Into The Work: Therapy For Empaths And Seekers

Michelle Poverman
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Are you an empath or deep feeler navigating the challenges of life, relationships, and personal growth? Into The Work is your space for deep healing, self-discovery, and transformation. Hosted by Michelle Poverman, psychotherapist, energy healer, and intuitive coach, this immersive podcast feels like a personal therapy session for your soul. Each episode unpacks the mindset shifts, healing practices, and energetic tools you need to break free from self-doubt, step into your power, and create a life that aligns with your soul’s purpose. You’ll hear raw, honest conversations about emotional healing, boundaries, self-sabotage, intuition, and spiritual awakening—plus insightful interviews with experts and healers who have walked the path before you. If you're ready to stop repeating old patterns, trust your inner knowing, and step into the truest version of yourself, this podcast is for you. Let’s do the work together. Expect to be inspired. 

  1. 1D AGO

    Overwhelmed & Stuck? This Isn’t Procrastination — It’s Nervous System Freeze

    This is Episode 100. One hundred conversations about healing, boundaries, intuition, expansion, and stepping into your power. And somehow, it feels fitting that this milestone lands in a moment like this. If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed… numb… stuck…  If you’ve been questioning your motivation, your clarity, your discipline… This episode is for you. Because what many spiritually aware, heart-led entrepreneurs are experiencing right now isn’t procrastination. It’s a functional freeze. In this episode, we talk about: Why collective instability and global intensity are impacting your nervous systemThe difference between burnout and freezeThe subtle signs of high-functioning shutdownWhy growth and visibility can trigger immobilizationThe unique pressure of being the face of your business during uncertain timesHow to lead when you don’t have all the answersWhat it really means to “become the medicine”Micro-actions that rebuild nervous system safetyHow to show up without absorbing everything around youYou are not following a step-by-step blueprint designed for speed and scale. You are walking a sacred path that has never been created before — especially not in times like these. Your process will not look like anyone else’s. For some, this season calls for bold leaps. For others, it calls for micro-movements. Both are leadership. Both are sacred. If you’ve felt like disappearing, questioning your mission, or wondering how to show up when the world feels unstable,  this conversation will help you ground, clear, and recalibrate. Support the show Thank you for listening! Other Ways I Can Support You: Claim Your Free Gifts: 💎 The Squeegee Method For Clearing, Grounding and Protection: This guided audio will help you wipe away emotional energy that doesn’t belong to you and restore your energetic clarity. In fact, it’s helped my clients clear oncoming migraines, brain fog, unexplained moodiness, and exhaustion. You’ll not only listen to it, but you’ll also learn how to do it for yourself anytime, anywhere. Hit reset on your energy and reclaim your peace. 💫 Sign up Here For The Squeegee Method 💎Your Shadow Work Transformation Bundle Included inside is a very brief video letting you know the important steps to take for bigger results (like radical self love and significantly less anxiety and stuck progress.) Also, A Deep transformational Shadow Work Meditation and brief Shadow Work Guide with journal prompts and suggestions. Sign Up For Your Free Gift Here : The Shadow Work Transformation Bundle 🎁 BONUS when you sign up for the Shadow Work Bundle ⬆️ ⬆️ or The Squeegee Method, you will receive an invite from yours truly, inviting you to join my new Inspiration Hub! This is where all my free content goes to live on and inspire....

    35 min

  2. FEB 10

    Intuitive Leadership and Clairsentience: Why the Future Belongs to Embodied Leaders

