- 14
- Episodes
- 2025
- First episode
About Under the Surface
Under the Surface is a podcast about slowing down, tuning in, and reconnecting with the parts of ourselves we’ve learned to ignore, suppress, or overanalyze. Hosted by Sophia — a therapist in training (AMFT) and anxiety and somatic coach — this show explores what it means to build a more balanced relationship with your emotions, your body, and your inner world, especially in a culture that is externally focused and obsessed with productivity, certainty, and self-improvement. This podcast is an invitation to slow down, reconnect, and explore what’s underneath the surface.
- Publisher
- Sophia Giegerich
- Category
- health & fitness
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Aug 2025
- Latest episode
- 29 Oct 2025
Latest episodes
14 episodes in the feed.
29 Oct 2025
Healing Anxiety Through Movement: How Somatic Practices Help You Release Emotions and Reconnect with Your Body
In this episode, I talk about the connection between anxiety and the body, and how to release stored emotions through movement. You’ll learn: Why anxiety is a physical experience, not just a mental one How to use somatic movement to release stuck energy Practical tools to begin your own somatic practice Why resisting emotions keeps us stuck (and how to move through it) Whether you’re new to somatic work or looking to deepen your self-awareness, this episode will help you come back to your body and connect with its innate intelligence. You'll be able to use the wisdom of your body to find calm, clarity, and connection. *** If you want the support of an anxiety and somatic coach to help you reconnect with yourself and develop a more balanced relationship with your emotions and body, you're welcome to book a free consultation on my website:sophiagiegerich.com (https://www.sophiagiegerich.com/) I also offer a free 5-Day Anxiety Workbook (https://www.sophiagiegerich.com/free-resources)to help you explore, express, and heal your anxiety through creativity. I provide creative writing prompts, art activities, reflection questions, and hand-drawn coloring pages. Check out the link for a free copy.
16 Oct 2025
Release Tension Through The Body: A Guided Somatic Meditation For Stress and Anxiety
This is a 10-minute guided meditation using breath, body awareness, and movement to release stored tension. This somatic practice helps you reconnect with your body’s wisdom and calm your nervous system. *** If you want the support of an anxiety and somatic coach to help you reconnect with yourself and develop a more balanced relationship with your emotions and body, you're welcome to book a free consultation on my website: sophiagiegerich.com (https://www.sophiagiegerich.com/) I also offer a free 5-Day Anxiety Workbook (https://www.sophiagiegerich.com/free-resources)to help you explore, express, and heal your anxiety through creativity. I provide creative writing prompts, art activities, reflection questions, and hand-drawn coloring pages. Check out the link for a free copy.
14 Oct 2025
The Cost Of Being Yourself: On Authenticity, Rejection, and Meaning
In this episode, I talk about what it means to fully show up as ourselves, and what we gain and lose in the process. I share my own story of struggling to be authentic while entering into the therapy world as a professional, and offer some tools to help you reconnect with yourself if you've disconnected. You'll also find inspirational quotes, and discover the true reward for being yourself. *** If you're looking for an anxiety and somatic coach to help you reconnect with yourself and develop a more balanced relationship with your emotions and body, I'd love to work with you. You're welcome to book a free consultation, session or coaching package on my website: sophiagiegerich.com (https://www.sophiagiegerich.com/) I also offer a free 5-Day Anxiety Workbook (https://www.sophiagiegerich.com/free-resources)to help you explore, express, and heal your anxiety through creativity. I provide creative writing prompts, art activities, reflection questions, and hand-drawn coloring pages. Check out the link for a free copy.
5 Oct 2025
The Fantasy of the Perfect Life: Why We Always Want More
This episode is about the fantasy of the perfect life. I talk about where it comes from, why so many of us get caught in it, and how it pulls us away from being present with ourselves and our actual lives. I explore how social media, perfectionism, and cultural messages (like the American Dream) feed this constant sense that we’re falling short, that something better is always out there, just out of reach. While fantasizing can be creative and even helpful, it can also become a way to avoid discomfort, numb out, or escape the parts of life that feel messy or imperfect. Together, we’ll unpack how to recognize when fantasizing is helping us move toward something meaningful, and when it’s pulling us away from ourselves. *** If you're looking for an anxiety coach to help you identify the beliefs and patterns that are keeping you stuck so you can reconnect with yourself and develop a more balanced relationship with your emotions and body, I'd love to work with you. You're welcome to book a free consultation, session or coaching package on my website: sophiagiegerich.com (https://www.sophiagiegerich.com/) I also offer a free 5-Day Anxiety Workbook (https://www.sophiagiegerich.com/free-resources)to help you explore, express, and heal your anxiety through creativity. I provide creative writing prompts, art activities, reflection questions, and hand-drawn coloring pages. Check out the link for a free copy.
