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Lift OneSelf Podcast - Mental Health, Healing & WellnessTransform your mental health through real stories and real-time healing practices. Host NatNat Be invites experts and everyday people to share their personal journeys navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, and emotional challenges, then guide you through the healing practices that helped them transform. Experience breathwork, meditation, somatic techniques, and therapy tools in real time. Whether you’re seeking emotional healing, stress relief, or personal growth strategies, you’ll find raw, authentic stories and actionable practices you can use immediately. This is emotional sobriety in action.This is LiftOneSelf.New episodes weekly.www.LiftOneSelf.com | @LiftOneSelfAnd remember always be kind to yourself.

  1. You Already Know Who Keeps Breaking Your Wings

    FEB 10

    You Already Know Who Keeps Breaking Your Wings

    Send a text  You already know who keeps breaking your wings. You've known for a while. So why are you still there? This episode tells the story of a scorpion and a butterfly, two beings who cannot coexist, even when they want to. It's not about good or bad. It's about incompatibility. And sometimes, love cannot grow where someone's patterns keep causing harm. We explore why you stay when you know better: the savior complex, the belief that your love can change someone, the fear that leaving means admitting you failed. We look at nervous system reflexes, trauma responses, and the gap between intention and safety. If you're the butterfly, you'll hear why choosing yourself isn't selfish, it's survival. If you're the scorpion, you'll hear why wanting to be good isn't the same as doing the work to become safe. Context isn't an excuse. It's a map. You don't owe anyone your wings. Support the show READY TO GO DEEPER? 🔥 Emotional Sobriety Workshop – Full nervous system regulation practices and tools to help you live in a feeling body that thinks. Click Here 📞 1:1 Sessions – Work directly on your specific patterns. I specialize assisting those ready to move from managing actually living. Book 🎁 Free Somatic Practice Guide – Start regulating your nervous system today: Click Here 📅 Free 20-Minute Clarity Call 💛 SUPPORT THE SHOW If this conversation opened something in you a breath, a tear, a recognition you can support this work here: 👉 buymeacoffee.com/liftoneself Your support keeps these honest, healing-centered conversations alive . 🎥 PREFER VIDEO? YouTube: @LiftOneSelf 📬 STAY CONNECTED Website: LiftOneself.com Email: liftoneself@gmail.com Instagram: @liftoneself Facebook: facebook.com/liftoneself Remember: The strongest thing you can do is ask for help. You're not alone.

    12 min
  2. You're Not Healing, You're Just Thinking About Healing

    FEB 3

    You're Not Healing, You're Just Thinking About Healing

    Send a text Why does resilience feel so heavy? Because you're not actually feeling the pain you're bypassing it. In this final episode of the Emotional Sobriety series, I draw a bright line between understanding your patterns and actually embodying change. Real healing doesn't happen in the head alone, and "high-vibe only" positivity isn't healing it's just another way to numb. I share how I used spiritual concepts like armour, why "I'm feeling anger" invites space while "I am angry" collapses you into the emotion, and what changes when you stop thinking your way through feelings and actually drop into your body. What is emotional sobriety? The capacity to feel the full range of emotions: anger, fear, grief, joy without numbing, avoiding, or being hijacked by them. It's self-regulation without codependency. It's choosing your response instead of reacting from your wounds. I teach the first of three pillars Awareness and why awareness plus a pause equals presence. You'll hear Viktor Frankl's "space between stimulus and response" and how to widen that space so choice becomes possible in the moments that matter most. The practice: A guided mindful check-in you can use anytime you feel overwhelmed. Three questions: What am I feeling? Where do I feel it in my body? What does it need from me? The goal isn't perfection or never being triggered. It's freedom the freedom to feel without being destroyed by it, to be fully human without making it mean something's wrong with you. Stop thinking about healing. Start feeling it. Join the Emotional Sobriety Workshop at liftoneself.com for the full framework and somatic techniques. If this resonated, share it with someone who needs permission to stop performing their healing. Support the show READY TO GO DEEPER? 🔥 Emotional Sobriety Workshop – Full nervous system regulation practices and tools to help you live in a feeling body that thinks. Click Here 📞 1:1 Sessions – Work directly on your specific patterns. I specialize assisting those ready to move from managing actually living. Book 🎁 Free Somatic Practice Guide – Start regulating your nervous system today: Click Here 📅 Free 20-Minute Clarity Call 💛 SUPPORT THE SHOW If this conversation opened something in you a breath, a tear, a recognition you can support this work here: 👉 buymeacoffee.com/liftoneself Your support keeps these honest, healing-centered conversations alive . 🎥 PREFER VIDEO? YouTube: @LiftOneSelf 📬 STAY CONNECTED Website: LiftOneself.com Email: liftoneself@gmail.com Instagram: @liftoneself Facebook: facebook.com/liftoneself Remember: The strongest thing you can do is ask for help. You're not alone.

