Today we close out a 3-year long season with a tender, grounded conversation about endings, pauses, and how to trust connection through all of them.

In this episode of Wholehearted Loving, Georgianna and Steph share that the podcast will be taking a break through December and January — returning in some new and yet-to-be-determined format in February 2026 — and as usual, they bring it back to relationship, and what we make things mean.

Steph reflects on her past relationship patterns around “breaks” and readiness, while Georgianna shares how this decision to rest represents her own healing and growth — honoring seasons instead of forcing constant productivity. Together, they explore what it means to shift priorities, how to trust love even when it's not visible, and how to stay open and connected to goodness even when life brings change and uncertainty.

Discover how:

• Pausing is an act of trust, not loss

• Absence doesn’t have to mean disconnection

• Endings can hold their own kind of sweetness

"Like finding gold." – Alma W.

"The best therapy I've ever done for myself." – Sanjeev B.

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With love,

Georgianna & Steph

Human Design for Families continues our special two-part series with Human Design reader Kat Fong, diving deeper into how self-knowledge can heal family dynamics.

In this episode of Wholehearted Loving, Kat shares stories of her own children and how understanding their different designs reshaped her home life. She and Georgianna discuss the tension between discipline and flow, structure and rhythm, and how to build a home where every nervous system can breathe. They talk about trusting children’s inner wisdom, finding compassion for your own limitations, and parenting without fear.

Discover how:

• Each child thrives in their own rhythm and environment

• Validation and trust build emotional security better than control

• Human Design helps you parent the soul in front of you — not the idea in your mind

"Like finding gold." – Alma W.

"The best therapy I've ever done for myself." – Sanjeev B.

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Every episode begins and ends with a body-based self-connection practice, helping you grow your capacity to be with all that life brings. Self-reflection prompts each week on @wholeheartedloving. New episodes every Sunday at 10 a.m. PT.

With love,

Georgianna & Steph

Parenting by Design (Part 1) kicks off a special two-part series with Human Design guide Kat Fong (katfong.com), exploring how self-understanding can transform our relationships with our children.

In this episode of Wholehearted Loving, Georgianna and Kat trace their 16-year friendship and share how Human Design has helped them parent with more trust and less fear. Kat reads Georgianna’s chart alongside her 15-year-old son’s and explains why understanding a child’s energy type — in this case, a Generator — can reveal how they process emotions, make decisions, and build self-confidence without parental micromanaging.

Discover how:

• Curiosity creates connection in parent-child dynamics

• Understanding your child’s design eases conflict and builds trust

• Allowing difference can strengthen your bond

"Like finding gold." – Alma W.

"The best therapy I've ever done for myself." – Sanjeev B.

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Get our self-compassionate body-based toolkit

Every episode begins and ends with a body-based self-connection practice, helping you grow your capacity to be with all that life brings. Self-reflection prompts each week on @wholeheartedloving. New episodes every Sunday at 10 a.m. PT.

With love,

Georgianna & Steph

Shadow work around possibilities explores your beliefs and the optional limitations that hold you back in life — and invites you to let others hold a higher vision for you than you're currently able to hold for yourself.

In this episode of Wholehearted Loving, Georgianna and Steph close their shadow work series by exploring the fears that keep us from stepping into our most vibrant, aligned lives. Georgianna shares how others once held impossible visions for her — from working at a dream job in the Netherlands to running her own practice — long before she believed those futures could be hers. Steph opens up about her own shadow beliefs around worth, education, and “deserving” to thrive.

Together, they reveal how shame and self-protection masquerade as humility, why gratitude can sometimes become a cage, and how gentle embodiment practices create the space for possibility to grow.

Discover how:

• Letting others hold a vision for you can change your story

• Fear of “not deserving” is often fear of expansion

• The body teaches us how to hold new dreams with safety and trust

"Like finding gold." – Alma W.

"The best therapy I've ever done for myself." – Sanjeev B.

LIVE training & practice programs:
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Get our self-compassionate body-based toolkit

Every episode begins and ends with a body-based self-connection practice, so you can grow your capacity to be with all that life brings. We also include self-reflection and journaling prompts each week, posted on our Instagram @wholeheartedloving. New episodes every Sunday at 10am PT.

With love,

Georgianna & Steph

Shadow work around numbing, not caring, and giving zero f*cks explores the self-protective side of emotional shutdown — and how to gently reawaken the parts of us that care an awful lot.

In this episode of Wholehearted Loving, Georgianna and Steph unpack how avoidance, denial, and numbness often began as brilliant childhood survival strategies. Georgianna shares a deeply moving story about her son’s “I don’t care” — and how meeting his shutdown with compassion revealed a tender sensitivity beneath the surface. Steph reflects on her own years of “not caring” and how that numbness was actually proof of how deeply she cared, without tools to manage the feelings that come with caring.

