In this very personal 20-minute solo, Betsy steps into the uncomfortable, liberating terrain of boundaries as a pleasure practice - a theme that emerged from her 2025 words of the year: alignment and precision. This episode is a transmission on sovereignty, somatic truth, and what it means to teach the choreography of your life through your energy, not your explanations. She reflects on a year of deep pruning of relationships, dynamics, and energetic leaks, and how that pruning has become sensual, sovereign, and delicious. She shares what it has meant to listen to her body's YES and NO, to shed old versions of herself, and to step into a more coherent, embodied expression of leadership. And, unexpectedly, she reveals how a Mastín-Labrador mix named Casper became her clearest mentor in embodied leadership, clean energetic signaling, and learning that access is a currency. This episode is for anyone feeling the pull toward deeper clarity, deeper alignment, and deeper sovereignty in how they give (and withhold) access to their life. In this episode, Betsy explores: Why "alignment" and "precision" became her seeds for 2025 How somatic intelligence (and a feeling of full-body NO) has driven a year of pruning Why boundaries aren't protection, punishment, or games, but pleasure, rhythm and choreography What her dog Casper has taught her about leadership, energy, and clean signals Why access is a currency and why sovereign humans manage access, not people The archetypes she released this year, from spiritual narcissists to emotional toddlers The ancestral roots of fawning and the embodied roots of sovereignty How boundaries create intimacy, not distance An invitation to treat your next boundary as a pleasure practice And this episode comes with an invitation: If you want to get a front-row seat to Betsy's innermost thoughts as she evolves into a more embodied, sovereign human - her messiness, her breakthroughs, and her real-time reflections - subscribe to her Substack, Voice Notes from the Edge. It's where she shares the unfiltered pieces of her journey she can't share anywhere else. Links & Resources Subscribe to Voice Notes from the Edge on Substack For deeper access, weekly voice notes, behind-the-scenes sovereignty reflections, and a front-row seat to Betsy's inner world: thebetsyreed.substack.com Subscribe and follow The Discomfort Practice Wherever you listen to podcasts. Here's Apple and Spotify for easy access. Work with Betsy For coaching, consulting, speaking, embodied leadership sessions, upcoming community circles, and the People Like Us dinners across Europe: www.betsy-reed.com If you enjoyed this episode Subscribe, rate, and leave a written review: it genuinely helps Share it with someone navigating their own edge Join Betsy inside Voice Notes from the Edge for deeper, more intimate exploration
