Wild + (finally fcking) Free: Real, Raw Stories of the Disruptors, Rebels + Revolutionaries - S5E16: On Living Well After Trying to Die with Monica Climaco

S5E16: On Living Well After Trying to Die with Monica Climaco

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04/21/25 • 64 min

Wild + (finally fcking) Free: Real, Raw Stories of the Disruptors, Rebels + Revolutionaries

*Trigger Warning*: a heads-up that this episode includes a discussion about su*cide. We approach the topic with care and compassion, but please use your discernment and prioritise your wellbeing.

Monica Climaco (she/they) is a queer, immigrant, neurodivergent somatic practitioner, coach, artist, and activist. Her purpose on earth is to enjoy life being as true to herself as possible, with the hopes that people feel they can be true to themselves as well. Weaving movement, writing, art-making, play, improv, and other creative modalities into her practice, she believes that radical embodied authenticity and aliveness are foundational for healing, transformation, and collective liberation.
As a survivor of su*c*de attempts, Monica is also devoted to providing support and safe spaces for fellow survivors to strengthen their relationships with their reasons to stay, in a world that gives so many to go. Monica has been coaching since 2020, and studying, practicing, and sharing about somatics since 2023.

This is such a beautiful episode with a wise, wild woman, where Monica so generously shares:

her experience with living through the experience of depression and suicide attempts
the role somatic accessing and reweaving and the interplay of mind, body, heart and soul has played in her journey
some of the common sterotypical misconceptions around somatic coaching and a beautiful reclamation around [somatics = sovereignty]
how choice, power, control and feeling the pain of living out of connection with exiled parts of ourselves who just want to be seen and tended to
a delicious discussion around the simple power of naming our feelings and emotional responses and honouring the full spectrum of our human experience

Find Monica on YouTube

And on Instagram @mmmonica_c

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Also mentioned in this episode: Somatics for the People

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This is such a beautiful episode with a wise, wild woman, where Monica so generously shares:

her experience with living through the experience of depression and suicide attempts
the role somatic accessing and reweaving and the interplay of mind, body, heart and soul has played in her journey
some of the common sterotypical misconceptions around somatic coaching and a beautiful reclamation around [somatics = sovereignty]
how choice, power, control and feeling the pain of living out of connection with exiled parts of ourselves who just want to be seen and tended to
a delicious discussion around the simple power of naming our feelings and emotional responses and honouring the full spectrum of our human experience

Find Monica on YouTube

And on Instagram @mmmonica_c

Join Monica's newsletter here.
Also mentioned in this episode: Somatics for the People

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S5E15: Coming Home to Life, Lineage & Land with Amy Babish

This week, I’m joined by the luminous Amy Babish — Amy Babish, MA, LPC, ATR-BC, is a somatic expert, house therapist (Feng Shui), and Alchemical Family & Systems Constellations facilitator. With over two decades of experience (and lifetimes more wisdom in her bones), Amy weaves together ancient traditions, energetic practices, and radical presence to help people transmute pain into power and come home to themselves, their lineage, their land, and their legacies.

We talk about:

How working with the land, stones, and body became her sacred medicine
What it actually means to hold space (and why Amy doesn’t do it the way you think)
The magic of Feng Shui beyond furniture placement to support your environmental magic
How her unique fusion of modalities supports deep transformation across body, home, and lineage
Her radical, equity-centered approach to business and healing
Constellation work, ancestral trauma, and the systemic forces shaping our lives

This conversation is like sitting with a wise woman in the forest—truth, tenderness, and a whole lot of soul remembering.

FIND AMY ONLINE:

🌿 Website: www.amybabish.com

🌿 Instagram: @amy.babish

🌿 The Soulful Visionary Podcast: Available on all major platforms

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

🌿 Amanda Gibby Peters (Simple Shui)

🌿 Sarah Thomas (Stone Medicine)

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S5E17: The Frequency of Miracle Magick with Amanda Young

Ready to ditch the hustle and tap into something way more magical? This episode is a full-body permission slip to believe in miracles again. I’m joined by the deliciously intuitive Amanda H. Young – Miracle Instigator, soul guide, and catalyst for secretly magical humans who are DONE living small and ready to expand into infinite possibility. Think fast, deep, and embodied transformation – no fluff, no bypassing, just truth, clarity, and sovereignty.
We dive into:

Amanda’s journey from corporate long lunches to full-blown miracle midwifery (spoiler: the signs were there all along)
the sneaky ways we block miracles (even when we say we want them)
why trying to “keep the pace” is killing your magic – and what to do instead
what it really means to live in a field of miracles – and how Amanda’s expanding into an even deeper frequency in her work right now

If your soul is craving more ease, more flow, more magic – this convo is especially for you!
Find Amanda and her miracle vortex at www.amandahyoung.com

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Wild + (finally fcking) Free: Real, Raw Stories of the Disruptors, Rebels + Revolutionaries - S5E16: On Living Well After Trying to Die with Monica Climaco

Transcript

Monica Climaco: [00:00:00] I knew intellectually, cognitively there are other ways to be, but then how do I materially, tangibly, physically make that a reality? I could finally tap into my different parts and be like, Hey, it's okay that you made that decision.

Kylie Patchett: Welcome to the Wild and finally fucking free podcast show. This is a space where truth talking gets real. Behind the scenes grit of the future humans is laid bare, and we are cele