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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What if discomfort isn’t a threat to outrun but a compass to read?

We dive into the art of getting comfortable with the uncomfortable by reframing emotions as information and building the capacity to hold hard moments without breaking faith with ourselves. With guests Scott Plate, Alex Papworth, and Marie Dove, we bridge psychology and somatics to show how breath, attention, and incremental practice can turn raw edges into reliable strength.

We start with a simple shift that changes everything: emotions are signals, not sentences. When we drop the “good vs bad” label, we can hear what feeling is asking for and stop the pressure-cooker cycle of suppress and explode. From there we look at the body as a teacher. Core training becomes a living metaphor for inner stability: strengthening hurts at first, yet it gives you a centre that stands firm in high winds. Expectation and mindset shape experience too—when you meet challenge as practice rather than punishment, you create room to learn instead of brace.

Drawing on polyvagal insights, we explore why a spiking nervous system can be wisdom in disguise. A pause, a longer exhale, a hand on the belly—these micro-moves widen the window of tolerance and prevent the story from hijacking the state. We also tackle discernment in a noisy world: resisting false binaries, holding paradox, and letting intuition emerge when you’re not identified with a side. Growth then becomes humane: “fun comfortable” steps that respect the body’s pace, daily rituals that build trust, and the quiet courage to ask, Do I love myself enough to be awkward while I learn?

If you’re ready to swap avoidance for agency and build inner strength you can feel, press play. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs it, and leave a review to help more people find this conversation.

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What if the wisdom you’re searching for is already blooming through the cracks at your feet?

Lyn sits down with Ruth Green, a feminist pagan and community gardener, to trace a life lived in conversation with nature—from childhood days spent still among rabbits to leading a small, potent circle that honours the Wheel of the Year. Together we unpack how beauty becomes a practice, why wildflowers are not “weeds,” and how pollinators turn a garden into a living system that feeds both vegetables and the human spirit.

We travel through seasons with close attention: the race to solstice bloom, the first cut at Lammas, the waning that invites pruning and renewal. Ruth shares how this seasonal literacy shapes her inner life, offering a model for emotional regulation and recovery—when you’re cut back by criticism, give it time, step under trees, and trust regrowth. We also step into the Sacred Feminine not as abstraction but as embodied archetypes: warrior as devoted energy, protector and provider as everyday service, sovereignty as authorship of one’s life. These frames help redress the imbalance between masculine and feminine energies and invite a fuller expression of who we already are.

Along the way, we question tidy lawns and tidy lives, explore community harmony as ecosystem design, and name a cultural wound around sexuality that needs wiser education and genuine respect. What emerges is a grounded path back to enoughness: look closely, tend what matters, prune with care, and make room for wild resilience. Press play to feel more rooted, more sovereign, and more at home in your own skin—and if this conversation nourishes you, follow, share with a friend, and leave a review so others can find their way back to themselves too.

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