Reclaiming Consciousness

Alyse Bacine
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  • Self-Improvement
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For many years, our consciousness has been hijacked by societal and cultural programming, religion, the media, and familial and ancestral trauma. Reclaiming Consciousness is a podcast dedicated to exploring how so many spectacular humans are waking up, exiting the matrix and fully reclaiming their consciousness. Your host, Alyse Bacine, is a mental health professional, spiritual mentor and breathwork practitioner who helps people rapidly clear trauma. In her work with clients, she sees the profound shifts that people are able to make in their lives when they stop following the regularly scheduled program and start living the life they were meant to live. In this show you’ll meet exceptional people who are paving the way in raising consciousness and creating a new way of living on this earth. This podcast is your roadmap to deprogramming from the matrix and contributing to creating the new earth.

  1. 19h ago

    “I Don’t Want His Opinion, I Just Want His Blessing” — Live Session with Hilary Valentine

    “No one is just pink and orange and yellow. We all have the deep, dark, stormy hues of emotion and I just never really acknowledged that ” Hi everyone! It's so great to be back with the podcast. This episode marks the beginning of a new season for the show, and it's something I’ve wanted to bring you for a long time: real client sessions, recorded live. Hilary Valentine came back on the show a little over a year after we worked together inside The Mothership, and she brought a pattern that keeps resurfacing in her marriage. As a homeschooling mom, Hilary carries the weight of the big decisions about her daughter’s education, and every time she brings a plan to her husband, they end up in friction. Together, we trace the heaviness she feels in her chest back to a childhood memory of being pulled out of choir, and to the “easy child” role she took on to keep the peace at home. What unfolds is a powerful shift. Hilary doesn’t actually need her husband’s opinion. She needs his emotional support, and the validation she’s been chasing is something only she can give herself. We talk about the difference between operating from your wounding and operating from your power, why the pressure to give your kids what you didn’t get is really about not wanting to feel that pain again, and how to bring your partner in without defending every decision. If you’ve ever wondered what actually happens inside a session with me, this is it. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS The new format: real client sessions + highly curated expertsHilary, The Mothership, her background, and the live sessionThe recurring friction around homeschooling decisions: “I don’t really want his opinion. I just want his blessing.”A mom who didn’t stand up for her: the choir incidentWhy the “easy child” is always a red flagDeprogramming from the cult of the family and the roles we’re assignedAsking for emotional support instead of an opinionThe pressure to give your kids what you didn’t get, and who it’s really protectingOperating from your power doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to feel scaredLetting the emotion move when the conversation can’t happen**WAYS TO ENTER MY WORLD** When you leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and send us a screenshot of it, we'll send you a $250 credit that you can apply to anything else in my world.Questions? Let's jump on a call CONTACT ALYSE YouTube @alysebreathesalysebreathes.comIG @alyse_breathesinfo@alysebreathes.com

