Podcasts about Stress

In this episode, we break down the strategic decision to sell a portfolio of boutique hotels in Lake Tahoe, detailing the operational scaling challenges, rising interest rates, and the reality of 24/7 hospitality management. Understanding when to liquidate stabilized assets and redeploy trapped equity is a critical skill for any real estate investor looking to optimize returns and reduce active management stress.Beyond hospitality, we explore the current macroeconomic landscape, highlighting the unprecedented shift toward a buyer's market in housing and the potential impact of indexing capital gains tax to inflation. We also introduce the concept of "eustress" versus distress, providing actionable frameworks for high-performing entrepreneurs to leverage pressure for personal and professional growth.KEY TOPICS DISCUSSEDThe impact of rising interest rates on commercial real estate valuationsScaling challenges and operational realities of boutique hotel investmentsCalculating and understanding cap rates for passive investmentsUtilizing AI agents for investor relations and fund managementThe recent shift to a buyer's market in the US housing sectorProposed capital gains tax cuts and indexing gains to inflationThe psychological difference between distress and eustress for entrepreneursKEY TAKEAWAYSTrapped equity in stabilized real estate assets often yields a lower return, making it essential to unlock and redeploy capital into higher-yielding opportunities.Boutique hotels are 24/7 operating businesses, not just passive real estate, requiring significant scale to support a self-sustaining management team.The housing market currently holds a 51% seller surplus, creating a rare window of leverage for buyers to negotiate concessions before interest rates drop.Indexing capital gains to inflation could unlock stagnant housing supply by eliminating the lock-in effect and phantom profit taxation for long-term property owners.Engineering positive eustress into your routine forces growth and elevation, whereas unmanaged distress degrades focus and health.CONNECT & TAKE ACTIONImagos Income Fund: Text "INCOME" or "DEALS" to 844-447-1555 to learn more about Matty A's private debt fund targeting 10% fixed returns paid out monthly.Visit skylineocresidences.com to discover luxury condo ownership at Skyline OC, Orange County's tallest residential tower. Get a free financial audit on your investment portfolio by texting X-Ray to 844-447-1555

You can do everything right on paper — track perfectly, cut the calories, white-knuckle your way through the week — and your body will still hold onto weight if your nervous system doesn't feel safe. In this episode, the final S in the SUCCESS method, we're talking about stress. Because safety gets decided in your body before your brain ever gets a say, and when your nervous system perceives danger, willpower and discipline become nearly impossible. I'm walking you through why this shows up hardest in the evenings, what's really happening when you reach for the Cheez-Its in the car, and the one tool that shifts your nervous system more than any breath work class ever will.This is the last episode of the 6S method series. If you're just joining, go back through the previous episodes where I cover each of the S's and the whole weight loss resistance series.IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN:Why "stress" and "nervous system dysregulation" are the same thing — and why the label matters less than what it's doing to your bodyHow safety gets decided in your body before your brain gets a say, and why that makes willpower feel impossibleWhy dysregulation shows up hardest in the evenings, when your capacity is lowestThe classic dysregulation pattern: undereating all day, then munching your way through the evening on comfort foodMy definition of stress: too much energy going out, not enough coming in — and why dieting always reads as stressful to the bodyHow you can be in a calorie deficit and still have your body feel safer than beforeWhat chronic stress does to your hormones — cortisol, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone — and why that leaves you exhausted and unable to build muscleWhy breath work, meditation, and journaling are tools to feel regulation, not long-term fixes on their ownWhy awareness is the single most effective nervous system practiceWhy strategic nutrition is still the one thing that helps your body feel safe most consistentlyHow stress is actually the S you have the most control overTIMESTAMPS:00:00 Welcome back — the final S in the SUCCESS method00:30 Why I use "stress" and "nervous system dysregulation" interchangeably01:30 How stress connects to your body feeling safe or unsafe03:41 Why willpower becomes impossible when your nervous system feels unsafe04:35 Why dysregulation hits hardest in the evenings05:30 The Cheez-Its-in-the-car pattern, explained07:00 The classic cycle: undereating by day, munching by night10:00 My definition of stress: energy in vs. energy out11:00 Why you can feel better in a nutrient-dense deficit12:24 What chronic stress does to your hormones and energy14:52 Breath work, somatics, and meditation: what they're actually for16:00 Why awareness is the most effective nervous system tool19:00 Bridging the mind and the body (and why neither works alone)19:51 Why strategic nutrition is the most consistent path to safety22:11 The S you have the most control over23:04 How stress ties every other S together23:40 Inside Well Nourished and getting on the waitlistTHE TAKEAWAY:Every S in the SUCCESS method feeds one thing: your nervous system's perception of safety. Stress isn't the S that takes control over you — it's the one you have the most control over, because it becomes manageable when you give your body what it needs. So much of the stress we carry comes from living out of alignment with who we actually are: saying yes when we mean no, performing wellness instead of being well. When your body feels safe, it stops holding onto body fat. It really is that simple.GET ON THE WELL NOURISHED WAITLIST:Everything in this series comes together inside Well Nourished, my six-month body recomposition program. We take all six S's and build them into your actual life — with coaching, personalized plans, and awareness work so your body finally feels safe enough to let go. We stop performing wellness and actually become well.Enrollment opens in September, and the waitlist is open right now. Get your name on it, and you'll be able to schedule a consultation right away so you know exactly what the timeline looks like and how to come in fully ready:

Can a stress fracture actually heal with too much bone? Yes - and in some runners, that extra bone canbecome a problem of its own. In this episode of the Doc On The Run Podcast, Dr. Christopher Segler explains why a very large bone callus does not always mean a stress fracture is safely healed. He walks through two runner cases: one in which a large callus hid an unstable fracture heading toward nonunion, and another in which prolonged irritation produced a completely healed but excessively thick metatarsal that crowded the surrounding soft tissues. In this episode you'll learn: • Why bone callus forms around a stress fracture • How continued motion can create a deceptively large callus • Why a big callus can coexist with an unstable fracture or nonunion • How prolonged irritation can leave a healed bone too thick • Why excess bone can crowd muscles, nerves, and other soft tissues • Why simply “running less” may not reduce stress enough • What pain, bruising, and swelling can tell you about injury severity • Why measuring improvement matters before you increase activity

Wherever you are today, this biblical meditation, narrated by Chloë Elmore, offers a quiet space to pause and reconnect with God. You are called to glory and excellence. Meditate on 2 Peter 1:3. Abide is a Christian meditation app that helps you experience peace and grow in your relationship with Christ through Scripture, prayer, and reflection. Try Abide free for 30 days and explore our premium, ad-free meditations here: https://abide.com/peace Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Not all stress is bad, but most of us never learned the difference. This week Kate sits down with Megan Ashton, founder of Unity Breathwork, to talk about conscious connected breathwork and why the nervous system, not just your hormones, might be running the show. Megan shares her own path through trauma, bulimia, and alcohol dependence, and how one breath session changed everything. If you've ever felt flat, disconnected, or like you're carrying a stress bucket that's about to overflow, this conversation is for you.In this episode we explore:What conscious connected breathwork actually is and how it shifts blood flow in the brain to unlock stored emotionWhy "little t" traumas often carry a heavier, more lasting impact than the big, obvious onesThe stress bucket concept, and why the smallest thing can feel like the last straw by midlifeThe difference between eustress and distress, and why choice and agency change how stress lands in the bodyA simple five minute daily breath practice you can actually stick withAbout Megan Ashton:Megan Ashton is the founder of Unity Breathwork and a leading advocate for raising safety standards in the breathwork industry. Her own healing journey through trauma, bulimia, and alcohol dependence led her to Conscious Connected Breathwork, where she experienced firsthand its power for trauma and grief processing, addiction recovery, and nervous system healing. She now leads healing focused retreats in Mexico and directs Unity Breathwork's GPBA certified facilitator training program.Resources:Learn more about Megan and Unity Breathwork: www.unitybreathwork.comFollow Megan on Instagram: @unitybreathworkJoin Megan's mailing list for her free seasonal group breathwork sessionsBook Your Free Hormone Clarity CallTake Kate's FREE Quiz What Hormone is Running the ShowAbout KateKate Nguy is the founder of Shee Revival and a Certified Hormone Health Practitioner and Cycle-Syncing Strategist who helps busy women in their 30s and 40s balance their hormones and reclaim their energy. Specializing in the hormonal ups and downs of midlife—from PMS and perimenopause to burnout and cortisol overload—Kate guides women to feel at home in their bodies and live in sync with their natural cycles. Through cycle syncing, hormone hacks, and nervous system regulation, Kate empowers women to rebalance their hormones, reconnect to their bodies, and revive the vibrant, grounded version of themselves underneath the overwhelm.Tune in now and join the movement toward better hormone health!Follow me @hormoneswithkate on Instagram for more insights, tips, and support!

