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EPISODE · May 21, 2026 · 49 MIN

When the Body Starts Speaking with Alica Glavanova

from Soft Power Project · host Sherry Fang

Alica Glavanova was 18, in her last year of high school, when the panic attacks started. The doctors ran their tests, handed her pills, and explained nothing. She did her own research, realized it was anxiety medication, and decided she wasn't going to take it. Right after school she started traveling. India, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia. Somewhere in those years she found a different way to understand what her body was doing, and it became the work she does now. Sherry and Alica talk about what happens when you stop overriding your body and start listening to what it's trying to tell you. Alica decodes a rash that kept showing up on Sherry's knuckles and ears after stressful morning meetings, and what it meant that it landed exactly there. They talk about why symptoms so often surface in the healing phase, once the stress is already over, and about the one thing none of us can control alongside the one thing we always can. This is a Soft Power Project conversation about emotional healing, and it goes somewhere unexpected. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - The body starts speaking1:18 - Panic attacks at 187:04 - Western medicine vs TCM8:29 - Growing up without roots11:32 - The seminar that changed everything15:13 - You have to do the work20:33 - Decoding Sherry's mystery rash31:35 - Finding the source of a symptom39:02 - A chaotic world and soft power MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Free German New Medicine masterclass (on Alica's Instagram): https://www.instagram.com/shenmentherapies/Carl Jung's dream analysis: water as a symbol of emotion ABOUT ALICA GLAVANOVA:Alica Glavanova is a certified complementary therapist based in Switzerland with more than a decade of clinical experience. After severe panic attacks at 18, she trained in traditional Chinese medicine, German New Medicine, hypnotherapy, and nervous system work. She now helps clients trace physical symptoms back to their emotional root, in person and online. https://www.instagram.com/shenmentherapies/ | https://www.shenmentherapies.com/ #SoftPowerProject #SoftPower #Healing #MentalHealth #WellnessJourney Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm5etbvm00a1i01sl6k6h99de/comments Youtube Instagram Would you like to share your life stories? Please fill out this form. For Soft Power Leadership Program, fill out this form.

Alica Glavanova was 18, in her last year of high school, when the panic attacks started. The doctors ran their tests, handed her pills, and explained nothing. She did her own research, realized it was anxiety medication, and decided she wasn't going to take it. Right after school she started traveling. India, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia. Somewhere in those years she found a different way to understand what her body was doing, and it became the work she does now. Sherry and Alica talk about what happens when you stop overriding your body and start listening to what it's trying to tell you. Alica decodes a rash that kept showing up on Sherry's knuckles and ears after stressful morning meetings, and what it meant that it landed exactly there. They talk about why symptoms so often surface in the healing phase, once the stress is already over, and about the one thing none of us can control alongside the one thing we always can. This is a Soft Power Project conversation about emotional healing, and it goes somewhere unexpected. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - The body starts speaking1:18 - Panic attacks at 187:04 - Western medicine vs TCM8:29 - Growing up without roots11:32 - The seminar that changed everything15:13 - You have to do the work20:33 - Decoding Sherry's mystery rash31:35 - Finding the source of a symptom39:02 - A chaotic world and soft power MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Free German New Medicine masterclass (on Alica's Instagram): https://www.instagram.com/shenmentherapies/Carl Jung's dream analysis: water as a symbol of emotion ABOUT ALICA GLAVANOVA:Alica Glavanova is a certified complementary therapist based in Switzerland with more than a decade of clinical experience. After severe panic attacks at 18, she trained in traditional Chinese medicine, German New Medicine, hypnotherapy, and nervous system work. She now helps clients trace physical symptoms back to their emotional root, in person and online. https://www.instagram.com/shenmentherapies/ | https://www.shenmentherapies.com/ #SoftPowerProject #SoftPower #Healing #MentalHealth #WellnessJourney Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm5etbvm00a1i01sl6k6h99de/comments Youtube Instagram Would you like to share your life stories? Please fill out this form. For Soft Power Leadership Program, fill out this form.

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