Erica Bonham, a licensed counselor and embodied leadership coach, explains how to have a “badass nervous system,” emotional alchemy, and provides tips for listening to your body.
About Erica
Erica Bonham is a licensed professional counselor, speaker, best selling author and embodied leadership coach. Her work bridges individual transformation and collective healing. She leads trainings on EMDR, ancestral trauma, and embodied, heart-led leadership.
In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
- The difference between fake resiliency, a high-functioning trauma response rooted in fear, and true capacity.
- How to stay present with difficult emotions. Instead of avoiding the hard things, learn to use them as fuel for your growth and leadership.
- Moving beyond repeating affirmations like "I am worthy." Shift into an embodied practice where your value is something you feel in your cells, not just something you think in your head.
- Explore the intersection of the body, the heart, and the mind. When you unwind the patterns in all three areas, you stop playing small and start trusting your own intuition and impact.
- Why setting boundaries isn't just a social skill, but a physiological requirement for your nervous system. Strengthening your capacity to say "no" increases your capacity.
Resources Mentioned
Connect with Erica Bonham
Embodied and Unstoppable Workshop
Nervous System Reset Toolkit
Erica’s Book: Always Enough, Never Done
Theme music written and performed by Carter Penny.
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