Emma Lyons is a transformational healer, subconscious reprogramming guide, and Kundalini yoga teacher who supports purpose-driven women in releasing money blocks and self-sabotage. Once a successful lawyer, Emma realised her achievements were masking deep exhaustion and emotional disconnection. This awakening led her into the world of energy healing and nervous system work, where she discovered how trauma and inherited shame shape our beliefs around money, worth, and success. Through her unique approach that blends energetic healing, embodiment, and subconscious rewiring, Emma helps women rebuild inner safety, restore confidence, and align with their authentic power. Her work invites women to move from survival mode to self-trust, from scarcity to sovereignty, and from burnout to balance—so they can create sustainable success that feels as good as it looks.

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What if your business struggles aren’t a strategy problem—but a safety one?

In this illuminating episode of Talking with the Experts, Rose Davidson speaks with Emma Lyons, a transformational healer and subconscious reprogramming guide, about the hidden roots of money blocks, burnout, and self-sabotage.

Emma shares her own powerful story of leaving a high-stress legal career only to find herself repeating the same patterns in business—fear, procrastination, and undercharging. Through deep nervous system and trauma healing, she discovered how inherited shame and emotional dysregulation quietly shape our beliefs about money and worth.

Listeners will learn why your nervous system might be resisting the very success you say you want—and how to gently rewire your subconscious to receive more ease, flow, and abundance.

This episode is an invitation to stop hustling for validation and start healing for freedom.

✨ You’ll walk away understanding:

• What self-sabotage really means
• Why your nervous system is the key to sustainable success
• How to feel safe earning more and showing up fully

Explore what’s possible when you heal from survival and rise into self-trust.

💡 Three Key Takeaways

1. Self-sabotage is often a protection mechanism, not a flaw—your body’s way of keeping you “safe.”
2. Sustainable success comes when your nervous system feels safe to receive, not just work harder.
3. The fear of success can be more limiting than fear of failure—healing is the key to freedom.

• Emma explains that women are more affected by imposter syndrome and shame due to societal scapegoating, making it difficult to feel safe opening up to receive money and success even when following the right strategies.
• Shame carries such a heavy vibration that it prevents people from rising in their businesses, even when working with amazing coaches and programs, because the issue isn’t about strategy but about clearing internal blocks.
• Women face particular challenges with visibility and authenticity because many were punished in their families for showing up authentically, leading to a need to wear masks and engage in people-pleasing behaviors.
• People-pleasing is predominantly a female behavior pattern where women have been trained from a young age that other people’s feelings are more important than their own, leading to internalized shame.
• Selling personal services brings up self-worth issues and repressed shame because it requires emotional exposure, unlike selling someone else’s products which feels safer due to lack of personal attachment.
• Rose shares her personal experience of childhood trauma and how it affected her self-worth, visibility, and authenticity throughout her work years until she decided to stop playing games and show up as herself.
• Emma identifies that 70-80% of Western families are dysfunctional, often selecting a scapegoat child who becomes the emotional landfill for collective shame and intergenerational trauma that continues into adulthood.
• Scapegoats carry an abnormally strong burden of shame and are programmed for their lives not to be easy or successful, which is why they often end up in therapy doing healing work to reclaim their authentic selves.
• Women have been collectively scapegoated throughout history, and managing money and running businesses is relatively new for women as a collective, creating additional layers of shame around financial success.
• Money and success cannot flow until the nervous system feels safe, because trauma is held in the nervous system which knows things before the conscious mind and has been trained to stay contracted for survival.
• Many women struggle to receive compliments and feel awkward about appreciation, which directly relates to their ability to receive money since both are forms of appreciation energy.
• The biggest fear is not failure but success, because people become comfortable with their current level of struggle and dysfunction, making success feel unsafe and unfamiliar to their nervous system.
• Emma recommends asking “What’s the worst thing that could happen if you were to succeed?” to uncover hidden limiting beliefs about success that keep people stuck at certain income levels.
• Breaking through to the next level requires opening up emotionally to receive more, which feels scary because past experiences have taught that opening up leads to attack or rejection.

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