The Liberated Life - When Did You Last Feel Free?

What if the version of success you’ve been chasing isn’t actually what your soul needs? In this heart-opening conversation, I’m joined by my dear friend and former client, Laura — a radiant, real-deal human who knows both the ache of trying to “get it right” and the freedom that comes when you stop trying to perfect your way to peace. Together, we explore the tender terrain of the messy middle — the in-between season where nothing feels certain, but everything is shifting. We talk about the illusion of “making it,” and how perfectionism often hides behind our love of learning, achievement, or constant self-improvement. Laura shares what it’s looked like to reclaim joy, to trust her body’s signals, and to soften into being seen — without needing to be polished. We also wander into some delightfully unexpected territory: from the role of AI in creativity to how we perform healing even while longing to be held. In this episode, we explore: why “making it” is often just another form of pressure, the role perfectionism plays in learning, growth, and visibility, the difference between reaching from joy vs. reaching to prove, how to stay with yourself in the messy middle, what embodiment really looks like in seasons of change, and a gentle truth for anyone stuck in the loop of not-enoughness. This one’s for the woman who feels like she’s always becoming. Who’s tired of pretending she’s fine. Who’s ready to build a life that holds her — as she is, not as she should be. Let it land. Let it soften you. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve → Laura’s Website

Ever found yourself in a room of open-hearted women drumming to meet their spirit animals and thought — who have I become?! Yeah. Same. In this week’s off-the-cuff episode, I take you inside a shamanic drumming circle, where I half-laughed, half-cringed my way into meeting… a dragonfly. Not exactly the soaring hawk or stoic wolf I imagined. But she had something to teach me. This episode is a tender-meets-hilarious reflection on what it means to move through life lightly — even when it all feels a bit absurd. We talk spiritual skepticism, the Gene Key journey from seriousness to ecstasy, and how Aldous Huxley became an unexpected guide. If you’ve ever felt heavy and oh so serious or just needed a reminder that you’re allowed to play your way free, this one’s for you. In this episode: the power animal I didn’t ask for (and what she revealed anyway), where delight fits into the healing journey, a poetic pause from Aldous Huxley, letting go of the need to “get it right” in spiritual spaces, and why life doesn’t have to be so serious. Come dance through the medicine with me. Sometimes the lesson isn’t in going deeper — it’s in going lighter. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve → Learn more about 1:1 coaching

We’ve all heard it: “Just listen to your body.” But what if your body says run the moment someone offers you real safety? What if the flutter you chase is actually your nervous system reenacting old wounds? In this episode, I unpack the nuance behind somatic cues — especially in relationships — and why your first bodily response isn’t always the most trustworthy. If you've ever ghosted a good man, got the ick for “no reason,” or felt bored by someone kind and steady… this one's for you. This is a conversation about what happens beneath the surface. About how trauma speaks through sensation. About learning to tell the difference between a true no and a nervous system flare-up. Because embodiment isn’t just about following the body's lead. It’s about listening with discernment. Inside, we explore: why “just listen to your body” can be misleading, what’s really happening when you get the ick with someone kind, and how to inquire into the body instead of blindly obeying it. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve → Learn more about 1:1 coaching → FREE DOWNLOAD: 3-Part Audio Series: Done with Almost — For the woman who’s done the work… but still ends up alone.

What happens when you’re the one who crossed the line? In this deeply honest conversation, I sit down with transformational love and relationship coach Alex Croxford to talk about a kind of betrayal that doesn’t get much airtime — the kind where you’re the one who cheated. Together, we explore what it really takes to come home to yourself after breaking trust, and why cheating, especially by women, is still so taboo. Alex shares her personal story of infidelity and divorce, and the radical self-truths she had to face in order to truly heal. We talk about the deep conditioning around being a “good girl,” how shame can keep you stuck in cycles of self-abandonment, and why you’re not inherently bad if you’ve cheated. This episode is a reclamation, for the woman who feels broken, unworthy, or beyond repair. For the woman who's still trying to outrun what she did, or what was done to her. In this episode, we explore: why self-abandonment — not desire — is often the root of cheating, what emotional intimacy actually requires in a relationship, the truth about shame and female infidelity, how to reconnect to love, desire, and self-trust after rupture, and why you don’t need to be the “good girl” to be worthy of love. This conversation is for the woman who thought healing meant punishment — when really, it means coming home. — Connect with Alex: Instagram: @iamalexcroxford → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve → Learn more about 1:1 coaching

We’re told to let it go. To get over it. To tuck it neatly into a box, never to be touched again. But shame doesn’t disappear just because we pretend it’s not there. It buries itself deep — in our bodies, our breath, our nervous systems — and quietly scripts our lives. In this episode, we go there. Into the raw, holy mess of shame. I talk about the collective denial we live in around our shame, and the quiet violence of hiding the parts of ourselves we’ve deemed unworthy. I share where shame actually comes from, why it makes sense that we carry it, and what becomes possible when we finally stop running. You’ll hear: the real cost of carrying shame in silence, how transmuting shame can unlock life force (and what that looked like for me after being trolled), why embodiment — not insight — is what liberates us, and a sacred secret invitation that might just change everything. This is not just an episode — it’s an invocation. If you’ve ever felt like you had to perform, please others, or hide your truth to be loved, this one’s for you. It’s the crux of the work I do and the gateway to building a life big enough to hold all of you. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve → Learn more about 1:1 coaching → Join Shameless

