What if learning how to trust yourself is about reconnecting with your body wisdom?
In this episode of The Freedom Pivot Podcast, women's embodiment coach Maddie Brenner-Roach shares why a body-first approach and embodied intelligence can help you navigate a major life transition with greater clarity, confidence, and self-trust. If you've ever felt stuck between what your mind tells you to do and what your body quietly knows to be true, this conversation is for you.
Many intelligent, capable women have done the therapy, the journaling, and the personal development work, yet still find themselves overriding their inner knowing. Together, we explore why that happens, how the nervous system shapes our decisions, and what it takes to stop living "from the neck up" and start trusting yourself from the inside out.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- Why intelligent women often struggle to trust themselves
- What embodied intelligence really means
- How a body-first approach helps you reconnect with your inner knowing
- The difference between intuition, fear, and conditioning
- Why nervous system regulation is the foundation of self-trust
- Maddie's own freedom pivot after burnout, grief, and a panic attack
- Simple ways to begin listening to your body's wisdom during a life transition
- One powerful question to ask yourself whenever anxiety takes over
About Maddie Brenner-Roach
Maddie Brenner-Roach is a women's embodiment coach and 580-hour registered yoga teacher based in the UK. She works with intelligent, self-aware women — often those who've done the therapy, the journalling, the inner work — and still find themselves overriding their own knowing, living from the neck up and unable to make their insights stick.
Her work sits at the intersection of nervous system regulation, somatic practice and reflective coaching, guided by a simple but often-missed truth: you can't think your way into self-trust. You have to feel safe enough to listen.
Her Inner Authority Framework is a body-first methodology that helps women move from self-override to genuine self-leadership — not by thinking more, but by learning to listen to the wisdom of their bodies.
🌿 Website: www.journeyoncoaching.co.uk
🌿 Instagram: @journeyoncoach
🌿 Book a discovery call with Maddie through her website
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