Embodied with Anthea Bell – Details, episodes & analysis

I wonder if you relate to this? The sense of something missing in your life; like a whisper underneath the surface of your conscious life.

What if this echoing feeling wasn’t a problem to fix - but a sign to go deeper? An opportunity to connect to a level of wholeness that your body~mind has just forgotten.

In this episode, Anthea sits down with Spiritual Guide, Teacher and Body~Worker Shamir Singh - offering a powerful insight on embodied wholeness, cultivating belonging and what it really means to feel connected in a world that constantly pulls us outward. From the outset, Shamir shares how his journey has been rooted in reconnecting to oneness consciousness - and that healing is not about becoming something new, but returning to what has always been there.

Together, they explore the layers of conditioned patterning that shape identity; and how de-conditioning these acquired layers / selves allow us to reconnect with personal truth, and deeper spiritual connection. Shamir speaks about the profound systemic role of healing modalities like sound healing, breathwork practice and meditation and movement - non-verbal methods that guide the body back into stillness and inner peace.

This conversation also offers powerful insight on how we relate to others - navigating codependency, the journey of self love and how our earliest relationships shape the way we seek connection and belonging in adulthood. Through the themes of shadow work, intuitive healing and conscious living, Shamir shares a grounded perspective on spiritual growth that is not about escaping life, but engaging with it more fully.

Ultimately, they explore what it means to live in the “eye of the storm” and how practices like nervous system regulation and breath awareness can support you in navigating uncertainty with more trust, presence and ease.

Timestamps

00:00 Meeting Shamir and exploring purpose and wholeness

02:40 What wholeness really means and how it creates belonging

04:18 Roots, identity and the impact of conditioning

09:33 Sound, stillness and returning to your essence

12:01 An overview of healing modalities and how they support growth

17:40 Shamir’s personal journey and how it shaped his path

22:14 Consumption, lifestyle and supporting your inner state

28:32 Devotion, service and living with intention

35:39 Breathwork practice and nervous system regulation

40:54 Meditation, movement and finding stillness in modern life

46:59 Love, codependency and returning to self

54:48 Living in the eye of the storm and trusting life

58:48 Final reflections and closing thoughts

If this episode resonated, share it with someone who is on their own journey back to wholeness. Make sure you follow the podcast so you don’t miss future conversations like this. And if you loved this episode, leaving a rating or review helps more people find it.

Connect with Shamir

Instagram: @‌shamirsingh.c

Website: www.gridactivations.com

Connect with Anthea

Instagram: @‌ab_embodiment

Email: ab.mindbodycoach@gmail.com

Website: www.ab-embodimentcoaching.org

What if your disconnection had less to do with you - and more to do with what you have absorbed? Unconsciously, developmentally and through the generational line?

This episode is one of the most profoundly honest, touching explorations we’ve ever shared - with global retreat leader, psychotherapist & developmental coach Turiya Hanover. Together, we explore the legacies of generational, cultural and early childhood trauma - and the impact they have on who we know ourselves to be in the present.

Turiya shares her own experience: of growing up in post-war Germany, surrounded by unspoken pain, shame and emotional disconnection. Together we dive into what it means to be shaped like a soft stone by a trauma field; how that influences patterns like dissociation, nervous system disruption, hyper-vigilance, and a deep psychological sense of not belonging. There is a powerful reflection on how early instability and separation influence identity, relationships and the body - as well as how we walk ourselves beyond them.

A central theme is that real trauma healing does not happen in isolation. Together we explore the relational space and why healing through connection is essential when trust has been broken early in life. Turiya speaks openly about codependency patterns, dynamics of victimhood, feminine healing and the journey of learning to feel your own emotions rather than abandoning yourself for others.

We also touch on grief and loss; the role of death as a teacher and how facing life honestly can bring you back to what truly matters to you. This episode weaves together spiritual growth, self awareness and personal transformation - all grounded in the work of the Path of Love, an international retreat movement founded by Turiya, which roots people back into their essential connection to the heart. The Path journey, as well as this dialogue, are your avenue to deeper embodiment, self-embrace and safety in the world - take a listen.

