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, and bold action. This episode offers both insight and grounding...
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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, and bold action. This episode offers both insight and grounding...
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, and bold action. This episode offers both insight and grounding...
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 return to your body and reclaim your center. 🎧 In this calmin...
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 functionWhy it helps with stress relief, better sleep, and emotional resilienceRae’s favorite way to alternate fiction &...
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 instead. Inside this episode: The difference between being tired ...
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 elementWhy this year may have felt more quiet, inward, and transformationalWhat to expect in 2026: the bold...
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 mindsetHow nervous system regulation plays a role in feeling safe to be seenWhy your inner child might be blocking ...
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 hardWhat to do when gratitude doesn’t feel accessibleEmbracing the duality of the holidays: joy + grief, connection + lonelinessHow small sensory moments anchor you into the presentFive journaling p...
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 reflection 🌿 How the nervous system triggers looping though...
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 dialogue. Using conscious breathing, body-based awareness, and...
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 of well-being and how you can use it to integrate joy, resil...
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 episode will support you in regulating your nervous system, reconnecting to your...
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 avoiding discomfort and how to recognize when helping others turns i...
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 (amygdala), speech center, and body memory, why the body “keeps...
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, a breakup, a career change, or grieving an older version of...
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 blend of orienting, mindful breath cues, and somatic awareness, ...
Do your emotions ever feel like the absolute truth? In this episode, we're breaking down one of the most common (and sneaky) mental traps: emotional reasoning—the idea that “if I feel it, it must be real.” 💭 “I feel anxious, so something must be wrong.” 💭 “I feel guilty, so I must’ve done something bad.” 💭 “I feel overwhelmed, so I probably can’t handle this.” Sound familiar? You're not alone. This pattern can spiral fast and it’s deeply tied to nervous system dysregulation and un...
Feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or emotionally stuck? In this episode of Somatic Healing for Wellness-Focused Women, I'm sharing 9 powerful tools, practices, and perspectives to help you navigate anxiety, emotional stress, and dysregulation through a somatic, holistic lens. 🧘♀️💛 These are the exact tools I return to in my personal life and with clients when working with anxiety, grief, fear, sadness, or self-doubt. Whether you're new to nervous system work or a seasoned practitioner, this epis...
In this inspiring episode of Somatic Healing for Wellness-Focused Women, Rae sits down with multi-passionate healer and yoga educator Nikki Haas for a powerful conversation on embodiment, creativity, entrepreneurship, and using somatic movement as a healing tool. Nikki shares her journey from corporate finance to teaching yoga and somatics at Marist University, guiding Division I athletes in nervous system awareness, and creating her unique movement offering: Somatic Salsa. Together, Rae and ...
In this episode of Somatic Healing for Wellness-Focused Women, we're diving into how to navigate identity shifts, seasonal transitions, and life changes with more clarity, embodiment, and ease. 🍂💫 Whether you're: Starting a new job or relationshipReturning to school (or sending your kids back)Feeling that subtle energetic shift from summer to fall...These kinds of transitions can shake up your sense of self and leave you wondering, "Who even am I right now?" Inside this episode, I guide you t...
In this episode of Somatic Healing for Wellness-Focused Women, Rae breaks down the top 5 misconceptions about breathwork - from the myth that you have to do long, intense sessions to the false belief that feeling dysregulated means you've failed. You'll hear Rae’s personal story of how breathwork changed her life after grief and anxiety, and how this practice can support everything from daily stress relief to emotional healing, creativity, and nervous system regulation. 🌬️ In this episode, yo...
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, and bold action. This episode offers both insight and grounding...
