You know those moments when you're trying to make a decision, but something inside you just feels hesitant, foggy, or unsure?

This episode was made for exactly that.

The Embodied Yes is a guided meditation for coming back to your inner knowing when mental clarity feels out of reach. Instead of forcing an answer, we slow down together, settle the nervous system, and listen to the quieter signals your body is already sending—the ones that get drowned out when we're in our heads.

We're not looking for a dramatic sign or a sudden realization here. We're just creating enough stillness for what's already true to come forward on its own.

This meditation may feel supportive if you’re:

• feeling mentally foggy or overwhelmed by a decision
• noticing tension between what your mind wants and what your body feels
• burnt out from overthinking and craving a softer way through
• wanting to deepen your relationship with your own intuition

Save this one to a playlist for the moments when you need to find your way back to yourself.

Music

Mad Keys — "Tea & Lemonade"

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About this space

Soft Alchemy is the evolution of my earlier work, In Case Nobody Told You. While the name has changed, the heart remains the same: creating grounded, honest spaces for healing, reflection, and liberation—especially for sensitive, intuitive, and self-led beings navigating growth in a complicated world.

A gentle note

This podcast isn’t here to fix you.
It’s here to sit with you.
Let it meet you where you are.
Let your evolution unfold in its own time.

This episode begins a new rhythm inside Soft Alchemy: seasonal energy resets. Think of them as collective resets we’ll return to throughout the year at the edge of each new season. They’re moments to pause, take stock, and gently ask ourselves what the season is asking of us.

Today we’re talking about spring and why this time of year can feel confusing before it feels clarifying. We also explore the larger energetic context we’re moving through right now—the Year of the Fire Horse and a Universal 1 year in numerology—and why this season is less about dramatic reinvention and more about small, honest commitments.

In this episode, we explore:

• why spring can feel disorienting before it feels energizing
• the Ayurvedic idea of “the melt” and how Kapha season moves through the body
• why sensitive people often feel collective moments so intensely
• the Year of the Fire Horse and the seed energy of a Universal 1 year
• what it looks like to cultivate a sustainable fire instead of burning yourself out
• the practice of moving honestly instead of quickly

A few reflections to carry with you

• What part of you is ready to reawaken?
• Where are you still thawing?
• What wants more space in your life right now?
• Where in your body do you feel expansion — even if it’s subtle?
• And where do you feel contraction?

Spring shows up in small shifts: a cracked window, a spoken truth, a single steady decision.

This week, your practice is simple: reflect on these questions. Perhaps you journal about them. Then, choose one thing to complete, or one thing to finally let go of.

Additional practice suggestions

• Declutter one small space and notice how your breath changes as you clear. In Ayurveda, clearing physical space helps move stagnant Kapha.
• Move your body for ten minutes to activate circulation. Gentle movement stirs prana, your life force, so what's been heavy can begin to shift.
• Drink something warm when you wake up. Warm water, lemon water, tea. Warmth first thing gently kindles agni, your inner fire.
• Let one thing remain unfinished this week, on purpose. Completion is sacred, but so is restraint. Sometimes leaving something open is how we remind ourselves that not everything has to be done right now. It's also how we push back against the idea that rest has to be "earned."
  
  

Music

Mad Keys — “Tea & Lemonade”
MULVEY — "Awakening"

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About this space

Soft Alchemy is the evolution of my earlier work, In Case Nobody Told You. While the name has changed, the heart remains the same: creating grounded, honest spaces for healing, reflection, and liberation—especially for sensitive, intuitive, and self-led beings navigating growth in a complicated world.

A gentle note

This podcast isn’t here to fix you.
It’s here to sit with you.
Let it meet you where you are.
Let your evolution unfold in its own time.

As the warmth of spring nears, I wanted to offer a practice that meets this moment of awakening—but one you can return to in any season.

On the Verge of Blooming is a guided meditation for moments when something in you is quietly changing. It's a somatic meditation and embodiment practice designed to support nervous system regulation, gentle emergence, and inner transformation during times of transition.