90 Day Transformation: https://apply.justinegliskis.comGet The 1.6:1 Ratio System: https://go.justinegliskis.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=show_notes&utm_campaign=book_funnelEmail: hey@justinegliskis.com to get in contact with meNew episodes out every Monday and Thursday at 10 AM Eastern TimeNature is the first scripture ever written. Every answer you're googling is already growing outside your window.The branches of a tree mirror the structure of your nervous system. Look at the knuckles of your hands, then look at a tree stump — nature has symbolism woven through all of it. Christ talked of reaping and sowing long before self-help did. When God has you where He wants you in a riptide, don't rush straight back to shore. Go horizontal until you're out of it. When God really wants you to hear something, He makes it loud like thunder. Build an ark like Noah — if you're listening, you'll be ready when the storm comes.20 minutes among trees recalibrates a nervous system that screens have scrambled. Walk the forest without staring at your phone. Hear the crunch of the leaves, the smallest croaks of insects, the silence underneath it all. The thunderstorm in your spirit needs the same elements to come together.Listen if you're ready for the reading practice: walking in nature as study, not just exercise. I love you. Have a wonderful day.Discover a podcast designed for entrepreneurs and solopreneurs navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship, offering insights on stress management, health and wellness, and overcoming imposter syndrome, while emphasizing work-life balance, energy alignment, and inner peace; explore topics like burnout recovery, business automation, scaling a business, business growth strategies, client management, mental resilience, overcoming anxiety, and achieving clearer thinking for sustainable success, using the blade of awareness, solving emotional dysfunction and unveiling the trickster within. Experience transformative solitude for entrepreneurs who seek to overcome loneliness while embracing spiritual isolation as a pathway to energy alignment and emotional clarity; learn to thrive alone and awaken in solitude through purposeful mental reset practices that cultivate an abundance mindset and build emotional resilience rooted in inner peace and deep self-inquiry, enabling mindful business growth through productivity that flows from peace rather than pressure, offering essential burnout recovery and healing alone strategies with specialized alignment coaching focused on deep listening skills that unlock success in silence and develop a resilient entrepreneur mindset capable of sustainable achievement.

You've been running on a program installed before you could even talk, and you had no say in writing it. Cell biologist and former medical school professor Bruce Lipton spent his career studying epigenetics and quantum biology, and he says your subconscious recorded almost everything about how to live before age seven. That program runs 95% of your day on autopilot, and you're the one person who can't see it while it's playing. Stress hormones don't just make you anxious. They shut down your immune system and reroute blood away from your gut, which is why kids get sick right before exams and adults get sick the moment a hard season finally ends. Quantum physics says the material world you're so sure of is an illusion, and once that clicks, the way you see your relationships, enemies included, changes completely. Bruce lays out the myths keeping humanity trapped in a cycle of self-destruction and the honeymoon shift that rewired his entire life after 40 years of running the wrong program. This is the science behind changing your story for good. BOOKS: Pre-Order Beyond Darwin: How Epigenetics, Quantum Science, and Cooperation Shape Humanity's Future The Biology of Belief Spontaneous Evolution The Honeymoon Effect Bruce's Website Bruce's Instagram Bruce's YouTube Join Bruce Lipton's Community for Conscious Evolution! In this episode you will: Learn why 95% of your day runs on subconscious autopilot and how that program got installed Discover how stress hormones shut down your immune system without you ever noticing the trigger Overcome the four cultural myths keeping humanity trapped in a cycle of self-destruction Recognize how quantum physics reveals the material world as an illusion and what that means for your relationships Build a new subconscious program using the same theta-state window that shaped you before age seven For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1966 More SOG episodes we think you'll love! Get More From Lewis! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A timely throwback episode from Season 6:It's the first episode from the new location of Coffee Talk Studios and Billy & Jenn find themselves discussing how to find and achieve the “simple life.” Not that life will ever be perpetually simple or easy…but we do have the power and the opportunity to “live at ease” and enjoy the simple things in life.   _ _ _ _ _Official WebsiteInstagramTwitterFacebookYouTube 

In this episode, Bill Umansky interviews Jimmy Lai about building influence on LinkedIn, content creation strategies, and managing stress as a legal professional and entrepreneur. They share practical tips for growing an online presence, leveraging AI tools, and maintaining authenticity.

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What if your hormones aren't working against you—but actually trying to tell you something?In this episode of The Women On Top, Dr. Alicia Newsome breaks down women's hormonal health in a way that's practical, empowering, and easy to understand.We talk about menstrual cycle phases, estrogen and progesterone, stress and cortisol, hormone testing, supplements, exercise, fertility after 35, and why understanding your body can change the way you feel and function.But this conversation goes beyond hormones. We also explore self-worth, purpose, and what it means to create a life—and legacy—that feels aligned.*In this episode:** Understanding your cycle and hormonal shifts* How stress impacts hormones* Estrogen, progesterone, and mood* Cycle tracking and hormone testing* Supporting hormonal health through lifestyle* Fertility after 35* Self-worth, purpose, and women's empowermentChapters:00:00 Introduction to Women's Hormonal Health01:18 Advice to My 25-Year-Old Self03:48 Understanding Menstrual Cycle Phases06:32 Hormones During Ovulation and Their Effects07:30 The Luteal Phase and Progesterone09:27 Stress, Cortisol, and Hormonal Imbalance12:40 Environmental Toxins and Estrogen Dominance15:05 Cycle Mapping and Hormone Testing20:36 Supporting Hormonal Balance with Supplements22:55 Exercise and Movement Throughout the Cycle24:57 Supporting Fertility After 3540:00 The Power of Self-Worth and Purpose52:12 Legacy and Women's Empowerment Connect with Dr. Alicia Newsome:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.alicianewsome/?hl=enYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.alicianewsomeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/dralicianewsome/?ref=NONE_xav_ig_profile_page_web#Learn More:https://bodywellnessinstitute.practicebetter.io/#/61d24ac639803316f87085f8/bookings?s=6a727abdfa3255b509609085Connect with The Women On Top:Follow The Women On Top Podcast on Apple, Spotify, or anywhere you get your podcasts.  Subscribe for more empowering conversations and stories!Website: https://thewomenontop.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thewomenontop Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewomenontoppodcast/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valerie-lynn/

