This conversation is raw, real, and meant for anyone who has ever had to hold it together when everything around them was falling apart.

They get into the moment Jodi had to let go of her entire team, including her mom, her sister, and her husband, why asking for help is the hardest thing for people who are used to being the strong one, the simple daily practice that brought her back to clarity, and what staying rooted in your values actually looks like when things get really hard.

Mentioned in this episode:

Green Goo plant-based first aid and wellness products: www.greengoo.com

OvaMoon, Jodi's women's supplement line

Southern Butter, Jodi's sexual wellness brand

The 12-Week Year by Brian Moran

Mary Magdalene Revealed by Meggan Watterson

Start your 7-day free trial of Rooted at www.risetoher.com/rooted

Connect with Emily:

Instagram: @risetoher

Website: www.risetoher.com

This week’s archetype is The Flame.

It’s the part of you that already knows what’s your souls truth and purpose (and what you are here to create) and what isn’t. And when you’re connected to it, things get simpler.

In this episode, we sit with:

– why everything can feel heavier than it should
– how you slowly start drifting away from your own direction
– what it actually feels like to trust yourself (not just say you do)
– where you’ve been looking outside of yourself without realizing it
– what shifts when you come back to your own orientation

ROOTED

Inside ROOTED this week, we’re practicing how to integrate the achetypes and go beyond our limitations and beliefs that keep us stuck in self-sabotage and fear.

Looking at where your decisions are coming from, where you’ve been pulled off track, and what it looks like to return to yourself and stay there.

You can join the community of high achievers with a vision of a more well world here with a 7 day free trial - so you can learn how to hold this vision withour burning out and feeling hopeless (and make more money, impact, and joy in the process):
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Connect

Website: www.risetoher.com
Instagram: @risetoher

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You have the vision. You've had it for months, maybe longer. So why does it keep sitting there, untouched, while you wait to feel ready?

In this episode, we're working with The Creator, the first archetype in the trio of existence and the most potent energy of this spring season. This is God consciousness energy, the power to take nothing and build something entirely new from it. And right now, it is asking something very specific of you.

We get into why the most driven, capable, clear people stall out right at the threshold of making something real, why the hesitation doesn't feel like fear (it feels extremely reasonable), and what it actually means to be in creation energy versus just being busy.

In this episode:

• What the Creator archetype is and why it's the energy we need most right now in this season of disruption and change
• The difference between genuinely needing more clarity and not fully trusting what you already know
• Why you cannot create and control at the same time, and what to do instead
• How burnout actually happens (it's not from creating, it's from pushing without connection)
• The three things that keep you in creation energy without burning out: supports and structures, rest, and knowing your soul code
• Why high achievers keep pulling back the moment something starts working
• The book recommendation that will change how you think about creativity and building

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Wild Unknown Tarot deck
• The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
• Rooted, Emily's seasonal living and earth-based wisdom membership for high-capacity leaders, entrepreneurs, and change makers. Start with a 7-day free trial at www.risetoher.com/rooted

Connect with Emily:

Instagram: @risetoher Website: www.risetoher.com

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This week’s archetype is The Sword.

If you’ve been circling a decision, waiting to feel more ready, or spreading your energy across too many things — this is the moment where that pattern gets interrupted.

The Sword is about choice. Clarity.

There’s a point where thinking becomes noise. Where waiting creates more tension than action. This episode is about recognizing where you already know what to do — and choosing it.

Inside this episode, we explore:

• why overthinking is draining your energy
• how indecision keeps you stuck in cycles
• the difference between reaction and precision
• what it actually means to “cut through the noise”
• how to make one clean decision (without needing the full plan)
• the two ways this archetype gets misused
• how to move forward without forcing or burning out

This is especially for you if:

• you feel pulled in multiple directions
• you keep saying “I’ll do it later”
• you’re doing a lot but nothing feels like it’s landing
• you’re second-guessing yourself constantly
• you know what you want… but haven’t acted on it

The core message:

You don’t need more time.
You need to choose.

Inside ROOTED, we take this further — applying these archetypes to real decisions, boundaries, leadership, and your day-to-day life so your work actually moves forward.

You can explore ROOTED here (7-day FREE Trial):
https://risetoher.com/rooted

Keywords:
overthinking, decision making, clarity, self trust, burnout recovery, leadership, taking action, mindset, personal growth, intuition, high achievers, productivity

Mentioned in the episode: 

3 step framework for going from surviving to THRIVING: https://www.reclamationacademy.com/clarity

A grounding episode for leaders, helpers, caregivers, and anyone who turns into the “responsible one” the moment they walk back into their childhood home.

The holidays have a way of waking up the parts of you that worked overtime to keep you safe when you were younger — the fixer, the peacekeeper, the emotional caretaker, the one who anticipates every mood in the room.

You may have done so much work on boundaries, self-responsibility, and reclaiming your energy…
and yet the moment you’re around old patterns, your system slips into familiar roles without asking.

This isn’t regression. It’s your body remembering what once kept you safe.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why protector parts get louder around family

• What “over-responsibility” actually is and why so many leaders carry it

• Six common roles people fall back into during the holidays

• How to recognize when you’re slipping into an old identity

• A real-time practice to soften your body, update your protectors, and choose micro-boundaries that protect your energy

• How to use the Shadow Work Portal inside ROOTED to stay steady through the holidays and winter season

If you’re already feeling your energy leak, or if you’re bracing for familiar dynamics — this episode will help you understand what’s happening and give you a way to stay in your own body, not your old role.

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You’ll get access to:

• The Shadow Work Portal for real-time support

• Guidance on how to live seasonally + reduce burnout and fatigue

• Seasonal workshops for grounded, aligned growth

• Meditations, rituals, and earth-based practices

• Two live calls each month

• A private community of deep-feeling leaders who want a more meaningful world

Start your free trial

📱 Connect

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Website: Rise To Her

This episode is about the connection between the work you do inside yourself and the work you do in the world. Shadow work isn’t about digging through every painful memory or “fixing” yourself. It’s about noticing the parts of you that learned to survive through urgency, overgiving, control, rescuing, or holding everything together — and bringing those parts back into relationship with who you are now.

When those patterns run the show, reactivity gets mistaken for purpose, and exhaustion feels like devotion. That’s how burnout repeats the very systems we’re trying to change. But when you’re resourced, rested, and grounded, your presence carries clarity instead of chaos. The way you communicate shifts. The way you advocate shifts. And the impact you make becomes steady instead of frantic.

In this episode, we explore how anger, grief, exhaustion, and urgency can be honored without letting them take the wheel. We look at how to return to your body, interrupt reactive cycles, and rebuild the capacity to lead, create, and connect in a way that lasts. You’ll hear three simple rituals used inside the Shadow Work Portal that support you when you’re stretched thin or losing sight of why your work matters.

This conversation is for anyone who feels the weight of the world and wants to keep showing up without losing themselves in the process.

Rituals from the Shadow Work Portal

• Grounding Pause
Hand on the body. Three slow breaths. A moment to come back to yourself before stepping into conversations or decisions.

• Sacred Stop
A short pause when urgency takes over. Sixty seconds to step away and return to your values instead of fear or pressure.

• Circle of Resourcing
Weekly connection with someone who can witness you without performance. Community regulation shifts patterns faster than isolation ever could.

Links & Resources

• Join ROOTED (Shadow Work Portal access + 7-day free trial):
  https://www.risetoher.com/rooted 

• Instagram (@risetoher):
  https://www.instagram.com/risetoher 

• Shadow Work Portal inside ROOTED:
  https://www.risetoher.com/rooted (recieve immediate access when you join ROOTED)!

In this episode, Emily talks with author and coach Martine Cohen about how conscious choices can rewrite your story—even when it feels like your brain, your identity, or your roles have you stuck. Martine shares how a traumatic car accident and concussion shifted her from “I am my brain” to “I am awareness,” and how you can step out of patterns, people-pleasing, and unconscious survival modes to lead yourself from alignment and freedom.

You’ll learn how to:

• Recognize the difference between reacting and choosing

• Let go of the layers that hold you back (beliefs, identities, fears)

• Shift your nervous system from survival to thriving

• Integrate your intelligence and intuition for authentic leadership

• Make small, powerful choices today that change your tomorrow

This episode is a must-listen for high-achieving professionals, leaders, and anyone done sacrificing their peace, power, and purpose for someone else’s version of success.

Resources + Links:

• Martine Cohen — Website 

• Book No More Layers: Discover Your Inner Power and Reclaim True Freedom from the Inside Out — Amazon 

• Free gift + Connect page — [Gift link / Connect Page]

• ROOTED Membership (7-day free trial) — https://www.risetoher.com/rooted 

• Rise To Her Instagram — @risetoher 

Join ROOTED for seasonal, earth-based practices + The Shadow Portal: https://www.risetoher.com/rooted 

✨ Grab Martine’s free gift for quieting the mind and reclaiming choice: [Gift link]

Keywords: inner freedom, rewrite your story, conscious choices, Martine Cohen, No More Layers book, people-pleasing recovery, nervous system regulation, self-leadership, high-achiever burnout, spiritual growth

What if healing isn’t just about medicine—but place, community, and feeling truly cared for?
In this soulful conversation, Emily sits down with Barry, founder of Carmel Retreats  and steward of the historic Cuddle Dune Cottage (“the Lost Cottage of Carmel”).

After an advanced cancer diagnosis, Barry transformed his family’s seaside cottage into a sanctuary for rest, renewal, and remembrance—rooted in nature, spiritual practice, and community support.

You’ll hear how to curate your own environment for healing (even at home), the surprising power of micro-rituals, and Barry’s heart-led Postcards for Healing  initiative that gifts free stays to those in need.