    What if the very thing you were taught to tone down… is exactly what makes you a powerful leader? If you’ve ever walked into a room and felt something was off - before anyone said a word - this episode is for you. In today’s conversation, we’re talking about clairsentience: the ability to sense truth, timing, and misalignment through the body. Not as a “woo” party trick — but as a real, grounded leadership skill that’s becoming more essential as old systems break down and certainty outside of ourselves becomes harder to find.  We’ll explore why intuitive leaders aren’t too sensitive, why untrained clairsentience leads to burnout, and how embodiment and nervous-system regulation turn intuition into authority. We’re also naming the bigger moment we’re living in,  a time of collapse, truth-telling, and collective awakening, and why the leaders who stay anchored, regulated, and heart-led can be the ones shaping what comes next. This is a reminder of hope during these challenging times. This episode is an invitation to stop doubting what your body already knows… and start leading from it. Your Free Gift: The Inspiration Hub: How to Use Emotional Intuition to Make Big Decisions.   Do you ever feel like the more you think about a decision you have to make, the farther away you get from the answer?  I created a two-part series to help guide you in this process. All you need to do is bring a decision you want to make and press play.   Support the show Thank you for listening! Other Ways I Can Support You: Claim Your Free Gifts: 💎 The Squeegee Method For Clearing, Grounding and Protection: This guided audio will help you wipe away emotional energy that doesn’t belong to you and restore your energetic clarity. In fact, it’s helped my clients clear oncoming migraines, brain fog, unexplained moodiness, and exhaustion. You’ll not only listen to it, but you’ll also learn how to do it for yourself anytime, anywhere. Hit reset on your energy and reclaim your peace. 💫 Sign up Here For The Squeegee Method 💎Your Shadow Work Transformation Bundle Included inside is a very brief video letting you know the important steps to take for bigger results (like radical self love and significantly less anxiety and stuck progress.) Also, A Deep transformational Shadow Work Meditation and brief Shadow Work Guide with journal prompts and suggestions. Sign Up For Your Free Gift Here : The Shadow Work Transformation Bundle 🎁 BONUS when you sign up for the Shadow Work Bundle ⬆️ ⬆️ or The Squeegee Method, you will receive an invite from yours truly, inviting you to join my new Inspiration Hub! This is where all my free content goes to live on and inspire....

    27 min

  3. FEB 3

    How Sensitive Souls Can Navigate a Chaotic World Without Burning Out

    In times of collective chaos, many sensitive souls feel torn between wanting to speak out and desperately needing peace. If you’re an empath, intuitive, or spiritually conscious woman, you may be noticing that staying engaged with the world feels emotionally exhausting — even when your heart cares deeply. In this episode, we explore how sensitive nervous systems experience the world differently, why constant exposure to suffering can lead to burnout, and how living in “against” energy keeps us stuck in fight-or-flight. You’ll hear a gentle reframe that allows you to stay compassionate without carrying the weight of the world, including the power of shifting from what you’re against to what you’re truly for. This conversation is an invitation to care deeply while staying anchored, grounded, and connected to your inner center. In this episode, we explore: The difference between witnessing pain and absorbing itThe energetic cost of living in “against” energyHow shifting toward what you’re for restores clarity and peaceWhy going inward, prayer, and intention are forms of active leadershipPermission to protect your nervous system without guiltThis episode is especially for those who want to be a force for good in the world — without losing themselves in the process. If this resonated, take a breath, soften your shoulders, and let this be a reminder: you don’t have to carry everything to make a difference. Support the show Thank you for listening! Other Ways I Can Support You: Claim Your Free Gifts: 💎 The Squeegee Method For Clearing, Grounding and Protection: This guided audio will help you wipe away emotional energy that doesn’t belong to you and restore your energetic clarity. In fact, it’s helped my clients clear oncoming migraines, brain fog, unexplained moodiness, and exhaustion. You’ll not only listen to it, but you’ll also learn how to do it for yourself anytime, anywhere. Hit reset on your energy and reclaim your peace. 💫 Sign up Here For The Squeegee Method 💎Your Shadow Work Transformation Bundle Included inside is a very brief video letting you know the important steps to take for bigger results (like radical self love and significantly less anxiety and stuck progress.) Also, A Deep transformational Shadow Work Meditation and brief Shadow Work Guide with journal prompts and suggestions. Sign Up For Your Free Gift Here : The Shadow Work Transformation Bundle 🎁 BONUS when you sign up for the Shadow Work Bundle ⬆️ ⬆️ or The Squeegee Method, you will receive an invite from yours truly, inviting you to join my new Inspiration Hub! This is where all my free content goes to live on and inspire....

