Join Iesha Delune, Wholistic Life Coach and author, for soulful, practical conversations on living from congruence: body, heart, mind & soul in harmony. Each episode blends wisdom and real-world application to support your authentic, embodied, and empowered living. Gentle truth-telling, grounded insight, and deep alignment — this is where inner knowing becomes everyday life. Welcome to The Aligned Living Podcast.
The Aligned Living Podcast - Conversations on living from congruence: body, heart, mind & soul.
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Join Iesha Delune, Wholistic Life Coach and author, for soulful, practical conversations on living from congruence: body, heart, mind & soul in harmony. Each episode blends wisdom and real-world application to support your authentic, embodied, and empowered living. Gentle truth-telling, grounded insight, and deep alignment — this is where inner knowing becomes everyday life. Welcome to The Aligned Living Podcast.
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July 17, 2026
28. Obligation, Consistency, Choice and Change
Change, in and of itself, is a foundational part of human life and living in the natural world. Some of us don't have internal permission, or external relational permission, to change, and can get trapped in obligation and "shoulds," instead of opening up to the choices and change would bring us into alignment. In this episode, Iesha explores: ✨ Change as constant in the natural world - tides, glaciers, seasons, breath, the heart beating and resting. Life is always moving, and even in cycles, it's not always the same, because life is dynamic. ✨ Why "you've changed" is so often said as a criticism, or like someone's been let down, and why that's strange when viewed against the backdrop of the natural world. ✨ The difference between humans and the rest of nature: human beings can live long-term out of alignment. This is what makes review so important - not a one-off check, but a recurring, honest pause where we stop and ask, "Is this still aligned?" ✨ The "when-then" pattern - when the kids are at school, when we retire, then I'll get to live more aligned - and how empowering steps are available right now, alongside the bigger hoped-for external shifts. ✨ Why plans made with rigid consistency tend to come up against issues, and how we can end up either in self-judgment when we don't fulfil them, or depleting ourselves by pushing through. Change and adaptability need to be built into any ongoing commitment through review. ✨ Where this shows up in obligation - being carried out without question, even when something feels incongruent, or daily life running on "this is just how it is," in roles and routines that fit an earlier age or stage of life we've never stopped to revisit. ✨ Change within relationships - how people who resist our new boundaries are often the ones who were benefiting from us not having any, and why normalising change relationally means naming this clearly and inviting people into our changes rather than assuming they will or won't be noticed. ✨ Change as foundational and to be expected for everyone, and how relationships can survive and thrive as people evolve within them, when the changes are communicated and worked through together. ✨ The invitation: review, and review often. Not just once a year, or only in a crisis, but as an ongoing practice - as natural a rhythm as breathing in and out. If you'd like help opening up this kind of review, or thinking it out loud together and creating your next aligned steps, you're welcome to book a one-off Clarity & Direction session. We'll spend an hour together, get you clear, into the review process, and open up that next step for you.Link to book a single, 1 hour Clarity & Direction session: https://TimeWithIesha.as.me/?appointmentType=8354385Want to explore more in-depth coaching and support packages?Read through this and get a feel for the work and explore the options:https://ieshadelune.com.au/offerings/wholistic-coaching/
May 28, 2026
27. Receiving Feedback, Staying Present, and Building Healthy Relationships
In this episode of The Aligned Living Podcast, I explore the skill of receiving feedback, and why it can feel so difficult, overwhelming, confronting, or deeply triggering for so many people. Receiving feedback is not just an emotional skill. It’s a nervous system skill, a self-reflection skill, and a relationship skill. And if we want healthy, honest, lasting relationships, it’s important that we build the capacity to stay present enough to hear and understand the people we care about, even when what’s being shared is uncomfortable. I speak about the difference between listening to understand and listening to prepare a defence, and why relationships can begin to quietly disconnect when people no longer feel safe, welcome, or able to share honestly. Throughout the episode, I walk through some of the most common reasons feedback becomes difficult to receive, including: feeling overly compromised or depleted feedback triggering identity or sense of self feedback feeling like a demand for perfection nervous system responses connected to past criticism or rejection shame responses lack of self-reflection skills confusing understanding with agreement feedback being delivered without communication skill trying to “win” conversations rather than understand I also explore how feedback conversations become much healthier when we are grounded in our own congruence and sense of self, rather than needing agreement, certainty, or control in order to feel okay. This episode is an invitation to gently reflect on your own relationship with feedback:What happens inside you when someone shares the impact of your behaviour?What patterns arise?And what might become possible if feedback no longer immediately pulled you out of openness, curiosity, and connection? If communication, relationships, feedback, boundaries, or living congruently are areas you would like support with, there are links in this episode to book a Discovery Call and explore ways we can work together.Here's a link to explore 1-1 Wholistic Life Coaching with me:https://ieshadelune.com.au/offerings/wholistic-coaching/Here's a link to book your no-cost Discovery Call: https://TimeWithIesha.as.me/NoCostDiscoveryCallHere's a link to a free series I ran called the Foundations of Congruence:https://ieshadelune.com.au/offerings/foundations-of-congruence/Thanks for listening.
May 5, 2026
26. What’s Mine and What's Theirs?
Iesha opens with a quote from Tiny Buddha: "There comes a time when you stop trying to make things right with people who won't own their part in what went wrong." And from there, asks: where is the line between taking responsibility for your own behaviour and taking on the other person's part too? Learning that clear delineation of what's mine and what's theirs is a skill. And there's a further skill of communicating in ways that cultivate connection and understanding (not conflict), while not taking on more than your part in any dynamic. In this episode Iesha covers: The two directions of imbalance: a profoundly underdeveloped ability to absorb your share of responsibility, or a radically overdeveloped tendency to absorb more than your share How both sides of this polarity can show up across all kinds of relationships - personal, professional, community An invitation to notice, without judgment, where you tend to sit on this spectrum Will and skill: two elements at play in any area of growth (and we can never be responsible for someone else's level of either) What's ours: attuning to our own congruence, honouring our yeses and nos, asking for what we need, communicating impact clearly, and staying present and open when receiving feedback even when it's not delivered gracefully What's theirs: what someone chooses to do with our sharing and our requests is their work The long term consequences of the overdeveloped and underdeveloped dynamic playing out in long term relationships, and what Iesha has seen happen many times when one person finally walks away A closing invitation to look at the key dynamics in your life - work, community, family, friendships - and contemplate where you sit on this spectrum Work With Iesha If you’d like support building these skills and creating more aligned, connected relationships, you’re invited to explore working with Iesha. You can book a Discovery Call to talk through what’s happening for you and how she can support you. Check out 1-1 packages and book your Discovery Call here: https://ieshadelune.com.au/offerings/wholistic-coaching/ Want to go deeper into Aligned Living? You're welcome to receive Iesha's free series, The Foundations of Congruence:https://ieshadelune.com.au/offerings/foundations-of-congruence/ And here's the promised link to Tiny Buddha, the source of today's quote:https://tinybuddha.com/
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