The Wild Soul Rising Podcast

Ep.7 Rewiring the Nervous System for Spiritual Expansion

Host Laurie Oakes explores how the nervous system acts as the bridge between the ego mind and the soul, storing both trauma and lessons. She explains why regulation—not force—is the foundation for authentic spiritual growth, and why slow, consistent steps and self-parenting build internal safety.
This episode offers practical framing for high-functioning women: how small, intentional practices (like single-tasking and soothing yourself through discomfort) help expand capacity, trust intuition, set boundaries, and move from fear to faith.
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Ep.6 Your Purpose Isn't a Job — It's Learning to Be

Host Laurie Oakes reframes purpose as the soul's work of being and growing through life's challenges, not as an external role or achievement. Using a cause-and-effect metaphor, she explains why chasing outcomes blocks true purpose and how letting go and embodying emotional growth opens the way.
The episode emphasizes radical responsibility, turning knowing into doing, and how becoming a student of life naturally makes you a teacher—allowing purpose to emerge organically.
 
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Ep.5 Less Is More: Reclaiming Rest, Worth, and Real Productivity

Host Laurie Oakes explores how over-functioning often hides as productivity—why it develops as a survival mechanism, how it stresses the nervous system, and why rest can feel unsafe.
She offers practical awareness-based steps to stop proving and start receiving, heal relationship dynamics, and reclaim sustainable, meaningful action.
 
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Ep.4 Laurie's 2025 Wrapped - The Three Biggest Lessons

Welcome to the Wild Soul Rising podcast with Laurie Oakes. In this episode, Laurie takes a raw, honest dive into 2025's biggest lessons: letting go of control over how others see you, learning the paradox of perspective, and practicing surrender again and again. Laurie shares personal stories, ceremony insights, and how accountability, authenticity, and community shaped her path forward.
 
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Ep.3 Managing & Reframing Seasonal Depression

Host Laurie Oakes invites listeners to reframe seasonal depression as a story we tell ourselves and a chance to sit with emotions, slow down, and create cozy rituals that support mental health.
She offers practical tips—movement, getting outside, making your space a sanctuary—and an invitation to a free 14-day mindfulness challenge to shift your relationship with winter and life’s seasons.
 
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Ep.2 Breaking the Cycle of Control: From Hyper-Independence to Connection

In this masterclass episode, Laurie Oakes explores how control and overfunctioning stem from childhood survival patterns and attachment wounds, and how those patterns show up in one-sided relationships, work, and self-worth. She explains the roots of control as a safety mechanism and outlines practical steps to identify survival strategies, nervous system conditioning, and communication styles.
The episode emphasizes vulnerability, healthy boundaries, and repairing relationships as the path to reclaiming authentic power and connection, and invites listeners to a four-week Relationship Reset to move from control to connection.
 
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Welcome & Welcome Back! Ep.1 The Boomerang Rule: Stop Spiritual Bypass and Own Your Growth

Host Laurie Oakes brings Wild Soul Rising back as a space that blends real-life spirituality with honest, embodied accountability.
This isn’t about bypassing or pretending we’re “above” our human experiences. It’s about meeting them head-on with clarity, compassion, and truth.
Laurie shares her signature “three boomerang rule” for recognizing repeating lessons, explores how to set boundaries without abandoning yourself, and teaches how to discern a head hurt from a heart hurt. At the core of every episode is the call to radical authenticity—showing up as who you really are, even if it means not being everyone’s cup of tea.
Wild Soul Rising is where spiritual growth meets real-world self-responsibility… and where you remember who you were before the world told you to shrink.
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Episode 18: What is Wanting to Die? + The FINALE The Naked Soul Podcast With Shawna Thibodeau

Welcome to episode 18 of the Naked Soul podcast, where we explore the theme of 'what is wanting to die' in our lives. Through discussions, we unravel the spiritual significance behind the end of cycles, guided by the numerology of 2025 as a year of culmination. Together, we explore the universality of personal metamorphosis—the letting go of old self-concepts and life patterns to embrace fresh beginnings.
Join Shawna & Laurie as they share deeply personal insights on professional and personal transformations, the impact of releasing outdated narratives, and the strength found in radical honesty and acceptance. In this heartfelt and final episode, Laurie and Shawna celebrate the podcast's journey, emphasizing the importance of allowing chapters to end with grace and gratitude, while looking forward to new horizons and endless possibilities.

Episode 17: Recognizing Unhealthy & Abusive Patterns in Relationships The Naked Soul Podcast With Shawna Thibodeau

In this episode, we explore how to recognize unhealthy dynamics and patterns of emotional abuse in relationships—whether you’re just beginning to date or you’re in a longer-term connection that doesn’t quite feel right.
Shawna shares a short but powerful experience from her life—a one-month relationship that opened her eyes to the subtle but harmful signs of emotional manipulation and abuse.
We explore:
What emotional manipulation can look like in the early stages
Common signs of unhealthy relationship patterns and emotional abuse, including reactivity, gaslighting, love bombing, and body-based warning signals
How to tune into and trust your intuition when navigating relationships
Shawna’s personal journey of recognizing the red flags and ending the relationship
This episode is an invitation to explore your own relationship dynamics, tune into your inner truth, and make decisions that align with your peace and your highest path.
Your intuition is real.Your peace matters.You never have to abandon yourself to stay connected to someone else.
Resources for Relationships, Domestic Violence & Emotional Abuse:
Local Support:Look up local domestic violence resources or connect with a trusted therapist or counselor in your area.
International Support:
Hot Peach Pages: A global directory of domestic violence agencies and hotlines in over 100 countries🌐 www.hotpeachpages.net
UN Women – Ending Violence Against Women: A global initiative offering education, policy support, and resources🌐 www.unwomen.org
Love is Respect (U.S.-based, globally relevant): Education and support for identifying healthy vs. unhealthy relationship patterns🌐 www.loveisrespect.org
With love,Shawna & Laurie 🤍

Episode 16: Spiritual Bypassing (Part 2) - Integrating All Emotions The Naked Soul Podcast With Shawna Thibodeau

In Part 2 of our conversation on Spiritual Bypassing, we go deeper into what it really means to walk a spiritual path rooted in wholeness, not avoidance.
We talk about the role of challenging emotions—like grief, anger, shame, sadness—not as blocks to spiritual growth, but as portals into deeper truth and presence. So often in spirituality, we’re taught to rise above, stay high-vibe, or “think positive.” But the truth? Real healing doesn’t bypass the pain. It meets it. It listens to it. It lets it be part of the path.
Together, we explore how to embrace the full spectrum of your emotions—light and dark—as part of the spiritual journey. We share personal stories, honest reflections, and grounded practices that help you stop resisting what’s here… and instead begin to integrate what your soul is trying to reveal through it.
This episode is for anyone who’s ever felt like they’re “failing” or not doing "something right" on their personal growth, healing or spirituality because they’re still feeling things deeply.Or for anyone who’s craving a more honest, embodied way to be with their inner world.
Because true peace doesn’t come from escaping your emotions.It comes from including them.
We’re so glad you’re here.Let’s dive in.
With love,Shawna & Laurie 🤍
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