Wild & Waking

Emily Reuschel
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Wild & Waking is more than a podcast—it’s a sacred return to who you’ve always been. This space is for the woman standing at the edge of everything she’s outgrown. The one who’s checked all the boxes, followed all the rules, and still feels the quiet ache for something more honest. More alive. More hers.   She’s begun the unraveling—of roles, expectations, and identities that no longer fit. She’s remembering the voice beneath the noise, the rhythm beneath the hustle, the truth beneath the performance. She’s reclaiming her joy, her intuition, her fire. And she’s rising—not as a version of who she was told to be, but as the truest expression of who she already is.   Hosted by soul expansion coach Emily Reuschel, Wild & Waking is for spiritual entrepreneurs, coaches, rural changemakers, and conscious leaders dismantling old paradigms and creating new ways of living, leading, and becoming. Through raw conversations, deep reflections, and embodied wisdom, we explore what it means to awaken a life of abundance, authenticity, and purpose.   This is for the woman who holds both sacred rage and radical joy. Who moves with reverence for the seasons of her life. Who isn’t afraid to break cycles, speak truth, and dismantle what no longer serves—not to destroy, but to create. To rebuild a world rooted in the celebration of difference, the beauty of nuance, and the power of sovereign, embodied leadership.   If you’re ready to come home to yourself—fully, fiercely, and without apology—welcome. We’ve been waiting for you.

  1. From Burnout to Functional Wellness: Worthiness, Nervous System Healing, Minerals, and Frequency Medicine with Hope Pedraza

    1D AGO

    From Burnout to Functional Wellness: Worthiness, Nervous System Healing, Minerals, and Frequency Medicine with Hope Pedraza

    In this episode of Wild & Waking, Emily sits down with Hope Pedraza, a functional wellness practitioner who works at the intersection of science, energetics, and embodied healing. Together, they explore why burnout isn’t a personal failure or a productivity problem, it’s a signal that old paradigms of success, worth, and wellness are no longer sustainable. This conversation is a powerful invitation to reimagine healing through the lens of worthiness, nervous system regulation, and inner authority. Hope shares her integrative approach to functional wellness, weaving together mineral balancing, nervous system healing, Human Design, subconscious work, and frequency medicine to help high-achieving women restore energy and vitality. Rather than treating symptoms in isolation, she explains how burnout often stems from deeper emotional and energetic roots, especially the worthiness wound that conditions women to tie their value to productivity, overgiving, and constant doing. This conversation is for the woman who feels exhausted but deeply self-aware, who knows something is off even when labs look “normal,” and who is ready to listen to her body as the final authority. If you’re navigating burnout, identity shifts, or the next evolution of your leadership, this episode offers a grounded yet expansive look at what functional wellness can become when science, energetics, and self-trust meet. In this episode, we explore: Why burnout isn’t a hormone problem, productivity issue, or personal failure — but a signal that old paradigms of success and self-worth are no longer sustainableHow tying your worth to productivity impacts the nervous system, hormones, energy levels, and long-term healthThe role of the nervous system in burnout, chronic fatigue, brain fog, anxiety, and feeling “off” even when labs look normalWhy cultivating safety around rest is foundational to healing — and why rest often doesn’t feel safe for driven womenWhy minerals are a foundational missing link in both conventional and holistic approaches to burnout recoveryThe connection between emotional stress, subconscious patterns, and physical symptoms in the bodyHow Human Design helps women understand their natural energy patterns, boundaries, and inner authorityWhy living out of alignment with your design contributes to burnout, depletion, and nervous system dysregulationHow subconscious reprogramming, hypnotherapy, EFT, and parts work support nervous system healingWhy intellectualizing healing often isn’t enough — and what it takes to create real integrationWhat functional wellness looks like when science, energetics, and embodiment are woven togetherWhy healing often requires an identity shift — and the grief that can come with releasing who you used to beHow listening to the body as the final authority changes the way we approach health, leadership, and life Be sure to hit subscribe so you never miss the latest episode! Connect with Hope Pedraza: If this conversation resonated and you’re curious about working with Hope or exploring her work more deeply, you can connect with her in the following ways: Website: hopefulandwholesome.comInstagram: @thehopepedrazaFacebook: @thehopepedrazaYouTube: @hopepedrazaPodcast: Hopeful and WholesomeBook a Discovery Call Connect with Emily: Website: www.EmilyReuschel.comInstagram: @emilyreuschelFacebook: Emily ReuschelLinkedIn: Emily ReuschelJoin my Book Insiders List: Sign up here! Resources and Links: Episode 158 | You Are Nature: Reclaiming Your Rhythm Through the Sacred Cycles of Body, Moon & EarthSign up here to get the inside scoop to my book writing journey!Book me as a speaker for your next event - email inquiries to emilyreuschel@gmail.com or schedule a call hereWild & Waking – Produced by Jill Carr Podcasting | Learn More

