The Experiential Podcast

In this episode we explore the many different layers of the human experience. By deepening your awareness around the many complexities that are at play, you’ll find it easier to see the bigger picture allowing you to piece together more of the puzzle pieces as you heal your trauma and move towards more coherence and freedom!When it comes to the human experience, you’ll be invited to explore your:●     Somatic experience●     Senses●     Behaviors●     Meaning and memories●     Feelings and emotions●     Energetic experiencesThere’s so much for you to pay attention to, so feel free to digest this episode in segments. I encourage you to take some time to reflect and explore bit by bit so that you can find your own understanding and perspectives of what I’m speaking to here!Happy experiencing!Mentioned Resources:www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-guidehttps://the-experiential-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/the-principles-part-1https://the-experiential-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/the-principles-part-2-003https://the-experiential-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/rewiring-is-possible-discover-the-threads-that-are-at-play-008 About the Host:Learn more about Nicole - www.nicolelohse.com/aboutDownload The Experiential Guide - www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-guideJoin me on the podcast - www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-podcastInstagram - www.instagram.com/nlohseTikTok - www.tiktok.com/@nicole.lohse Thanks for listening!Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!Subscribe to the podcastIf you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.Leave us an Apple Podcasts reviewRatings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.

They say that what’s wired together, fires together. Here’s something else to consider. What fires together ends up getting wired together! This is often a result of trauma and being stuck in the threat response cycle. By recognizing the many different threads that are entangled in the ways you’re stuck in survival, the more you’ll be able to tease apart what’s at play to support a new story to unfold. Thank goodness for neuroplasticity and the brain and nervous system’s ability to be reprogramed. Re-wiring IS possible! The key lies in not getting too wrapped up in the story of what happened, but instead bring your awareness and curiosity to what your experiences. Remember, there’s nothing to fix. See what it’s like to explore in a way where you’re simply deepening your awareness around what’s at play. You may be surprised at how simple awareness and curiosity can lead to some untangling, more space, and possibly even a shift in what it is you’re stuck in! Be sure to download The Experiential Guide and to refer back to Ep 2 and 3 to support any deeper inquiries!  Mentioned Resources:https://the-experiential-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/the-principles-part-1https://the-experiential-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/the-principles-part-2-003www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-guideAbout the Host:Learn more about Nicole - www.nicolelohse.com/aboutDownload The Experiential Guide - www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-guideJoin me on the podcast - www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-podcastInstagram - www.instagram.com/nlohseTikTok - www.tiktok.com/@nicole.lohse Thanks for listening!Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!Subscribe to the podcastIf you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.Leave us an Apple Podcasts reviewRatings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.

How easy is it for you to recognize and express what it is you’re feeling and which of your needs aren’t being met? Do you find communicating what you’re experiencing to others challenging!? If so, I encourage you to check out this episode! I’m joined by Angela Walkley, a NonViolent Communication assessor and trainer and the two of us dive into a conversation around the art of recognizing feelings and needs, not making assumptions and catching when we’re blaming, judging and in perceived stories and the importance of empathy. Angela shares a recent situation she was navigating to support us in making more sense of the brilliant ways NonViolent Communication can help in times of conflict and where people may have very different experiences at play. As someone who’s only recently been introduced to the NonViolent Communication world, I’m excited to share this conversation with you because this work has helped me take more responsibility for my own experiences and see the bigger picture more clearly! Mentioned Resources:For resources and more on Nonviolent Communication, visit https://www.cnvc.org/For more about Angela and her offerings, visit www.angelawalkley.comAbout the Guest:Angela dwells in the beauty of needs that arise in herself and between herself and others. She is an Assessor and Trainer with the international Center for NonViolent Communication. She worked for over a decade leading heart-based decision-making related to land and social justice with indigenous, government, industry and environmental organizations. She meets groups in the space that divides them - to help them hear the depth of what matters to them, to express themselves with care and to find a path forward together. In the more recent decade, she has been offering transformational programs for those that are looking to cultivate a personal and global consciousness of openness, inclusion and connection. Angela lives, works, plays and prays on the unceded lands of the Sahtloot, Sasitla, Leeksun and Puntledge people in western Canada.To study with Angela, please check out her offerings at: www.angelawalkley.com ​​About the Host:Learn more about Nicole - www.nicolelohse.com/aboutDownload The Experiential Guide - www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-guideJoin me on the podcast - www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-podcastInstagram - www.instagram.com/nlohseTikTok - www.tiktok.com/@nicole.lohse  Thanks for listening!Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!Subscribe to the podcastIf you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.Leave us an Apple Podcasts

