Creating Space with Michelle Wiegers

Discovering our authentic and creative voice so we can become ourselves.
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Creating Space is a podcast where we make room for our voices and authentic selves while learning to let go of self-pressure, anxiety, and mind-body symptoms. Together we'll explore the life practice of creating space which helps us release the pressure to perform, perfect and please so we can become ourselves! michellewiegers.substack.com

Episodes

  1. 2d ago

    S1 Episode #6 One Way to Connect with Your Voice

    In today’s episode, I am inviting you into a simple and accessible way to connect with your voice in journaling or writing. Whether you write regularly or tend to resist or avoid it, I think you are going to find this episode expands the way you view a regular writing practice. Because when we make room to listen on the page, we open a deeper connection with ourselves. So please bring a wide open heart and mind into this episode today and you just might be surprised at all writing or journaling has to give you! If you’d like to practice this kind of deep listening presence through writing, please attend our next Creating Space Online Retreat. In this sacred space, I offer gentle teaching, poetry, meditation and time for personal reflection and writing. At our first gathering participants found the experience incredibly revitalizing and nourishing. I know you will enjoy the time to slow down, listen, reflect and share. Registration will open soon for our next Creating Space Online Retreat which is happening on Thursday, December 3rd, from 3pm to 5pm ET. (1pm MT, 12pm Pacific) About me and my work: * My mind-body recovery course, How We Heal Chronic Pain & Fatigue, helps anyone struggling under the weight of chronic pain and conditions, especially if you are open to exploring how stress and emotion might be affecting your body. For the last 7 years I’ve worked with mind-body clients and students helping them recover from chronic pain, fatigue and many other neuroplastic symptoms and conditions. There is truly hope for healing! * You may also watch this episode on my YouTube channel! * For more about me and my work, please visit my website. * Follow me on Instagram * Follow me on Facebook This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michellewiegers.substack.com

  2. Oct 27

    S1, Episode #5: Listening to Our Own Voice

    When we want to connect with our intuition, voice and true self, it is important that we develop a willingness to practice listening. This can sometimes feel impossible to do in our lives of constant input. Especially from people-centered technologies that keep shouting their loud messages to gain our attention. On today’s podcast I’m inviting you to quiet that constant noise by asking you to make room to listen. I also share a poem of mine at the end of the episode as well as reflection prompts to help you process. Please follow this link to access this episode’s reflection and writing prompts! Making room to hear your own thoughts, to listen to your voice, to check in with your body’s intuition and felt sense helps us get to know and understand ourselves more deeply. I hope you’ll make room to listen to yourself this week! Please feel free to share in the comments section ways you already listen to yourself, or possibly something new you’d like to try. Please consider sharing this episode to help my new podcast grow! I hope you’ll join us at my free Creating Space Mini Retreat is this coming Thursday, October 29, from 3pm-5pm ET! Please register here at this link! About me and my work: * My mind-body recovery course, How We Heal Chronic Pain & Fatigue, helps anyone struggling under the weight of chronic pain and conditions, especially if you are open to exploring how stress and emotion might be affecting your body. For the last 7 years I’ve worked with mind-body clients and students helping them recover from chronic pain, fatigue and many other neuroplastic symptoms and conditions. There is truly hope for healing! * You may also watch this episode on my YouTube channel! * For more about me and my work, please visit my website. * Follow me on Instagram * Follow me on Facebook This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michellewiegers.substack.com

  3. Oct 20

    S1 Episode #4: Rushing Through or Being Present?

    You are invited to my FREE Live Creating Space Mini Retreat on Thursday, October 29, 2026! Register here. https://forms.gle/tssbZKd29UTEEpDp8 Last week’s episode #3 focused on giving ourselves the space and time we need to become our true selves. Connecting with our deeper selves is often a process, so it can be important that we let ourselves grow slowly. This week’s podcast, “Rushing Through or Being Present” (Season 1 Episode #4) helps us take this idea and apply it to our use of time. I encourage you to think about your pace with yourself and in your life. Because our default pace deeply affects us. Releasing the need to rush through our days actually increases calm, regulation and peace. But when we’re moving too fast, we can sometimes increase anxiety, stress or physical tension in our bodies. So today I’m inviting you into a more self-compassionate pace, one that gives you all the space you need to live from the center of who you are. Today I also share three somatic practices and my poem, “Slow Down.” These will help you practice being present with yourself right inside of this episode! I encourage you to listen and try the exercises for yourself this week. You can always return to them again on the “Prompts & Practices” section of my substack. I’ll also be sharing this week’s writing prompts on that page too. Please join me at our first live Creating Space Mini Retreat on Thursday, October 29, 2026. There is no cost for this mini retreat. Please register here at this link! https://forms.gle/tssbZKd29UTEEpDp8 Thanks for listening! Please consider sharing this episode to help spread the word about my new Creating Space podcast. For More: * Subscribe to my Substack to receive Reflection Prompts and Practices for each episode. You will also receive invites to mini retreats, live events, poetry, articles and more! * You may also watch this episode on my YouTube channel! * For more about me and my work, please visit my website. * Follow me on Instagram * Follow me on Facebook This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michellewiegers.substack.com

