Podcast Episode
What if it's not anxiety, but your undefined solar plexus — Here's the Difference
Hopeful and Wholesome: Wellness, Nutrition, Inner Healing and Self-Improvement for High Achieving Women and Entrepreneurs·Hope Pedraza·2 September 2026·36 min

About this episode
Send us Fan MailYou were taught to hide your emotions before you ever learned to name them. Suppress it. Push through. Keep performing. And now your body is holding decades of unprocessed feeling, showing up as burnout, autoimmune flares, and a nervous system that never fully lands.In this episode of Hopeful & Wholesome, Hope sits down with Jenn Greiner — therapist turned Human Design coach and founder of Divine Vitality — to explore the emotional solar plexus, the most misunderstood center in Human Design and the one most tied to burnout in high-achieving women. Jenn brings over a decade of clinical therapy experience into this conversation, blending emotional intelligence, nervous system regulation, and Human Design into a framework for women ready to stop overriding themselves.This conversation goes deep into emotional authority, energetic boundaries, and the discernment it takes to know what's actually yours to carry, especially for women whose success was built on doing exactly that: carrying everything.What You'll Learn In This Episode:Why your emotional solar plexus holds the key to ending your burnout cycleThe difference between defined and undefined emotional authority, and why it changes everything about how you make decisionsHow to tell the difference between your emotions and the emotions you're absorbing from othersWhy certain mental health diagnoses may actually be emotional energetics out of alignmentThe "volcano effect" of suppressed emotion, and how to release it before it eruptsA simple daily practice for building emotional discernment and protecting your energyHow Gene Keys reframes emotional "shadows" as gifts waiting to be activatedWhy the 2027 paradigm shift is already reshaping how the next generation processes emotionPractical boundary language for relationships when two people's energy fields collideResources & Links Mentioned:Connect with Jenn on Instagram: [@thevitaljen]Learn more about Jenn's work: [DivineVitalityWithJen.com]Explore Jenn's self-guided course: Emotional Sovereignty Starter KitGet your free Human Design chart HEREAbout Jenn Briner:Jenn Briner is a licensed therapist turned Human Design coach and the founder of Divine Vitality. She guides self-aware, ambitious women to break free from burnout cycles, strengthen their boundaries, and build emotionally fulfilling relationships by aligning with their unique energy and emotional truth. Blending over a decade of clinical experience with Human Design and Gene Keys, Jenn helps her clients move into sovereignty, power, and alignment — so they can lead with their emotional gifts instead of hiding from them.Connect with me on Instagram and tell me what you think!
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