Becca Clegg LPC

Becca Clegg LPC ✨ Psychotherapy, Intuitive Coaching + Group Mentorship
✨ For women ready to trust their voice, embody their truth & lead with clarity
🌿 Inner shifts.

Real power. Your way.
🎙️Host - Inner Alchemy Podcast *Online Counseling - Licensed in Georgia and Maine
*Book - Ending The Diet Mindset: Reclaim and Healthy Relationship with Food & Body Image
*Online Program: Your Recovery Resource: A Program To Navigate Your Loved One's Eating Disorder Recovery
*Podcast - The Inner Alchemy Podcast
*Private Counseling Practice - Authentic Living, LLC - Our therapists provide online counseling in Georgia specializing in Eating Disorders, Body Image, Women's Issues, Young Adults + Teens, Depression, Anxiety, Grief

There was a long stretch of my life where I trusted everyone else more than I trusted myself. Systems. Authority. The lo...
02/26/2026

There was a long stretch of my life where I trusted everyone else more than I trusted myself. Systems. Authority. The loudest voice in the room. The version of me that could perform and achieve.

But I didn’t trust the quiet pulse inside my own body.

When Emerson writes, “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string,” I feel that line in my chest. The iron string feels like integrity — that internal vibration that knows when something is off, even if it looks good on paper or is socially rewarded.

As a highly sensitive woman, I spent years overriding that signal. People-pleasing. Self-abandoning. Ignoring my body in order to be “good.” The iron string was always there — I just wasn’t listening.

Now, trust feels like sovereignty. It is this wild-ass notion that I could be the final authority on my life (who knew??). And when I trust myself, I hope in some way, that might help other women feel permission to trust themselves too. Because that’s how this human race works, we change the personal so as to change the collective.

i’m doing this because I know what it cost me to ignore it. I do this because it’s what feels right - to me. that is it. That’s the permission i’ve been waiting for. i’m the one who held/holds the key.

I know this because I lived it.For years, I called it drive. Discipline. High standards. I wore my productivity like arm...
02/23/2026

I know this because I lived it.

For years, I called it drive. Discipline. High standards. I wore my productivity like armor. I became very, very good at being exceptional — at anticipating needs, over-delivering, never dropping the ball. On the outside it looked impressive. On the inside, it was exhausting.

What I didn’t understand at the time was that my perfectionism wasn’t about excellence. It was about safety. Somewhere along the way, a younger part of me decided that being flawless would protect me from shame. From criticism. From rejection. If I could just get it right — all the time — I could stay loved. I could stay safe.

But the cost was my body.

I overrode her constantly. The fatigue. The tight chest. The wired-but-tired nervous system. The sensitivity that needed slower pacing, softer edges, more spaciousness. My sensitive self didn’t need to be optimized. She needed rest. She needed permission to be human. She needed to not have to earn belonging through performance.

It took me years of somatic work to realize that the perfectionist wasn’t the enemy. She was a protector. A loyal one. But she was running an outdated strategy — one that kept me achieving, but disconnected from myself.

If you’re exhausted from being the strong one, the capable one, the one who always gets it right — I want you to know: your perfectionism makes sense. And it may also be costing you more than you realize.

You don’t have to fire her.

But you also don’t have to let her run the whole system anymore.

02/22/2026

A recent paper criticizing Polyvagal Theory argues that aspects of its evolutionary and neurophysiological claims may not hold up under scrutiny.

Here’s what I think about this…That’s part of science — theories get tested, refined, sometimes revised. But here’s the important nuance: challenging parts of a model doesn’t mean discarding everything associated with it. The clinical emphasis on safety, co-regulation, and the embodied experience of threat and connection — concepts popularized by Stephen Porges — have been deeply useful for many practitioners and clients. We don’t have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. We can hold onto what proves helpful, stay intellectually honest about what needs refinement, and allow the science to evolve without abandoning the meaningful insights that support healing. Lived experiences matter - and this theory has helped countless people in immense ways. There is time for us as a counseling field to take in the new information and learn and adapt in our forever growing understanding of how our nervous systems work. Captions like “RIP” polyvagal theory might make good social media hooks, but they lack nuance and depth.

