Aller au contenu
The Real Work with Maggie Sterling

The Real Work with Maggie Sterling

Nouveau64 - 6 Things I Thought Were My Personality (But Were Actually Survival Mode)12 novembre 2026 · 24 min
Épisodes
62
Parution
toutes les deux semaines
Dernier épisode
12 Nov 2026

À propos du podcast

Can't stop overthinking, emotional eating, or numbing out? You're not broken—you're disconnected from your body. The Real Work helps women break chronic stress, anxiety, and burnout by addressing root causes, not symptoms. Host Maggie Sterling combines neuroscience and nervous system regulation to help you stop self-abandonment, build self-trust, and feel safe in your skin. No toxic positivity—just practical tools for rewiring your brain, regulating emotions, and coming home to yourself. Deep transformation for women ready to stop escaping and start living.

Épisodes 62

  1. 64 - 6 Things I Thought Were My Personality (But Were Actually Survival Mode)

    24 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. I've been keeping a list of everything I thought was my …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz.

    I've been keeping a list of everything I thought was my personality that turned out to be survival mode. In this video I share six of them and what changed as my nervous system came out of years of chronic stress and anxiety.

    For a long time I said I hated Disneyland, that I wasn't a movie person, and that I had no time for anything "frivolous." I believed those things were just who I was. If you've been living in survival mode, a lot of what you believe about yourself may have been decided by fear too.

  2. 62 - How To Become The Person Without The Problem

    7 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course If you've dealt with chronic anxiety, chronic pain, or long-term physical or mental symptoms, this one might be hard to hear. I spent 20 years identifying as the girl …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    If you've dealt with chronic anxiety, chronic pain, or long-term physical or mental symptoms, this one might be hard to hear. I spent 20 years identifying as the girl with anxiety, and later with every diagnosis that came after it. In this video I share the shift I had to make before anything started to change, and why it can feel like you're gaslighting yourself at first.

  3. 61 - I Wish I Knew This When My Symptoms Were At Their Worst

    9 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If you're living with chronic pain, anxiety, insomnia, or a …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz.

    If you're living with chronic pain, anxiety, insomnia, or a hypersensitive nervous system and you can't picture a future where you feel better, this video is for you. I share the realization that changed everything for me when I was at my worst, and the one thing I had to stop doing before anything could start to shift. My symptoms were horrific. Burning, stinging, insomnia, anxiety, OCD, anhedonia. I spent every day monitoring my body, trying to fix it, and grieving a future that hadn't even happened yet. If that sounds familiar, I want you to know your future may look very different from what you're imagining today.

  4. 60 - Does Your Nervous System Need A Digital Detox?

    12 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If your nervous system always feels on edge, your phone …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz.

    If your nervous system always feels on edge, your phone could be keeping it there. In this video I share my honest answer on whether you need a digital detox, especially if you deal with chronic anxiety, chronic pain, or insomnia. I also talk about why I've never been a fan of detoxes, how I tell the difference between using my phone for work and using it out of hypervigilance, and what finally worked for me after years of making content online.

  5. 59 - How Brett Healed His Nervous System (DPDR, POTS, OCD, Anxiety)

    1 h 10 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. In this anxiety recovery story, Brett shares how he went …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz.

    In this anxiety recovery story, Brett shares how he went from being bedridden for months, believing he was dying every day, to working, working out, and taking care of his family again. Nervous system healing didn't look the way he expected, and he still has some symptoms today. Brett's symptoms started out of nowhere in May 2025. Over the next year he had panic attacks every day, made repeated trips to the ER, saw specialists, and paid for procedures hoping someone could fix him. In this conversation we talk about what got him to that point, the decisions that turned things around, and what his life looks like now.

  6. 58 - 10 Tiny Habits To Heal a Hyper Sensitive Nervous System

    13 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If you have a hypersensitive nervous system, it can feel …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz.

    If you have a hypersensitive nervous system, it can feel like your body is on high alert all the time. In this video, I share 10 tiny habits that help calm a hypersensitive nervous system, and none of them add more to your to-do list. Most of these are so small you wouldn't connect them to your nervous system, and some are the opposite of what you've been doing every day. Let me know in the comments which ones you're already good at and which one you want to start with.

