In this episode of The Place of Permission, 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 speaks to the ways silence in the face of trauma can become a survival strategy, and how feeling like “too much” often leads to self-abandonment, withdrawal, or internalized vigilance. When these patterns are not named or held with care, they can repeat across families and generations, embedding themselves in the body and feed stories of shame and isolation.

This episode unpacks how hypervigilance is often a profound sensitivity without safety, and how reclaiming your voice within spacious, attuned presence can begin to loosen inherited chokeholds. Through gentle reflection, Liz invites listeners to understand their nervous system responses with compassion, not pathology.

Episode 3 is an offering of permission to slow down, to pause when needed, and to let the body lead the way back toward integration and safety with gentleness and compassion.

Thank you for spending this time with me, friend. Your presence here matters more than you know.

You can find more on social media at @withlizchandler and at withlizchandler.com for sessions, offerings, and ways to walk this work together.

Deep gratitude to my producer Dennis Hull for his wizardry in sound engineering, organizational magic, and steady emotional support and a massive thank you to my admin team at Do What You Love for helping bring this dream to life with patience, encouragement, and steadfast dedication.

And to my closest loved ones- thank you for believing in me, standing with me, and encouraging me to radiate fully and unapologetically as myself. This podcast is woven with your love.

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. As a projector in human design, she realizes that this solitude was not about being unwanted but about needing space to recalibrate and clear her energy.

The memories of Ashburn, Missouri, serve as a backdrop for these revelations about freedom and creative energy. Liz paints a vivid picture of a two block queendom where she was the ruler of her own time, often accompanied by her four legged best friend, Maggie. She notes that these experiences provided a sense of peace that can be hard to find in the rigid constructs of adulthood, where play often feels like just another item on a busy to do list.

Through a recent emotional breakthrough at the beach, Liz shares how she is actively rewriting the narrative of her own isolation. She touches on the sacredness of being alone and how those moments of childhood independence shaped her current ability to navigate the world. By integrating lessons from internal family systems and polyvagal theory, she explores how her younger self was not just playing but was actually building a regulatory foundation for the person she is today.

Thank you for spending this time with me, friend. Your presence here matters more than you know.

You can find more on social media at @withlizchandler and at withlizchandler.com for sessions, offerings, and ways to walk this work together.

Deep gratitude to my producer Dennis Hull for his wizardry in sound engineering, organizational magic, and steady emotional support and a massive thank you to my admin team at Do What You Love for helping bring this dream to life with patience, encouragement, and steadfast dedication.

And to my closest loved ones- thank you for believing in me, standing with me, and encouraging me to radiate fully and unapologetically as myself. This podcast is woven with your love.

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.

Liz reflects on the many moments when clients, strangers, and loved ones have approached her with the words, “This is going to sound weird, but…” followed by stories they’ve never spoken aloud. These encounters shaped her understanding that safety, not fixing or giving advice, is what allows truth to emerge.

Through personal storytelling, Liz explores the slow and sacred process of integration: welcoming the parts of ourselves that learned to stay quiet, vigilant, or small in order to survive. She weaves together her own ongoing journey of reclaiming her voice with the embodied, trauma-informed approach she brings to her sessions, where working with parts is not rushed, corrected, or bypassed, but listened to with reverence and spaciousness.

This episode introduces The Place of Permission as both a podcast and a practice, a space where stories become medicine, where all parts are invited to the table, and where listeners are encouraged to explore their truth at the pace of safety. Liz offers this first episode as an invitation to come as you are, trusting that integration begins not when parts disappear, but when they are finally welcomed home.

Thank you for spending this time with me, friend. Your presence here matters more than you know.

You can find more on social media at @withlizchandler and at withlizchandler.com for sessions, offerings, and ways to walk this work together.

Deep gratitude to my producer Dennis Hull for his wizardry in sound engineering, organizational magic, and steady emotional support and a massive thank you to my admin team at Do What You Love for helping bring this dream to life with patience, encouragement, and steadfast dedication.

And to my closest loved ones- thank you for believing in me, standing with me, and encouraging me to radiate fully and unapologetically as myself. This podcast is woven with your love.