What is Embodiment?

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Conscious but grounded is a podcast exploring the intersection of neurodivergence and spirituality, high vibe living, while staying rooted in the very real challenges of life as a neurodivergent mom. Here I ask the big questions like, how do we connect to the universe while keeping our feet firmly on the ground? How do we honor our sensitivity, creativity, and unique wiring in a world that isn't always built for us? Expect honest, unscripted conversations, personal reflections, and inspiring guest episodes with spiritual teachers, healers and neurodivergent voices. This is a space for truth, humor, spirituality, and practical wisdom, so you can feel more connected, grounded, and at peace in your own skin. Let's dive in. Hi guys. Welcome back to Conscious But Grounded, a podcast for the spiritually curious and the holistically minded. Uh, and I talk on this podcast about all the things in the spiritual realm and the holistic realm that fascinate me I have guests on. And I always bring it back to this question of like, how can we be spiritually minded people but still have our feet firmly planted on the ground? And so today I wanted to talk about a big subject. And so I, I think I'm gonna do many episodes on this, but one I wanted to start with and I need to start with is, what is embodiment? Okay. So last year I trained as an embodiment coach with the highest self institute, and that is run by Sahara Rose. She's like a leading, uh, spiritual thought leader. And you know, she has the number one spiritual podcast, the highest Self podcast. Um, I've admired her for a while, um, and I. Have kind of followed her journey loosely. Uh, and then I was very drawn to, um, this qualification, this certification, because I wanted to learn more about embodiment. Like for me, the, the questions I have was simply the ones that you have, which is what is embodiment. And when I learned, I started to learn a bit more about it. I was like, this is for me. So there's always that, um, there's that blend with embodiment of the body, the mind. And the spirit and it all being together. And so that's a really good place to start actually. Embodiment can be described as a holistic way of looking at the world. So we are looking out at the world literally with our eyeballs, you know, from our perspective. And even when I was little, this used to blow my mind, like I'm looking out of my eyeballs. You are looking at your eyeballs and like, this is my experience and this is mad. Am I even here? I would have these kind of mini existential. Not crises, but like little slip in and out of these little moments of remembrance. I guess I, oh, whew. Shivers, like, I really need to dig into those a bit more, but I feel like. We are each in our bodies, right? And we are, we're kind of living this dream, this uh, life, which is a real, it's real. Like this is real, but it can feel like a dream as well, and we can get caught up. And we're, we're almost players on a stage, right? And, um, we get caught up in the drama in the moment and we think that time is linear and all those different things. And really, um. To be embodied is to be fully here in the moment. You, your feet are on the ground, but you're spiritually connected. It's, it's so tied into everything that I'm about, that I'm fascinated with. You know, you're fully here. You recognize the full experience. Yes. You know your physical body made of flesh and bones, and Yes. You recognize that the physical body is not lower than the mind or the spirit. It's actually. The key to all of our spiritual growth is through the body. And so that's also a massive part of embodiment. So we could say that we're embodied if we live, um, and experience so well through all of our senses. You know, the spiritual sense, the third eye, the intuition, but also touch and smell and taste and, and, and wisdom. And it's that body-based wisdom. So a big part of embodiment is also, um, looking back. At how we as humans have evolved. So, you know, many years ago we had, um, much more earth-based wisdom, much more body-based wisdom before kind of organized religion, before academia. Academia and, um, you know, the age of enlightenment and this kind of profound, um, kind of obsession really with cat, with, with, with, uh, you know, science. I, I think it's really. Become more acceptable. Now. I used to be scared of saying it, but like science has become a religion almost, and I feel like we have lost a sense of awe and a sense of magic and a sense of deep intuition that we used to have. And so embodiment also speaks to this. So when I think of embodiment, of course it's not male or female and it actually a part of embodiment. Another part of embodiment, it just factors so much stuff in is acknowledging that we are. Are feminine and masculine energies in one, no matter what biological gender you are, no matter what gender you identify as we are. But we are all a balance of both. And when those energies are, are perfectly balanced, then that is kind of like, um, the ideal, like the yin and the yang, right? So yeah, going back