Once a month Nicole hosts a "Get Curious" episode where people like you, who are interested in untangling from their patterns, join in to explore through Nicole’s guidance.If you’re someone who's feeling constricted, stuck and is always seeking by reading the books, signing up for all the programs, trying out all kinds of different techniques in hopes of things being different, then this episode is for you!Alongside Beth and Macayla and their willingness to share and explore what it is they’re experiencing and stuck in, you too can bring attention to the language of your physiology, discover where it is that you may be stuck in the threat response cycle, and what might happen when you explore your edges. By the end of the episode you'll have a deeper understanding of, and a greater sense of spaciousness around, the ways in which you survive in life.Be sure to download The Experiencial Guide for extra support in your exploraitons!Mentioned Resources:www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-guide Connect with the Host:Learn more about Nicole - www.nicolelohse.com/about Download The Experiential Guide - www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-guide Join me on the podcast - www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-podcast Instagram - www.instagram.com/nlohseTikTok - www.tiktok.com/@nicole.lohse

In this episode I am joined by some of my clients and program participants to discuss our journey with freeze. We share what it was like to begin to recognize that we were living in freeze and how our explorations and relationship to ourselves and our survival patterns continue to evolve over time. You’ll notice that the common theme is that we’re all still navigating aspects of freeze! The key lies in noticing how we’re feeling towards these ways we’re showing up because this is where we often get caught thinking there’s something wrong with us, we spiral into trying to find the ways to fix and change what’s happening when all that’s doing is creating conflict for our reasons for freezing! The importance lies in learning how to create space and witness ourselves in these experiences while being curious about what’s at the core of it all and what else may become possible.My hope in this episode is that you gain more of an awareness of your own experience of freeze and the kinds of survival patterns you find yourself in due to having to disconnect, numb, dissociate and shut down.. I’d love to know what pieces in this you can relate to and what’s helpful! Feel free to share with me on social media.  Mentioned Resources:www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-guide About My Guests: Alex Nicholls Offers Conscious Connected Breathworkwww.inducollective.com www.instagram.com/inducollective Amanda RichardsOffers in person Somatic Experiencing and Touch Sessions or online counselling. https://amandarichards.ca/https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/therapists/amanda-richards-courtenay-bc/903856https://directory.traumahealing.org/practitioner-search/?sms=true&ps=amanda%2520richardsEmmawww.instagram.com/emazingg Pennywww.instagram.com/pennyyounger Connect with the Host:Learn more about Nicole - www.nicolelohse.com/about Download The Experiential Guide - www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-guide Join me on the podcast - www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-podcast Instagram - www.instagram.com/nlohseTikTok - www.tiktok.com/@nicole.lohse

When it comes to exploring your experiences are you able to differentiate the flavours of self, soul and spirit? What does it mean to you to live as a whole, sovereign being? How can you approach your journey in a nurturing way with warmth and curiosity instead of always trying to fix and figure things out? In this episode I’m joined by Chris Dierkes, someone whose teachings have greatly impacted the way I perceive the human experience, and we cover all of this and more!Mentioned Resources:Listen to Chris’s Podcast Liquid Love on Substack - https://cdierkes.substack.com/ About the Guest: Chris Dierkes, is a soul interpreter, transformative energy teacher and practitioner who empowers others to learn the language and their soul and spirit. His work blends ancient wisdom with a contemporary sensibility, offering a 21st-century perspective on spirituality. Chris's approach is deeply rooted, yet open and exploratory, disciplined, and intentional, all while maintaining a lightheartedness that makes it accessible for all.Listen to Chris’s Ppdcast, Liquid Love on Substack - https://cdierkes.substack.com/ Or visit his website - www.chrisdierkes.com About the Host: Learn more about Nicole - www.nicolelohse.com/about Download The Experiential Guide - www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-guide Join me on the podcast - www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-podcast Instagram - www.instagram.com/nlohseTikTok - www.tiktok.com/@nicole.lohseThanks for listening!Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!Subscribe to the podcastIf you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.Leave us an Apple Podcasts reviewRatings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.

