Embodied Empath

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,

Embodied Empath is a health podcast hosted by Valerie Lundgren, with 29 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Valerie Lundgren hosts Embodied Empath, a health show with 29 episodes published.

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  Episode #26

  Coming Back Home To Yourself

  Aug 3, 202614 minS1

  Have you ever looked around at the life you've built and quietly wondered, "When did I stop feeling like me?" In this episode of The Embodied Empath Podcast , Valerie Lundgren explores what it truly means to come home to yourself after years of living in survival mode. If you've spent decades people-pleasing, over-functioning, caring for everyone else, or pushing through anxiety, you may have slowly lost touch with the woman underneath those survival patterns. Through the lens of nervous system science, Valerie explains why we don't lose ourselves—we adapt. Your nervous system's first priority has always been to keep you safe, even if that meant becoming the peacekeeper, the achiever, the caretaker, or the strong one. But healing isn't about becoming someone new. It's about creating enough safety in your body to reconnect with the person you've always been. You'll learn how chronic stress, trauma, and perimenopause can contribute to feeling disconnected from yourself, why authenticity often feels uncomfortable at first, and how small, intentional choices begin rebuilding trust with your body. This episode also includes a gentle guided somatic practice to help you reconnect with yourself and begin creating an internal sense of home—one breath, one moment, and one choice at a time. Join Me This Month If this episode speaks to your heart, I'd love to invite you to my FREE "Coming Back Home to Yourself" Community Healing Experience this month. Together we'll calm the nervous system, reconnect with the parts of ourselves that have been buried beneath survival, and create space to remember who we are beneath the stress, the anxiety, and the expectations. Visit valerielundgren.co for all the details and to reserve your free spot. Because healing isn't about fixing yourself. It's about finally feeling safe enough to come home to yourself.

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  Episode #27

  When Healing Feels Like You’re Going Backwards

  Jul 27, 202616 minS1

  Have you ever been doing really well in your healing… and then anxiety comes back, an old trigger hits, or you find yourself falling into a pattern you thought you had already worked through? Suddenly you're wondering, “Am I going backwards?” In this episode of The Embodied Empath Podcast , Valerie Lundgren explores why old anxiety, survival responses, people-pleasing, and emotional patterns can resurface—even when you've done a tremendous amount of healing. We’ll talk about nervous system capacity, neuroplasticity, hormonal shifts, the empath experience, and why returning to an old response during a stressful season does not erase the progress you've made. You'll also learn a simple somatic practice for those moments when frustration sets in and you feel like you should be “further along.” You are not starting over. You're meeting an old pattern with a new version of yourself.

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  Episode #26

  Your Body Has Been Speaking to You All Along (How to Finally Listen)

  Jul 13, 202613 minS1

  What if your anxiety, fatigue, tension, or overwhelm isn't your body working against you—but your body trying to communicate with you? In this episode of The Embodied Empath Podcast , Valerie Lundgren explores how the nervous system speaks through physical sensations and why learning the language of your body is one of the most powerful steps in healing. For many women, years of chronic stress, people-pleasing, trauma, and survival mode have led to disconnecting from their body's signals. Instead of listening, we've learned to push through, ignore, and override what our body has been trying to tell us. Valerie explains the science of interoception —your brain's ability to sense what's happening inside your body—and how chronic stress can either make you hyper-aware of every sensation or completely disconnected from them. You'll also learn why empaths often become experts at reading everyone else's emotions while losing touch with their own internal wisdom. This episode explores the difference between fear and information, why symptoms are often messages rather than problems to fight, and how curiosity can help calm a dysregulated nervous system. Valerie also guides you through a gentle somatic practice to begin rebuilding trust with your body and listening to what it has been trying to tell you all along. Your body is not broken. It isn't working against you. It's been trying to protect you, guide you, and communicate with you every step of the way. 💛 Healing begins when you stop fighting your body—and start listening to it.

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  Episode #25

  Why Inner Child Healing Changes Your Nervous System

  Jul 7, 202612 minS1

  Have you ever wondered why certain situations make you feel small, unseen, rejected, or not enough—even when you know, logically, that you're safe? In this episode of The Embodied Empath Podcast , Valerie Lundgren explores the powerful connection between your inner child and your nervous system. Many of the anxiety patterns, people-pleasing behaviors, perfectionism, fear of rejection, and emotional triggers we experience as adults aren't signs that something is wrong with us—they're the nervous system's way of protecting the younger parts of us that learned how to survive. Valerie explains how childhood experiences shape the developing nervous system, why your body continues responding to old emotional patterns long after you've grown up, and how true healing happens by giving your nervous system the safety, compassion, and connection it may have missed in those early years. You'll learn why inner child healing isn't about reliving the past—it's about changing your relationship with it. Through nervous system regulation, somatic healing, and self-compassion, you can begin creating new experiences of safety that allow those old survival patterns to soften. This episode also includes a gentle guided somatic practice to help you reconnect with your inner child and begin becoming the safe, loving adult your younger self has always needed. 💛 Join Me for a Free Inner Child Healing Experience If this episode speaks to your heart, I'd love to invite you to my FREE Inner Child Healing event on the 16th , where I'll guide you through a powerful healing experience designed to help you reconnect with the younger parts of yourself, release old survival patterns, and create greater safety within your nervous system. Visit https://www.valerielundgren.co/ for all the details and to reserve your free spot. Because healing isn't about fixing who you are. It's about finally giving your nervous system the love and safety it has been searching for all along. 🌿

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  Episode #24

  Why You Don’t Feel Like Yourself Anymore (And Why That’s Not a Bad Thing)

  Jun 29, 202613 minS1

  Have you ever looked in the mirror and thought, "I don't even know who I am anymore?" If you're in the middle of healing, perimenopause, or a major life transition, that feeling may be more common than you think. In this episode of The Embodied Empath Podcast , Valerie Lundgren explores why so many women feel disconnected from themselves—not because they're falling apart, but because they're outgrowing the version of themselves that was built to survive. Through the lens of nervous system science, Valerie explains how childhood experiences, chronic stress, and years of people-pleasing, perfectionism, and over-functioning shape our identity. You'll learn how the brain predicts the future based on past experiences, why change can feel uncomfortable even when it's healthy, and why healing often brings grief before it brings freedom. This episode also explores the identity shifts that happen during perimenopause, why empaths often struggle to separate who they are from what they do for others, and how nervous system healing creates space for a more authentic version of yourself to emerge. Included is a gentle somatic visualization to help you reconnect with the woman you're becoming and begin releasing the roles you no longer need to carry. You are not losing yourself. You're shedding the survival version of yourself and returning to the woman who has been there all along. 💛 Because healing isn't about becoming someone new. It's about finally feeling safe enough to become yourself.

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