    37 min
  2. The Wild & Waking Journey: Rise

    MAR 5

    The Wild & Waking Journey: Rise

    This episode marks the powerful finale of the four-part Wild & Waking Journey series — and we are closing with the phase that changes everything: The Rise Throughout this identity evolution series, we’ve walked through The Unraveling, The Remembering, and The Reclamation; the sacred undoing, the return to intuition, the courageous choosing. Now, in this final installment, Emily brings language to what happens next. The Rise is not a finish line or a glow-up. It’s embodied leadership. It’s self-trust in action. It’s the moment your inner transformation begins to ripple outward into your voice, your relationships, your work, your motherhood, your community, and your legacy. If you’ve been navigating identity deconstruction, spiritual awakening, authentic self-expression, or stepping into greater visibility without self-abandonment, this episode will meet you exactly where you are. The Wild & Waking Framework is cyclical, not linear. You may be rising in one area while unraveling in another, and that is not failure. That is growth. This is the inhale and exhale of a woman who knows who she is and is no longer afraid to let the world feel it. In this episode, I explore: What The Rise really means inside the Wild & Waking Framework — embodied leadership, authentic self-expression, and identity evolution in actionHow personal transformation becomes collective impact — and why women who have done deep identity work are being called forward right nowThe difference between performative visibility and grounded, aligned visibility rooted in self-trustHow to expand your voice, influence, and leadership without self-abandonment, people-pleasing, or chasing external validationChanneling anger, fire, and rage into intentional, focused change rather than chaos — leadership through regulated embodimentHow identity deconstruction, spiritual awakening, and self-trust create ripple effects in your family, business, rural community, and lineageThe role of women in social change, cultural shifts, and rebuilding systems from the inside outExpanding visibility while building the nervous system capacity to be seenPractical reflection questions to help you identify where life is asking you to rise right now Be sure to hit subscribe so you never miss the latest episode! Connect with Emily: Website: www.EmilyReuschel.comInstagram: @emilyreuschelFacebook: Emily ReuschelLinkedIn: Emily ReuschelJoin my Book Insiders List: Sign up here! Resources and Links: Episode 152 | The Alchemy Behind Wild & Waking: a Year of Investment, Expansion, and ReclamationEpisode 183 | The Wild & Waking Journey: UnravelingEpisode 185 | The Wild & Waking Journey: RememberingEpisode 187 | The Wild & Waking Journey: ReclamationSign up here to get the inside scoop to my book writing journey!Book me as a speaker for your next event - email inquiries to emilyreuschel@gmail.com or schedule a call hereWild & Waking – Produced by Jill Carr Podcasting | Learn More

    37 min
  3. The Collapse of Good Girl Conditioning: Reinventing Your Business, Identity, and Desire with Sara Dann

    FEB 26

    The Collapse of Good Girl Conditioning: Reinventing Your Business, Identity, and Desire with Sara Dann

