Peel the Onion Podcast by Olivia Maxwell
Peel back the layers to reach your true self. – Olivia Maxwell, Founder of Awakened Mind Body Spirit Pty Ltd
Welcome to Peel the Onion, a podcast dedicated to guiding you back to your truth. It’s a space to reconnect with the whispers of your soul and heart—the parts of you that have always been there but were silenced by the noise of the mind, conditioned beliefs, fear, and the need to 'play small' to fit in.
That outdated story no longer serves us in this evolving era. Yet, until we uncover and release these layers, they continue to shape our daily lives and limit our fulfillment.
Peel the Onion is a safe space for cycle breakers to share their stories and the wisdom gained from living inauthentically. We explore the growing pains and challenges of transformation—much like peeling an onion, it burns!
In 2024, I peeled back one of my toughest layers: stepping out of the psychology system as a psychologist and into my own fullest expression as a healer. This journey has taught me that the rewards of alignment and authenticity are beyond anything I could have imagined.
Together, we’ll challenge societal and personal conditioning, shed the masks that drain our energy, and embrace the freedom of being our true selves.
If you’re passionate about holistic health and healing, personal growth, spirituality, meditation, mystical truths, and uncovering who you truly are, Peel the Onion is for you. Be inspired by heart-led leaders and stories of courage, authenticity, and transformation.
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– Olivia
Peel the Onion Podcast by Olivia Maxwell
Why Meditation Kept Me Stuck — When Spiritual Seeking Becomes Spiritual Bypassing w/ Olivia Maxwell #24
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In this minisode, Olivia gets honest about the loop she lived in for years - touching genuine bliss in meditation and returning to the same anxiety, the same inner critic, the same suffering every single time.
This episode names what nobody in the spiritual space wants to say out loud: that meditation without body safety can become its own form of escape. That going up and out can feel like healing while the nervous system stays stuck in the same patterns below.
Olivia shares why no amount of mental or spiritual practice alone can reach body safety and what finally changed when she stopped escaping and started inhabiting with the help of EMDR Therapy & somatic work such as Breathwork.
If you have done all the right things and still run the same loop - this episode is for you.
In this episode:
- The bliss above, suffering below loop - what it actually feels like from the inside
- Why meditation can reinforce dissociation rather than heal it
- What somatic work, EMDR and breathwork reach that meditation cannot
- The moment the bliss finally landed - in the body, in ordinary life
- Why the goal was never to stop meditating - it was to bring what you find there back into your body and live from it
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