Somatic Healing for Wellness-Focused Women

Self-Love is Brain Training: Somatic Practices for Rewiring Your Inner Voice

In this soulful episode, recorded in Costa Rica 🌴, Rae reflects on self-love, inner compassion, and the powerful journey of healing your relationship with yourself especially during seasons of change.

Blending storytelling with somatic wisdom, this episode explores how self-love is not just a feeling… but a practice. A brain-training. A rewiring of your inn...

In this episode of Somatic Healing for Wellness-Focused Women, Rae shares a compassionate, nervous-system-aware framework for contributing to social change without bypassing your capacity or burning out.

Inspired by the recent events in Minneapolis and global unrest, Rae introduces the Social Change Ecosystem Map by Deepa Iyer highlighting 10 powerful roles we can each embody when contributing to justice, equity, and healing.

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Feeling anxious, uncertain, or out of control as you start a new year or transition into something unknown?

In this episode of Somatic Healing for Wellness-Focused Women, Rae shares 4 powerful somatic tools to help you calm anxiety, release the grip of control, and reconnect with your body’s innate capacity for safety, resilience, and trust.

🎧 Inside this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why uncertainty and anxiety often go hand-in-hand an...

Ready to plan your 2026 in a way that feels intentional, grounded, and aligned with your true self?

In this episode of Somatic Healing for Wellness-Focused Women, Rae shares 5 powerful and creative ways to plan for the year ahead including both solo rituals and community-based practices that support clarity, reflection, and embodied goal setting.

🌟 Whether you're craving more ease, expansion, creativity, or connection in 2026, ...

Happy New Year, and welcome to 2026!! In this episode of Somatic Healing for Wellness‑Focused Women, Rae explores the energy of 2026 through the lens of the Chinese Zodiac, focusing on the Year of the Fire Horse and what it means for intention, leadership, creativity, and pacing yourself in the year ahead.

If 2025 felt quieter, more inward, or reflective, 2026 brings a very different tone of more movement, expression, visibility, an...

Feeling overwhelmed this holiday season? Need a moment of calm before stepping into the new year? In this special episode of Somatic Healing for Wellness-Focused Women, Rae guides you through a gentle, grounding breathwork practice designed to calm your nervous system and connect you to a sense of inner peace.

Perfect for the holidays, year-end reflection, or anytime you feel the need to reset, this breathwork session will help you ...

In this cozy, reflective episode, Rae shares her favorite books from 2025 and the powerful mental, emotional, and somatic benefits of reading.

Whether you're a bookworm or a curious beginner, you'll walk away feeling inspired to make reading a bigger part of your wellness toolkit.

📖 Inside this episode:

• How reading boosts nervous system health, creativity & cognitive function
• Why it helps with stress relief, better s...

Can’t fall asleep... or stay asleep? This episode is a must-listen if your nights feel restless and your mind won’t shut off.

In this powerful guest interview, Rae speaks with Jessica Fink, LCSW-S, a Texas-based CBT-I therapist who specializes in treating insomnia, sleep anxiety, PTSD, OCD, chronic pain, and over-control. Together, they explore how trying too hard to sleep may actually be what’s keeping you awake and what to do inst...

Feeling the pull to reflect on this past year in a way that’s intentional, embodied, and grounded? In this cozy and contemplative episode, Rae guides you through a somatic end-of-year practice to help you integrate the lessons of 2025 and gently prepare for the energy of 2026.

✨ Using the lens of the Chinese Zodiac, Rae explores:

• The meaning of 2025 as the Year of the Snake and the Wood element
• Why this year may have felt more qui...

In this empowering episode of Somatic Healing for Wellness-Focused Women, Rae explores what confidence really is from a nervous system-informed, trauma-sensitive lens. Confidence isn’t about pretending you have it all together. It’s about feeling safe in your body, connected to your truth, and rooted in who you are.

🎙️ You’ll learn:

• Why confidence is an embodied state not just a mindset
• How nervous system regulation plays a role ...

This week’s episode lands just in time for Thanksgiving 🦃  Rae offers a gentle, somatic approach to gratitude, especially for those navigating big emotions, grief, burnout, or overwhelm during the holidays.

🎧 Inside this episode, you’ll hear:

• How to practice gratitude without bypassing what’s hard
• What to do when gratitude doesn’t feel accessible
• Embracing the duality of the holidays: joy + grief, connection + loneliness
• How small...

In this episode, Rae explores thought rumination, why it happens, and how to break out of looping thoughts using somatic, nervous-system–based tools. If you’ve ever found yourself replaying scenarios, overthinking conversations, or spiraling into “what ifs,” this episode will help you understand what’s happening in your brain and body and how to create relief.

You’ll learn:

🌿 What rumination really is and how it differs from healthy...

Ready to reconnect with your body, calm your mind, and come home to yourself? In this deeply supportive episode, Rae (somatic coach + breathwork facilitator) leads you through a guided breathwork meditation to cultivate inner safety, emotional wholeness, and self-compassion.

Whether you’re feeling anxious, disconnected, or just need a moment of stillness, this practice helps you drop into your body and create a compassionate inner d...

Why does joy sometimes feel harder to hold than stress? In this episode, Rae explores the emotional complexities of joy and how our nervous systems can struggle to trust happiness, especially after trauma, chronic stress, or survival-mode living.

You’ll learn how nervous system regulation, somatic tools, and the science of positive psychology can expand your capacity to feel joy fully and safely. Plus, Rae introduces the PERMA model...

Feeling stuck, frozen, or like you're falling behind? You're not alone. In this milestone 100th episode, Rae shares a warm behind-the-scenes life update + 5 powerful mindset shifts and somatic tools to help you move through emotional stuckness with compassion, clarity, and momentum.

Whether you're navigating a big life transition, feeling creatively blocked, or just caught in a loop of comparison and freeze, this epis...

Authenticity over avoidance, boundaries over burnout, and empowerment over dependency. In this raw and insightful conversation, Rae is joined by returning guest and energy healer Erin Bishop Pedone of Reiki Shores to unpack the nuanced and often-unspoken dynamics of spiritual codependency, emotional bypassing, and what true healing actually looks like.

Together, they explore how spiritual work can sometimes become a mask for avoidin...

In this powerful and informative episode of Somatic Healing for Wellness‑Focused Women, Rae dives deeper into the connection between grief, trauma, and the body—exploring how our nervous system, brain, and somatic awareness hold the key to healing.

Building on last week’s episode, Rae breaks down complex trauma science into simple, compassionate language you can understand. You’ll learn how trauma impacts the brain’s alarm system (a...

In this heartfelt episode of Somatic Healing for Wellness-Focused Women, Rae opens her new mini-series on grief, trauma, and somatic healing by exploring the body-based experience of grief and how to move through loss with compassion and awareness.

Building on her powerful workshop at Transcend Fest, Rae shares her own journey with grief and offers supportive insights for anyone navigating loss, whether it’s the death of a loved one...

In this calming and supportive episode of Somatic Healing for Wellness-Focused Women, Rae guides you through a gentle, trauma-informed breathwork practice designed to help you regulate your nervous system, find inner safety, and return to a state of grounding and presence.

This episode builds on the concept of the window of tolerance and is ideal for anyone experiencing anxiety, stress, or emotional overwhelm. Through a soothing ble...