You’re not stuck because you’re broken. You’re stuck because you keep leaving yourself behind. In this episode, I speak to the quiet ache so many women carry — the ache of living lives that look good on the outside but feel hollow underneath. We explore the roots of self-abandonment, from mother wounds to internalized praise, and how it’s still playing out in your “functioning.” If you’ve ever found yourself nodding yes when everything in your body whispered no — or felt like the “easy” one in rooms that couldn’t hold your depth — this one’s for you. I share personal stories, somatic truths, and spiritual reminders that will stir something in you. Not to shame. But to bring you back. You’ll hear about: the early templates we inherited around being “good” and staying small, how high-achieving women unconsciously abandon themselves daily, why breathwork cracked something open in me — and how it might for you, and the slow, sacred practice of returning to yourself. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve → Learn more about 1:1 coaching → Download my FREE 7 Days Back to You

This one wasn’t planned. It just needed to come through. In today’s off-the-cuff episode, I’m speaking into the gritty, complex terrain of self-betrayal — the parts of us that act from pain, not alignment. The things we do that we swore we never would. The moments that split us from ourselves. I share a recent experience of being trolled after posting something vulnerable online — how it cracked open a deeper conversation about shame, courage, and compassion for the parts of us we’re still learning how to love. In this episode, we explore: why high-functioning women still carry unprocessed shame, what happens when we act out from a part of us that's deeply hurt, how the “good girl” identity keeps us stuck in binary thinking, the liberating truth that we are not just one self — but many, and why healing means turning toward, not away, from the parts that scare us. If you’ve ever done something that made you question who you are… if you’ve ever been scared that your darkness makes you unlovable… this one’s for you. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve → Learn more about 1:1 coaching

In today’s raw and unfiltered episode, I share something deeply personal — a moment I broke. Full-body sobs. Snot and all. The kind of moment that strips away the masks and brings you face to face with truth. I’ve been dancing at the edge — between the life I was taught to want and the one my soul came here to create. And in this episode, I name the fear that’s been whispering (and sometimes screaming) beneath the surface: fear of failure, fear I made a mistake, fear that I’m not cut out for this wild and liberated path. This is for you if you’ve ever wondered: “What if I got it wrong?” “What if I go back?” “What if I keep going…?” This is a love letter to the part of you that’s terrified — and still moving forward. You’re not broken. You’re remembering. And you don’t have to do it alone. In this episode, we explore: what it really feels like when the old self grips tight, why pretending, pushing, and performing no longer work, how fear can disguise itself as logic or nostalgia, the soul-stretching moment of standing on the edge between safety and truth, and an invitation to walk the path of liberation, with support. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve → Learn more about 1:1 coaching

So much of feeling stuck — emotionally, relationally, spiritually — comes back to one thing: we’re not saying what’s true. In this raw, unfiltered solo episode, recorded just after a Diamond Approach session, I talk about what it really means to reclaim your voice — and how the inability to speak truth is often what keeps us trapped in lives, relationships, and dynamics that don’t reflect who we are. I share: the link between emotional shutdown and unexpressed truth, how not having language for your needs, emotions, or boundaries creates chronic loneliness, why so many high-functioning women feel trapped — not because of their circumstances, but because they can’t express what’s happening inside, the ancestral layers of female silence — and what it means to reclaim voice in a culture that has punished feminine expression for generations, and a reminder that we are finally safe enough to speak — and why reclaiming your voice is an act of liberation, not just communication. If you’ve ever felt like no one gets you… if you shut down in conflict, or freeze when it’s time to ask for what you need… if you’re tired of being “chill” when your body is screaming… this one’s for you. If this resonated, send it to a woman who’s still biting her tongue. The truth wants out. And it’s safe now to let it be heard. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve → Learn more about 1:1 coaching

If you're someone who keeps getting the ick — even when the person seems kind, emotionally available, and “right on paper” — this episode is for you. In today’s conversation, I’m exploring: why the ick can feel like truth but is often just protection, how our nervous system confuses safety with boredom, the very personal moment I realised the ick wasn’t about them — it was about my fear, what changed when I did a year-long trauma-informed coaching training in sex, love, and relationships, and how we unconsciously push away the thing we’re craving most: real intimacy. This is especially for the women who’ve done a lot of inner work — the therapy, the books, the healing. You’re self-aware. You know your patterns. But you still find yourself spiralling when someone nice shows up… and wondering, “Why do I always do this?” You're not broken. You’re just wired for something that once felt safer than love. Let’s unpack what the ick is really telling you — and how to start trusting something deeper. Send it to your friend who’s dating in the trenches, or share it on IG and tag me. You never know who’s quietly asking themselves: “Why do I always get the ick?”. → Follow me on Instagram: @lucy__maeve → Learn more about 1:1 coaching → FREE DOWNLOAD: 3-Part Audio Series: Done with Almost — For the woman who’s done the work… but still ends up alone.