From a conditioned life,
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Return to You Podcast
Once you begin to awaken life force energy from within your own body, you’ve been initiated onto the path of SELF actualization.
The transformation from a conditioned life to an individuated life is the Return to You.
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Rooted in Psychology and Spirituality, Return to You Podcast will be the portal to liberating Self energy.
Each week Erika drops in with thought leaders and soulful healers for expansive conversations on resolving the conflict trauma created between living and loving directly and intimately.
My guests and I will illuminate the path of individuation and what it takes to dismantle conditioned programming and be SEEN and FELT in your True Self.
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Erika is a multidimensional trauma and relational coach.
She holds an BA/MA in depth and archetypal psychology.
She has an entrepreneurial mind. An athlete’s physicality. An artist's soul. And a feminine heart. She’s spent her lifetime learning how to dismantle SHAME and DEMASCULINZE her sense of Self so she could fully embody her multiplicity.
She fuses spiritual sciences and psychology modalities to help you create flexibility in your nervous system, resonance and romance in your relational field, and soul expansion into your particular genius.
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Taune Lyons
Taune is a licensed therapist and coach devoted to untangling barriers to healthy connection and full-body presence. She holds the language of the nervous system, stories of our bodies and intertwined interdependence with human & non-humans as deeply healing, and is grateful to walk this journey alongside you.
Breath with Ben Bidwell
Ben is a Human Potential Coach and Breathwork Practitioner, who helps people create better relationships and live a more fulfilling and purposeful existence. Having been on his own journey from a man unconsciously drawn to "toxic" behaviours, to an awakened & open soul, his work is deeply authentic & relatable. His compassionate heart creates a uniquely safe space for introspection, allowing for deep healing to arise.
Love and Loss with Morgan Fava
Morgan and I take you on a journey of love and loss and the transformative power of grief. From the arms of safe others to the shower floor, grief will split you open until you accept that grief is love. Morgan guides us in building capacity and safety to move and breathe through emotional releases and speaks to the ramifications of suppressing what we feel. We expand on exquisite self care, body shame, intimacy in platonic relationships, and healing sisterhood wounds.
This is a full spectrum episode that touches on the core of what it means to live in deep reverence for the body with a heart bursted open.
In this episode you’ll learn about:
Grief and love
Symptoms of suppressed grief
How death is a doorway to more
Staying present in the purification process of grief
Why breath work and movement are non-negotiables
Healing the sisterhood wound
Intimacy in platonic relationships
Body shame and mirror work
Cycle syncing for deeper body connection
To Be a Cycle Breaker with Tanner Wallace
In this episode we cut wide open what it means to be a cycle breaker, why parts work is so transformative, and how healing attachment trauma requires relearning how to relate to Self and others.
Tanner shares candidly about her blended family’s journey towards healing CPTSD and how to let go of seeking justice for childhood trauma.
We explore the spiritual components of trauma recovery through ancestral healing and the significance of returning your lineage to neutrality where no more harm is caused.
In this episode you’ll learn:
Recovery from cptsd
How to complete cycles of trauma, not just break them
How to create an internal co-regulator
Releasing dark trauma energy
Returning your lineage to peace
Coming to a place of neutrality
Repairing the internal bridge of trust
The practical implication of parts work
How to come apart and come back together whole
A Season of Solitude with Imani Tutt
In an episode of personal storytelling, Imani and I disclose the cognitive dissonance we both faced during our Master’s programs in Psychology; Studying attachment trauma while simultaneously being in toxic relationships.
From a place of intimate experience and resonance Imani shares why people stay in toxic relationships, the power and clarity available to you in a season of solitude, and how to let pain transform you.
Imani directs us back to childhood as the starting point, teaches us the core issues anxious attachers struggle with, and the antidote to shame.
She redefines love for us, and invites us to stretch into the acceptance that someone can deeply love you and hurt you in moments, but the repair needs to have more bandwidth than that hurt.
To expand a relational container, it will require you to find the edge of service, sacrifice, and how to walk back from Self abandonment.
