The Emotional Truth | Nervous System Regulation, Somatic Healing For Midlife Women

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  Ep. 32 Why Can't I Just Say No (Breaking the People Pleasing Pattern) 27.07.2026 15мин

  Send us Fan Mail Have you ever said yes to something and felt your whole body go "ugh" the second the words left your mouth? That's people-pleasing, and if you've spent your life calling yourself "a people pleaser," I want to push back on that a little. It's not who you are — it's a pattern in your body, and patterns can shift. In this episode, I'm telling the story of two piano teachers, a pencil taped under my hand for "proper technique," and years of lessons I kept taking long after I'd ea...
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  Ep. 31 Self Abandonment As A Midlife Woman (And Why You Keep Playing Small) 20.07.2026 12мин

  Send us Fan Mail Self abandonment is one of the most common patterns running underneath the surface for midlife women — and most of them don't even know it has a name. If you've ever downplayed a win the second someone noticed it, apologized for taking up space, or told yourself to just get over a feeling that was actually real — that's not modesty. That's not personality. That's self abandonment. And it's been running a lot longer than you realize. In this episode of The Emotional Truth, we'...
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  When Somatic Healing Meets The Midlife Woman | The Emotional Truth Trailer 13.07.2026 4мин

  Send us Fan Mail If you've done the therapy, read the books, and still wake up wondering why nothing has actually changed — this is where you start. In this trailer for The Emotional Truth, Lesley Turner introduces the podcast built for the midlife woman who is done being the most self-aware stuck person in the room. You'll hear who this show is for, what somatic and intuitive pattern work actually looks like, and why understanding your patterns and getting out of them are two completely diff...
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  Ep. 30 The Emotional Patterns That Don't Allow High Achieving Women To Slow Down | Jenna Kutcher Got It Half Right 06.07.2026 11мин

  Send us Fan Mail You hit the goal. You waited for the feeling. Something else showed up instead — and it wasn't gratitude. It was a quiet question: did I do this wrong? Jenna Kutcher wrote something recently that hit a nerve for thousands of women. Her Substack essay The Honey Isn't The Point named the pivot so many high-achieving women are making right now — away from the hustle, toward the garden, the slower life, the thing that actually feels like theirs. And she got it beautifully right. ...
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  Ep. 29 The Emotional Patterns You Need to Know Before You Start GLP-1 | Somatic Awareness for Weight Loss 29.06.2026 13мин

  Send us Fan Mail Every woman I've worked with has tried something that worked - until it didn't. A diet, a program, a medication. The number moved. The clothes fit differently. And then it plateaued, or she stopped, and within weeks she was back where she started wondering what was wrong with her. Nothing was wrong with her. The pattern that was driving the behaviour was never part of the conversation. In this episode I'm talking about what the GLP-1 conversation is missing ...
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  Ep. 28 Pinterest Strategy, Pattern Work, and Learning to Trust Your Body with Elaine Timms 22.06.2026 24мин

  Send us Fan Mail Elaine Timms built a Pinterest strategy business that grew to 100K sessions/month, sold a blog for five figures, and has spent almost eight years helping entrepreneurs get their content working long after they hit publish. She's also someone who spent years in fight-or-flight without knowing it — outsmarting everything, including herself. In this conversation, Elaine and I talk about what actually shifted when she stopped following everyone else's rules — in her business, her...
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  Ep. 27 I Had A Lumpectomy | It Wasn't Cancer. Mammograms and Health Anxiety 15.06.2026 15мин

  Send us Fan Mail You've been telling yourself you're fine. Your shoulders tell a different story. Five months ago I noticed something. I assessed it - clinically, carefully - and decided it could wait. What followed was a mammogram, a biopsy, a titanium clip, and eventually a day surgery where I showed up in a brown hospital robe to the worst TOGA party in history! This isn't a medical story. It's a nervous system one. What does the body hold when the mind has decided it's p...
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  Ep. 26 Why You Can't Stick To A Workout | Your Nervous System, Cortisol, Body based movement, and Why Consistency Isn't A Discipline Problem 08.06.2026 13мин

  Send us Fan Mail If you've tried and quit every workout routine you've ever started, this isn't a discipline problem. It's a nervous system problem. I share the honest story of every movement format that didn't work for my body - including a spin class that ended disgustingly - and what I finally figured out about why. We get into what cortisol actually does, the difference between discomfort that grows you and discomfort that drains you, and why the thing that finally stuck looks nothi...
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  Ep. 25 What We Get Wrong About The Eldest Daughter | Somatic Healing for High Functioning Women and the Pattern Beneath The Burnout 01.06.2026 14мин

  Send us Fan Mail There are incredible posts about the eldest daughter all over social media. They talk aobut burnout, resentment, the productivity that never stops. They're not wrong. But they're not the full story either. The wound isn't just being asked to do too much - it's that existing without function started to feel like disappearing. This episode goes deeper than the content you've already seen. And if you want to go all the way in, the Put Her Down audio series is linked here. ...
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  Ep. 24 Coming Back To Herself with Britt Holmes | Resilience, ADHD, and Getting Back Up One More Time 25.05.2026 27мин

