The Embodied EQ Podcast

Estelle Gibbins runs this show from the premise that self-awareness alone rarely changes anything, which is a quietly radical position in the emotional intelligence space. Her argument, built out over the episodes, is that you can understand exactly why you react the way you do and still repeat the same pattern for years because the knowing lives in your head while the reaction lives in your body. So the show focuses on the nervous system: capacity, regulation, integration. Estelle is an embodied EQ coach with a background in somatic work, and she uses the podcast to walk through what it actually looks like to notice tension, name it, and work with it instead of talking yourself out of it. Episodes tend toward the shorter side and are paced deliberately, with pauses she doesn't edit out. She covers co-regulation in relationships, the somatic signature of chronic overwhelm, why willpower keeps failing for the same emotional patterns, and how to build tolerance for sitting with a feeling without immediately acting on it. The show is newer and the back catalog is still small, but for anyone whose therapy or journaling has stalled at the insight stage, Estelle's framing offers a concrete next step.