Meet Leah Skurdal, Resilience Guide and COO at The Wellness Universe. In the soon-available book, The Wellness Universe Guide to Complete Self-Care: 25 Tools for Transformation, Leah shares how reconnecting with your inner authority builds resilience, courage, and confidence.
The Wellness Universe (WU): Hello Leah, please tell us about yourself and what inspired you to write your chapter in the book The Wellness Universe Guide to Complete Self-Care: 25 Tools For Navigating Loss, Grief and Transition.
Leah Skurdal (LS): My own experience of grief inspired my chapter. We humans experience loss and grief as normal parts of living in many different ways for different reasons. Life includes change. Things fall apart. We grieve the loss of what we knew.
In my 20’s, my inner world fell apart when I stopped trusting institutions that had provided a foundation for my childhood. I felt betrayed, lost, and angry. In retrospect, I now realize I was grieving the loss of part of my identity.
My life changed when I realized that true resilience comes from learning to listen inward. I’ve devoted four decades to embodied spiritual practice and more than 30 years guiding others to navigate stress, change, and leadership from a place of grounded presence and inner authority.
These days, people are experiencing high levels of stress due to rapid changes happening around the world. We need our wellness professionals, now more than ever, to show up with grounded presence. When we learn to trust our inner authority to guide us, we can make more confident and purposeful decisions. Grounded leaders can help others navigate the rapid changes of loss, grief, and transition that are prevalent in our world today.
WU: What tool do you share in this book, and what can we expect to experience as a result of using this tool?
LS: The tool I share in my chapter is from the beginning of my spiritual journey inward: connect with the highest version of yourself and listen deeply with the ears of your heart. In the chapter, I share a short, guided meditation to help the reader get comfortable with listening to their higher self within the stillness.
When people listen deeply to their heart wisdom, they access their inner authority and Source of life. They often feel inspired, creative, and courageous. People connected to their inner authority make more confident decisions.
WU: You refer to grounded and embodied leadership. How does listening deeply to inner authority actually improve leadership effectiveness?
LS: When we’re aware of our body, breath, and emotional state, we can regulate our nervous system. Body awareness improves leadership effectiveness because you cannot lead others well if your nervous system is in survival mode.
When leaders develop body awareness, they learn to recognize signals from the vagus nerve, which acts as the communication highway between the brain, heart, and body. When this system is regulated, leaders shift from fight-flight reactivity into a state of calm focus and social connection. That is the biological foundation of trust.
Practices that create heart coherence—where heart rhythm, breath, and emotional state synchronize—help leaders think more clearly, listen better, and respond instead of react.
People trust leaders who stay calm and steady under pressure, who communicate without aggression, and who listen without needing to win. These grounded leaders create a feeling of safety and become a stabilizing presence.
This reflects what I teach in Grounded Presence: when leaders learn to regulate their internal state, they naturally help others around them stay grounded too.
I am passionate about guiding people to navigate these rapidly changing times from their inner authority with resilience, courage, and confidence.
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