Your Mind Is a Drama Queen (Your Body Isn’t) - Deep Trust Series Finale

Your mind loves to overthink, doubt, and catastrophize - but your body?
 It’s honest. Always.

In the final episode of the Deep Trust mini-series, we explore what it really means to take the next brave step. To stop negotiating with your thoughts and start listening to the wisdom of your body.

Because deep trust isn’t about control or certainty - it’s about honesty, presence, and learning that safety begins within.

Inside this episode:
 – How to recognize when your body’s telling you the truth
 – The power of radical self-honesty
 – Regulating through fear and doubt
 – Celebrating progress instead of perfection
 – Rebuilding trust from the inside out

🎧 Plus, powerful reflection questions to deepen your connection with yourself:
 1️⃣ What has deep trust come to mean for me throughout this series?
 2️⃣ How can I remind myself of my inner safety when fear or doubt arises?
 3️⃣ What am I learning about who I’m becoming when I choose trust instead of control?
 4️⃣ What’s one way I can honor and celebrate how far I’ve come?
 5️⃣ What’s the next brave step that’s calling me right now - and how does my body feel when I think about taking it?

Keep listening to your body talk.
 Keep trusting your energy.
 And remember - your body always knows. 💜

Chapters

• 1:56 Welcome And Series Recap
• 3:01 Trust As Aligned Action
• 4:16 Nervous System Safety Loops
• 5:56 Self-Honesty And Responsibility
• 8:13 Listening To Body Cues
• 10:48 Feeling Emotions Without Story
• 12:25 Celebrate Small Steps
• 13:34 Reflection Questions Practice
• 17:08 Card Pull And Self-Love Reframe
• 18:29 You Are On Time