Featured Guest

Barry — Founder, Carmel Retreats & Steward of Cuddle Dune Cottage
🌐 Website: Carmel Retreats 
📸 Instagram: @carmel.retreats 
💌 Postcards for Healing Nomination: Nominate Someone Here 

Key Topics & Timestamps

00:00 Welcome + Why healing is also “where” we are
03:10 Barry’s diagnosis → nature, ritual, and community as lifelines
06:20 Daily practices: meditation/prayer, ocean grounding, and simple joy
09:00 Try everything: finding your modalities (what worked, what didn’t)
12:10 Community care: letting people help (and why that heals both ways)
15:05 Reframing the mundane → everyday miracles during recovery
16:30 The Lost Cottage of Carmel & Eliza Yoakum’s legacy
19:10 Being “open”: removing blocks to receive light and guidance
22:10 Mind–body focus, OCD share, and the power of choosing attention
28:00 ROOTED membership invite (seasonal, nature-based support)
30:10 Myth & meaning: descent, shadow work, and renewal
33:10 Sensory rewiring after radiation: neuroplasticity & persistence
36:00 Postcards for Healing: how to nominate someone for a free stay
39:00 5 ways to curate a healing environment at home
47:00 Visualization + action: pairing “magic with motion”
49:00 Rapid-fire: grounding sound, healing color, ocean medicine
50:15 Gratitude as an antidote to spirals
51:00 Partners & resources in Carmel + where to find Barry

5 Practical Ways to Curate Healing at Home

• Sanctuary Objects: Place 1–3 items that spark joy where your eyes land first.

• Nature Dose: Step outside daily—porch sun salutes, cloud-watching, tree-touching.

• Receive Support: Let people help. Receiving is healing (for both of you).

• Sacred Corner: Create a meditation/visualization nook (10–20 min daily).

• Intentional Food: Choose one “healing meal” ritual a day (tea, greens, or broth).

Resources & Mentions

Carmel Retreats: Website  | Instagram 
Postcards for Healing (mail-in nomination): Details + Address 
Refuge Spa (thermal cycles/mineral soaks): Website 
Earthbound Farm (organic foods nearby): Website 
Earth Cura Apothecary (custom herbal teas): Website 
Salty Soul Sanctuary (yoga/meditation): Website 
MOJA Yoga: Website 
Mad Dogs & Englishmen E-Bike Tours: Website 
Monterey Touring Vehicles (’55 Thunderbird, Hwy 1): Website 
Caraccioli Cellars: Website 
Scheid Vineyards — Wines: Website 
Aubergine (Restaurant): Website 
Casanova (Restaurant): Website 
California State Parks (Point Lobos): Website 
Emily’s ROOTED Membership (7-day free trial): Join Here 
Rise To Her on Instagram: @risetoher 

Call to Action

✨ Nominate someone for a free healing retreat via Postcards for Healing → Nominate Here 
🌿 Join ROOTED for seasonal, earth-based support → Start Free Trial 
💫 Share this episode with someone navigating illness, burnout, or grief → Share Link 

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They discuss what it means to hold boundaries and neutrality without bypassing reality, how to balance activism with nervous system care, and how compassion can be a radical choice in a world that rewards punishment and perfectionism.

“Compassion doesn’t enable. Punishment isn’t discipline. Language is how we return to ourselves.”

This episode will leave you feeling grounded, reflective, and ready to embody the version of healing that doesn’t turn away from the world—but participates in changing it.

Time-Stamped Guide

• 00:00 – Setting the tone for a grounded, curious conversation

• 03:00 – Alyssa’s story: connection, language, and becoming a “connector”

• 07:00 – The power of language in shaping our inner and outer world

• 10:30 – Regulated vs. reactive: what it looks like in real life

• 14:00 – The “rice on the stove” moment: finding compassion mid-overwhelm

• 17:00 – Expectation → Neutrality: letting go of moralizing our choices

• 20:00 – Is self-compassion enabling? (and what the research says)

• 23:00 – Why high achievers self-punish and what that pattern gives us

• 28:00 – The intersection of politics and wellness

• 33:00 – Rupture and repair: how trust is built through repair, not perfection

• 38:00 – Language as a tool for nervous system regulation

• 43:00 – Closing reflections on compassion, activism, and community care

Resources Mentioned

• Alyssa’s Website — Collective Therapy & Wellness 

• Follow Alyssa on Instagram 

• Follow Rise To Her on Instagram 

• Join ROOTED - Seasonal Membership to Prevent Burnout

• Book a Private Mentorship or Speaking Engagement > email emily@risetoher.com

Episode Summary

The Fall Equinox is a threshold moment — a balance of day and night before we turn inward for the darker season. In this episode, Emily explores how the Witch and Crone archetypes can guide us into rest, renewal, and alignment. You’ll hear how these archetypes show up in daily life, leadership, and even the way we create our homes as sanctuaries. Blending psychology, spirituality, and practical ritual, Emily shows how to harvest wisdom, release what drains you, and create space for what truly matters.

What You’ll Learn

• How the Witch archetype helps you listen to intuition and set boundaries that protect your energy

• How the Crone archetype teaches discernment, pruning, and the power of slowing down

• Ways to bring archetypes into your home for nervous system calm and daily restoration

• Why rituals regulate stress and help you feel more grounded and in control

• Reflection prompts to help you embody these archetypes at the Fall Equinox

Simple Equinox Ritual (Recap from the Episode)

1. Light a candle and slow your breath.

2. Harvest: name what came to fruition this season.

3. Prune: notice what you’re ready to release.

4. Seed: choose one piece of wisdom to carry forward.

Reflection Prompts

• Where is the Witch in me asking for a boundary?

• Where is the Crone in me asking me to release what no longer nourishes me?

• What small ritual brings me joy and reminds me life is sacred?

• What does my home need right now so my body can truly exhale?

• What wisdom am I carrying into this next season?

Resources Mentioned

• Get Access to the Soul Aligned Values Workshop for ONLY $17!!!!

• Archetypes as imaginal patterns (Carl Jung, James Hillman)

• Research on rituals reducing anxiety and supporting performance

• Environmental psychology: how clutter raises stress and nature restores focus

Join the ROOTED Fall Workshop — October 30

This episode leads into our Fall Workshop kickoff inside ROOTED, where we’ll work with archetypes, shadow, and seasonal practices for rest and renewal. By the end of this season, you’ll walk away with:

• A nervous system that’s more regulated and responsive — not reactive

• Clarity on what drains you vs. what moves the needle

• Tools to protect your time, creativity, and emotional bandwidth

• The stability to lead from truth, not urgency

• A renewed sense of purpose and direction for your soul-led life and work

🔥 Inside this episode: A story of real-time healing and receiving safe love after trauma What it means to “leak energy” and how to identify your blocks Why your subconscious can override even your best affirmations The integration of the masculine and feminine in receiving A simple nervous-system-safe capacity expansion practice

🎧 This is the episode to come back to every time you feel like you’re “doing everything right,” but still feel stuck.

💫 Ready to go deeper? Explore the M³ Portal

EMAIL EMILY FOR ENERGETIC BUSINESS CONSULTING OR IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PRIVATE MENTORSHIP: emily@risetoher.com

Join Emily on Instagram

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Raw emotional intro: Being asked to feel, hold, and receive more 02:00 What is your energetic container & why does it matter?

04:00 How trauma, stories, and nervous system dysregulation shrink capacity

06:00 Wounded feminine/masculine energy and how they show up in success

07:00 Personal Story: Relationship Capacity Collapse with Mary Kate

11:00 What happens when we speak our fears out loud 12:00 Guided Somatic Capacity Clearing Practice (start here for the full process)

17:00 The psychology behind embodiment & affirmations that actually work

18:00 Masculine + feminine integration: The real success formula

20:00 Hiking path analogy: Training your nervous system for a new outcome

21:00 Energetic Capacity Audit (start here if you want practical reflection)

23:00 3 Micro-Practices to build real-time capacity to receive

24:30 Grounding breathwork + final integration

25:30 How to go deeper: M³ Portal, Energetic Biz Consulting, 1:1 Mentorship

26:30 Final word: You are safe to rise. The receiving begins now.

Description:
If you’re feeling overwhelmed despite your best efforts to manage stress, this episode is for you. In Episode 21 of Rise to Her, Emily dives deep into the subconscious beliefs that fuel chronic stress, particularly for high achievers. Learn why stress isn’t just about your current circumstances and how your childhood, early career, and societal conditioning have wired your brain to equate stress with success. Emily shares practical strategies to identify, challenge, and rewire these hidden drivers so you can embrace ease without sacrificing achievement.

What You'll Learn:

• How subconscious beliefs formed in childhood and culture impact your stress response

• Common stress-inducing beliefs like “I have to work hard to prove my worth” and “Rest is for lazy people”

• The difference between external stressors and internal responses

• A 4-step formula to break free from chronic stress patterns

• Techniques to regulate your nervous system and redefine success on your terms

Featured in This Episode:

• Explore the M³ Membership (Mindset, Magic, and Manifestation) designed to help you integrate healing practices into your daily life. With bi-monthly coaching calls, a supportive community, and an integration vault full of meditations and breathwork, M³ is your go-to resource for transforming stress into sustainable success. Join M³ Membership

Take Action:

• Reflect on one subconscious belief you hold about stress. Is it serving you? If not, rewrite it.

• DM Emily on Instagram @risetoher with your biggest takeaway from today’s episode!

Resources & Links:

• Join M³ Membership

• Follow Emily on Instagram: @risetoher

• Subscribe to Rise to Her on YouTube

Subscribe & Review:
If you loved this episode, subscribe to Rise to Her and leave a review! Your feedback helps tailor future episodes to better serve you.

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• Instagram: @risetoher

• Website: www.risetoher.com

Emily shares practical tools for identifying when you're outside your Window of Tolerance and offers strategies for getting back in. From deepening your self-awareness to incorporating grounding practices, this episode is packed with insights to help you stay centered in the face of stress and overwhelm.

1. • Episode Notes:

     1. Topics Covered:

        • What is the Window of Tolerance and how it impacts stress management.
        • Signs that you are operating outside your Window of Tolerance (hyperarousal and hypoarousal).
        • The physiological and emotional effects of stress when you're outside your window.
        • Techniques to expand your Window of Tolerance and build resilience.
        • Tools like breathwork, grounding exercises, and self-soothing strategies to regain balance.

