The Neuroscience of Belief- How to Rewire Your Brain, Heal Your Body & Overcome Anything | with Ashleigh Di Lello and Emily Duncan
EMBody Radio
Emily Duncan
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
I have been looking forward to this conversation for a while, and it did not disappoint. In this episode, I sit down with Ashleigh Di Lello: brain coach, keynote speaker, former Broadway and TV dancer, and creator of Bio Emotional Healing®.
Ashleigh shares the full story of being given a terminal diagnosis at thirteen years old, visualizing her way back to dance over six years, and later facing a second devastating health crisis that left her unable to walk and living in chronic nerve pain.
Through it all, she discovered the neuroscience behind how belief, expectation, and emotional healing can literally rewire the brain and body. We go deep on how the brain resists change (even positive change), why healing can feel unsafe, the difference between believing something and acting in expectation of it, and why your identity might be the very thing keeping you stuck. I also share a piece of my own story in this one: my experience with breast implant illness and the rock bottom moment that led me to the work I do today.
Whether you're navigating trauma, chronic pain, self-sabotage, or you just feel like you can't break through to the next level, this episode will change how you think about what's possible. I truly believe this might be one of the most powerful conversations we've ever had on the show.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't want to waste this trial. I don't want to waste this because I'm going to get to the other |
| 0:06.4 | side of it. And I don't want to look back and think, well, I just survived it. Like, I want to be someone |
| 0:13.4 | amazing on the other side of this. So it didn't just break me, right? It built me. And that's the gift. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to Embody Radio, the premier podcast for ambitious women ready to elevate their body mind and life to the next level on this show we've used |
| 0:28.7 | high performance wellness and aesthetics and self mastery into a real world blueprint for |
| 0:33.4 | personal excellence each week you'll get, grounded strategies and unfiltered conversations |
| 0:38.3 | with high performers who walk the talk, no fluff, and no fake hype. Because excellence isn't |
| 0:43.3 | an accident. It's embodiment. And this is Mbody Radio. Hello and welcome back to MBody Radio, |
| 0:50.4 | where excellence isn't an accident. It's something you live. I'm your host, Emily Duncan, |
| 0:53.7 | and I have been looking forward to this conversation for quite a while now. Today's guest is |
| 0:58.6 | Ashley DeLello. She is a brain coach, keynote speaker, and the creator of bioemotional healing, |
| 1:03.5 | which is a neuroscience-based process that helps people rewire their nervous systems to break free |
| 1:07.5 | from emotional trauma, limiting beliefs, anxiety, and chronic pain. |
| 1:11.6 | Ashley's story is truly one of the most remarkable ones I've ever come across. |
| 1:15.6 | At 13 years old, she went from being a beyond healthy competitive dancer with such a zest for life to fighting for her life, |
| 1:22.6 | and being told by one of the top specialists in the country that she wouldn't make it past her teenage years. |
| 1:27.8 | And she defied that. She went on to become a professional ballroom dancer, |
| 1:31.5 | performed on Broadway and on shows like so you think you can dance and dancing with the stars, |
| 1:35.6 | and then life tested her again, with a second health crisis that took her ability to walk |
| 1:40.5 | and put her in debilitating chronic pain for years. |
| 1:43.3 | Through it all, she used her experiences |
| 1:45.7 | to discover the power of the brain-body connection, studied neuroscience for thousands of hours, |
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