In this raw and honest episode, Liz explores the ways shame, hypervigilance, and good girl conditioning shaped her relationship to sexuality, pleasure, and power. Through reflections on childhood trauma, intrusive thoughts, inherited family patterns, and her later reclamation through tantra, internal family systems, and embodied practice, she reveals how shame can disconnect us from our bodies and our life force.

This episode is a real conversation about what happens when pleasure and danger become intertwined, how silence and family shame get carried across generations, and what becomes possible when we begin to meet those tender places with honesty, curiosity, and compassion. At its heart, this is an episode about reclaiming authenticity, setting boundaries, and refusing self-abandonment.

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 deeply personal episode of The Place of Permission, Liz shares the story of how the “very good girl” pattern formed in her life and what it has taken to unravel it.

Through memories of childhood rupture, silence, and emotional isolation, Liz reflects on how she learned early to read the emotional landscape of everyone around her while ignoring the signals of her own body. What began as a survival strategy slowly became a pattern of hypervigilance, over-giving, and shaping herself into what others needed in order to feel safe and loved.

In this episode, she explores how those patterns show up in adulthood, the ways anger can become an ally rather than something to suppress, and how practices like Gene Keys, Human Design, rage release, BDSM, and others have helped her reconnect with her own inner authority.

With honesty and compassion, Liz speaks about boundaries, authenticity, sexuality, family dynamics, and the courage it takes to stop outsourcing safety to others. At its heart, this conversation is about learning to trust the body again and discovering that real belonging begins when we stop abandoning ourselves.

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 episode of The Place of Permission, 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.

Drawing from her work with the Gene Keys, nervous system awareness, and embodied practice, Liz unpacks how loyalty rooted in fear can disconnect us from our true nature, and how overextending ourselves can create a false sense of safety rather than genuine belonging.

This episode weaves together experiences of friendship, women’s spaces, sexuality, and self-trust to illuminate what it means to stop proving, stop performing, and begin belonging to oneself. At its core, this is a conversation about unlearning the need to be chosen and remembering that even the parts of us that felt like outsiders were never actually outside.

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 episode of The Place of Permission, 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. As these external authorities lose their certainty or prove fallable, what emerges can feel disorienting and lonely. This startling confrontation can become a threshold to larger expansion into Self. Through personal story and reflection, Liz explores how questioning authority can become a pathway to discovering inner authority, the steady sense of Self that develops when a person begins listening to their own body with curiosity and starts to integrate their lived experience. In a world that often teaches us our belonging must be given by others, this episode offers a different perspective: belonging begins when a person trusts themselves enough to remain present with all parts of who they are and claims their power, purpose, and place from the wisdom that life experience gifts them.

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.

What if the conditioning to become a “good girl” is less about a lack of love and more about generations of nervous systems learning to scan the room for safety?

In Episode 4 of The Place of Permission, 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.

Through honest storytelling, Liz shares the pressure of becoming a mother while still holding the ache of being a daughter. The expectation to do everything differently. The vow not to repeat the past. And the humbling inevitability of imperfection.

This episode invites a deeper curiosity.

What if our mothers were afraid, too?

What if their hypervigilance was a form of love trying to prevent harm?

What if the “good girl” instilled in us is not a personality to cling to, but inherited protection we now have the power to transform?

Rather than blaming mothers, Liz turns toward projection and presence. She explores how anger, fear, and shame do not simply belong to one generation. They echo through the lineage. The invitation is not to collapse under that realization, but to meet it with compassion.

At its core, this episode is about staying. Staying present when shame arises. Staying connected when rupture happens. Staying soft enough to deepen relationship rather than retreat.

Liz reframes the true container of motherhood as something far more powerful than perfection. It is the capacity to express or hear, “Mom, you hurt me,” and not collapse, but soften. To remain present. To allow that moment to become a doorway to deeper connection rather than another inherited wound.

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 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.