Welcome back to the "Hey, Wait" Podcast, hosted by embodiment coach, educator, and author Jay Moon Fields. Each episode we'll be sharing stories, insights, interviews, and practical tools to help you shift how you show up in your relationships, and in your life.

In today's episode, Jay Moon Fields returns solo to the mic, answering listener questions for the first time as she dives deeper into the essential– yet often challenging– Second Step of the "Hey, Wait" process.

Emily, a listener of the podcast, recently faced an upsetting moment at choir practice when someone took her stand without asking. Many of us have been in situations where we later wished we had spoken up, asserted ourselves, or found our voice. In this episode, Jay uses Emily's story as a starting point to explore somatic experiencing– a practice that uses imagination to unlock bodily sensations– and explains how it can help Emily (and you!) move forward with more agency.

As we learned in Episode One, the "Hey, Wait" process has three key steps. Today, we focus on Step 2: Pausing– the moment you stop reacting and start tuning into your inner experience. It's a deceptively difficult practice, requiring you to actually feel what's going on inside. Jay breaks it down with clarity and compassion, offering real tools to help you integrate this step into your own life.

And Hey, Wait! Before you go, make sure to subscribe to the "Hey, Wait" Podcast so you can follow along with every new episode as soon as it is released. And be sure to connect with Jay Moon Fields on her website (jaymoonfields.com/) and across all social media platforms (instagram.com/heywaitwithjay/) so you can submit your questions to the Podcast. You just might be featured on a future episode!

Key Takeaways:

• Somatic Experiencing is a Body Based Therapy About Healing Trauma that is Stored in the Body

• Allowing Your Mind and Body to Imagine What Being Safe Would Have Felt Like in Traumatic Moments… Can Release Your Trauma

• Give Yourself a Replay Of What it Would Have Felt Like to Say What You Would Have Wanted to Say

• Matching Your Insides to Your Outsides is about having an Essential Self Within You that you know how to Inhabit and Express

• Your Strategic Parts Developed When You Were Young to help you Survive

• There are 3 Steps to Staying Within Yourself

• The "Touch In"

• Track Yourself

• "Of Course." As in… "Of Course I Feel This Way."

Your Homework:

• Practice following the 3 Steps for yourself, wherever you are at. Touch In. Track Yourself. Tell Yourself "Of Course."

• Share this episode with someone else that needs to hear it.

Ready to Dive Deeper? More on Jay Moon Fields:

• Official Website: https://jaymoonfields.com/

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heywaitwithjay/

• "Yours Truly" Coaching Program: https://jaymoonfields.com/coaching

• Jay Moon Fields' Book "Teaching People Not Poses": https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-People-Not-Poses-Principles/dp/1478326913/

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaymoonfields