The Nourished Nervous System

Jaksot

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  Dark and Tender: Filming Black Male Tenderness & Challenging the Black Brute Narrative with Aaron Johnson 10.09.2026 53min

  Send us Fan Mail Today I'm joined by Aaron Johnson — public speaker, facilitator, filmmaker, and touch activist whose work centers on the emotional and relational lives of Black men. Aaron is the founder of The Chronically UnderTouched Project — the CUT Project — and the director of Dark and Tender, an 18-minute documentary that follows ten Black men during a retreat on Whidbey Island, Washington. It has been called one of the most quietly revolutionary pieces of film in the healing space rig...
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  Why You've Stopped Feeling Like Yourself: Hormones, Nervous System,Midlife and Your Skin with Dr. Natalya Borakowski 03.09.2026 47min

  Send us Fan Mail Today's guest is Dr. Natalya Borakowski — a physician with nearly 20 years of experience in women's health and cosmetic dermatology, founder of Desert Bloom Skincare, and creator of Unveil You, a platform dedicated to helping women understand the biological, emotional, and cultural forces shaping how they feel about themselves in midlife. Dr. Natalya combines science, psychology, and compassionate education to help women move from burnout, self-criticism, and overwhelm toward...
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  Flashback: The Low Down on Adaptogens: Herbs for Resilience 27.08.2026 26min

  Send us Fan Mail This is a "Flashback" episode of an episode that originally aired in September of 2024. You most likely have seen the word "adaptogen" on some type of herbal product or beverage in the past few years. They are incredible herbs with an intelligence that helps our bodies adapt to stress. The thing is, they are so amazing that many companies use this word to market products that don't actually have adaptogens in them. In this informative episode I introduce listeners to ...
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  Ritu Satmya: The Ayurvedic Art of Easing Into the Next Season 20.08.2026 19min

  Send us Fan Mail This is a quickie episode — and honestly, the fact that it's a quickie is kind of the point. I came to record today feeling blank and tired, with a bigger episode still in the works. And then I realized: that feeling is exactly what this episode needed to be about. Because if you're feeling that way too right now — like your reserves are dwindling, like you're treading water, like everything's a little drier and a little slower — you are not failing. You are in a season. Toda...
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  It Was Never About the Food: On the Path of Healing Disordered Eating from the Inside Out with Amber Caudle 13.08.2026 38min

  Send us Fan Mail Today's guest is Amber Caudle — chef, author, speaker, and coach devoted to helping women heal their relationship with food, their bodies, and themselves. She is the founder of The Source Cafe, a health-focused restaurant in Southern California, and the author of Hungry: Finding Food Freedom and Reclaiming Body Peace. Amber's story is one of the most honest I've heard — decades of a very public career nourishing others while quietly struggling behind closed doors, and t...
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  Shedding the Skin: Who You Are Becoming in Perimenopause 06.08.2026 15min

  Send us Fan Mail We are at the height of summer here in Maine — that peak of the pendulum swing before it begins its long arc back toward the quiet of winter. And I've been feeling that shift in my own body, that sense of the tide beginning to turn. It felt like the right moment to talk about something I've been sitting with for a while. We have no shortage of conversation about the physical symptoms of perimenopause. And those symptoms are real and deserve to be taken seriously. But I rarely...
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  The Hidden Cost of Masking: Neurodiversity, the Nervous System & Energy Healing with Nicole Theron Parks 30.07.2026 46min

  Send us Fan Mail "You're so successful — you must be fine." But what did it cost to get there? In this conversation, psychologist and energy healing coach Nicole Theron Parks shares her journey to being diagnosed with autism, ADHD, and OCD at 32, and what she discovered on the other side of that diagnosis: that the exhaustion, chronic pain, and decades of anxiety weren't character flaws — they were the cost of trying to fit into a world that wasn't built for her. This is a r...
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  Not All Yoga Is Medicine: Nervous System-Centered Yoga Therapy with Liz Albanis 23.07.2026 44min

  Send us Fan Mail Today I'm sitting down with Liz Albanis — a senior yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and personal trainer based in Canberra, Australia, who has spent over 14 years exploring one of the most important questions in the wellness space: when does yoga help, and when does it actually harm? Liz works with people who don't feel supported in traditional yoga environments — people with injuries, trauma, nervous system dysregulation, or who have simply walked out of a yoga class feeling wo...
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  Tending the Fire: Yamas & Niyamas to Balance Pitta Dosha This Summer 16.07.2026 32min

  Send us Fan Mail This is the summer edition of something we explored earlier this year with kapha dosha — bringing the yamas and niyamas, yoga's ethical and personal observances, into conversation with the season we're actually in. And right now, we are in pitta season. Fire and water. Heat, intensity, drive, sharpness, focus — all of it turned up. Pitta's gifts are extraordinary. The clarity, the capacity to make things happen, the warmth. But when pitta goes out of balance in the height of ...
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  Your Breath Is a Superpower: 9D Breathwork, the Subconscious Mind & Rapid Transformation with Tabatha DeBruyn 09.07.2026 42min

  Send us Fan Mail Today's guest is Tabatha DeBruyn — a transformational breath master, certified 9D Breathwork facilitator, rapid transformational hypnotic therapist, and author of Ordinary to Extraordinary. Tabatha has spent years weaving together neuroscience, breathwork, hypnotherapy, NLP, and somatic healing into a body-first approach to transformation that is producing results people describe as integrating years of therapy in a single session. Her path is anything but straight — from 15 ...
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  Rest Your Gaze: Pitta Dosha, Eye Care & the Practice of Turning Inward 02.07.2026 39min

