Wise Yourself Up

You know that deep, instinctual feeling when you sense something is about to happen—like anticipating a breakup or receiving bad news—before it even occurs?

That's your body’s intelligence at work, particularly how the heart can perceive events before they happen.

This is exactly what I want to touch on in today's episode using both personal stories and scientific research.

Your body holds an innate wisdom, and by simply sitting in silence for just three minutes each day, you can start to tap into this powerful resource within you.

Timestamps:

- 00:00 Introduction and overview of the episode's focus on the body's intelligence

- 01:24 Personal reflections during a challenging week, sober september, anniversaries, and starting Gabor Maté’s course

- 05:45 Starting The Wave Effect and the importance of sitting with silence

- 07:43 Working with the energy of the moon

- 10:43 Exploring how the body and heart can sense and predict events, supported by research from the HeartMath Institute

- 13:48 Examples of intuitively knowing something bad will happen before it does

- 16:59 Building trust in yourself and speaking about your problems

- 21:05 Further examples of the heart and body’s intelligence

- 24:40 Reflecting on how trauma and grief manifest in the body and recognising these signals

- 26:01 Understanding what different body parts are connected to emotionally and physically

- 28:10 Reflections on the transformative power of somatics

THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP TO THE WAVE EFFECT!

This is a transformative four-week course that will connect you with a community of like-minded women and explore the practices that have been life-changing for me.

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Thank you so much for tuning in!

As always, if you have any feedback or thoughts on the episode, feel free to DM me on Instagram.

Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review if you enjoyed this chat. Take care of your wee self!

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- Instagram: Carla McGreevy

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Today I wanted to chat about how I made the decision to move to London at 35 and what that journey has taught me about life, healing, and following your instincts.

I am also so, so excited about The Wave Effect that starts on September 4th. This is a transformative four-week course that will connect you with a community of like-minded women and explore the practices that have been life-changing for me.

If you’re interested in joining, you can sign up here

Timestamps:

00:00 Giving me any feedback on the podcast!

03:30 Life update - Electric Picnic highlights

08:01 Moving to London 10 years ago

13:30 How my yoga teacher training and breathwork changed me

18:32 Making practices part of your daily life and the power of somatics and breathwork in your healing journey

21:10 Moving back to London at 35 and how it was different this time

23:55 Why trusting your body’s intelligence is key to making life-changing decisions

28:32 How The Wave Effect course can help you connect with your inner self

Connect with me:

- Instagram: Carla McGreevy

- Work with me: https://www.carlamcgreevy.com/work-with-me

- Join my mailing list to stay up to date on new classes: Mailing List

Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback on the podcast, send me a DM—it would seriously help me continue to improve the show.

Your support means the world to me, and I can’t wait to connect with you again next week.

I’ve been in therapy for the last 10 years, and I’m still here, learning, and healing.

Therapy has been such a vital part of my life, and I wanted to share with you some of the biggest lessons, tools, and breakthroughs that have come out of this journey.

Timestamps:

00:00 Life updates: electric picnic, Instagram lives, breakups, and the importance of self-belief

09:02 Biggest breakthroughs in therapy

13:07 Dealing with the heaviness of therapy

15:03 My favourite techniques and tools

20:18 Opening up and trusting your therapist

22:51 Getting over a bad experience with a therapist

23:35 Managing the overwhelm of therapy

Poem mentioned:

- "Our Deepest Fear" by Marianne Williamson - A powerful poem that reminds us of the potential we all have within us.

If you’re interested in joining the most incredible group of women for The Wave Effect, you can sign up here

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- Instagram: Carla McGreevy

- Work with me: https://www.carlamcgreevy.com/work-with-me

- Join my mailing list to stay up to date on new classes: Mailing List

Thank you for listening!

If you enjoyed this episode, I’d love it if you subscribed, rated, and reviewed the Wise Yourself Up podcast on your favourite platform.

Your support means the world to me.

I can’t wait to chat with you again next week!

Take care of your wee self.

No matter how big or small your trauma is, trauma affects us all, and I believe we should all be going to therapy!

In today’s episode, I chat about the resistance people face when it comes to seeking therapy and how to overcome this resistance.

I wanted to address the common misconceptions and anxieties that stop so many of us from taking this crucial step toward healing.

Timestamps:

00:00 Life updates: the success of the podcast, going to the Fringe Festival alone, and getting accepted into Gabor Maté's year-long intensive.

