Donner est naturel pour beaucoup d’entre nous.

Nous avons appris à offrir, soutenir, anticiper, porter.
Donner nous garde en mouvement. Cela nous donne une forme de contrôle. Cela nous permet de rester en relation sans trop nous exposer.

Mais recevoir est différent.

Il y a un moment dans le corps où quelque chose nous est offert—
un compliment, du soutien, de l’attention—

et au lieu de s’ouvrir, quelque chose se referme légèrement.

Une petite contraction.
Une hésitation subtile.

Pas parce que nous ne voulons pas recevoir,
mais parce que, quelque part en nous, recevoir ne se sent pas complètement sécuritaire.

Recevoir n’est pas une idée.
C’est une capacité du système nerveux.

Si, dans nos premières expériences, nos besoins ont été perçus comme « trop », ou si l’amour était incertain ou conditionnel, le corps s’adapte. Il apprend à donner plutôt qu’à avoir besoin.

Avec le temps, donner devient familier.
Recevoir devient inconfortable.

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C’est pourquoi recevoir ne peut pas être for...

Giving comes naturally to many of us.

We’ve learned how to offer, support, anticipate, and hold.
Giving keeps us in motion. It keeps us in control. It allows us to stay in relationship without feeling too exposed.

But receiving is different.

There is a moment in the body when something is offered—
a compliment, support, care—

and instead of opening, something subtly pulls back.

A small tightening.
A quiet hesitation.

Not because we don’t want what’s being offered,
but because somewhere in the body, receiving doesn’t feel entirely safe.

Receiving is not just a mindset.
It is a capacity of the nervous system.

If our early experiences taught us that our needs were too much, or that love was inconsistent or conditional, the body adapts. It learns to give rather than to need.

Over time, giving becomes familiar.
Receiving becomes uncomfortable.

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This is why receiving cannot be forced.

It begins with safety.

In the body.
In the breath.
In the ability to slow down and stay present.

There are moments in life when everything appears to be working.

From the outside, the path looks successful. The work is meaningful. The structure is clear. We know what we are doing each day and how to measure our progress.

And yet, something inside begins to shift.

Often, the first signals of that shift do not come as clear thoughts or decisions. They appear in the body.

Fatigue that doesn’t go away.
A loss of energy for things that once felt exciting.
A sense of tightness, restlessness, or misalignment that we cannot easily explain.

Before the mind understands what is changing, the body often already knows.

Recently on the Embodied podcast, I had a conversation with wellness entrepreneur and author Meghan Telpner about this exact experience. Meghan built a thriving nutrition and cooking school that served thousands of people over fifteen years. From the outside, her work was impactful, successful, and deeply respected.

And yet, over time, something in her began to change.

The...

C’est le succès.

Parfois, ce n’est pas l’échec qui nous réveille.
C’est le succès.

Le moment où tout est “réussi”…
et où, à l’intérieur, quelque chose murmure :

Pour qui? Pourquoi?

Dans ce nouvel épisode de Pulsion d’éveil, Jean-Marie et moi recevons Rémi Tremblay pour une conversation qui touche à cet endroit précis : le basculement intérieur qui arrive quand on ne peut plus continuer à vivre en mode survie — même si tout semble fonctionner.

Devenir numéro un… et se heurter au vide

Très jeune, Rémi prend la tête d’une grande organisation. Ambition assumée : devenir numéro un en dix ans.

Ils y arrivent.

Et pourtant, au moment où la victoire devrait être célébrée, quelque chose s’effondre.
Une question simple et vertigineuse surgit :

« Oui, on est devenu numéro un… mais pour qui? Pourquoi? »

Il voit le prix payé : la pression, les compromis, l’absence à la maison. Et surtout, il rencontre le vide derrière la performance.

Le succès, quand il est porté par la peur de ne pas ...

Some conversations don’t just live in the mind.
They land in the body.
They move something quietly, without asking permission.

Some conversations don’t inform us.
They work on us.

This week on the Embodied podcast, I had the deep honour of sitting down with Sheila Winter Wallace, a woman whose life has been devoted to one essential question: How do we remember who we truly are—through the body?

Sheila has been walking this path for decades. As a Master WEL-Systems® Educator, CODE Model Coach™, and BodySpirit Integration specialist, her work is rooted not in fixing, but in listening. Not in overriding the body, but in respecting its innate intelligence.

The body is not something to fix.
It is something to listen to.

In this conversation, she shares pieces of her life story with honesty and humility—growing up believing she was “slow,” carrying self-doubt and shame in her nervous system, navigating illness, and slowly, patiently, finding her way home to herself.