to what I was saying, we used to have this much more, uh, earth based wisdom. So in a village there might have been a healer, there might have been a mystic, you. Know, there might have been these different roles, and there were normally women that were in these roles, and then you had things like, uh, the witch trials, which basically it was, it was at the same time as around the, the churches and things like that. Organized religion was coming in and the, the most, the biggest threat to like, organize religion and control and power through that method, through that institution was women. It was like the female. What's more important? What's more powerful than, what's the most powerful thing in the world? Well, it's women because we have the codes. We hold the codes to 3D humans. Like, I'm sorry, but that is the ultimate, okay. That's not to say that we're, oh, we don't need men. Well, we do need men to do that. So it's the perfect balance there again, but we hold the wisdom, we hold the codes, and what happened was organized religion came in and kind of tried to squash that. Um, but what we see in like ancient cultures, again. And again and again is these, um, always these common commonalities, these common themes of the womb being represented actually as the ultimate, um, sacred symbol. And the ultimate sacred. Sacred yeah. Symbol. And I think you see it time and time again, and that kind of speaks to the idea of a collective consciousness, which is a Jungian concept, but it is, is something that clearly does exist. So when we talk about the collective conscious, it's like, how come before mass communication, so many of the same ideas existed across different cultures? Like, like things like chakras, for example, which I've talked about on here. I was reading a book, um, an introduction to Carl Young. Um, he's a, the father of psychoanalytic, um, psychology and, um, analytical psychology. Sorry. Uh, so he was the protege of Freud. It's, and I'm blown away.'cause I knew I'd like his work because he was the spiritual psychologist. Right. He was, he's the one that, um, talks so much about the ness and spirituality. Uh, and so I relate strongly to all of those things. So I thought, I've got to read a book on young. So I'm doing that and I love his theories and I'm like, underlining so much stuff. Like, yes, this is what I'm always saying to people. So it is like, how come so many collective, so many different cultures before mass communication had all these symbols and very often they are. Uh, symbols that could be said to represent the vagina, the womb, the cervix, things like that. And I'm talking about before organized religion. So yeah, so organized religion came in and there was things like the, the witch trials. So what better way to squash this ancient feminine wisdom and gain control of people through the church than to say the healer in your village is a witch. And they also got women to rat each other out. Um, and so that actually created a. That kind of idea of the witch wound and it, it's followed through, through generations and generations today in this kind of, you know, like this women being bitchy against women, you know, pitching women against women, which actually is not our, our actual natural state of being, you know, it is actually our natural state of being is collaboration and community. And we're seeing that so much more in this kind of new age of like rising women, uh, and the female, you know, the female. Wisdom is rising again. And so embodiment is very much about that. It's about taking back our innate feminine wisdom and healing the witch wound. All of us today, if you are listening to this and you are in a, your holistic therapist or you are literally just not just, maybe you are not in the holistic world as a career, but maybe you are listening to this because you are like, something is drawing me like I think my audience very much is. For this podcast is the spiritually curious, and we're all at different stages on that journey. And so it's like you are drawn to this because you remember, I'm a strong believer. I know that, uh, we all had past lives because the soul cannot be, uh, the soul can't die. And, and so it's belief in all of these things. It's an ultimate knowing. It's faith. It's more than belief, it's faith, which is knowing that, that you've lived before is knowing and remembering. And the journey is long to remembering. So, you know, you might have little drops and flashes and then you might just think, no, this is nonsense. What the hell? I do that all the time with this podcast, with everything I do, and I always know that before I almost burn something to the ground, I take a pause now and go, wait, this is because your ego is telling you it doesn't matter. This is because it's your ego that's telling you this is nonsense. This is your ego telling you this. Your voice doesn't want, you know, doesn't need to be heard. But I allow. Myself to become embodied and say, now my throat chakra wants to express my heart, wants to express, my intuition, wants to express. So it's acknowledging all of these different things. This is a very