    24 min
  3. Befriending Anger To Reclaim Boundaries And Voice

    JAN 27

    Befriending Anger To Reclaim Boundaries And Voice

    Send a text What if anger isn't the problem at all, but the protector standing guard over your boundaries, values, and deepest tenderness? In Episode 2 of the Emotional Sobriety series, we dismantle the myth of the "anger problem" and reveal the truth: anger isn't dangerous, untrained behavior and unprocessed pain are. When you learn to separate feeling from reaction, you discover a practical path from emotional hijack to clarity. What You'll Learn: Why anger is a bodyguard, not a villain and what it's actually protectingHow trauma layers turn present conflicts into past battlesThe hidden cost of the peacekeeper persona: exhaustion, resentment, and lost alivenessWhy grief and anger are inseparable (and how rage clears denial)The 4-step practice to communicate through anger instead of being hijacked by itReal Stories, Real Tools: A parenting example shows how old wounds distort present choices and how to protect connection while honouring boundaries. A client story reveals what happens when you bury anger for decades, and how giving it a voice reawakens joy, desire, and aliveness. Guided Practice Included: Join the mindful moment at 19:18 to ask your anger: "What are you protecting?" and begin befriending your most powerful ally. If you're ready to stop fearing your own heat and start using it as a compass, this episode offers grounded somatic tools and compassionate guidance. Support the show READY TO GO DEEPER? 🔥 Emotional Sobriety Workshop – Full nervous system regulation practices and tools to help you live in a feeling body that thinks. Click Here 📞 1:1 Sessions – Work directly on your specific patterns. I specialize assisting those ready to move from managing actually living. Book 🎁 Free Somatic Practice Guide – Start regulating your nervous system today: Click Here 📅 Free 20-Minute Clarity Call 💛 SUPPORT THE SHOW If this conversation opened something in you a breath, a tear, a recognition you can support this work here: 👉 buymeacoffee.com/liftoneself Your support keeps these honest, healing-centered conversations alive . 🎥 PREFER VIDEO? YouTube: @LiftOneSelf 📬 STAY CONNECTED Website: LiftOneself.com Email: liftoneself@gmail.com Instagram: @liftoneself Facebook: facebook.com/liftoneself Remember: The strongest thing you can do is ask for help. You're not alone.

    26 min
  4. Emotional Sobriety Part 1: Feeling Bodies That Think

    JAN 20

    Emotional Sobriety Part 1: Feeling Bodies That Think

    Send a text What if your body is speaking first and your thoughts are just catching up? We kick off a three-part journey into emotional sobriety by reframing feelings and thoughts as information, not identity, and by teaching a grounded, practical way to listen from the neck down. Through personal story, science-informed insights, and a guided practice, we explore how childhood conditioning trained us to override our nervous system and why that keeps us stuck in loops of overthinking, exhaustion, and disconnection. I share how a health crisis forced me to stop analyzing emotions and start feeling them, and what changed when I learned to befriend fear instead of outrun it. We unpack the gap between insight and integration why you can explain your patterns yet repeat them and show how embodiment transforms triggers into signals. You'll learn simple steps to locate sensations, stay present without creating a story, and let memories surface just long enough to gather the message before returning to the breath. This approach builds capacity so emotions stop hijacking your day and start guiding your choices. We close by anchoring the practice of self-regulation alongside healthy co-regulation. When you can create safety within, intuition sharpens, discernment strengthens, and connection with others deepens because you're actually present. Consider this your invitation to come home to a feeling body that thinks, and to prepare for the next episode where we unpack one of the most misunderstood emotions: anger what it protects, why it's maligned, and how to befriend it. If this conversation resonates: Subscribe to Lift OneSelf, share it with someone living from the neck up, and leave a review to help more people discover the work. Ready to go deeper? Visit liftoneself.com for the Emotional Sobriety Workshop and one-on-one sessions. Support the show READY TO GO DEEPER? 🔥 Emotional Sobriety Workshop – Full nervous system regulation practices and tools to help you live in a feeling body that thinks. Click Here 📞 1:1 Sessions – Work directly on your specific patterns. I specialize assisting those ready to move from managing actually living. Book 🎁 Free Somatic Practice Guide – Start regulating your nervous system today: Click Here 📅 Free 20-Minute Clarity Call 💛 SUPPORT THE SHOW If this conversation opened something in you a breath, a tear, a recognition you can support this work here: 👉 buymeacoffee.com/liftoneself Your support keeps these honest, healing-centered conversations alive . 🎥 PREFER VIDEO? YouTube: @LiftOneSelf 📬 STAY CONNECTED Website: LiftOneself.com Email: liftoneself@gmail.com Instagram: @liftoneself Facebook: facebook.com/liftoneself Remember: The strongest thing you can do is ask for help. You're not alone.