15:26 Discussion on common fears people have about starting therapy, including feeling "too broken" to be helped.

16:46 How cultural conditioning and societal norms contribute to the resistance to therapy.

21:10 Why talking to a stranger (therapist) can be more beneficial than confiding in someone close to you.

30:54 Understanding that falling apart is a natural part of the healing process.

32:06 How to trust the therapeutic process and find a therapist who aligns with your needs.

Connect with me:

- If you’re interested in joining the most incredible group of women for The Wave Effect, you can sign up here

- Instagram: Carla McGreevy

- Work with me: https://www.carlamcgreevy.com/work-with-me

- Join me for FREE breathwork and somatic classes via Instagram Live at 7am 13th-15 August: Carla McGreevy⁠

- Book a spot at my FREE breathwork and somatic Q&A session here

Thank you for tuning in and for all the support you have given the podcast so far!

Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review the Wise Yourself Up podcast on your favourite platform. See you next week!

In today's episode, I’m joined by the wonderful Emma Neill to discuss the complexities of casual sex, hookup culture, and how these dynamics differ for women and men.

Emma and I discuss the evolution of societal norms from our grandparents' era to today and reflect on our personal experiences and views on casual sex.

It’s so great to openly chat about topics like this to show that whether or not you engage in casual sex is entirely up to you! There is no right or wrong here, and I hope you find parts of this episode that speak to you and hopefully alleviate any shame you may feel around the topic.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro to Emma and topic

00:55 Life updates with Emma and Carla

12:36 Generational perspectives on casual sex

15:51 The influence of religion on views about casual sex

19:25 Legal and social aspects of abortion in Northern Ireland

25:25 The impact of casual sex on women

28:14 Dealing with the guilt and shame associated with sex

33:30 The orgasm gap in heterosexual relationships

38:14 The place of casual sex in society today

40:53 Personal experiences and insights on casual sex

54:34 Contraception and women's health

1:02:55 Final thoughts on casual sex

1:06:56 Favorite quotes from us

Poem mentioned by Emma Cairns Watson: The smoke and what burned to make it

Thank you so much, Emma, for joining me on the podcast! If you enjoyed make sure to subscribe and rate it 5 stars as it really helps me out.

Connect with Emma:

Podcast: Here for the Craic With Emma Neill

Instagram: Emma Neill

Connect with me:

- If you’re interested in joining the most incredible group of women for The Wave Effect, you can sign up here

- Instagram: Carla McGreevy

- Work with me: here

- Join me for FREE breathwork and somatic classes via Instagram Live at 7am 13th-15 August here

- Book a spot at my FREE breathwork and somatic Q&A session here

So many of us were fed the harmful ‘cool casual girl’ narrative during the 90s and noughties, and I wanted to share my personal experience and insights on breaking free from this damaging pattern because trust me, there’s nothing cool or sexy about this.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro to being the ‘cool’ girl

00:31 How I’m navigating grief at the moment

05:55 Why it’s not sexy to suppress your emotions

08:46 The main pain points to look at if you are in this pattern

20:14 My personal experience with being this girl

23:37 Using your experiences with relationships as a way to know what you do and don’t want in a relationship

24:52 My advice when it comes to relationships

Takeaways from this episode:

- Be honest about your feelings.

- Ask for what you want in relationships.

- Reflect on what your relationships reveal about you.

- Learn from each relationship experience.

- Listen to your body's responses to interactions.

- Embrace conflict as a path to intimacy.

If you’re interested in joining the most incredible group of women for The Wave Effect, you can sign up here

Connect with me:

- Instagram: Carla McGreevy

- Work with me: Here

- Join my mailing list to stay up to date on new classes: Mailing List

Thank you for listening!

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the Wise Yourself Up podcast on your favourite platform.

I’ll chat to you next week.

Movement can be so good for the body, but at what point are you doing more harm than good when it comes to exercising?

You might not even be aware of this, but you could have an exercise addiction.

I know that if someone had tried to tell me in my 20s that I had an exercise addiction, I wouldn’t have listened to them. But I’m so glad that, with the help of therapy, I was able to acknowledge this addiction and break free from it.

Exercise is so so good for your body and mind, but this doesn’t mean that you should be pushing through sickness, grief, or canceling plans in order to get a session in.