embodied way to live. Okay. So it's not, um, a rejection of maleness. It's not necessarily a rejection of western medicine at all, like, but it's a remembering of our souls previous lives. It's a remembering of our innate self-healing abilities. Remembering and an acknowledgement of the earth's innate wisdom. The Earth knows exactly what she's doing. Mother Earth and the universe know exactly what they are doing, and that is powerful. That's the ultimate power. And when we lean into that and we surrender and we let go, and we let God lead the way, we let the universe lead the way that is embodiment. It's the ultimate trust, it's the ultimate surrender, and that's a very feminine energy. So sometimes we do need the masculine energy of. Push, grit. Come on, crack on. Today is a really good example of that. I didn't sleep hardly at all last night. Stanley was just wriggling and just being really fidgety. Um, I tried to sleep with a face mask on'cause I've got really dry skin and that didn't work. I ended up taking that off and then at three o'clock this morning the dogs barking. So I went downstairs and checked out what was happening. There was no one there, but there might have been someone there. And also I've got this, I've got a cold. And so today I was like, right, I've got a yoga class booked at the gym and I've. Up to myself a massage because I was like, I need some self care this week. And so this morning I woke up and I was like, I can't do this today. But you know what, I had a coffee. I'm actually my second coffee now and I'd never do that anymore. I always have one. But today's is a two coffee day. I took some paracetamol, I had a shower, washed my hair and everything, and I was like, you, you go do this. Because what I have been lacking a little bit in my, in the past is a little bit of grit. So whilst the embodied path is all about rest and. Renewal and resting when he needs to rest. I am a huge believer in that and a huge advocate for that. And I do that 99 of 9 cent of the time. Sometimes I actually need a little bit of that yang push energy as well, that masculine energy. So it's okay to kind of go, Hmm, I'm needing a bit more of this today. Like I actually do need to crack on a little bit today. Um, and so that is in a very embodied way to to, to live. So what we were taught on. Our embodiment coach certification. And what I lead people through when we do embodiment coaching is a very sematic, uh, which means of the body based way of working. So what we would do in an embodiment coaching session is really lean in and feel what we are feeling. So this speaks to the part of embodiment that's all about, oh God, take a big deep breath, stop. Where are you feeling this? Because in our lives we do two more. Of what I just described, which is we do crack on a lot too much of the time. I'm doing it today. But normally it's like, stop, pause. The rest of the world does this too much. And it's like we just crack on. We never sit and think, we never sit and go, what's really going on here? And I see this all the time with my husband, he'll have physical symptoms and he'll go, I'm going to the doctor. I'm going to the doctor. Like the man in the white coat is gonna fix you. And I know I don't stop him going to the doctor, but I'm. Look, it's stress. It's because this, this, and this. But he goes to the doctor anyway and sometimes yes, there is something there and it needs dealing with and then I'm like, yeah, you know Western, Western medicine is amazing. Like, are you kidding? It's effing amazing. It's helped in so many ways, but also it's missing a huge part of the jigsaw puzzle. Like if only we could, we could bring the two together more. Like I think we should have a holistic health coach in every healthcare surgery. We should have holistic health coaches talk. Talking to people about how much they have, how much power they have with their own health. Anyway, I digressed a little, so what I have people do is feel what they're feeling and then we close our eyes and we go in, we drop the hell in. This is hard if you've never dropped in before. It's like, get in, get in. Close your eyes, put your hands on your body. Where are you feeling this? And it's like, Hmm, not sure. Don't know. Sometimes you get that if the person's never done this work. For Sometimes it's like, oh my throat. Like my throat. I'm really feeling it in my throat. Sometimes it's like my tummy, my back, and so we really dig in and we feel it. We are scared to feel today. We are really scared to feel. We medicate the feelings away. We drink the feelings away. This is my story. My entire story is based on this exact thing, which is self-medicating, uncomfortable things about ourselves. Okay? We pathologize them, we say. I'm bipolar. I have A-D-H-D-I mean, I ha I am re I am registered, I'm a registered A DH, adhd, no, I'm, uh, diagnosed A DHD. Do I think actually A DHD is about epigenetics and trauma and dysregulation and creating patterns to cope with, uh, how we are relating to our caregivers and, you know, all these different things. Absolutely. And if you wanna read more about that, read Scattered Minds by. Ball