A year ago I held a mothers blessing ceremony in my home. One week later, I gave birth.

And what followed was the most profound identity dissolution of my life - one I had no language for, no framework to hold, and no amount of psychology training had prepared me for.

In this episode I'm going all the way in on the threshold of motherhood. Not the curated version. The real one - the one that peels you back to who you actually are beneath every role you've played and every version of yourself you've carefully constructed.

In this episode we cover:

— The identity dissolution that happens when you become a mother, and why it is not a crisis but the most ancient initiation a woman can pass through

— Why the lineage patterns you thought you'd healed come flooding back in pregnancy: the people pleasing, the fitting in, the keeping the peace, and why the timing makes complete biological and spiritual sense

— What it means to break the cycle: the healing you do now is not just for you, it is for the soul you are bringing in

— The real difference between mothering from wound and mothering from wholeness — not as a concept but as a nervous system state you can feel in your body on an ordinary Tuesday

— The tension of building a soul-led business while devoting yourself to raising a daughter consciously and presently — and the only compass that has never led me wrong

— Who I am, one year on from crossing that threshold. Unrecognisable. And not for a single second sorry for the dissolving that got me here.

This one is for the woman about to cross the threshold of birth. For the woman in early postpartum who is mid-dissolving and has no name for it yet. For the woman a year, two years, five years on — who is still becoming.

Your dissolving is not an ending. It is the beginning of building yourself from the ground up, with a wisdom, strength and crystal clarity that nothing else could have given you.

Let yourself dissolve. She is already there on the other side.

| Olivia Maxwell |

Olivia Maxwell is a former psychologist, EMDR practitioner, breathwork facilitator and Akashic Records practitioner based on Sydney's Northern Beaches. She works with people at the point where the old identity is no longer sustainable and something deeper is asking to emerge.

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Website | https://awakenedmbs.com.au/

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I was twenty-six years old, sitting in a park in Sydney with my journal, when I first heard my soul voice clearly. Not as a concept. As a felt experience - distinct from my thoughts, my conditioning, my fear.

In this episode I unpack what soul intelligence actually is and what it isn't, drawing on my own story of burning out in corporate mental health consultancy, leaving a secure salary, and hearing something land that sounded nothing like fear.

This episode explores:

• How to recognise your soul voice - and how it differs from your thoughts, your conditioning, and your nervous system's protective responses
• What reconnecting to the earth and the feminine actually felt like after years of living in my head - and what changed as a result
• What the Akashic Records are, why I resisted them as a psychologist, and what they surfaced that years of therapy never reached
• What soul alignment feels like on an ordinary day - not in a meditation, but in your body, in the grocery store, in a conversation

This is the part I was most afraid to publicly name. And the part that changed everything.

If you've ever felt a knowing that sounded nothing like your thoughts - this one is for you.

| Olivia Maxwell |

Olivia Maxwell is a former psychologist, EMDR practitioner, breathwork facilitator and Akashic Records practitioner based on Sydney's Northern Beaches. She works with people at the point where the old identity is no longer sustainable and something deeper is asking to emerge.

Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/awakened_mbs/

Website | https://awakenedmbs.com.au/

Learn more about Kangen Water | https://consciouswater.org/?a=rdx43

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If you have done years of personal development and still keep hitting the same wall - this episode is for you.

Not because something is wrong with you. Because something was handed to you before you had words for it.

In this minisode, I walk through five signs that the loop you keep experiencing is lineage trauma - not personal failure. And beneath each sign, what actually becomes possible when it finally releases from the body.

You will hear about:

• Why you absorb everyone's emotions and what changes when that wiring finally updates
• The nervous system pattern underneath working hard to earn your right to exist
• Why knowing the pattern intellectually never stops it - and what does
• The grief that feels bigger than your own story
• The role you were assigned before you could speak - and how it gets released

This is not about understanding your wounds better.

It is about feeling what life looks like on the other side of them.

