From Self-Doubt to Self-Trust: Reclaiming Your Whole Self with Gwen Yi

What happens when you stop trying to become someone else... and finally come home to yourself?

In this deeply moving conversation, I'm joined by astrologer, mentor and beautiful friend Gwen Yi, a former Comeback client whose journey over the last year has been nothing short of extraordinary.

When Gwen first came to me, she believed she needed more strategy, more structure and more certainty.

What she discovered instead was something far more powerful.

A return to her own body.

Her own authority.

Her own truth.

Together, we explore what it really means to trust yourself, release the identities you've outgrown, and stop outsourcing your wisdom to everyone else.

This is a conversation about sustainable power, the courage to evolve, and the profound freedom that comes when you stop performing who you think you should be and begin honouring who you've always been.

It's one of my favourite conversations we've ever recorded.

In this episode we explore:

• Why personal evolution often feels uncomfortable before it feels liberating

• The hidden cost of outsourcing your authority

• Learning to trust your body's wisdom instead of constantly overriding it

• Why slowing down can be the most powerful thing you'll ever do

• What it really means to be held in coaching and why true support creates sovereignty, not dependence

• The importance of integration after periods of massive growth

• Reclaiming past versions of yourself instead of feeling ashamed of them

• The difference between performing strength and embodying true power

• Why investing in yourself is often the first act of self-trust

• The beautiful moment Gwen realised she no longer needed to become someone else

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Connect with Gwen Yi

🌿 Website: www.gwenyi.com

🌿 Instagram: @gwenyi

WONG GWEN YI is an Astrologer, Mentor and Guide for Multidimensional Women learning to embrace the Art of Personal Evolution. As a 3/5 Manifesting Generator herself, Gwen’s life has been rife with pivots, U-turns and ups and downs, including founding an empathy training company and leaving an 8-year longterm relationship. Gwen’s hope is to change the narrative around Personal evolution in Asia, not seeing it as shameful or irresponsible, but empowering Women to reclaim their stories, past selves and innate sovereignty through her own lived example.

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In this episode of Meat & Monogamy, Liv is joined by one of her oldest and most beloved friends, Helen Wilkes, founder of The Collab in Sydney, yoga teacher, retreat leader and women’s power coach.

This is a conversation about women who were never built for small lives.

Liv and Helen speak about friendship, sisterhood, power, initiation, business, motherhood, and what it means to become a woman who can actually hold the life she has chosen. They share the origin story of a friendship forged in girlhood, rebellion, protection and being the ones who never quite fit the mould, and trace how that same thread has shaped the women they are now.

Helen shares the deeper roots of her work with power, from witnessing her mother’s journey, to moving across the world with no safety net, to opening her yoga studio, to supporting her partner through a life-altering illness and discovering a level of inner resource she could no longer deny.

And then, the invitation.

This summer, Liv will be joining Helen in Ibiza for Potentiate Your Power, Helen’s flagship retreat, running from 30th June to 6th July.

This is not a holiday with a bit of yoga.

This is a deeply held, high-touch retreat for powerful women who are already living big lives and are ready to be supported, expanded, nourished and met in the next layer of their becoming.

There will be yoga, embodiment, ancient energetics, deep facilitation, sisterhood, gorgeous food, spacious days, Ibiza magic, and one hell of a closing dance floor.

If you have been craving an in-person experience where you do not have to hold everything, perform, explain yourself, or do your growth alone, this episode is your invitation.

Two rooms remain.

Find Helen on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/thehelenwilkes/
Potentiate your Power in Ibiza retreat here: Details here

*Please note prices on the retreat page are in Australia Dollars*

You've thought about the cost of change. The discomfort, the uncertainty, the fear of getting it wrong. But have you ever really looked at what staying is costing you?

In this episode Liv breaks down the hidden invoice of not changing. The one that doesn't come with a number, doesn't announce itself, but quietly debits from your clarity, your self-trust, your energy, and your time.

Through real life examples of women choosing the familiar over the true, Liv reframes the question from "can I afford to change?" to "can I actually afford not to?"

This episode is for you if you're circling something. A decision, a pattern, a relationship, a version of yourself you've outgrown. And you keep telling yourself it's safer to stay.

It isn't. It's just a different kind of expensive.

If you'd like to join for ORIGIN this weekend, you can book your ticket here.

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Two years ago at Easter I was technically homeless in Paris, burned out and suspended between versions of myself. A stranger pulled my cards and said one word that changed everything: provenance.

In this episode I share that story and what it taught me about self-trust, orientation and what it actually means to come home to yourself.

This episode is for you if you have been circling, overriding yourself, or trying to move forward without feeling fully anchored.

We cover: Why most high-capacity women have an orientation problem, not a clarity problem. What self-trust actually is and why it is a return, not a build. Why the moment just before the bloom is the most important moment of all.

Free masterclass: Unshakeable Self Trust. Wednesday 15th April. Link here: https://olivia-lara-owen.kit.com/e2361b0539

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In this episode, Liv is joined by Clara Wisner for a rich and deeply grounded conversation on nourishment, female health, and what it really means to build a life your body can hold.

Together, they explore Clara’s personal journey from deep undernourishment and burnout into the work she now teaches, supporting women to return to the foundations of care, safety, and embodied capacity. They speak about why so many women are living from depletion, the impact of consistently under-eating, how nourishment affects mood, boundaries, self-leadership, and what becomes possible when a woman is truly resourced.

They also explore cycle tracking, feminine physiology, and the importance of learning to know yourself through the body rather than trying to live from the mind alone.

This is a conversation for any woman who feels stretched, tired, reactive, disconnected from her body, or ready to build a steadier and more nourishing way of living.