Heart Medicine with Fernando Gonzalez
In this episode we explore the intersection of neuroscience and spirituality, and how psilocybin is a regenerative path to healing trauma.
Fernando is my personal shaman, doctor, and healer. We share a deeply intimate conversation of the tipping points in both of our lives that lead to the path of plant medicine.
This episode will shed light on the effects of PTSD, the impact of trauma on the brain, and how mushrooms can provide a safe and gentle approach to turning off the alarm bells.
Fernando shares his multidimensional approach to healing, integration, and the ingredients needed to open your heart again.
Fundamental Questions with Dayka Robinson
In this episode I sat down with a dear sister, a companion in the pursuit of truth, and the best question asker I know to explore the value of being direct, staying in integrity when you’re not in integrity, and what it means to really know your Self. Dayka, in her capacity to lead by example and go first, shares the energy needed to foster true Self confidence.
We unpack how to discover your unconscious fundamental beliefs by asking really potent questions, creating clarity around your values and needs, and what the journey to acceptance actually looks like. Acceptance being a deep truth in fostering intimacy. Dayka Robinson speaks, writes, & creates cool shit for unapologetic Truth Tellers (and those who WANT to be). She teaches women how to "let go of who they are & open up to who they can become", and is a guide & mentor for those navigating through unsittable life transitions: deaths & rebirths, relationship endings, & doing that thing God told you to do. Her voice, experience & style have earned national recognition and trust from numerous brands including CNN, Yahoo, HGTV, Essence magazine, Redbook, & more. Dayka’s known for her ability to speak & write with conviction, passion, & authenticity. She’s based in Atlanta & spends her free time in Morocco.
Solving for Safety with Vanessa Cornell
In this episode we discuss what happens when you disconnect from your truth in an effort to solve for safety.
How being told you’re too sensitive, while simultaneously being praised for your strength at a young age, shapes a prescribed life, a lonely life.
We explore how shame gets buried underneath perfectionism, and how the reclamation of needs, particularly rest and play, open a door to liberation.
We expand on what it means to hold space for another, and how it begins with holding space for all of our parts. In the space of curiosity and self inquiry, you learn who you really are.
Vanessa shares that to discover your truth, is to connect with Source and return to love. Instead of solving for safety, learn how to solve for truth.
Vanessa Cornell is the founder of NUSHU, a wellness collective and global community committed to fostering true connection, personal growth, and empowerment. Vanessa graduated from Harvard and went on to work at Goldman Sachs. She then dedicated ten years to growing, birthing and raising her five children. After a lifetime of excelling at meeting external expectations, Vanessa felt deeply disconnected from herself and experienced a breaking apart of everything she had known. NUSHU was born into this space. Through NUSHU, Vanessa offers retreats, courses, and community programming. She has trained hundreds of people to hold powerful space for themselves and others through her signature offerings: NUSHU Group, the How To Hold Space Course, and the NUSHU Group Facilitator Training program. Since her personal awakening, Vanessa has become a relentless and curious observer of the human condition, and a leading voice for true empowerment and a breaking down of the guru paradigm in the wellness space. The truth, she believes, lives, and has always lived, inside each of us.
The Art of Repair with David Chambers
In this episode
David and I explore the art of repair in intimate partnerships. We walk you through setting up micro containers for macro moments of conflict so that you can show your nervous system that conflict actually gets to be regenerative.
We explore the fear based roots of anxious and avoidant dynamics, and how to stretch in your capacity for closeness and healthy dependence for a more secure base.
David shares his wisdom on the space between two people and how to clean up “garbage” on your side of the street so that you can see and be seen by your partner.
To Recieve your Self with Allana Pratt
In this episode we unpack the art of receiving, the use of psychedelics to unfreeze blocked energy stored in the hips, and how to trust your body with intensity. We share with you the number one unconscious belief that is preventing you from breaking retraumatization loops.
