We all have secrets, painful experiences, and even childhood challenges that affect us to this day. What if keeping them is what’s keeping us unwell?

Our culture teaches us to bottle in our truth, mask our emotions, and manage our image. But the body keeps score, and over time, that suppression turns into stress, disconnection, and even illness.

What if healing is about processing these things through our bodies?

That’s the lens Katie brings, not just as a psychologist or embodiment teacher, but as someone who’s lived it. Katie grew up in an environment where expression wasn’t welcome. Where looking the part was rewarded, but speaking your truth came with consequences.

And yet, through a deep commitment to curiosity and movement, she found her way to something radically different.

By tuning into her body's signals and honoring the impulses society taught her to ignore, Katie uncovered a deeper intelligence. One that didn’t just help her heal, it helped her become. It also helped her pioneer a whole new way of understanding ourselves.

It’s what turned a shy, observant girl into a pioneer in body intelligence and relational honesty. It’s also what led her to her purpose: helping others reconnect to their truth, not just through talking, but through breath, sensation, and somatic expression.

In this episode, Katie shares how secrets manifest in the body and how unprocessed emotions distort our relationships. We also discuss how pivotal moments from childhood, when metabolized, can become the very path to our genius.

Things You’ll Learn In This Episode

-Secrets make you sick

What’s the hidden cost of withholding your truth, and how does transparency heal more than therapy ever could?

-The body as a bridge

Most people are so switched off from their bodies that it makes healing hard. How does tuning into physical sensation give you access to clarity, freedom, and your deeper self?

-From pain to power

Do people who thrive have harder childhoods? How do they learn to transmute their wounds into wisdom?

-Sound encased in skin

Music isn’t just something we experience; it’s a part of us. How do we find our own internal rhythm?

Most people don’t think of themselves as creative. We say, “I’m not artistic,” or “I can’t perform,” and leave it at that. But the truth is, creativity isn’t reserved for the select few.

It lives in everyone.

It’s baked into how we think, feel, dream, and respond to the world.

The problem is that most of us were taught to shut it down. We were told to color inside the lines, follow the rules, and keep things appropriate.

Over time, we stopped expressing the weird, wonderful parts of ourselves and started believing that creativity belonged only to the professionals.

But performers like Jennifer Blaine know better.

Jennifer is a comedian, improviser, and creativity coach who doesn’t just entertain, she activates. Her shows invite people to stop watching and start engaging.

Through playful characters, spontaneous interaction, and real-time coaching, she helps people bypass their inner critic and access the creative voice that’s been waiting inside them all along.

Because when someone is bold enough to play in public, it sparks something in the room. It gives the rest of us permission to try, to improvise, to be ridiculous, expressive, and alive.

How do we use play and improv to pull out our true expression?

In this episode, Jennifer shares how performance becomes a portal, why creative energy is always running beneath the surface, and how just a little bit of play can bring people back to life.

Things You’ll Learn In This Episode

-The gaze that frees
How does simply being seen without judgment ignite your creativity and confidence?

-Performance as permission

Why does witnessing play unlock something in you, and how can performers create the safety for that to happen?

-Improvising with life
We’re all improvisers. So, how can you get better at dancing with the unknown instead of fearing it?

-From grief to genius
Can play be the most honest response to pain, transition, or loss, and how does it open doors to new expression?

Guest Bio

Jennifer Blaine is an actor, comedian, playwright, and character chameleon. She has been performing one-woman shows for 25 years. Her original writing, performing, and comedy delve into serious and socially relevant issues and provide audiences the opportunity to unite in laughter. Jennifer has opened for George Carlin and performed with Chris Rock and Joe Piscopo. She has worked with great actors such as Glenda Jackson, Christopher Plummer, Laura Linney, Joanne Woodward, and Paul Newman, and was featured on ABC’s Philly After Midnight: Women Comedians. She starred in the animated series “Teddy P. Brains,” in which she played a precocious brainy boy, and has lent her voice to hundreds of voiceover projects. According to the Philadelphia Daily News “not even Sybil can compete with Blaine’s cast of characters. Her comic genius is like Lily Tomlin and Tracey Ullman.” Visit https://jenniferblaine.com/ to learn more.

About Your Hosts

Katie Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT, is a pioneer in body intelligence and conscious loving with over 40 years of experience. Known internationally as a presenter and seminar leader, she focuses on authenticity, responsibility, and appreciation in conscious living. She co-authored 12 books, including best-sellers Conscious Loving and Conscious Loving Ever After and she has appeared on over 500 radio and TV programs.