    In this episode of Wild & Waking, Emily sits down with business coach Sara Dann for a bold, honest conversation about what happens when the “good girl” way of succeeding stops working. Inspired by Sara’s viral reflection on why good girl behavior won’t be rewarded in 2026, this conversation explores the deep unraveling many women experience when overfunctioning, overachieving, and self-abandonment no longer deliver fulfillment — even when the business looks successful on paper. Together, Emily and Sara unpack what Sara calls the “good girl conditioning” so many women have been socialized into: proving worth through productivity, staying humble, avoiding disruption, prioritizing likability, and following rules that once felt safe but now feel suffocating. They explore the moment women hit an internal wall — when resentment creeps in, desire goes quiet, and success starts to feel heavy instead of expansive — and why this isn’t a failure, but an invitation into reinvention. Sara shares her own story of building a multi-million-dollar business while deeply disconnected from herself, and the long, messy process of reclaiming desire, embodiment, and personal power. This conversation moves beyond strategy into identity; naming the grief that comes with outgrowing former versions of yourself, the fear of letting go of what “worked,” and the courage it takes to stop performing past identities in order to be fully seen. This episode is for the woman who knows she’s outgrown the way she’s been doing life or business, who feels the quiet (or loud) pull toward something more aligned, and who is ready to lead from desire instead of obligation. It’s a reminder that reinvention isn’t reckless — it’s a reclamation. And that the collapse of good girl conditioning is often the beginning of becoming a powerful, fully expressed woman. In this episode, we explore: What “good girl conditioning” looks like in practiceWhy resentment, boredom, and resistance are often early signals that a woman has outgrown her current identity or way of workingThe moment success stops feeling fulfilling — and how that internal discomfort is often the beginning of reinvention, not a sign something has gone wrongWhy so many women struggle to answer the question “What do I actually want?” and how conditioning, fear, and responsibility distort desireThe role of desire as a compass — not as something reckless or impractical, but as an essential guide for aligned leadership and decision-makingThe difference between intellectual readiness and embodied readiness when it comes to reinvention and visibilityThe grief and uncertainty that can accompany letting go of former identities, business models, or versions of yourself that once workedHow women give their power away by tying their success to strategies, platforms, or roles instead of recognizing themselves as the sourceWhat reinvention can look like for women living in small towns or tight-knit communities where expectations and roles feel especially definedHow moving from obligation to obsession can radically change the way women experience their work, bodies, and lives Be sure to hit subscribe so you never miss the latest episode! Connect with Sara Dann: Free Private Podcast: The Reinvention FilesReinvention Session: Book a 1:1 SessionInstagram: @thesaradannTikTok: @saradann Connect with Emily: Website: www.EmilyReuschel.comInstagram: @emilyreuschelFacebook: Emily ReuschelLinkedIn: Emily ReuschelJoin my Book Insiders List: Sign up here! Resources and Links: Sign up here to get the inside scoop to my book writing journey!Book me as a speaker for your next event - email inquiries to emilyreuschel@gmail.com or schedule a call hereWild & Waking – Produced by Jill Carr Podcasting | Learn More

