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Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes Michelle Vande Hey, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s “Love Your Life” columnist, holistic life coach, and host of the Love Your Life on Purpose podcast, for the August New Moon issue theme of Growth. Michelle shares why she wrote “Change Is Inevitable. Growth Is Optional,” shaped by coaching women after child loss and her own experience with the death of her son, emphasizing that while we may not choose our circumstances, we can choose how we move forward.
They discuss how trauma can be held in the nervous system, disrupting interoception and keeping people in survival mode, using a “cast” analogy to show survival is protective, but harmful if prolonged. Michelle then guides a short trauma-sensitive yoga practice focused on grounding, choice-based movement, and breath awareness, ending with gratitude and a note to continue Michelle’s loss story in the next episode.
00:00 Trigger Warning
01:07 Meet Michelle Vande Hey
02:06 Change vs Growth
02:32 Choice After Loss
05:21 Trauma in the Body
07:29 Survival Mode and Food
09:11 Cast Analogy for Healing
10:11 Trauma Sensitive Yoga
10:49 Grounding and Movement
14:08 Breath and Body Awareness
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Producer’s credits:
- Nicole George - Podcast Host | CEO/Founder SOVEREIGN Magazine® | Editor-in-Chief
- Ariane Lim - Podcast Producer + Engineer
- Sara Wagle - Audio Efficiency & Flow Manager
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