27 Sept 2025
Understanding Relationship Anxiety: What It Is, Why It Shows Up, and What You Can Do To Heal
Do you constantly overthink your relationship even when nothing’s obviously wrong? If so, you might be experiencing relationship anxiety. In this episode, I break down what relationship anxiety is, why it's so common today, and how to come back into balance when it arises. We’ll explore how social media, cultural messages, and conflicting advice fuel anxiety in otherwise healthy relationships. I also share my personal journey of healing from relationship anxiety. You'll learn how to reconnect with yourself, build emotional resilience, and distinguish between real red flags and normal relationship dynamics. If you’ve ever asked, “Should I stay or go?” this episode is for you. *** If you're looking for an anxiety coach to help you identify the beliefs and patterns that are keeping you stuck so you can reconnect with yourself and develop a more balanced relationship with your emotions and body, I'd love to work with you. You're welcome to book a free consultation, session or package on my website: sophiagiegerich.com (https://www.sophiagiegerich.com/) I also offer a free 5-Day Anxiety Workbook (https://www.sophiagiegerich.com/free-resources)to help you explore, express, and heal your anxiety through creativity. I provide creative writing prompts, art activities, reflection questions, and hand-drawn coloring pages. Check out the link for a free copy.
20 Sept 2025
Why We're So Burnt Out - And What Real Self-Care Actually Looks Like
Self-care is everywhere, from Instagram posts to therapy sessions, and Google searches. But if we have so much advice and information about it, why are we still so burnt out? In this episode, I talk about what our culture gets wrong about self-care, and explore the deeper emotional patterns underneath burnout, the pressure to keep doing (even when we rest), and how we can begin to reconnect and actually take care of ourselves. This is an invitation to practice real self-care, the kind that’s rooted in presence, and not performance. If you’ve ever felt exhausted even after doing all the “right” things, this episode is for you. If you're looking for an anxiety coach to help you identify the beliefs and patterns that are keeping you stuck so you can reconnect with yourself and develop a more balanced relationship with your emotions, I'd love to work with you. I offer couples coaching and 1:1 sessions, as well as a Relationship Anxiety package. You're welcome to book a session or package on my website: sophiagiegerich.com (https://www.sophiagiegerich.com/) If you want a free 5-Day Anxiety Workbook (https://www.sophiagiegerich.com/free-resources)to help you explore, express, and heal your anxiety through creativity, you're welcome to get a copy using the link. The workbook includes creative writing prompts, art activities, reflection questions, and hand-drawn coloring pages. I also offer a free guide called The Root of Anxiety, in which I offer insights about what anxiety is and where it comes from, reflective journal prompts, a breathwork exercise, and a guided meditation (with audio link). You can get the free guide on my website or using this link (https://www.sophiagiegerich.com/free-resources).
13 Sept 2025
Why We Fight In Relationships: The Fear of Losing Control
Why do we keep having the same fight in our relationship? In this episode, I explore what’s really underneath conflict — fear, control, and the ego’s need to protect identity. I share a personal story and offer a deeper lens to help you shift the pattern and reconnect with yourself. Keywords: relationship conflict, fear in relationships, ego and identity, why couples fight, emotional patterns, fear of losing control If you're looking for an anxiety coach to help you identify the beliefs and patterns that are keeping you stuck so you can reconnect with yourself and develop a more balanced relationship with your emotions, I'd love to work with you. I offer couples coaching and 1:1 sessions, as well as a Relationship Anxiety package. You're welcome to book a session or package on my website: sophiagiegerich.com (https://www.sophiagiegerich.com/) I also offer a free guide called The Root of Anxiety, in which I offer insights about what anxiety is and where it comes from, reflective journal prompts, a breathwork exercise, and a guided meditation (with audio link). You can get the free guide on my website or using this link (https://www.sophiagiegerich.com/free-resources).