  7. 57 - I'm Over The Self-Help Industry (what im doing instead)

    25 min

    14 day challenge (started 10/12/26): https://softregulationsystem.com/challenge Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous …

    Notes de l’épisode

    14 day challenge (started 10/12/26): https://softregulationsystem.com/challenge

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz.

    If you've read all the self-help books and listened to all the podcasts and still feel stuck, this video is for you. Self-improvement burnout is real, and constantly consuming self-help content can turn into a compulsion that keeps you from actually living your life.

    In this video, I share my own story with self-help, the signs that it's become compulsive for you, and the part of healing most people neglect.

  8. 56 - How To Heal Your Nervous System When Nothing Has Worked

    19 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If you've tried everything to heal your nervous system and …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz.

    If you've tried everything to heal your nervous system and nothing has worked, this video is for you. I dealt with chronic anxiety for 20 years, along with insomnia and a whole range of chronic physical symptoms, and I tried everything to make it go away. In this video I explain why nothing has worked for you yet and what I did instead once I figured it out.

  9. 55 - Why Your Nervous System Won't Let You Sleep

    21 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If you have chronic insomnia, or you wake up at 3am and …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz.

    If you have chronic insomnia, or you wake up at 3am and can't fall back asleep, there's a good chance your nervous system is sensitized and stuck on high alert. In my experience this is rarely a sleep problem. In this video I cover how your nervous system gets in the way of something your body already knows how to do on its own, what not to do when you're lying awake in the middle of the night, why I part ways with a lot of what CBT-I teaches, and how medication and medication withdrawal can factor into all of it. I also answer the four questions I get asked most about insomnia: How do I stop fearing not sleeping when the consequences are so real? Is this fear, or is it something physical? What if the thing keeping me up isn't fear? What if I recovered and I'm suddenly back to all nighters, am I at square one?

  10. 54 - You've been making your anxiety worse without even knowing it

    7 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If you've had anxiety for a while, there's a good chance …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz.

    If you've had anxiety for a while, there's a good chance you've been making it worse without knowing it. It happens automatically the second a symptom shows up, and it's the reason your nervous system keeps sounding the alarm no matter what you try. In this video I break down the most common way people respond to anxiety, what that response has actually been doing to your nervous system this whole time, and what to do instead. This applies whether your anxiety shows up as racing thoughts and rumination or as a racing heart and shortness of breath.

  11. 53 - Why Your Nervous System Won't Let You Think Straight

    8 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. Anxious thoughts, intrusive thoughts, and rumination are …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz.

    Anxious thoughts, intrusive thoughts, and rumination are symptoms of a sensitized nervous system, the same way physical symptoms are. In this video I explain why your thoughts get so loud, so dark, and so convincing when your system has been stuck in threat, and why you can't think your way out of them. I go into why your brain zooms in on one problem at a time, why quieting one thought just makes room for the next one, and what actually keeps the whole loop running.

  12. 52 - 3 Reasons Your Nervous System Won't Regulate

    7 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. Your nervous system won't regulate, and the tool you picked …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz.

    Your nervous system won't regulate, and the tool you picked isn't the reason. Meditation, breathwork, supplements, cold plunges: if you've tried all of it and still feel anxious and wired, there are three things underneath it that nobody put on the list. I go through all three in this video, including the one signal your system is actually reading every day while you're busy trying to fix it.

  13. 51 - The Biggest Lie About Nervous System Regulation

    9 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. Nervous system regulation doesn't work for everyone, and the …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz.

    Nervous system regulation doesn't work for everyone, and the reason has nothing to do with how hard you're trying. If you've done the breathing exercises, the cold plunges, the vagus nerve tools — and felt nothing — there's something happening underneath that almost nobody in this space talks about. In this video I'm breaking down the difference between a dysregulated nervous system and a sensitized one, why that difference changes everything about what actually helps, and what to do when the tools everyone recommends aren't touching your symptoms.

  14. 50 - Healing Became Your Whole Personality (And It's Keeping You Stuck)

    6 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. You've spent years trying to heal your nervous system, calm …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz.

    You've spent years trying to heal your nervous system, calm your anxiety, and finally feel better — but you're still waiting to actually live your life. Somewhere along the way, healing stopped being something you do and quietly became who you are.

