The Light Within: Embodied Nervous System Healing for Spiritual Women
The Light Within is a podcast for high-functioning, spiritually curious women who are ready to stop abandoning themselves and step into embodied self-leadership.
Hosted by Leslie Draffin - trauma-informed somatic practitioner, psychedelic microdosing guide, and former television news anchor - this show explores what it actually takes to heal your nervous system, rebuild self-trust, and reclaim your embodied power.
Because many successful women look calm and capable on the outside… while their nervous system is quietly living in survival mode.
Inside these short, powerful episodes we explore:
• nervous system healing for women
• burnout and the hidden patterns of self-abandonment
• somatic practices for emotional regulation
• womb wisdom and feminine embodiment
• intuition, expansion, and sacred psychedelic medicine
You’ll also hear conversations with therapists, healers, coaches, and thought leaders exploring the messy, beautiful, and sometimes taboo ways women reclaim their embodied sovereign power.
This show isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about remembering who the f*ck you are and learning how to trust your body again.
Welcome to The Light Within.
The Light Within: Embodied Nervous System Healing for Spiritual Women
70. Aligning your Business with your Cycle with Alyx Coble-Frakes
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In this episode, Alyx Coble-Frakes CEO & co-founder of The Agenda. App & planner talks about aligning your business with your cycle. We also discuss her mission to create an empowered community of menstruators and women who can help eradicate shame around the menstrual cycle.
Topics Discussed:
- how Alyx got started on this journey
- period apps & data sharing (and why her app will NEVER sell or share your data)
- cyclical alignment for business & life
- why she's creating a 3-month Period Powered Campaign to spread joy & awareness of the menstrual cycle.
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Connect with Alyx on Instagram @theagendaperiod
Join her FB group: Cycle (Re) Introduction
Alyx Coble-Frakes is a Holistic Coach and the CEO and Co-Founder of The Agenda. App who specializes in period empowerment. After returning from the Peace Corps in 2015, she felt out of touch with her own health, so she started on a path of healing. This healing became her passion and she now works with women and menstruators to help harness the power of their monthly cycle for maximum impact in their work and lives.
My 4-month group coaching container, Wild Feminine Rising, is OPEN NOW! Join other frustrated menstruators as we dive deep into cyclical living, reconnect with our bodies and cycles and awaken the wild feminine within.
You can book a free 30-minute cycle check-in with me or message me on Instagram @lesliedraffin or @thelightwithinpodcast to find out more.
LINK TO MY FREE CYCLE TRACKER
LINK TO THE SUPPLEMENTS I USE
(USE MY PRC CODE 676502 FOR A DISCOUNT!)
Email us if you have questions or you know someone who'd make a great guest on this show: hello@lesliedraffin.com
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