Wherever you are today, this biblical meditation, narrated by Tyler Boss, offers a quiet space to pause and reconnect with God. Let God be your teacher. Meditate today on 1 Thessalonians 4:9. Abide is a Christian meditation app that helps you experience peace and grow in your relationship with Christ through Scripture, prayer, and reflection. Try Abide free for 30 days and explore our premium, ad-free meditations here: https://abide.com/peace Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

One spontaneous interview with a ripped 78-year-old went viral—and completely changed the direction of evry day club. Now founders Evynn and Ryan are interviewing fit older adults to uncover the simple habits that actually support a longer, healthier life. In this episode of Whiskey & Wisdom, Tyler Yaw and Chris Kellum sit down with the founders of evry day club, a growing wellness platform that helps people make healthier everyday choices through tested food, home, and beauty recommendations. Evynn and Ryan share how their backgrounds in nursing, medical sales, music, and content creation came together—and why they believe healthy living should feel practical instead of overwhelming. The conversation covers their 80/20 philosophy, reading product labels, managing stress, building a searchable wellness website, growing a Substack email list, creating content people actually watch, and the surprising longevity lessons they've learned from fit older adults. Their biggest lesson is simple: if you don't move it, you lose it. This conversation is about more than extending your lifespan. It's about protecting your quality of life, staying capable as you age, and building habits you can sustain. Subscribe to Whiskey & Wisdom for honest conversations with entrepreneurs, creators, and people building something that matters. CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome and Guests 01:09 How Evynn and Ryan Connected 01:46 Wine Talk and Reading Labels 03:42 Meet the Founders 04:59 The Origin of evry day club 07:17 Making Clean Living Simpler 09:09 From Nursing to Longevity Content 11:32 Training, Pilates, and Personal Fitness 14:55 Scaling Their Content Workflow 17:32 Building the Website and Substack 20:41 The Interview That Went Viral 23:04 How They Interview Fit Older Adults 28:23 Camera Gear and Editing Setup 30:40 Why Raw Content Wins 31:27 Growth Plans and Budget Decisions 32:15 Trying to Understand YouTube 34:24 Events, Travel, and HYROX 39:15 Scripting Content and Staying Compliant 41:10 Favorite Workouts and Training Splits 44:27 Moving Cities and Dreaming About Travel 45:25 How They Define Success 47:25 Longevity Lessons From Older Adults 53:41 Advice to Their Younger Selves 54:30 Stress, Balance, and the 80/20 Rule 58:25 Where to Find evry day club 59:12 Final Thoughts #Longevity #HealthyLiving #EvryDayClub

In this episode of The Healers Café, Manon Bolliger, FCAH, RBHT (facilitator and retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice) speaks with Vita Oyler, a rehabilitation counselor, shared her journey with chronic pain due to reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) following a running accident. She emphasized avoiding inflammatory foods and medications, focusing on positive mindset, and setting realistic goals. Vita's pain management included natural supplements like malic acid and magnesium, and maintaining a positive outlook through faith and laughter. She highlighted the importance of gratitude and small achievements in managing chronic pain. For the transcript and full story go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/vita-oyler      Highlights from today's episode include:  Vita explains to focus on what you can do: set tiny daily goals and celebrate them to make pain more livable. Vita says to reduce inflammation with food, supplements, stress reduction, and laughter to lessen chronic pain. Manon explains even with "incurable" labels, staying open and believing in possibilities keeps the door to healing and new solutions alive. ABOUT VITA OYLER, M.S. Vita is a Rehabilitation Counselor who works with clients that suffered with either acute or chronic pain.  She gained recognition as  being a counselor who fully understands pain and how to help others that have painful conditions as well.  Vita has been active in her community, and has been an active board member of many organizations.  She was drawn into getting people with disabilities back to work and/or living independently.  She has appeared on many television shows speaking about disability and chronic pain.  She has given many seminars about chronic pain.  She's worked with employers in finding creative ways of returning injured workers back to their jobs and/or finding alternative jobs.  She established the first Chronic Pain Support Group in her country for those suffering chronic pain, including families and other caregivers.  She herself received her country's Employee of the Year Award and was commended by country council members, congress members, senators and other state officials.  Vita has never let her pain interfere with her vocation and family.  She says it's about setting goals, earning right and learning to enjoy life again.  Let Vita inspire you to live a happier and healthier life  in spite of pain. ABOUT MANON BOLLIGER, RBHT, FCAH: As a retired Naturopath 1992-2021, I saw an average of 150 patients per week and have helped people ranging from rural farmers in Nova Scotia to stressed out CEOs in Toronto to tri-athletes here in Vancouver. My resolve to educate, empower and engage people to take charge of their own health is evident in my best-selling books:  'What Patients Don't Say if Doctors Don't Ask: The Mindful Patient-Doctor Relationship' and 'A Healer in Every Household: Simple Solutions for Stress'. and What if Your Body is Smarter than You Think?  I am the Founder & CEO of The Bowen College Inc. which teaches BowenFirst™ Therapy and holds transformational workshops to achieve these goals. So, when I share with you that LISTENing to Your body is a game changer in the healing process, I am speaking from expertise and direct experience". Mission: A Healer in Every Household! For more great information to go to her weekly blog:  http://bowencollege.com/blog.  For tips on health & healing go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/tips Follow: Manon Bolliger website  | Linktr.ee | Rumble | Gettr  | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter | LinkedIn | Follow: Bowen College Inc. | Facebook | Instagram  | LinkedIn | YouTube | Twitter | Rumble | Locals ABOUT THE HEALERS CAFE: Manon's show is the #1 show for medical practitioners and holistic healers to have heart to heart conversations about their day to day lives. Subscribe and review on your favourite platform: iTunes | Google Play | Spotify | Libsyn | iHeartRadio | Gaana | The Healers Cafe | Radio.com | Medioq | Audacy | Follow The Healers Café on FB: https://www.facebook.com/thehealerscafe   Remember to subscribe if you like our videos. Click the bell if you want to be one of the first people notified of a new release. * De-Registered, revoked & retired naturopathic physician after 30 years of practice in healthcare. Now resourceful & resolved to share with you all the tools to take care of your health & vitality!  

Send us Fan MailIn this calming affirmations episode, we focus on releasing stress while honoring the incredible body that carries you through each day. Together, we'll practice affirmations that encourage rest, nourishing choices, gentle movement, self-compassion, and gratitude for all your body does. Caring for yourself isn't about perfection—it's about treating yourself with kindness, patience, and love. Take a deep breath, soften your thoughts, and let these affirmations remind you that your well-being matters. Then come sit with us—let's go grab coffee together and celebrate taking good care of ourselves, one sip at a time. ☕

Struggling with chronic stress, pain, or feeling stuck in your health no matter what you try? Learn how reprogramming your subconscious mind can help your body heal and put you back in control.

