Found in the Fire

Erica
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You understand your patterns. You can name them, trace them, explain them. And you are still running them. Found in the Fire is a podcast for the woman who has done the work — the therapy, the journaling, the courses — and is ready to understand why insight alone has never been enough. Hosted by Erica Adams, neuroscience coach and somatic practitioner, each episode goes into the specific, lived moments that shift when healing actually reaches the body. Somatic practice. EFT. Ancient wisdom. The neuroscience of real change. And the red velvet cake version of what transformation actually looks like on a Tuesday morning.

  1. Aug 24

    The Woman on the Other Side

    Twelve episodes ago, a woman on this show could name every one of her patterns and still couldn't stop running a single one of them. This episode, the last of the season, introduces who she's become since. Not fixed, not certified, just quieter and more finished than she was at episode one. She caught the wedding laugh half a second before pulling it back down to a polite size. She tapped the side of her hand in a parking lot and felt her peripheral vision widen. This episode goes looking for where that second, quieter voice actually comes from, and finds it in the same place cultures have been finding it for thousands of years: a priestess at Delphi who never explained herself, and a man on trial for his life in Athens who trusted a voice that only ever told him what not to do. Ask yourself something real right now, something you've been circling for weeks, and notice what answers before the case gets built. What we cover: The shape underneath twelve episodes. Every episode this season argued the same thing from a different door: understanding your patterns and changing them are not the same skill, and the gap between them lives in the body, not the head. This finale doesn't recap the season. It names the room all twelve doors led into, and traces what actually shifted underneath: not a different life, but a different relationship to the one already being lived. Two women who never explained themselves. At Delphi, the priestess known as the Pythia answered questions in a trance, in short, unrehearsed, often single-word answers, while a second staff of priests existed for the sole purpose of translating her into something easier to carry home. In 480 BCE, when Athens asked what to do about the invading Persian army, the oracle's answer, "wooden walls," was nearly lost to the literal reading before Themistocles argued for a different one: not a timber fence, but the two hundred ships already sitting in the harbor. Those ships broke the Persian navy a few weeks later at Salamis. A few centuries later, in the same city, Socrates described a daimonion, a voice that had been with him since childhood, that never told him what to do, only what not to. By his own account, recorded by both Plato and Xenophon, it never once interrupted his defense at his own trial in 399 BCE, a silence he read as its own answer. What that history is actually doing here. Both figures come from a culture that also invented rhetoric and the courtroom, the entire art of arguing a case well enough to win a room. And even there, a second kind of voice was treated as older and more trustworthy than argument: one that spoke once, plainly, built no case for itself, and left the deciding to whoever was listening. That's the same shape the episode locates in you: the loud, articulate, credentialed voice that can quote your attachment style back to you on command, and underneath it, a quieter one that doesn't perform and doesn't explain, and has usually already told you the truth before the analyzing voice gets a chance to talk you out of hearing it. Find yours, live. The episode includes a direct prompt: bring to mind a real question you've been circling, something you already halfway know the answer to, ask it, and then wait through a longer silence than feels natural. Whatever arrives first, before the pros and cons get lined up, is usually the one that matters. What this season was never promising. There's no episode fourteen where anyone graduates. The woman who tapped in a parking lot will need to tap again. What changes isn't whether the old pattern returns, it's how quickly it gets caught, and how much less shame rides along with the catching. The episode closes by naming that difference directly, and by opening the door to season two, One Flame, Many Altars, which brings in guest voices for the first time. Research referenced in this episode: Herodotus. The Persian Wars, Volume IV: Books 8–9. Translated by A. D. Godley. Loeb Classical Library 120. Harvard University Press, 1925. (Source for the "wooden walls" oracle, Themistocles' argument for the fleet, and the Battle of Salamis.)Plato. Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus. Translated by Harold North Fowler. Loeb Classical Library 36. Harvard University Press, 1914. (Source for Socrates' account of his daimonion and his trial in 399 BCE.)Xenophon. Memorabilia, Oeconomicus, Symposium, Apology. Translated by E. C. Marchant and O. J. Todd, revised by Jeffrey Henderson. Loeb Classical Library 168. Harvard University Press, 2013. (Second primary account of the daimonion, alongside Plato's.)Resources mentioned: The Reclamation Container — untamedsovereigntycoaching.com

