Power and Purpose Podcast #117 Choose Yourself: Healing Love & Core Wounds with Megan Sherer
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Love isn’t something you earn, it’s who you are. In this conversation with somatic therapist, author, and speaker Megan Sherer, we unpack self-sourced love, the limits of talk therapy, attachment styles, core wounds, and practical somatic tools to ground, heal, and choose yourself.
Why love must start within before it’s mirrored by others
How trauma and unhealthy relationships catalyze awakening
The ceiling of talk therapy & why the body is required for change
Attachment styles vs. earned secure attachment
Somatic + grounding practices (including Havening) you can use today
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
02:14 Guest intro (Somatic therapist, author, speaker)
02:26 Signature Q: “Who are you and who are you not?”
05:34 Self-sourced love & early attachment
07:24 Back-to-back traumas as a catalyst for healing
12:27 Why talk therapy isn’t enough on its own
16:59 Breakups, PTSD, and retraining the brain/nervous system
22:31 Attachment styles, labels, and earned secure attachment
25:13 Core wounds (abandonment, betrayal & more)
30:19 The many forms of love: romantic, platonic, familial, communal, higher, self
36:12 Somatic work: feeling to heal
39:10 Grounding practices + Havening
41:35 Journal + somatic “sandwich” for integration
43:28 Megan’s book: Choose Yourself
46:06 Closing wisdom: “Love is who you are”
Website: megansherer.com
Instagram: @megansherer
Book: Choose Yourself: How to Embrace Being Single, Heal Core Wounds, and Build a Life You Love
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