Rise Up: The Inner Work with Vicky Ross

Vicky Ross
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Rise Up: The Inner Work with Vicky Ross is a podcast for anyone who knows there is more to them than the patterns they keep repeating. In each episode, Vicky brings together three decades of experience in human behaviour, neuroscience, emotional mastery, identity, and the deeper spiritual and energetic layers that shape our lives. This is a space to slow down, hear yourself differently, and understand why you think, feel, and behave the way you do — and how to shift it. Through stories, insights, and real-life anonymous sessions, you’ll explore the beliefs, paradigms, conditioning, and internal narratives that quietly direct your life. You’ll learn how awareness, understanding, and unlearning create space for something new — a life that aligns with who you truly are. This is not about motivation. It’s about remembering your power, your truth, and the part of you that knows what you want is available to you. When you understand your inner world, you can reshape your outer one. Rise up into the life you want to live — the one lived entirely on your terms.

  1. May 30

    Stop Living On Relationship Crumbs - Rise Up Story with Shelley J Whitehead

    Send us Fan Mail A relationship ending can feel like freefall, but what if the real crisis is not losing them, it’s losing yourself? I’m joined by Shelly J. Whitehead, a relationship and couples coach and author of *Healing Your Heartbreak: 28 Days to Transformation*, to talk about the rise-up moment that changed how she loves, chooses and speaks up. We start with a story that still gives me chills, the strange way Shelly and I discovered our lives had crossed long before we officially met, and why that kind of connection can open the door to deeper truth.  Shelly shares her “ground zero” after the end of her second marriage, and how grief, betrayal and abandonment can pull old childhood wounds to the surface. We unpack the core patterns behind people-pleasing, minimising yourself and taking crumbs just to feel chosen. Then she takes us to a pivotal declaration: choosing to always ask for what she wants and needs, and learning to phrase needs in the positive so a request doesn’t land as blame. You’ll also hear a practical identity tool, the “I am” exercise, to rebuild self-worth without outsourcing it to a partner.  From there, we explore what genuine healing looks like in real relationships: boundaries, healthy anger, emotional regulation, integrity and the courage to stay present even when it’s uncomfortable. Shelly explains why not every relationship is meant to last, but every person can learn the skills of connection, presence and repair, which is exactly what great couples therapy and relationship coaching is for.  If you know someone navigating heartbreak, divorce grief or a relationship reset, share this with them, then subscribe, follow and leave a review so more people can find the show. What is one need you’re ready to ask for, clearly and without apology? To see more of Shelley's offerings follow her links: Website: https://shelleyjwhitehead.com/ Instagram|: https://www.instagram.com/shelleyjwhitehead/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ShelleyJWhitehead Support the show To join my beautiful membership community click here.  To visit my website This episode reflects my interpretation and awareness-based philosophical perspective, shaped by years of personal experience, training, reading, and research. It is not medical, psychological, or therapeutic advice and does not replace professional support. The language used is descriptive and reflective, not diagnostic. Not everyone will resonate with these ideas — and that is completely okay. You are responsible for your own interpretations, decisions, and the changes you choose to make in your life. Here is to your success Love Vicky

    45 min

  2. May 22

    How Childhood Adaptations Become Adult Identity

    Send us Fan Mail What if the parts of you that feel most “like you” are actually the parts you had to become to belong? We sit with a simple, unsettling question: what happened to the child you once were, the one who arrived curious, creative, emotionally open, and not yet trained to earn love through performance. I talk through how disconnection often starts quietly as nervous system survival. When you are small, you cannot risk believing the adults around you are unsafe or unreliable, so you adapt instead. You become the achiever, the good girl or good boy, the clown, the rescuer, the one who never needs anyone, the one who stays quiet. These coping mechanisms can be deeply intelligent for the environment you grew up in, but suffering begins when the adaptation hardens into identity and you start calling it “my personality”. We also look at why change can feel so hard: the unconscious mind follows familiarity, not a moral compass. Stress can become normal. Validation can become chemically comforting. Emotional protection can become your default. That’s why you can look successful on the outside and still feel empty on the inside, and why burnout, anxiety, or overwhelm may be the body’s way of telling the truth when the false self can no longer hold. Finally, we explore doorways back to self-connection: time alone, meditation, stillness, and creativity as a return rather than an escape. Healing is not always adding more. Sometimes it is removing interference and remembering what was there before fear became an identity. If this lands, subscribe, leave a review, and share the episode with someone who needs the reminder: you were never meant to lose yourself in order to belong. Support the show To join my beautiful membership community click here.  To visit my website This episode reflects my interpretation and awareness-based philosophical perspective, shaped by years of personal experience, training, reading, and research. It is not medical, psychological, or therapeutic advice and does not replace professional support. The language used is descriptive and reflective, not diagnostic. Not everyone will resonate with these ideas — and that is completely okay. You are responsible for your own interpretations, decisions, and the changes you choose to make in your life. Here is to your success Love Vicky