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction to Turiya

02:56 Growing up in post war Germany and being surrounded by unspoken trauma

04:55 Not feeling like you belong and the urge to escape early on

08:14 The search for fearlessness and trying to find inner safety

09:12 Living in hyper vigilance and what safety actually feels like in the body

12:17 Early experiences of grief and the impact of loss in childhood

13:27 Feeling alone versus truly being connected to others

18:06 Why healing happens through relationships and not in isolation

25:17 The challenge for women to truly feel their emotions

28:49 Love, codependency and losing yourself in relationships

30:30 Death as a teacher and what it reveals about life

36:36 Living simply and finding meaning in ordinary life

37:52 Movement, solitude and being in service to others

42:48 Owning your shadow and stepping out of victimhood

45:40 Working with not enoughness and the inner critic

50:07 Trusting your intuition even when nothing feels certain

56:04 Finding purpose and what truly lights you up

59:44 Closing reflections and the Path of Love

If this episode resonated, send it to someone who is navigating their own healing journey. Make sure you follow the podcast so you don’t miss future conversations like this. And if you felt something shift while listening, take a moment to leave a rating or review. It helps more people like you find these conversations.

Connect with Turiya

Instagram: @‌turiyahanover

Website: https://www.turiyahanover.net/

Connect with Anthea

Instagram: @‌ab_embodiment

Email: ab.mindbodycoach@gmail.com

Website:https://www.ab-embodimentcoaching.org/

The Blueprint for Emotional Health at Christmas

It's been a moment since we last connected my loves - and as we prepare a stunning Spring Season of interviews for you, it's time for a little Solo. On a theme that fills my inbox and client calls at this time of year: how to successfully navigate Christmas. 

Somehow, we're here - at the tail end of an incredibly full year, on the cusp of deep transition for many, and in the days running up to family, socialising, rest (theoretical & practical) and reflection. It is for many an important and sometimes confronting season, where much is expected, tested, raised. So, we're diving into the challenge themes that are most pertinent; the parts of you / others that you may find activated; and how to find your way to balance, quiet & deeper self-compassion. For anyone feeling a flutter of anxiety in anticipation of the weeks to come - listen in. Let this be your blueprint on how to carve out your own needs, priorities and equilibrium in the bustle and busyness. While, lovingly and with detachment, allowing others to do the same. 

Remember to share this with a friend if you have found it supportive, re-listen as you need to, and reach out to the team here with any specific questions we can support you with. 

Sending love,

A x

For more on Finding Your Way Home, including events and learning programmes: 

 - Visit @ab_embodiment or www.ab-embodimentcoaching.org
- And if you've enjoyed the episode, remember to Subscribe and share it with a friend - you couldn't imagine the profound ripple effect of sharing what guides you with someone you love.
 
From my heart to yours listeners, 

A x

How to Master Difficult (Honest) Conversations

In this week’s episode of Finding Your Way Home, we delve into the art and significance of having honest conversations… Not only honest - but skilful, generous, connective and genuinely generative for deeper, fuller relationships. We all know that communication is critical to a “good” / “healthy” love life, work life, spiritual life. And so, listen in for the inside track on both how to receive someone else’s honest feedback, and how to give it yourself. I’m sharing what I have learnt from over 10 years in self-development - and, many decades longer in some impressively nuanced dynamics… Stay tuned for your blueprint on mastering the nitty gritty terrain of conversational truth. 

In today’s Mini, you’ll discover: 

• The power of consent, for the sharer and listener
• Identifying accurately ones' intentions and level of emotional balance for having a conversation - and what happens depending on these factors
• How to receive a person’s feedback or experience with neutrality (even when personally “touched”)
• Learning the courage to speak your own truth
• And most importantly - the framework, formats and sentences to use when trying to approach the topic, the “other” and a more meaningful relationship long-term. 

And stay with us until the end, for a little insight into what’s to come in next Season’s release - and what we have cooking behind the scenes at Finding Your Way Home. 

