Emergent Resilience: Paths to Healing & Creative Power
by Rachel Hardy
Exploring nervous system healing and paths to our own power. The links between creativity and healing. Unearthing the resilience in our body-minds, and claiming our inner authority, connection, and deep knowing. Somatic astrology.
Episodes
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Episode 24 - Beyond "High Vibe": Receiving and Creating Through the Dark with Sarah Lines
What if you don't need to be "high vibe," fully healed, or emotionally untouched before you're allowed to receive? In this episode of Nervous System Alchemy, Rachel is joined by Sarah Lines for a raw and expansive conversation about continuing to create, serve, and receive while moving through…
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Episode 23 - Pluto in Aquarius and the Nervous System of the Coaching Industry
Why are so many people burned out, disillusioned, or simply done with the spiritual coaching world right now? And what is Pluto in Aquarius revealing about the deeper shift underneath it? In this episode of Nervous System Alchemy, Rachel explores the changing relationship between power…
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Episode 22 - Nervous System Regulation in a World on Fire with Dr. Leslie Carr
Is focusing on your nervous system right now a way of opting out of collective reality, or a powerful way to meet it? In this episode, Rachel sits down with Dr. Leslie Carr to explore an important question: does regulation simply mean "staying calm," or is it something far deeper? And when the...
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Episode 21 - Organizing, Procrastination, and Stored Stress: A Nervous System Perspective
In this episode, I'm joined by my dear friend and colleague Julia de'Caneva, founder of If It's the Last Thing I Do and co-founder of Elemental. Together, we explore why organizing and decluttering – whether it's your physical space, digital files, or inbox – can feel so much harder than it...
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Episode 20 - Redefining Purpose: Beyond the Box of "Spiritual Work" with Jia Dafu
In this conversation with Akashic Record Reader Jia Dafu, we unpack one of the biggest myths in the spiritual world: that living your purpose has to look a certain way or follow a predetermined trajectory. Jia shares her journey from the corporate world to spiritual entrepreneurship -- and then...
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Episode 19 - Sacred Resistance: What Your Nervous System Knows About Pushing Back
There's a kind of resistance that rises right at the edge of change — when something big is asking to move through you. We've been taught that resistance is something to override. Push through it. Get out of your own way. Do it scared. But what if that pushback you're feeling — the shutdown, the...
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Episode 18 - Let it Flow: Trusting the Intelligence of the Body — with Dr. Leslie Carr + Julia de'Caneva
What happens when you stop trying to fix your emotions — and instead feel the raw energy underneath them? In this episode, I'm joined by two brilliant colleagues and dear friends, Dr. Leslie Carr and Julia de'Caneva, for a grounded, powerful conversation about how life force energy moves through...
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Episode 17 - Reclaiming Choice: Unhooking Trauma Loops with Somatic Awareness
If you've ever felt hijacked by your own nervous system — caught in thoughts you don't believe, feelings you didn't expect, or patterns you thought you'd already moved through — this episode is for you. This week, after an amazing date that stirred up more than I expected, I found myself right in...
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Episode 16 - From Chaos to Coherence: When Things Feel Worse on the Way to Better
In today's episode, we're diving into a real (and often hidden) part of the growth process: how things can feel messier, heavier, or more chaotic right before they truly expand. This is the work of capacity building — the nervous system learning how to hold more energy, more change, more life...
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Episode 15 - Feel First, Then Choose: Tiredness as Integration and Completion
What if your tiredness isn't a problem to fix… but a signal that your body is completing something? In this short, real-time episode, I share a personal moment from my own journey—a day when a wave of full-body tiredness arrived, not as a breakdown, but as a breakthrough. We explore the…
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Episode 14 - Foundations of Nervous System Regulation – Building Capacity
In this episode of Nervous System Alchemy, we're diving into one of the most important yet sometimes overlooked aspects of nervous system regulation: building capacity. What does that actually mean? Why is it foundational to real healing and regulation? And most importantly—how do we do it? I'll...