    15 min

  3. May 20

    What If Your Worst Moment Is Your Way Out-Rise Up story with Robert Jacques

    Send us Fan Mail One night of rage can destroy everything, but it can also expose the exact moment you stop running and start waking up. I’m joined by Robert Jacks, a man who went from a pressured teenage marriage and a painful divorce to a violent breaking point that landed him in jail facing the possibility of decades behind bars. What follows is not a neat self-help story. It’s a candid account of fear, regret, fatherhood, and the kind of inner chaos that makes you feel like your own mind has turned against you. We talk about the turning points that don’t look spiritual at the time: handing yourself in because you’re scared of what you might do next, hearing a quiet line of guidance in the middle of panic, and learning to walk through hardship one step at a time. Robert shares how silence, faith, and community begin to rebuild him, including a period of winter isolation so stark it strips life down to the essentials. From there, we explore a practical framework for overcoming adversity: moving from brokenness, to seeking, to real practice, and finally into integration and acceptance. If you’ve been searching for healing, mindfulness, meditation, or spiritual awakening, this conversation brings it back to something simple and tough to do consistently: finding the “gap” between thoughts and choosing peace without waiting for life to behave. We also challenge the mirage of chasing outcomes like money, status, or the perfect relationship as if they will finally complete you. Subscribe for more Rise Up Stories, share this with someone who needs a light right now, and please leave a review so more people can find these conversations. What did you hear that you want to practise this week? And if you want to hear more from Robert, follow this link to his podcast.   Support the show To join my beautiful membership community click here.  To visit my website This episode reflects my interpretation and awareness-based philosophical perspective, shaped by years of personal experience, training, reading, and research. It is not medical, psychological, or therapeutic advice and does not replace professional support. The language used is descriptive and reflective, not diagnostic. Not everyone will resonate with these ideas — and that is completely okay. You are responsible for your own interpretations, decisions, and the changes you choose to make in your life. Here is to your success Love Vicky

    48 min

  4. May 16

    Why You Repeat Painful Patterns And How To Break Them

    Send us Fan Mail The patterns that hurt you are rarely random. If you keep reacting the same way, choosing the same type of relationship, or freezing when you know what you “should” do, there’s usually something deeper at work than willpower. We go straight into the real question: why do we keep repeating pain, and what are we actually trying to avoid? I talk about how fear of rejection, humiliation, abandonment, punishment, or “not being good enough” often points to an old wound the body already recognises. When we don’t understand what’s happening inside us, we suppress, distract, and distance ourselves from discomfort, hoping it will stay away. But avoidance has a cost. The more we run from the wound, the more it quietly drives our choices, becoming the hidden architect of our behaviour and shrinking our ability to live freely. I also share a turning point from my own life: being alone on another continent, leaving with $3 and a suitcase, and having someone hold up a mirror that stopped me in my tracks. That moment sparked a lifelong curiosity about human behaviour and self-awareness. We unpack a challenging insight: sometimes the person we most fear is ourselves, through self-rejection and a cruel inner dialogue. Awareness is not judgement. Awareness is seeing, and what we can see, we can begin to change. If this lands for you, share it with someone who needs an honest conversation, then subscribe, leave a review, and tell me what pattern you are ready to name. Support the show To join my beautiful membership community click here.  To visit my website This episode reflects my interpretation and awareness-based philosophical perspective, shaped by years of personal experience, training, reading, and research. It is not medical, psychological, or therapeutic advice and does not replace professional support. The language used is descriptive and reflective, not diagnostic. Not everyone will resonate with these ideas — and that is completely okay. You are responsible for your own interpretations, decisions, and the changes you choose to make in your life. Here is to your success Love Vicky

