Found in the Fire

EPISODE OVERVIEWThis episode goes into interoception — the body's ability to perceiveits own internal states — and why it matters more than almost anythingelse in this work. Research consistently shows that people socializedas women receive stronger interoceptive signals than people socializedas men, while also being more likely to distrust what they're feeling.That gap between signal strength and signal trust is not a personalfailure. It is the predictable result of a culture that has spentcenturies teaching women to override their own knowing.IN THIS EPISODE What interoception actually is — and why it is the foundational mechanism by which you access your own emotional lifeThe research on why people socialized as women receive stronger  body signals and have a harder time trusting themThe systematic, cultural process by which women are taught to  dismiss their own interoceptive knowing — in medicine, in  relationships, and internallyWhat it actually looks like to start staying in the conversation  with your body's signals — in specific, ordinary momentsFREE RESOURCE — THE INTEROCEPTION INVENTORYTen prompts over ten days to begin opening the channel betweenyou and your body's signals. Not a diagnostic tool. Not a course.Just ten things to notice — one per day — structured to start theconversation.→ untamedsovereigntycoaching.com/free-resourceREADY TO GO DEEPER?The Reclamation Primer is the best two hours you can spend if youwant to actually experience all three modalities — somatic practice,EFT tapping, and an inner world journey — before you decide whetherany of this is for you. Not an explanation. An experience.→ untamedsovereigntycoaching.com/the-reclamation-primerRESEARCH & REFERENCESThe following studies were referenced or inform the content of thisepisode. INTEROCEPTION — SEX AND GENDER DIFFERENCES:Klabunde, M., Kaye, W.H., et al. (2017). Interoception and gender:What aspects should we pay attention to? Consciousness and Cognition,48, 42–52.— The primary study cited for higher interoceptive awareness infemales (noticing bodily sensations more often, better understandingthe relationship between bodily sensations and emotional states) andlower interoceptive accuracy (less efficient in consciously detectingheartbeats).→ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27866005Ainley, V., et al. (2021). Sex differences in interoceptive accuracy:A meta-analysis. International Journal of Psychophysiology.— Meta-analysis examining sex differences across multipleinteroceptive tasks, including heartbeat detection and gastricawareness. Finds that males tend to report greater confidence ininteroceptive perception.→ researchgate.net/publication/356412051Mazgaj, R., et al. (2020). Sex-specific relationships betweeninteroceptive accuracy and emotion regulation. PLOS ONE.— Examines the relationship between interoception and emotionregulation, finding sex-specific differences in how interoceptiveaccuracy relates to emotional processing in males versus females.→ ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7324473MEDICAL DISMISSAL OF WOMEN'S SYMPTOMS:Lichtman, J.H., et al. (2018). Symptom recognition and healthcareexperiences of young women with acute myocardial infarction.Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes (Yale School ofPublic Health / American Heart Association).— Young women are more likely to have cardiac symptoms dismissed byproviders as non-cardiac. Published in Circulation, a journal ofthe American Heart Association.→ news.yale.edu/2018/02/19/heart-attack-symptoms-often-misinterpreted-younger-womenSafdar, B., et al. (referenced in multiple emergency medicine studies).Women presenting to emergency departments with chest pain waitapproximately 29% longer than men to be evaluated for possiblecardiac events. Women under 55 are up to seven times more likelythan men to be sent home from the ER without proper cardiac testing.— Referenced in the Journal of the American Heart Association andcited across multiple emergency medicine research reviews.Academic Emergency Medicine (referenced study). Women presenting toemergency departments with severe abdominal pain wait up to 33%longer than men presenting with the same symptoms.→ northwell.edu/katz-institute-for-womens-health/articles/gaslighting-in-womens-healthNIH Policy on Sex as a Biological Variable (2016).It was not until 2016 that the National Institutes of Health requiredsex to be considered as a biological variable in most studies itfunded — meaning the majority of prior clinical research, includingpain research, was conducted primarily on male subjects.→ orwh.od.nih.gov/sex-gender/nih-policy-sex-biological-variableNOTE ON THE RESEARCHThe science of interoception and sex differences is active andevolving. Some studies find clear differences in interoceptivesensitivity between people socialized as women and men; othersfind that differences in reporting confidence (women consistentlyunderestimating their own accuracy) account for some of the gap.What remains consistent across the literature is this: peoplesocialized as women notice more, trust it less, and have beengiven strong cultural reasons for that distrust. That is the gapthis work is designed to close.CONNECTInstagram: @untamed.sovereigntyWebsite: untamedsovereigntycoaching.comIf this episode resonated — share it with the person in your lifewho has been doing everything right and still lying awake at 2amreconstructing conversations. She needs to hear that the gapbetween understanding and change is not her fault.◆ UNTAMED SOVEREIGNTY COACHING  Found in the Fire — Season 1, Episode 02  untamedsovereigntycoaching.com

What You'll Learn From This Episode:Why years of therapy, journaling, and podcasts can leave you more informed about your patterns — and still running every single one of them.The difference between the part of your brain that understands and the part that actually changes — and why they don't talk to each other.What the work looks like from the outside: the traffic that doesn't ruin your morning, the invoice you send without changing the number, the Saturday you actually see the bees.Why the gap between understanding and change is not a personal failure — and what it actually is.You have done the work. You have the language for all of it. You can trace the pattern, name the wound, explain the mechanism with clinical precision.And you are still running it.In the first episode of Found in the Fire, Erica asks the question most healing content won't: why does understanding so rarely produce change? The answer lives in the gap between the thinking brain and the body — in the fact that the part of you that holds all your hard-won insight is not the part of you that runs the pattern. Those two parts live in different rooms. They don't communicate. And all the frameworks in the world won't reach a pattern that doesn't live where the frameworks land.This episode is an honest map of where the real work lives. Not the methodology. The specific, lived, felt-in-the-body moments of what actually changes when the work finally reaches the right layer. What Tuesday morning looks like on the other side of it.If you have been doing everything right and still lying awake at 2am reconstructing conversations — this one is for you.Mentioned in This Episode:The Reclamation Primer — the best two hours you can spend if you want to experience all three modalities before deciding if this work is for you: untamedsovereigntycoaching.com/the-reclamation-primerNext episode: What Your Body Has Been Trying to Tell You — on interoception, women's sensitivity as intelligence, and what gets possible when you stop calling it a liability.If this landed: share it with the woman in your life who has been doing everything right and still can't quite figure out why it doesn't feel like enough. She needs to hear that the gap between understanding and change is not her fault.Found in the Fire is a podcast about somatic healing, ancient wisdom, and the specific moments that change everything. New episodes every other week. Host: Erica Adams / Untamed Sovereignty Coaching.