    45 min
  4. The Wild & Waking Journey: Reclamation

    FEB 19

    The Wild & Waking Journey: Reclamation

    The Wild & Waking Journey: Reclamation is Part 3 of a four-part solo series exploring the Wild & Waking Framework—a cyclical, soul-deep map for identity evolution, embodied leadership, and aligned living. In this episode, Emily guides the listener into The Reclamation, the phase where everything begins to click. After Unraveling what no longer fits and Remembering your deeper truth, Reclamation is where you consciously choose to live differently, and begin embodying who you are becoming in real time. The Reclamation is the sacred middle. It is the integration phase where clarity turns into courage and insight becomes action. Like earth, this stage is about rooting and rising. What once felt abstract now becomes tangible: boundaries spoken aloud, standards set, decisions made from self-trust rather than urgency or survival. Emily explores how this phase shows up across identity, work, relationships, spirituality, values, and leadership, and why Reclamation isn’t about throwing everything out, but intentionally choosing what truly fits and letting the rest fall away. In this episode, Emily shares real-life examples of Reclamation in motion, from redefining success and worth, to releasing people-pleasing, to setting unapologetic standards around time, energy, and capacity. She unpacks why integration has a “lag period,” why embodiment takes practice, and how identity is one reclaimed, aligned choice at a time. This phase is not loud or flashy; it’s subtle, steady, and often uncomfortable, but it’s where self-trust is built and freedom begins to take shape from the inside out. You’ll also hear how Reclamation invites you to expand your capacity to be seen, heard, and held, especially when your choices disrupt expectations or disappoint others. Emily reflects on the courage it takes to lead from vision rather than validation, to trust yourself before external proof appears, and to stop managing other people’s perceptions at the cost of self-abandonment. This is where identity stops being conceptual and starts becoming embodied. To close, Emily offers grounding reflection questions to support your own Reclamation—inviting you to name the boundaries that would most protect your energy, the truths that need your voice, and the small aligned experiments that will stretch your capacity. If you’re in the phase of choosing differently, rebuilding your identity, and learning to walk as the woman you’ve remembered, this episode will meet you exactly where you are. Part 4 of the series, The Rise, continues next. In this episode, I explore: What The Reclamation phase of the Wild & Waking Framework really is — the sacred middle where identity integration beginsHow Reclamation follows Unraveling and Remembering, and why this is the phase where everything finally starts to clickWhy Reclamation isn’t about burning everything down — but consciously choosing what fits and releasing what doesn’tThe role of grief, rage, and nuance in rebuilding identity after deconstruction or awakeningWhy embodiment takes time — and how integration often has a “lag period” before it feels naturalHow to stop seeking validation and begin leading from self-trust, even when others don’t understandTaking bold, aligned action from your new identity, not urgency or old survival patternsWhy Reclamation is subtle, steady, and often uncomfortable — but deeply liberatingThe connection between identity, boundaries, nervous system regulation, and burnoutHow community, mentorship, and shared spaces accelerate the reclamation processReflection questions to help you identify where you’re ready to choose differently and rise Be sure to hit subscribe so you never miss the latest episode! Connect with Emily: Website: www.EmilyReuschel.comInstagram: @emilyreuschelFacebook: Emily ReuschelLinkedIn: Emily ReuschelJoin my Book Insiders List: Sign up here! Resources and Links: Episode 185 | The Wild & Waking Journey: RememberingEpisode 183 | The Wild & Waking Journey: UnravelingEpisode 152 | The Alchemy Behind Wild & Waking: a Year of Investment, Expansion, and ReclamationSign up here to get the inside scoop to my book writing journey!Book me as a speaker for your next event - email inquiries to emilyreuschel@gmail.com or schedule a call hereWild & Waking – Produced by Jill Carr Podcasting | Learn More

    42 min
  5. Your Soul’s Story: Past Lives, Akashic Records, and Ancestral Healing with Leyla the Healer

    FEB 12

    Your Soul’s Story: Past Lives, Akashic Records, and Ancestral Healing with Leyla the Healer