This meditation may resonate if you're sensing movement beneath the surface but can't yet name what it is. During this full 30-minute practice, we settle into the body through grounding breathwork, somatic body scanning, and gentle visualization—listening for where change is already present and allowing the nervous system to soften at its own pace. There's also space woven in for your intuition to speak.

This practice may feel especially supportive if you're:

• standing on the edge of a new beginning, even if you can’t name it yet
• navigating uncertainty, transition, or quiet internal change
• feeling pressure to “figure it out” or move faster than your body wants to
• longing to trust your timing and soften into what’s unfolding
• seeking calm, grounded intuition rather than activation or urgency

Return to this practice whenever you need to remember: you’re allowed to bloom on your own schedule.

Music

Mad Keys — “Tea & Lemonade”

Continue the journey

Work with me / explore offerings:
srlwellbeing.com

Watch the podcast on YouTube:
youtube.com/@softalchemyspace

Follow along on Instagram

@softalchemyspace
@srlwellbeing
@iamstevierenee

About this space

Soft Alchemy is the evolution of my earlier work, In Case Nobody Told You. While the name has changed, the heart remains the same: creating grounded, honest spaces for healing, reflection, and liberation—especially for sensitive, intuitive, and self-led beings navigating growth in a complicated world.

A gentle note

This podcast isn’t here to fix you.
It’s here to sit with you.
Let it meet you where you are.
Let your evolution unfold in its own time.

I recorded this one while inspired by that late-winter pocket just before the season shifts, where warmth starts flirting with you after the long stretch of cold, and something in you begins to wake up—almost like spirit saying, "not yet… but soon."

This episode is a reflection on the thaw before the bloom, where momentum is building beneath the surface, delays can feel frustrating, and where you’re being asked to keep tending the seeds you've sewn, even when they haven't sprouted yet.

In this episode, we explore:

• expansion and imposter syndrome as your nervous system catches up to your growth
• why delays are spiritual preparation and not punishment
• “not yet, but soon” energy and where it lives in your life
• why winter isn’t a movement season, but a tending season
• how late winter lives in the body
• how to stay grounded before visible proof of transformation arrives

A few reflections to carry with you

You’re welcome to sit with these now, or return to them later—on a walk, while journaling, in the shower, or right before sleep:

• If your body had a weather pattern today, what would it be?
• Where do you feel “not yet, but soon” energy in your life right now?
• Where do you feel the cold—where do you feel like you’re chasing warmth?
• What might this season be trying to show you that you can’t see when you’re rushing?
• Does this scare you because it’s wrong… or because it’s new?
• What would it look like to trust the preparation you’re already in, even if the bloom isn’t visible yet?

Thank you for being here. Thank you for listening. Thank you for letting your presence be part of the medicine.

Music

Mad Keys — “Tea & Lemonade”

Continue the journey

Work with me / explore offerings:
srlwellbeing.com

Watch the podcast on YouTube:
youtube.com/@softalchemyspace

Follow along on Instagram

@softalchemyspace
@srlwellbeing
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About this space

Soft Alchemy is the evolution of my earlier work, In Case Nobody Told You. While the name has changed, the heart remains the same: creating grounded, honest spaces for healing, reflection, and liberation—especially for sensitive, intuitive, and self-led beings navigating growth in a complicated world.

A gentle note

This podcast isn’t here to fix you.
It’s here to sit with you.
Let it meet you where you are.
Let your evolution unfold in its own time.

When I was reading through my journal entries and shaping the first episode of Soft Alchemy, I kept noticing how often my writing returned to the theme of pausing. I was in a space where many things in my life felt unresolved, life hadn’t given answers, and I was being asked to sit with it all without reaching for the next step.

This meditation was birthed from that space.

The Quiet Between Things is a guided practice for moments when life feels suspended between chapters and you’re no longer who you were, but not yet who you’re evolving into.

It invites you into the liminal space we so often rush past: the threshold, the stillness, the breath before clarity arrives. During this practice, we soften into the body, listen to the wisdom of our breath, and explore what it means to surrender without giving up.

