The Liberated Life - When Did You Last Feel Free?

In this episode of The Ache, I respond to a listener who describes a quiet, persistent loneliness despite having a full life, a successful career, close friendships, travel, and years of personal growth. We explore why gratitude doesn’t cancel longing, why independence doesn’t erase the need to be met, and how it’s possible to feel proud of your life while still grieving the one you imagined. I speak about complex, often unacknowledged grief, the grief of timing, identity, and unrealised futures, and why this kind of ache doesn’t mean something has gone wrong. Drawing on Carl Jung’s understanding of loneliness, we look at how loneliness is not always about the absence of people, but about the absence of somewhere for what matters most inside us to land. This episode is an invitation to stop shaming the ache, to allow two truths to coexist, and to let longing be meaningful without turning it into a verdict on your life.→ Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve→ Join the waitlist for the group programme

If Christmas leaves you feeling more activated than festive… this episode is your permission slip to breathe. In today’s solo episode, we explore why going home for the holidays can pull you straight back into old patterns — the people-pleasing, the shrinking, the performing, the overthinking — even after all the therapy, the journaling, the self-awareness. Because the truth is: your family isn’t the trigger; your family is the blueprint. In this conversation, we dive into why being around family reactivates your nervous system, the identity you slip into at home (and how it shows up in dating too), the avoidant, anxious, and shutdown patterns that surface during the holidays, how Christmas can become a portal into real relational healing, five gentle things to notice in your body this week, and a simple regulation practice you can use anytime you feel yourself spiralling. This episode isn’t about fixing yourself; it’s about seeing yourself — clearly, tenderly, honestly. Because everything that gets activated around your family at Christmas is the same thing that gets activated in your relationships. When you learn to meet it with curiosity instead of self-judgment, everything begins to shift.→ Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve→ Join the waitlist for the group programme→ FREE breathing Practice

What happens when you stop editing yourself and start showing up in your full, untamed aliveness?In this whirly, wild episode, I sit down with Becca for a soulful conversation on creative freedom, grief, visibility, and the rituals that root us.Together, we dive into:• Letting go of the “likeable” filter and what opens up when you do• The messy beauty of celebrating in the in-between, not just at the finish line• What Unitarian Universalism taught her about belonging, mystery, and meaning• Grieving a beloved friend and how that loss cracked open new clarity around risk, death, and desire• Embodiment as both compass and creative engine• The real talk behind visibility, spiritual weirdness, and what it means to take up spaceFor the woman standing at the edge of her next brave move this episode is your permission slip to get a little wild, get a little loud, and celebrate yourself before the world catches up.→ Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve @wildwomanbecca

In today’s episode, I introduce a new series called The Ache - a space where we explore the truths most women hide behind polished exteriors: the shame, the longing, the patterns that feel impossible to break. Our first submission speaks to a common but rarely admitted experience: “I love my fiancé, but every time I see this other guy, I forget my values. I feel lit up, obsessed, pulled toward him… and then ashamed. I don’t want to sabotage what I have, but I can’t seem to stop.” In this episode, we unravel what’s really happening beneath behaviour that looks “wrong” on the surface but makes perfect sense somatically. We explore why your system might feel more alive with the wrong person than with the right one, why stability can feel threatening if you grew up around unpredictable love, and why your body might confuse familiar activation with attraction. This conversation goes into the deeper layers - the younger parts who still expect love to come with anxiety, the self-protective patterns that show up as sabotage, and the real question underneath cheating: Who do you get to be with this other man that you don’t feel allowed to be in your relationship? This episode isn’t about justifying behaviour - it’s about understanding it. Because you can’t change a pattern you’re still shaming yourself for. If you want your own Ache explored in a future episode, you can submit anonymously through the link in the show notes.

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In this episode, we explore the truth most women feel but rarely admit out loud: the fear of female intimacy, the awkwardness of walking into a room full of women, and the part of you that signs up for a group or retreat and then immediately thinks, “F***… what have I done?” We dive into the history of the sisterhood wound — how patriarchy separated women on purpose, how witch hunts traumatised female community, and how modern girlhood reinforces comparison, exclusion, and competition. We unpack how this wound shows up today as hyper-independence, intimidation, anxiety in women-only spaces, or the quiet belief that you don’t belong with other women. And we talk about what becomes possible when women feel safe together: deep regulation, co-healing, belonging, and the softening that can only happen in female community. If you’ve been feeling the pull toward women’s circles, groups, or retreats but the fear is loud, this episode will help you understand exactly why — and why that “f****” feeling is often the sign that something powerful is opening. If you’re ready to explore this in community, the link to join is in the show notes.

