful. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com.

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Women supporting women. It is everywhere right now. On the panels, in the initiatives, at the events with the glasses of wine and the sticky plate things. And somewhere underneath all of it, if you are honest, something feels off. Maybe you prefer working with men. Maybe groups of women make you quietly tense. Maybe you have noticed yourself rooting against someone you are supposed to be celebrating. In this episode, Lucy sits down with Mandy Rees, a former corporate lawyer turned speaker and coach, to talk about the thing that sits beneath all the lip service. The hidden terror, envy and competition that women carry towards each other, where it actually comes from, and why it does far more damage than anyone is willing to admit out loud. You will hear why the women's events are not working and what women actually need to feel safe with each other. Why jealousy of another woman is almost never about her. And what happens when you turn toward the woman who terrifies you instead of away from her. This is one of the most honest conversations about female friendship and female rivalry that this podcast has had. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com.

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You know you should not send the text. You know it. And then you send it anyway. And then you send another one. And somewhere in the back of your mind, a voice is going, what is happening to me, because this is not who I am. In this episode, Lucy tells the story of a four month relationship in the south of France that took three years to get over, a compulsive texting spiral she could not stop despite knowing she should, and what she wishes she had understood back then that would have saved her a decade. You will find out why anxious attachment behaviour, the clinging, the texting, the desperate need for contact, is not a character flaw. It is a protective response. And you will understand why reading about attachment styles, however many times you do it, does not actually touch the wound underneath. This episode is short, honest, and told with the kind of compassion for a past self that only comes from having actually done the work. If you have ever become a version of yourself in a relationship that you did not recognise, this one will feel like being understood somewhere nobody usually looks. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com.

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