  Send us Fan Mail Britt Holmes built a business, got knocked sideways by life, and came back - not the same way, but more herself. We talk about business, family, ADHD, and what it actually looks like to rebuild after the kind of hard that doesn't have a clean narrative. Britt is an ads and media specialist, founder of Merit Media and Founders Advisory, and one of the most honest people I know. This one goes places. Follow Britt on IG here: @brittholmeslive and @meritmediainc www.m...
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  Ep. 23 Bumble Dating & A Full Body No | How Somatics Works in Real Life Decisions, Dating Online 18.05.2026 11мин

  Send us Fan Mail Within 60 seconds on a dating app, I knew. Not with my brain - with my whole body. This episode is about what it felt like to have a full-body yes and a full-body no, and how that same somatic awareness showed up in my business long before I had a name for it. If you've ever second-guessed what you already knew, this is that episode. Book 1:1 here
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  Ep. 22 I Don't Feel Mom Guilt | Parenting Confessions, What Mom Guilt Actually Is and Why Reframing It Keeps You Stuck 11.05.2026 9мин

  Send us Fan Mail I don't feel mom guilt. Not saying that to be provocative - I'm saying it because the way we talk about mom guilt is keeping women stuck in smallness. This episode is about what mom guilt actually is, where it comes from in the nervous system, and why all the reframing in the world doesn't touch it. And what starts to happen when it finally begins to loosen. Book 1:1 here
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  Ep. 21 My Nervous System Spent $15,000 | What Happens When an Emotional Pattern Makes Your Decisions 04.05.2026 13мин

  Send us Fan Mail I paid $15,000 for a program my intuition told me to walk away from. And when it came time to say it wasn't working - I didn't ask for a single dollar back. That wasn't a financial decision. That was a pattern making decisions on my behalf. The over-explaining. The going cold. The avoiding until it becomes a crisis. The shrinking when you need to stay present. That's not a leadership problem. It's so much older than that. Book 1:1 here
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  Ep. 20 Nobody Abandoned Themselves This Week | The Turtle Costume (What Self-Abandonment Actually Looks Like in the Small Moments) 27.04.2026 11мин

  Send us Fan Mail Nobody in my family abandoned themselves this week. Not Tyson. Not Jarrett. Not me - even when it would have been easier to push through, perform fine, and call it responsible. This episode is about what it actually looks like to not disappear in the small moments. The costume on the table. The cancelled week. The thing you've been carrying and calling not a big deal. Your body knows the difference. It always does. Book 1:1 here
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  Ep.19 You're Not Stuck In Your Emotional Patterns, Your Ancestors Were | Epigenetics and Body Level Pattern Work 20.04.2026 13мин

  Send us Fan Mail You've done the therapy. Read the books. You can name the pattern, trace it back, explain exactly where it started. And you're still doing it. This episode is about why - and it's not what most people tell you. We get into the difference between understanding a pattern and actually completing it, why you can't think your way out of body-level encoding, and what epigenetics tells us about the patterns you may have inherited before you were even born. This work is bigger ...
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  Ep. 18 Unlearning Success: How Your Body Knew Before Your Brain Did with Puja Malhotra | Immigrant Success Culture and Body Based Knowing 13.04.2026 28мин

  Send us Fan Mail She had a full-body no. She said yes anyway. Puja Malhotra of Roop Creative Agency joins me to talk about growing up inside immigrant success culture, what it costs to override what your body already knows, and the moment it finally said enough before her brain caught up. This conversation goes deep into the places where identity, achievement, and nervous system patterns collide. Book 1:1 here
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  Ep. 17 The Right Room | What Happens When an Emotional Pattern Releases in Public 06.04.2026 13мин

  Send us Fan Mail lost my voice at a women's event. Not metaphorically - I actually lost it. And it turned out to be the most visible I'd ever felt. This episode is about what it looks like when a pattern releases somewhere you didn't plan, a room full of women who actually get it, and what I built on the other side of that moment. The Intuitive Circle membership is open Book 1:1 here
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  Ep. 16 The Anger Passed Down From Grandma | Generational Anger and What Your Body Inherited 30.03.2026 9мин

  Send us Fan Mail What if the anger you're carrying isn't even yours? This episode pulls on a thread I've been sitting with for a while - one that goes deeper than coping skills and breathing techniques. The Anger Tree is a framework for understanding where anger actually lives in the body, where it comes from, and what it's trying to tell you. We're not unpacking the whole thing today. We're planting a seed. Book 1:1 here
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  Ep. 15 Part 2: The System Wasn't Built For Us.. And This Is What I Did About It | How the Medical System Fails Women and What Body-Based Healing Offers Instead 23.03.2026 10мин

  Send us Fan Mail In Part 1, I told you why I walked away. In Part 2, I go into why the medical system has been failing women for decades — what the research actually says, what I kept seeing in my practice that changed everything, and what becomes possible when you stop outsourcing your answers. This episode is for any woman who has ever been dismissed, minimized, or handed a prescription when something else entirely was going on. Book 1:1 here
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  Ep. 14 Part 1 I Was Called Dr. Les for 11 Years | Why I Left Naturopathic Medicine and Built Something New 09.03.2026 11мин

  Send us Fan Mail I had the title. The license. The patients I loved. And a slow-burning anger I kept pushing down for years. This is the episode I haven't told on the podcast yet - why I walked away from naturopathic medicine after 11 years, how my own emotions were trying to tell me something long before I was ready to listen, and where the SEER Method actually came from. Spoiler: it started in my parents' basement. Book 1:1 here