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What happens when your partner doesn’t get your path—but you love them anyway?

In this intimate, no-holds-barred conversation, we explore the complex dance of staying true to your calling when the person you share your home with doesn’t speak your spiritual language.

Together, we unpack:

• The moment you realize your partner can’t meet you on the same frequency and how that lands in the body

• What it’s really like to build a purpose-led or “witchy” business with someone who’s skeptical

• The quiet ways women shrink—or shape-shift—to make love feel safer

• Navigating the line between honoring your magic and not making him the villain

• How to protect your softness without going silent

• The difference between spiritual compatibility and relational compatibility (and why it matters)

This one’s for the woman whispering her truth in a house that doesn’t quite hear it yet.

You’re not silly. You’re not alone.

And no, you don’t have to choose between love and liberation.

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If you’ve ever tried to “figure it out” — to logic your way out of anxiety, shame, or heartbreak — and still found yourself looping in the same patterns, this episode is for you. Lucy dives into why healing attachment wounding through the mind doesn’t work — because the body doesn’t speak the language of logic. It speaks in sensations, impulses, contractions, and the deep, wordless memory of what love once cost you. You’ll hear why your emotional reactions aren’t irrational, even when they feel that way — and how your body’s “irrational” responses are actually intelligent — shaped by the relationships that taught you what was safe (and what wasn’t). Lucy explores how to begin reconnecting with the body — not to control or bypass it — but to finally listen. Because until you feel safe in your body, your mind will keep running in circles trying to protect you. This is a powerful listen for anyone who’s exhausted from “doing the work,” but still feels stuck, self-critical, or secretly afraid they’re just broken. You’re not. You’re just healing in the wrong language.

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What happens when the life you’ve built no longer fits—when the version of you that once made sense starts to feel like a costume you can’t breathe in? In this episode of The Liberated Life, Lucy sits down with Kat Johnson, a holistic practitioner who, at forty, walked away from a twenty-year career in life sciences to follow a truth she could no longer ignore. Her body said enough. And she listened. Together, they explore what it really means to be the heroine between peaks—that raw, tender space between who you were and who you’re becoming. It’s not the glossy “after” moment. It’s the in-between: the unraveling, the trusting, the choosing-yourself-anyway. They flow through the edge Kat’s been sitting in since leaving a career of certainty for a path of purpose; the truth they both wish more women would say out loud about healing and “having it all together”; the often-unspoken realities of growth, motherhood, and what it takes to let your identity evolve; and the deep wisdom that comes from honouring your body’s no, even when your mind screams stay. This is a conversation about the wildness of following your gut when logic says don’t, and the grace it takes to live between the peaks—where the truest kind of growth happens. ✨ For the woman standing at her own edge, wondering if she can trust the fall. You can. Your body already knows the way.

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What happens when the version of you that everyone admires… starts to feel like a costume?

In this raw and resonant conversation, I sit down with a woman who has shapeshifted through many lives—corporate high-flyer, healer, energy worker—and who knows firsthand the cost of clinging to identities that no longer fit.

We explore what it really takes to step out of performance and into presence. How trauma can keep us fused to old roles. And why grief is the often-ignored portal to personal liberation.

Inside the episode, we explore:

• Why letting go of “the impressive one” can feel like death

• The sacred grief work beneath every transformation

• Invisible patterns high-achieving women carry in their nervous systems

• What true readiness for change sounds, feels, and looks like

• The truth about what happens when you stop proving and start living

If you’ve been teetering on the edge of your old life—terrified to let go but aching for more—this one’s for you. Come listen. Come exhale. Come remember who you were before the world told you who to be.

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We’ve become professionally overdeveloped and relationally underdeveloped — brilliant at holding it all together, but not always safe enough to let ourselves be seen. In this episode, Lucy shares how her own mask of achievement became armour, and what it takes to feel safe in love, truth, and connection. You’ll explore why success can feel easier than intimacy, how control replaces safety, and what happens when you finally let yourself be real. You don’t need to shrink to be loved — you just need to feel safe enough to stay.

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