    20 min

  4. JAN 27

    Why Self-Care Isn’t Working for You (And the Power Shifts That Actually Do)

    You’re hydrated.  You’re taking your supplements.  You’ve “worked on your nervous system.”  You even took the vacation. So… why are you still tired? If self-care actually worked the way it’s been sold, most women would be well-rested, regulated, and thriving by now. But instead, many are stuck in a frustrating loop: reset, recover, repeat. In this episode, we’re talking about why self-care isn’t working — and it’s not because you’re doing it wrong. It’s because most self-care is designed to help you recover, not to help you change. So you rest just enough to return to the same emotional labor, the same patterns, the same pace that drained you in the first place. And then you wonder why the exhaustion keeps coming back. This episode is a compassionate wake-up call and a loving invitation to stop using self-care as a survival strategy — and start practicing it as self-leadership. In This Episode, We Explore: Why checking all the self-care boxes still leaves so many women depletedThe reset–repeat cycle that keeps burnout quietly aliveHow women leak power through over-explaining, over-caretaking, and over-controllingThe difference between recovery and capacity-buildingWhy burnout often shows up when things are actually going wellWhat it means to become a resourced visionary — in life, relationships, and business Support the show Thank you for listening! Other Ways I Can Support You: Claim Your Free Gifts: 💎 The Squeegee Method For Clearing, Grounding and Protection: This guided audio will help you wipe away emotional energy that doesn’t belong to you and restore your energetic clarity. In fact, it’s helped my clients clear oncoming migraines, brain fog, unexplained moodiness, and exhaustion. You’ll not only listen to it, but you’ll also learn how to do it for yourself anytime, anywhere. Hit reset on your energy and reclaim your peace. 💫 Sign up Here For The Squeegee Method 💎Your Shadow Work Transformation Bundle Included inside is a very brief video letting you know the important steps to take for bigger results (like radical self love and significantly less anxiety and stuck progress.) Also, A Deep transformational Shadow Work Meditation and brief Shadow Work Guide with journal prompts and suggestions. Sign Up For Your Free Gift Here : The Shadow Work Transformation Bundle 🎁 BONUS when you sign up for the Shadow Work Bundle ⬆️ ⬆️ or The Squeegee Method, you will receive an invite from yours truly, inviting you to join my new Inspiration Hub! This is where all my free content goes to live on and inspire....

    46 min

  5. JAN 20

    Empath You Have A Calling: How To Shine Your Light Through Dark Times. (Replay)

    This week, I’m featuring a special replay of the Episode Empath, You Have a Calling: How to Shine Your Light Through Dark Times. In a season when scrolling can feel like despair—and what’s unfolding in the U.S. and around the world can feel heavy, confusing, and even unimaginable—many sensitive empaths are feeling overwhelmed, fatigued, or unsure how to hold it all. This episode originally aired in November, just after the election, and has since become one of the most replayed episodes of the podcast. Clearly, the message continues to meet people exactly where they are. In this conversation, we explore the journey of empaths and spiritually conscious individuals during collective uncertainty and challenge. We talk about how to realign with love—not as spiritual bypassing, but as a grounded, embodied choice—even in the midst of pain, division, and conflict. By the end of this episode, you’ll have a clearer understanding of what your “job” is right now, why your healing work matters, and how your sensitivity is not a liability—but a vital offering to the world. This is part of why you signed up to be an empath or spiritual seeker in this lifetime. ✨ Bonus: You’ll be guided through a brief visualization to expand your awareness of the energetic field of love. Love, as you’ll discover, is far more than a feeling—it’s an essential nutrient, and one we are all being asked to consciously cultivate. Ultimately, this episode is a gentle call to action: to tend to your inner world, embody the frequency you wish to see, and trust that your presence and healing ripples outward in ways you may never fully see—but that matter deeply. Support the show Thank you for listening! Other Ways I Can Support You: Claim Your Free Gifts: 💎 The Squeegee Method For Clearing, Grounding and Protection: This guided audio will help you wipe away emotional energy that doesn’t belong to you and restore your energetic clarity. In fact, it’s helped my clients clear oncoming migraines, brain fog, unexplained moodiness, and exhaustion. You’ll not only listen to it, but you’ll also learn how to do it for yourself anytime, anywhere. Hit reset on your energy and reclaim your peace. 💫 Sign up Here For The Squeegee Method 💎Your Shadow Work Transformation Bundle Included inside is a very brief video letting you know the important steps to take for bigger results (like radical self love and significantly less anxiety and stuck progress.) Also, A Deep transformational Shadow Work Meditation and brief Shadow Work Guide with journal prompts and suggestions. Sign Up For Your Free Gift Here : The Shadow Work Transformation Bundle 🎁 BONUS when you sign up for the Shadow Work Bundle ⬆️ ⬆️ or The Squeegee Method, you will receive an invite from yours truly, inviting you to join my new Inspiration Hub! This is where all my free content goes to live on and inspire....