  2. Jul 23

    How to Tell If Your Breathwork Facilitator Is Safe with Megan Ashton

    Before today's episode notes, I have a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: After 4+ years of continuously making and sharing new episodes for you, Reclaiming Consciousness will go through a 90-day pause.  As with everything in life, I feel an evolution is needed for the show, and although I have a few ideas on my mind on what the next chapter will look like, I prefer to keep it as a surprise for you until the day comes.  Obviously, all the episodes will remain available for you. I'll also be creating playlists on Spotify, organized by topic so you can easily find your favorite content. As always, THANK YOU so much for being there. See you soon! -------------------------------- "There's just a lot of facilitator stories where the facilitator's almost chasing catharsis, 'cause that feels good for the ego. They wanna see the screaming and the big cries, and they're chasing it at the expense of the agency of the breather, and that's when it can become re-traumatizing." Today I'm joined by Megan Ashton, founder of Unity Breathwork, and this is a conversation every single person who's ever considered breathwork, or who's already facilitating it, needs to hear.  Megan spent almost 20 years chasing healing through holistic nutrition, clinical hypnotherapy, shamanic work, and a genuinely traumatic week with ayahuasca before conscious connected breathing finally did what nothing else could. We get into her own history with alcohol dependency and bulimia, and how breathwork succeeded where so many other modalities failed her, including me, since I went through something strikingly similar myself. But where this episode really goes deep is the safety conversation almost no one in this industry is having out loud. Megan and I talk about the real danger of combining breath holds with connected breathwork (including seizures she's witnessed firsthand), the guru complex some facilitators fall into, why chasing catharsis can actually re-traumatize people, and what "trauma-informed" is supposed to mean versus what it's become. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Megan's 15-year healing quest: nutrition, hypnotherapy, shamanic healing, and a traumatic week with ayahuascaThe Bali breathwork session that finally released decades of grief and ended Megan's eating disorderWhy most addictions are rooted in trauma, not willpowerAlyse's own experience healing an eating disorder through breathworkWhy talk therapy and EMDR hit a ceiling: the case for working bottom-up through the bodyRed flags in facilitators: chasing catharsis, guru energy, forcing the breath, exploiting vulnerable states to sellThe real danger of combining breath holds with connected breathworkWhat "trauma-informed" actually means (and why a 50-hour certification isn't it)How to vet a breathwork facilitator or training program before you commitCONTACT MEGAN unitybreathwork.comInstagram unitybreathworkFacebook unitybreathworkTrauma-Informed Breathwork Facilitator TrainingFree Conscious Connected Breathwork JourneyBreathwork Retreats (Sayulita, Mexico) **WAYS TO ENTER MY WORLD** When you leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and send us a screenshot of it, we'll send you a $250 credit that you can apply to anything else in my world.Join me in The Metamorphosis which is my 3-month, groundbreaking, flagship program to rapidly and efficiently clear the familial and ancestral trauma that is blocking you from experiencing the wealth and freedom that you desire.Starting a business or working with clients? You need to sign up for The Metamorphosis Method This is the only Breathwork and Trauma Certification Program that closes the gap between spirituality and therapy to create predictable and permanent results with your clients. We start again at the end of September.Questions? Let's jump on a call CONTACT ALYSE YouTube @alysebreathesalysebreathes.comIG @alyse_breathesinfo@alysebreathes.com

  3. Jul 9

    Feeling Your Feelings

    "There's always a reason why you feel how you feel, and if you tell yourself that you shouldn't feel that way, that doesn't function or change anything... I think that the whole therapy model is deeply flawed, and that's not talking $hit to any therapist. " It felt like the right time to say some things I don't think enough people are saying. In my work, and in the way I look at healing childhood wounding, clearing trauma, and creating real transformation, I see the same misapplications over and over. People take true, powerful concepts like karma, or teachings from Buddhism, or "just do your inner child work," and apply them so black-and-white that it actually keeps them stuck instead of setting them free. In this episode, I'm getting into why feeling your feelings is a skill nobody actually teaches you, least of all in a therapy program (mine never mentioned trauma once, in a full master's in counseling psychology). I'm also saying something I don't think enough people are willing to say: how screaming and crying your way through a breathwork session, or doing plant medicine without integration, can become its own form of avoidance.  This is the paradigm shift I'm building my work around, and I wanted you in it with me. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Why concepts like karma and spiritual bypassing keep people stuck instead of setting them freeThe difference between healing childhood wounding and having a consistent spiritual practiceThe real meaning of "addressing" your feelingsWhy a full master's program in counseling psychology never once mentioned traumaThe truth about holotropic breathwork, screaming, and when catharsis becomes avoidanceWhy plant medicine can show you the truth without helping you live itThe moment I realized my own coping mechanism was leaving my bodyThe Metamorphosis Method® vs. Traditional therapy**WAYS TO ENTER MY WORLD** When you leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and send us a screenshot of it, we'll send you a $250 credit that you can apply to anything else in my world.Join me in The Metamorphosis which is my 3-month, groundbreaking, flagship program to rapidly and efficiently clear the familial and ancestral trauma that is blocking you from experiencing the wealth and freedom that you desire.Starting a business or working with clients? You need to sign up for The Metamorphosis Method This is the only Breathwork and Trauma Certification Program that closes the gap between spirituality and therapy to create predictable and permanent results with your clients. We start again at the end of September.Questions? Let's jump on a call CONTACT ALYSE YouTube @alysebreathesalysebreathes.comIG @alyse_breathesinfo@alysebreathes.com

  4. Jul 2

    Why Your Mom Triggers You (Even When She's a Good Person)

