LaidOPEN Podcast

About LaidOPEN Podcast

Welcome to the LaidOPEN Podcast hosted by Charna Cassell. Charna is a Trauma-Trained Psychotherapist and Sexuality Coach with over 20 years of experience. Every day, Charna helps clients heal from trauma and access more bodily joy, emotional regulation, vitality, and hope. Now she's bringing her expertise to podcasting with interviews from post-trauma thrivers who share creative resources to support living an authentic, passionate, mindful existence. Together they explore how to have a more pleasure-filled, peaceful life while reducing self-sabotaging behaviors and gaining control over reactive behaviors. Charna's mission is to help people like you understand the impact of trauma on their nervous system and therefore their relationships with an emphasis on ways to heal. In every episode, Charna explores how to build our physical and emotional capacity to be with all that moves through us and around us to ultimately feel more liberated on the other side. Join our community as we embark on this transformative journey by reaccessing our connection to aliveness.

Publisher

Charna Cassell

Category

health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

16 Oct 2021

Latest episode

19 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

11 of 148 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   19 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   126. Taking Up Space with Ease: A Somatic Meditation for Confidence & Grounding

   Host Charna Cassell guides listeners through a somatic meditation to cultivate confidence and grounding by reclaiming personal space and building self-trust.

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   19 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   125. The Somatics of Presence, Pleasure & Expansion: Taking Up Space After Trauma

   Host [Host Name] explores the somatics of presence, pleasure, and expansion, guiding listeners to reclaim their physical space after trauma.

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   16 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep. 124 Guided Chakra Meditation to Clear Energy, Build Better Habits & Trust Yourself

   Host Charna Cassell guides listeners through a chakra meditation to clear energy, build better habits, and foster self-trust.

Inside a recent episode

126. Taking Up Space with Ease: A Somatic Meditation for Confidence & Grounding

Published 19 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] You can trace each bone with your finger or just rest them on the front or the sides of your ribs. When we are threatened, when we are insecure, uncomfortable, don't want to be seen, we curl into ourselves. You can think of trauma as an imploding star versus an expanding wide into ourselves energy. So we wrap around our spine. So imagining that your energy and breath can expand out, breathing shoulder to shoulder, rib cage to rib cage, hip to hip, thigh to thigh, and calf to calf. You are a leaf unfurling wide into yourself, feeling the clothes on the edges of your body. And if it's hard to imagine that, you're a balloon, you're expanding, filling with your own breath, or you're filling in from edge to edge. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

1,669

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

31 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

15 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 73 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

84

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

85

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