Together, they explore how to create inner spaciousness without shutting down, and how to reclaim the part of us that still longs for connection, safety, and care — for ourselves and others.

Discover how:

• “I don’t care” can signal care that’s gone underground

• Spaciousness builds capacity for love, not distance from it

• Feeling is the bridge back to passion and aliveness

"Like finding gold." – Alma W.

"The best therapy I've ever done for myself." – Sanjeev B.

LIVE training & practice programs:
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Get our self-compassionate body-based toolkit

Every episode begins and ends with a body-based self-connection practice, so you can grow your capacity to be with all that life brings. We also include self-reflection and journaling prompts each week, posted on our Instagram @wholeheartedloving. New episodes every Sunday at 10am PT.

With love,

Georgianna & Steph

Shadow work around truth-telling digs into our communication blocks in relationship — and in this context, explores why speaking the obvious truths — the ones we assume people already know — can profoundly shift relationships.

In this episode of Wholehearted Loving, Georgianna and Steph unpack why saying things out loud matters for safety, love, and connection. Georgianna shares how she teaches parents to “bridge the discipline” by reminding kids they’re loved even during conflict, and how those same principles repair adult relationships. Steph reflects on how noticing beauty, grief, and mixed emotions in her surroundings helped her reframe what truth feels like in the body — simple, honest, and regulating.

Together, they explore why so many of us hesitate to express the obvious (“you matter,” “we’re still good,” “I care”) and how this hesitation roots in childhood fear of vulnerability. They show how practicing with objects, photos, or pets builds the muscle to say what’s true — and how those small moments change everything.

Discover how:

• Saying the obvious can calm the nervous system

• Words like “you matter” repair disconnection instantly

• Speaking care out loud turns love into felt safety

"Like finding gold." – Alma W.

"The best therapy I've ever done for myself." – Sanjeev B.

LIVE training & practice programs:
wholeheartedloving.com

Get our self-compassionate body-based toolkit

Every episode begins and ends with a body-based self-connection practice, so you can grow your capacity to be with all that life brings. We also include self-reflection and journaling prompts each week, posted on our Instagram @wholeheartedloving. New episodes every Sunday at 10am PT.

With love,

Georgianna & Steph

Shadow work around performing for connection explores how the roles we learned to play as children — to stay safe, liked, or needed — become the performances we carry into adult relationships.

In this episode of Wholehearted Loving, Georgianna and Steph talk about Conscious Relationship Training, and how it helped them unpack their own performing for connection. Steph shares how comfort in discomfort became her norm, and how she learned to stop creating pain as a form of control. Georgianna opens up about how “being nice” was really about avoiding her own discomfort when others felt bad — and how shadow work helped her find real freedom.

Together, they explore what authenticity actually feels like in the body, how to track “just-right” sensations before things tip into overwhelm, and why performing kindness is never the same as living it.

Discover how:

• Performances for love and safety begin as clever coping and can end as chronic disconnection

• Awareness of your body’s subtle cues can prevent emotional over-stretching

• Real compassion includes yourself — not just everyone else

"Like finding gold." – Alma W.

"The best therapy I've ever done for myself." – Sanjeev B.

LIVE training & practice programs:
wholeheartedloving.com

Get our self-compassionate body-based toolkit

Every episode begins and ends with a body-based self-connection practice, so you can grow your capacity to be with all that life brings. We also include self-reflection and journaling prompts each week, posted on our Instagram @wholeheartedloving. New episodes every Sunday at 10 am PT.

With love,

Georgianna & Steph

Shadow work is a great way to explore what happens when our need to be liked keeps us from being real.

In this episode of Wholehearted Loving, Georgianna and Steph begin with a literal light-and-shadow practice and move into the deeper truth of emotional shadow work: what we hide to stay safe. Georgianna shares a powerful story about her son saying he wanted to “saw his brother in half” — and how meeting that truth with compassion revealed what all humans need when we’re at our most raw. Steph reflects on her own learned “niceness” and how she used intellectual kindness to cover frustration and fear, creating emotional dissonance and disconnection.

Together, they explore how people-pleasing and palatability develop as protective strategies, how they block intimacy, and how self-awareness turns those patterns into power. From relationships to parenting to personal growth, they show what it really means to be fully human — not just polite.

Discover how:

• Niceness can become a mask that hides our needs

• Shadow work reveals the light we’ve hidden to stay safe

• Real connection grows when we stop performing “fine”

"Like finding gold." – Alma W.

"The best therapy I've ever done for myself." – Sanjeev B.

LIVE training & practice programs:
wholeheartedloving.com

Get our self-compassionate body-based toolkit

Every episode begins and ends with a body-based self-connection practice, so you can grow your capacity to be with all that life brings. We also include self-reflection and journaling prompts each week, posted on our Instagram @wholeheartedloving. New episodes every Sunday at 10am PT.

With love,

Georgianna & Steph