    18 min
  5. Stop OverRiding Your Body's Signals

    JAN 13

    Stop OverRiding Your Body's Signals

    Send a text You're exhausted, but you can't stop. You say yes when you mean no. You override the tightness in your chest and the knot in your stomach because you're supposed to be rational, agreeable, strong. But your body has been trying to tell you something. In this episode, we explore how to read your nervous system's signals, recognize the armor you're wearing, and recalibrate the magnet that keeps pulling in the wrong people. Practical examples included. If this episode is hitting home and you're tired of running the same patterns, I work 1:1 with high-functioning professionals to recalibrate their nervous systems. Book a free 20-minute clarity call: liftoneself.com/session Or grab my free somatic practice guide to start today: liftoneself.com/freegift Support the show READY TO GO DEEPER? 🔥 Emotional Sobriety Workshop – Full nervous system regulation practices and tools to help you live in a feeling body that thinks. Click Here 📞 1:1 Sessions – Work directly on your specific patterns. I specialize assisting those ready to move from managing actually living. Book 🎁 Free Somatic Practice Guide – Start regulating your nervous system today: Click Here 📅 Free 20-Minute Clarity Call 💛 SUPPORT THE SHOW If this conversation opened something in you a breath, a tear, a recognition you can support this work here: 👉 buymeacoffee.com/liftoneself Your support keeps these honest, healing-centered conversations alive . 🎥 PREFER VIDEO? YouTube: @LiftOneSelf 📬 STAY CONNECTED Website: LiftOneself.com Email: liftoneself@gmail.com Instagram: @liftoneself Facebook: facebook.com/liftoneself Remember: The strongest thing you can do is ask for help. You're not alone.

    24 min
  6. Why Your Boundaries Don't Work | Understanding Sovereignty vs. Control

    JAN 9

    Why Your Boundaries Don't Work | Understanding Sovereignty vs. Control

    Send a text Exhausted from setting boundaries that people keep crossing? The problem isn't them—it's that what you're calling "boundaries" are actually attempts at control. And control never works. In this episode, we break down the difference between: - Boundaries** (what you hold up against yourself) - Sovereignty** (choosing what you will and won't participate in) You'll discover: ✓ Why "you need to respect my boundaries" isn't actually a boundary ✓ The 4 questions to discern real harm vs. nervous system triggers   ✓ How to stop trying to control others and start making conscious choices ✓ Practical scripts you can use today: "I don't stay in conversations where there's yelling" ✓ The "flaky friend" and "critical parent" scenarios—how to set limits without villainizing ✓ The 6-step practice to reframe control impulses into sovereign choices This episode includes: - Body-based exercises to feel the difference in your nervous system - The 3 pillars of sovereignty: self-knowledge, accountability, regulation - How to know when to leave, when to speak, and when to pause - A grounding practice to integrate what emerges For high-functioning professionals exhausted from: → People-pleasing patterns → Boundaries that don't stick → Resentment from unspoken expectations → Not knowing if you should stay or go No therapy-speak shields. No rigid formulas. Just honest tools for real life. If someone specific came to mind while listening, share this episode with them. 🎧 Subscribe for weekly nervous system healing and emotional sobriety practices ⭐ Leave a review and share your biggest insight 💬 What boundary will you rewrite today? Send us a text: [your link] --- Mentioned in this episode: - Boundaries vs. control framework - The 4 discernment questions - Harm vs. trigger differen If this episode is hitting home and you're tired of running the same patterns, I work 1:1 with high-functioning professionals to recalibrate their nervous systems. Book a free 20-minute clarity call: liftoneself.com/session Or grab my free somatic practice guide to start today: liftoneself.com/freegift Support the show READY TO GO DEEPER? 🔥 Emotional Sobriety Workshop – Full nervous system regulation practices and tools to help you live in a feeling body that thinks. Click Here 📞 1:1 Sessions – Work directly on your specific patterns. I specialize assisting those ready to move from managing actually living. Book 🎁 Free Somatic Practice Guide – Start regulating your nervous system today: Click Here 📅 Free 20-Minute Clarity Call 💛 SUPPORT THE SHOW If this conversation opened something in you a breath, a tear, a recognition you can support this work here: 👉 buymeacoffee.com/liftoneself Your support keeps these honest, healing-centered conversations alive . 🎥 PREFER VIDEO? YouTube: @LiftOneSelf 📬 STAY CONNECTED Website: LiftOneself.com Email: liftoneself@gmail.com Instagram: @liftoneself Facebook: facebook.com/liftoneself Remember: The strongest thing you can do is ask for help. You're not alone.

