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Under the Oak Meditations
by Shannon Soto
What if your nervous system didn’t have to live in fight-or-flight? What if healing didn’t start with doing more—but with pausing? Meditation isn’t just sitting in silence—it’s reconnecting with the parts of you that have gone quiet under pressure, pain, or performance. Under the Oak Meditations is for that. 🧠 Clearer thoughts 🫀 A calmer body 🌿 More capacity for life and love Meditation helps with: ✨ Reducing stress + anxiety ✨ Improving sleep + emotional health ✨ Increasing creativity, patience, and insight ✨ Healing the brain and body from trauma Every time you sit and breathe, you’re practicing the radical act of returning to yourself. Let’s keep coming home—together.
Episodes
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11: Facing the Unknown
Facing the unknown can make the nervous system panic. Your mind wants certainty. Your body wants safety. This meditation is for the moments when life feels unclear, unstable, or out of your control. We practice slowing down. Breathing beside still water. Letting uncertainty exist without…
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10: Moving Forward and Flowing
From a therapist who believes safety comes first —Beside Still Water offers nervous-system aware meditations for stress, anger, grief, fear, and moving forward. Come sit under the oak. The water is calm here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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9: Healing From the Invalidation of Racism
Reclaiming Roots: Healing from the Invalidation of RacismBeneath the oak, we rise against erasure.Every root, every name, every story holds its rightful place—untouched by the ignorance of the elite. This meditation is both refuge and resistance: a space to reclaim identity, belonging, and voice....
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8: Betrayal Trauma - Made for the Moments after Trust is Broken
When the people we trusted the most become the source of our deepest wounds, the world can feel unsafe—our bodies on high alert, our hearts aching for truth, our minds tangled in loops of “how could they?”This meditation is a gentle return to yourself. Betrayal shakes more than trust. It rattles...
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7: For Overthinkers to Find Deep Sleep
This calming meditation is for the overthinkers, the anxious souls, and the tender-hearted who carry too much. Let this be your soft landing—a space to release the tension, quiet your mind, and ease into deep, restorative sleep. No pressure. No fixing. Just permission to rest. Listen under the…
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6: For the Advocates
This one is for the advocates—The ones who’ve been wounded,Who see what others refuse to see,Who carry pain like a compass and speak truth in rooms built to deny it. You didn’t choose the pain,But the pain gave you sight.And now—you walk awake. This meditation honors that journey.It’s a space to...
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5: A Meditation for the Silently Suffering
“For the one who still carries it—in her body, in her heart, in silence.” You carry a story no one sees. A sorrow that shows up in quiet moments, in anniversaries no one remembers, in dreams you can’t explain. This meditation was made for you—the woman who had an abortion and still grieves. Who...
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4: War and Peace - When the World is Loud
When headlines scream and bodies brace, this grounding meditation offers critical care for a nervous system in crisis. Whether you’re carrying fear, grief, rage—or just the heaviness of witnessing too much—this episode invites you to soften the internal war without losing touch with your care for...
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3: Coming Home to Me - A Survivor's Meditation
This is a meditation for the survivor who questions their worth. For the one who was gaslit, minimized, or made to feel too much for simply feeling.In this guided practice, you’ll be reminded: You are not too much. You are not broken. You are rebuilding. With therapeutic validation and gentle...
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2: The One About the Father Wound
When the father wounds run deep, even silence can sting.The ache of what was missing… or what hurt too much to hold.Under the Oak, we don’t force forgiveness.We offer presence.We breathe where there was once tension.And we remember: you are not too much to love. Background by Nataly Jade Music...
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1: She Was Always Somewhere Out There
A mediation for the ones who felt their mother's absence--emotionally, physically, spiritually. This is for the part of you still looking for her...and the part of you learning to become her. Breathe. Be held. Begin again. Background Music by Nataly Jade Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
What if your nervous system didn’t have to live in fight-or-flight?
What if healing didn’t start with doing more—but with pausing?
Meditation isn’t just sitting in silence—it’s reconnecting with the parts of you that have gone quiet under pressure, pain, or performance.
Under the Oak Meditations is for that.
🧠 Clearer thoughts
🫀 A calmer body
🌿 More capacity for life and love
Meditation helps with:
✨ Reducing stress + anxiety
✨ Improving sleep + emotional health
✨ Increasing creativity, patience, and insight
✨ Healing the brain and body from trauma
Every time you sit and breathe, you’re practicing the radical act of returning to yourself.
Let’s keep coming home—together.
HOSTED BY
Shannon Soto
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What if your nervous system didn’t have to live in fight-or-flight? What if healing didn’t start with doing more—but with pausing? Meditation isn’t just sitting in silence—it’s reconnecting with the parts of you that have gone quiet under pressure, pain, or performance. Under the Oak Meditations is...
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Under the Oak Meditations is created and hosted by Shannon Soto.
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