Free Spirit Academy Podcast
Welcome to the Free Spirit Academy Podcast. Free Spirit Academy is about the freedom to be fully who you are - beyond any cultural conditioning, trauma, or roles you were taught to play.
It’s about coming home to your body, and to yourself.
My name is Rande Moss. I’m a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and I’m so glad you’re here for these talks and conversations.
Episodes
64 episodes
Best of: Healing Doesn't Happen in a Hurry (the truth about emotional, compulsive, and binge eating)
I’m bringing back an episode from 2023 that still feels deeply true: “Healing Doesn’t Happen in a Hurry.”This conversation is about the messy, nonlinear process of healing binge, emotional, and compulsive eating, and how the push ...
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Learning to Feel Safe Again: My Complex Trauma Toolbox
Living with Complex PTSD can feel overwhelming, and it’s easy to get lost in the idea that healing requires us to “fix everything” about ourselves.In this episode, I share six of the most supportive tools I’ve used in working with my own...
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12:45
Slow Down With Me: A Bite-Sized Ritual for Stressful Days
Sometimes what we need most isn’t more information, but a moment of care. This week I’m sharing one of the practices from my new mini-course Rituals for a Free Spirit. It’s short, simple, and grounding - something you can turn to anyti...
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9:26
Living with Complex PTSD: What It Looked Like for Me
In this episode, I share a personal look at how Complex PTSD has shown up in my life — from disordered eating and chronic pain, to a critical inner voice, self-harm urges, and long stretches of isolation.We’ll also talk about what Comple...
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Why I Didn’t Think I Was Anxious - (and How My Coping Said Otherwise)
In this episode, I share:Why I never thought of myself as “anxious” (even while binge eating and coping every day)How survival states and unprocessed feelings drive patterns we can’t willpower our way out ofA short...
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13 Years After My 3-Month Juice Fast: What I See Now
Thirteen years ago, I did a three-month juice fast. I thought it would be my big transformation...that if I could just “fix” my body, I’d finally feel both free, and deeply connected. Instead, it taught me a very different lesson: the danger of...
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Best of: Why I was numb and how I learned to feel again | Solo episode
This is one of my favorite solo episodes, and I wanted to bring it back for anyone who missed it the first time—or anyone who needs a reminder that feeling disconnected or “numb” is often a sign of a nervous system doing its best to protect you...
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When Nervous System Work Isn't Working
We often hear about healing the nervous system, finding calm through breathwork, or shifting into a regulated state. But what about when those practices don’t seem to work - when they don’t bring peace, and sometimes even highlight what isn...
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When Self-Improvement Becomes Self-Abandonment
In this solo episode, I’m sharing some of my own story: like years of rigid routines, juice fasts, and trying to follow every “right” ritual to become someone who finally felt free, healed, and whole. But what I found was that all t...
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How Trauma Impacted My Relationship With Food and My Body
If you’ve been listening for any length of time, you know I believe that food struggles are never just about food. They’re often symptoms of something deeper - like trying to feel some sense of control after trauma or long-term stre...
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13:21
Coming Home to Yourself After Religious Trauma
If you’ve ever felt the lingering impact of religious trauma - especially from high-control, fear-based systems - this episode is for you. I’m sharing from my personal experience growing up in the Seventh-Day Adventist church, and exploring sev...
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Episode 55
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Coming Out and Leaving the Church with my High School Sweetheart.
Today I have something a little different for you.Last year, I went to my 20th high school reunion. I attended a Seventh-day Adventist boarding school, and going back felt like stepping into another lifetime. If I’d thought about ...
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The Top 10 Mistakes I Made On My Healing Journey.
THE TOP 10 MISTAKES I’VE MADE ON MY HEALING JOURNEY:Honestly, I cringe a bit using the words "healing" OR "journey" because the internet is so oversaturated with wellness or spiritual teachers. I'm not interested in making "healing" my w...
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16:59
My Body is Not a Project | Solo Episode
I love a project. I love working towards something. I think that's pretty human. But for a long time my body was my project. I grew up in a holistic, Seventh-Day Adventist, vegetarian home...
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Navigating symptoms and flares without shame | Solo episode
So many folks I see, and this was me too, attach goodness and morality to their health. If something is wrong, they feel wrong. They will spin into stories about how they're creating their own disease or this is going to turn int...
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Unlearning shame after a lifetime of binge eating | Solo episode
Today I'm talking about the ways that shame lived in my body and fed into the cycle of binge eating and disembodied practices with food. I'll also talk about making my body safe enough to finally feel the shamed parts of me so that the...
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11:43
Food is Medicine, But it isn't Everything with Sarah Hook
Today I'm speaking with Holistic Health and Root Cause Practitioner Sarah Hook. Sarah and I have been connected online since our early wellness blogging days when we were certain we had it all figured out. Some years ago Sarah was bit ...
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Chronic Illness, Healing Diets, & Disordered Eating | Solo Episode
Is it possible to take on a healing diet or a supportive protocol with a history of disordered eating?Is there a way to have a healthy, alive relationship with food that's also intentional? Is restriction 100% bad news in a...
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Episode 63
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Loving Oneself through Chronic Illness | Solo Episode
On today's episode I'm talking a bit about the autoimmune diagnoses I got earlier this year. This is a shorty ep but includes:...why it took me so long to see medical professionals and get tested....the wide range of feelings po...
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Episode 59
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12:23
When Rebellion isn't Freedom | Lena Wegener
Hello friends, today I'm talking to my friend Lena, an eating disorder recovery coach who also understands firsthand months of juice fasting, pure raw food diets, and even using diet to heal illness - complicated by her many years of disordered...
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Episode 58
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Doing Everything "Right" and Still Feeling Unwell | Theresa Piela
After well over a year, the Free Spirit Academy Podcast is BACK!I begin this episode with a health update of my own - and talk about the balance between maintaining a peaceful relationship with food and my body, while ...
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Episode 56
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Self-Parenting In Quarantine | Marlena Torres
Here's what you can expect from today's episode:...how the anxiety of our current circumstances can trigger any anxiety already living within us....the question of whether...
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Healing Ancestral Trauma | Lisa Nagel
HEALING ANCESTRAL TRAUMA WITH INHERITED TRAUMA RESOLUTION COACH, LISA NAGELIn today's episode, you'll hear us talk about......The symptoms of inherited trauma: anxiety, secondary ptsd, depression, ...
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