Embodied Empath

Valerie Lundgren
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The Embodied Empath Podcast is a nervous-system-informed healing space for sensitive, intuitive women navigating anxiety, perimenopause, emotional overwhelm, and major life transitions. Hosted by Valerie Lundgren—holistic health coach, somatic trauma-informed practitioner, hormone specialist, and energy healer—this podcast blends neuroscience, polyvagal theory, hormone health, somatic practices, and spiritual insight to help you understand what your body is communicating. If mindset work and “pushing through” haven’t helped, this show offers a body-based path to regulation, emotional safety,

  1. 5d ago

    When Healing Means Letting Relationships Change

    Outgrowing old dynamics without making anyone the villain Have you noticed that as you begin healing, some of your relationships start to feel different? Maybe you're setting boundaries where you once stayed silent. Maybe you're no longer willing to be the fixer, the peacekeeper, or the person who carries everyone else's emotions. Or perhaps you're realizing that some relationships only worked because you were constantly abandoning yourself to keep everyone else comfortable. In this episode of The Embodied Empath Podcast, Valerie Lundgren continues October's theme, The Season of Release, by exploring one of the most challenging parts of healing: what happens to our relationships when we begin changing. We'll explore: Why nervous system healing can shift long-standing relationship dynamics. How people-pleasing and fear of disappointing others keep us stuck in unhealthy patterns. Why setting boundaries can trigger guilt, anxiety, and fear of rejection. The difference between relationships that need to end and relationships that simply need to evolve. Why understanding someone's trauma doesn't mean accepting behavior that hurts you. How to grieve friendships and connections that no longer fit the person you're becoming. Valerie also guides you through a gentle somatic practice to help you separate your emotions from those of others, allowing you to stay compassionate without taking responsibility for everyone's feelings. 🍂 October: The Season of Release Healing doesn't always mean walking away. Sometimes it means releasing the role you've played, the expectations you've carried, or the belief that it's your responsibility to keep everyone happy. And sometimes, it means accepting that not every relationship is meant to remain the same. You can love someone without carrying them. You can understand someone without excusing their behavior. And you can choose yourself without making someone else the villain. 🌿 If you're ready to explore deeper nervous system healing, boundaries, people-pleasing, and reconnecting with yourself, learn more about Valerie's 1:1 somatic coaching and healing programs at www.valerielundgren.co. You are allowed to grow, even when your growth changes your relationships. 💛

  2. Oct 12

    The Version of You That You're Ready to Outgrow

    Releasing survival identities without losing yourself Who would you be if you no longer had to be the strong one, the caretaker, the people-pleaser, or the person who holds everything together? Sometimes the hardest thing to release isn't a person, a memory, or an emotion. It's the version of yourself you had to become in order to survive. In this episode of The Embodied Empath Podcast, Valerie Lundgren continues October's theme, The Season of Release, by exploring how childhood experiences, anxiety, chronic stress, and nervous system survival patterns can shape our identities. Maybe you became fiercely independent because asking for help never felt safe. Maybe you became the peacekeeper to avoid conflict. Or maybe you learned that being needed, productive, and constantly giving was how you earned love and belonging. But what happens when those old survival strategies no longer serve the woman you're becoming? In this episode, we'll explore: How nervous system survival patterns can become part of your identity. Why setting boundaries, resting, and receiving support can feel uncomfortable. How perimenopause and midlife changes can bring old identities into question. Why empaths often confuse being compassionate with being responsible for everyone. How to release old roles without rejecting the younger version of yourself who needed them. Valerie also guides you through a gentle somatic practice to honor the version of you who helped you survive while creating space for the woman you're becoming. 🍂 October: The Season of Release Healing isn't about becoming someone completely different. It's about discovering who you are underneath the expectations, protective patterns, and roles you've carried for so long. You can keep the wisdom without keeping the survival pattern. And perhaps the most beautiful part of healing is realizing that you no longer have to be who you needed to be just to feel safe, loved, or accepted. 🌿 Ready to explore the deeper roots of anxiety, people-pleasing, and nervous system dysregulation? Learn more about Valerie's 1:1 somatic coaching and healing work at www.valerielundgren.co. You don't have to lose yourself to become yourself. 💛

  3. Oct 5

    You Don’t Have to Carry It Anymore

    The emotional weight your nervous system has been holding onto What are you still carrying that you were never meant to hold forever? Old conversations. Guilt. Resentment. Grief. Other people’s emotions. Expectations. Past versions of yourself. Responsibilities that were never really yours. In this episode of The Embodied Empath Podcast, we begin our October theme: The Season of Release. 🍂 Valerie explores why letting go isn’t as simple as telling yourself to “move on”—and why your nervous system may continue using old protective patterns long after the situation that created them has passed. We’ll talk about the difference between caring and carrying, why release can involve grief and anger, and how to honor what happened without allowing it to keep shaping your present. You’ll also be guided through a gentle somatic practice to help you physically experience what it feels like to loosen your grip and put down some of the emotional weight you’ve been carrying. Because release doesn’t mean forgetting. It doesn’t mean what happened didn’t matter. And it doesn’t mean forcing yourself to forgive or “get over it.” Sometimes release simply means: It mattered. It affected me. And I don’t want to carry it in the same way anymore. 🍂 October: The Season of Release You can care without carrying.You can remember without reliving.You can honor your past without asking it to become your future. Learn more about Valerie’s nervous system, somatic healing, and 1:1 coaching work at valerielundgren.co.

