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Live: At the Edge of Readiness - A Conversation About Retreats & Choosing Yourself

Release Date: 03/27/2026

Episode 98: The Hidden Shame Behind High-Functioning Women with Lynne Sutherland

Courage Dear Heart

Many high-functioning women carry a hidden belief that something is wrong with them. They appear capable, resilient and successful on the outside, whilst quietly living with anxiety, self-doubt and the persistent feeling that they are never quite enough. In this deeply personal episode of Courage, Dear Heart, I'm joined by my client, Lynne Sutherland, to reflect on the two-year journey that took her from chronic anxiety, people-pleasing and self-abandonment to a place of greater self-trust, courage and aliveness. We begin where I begin every podcast, with one simple...

Episode 97: Feminine Shame & the Female Nervous System

Courage Dear Heart

In this episode, Charli spontaneously joins her Facebook community live to speak about something she's been seeing come up again and again: with clients, in her Circle community, and, most recently, on her Wild Awakening Crete retreat. Feminine shame. This isn't a polished, prepared talk. It's honest, personal, and real, which is exactly why it resonates. Charli covers the difference between guilt and shame, why shame lives in the body and not just the mind, what feminine shame actually is and how our culture programs it into us from birth, how it shows up physically — in our health,...

96: Grief and Grace: A Feminine Transmission on Loss, Cycles & Letting Go

Courage Dear Heart

This is a transmission originally shared inside Charli’s Circle, now released more widely following a recent live conversation. Grief and Grace explores grief through a feminine lens… not as something to fix or move through quickly, but as a cyclical, embodied experience that asks to be honoured. Shared in the midst of personal loss, this transmission speaks to the weight of grief… and the quiet intelligence within it. 🌿 In this episode, we explore: Grief as “making heavy”—the embodied experience in the body The cyclical nature of grief, reflected in seasons, moon...

Live: At the Edge of Readiness - A Conversation About Retreats & Choosing Yourself

Courage Dear Heart

In this live transmission, Charli opens a space to speak about her Wild Awakening Retreats…but as often happens, the conversation moves far beyond logistics. This episode explores the deeper terrain beneath “readiness”—the quiet threshold many women find themselves standing at when something in life no longer fits. Drawing on her work in feminine energetics and the female nervous system, Charli speaks into the patterns so many women live inside… holding everything together, overriding their bodies, and feeling disconnected from themselves despite appearing to cope. This is not a...

95: Rachel Corby on Rewilding, Plant Wisdom, and Remembering We Belong.

Courage Dear Heart

In this episode of Courage, Dear Heart, I’m joined by the wonderful Rachel Corby — personal rewilding coach, plant whisperer, author, and guide into a deeper, more reciprocal relationship with the living world. ...

94: Boundaries, Burnout & Relationship Healing

Courage Dear Heart

In this Wild Awakening Live Q&A, we go beyond the usual boundary talk — past rehearsed scripts and surface-level advice — diving deep into the energetic roots of why boundaries often collapse when we’re stuck in survival mode. Led by Charli Wall, this isn’t about having the perfect words. It’s about understanding why your system might still feel unsafe when you hold a boundary, why exhaustion lingers, and how true healing begins when you stop performing boundaries and start embodying them. We explore the complex intersection of spiritual awakening and relationships, the pain of...

93: Dopamine, Disconnection & the Feminine Way Back to Aliveness

Courage Dear Heart

In this episode of Courage Dear Heart, Charli explores what so many women describe as “lack of motivation,” “burnout,” or “brain fog”, and reveals why the root cause often lies in the nervous system, not the mind. We’ve been taught to fix ourselves through discipline, mindset, and dopamine-driven doing. But what if what you’re really experiencing is dopamine dominance and oxytocin depletion—a body wired for survival, overstimulation, and control, yet starved of safety, connection, and rest? Charli explains the deeper chemistry of the feminine nervous system and how...

92: From Soggy to Sovereign: Karen’s Journey to Courage and Calm

Courage Dear Heart

In this powerful and refreshingly honest episode, Charli Wall sits down with her client, Karen, who shares the intimate story of her journey from “soggy and overflowing” tears to feeling grounded, spacious, and sovereign in her life. In this conversation, we explore: The weight of emotional overflow — how Karen felt consumed by grief, family tensions, and a constant sense of heaviness The courage to reach out — pressing “send” on that first email and defying the inner voice that said “six weeks should be enough” Discovering slow, gentle...

91: Why Some Friendships Drain the Life Out of You

Courage Dear Heart

You leave the café, the call, the catch-up…⁣ ⁣ And instead of feeling filled up, you feel flat.⁣ ⁣ Heavy.⁣ ⁣ Drained.⁣ ⁣ Like your soul’s been wrung out.⁣ ⁣ She talked.⁣ ⁣ You listened.⁣ ⁣ She unloaded.⁣ ⁣ You held it.⁣ ⁣ And not once did she ask how you were.⁣ ⁣ Here’s the truth no one wants to say out loud:⁣ 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹.⁣ 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀...

90: Finding Her Voice Lauren’s Journey Through Motherhood, Anxiety & Courage

Courage Dear Heart

In this deeply moving episode of Courage, Dear Heart, Charli is joined by the courageous and warm-hearted Lauren. Together, they explore Lauren’s journey from the depths of anxiety, disassociation, and suicidal thoughts to finding her voice, her power, and a renewed connection with herself and her son. Lauren openly shares the traumatic early months of motherhood, navigating a complex and misunderstood medical journey with her son Casper, and the profound loneliness she experienced as her inner world began to unravel. Through their one-to-one work together and the nurturing...

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In this live transmission, Charli opens a space to speak about her Wild Awakening Retreats…but as often happens, the conversation moves far beyond logistics.

This episode explores the deeper terrain beneath “readiness”—the quiet threshold many women find themselves standing at when something in life no longer fits.

Drawing on her work in feminine energetics and the female nervous system, Charli speaks into the patterns so many women live inside… holding everything together, overriding their bodies, and feeling disconnected from themselves despite appearing to cope.

This is not a conversation about fixing or becoming someone new…but about coming back into relationship with what is already there.

🌿 In this episode, we explore:

What readiness really looks like (and why it rarely feels like certainty)
The unseen beliefs shaping your choices and life experience
“The water we are swimming in”, unconscious conditioning and inherited patterns
The nervous system’s role in what feels safe, allowed, or possible
The masks women wear to feel safe (people-pleasing, over-functioning, the “good girl”)
The Inanna myth and the descent into the underworld as a feminine threshold
Why it’s not really about time or money… but capacity, safety, and self-permission
The difference between guilt (“I have done something wrong”) and shame (“I am wrong”)
The quiet inner voice beneath the noise—and how to begin listening

🌿 About the retreats
Charli hosts Wild Awakening Retreats in Crete, Spain, and Norfolk.

These are not simply retreats to relax or escape…they are immersive spaces where women can:

Reconnect with their bodies and nervous systems
Explore the deeper patterns shaping their lives
Be witnessed in a non-judgemental, female-led space
Soften out of chronic doing, holding, and performance
Begin building capacity to feel, receive, and choose differently
Each retreat is co-created with the women inside it, with ongoing connection through a private WhatsApp group before and after the experience.

🌿 Ongoing support
For women who want to continue this work beyond the retreats, Charli offers her online community:

The Circle ⭕ is a space for continued exploration, shared experience, and deeper integration through feminine-led teaching, transmissions, and community.

🌿 A note
If you find yourself listening and feeling a pull…but also hesitation… resistance… or uncertainty…This episode invites you to gently explore what sits beneath that, because to be in relationship with something…we have to know what the thing is.

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