    What if the challenges you face today didn’t begin in this lifetime? What if the patterns, wounds, and fears that keep resurfacing are echoes of your soul’s past? In this fascinating and deeply healing conversation, Emily sits down with Leyla Bavi — also known as Leyla the Healer — a licensed therapist, hypnotherapist, Reiki master, and global intuitive who bridges psychology, spirituality, and ancient energetic modalities. Together, they explore the profound world of Akashic Records, past life regression, ancestral healing, and the collective awakening that’s unfolding across humanity. Emily and Leyla also dive into the intersections between mental health and energetic healing; how depression, anxiety, and chronic burnout can stem from unresolved karmic and ancestral wounds. They explore the soul-level reasons we choose certain life paths, parents, or challenges, and how understanding these deeper truths can bring liberation, compassion, and wholeness. Leyla shares powerful stories from her practice, including how the Akashic Records can shift timelines, free stuck energy, and even impact future generations. This conversation goes beyond spirituality as a concept. It’s a grounded, expansive exploration of healing across timelines. Whether you’re curious about past lives, the Akashic Records, energy healing, the collective awakening, or the evolution of the human soul, this episode will expand your understanding of what’s possible when you begin to work with the unseen. In this episode, we explore: The Akashic Records — what they are, how to access them, and how they hold the energetic blueprint of your soul across past, present, and parallel lifetimes.Past Life Regression Hypnotherapy — how revisiting former lifetimes can uncover the root causes of current fears, relationship dynamics, and recurring patterns.Ancestral Healing & Lineage Work — clearing generational trauma, breaking inherited contracts, and freeing the women who came before us.Reiki Energy Healing as the gateway to deeper spiritual work — moving stuck emotions, regulating the nervous system, and restoring energetic balance.Bridging Psychology & Spirituality — how Leyla integrates her clinical background as a licensed therapist with intuitive, multidimensional healing.The overlap between mental health, trauma, and energetic imprints — and how anxiety, depression, or self-sabotage often have roots beyond this lifetime.The Collective Awakening — why more people than ever are opening to their intuitive gifts, remembering their past lives, and reclaiming their spiritual power.Energy hygiene, grounding, and protection — what it means to practice safe, ethical, and embodied spiritual development.How to integrate spiritual healing into everyday life without bypassing reality, chasing perfection, or replicating hustle culture in your personal growth journey.The importance of self-trust, curiosity, and neutrality in your awakening process—and what it really means to live as an embodied, evolving soul. Be sure to hit subscribe so you never miss the latest episode! Connect with Leyla: Explore Leyla’s world of multidimensional healing, spiritual mentorship, and energy work: Instagram: @leylathehealerThreads: @leylathehealerWebsite & Offerings: leylabavi.podia.comThird Eye Hypnosis Meditation: Open Your Third EyeLinktree (all resources): linktr.ee/Leylathehealer Connect with Emily: Website: www.EmilyReuschel.comInstagram: @emilyreuschelFacebook: Emily ReuschelLinkedIn: Emily ReuschelJoin my Book Insiders List: Sign up here! Resources and Links: Episode 160 | When the Breakdown Becomes the Breakthrough: What My Body Taught Me About Grief, Energy & TrustEpisode 163 | Breakdown to Breakthrough, Part Two: Reiki, Soul Baby Messages, and Healing Reflections from YellowstoneSign up here to get the inside scoop to my book writing journey!Book me as a speaker for your next event - email inquiries to emilyreuschel@gmail.com or schedule a call hereWild & Waking – Produced by Jill Carr Podcasting | Learn More

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  6. The Wild & Waking Journey: Remembering

    FEB 5

    The Wild & Waking Journey: Remembering

    The Remembering is the second chapter in a four-part solo series exploring the Wild & Waking Framework — a cyclical, soul-deep map for personal growth, identity evolution, and embodied leadership. Unlike linear self-help models or rigid step-by-step systems, the Wild & Waking journey is a living spiral. It’s a rhythm you move through again and again, learning to recognize where you are right now and honor that place as sacred. In this episode, Emily dives into The Remembering — the phase defined by the question, “Who was I before the world told me who to be?” This is the water phase of the journey: fluid, deep, intuitive, and quietly powerful. The Remembering is not about becoming someone new; it’s about coming home. Beneath the layers of obligation, conditioning, expectations, and survival strategies, there is a deeper knowing that has always been there — waiting to be heard. This phase invites you to soften, turn inward, and begin listening to the whispers that have been trying to find you all along. If you’re in a season of rediscovering your desires, reclaiming your intuition, or gently peeling back the layers of who you thought you had to be, this conversation will meet you exactly where you are — and remind you that you were never lost. You were always remembering. In this episode, I explore: What it means to remember yourself after years of conditioning, people-pleasing, and self-abandonmentHow identity evolution often begins after burnout, dissatisfaction, or the sense that your life no longer fitsWhy remembering can bring grief, anger, or rage alongside reliefReclaiming intuition and body awareness as sacred data rather than something to override, fix, or explain awayHow nervous system regulation, cycle awareness, and somatic curiosity support self-trust and emotional healingUntangling your sense of worth and identity from productivity, roles, motherhood, leadership, and external validationThe subtle ways we curate our lives around safety, approval, and survival instead of truth and desirePractical, grounded practices that support remembering, including journaling, walking, reflection, and intuition-led inquiryWhy fulfillment, joy, and embodied confidence begin to emerge when you learn to know, love, and trust yourself Be sure to hit subscribe so you never miss the latest episode! Connect with Emily: Website: www.EmilyReuschel.comInstagram: @emilyreuschelFacebook: Emily ReuschelLinkedIn: Emily ReuschelJoin my Book Insiders List: Sign up here! Resources and Links: Episode 183 | The Wild & Waking Journey: UnravelingSign up here to get the inside scoop to my book writing journey!Book me as a speaker for your next event - email inquiries to emilyreuschel@gmail.com or schedule a call hereWild & Waking – Produced by Jill Carr Podcasting | Learn More