     2. Actionable Takeaways:

        • Identify the signs when you’re operating outside your Window of Tolerance (e.g., anxiety, numbing, or detachment).
        • Practice grounding techniques to stay centered when stress triggers you.
        • Reflect on your personal stress triggers and how they push you out of your window.
        • Start using calming techniques like deep breathing, tapping, or mindful movement when you feel overwhelmed.

     3. M³ Membership Details:

        • First live call: February 6th. [JOIN ANYTIME]
        • $44/month for access to the Stress Awareness Challenge, all Rise To Her workshops, healing resources, an expansive integration vault complete with meditations, breathwork, and somatic exercises and weekly journaling prompts.
        • JOIN HERE or email Emily at emily@risetoher.com for support.

     4. Resources:

        • Free meditations, courses, and more at the Rise To Her Freebie Library
        • Follow Emily on Instagram: @risetoher.

Scientific Article Links: 

Stress Publications

Join Emily as she shares her own journey of reconnecting with purpose, offers tools to evaluate and manage stress in different areas of life, and introduces her upcoming Stress Awareness Challenge inside the M³ Membership. Whether you're a high-achiever stuck in survival mode or simply curious about stress's role in personal growth, this episode will empower you to take control and thrive in the year ahead.

1. • Episode Notes:

     1. Topics Covered:

        • The three types of stress: good, too much, and not enough.
        • How stress manifests physically and emotionally.
        • The power of purpose as a stress-relief tool.
        • Tips for evaluating and managing stress in different life areas.
        • Practical coping mechanisms like breathwork, meditation, and purpose anchoring.

     2. Actionable Takeaways:

        • Define your stress level in each area of life (partnership, job, finances, etc.).
        • Identify how stress manifests physically (e.g., twitchy eyes, digestive issues).
        • Anchor yourself in your purpose to mitigate stress’s impact.

     3. M³ Membership Details:

        • First live call: February 6th.
        • $47/month for access to the Stress Awareness Challenge, workshops, healing resources, and weekly journaling prompts.
        • JOIN HERE or email Emily at emily@risetoher.com for support.

     4. Resources:

        • Free meditations, courses, and more at the Rise To Her Freebie Library
        • Follow Emily on Instagram: @risetoher.

Scientific Article Links: 

Stress Publications

Key Insights from This Episode

• Understanding Belief Formation
  • Beliefs are assumptions formed in childhood or during high-emotion events and are often deeply ingrained in our subconscious. They act as filters, shaping our perceptions and behaviors
•  Why We Get Stuck in Unwanted Cycles
  • When beliefs are reinforced through repetition and confirmation bias, they create a feedback loop, trapping us in cycles of overwork, burnout, or self-sabotage—even when we consciously want to change.
• The Science of Self-Sabotage
  • Self-sabotage often stems from deeply held beliefs that we’re unaware of. These beliefs drive our subconscious actions and decisions, keeping us stuck until we bring awareness and shift our mindset.
• Steps to Break Free from Limiting Beliefs
  • Awareness is the first step. By recognizing where you feel stuck and uncovering the beliefs driving these patterns, you can start to challenge and change them, creating space for alignment and ease.
• How Grind Culture Reinforces Limiting Beliefs
  • Many high-achieving women are conditioned to believe that success requires struggle. We discuss how to identify and release these beliefs and begin to redefine success on your own terms.

Journaling Prompts to Take This Work Deeper

Use these prompts to start uncovering the beliefs that might be holding you back and gain clarity on how to shift them:

1. What are some beliefs I hold about myself, my worth, and my success?
2. How do these beliefs show up in my everyday life or keep me in cycles I no longer want?
3. Where did these beliefs come from?
4. Can I trace them back to any specific experiences or influences?
5. What would change in my life if I no longer believed these things?
6. How would it feel to create new, empowering beliefs that align with my soul’s purpose?
7. What is one small step I can take today to start shifting a limiting belief?

Relevant Links Mentioned in This Episode

• Grind Culture Rebellion: Join our FREE live training on November 4th to uncover the beliefs keeping you stuck in the grind and learn actionable steps to create a life aligned with your true purpose. [Sign up here!]
• Aligned Ambition Priority List: Be the first to know when doors open for Aligned Ambition, now more accessible than ever. Get on the list to create lasting transformation in your journey of ambition and alignment. [Join the list here!]
• Follow us on Instagram for daily inspiration and updates: @risetoher

Thank you for tuning in to the Rise to Her Podcast. If you found this episode helpful, please subscribe, rate, and leave a review! Together, let’s keep rising to our highest selves.

In this episode of Rise To Her, Emily Greenway brings that perspective into modern life. She shares how the Spring Equinox connects to your work, your direction, and the way you create.

This is a conversation about using seasonal cycles to support your career and personal growth. Not by adding more, but by working with what is already present.

If you have been feeling a build up of ideas, a pull to move in a new direction, or pressure to act on everything at once, this episode will help you ground that energy and decide what to do with it.

What You’ll Learn:

• What the Spring Equinox represents and why it still matters in modern life

• How seasonal cycles shape your energy, focus, and creative output

• Why this time of year often brings both inspiration and pressure

• What blocks tend to surface during periods of growth

• How to work with momentum without overwhelming yourself

• How to make decisions that support your career and long term direction

Inside This Episode:

Emily shares three ways to work with Spring Equinox energy in your life and career.

1. Clear what is in the way
Before anything new takes root, space has to be created. This includes letting go of projects, expectations, and structures that no longer support where you are heading.

2. Move what feels stuck
Spring brings movement. When something feels heavy or slow, it is a sign to shift how you are operating so energy can move again.

3. Choose what you are growing
There will be more ideas than you can act on. This is where you decide what matters and give your attention to that.

Who This Episode Is For:

This episode is for leaders, professionals, and entrepreneurs who are:

• Moving through a period of growth or change

• Reconsidering their direction or next step

• Looking for a way to make decisions with more certainty

• Wanting to create without exhausting themselves

Ways to Go Deeper:

ROOTED is a seasonal living membership designed to help you work in rhythm with your life and your work.

Inside, you will learn how to:

• Work with seasonal cycles in a practical way

• Make decisions from your own internal guidance

• Stay connected to your work without losing your energy

Join here: https://www.risetoher.com/rooted 

Connect with Emily:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/risetoher

This week’s archetype reading explores The Unseen — the quiet guidance that often appears in our lives through intuition, synchronicities, and repeating patterns.

Many leaders, entrepreneurs, and thoughtful professionals experience moments where something inside them senses the next step before logic can explain it. Yet those signals are often dismissed or questioned.

In this episode, Emily explores how spiritual guidance communicates, why high achievers tend to doubt their intuition, and how learning to listen can change the way you approach work, decisions, and purpose.

As the Spring Equinox approaches, this episode invites you to create space for reflection and recognize the support already surrounding you.

In this episode

• Understanding the archetype of The Unseen
• Recognizing intuition vs fear
• Signs and synchronicities as guidance
• Spiritual awareness in leadership and work
• Creating space to hear deeper insight

Continue the Work

Inside ROOTED, the archetype of the week is explored more deeply through reflection prompts, guided practices, rituals, and seasonal workshops designed to help you apply these insights to your life and leadership. Get Started with a 7-day free trial

Portland, Oregon: Spring Equinox Immersive Workshop (Cultivating Capacity) GET TICKETS HERE

Podcast Giveaway

When the podcast reaches 50 five-star reviews, one listener will receive a full year inside ROOTED.

Leave a review on Apple or Spotify and send a screenshot to:

Emily@risetoher.com

Key Topics Covered:

• Understanding "mom rage" and its impact on mothers
• Societal pressures and the myth of the "perfect mom"
• Practical strategies for managing perfectionism and overwhelm
• The importance of repairing relationships after emotional outbursts
• Embracing self-compassion and rejecting the martyrdom mindset
• Balancing single motherhood with running a business

Show Links: 

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But when we do not heal our past, limiting beliefs and pain will continue to show up in our lives. When we acknowledge our past and consciously heal, we can step into a life that is light and aligned, creating from our highest self rather than out of the need be safe. 

Mentioned in the episode: 

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In this episode, Emily Greenway breaks down how desire can function as internal guidance. Many high-achievers feel pulled in multiple directions, overwhelmed by noise, and unsure which decisions are actually theirs. The Siren represents the part of you that recognizes what is meant for you and what is not.

The focus of this conversation is learning the difference between:
• grounded desire that brings clarity
• reactive impulses driven by fear, pressure, or external validation

Rather than ignoring desire or judging it, this episode walks you through how to listen to it, interpret it, and use it to make clearer choices in your work, relationships, and life.

If you’ve been feeling scattered, disconnected from what you want, or unsure about your next move, this archetype offers a practical way to return to self-trust.

In This Episode

• What the Siren archetype actually represents

• Why desire is not random

• How fear pulls attention outward and fragments focus

• The difference between aligned desire and insatiable craving

• Using pleasure as information instead of distraction

• How internal signals support decision-making

• A practical way to reconnect to self-trust

Join us in ROOTED for Integration Prompts and Guidance on how to tangibly apply this energy to your work, relationship, and manifestation practice. 

Resources & Links

Join the ROOTED membership (7-day free access):
https://risetoher.com/rooted 

Connect with Emily:
Instagram: @risetoher

Get Access to the Soul-Aligned Values Workshop and unlock the exact process Emily and 100's of her students have used to identify their unique soul code - the ultimate compass for living in accordance to YOUR soul contract and attacting the career, goals, income, and existence you are craving. Join ROOTED for immediate access (PLUS: a 7 day free trial). 

Episode Summary

Many people reach a point where progress slows down and clarity disappears. Work feels uncertain, motivation drops, and the next step refuses to reveal itself. This episode explores why that phase is not a personal failure or loss of purpose, but a predictable psychological and energetic stage that often appears right before meaningful change.