This practice is intentionally spacious and simple. There’s nothing to fix, figure out, or perform. You’re invited to let my voice keep you company while your body settles into its own rhythm—breathing, releasing, and remembering that the existence of quiet often means something is forming that we can't yet perceive.

This practice may feel supportive if you’re:

• moving through an in-between season or life transition
• feeling slowed down, paused, or recalibrated by life
• longing to rest without guilt or urgency
• needing a gentle place to land and listen inward

Come as you are, stay as long as you need, and return whenever the quiet calls you back.

Music

Mad Keys — "Tea & Lemonade"

Continue the journey

Work with me / explore offerings:
srlwellbeing.com

Watch the podcast on YouTube:
youtube.com/@softalchemyspace

Follow along on Instagram

@softalchemyspace
@srlwellbeing
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About this space

Soft Alchemy is the evolution of my earlier work, In Case Nobody Told You. While the name has changed, the heart remains the same: creating grounded, honest spaces for healing, reflection, and liberation—especially for sensitive, intuitive, and self-led beings navigating growth in a complicated world.

A gentle note

This podcast isn’t here to fix you.
It’s here to sit with you.
Let it meet you where you are.
Let your evolution unfold in its own time.

Welcome back for the first episode of Soft Alchemy with Stevie Reneé, family.

I recorded this in the kind of season that asks you to slow down whether you want to or not, and leaves you sitting with yourself long enough to notice what you’ve been [unnecessarily(?)] carrying. This is where Soft Alchemy found me: inside a stillness I didn’t choose and a quiet I didn’t know I needed.

In this opening episode, I share the story behind Soft Alchemy—how it became a practice, a framework, and a way of meeting myself when everything around me felt uncertain. We explore the difference between rest and avoidance, the armor many of us learn to wear to survive, and what becomes possible when we soften just enough to let truth rise to the surface.

This episode is a gentle reflection on:

• outgrowing former versions of yourself
• the stillness that arrives without permission
• learning to trust quiet seasons
• remembering softness as strength — not weakness

If you’ve been moving through change, release, or an in-between season—or if something in you has simply been craving a slower pace—I hope this can be a place where you feel like you can exhale.

A few reflections to carry with you

You’re welcome to sit with these now, or return to them later—in the shower, on a walk, while journaling, or before sleep:

• Where in your life is stillness already happening, even if you didn’t choose it?
• What might that stillness be revealing about who you are beneath performance or productivity?
• Where does resistance show up in your body when you try to slow down — and what might it be trying to protect?
• If you softened just one percent more, what new strength might emerge?

Take your time with these. Allow them to walk with you.

Music

Mad Keys — "Tea & Lemonade"

Continue the journey

Work with me / explore offerings:
srlwellbeing.com

Watch the podcast on YouTube:
youtube.com/@softalchemyspace

Follow along on Instagram

@softalchemyspace
@srlwellbeing
@iamstevierenee

About this space

Soft Alchemy is the evolution of my earlier work, In Case Nobody Told You. While the name has changed, the heart remains the same: creating grounded, honest spaces for healing, reflection, and liberation—especially for sensitive, intuitive, and self-led beings navigating growth in a complicated world.

A gentle note

This podcast isn’t here to fix you.
It’s here to sit with you.
Let it meet you where you are.
Let your evolution unfold in its own time.

Hey, love. I’m really glad you found your way here! Whether this is our first time meeting or you’re returning, it’s so good to see you.

I'm deeply honored to welcome you to Soft Alchemy with Stevie Reneé, an audio-visual podcast and listening sanctuary for transmutation, softness, and return. It’s a space for those of us who are learning how to live more gently, not by bypassing what we’ve been through, but by tending it with care.

If we’re just meeting, I’m Stevie Reneé—a storyteller, healing practitioner, and embodiment facilitator. For the past decade, my work has been shaped by one ongoing practice: learning how to turn the hard things I’ve lived through into wisdom, medicine, and deeper presence.

