Denise Elysa hears a familiar story often, in sessions, in the EmbodiedSoul community, and in conversations with people simply trying to feel more connected to themselves. A flicker of intuitive knowing arrives, and within moments it gets explained away as anxiety, overthinking, or nothing at all. Intuition is often treated as unreliable, something to second guess before it can be …
POTS, ME/CFS and hEDS: A Naturopathic Perspective with Dr. Lisa Ghent, ND
In this episode of Coming Home to Ourselves, Denise Elysa sits down with naturopathic doctor Lisa Ghent, ND, founder of Collaborative Wellness in Ladner, BC. Dr. Lisa has built her practice around what she calls sorting through complex cases, people who have seen countless specialists and still don’t have a clear picture of what’s happening in their bodies. It’s a …
Healing Isn’t Linear: What It Really Means to Come Home to Yourself
Last year, Denise Elysa joined Dr. Sarah Young on the NeuroAlchemy podcast, a show exploring the intersection of science and soul. Partway through the conversation, Denise described her healing not as one dramatic turning point, but as a thousand tiny moments of choosing herself again and again. That phrase became the thread running through the entire episode. The conversation covered …
What to Expect From a Session With a Past Life Regression Practitioner
Some people arrive at past life regression because they’re curious. Others arrive because something in their current life keeps repeating and nothing they’ve tried has shifted it: a fear that doesn’t trace back to anything in this lifetime, a person who feels instantly and inexplicably familiar, or a pattern in relationships, health, or finances with a root that seems to …
Autumn Equinox Meaning: What This Season Is Really Asking of You
This post is a companion to Denise Elysa’s solo podcast episode, “Autumn Equinox 2026: The Meaning and Ritual of This Seasonal Transition.” Four times a year, Denise Elysa steps away from her usual format of interviewing guest experts on her podcast, Coming Home to Ourselves with Denise Elysa, to hold a solo episode instead. These quarterly episodes mark each solstice …
What Is Energy Healing and How Does It Work?
If you have ever found yourself curious about energy healing and then immediately second-guessed that curiosity, you are not alone. Questions like “is this real?” and “how would this even work?” are reasonable to consider. Just as you would for trying anything new, a little bit of research or general understanding of what to expect doesn’t hurt. This post is …
What the Autumn Equinox Means, and Gentle Ways to Mark It This Year
In late September, in the northern hemisphere, day and night settle into balance. For one moment on the calendar, light and dark hold equal weight. This is the autumn equinox, and for many people it arrives as more than an astronomical event. It arrives as something felt: a shift in the air, a pull inward, a body that suddenly wants …
What Intuitive Eating Principles Look Like When You Live with Chronic Illness
There is a version of the intuitive eating conversation that gets shared in wellness spaces fairly often. Eat when you’re hungry. Stop when you’re full. Make peace with food. It sounds straightforward enough, and for people who are starting from a relatively uncomplicated relationship with eating, those ideas can be a relief from the overwhelming and often contradicting nature of …
Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn: Understanding Your Nervous System’s Survival Responses
Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn. These four terms have become part of the mainstream conversation around mental health and healing over the last decade or so, often travelling under the label “trauma responses.” Before going further, I want to pause on that framing. A trauma response is what happens when something in the present triggers a past trauma, activating a …
What Is ME/CFS? Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Symptoms, Causes, and What Somatic Support Can Offer
If you have been living with ME/CFS, or are beginning to wonder whether what you’re experiencing has a name, there is a good chance you’ve already spent more time than anyone should trying to be believed. Fatigue that doesn’t lift with sleep, symptoms that seem invisible to everyone outside of you, and a medical system that may have sent you …
