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
243. Doing It Scared: Nervous System Healing, Self-Trust & Manifesting the Life You Actually Want with Hannah Bruns
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What if fear isn’t the sign to stop… but the sign that your nervous system is expanding beyond who it’s been conditioned to be?
In this episode, I’m joined by Reiki Master, intuitive energy healer, and author Hannah Bruns for a deeply honest conversation about fear, self-trust, nervous system regulation, manifestation, and what it actually means to “do it scared.”
Because let’s be real: most women are not struggling because they don’t know what they want. They’re struggling because their nervous system doesn’t yet feel SAFE holding the life they desire.
Inside this conversation, we explore:
- the difference between intuition and fear
- why manifestation isn’t just about “thinking positive”
- what happens when your nervous system secretly fears success
- how self-trust is built through action, not perfection
- the subtle ways women sabotage their growth without realizing it
- why doing the scary thing can actually become addictive in the best way
- how to stay grounded when your nervous system is freaking out during expansion
We also talk about:
- rewiring the brain through repetition and lived experience
- emotional healing + energetic healing working together
- why so many women struggle to RECEIVE the things they manifest
- the “frequency of fun” and why joy matters more than people realize
- how fear, expansion, and manifestation are all deeply connected
This episode is for the woman who knows she’s meant for more…
but feels stuck between the comfort of the familiar and the fear of becoming someone new.
Because the truth is: your nervous system needs enough safety to stop surviving…
and enough expansion to remember what’s possible.
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If this episode felt like I was reading your mind… this is where you start.
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If this conversation hit a little too close to home…
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