4 Sept 2025
Anxiety Meditation - A Guided Body Scan and Breathwork Practice
This is a gentle, grounding meditation designed to support you during moments of anxiety or disconnection. Through a slow body scan and deep breathing exercises, you’ll be guided back to a sense of presence, calm, and connection with yourself. No experience needed. If you're looking for an anxiety coach to help you reconnect with yourself and build a more balanced relationship to your emotions, I'd love to work with you. You're welcome to book a free consultation or 1:1 session on my website: sophiagiegerich.com (https://www.sophiagiegerich.com)
3 Sept 2025
How To Deeply Listen (And Why It's So Hard)
In today’s episode, I’m diving into what it really means to deeply listen, and why it’s so hard. I talk about how listening is more than just a communication skill; it’s really about presence, openness, and our willingness to be affected, and even changed. I explore some of the deeper fears that come up when we try to truly listen, like the fear of being wrong, the fear of losing control, or even the fear of losing ourselves. I also share a few personal stories — including an experience with a client during my internship, and a relationship I had in my early twenties — to show how listening can bring up old wounds around identity, self-worth, and belonging. This is a really honest and reflective episode where I go into how our culture, our upbringing, and our own emotional baggage can get in the way of us being fully present with others and with ourselves. And I talk about how listening can actually be a path back to connection and healing, both for ourselves and for the people in our lives. If you’ve ever felt resistant in a conversation, or found yourself shutting down or jumping to judgment, this episode might give you some space to reflect on what’s going on under the surface. If you want the support of an anxiety coach to help you reconnect with yourself and build a more balanced relationship with your emotions, I'd love to work with you. You're welcome to book a free consultation, or 1:1 session on my website: sophiagiegerich.com (https://www.sophiagiegerich.com)
30 Aug 2025
How I Process My Emotions
In this more vulnerable and unscripted episode of Under the Surface, I wanted to share something a little different: my actual emotional process—what it looks like in real time, from start to finish. As an anxiety coach and therapist-in-training, I spend a lot of time talking about how we can reconnect with our emotions and regulate our nervous systems. But I also know that hearing the theory isn’t always the same as seeing it in practice. So in this episode, I walk you through a real moment I experienced recently—one that triggered my perfectionism and left me feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, and activated. You’ll hear how I moved through that experience: the thoughts that came up, the physical sensations I noticed, the resistance I felt, and the tools I used to come back to myself. I talk about breathwork, body awareness, emotional patterns, and the ongoing challenge of making space for our feelings—especially when we want to run from them. This episode is raw, reflective, and very human. It’s a reminder that slowing down, tuning in, and letting go of the pressure to "get it right" can be some of the hardest, but most healing, things we do. I hope it helps you feel a little less alone in your own process. –– If you're looking for an anxiety coach to help you reconnect with yourself and build a more balanced relationship with your emotions, I'd love to work with you. You're welcome to book a free consultation or 1:1 session on my website: sophiagiegerich.com (https://www.sophiagiegerich.com/) Instagram: @sophia.giegerich
26 Aug 2025
Anxious About the Unknown? Chasing Certainty Might Be Making It Worse
In a culture obsessed with answers, control, and doing things "right," chasing certainty can feel like the only way forward. But that chase is often what’s fueling our anxiety, perfectionism, and indecision. In this episode, we explore how the belief that there must be a “right” answer — to our decisions, careers, and relationships — keeps us stuck in fear and self-doubt. We’ll talk about the illusion of certainty and how letting go can lead to deeper peace. If you're looking for an anxiety coach to help you reconnect with yourself and build a more balanced relationship with your emotions, you're welcome to book a free consultation or 1:1 session on my website: sophiagiegerich.com
17 Aug 2025
The Purpose of Therapy and What to Look for in a Therapist
In this episode, I explain the purpose of therapy and what to look for in a therapist. Instagram: @sophia.giegerich If you're looking for an anxiety coach to help you build a deeper relationship with yourself and a more balanced relationship with your emotions, you're welcome to book a free consultation or session using this link: https://sophiagiegerichcoaching.squarespace.com/
8 Aug 2025
Episode 2: Taking Emotional Responsibility
In today’s episode, we explore what it really means to take responsibility for our emotions — not by blaming ourselves or doing everything alone, but by learning how to stay. We’ll talk about: Why emotional responsibility is important The difference between reaction and observation How our avoidance patterns — distraction, blaming others, overthinking — keep us stuck The connection between suppressed feelings and anxiety, control, perfectionism, and future obsession The power of curiosity over judgment You’ll also be guided through reflective questions to deepen your practice and help you develop a deeper relationship with your inner world. If you're in Oregon and looking for support on this path, I’d love to work with you. You can book a free meet-and-greet using this link: https://www.seshio.org/team/sophia_giegerich/
2 Aug 2025
Episode 1: The Root of Anxiety
This episode explore the root of anxiety, and my own history with anxiety. If you live in Oregon and want the support of a therapist, book a free consultation use the following link: https://www.seshio.org/team/sophia_giegerich/
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