Awaken Your Wise Woman

Elizabeth Cush
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Awaken Your Wise Woman

Welcome to the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast with host Elizabeth Cush, licensed clinical professional counselor and life coach for highly sensitive women. Every other week you’ll hear from Elizabeth and her guests as they explore women’s needs, desires, fears, hopes, and dreams—all that it means to be a wise, sensitive woman moving through life's joys, challenges, and transitions. Tune in to learn from Wise Women who know the struggles that come with being a sensitive woman today. We'll explore how to live a more grounded, authentic, purposeful, joyful, and compassionate life. The stories Elizabeth and her guests share will help you find the path back home to the brightest version of you — your truest, most beautiful, messy self. Together, let's shine our divine feminine energy brightly. The world needs us now more than ever. Awaken Your Wise Woman is the evolution of the Woman Worriers podcast.

  1. 2D AGO

    How to Drive Social Justice in Your Community

    If you’re starting to feel discouraged, take heart! Listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes former Congresswoman Marie Newman for a talk about community activism and making an impact. “We need to mend and heal this country, and the way we do that is by telling our stories.” — Marie Newman.  From bullying to racial discrimination to threatening LGBTQ rights, it seems like we have so much to be concerned about these days. With so many issues, it can feel overwhelming to think about trying to make a difference. Faced with all this, what can one woman do? A lot, it turns out. In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Elizabeth “Biz” Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Maryland and Delaware, and soul guide for highly sensitive women, welcomes Marie Newman, a former U.S. representative from Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District, advocate, and author of A Life Made From Scratch: Lessons From a Controversial Congresswoman, Mompreneur and Unstoppable Political Activist. They’ll talk about healing the country’s divides, advocating for better lives, building community and provide practical, step-by-step tips for how each of us can start a movement and make a difference. You can find all the resources and full show notes here.

    34 min

  2. MAR 31

    Highly Sensitive Women: Healing Childhood Wounds

    Highly sensitive women may feel childhood wounds deeply. In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Elizabeth Cush talks about how your parts help protect you and how you can heal. “We're learning to build a compassionate, kind loving relationship with ourself. Through that process, all parts of us learn to trust us.” — Biz Cush Not all childhood wounds are physical. If we didn’t get our emotional needs met when we were young, we can carry those hurts with us well into adulthood. We can feel the impact of those childhood traumas on both our physical and mental health, in turn affecting how we show up in the world. In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Biz Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Maryland and Delaware, and a life coach for highly sensitive women, talks about adverse childhood experiences like childhood emotional neglect, the mechanisms we develop to cope with them and how they show up in our “parts.” She’ll also share how Internal Family Systems (IFS) work—getting to know our parts and approaching them with curiosity and compassion when they are triggered—can help us build a kind, caring relationship with ourselves that meets the needs of our bodies and our emotions, helps heal those old wounds, and empowers us to show up in the world from a more grounded place. You can find all the resources mentioned and the full show notes here.  April 2025 Meet-up for Highly Sensitive Women.

    28 min

  3. MAR 24 · BONUS

    Featured guest on the Autoimmune Campfire podcast

    In this bonus episode, Elizabeth Cush joins Nona Jordan, and Helen Mullen to talk about autoimmune disease, stress, inflammation, and our parts that get activated aropund illness and healing. You can find more episode of the Autoimmune Campfire Pordcast here, or wherever you listen to podcasts. .

    38 min

  4. MAR 17

    Functional Medicine for Sensitive Women

    If you’re struggling with a chronic health issue, the answer may be closer than you realize. Listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes Andrea Nakayama, a functional medicine nutritionist, for a talk about the healthcare journey for highly sensitive women. “Functional nutrition is a place for those addressing chronic health challenges to settle into a different way of approaching them.” — Andrea Nakayama   Listen and learn: Two of the most glaring gaps in our medical system and how functional medicine helps address them The three primary tenets of functional medicine and their implications for highly sensitive women The three elements of the functional nutrition matrix and how they can help you understand and manage your health How antecedents, triggers and mediators shape our health story—and help us shape it going forward The benefits of making decisions in terms of risk and reward Why looking for the one thing that will “fix it” is counterproductive How to detoxify from a functional nutrition perspective—and it’s not what we’re hearing about in the media How to tap into the pharmacy inside us How our sensitivity and our health might be connected Find the full show notes and resources for all the episodes here.