Panic. Stress. Overwhelm. Anxiety. Worry. It's me, it's you, it's everyone. What are we going to do? Meditate. Be present. Yes, this ancient practice and philosophy is more relevant and necessary than ever before. Why? Because we are overstimulated and overloaded. Allostatic overloaded. But how to meditate in this world and brain of overstimulation? Tom has some tips and tricks to succeed with meditation in an overstimulated world.Tom Cronin is the founder of The Stillness Project, author of a global movement to inspire 1 billion people to meditate daily, and Producer and Writer of the film and book The Portal. Tom discovered meditation in the early stages of his successful 26 yr career in finance as a tool for stress management. Tom's experiences through meditation were not only immediate but very profound. He explored deeper into the realms of his meditation practice and Eastern philosophy, and after completing his teacher training in Bali, India and Australia, he qualified as a meditation teacher. Tom has been teaching meditation for top level companies in Australia, from Nova Fm, CBA, Rivkin Finance, Criteo and Fairfax Media and also authored 6 books.Contact:Website - https://tomcronin.comJoin us as we explore:The corporate burnout crisis, Tom's nervous breakdown and how he transformed from it.Allostatic load, how to clear it and the highest 20 min ROI practice is meditation.How to find peace and presence inside of us despite the chaos and craziness happening around us by balancing the polarity of pleasure and pain In a world chasing pleasure and avoiding pain at all costs.Modeling peace for our kids by following one simple principle, and why we need to embrace dynamic, more relevant schooling systems like the Green School.Why peak performance is happening during the time you are not performing.Why 85% of lawyers are anxious and depressed.Mentions:School - Green School Bali, https://bali.greenschool.orgPerson - Steven Kotler, https://www.stevenkotler.com Support the showFollow Steve's socials: Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube | Facebook | Twitter | TikTokSupport the show on Patreon:As much as we love doing it, there are costs involved and any contribution will allow us to keep going and keep finding the best guests in the world to share their health expertise with you. I'd be grateful and feel so blessed by your support: https://www.patreon.com/MadeToThriveShowSend me a WhatsApp to +27 64 871 0308. Disclaimer: Please see the link for our disclaimer policy for all of our content: https://madetothrive.co.za/terms-and-conditions-and-privacy-policy/

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Transitions require your brain to stop, shift, and restart. Learn why those moments can feel surprisingly stressful with ADHD and discover simple ways to reduce friction and make daily transitions smoother.I'm excited to now offer individual ADHD consultations for personalized support with your unique challenges and goals. Click the link to explore your options and schedule a consultation with me.Schedule with PattyPLUS: Hear this week's Book of the Week.Join ADHD-Friendly and start planning YOUR way! As a member, you'll have access to ADHD-Friendly live events, planning tools, and on-demand courses and webinars.Click the link below to get started today!https://adhdfriendly.mn.coCreate an ADHD-Friendly Personal Owner's Manual (POM) eBook is now available in the ADHD-Friendly shop for only $19.99: https://www.adhdfriendly.com/adhd-friendly-shop/Thank you for checking out this episode of the ADHD-Friendly podcast with Patty Blinderman!!New episodes are posted every Wednesday! Subscribe to the channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@adhdfriendlyPlease subscribe to my YouTube channel, ADHD-Friendly Podcast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. For more information on the ADHD-Friendly services offered by Patty, please visit her website: ADHDFriendly.com

This is the Tranquillusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, say a series of words to relax your mind, replace a hectic interior monologue, maybe lull you to sleep, hopefully quell the mental uproar just for a little while. Today: nicknames for woodlice, and a list of cheeses from Great Britain and Ireland. If you need to skip the woodlouse content, go to the 5 minutes 45 seconds mark, whereupon the cheese begins.Note: this is NOT a normal episode of the Allusionist, where you might learn something about language and your brain might be stimulated. The Tranquillusionist's purpose is to soothe your brain and for you to learn very little - perhaps just a couple of facts about woodlouse urination and a 9th-century saint.Visit theallusionist.org/cheesy-cheesybobs for a transcript and more information about cheese and woodlice.There's a collection of other Tranquillusionists at theallusionist.org/tranquillusionist, on themes including champion dogs, Australia's big things, gay animals, ex-constellations and more.Sign up at theallusionist.org/donate to fund the continuing existence of this independent podcast. In return, you can join me for regular livestreams where I read relaxingly from my ever-expanding collection of vintage dictionaries, plus you get bonus written content including behind the scenes info about every episode, membership of the Allusioverse Discord community, and watchalong parties for films and TV shows: together we're watching the 2026 season of Great British Sewing Bee. For $5/month or above, get the ad-free version of the show.Find the Allusionist at youtube.com/allusionistshow, instagram.com/allusionistshow, facebook.com/allusionistshow, @allusionistshow.bsky.social… If I'm there, I'm there as @allusionistshow. Our ad partner is Multitude. If you want me to talk compellingly about your product, sponsor an episode: contact Multitude at multitudeshows.com/ads. The Allusionist is sponsored by:• Squarespace, your one-stop shop for building and running your online forever home. Go to squarespace.com/allusionist for a free trial, and get 10 percent off your first purchase of a website or domain with the code allusionist.• Quince, luxurious clothing and homewares without the markup. Go to quince.com/allusionist for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

310: There's so much noise in the health and wellness space that it can be hard to know what's actually worth your time. This conversation is all about cutting through that overwhelm and focusing on the habits that can have the biggest impact on your health. Dave Asprey and I talk about metabolism, weight loss, stress, recovery, sleep, protein, regenerative agriculture, and why doing more isn't always the answer. We also get into the role of cortisol, the biggest misconceptions around nutrition, and what it really means to build a healthier, more resilient body without overcomplicating the process. Topics Discussed: → Weight Loss & Metabolism → Cortisol, Stress & Recovery → Protein, Nutrition & Muscle Building → Seed Oils, Regenerative Farming & Food Quality → Biohacking, Longevity & Healthy Aging Sponsored By: → Our Place | Stop cooking with toxic cookware, and upgrade to Our Place today. Visit https://fromourplace.com/REALFOODOLOGY and use code REALFOODOLOGY for 10% off sitewide. With a hundred-day risk-free trial, free shipping and returns, you can experience this game-changing cookware with zero risk. → Cowboy Colostrum | Get 25% Off Cowboy Colostrum with code REALFOODOLOGY at https://cowboycolostrum.com/realfoodology → PaleoValley | Head to https://paleovalley.com/realfoodology  for 15% off your first purchase. → Manukora | Head to https://manukora.com/REALFOODOLOGY to save up to 31% plus $25 worth of free gifts with the Starter Kit, which comes with an MGO 850+ Manuka Honey jar, 5 honey travel sticks, a wooden spoon, and a guidebook! → Timeline | Timeline's clinically proven formula is now available at a new, lower price. Mitopure now starts at $79, when you subscribe at https://timeline.com/REALFOODOLOGY Timestamps:  → 00:00:00 - Introduction → 00:00:56 - Meet Dave Asprey → 00:02:56 - Rethinking Health and Public Health Advice → 00:07:04 - The Vegan and Keto Traps → 00:09:50 - Finding Your Health Goals → 00:13:22 - Exercising Less, Getting Better Results → 00:18:38 - Dave's 300-Pound Weight Loss → 00:23:14 - How Calories Affect the Body → 00:26:14 - Biohacking for Better Results → 00:29:54 - Stress, Exercise and Recovery → 00:31:12 - Why Regenerative Agriculture Matters → 00:35:40 - Lectins, Oxalates and Phytic Acid → 00:39:58 - Rethinking High-Intensity Workouts → 00:43:06 - Plant Foods and Mineral Absorption → 00:46:44 - Why Supplementation Matters → 00:50:26 - Dave's Top Health Priorities → 00:53:30 - Undereating, Cortisol and Weight Loss → 00:55:46 - Alcohol and Health → 00:57:54 - Dave's Health Non-Negotiables → 01:00:14 - Recovery and Minerals → 01:00:48 - Final Health Advice Check Out Dave Asprey  → Instagram  → The Human Upgrade Podcast Instagram  → The Human Upgrade Podcast  → Smarter Not Harder Book  Check Out Courtney:  →  LEAVE US A VOICE MESSAGE →  Check Out My new FREE Grocery Guide! →  @realfoodology →  www.realfoodology.com →  My Immune Supplement by 2x4 →  Air Dr Air Purifier →  AquaTru Water Filter →  EWG Tap Water Database Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You know screens and social media can be risky for your kid. But do you know exactly what harm looks like… and what actually protects them from it? Dr. Lisa Damour revisits her conversation with Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, pioneering pediatrician, author, and California's first Surgeon General, recorded live at the Common Sense Summit on Kids and Families. A globally recognized expert on Adverse Childhood Experiences and toxic stress, Dr. Burke Harris has spent her career studying what harms children and what heals them. Her answer to the screen time crisis might surprise you: the most powerful protection isn't stricter screen time rules; it's your relationship with your child.