    "Your mom can be one of the people that you love the most in the world and that you feel the most connected to, and also one of the people that hurt you the most... I always used to be in this place where I'm like, 'Why does everyone love my mom so f*****g much?' She drives me insane." This week I'm getting personal about the mother wound, not the framework, but my actual relationship with my own mom. Your mother can be someone you love deeply, someone everyone adores, someone who did everything she could for you, and still be the person who wounded you most. Both are true at the same time. And when the wounding is subtle, when your mom was "a good mom," it's actually so much harder to see, because part of you keeps insisting it must not be that. I share the boundary I had to set when I first started my business, the moment my mom finally didn't take my work personally, and the quieter pattern underneath it all: learning as a kid that support wasn't safe, that I had to handle everything alone. Have you ever wondered why your mom triggers you when she's genuinely a good person?, or Why you can't seem to receive support even when it's right there?  I'm sure this episode will help you see things more clearly. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Holding two truths at once: loving your mom and acknowledging she hurt youWhy a "good mom" wound is harder to see than obvious neglect or abuse"Don't make it about you" - Setting boundaries with my mom early in my businessThe validating moment my mom stopped taking the work personally"It always comes back to your mom" - recreating her, or the feeling of her, in your relationships and businessWhy crying about a fight isn't emotional processing... and what isFeeling an emotion through the lens of where it startedRiding the emotional wave to completion without suppressing or spinningLearning that support felt unsafe and how hyper-independence becomes a capHow unconscious coping mechanisms quietly drive your results**WAYS TO ENTER MY WORLD** When you leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and send us a screenshot of it, we'll send you a $250 credit that you can apply to anything else in my world.Check out The Mother Wound series on my YouTube channelJoin me in The Metamorphosis which is my 3-month, groundbreaking, flagship program to rapidly and efficiently clear the familial and ancestral trauma that is blocking you from experiencing the wealth and freedom that you desire.Starting a business or working with clients? You need to sign up for The Metamorphosis Method This is the only Breathwork and Trauma Certification Program that closes the gap between spirituality and therapy to create predictable and permanent results with your clients. We start again at the end of September.Questions? Let's jump on a call CONTACT ALYSE YouTube @alysebreathesalysebreathes.comIG @alyse_breathesinfo@alysebreathes.com

  5. Jun 11

    Why You Keep Abandoning Yourself

    "You have set up this pattern where you completely abandon yourself unconsciously and make it about the other person because you believe on an unconscious level that that is the way that you will get love, connection, and ultimately survive." Codependency is one of those words I've avoided for a long time, not because it isn't real, but because I think it gets oversimplified in a way that misses what's actually happening. The deeper I go in my own process and the deeper I take my clients who've been doing this work for a while, the more I see that the layers of codependency we're dealing with aren't just behavioral. They're energetic. They started before we had language for any of it. And they've been running silently underneath every relationship, every decision, and every moment we've felt depleted, resentful, or like we're hitting a wall, without understanding why. What I've been uncovering, for myself and for the women I work with, is that so much of what we think is just "who we are" is actually a set of coping mechanisms we created in childhood to survive the emotional environment we were in. The way we automatically say yes. The way we absorb other people's feelings and lose track of our own. The way we don't even realize we have a choice. In this episode, I'm diving into what the deeper layers of codependency actually look like energetically, why they're so hard to see, and what it's meant for me to start pulling on these threads in real time, including some very personal things I've been navigating. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Why codependency goes far deeper than its mainstream definitionHow childhood coping mechanisms get wired into the nervous system as survival responses, not conscious choicesThe mother wound as the blueprint for every relationship pattern that followsThe Boomer generation, Pluto in Leo, and why narcissistic tendencies in parents are more common than most people realizeWhy highly sensitive, empathic women often can't tell the difference between their own feelings and everyone else'sThe moment I recognized I'd been operating from guilt and shame every time I said yesHow the same patterns that come from trauma become your greatest gifts once they're alchemizedThe energetic and astrological context for why so many of us are in a deep unraveling right nowThe questions to ask yourself when you're stuck, depleted, or repeating the same patterns**WAYS TO ENTER MY WORLD** When you leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and send us a screenshot of it, we'll send you a $250 credit that you can apply to anything else in my world.Check out Breathwork to Heal Anxiety on my YouTube channelJoin me in The Metamorphosis which is my 3-month, groundbreaking, flagship program to rapidly and efficiently clear the familial and ancestral trauma that is blocking you from experiencing the wealth and freedom that you desire.Starting a business or working with clients? You need to sign up for The Metamorphosis Method This is the only Breathwork and Trauma Certification Program that closes the gap between spirituality and therapy to create predictable and permanent results with your clients. We start again at the end of September.Questions? Let's jump on a call CONTACT ALYSE YouTube @alysebreathesalysebreathes.comIG @alyse_breathesinfo@alysebreathes.com