    The constant researching, the new protocols, the recovery stories, the endless checking in on your symptoms — it feels like progress. For a lot of people, it's doing the opposite: keeping the alarm switched on and confirming to the nervous system that something is still wrong.

    In this video I walk through how healing becomes your whole identity, why the "fixing" energy backfires, and what actually starts to move things — even while your symptoms are still here.

  15. 48 - 3 Things You Don't Realize Are Overstimulating You

    7 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. Three everyday things are overstimulating your nervous …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz.

    Three everyday things are overstimulating your nervous system without you even noticing, and they're the ones that feel like relaxing. You can do almost nothing all day and still end up completely fried by the evening. In this video I walk through all three, and why the fix for every one of them is the same.

  16. 47 - Why your chronic pain wont go away

    12 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If your chronic pain or symptoms won't go away no matter …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz.

    If your chronic pain or symptoms won't go away no matter what you've tried, the answer may be in your nervous system. What keeps chronic pain going is something most doctors and practitioners never talk about, and once you see it, it's hard to unsee. In this video I break down the loop that keeps chronic pain and symptoms switched on, why chasing relief quietly makes them stronger, and the sneaky ways fear keeps the whole thing running even when you don't feel afraid. If you've spent months or years trying to fix your symptoms and nothing has stuck, this is the piece that's been missing.

  17. 46 - How To Finally Heal Your Chronic Pain (and other symptoms) with Dr. Howard Schubiner

    51 min

    Buy the book "Unlearn Your Pain": https://amzn.to/3RFTxho Follow Dr. Schubiner on Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/hschubiner/ https://www.facebook.com/hschubiner/ Get my nervous system sensitization …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Buy the book "Unlearn Your Pain": https://amzn.to/3RFTxho Follow Dr. Schubiner on Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/hschubiner/ https://www.facebook.com/hschubiner/

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz.

    If you've been to doctor after doctor with no real answers, this conversation is for you. Dr. Howard Schubiner, MD, is a physician and researcher who has spent over 20 years studying chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety, and depression — and what he's found changes everything. His new book, Unlearn Your Pain, lays out the science behind why your brain creates these symptoms and how they can be fully reversed. In this conversation we cover why most chronic conditions are neuroplastic, what medicine keeps getting wrong, and why the way you've been trying to heal may be making it harder.

  18. 44 - What Your Symptoms Are Really Trying To Tell You

    11 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If you've been trying to decode every symptom — chest …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz.

    If you've been trying to decode every symptom — chest tightness, flares, intrusive thoughts, dizziness — searching for the hidden meaning your body is trying to send you, this video is going to reframe what's actually happening. The message you're looking for is there. It's just not what you think it is. In this video, Maggie breaks down why trying to interpret every symptom keeps you stuck, the one message your sensitized nervous system is actually sending you right now, and how to know when your body is ready to give you the deeper signals you've been chasing. If you're exhausted from trying to figure out what every twinge, thought, and flare means — this is for you.

  19. 45 - What Nobody Tells You About Brain Retraining (When You're Already Sensitized)

    20 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. Brain retraining is being prescribed to the people it makes …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz.

    Brain retraining is being prescribed to the people it makes worse. If you have a sensitized nervous system and you've been doing brain retraining — monitoring every thought, interrupting cascades, redirecting hundreds of times a day — and it feels like you're getting more anxious, more vigilant, more obsessed with what's happening in your head, you're not failing the program. The program is asking the wrong thing of a system in your state. In this video, I break down why formal brain retraining backfires for hypersensitive nervous systems, what's actually retraining your brain whether you sit down to do it or not, and where mental work does have a place once you've desensitized.

  20. 43 - 5 Signs Your Nervous System Is Causing Your Pain (and other symptoms)

    10 min

    Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz 5 signs your nervous system is causing your chronic pain …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz.

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    5 signs your nervous system is causing your chronic pain, anxiety, gut issues, dizziness, fatigue, and other symptoms doctors can't explain. If your tests keep coming back normal and nothing has worked, this video walks you through the specific signs that point to a sensitized nervous system as the root cause — and what to do about it.