    12 min

  5. Apr 25

    When You Know Something's Off But Can't Explain It

    Send us Fan Mail You know that feeling. Something's off. You can't name it. You've thought about it, talked about it — and it's still... there.This episode is for the intelligent, self-aware person who has done the work, and yet something underneath remains unmoved. In this episode, I share a method I developed called Quantum Alignment of Consciousness — a process that bypasses the thinking mind entirely to access what your body already knows, what your system already knows, what the energy field around you already knows. Because if the issue sits beneath your awareness, you genuinely cannot think your way to it. And the harder you try, the more the ego — your gatekeeper — pulls you back to what is familiar. This method came to me intuitively during a session in Greece. When we finished, my client said: "This is the best method I have ever experienced. Why aren't you putting this out into the world?" So here it is. In this episode you'll discover: Why more thinking is often the very thing keeping you stuckHow the ego acts as a fear-based gatekeeper to your unconscious mindThe step-by-step process of Quantum Alignment of ConsciousnessWhat happens when meaning is removed — and resistance dissolves with itHow people leave sessions with clarity, direction, and resolution — often after years of tryingSometimes the answer isn't more thinking. It's removing the interference so you can see clearly what is already there. 🔗 Work with Vicky: Rise Up Membership 📖 Connect with Vicky: Instagram #PersonalDevelopment #SelfImprovement #PersonalGrowth #SubconsciousMind #MentalHealth  #FeelingSuck #QuantumConsciousness #Mindset #TransformationalCoaching #RiseUpPodcast Support the show To join my beautiful membership community click here.  To visit my website This episode reflects my interpretation and awareness-based philosophical perspective, shaped by years of personal experience, training, reading, and research. It is not medical, psychological, or therapeutic advice and does not replace professional support. The language used is descriptive and reflective, not diagnostic. Not everyone will resonate with these ideas — and that is completely okay. You are responsible for your own interpretations, decisions, and the changes you choose to make in your life. Here is to your success Love Vicky

    11 min

  6. Apr 20

    What a Wonky Carrot Taught Me About Starting Over in Life- Rise Up Story with Will Thomas

    Send us Fan Mail What happens when the life you carefully built — the relationship, the identity, the sense of security — is ripped away all at once? My guest today is Will Thomas: coach, hypnotherapist, academic, author, and one of the most quietly extraordinary humans I know. And in this conversation, he does something brave — he tells the truth. Will's story begins in 1970s London, where growing up different meant learning to keep secrets. It winds through the happiest day of his life, a cycling accident that stole his short-term memory for a year, a marriage unravelling, a devastating betrayal — and a strange moment of calm in the middle of all of it, where a voice simply said: "Everything unfolds perfectly." And then there was the wonky carrot. Found in a greengrocer's during one of his hardest weeks, this misshapen, ridiculous-looking vegetable made him laugh — and then made him soup — and eventually became the seed of an entire philosophy: the perfectly wonky life. In this episode, Will shares his STICKA framework — the six principles that helped him rebuild self-trust from the ground up: Spiritual silence, Trust, Intuition, Creativity, Knowledge, and Agility. We also talk about the very real shame of being a therapist who hits rock bottom, the difference between intuition and ego chatter, and why your emotions really are like two-year-olds who will not be ignored. If you've ever had the life you planned fall apart — and wondered whether you could trust yourself to find the way through — this one is for you. To see more of Will Thoma's work, follow this link.  50% discount on Will’s Perfectly Wonky Life Course for Rise Up followers with ‘Spring26’ discount code applied at checkout:  https://willthomascoaching.com/products/the-perfectly-wonky-life-introductory-course Valid until 30th April  Support the show To join my beautiful membership community click here.  To visit my website This episode reflects my interpretation and awareness-based philosophical perspective, shaped by years of personal experience, training, reading, and research. It is not medical, psychological, or therapeutic advice and does not replace professional support. The language used is descriptive and reflective, not diagnostic. Not everyone will resonate with these ideas — and that is completely okay. You are responsible for your own interpretations, decisions, and the changes you choose to make in your life. Here is to your success Love Vicky

    50 min

  7. Apr 9

    Told She Had 6 Weeks to Live — Here's What She Did Next — A Rise Up Story with Charlotte Phelps