  6. May 28

    Why Changing Your Thinking Isn't Enough with Dr. Word Smith

    "Your life is a garden and whatever you cultivate is what springs up, and if you don't pull out certain weeds, it ends up choking out the good stuff." My good friend, Dr. Word Smith is back for the third time. He flew into Philly, we sat down with zero agenda, and what came out was one of the most honest, layered conversations I've had on this show about relationships, childhood wounds, codependency, Buddhism, karma, and what it actually takes to change. We get into why intimate relationships are the sharpest mirror we have for our unprocessed childhood material, and why most of us don't even have language for what we didn't receive growing up, only a feeling that something was missing. Word shares his own journey through toxic shame, perfectionism, and self-criticism, and what it looked like to actually move through it over 25 years of real inner work. We also dive into Buddhism, the concept of seed planting, why just changing your thoughts doesn't work, and why the feelings and the body have to be part of the equation. Then we go deep into codependency, the slow, invisible way it builds, how it rewards you just enough to keep you stuck, and what it means to finally hit the wall where continuing the old way is no longer an option. We talk about the container: what it means to have a safe space where your body knows it can finally feel, and why that safety isn't a luxury, it's the actual mechanism of change. We close with a tease: we may be co-facilitating a retreat this fall. Stay tuned. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Why intimate relationships trigger us more than anything elseThe moment Word finally understood what toxic shame wasHow to trace shame back to childhood: what questions to ask yourselfWhy affirmations alone don't work, and what you're missing when you skip the feelings and bodyBuddhism, karma, and seed plantingCodependency: a survival mechanism that stops serving youThe perimenopause layer: why women in their 40s suddenly can't tolerate the old patterns anymoreSelf-abandonment disguised as being a good mom, wife, partner, and how to start seeing itThe container: why your body knows when it's safe to feel, and why that space is the key to processingFall retreat announcement. More details coming soon CONTACT DR. WORD SMITH Dr. Word Smith is an energy worker, coach, Buddhist scholar, and Chinese medicine doctor with 25 years of experience helping people with manifestation, healing, and result-based transformation.  Visit drwordsmithwisdom.comFollow on IG dr.wordsmithwisdom**WAYS TO ENTER MY WORLD** When you leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and send us a screenshot of it, we'll send you a $250 credit that you can apply to anything else in my world.Join me in The Metamorphosis which is my 3-month, groundbreaking, flagship program to rapidly and efficiently clear the familial and ancestral trauma that is blocking you from experiencing the wealth and freedom that you desire.Check out my newest video on my YouTube channel What's the Inner Critic + 7-Min Breathwork to Release ItQuestions? Let's jump on a call CONTACT ALYSE YouTube @alysebreathesalysebreathes.comIG @alyse_breathesinfo@alysebreathes.com

