Episode Details

What happens when the life you've worked so hard to build suddenly falls apart?

In this episode of The Shaman Stories Podcast, Jeremy sits down with Rebecca Lazzelle, author, retreat host, and founder of Infinite Ember, to explore trauma recovery, corporate burnout, energy healing, and the journey of rebuilding yourself after life takes an unexpected turn.

Rebecca spent years in the corporate world working in Lean Six Sigma process improvement. She was highly analytical, career-driven, and accustomed to approaching problems through logic. But her spiritual journey, personal experiences, and eventual departure from corporate life changed how she understood healing. After surviving domestic violence, Rebecca began rebuilding her life and exploring how practices such as The Emotion Code, The Body Code, mindfulness, and energy work could complement traditional therapy.

In this episode, we explore:

• Moving from a logical mindset into a more intuitive way of living
• - Corporate burnout and the pressure to have everything together
• - Surviving domestic violence and rebuilding self-trust
• - The Emotion Code and the idea of trapped emotions
• - The Body Code and how Rebecca approaches energetic imbalances
• - Muscle testing and the sway test
• - Exploring inherited emotions and ancestral patterns
• - Why healing often involves subtle changes rather than instant breakthroughs
• - Combining energy healing practices with therapy
• - Learning to trust your intuition
• - Working with animals through energy healing
• - Mindfulness, meditation, and simple breathing practices
• - Rebecca's memoir, "What the Fuck Was That? A Memoir of Betrayal and Reclaiming Myself"
• - Her year-long mindfulness journal
• - Creating retreats that introduce participants to different healing modalities
• - The importance of community and finding practitioners who resonate with you

One of the most important themes in our conversation is that healing doesn't always look the way we expect. Sometimes there isn't one miraculous session that changes everything. Sometimes it's the small shifts that accumulate over time. Rebecca also shares how writing her memoir became part of reclaiming her story, and how discovering her creativity challenged the identity she had built around being a purely logical person. We discuss how different healing approaches can work alongside each other, why personal experience can shape the work practitioners offer, and why finding what resonates with you matters more than following one prescribed path. Whether you're navigating burnout, recovering from a difficult relationship, exploring energy healing, or simply trying to reconnect with yourself, this conversation offers a personal perspective on rebuilding a life.

The Shaman Stories Podcast
Presented by Aldren Sanctuary
Wisdom Returned.

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https://www.rebeccalazzelle.com/

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