Mao. Do we blame our parents and people like that for this? No. Absolutely not. Everybody's doing the best they can with what they've got, including me and my kids are gonna have shit too. Guess what? We're all healing. We're walking each other home. So this is not about the blame game. So we go deep, we go deep, we got our eyes closed, we go deep, and we will always, I have never done a session with somebody where it doesn't trace back to something in their childhood. Coffee, you know? Now if there's a pause, it's me drinking coffee. Um, it's sometimes teenage stuff. It's sometimes childhood stuff. It's never, ever, ever not been the case, I don't think. And I've coached quite a lot of people in this method. And we go there and we go there and we go there and we go back to that place. And sometimes it was a specific thing. Sometimes it was something that happened again over time. Sometimes it's the most. Small thing and the person is so surprised. And I gently guide them about what this might actually be about. And then we go back and we rewrite the script, and then we feel the feeling it's got a texture, it's got a color, and we might bring our hands there, we might tap it, we might stroke it. We might shake. Don't get me wrong, you are not gonna heal the heat. The huge key issues and key wounds in a five minute, you know, an embodiment session in a half an hour, body embodiment session. But this is, you make, you can make huge leaps. You make huge, huge leaps in awareness, in shifting it, in recognizing, acknowledging that it is still in your body and, and also by just connecting the dots and going, ah, this is why I'm so harsh. This is why I'm so shut down. This is why I'm so over talkative. This is why I am. So anxious when about public speaking. You know, all these different things that have come up for past clients that I've coached. Um, and so this is embodiment and we feel it and we release it. And so you might have a course of three sessions, six sessions, 12 sessions, and imagine how much you can get done in those sessions. And so embodiment is about feeling it, healing it, releasing it, and expressing it. So an embodied woman is a painter, an embodied woman is a golfer, an embodied woman is a jogger, a. Embodied woman is a, anything, a writer, you know, a performance artist, a musician. It's really important to embody your, your uniqueness and to express it. So we've been taught as women that expression is unhealthy, like expression of our desires. It's too much. It's, it's embarrassing. It's cringe. Oh, you're, you are too sexual. You're this, you're that, you know. Expression of our sadness is too much. Like, please, we don't wanna hear it. Expressing, you know, and expression of your boundaries. Oh, she's difficult. She's a difficult person, she's a bitch. You know, we, it is actually healthy to express yourself. It is actually healthy to cry. When you cry, you release cortisol. And I am knowing all of this. I still, if I cry, I still, it just comes outta my mouth. I'll go, sorry, sorry. I'm like, shit, why was I sorry. I know. I shouldn't say sorry. And I still say sorry because we've been programmed to say, sorry. When we express ourselves, it's so annoying, but we do it. We all do it, and it's like it's actually super, super healthy to express yourself. To express yourself in a healthy way. Okay? It's really, really healthy. And so when we don't express ourselves, guess what happens? Things get shut down, things. Get unhealthily expressed. It might come out in aggression. It might come out in numerous different ways. And so what we do is we find healthy ways to express our emotions, to express our tough things. We find safe spaces so that we can actually explore what this is about. You know, why am I, um, lashing out so much at this person? Why am I lashing out at, you know, all these. All these things that we do, all of our patterns, right? Like why? Why are we like this? The only way to heal is to feel okay and it's handy'cause it rhymes. You feel it, you heal it, you express it. And so when we do the work of embodiment, when we do this work and we feel, and we heal and we express, that is where the magic happens. We model this to our family. We model this to our children. We model this. To our partners. We don't take our shit out on everybody, but also we start to live in this very beautiful, like sacred. I mean, I'm not talking about religion here. I'm talking about embodiment, right? There's a difference, and this is what this podcast is all about. Like we don't have to go to church on Sunday. We don't have to identify. I mean, it's great if you do. Awesome. Brilliant. But we don't. You know, spirituality doesn't mean religion anymore. It means that we believe in souls. It means that we believe in the universe and the collective consciousness. It means whatever it means to you, right? And so embodiment is very much tied in with that. Like if you say she's just very embodied, like that makes me think of somebody that pauses before she speaks. That makes me think of somebody that has a morning practice that makes me think of somebody that expresses herself