For more on Finding Your Way Home, including events and learning programmes:

 - Visit @ab_embodiment or www.ab-embodimentcoaching.org
- And if you've enjoyed the episode, remember to Subscribe and share it with a friend - you couldn't imagine the profound ripple effect of sharing what guides you with someone you love.
 
From my heart to yours listeners, 

A x

Gorgeous Creatures, welcome to this week's episode of Finding Your Way Home

And it's another special feature - a bonus episode, touching one of our least embraced, and most impactful emotions - Shame. 

And I promise - by the end of this episode you will have a deeper sense of not only how and why shame burrows deep inside of you - but learn the blueprint for moving through it, working with it, ultimately coming back into right relationship with yourself. The whole of you; not just the dissected parts we believe to be acceptable...

In this mini, we cover: 

✨ The roots of shame from a developmental and conditional perspective
✨ The somatic, emotional and thought-entanglement that shame often involves: how we move from feeling it, to hearing the internalised self-label, to becoming "identified" with the shamed self
✨ How to identify your personal shame biog, and begin to soften beneath the sensation into greater awareness, compassion and agency 
✨How to bring the unloved parts back into wholeness 
✨And why this self-work far outstrips any desire to have another validate what you yourself have cast aside...

As you will hear, this is a tender and intimately important theme - one which unchecked can block people from not only authentic expression, but professional success, romantic fulfilment and creative talent. Alchemised, brought into integration, it can be the most potent recipe for self-embrace and creating the reality that you desire.  To find ease and safety in greater success and visibility, we must first be willing to see and accept the whole of who we are. This is where we begin... 

Sending love, always; let us know what lands. 

Gorgeous Creatures, welcome to this week's episode of Finding Your Way Home

And it's a special feature - a bonus episode, continuing our Season 8 theme of calling, and the courage to pursue it.

Sit back, rest in, and join us to uncover how to build deeper, more expansive confidence in your abilities, your purpose and encountering the fear that could so easily hold you back. Until, as we do, we apply curiosity and compassion to what our fear may be speaking, and how to move forward irrespective of the temptation to hold back. 

In this mini, we cover: 

✨How to build core confidence in your innate quality and limitless possibility
✨Embracing and working with fear, rather than rejecting or reacting against it
✨Letting go of outdated relationships, dynamics, ways of being and acting in the world - liberating the human you know yourself to be
✨Embracing the potential that lives beyond your doubt, scarcity or trauma - what Faith, Self Trust and Curiosity will create in your inner experience and outer world…

Together, we’ll go right to the heart of what keeps most people stuck at the gateway to their deeper desire - the flight / freeze response that keeps us in convenient familiarity, over courageous ambition. Learn not only how to embrace the raw capacity you feel inside of you, but how to do so from centre, resource and regulation. 

Bonus: You’ll find a beautiful little presensing meditation nestled into the heart of the episode, to support you in real time to sit with fear - until, as always, it shifts into peaceful acquiescence, familiarity and eventually, clarity on what you choose for yourself, from wholeness. 

With love my friends; let us know what lands. 

Embracing Creative and Spiritual Callings with Chela Davison

Gorgeous listeners, welcome to this week's episode of Finding Your Way Home; a little moment of deep connection, where we dive into the inextricable link between mind, body and realising your most authentic self.

In this episode, we sit down with the wonderful Chela Davison; Master Integral Coach, Writer, Producer and all-round creative force, to share her profound journey of "finding calling". As a guide to thousands on the themes of artistic recovery and spiritual alignment, she walks us through the blueprint you need to truly hear, attend to and bring into life the mission that fires you. Irrespective, perhaps of the trepidation each one of us faces in squaring up to our true purpose. 

Chela shares her transition from leading an incredibly successful coaching business, positioned at the top of her field, to letting it all go to allow a greater creative force to move through her. This willingness to surrender to intuition led to the writing and release of her empowering one-woman show - an opus on the themes of identity, societal expectations and being "A Little Bit Much". 

We explore the powerful impact of listening to one's inner voice, the importance of community and shared spaces, and how to express your spirituality in a way that feels true to you. You'll learn how to navigate the practical challenges & sacrifices that can come with following one's true path; in their turn, liberating the immense and transformative power of feeling enlivened by a life spent in authenticity, presence, curiosity and connection.

I hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed sharing it with you.
 
Episode Breakdown:

00:00 Introduction to Creative Recovery

00:32 Welcome to Finding Your Way Home

01:28 Meet Chela Davison

03:12 Chela's Journey into Coaching

04:57 Integral Theory and Coaching Methodology

05:35 The Evolution of Chela's Career

08:53 Cultivating a 'We' Experience

11:41 Anthea's Embodiment Training

16:52 Chela's Transition and Creative Recovery

20:16 The Birth of 'A Little Bit Much'

29:09 Exploring Creative Control and Relational Dynamics

31:41 Navigating Internal and External Challenges

32:26 Balancing Responsibilities and Pursuing Passion

34:30 Creating Space for Creativity and Community

36:34 Financial Sacrifices and Personal Fulfillment

44:20 The Importance of Community and Secure Relationships

51:05 Spirituality and Personal Connection to Spirit

55:30 Final Thoughts and Ways to Connect

To connect with Chela:

- Follow her on Instagram: @cheladavison
- Check out her website: https://cheladavison.com/
- Read her work on Substack: https://cheladavison.substack.com/

For more on Finding Your Way Home, including events and learning programmes:
- Visit @ab_embodiment or www.ab-embodimentcoaching.org

And if you've enjoyed the episode, remember to Subscribe and share it with a friend - you couldn't imagine the profound ripple effect your support has… 

With love, always x

Healing Through Scent: The Transformative Power of Aromatherapy with Robin Jones

Gorgeous listeners, welcome to this week's episode of Finding Your Way Home; a little moment of deep connection, where we dive into the inextricable link between mind, body and realising your most authentic self.

This week, we delve into the story of Robin Jones; holistic health coach, neuro-aromatherapy expert and serial entrepreneur. A woman who, as you will hear turned to the power of scent when her own world (personal and familial) reached its own breaking point. A a mother of 8, wife and business woman facing significant health challenges, she embarked on a mission to truly heal herself from the decades of emotional and physical trauma that rippled through her family. Eventually, she found aromatherapy, and there began a lifelong passion to advance the status and availability of this ancient form of healing in modern times. 

Robin shares with us the neuroscience that makes aromatherapy such a compelling trauma-support tool; how one can use scent on a daily or  bespoke basis to navigate ones emotional landscape and physical ailments; why the sourcing and treatment of oils is so critical to their impact; and the nature of her work with high achieving women, to personal tailor a medicine that will support their deeper expansion. Her own story is woven throughout - generations in the Mormon community, which she continues to serve and support with the flexibility of a modern lens. 

It's a beautiful insight into not only the world of scent, but how powerful our senses can be in reshaping our experience (and perhaps success in) the world. 

Episode Breakdown: 

00:00 The Power of Smell: A Gateway to the Limbic System

01:01 Introduction to Finding Your Way Home Podcast

01:58 Meet Robin Jensen: Healing Through Scent

04:17 Robin's Personal Journey and Mission

06:35 The Neuroscience Behind Aromatherapy

18:06 Faith and Spirituality in Healing

41:41 The Role of Essential Oils in Emotional and Physical Healing

53:11 Custom Blends and Personal Rituals

55:02 Conclusion and Contact Information

Episode Breakdown: 

To connect with Robin:

• Follow her on Instagram: @therobinjones
• Connect with her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/therobinjones

For more on Finding Your Way Home, including events and learning programmes: visit @ab_embodiment or www.ab-embodimentcoaching.org

And if you've enjoyed the episode, remember to Subscribe and share it with a friend - you couldn't imagine the profound ripple effect your support has… 

With love, always x

Breaking the Freeze: A Journey to Authentic Self-Care and Resilience

Gorgeous Listeners, welcome to this week's episode of Finding Your Way Home. And what a treat we have for you…

Today’s episode delves deep into the intricate connection between physical, mental, and emotional - and how these blended factors impact our lives on a granular and global level. Anthea Bell, your host and Embodiment Coach, welcomes Sarah Tacy — a body~mind specialist with extensive expertise in physiology, nervous system health, emotional regulation and mindset - the holistic picture of how we create optimised, connective human development. Her stated mission: to support high achievers in cultivating a pace, buoyancy and joy that truly optimises them for the lives they desire. 

