With Liz Chandler
The Place of Permission Podcast is an offering of insight from experience in my life, both integrated and still unraveling.
The Place of Permission is an offering of insight from experience in my life, both integrated and still unraveling.
This is a space for anyone who’s ever felt too sensitive, learned to over-function to survive, or felt the ache of longing for depth, honesty, and genuine connection. For those who live in a world that doesn’t always recognize what it took for you to be here.
This is a space for anyone who’s ever felt too sensitive, learned to over-function to survive, or felt the ache of longing for depth, honesty, and genuine connection. For those who live in a world that doesn’t always recognize what it took for you to be here.
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On this podcast, I share stories from my own process of deconditioning—moments of rupture, repair, and return to self. I explore the ways I’ve learned to meet myself and others in my life with more honesty, tenderness, responsibility, and courage. These memories are invitations, perhaps even doorways, to thresholds you might recognize in your own body and life as sacred transitions to becoming your most authentic self.
Through lived experience, reflection, and embodiment practices, I explore what it has meant for me to move through transitions of endings and beginnings, exploring the full range of rage, grief, desire, loneliness, confusion, and being. I talk about nervous system and body wisdom, intimacy, the power of pain and pleasure, psychic, energetic, and intuitive experiences, weaving generational patterns of trauma and healing, and the bravery it takes to stay authentic to yourself when things feel tender, unknown, or met with resistance.
My hope is that my stories offer permission for you to know and love yourself more deeply, to trust what’s emerging for you, and to meet your life and your story with compassion as it unfolds.
If you’ve ever felt alone inside your own experience, this is a place to feel connected and honored in truth.
All of you is welcome here.
Because all of me is, too.
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Liz explores the quiet but powerful shift from seeking belonging outside of herself to reclaiming it within. Through personal storytelling, she reflects on how early experiences of rupture shaped patterns of hypervigilance, overgiving, and the belief that love and safety had to be earned.
Liz invites listeners into the small town of Ashburn, Missouri. Here, Liz reflects on the moments when the structures that once defined safety and belonging begin to fracture, whether it be in a family unit, religion, or the inherited and socialized rules about who we are supposed to be.
Liz explores perfectionism in motherhood as inherited protection. She reflects on how daughters can become afraid of the power of their own voices, and how mothers, carrying their own unresolved fear, can quietly perpetuate cycles of vigilance and unattainable perfection.
Liz explores how trauma shapes the nervous system in the absence of an empathetic witness. Drawing on somatic wisdom and lived experience, she reflects on how unacknowledged pain teaches the body to stay alert, to scan constantly, and to protect through hypervigilance.
Liz invites listeners on a nostalgic journey through the quiet corners of her past to explore the transformative power of play. She reflects on how the stories people told about her as a child often centered on her ability to entertain herself for hours. While she once viewed this independence through a lens of loneliness or neglect, she now sees it as a vital necessity for her nature.
In this opening episode of The Place of Permission, Liz Chandler introduces the heart behind the podcast and the deeper intention guiding her work. She shares how years of holding space for others, as well as her own lived experience, revealed how acutely people are longing for permission to be themselves.