  2. Aug 21

    The Wild Woman and What Was Tamed Out of You

    A woman at a wedding, three glasses of wine in, laughs so hard and so loud that heads turn two tables over, and in the middle of that laugh, without anyone saying a word to her, she brings the volume down herself. This episode names the two things that just happened inside that half-second: the reflex, which fires once and lets go like a hand pulling back from a hot stove, and the guard, who never actually clocks out, the one still holding the lid down three hours later at the kitchen table. Then it goes looking for who's been living under that lid all along — a wolf woman singing bones back into flesh in the desert, women who left their looms once a year to run the mountains with Dionysus, a witch in a hut on chicken legs who turns out to be the only one in the story who actually knows anything — and what it costs to keep managing a woman down to an acceptable size for decades at a time. Then it hands you the same two seconds, live, in the episode: make a sound bigger than the room thinks you should, and notice exactly who tries to stop you. Nobody has to hear you do it. What we cover: The reflex versus the guard. Most women run these two together, because from the inside they feel identical, but they aren't one event. The reflex is trained once and fires without asking permission, the same pull a hand makes off a hot stove before the brain has finished registering the heat. It does its job in under two seconds and releases. The guard was trained too, only she never learned to let go. She's the one still standing three hours later at the kitchen table, holding the lid down in case the reflex's catch tries to rise again. The reflex reacts once. The guard never clocks out. Where this figure comes from. She isn't something invented for a coaching framework. She shows up in nearly every culture that has told stories about women, and the pattern in how she gets treated barely changes from one telling to the next. The Jungian analyst and cantadora Clarissa Pinkola Estés named her La Loba, the wolf woman who wanders the desert gathering bones and singing over them until the dead creature rises, runs, and turns from wolf to woman on its way out of the story. In ancient Greece, the maenads left their looms once a year to follow Dionysus into the mountains, and for those nights became something the city had no place for and no way to stop. In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga gets drawn as a hag to be feared, and in the older versions of the stories she's also the only character who actually holds the power, the one every heroine has to be sent to because she's the only one with what the heroine needs. Three traditions, three continents, the same shape: a woman fully herself, feared, mocked when she can't be feared, and structurally necessary anyway. What that taming actually cost. Every one of those traditions shares a second piece: a domesticating force. A city needing its women predictable. A village needing somewhere to put what it didn't understand about its own women's power. A dinner table needing the laugh to stay a certain size so nobody has to reckon with what a woman at full volume might actually want, might actually take, might actually stop tolerating. The taming was never really about the individual woman being managed. It was about what her full size would have required of everyone standing near her. Your two seconds, live. Think of a version of yourself that gets managed before anyone else has to ask: the laugh that gets pulled back, the opinion rounded down into a question, the want described smaller than it actually is. Pick one real instance, not the category, something from this week if you can. Now make a sound bigger than the room thinks you should, right where you're reading this, and notice the half-second before you do it. That half-second belongs to the guard, closing the lid before the sound is even out. Notice, too, what happens after you let it out anyway. Most women describe something between relief and a kind of homesickness, for a voice they haven't used in years and somehow still remember how to make. Why this isn't permission to go feral. The coaching industry gets this figure wrong constantly, selling a version of her with no filter and no care for the people standing near you, and that version tends to get used against a woman the first time she says an honest no: called reckless, called unhinged, as a way of getting the lid back on. Reclaiming her isn't about losing the filter. It's about getting the whole instrument back, so softness becomes a choice again instead of the only note that survived. And this doesn't happen by thinking about it. Insight tells you the guard is still at her post; it doesn't relieve her of duty. What relieves her is repetition, the same half-second faced over and over, in your actual body, in real rooms, until your nervous system stops treating your own full size as a threat that needs managing. Research referenced in this episode: Estés, C. P. (1992). Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. Ballantine Books. Henrichs, A. (1978). Greek Maenadism from Olympias to Messalina. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 82. Johns, A. (2004). Baba Yaga: The Ambiguous Mother and Witch of the Russian Folktale. Peter Lang.