    26 min

  6. JAN 13

    When To Share Your Goals: Protecting Your Energy vs. Inviting Support

    You’ve probably seen the advice floating around lately: “Crush your goals in silence. Tell no one. Let the results speak.”  It's been a thing. And while that approach can be powerful… it’s not the whole story. In this episode, we explore when keeping your goals private actually protects your energy,  and when sharing your goals out loud or bringing them into community can help them grow. This conversation is especially for empaths, sensitive achievers, and spiritually minded women who feel deeply influenced by other people’s opinions, expectations, and emotional responses. Rather than offering one-size-fits-all advice, this episode invites you into discernment, self-trust, and nervous-system-aware goal setting, so you can decide what your goals need in this season. What You’ll Learn in This Episode Why “move in silence” isn’t always the most aligned strategyWhen keeping your goals private creates focus, safety, and clarityWhen sharing your goals supports accountability, confidence, and growthThe difference between sharing for support vs. sharing for validationHow empathy and nervous system sensitivity impact goal-settingThe key questions to ask before you decide to share (or not share) a goalKey Takeaways Privacy isn’t hiding — it’s sometimes energetic containmentSharing doesn’t have to be public to be powerfulDifferent goals require different kinds of supportSelf-trust matters more than strategyDiscernment is a skill you can learn and strengthen Support the show Thank you for listening! Other Ways I Can Support You: Claim Your Free Gifts: 💎 The Squeegee Method For Clearing, Grounding and Protection: This guided audio will help you wipe away emotional energy that doesn’t belong to you and restore your energetic clarity. In fact, it’s helped my clients clear oncoming migraines, brain fog, unexplained moodiness, and exhaustion. You’ll not only listen to it, but you’ll also learn how to do it for yourself anytime, anywhere. Hit reset on your energy and reclaim your peace. 💫 Sign up Here For The Squeegee Method 💎Your Shadow Work Transformation Bundle Included inside is a very brief video letting you know the important steps to take for bigger results (like radical self love and significantly less anxiety and stuck progress.) Also, A Deep transformational Shadow Work Meditation and brief Shadow Work Guide with journal prompts and suggestions. Sign Up For Your Free Gift Here : The Shadow Work Transformation Bundle 🎁 BONUS when you sign up for the Shadow Work Bundle ⬆️ ⬆️ or The Squeegee Method, you will receive an invite from yours truly, inviting you to join my new Inspiration Hub! This is where all my free content goes to live on and inspire....

