The Embodied Empath Podcast is a nervous-system-informed healing space for sensitive, intuitive women navigating anxiety, perimenopause, emotional overwhelm, and major life transitions.
Hosted by Valerie Lundgren—holistic health coach, somatic trauma-informed practitioner, hormone specialist, and energy healer—this podcast blends neuroscience, polyvagal theory, hormone health, somatic practices, and spiritual insight to help you understand what your body is communicating.
If mindset work and “pushing through” haven’t helped, this show offers a body-based path to regulation, emotional safety,
The emotional weight your nervous system has been holding onto
What are you still carrying that you were never meant to hold forever?
Old conversations. Guilt. Resentment. Grief. Other people’s emotions. Expectations. Past versions of yourself. Responsibilities that were never really yours.
In this episode of The Embodied Empath Podcast, we begin our October theme: The Season of Release. 🍂
Valerie explores why letting go isn’t as simple as telling yourself to “move on”—and why your nervous system may continue using old protective patterns long after the situation that created them has passed.
We’ll talk about the difference between caring and carrying, why release can involve grief and anger, and how to honor what happened without allowing it to keep shaping your present.
You’ll also be guided through a gentle somatic practice to help you physically experience what it feels like to loosen your grip and put down some of the emotional weight you’ve been carrying.
Because release doesn’t mean forgetting.
It doesn’t mean what happened didn’t matter.
And it doesn’t mean forcing yourself to forgive or “get over it.”
Sometimes release simply means:
It mattered. It affected me. And I don’t want to carry it in the same way anymore.
🍂 October: The Season of Release
You can care without carrying.
You can remember without reliving.
You can honor your past without asking it to become your future.
Learn more about Valerie’s nervous system, somatic healing, and 1:1 coaching work at valerielundgren.co.
22 Sept 2026
What Is Asking to Be Healed?
What if healing wasn't about constantly finding something else that's wrong with you?
In the final episode of September's Season of Going Inward series, Valerie explores the difference between fixing yourself and tending to yourself.
You'll learn why nervous system healing needs to include the whole person—your emotions, relationships, boundaries, sleep, nourishment, movement, hormones, environment, and deeper survival patterns—and why insight alone doesn't always change what keeps repeating.
Valerie shares three powerful questions for identifying the deeper roots underneath anxiety and guides you through a gentle somatic practice to ask your body what actually needs your care.
August was about Coming Back Home to Yourself.
September has been about listening once you arrive.
Slow down. Listen inward. Tend gently.
You don't need to become another self-improvement project.
Maybe the next chapter of healing is simply learning how to care for the woman you already are. 🌿
Explore 1:1 coaching and Valerie's healing work at valerielundgren.co.
14 Sept 2026
Why You Keep Avoiding the Thing You Know You Need to Face
What if procrastination isn't always a motivation problem?
Sometimes avoidance is your nervous system trying to protect you from discomfort, uncertainty, rejection, guilt, or emotions it doesn't yet feel equipped to handle.
In this episode of The Embodied Empath Podcast, Valerie explores the psychology and nervous system science behind avoidance, why avoiding something can temporarily reduce anxiety while strengthening fear over time, and why healing doesn't mean forcing yourself through experiences you're not ready for.
You'll also explore the empath's fear of disappointing others, the emotions hiding underneath avoidance, and a gentle One Inch Closer somatic practice for approaching difficult things without overwhelming yourself.
You don't have to conquer everything today.
Sometimes healing is simply taking one safe step toward the thing you've been running from. 🌿
Learn more at valerielundgren.co.
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