  4. Sep 22

    What Is Asking to Be Healed?

    What if healing wasn't about constantly finding something else that's wrong with you? In the final episode of September's Season of Going Inward series, Valerie explores the difference between fixing yourself and tending to yourself. You'll learn why nervous system healing needs to include the whole person—your emotions, relationships, boundaries, sleep, nourishment, movement, hormones, environment, and deeper survival patterns—and why insight alone doesn't always change what keeps repeating. Valerie shares three powerful questions for identifying the deeper roots underneath anxiety and guides you through a gentle somatic practice to ask your body what actually needs your care. August was about Coming Back Home to Yourself. September has been about listening once you arrive. Slow down. Listen inward. Tend gently. You don't need to become another self-improvement project. Maybe the next chapter of healing is simply learning how to care for the woman you already are. 🌿 Explore 1:1 coaching and Valerie's healing work at valerielundgren.co.

  5. Sep 14

    Why You Keep Avoiding the Thing You Know You Need to Face

    What if procrastination isn't always a motivation problem? Sometimes avoidance is your nervous system trying to protect you from discomfort, uncertainty, rejection, guilt, or emotions it doesn't yet feel equipped to handle. In this episode of The Embodied Empath Podcast, Valerie explores the psychology and nervous system science behind avoidance, why avoiding something can temporarily reduce anxiety while strengthening fear over time, and why healing doesn't mean forcing yourself through experiences you're not ready for. You'll also explore the empath's fear of disappointing others, the emotions hiding underneath avoidance, and a gentle One Inch Closer somatic practice for approaching difficult things without overwhelming yourself. You don't have to conquer everything today. Sometimes healing is simply taking one safe step toward the thing you've been running from. 🌿 Learn more at valerielundgren.co.

  6. Sep 8

    Episode 30: When Slowing Down Makes You Feel More

    Have you ever made it through an incredibly stressful season only to fall apart once everything was finally okay? In this episode of The Embodied Empath Podcast, Valerie explores why sadness, anger, anxiety, exhaustion, and old emotions can become more noticeable when we finally slow down. You'll learn about the nervous system's response to stress, why functioning isn't the same as processing, the important messages underneath anger, and why perimenopause can change your emotional threshold. Valerie also challenges the idea that every emotion needs to be "fixed" or perfectly processed and guides you through a gentle somatic practice for allowing the body to respond to what's actually present. Feeling more doesn't always mean you're going backwards. Sometimes you're finally listening. 🌿 Explore Valerie's work at valerielundgren.co.

  7. Sep 1

    Slow Down Enough To Hear Yourself

    What happens when life gets quiet enough for you to actually hear yourself? In the first episode of our September series, The Season of Going Inward, Valerie explores why slowing down can feel surprisingly uncomfortable—especially for women who have spent years doing, caregiving, people-pleasing, and managing everyone else's needs. You'll learn how busyness can become a nervous system strategy, why physical rest isn't necessarily nervous system rest, and how slowing down allows us to notice the emotions, needs, boundaries, and body signals we've been overriding. Plus, Valerie guides you through a simple 60-second somatic practice to help you pause, reconnect, and ask a powerful question: What needs my attention—not just what needs to get done? This September, you don't need to push harder. Slow down. Listen inward. Tend to what is asking to be healed. 🌿 Learn more about Valerie's work at valerielundgren.co.

  8. Aug 24

    How Anxiety Makes You Stop Trusting Yourself

    Rebuilding self-trust after years of overthinking, people-pleasing, and second-guessing yourself Do you know what you want—only to immediately question yourself? Anxiety doesn’t just create worry. Over time, it can make you stop trusting your own decisions, your body, and even your intuition. In this episode of The Embodied Empath Podcast, Valerie Lundgren explores how anxiety, people-pleasing, hypervigilance, and empathic sensitivity can slowly disconnect you from your own inner knowing. We’ll talk about why the anxious nervous system craves certainty, how reassurance-seeking can keep you stuck in a cycle of self-doubt, and why empaths can easily mistake noticing someone else’s emotions for being responsible for them. Valerie also explores how perimenopause can intensify anxiety and sensitivity while simultaneously bringing you face-to-face with the places where you’ve been overriding your own needs for years. You’ll learn why self-trust isn’t about always making the “right” decision. It’s about knowing that even when life is uncertain, you trust yourself to handle what comes next. Plus, Valerie guides you through a simple somatic Body Yes / Body No practice to begin reconnecting with your own signals and rebuilding trust one small decision at a time. Coming home to yourself means learning to trust the woman you find there. 💛 🌿 Connect with Valerie and explore nervous system healing, somatic coaching, Reiki, meditations, and ways to work together at valerielundgren.co.

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The Embodied Empath Podcast is a nervous-system-informed healing space for sensitive, intuitive women navigating anxiety, perimenopause, emotional overwhelm, and major life transitions. Hosted by Valerie Lundgren—holistic health coach, somatic trauma-informed practitioner, hormone specialist, and energy healer—this podcast blends neuroscience, polyvagal theory, hormone health, somatic practices, and spiritual insight to help you understand what your body is communicating. If mindset work and “pushing through” haven’t helped, this show offers a body-based path to regulation, emotional safety,

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  • Creator
    Valerie Lundgren
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    37
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Valerie Lundgren
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    Embodied Empath

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