Balancing Growth: The Somatic Path with Elyse Preston

Host Emily introduces a Transcendent Farmer podcast interview with Elyse Preston of Be More Connected, recorded in San Miguel de Allende, and frames the episode around knowing oneself, prioritizing joy, finding purpose, and encouragement for people who feel they don’t fit in or are navigating entrepreneurship. Elyse shares growing up in Baltimore County as the eldest of four with a biracial background and lifelong spiritual attunement, describing a healing journey centered on belonging, sensitivity, and connection. They discuss forging community through visibility and shedding people-pleasing, including the role of digital communities. Elyse explains somatic work via yoga and somatic experiencing (Peter Levine), including trauma held in the body and ancestral healing, and connects personal healing to broader critiques of harmful systems. Elyse outlines her non-linear business path since 2020, emphasizing relationships, humility, and persistence, and describes her Growth Collective program structured around fire, earth, air, and water.