    43 min
  7. The Unfolding: An Invitation to Come Home to Yourself with Arielle Estoria

    JAN 29

    The Unfolding: An Invitation to Come Home to Yourself with Arielle Estoria

    Change is the one constant we can’t escape, and as author, poet, and speaker Arielle Estoria reminds us, it’s not something to fear, but to honor. In this soulful and deeply resonant conversation, Emily and Arielle explore what it truly means to come home to yourself through the ongoing process of unfolding. Together, they reflect on the courage it takes to shed old identities, question inherited beliefs, and step into the woman you’ve always been beneath the layers of conditioning. Drawing from Arielle’s acclaimed book, The Unfolding: An Invitation to Come Home to Yourself, they explore the five sacred phases of transformation, The Awakening, The Eclipsing, The Mending, The Illuminating, and The Returning. Arielle shares how each phase mirrors the seasons of our own becoming: the moments that break us open, the shadows that test us, and the light that leads us back to wholeness. Through storytelling, poetry, and vulnerability, she reminds us that healing is not linear; it’s a constant, sacred dance between remembering and becoming. This episode offers a moment to pause, exhale, and find calm. It’s an invitation to recognize your own unfolding in real time, to see your evolution not as a crisis, but as a calling. Whether you’re in the midst of awakening, grieving who you once were, or stepping into a new version of yourself, Arielle’s words will remind you that you’re not broken, you’re blooming. If you’ve ever found yourself asking, “who am I before the world told me who to be,? this conversation is for you. In this episode, we explore: The five sacred phases of The Unfolding — The Awakening, The Eclipsing, The Mending, The Illuminating, and The Returning — and how they mirror the seasons of our own becoming.How to come home to yourself after years of performing, pleasing, and striving for conditional belonging.Faith deconstruction and spiritual evolution — finding peace between structure and freedom, and rediscovering your connection to the divine on your own terms.The grief of growth — how to hold compassion for who you once were while celebrating who you’re becoming.Breaking free from societal boxes and good-girl conditioning to reclaim your voice, power, and truth.The courage to speak with your whole chest — what it means to tell the truth, stand in your convictions, and stop apologizing for your light.The art of unlearning and mending — honoring the parts of yourself that no longer fit while integrating what still feels true.The returning phase — remembering that you’ve never been lost, only layered; reconnecting with the childlike essence of who you’ve always been.Creativity, storytelling, and poetry as spiritual practice — how Arielle uses art as a portal to healing and self-expression.Living and evolving in real time — embracing change as a lifelong invitation to unfold again and again. Be sure to hit subscribe so you never miss the latest episode! Connect with Arielle: Website: arielleestoria.comAlbum: The Art of Unfolding (Deluxe)Instagram: @arielleestoriaThreads: @arielleestoriaLearn more about The Unfolding Connect with Emily: Website: www.EmilyReuschel.comInstagram: @emilyreuschelFacebook: Emily ReuschelLinkedIn: Emily ReuschelJoin my Book Insiders List: Sign up here! Resources and Links: Arielle's Book: The Unfolding: An Invitation to Come Home to YourselfSign up here to get the inside scoop to my book writing journey!Book me as a speaker for your next event - email inquiries to emilyreuschel@gmail.com or schedule a call hereWild & Waking – Produced by Jill Carr Podcasting | Learn More