    41 min

  5. MAR 3

    Reclaim Your Femininity and Find Satisfaction

    Lately it seems like women’s equality is farther away than ever? Don’t despair! Listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes author Alanna Kaivalya for an inspiring discussion about finding your feminine power. “For feminine women, we want inclusion, we want community, we want collaboration.” — Alanna Kaivalya You’ve probably heard the saying, “It’s a man’s world.” It’s true that our culture is still dominated by traditional masculine values, which can shape our views of what success is and how to achieve it. But what if we want a different definition—one that is collaborative rather than competitive? Where success is inclusive rather than winner take all? What can we do? In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Elizabeth “Biz” Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Maryland and Delaware, and a mid-life women’s coach, welcomes Alanna Kaivalya, author of The Way of the Satisfied Woman: Reclaiming Feminine Power for a discussion about the challenges women face in a patriarchal society. They talk about the need to reclaim femininity and embrace a community-focused approach to success, explore the importance of listening to our intuition and, most important, provide reason for hope that we can find lives that are satisfying for us on our terms. You can find the show notes and resources mentioned in this episode here-  https://www.elizabethcushcoaching.com/awaken-your-wise-woman-podcast

    39 min

  6. FEB 26 · BONUS

    Let's Meet Up!

    I'm joining with other highly sensitive women to build a community where we can grow and shine! When highly sensitive women gather, it’s magical We bloom in community We’re able to show up authentically and are held with kindness Our sensitive nature is honored with compassion and care I hope you’ll join me on March 14th when we come together with other highly sensitive women. To find and share support, to create community, to hold the space for us in the world right now I hope to see you then! See below to register and save you spot! I'd love to have you hang-out with me! Click there for more details.

    4 min

  7. FEB 17

    Nurturing Your Highly Sensitive Energy

    If recent headlines are giving you headaches, listen in on this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, as host Elizabeth Cush talks about finding balance in an uncertain world. “Bringing your body, your energetic body, into the work, is so important.” — Biz Cush How are you doing? With so much going on in the world right now, it’s easy to feel for highly sensitive women to feel overwhelmed. In a political climate that feels so threatening to so many, it’s easy for the highly sensitive—especially the helpers, the healers, the empaths—to focus on caring for others and to overlook our own needs. That oversight takes an enormous toll. But how do we care for ourselves, how do we nurture our energy, when we feel so much anxiety, stress and heaviness all around? In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Biz Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Maryland and Delaware, and a life coach for highly sensitive women, shares practical tips for finding balance and taking care of ourselves at times like these—and always.   You can find the resources and full show notes here.

    26 min

  8. JAN 27

    How to Have Challenging Conversations: When You're a Highly Sensitive Person

    As a highly sensitive person, do you avoid conflict? Listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes executive coach and consultant Michelle Gladieux for conversation about communication challenges, conflict management and emotional intelligence. “The more interested or passionate we are about a topic, sometimes the more dangerous our words and tone can become.” — Michelle Gladieux When a work situation doesn’t sit right with you, do you speak up or hold your peace? What about when the boss wants to have a word with you? How do you handle disagreements with your partner or your friends? Do you avoid conflict? Or do you dive in head first and insist that you’re right? Communication doesn’t always come easily, especially if you’re highly sensitive. In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Elizabeth “Biz” Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Maryland and Delaware, and a mid-life women’s coach, welcomes Michelle Gladieux, an executive coach, consultant and author of Communicate with Courage: Taking Risks to Overcome the Four Hidden Challenges, for a discussion of communication skills for the highly sensitive. They talk about the roots of some common responses to conflict and why these approaches are usually self -defeating, and offer practical strategies and examples of how you can say what you need to say when you want to say it.   You can find the resources and show notes for this and every episode here.  https://www.elizabethcushcoaching.com/awaken-your-wise-woman-podcast

    46 min
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    Welcome to the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast with host Elizabeth Cush, licensed clinical professional counselor and life coach for highly sensitive women. Every other week you’ll hear from Elizabeth and her guests as they explore women’s needs, desires, fears, hopes, and dreams—all that it means to be a wise, sensitive woman moving through life's joys, challenges, and transitions. Tune in to learn from Wise Women who know the struggles that come with being a sensitive woman today. We'll explore how to live a more grounded, authentic, purposeful, joyful, and compassionate life. The stories Elizabeth and her guests share will help you find the path back home to the brightest version of you — your truest, most beautiful, messy self. Together, let's shine our divine feminine energy brightly. The world needs us now more than ever. Awaken Your Wise Woman is the evolution of the Woman Worriers podcast.

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