Emily introduces the “Empty Room” archetype — a season where movement pauses and the mind searches for direction. High-achieving leaders, caregivers, and entrepreneurs often experience this period as anxiety, impatience, or the urge to force decisions. The body, however, is often signaling a different need: integration, learning, and recalibration. Understanding that difference can prevent impulsive career moves, business pivots, and relationship decisions made from pressure rather than readiness.

The conversation connects burnout to urgency culture. When someone is used to producing results quickly, stillness can feel threatening. That internal pressure often leads to overworking, people-pleasing, and abandoning long-term goals just to escape discomfort. This episode explains how cyclical living, seasonal awareness, and archetypal work help people recognize when they are gathering information versus when they are meant to act.

You will also hear how rest, spaciousness, and uncertainty can be functional parts of growth. The Empty Room is presented as a preparation phase where skills, identity, and direction reorganize beneath the surface. Learning how to stay grounded during that stage allows clearer decisions, steadier leadership, and sustainable impact in work, family, and creative life.

Key Takeaways

• Feeling stuck in life, business, or career is often a transition phase rather than a loss of purpose

• High achievers tend to force decisions during uncertainty, which commonly leads to burnout or misaligned commitments

• The body registers change earlier than the mind, and signals like restlessness, fatigue, and impatience often appear before clarity

• Cyclical living helps distinguish between seasons for action and seasons for preparation

• Rushing through uncertainty frequently causes people to repeat the same lesson in a different form

• Rest and reduced output can support long-term productivity and creativity rather than undermine it

• Liminal periods allow identity shifts and direction changes to form without pressure

Key Moments / Chapters

Resources Mentioned

• The Wild Unknown Archetypes Deck — Kim Krans

• ROOTED Membership (Seasonal living community) – JOIN HERE WITH A 7 DAY FREE TRIAL

• Rise To Her Website – EXPLORE RISE TO HER

• Instagram – HANG OUT WITH EMILY ON INSTAGRAM

with Jo Giese

Episode Summary

Healing doesn’t always feel hopeful.
Sometimes it comes with grief, frustration, and the quiet realization that life will never look the way it once did.

In this episode of Rise To Her, Emily sits down with award-winning journalist and author Jo Giese to talk about what happens when your body forces you to slow down—and the version of life you loved is no longer accessible.

After a sudden injury left Jo unable to walk, she found herself navigating far more than physical recovery. This conversation explores identity loss, learning to accept help, redefining strength, and how to keep choosing joy without bypassing grief.

This episode is for anyone who is “doing better” on the outside, but still quietly mourning who they used to be.

In This Episode, We Talk About:

• What it means to heal while still grieving your old life

• How injury and loss can change your sense of identity

• Why healing isn’t linear—and why comparison can make it harder

• Learning to live at a different pace without giving up meaning

• The role of community when independence is taken away

• How Jo refused to accept a diminished version of her life

• Why walking, water, and nature became part of her recovery

• How to stay open to joy without denying pain

About Jo Giese

Jo Giese is an award-winning journalist, longtime radio host, and bestselling author whose work explores movement, meaning, and resilience. Her upcoming memoir, You’ll Never Walk Alone (releasing February 8, 2026), tells the story of a sudden Achilles injury that left her unable to walk—and the unexpected transformation that followed.

Jo has built a community of over 25,000 hikers, readers, and seekers who connect deeply with her grounded storytelling and lived wisdom.

Mentioned in This Episode

You’ll Never Walk Alone by Jo Giese

→ stay up to date + check out her other books, too!!

Jo Giese’s Website
→ check it out here

Follow Jo on Instagram
→ follow her IG here

Events & Resources from Emily & Rise To Her

Winter Solstice Workshop — Portland, OR (Dec 20)
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You can be healing and grieving at the same time.
You can move forward without pretending you’re the same person.
And you don’t have to do it alone.

If this episode resonated, share it with someone who’s quietly navigating their own in-between season—and take a walk today, even if it’s a slow one.

What happens when the life you worked so hard to build doesn’t actually make you happy? In this episode of Rise To Her, I sit down with Hilary DeCesare—international business coach, bestselling author, and creator of the neuroscience-driven 3HQ Method—to explore what it takes to relaunch your life and reconnect with your purpose.

Hilary shares her powerful story of leaving corporate success in Silicon Valley after facing divorce, illness, and burnout. She opens up about the exact moment she realized she had lost her spark—and how she rebuilt her life with alignment, joy, and soul-led success at the center.

Inside this conversation, Hilary walks me (and you) through her “Tune In” process, a simple but transformational 4-step practice that blends neuroscience, spirituality, and energy alignment. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, professional, or leader who feels like something’s missing, this episode will help you reframe your story and rise into a life that finally feels like yours.

✨ What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• How to know when it’s time to relaunch your life and career

• The neuroscience and spirituality behind Hilary’s 3HQ Method (head, heart, highest self)

• A practical 4-step “Tune In” process you can use daily to shift your energy and mindset

• Why vibration matters more than strategy when it comes to fulfillment and leadership

• How to move beyond burnout and rediscover the spark in your eyes

Resources & Links Mentioned:

• Learn more about Hilary & her upcoming event: Relaunch to a Rich Life 

• Hilary’s podcast: Relaunch to a Rich Life

• Connect with Hilary on Instagram: @hilarydecesare 

• Book: Relaunch: Spark Your Heart to Ignite Your Life

OTHER LINKS MENTIONED: 
Join me inside ROOTED  for live calls, seasonal workshops, and a community of soul-led leaders. Start your 7-day free trial today.

HANG OUT WITH ME ON INSTAGRAM

Through science-backed insight and somatic wisdom, she breaks down why emotions like grief, rage, and shame aren’t obstacles to success—but the sacred portal to it.

🔥 In this episode:

Why most high-achievers suppress emotions (and how it’s limiting their potential)

A raw story of navigating trauma, emotional numbness, and antidepressants

What happens when we feel safe to process rage, grief, and joy

The difference between being “mentally clear” and emotionally available

Why shame blocks abundance—and how speaking it breaks the spell

How to turn emotional energy into aligned leadership and intuitive action

💫 Plus: You’ll hear how Emily works somatically with clients to expand their capacity for intimacy, visibility, and soul-led purpose—and why anger, sadness, and tears might be the medicine you didn’t know you needed. This is your invitation to stop performing and start feeling. Because your emotions aren't the problem. They’re the path.

LINKS MENTIONED:

Dr. Justin – Embodiment Practitioner

M³ Portal - use the code RISE for 20% off your first purchase

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Energetic Business Consulting

Private Metorship for the Leader Who Ready to RECEIVE

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Emily Greenway, trauma-informed alignment coach and intuitive scientist, introduces The Experiment Theory—a powerful blend of neuroscience, energetic healing, and self-compassion. You'll learn how to shift from shame spirals and overthinking into a process of experimentation, data-gathering, and aligned action.

Whether you're navigating a relationship, rebuilding your morning routine, or questioning your entire career path… this approach will help you release pressure, tune into your intuition, and create a life that actually feels good.

What You’ll Learn:

• How to stop living in fear of “getting it wrong”

• Why shame shuts down your nervous system and intuition

• How to run your life like a compassionate scientist

• The 4-part “Experiment → Compassion → Adjust → Align” cycle

• Why self-trust is an act of resistance—and how to reclaim it

Journal Prompts from the Episode:

• What hypothesis am I holding right now about how life should be?

• What’s one small variable I can shift this week?

• Where have I been judging my outcome instead of collecting data?

Mentioned Inside the Episode:

•  Join ROOTED Membership [7 day FREE trial]

  • Inside ROOTED, we use my signature mind-body-intuition approach to help high-achievers reconnect with their inner wisdom and live in alignment with the cycles of the seasons.
    This is where you rewire burnout patterns, regulate your nervous system, and rebuild deep trust in your own timing—so you can stop second-guessing yourself, soften into your life, and finally feel grounded, clear, and whole.
    If you're craving a more intuitive, sustainable way of living and leading—ROOTED is for you.

• Portal of Joy Workshop

  • hosted inside of ROOTED membership, you will receive immediate access to an 8-week self-paced workshop designed to guide you through rewiring your brain and tapping into your most creative, joyful self. This is ideal for leaders, creatives, and deep-thinkers who have been stuck in their head for too long and are ready to quantum leap their ability to expereince JOY and CREATE magic in the next 2 months. 

• Book: The Alter Ego Effect by Todd Herman

Key topics covered include:

• Understanding Triggers: What they are and why they surface.
• Nervous System Regulation: How to calm your body and mind in the face of triggers.
• Transforming Fear into Growth: Practical steps to move through triggers with compassion and awareness.
• Rewiring Old Stories: How to identify and shift limiting beliefs that keep you stuck.
• The Power of Conscious Choice: Using your triggers as information to protect and empower yourself.

This episode is a must-listen for high-achieving women who often feel overwhelmed by their emotional responses and want to reclaim their power. Tune in to learn how to easily navigate your triggers, transform your mindset, and rise to your highest potential. 

Show Links: 

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Archetype of the Week Series

What if the discomfort you’ve been feeling isn’t a problem… but an invitation?

In this first Archetype of the Week episode, Emily introduces The Pilgrim — the archetype of the seeker, the one who senses there is more available in life and is willing to walk toward it without needing the full plan first.

This episode is about going beyond the story you’ve built about who you are and beginning a conscious relationship with your life. Not chasing success. Not performing purpose. But participating in a conversation with it.

Many leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals feel exhausted not because they’re doing too much — but because they’re living out of roles that were never actually theirs.

The Pilgrim appears when you’re being asked to:
• question your current path
• release identities you’ve outgrown
• reconnect to your inner knowing
• and begin making decisions differently

You may not have clarity yet — but the pull you feel is real.