In this episode, Dr. Jockers sits down with neuroscientist and psychiatrist Dr. Dave Rabin to explore why chronic stress can keep your nervous system stuck in survival mode. You'll learn what happens in the brain and body during fight or flight and why feeling safe plays such an important role in shifting into recovery.   Dr. Rabin explains how neuroplasticity allows the brain to develop new responses to stress and why trauma is shaped not only by what happens to us, but by how our nervous system processes those experiences. You'll also hear how gratitude, breathing, soothing touch, and other safety signals can help retrain the body's stress response.   You'll also discover the science behind vagus nerve activation and how technology like Apollo Neuro uses gentle vibrations to support nervous system regulation. Dr. Rabin shares what his research reveals about stress resilience, sleep, recovery, and the practical ways you can help your body shift from chronic stress toward a calmer, more adaptable state.   In This Episode:  00:00 Stress As Blood Flow 00:23 Meet Dr Dave Rabin 00:51 Apollo Neuro Overview 05:34 Book Inspiration 07:36 Psychedelic Therapy Shift 09:41 Safety And Vagus Nerve 13:20 How Stress Works 21:51 Gratitude And Regulation 25:28 Trauma Redefined 31:35 Meaning And Resilience 33:24 Stress As Growth 34:58 Reserve Judgment 37:16 Reframing Hardship 38:46 Faith Meets Science 43:03 Touch as Safety Signal 45:31 Apollo Neuro Explained 48:33 Vibes and Body Music 54:45 Oura Sleep Study Results 01:00:22 Why Sleep Heals 01:03:26 Learning Top Down Bottom Up 01:08:38 Final Thanks and Wrap   Enjoy a clean, protein-packed snack with PaleoValley's Grass-Fed Beef Sticks. Made without sugar, additives, or preservatives, they're packed with healthy fats and grass-fed nutrients to help curb cravings, support steady energy, and keep you satisfied on the go. Save 15% with code DRJOCKERS at paleovalley.com/drjockers.   You can track your sleep, workouts, recovery, and nutrition, but if you've never looked at your gut microbiome, you could be missing a big piece of the puzzle. Tiny Health's at-home gut test uses metagenomic sequencing to give you a detailed look at what's happening inside your gut, plus personalized diet, lifestyle, and supplement recommendations based on your results. Stop guessing and start using real data to support your health. Go to tinyhealth.com/drjockers to get $50 off your first at-home test kit.   For your daily dose of Omega-3's, go to myaquaomega.com/JOCKERS and use code JOCKERS for 20% off. That's myaquaomega.com/JOCKERS  and use code JOCKERS for 20% off. Also available in thousands of health food stores nationwide. "Your nervous system was designed to protect you. Sometimes it just needs to be reminded that you are safe."   Subscribe to the podcast on: Apple Podcast Stitcher Spotify PodBean  TuneIn Radio   Resources:  Enjoy 15% off grass-fed beef sticks with code DRJOCKERS at paleovalley.com/drjockers. Go to tinyhealth.com/drjockers to get $50 off your first at-home test kit. Visit  myaquaomega.com/jockers and use code JOCKERS for 20% off     Connect with Dr. Dave Rabin: Book: https://amzn.to/4yeB0cw Website: Touch Therapy Tech for Stress, Sleep & Performance | Apollo Neuro Coupon Code:  DRJOCKERS     Connect with Dr. Jockers: Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/drjockers/ Facebook – https:/www.facebook.com/DrDavidJockers YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/user/djockers Website – https://drjockers.com/   If you are interested in being a guest on the show, we would love to hear from you! Please contact us here! - https://drjockers.com/join-us-dr-jockers-functional-nutrition-podcast/

The way you think about stress doesn't just affect your mood, it can actually change your cortisol regulation. In this episode, we explore the science of mindset, resilience, and goal setting, and how reframing the way you perceive stress and setbacks can lead to lasting behavior change. You'll learn: How cognitive appraisal theory shapes your body's stress response Why your expectations directly influence how stressful something feels How to build self-efficacy through small, consistent wins What "prediction error" is and how it explains why setbacks derail motivation How implementation intentions make goals more specific and achievable Why discomfort and adversity are necessary parts of real growth How habits and default behaviors quietly shape long-term progress Whether you're working through a stressful season or trying to build habits that actually stick, this episode gives you a science-backed framework for reframing challenges and building real, lasting confidence. L5 Health Score Quiz https://score.lvltnhealth.com/ LVLTN Health https://www.lvltnhealth.com/ The Fitness League app https://www.fitnessleagueapp.com/ Chapters 00:00 Introduction and episode overview 38:49:59 The science behind stress mindset and cortisol regulation 7833:16:49 Developing a skill to reframe and practice positivity 11749:56:58 The role of consistency and small wins in progress 15916:37:07 Using adversity and setbacks as opportunities for growth 20388:50:59 The value of doing uncomfortable things for growth 26666:37:53 The science of prediction error and expectation management 31944:24:49 Preparing for challenges with realistic planning 362777:45:15 Implementation intentions and specific goal planning 411111:05:28 Believing in the process and the importance of confidence 430555:32:11 The importance of system and structure in growth 466944:25:44 The role of competence and confidence in self-efficacy 489722:12:24 The process of building confidence through repetition 502777:45:48 The value of reps over outcomes in progress 523888:52:33 Reframing progress and goals through mindset 539444:26:00 The impact of participation trophies and resilience 553055:32:46 The importance of humility and continuous learning 619444:26:30 The danger of overconfidence and complacency 641666:39:55 Seeking challenges to improve and grow 655277:46:38 Closing thoughts: consistency and mindset for change

In part 4 of our Back to Basics series, we explore the "stress bucket" analogy to help you understand why you might be feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or depressed. Learn how to assess your unique stress load and discover personalized pathways to healing.CLICK HERE for the full show notes, resources, and 3 tangible takeaways!—Ps. This is a re-run of this series.  It originally aired in February 2025, and is still the series I hear back about the most. Since there's been a wave of new listeners joining lately, I wanted to bring it back around.And for those of you who were here the first time, I invite you to listen again through the lens of where you are right now, it's likely shifted over the last year and a half, and just see what lands differently.Looking for more personalized support? 1:1 Coaching (RESTORE):  Learn more or book a free discovery call (HSA/FSA eligible & includes comprehensive bloodwork)Regulated Living Membership:  A mental health membership and nervous system healing space (sliding scale pricing available). Join here.Order my book: Healing Through the Vagus Nerve*Want me to talk about something specific on the podcast? Let me know HERE.—Website: https://www.regulatedliving.com/podcastEmail: amanda@regulatedliving.comInstagram: @amandaontheriseTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@amandaontherise

