Episode 7 – The Human Body’s Need for Connection with Angela MacLeod

By Bronte Spicer | September 16, 2021

In this episode we have Angela MacLeod back. She’s a Certified Kiloby Inquiries facilitator, Certified Holden Qiqong Instructor and Certified Embodied Processing Practitioner. Living with a chronic dysregulated nervous system is draining and can result in feelings of suffering and suppressed emotions. Angela shares her experiences with overcoming a difficult childhood and learning to express emotions in order to heal herself. In this episode we talk about:How to improve relationships (with both yourself and others) through new knowledge about co-regulation, circuits, and connection. Awareness and how to re-establish connections in their bodies The way chronic stress affects an individual’s life including fight, flight, fawn, shutdown and people pleasing. The importance of being aware, connected and present which is not always easy while parenting children or dealing with other people’s triggers.

Learn more about Angela and her work via her website https://presenceandflow.life/

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Bronte passionately teaches why and how to feel downright terrifying feelings. It set her free, after all. For 22 years, she thought she would live with depression forever. But it turned out, all she was missing was some vital somatic tools to feel safe in her body.

Bronte empowers individuals and teams of professionals to skillfully shift from being stuck in their head to safe in their body, comfortable in their skin and resourced from within to handle anything that life throws them.

A natural inspiration who is willing to share vulnerable stories, Bronte caters for the needs of both individuals and groups, as they learn to gently sit, feel and heal.

Bronte is a powerful healer, offering single KI and healing sessions, a deep guided 1:1 spiritual journey in the Diamond Mentorship and monthly Shamanic Immersions on djadjawurrung country. She is the author of It’s Okay to Cry: The Gentle Way to Dissolving Depression and award-winning writer for Elephant Journal. She is the host of her own podcast, ‘It’s Okay to Cry’, featuring the untold stories of individual somatic successes from people around the world.

Bronte has facilitated professional development wellbeing workshops and programs to companies, schools and organisations including Westpac, Spiritual Care Australia, Weeroona College and Spring Gully PS to improve wellbeing through feeling.

She holds a Bachelor of Education/Bachelor of Sport and Outdoor Recreation, Advanced Certificate in Guiding and Teaching Meditation and is certified as Reiki Level II Practitioner and Kiloby Inquiries Facilitator.

Bronte believes we need people to know how to feel, not feel better, but to feel the full spectrum of emotions we experience through life. Learning to feel brings connection, authentic expression, joy and purpose to lead fulfilling lives and requires skillful, compassionate somatic inquiry.