    I spent 20 years dealing with chronic anxiety, panic attacks, and insomnia. Every test came back normal. Every specialist had a different prescription. Nothing actually moved the needle until I learned that my symptoms were being driven by my nervous system. Once I saw the pattern, everything changed.

  21. 42 - 5 Subtle signs your nervous system is actually healing

    17 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Nervous system healing rarely looks like what you think it should. For 20 years I waited for the day I'd wake up calm …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Nervous system healing rarely looks like what you think it should. For 20 years I waited for the day I'd wake up calm, symptom-free, and finally "fixed." That day never came. What did happen was much quieter — and I almost missed it. In this video, I'm sharing 5 subtle signs your nervous system is actually healing, even when it doesn't feel like it. Plus one bonus shift that surprised me the most. If you've been doing the work and wondering if anything is changing, this one is for you.

  22. 41 - I'm Addicted to Being OFF My Phone (It made my symptoms disappear)

    21 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Your phone is sensitizing your nervous system. If you have chronic anxiety, chronic pain, or symptoms that won't shift no …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Your phone is sensitizing your nervous system. If you have chronic anxiety, chronic pain, or symptoms that won't shift no matter what you try, your screen time may be the layer of work you haven't addressed yet. In this video, I'm walking you through what's actually happening in your nervous system every time you pick up your phone — why your system can't tell the difference between real danger and observed danger, and how this keeps your baseline cranked up all day long without you realizing it.

  23. 40 - Can AI Help You Heal Your Nervous System?

    25 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Can AI help you heal your nervous system? ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have become the go-to for people dealing with anxiety …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Can AI help you heal your nervous system? ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have become the go-to for people dealing with anxiety, chronic pain, and chronic symptoms — but my honest opinion on whether you should be using them is probably not what you'd expect.In this video, I'm walking you through when AI actually helps your nervous system recovery, when it makes things dramatically worse, and the one question to ask yourself before you ever open ChatGPT again. The answer has nothing to do with the tool itself. It has everything to do with the state you're in when you pick it up.

  24. 39 - How to reset a hypersensitive nervous system

    17 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz A hypersensitive nervous system can be reset. But not the way most people are teaching it. In this video, I'm showing you …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    A hypersensitive nervous system can be reset. But not the way most people are teaching it. In this video, I'm showing you what actually works when your system is so sensitized that every sensation feels like an emergency — and why the tools you've been reaching for are keeping the alarm on. If you try the practice I share, come back and tell me what came up in the comments.

  25. 38 - How to Get Your Partner to Support Your Healing (It's Not What They Think)

    41 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz If you're in the middle of nervous system healing, you've probably wondered how to get your partner to actually understand …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    If you're in the middle of nervous system healing, you've probably wondered how to get your partner to actually understand what you're going through — and what real support looks like when nothing they do seems to help. In this episode, Maggie sits down with her husband Ryan, who supported her through her darkest years of chronic anxiety, physical symptoms, a psychiatric hospitalization, and a full nervous system breakdown. They talk honestly about what made things worse, what actually helped, and what Maggie finally had to ask Ryan to do differently.

  26. 37 - I'm terrified of my symptoms—how to respond differently even when it feels impossible

    18 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Nervous system sensitization makes responding differently feel completely impossible — and that feeling is lying to you. If …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    Nervous system sensitization makes responding differently feel completely impossible — and that feeling is lying to you.

    If you know what you're supposed to do but can't make yourself do it when symptoms are high, you're not broken. This is one of the most common places people get stuck — and it's exactly what's keeping them from getting better.

    In this episode, Maggie breaks down why it feels impossible, why that feeling isn't a stop sign, and how to take action anyway — even in the middle of a flare-up.

    You'll learn why waiting for symptoms to calm down before taking action makes everything worse, why fear and symptom spikes are not signs that something has gone wrong, and why bravery, confidence, and readiness only come after you're already in motion — never before.

    If you've been stuck in this loop for months or years, this episode is for you.

  27. 36 - Why Is Nervous System Healing So Slow? (the pattern keeping you stuck)

    18 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz If you feel like you've been doing everything right and you're still not getting better, this episode is for you. Maggie …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    If you feel like you've been doing everything right and you're still not getting better, this episode is for you.