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Episode 13 - The Road Awaits: Embracing Flow and Freedom
Welcome to a new chapter of Nervous System Alchemy—a podcast all about unlocking your creative potential and aligning with your most expansive self. In this episode, I'm diving into how my journey of nervous system regulation has led me to the freedom and flow I now experience, traveling the…
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Emergent Resilience 12 - Embodied Astrology: Opening the Heart to Abundance and Love with Venus in Retrograde
Emergent Resilience 12 - Embodied Astrology: Opening the Heart to Abundance and Love with Venus in Retrograde Retrogrades are a powerful opportunity for re-patterning the deep beliefs, feelings, and energies that unconsciously drive us. Venus rules the heart center, and opening to receive more...
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Emergent Resilience 11 - When the Mind Doesn't Want to Calm - 4 Keys to Connecting to Your Higher Wisdom
Emergent Resilience 11 - When the Mind Doesn't Want to Calm - 4 Keys to Connecting to Your Higher Wisdom In this episode, I share about a personal healing journey that's happened recently, what I learned through working in my Akashic Records about my over-attachment to the mind, and the key...
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Emergent Resilience 10 - Honoring Limits & Pushing Beyond: Strength Training and Nervous System Healing
My guest for this episode is Melinda Hughes, owner of The Strength Shoppe in Los Angeles. We chat about ... how nervous system healing and strength training support each other why slowing down changes the game what happens in the nervous system when you safely meet and push past limits strength...
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Emergent Resilience 09: Somatic Astrology - Venus Conjunct Pluto: Heart-Depths
Episode 09: In this Somatic Astrology Episode, we're taking a dive into the heart space. What happens when the deepest places in our heart are opened up, excavated, and exposed? And what's on the other side? In this episode, I'll walk you through the meaning of this transit while safely and…
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Emergent Resilience 08: Somatic Astrology: Re-thinking Mercury Retrograde... Recalibration & Release
Episode 08: In this Somatic Astrology episode, we'll explore Mercury Retrograde as a powerful period of renewal and release. We'll look at how to work with the "inward turned" energy, rather than fighting it- so that we can move with ease and empowerment through this time of excavation and...
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Emergent Resilience 07: The Paradox of Healing & Sudden Shifts
Episode 7: In this episode I talk about the paradox of healing, the polarities of masculine / feminine energy in the transformation process, and how to be with the balance of patience and expectation while on a healing path. I also share two examples from my own journey of when big shifts came in...
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Emergent Resilience 06: Somatic Astrology - Venus Inconjunct Jupiter
Episode 6: This is the first in a series of mini-episodes exploring Somatic Astrology. We dive into what it means to have Venus (our heart center) in an inconjunct (choice point) with Jupiter (our expansion and goodness). Drop into the body and feel where you hold this particular challenge, how...
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Emergent Resilience 05: Ways of Knowing with Efu Nyaki
Episode 5: In this episode, I chat with Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and SE Legacy Faculty member Efu Nyaki. We talk about her traditional upbringing, the "ways of knowing" learned from her Nyaki clan, and how connecting to the body and to nature is key to accessing our innate capacity for...
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Emergent Resilience 04: Re-envisioning Early Education with Jessica Briggs
Episode 4: Building healthy nervous systems starts young. How can we create more resilience and regulation through our models and practices of early education? In this episode, I chat with Jessica Briggs about a wholistic approach to education that honors the path of the child and their own ways…
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Emergent Resilience 03: Following Your Soul's Calling with Dr. Josephine Hardman
Episode 3: In this episode, I chat with Dr. Josephine Hardman about her path from a career in academia to building a business focused around her spiritual gifts. Find out more about Josephine's work at https://josephinehardman.com/ or follow her on IG at @healer.josephine ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Ready...
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Emergent Resilience 02: My Story, Part 2
Episode 2: This episode is part two of my own journey: coming off fourteen years of antidepressant medication, turning around a chronic health condition (ME/ CFS), and coming into total wellness and excellent health. Learning to trust my own experience, finding power in creative work, and being…
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Emergent Resilience 01: My Story, Part 1
Episode 1: In this episode, I share part one of my own journey, beginning with a strange and sudden mysterious illness that began when I was fourteen. It would would launch an intense physical and spiritual journey and set me on a lifelong path of searching for answers. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Ready…
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Exploring nervous system healing and paths to our own power. The links between creativity and healing. Unearthing the resilience in our body-minds, and claiming our inner authority, connection, and deep knowing. Somatic astrology.
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Rachel Hardy
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