This is part 2 of the 2 part series where I guide you through my principles and share some practices for you to explore how to deepen your experience of yourself. In this episode we explore our survival patterns. By recognizing how you experience yourself while in these patterns you can start to get curious about why they are there, how it is that they protect you, manage and control things, and keep you distracted from being in your experiences, and you can start to recognize what else is possible! You’ll also explore how you get in our way of transforming out of your patterns by trying to fix things and coming at things from more of a top down approach. And you’ll discover how to support yourself from a place of wholeness and as an empathic witness. Remember. This series is a way for you to lay a foundation for all the future episodes to come! There’s a lot to take in here. Let whatever nuggets landed be digestted. I’ll be coming back to these princples and these way so of working again and again. Be sure to download the Experiential Guide to support you in reflecting and inquiring. And remember. Less is more!Mentioned Resources:www.nicolelohse.com/experiencial-guide Connect with the Host:Learn more about Nicole - www.nicolelohse.com/about Download The Experiential Guide - www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-guide Join me on the podcast - www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-podcast Instagram - www.instagram.com/nlohseTikTok - www.tiktok.com/@nicole.lohse

This is part 1 of the 2 part series where I guide you through my principles and share some practices for you to explore how to deepen your experience of yourself. I’d like to invite you to pause and notice! Are you ON and alert? Disconnected and shutdown? In an exploratory state? In this episode I speak to the threat response cycle and how our state is often a reflection of our trauma and us stuck somewhere in that cycle. By understanding your autonomic nervous system you’ll also be able to more clearly reflect on the way you move through your day to day. Lastly I invite you to consider when you’re exploring from more of a top down or a bottom up perspective. By paying attention to when you use your resources and coping strategies you’ll be able to notice when you’re directing your experiences versus when you’re staying with your experiences and discovering what else is possible! This is Part 1 of a 2 part series that can be used as a resource as you explore what comes up for you in the Experiential Podcast. Be sure to download the Experiential Guide to support you in reflecting and inquiring. And remember. Less is more. Pause often to digest and integrate what you’re learning here. And I encourage you to come back to this episode again and again!Mentioned Resources:www.nicolelohse.com/experiencial-guide Connect with the Host:Learn more about Nicole - www.nicolelohse.com/about Download The Experiential Guide - www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-guide Join me on the podcast - www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-podcast Instagram - www.instagram.com/nlohseTikTok - www.tiktok.com/@nicole.lohse

I’m excited to share some of my story, some of the ways I work, and some of my perspectives with you! My journey has been one that involved being “fine” and having it all together and I’m grateful for these survival patterns because they got me to where I am today! AND. My ongoing explorations involve the edges of not being fine, not having it all together, and being in the vulnerability of my rawness as I slowly thaw and remember the depth of my human experience. As a Somatic Experiencing and Feldenkrais® Practitioner, I am in constant awe and curiosity of the ways we as humans move through life. The more I see people in their wholeness, the more I also see them in their survival patterns. The amount of grace I experience for this continues to deepen and the level of ease and surrendering it’s leading me to is quite profound. I look forward to sharing this journey with you in so many ways! Mentioned Resources:https://www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-podcast www.nicolelohse.com/experiencial-guide Connect with the Host:Learn more about Nicole - www.nicolelohse.com/about Download The Experiential Guide - www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-guide Join me on the podcast - www.nicolelohse.com/experiential-podcast Instagram - www.instagram.com/nlohseTikTok - www.tiktok.com/@nicole.lohse

Join host, Nicole Lohse, as she she shares with you what The Experiential Podcast is about and how by tuning into our experience of ourselves, by recognizing and entangling from our patterning and conditioning, by reconnecting and remembering how to listen to our impulses, instincts, intuition and deeper knowing, we can reconnect with our internal and collective wisdom.