This archetype helps you understand why the “in-between” stage of life feels so uncomfortable… and why it’s actually the stage where your direction becomes visible.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What archetypal living is and why it breaks repetitive life cycles

• Why high-functioning burnout often comes from living a fixed identity

• The real meaning of a pilgrimage (and why it applies to careers, business, and relationships)

• How to recognize intuitive guidance vs fear-based decision making

• Why boredom, restlessness, or distraction often signal a misaligned path

• The importance of curiosity in discovering purpose

• How to audit your time, energy, and attention to realign your life

• Why the “destination” mindset keeps people disconnected from their actual life

• What to release to move forward

Signs the Pilgrim Archetype is active in your life

You may be in this archetype if you:

• feel a pull toward change but can’t explain why

• feel disconnected from your current success

• keep revisiting the same ideas, interests, or callings

• feel bored with routines that used to work

• are questioning your career or direction

• feel you are meant for something different but unclear what

The Pilgrim doesn’t appear to give answers.
It appears to change how you relate to your life.

This week’s practice

Create quiet space.

Observe:
• Where am I acting from fear?
• Where do I already know the next step but keep delaying?
• What keeps asking for my attention?

Follow one small curiosity this week — not to achieve something, but to listen.

Resources mentioned

Soul-Aligned Values Workshop
→ Discover your personal decision-making framework and direction
(Linked in episode)

ROOTED Membership (7-day free trial)
→ Practices, rituals, and integration prompts for applying the archetype in real life

About the Archetype of the Week series

Each week, Emily pulls an archetype card and teaches how to apply the energy in work, business, leadership, and personal life. The goal is to move beyond identity roles and into conscious participation with your life direction.

About the show

Rise To Her is a podcast for purpose-driven leaders, professionals, and creatives who want to reconnect with their inner guidance and make decisions that reflect who they actually are — not just who they’ve learned to be.

Hosted by Emily Greenway, trauma-informed alignment coach and spiritual psychology educator, the show blends psychological understanding with spiritual awareness to help you build a life and career you can fully inhabit.

In this conversation, Emily sits down with conscious entrepreneur and author Kris Land — a veteran CEO who founded 12 technology companies, led multiple exits and an IPO, and then found himself in a depression after achieving success at just 17 years old. That moment led him into a decades-long search for meaning that eventually became his book The Infinity Within.

Rather than rejecting the material world, Kris explores a deeper question: what if life itself is an experience the soul chose? Together, Emily and Kris discuss soul contracts, fear, purpose, and why high-achievers often hit a wall after external success. They explore the idea that discomfort, confusion, and even anxiety may be signals guiding us back toward alignment rather than signs that something is wrong.

You’ll hear a grounded spiritual perspective that connects leadership, entrepreneurship, and inner work — including why fear can function as a guidepost, how curiosity dissolves doubt, and how redefining success changes the way you move through your career, relationships, and decisions.

If you’ve ever felt successful on paper but unsettled inside, this conversation will likely land deeply.

Key Takeaways

• Reaching external goals does not automatically create meaning — purpose requires participation, not achievement.

• Fear often acts as guidance; it can point toward growth rather than danger.

• Curiosity interrupts anxiety and helps uncover the belief patterns underneath it.

• The “soul contract” concept reframes life events as learning experiences instead of personal failures.

• Doubt weakens intuition; examining doubts restores personal agency.

• Life transitions and identity crises often happen when a person’s outer life no longer matches their inner direction.

• Alignment comes from how you live daily, not from one big life decision.

Key Moments / Chapters

Timestamp Topic Summary 00:03:20 Early Success & Depression Kris shares selling a company at 17 and why success triggered a crisis. 00:08:40 The Void After Achievement Why high achievers often feel lost after reaching major goals. 00:14:10 Coincidences & Synchronicity Encounters with strangers that changed his spiritual understanding. 00:18:15 Awakening & Discomfort How questioning reality begins a spiritual shift. 00:21:00 What Is a Soul? A philosophical discussion on the existence and purpose of the soul. 00:26:45 The “Game of Earth” Kris explains his model of life as an experiential learning process. 00:31:30 Why Life Feels Unequal Addressing why some lives appear easier than others. 00:37:00 Fear as a Signal Using fear and anxiety as indicators rather than obstacles. 00:39:20 Practical Inner Work How curiosity dissolves doubt and restores clarity. 00:42:00 Money, Power & Purpose Reframing success, wealth, and leadership.

Resources Mentioned

• Kris Land — The Infinity Within (book)

• Kris Land website: https://krisland.com ]

• Kris Land Publishing & Work

• Emily Greenway — ROOTED Membership: 7 day free trial

• Rise To Her Instagram

Listener Reflection

While listening, consider:

• Where have I achieved something but still felt unsettled?

• What fear am I currently avoiding?

• What if my discomfort is information rather than failure?

• Where might curiosity open a door I’ve been trying to force?

Invitation

If this conversation resonated, you’ll likely appreciate the deeper integration work happening inside ROOTED, where we apply these ideas in real life — leadership, relationships, and daily decision-making.

You can explore ROOTED here: try out ROOTED with a 7 day free trial

In this powerful conversation, Emily Greenway is joined by Kathryn Spears, NeuroSomatic Intelligence Practitioner and Director of Communications at NeuroSomatic Intelligence, to explore what’s really keeping high-achieving women in cycles of burnout, dysregulation, and internal sabotage—even after years of healing.

Together, we unpack:

• What dissociation actually looks like in high performers (and why most don’t know they’re doing it)

• Why affirmations, journaling, and mindset work aren’t enough without nervous system integration

• The filtration system that shapes every thought, response, and reaction you have

• How ancestral trauma is stored—and why you might be running old patterns that aren’t even yours

• The difference between coping and true embodiment (and how to make the shift)

• What it really means to “upgrade your software” so you stop looping and start living fully

This episode is science meets soul. Strategy meets surrender. It’s for the one who’s done everything “right”... and is finally ready to feel whole.

🌿 Resources + Links:

✨ Connect with Kathryn Spears
Instagram → Connect with Kathryn on Instagram
Website → Check Out Kathryn's Website 

Take the Subconscious Saboteur Quiz → HERE

✨ Join M³: Mindset, Magic & Manifestation
Your portal for intuitive success, nervous system regulation, and aligned embodiment → Click here to get started with a 7 day free trial PLUS use code RISE for 15% off your first month

✨ Let’s connect
Follow Emily on IG → @risetoher
Learn more + explore free resources → Check Out Rise To Her

This conversation blends science, soul, and strategy to explore:

• Why mindset work alone won’t shift your reality

• How spiritual practices can backfire without nervous system regulation

• The science behind why your brain keeps looping you into the same fear (RAS, negativity bias, confirmation bias)

• Why burnout isn’t about weakness — it’s a signal from your system

• The 3-part blueprint to shift your state and actually feel safe receiving what you desire

We’re not meant to perform alignment.
We’re meant to embody it — fully, deeply, with love for our humanity.

Plus, I walk you through what’s inside The Portal of Joy (now open inside the M³ Membership), and why it’s your summer invitation to remember joy as a nervous system-safe state.

Mentioned in this episode:
✨ M³ Membership (7-Day Free Trial)
✨ Burnout to Balance: Free Mini-Course
✨ The Portal of Joy Summer Workshop
✨ Instagram: @risetoher

Use code RISE at checkout for 15% off your first month in M³ [plus snag a 7 day free trial].

In this episode, Emily dives into one of the most common questions she hears from high-functioning, heart-led humans:
“Why do I feel guilty for wanting more? And does that mean I’m ungrateful?”

If you’ve ever questioned your own dissatisfaction or felt ashamed for desiring a life that feels more true, this conversation is for you.

Emily breaks down:

• Why guilt around desire is rooted in societal and generational conditioning

• How over-functioning is praised while ease is judged

• The difference between core needs and soul-aligned values — and why confusing the two keeps you stuck

• Why your nervous system needs safety before you can access clarity

• How to begin moving out of shame and into aligned, meaningful action

This isn’t about fixing your mindset.
It’s about understanding yourself more deeply — so you can finally build a life that feels like yours.

🔗 Mentioned in This Episode:

• Learn more about ROOTED, Emily’s signature membership for high-achieving humans ready to reconnect to themselves and rebuild a life that feels like theirs:
  🌿 Join ROOTED + Get Your 7-Day Free Trial »

• Connect with Emily on Instagram: @risetoher
  DM her what resonated or share this episode with a friend.

🎧 Listen + Subscribe:

If this episode moved something in you, inspired a new thought, or reminded you you’re not alone — be sure to subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who’s walking this same path.

Until next time —
Trust yourself.
Honor your rhythm.
Keep rising.

In today’s episode, I’m sharing one of the most personal stories of my life — a journey through coming out, calling off a marriage, surviving toxic cycles, and finally choosing myself from the inside out.

This isn’t just a story about pain — it’s a story about reclamation.
It’s about rooting into leadership that rises from embodied self-trust, not survival.

If you’ve ever found yourself waiting for validation, outsourcing your worth, or wondering if healing only comes when someone else changes — this conversation is for you.

We’ll walk through:

• How to recognize when you're outsourcing your safety or leadership

• How survival patterns shape your nervous system

• Why nervous system regulation and community are non-negotiable

• The three stages of real transformation: Awareness, Awakening, and Reclamation

• How to root deeper into self-trust — without burning your life down

You were never meant to perform your healing.
You were meant to embody your wholeness.

Your life doesn’t begin when someone else chooses you.
It begins when you choose yourself.

Reflection Questions to Journal:

1. Where in my life am I still waiting to be saved, chosen, or validated?

2. Where might I be outsourcing my leadership, intuition, or sense of worth?

3. How does my nervous system currently feel? (Calm, overwhelmed, frozen?)

4. What would radical responsibility look like for me today — in small, tangible ways?

Resources Mentioned:

• Join M³: The Membership Portal for Rooted Expansion and Leadership
  (Blending science, spirituality, and community to sustain your soul’s work)
  👉 [JOIN THE PORTAL]

• Check out The Pattern Disruptor
  (60-minute energetic intensive + 5 days of pocket coaching to collapse your stuck patterns)
  👉 [GRAB IT BEFORE IT'S GONE]

• Connect with me on Instagram → HANG OUT WITH ME HERE

Special Offer for Podcast Listeners:

Use code RISE at checkout for 15% off your first month inside the M³ Portal 🌿

Episode Trigger Warning:
This episode briefly discusses emotional abuse and toxic relationships in a healing and empowering context.
Please care for your heart as you listen.

