Don’t Postpone Your Peace - Somatic Experiencing, Mindfulness & Executive Resilience with Elaine Huang
The peace you seek is not a destination.
It is a practice.
A breath.
A moment.
🧘 A Poetic Summary
A sensitive child becomes a guide.
From fashion to social work, from anxiety to breath.She learned to listen to the body's whisperbefore it became a shout.
Now, she teaches leaders to find stillness in the storm.
To not postpone their peace.
To arrive, fully, in the moment.
🎙️ In This Episode
Elaine shares her journey—from an anxious, highly sensitive child of Chinese-immigrant parents, through social anxiety in college, to finding relief through yoga, meditation, and breath-focused practices.
Her core message: "Don't postpone your peace."
She recounts moving from fashion retail into social work and corporate EAP work at AT&T, later teaching meditation seminars in corporate settings and pursuing further clinical training.
Key Topics:
✦ Somatic Experiencing and trauma work
✦ Mindfulness and parts-oriented language in coaching
✦ Psychological safety and vulnerability in teams
✦ Intuition in business leadership
✦ Simple daily micro-practices to reset the nervous system
✦ A corporate case study using orienting and the window of tolerance
💬 Comment
What does "not postponing your peace" mean to you?
Share your thoughts—or a micro-practice that helps you find calm—in the comments below.
We'd love to hear from you.
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🔗 Links
🎙️ Guest: Elaine Huang
https://www.mayyouawaken.com/
🎙️ Host: Dr. Bryan Tierney
www.somaticdoctor.com
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00:00 Don't Postpone Peace
00:58 Show Welcome and Subscribe
01:38 Meet Elaine Huang
03:52 Initiatory Illness Explained
05:51 Anxious Childhood and Belonging
10:11 Yoga and Meditation Breakthrough
13:23 Host's Healing Arts Path
17:49 From Fashion to Social Work
21:40 Mindfulness Enters Corporate
25:12 PhD Doubts and Somatic IFS
29:01 Translating Practices for Execs
32:10 Corporate Case Study: Micro Practices
40:08 Arrivalism and Inner Wellbeing
42:59 Sacred Canopy and Bingo Moments
45:56 Goosebumps as Truth Signal
48:44 Intuition in Business Coaching
51:03 Vulnerability and Team Safety
56:35 Somatic Experiencing Origins
01:01:05 Cerebellum and Resequencing
01:06:46 Satori and Kundalini Opening
01:16:12 Play as Corporate Medicine
01:18:35 Micro Practices for Calm
01:29:02 Hopeful Models of Leadership
01:32:56 Retreats and Final Wrap
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