  Send us Fan Mail This episode started with an accident — or what felt like one. I went to the eye doctor, had my eyes dilated, and sat down to write my newsletter only to find I couldn't see my computer screen. So I closed my eyes, started voice-dictating, and something unexpected happened: I dropped inward in a way I rarely do during a regular workday. The forced pause became a teaching. That experience sent me deep into a topic I've been wanting to explore for a while — the relationship bet...
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  What "Feel Your Feelings" Actually Means — and Why Most of Us Are Getting It Wrong with Chelsea Horton 25.06.2026 51min

  Send us Fan Mail Today's guest is Chelsea Horton — a board-certified dance and movement therapist, somatic practitioner, educator, and founder of Healing Embodied, where she trains wellness professionals and leaders to integrate somatics, creativity, and emotional healing into their work. Chelsea has a master's degree in dance and movement therapy and has worked with over 2,000 clients, specializing in relationship anxiety, shame, and nervous system healing. She is also one of the most alive,...
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  The Body Already Knows: Shaking, Fascia & the Interstitium 18.06.2026 27min

  Send us Fan Mail This episode comes from two threads that have been weaving together in my practice lately: training in Polarity Champissage — a beautiful Ayurvedic marma-based body therapy developed by my friend and mentor Caroline Crichton — and developing Somatic Stretch and Shake, the movement class I've been teaching at Soma in Belfast, Maine. I want to be upfront: these ideas are still in process for me. I'm researching this both academically and in my own body, and it doesn't feel full...
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  Breathing as a Reset: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Life & Making Practice Stick with Charlie Baldwin 11.06.2026 38min

  Send us Fan Mail Today I'm sitting down with Charlie Baldwin — a breathwork and meditation teacher with the Art of Living Foundation, over 1,000 hours of teaching experience, and a real gift for bringing these practices to people who never thought they'd be interested. He's taught in prisons, firehouses, universities, and retreat centers in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and he has a way of making ancient wisdom feel completely relevant to modern life. I really loved this conversation. Charlie's p...
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  What If You Don't Need to Step Into Your Power — Reflections on Feminine Power in Midlife 04.06.2026 32min

  Send us Fan Mail "Can't we just lie down in our power? Do we have to step into it?" That question, offered by Ayurvedic teacher Claudia Welch, sparked everything in this episode. Because when we talk about stepping into our power, we are implying that power is somewhere outside of us — something to reach for, to put on, to earn. But what if that image is wrong? What if our power is not something we need to step into, but something we need to remember? What if it has been there all along — ben...
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  Real Change Starts in the Brain: Neuroscience, Burnout & Why You're Not Broken with Lisa Riegel 28.05.2026 41min

  Send us Fan Mail What if everything you've been told about change, motivation, and stress is missing the most important piece — your brain? This week I'm joined by Lisa Riegel, educator by training, strategist by practice, and someone who has dedicated her career to translating brain science into language and tools that actually help people feel more self-aware, regulated, and in control. Lisa is the creator of the NeuroWell Framework and the Aspirations to Operations Commitment Framewo...
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  Don't Skip the Transition: Finding Stability in Late Spring's Liminal Space 21.05.2026 23min

  Send us Fan Mail There's a moment every late spring where you can feel it — that internal pace starting to pick up with the heat, the to-do list for the garden suddenly feeling urgent, the rollercoaster of summer starting to pull you toward it before you're quite ready. This week's episode is for that moment. In this solo episode, I'm sharing what I've been working with personally as we move through this beautiful, liminal edge between Kapha and Pitta season — and the teachings from yogic phi...
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  You're Not the Problem: Adaptations, Nervous System Safety & the Conditions for Change with Lori Montry 14.05.2026 45min

  Send us Fan Mail Today's guest is Lori Montry — somatic healing practitioner, author of You're Not the Problem, and creator of The Freedom Formula, a nervous system-based roadmap for sustainable behavior change. Lori helps people who feel stuck in stress, overwhelm, or self-sabotage understand the survival patterns driving their choices so they can build the safety, capacity, and clarity needed to take aligned action in every area of their lives. There is so much resonance in this conversatio...
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  Oxytocin, Neural Plasticity & the Practices That Change Your Brain 07.05.2026 33min

  Send us Fan Mail Today we're going somewhere I've been wanting to go for a while — into the neuroscience of oxytocin. Not oxytocin as the cuddle hormone, though it is that too. Oxytocin as a brain-changing, nervous system-healing, plasticity-promoting substance that you can actually learn to stimulate intentionally through your daily practices. What we cover: What oxytocin actually is — beyond the "love hormone" label, it is a neuroplasticity agent that promotes new neuron growth, resha...
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  Reclaiming Radiance: Burnout, Nervous System Healing & Remembering Your Worth with Ms Elizabeth Munoz 30.04.2026 38min

  Send us Fan Mail Today's guest is Ms Elizabeth Munoz, founder of Soul Haven and creator of the Reclaiming Radiance framework. Elizabeth spent 17 years in corporate — the last 11 in high-stakes technology sales — before her body completely shut down. Two emergency C-sections, a fibromyalgia diagnosis, and the moment her legs gave out walking to an airport when her daughter was three months old were the turning points that changed everything. What followed was a deep healing journey — through t...