Allana shares her story of embodied surrender and how the union of your inner masculine and feminine create the space and potency for higher dimensional gifts to drop in. You’ll witness the journey from living in strategy to living in safety and how to release sexual trauma from your body.
An episode filled with potency, transparency, and resonance.
Sacred Purpose with Jeff Brown
In this episode Jeff and I explore the intersection of human and soul, what it means to be spiritual and grounded, and how to cross the bridge from survivalist consciousness to authentic consciousness.
Jeff teaches us the truth about the Self actualized path and the internal safety and security created through the embodiment of Sacred Purpose.
The In Between Space with Kelly Conkright
The In Between Space with Kelly Conkright
In this episode Kelly shares her wisdom on Personal Branding. She shows us that we all have a brand, it’s who we are, and the more that we know who we are, the more fun life gets to be.
We unpack what it’s like to be a female athlete and how mushrooms were an ally to reconnect to our feminine essences.
We touch on the high achiever archetype and how panic attacks were a major part of breaking free from this pattern.
Kelly shares how our unique geniuses sit adjacent to our achilles heel, and navigating this line is not only sacred, but requires self mastery.
Kelly Conkright is the founder of The Brand Terminal, an independent, global branding agency that launches brands for Fortune 500 companies, start-ups and personal brands. Kelly’s forthcoming book, “EVERYBODY HAS AN F’ING BRAND” lays out the importance of brand as your biggest asset in today’s modern landscape. Kelly has worked in several cities in the past 25 years including Kansas City, London, Paris, Denver, New York, Stockholm, and Los Angeles. She is a passionate speaker for brands like Adobe and Summit with a mission is to help others successfully follow their passion to live a purpose-driven life. Her personal brand sits at the intersection of psychology, self growth and creativity.
The Heroes Journey Home with Sam Gibbs Morris
Sam shares his hero’s journey from drugs and alcohol to sobriety, plant medicine, and spirituality. His upbringing didn’t look like most on the self war path, but his breath and birth trauma, micro and many childhood attachment ruptures were plenty to dislodge Sam from his body and into chronic fight or flight.
This is an episode of profound soul retrieval. We walk through the valley of shame and destruction, and how plant medicine can be used as an ally to simultaneously relax the body and amplify what's hidden from consciousness. This is the art of surrender.
Sam and I both agree there’s so much more beyond AA and the therapy room, but it’s going to require a complete surrendering of your current identity.
Healing is a full circle experience.
Sam Gibbs Morris is a leader at the intersection of men’s work, psychedelics, yogic leadership, and spirituality. He is a speaker, spiritual teacher, psychedelic medicine and breathwork facilitator, and a men's conscious relationship coach, He is also the founder of Transcend Breathwork. Sam has aligned his purpose with his innate gifts; creating safe and nurturing space for men to heal and expand their conscious masculine awareness. Sam has worked with over 2,000 men to guide them home to their core and reconnect with their self-worth, cultivate self-trust, and truly become an unwavering presence in their lives and their relationships.
The Feminine Face of God with Stefanie Marco
In this episode Stef illuminates the ancient roots of Tantra, polarity, and how we begin to heal the relationship to the masculine.
We explore the theme of objectification and how this inhibits sexual healing from being a practice for connecting with God, as well as how it blocks the creation of Sacred Union.
We dive into the feminine desire for “More”, and shed light on how this more can be destructive when coming from wounding, and life giving when coming from the womb.
We connect the dots as to how and why anger is the missing ingredient for intimacy.
Stefanie Marco is a trauma informed somatic healing and love coach whose foundational methods are based in 20 years of studies in Eastern Spiritual Sciences including Tantra, Taoism, Kundalini and Tibetan Buddhism.
Welcome to Return to You Podcast with Erika Straub
Rooted in Psychology and Spirituality, Return to You Podcast will be the portal to liberating Self energy. Each week Erika drops in with thought leaders and soulful healers for expansive conversations on resolving the conflict trauma created between living and loving directly and intimately. My guests and I will illuminate the path of individuation and what it takes to dismantle conditioned programming and be SEEN and FELT in your True Self.