  3. Aug 10

    Meeting Kali: What Needs To Burn

    A woman, still paying eighty-one dollars a month for a storage unit full of furniture from a marriage that ended years ago. This episode names the distinction first: not destruction, but discernment between what's still alive and what's already dead and just hasn't been allowed to leave. Then it walks through where that distinction actually comes from — a goddess whose name means both time and black, a pinecone that needs real fire to open, an alchemical stage that has to happen before anything turns to gold — and what it actually costs to keep something standing long after it's over. Then it names the storage unit sitting in your own life, live, point by point. Try it in your head right now. Nobody has to know what you find. What we cover: Kali, without the costume. The popular image, chaos, rage, a woman who burns things down because she's out of control, is almost exactly backwards. Kali doesn't burn what's alive. She burns what's already dead and is only still standing because nobody's had the nerve to say so. The distinction is precision, not chaos. Where this pattern comes from. Kali's name is most often traced to the Sanskrit kala, meaning time, though scholars also connect it to a word for black, the dark one, and the two readings aren't in real conflict. The same shape shows up outside Hindu tradition, too: lodgepole pine cones sealed shut with resin that will not release their seeds without real fire, and the alchemical stage Carl Jung called the nigredo, the blackening that has to happen before any later stage produces gold. Different vocabularies, the same mechanism: some things don't get repaired. They get ended, so something else has room to exist. What the scholarship actually shows. Kali's iconography, the skulls, the cremation ground, standing on Shiva's chest, is read by serious scholars of the tradition not as random violence but as symbols of ego and identity, the versions of self that have to die for anything new to be born. Grounded in real textual and botanical sources, not a wellness-culture flattening of a goddess into a T-shirt slogan. Your storage unit, named live. A direct, in-episode prompt: think of something you've been keeping technically alive, and ask the harder question underneath, not why you still have it, but why you're afraid to let it end. Why this isn't permission to burn your life down. Kali gets misused constantly by women looking for license to be reckless and call it healing. The real test: if you were starting today, with no history and no sunk cost, would you choose this. If yes, it's worth tending. If no, and the only thing keeping it alive is the cost of admitting it's over, that's the thing she's asking you to close. Research referenced in this episode: Kinsley, D. R. (1986). Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition. University of California Press.Monier-Williams, M. (1899). A Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.Lotan, J. E. (1976). Cone serotiny — fire relationships in lodgepole pine. Proceedings, Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference and Intermountain Fire Research Council Fire & Land Management Symposium.Jung, C. G. (1968). Psychology and Alchemy (2nd ed.). Collected Works, Vol. 12. Princeton University Press. (Originally published 1944.)Resources mentioned: The Reclamation Container untamedsovereigntycoaching.com

  4. Aug 3

    Somatic Practice is Not Yoga

    A grown woman, rolling up her yoga mat after class, walking to her car with the exact same set jaw she walked in with. This episode names the gap first: not more insight, but the missing step between doing the practice and actually living differently. Then it walks through why the body treats a class like an event instead of a practice, where that structure actually came from, and what the research says about the two different systems that hold understanding and hold tension. Then it takes you through a thirty-second check-in, live, point by point. Try it at your desk. Nobody has to know you're doing it. What we cover: The mechanism, without the mysticism. Naming a pattern (the jaw, the shoulders, the hum) is cognitive, top-down, and it runs through an entirely different part of the brain than the part that actually holds the tension. That part doesn't respond to explanation. It responds to repetition, in the actual moment the tension shows up, the same way a body learns to ride a bike through practice rather than a lecture on physics. Where the hour comes from. Long before wellness was an industry, tending the body wasn't an appointment; it happened in the seams of an ordinary day. The Industrial Revolution changed that, sorting the body's needs into what fit inside a shift and what waited for the bell. Frederick Taylor gave the underlying logic a name: scientific management. Wellness inherited the same unit-of-time structure, without anyone choosing it on purpose. What the research actually shows. Procedural and declarative memory run on separate neural systems, a distinction established by Cohen and Squire's classic 1980 amnesia studies. Motor-learning research consistently shows spaced, distributed repetition outperforms single massed sessions for durable change (Shea, Lai, Black & Park, 2000). A 2022 randomized controlled trial found that just three days of brief mindfulness training measurably improved interoceptive sensibility (de Lima-Araujo et al., 2022). Porges' polyvagal framework describes a nervous system that recalibrates through repeated cues of safety, not one (Porges, 2022), and McEwen's decades of research on allostatic load show the cost of chronic activation accumulates specifically when the body doesn't get enough recovery signal across a day, not just during one scheduled hour of it (McEwen, 1998). Your first live check-in. Guided in the episode, start to finish: the chair underneath you, the jaw, the shoulders, one breath. Thirty seconds, no mat required. Why this belongs next to everything else. A single hour of somatic work was never going to undo a jaw that's been clenching since the nine a.m. meeting. The work was never supposed to live only on the mat. It needed a body that's been shown, in the ordinary windows of an ordinary day, that it's allowed to unclench right now. Research referenced in this episode: Cohen, N. J., & Squire, L. R. (1980). Preserved learning and retention of pattern-analyzing skill in amnesia: Dissociation of knowing how and knowing that. Science.Squire, L. R. (2004). Memory systems of the brain: A brief history and current perspective. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.Shea, C. H., Lai, Q., Black, C., & Park, J.-H. (2000). Spacing practice sessions across days benefits the learning of motor skills. Human Movement Science.de Lima-Araujo, G. L., de Sousa Júnior, G. M., Mendes, T., Demarzo, M., Farb, N., de Araujo, D. B., & de Sousa, M. B. C. (2022). The impact of a brief mindfulness training on interoception: A randomized controlled trial. PLOS ONE.Porges, S. W. (2022). Polyvagal Theory: A science of safety. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience.McEwen, B. S. (1998). Protective and damaging effects of stress mediators. New England Journal of Medicine.van der Kolk, B. A. (2014). The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. Viking.Taylor, F. W. (1911). The Principles of Scientific Management. Harper & Brothers.Resources mentioned: The Sovereign Toolkit untamedsovereigntycoaching.comThe Reclamation Container untamedsovereigntycoaching.com

