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 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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