Episode 168 - Why Women Who Hold Others Need Somewhere To Be Held
In this episode of Woman Awake, Claire explores why so many women who hold others — mothers, practitioners, teachers, healers and leaders — often find themselves quietly depleted, despite years of personal growth and healing work.
This conversation moves beyond traditional ideas of healing and into something deeper: capacity.
Claire speaks about the invisible emotional and energetic labour many women carry, why insight alone does not create lasting change, and how sensitivity is not a flaw but a form of intelligence that requires the right support and energetic foundations.
Drawing on her work with energy hygiene, somatic practice and initiatory spaces, she explores why healing work does not fully land unless our energetic capacity expands alongside it, and how learning to self-regulate, self-heal and hold life from a grounded place allows women to support others without depletion.
This episode is an invitation to reconsider what true support looks like, and why spaces of initiation and deep holding are not luxuries, but essential for women navigating modern life, leadership and care.
Claire also shares the deeper intention behind The Qadisha Initiation, a transformational journey designed to help women move from healing into embodiment, sovereignty and sustainable capacity.
A reflective and grounding episode for anyone who feels called to hold others — and is ready to be held too.
In this episode, we explore:
• Why women who support others often carry unseen emotional and energetic load
• The difference between healing and expanding capacity
• How energy hygiene supports sovereignty rather than dependency
• Why insight alone does not create embodied change
• The role of nervous system regulation in sustainable leadership and caregiving
• How sensitivity becomes strength when properly supported
• The importance of learning to hold space — for family, clients, community and self — without depletion
• Why initiatory spaces are deeply needed in modern womanhood
This episode is for you if:
• You often feel responsible for holding others emotionally or energetically
• You feel sensitive, porous or easily drained despite doing inner work
• You’ve done significant healing but sense there is a deeper level of embodiment available
• You are a mother, practitioner, healer, teacher or leader supporting others
• You are seeking grounded spiritual growth that supports real life, relationships and leadership
• You feel called toward greater sovereignty, stability and inner capacity
Show Notes & Next Steps
If this episode resonated, here are the next portals opening to you:
Energy Medicine Masterclass: Returning to your field.
A deeper introduction to energetic hygiene, self-regulation and working with your own energy in a grounded, practical way. Learn simple practices to support emotional balance, energetic clarity and sustainable capacity.
→ Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/5lIPN2BQRkqiJoUQVRZEHQ
The Qadisha Initiation - Learn More
Claire’s signature transformational journey supporting women to move beyond healing into embodiment, sovereignty and expanded capacity. A deeply held space for personal evolution, integration and inner leadership.
→ Explore Qadisha: https://www.claireobeid.com/the-qadisha-initiation
Alchemy and Awakening Women’s Retreat — Byron Bay
An intimate in-person retreat experience devoted to restoration, embodiment and renewal through ceremony, somatic practice and sacred space.
→ View retreat details: https://www.claireobeid.com/retreat
Connect with Claire
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