    Maggie spent over a decade stuck in nervous system sensitization — and a lot of that time was spent doing things that felt like healing but were actually keeping her stuck. In this episode, she breaks down exactly what those patterns look like, why they're so hard to spot, and what actually moves the needle.

    You'll learn why reassurance seeking feels helpful but quietly wires in the problem, why a symptom flare is not evidence that something has gone wrong, and why the amount of content you consume may be working against you.

    If you've tried everything and you're exhausted, this one is worth your full attention.

  28. 35 - I don't have insomnia anymore. Here's the thing I had to change to heal.

    16 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz If you've tried every sleep hack, supplement, and routine and you're still not sleeping — this is the video you've been …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    If you've tried every sleep hack, supplement, and routine and you're still not sleeping — this is the video you've been looking for. I struggled with chronic insomnia for 20 years. It got so bad in 2023 that I ended up in an inpatient psychiatric facility. In this video, I'm sharing the single shift that actually healed it — and it had nothing to do with sleep hygiene. What I finally realized: I didn't have an insomnia problem. I had a fear problem. And everything I was doing to fix my sleep was making it worse. If you're stuck in the loop of tracking your sleep, lying awake catastrophizing, or trying tool after tool with no relief — this one's for you.

  29. 34 - You're Way Beyond Nervous System Dysregulation | 5 Signs To Look Out For

    15 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz If you've tried everything for your anxiety or chronic symptoms and nothing is working, your nervous system might be …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    If you've tried everything for your anxiety or chronic symptoms and nothing is working, your nervous system might be sensitized — not dysregulated. These are two very different things. Most nervous system content out there is built for dysregulation. And if that's not what you're dealing with, those tools won't just fail to help — they can actually make things worse over time. In this video, I'm sharing 5 signs that your nervous system has become sensitized. If you relate to three or more, you're probably on the wrong path — and that's actually good news, because there's a different way through.

  30. 33 - My anxiety and pain stole my life. This is how I got it back.

    12 min

    Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz I tried everything. Therapy, EMDR, IFS, ketamine, supplements, psychedelics, hormone testing — 20 years of effort, and my …

    Notes de l’épisode

    Get my nervous system sensitization course

    Take the nervous system sensitization quiz

    I tried everything. Therapy, EMDR, IFS, ketamine, supplements, psychedelics, hormone testing — 20 years of effort, and my anxiety kept getting worse. Then a dental injury led to chronic nerve pain, health OCD, insomnia, and eventually severe suicidal ideation. I hit rock bottom in a psychiatric ward. What finally worked wasn't a new tool or a better approach. It was stopping. Stopping the searching, the fixing, the analyzing — and putting my attention back into my life. In this video, I share exactly what I had to do differently, why the healing work itself was keeping me stuck, and what it actually looks like to recover when you've been fighting anxiety for decades. If you've tried everything and nothing has worked, this one's for you.

Voici les 40 derniers épisodes sur 62. Les épisodes plus anciens se trouvent dans le flux du podcast.

C’est votre podcast ?

Confirmez-le avec une entrée dans votre flux : vous recevez ici un code, vous l’ajoutez comme podcast:txt dans le canal de votre flux, et nous le vérifions. Votre podcast apparaît ensuite comme « vérifié » sur SoundNode.

Paramètres

Affichage

Langue

Détermine les stations affichées en premier sur la page d’accueil.

Historique

Les stations et épisodes écoutés récemment et tes dernières recherches sont seulement enregistrés dans ce navigateur.

Notifications

Un court message quand un podcast que tu suis publie un nouvel épisode. Désactive un podcast précis avec la cloche sur sa page.

Compte

Enregistrez vos favoris – dans l’app et sur le site.

Raccourcis clavier

/
Ouvrir la recherche
Espace
Lecture ou pause
← →
Dans le lecteur : 15 s en arrière, 30 s en avant (épisodes) · dans une rangée : tuile suivante
↑ ↓
Dans une rangée : cible dans la tuile
Début / Fin
Dans une rangée : première ou dernière tuile
Esc
Fermer la fenêtre ou le menu
?
Cet aperçu
En cours de lecture

Voir la station

À suivre

    Ajoutez des épisodes avec « À suivre » – ils seront lus après l'épisode en cours.