The good girl does not need to be dismantled — she needs protection.And the only one strong enough to protect her is the...
02/21/2026

The good girl does not need to be dismantled — she needs protection.
And the only one strong enough to protect her is the wild woman who refuses to abandon herself.

When the wild one rises, she does not destroy the good girl; she stands at the gate and says,

“No more performing. No more contorting. No more earning love through silence.”

The wild one is not chaos.
She is boundary.
She is heat.
She is the holy refusal to shrink.

And when she takes her rightful place,
the good girl can finally rest —
not as a strategy for survival,
but as a genuine expression of kindness, softness, and choice.

02/19/2026

We are trained to do.

Fix it. Improve it. Push through it. Optimize it. Heal it faster.

Our culture rewards productivity, output, achievement. It does not reward stillness. It does not reward slowness. It definitely does not reward feeling.

So when you begin somatic therapy or nervous system work, and someone invites you to pause… to notice… to allow… it can feel foreign. Even threatening.

Because your system has been shaped inside a world that equates worth with doing.

Regulation isn’t something you achieve by force.
It’s something your body experiences when it feels safe enough to soften.

That shift — from striving to allowing, from performing to being — can feel uncomfortable at first. You might want to “do it right.” You might want to hurry it along.

That’s okay.

You’re not behind.
You’re unwinding decades of conditioning.

Be patient with your nervous system.
It is not a machine.
It is a living, adaptive system learning that it doesn’t have to brace all the time.

Healing isn’t another performance.
It’s a return.

02/19/2026

I saw a video the other day where someone shared that they don’t believe the body tells the truth all the time.

And I get what they were trying to say.

But here’s my two cents — as a somatic therapist who has spent years inside her own healing process:

I feel that on a basic level, the body is always signaling something true. I do believe it is the ultimate truth teller.

In its desire to send a communication to you, it is being truthful. How you translate that? that’s where things might get tricky.

The problem isn’t that the body lies.
The problem is that the brain is a meaning-making machine.

Your heart races.
Your stomach tightens.
Your throat constricts.

That signal is real.

But the story your mind attaches to it?
“That means I’m unsafe.”
“That means I’m too much.”
“That means I’m about to be rejected.”

That part can be wrong.

The sensation is truth.
The interpretation is learned.

Most of us were taught meanings that came from old experiences, old environments, old dynamics. So now when the body signals activation, the brain fills in the blanks with outdated narratives.

That doesn’t make the body untrustworthy.

It means we need to get better at listening without immediately translating.

When you slow down enough to feel the raw sensation — before the story — you start to realize something powerful:

Your body isn’t dramatic.
It isn’t irrational.
It isn’t sabotaging you.

It’s communicating.

The work isn’t to override the body.
The work is to refine the interpretation.

That’s where regulation, embodiment, and real healing happen.

And yes — your body can be trusted.

I’m fine. I probably say this 15 times a day, often on autopilotAnd technically… I am. and I have been. But once I recog...
02/18/2026

I’m fine. I probably say this 15 times a day, often on autopilot

And technically… I am. and I have been. But once I recognized this pattern I had to start being in relationship to what it does to my body; the hidden cost to being always “okay”.

But my body was and is keeping the ledger.

I didn’t and often don’t realize it at the time. I just thought I was “stressed.”
Or “busy.”
Or “not sleeping great lately.”

What I was actually doing was swallowing everything.

Every “it’s okay” when it wasn’t.
Every time I said “I’m just tired” instead of “I’m overwhelmed.”
Every moment I clenched my jaw and called it resilience.

My shoulders started living up by my ears. My stomach was constantly tight.
I’d wake up at 3am with that low hum of anxiety and tell myself it was normal.

See, what nobody tells you is that you can outrun the conversation…
You can outwork the discomfort…
You can outsmile the sadness…

But you can’t out-negotiate your body.

I had to learn that the hard way.

My body wasn’t betraying me. It was testifying.
It holds the things I didn’t feel safe enough to feel. The grief I intellectualize.
The anger I spiritualized. The needs I minimize.

I am having to to unlearn the pattern of calling survival “strength.”
I’ve had to sit in my own tight chest, my own shaking hands, my own held breath… and actually meet what was there.