  5. Jul 27

    Tapping: The Thing That Sounds Weird But Works Anyway

    A grown woman tapping the side of her own hand in a parking lot, talking to nobody. This episode names the objection first, then walks through exactly what's happening in the body when you tap while holding an activating thought, why the research on stress hormones and EFT backs it up, and takes you through your very first sequence, live, point by point. Try it in the car. Nobody has to know. What we cover: The mechanism, without the mysticism. Tapping on specific points while holding an activating thought appears to send a calming signal to the amygdala at the exact moment it's firing, pairing the alarm with a physical signal of safety. Over repeated rounds, the charge on that memory measurably drops. Where this practice comes from. Traditional Chinese Medicine and the meridian system, documented for over two thousand years. Do-In, the Japanese practice of self-applied percussion along the same pathways. Ayurvedic Marma point therapy, mapping one hundred and seven points where prana concentrates across the body. Three traditions, three continents, the same discovery. What the research actually shows. A 24% drop in cortisol after a single hour of EFT in a randomized controlled trial (Church, Yount & Brooks, 2012), replicated with a 43% drop in a subsequent study (Stapleton, Crighton, Sabot & O'Neill, 2020). Meta-analyses show large effect sizes for anxiety (d=1.23, Clond 2016), depression (d=1.31, Nelms & Castel 2016), and very large effects for PTSD (d=2.96, Sebastian & Nelms 2017). A 2022 systematic review of 139 studies, including 56 randomised controlled trials, concluded that Clinical EFT meets APA Division 12 criteria as an efficacious treatment for anxiety, depression, phobias, and PTSD (Church, Stapleton, Vasudevan & O'Keefe). Neuroimaging studies have shown reduced amygdala and limbic activation following EFT programs (Stapleton et al. 2019, 2022), with a 2025 mechanism review synthesising roughly twenty years of physiological findings on tapping and limbic downregulation (Feinstein, 2025). Your first live sequence. Guided in the episode, start to finish. Written version in the free resource linked below. Why this belongs next to everything else. Tapping is not a replacement for the deeper work. It's a companion to it — a way of moving enough of the charge that the deeper work becomes possible. Research referenced in this episode: Church, D., Yount, G., & Brooks, A. J. (2012). Psychological trauma symptom improvement in veterans using EFT. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.Stapleton, P., Crighton, G., Sabot, D., & O'Neill, H. M. (2020). Replication of cortisol and psychological symptom findings in EFT. Psychological Trauma.Clond, M. (2016). EFT for anxiety: A systematic review with meta-analysis. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.Nelms, J. A., & Castel, L. (2016). A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized and nonrandomized trials of EFT for depression. Explore.Sebastian, B., & Nelms, J. (2017). The effectiveness of EFT for PTSD: A meta-analysis. Explore.Church, D., Stapleton, P., Vasudevan, A., & O'Keefe, T. (2022). Clinical EFT as an evidence-based practice for the treatment of psychological and physiological conditions. Frontiers in Psychology.Stapleton, P., et al. (2019). Food for thought: A randomized controlled trial of EFT and cognitive behavior therapy in the treatment of food cravings. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being.Stapleton, P., Baumann, O., O'Keefe, T., & Bhopti, A. (2022). Effect of EFT on chronic pain: A randomized controlled trial. Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice.Feinstein, D. (2025). The underlying mechanisms of EFT: A systematic review. Frontiers in Psychology.Resources mentioned: Free Tapping Session, one-page guided script, untamedsovereigntycoaching.comThe Inner Circle ($197/month) untamedsovereigntycoaching.com

