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 …
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 …
Beyond the Hot Flash: The Nervous System Connection in Menopause
There is a version of the menopause transition conversation that most women are familiar with. Symptoms appear, a doctor is consulted, a prescription is considered. The focus stays almost entirely on what is going wrong and how to manage it. What gets left out of that conversation, more often than not, is the possibility that something meaningful is happening here. …
Getting curious – Can you meet yourself where you are, wherever that may be?
Incomplete stress responses, reacting vs responding, expanding your window of tolerance, and welcoming yourself home. An invitation to get curious and allow exactly where you are, to be enough at this time. Getting curious: – how often do you run from discomfort? – are you able to be in the present moment or does your anxiety, rumination, to-do lists, etc., …