Not fix it.
Not bypass it.
Meet it.

So when I say your body is keeping the ledger, I’m not speaking in theory.

I’m speaking from scars.

You might be fine.

But if your body is whispering… it’s worth listening.

There can be so much subtle shame in the healing space.“I should be further by now.”“Why am I still triggered?”“I’ve don...
02/15/2026

There can be so much subtle shame in the healing space.

“I should be further by now.”
“Why am I still triggered?”
“I’ve done so much work.”

Listen to me:

Healing does not move at the speed of your intellect. It does not respond to pressure. It does not accelerate because you are disciplined.

It moves at the speed your nervous system feels safe enough to change.

As a trauma therapist and somatic practitioner, I see this every day. Insight can happen quickly. Regulation takes time. Integration takes repetition. Safety takes experience.

If you are a sensitive, self-aware, high-capacity woman who understands your patterns but still finds yourself looping — you are not failing.

Your system is protecting you.

And protection is not pathology.

When safety increases, flexibility increases. ❤️ When flexibility increases, choice returns.
When choice returns, your life changes.

Nothing is wrong with you.
Your body is wise.

If you feel sad, heavy, overwhelmed, or tender right now—nothing is wrong with you.The current political climate is a lo...
02/10/2026

If you feel sad, heavy, overwhelmed, or tender right now—
nothing is wrong with you.

The current political climate is a lot.
It’s confusing. It’s painful. It’s destabilizing.
And being upset about it doesn’t mean you’re weak or dramatic or “not coping well.”
It means you’re paying attention.

There’s a line by Andrea Gibson that says,
“Grief is love with nowhere to go.”

And that feels especially true right now.

If you’re grieving what’s happening, what might happen, or what’s already been lost—
that grief is evidence of love.
Love for people.
Love for safety.
Love for justice.
Love for a world you care deeply about.

Some of us are big feelers.
We don’t just feel a little—we feel all of it.
The sorrow, the fear, the anger, the hope, the longing.

That’s not a flaw.
That’s a nervous system wired for connection.

Of course you’re affected.
Of course you’re tired.
Of course it hurts to watch things unfold that go against your values.

It’s not a problem to feel a lot when you love hard.
It’s not a personal failure to be impacted by collective pain.

You’re not broken.
You’re not “too much.”
You’re responding exactly how a caring human would.

Be gentle with yourself right now.
Your feelings make sense.

You don’t need to be less emotional. You’re not “too much.” You’re not broken. What you do need — and what we all deserv...
02/09/2026

You don’t need to be less emotional. You’re not “too much.” You’re not broken. What you do need — and what we all deserve — are safer spaces to feel fully expressed, without fear of judgment, shutdown, or shame. Emotions are not liabilities — they’re life force. Your tears, your rage, your ache for truth — they are sacred messengers. And when they’re witnessed with care instead of controlled, something powerful happens: your body starts to trust again.

Here, we don’t silence emotions — we listen to them. This has taken me more entire life to learn. Here, we honor the wisdom of our feelings. We track their patterns in the body and invite their full arc, not just their palatable parts.

Emotional expression isn’t something to fix — it’s something to reclaim. And if you’re ready to stop shrinking your sensitivity and start honoring it as sacred, I’d be honored to walk with you

We don’t heal trauma by endlessly digging through the past.
 We heal it by learning to feel safe right now. In the body...
02/06/2026

We don’t heal trauma by endlessly digging through the past.

We heal it by learning to feel safe right now. In the body. In the breath. In the nervous system.

Because trauma isn’t just what happened then— It’s what your body still carries now.

Healing happens in the present.
 Through gentleness. Through regulation.
 
Through coming home to yourself in the body. Every day is a chance for a do-over. Healing happens in the present moment.

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Becca Clegg, LPC, CEDS-S is the founder of Authentic Living, a counseling center that specializes in women’s wellness. Her website, rebeccaclegg.com, is designed to offer women everywhere wellness resources, inspiration and solutions for mind, body + spirit. Our mission and purpose is to be your resource for connection with other women, access to resources and materials that open your mind to new ideas + help bring you closer into alignment with your authenticity.