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
111. #1 Sign of Growth & Transformation (plus a BONUS MEDITATION) with Leslie Draffin
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WELCOME BACK BABE!! After a few weeks off to enjoy summer, we're back with a solo episode all about the #1 sign you're growing & transforming - it's the ability to see every "failure" as a blessing re-aligning you to your life's purpose.
In this chat, Leslie Draffin breaks down how to reframe your past failures into messages from the Universe. She also shares a beautiful 15 minute meditation to help these feelings really sink in - fast forward to 8:45 to get the meditation!!
ANNOUNCEMENT: my group program - MushWomb Alchemy launches in September! This is my Cyclical Microdosing program - but with a new name and some JUICY new additions!! This is for you if you want to transform your life by bringing in more pleasure, healing your womb & communing with sacred Earth medicine (mushrooms). The program is now 8 weeks long and will be an intimate container of conscious women & menstruators ready to invest in their path & purpose. THIS IS THE LAST TIME I'M OFFERING THIS PROGRAM THIS YEAR so if you want to uplevel before 2024 - get the details by sending me an email - hello@lesliedraffin.com
See you next week!
If this episode felt like I was reading your mind… this is where you start.
1. 🌀 Stop spiraling & finally feel like yourself again
If this conversation hit a little too close to home…
If you’re sitting there thinking, “holy shit, this is exactly what’s been happening to me…”
I created something for you.
Back to You is my 3-day nervous system reset for high-functioning women who are exhausted from spiraling, snapping, shutting down, overthinking, and turning on themselves every time life gets hard.
Inside, I’ll help you:
- understand WHY this keeps happening
- stop the spiral in real time
- and start feeling grounded, steady, safe, and connected to yourself again
These are short, powerful somatic trainings designed to create shifts you can actually FEEL in your body — not just more information to overthink.
If your nervous system has been carrying too much for too long…
This is your invitation to come back to yourself.
👉🏻 Back to You $33 (don't forget the Stay Steady Audios)
2. 🔥 Reset your nervous system in 9 minutes
If this episode hit, don’t just think about it - experience it.
The SHIFT Method is a simple, body-based ritual you can use anytime you feel yourself starting to spiral - so you can come back to yourself in real time.
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