Embodied with Elizabeth Patricia DiAlto Figueroa

My guest in this episode, Jessica Freites, is one of those rare humans who makes you feel like the conversation has been happening for years, even when it just started. We met in Miami, something clicked immediately, and this episode is proof of why. We get into spiritual resilience for sensitive people, the McDonaldizing of mysticism, what growing up with astrology as a mother tongue actually does to you, and what it's like to work with young people every single day in 2026. You'll hear us explore why sensitivity without a physical practice leaves you with only half the map, what the difference between spiritual resilience and nervous system resilience actually is, why pathologizing yourself is a trap when your reactions are actually healthy responses to an unwell society, and what it looks like to trust divine intervention even when it feels lonely. If this lands, leave a comment, subscribe, and send it to the friend who keeps asking you what your moon is without any prompts from you whatsoever. Connect with Jessica: www.12th.haus Connect with Elizabeth: https://elizabethdialto.com/links

What if the path to God started with a hug from a stranger? That's how Salima Adelstein found Sufism 31 years ago, and in this episode she breaks down what this path of the heart actually is, who it's for, and why it's not just for Muslims or mystics with a long reading list. We get into surrender, discernment, the three voices (nafs, the whisperer, and the voice of God), the practice of Tawbah as a washing rather than a punishment, mercy, and how to build what Salima calls a ship of safety inside your heart. We also talk about desire, the Dunyā, and why knowing yourself is how you know God. Connect with Salima and The University of Sufism: sufiuniversity.org sufi5.com salimaadelstein.com Connect with Elizabeth: https://elizabethdialto.com/links

What if shielding people from the consequences of their behavior isn't actually compassionate? What if understanding why someone behaves the way they do doesn't require excusing it? And what happens when caring, patience, niceness, and goodwill become resources other people learn to exploit? A lot of us don't want to lose compassion for anyone's humanity, but it's a real problem when that compassion prevents us from responding appropriately to behavior we find unacceptable. Sara Kassem and I are back together for a conversation about boundaries, people pleasing, consequences, matching energy, spiritual bypassing, self-respect, and some of the spiritual and healing ideas we no longer believe as simply as we once did. We start with Audre Lorde's famous idea that "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" and explore what happens when wisdom that still matters meets new context, lived experience, and nuances we hadn't previously considered. From there, we get into one of the biggest themes of the conversation: consequences. We also unpack the difference between matching someone's energy, matching their effort, and what Sara calls "matching weapons," why overexplaining can become another drain on your life force, the freedom of no longer needing everyone to understand or approve of your choices, and why some forms of wisdom can only be earned through lived experience. Thanks for tuning in! — If you enjoyed this episode, please like, subscribe, and share it with someone who would appreciate the conversation. Connect with Sara: https://www.rebelwithacause.ca/ Connect with Elizabeth: https://elizabethdialto.com/links

This episode is especially for women questioning inherited expectations around who they're supposed to be, what their bodies should look like, what they're allowed to want, and which paths they're permitted to take—and for writers, artists, and creatives navigating the vulnerability of putting deeply personal work into the world.   What if leaving the path you were given isn't a deviation from your life—but the beginning of actually living it?   Kristen Millares Young joins me on The Embodied Podcast for a conversation about women's desire, bodies, creativity, inherited shame, and the stories we've been taught not to tell.   Kristen is an award-winning journalist, novelist, essayist, and author of the memoir Desire Lines. The title comes from the architectural term for the paths people create by repeatedly leaving the prescribed concrete walkway and making another way across the ground.   That image becomes a beautiful entry point into our conversation about women whose lives, bodies, desires, and creative impulses refuse to remain inside the paths laid out for them.   We talk about Kristen's journey from investigative journalism into fiction and memoir, her decade-long investigation into the ancient goddess Cybele, being part of the Cuban diaspora, and historical forces that have shaped women's relationships with their bodies, power, sexuality, and stories.   We also get very personal about body image and aging. Kristen shares how seeing representations of Cybele across centuries helped her recognize her own changing body in the body of the goddess, while we unpack the absurd and often contradictory expectations women inherit around food, thinness, motherhood, sexuality, aging, and beauty.   And because Kristen is a writer, we talk about what it costs to tell the truth publicly: rejection, vulnerability, being perceived, perfectionism, and the emotional labor of standing with a story you were taught never to bring to light.   Thanks for tuning in!   #WomensStories #Desire #Embodiment —   If you enjoyed this episode, please like, subscribe, and share it with someone who would appreciate the conversation.   Connect with Kristen Millares Young: https://kristenmyoung.com @kristenmillares   Get Desire Lines: Print: https://bookshop.org/p/books/desire-lines-kristen-millares-young/af27e3462b28753c?ean=9781636285009&aid=177&listref=fall-2026 Audiobook:  https://a.co/d/06dEDODC   Connect with Elizabeth: https://elizabethdialto.com/links

This episode is for anyone who wants a healthier relationship with money and wealth—whether you have plenty, need more, are navigating financial stress, or simply don't want money anxiety, striving, scarcity, or attachment to consume your life. What if you could want more money, need more money, and pursue more money without letting money determine whether your life gets to feel rich? This is the paradox of wealth. In this episode of The Embodied Podcast, I'm exploring our relationship with money, wealth, enoughness, and prosperity through a mystical lens. Money can matter deeply without becoming the organizing principle of our lives. This conversation began when I woke up on my 43rd birthday feeling extraordinarily wealthy. Nothing had changed financially. I realized how deeply I loved what I already had: my relationships, gifts, capacities, faith, city, body, work, perspective, and the life that has remained after years of change, growth, loss, healing, and becoming. That experience brought me back to a framework I've been developing for years called Soul-Full Prosperity: prosperity rooted in sufficiency, sustainability, soulfulness, selectivity, and satisfaction. We also explore the difference between money, currency, nourishment, exchange, and reciprocity; what happens when we become overly entangled with economic systems; and how to participate in the world without letting those systems dictate the quality or meaning of our lives. In this episode, we discuss: Why paradox is central to mystical life Why money matters without being the same thing as prosperity How financial stress can take over more of life than it deserves The difference between currency and actual nourishment Why loving what you already have can create a genuine experience of wealth Sufficiency: what is actually enough for you? Sustainability and the cost of building lives we can't maintain Selectivity as the missing piece of Soul-Full Prosperity Participating in economic systems without becoming completely enmeshed with them Why your contribution and ripple effect are also forms of prosperity Experiencing beauty, meaning, and satisfaction even when circumstances aren't ideal If you want to explore this more deeply, I'm teaching a Soul-Full Prosperity workshop on September 30, followed by a Collective Healing Session on October 4. Join one or both here: https://elizabethdialto.com/soulfull If you're seeing this after those dates, you can still get the recordings at the same link. Thanks for tuning in!