What happens when your body starts speaking in symptoms—and it takes rock bottom to finally listen? In episode 273, Amber Romaniuk, Emotional Eating, Digestive and Hormone Expert, shares her battle with binge eating that had her gaining and losing over 1,000 pounds. For Amber, healing wasn't willpower or a quick-fix diet—it was uncovering the hormone imbalances, gut issues, and emotional wounds driving her self-sabotage.In This Episode, You Will Learn:(00:12) Introduction to Amber Romaniuk and The No Sugar Coating Podcast(06:29) Amber's Childhood: Bullying, Grief, and the Roots of Emotional Eating(15:19) The Loneliest Years: Living in Secret With Binge Eating and Purging(18:15) Breaking the Cycle: Sugar Addiction, Triggers, and Building Self-Awareness(25:35) How Childhood Programming and Diet Culture Shape Our Relationship With Weight(27:05) The Truth About GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs(32:00) Gut Health 101: Stress, Digestion, and the Myths About Probiotics(41:30) Cortisol, Burnout, and the Hidden Signs of Hormone Imbalance(50:24) Getting the Right Testing: Thyroid Ranges and Finding a Functional Practitioner(57:52) Where to Find Amber: Podcast, Quizzes, and ConsultationsAmber Romaniuk is an Emotional Eating, Digestive and Hormone Expert with 12 years' experience helping high-achieving women build body confidence and optimal health. She hosts The No Sugarcoating Podcast, with 2+ million downloads across 600+ episodes in 90+ countries. Her expertise is personal: she overcame emotional eating after gaining and losing over 1,000 lbs and spending $50,000+ on binge foods, spending five years healing her hormones, digestion, and limiting beliefs. Today she helps women achieve Body Freedom™ and lasting confidence.In this episode, Amber shared her journey through emotional eating, binge eating, and binge-purging, tracing it to childhood bullying and family stress that turned food into emotional armor, and the rock-bottom moment that pushed her into recovery. She explained the roots of self-sabotaging food behavior, from the brain's fear response to sugar addiction and low self-worth, then covered gut health and hormone health (cortisol, thyroid, progesterone, estrogen) and their link to cravings and emotional eating. She also discussed her concerns about GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, closing with where to find her podcast and consultations.Connect with Amber Romaniuk: WebsiteLinkedInInstagramYouTubeXLet's Connect:WebsiteInstagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You can assess a whole unit in thirty seconds... but when's the last time you assessed yourself? In this episode, I'm breaking down the five signs of nurse burnout that don't look like burnout at all. They look like being reliable. Being the strong one. Being a good nurse. And that's exactly why so many of us miss them, or catch them years too late. If you've ever wondered whether you're actually burned out, or if you're the nurse who's so deep in autopilot you haven't even stopped to ask... friend, this one's for you. In this episode, we cover: The 3 lies keeping high-functioning nurses stuck (starting with "I just need to push through") Sign 1: you can assess everyone's needs except your own Sign 2: your default answer is yes, and no comes with guilt attached Sign 3: you're exhausted but rest feels like a threat, not a relief Sign 4: what chronic stress is actually doing to your body at the cellular level Sign 5: the calling you had before your first preceptor told you to toughen up Loved this episode? Comment or DM me on Instagram @theshanwright  or email me hello@theshanwright.com the word STRESS and I'll send you the STAT Protocol, free. It's the first step to leading yourself instead of just managing everyone else's shift. Ready to go deeper? Book your complimentary stress assessment and get personalized tools you can use — even in the middle of a 12-hour shift. DM me on Instagram @theshanwright  or email me hello@theshanwright.com the word "STRESS"  Shalom Shalom,  Xx, Shan  ……CONNECT…… The STAT Protocol: 5 min Emergency Reset Take the Free QUIZ-  Are you in burnout or just stressed?? Stress Assessment (free) - get to the root of your stress

 Summary In this episode, the hosts discuss various topics related to their experiences as delivery drivers, including recent contract raises, the impact of automation on job security, and the mental health challenges faced in the workplace. They reflect on personal experiences with their trucks, the changing landscape of the delivery industry, and the increasing pressures from management. The conversation highlights the uncertainty and stress that drivers are currently facing, as well as the importance of community support through platforms like Patreon. In this conversation, the hosts discuss the immense pressure and stress that drivers face in the delivery industry, highlighting the mental health challenges that arise from their demanding work environment. They explore the expectations placed on drivers and the impact on personal lives. The discussion also touches on the importance of self-care and maintaining a positive attitude despite the challenges. The conversation concludes with lighthearted moments and humor, showcasing the camaraderie among drivers. www.patreon.com/aitdpod https://discord.gg/hm8WMUKVF8  Takeaways The hosts express gratitude to their Patreon supporters. They discuss the recent dollar twenty-two raise for drivers. Personal experiences with truck reliability and performance are shared. The hosts reflect on the upcoming contract negotiations and expectations. Concerns about automation and its impact on job security are raised. The conversation touches on the mental health challenges faced by drivers. The hosts emphasize the importance of community and support among drivers. They discuss the increasing accountability and pressure from management. The hosts reflect on the changing dynamics of the delivery industry. The conversation highlights the uncertainty of job security in the current climate. Drivers face immense pressure and high standards from management. Mental health issues are prevalent among drivers due to work stress. The job demands constant emotional and mental engagement. Self-care is crucial for drivers to perform their jobs effectively. Management often overlooks the challenges faced by drivers. The industry has a high divorce rate linked to work stress. Drivers are often overloaded with unrealistic expectations. Maintaining a positive attitude can help mitigate job stress. Humor and camaraderie among drivers can provide relief. It's important to address the root causes of stress in the industry. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Shoutouts 02:18 Weekly Updates and Personal Experiences 08:01 Contract Raises and Future Expectations 10:07 Automation in the Workplace 12:00 Concerns About Job Security 16:01 Mental Health and Workplace Stress 21:48 The Pressure on Drivers 24:09 Mental Health Challenges in the Industry 27:45 The Stress of Daily Operations 32:35 Taking Care of Yourself 38:10 Lighthearted Moments and Humor Shoutout to our TOP RATE LEGENDS Tony, Starla and S_nner THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED OR VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PODCAST ARE THOSE OF THE HOSTS AND GUESTS AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT ANY DELIVERY COMPANY    

Wherever you are today, this biblical meditation, narrated by James Seawood, offers a quiet space to pause and reconnect with God. You’ve been anointed by Christ. Meditate on that gift in 1 John 2:27. Abide is a Christian meditation app that helps you experience peace and grow in your relationship with Christ through Scripture, prayer, and reflection. Try Abide free for 30 days and explore our premium, ad-free meditations here: https://abide.com/peace Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

You're stressed, you're exhausted, and the weight is climbing anyway. Everyone has an explanation. Almost all of them are wrong. The version you've heard stops at "stress raises cortisol, cortisol adds weight." What's actually happening is stranger and far more useful to know. Chronic stress doesn't just raise cortisol — it scrambles the timing of it. It rewires which part of your brain is making decisions at six o'clock. It changes the hormones that tell you when you're full. And there's an enzyme in belly fat that manufactures its own cortisol supply, right there in the tissue. In this episode: why cravings hit hardest when you're most depleted, why stress moves fat toward the middle, why bad sleep may matter more than anything on your plate, and what should be ruled out before anyone blames your stress at all. Then the part that matters most — what actually works, and why rigid dieting makes it worse. Weight gain under stress isn't a character flaw. It's information. Here's how to read it.

