EP 46: Amanda OMara: How Spinal Energetics Can Shift How You Show Up When Dating and In A Relationship
04/21/25 • 30 min
In this deeply embodied conversation, Lauren Zoeller sits down with trauma-informed somatic practitioner and energetic alchemist Amanda O’Mara to explore how stored trauma, energetic tension, and subtle body cues hold the key to our patterns in love, healing, and wholeness. Amanda breaks down the power of spinal energetics and explains how it helps clients access deep healing beyond words, by unwinding stuck stories at the level of sensation.
Together, they unpack the difference between top-down and bottom-up healing, why you can’t think your way out of trauma, and how energetic release is the missing piece for so many women seeking connection, safety, and true embodiment.
Whether you’re a practitioner, a woman on a healing journey, or someone who feels like they’ve “done the work” but still feel stuck, this episode will shift how you view the body, trauma, and what it means to be fully alive.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Amanda’s journey from structural bodywork to trauma-informed energetic healing
- What spinal energetics actually is and how it helps clients reconnect to their bodies
- How unresolved trauma patterns show up physically—and how to listen to your body’s whispers
- The collaborative dance between practitioner and client in unwinding tension
- Why bypassing the body leads to burnout, dysregulation, and shallow transformation
- How trauma-informed energetic work can help women soften, open, and feel again
- The importance of embodiment for healthy relationships and true self-trust
Quotes:
“Your body is so intelligent. It will show you exactly where you’re holding what you’re ready to release—if you’re willing to listen.” — Amanda O’Mara [00:18:42]
“It’s not about fixing—it’s about remembering. Remembering how to feel, how to trust, how to let your body lead.” — Amanda O’Mara [00:09:31]
“Healing doesn’t always look loud. Sometimes it’s the subtle shift that sets you free.” — Lauren Zoeller [00:27:18]
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In this deeply embodied conversation, Lauren Zoeller sits down with trauma-informed somatic practitioner and energetic alchemist Amanda O’Mara to explore how stored trauma, energetic tension, and subtle body cues hold the key to our patterns in love, healing, and wholeness. Amanda breaks down the power of spinal energetics and explains how it helps clients access deep healing beyond words, by unwinding stuck stories at the level of sensation.
Together, they unpack the difference between top-down and bottom-up healing, why you can’t think your way out of trauma, and how energetic release is the missing piece for so many women seeking connection, safety, and true embodiment.
Whether you’re a practitioner, a woman on a healing journey, or someone who feels like they’ve “done the work” but still feel stuck, this episode will shift how you view the body, trauma, and what it means to be fully alive.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Amanda’s journey from structural bodywork to trauma-informed energetic healing
- What spinal energetics actually is and how it helps clients reconnect to their bodies
- How unresolved trauma patterns show up physically—and how to listen to your body’s whispers
- The collaborative dance between practitioner and client in unwinding tension
- Why bypassing the body leads to burnout, dysregulation, and shallow transformation
- How trauma-informed energetic work can help women soften, open, and feel again
- The importance of embodiment for healthy relationships and true self-trust
Quotes:
“Your body is so intelligent. It will show you exactly where you’re holding what you’re ready to release—if you’re willing to listen.” — Amanda O’Mara [00:18:42]
“It’s not about fixing—it’s about remembering. Remembering how to feel, how to trust, how to let your body lead.” — Amanda O’Mara [00:09:31]
“Healing doesn’t always look loud. Sometimes it’s the subtle shift that sets you free.” — Lauren Zoeller [00:27:18]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
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EP 45: Julie Soloman: How Visibility in Love & Business Starts with Feeling Safe to Be Seen
What if the key to visibility wasn’t just being louder, but being deeply connected? In this heartfelt conversation, Lauren Zoeller sits down with PR expert and relationship-builder Julie Solomon to explore how authentic relationships are the true foundation of sustainable growth in both life and business. Julie unpacks how her early career in publicity taught her that trust, alignment, and connection—not cold pitching—are what actually move the needle. Together, they reflect on the emotional intelligence required to build influence, how somatic awareness plays a role in showing up fully, and why relationships are the strategy when it comes to long-term success.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Welcome and background on Julie Solomon’s journey from traditional PR to personal branding and authorship.
- How Julie redefined success by shifting from external validation to internal alignment.
- The role of somatic awareness and nervous system regulation in building authentic relationships.
- Why relational safety is essential for visibility and self-expression in both life and business.
- Julie’s reflections on “misalignment as protection” and how disconnection can be a nervous system cue.
- Lauren’s personal story of navigating visibility while honoring her body’s signals.
- The difference between strategy-driven PR and relationship-driven influence.
- How to create opportunities by becoming deeply connected to your message first.
- The emotional weight of entrepreneurship and why internal safety fuels sustainable momentum.
- Julie’s advice for women learning to own their voice without burning out or abandoning themselves.
Quotes:
‘The relationship has to be aligned first. That’s where the magic happens.’ — Julie Solomon [00:11:13]
‘If you’re not embodied in the message, no one else is going to buy into it either.’ — Lauren Zoeller [00:17:44]
‘I had to learn that PR isn’t about pushing—it’s about positioning, presence, and people.’ — Julie Solomon [00:23:59]
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EP 47: Rachel Closson - Boundaries Are Hot: The Sexy Side of Saying No.
In this heart-opening conversation, Lauren Zoeller sits down with embodiment mentor and retreat leader Rachel Classen to explore why setting and maintaining boundaries is the true foundation for creating healthy relationships—both with yourself and others. Rachel shares her personal story of how abandoning her own needs led to burnout, resentment, and disconnection, and how learning to set compassionate boundaries changed everything.
Together, they unpack how your internal boundaries shape the partnerships you call in, why intention must precede connection, and how success-driven women often unconsciously block love by crowding out space in their lives.
Whether you’re navigating singlehood, dating, or partnership, this episode will help you rethink boundaries not as walls—but as sacred invitations to deeper love, intentional living, and true fulfillment.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Rachel’s journey from chronic people-pleasing to embodied boundaries
- Why real boundaries start with yourself—not others
- How to reverse-engineer boundaries from your relationship intentions
- The role of daily self-check-ins to maintain your standards
- Why successful women often struggle to create space for love
- How slowing down and creating internal spaciousness magnetizes healthy relationships
- The power of aligned boundaries in cultivating deep intimacy and connection
Quotes:
"When you say yes to everyone else, you’re giving them a diluted version of yourself." — Rachel Classen [00:09:45]"Boundaries aren’t an attack on others. They are an act of devotion to yourself."
— Rachel Classen [00:11:03]
"Presence is the golden ticket—and boundaries are what protect it." — Lauren Zoeller [00:49:12]
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