Join Emily Greenway, certified mindfulness and life coach, as she shatters the three biggest lies women are told about success. In this powerful episode of the Rise to Her podcast, we dive deep into the societal pressures rooted in capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy that keep women trapped in unfulfilling lives. Discover how to break free from these toxic narratives, redefine success on your own terms, and embrace a life of ease, joy, and alignment. Whether you're struggling with work-life balance, feeling overwhelmed by the demands of modern success, or simply seeking a more authentic path, this episode is your guide to rising above and thriving. Plus, learn about Emily's upcoming masterclasses designed to empower high-achieving women to live their best lives.

Show Links: 

Aligned Abundance FREE Masterclass

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• the supportive intimate community every high-performing woman needs to create a life of success that she ACTUALLY wants to live - that is soul defined for her and by her - creating the most abundant and effortlessly FUN life you could imagine

In this episode of the Rise to Her podcast, host Emily Greenway explores the complex relationship between ego and emotions in leadership. Drawing from her personal experiences and coaching expertise, Emily breaks down how high-achieving women often suppress their emotions to meet societal expectations, which leads to burnout and disconnection. She delves into why embracing emotions is key to authentic leadership and personal fulfillment.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Emily’s personal journey of balancing ambition with emotional vulnerability
• The societal conditioning that teaches women to suppress emotions and how it impacts leadership
• Why unprocessed emotions create physical and emotional blocks, and how to release them
• The role of the ego in preventing emotional expression and how to overcome it
• Four practical steps to emotional freedom that lead to healthier relationships and stronger leadership
• How fully feeling emotions allows women to rise to their highest selves and align with their soul’s purpose

Don't miss this powerful episode as Emily reveals the hidden strength in emotional intelligence and offers practical tools for embracing your full emotional spectrum. Subscribe to Rise to Her for more empowering insights into healing, leadership, and creating a life of alignment.

Links Mentioned:

• Join the Grind Culture Rebellion LIVE Challenge
• Hang Out With Emily from Rise to Her on Instagram
• Join the Aligned Ambition Priority Waitlist
• Get Access to the FREE Community Healing Circle Replay

You’ll learn how hypnotherapy bridges the gap between what we consciously want and what our subconscious believes to be safe. Together, they dive into how creating safety in the body unlocks sustainable transformation—without more pushing, forcing, or striving.

YOU’LL HEAR ABOUT:
• Why mindset and motivation aren’t enough for lasting change
• The link between your nervous system and subconscious patterns
• How hypnosis rewires beliefs for calm, confidence, and clarity
• Why rest and safety are the foundation of true productivity
• Simple ways to anchor new beliefs in your day-to-day life

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Why awareness isn’t enough to change
03:00 – What’s bringing Christina joy right now
07:00 – Her journey from corporate success to healing work
11:00 – Why high-achievers struggle to slow down
18:00 – What actually happens in hypnosis
24:00 – How your brain resists change even when you want it
29:00 – Creating safety as the foundation for transformation
34:00 – Integrating subconscious shifts into daily life
38:00 – Rest as a gateway to clarity and creativity
40:00 – Where to find Christina and connect

CONNECT WITH CHRISTINA
Website: christinalwoods.com 

Next Level You: https://christinalwoods.com/nextlevelyou/
Instagram: @christina.lwoods 

CONNECT WITH EMILY
Instagram: @risetoher 
More resources: risetoher.com 

Join ROOTED (7 day free trial)

What You’ll Learn:

• How to identify the self-limiting beliefs holding you back
• The power of curiosity in healing from trauma and past relationships
• Strategies for navigating your career with intention and authenticity
• The role of conscious questioning in creating a life that feels both successful and meaningful

Whether you’re a woman entrepreneur, professional, or someone on a journey of self-discovery, this episode will equip you with the tools to ask the right questions and reclaim control over your life.

Show Links:

Aligned Ambition Priority List

Join Rise To Her on Instagram

In this episode of the Rise to Her podcast, host Emily Greenway sits down with Vanessa, a certified emotion code, body code, belief code, and Integrated Quantum Therapy practitioner, to explore the transformative world of energy healing. Vanessa shares her personal journey from battling chronic illness to becoming a healer, using her extensive training to help others unlock their innate healing potential.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Vanessa's powerful healing journey from being bedridden to thriving through energy healing
• The basics of emotion code, body code, and belief code healing methods
• What Integrated Quantum Therapy (IQT) is and how it helps address physical, emotional, and energetic blocks
• The role of love consciousness in Vanessa’s work and how it can lead to deep personal transformation
• How energy healing goes beyond traditional talk therapy by tapping into the subconscious mind, past lives, and ancestral trauma
• Practical insights into how energetic muscle testing works and how it can reveal hidden stories within your energy field
• Why healing is a continuous journey and how love can be the key to unlocking lasting peace and cohesion in your life

Don’t miss this insightful episode as we dive deep into the power of energy healing and how it can help you reclaim your health, love, and peace. Subscribe to Rise to Her for more inspiring conversations on healing, empowerment, and rising to your highest self!

Links Mentioned: 

Work with Vanessa/Explore Her Offerings

Join Vanessa on Instagram

Join the Grind Culture Rebellion LIVE Challenge

Hang Out With Emily from Rise To Her on Instagram

Key Topics Covered:

• Understanding and embracing your Dharma
• Overcoming trauma to live a purpose-driven life
• Practical steps to reconnect with your intuition
• How to navigate life’s challenges with resilience and grace
• Realigning your life with your core values and dreams

Perfect for women entrepreneurs, professionals, and those on a personal growth journey looking to thrive in both life and career.

Links Mentioned:

Unlock Your Big YES with Emily Perry -> Unbound Purpose Priority List

Follow Emily Perry on Instagram

Listen To Emily's Podcast: Rock Your Purpose

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We cover:

🔥 Why vulnerability is actually a leadership skill (and how to cultivate it)

🔥 How Kelsey balanced business, motherhood, and healing from cancer without losing herself

🔥 The shift from grind culture to embodied leadership—and how to bring more ease into your success

🔥 Why embracing suffering (instead of resisting it) creates more joy, clarity, and alignment

🔥 How vulnerability helps build confidence, connection, and deeper personal power

About Kelsey: Kelsey is the founder of Get Wild Retreats, a transformational yoga and adventure retreat experience designed to cultivate connection, healing, and personal expansion. She also runs a 200-hour yoga teacher training and is dedicated to leading women back to their most authentic, wild selves—both on and off the mat.

Resources to Support You:

🌿 Join M³ Membership: The most high-touch, accessible coaching for spiritually seeking high-achievers who are ready to redefine success on their terms. Access live coaching, the Integration Vault, and the Mindful Mornings Formula inside M³! → [Join here]

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💬 Let’s chat on Instagram! Tag @risetoher with your biggest takeaway and let’s keep the conversation going.

Key topics covered include:

• Healing through Somatics: Understanding how stored emotions like anger and trauma manifest physically and how releasing them helps women break free from people-pleasing and anxiety.
• The Power of Anger: How to safely access, process, and channel anger into personal empowerment and leadership.
• Navigating Emotional Numbness: Why many women feel disconnected or numb and the steps to re-establish emotional awareness and body connection.
• Breaking Through Burnout: Tools to release exhaustion and overwhelm, helping women rediscover their energy and purpose.
• Cultural Transitions and Identity: Rosa’s personal story of moving from Iran to the U.S. and Canada and how cultural shifts shaped her work with women in healing and leadership.

Whether you're feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or yearning to reclaim your voice and step into authentic leadership, this episode provides deep insights and practical tools to support your journey.

Links Mentioned: 

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The Vow asks a confronting question: What is your life actually organized around?

Not what you want.
Not what you post.
Not what you say matters.

Your behaviors already reveal your commitment.

In this episode, Emily explores how every person lives inside a vow — sometimes chosen consciously, sometimes created by old pain, fear, or expectations. The patterns you repeat, the responsibilities you hold, and the things you tolerate are not random. They form the structure your life follows.

You’ll hear how internal promises shape your relationships, work, leadership, and capacity to make impact — and why breaking cycles isn’t about motivation but about changing what you’re devoted to.

The Vow archetype moves beyond personal healing into lived impact. When your word becomes reliable to yourself, your leadership becomes clear to others.

This episode also explores:

• unconscious commitments that create burnout

• how identity shapes behavior

• why transitions need ritual and witnessing

• renewing purpose without perfection

• how community stabilizes growth

The invitation this week is not to become someone new — but to consciously choose what you stand for and live accordingly.

Inside This Episode

• The hidden vows shaping your life

• Why you keep repeating certain patterns

• The link between self-trust and leadership

• Shame vs recommitment

• How to consciously choose your direction

• The role of community in lasting change

Mentioned in this episode

ROOTED Membership
A weekly integration space to live the archetypes through real decisions, boundaries, leadership, and daily rhythms. Includes guided practices, workshops on soul-aligned values, and community support.

Experience a 7 day free trial here.

Description:

In Episode 37, we explore how seasonal spiritual living becomes a powerful pathway to deeper purpose, holistic healing, and soulful leadership. Far from escaping life, we learn how to root into it—honoring ritual, rhythm, and meaning as the sacred undercurrents that awaken resilience, intuition, and creativity.

Through guided reflections, lived examples, and embodied teaching, you'll discover:

• The difference between habits and rituals—and how rituals anchor meaning in the mundane.

• How rhythms, especially seasonal cycles, can restore us like a living song.

• The role of the vagus nerve in shifting from survival to intuition, and how seasonal flow regulates the body and soul.

• Why spiritual living isn’t bypassing but a radical act of presence—offering healing and leadership from a place of integrity.

