What if the moment you stop proving is the moment you finally feel at home in your own skin?

We sit down with embodiment and leadership coach Angélique van Eeuwen-Bos to explore how a life reorients when you trade overthinking for felt sense, and speed for presence. From childhood alienation and corporate burnout to a quiet, radical choice — sit in a café and do nothing — Angélique shares how slowing down opened a pathway to enoughness, clarity, and courageous action.

Across our conversation, we unpack the core of embodiment: emotions are not problems to fix but signals to follow. Angélique explains how conscious movement - with an arc of slowing down, listening within and surrendering to what emerges - helps release what the body stores; the tension, fear, grief, rage. Showing how breath can widen and the heart can soften. Instead of chasing a perpetual calm, we talk about meeting the darkness gently and consistently, letting the body change state in its own time. The payoff is practical: more capacity to navigate stress, fewer reactive loops, and choices anchored in values rather than approval. The practice is key.

Community becomes the amplifier. Angélique facilitates circles spanning multi cultures to face real topics—belonging, safety, microaggressions, polarisation—without collapsing into blame. We explore how witnessing in a non-judgemental space dissolves rigidity and grows empathy, and how rage, when honoured, reveals the fire of what we most care about. That fire becomes fuel for grounded leadership at home, at work, and in our wider communities.

We close with a belief that changes everything: we are not separate. Difference can be honoured without turning into better-than or less-than. When we meet heart to heart and body to body, enoughness stops being a destination and becomes a daily practice. If this conversation resonates, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs it, and leave a review to help others find their way back to themselves.

You can find out more about Angélique at https://www.road2authenticity.com/

You can connect with her on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/angeliquebos/

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