Sophie Chiche is a seasoned coach and consultant who has worked with thousands of individuals and teams globally. With a focus on helping people live fully expressed lives, she guides clients and facilitates group sessions to remove obstacles and design meaningful lives. Sophie has developed unique methods, mindset shifts, and healing modalities to create lasting change.

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You’re standing in front of a mess…clothes, memories, identities…scattered on the floor.

A rod gives out, a shelf falls, or maybe your inner structure does. It looks like chaos, but it might just be intuition telling you: it’s time to release the weight, it’s time to let go.

Whether it’s a closet full of old identities, a childhood belief you’ve outgrown, or a lingering fear that you’re still “too much,” life finds ways to show us what no longer fits.

But what if that collapse isn’t a failure but an invitation to release, integrate, and reclaim ourselves? It’s a shift trigger - another opportunity for curiosity, attention, circulation, and appreciation.

How do we use the “falling rod” to grow further? What happens when we treat a shift trigger with curiosity?

In this episode, we explore how closet collapses and pickleball revelations can support intuition and gently guide us toward more freedom, more play, and presence.

Things You’ll Learn In This Episode

When the rod breaks

What does a fallen closet rod have to do with personal transformation, and why do breakdowns often come before breakthroughs?

Your body knows before you do

Physical sensations like heaviness or tension can act as intuitive clues if we’re willing to listen and follow them.

Objects hold energy, and so do we

What happens when we surround ourselves with things that reflect our current values instead of outdated versions of ourselves?

The new AAA

From pickleball courts to grocery store checkouts, ordinary interactions become extraordinary mirrors for healing, awareness, and aliveness. How can we meet situations in life with attention, appreciation, and action?

About Your Hosts

Katie Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT, is a pioneer in body intelligence and conscious loving with over 40 years of experience. Known internationally as a presenter and seminar leader, she focuses on authenticity, responsibility, and appreciation in conscious living. She co-authored 12 books, including best-sellers Conscious Loving and Conscious Loving Ever After, and she has appeared on over 500 radio and TV programs.

Sophie Chiche is a seasoned coach and consultant who has worked with thousands of individuals and teams globally. With a focus on helping people live fully expressed lives, she guides clients and facilitates group sessions to remove obstacles and design meaningful lives. Sophie has developed unique methods, mindset shifts, and healing modalities to create lasting change.

Check out this episode on our website, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and don't forget to leave a review if you like what you heard. Your review feeds the algorithm so the show reaches more people!

Creativity isn’t just a skill, it’s a lifeline in a play-deprived society.

When young people feel unseen, unheard, and unwelcome, they shut down. Their development gets interrupted. Their story gets cut short.

But give them the joy of movement, and a place to express their creativity, and something transformational happens. They come alive.

Not because someone told them what to say or how to be, but because someone finally asked: Who are you? And what’s inside you, waiting to be expressed?

In this episode, we explore what happens when we stop trying to “fix” kids and instead create the conditions for them to be fully seen, felt, and valued. We look at how creativity, play, and radical presence can disrupt cycles of invisibility and disconnection, not just for youth, but for adults too.

We’re joined by Alana Shaw, founder of Turning the Wheel, a national nonprofit that brings creative expression to underserved youth across the country. Her work restores flow, it’s not just about performance, but a return to inner wholeness. How does the power of play translate into healing? How do we reclaim our value and heal our inner child?

In this conversation, Alana shares what happens when we invite kids to lead with their play and creativity, and how adults can grow self-love, regulate emotion, and begin reweaving the threads of their own stories.

Things You’ll Learn In This Episode

Creativity as medicine
What if expression, not explanation, is what really heals us? How can movement and play reach the parts of us that words can’t?

The power of being seen
So many of us carry the wound of invisibility. What shifts when someone meets you with full-bodied presence and says, “You matter. I see you.”?

How to love yourself for real
Self-love isn’t just a concept. It can be a practice we return to daily. How do we do this with more ease and joy?

Growing wholeness in others (and ourselves)
Healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken, but about restoring the flow from within. How do we cultivate environments where people feel free to unfold?