• A loving invitation into ROOTED, your intentional container for seasonal living, spiritual expansion, and community.

Why You’ll Love This Episode

• It’s embodied, not abstract—you’ll feel held by language that honors the body, seasons, and soul.

• It’s a practical guide, not just inspiration: you’ll understand how to transform habits into rituals and align with seasons for emotional regulation.

• It’s deeply relevant for leaders who want to show up from integrity rather than burnout.

• You’ll walk away with tools that serve your mind, body, and spirit—not just another concept to consume.

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• Join ROOTED → JOIN HERE WITH 7 DAYS FREE

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What if the voice that keeps telling you you’re not enough is actually just a story you picked up years ago — and you’ve been proving it right ever since?

In this conversation, Emily sits down with Karen Bartholomew, founder of the Pause Method, to explore how high-achievers and leaders can shift out of fear, people-pleasing, and survival strategies — and step into safety, clarity, and their most authentic leadership.

Karen shares her personal journey of transformation, why nervous system regulation is the foundation of sustainable success, and how the lies we tell ourselves keep us in cycles of exhaustion. Together, we explore how to slow down, reframe old stories, and reclaim the truth of being already worthy.

Inside this episode:

✨ The Pause Method and how it helps leaders reconnect to clarity and truth
✨ Why fear is just your imagination recycling the past
✨ The real cost of people-pleasing and overperforming
✨ How anger can be a holy emotion that shows us our boundaries
✨ Karen’s story of breaking free from the “not enough” pattern — and what it unlocked in her leadership
✨ What happens inside her Sanctum retreats and workshops

Resources & Links Mentioned:

• Connect with Karen on Instagram →connect here

• Learn more about Sanctum & upcoming workshops 

• Visit Karen’s website →check it out here

Connect with Emily

✨ Instagram → @risetoher 
✨ Join ROOTED: your community for turning success into soul-aligned impact, without the burnout.
✨ Website → risetoher.com

In today’s episode of Rise to Her, Emily breaks down a powerful, trauma-informed framework to help you separate emotion from intuition, especially when everything feels jumbled inside your body.

We explore:

• Why high-achievers often mistake urgency for intuitive clarity

• The neuroscience of emotional overwhelm and what it’s really trying to show you

• How to build emotional safety so your inner wisdom can finally speak

• The exact questions to ask when you're stuck in a cycle of doubt or decision paralysis

• And a powerful spiritual reframe to help you trust what’s real

Whether you’re a purpose-led professional, a soulful creator, or a leader navigating change—you’ll leave this episode feeling more grounded in your truth, more trusting of your body, and more equipped to rise with intention.

This is the conversation every high-functioning woman, healer, or visionary needs when emotion feels too loud to hear your soul.

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

• 🎧 Free Meditation – Click here to receive a powerful, guided practice that helps you separate emotion from intuition and come back to your inner truth.

• 💫 Join M³ – Our monthly membership for purpose-driven leaders and intuitives. Get instant access to a vault of somatic meditations, moon rituals, and live group calls: Learn More

If this episode spoke to your soul…

Please share it with a friend, leave a 5-star review, and tag @risetoher on Instagram so we can spread this ripple of embodied leadership far and wide.

You'll also learn:

• How negative self-talk creates a self-fulfilling prophecy
• Why the brain thrives on "time-bound" experiences
• A simple experiment to become aware of your self-talk 

Episode Links: 

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Plus: real talk on nervous system regulation, hustle culture, and how to become the kind of leader who creates regenerative results — not just output.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• What’s the real difference between instinct and intuition?

• How does trauma or childhood conditioning influence instinctual patterns?

• Why honoring your humanity is foundational to leadership

• How hustle culture overrides intuitive living — and what to do about it

• Polyvagal theory + nervous system science behind intuitive clarity

• Personal stories about breathwork, big life changes, and following the "illogical yes"

• 5 steps to reconnect with your intuition right now

• The difference between core needs vs. soul-aligned values (and how to spot the difference)

• Why intuitive living is the antidote to leadership burnout

🔗 Links & Resources Mentioned:

• 🔗 Join Rooted Membership: www.risetoher.com/rooted (7-Day Free Trial)

• 🔗 Soul & Values Workshop: found inside of the ROOTED Membership

• 🔗 Instagram: @risetoher

   

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• Instagram → @risetoher

• Website → www.risetoher.com

• Questions, comments, or feedback? DM or email emily@risetoher.com

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If you find yourself stuck in cycles of stress and overwhelm, even when you know better, this episode is for you. In Episode 22 of Rise to Her, Emily unpacks the deeper layers of stress—going beyond time management and self-care to uncover the subconscious patterns that keep you in survival mode. Learn how past experiences, nervous system responses, and hidden beliefs are shaping your daily stress levels, and discover actionable ways to shift from reactive stress to intentional calm.

What You'll Learn:

• How your nervous system is wired to react to stress—and how to reprogram it
• The role of subconscious conditioning in chronic overwhelm
• Why certain stress relief techniques may not work for you (and what to try instead)
• A practical framework to identify and release stress-based habits
• How to create a sustainable relationship with rest, productivity, and success

Featured in This Episode:

Explore the M³ Membership (Mindset, Magic, and Manifestation)—a space designed to help you integrate healing practices into your everyday life. With bi-monthly coaching calls, a supportive community, and an integration vault of meditations and breathwork, M³ helps you move from burnout to balance. Join M³ Membership

Take Action:

• Reflect on a stress pattern you’ve noticed in your life. What belief might be driving it?
• DM Emily on Instagram @risetoher with your biggest insight from today’s episode!

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• Join M³ Membership
• Follow Emily on Instagram: @risetoher
• Subscribe to Rise to Her on YouTube

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• Website: www.risetoher.com

High-achievers are masters at gaslighting themselves—downplaying exhaustion, ignoring their own needs, and pushing through when every sign is telling them to stop. And I know this pattern firsthand. In a session with my coach, I found myself asking, “Am I just making this up in my head?” And she called it out immediately—I wasn’t making it up. I was gaslighting myself.

In today’s episode, we’re breaking down:
🔥 Why high-achievers override their own truth & how it’s keeping you stuck
🔥 The 5 biggest ways leaders gaslight themselves (and don’t even realize it)
🔥 How this leads to burnout, misalignment, and constant second-guessing
🔥 The shift: How to step back into self-trust, alignment, and intuitive leadership

Because let’s be real—the world doesn’t need more burnt-out, high-performing leaders. It needs more deeply aligned, spiritually aware, and soul-led visionaries. And that starts with quitting the self-gaslighting cycle now.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✅ The exact thought patterns keeping high-achievers stuck in burnout
✅ Why overriding your intuition with logic is slowing down your success
✅ How to identify and break the gaslighting cycle in your own life
✅ Simple but powerful shifts to realign with your highest self

Resources to Support You:

🌿 Join M³: The High-Achiever’s Portal for Soulful Success
If you’re tired of performing success and ready to actually feel it, M³ is for you. Get access to:
     ✨ The Integration Vault – Breathwork, nervous system resets, and subconscious rewiring tools to shift            patterns at the root
     ✨ Live Bi-Weekly Coaching Calls – High-touch mentorship for real-time breakthroughs
     ✨ Healing Workshops & Trainings – Bridging science + spirituality for deep transformation
     ✨ Moon Magic Meditations – Unlock your intuitive power & start working with your natural rhythms
     ✨ Exclusive WhatsApp Community Access – Where I share intuitive downloads, feedback, and real-time guidance

🔥 Podcast-Exclusive Offer: Use code RISE for 15% off your first month inside the portal! Join here → [M³ Membership Link]

🎧 Listen to the full episode & tag me on IG (@risetoher) with your biggest takeaway!

We break down:

Why your brain literally can’t access clarity when you’re triggered 

How bilateral stimulation supports nervous system safety

5 trauma-informed tools to stop spiraling and start receiving intuitive insight

The surprising truth about why creativity + alignment can’t happen in stress mode

How to get out of your head and back into your body to make soul-aligned decisions

✨ This is your invitation to pause, breathe, and hear yourself again.

Want support on this journey? Inside the Rooted Membership, you’ll get access to: Live coaching calls Seasonal workshops like Portal of Joy 🌞 A private WhatsApp support space Weekly prompts to build intuitive, grounded routines Meditations, somatic tools + more 🌀

Try it FREE for 7 days: [Join HERE free]

📲 Connect on IG: @risetoher 

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This episode is a love letter to every high-achiever, leader, and heart-led soul who’s been carrying too much… emotionally, mentally, energetically. Whether it's the weight of the world, personal grief, burnout, or simply the pressure to "keep it all together"—this is your reminder that you’re allowed to put it down.

Join Emily as she shares a raw, heartfelt conversation about:
💔 Why so many purpose-driven leaders are feeling overwhelmed right now
💡 How hustle culture, spiritual bypassing, and toxic positivity are keeping you stuck in performance mode
✨ What it really means to rise into your highest self (hint: it’s not about being "high vibe" 24/7)
🌿 How to honor your emotions without feeling like you’re falling behind
🤝 The power of community, grace, and learning to receive support when your capacity is full

This isn’t just a podcast—it’s a safe space to exhale, to feel seen, and to remember that being human IS part of the healing.

If you’ve been craving permission to rest, to release, and to stop performing strength—this episode is for you.

What You’ll Walk Away With:
✔️ How to stop gaslighting yourself when things feel heavy
✔️ Practical ways to "put it down" without guilt
✔️ Why real leadership includes honoring your emotional cycles
✔️ A reminder that healing isn’t linear—and you’re not doing it wrong

Resources & Links:
🌙 Join M³ — The Portal for Soul-Led Leaders
Step into a community where you don’t have to hold it all alone. Access live coaching, nervous system resets, healing workshops, and the Integration Vault designed to support you when life feels heavy AND when you're ready to rise.
🎁 Use code RISE for 15% off your first month → [Join Here]

📲 Connect with Emily on Instagram: @risetoher
💌 DM me if this episode resonated—I’d love to hold space for what’s coming up for you.