  6. Jul 20

    The Red Velvet Cake (Explained)

    Back in Episode 1, we named the difference between broccoli and red velvet cake. This episode takes it all the way through: why understanding and change live in different parts of you entirely, and what it actually feels like when the work has done what it's supposed to do. Four new scenes — the invoice sent at full price, the bees on the dandelions, the phone left alone for an hour, the plain no with nothing stapled to it. Not the theory. The felt, ordinary, ten-o'clock-on-a-Tuesday answer to what changes. What we cover: The mechanism, without the mysticism. Broccoli and cake aren't a style preference, they're two different memory systems. Explicit memory — facts, frameworks, the ability to explain your attachment style at a dinner party — is conscious, verbal, and prefrontal-cortex-mediated. Implicit memory — the automatic response that fires before you've decided anything — is older, body-based, and doesn't update just because the explicit system learned something new. The two are dissociable, which is why a person can hold completely accurate insight and still respond exactly as before. What the research actually shows. This dual-system distinction is the basis of Epstein's Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory, which lays out why intellectual insight is necessary but not sufficient for change — the "experiential system" runs on associative learning, not information, and has to be updated through new lived experience (Epstein & Epstein, 2016, Journal of Psychotherapy Integration). This is the clinical explanation for the exact gap the episode names: knowing your pattern and changing your pattern are not the same neurological event. On the storytelling structure itself — delivered over multiple sittings, by firelight, for absorption rather than efficiency: this maps directly onto anthropologist Polly Wiessner's field research with the Ju/'hoansi Bushmen of the Kalahari, spanning four decades of study. She found that daytime conversation was almost entirely practical and economic, while over 80% of nighttime, firelit talk was storytelling — and that firelight reliably promotes bonding, trust, and shared emotional state among listeners (Wiessner, 2014, PNAS). On Kintsugi: historically accurate as described. The practice developed during the Muromachi period, uses lacquer mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum to make the repaired seams visible rather than hidden, and is tied to the wabi-sabi philosophy of finding value in imperfection and history rather than disguising it. The episode's closing image — the bowl goes back on the shelf and simply holds tea again, rather than becoming a monument to its own break — is an interpretive extension for the audience, not a historical claim, and doesn't need separate sourcing. Research referenced in this episode: Epstein, S., & Epstein, M. L. (2016). An integrative theory of psychotherapy: Research and practice. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 26(2), 116–128.Wiessner, P. (2014). Embers of society: Firelight talk among the Ju/'hoansi Bushmen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(39), 14027–14035.Resources Mentioned: The Sovereign Toolkit ($497, 4 weeks, fully async) unatmedsovereigntycoaching.com

