What if the patterns you’ve spent your life trying to “fix” are actually doorways back to who you truly are?

In this episode, I’m joined by Human Design expert, master coach, and host of the globally recognised Human Design Podcast, Emma Dunwoody. Known for making Human Design and the Gene Keys practical, accessible, and deeply transformative, Emma bridges ancient wisdom systems with modern psychology to help people live in alignment with their authentic nature.

Together, we explore how conditioning shapes our emotional responses, decision-making, and sense of self — and how systems like Human Design and the Gene Keys can support a return to inner authority, clarity, and embodied truth.

This is a grounded, spacious conversation about healing beyond self-improvement, and learning to trust the intelligence already living within the body.

In this episode, we explore:

• What Human Design really is — and how it differs from personality typing

• How the Gene Keys reveal the path from shadow to gift through awareness and compassion

• The impact of conditioning on our nervous system, emotions, and life choices

• Why embodiment is essential for real transformation

• How to make aligned decisions without overthinking

• Moving out of “who you were shaped to be” and into authentic self-expression

• Practical ways to begin living your design in everyday life

About Emma Dunwoody

Emma Dunwoody is a Human Design expert, master coach, author, and the host of the Human Design Podcast. She is the creator of Transformational Human Design, an approach that weaves Human Design, the Gene Keys, and modern psychology to support emotional healing, aligned decision-making, and purpose-led living.

Resources & Links

• The Human Design Podcast: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/the-human-design-podcast

• Learn more about Emma’s work: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/

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In this episode of Toxic Silence, we explore one of the most surprising and intimate relationships in the body:
the connection between the Heart and the tongue.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Heart “opens to the tongue,” governing speech, truth-telling, and the Shen — the light of spirit that animates us. And modern science is now confirming what the classics have always known: nearly half of the body’s bitter taste receptors are not on the tongue… but on the human heart.

Together we explore:

• Why bitter is the elemental flavour of the Heart
• How the tongue reveals the emotional state of the Shen
• What bitterness means emotionally, energetically, and physiologically
• How grief, joy, anxiety, or suppression change someone’s voice and tone
• Why patients are shocked when they realise their tongue has been telling their heart’s story
• How modern genetics is validating ancient Chinese wisdom

This episode bridges ancient lineage and modern science to help you understand:
your Heart has been speaking through your tongue all along.

My Guest today is Dr. Maz Roginski. A Doctor of Chinese Medicine and an expert in Qi, the life-force energy that animates every system of the body. Drawing from 13 years of clinical experience, she blends classical Chinese Medicine with modern science to create precise, embodied rituals that restore vitality, radiance and inner coherence. Her work treats the whole system — nervous system, hormones, digestion, body, mind and soul — through the lens of Qi.

Having rebuilt her own health through the practices she now teaches, Maz guides clients through profound whole-system resets that reignite clarity, resilience and aliveness. Her mission is simple: to help people return to their life force and remember themselves as part of the great flow of nature.

Links

WEBSITE http://drmaz.earth

POD - Balanced Natural Health

Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/balanced-natural-health-with-dr-maz/id1490364806

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/7oqV2zCD7rr9PGJGJDv2ke?si=c6d5f13b0eb64267

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In this episode, we dive into the real world of hypnotherapy — far from stage tricks or swinging watches, and back to its ancient roots in the healing temples of Egypt and Greece. Modern hypnotherapy, shaped by Mesmer, Braid and Erickson, blends psychology, neuroscience and the art of working safely with the subconscious.

Hypnotherapy isn’t about losing control — it’s about reclaiming it.
By guiding us into a natural, focused state of awareness, it opens the doorway to the subconscious, where trauma imprints, fear patterns and old conditioning often live. From here, gentle suggestion, imagery and deep relaxation help the brain form new pathways, release old stories and restore emotional freedom.

We explore:

• What hypnotherapy truly is (and isn’t)

• How it supports trauma healing

• Why the subconscious is key to lasting change

• The science of re-patterning protective responses

• Reconnecting with the original, authentic self beneath conditioning

This conversation is about integration, nervous system repair and reshaping your life from truth, not trauma.

BA Psych, Dip LS Hyp

Lucas Olmos is a trauma-informed Clinical Hypnotherapist and co-founder of Awakening Purpose, where he helps clients across the world release subconscious imprints, rewire protective patterns and return to who they really are.

Links:
Website: https://awakeningpurpose.com.au/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@awakening_purpose

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/awakening_purpose?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

Guest: Lucas Olmos