  7. May 14

    What Men Lose When They're Told to Stop Crying with David Cutler

    "The only way to not feel uncomfortable is to take full responsibility for your inner landscape." I have one of my favorite people back on the show, David Cutler, and this time we went somewhere I've wanted to go for a while. We talk about men, feelings, and why there's still such a massive gap between men and women doing this kind of inner work.  David shares his own story with a lot of honesty, including the moment at 13 when his dad made it clear that crying wasn't allowed anymore, and how martial arts, music, and embodied practice became the thing that kept him connected to himself when culture was pushing him out. We talk about where emotions actually live in the body, what it means to take self-responsibility without turning it into self-blame, and why codependency isn't the opposite of independence: it's the opposite of interdependence.  We also get into positive projection, the blueprint our early relationships create for how we experience love, and what actually shifts when you stop outsourcing your emotional landscape and come back to yourself. David is one of the best manifesters I know, and by the end of this episode you'll understand exactly why. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS What gets shut down in men around age 13, and the cultural enforcement behind itWhy emotions aren't in your head. Most men have lost access to thatThe "cobwebs": what it takes to come back into felt connection with yourselfHolding the energy in session but falling apart everywhere else... what's actually happeningSelf-responsibility without self-blameWhat it means when you can't yet see your own goodnessCodependency is not the inverse of independenceThe fear that dissolving codependency means disappearingManifestation as a byproduct: when there's nothing in the way, things just unfold**WAYS TO ENTER MY WORLD**   When you leave a review of the podcast, send us a screenshot and we'll send you a $250 credit, you can apply to anything else in my world.The Metamorphosis Method Level 1 Breathwork Certification is a 6-week intensive designed to help you use this specific breathwork modality to accelerate your own results, and hold space powerfully for others.Questions? Let's jump on a call CONTACT DAVID Sign in to David's Energetic CircleFollow on IG davidleoncutlerGet the Prove Your Power ProgramCONTACT ALYSE YouTube @alysebreathesalysebreathes.comIG @alyse_breathesinfo@alysebreathes.com

  8. Apr 30

    Futures Don't Yet Exist: Fear Is Not a Destiny with Aubrey Morgan Yee

    "You can't really help the world from burning if your house is on fire. Once I accepted that, the real true quantum nature of healing, that it ripples out and it has these outsized effects that we can't see... it was like a massive relief." Today we have Aubrey Morgan Yee, systems alchemist, futurist, author, and founder of Our Beloved Futures. Aubrey holds a PhD in Alternative Futures and Indigenous Politics, and her life's work is helping people remember that the future is not a fixed point. It's something we're actively co-creating, moment by moment, with every choice we make and every wound we refuse to carry forward. It struck me how her path to that understanding mirrors what I see in my own clients: the moment you stop trying to fix everything outside of you and turn the work inward, everything changes. We talked about what it really means to live through a time of collapse, not from a place of fear, but from a place of radical possibility, and why the most powerful thing any of us can do right now is heal ourselves first. We also explored how the systems we were taught to rely on were never as stable as we believed, and how the unraveling happening in the world right now is also an invitation. An invitation to remember who you actually are underneath the programming, to reconnect with what genuinely lights you up, and to start building a life that belongs to you rather than one you inherited by default. The caterpillar doesn't ask why it isn't a butterfly yet. It just does what it's here to do. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Healing yourself is the most political act you can take right nowRealizing "I couldn't outthink my way to safety"How Aubrey's relationship with alcohol became the catalyst for her deepest transformationWhat systems collapse actually means for your inner work...it's not as scary as it soundsUncertainty isn't the problem: it's where pure possibility livesThe gift hiding inside the things that feel like they're falling apartHow to start consciously building the future you actually want to liveThe butterfly metaphor**WAYS TO ENTER MY WORLD**   When you leave a review of the podcast, send us a screenshot and we'll send you a $250 credit, you can apply to anything else in my world.The Metamorphosis Method Level 1 Breathwork Certification is a 6-week intensive designed to help you use this specific breathwork modality to accelerate your own results, and hold space powerfully for others.Questions? Let's jump on a call CONTACT AUBREY ourbelovedfutures.comGet the Book Our Beloved FuturesGet in on Audio / Ebook Listen to Beloved Futures PodcastCONTACT ALYSE YouTube @alysebreathesalysebreathes.comIG @alyse_breathesinfo@alysebreathes.com

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For many years, our consciousness has been hijacked by societal and cultural programming, religion, the media, and familial and ancestral trauma. Reclaiming Consciousness is a podcast dedicated to exploring how so many spectacular humans are waking up, exiting the matrix and fully reclaiming their consciousness. Your host, Alyse Bacine, is a mental health professional, spiritual mentor and breathwork practitioner who helps people rapidly clear trauma. In her work with clients, she sees the profound shifts that people are able to make in their lives when they stop following the regularly scheduled program and start living the life they were meant to live. In this show you’ll meet exceptional people who are paving the way in raising consciousness and creating a new way of living on this earth. This podcast is your roadmap to deprogramming from the matrix and contributing to creating the new earth.

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  • Creator
    Alyse Bacine
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    202
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Reclaiming Consciousness
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    Reclaiming Consciousness