Transcript

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Welcome back to the Peer Possibilities Podcast. I'm your host, Shannon, a trauma-informed identity and empowerment coach, energy healer, and creator of the Magic of What If Collection. My work blends neuroscience, energetics, and somatic healing to help you reconnect with your body, regulate your nervous system, and remember who you are beneath all the noise and chaos of the world around you. When we truly embody this work, it is absolutely life-changing. We are now in the final episode of the Deep Trust miniseries. And I have loved this so much, and it has been so incredibly timely for my life. And hopefully, you have benefited from it as well. Over the past several weeks, we've explored what deep trust really means, the foundation of self-trust, the freedom of forgiveness, the illusion of control, and the sacred yet messy middle. And today we're bringing it all together by talking about what's next, the next brave step. Because trust doesn't end when you surrender and it doesn't end when you let go. It continues to evolve every single time you choose to take that next step, even when you don't know exactly where it's leading. Deep trust isn't about waiting until everything's perfect or certain before you move. It's about choosing to move while you're still uncertain. It's choosing to take aligned action, the next brave step with an open heart and a regulated nervous system. One thing that I really find very important is when you create that safety in your body by regulating your nervous system with whatever practice you choose, then you take the step and then you do another practice to reaffirm to your body that you are still safe. And as you continue to do that over and over and over again, your body starts to feel safe and regulated. And you're also reaffirming to yourself that nothing bad happened because you took that scary step and that you're safe. You probably noticed that as you grow, trust begins to look a little bit different. It's not just about having faith in something outside of you, it's about the way you meet yourself. It's the way you respond to your own courage, your own edges, and your own discomfort. I know for me that I find once I take this step, it's the pride that I have in myself. It's how good I feel that I was brave, that I was courageous, that I took that step that I was afraid to take. So it's not just about the result of the action that you took. Hopefully that makes sense. It's not just about faith in something outside of you. Every brave step, big or small, deepens your self-trust. Even when it doesn't go as you expect, you either learn something that redefines your path, or you experience something that maybe expands your confidence. And there are no wrong steps. You are only getting feedback and information that helps you build more awareness, more alignment, and more faith in yourself. I know I've said this before, and I'm gonna say it again, but your body never lies. It will always tell you the truth before your mind can explain it. And we will often dismiss or ignore or suppress what our body is saying because we don't want to admit what we already know. Feel into that. We don't want to admit what we already know. And so we rationalize, minimize, or push down those signals that our body is actually giving to us the heaviness, the tightness, the resistance, especially when we're not being honest with ourselves. And that self-honesty, personal responsibility, awareness, all of that is it's so important. Because if you're not being honest with yourself, how can you actually be honest with other people in your life? And I know that sounds kind of harsh, but it's true when you're lying to yourself and you're not being who you truly are and asking for what you want and need and desire and moving toward those things, taking your aligned action, then it's no wonder you don't trust yourself, right? And how can other people trust you if you're not being honest with yourself? And I say this from a place of love and not judgment. It's not about blaming or shaming yourself, it's really about awareness and being willing to get radically honest with yourself because I've been there too. And sometimes, I mean, I still have days where things come up where I'm like, Shan, you're lying to yourself. You're not being honest with yourself. What do you actually want here? There have been many seasons of my life where I kept pretending that everything was fine. I agreed to do things I didn't want to do, and my whole body was like, no. And then I continued to wonder why I felt so disconnected, frustrated, and resentful. And when I started being honest with myself and being aware of when I'm not being honest with myself, everything began to shift. And it doesn't mean that you just walk away from everyone in your life. What it means is choosing your truths, even when it's uncomfortable, because when you're not being honest with yourself, your body feels it. And that's your cue. It's saying something isn't true for me here, let's get curious about it. And sometimes that honesty looks like having a conversation that changes everything. For example, let's say that you have a family gathering that's the same every single year. You totally dread it every year. And what if instead of like holding that resentment inside, you spoke up politely with compassion and said, Hey, could we maybe do something different this year? And what if you discovered that everyone else has been feeling the same way and nobody was brave enough to say something? And that one honest moment shifted the it's always been this way into something everyone actually enjoys. That's what personal responsibility is. It's it's you're not punishing yourself, you're taking back power in your life. It's saying, I'm willing to take ownership of what's true for me and my energy. Because when you show up in honesty with yourself, you naturally begin to show up in honesty with others, which cultivates trust all around. And when you do that, you rebuild trust from the inside out. Are you catching a theme here? Everything is from the inside out. You're teaching your nervous system that it's safe to be who you really are, fully, truthfully, unapologetically. And then when you start to learn to connect with those cues, the sensations that you feel, the expansion, the contraction that feeling in your chest, the tightness in your stomach, you're not just hearing your body, you are connecting with it. And when you're open to how your body is actually responding, you are better equipped to heal, to move through what's happening and to trust what's unfolding. And that awareness is massive. It is massive. And I have been learning