    25 min

  7. JAN 6

    You're on the Right Path: A Soul Assignment Activation

    There comes a moment on the path where the question is no longer “What am I here to do?” It becomes “Am I willing to fully step into what’s already calling me?” This episode is a Soul Assignment activation for women who already feel a connection to their purpose but find themselves hesitating, questioning, or holding back from fully embracing it. Rather than focusing on finding your purpose, this conversation explores how a Soul Assignment works more like a seventh sense; a form of intuitive, embodied knowing that arrives as a whole sensory experience and repeats until it’s honored. In this episode, we name how feeling stuck is often a sign you’re standing at a threshold of change, and how resistance can arise when the body and nervous system haven’t yet caught up to what the soul already knows. You’ll be invited to relate to resistance not as failure, but as information—and to meet it with presence rather than avoidance. You’ll also be guided through a mini activation designed to reorganize your energy, call your attention back home, and support you in choosing your assignment with more steadiness and devotion. In This Episode, You’ll Explore: What a Soul Assignment really is (and what it’s not)How Soul Assignments function as a seventh sense or intuitive signalWhy feeling stuck often signals a threshold moment, not misalignmentHow resistance can appear when change asks more of youWhy repetition is a sign of truth, not confusionA guided Soul Assignment activation to support recommitment and embodiment Support the show Thank you for listening! Other Ways I Can Support You: Claim Your Free Gifts: 💎 The Squeegee Method For Clearing, Grounding and Protection: This guided audio will help you wipe away emotional energy that doesn’t belong to you and restore your energetic clarity. In fact, it’s helped my clients clear oncoming migraines, brain fog, unexplained moodiness, and exhaustion. You’ll not only listen to it, but you’ll also learn how to do it for yourself anytime, anywhere. Hit reset on your energy and reclaim your peace. 💫 Sign up Here For The Squeegee Method 💎Your Shadow Work Transformation Bundle Included inside is a very brief video letting you know the important steps to take for bigger results (like radical self love and significantly less anxiety and stuck progress.) Also, A Deep transformational Shadow Work Meditation and brief Shadow Work Guide with journal prompts and suggestions. Sign Up For Your Free Gift Here : The Shadow Work Transformation Bundle 🎁 BONUS when you sign up for the Shadow Work Bundle ⬆️ ⬆️ or The Squeegee Method, you will receive an invite from yours truly, inviting you to join my new Inspiration Hub! This is where all my free content goes to live on and inspire....

    34 min

  8. 12/30/2025

    The Boundary You’ve Been Avoiding: Why You Know It’s Time and What’s Really Stopping You

    There’s a boundary you already know you need to set. Not one you just learned about.  Not one that someone suggested.  The one your body has been whispering about for a while now. In this episode, we’re not talking about boundary-setting scripts or communication tips. We’re exploring why awareness hasn’t yet turned into action — and what this particular boundary is really asking of you. This conversation is for empaths, spiritual entrepreneurs, and women who are exhausted from over-giving, over-functioning, and being “the safe place” for everyone else. Especially if you’ve reached a point where something inside you knows: this season is over. We’ll talk about how self-abandonment often begins as a survival strategy, why setting boundaries can feel like an identity shift, and the hidden costs of continuing to say yes when your body is already saying no. This episode is an invitation to stop explaining, stop justifying, and start listening — not to fear, but to your nervous system, your intuition, and the version of you that’s ready to be honored. Support the show Thank you for listening! Other Ways I Can Support You: Claim Your Free Gifts: 💎 The Squeegee Method For Clearing, Grounding and Protection: This guided audio will help you wipe away emotional energy that doesn’t belong to you and restore your energetic clarity. In fact, it’s helped my clients clear oncoming migraines, brain fog, unexplained moodiness, and exhaustion. You’ll not only listen to it, but you’ll also learn how to do it for yourself anytime, anywhere. Hit reset on your energy and reclaim your peace. 💫 Sign up Here For The Squeegee Method 💎Your Shadow Work Transformation Bundle Included inside is a very brief video letting you know the important steps to take for bigger results (like radical self love and significantly less anxiety and stuck progress.) Also, A Deep transformational Shadow Work Meditation and brief Shadow Work Guide with journal prompts and suggestions. Sign Up For Your Free Gift Here : The Shadow Work Transformation Bundle 🎁 BONUS when you sign up for the Shadow Work Bundle ⬆️ ⬆️ or The Squeegee Method, you will receive an invite from yours truly, inviting you to join my new Inspiration Hub! This is where all my free content goes to live on and inspire....

    25 min
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Are you an empath or deep feeler navigating the challenges of life, relationships, and personal growth? Into The Work is your space for deep healing, self-discovery, and transformation. Hosted by Michelle Poverman, psychotherapist, energy healer, and intuitive coach, this immersive podcast feels like a personal therapy session for your soul. Each episode unpacks the mindset shifts, healing practices, and energetic tools you need to break free from self-doubt, step into your power, and create a life that aligns with your soul’s purpose. You’ll hear raw, honest conversations about emotional healing, boundaries, self-sabotage, intuition, and spiritual awakening—plus insightful interviews with experts and healers who have walked the path before you. If you're ready to stop repeating old patterns, trust your inner knowing, and step into the truest version of yourself, this podcast is for you. Let’s do the work together. Expect to be inspired. 

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