This week’s archetype reading explores The Queen — and the moment many high-capacity humans find themselves in when life begins to feel like it is all resting on their shoulders.

Many thoughtful leaders, helpers, and builders have been conditioned to believe that being capable means being responsible for everything. Over time that pressure can turn into overextension, exhaustion, and the quiet belief that if you don’t hold everything together, things will fall apart.

The Queen archetype invites a different conversation.

True leadership is not about controlling everything around you. It is about how you govern your own life — your energy, your commitments, your boundaries, and the structures that support you.

In this reading we explore the difference between the shadow queen and the supported queen.

The shadow queen appears when someone is carrying responsibility without the systems or support needed to hold it. She becomes reactive, controlling, and exhausted.

The supported queen moves differently. She knows she is resourced. She builds her life with intention. She does not chase every demand placed on her energy.

This episode explores what it means to move from over-responsibility to self-leadership, and how learning to receive support changes the way we live, lead, and create impact.

You’ll also hear about the symbolic imagery that appeared in this reading — the lotus, snake, and ruby — ancient symbols connected to transformation, wisdom, and life force.

If you’ve been feeling like everything depends on you, this episode offers a moment to pause and reconsider how you are organizing the “kingdom” of your life.

In This Episode

• What the Queen archetype represents in personal leadership
• The difference between the shadow queen and the supported queen
• Why high-capacity people often feel responsible for everything
• How unsupported leadership leads to exhaustion
• The role of support systems and structure in sustainable leadership
• Why stillness and discernment matter when reorganizing your life
• The symbolism of the lotus, snake, and ruby in transformation

Resources Mentioned

ROOTED — Seasonal Living Membership

ROOTED is a space for spiritually curious humans who want a more intentional rhythm of living — one that supports their work, creativity, and intuition without losing themselves in the process.

Inside ROOTED you’ll explore:

• seasonal living practices
• soul contract work
• energetic leadership
• full moon gatherings
• coaching and integration prompts
• meditation and somatic practices

Try ROOTED free for 7 days:
https://risetoher.com/rooted 

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Cards used: Kim Krans Wild Unkown Archetypes

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Share it with someone who might need the reminder that leadership does not mean carrying everything alone.

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As we move through the winter solstice and toward a new year, many people feel a quiet weight—pressure to change, pressure to decide, pressure to be ready.

In this episode of Rise To Her, Emily explores a different way of approaching 2026. One rooted in collective energy, shared experience, and opportunity rather than force or urgency.

This conversation reflects on ancient seasonal wisdom, the power of shared rhythm, and how manifestation shifts when we stop carrying everything alone. Instead of goal-setting or pushing for clarity, this episode invites you to stay available to what’s already forming.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why winter has always been a season of gathering, rest, and shared survival

• How collective energy can support your vision instead of creating pressure

• The felt difference between obligation and opportunity

• Why manifestation becomes easier when support is allowed

• A softer way to approach 2026 without forcing answers

Journaling Prompts to Integrate This Episode

Take these prompts slowly. There’s no rush to answer them.

1.
When I remove urgency, expectations, and timelines from 2026, what do I start dreaming about instead?
What wants my attention when I let myself want something without needing to justify it?

2.
What am I currently carrying as if it’s mine to manage alone?
Where could shared energy, collaboration, or support make this feel lighter?

3.
When I imagine being supported—by timing, community, or something steady beyond my own effort—what direction feels easiest to lean toward right now?
What feels interesting without asking me to decide anything yet?

Links & Resources

→ Join ROOTED (Seasonal Living Membership): use code SOLSTICE for almost 50% off an entire year!

→ Winter Solstice Episode (Listen First or Pair With This One)

→ Connect on Instagram

→ Explore More at Rise To Her (and get my free 7-day mini course: Burnout to Balance)

If this episode resonated, share it with someone who’s been feeling the weight of the season. You don’t have to carry it alone.

The Winter Solstice has been honored for thousands of years as a turning point in the human relationship with time, energy, and survival. In this episode of Rise To Her, Emily explores what the solstice really represents, why our ancestors oriented their lives around it, and how these ancient teachings still apply to modern life.

We move through ancestral roots, Celtic and earth-based traditions, and the psychology of seasonal living—connecting ritual, rhythm, and soul-aligned values to the way we care for our energy today. This conversation invites you to slow down, tend what matters, and re-orient your life around intention rather than pressure.

You’ll also learn simple, practical solstice rituals you can do right now to release what no longer belongs, nourish your body, and anchor into the next cycle with clarity and steadiness.

In This Episode, We Explore:

• What the Winter Solstice is and why it has been honored across cultures
• Ancestral lineage, earth-based traditions, and seasonal rhythms
• The difference between core needs and soul-aligned values
• Why modern exhaustion comes from ignoring natural pauses
• The symbolism of fire, food, and the hearth in ancient solstice rituals
• The myth of the Holly King and Oak King and what it teaches about timing
• Three practical Winter Solstice rituals you can do at home
• How intentional slowing helps protect your energy for the next cycle

Featured Winter Solstice Rituals:

Fire as Release — safely burning what no longer belongs in this next season
Seasonal Nourishment — eating slowly, intentionally, and in season
Orientation Ritual — choosing a word to embody in the coming year

Resources & Links:

🌿 Join ROOTED at special Winter Solstice pricing
→ Join for less than $1/day or get full year access at 50% off
CODE: SOLSTICE FOR $20 off PER MONTH FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR

CODE: SOLSTICEYEAR for 50% off FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR OF ROOTED ACCESS

📍 Portland, OR – Live Winter Solstice Workshop (limited tickets)
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Share this episode with someone in your community and leave a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Your support helps this work reach those who are ready for it.

Key topics include:

• The role of emotional flexibility in daily life and how it helps process suppressed emotions like anger.
• The dangers of societal expectations that push women to suppress their emotions, leading to emotional burnout and physical ailments.

The healing power of embracing vulnerability and authenticity as acts of courage and rebellion against societal norms. Angela’s journey of blending science with spirituality, drawing from modalities like human design, somatic experiencing, and neurointerception. Unity consciousness and its role in fostering love, compassion, and global transformation through individual healing. Angela invites listeners to explore their innate power, break free from limiting beliefs, and embrace their unique journey of self-discovery and soul alignment.

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In this episode of Rise to Her, Emily Greenway unpacks the sociology of creeping normality—how small, unnoticed shifts can lead you far away from the life you actually want—and shares how to interrupt the pattern before burnout becomes your baseline.

You’ll learn:

• How creeping normality silently shapes your habits, relationships, and leadership

• Why your brain can become addicted to stress (and how to rewire it)

• The role of seasonal living in restoring your energy and creativity

• 3 reflection questions to realign with what matters most

Journaling Prompts from this Episode:

1. What season am I in personally, emotionally, and creatively?

2. Where has joy been trying to reach me—in my work, relationships, or hobbies—and how have I been blocking it?

3. What would change if I stopped chasing and started listening to myself?

Links & Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Join the Rooted Membership for leaders, doers, and creators ready to live and lead differently - using the earth wisdom of seaonal living and the power of psychological backed tool - you learn how to live and lead from the soul: explore ROOTED here

• Follow Emily on Instagram

If you’ve been feeling “off,” running on autopilot, or wondering where your spark went, this conversation is your invitation to come back home to yourself.

In this episode, Emily Greenway, MPH breaks down the hidden exhaustion many professionals, creatives, and entrepreneurs are experiencing right now — not from working harder, but from making too many decisions.

We are living in an accelerated world. Emails, content, AI tools, constant information, and nonstop opportunities are forcing the brain into continuous reaction mode. The result isn’t just stress. It’s cognitive overload and decision fatigue.

This conversation explores:
• why you feel mentally tired even when you’re productive
• how modern work environments keep people stuck in reaction mode
• why more strategies and productivity systems aren’t solving burnout
• what “self-leadership” actually means psychologically
• how internal guidance improves clarity and decision-making
• why timing matters more than effort
• how rituals and reflection improve mental processing

Emily also explains why the future advantage in leadership will not come from speed, output, or working harder — but from discernment and the ability to choose well.

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, scattered, constantly behind, or unsure what direction to take next, this episode will help you understand what’s actually happening in your brain and why pushing harder isn’t fixing it.

What You’ll Learn

• What decision fatigue actually is

• Why modern life creates constant mental pressure

• The psychology behind reaction mode living

• How information overload impacts clarity

• Why productivity doesn’t equal direction

• A practical framework for clearer choices

• How to regain mental focus and orientation

Resources & Links

Join the ROOTED membership (7 day free trial!)
https://risetoher.com/rooted 

Connect with Emily:
Instagram: @risetoher

Subscribe to the Rise To Her Youtube Channel

What unfolded over the next five days became a lesson in slowing down, listening to her body, and remembering the rhythms we belong to — not the ones we perform for.

Inside this episode, we explore:

• why your body speaks long before your mind does

• why rest, stillness, and emotional presence feel unsafe for so many high-capacity humans

• the medicine tradition of listening to sensation rather than symptom

• how cyclical living makes overwhelm easier to hold

• how to sit with discomfort without collapsing into it

• what my time with a local medicine woman unlocked in my own healing

• how shadow work fits into all of this (and why it’s not about digging for pain)

You’ll also hear the prompts we're working with this week — the same ones that are being offered to you.

Here are the prompts for you to explore: 

If you need a moment to breathe, to hear yourself again, or to let your body’s truth catch up with you… this is that moment.

Links Mentioned

ROOTED Membership (7-day free trial)
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Shadow Work Portal (inside ROOTED)
👉 JOIN HERE 

Join the 2026 LGBTQIA+ Wellness Bacalar Retreat Interest List
Email: emily@risetoher.com 

Follow on Instagram
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Connect with Chas on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xochasyoung/

Save your spot for a new FREE Healing Webinar with Emily: https://reclamationacademy.lpages.co/stt/