102 — Effortless Isn't Easy: Trust, Surrender and Showing Up as You, with Brea Segger

What if healing isn't something another person does to you? This week I'm joined by Brea Segger, retreat facilitator, writer and host of the podcast Beneath the Story. She's calling in from her family's permaculture farm on Vancouver Island, though home is mostly Costa Rica these days.

Brea shares the story of leaving a corporate finance career in 2007, ending up on Zanzibar, and floating in the Indian Ocean with nothing to prove. She describes what happened when she finally stopped holding on.

From there we get into the difference between effortless and easy, why trust is the prerequisite for surrender, and why the "broken to be fixed" model of healing takes people's power away. We also talk about why neither of us wants to be needed forever by a client, and how to tell when your work is draining you for the wrong reasons.

In this episode:

• Life across Vancouver Island, Costa Rica and Sydney
• Why Brea moved her family to Costa Rica during COVID, and how a "six month" plan became five years
• Being more of you, and why authenticity is getting harder to fake
• The Zanzibar chapter: dial-up internet, floating in the ocean, and surrendering control
• "Giving up" versus "giving over" (trusting something bigger than us)
• Power over versus power within
• Why a session should leave you energised, and what it means if it doesn't
• The three types of people when it comes to carrying inherited emotional weight
• Doing what's yours to do, like the client who wanted dance, not volunteering
• Walking in nature without headphones (and why 1990s hip hop at the gym is fine too)

Find Brea: 

https://www.breasegger.com/

https://www.instagram.com/breasegger/

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I'm Aléna Turley — Somatic Therapist and Business Mentor for over-extended givers. I help high-achieving healers, educators, and leaders move from chronic depletion to clarity and grounded power.

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