Guest Bio

Alana Shaw is the founder and executive director of Turning the Wheel. She is an inspiring and empowering speaker, teacher, and guide. Alana has facilitated joyful and healing movement events in cities in the US and Canada for over 30 years. Her dynamic and energetic presentation style is both humorous and transforming, and consistently positive and uplifting for her audiences. She holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Colorado with a thesis on healing and reintegration through creative expression. Alana's books, "Dancing Our Way Home" and "The Body Now" catalyze her mission to inspire a new paradigm for inclusiveness, collaboration, and community engagement. Both books are available on Amazon. She is also a certified Hendricks Body/Mind Vibrance Coach. https://www.turningthewheel.org/.

About Your Hosts

Katie Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT, is a pioneer in body intelligence and conscious loving with over 40 years of experience. Known internationally as a presenter and seminar leader, she focuses on authenticity, responsibility, and appreciation in conscious living. She co-authored 12 books, including best-sellers Conscious Loving and Conscious Loving Ever After and she has appeared on over 500 radio and TV programs.

Sophie Chiche is a seasoned coach and consultant who has worked with thousands of individuals and teams globally. With a focus on helping people live fully expressed lives, she guides clients and facilitates group sessions to remove obstacles and design meaningful lives. Sophie has developed unique methods, mindset shifts, and healing modalities to create lasting change.

Check out this episode on our website, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and don't forget to leave a review if you like what you heard. Your review feeds the algorithm so the show reaches more people!

The power-over / power-under / power-with dynamic isn’t just something we have with other people, it often resides inside us.

When we override our emotions, suppress our sensations, and try to outmaneuver our discomfort, we manifest that dynamic.

We see it when we push past our sadness, armor over vulnerability, or try to exert power in ways that are loud and forceful instead of connected and quiet.

Maybe it’s thinking we need to toughen up and act like a badass in reaction to our sadness.

That’s what we think being powerful looks like.

But what if the real path to personal power was learning to stay? To breathe. To notice. To be with what’s actually happening in our body.

Most of us are in a constant, unconscious tug-of-war with ourselves. Trying to control, suppress, or outperform our inner experience. But emotional triggers are a huge opportunity many waste.

They are an invitation to move old pain through and reclaim our presence. This is what true, embodied power looks like.

In this episode, we’re joined by Julie Colwell, PhD, a psychologist, teacher, and author who’s spent decades training coaches and therapists in conscious relationship skills.

She takes us through her heart-centered S.E.W. practice to guide people back to alignment in moments that would otherwise spiral into self-judgment, shutdown, or struggle.

You’ll also witness us work through a real-time moment of sadness and regret using Julie’s process.

Things You’ll Learn In This Episode

-Feel to Flow
Body awareness is the key to emotional freedom. Can connecting to our physical sensations shift us out of self-judgment and into grace?

-Power Over vs. Power With

What if our instinct to control others (or ourselves) is actually a fear response? How does hierarchy creep in during reactive states, and how do we choose co-creation over control?

-From Shame to Self-Compassion

Honoring our emotional truths creates space for transformation. Is there a way to meet our inner child with kindness instead of critique?

-What You Really Want
Under every reaction is a deeper longing. How do we uncover our truest desires once we’ve moved the emotion through?

Guest Bio

Julie Colwell is a Psychologist, speaker, author, and guide for relationship transformation and the Founder of the Evolutionary Power Institute. Julie catalyzes relationships out of old, stuck patterns and onto the road of their innate creative potential. Her proven methodology can be applied by any willing person and embodied over time with the support of the dynamic Evolutionary Power Institute community she founded, as well as the vast library of books, videos, audios, and blogs that she’s authored. Julie teaches her powerful, immediately applicable practices to large and small groups through interactive presentations and workshops, as well as training practitioners in my approach. She works with a small number of couples and individuals to support them in unlocking the energy that will jettison their lives and relationships onto the paths of true possibility. To learn more about her work, visit https://juliacolwell.com/

About Your Hosts

Katie Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT, is a pioneer in body intelligence and conscious loving with over 40 years of experience. Known internationally as a presenter and seminar leader, she focuses on authenticity, responsibility, and appreciation in conscious living. She co-authored 12 books, including best-sellers Conscious Loving and Conscious Loving Ever After, and she has appeared on over 500 radio and TV programs.

Sophie Chiche is a seasoned coach and consultant who has worked with thousands of individuals and teams globally. With a focus on helping people live fully expressed lives, she guides clients and facilitates group sessions to remove obstacles and design meaningful lives. Sophie has developed unique methods, mindset shifts, and healing modalities to create lasting change.

Check out this episode on our website, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and don't forget to leave a review if you like what you heard. Your review feeds the algorithm so the show reaches more people!

