Emotional Healing and Exploring Chakras with Amy Vincze (Part 1)Emotional Healing and Exploring Chakras with Amy Vincze (Part 1)
Retrieving Sanity
Host Keegan Reed talks with tapping coach and energy practitioner Amy Vincze about chakras, fear, guilt and shame, and how these link to addiction and recovery. They focus on practical ways tapping and chakra work might help people heal emotionally from the ground up.
32:44•3 Jul 2026
Chakras, Tapping and Letting Go of Shame with Amy Vincze
Episode Overview
- Start emotional healing with the root chakra by addressing deep fears about safety, belonging and rejection.
- For people with addiction, most work tends to sit in the sacral chakra, balancing power and vulnerability in relationships, money, creativity and sexuality.
- Use tapping to neutralise guilt (about what you’ve done) and shame (about who you are), especially around addiction and past trauma.
- Recognise the heart chakra’s inner critic as a major block, often hiding deep grief and disconnection from self-love.
- Practice speaking your truth and acknowledging your needs to ease blockages in the throat chakra and reduce the emotional load on the body.
“Guilt is about feeling horrible about something that you did. Shame is about feeling horrible about who you are.”
How do people cope with the challenges of staying sober? This conversation between host and recovering alcoholic Keegan Reed and energy practitioner Amy Vincze offers a fresh angle: healing emotions through chakras and tapping. Aimed at people in recovery, or anyone feeling stuck in shame and guilt, the chat stays grounded and practical while dipping into energy work.
Amy, a certified tapping coach and founder of the Soar with Tapping app, explains how she uses tapping on "absolutely everything, including my pets, with success" and why she’s "willing to die on just about any hill" for this tool. You’ll hear a clear, down-to-earth walkthrough of the first five chakras and their emotional "shadows".
The root chakra links to safety, belonging and fear; the sacral chakra to relationships, money, creativity, sexuality and guilt; the solar plexus to digestion, sense of self and shame; the heart to love, grief and the harsh inner critic; and the throat to truth, lies and unspoken needs. Amy ties all this back to addiction and recovery.
She points out that "all of our human problems" tend to sit in chakras one, two and three, and that people with addiction often spend most of their time wrestling with the sacral chakra’s themes of power, vulnerability and guilt. Keegan reflects on how fear, isolation and performative love have shown up in his own healing, giving the episode a relatable, honest tone.
There’s gentle humour (like wishing skin would "stop touching the air") alongside frank talk about trauma, perfectionism and people-pleasing. Rather than promising quick fixes, Amy stresses layered work: clearing fear, guilt and shame so that speaking your truth and loving yourself becomes less terrifying.
If you're curious how energy work might support sobriety, or you just want language for the guilt and shame you carry, this first part of their chat offers plenty to sit with and practical ideas to try.
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