that more and more every day. Like the pings that I get about things that come up. And then once I have the awareness, I have the opportunity to shift. That is how you build real embodied trust. It's not from logic, but from that connection that you have to yourself and allowing yourself to feel through whatever it is that you're feeling, not asking why I'm feeling, why am I upset? Why am I mad? Why am I sad? Why am I? It doesn't, the why doesn't matter. It's allowing yourself to feel those feelings until you're done feeling them. It takes 90 seconds to completely feel through a feeling. Once you go beyond that, you are heading down the path of telling yourself a story. And so you allow yourself to feel what you're feeling without judgment. If I'm feeling angry, maybe I go scream into a pillow. I ask my body, like, what do I need? What do I need in this moment? And then follow that guidance that your body is telling you, that your intuition is telling you, whatever guidance you're receiving from yourself, follow that. If you just need to get up and shake your ass and dance, then get up and shake your ass and dance. And sometimes just moving that energy shifts everything. Think about this for a moment. So every time you take an aligned step, you are showing your nervous system. See, I got this. And that's what builds true safety. Not waiting until life is predictable and certain, but trusting that you can meet yourself no matter what happens next. We are so quick to celebrate the big moments, taking that leap, getting into the relationship, ending the relationship, you know, whatever your big event is, whatever decision you've made, whatever goal you achieved. We celebrate those big moments, but uh taking the step in itself deserves to be celebrated. No matter how small it may seem, celebrate it. I recently had the 15-year anniversary of buying my home. And I was thinking about that yesterday and how grateful I am that I I had moved 14 times between the ages of 18 and 35. And I was all over the place. And now I've been in my home for 15 years, and I did it on my own. And reflecting back to stepping into that next chapter and all of the things that have happened, and also appreciating the ups and the downs and the lessons that I learned through all of those moves. You know, some of the moves were to heal, some of them were to celebrate, you know, and just allowing that path to unfold has brought me where I am now. And I'm so thankful for that. Every step is proof that you are moving with your life instead of resisting it. You are allowing yourself, as I like to say, to dance with the flow of the universe. And it's evidence that you're learning to trust yourself in real time. Building that self-trust is like building any other relationship. It deepens through presence, honesty, and repetition. You are continually showing up for yourself again and again and celebrating that. You connect back when you're feeling wobbly and off course. You connect and then take another step. You listen, you keep choosing yourself. I would like to invite you right now, if it's available to you, to take a moment to place your hand on your heart and close your eyes if that is comfortable and safe to do so. Take a deep breath in, feeling your chest rise beneath your hand. And let your body know as you release that exhale, I can take the next step, even if I can't see the whole staircase. That is deep trust in motion. The next brave step doesn't have to be a gigantic leap. Sometimes it's an email you send, a boundary you set with someone else or with yourself, a conversation you've been avoiding, or a moment where you choose to rest instead of just pushing through. Every one of those moments takes courage. Every one of those moments says, I trust myself enough to listen to what I need right now. And as we continue to do that, we show up differently in our relationships. Let's go ahead and move into our reflection questions for the week. If it's available to you, grab a notebook or open your notes app on your phone and allow these questions to move through you. And they will also be posted in the show description as they always are if you need to come back to them at a later time. The first question is what has deep trust come to mean for me throughout this series? The next one is how can I remind myself of my inner safety when fear or doubt arises? What am I learning about who I am becoming when I choose trust instead of control? What's one way I can honor and celebrate how far I've come? What's the next brave step that's calling me right now? And how does my body feel when I think about taking it? Take your time with those. And again, allow your body, if not your mind, to respond first. That's how you continue to build trust that's embodied and not intellectual. We can't always trust our mind. It is very, very untrustworthy. I think about all the stories that I tell myself all the time. And you know, when you can catch those, that's pretty massive. Okay, now we're gonna move into one of my favorite parts of every episode: a card pull from the Magic of What If collection. We're gonna do deck one today. And the decks are available on my website, purepossibilitiespodcast.com, and just click on shop and it'll take you to the store. Okay. What if I'm willing to believe that I unconditionally love and accept myself? You know, I added the what if I'm willing to believe in there because sometimes the thought of unconditionally loving and accepting yourself feels like a stretch. I mean, let's be honest. Sometimes that really does feel like a stretch. I mean, do you unconditionally love yourself the way you love your children, the way you love your animals? Do you really have that unconditional love towards yourself? And if you don't, what if you're willing to believe that you unconditionally love and accept yourself? Just that small shift in the words can sometimes help um to lighten it a little bit and make it not feel like so much pressure that we put on ourselves. But it's something to really feel into every step you take, every pause, every unexpected detour, it's all part of the timing that's guiding you. You are not behind, you're not off track, you are exactly where you're meant to be in this moment. Deep trust isn't some big finish line at the end. It's not a goal that you're trying to achieve. It's a living, breathing relationship that continues to grow and evolve as you do. And every time you take the next aligned, brave step, you're reminding yourself that you're safe, you're capable, and you're ready for what's next. Keep listening to your body talk, keep trusting your energy, and remember your body always knows. Have a beautiful, beautiful day and an amazing week. Much love.