Your calendar is packed, your phone never stops, and somehow your body still thinks every moment is an emergency. We sit down with clinical psychologist and mindfulness teacher Dr Elisha Goldstein to talk about his book *Tiny Shifts* and the practical reality behind emotional steadiness: you do not need a new personality or a perfect morning routine, you need a reliable way to access your skills when stress hijacks your brain.We break down the “emotional loop” that drives reactivity, shutdown, self-criticism, doomscrolling, and those “not this again” moments. Elisha explains how thoughts, emotions, body sensations, and actions link together, and why simple recognition changes what is possible by bringing more perspective and impulse control online. From there we get concrete about “release” as nervous system regulation: lowering the shoulders, lengthening the exhale, softening the jaw, shaking out tension, or even writing down intrusive thoughts, not to suppress emotions but to create capacity.We also go deep on emotional vocabulary and communication, including lessons from nonviolent communication and how AI can act as temporary training wheels when hard conversations feel impossible. Along the way we explore what emotional health actually means, how self-worth grows when we can receive kindness without deflecting, and why repeating a tiny phrase like “I am loving awareness” can be a powerful pivot when you are stuck in an old pattern.If you want mindfulness that holds up in real life, this one is for you. Subscribe, share this with a friend who feels overwhelmed, and leave a review with the tiniest shift you are going to practise this week.BECOME A CERTIFIED MINDFULNESS MEDITATION TEACHER Teach mindfulness with confidence and skill — without self-doubt, fear of judgment, or imposter syndrome. Our internationally accredited certification is for therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, educators, and helping professionals. Accredited by the IMMA and CPD; endorsed by Gabor Maté and Rick Hanson. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certification/NEW HERE? START FREE Explore 3,000+ free guided meditations, scripts, and worksheets — for your own practice or to share with the people you teach. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-mindfulness-exercises/ENJOYING THE PODCAST? Follow the show in your favorite app and leave a quick rating or review. It takes a moment, and it genuinely helps more teachers and practitioners find these conversations.———————————————————————————ABOUT THE SHOWMindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life.Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — the show explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work.Each episode offers a mix o...

Birth is part of the story. It is not the whole story. In this episode, Emily Roper is back to talk about birth, early development, and what those first experiences may have to do with the complicated kids we are parenting later. And before we go anywhere else, we say this clearly: this is not an episode about looking back and deciding you should have done everything differently. No thank you. We have enough parent guilt already. This is about awareness. It is about connecting dots. It is about understanding how pregnancy, birth, and the newborn period can give us clues about a child's brain, body, stress response, movement, feeding, sensory processing, and regulation. Emily is a neuro-developmental delay therapist, certified midwife's assistant, and owner of Early Roots. She works with children who have developmental delays, sensory challenges, ADHD, autism, anxiety, dyslexia, retained reflexes, vestibular differences, visual development issues, and regulation challenges. She also works in the birth world, supporting families during labor and postpartum. Which means she lives in the overlap between early experience and later development. That overlap is where this episode lives too. Emily explains that birth is not just the way we get the baby out. During labor and delivery, the baby's body is doing a tremendous amount of work. Stress hormones shift. Reflexes activate. Movement patterns are used. The baby is preparing to breathe, digest, regulate, move, and live outside the womb. Which is a lot, really. We also talk about what can happen when that process is disrupted or modified. C-sections, inductions, forceps, vacuum delivery, oxygen concerns, birth trauma, feeding challenges, torticollis, latch issues, and unsettled newborn patterns can all become pieces of a larger developmental picture. Not because any one of those things determines a child's future, but because they may help us ask better questions. One of the biggest themes in this episode is that babies do not develop in separate buckets. A feeding issue is not always just a feeding issue. A neck issue is not always just a neck issue. A fussy baby does not have a personality problem. The body, brain, movement system, sensory system, stress response, and regulation system are all connected, especially early on. Emily and I talk about what parents can do with this information at different points. If you are pregnant, it may mean asking more questions about your provider, setting, and support. If you have a newborn, it may mean looking at feeding, body tension, floor time, movement, postpartum mental health, and your own regulation. If your child is older, it may mean finding someone who understands primitive reflexes, sensory-motor development, and the way early patterns can still be supported later. Because this is not a "you missed your window" conversation. Neuroplasticity is real. Development keeps going. Bodies can be supported. Nervous systems can become more organized. Kids can make meaningful changes long after the newborn stage. That is why I like talking with Emily so much. She helps us widen the lens without turning the whole thing into blame. Early history may not explain everything. But it may give us one more way in. Key Takeaways This episode is about awareness, not guilt. Birth can be part of a child's developmental story, but it is not the whole story. Pregnancy, birth, and the newborn period can affect how the brain and body learn to function. Birth is an active process for the baby, involving movement, reflexes, stress hormone shifts, and major physiological transitions. C-sections, inductions, forceps, vacuum delivery, oxygen concerns, and birth trauma can matter developmentally without becoming moral judgments. Feeding, latch, torticollis, fussiness, sensory processing, and regulation are often connected through the developing brain and body. A fussy baby does not have a personality problem. Fussiness can be communication that something is uncomfortable, stressful, or hard. Body issues are brain issues, especially in babies, because early development is deeply physical. Parents can support development through feeding support, body work, movement, floor time, nervous system support, and attention to postpartum mental health. About Emily Roper Emily Roper is a Neuro-Developmental Delay Therapist and a certified Midwives Assistant. She owns Early Roots, a specialized therapy practice for children with developmental delays. Her work helps providers and families better understand and support children and parents. Emily has an educational background in psychology, midwifery, and neuro-developmental delay. She has spent over a decade helping children with ADHD, autism, anxiety, dyslexia, sensory challenges, and other developmental delays. She has attended more than 600 births and supported hundreds of families through their postpartum period. In addition to her hands-on work, Emily is passionate about education and bridging the gap between the birth world and psychology. She teaches and speaks to both parents and professionals about how early experiences, specifically pregnancy, birth, and the newborn period, shape long-term neurological development. She has trained midwives, taught post-graduate students, spoken at conferences, and hosts The Early Roots Podcast, where she makes complex developmental topics feel practical and accessible. About Your Host, Gabriele Nicolet I'm Gabriele Nicolet, toddler whisperer, speech therapist, parenting life coach, and host of Complicated Kids. Each week, I share practical, relationship-based strategies for raising kids with big feelings, big needs, and beautifully different brains. My goal is to help families move from surviving to thriving by building connection, confidence, and clarity at home. Complicated Kids Resources and Links

Data centers are spurring debates all over the country especially in a time when grid stress is already happening. Communities have leverage to ask for money back in the developer's fee along with part of the solar generation, battery usage and water accommodations according to ESP.earth founder Kerry Duggan.

Quelle est votre posture de leader lorsque vous ne savez plus quoi faire, quoi dire ou quelle décision prendre ? Et si, dans ces moments de doute, vous vous laissiez guider par une question simple, puissante et profondément transformatrice : « Que ferait l'amour ? »Dans cet épisode, vous découvrez comment cette question devient une véritable boussole pour travailler votre posture de leader, décider avec clarté et exercer un leadership à la fois humain, responsable et aligné :ajuster votre posture professionnelle face à des situations complexes ou émotionnellement chargéesprendre des décisions alignées, même sous pression, en tant que leaderdonner un feedback difficile avec respect, clarté et responsabilitédévelopper de la compassion pour exercer un leadership qui soutient à la fois l'équipe, l'organisation et vous-mêmetraverser le stress et les périodes de tension grâce à une posture de leader plus juste et plus conscienteÀ travers des exemples concrets vécus en tant que femme cheffe d'entreprise et coach de femmes leaders, je vous montre comment la question « Que ferait l'amour ? » peut transformer votre posture de leader, renforcer votre confiance et vous aider à développer un leadership conscient, au service du bien-être au travail et de décisions plus sereines.Cet épisode s'adresse aux leaders, managers et femmes engagées dans leur développement professionnel, qui souhaitent travailler leur posture de leader, exercer un leadership au féminin plus humain, et concilier exigence, impact et respect de soi.Pour vous abonner à ma lettre hebdomadaire dédiée aux dirigeantes : cliquez iciPour en savoir plus sur NOVA✨, l'accompagnement individuel de dirigeante : cliquez ici ****Rejoignez la newsletter Sensées : elle vous donne accès à un concentré de coaching et d'inspiration. Inscrivez-vous gratuitement en cliquant ici. Tout comme sur le podcast Sensées, on y parle de leadership, d'ambition, de confiance en soi, de motivation, de carrière, d'outils de développement personnel, de management, de prise de poste, de prise de parole, et. : bref, de tout ce qui concerne le quotidien des femmes ambitieuses.***Avec NOVA, j'accompagne individuellement les dirigeantes. Dans ce programme de coaching et de mentoring, confidentiel et sur-mesure, je vous aide à dépasser vos challenges et atteindre vos objectifs, dans un contexte politique et stratégique qui demande de la hauteur, du sang-froid et une vision claire. Cliquez ici pour en savoir plus.**Notre guide "10 leviers essentiels pour les décideuses" est un véritable concentré d'outils de coaching et de mentoring, les mêmes que nous utilisons dans le programme Sensées. Il est conçu pour toutes les directrices, dirigeantes et entrepreneures qui sont fatiguées de porter seules les responsabilités. Si vous avez l'impression que votre quotidien vous échappe petit à petit, ce guide est fait pour vous. Cliquez ici pour obtenir votre exemplaire offert !*Vous représentez une entreprise et souhaitez développer le leadership de vos talents féminins ? : cliquez ici.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