In this episode, we cover:

• Clara’s nourishment story and how it shaped her work
• Why so many women are undernourished without realising it
• The impact of under-eating on mood, hormones, and nervous system capacity
• Self-leadership, safety, and feeling at home in the female body
• Why cycle tracking can be such a powerful tool for intimacy and self-trust
• Clara’s new programme, Deep Nourishment - to find our more about the live course starting on 30th March find it here. Use code OLIVIA for a 10% discount at checkout.

About Our Guest:

Clara Wisner is a mother, wife, and woman who has lived all that she teaches and guides. She is a nutritionist who teaches nourishment for embodiment and nervous system flourishing.

She blends her knowledge, experience and training around nutrition, minerals, cellular biology and feminine physiology with her deep practice of divine union in service to creation for Life.

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Find Meat & Monogamy with Olivia here.

Book a 75 minute Deep Dive to work with Olivia here.

At certain stages of life, intensity can feel like progress.

Movement, big decisions, and decisive action can create the sense that something is shifting. That you are growing. That you are moving forward.

But intensity is not the same as nourishment.

In this episode of Meat & Monogamy, Olivia explores the difference between adrenaline-fuelled decision-making and the slower, steadier work of building a life that can actually hold you.

Inside this conversation:

• Why intensity can feel productive, even when it isn’t sustainable
• How dysregulation can drive big decisions and constant movement
• Why growth culture rewards adrenaline and overlooks integration
• What nourishment actually looks like in adulthood
• The subtle shame many women feel when they slow down

If you have found yourself cycling between big moves and exhaustion, or questioning whether constant momentum is actually serving you, this episode will help you understand what may be happening underneath.

If something here resonates and you are navigating a threshold that requires more capacity than intensity, you are welcome to explore a 75-minute Deep Dive.

You can book here.

In this deeply moving conversation, Liv sits down with Arabella Oz, a longtime client, creative and filmmaker, to reflect on five years of working together through huge life, identity and creative shifts.

They explore what changes when a woman stops living by shoulds and begins listening to desire, how long-term mentorship supports real transformation, and what it looks like to follow a soul-led creative path even when it asks everything of you.

Arabella shares the arc from her early years of living in tension with herself, through reclaiming desire as an inner compass, to building a beautiful life, marrying her partner, leaving her therapy practice, making her first feature film, and seeing it premiere at her dream festival.

This episode is about creative courage, devotion, pacing, self-trust, spiritual leadership, and the power of staying the course.

In this episode, we explore:

• what it means to move from conditioning into deeper self-trust
• desire as an inner compass rather than a frivolous impulse
• the difference between group work and one-to-one mentorship
• why long-term support creates a different kind of transformation
• the courage required to follow creative callings
• the spiritual and emotional reality of making a film
• becoming the woman who can hold bigger dreams

Timestamps

00:00 Pre-conversation check-in and arriving together
04:31 Arabella shares the emotional context she is in personally
10:36 Setting intentions for the conversation
18:19 Official podcast introduction
19:57 Introducing Arabella and the five-year journey
23:16 How they first met and what Arabella was looking for
26:56 Who Arabella was when she first began the work
31:08 Desire as a new language and way of living
34:06 Rebuilding life through listening to the inner compass
37:11 Gentleness, permission and ending the war with yourself
41:16 The energetic and ceremonial dimensions of the work
46:22 “It would be delicious to live there”
48:02 Following desire into home, love and marriage
49:16 Leaving a therapy practice to make a film
55:58 What filmmaking asked of Arabella as a leader
58:40 Becoming the divinely led filmmaker
01:00:52 Creativity as a spiritual path
01:02:01 Returning to centre inside the film industry
01:03:53 Decision-making, self-trust and waiting for clarity
01:05:47 Confidence that is earned, not performed
01:07:52 Letting yourself be a beginner
01:08:52 Reuniting for one-to-one work after a break
01:11:51 Desire, ceremony and claiming the dream festival
01:15:42 The vulnerability of wanting something deeply
01:17:47 Group work vs one-to-one work
01:21:08 The power of long-term mentorship
01:24:30 What happens when someone knows your whole arc
01:26:00 Arabella’s message to women considering the work
01:27:27 Gentle transformation and immediate nourishment
01:28:36 Maller’s Ghost and its SXSW premiere
01:29:47 Liv reflects on seeing the finished film
01:32:54 Invitation to book a Deep Dive
01:33:56 Closing reflections on bringing creative work into the world

Mentioned in this episode

• Mallory's Ghost by Arabella Oz currently premiering at SXSW Film Festival.

If this conversation stirred something in you and you’re navigating a threshold of your own, you can begin by booking a Deep Dive with Liv. This is a 75-minute session to map what you’re moving through, understand the patterns at pl

Containment Is Not Control

At certain stages of adulthood, structure can feel threatening.

Especially if you are competent, independent, and used to holding everything together yourself.

In this episode of Meat & Monogamy, Olivia explores the difference between rigid control and clean containment, and why high-capacity women often resist the very structures that would support them.

Inside this conversation:

• Why intelligent women can mistake containment for restriction
• The difference between control that contracts and structure that regulates
• Why some containers increase your capacity and others quietly drain you
• How to recognise the difference between a holding environment and a power struggle
• Why real safety increases freedom rather than limiting it

If you have ever resisted structure, struggled with boundaries, or felt unsure whether you were being supported or subtly controlled, this episode will help you clarify what is actually happening.

If something here resonates and you are navigating a threshold that would benefit from clean, steady containment, you are welcome to explore a 75-minute Deep Dive.

Book your Deep Dive here