Episode 20: The Grit of Heartbreak - the Power of Love
EPISODE SUMMARY
Welcome back to The Power of Reclamation Podcast!
It’s been two and a half years since I found myself slung deep into another dark night of the soul, which I am gingerly resurrecting from. During this episode, I’ll be sharing some of the highlights, heartbreaks, and victories of this alchemical and harrowing passage.
Two key themes to highlight today is how our heart intelligence has the power to heal trauma and shame. And, the second is our capacity to uplevel our nervous system’s capacity to hold complex paradoxes, loss, destruction and heartbreak with more inner stability and confidence.
Episode chapters:
02:02 - The core lesson of my dark night of the soul journey
04:05 - Why our nervous system seemingly backfires on us
09:45 - How to recognize fawning as a trauma response mechanism
17:25 - How heartbreak, pain, and grief catalyzed my personal growth
24:31 - What is a nourishment barrier? And how does it impact our ability to receive goodness?
32:38 - A key pivot point in my healing journey that my mentor catalyzed in me
44:23 - The power of our breath's ability to shift our emotional and nervous system states
51:43 - How understanding our attachment styles can be helpful in any relationship
59:44 - The cost of reinforcing a chronically over-activated nervous system (personally and collectively)
01:01:52 - What is a "dark night of the soul" and how do we resurrect from one?
01:08:18 - The experience of midwifing my mom through her death
01:16:53 – A refresher of the Six Power Reclamation Gateways
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