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Episode 165: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTubeView transcript on Buzzsprout Of all the reframes I return to in client work, in the membership, and in my own life, this one comes up the most: anxiety is the result of overestimating a threat paired with underestimating your ability to manage it. It’s simple enough to […]

Episode 164: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTubeView transcript on Buzzsprout A few years ago, while thinking about the things I wish had been more obvious to me growing up, I wrote a short song for my kids. It started as a one-time bedtime experiment and turned into a nightly staple. One evening, after singing […]

Episode 163: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTubeView transcript on Buzzsprout For nearly 300,000 years, the sunrise was humanity’s alarm clock. People woke, stepped outside, and moved through their day in natural light, not as a wellness practice, just as life. Lightbulbs have only been common in homes for about a hundred years. The fully […]

Episode 162: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTubeView transcript on Buzzsprout There’s a particular kind of cognitive dissonance that comes with teaching nervous system regulation while your own nervous system is running on fumes. For the last several weeks, two of my kids have been playing wake-up tag team all night. One is three, the […]

Episode 161: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTubeView transcript on Buzzsprout This is Part 3 of the sleep anxiety series. Part 1 covered the science of why your nervous system resists sleep. Part 2 was the practical toolkit for what to do when you can’t fall asleep and when you wake up in the middle […]

Episode 160: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTubeView transcript on Buzzsprout Part 1 of this series covered the science: why your nervous system resists sleep, the two distinct flavors of sleep anxiety, and the four primary causes of middle-of-the-night wake-ups. If you haven’t read that one yet, start there — the understanding genuinely changes how […]

Episode 158: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTubeView transcript on Buzzsprout It’s 2am. You’re awake — either you never really fell asleep, or you woke up and now you’re staring at the ceiling. Maybe your chest is tight. Maybe your mind is running through everything you have to do tomorrow, or everything you should have […]

Episode 157: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTubeView transcript on Buzzsprout If you are currently struggling, please reach out. You can call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. You can also text HOME to 741741 to reach the Crisis Text Line. This article is educational and compassionate, and is not a […]

Episode 156: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTubeView transcript on Buzzsprout Walking gets grouped in with general wellness advice so often that it’s easy to gloss over. Move your body. Get your steps in. We’ve heard it. But the research behind walking for anxiety and depression is some of the most consistent we have in […]

Episode 156: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTubeView transcript on Buzzsprout After wrapping up the five-part stress management series, several listeners wrote in with follow-up questions and reflections — and a few of them were too good not to respond to directly. The questions below get at something the frameworks alone can’t fully answer: what […]

Episode 155: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTubeView transcript on Buzzsprout Knowing different and doing different aren’t the same thing. If I had a dollar for every time someone told me, “I know what I should be doing to support my mental health, why can’t I just actually do it?!” — well I’d have at least […]

Episode 153: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTubeView transcript on Buzzsprout You’ve done the inventory. You’ve looked honestly at your stress bucket — what’s in there, how heavy it’s sitting, what’s on both sides of the see-saw. And now you’re staring at it wondering: okay, what do I actually do with all of this? The […]