What struck me ...

Some conversations feel like nourishment.

In this episode of Embodied, I’m joined by my friend Julie Daniluk—Holistic Nutritionist, bestselling author, and someone who has helped tens of thousands of people shift their relationship with inflammation, sugar, and the nervous system… with both science and compassion.

This season is devoted to trust—trust in ourselves, in life, in the body, in the timing of our becoming. And what I loved about this conversation is how practical and human it is. We talk about the exact moments where trust gets difficult: the moment before a binge, the moment before blame, the moment before you reach for anything that promises relief.

And then we explore what it looks like to widen that moment—so choice can return.

About Julie Daniluk

Holistic Nutritionist Julie Daniluk hosts Healthy Gourmet, a reality cooking show shown in over 78 countries. Her award-winning bestseller, Meals That Heal Inflammation, has helped over 100,000 people enjoy allergy-free ...

New Embodied Podcast Episode with Naomi Irons

What does it really mean to trust life—especially when life brings us to our knees? What does trust feel like in the body, not as a concept or spiritual idea, but as a living force shaped by love, loss, and profound vulnerability?

In this episode of the Embodied podcast, I sit down with my dear friend and spiritual teacher Naomi Irons for one of the most powerful conversations we’ve ever shared. Our topic is trust—trust as a path, a portal, and a spiritual awakening.

This conversation is for anyone navigating a life transition, facing uncertainty, healing from fear, or longing to reconnect with their soul’s deeper wisdom.

Trust at the Threshold: When Life Asks Everything of You

Naomi opens up about the moment her life changed forever: her son’s sudden illness, an unexpected MRI, and the heartbreaking discovery of a large brain tumor. What followed was a profound initiation into trust—not the trust we talk about, but the trust we beco...

There comes a moment—quiet but unmistakable—when something ancient inside you begins to wake up. It can be a shiver in the spine, a sudden warmth in the chest, a knowing you can’t explain. This is the essence of Lemurian Huna: not learning something new, but remembering something impossibly old.

Your lineage is longer than your lifetime.
Longer than your ancestry.
Longer than humanity.

It is a light lineage, stretching from your body in this moment, through the stories and wounds of your ancestors, back into Lemurian memory, further still into the stars that first shaped your soul, and finally into the primordial void—the silent, infinite womb from which all creation emerged.

Lemurian Huna teaches that this lineage lives in you.
In your breath.
In your bones.
In the subtle field around your body.
In the parts of you that have never forgotten where you come from.

We begin with the body because the body is the first doorway. It holds the truth long before the mind can name it. When the bod...

Some people arrive and your nervous system exhales. That’s how it felt the first day I met Dr. Ellen Vora—psychiatrist, acupuncturist, yoga teacher, and author of The Anatomy of Anxiety. Her presence is grounded, medicinal, and deeply embodied. In our latest Embodied episode, we explored how anxiety is less a problem to “fix” in the mind and more a whole-body message asking to be felt, honored, and translated.

Medicine that starts in the body

Ellen’s work gently challenges the old story that anxiety and depression live only “from the neck up.” She invites us to see anxiety as the body’s stress response—often modifiable—rather than a fixed destiny. Sleep deprivation, blood sugar crashes, inflammation, hormone shifts, gut imbalance, alcohol, and even mouth-breathing can create what she calls false anxiety: avoidable suffering rooted in physiology. Sometimes a small, compassionate intervention (yes, even a spoonful of almond butter before the commute) steadies the system enough to chang...

Tu sais ce moment où quelque chose te tire vers l’intérieur, où ton cœur t’envoie un petit signal que tu ne peux pas ignorer ? C’est ça, la pulsion d’éveil. Dans notre tout nouveau balado, Pulsion d’éveil, Jean‑Marie et moi explorons comment accueillir ta vulnérabilité pour découvrir ton essence et répondre à l’appel de ton âme. Et dans cet épisode, on reçoit Sophie Grégoire, qui nous ouvre son cœur et sa sagesse.

Sophie nous rappelle quelque chose d’essentiel : notre corps sait. Il nous envoie des signaux de fatigue, de stress, de palpitations, parce qu’il a essayé toutes les stratégies de survie — fuir, combattre, plaire aux autres… Et parfois, il dit simplement : “ça suffit, je n’en peux plus.” Écouter ton corps, c’est déjà un pas vers toi-même, vers ce que tu es vraiment.

Elle nous parle aussi d’un point fascinant : beaucoup de nos réponses émotionnelles, notre sensibilité à la détresse, ne sont pas seulement génétiques. Elles se transmettent, se vivent dès la vie intra-utérine, ...