    Send us Fan Mail “You’re fine” can be one of the most dangerous phrases a person hears when their body is clearly struggling. I’m joined by Charlotte Phelps, founder of The Alchemy of Being, to unpack her rise-up story from high-achieving banking life in London to a health crisis that culminates in a terrifying warning: her gut may rupture within weeks. What follows is not a neat wellness slogan, but a grounded, human account of what it takes to keep pushing for answers when symptoms are real and tests keep landing in the “normal range”. We talk about the long build-up: insomnia, hives, digestive breakdown, pain, and the quiet stress of managing your life around your body. Charlotte shares how an unconventional biofeedback session points to a specific parasite that traditional routes miss, and how functional medicine testing helps her finally understand the gut health, hormone health, thyroid and adrenal stress connection behind what she’s experiencing. Alongside the medical journey, we explore the emotional reality of overachievement, the limiting belief of “not good enough”, and why a crisis often becomes the moment we finally choose ourselves. We also get practical and philosophical: why self-advocacy matters, how stress isn’t just “in your head”, why sleep can be more healing than another workout, and how even the wellness world can slip into comparison and one-upmanship. Charlotte explains what she built with The Alchemy of Being: a curated wellness hub and “wellness wiki” to help people find credible options and a starting point before they hit breaking point. If this conversation shifts something for you, subscribe, share it with a friend who’s been told they’re “fine”, and leave a review so more people can find these stories. What’s one choice you could make today that gives your body a better chance? And if you want to see more of Charlotte and/or explore her fabulous website click this link. Support the show To join my beautiful membership community click here.  To visit my website This episode reflects my interpretation and awareness-based philosophical perspective, shaped by years of personal experience, training, reading, and research. It is not medical, psychological, or therapeutic advice and does not replace professional support. The language used is descriptive and reflective, not diagnostic. Not everyone will resonate with these ideas — and that is completely okay. You are responsible for your own interpretations, decisions, and the changes you choose to make in your life. Here is to your success Love Vicky

    49 min

  8. Apr 7

    Well Done, You Just Argued With Yesterday

    Send us Fan Mail You can do everything “right” and still feel like nothing shifts. That’s usually the moment to question the hidden assumption behind how you’re responding to life. I’m Vicky Ross, and today I’m sharing a perspective that can stop the frustration loop mid-spin: when you react to what you see, you’re often reacting to something that’s already finished. What looks like “current reality” is frequently the result of earlier thoughts, feelings, expectations and unconscious patterns finally showing up on the outside. We break down the inside-out sequence I teach through an NLP lens: thoughts create feelings, feelings drive actions, and actions create results. If you only fight the result, you’re trying to change what has already been created. Instead, we use the outside world as a calibration tool. The way people respond to you, the outcomes you keep getting, even the triggers that set you off can become data. Not to blame yourself, but to reclaim choice. When you shift who you are being, your response changes, and the ripple effect reaches your behaviour, your energy and your results. I also give you a simple practice for the next time something winds you up: pause, ask what you’re assuming, and decide whether that assumption is helping you or repeating you. If you’re ready to stop “fixing” life and start creating it, press play, then share what you notice. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs it, and leave a review so more people can find Rise Up Podcast. Support the show To join my beautiful membership community click here.  To visit my website This episode reflects my interpretation and awareness-based philosophical perspective, shaped by years of personal experience, training, reading, and research. It is not medical, psychological, or therapeutic advice and does not replace professional support. The language used is descriptive and reflective, not diagnostic. Not everyone will resonate with these ideas — and that is completely okay. You are responsible for your own interpretations, decisions, and the changes you choose to make in your life. Here is to your success Love Vicky

    15 min
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Rise Up: The Inner Work with Vicky Ross is a podcast for anyone who knows there is more to them than the patterns they keep repeating. In each episode, Vicky brings together three decades of experience in human behaviour, neuroscience, emotional mastery, identity, and the deeper spiritual and energetic layers that shape our lives. This is a space to slow down, hear yourself differently, and understand why you think, feel, and behave the way you do — and how to shift it. Through stories, insights, and real-life anonymous sessions, you’ll explore the beliefs, paradigms, conditioning, and internal narratives that quietly direct your life. You’ll learn how awareness, understanding, and unlearning create space for something new — a life that aligns with who you truly are. This is not about motivation. It’s about remembering your power, your truth, and the part of you that knows what you want is available to you. When you understand your inner world, you can reshape your outer one. Rise up into the life you want to live — the one lived entirely on your terms.

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