really beautifully. That makes me think of a queen, like the queen energy. For me, the queen energy is, she has boundaries. She's so kind, but she is very firm and fair. It's like your favorite teacher at school. She's like a queen. She is. You know, she walks into the room, she has presence. People listen to her, people respect her. She doesn't talk too much. She's quiet sometimes. She says no, and she means no. Oh, she says yes and she's all in. You know, this is somebody who's in touch with a sexuality, who's in touch with a sensuality, who knows her own power. She knows her own mind. And so sometimes it helps to think of embodiment like that. Like if I think of an embodied person, who do I, what do I think of, you know, and am I all of those things. Let's just say I'm a work in progress, so as an embodiment coach, it does not mean like any psychologist or any therapist or anyone that you know that like they're always like the most crazy person in the room, right? We do this work because we need this work, but we are walking the path and that's the most important thing. Some people are just. Guru. Well, everybody's their own guru, right? But some people just have a zen energy. They don't need this word. They don't need this because they already embody it. Their souls have arrived in this lifetime. They've already done so much work in in past lives. So we're all here to embody something to, I'm here to learn and to guide about these things called embodiment, about yoga practices, about spirituality. Over on YouTube at the minute I've relaunched on YouTube and my embodiment there is to teach other women in their forties and fifties and so on. Other midlife women about holistic toolkits for A DHD. I felt a calling to do that, and it's just happening. I surrendered and I'm doing it. I have different passion projects. I'm multi-passionate. That's part of my embodiment. That's who I am, and I'm embodying it. I own it. I don't apologize for it. I don't follow the patriarchal idea. If you only do one thing. Do one thing, and if it's financially successful, it's successful. End of story. That's not what I do anymore. I listen to my own intuition. I know when it's like, oh yeah, I need to focus a bit more. I need to do this. I need to do that. I'm very, very clear on what I'm doing at the minute, and for me, this podcast is my spiritual playground. It's where I. Talk about my, you can call it a hyper focus if you want, where my obsession, my interest, my love that lights me up, which is spirituality, which is talking to other spiritual women, which is guiding other women to towards their own spirituality because this is how we heal the world. And embodiment is also how we're gonna heal the world, guys. So it's about the feminine rising. And also you can be a very embodied male of course, and an embodied male also acknowledges their feminine energy big time. And so the perfect union, the perfect balance is when we have all of these energies all at once, the feminine and the masculine energy working together. So. Let's just summarize this. So embodiment is about a holistic view on the world. It's about utilizing all of your senses. It's about acknowledging that you're a mind, your body, and your soul. It's about acknowledging earth-based wisdom. It's about acknowledging inner child healing and your inner teenager as well. It's about following your purpose, following your heart. It's about being expressive. It's about not. Oppressing yourself and suppressing and oppressing others. It's about everybody living a full spectrum self. Um, and also it's about being grounded. Uh, it's about sustain, oh, can't speak sustainability. It's about all of these things guys, and it's about a real return to whole. So I'm gonna leave it there. I'm opening up one spot a month to work for some, to work with somebody on a taster, one-off basis. It always ends up, uh, being more, trust me. Um, but no pressure whatsoever. If you, if you wanted to try one session, uh, I leave the details below to book on for one embodiment coaching session to see what you think. It's a half price taster session. I also have my embodiment and reparenting. Um, retreat coming up in November. We have a couple of spots left. It's gonna be the most beautiful thing you've ever experienced in your entire life. Um, I wanted to talk about embodiment on this episode. I'm gonna talk about reparenting in the next episode, and I'm gonna get my co-host to come on the podcast with me, uh, my, my retreat podcast. Oh my God, my retreat co-host. Okay. She's a re-parenting expert, a re-parenting coach Abel. She's amazing. Uh, I'm gonna leave details about the, uh, retreat underneath this post. We actually have an offer. It's, it's finishing today, but if I post this later and it goes live, I can say, you know, it. It is today on the day of posting, uh, that we actually have a room sharing offer, um, and a discount code that you can use to get two 50 pounds each totaling 500 pounds off a room share. That is it guys. I am almost at the gym, so I'm gonna go. I love you so much. Please rate and review the podcast. It really helps. Thanks so much. Bye.