Conditioning to Consciousness
Conditioning to Consciousness explores the journey from inherited conditioning to embodied awareness — honoring personal healing as a catalyst for collective transformation. It’s for those peeling back layers of stress, people-pleasing, burnout, and self-silencing — and learning how to reclaim autonomy, self-trust, and purpose in a world shaped by systems that keep us disconnected from our bodies and intuition.
Hosted by Jess Callahan, this podcast blends thoughtful conversations with experts and change-makers alongside solo episodes informed by personal healing, post-graduate studies in transpersonal psychology and consciousness, and years of study in nervous system regulation, intuition, astrology, and somatic awareness.
Each episode connects back to five core pillars of healing and awakening:
- Nervous system regulation
- Deconditioning the mind
- Reconnecting with intuition
- Self-discovery
- Integration and embodiment
Rather than bypassing hard truths, Conditioning to Consciousness approaches healing through compassion, curiosity, and grounded awareness — recognizing that personal healing ripples outward into collective change. When even a small percentage of people elevate their consciousness, the world around them begins to shift.
This podcast is for cycle-breakers, system-seers, creatives, and deep feelers who are doing the real work — not to fix themselves, but to remember who they are beneath everything they learned to survive.
Just because the systems are broken doesn’t mean we have to be.
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This podcast has evolved and was formerly published under the name The Becoming You Project.
Conditioning to Consciousness
22. Guided Meditation | Imperfect Gratitude
This time of year can feel so different for all of us — joyful, chaotic, happy, heavy, introspective, playful, hard. Or maybe it feels like a little bit of all of this — all at once. As parents, caregivers, partners, creators, business owners -- whatever roles you're playing — the holidays undoubtedly take a lot out of each of us.
If you’re already juggling the mental load, the emotional load, the planning, the prepping, the hosting, and the everything-in-between… this episode is your reminder that you get to pause, too.
This short bonus episode offers a calming Grounded Gratitude meditation — created as a reminder to tune in and take a moment for yourself... especially when things start to feel chaotic.
In this meditation, you’ll:
- Slow down your breath and settle your system
- Shift out of tension and into presence
- Anchor into gratitude without bypassing how you actually feel
- Reconnect with your own energy before you give to everyone else
- Create a sense of steadiness you can carry through the holiday chaos
The holidays don't have to hijack your nervous system. And you deserve moments of care, too. Gratitude can feel grounded and real — not forced or performative.
You’ll move through the season differently when anchor into yourself first.
Press play and give yourself this moment. You’re worth the pause.
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My Back in the Body Nervous System Healing course is now available! Find it here.
Thanks for listening — I’m so grateful you’re here.