The Nourished Nervous System

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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...
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  Take the Stairs: A Dream, a Teaching & the Medicine of Simple 23.04.2026 20min

  Send us Fan Mail Here in Maine we're still tiptoeing into spring — warm days that feel like a promise, then snow flurries and the wood stove again. It's been a season of letting go and being with what is, which turns out to be exactly what this episode is about. A few weeks ago I had a dream. In it, I was on top of a crumbling Lego platform, trying to hold everything together, piece by piece — while a perfectly good staircase sat right there, unused. When I woke up, I couldn't stop thinking a...
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  Your Life Is Not the Enemy: Energy Codes and Embodiment with Michelle Walker 16.04.2026 49min

  Send us Fan Mail Today's guest, Michelle Walker is a life coach, self-healing mentor, and retreat guide devoted to embodied awakening and holistic healing. In this conversation, we explore the Energy Codes — a seven-step system developed by Dr. Sue Morter — and the profound philosophical reframe at its heart: that our challenges, our symptoms, our struggles are not separate from us or happening to us. They are our lives, and they are feedback. What we cover: Michelle shares her ow...
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  Moving Through the Mud: Yamas & Niyamas as Medicine for Kapha Season 09.04.2026 27min

  Send us Fan Mail This episode is one I've been sitting with for a while — a synthesis of two things that have shaped my whole path: Ayurveda and yoga philosophy. In this episode, I bring those two threads together and look at the yamas and niyamas — yoga's ethical and personal observances — through the lens of kapha season. What we cover: Kapha dosha is made up of earth and water. It's heavy, slow, stable, cool, and moist — and late winter into spring is kapha season. When kapha goes out of b...
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  Rest is Your Birthright: Yoga Nidra, Ancestral Patterns & Living a Rested Life with Hester Brooks 02.04.2026 34min

  Send us Fan Mail In this episode I'm joined by Hester Brooks, a certified Daring to Rest coach and Yoga Nidra facilitator based in Lincolnville, Maine. Hester specializes in helping women break the cycle of exhaustion and create a life that truly honors their capacity — and this conversation could not have come at a better time. We talk about what it really means to rest (hint: it's not the same as sleep), why so many women struggle to give themselves permission to do it, and how our fa...
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  Breaking the Breakfast Rules: An Ayurvedic Approach to the Morning Meal 26.03.2026 27min

  Send us Fan Mail I get this question all the time from clients and listeners: what do I eat for breakfast? So in this episode, I'm finally diving in. I'll start with my own story — because I was not always a breakfast person. It took a bowl of miso soup at Kripalu in my twenties to crack open my idea of what breakfast could even be. And once I realized I could eat anything for breakfast — soup, roasted vegetables, leftover dinner — everything changed. From there we get into the science, becau...