In this episode, I talk about the 8 signs of exercise addiction, my personal experience with it, and ways that you can overcome it and cultivate more self-love.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro to topic and defining exercise addiction

03:05 8 signs of an exercise addiction

12:32 My personal experience with exercise addiction and the realisation of the need for change

18:21 Questions to reflect on your relationship with exercise

25:27 Taking small steps with your addiction and the power of pausing

Thank you so much for listening to today’s episode!

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I truly believe that your body holds all the answers to your questions. It’s your wisest guide. But we’ve forgotten how to listen to it’s signals.

I also believe that making choices and taking action purely based on thought, is a major contributor to the intense suffering we see today e.g. record levels of anxiety, obesity and addiction.

But what a lot of women can’t make sense of, is how can their body be their wisest guide, if it’s signaling attraction to f*ckboys?

The key to understanding the messages of wisdom communicated to us by our bodies, is to learn the difference between how a wise message feels, and how a trauma response feels - where our inner child gets triggered and needs soothing.

This episode covers:

• Holidays in France and putting down more solid roots in London
• My ongoing frustration at heterosexual men for their lack of enthusiasm to use condoms
• How the patriarchy has really benefited from woman being disconnected from our intuition
• How to know the difference between wisdom from your body vs being triggered by trauma (with examples)
• My experience of learning to distinguish between my inner child asking for love vs recognising the intuitive whispers of the soul
• The importance of forgiving yourself for being human

I currently have a limited number of spaces available to work with me 1:1 online. I support you in the feeling part of your healing journey. Talk therapy is powerful, but often being disconnected from our body and breath holds us back.

I work with you to help you listen to what your body is telling you, what is being revealed in psychosomatics. I curate breathwork and movement practices, bespoke to you, to guide you to move through emotions and symptoms.

Reach out to learn more!

Music: Triple Point by Swoose

This was an extremely hard episode to record. It focuses on my experience of being in a relationship with a heroin addict. How it unfolded and how it changed me.

I hope it helps because I know there are so many women out there with someone in their lives who is struggling with addiction.

In this episode:

• Entering the relationship despite knowing he was likely to use again
• Why I was drawn to trying to "save" him
• The nature of our relationship and what it was like
• The moment things became clear and I decided to leave
• How the experience impacted me and what I learnt
• How society is conditioned to turn a blind eye to addictions
• How therapy and healing helps us recognise our own repeated patterns quicker

My retreat is just around the corner, 7-9th June, in the magical lands Donegal. If you're craving rest or feeling stuck in life, join us to pause, recharge and reflect.

I'd love to hear any feedback and thoughts on this episode! Please DM me on Instagram or drop a mail to [email protected].

Music: Triple Point by Swoose

One thing Steven often feels is misunderstood about breathwork is that it’s not about the breathing. Rather the breathe is an entry point into your inner world. It allows you figure out what’s alive for you, what’s true, what’s real. And that the same concept applies to other healing modalities too.

Steven is a London based Breathwork Facilitator who helps people feel safe enough to re-establish their relationship with themselves, others and the world around us through breathwork and somatic therapy. He has a background in Clinical Psychology, is an accredited Coach and is currently training as a Cranio-Sacral therapist.

Expect to hear about:

• The evolutionary factors behind men’s lack of engagement in therapy
• Steven’s background in psychology, experience of talk therapy and ultimately finding the biggest benefit in somatics
• How healing modalities are just a route inwards to figure out what is alive for you
• Defining breathwork and it’s different types: functional vs therapeutic
• What Cranio-Sacral Therapy is and how it works
• Why is it that we can accept certain things we do not understand, e.g. WiFi technology, but have doubts about others? E.g. the body’s innate ability to heal
• The reality of struggling as a learning practitioner. Frustration and resistance to surrendering. Learning to trust the process

As always, I adore receiving your DMs. Pop me over your thoughts, feedback and questions. @carlamcgreevy1 on Instagram.

Upcoming Retreats:

Carla’s: Ocean Retreat. An immersive weekend for women in the magical lands of Co. Donegal. 7th-9th of June 2024. Donegal - Ireland. Info Here.

Steven’s: Entry Points. A 6-day immersive Breathwork & Somatics Experience. 17th - 22nd of October 2024. Ericeira - Portugal. Info Here.

Check out Steven’s website or follow him on Instagram.

Music: Triple Point by Swoose