Sarah shares her journey from a competitive athlete navigating physical pain, depression and nervous system burnout, to becoming a profound guide in body~mind coherence. They discuss the complexities of trauma, the multifaceted aspects of the freeze response, and the importance of creating on-ramps (easily accessible gateway tools) to better states of being. Sarah introduces her programme 'Resourced’; a profoundly nourishing container designed to empower women to recognise and prioritise their own needs and preferences. 

This episode is a compelling dive into the genuine relationship between resourcing oneself and authentically experiencing, expressing and evolving through life's highs and lows. You’ll love it. 

Episode Breakdown: 

00:00 Understanding the Impact of Pain on Coherence

01:45 Introduction to Finding Your Way Home Podcast

02:51 Meet Sarah Tacy: Mind-Body Specialist

07:09 Sarah's Journey: From Athlete to Mind-Body Expert

08:39 The Role of Yoga in Healing

10:53 Working with the Nervous System

22:53 The Importance of Relational Health

27:20 Empowerment Through Small Steps

33:20 Expressing Emotions and Building Capacity

34:15 Understanding Trauma and the Freeze Response

41:28 Understanding the Freeze Response

42:30 Layers of Freeze and Their Impact

43:38 Gender Differences in Freeze Response

45:27 Personal Experiences with Freeze and Fight Responses

46:44 The Thawing Process and Emotional Release

54:25 Metaphors and Imagery in Healing

01:07:13 The Importance of Curiosity and Resources

01:13:28 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

To connect with Sarah, find out more about her work and consider joining her in Resourced:

• Follow her on Instagram: @sarahtacyt
• Visit her website: https://sarahtacy.com/about/
• Join the Waitlist for Resourced: https://sarahtacy.com/resourced-waitlist/ 

For more on Finding Your Way Home, including events and spaces at our next retreat in Costa Rica: visit @ab_embodiment or www.ab-embodimentcoaching.org

If you've enjoyed the episode, remember to Subscribe and share it with a friend - you couldn't imagine the profound ripple effect… 

With love, always x

This week, we explore the sacred realm of tantra, sexuality and the spiritual liberation these ancient practices may offer. We're joined by a guest as honest as she is magnetic; someone who's lived was fundamentally and irrevocably changed after experiencing Tantric mysticism. 

Rosa Maxwell is the Founder of the London School of Tantra; an organisation dedicated to educating UK audiences on the profound spiritual impact of so called "White Tantra". As its lead Facilitator and private Tantrica, Rosa joins us for a deeply personal conversation - diving into the origins of this ancient practice, its spiritual and philosophical underpinnings, and why / how in a modern culture so systematically repressed and emotionally disregulated, Tantra offers a solution. 

We go deeply into Rosa's personal story - exploring the early trauma that had left her numb, the low self worth and perfectionism that had ruled her experience in work and play, and the moment Tantra entered her space. It was then that the healing truly began - and she began what has turned into a lifelong mission to learn and share the secrets of this centuries-old form of spirituality. 

Listen in to learn all you wanted to know about how to achieve both deep self-expression and profound connection, in sacred contact with yourself and intimacy with others. A tender and immensely insightful episode for anyone re-evauating their relationship to self, sensuality, partnership and the capacity for abundance. 

To connect with Rosa and find out more about her work: 

• Follow her on Instagram: @rosamaxwell
• Visit her website: https://www.rosamaxwell.co.uk
• Explore the events and trainings (including a beautiful Tantra Facilitator Training, next live in 2026) at https://www.londonschooloftantra.co.uk/

For more on the Finding Your Way Home team, including events and spaces at our next retreat in Costa Rica: visit @ab_embodiment or www.ab-embodimentcoaching.org

And if you've enjoyed the episode, make sure to Subscribe and share it with a friend - you couldn't imagine the profound ripple effect that small act has. Let yourself give as generously as you wish to receive - the circularity never ceases...

With love my friends,

Ax