    32 min
  7. Why Your 10 Resolutions Failed (And The One Word That Won't)

    JAN 3

    Why Your 10 Resolutions Failed (And The One Word That Won't)

    Send a text Trade the noise of ten resolutions for the clarity of one word. We explore how a single intention can act like a compass aligning your goals, calming your nervous system, and making decisions simpler and more honest. Instead of forcing a new identity, we focus on trusting what’s already within you, so progress feels grounded rather than frantic. I share why my word for 2026 is spacious and how choosing it from embodied knowing changed the way I plan, prioritize, and say no. We walk through a short breath-and-body practice to help you discover your own word, with somatic cues to know it’s right: a soft exhale, a felt yes, a subtle easing in your body. From there, we dive into practical integration, placing your word at the top of your vision board, asking it to guide choices, and using one conscious breath before you act. You’ll hear how this approach engages the vagus nerve and prefrontal cortex, strengthens the gut-heart-head connection, and builds new neural pathways for trust and focus. We also unpack a key mindset shift: treat intention like a relationship, not a checkbox. When you forget, return. When it challenges you, get curious. Your word becomes a steady companion through messy moments, a way to stay aligned without hustling your nervous system into shutdown. Community matters too, so we invite you to share your word, be witnessed, and borrow the courage of a regulated group to reinforce your practice. If this conversation resonates, subscribe, share it with a friend who needs a North Star, and leave a review to help others find the show. Want support choosing or integrating your word? For the live class info send email info@liftoneself.com or on social media DM @liftoneself with what’s alive for you this year. If this episode is hitting home and you're tired of running the same patterns, I work 1:1 with high-functioning professionals to recalibrate their nervous systems. Book a free 20-minute clarity call: liftoneself.com/session Or grab my free somatic practice guide to start today: liftoneself.com/freegift Support the show READY TO GO DEEPER? 🔥 Emotional Sobriety Workshop – Full nervous system regulation practices and tools to help you live in a feeling body that thinks. Click Here 📞 1:1 Sessions – Work directly on your specific patterns. I specialize assisting those ready to move from managing actually living. Book 🎁 Free Somatic Practice Guide – Start regulating your nervous system today: Click Here 📅 Free 20-Minute Clarity Call 💛 SUPPORT THE SHOW If this conversation opened something in you a breath, a tear, a recognition you can support this work here: 👉 buymeacoffee.com/liftoneself Your support keeps these honest, healing-centered conversations alive . 🎥 PREFER VIDEO? YouTube: @LiftOneSelf 📬 STAY CONNECTED Website: LiftOneself.com Email: liftoneself@gmail.com Instagram: @liftoneself Facebook: facebook.com/liftoneself Remember: The strongest thing you can do is ask for help. You're not alone.

    16 min
5
out of 5
21 Ratings

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Lift OneSelf Podcast - Mental Health, Healing & WellnessTransform your mental health through real stories and real-time healing practices. Host NatNat Be invites experts and everyday people to share their personal journeys navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, and emotional challenges, then guide you through the healing practices that helped them transform. Experience breathwork, meditation, somatic techniques, and therapy tools in real time. Whether you’re seeking emotional healing, stress relief, or personal growth strategies, you’ll find raw, authentic stories and actionable practices you can use immediately. This is emotional sobriety in action.This is LiftOneSelf.New episodes weekly.www.LiftOneSelf.com | @LiftOneSelfAnd remember always be kind to yourself.