Living Aligned Through the Body: Somatic Healing, Self-Trust, and Embodied Confidence with Liana Blackburn

In this deeply moving episode of Living Aligned, Styled With Purpose, Jessica Papineau sits down with somatic practitioner and former professional dancer Liana Blackburn for a powerful conversation about embodiment, healing, and self-trust. Liana shares her extraordinary journey from performing on global stages alongside icons like Selena Gomez and Lady Gaga to turning inward and listening to the wisdom of her body. What began as a painful seven-year struggle with severe cystic acne became an initiation into somatic awareness, emotional unshaming, and radical self-compassion. Through raw honesty, Liana reveals how suppressed emotions, shame, and disconnection from the body can manifest physically—and how true healing begins when we stop trying to “fix” ourselves and instead learn to listen. 

Together, Jessica and Liana explore what it truly means to live aligned—not just intellectually, but physically, emotionally, and energetically. They unpack why so many women can understand personal growth concepts yet still feel disconnected in their bodies, and how somatic practices like movement, sound, sensation, and curiosity help create real, lasting transformation. Liana explains her approach to helping women move shame out of the body, reconnect with their inner safety, and build trust from the inside out—so confidence becomes embodied, not performative. This episode is an invitation to soften, surrender, and remember that your body is not the problem—it’s the guide.

What You’ll Learn IN THIS EPISODE:

• How unprocessed emotions and shame live in the body—and why trying to “fix” yourself often keeps you stuck, while curiosity and compassion create real change
• What somatic work actually is (beyond the buzzword) and how movement, sound, and sensation help the body integrate transformation in ways the mind alone cannot
• Why confidence and alignment must be embodied, not just understood, and how many women unknowingly stay disconnected even after years of personal growth work
• Simple, accessible practices to build self-trust and emotional safety, so your body becomes an ally—not an obstacle—on your path to living and leading in alignment

ABOUT LIANA 

With over 30 years of embodied experience and a performance career dancing and working alongside Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez, Britney Spears, and Katy Perry, Liana Blackburn now facilitates a different kind of stage, the body. Her somatic and unshaming work supports women in breaking cycles of emotional suppression, unworthiness, and outsourcing wisdom, so they can feel, express, and live with grounded safety and self-trust, and a wild belief in their gifts and do.

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