  7. Jul 13

    What The Dishes Are Actually About

    He left one dish in the sink, and something in her went from zero to a hundred before she had a reason ready. This episode is about why the small thing is never the thing. Your nervous system doesn't read a single moment on its own. It checks it against a running account of every time you asked and it didn't land, every time you carried more and called it fine. The dish gets read as the newest entry, not a bowl. We name the mechanism, why the alarm doesn't check with the part of you that knows better, and what it actually takes to stop keeping the books alone. What we cover: The mechanism, without the mysticism. The amygdala runs a fast subcortical pathway that reaches it before the cortex finishes a slower, conscious evaluation. That pathway works by pattern-matching — checking an incoming signal against everything it has previously tagged as a threat — not by assessing the actual size of what's in front of you. This is why the alarm can fire at full volume over a single dish: it isn't responding to the dish, it's responding to the pattern the dish just matched. What the research actually shows. Intracranial recordings in the human amygdala show a measurable fear response beginning around 45–88ms after a threat-relevant cue appears, well before conscious perception catches up, and this rapid response happens through a route that runs independent of the cortex (Wang, Luo, Chen, Luan, Wang, Wang & Fang, 2023, Journal of Neuroscience). This subcortical route is now well-documented as the reason emotional reactions can precede and outrun conscious appraisal (Tamietto & de Gelder, 2010, Nature Reviews Neuroscience). The felt experience described in the episode — heat rising, chest tightening, vision narrowing — reflects this: the story ("it's about the dishes, the trash, the thing from March") gets assembled after the arousal is already underway, not before. On letting anger move before regulating: research on animals shows that survival arousal not discharged through movement (shaking, trembling) after a threat passes tends to stay lodged in the nervous system, driving ongoing hyperarousal — the basis for Somatic Experiencing's use of movement to "complete" an interrupted stress response (Levine, 2010, In an Unspoken Voice) This is a different mechanism than classic anger "catharsis" — hitting or yelling at a target, or venting while dwelling on what angered you. A 2024 Ohio State meta-analysis of 154 studies and over 10,000 participants found that arousal-increasing activities (hitting a bag, venting, even jogging) do not reduce anger and often increase it, while arousal-decreasing activities (breathwork, mindfulness) reliably do (Kjærvik & Bushman, 2024, Clinical Psychology Review). The undirected movement described in the episode (not aimed at anyone, followed immediately by slow breath) matches the arousal-decreasing model the research supports, not the venting model it contradicts.  On the belly breathing itself: a single session of slow breathing with an exhale longer than the inhale reliably increases vagal tone (heart-rate variability) and lowers subjective anxiety, in both younger and older adults (Magnon, Dutheil & Vallet, 2021, Scientific Reports). On the ledger carrying forward across relationships and childhood: consistent with attachment theory's concept of internal working models, which describes how early relational patterns get carried forward and shape how new, unrelated moments get read. Research referenced in this episode: Wang, Y., Luo, L., Chen, G., Luan, G., Wang, X., Wang, Q., & Fang, F. (2023). Rapid processing of invisible fearful faces in the human amygdala. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(8), 1405–1413.Tamietto, M., & de Gelder, B. (2010). Neural bases of the non-conscious perception of emotional signals. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11(10), 697–709.Levine, P. A. (2010). In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness. North Atlantic Books.Kjærvik, S. L., & Bushman, B. J. (2024). A meta-analytic review of anger management activities that increase or decrease arousal: What fuels or douses rage? Clinical Psychology Review, 109.Magnon, V., Dutheil, F., & Vallet, G. T. (2021). Benefits from one session of deep and slow breathing on vagal tone and anxiety in young and older adults. Scientific Reports, 11, 19267.Resources mentioned: The Inner Circle ($197/month, ongoing 1:1 async coaching) untamedsovereigntycoaching.com

  8. Jul 6

    You Are Not Behind

    You can understand your patterns completely and still not change them and that's not a personal failing, it's neuroscience. This week, Erica breaks down why insight and embodiment live in two different parts of the brain, why your amygdala can't tell a lion from an unanswered text, and what it actually feels like when healing work finally reaches the layer where your patterns live. In this episode The two systems running your life: the prefrontal cortex (where insight and understanding happen) and the amygdala (where the pattern actually fires) — and why they don't automatically update each otherWhy the amygdala can't distinguish a lion from an unanswered text, and what that means for your "overreactions"Revisiting the Snow Queen freeze from last episode: patterns that were intelligent solutions once, now running outdated codeThe "layer mistake" — how getting more articulate about your patterns can become another form of distance from themWhat body-level change actually feels like (hint: quieter and less dramatic than insight)Why shame keeps the amygdala in charge and makes real change harderThis week's free resource and the Reclamation PrimerResources mentioned: Free download: Right Tools, Wrong Layer: A Self-Assessment (PDF, linked in show notes)The Reclamation Primer ($97): a two-hour guided experience through somatic practice, EFT, and inner world journeys: untamedsovereigntycoaching.comMentioned: last week's episode on the Snow Queen freeze

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You understand your patterns. You can name them, trace them, explain them. And you are still running them. Found in the Fire is a podcast for the woman who has done the work — the therapy, the journaling, the courses — and is ready to understand why insight alone has never been enough. Hosted by Erica Adams, neuroscience coach and somatic practitioner, each episode goes into the specific, lived moments that shift when healing actually reaches the body. Somatic practice. EFT. Ancient wisdom. The neuroscience of real change. And the red velvet cake version of what transformation actually looks like on a Tuesday morning.

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  • Creator
    Erica
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
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