Here’s an uncomfortable or even painful experience many people are having right now.

Losing a friendship over differing political views or fundamental values. It hurts…but what if it’s also a window into something deeper?

In today’s cultural climate, the divide between people often goes far beyond a simple disagreement or differing opinions. It can reveal a far deeper truth: when values clash, friendships can break.

But what does that rupture reveal about how we relate, how we build trust, and how we stay open in moments that hurt?

Most of us are taught to manage difficult emotions by defending ourselves or retreating from discomfort. But those very emotions, the anger, sadness, and disappointment, can be an invitation to connect more honestly.

Do we avoid the messy middle and settle for predictability? Or do we choose curiosity, get in the pool, and learn to swim, again and again?

In this episode, we talk about the micro-moves that make or break our relationships. We explore how trust is built not through agreement, but through presence, tossing the metaphorical ball, and choosing openness in the face of rejection.

Things You’ll Learn In This Episode

-The art of the toss
There are two options in relationships: meet each other with presence, or let the ball drop. Why is the metaphor of tossing and catching the heartbeat of every real relationship?

-Reconnecting and recommitting

Why are people so quick to discard people when there’s a disagreement instead of working through it?

-Curiosity over control
What happens when we stop predicting and start wondering? How do we replace defensiveness with genuine curiosity?

-The end of performative friendship
How do you know when someone’s no longer “in the pool” with you? And what does it mean to choose integrity over rescuing a relationship that won’t meet you halfway?

About Your Hosts

Katie Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT, is a pioneer in body intelligence and conscious loving with over 40 years of experience. Known internationally as a presenter and seminar leader, she focuses on authenticity, responsibility, and appreciation in conscious living. She co-authored 12 books, including best-sellers Conscious Loving and Conscious Loving Ever After, and she has appeared on over 500 radio and TV programs.

Sophie Chiche is a seasoned coach and consultant who has worked with thousands of individuals and teams globally. With a focus on helping people live fully expressed lives, she guides clients and facilitates group sessions to remove obstacles and design meaningful lives. Sophie has developed unique methods, mindset shifts, and healing modalities to create lasting change.

Check out this episode on our website, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify, and don't forget to leave a review if you like what you heard. Your review feeds the algorithm so the show reaches more people!

Sometimes, the danger isn’t real, but our bodies still act like it is.

You’re stuck in traffic, someone you love is upset, or a friend doesn’t text back, and suddenly, you’re spiraling.

Your heart races, your thoughts scramble, and before you know it, you’re either fixing, fleeing, or shutting down.

What’s happening? In a world that constantly pushes us to stay in control, we forget how to stay connected, to ourselves, to others, and to the moment.

But our bodies remember. They hold wisdom, intuition, and the capacity to guide us, if we’re willing to listen.

When we learn to pause, feel, and trust, we unlock a deeper kind of safety that doesn’t depend on circumstances.

In this episode, we unpack the fear-driven urge to fix, the stories our minds create to avoid discomfort, and the deep wisdom available when we drop into presence.

Through stories of hypervigilance, childhood coping strategies, and even traffic-induced meltdowns, we explore how embodiment opens up more freedom, clarity, and connection than control ever could.

Things You’ll Learn In This Episode

-The fixing instinct
Why do we leap into action when someone else is struggling, and what are we really trying to avoid?

-Hypervigilance reframed
What if your childhood survival skills could become your greatest gifts, once you learn how to work with them instead of against them?

-Your body gets there first
How can checking in with your body (instead of your thoughts) stop fear from spiraling and bring you back to your own inner wisdom?

-The contagion of calm
What happens when we meet tension with grounded presence, and how does that ripple outward to others?

About Your Hosts

Katie Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT, is a pioneer in body intelligence and conscious loving with over 40 years of experience. Known internationally as a presenter and seminar leader, she focuses on authenticity, responsibility, and appreciation in conscious living. She co-authored 12 books, including best-sellers Conscious Loving and Conscious Loving Ever After and she has appeared on over 500 radio and TV programs.

Sophie Chiche is a seasoned coach and consultant who has worked with thousands of individuals and teams globally. With a focus on helping people live fully expressed lives, she guides clients and facilitates group sessions to remove obstacles and design meaningful lives. Sophie has developed unique methods, mindset shifts, and healing modalities to create lasting change.

Check out this episode on our website, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and don't forget to leave a review if you like what you heard. Your review feeds the algorithm so the show reaches more people!