Not transcendence. Presence. Your actual life - inhabited fully.

| Olivia Maxwell |

Olivia Maxwell is a former psychologist, EMDR practitioner, breathwork facilitator and Akashic Records practitioner based on Sydney's Northern Beaches. She works with people at the point where the old identity is no longer sustainable and something deeper is asking to emerge.

Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/awakened_mbs/

Website | https://awakenedmbs.com.au/

Learn more about Kangen Water | https://consciouswater.org/?a=rdx43

We have been sold a story about new beginnings. That they arrive with clarity, momentum, and a kind of electric aliveness that tells you - yes, this is it.

But more often, new beginnings feel like loss first.

Because every genuine new beginning requires the ending of something else. A relationship. A career. A version of yourself you have been performing for so long you mistook it for who you actually are. And endings - even the ones we choose, even the ones that are clearly right - involve grief.

In this minisode, Olivia explores why grief is not a sign you made the wrong choice but a sign the ending was real. She introduces the rite of passage framework - separation, the in-between, and arrival - and why the in-between is not the obstacle to your new beginning. It is where you are being remade.

If you are somewhere between who you were and who you are becoming, and it feels more like grief than excitement - this one is for you.

Rooted. Alive. Full out. ✦

| Olivia Maxwell |

Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/awakened_mbs/

Website | https://awakenedmbs.com.au/

In this minisode, Olivia gets honest about the loop she lived in for years - touching genuine bliss in meditation and returning to the same anxiety, the same inner critic, the same suffering every single time.

This episode names what nobody in the spiritual space wants to say out loud: that meditation without body safety can become its own form of escape. That going up and out can feel like healing while the nervous system stays stuck in the same patterns below.

Olivia shares why no amount of mental or spiritual practice alone can reach body safety and what finally changed when she stopped escaping and started inhabiting with the help of EMDR Therapy & somatic work such as Breathwork.

If you have done all the right things and still run the same loop - this episode is for you.

In this episode:

• The bliss above, suffering below loop - what it actually feels like from the inside
• Why meditation can reinforce dissociation rather than heal it
• What somatic work, EMDR and breathwork reach that meditation cannot
• The moment the bliss finally landed - in the body, in ordinary life
• Why the goal was never to stop meditating - it was to bring what you find there back into your body and live from it

| Olivia Maxwell |

Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/awakened_mbs/

Website | https://awakenedmbs.com.au/

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In this solo minisode, I share channelled guidance from my team of light and the collective field of the Peel the Onion community and the wider community at large.

We explore the momentum of change currently unfolding, and what it truly means to stay steady in your energy as life moves quickly around you.

This is a reminder that your power isn’t in controlling what’s happening - it’s in anchoring into your own frequency.

Stay grounded. Stay clear. Stay in what’s yours.

| Olivia Maxwell |

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Website | https://awakenedmbs.com.au/

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You don’t need to have it all figured out to move forward. This minisode is about life transitions, self-trust, and the power of choosing differently now - without certainty. A reflection on being guided into alignment while embracing both your humanity and your divinity.

| Olivia Maxwell |

Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/awakened_mbs/

Website | https://awakenedmbs.com.au/

Learn more about Kangen Water | https://consciouswater.org/?a=rdx43

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What happens when a woman is truly undisturbed in birth? Everything changes.

I’m joined by my own home birthing midwife Janine O'Brien, who is a heart-led private midwife and founder of IBIRTH Intimate Birth & Beginnings. We explore birth beyond the system - as a sacred, undisturbed experience that can awaken deep trust in the female body.

We explore many juicy areas that are key on the pregnancy journey and into the birth space, including the conditioning that arises during pregnancy, the courage it takes to choose home birth, your birth team, and why women reclaiming birth on their own terms matters now more than ever. We also dive into the realities of early motherhood and parenting overall.

My personal home birth story - birthing my daughter Violet - and how surrender, breath, and deep inner trust shaped a profoundly transformative experience is also weaved into this powerful and intimate conversation.

This episode is for any woman ready to trust herself more deeply and remember - your body knows how to birth.

| Janine O'Brien |

Website: http://www.ibirth.com.au/

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

| Olivia Maxwell |

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Website | https://awakenedmbs.com.au/