  4. Oct 13

    Season 1, Ep. #3: Permission to Grow Slowly

    Whether we’re moving through a transition in life or trying to establish a more aligned rhythm or pace, giving ourselves permission to grow slowly can be incredibly life-giving. I find rushing quickly through a task or life transition only seems to increase anxiety and self-pressure. The truth is becoming who we are takes time. In today’s episode I share some “growing slowly” metaphors right out of my own yard. You’ll get a few glimpses into my early summer garden, even though the episode is coming out here in the fall. I learn so much about myself and my life through my explorations in nature. And in this episode I am inviting you into that journey with me. I also share a poem of mine, where I am practicing changing the words I speak over myself, in order to release fear and invite a more aligned way of being inside my own life. I hope you’ll find encouragement today to create space for nurturing and caring for yourself. Knowing that for many of us going slowly is the only way to access the deeper work we want to bring into this world. Maybe giving ourselves permission to grow slowly is exactly what we need. Thanks for joining me today! Please subscribe to my substack, https://michellewiegers.substack.com/ to access the Reflection Prompts for this episode as well as new episodes, posts and live experiences together! Video Creating Space Podcast episodes can also be found on my YouTube channel, subscribe here: You can also listen to Creating Space on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Also find me on: * Subscribe to Michelle’s Substack to receive Reflection Prompts and Practices for each episode. * Follow Michelle on Instagram * Follow Michelle on Facebook * For more about Michelle and her work, please visit her website. * When you subscribe to Michelle’s Substack you will receive even more encouragement for becoming your true self through her poetry, mini retreats, live events, articles, and workshops! * Watch this episode on YouTube by subscribing to Michelle’s YouTube channel! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michellewiegers.substack.com

    Season 1, Ep. #3: Permission to Grow Slowly

  5. Oct 6

    Season 1, Episode 2: Be You To Fly

    Want to explore Creating Space for yourself? Find my Reflection Prompts for this episode here! In Episode #2 I invite you into the process of starting this new podcast, which is itself a creative project where I’m deciding to let go and see where this project takes us. I really want to be more free with myself and in my creative life, so I am letting go of needing a clear plan in order to let the project itself lead us. I will definitely be sharing some of my poetry and writing and I also hope to share my story of recovering from chronic pain and neuroplastic symptoms, codependency and PTSD. We will also be talking about how giving our voice and creativity a central place in our lives opens deep inner healing within us. But really what I’m here for is to let us all be free to be and become who we are. For me, this means Creating Space. This is really an intentional life practice of self-attunement, guided by a lot of kindness and self-compassion. All we need to be free in our lives is to give ourselves permission to be who we already are. I’m excited to be on this journey with you. Let’s see where it brings us! Thanks for joining me today! Please subscribe to access the Reflection Prompts as well as new episodes, posts and live experiences together, which will be coming soon! Video episodes can also be found on my YouTube channel, subscribe here: You can also listen to Creating Space on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Find Michelle Elsewhere: * Subscribe to Michelle’s Substack to receive Reflection Prompts and Practices for each episode. * Follow Michelle on Instagram * Follow Michelle on Facebook * For more about Michelle and her work, please visit her website. * When you subscribe to Michelle’s Substack you will receive even more encouragement for becoming your true self through her poetry, mini retreats, live events, articles, and workshops! * Watch this episode on YouTube by subscribing to Michelle’s YouTube channel! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michellewiegers.substack.com