    44 min
  8. The Wild & Waking Journey: Unraveling

    JAN 22

    The Wild & Waking Journey: Unraveling

    The Wild & Waking Journey: Unraveling marks the beginning of a four-part solo series exploring the Wild & Waking Framework — a cyclical, soul-deep map for personal growth, identity evolution, and embodied leadership. Unlike linear self-help models or rigid step-by-step systems, the Wild & Waking journey is a living spiral. It’s a rhythm you move through again and again, learning to recognize where you are right now and honor that place as sacred. Across this series, Emily guides you through the four phases of this framework — The Unraveling, The Remembering, The Reclamation, and The Rise — offering language, reflection, and deep context for the kind of transformation that can’t be rushed or forced. This first episode dives into The Unraveling, the phase that begins when the life you built no longer feels like yours. It’s the moment something feels off, but you can’t quite name it — when the roles, identities, beliefs, and systems that once felt safe start to feel constricting instead. The Unraveling carries the energy of fire: burning away what no longer fits, dismantling old stories, and creating space for deeper truth to emerge. This phase isn’t about fixing yourself or finding answers — it’s about naming what’s real, even when it’s uncomfortable. You’ll also hear why The Unraveling isn’t a sign of failure, but the beginning of freedom — and why so many people avoid this phase altogether. Emily speaks to the relief and fear that arise when the mask starts to fall away, the loneliness of questioning beliefs that once provided belonging or certainty, and the importance of being held in this phase without being rushed toward clarity, certainty, or resolution. This conversation is for anyone who’s tired of pretending they’re “fine,” who feels split between who they are and who they’ve been conditioned to be, or who senses that something truer is trying to emerge beneath the surface. In this episode, I explore: How The Unraveling shows up as the moment when the life you built no longer feels like yoursWhy unraveling carries fire energy — burning away roles, identities, and systems that once kept you safe but now keep you smallCommon signs you’re in an unraveling phase, including burnout, disillusionment, identity fatigue, and feeling “off” without clear answersHow survival patterns like overachieving, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and good-girl conditioning develop — and why they begin to crack hereThe relief and fear that come when the mask starts to fall offWhy unraveling isn’t failure — it’s the beginning of liberationHow grief, rage, exhaustion, and disillusionment function as messengers, not problems to solveWhat it looks like to question inherited beliefs around success, belonging, worth, religion, politics, culture, and identityWhy so many women feel isolated during this phase — especially in small towns or tight-knit communitiesHow to hold yourself (and others) in The Unraveling without rushing toward clarity or answersThe guiding questions that help you recognize where you’re performing, tolerating, or gaslighting yourself into being “fine” Be sure to hit subscribe so you never miss the latest episode! Connect with Emily: Website: www.EmilyReuschel.comInstagram: @emilyreuschelFacebook: Emily ReuschelLinkedIn: Emily ReuschelJoin my Book Insiders List: Sign up here! Resources and Links: Sign up here to get the inside scoop to my book writing journey!Book me as a speaker for your next event - email inquiries to emilyreuschel@gmail.com or schedule a call hereWild & Waking – Produced by Jill Carr Podcasting | Learn More

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Wild & Waking is more than a podcast—it’s a sacred return to who you’ve always been. This space is for the woman standing at the edge of everything she’s outgrown. The one who’s checked all the boxes, followed all the rules, and still feels the quiet ache for something more honest. More alive. More hers.   She’s begun the unraveling—of roles, expectations, and identities that no longer fit. She’s remembering the voice beneath the noise, the rhythm beneath the hustle, the truth beneath the performance. She’s reclaiming her joy, her intuition, her fire. And she’s rising—not as a version of who she was told to be, but as the truest expression of who she already is.   Hosted by soul expansion coach Emily Reuschel, Wild & Waking is for spiritual entrepreneurs, coaches, rural changemakers, and conscious leaders dismantling old paradigms and creating new ways of living, leading, and becoming. Through raw conversations, deep reflections, and embodied wisdom, we explore what it means to awaken a life of abundance, authenticity, and purpose.   This is for the woman who holds both sacred rage and radical joy. Who moves with reverence for the seasons of her life. Who isn’t afraid to break cycles, speak truth, and dismantle what no longer serves—not to destroy, but to create. To rebuild a world rooted in the celebration of difference, the beauty of nuance, and the power of sovereign, embodied leadership.   If you’re ready to come home to yourself—fully, fiercely, and without apology—welcome. We’ve been waiting for you.

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  • Creator
    Emily Reuschel
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    191
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026
  • Show Website
    Wild & Waking

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