Soft Alchemy was born from a question that kept returning to me during a season of deep stillness:

What if the parts of us that hardened to survive aren’t the end of our story... but the beginning of our alchemy?

Beginning February 1, we’ll return to this altar twice a month to explore that question together. Some episodes will feel like sitting across from me with tea as I share intimate reflections and lived stories interwoven with Vedic wisdom. Others will be guided meditations and gentle practices you can return to whenever your nervous system needs a softer landing.

Every episode is an invitation to:

• settle your nervous system
• listen beneath the surface
• remember who you are

If you’re in a season of transformation, or even just a season of listening, this space was made with you in mind.

So take a breath, let your body settle, and welcome home.

Music

MOZɅRT — "A Rose Is A Rose"

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Work with me / explore offerings:
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Watch the podcast on YouTube:
youtube.com/@softalchemyspace

Follow along on Instagram

@softalchemyspace
@srlwellbeing
@iamstevierenee

About this space

Soft Alchemy is the evolution of my earlier work, In Case Nobody Told You. While the name has changed, the heart remains the same: creating grounded, honest spaces for healing, reflection, and liberation—especially for sensitive, intuitive, and self-led beings navigating growth in a complicated world.

A gentle note

This podcast isn’t here to fix you.
It’s here to sit with you.
Let it meet you where you are.
Let your evolution unfold in its own time.

Hey, family. It’s been a minute, I know. So if you have a moment to get cozy, I have some life updates I'm excited to share with you.

This finale episode is part reflection, part love letter, part sacred pause. I’m sharing why the mic went quiet after February, what’s been stirring beneath the surface, and how life rerouted me into a space I didn’t plan for—but deeply needed.

This isn’t a goodbye, but an evolution. In this final episode of the season, I’m opening up about what it’s meant to release the identity of “Steph R. Long” and step into the wholeness of Stevie Reneé. I’m sharing how YouTube became my new sacred container—and why it now feels like the most aligned expression of my voice, presence, and purpose.

If you’ve ever found resonance in this space, if something I’ve said helped you feel more seen, held, or grounded, then I’d love for you to continue the journey with me over on YouTube: youtube.com/@steviereneewithin

There, you’ll find:

• Vibe Checks — honest reflections on healing, grief, growth, and spiritual truth
• Guided Resets — somatic meditations and breath practices to regulate and return
• Channeled Messages — intuitive transmissions to support your path

And sometimes I share moon rituals, Ayurveda insights, ancestral wisdom, and more.

This space isn’t ending. It’s just moving to a place where I can show up more fully, visually, and truthfully.

We’re closing this season with a few gentle, grounding reflection prompts, especially for those of you in a season of redirection. Because sometimes the plan isn’t the path. And sometimes, what feels like a pause is actually a sacred recalibration.

Reflection prompts from this episode:

• What is closing in your life—not because you failed, but because you’ve outgrown it?
• Where is Spirit whispering (or shouting) that it’s time to move differently?
• What identity are you being invited to shed?
• What would it feel like to trust your unfolding, even without a clear plan?

If this lands for you, take a moment to breathe into it. Journal if you feel called. Let it stir what needs to stir.

And know this: wherever you are on your journey is where you’re meant to be. Trust in that.

I'll see you next season, on whatever medium it takes shape.

With so much love,

Stevie

Continue the journey

Work with me / explore offerings:
srlwellbeing.com

Watch the podcast on YouTube:
youtube.com/@softalchemyspace

Follow along on Instagram

@softalchemyspace
@srlwellbeing
@iamstevierenee

About this space

Soft Alchemy is the evolution of my earlier work, In Case Nobody Told You. While the name has changed, the heart remains the same: creating grounded, honest spaces for healing, reflection, and liberation—especially for sensitive, intuitive, and self-led beings navigating growth in a complicated world.

A gentle note

This podcast isn’t here to fix you.
It’s here to sit with you.
Let it meet you where you are.
Let your evolution unfold in its own time.