    Season 1, Episode 2: Be You To Fly

  6. Sep 29

    Season 1, Episode 1: Getting Started

    Creating Space reflection prompts for this episode can be found here. I am so thrilled to be launching my new podcast Creating Space today! In this episode, you’ll learn how this podcast idea came to me and how I spent years avoiding episode ideas when they surfaced in my daily writing practice. Even though dozens of ideas were coming to me, I ignored them because I wanted to finish my memoir first, not start a podcast! Because I thought a podcast would distract me from the hard work of editing my book. It turns out, I wanted to finish my book and start this podcast! After multiple attempts to start, here we are finally beginning. And as you’ll hear in this “Getting Started” episode, in order to make it to this point, I needed to first learn how to create space in my own life. I’ve got so much to share about that, here on the podcast and in some new offerings I’m making for us to experience together. What a crazy journey I’ve been on over these last three or four years. And I can’t wait to tell you more about that process. What I’ve found in these years is that Creating Space isn’t just a podcast, it’s a life practice. So listen in to hear my crazy story of this podcast’s beginning. And as I start, I’d love your help to spread the word. Would you consider sharing this episode with a few friends? You could also leave a comment or review on my substack or wherever you listened to this episode. Thanks for helping me share this life-changing practice with even more listeners! Subscribe to my Creating Space Substack to receive access to new episodes, plus my Creating Space Prompts, Practices and Poetry to help you go deeper with episode topics. You will also receive my newsletter and updates about workshops and live experiences. I can’t wait to meet you over on my Creating Space Substack! Video episodes can also be found on my YouTube channel, subscribe here: You can also listen to Creating Space on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Find Michelle Elsewhere: * Subscribe to Michelle’s Substack to receive Reflection Prompts and Practices for each episode. * Follow Michelle on Instagram * Follow Michelle on Facebook * For more about Michelle and her work, please visit her website. * When you subscribe to Michelle’s Substack you will receive even more encouragement for becoming your true self through her poetry, mini retreats, live events, articles, and workshops! * Watch this episode on YouTube by subscribing to Michelle’s YouTube channel! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michellewiegers.substack.com

  7. Sep 29

    Introducing the Creating Space Podcast!

    My story is one of recovering from almost three decades of chronic pain and conditions that I thought were permanent. The root? Physically REAL symptoms fueled by stress and emotion shut down in my body. And I also discovered that being disconnected from my true self was fueling my chronic shut down. In 2017, when I was releasing decades of pain, my creative voice began to explode into my life, primarily through writing poetry and stories. My regular writing practice helped me get present with myself and my voice, deepening my healing experience. Through it all I learned one central and vital lesson–creating space for ourselves changes everything. In my new podcast, Creating Space, I’ll share stories, poetry, and inspiration for becoming our true selves. This is a process we’ll create together. So I hope you’ll join in by subscribing, sharing episodes with friends and contributing your perspective in the comments. And there’s much more to come. I can’t wait to share reflection prompts, embodied practices and even some live creating space experiences. Let’s become ourselves together as we free our voices, creativity and authentic selves. I’m really glad you’re here! Find Michelle Elsewhere: Subscribe to Michelle’s Substack to receive Reflection Prompts and Practices for each episode. When you subscribe to Michelle’s Substack you will receive even more encouragement for becoming your true self through her poetry, mini retreats, live events, articles, and workshops! Watch this episode on YouTube by subscribing to Michelle’s YouTube channel For more about Michelle and her work, please visit her website. Follow Michelle on Instagram Follow Michelle on Facebook This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michellewiegers.substack.com

    Introducing the Creating Space Podcast!

  8. Season 1 Trailer

    Creating Space Trailer

    Welcome to Creating Space with Michelle Wiegers! I'm thrilled to welcome you to my brand new podcast which helps you make room for your authentic voice while learning to let go of self-pressure, anxiety, and mind-body symptoms. I’m a poet, author, mind-body teacher and creative coach. Here on the podcast, we're going to explore how creating space for yourself can help you restore your emotional, physical and creative life. You’ll discover ways to coach yourself as I share from my story of mind-body healing and creative unblocking. Let’s become our true selves together as we create the space we need to build the authentic and joy-filled lives we long to live. Thanks for joining me! Find Michelle Elsewhere: Subscribe to Michelle’s Substack to receive Reflection Prompts and Practices for each episode.  When you subscribe to Michelle’s Substack you will receive even more encouragement for becoming your true self through her poetry, mini retreats, live events, articles, and workshops! Watch Creating Space on YouTube by subscribing to Michelle’s YouTube channel! For more about Michelle and her work, please visit her website. Follow Michelle on Instagram  Follow Michelle on Facebook This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michellewiegers.substack.com

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Creating Space is a podcast where we make room for our voices and authentic selves while learning to let go of self-pressure, anxiety, and mind-body symptoms. Together we'll explore the life practice of creating space which helps us release the pressure to perform, perfect and please so we can become ourselves! michellewiegers.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Discovering our authentic and creative voice so we can become ourselves.
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    8
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Michelle Wiegers
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    Creating Space with Michelle Wiegers

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