This episode is a replay from The Existential Stoic library. Enjoy! Do you want more? Does growth equal success? Are we making our lives overly complicated? In this episode, Danny and Randy discuss the importance of simplicity.Subscribe to ESP's YouTube Channel! Thanks for listening!  Do you have a question you want answered in a future episode? If so, send your question to: existentialstoic@protonmail.com

Send us Fan MailAaron and Trent sit down with Tim “Chaci” Pachasa and Chelsey Simoni from the Hunter Seven Foundation for one of the most important health conversations we have had on Ones Ready.Hunter Seven is not just talking about veteran cancer. They are building the system that should have existed already: research, education, early screening, direct support, and a free cancer care campus for veterans who are trying to fight this stuff before it is too late.Chelsey breaks down the reality of post-9/11 cancer trends, toxic exposure, burn pits, JP-8, PFAS, chronic stress, gastrointestinal issues, H. pylori, and why “normal for me” does not mean normal. A normal amount of symptoms is zero. Not “deployment stomach.” Not acid reflux forever. Not chronic pain you just learned to live with.Chaci explains why this is not about blaming the Department of War or the services. War has consequences. The issue is whether we are willing to own those consequences early enough to keep people alive. He also gets honest about the veteran hypocrisy most of us live with: we tell everyone else to take care of themselves while ignoring our own symptoms because we do not want to step away from the team.The conversation also hits what Hunter Seven found during SOF Week screenings, why cancer can show up decades earlier than civilian norms, why civilian providers often miss veteran-specific risk factors, and why service members need to stop underreporting pain, GI issues, fatigue, and other symptoms.Hunter Seven also shares what is coming next: their rural Tennessee cancer care campus, the Patriots, Pars, and Pistols event at Pinehurst, and how donations directly support screenings, second opinions, travel, medication, treatment support, and care for veterans.If you are serving, getting ready to serve, or already out, this one matters. Get screened. Tell the truth about your symptoms. Ask better questions. Live long enough to be there for the people who love you.Links:- Hunter7.org- @HunterSevenFoundation on Instagram- OperatorTrainingSummit.com- Modern Athlete Strength SystemsChapters:00:00 - Intro and Ones Ready01:05 - Hunter Seven Foundation Preview03:27 - Chaci and Chelsey Join the Show04:06 - Chaci's Background and Hunter Seven06:02 - Chelsey's Story and Why Hunter Seven Started09:13 - Military Cancer Trends and Toxic Exposure13:14 - Burn Pits, JP-8, Stress, and Long-Term Health14:36 - Why Veterans Need Better Medical Curiosity17:38 - The Problem With “Young and Healthy”20:26 - Lying to Fly and Ignoring Symptoms23:18 - Mental Toughness Can Hurt You24:23 - GI Issues Are Not Normal26:30 - The Correct Amount of Symptoms Is Zero28:09 - Taking Care of Yourself Helps the Team31:03 - Chaci's Injury Story and VA Lessons33:29 - Hunter Seven at SOF Week35:13 - Abnormal Findings and Early Cancer Detection37:00 - You Do Not Have to Be SOF to Matter41:28 - What Is Next for Hunter Seven42:08 - Drake, Happy Dad, and the Cancer Care Campus45:48 - Building Support Beyond the VA47:41 - Patriots, Pars, and Pistols49:40 - How to Support Hunter Seven51:11 - Family Care, Veteran Priorities, and Stroz Health53:55 - Why This Work Matters55:41 - Live for the People Who Love You56:33 - Donate, Share, and Get Screened57:32 - Final ThoughtsSupport the showJoin this channel to get access to perks: HEREBuzzsprout Subscription page:  HERERegister for our Operator Training Summit:  OperatorTrainingSummit.comFind an Air Force Recruiter: AirForce.comCollabs:Ones Ready - OnesReady.com 18A Fitness - Promo Code:  ONESREADY ATACLete - Follow the URL (no promo code):  ATACLeteDanger Close Apparel - Promo Code:  ONESREADYDFND Apparel...

Amy Morin shares practical tools to stay calm, confident, and resilient under pressure.— YOU'LL LEARN — 1) How to quickly shift your mood and energy 2) How to defuse dread and make your workday easier 3) The simple tool to keep worry from taking over your day Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1173 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT AMY — Amy Morin, LCSW is a psychotherapist, mental strength trainer, internationally bestselling author, and the award-winning host of the Mentally Stronger With Therapist Amy Morin podcast. Her books on mental strength, including 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do, have sold more than 1 million copies and been translated into more than 50 languages. She's practiced therapy for over 20 years, and she's a sought-after speaker whose TEDx talk, “The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong,” is one of the most viewed talks of all time with more than 25 million views. Her new book is The Mental Strength Playbook: 50 Tools to Cope with Stress, Thrive Under Pressure, and Gain a Competitive Edge in the Workplace. Amy lives on a sailboat in the Florida Keys.• Book: The Mental Strength Playbook: 50 Tools to Cope with Stress, Thrive Under Pressure, and Gain a Competitive Edge in the Workplace• Podcast: Mentally Stronger with Therapist Amy Morin• TEDxTalk: The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong | Amy Morin | TEDxOcala• Website: AmyMorinLCSW.com— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • App: How We Feel• Book: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen• Book: Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make--and Keep--Friends by Marisa Franco• Past episode: 482: David Allen Returns with the 10 Moves to Stress-Free Productivity• Past episode: 840: The Science Behind Strong, Lasting Friendships with Dr. Marisa G. Franco• Video: The Chris Hemsworth Video You Need | Netflix— THANK YOU SPONSORS! — • Shopify. Sign up for your free trial at Shopify.com/awesomepod• Monarch. Get 50% off your first year with code AWESOME at Monarch.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Submit your question and we'll answer it in a future episode!Join our Patreon Community!https://www.patreon.com/badassbreastfeedingpodcast Cake Maternity. Cake Maternity stocks one of the largest ranges of maternity, breastfeeding and pumping bras. Visit www.cakematernity.com and use code BADASS for 15% off!Original Sprout. Original Sprout carries safe and effective styling, body and hair care products that are safe for babies and great for adults. Use code BADASS26 when you spend $20 and get a free Badass Breastfeeding Podcast branded hooded towel! Click here! https://originalsprout.com/collections/the-badass-breastfeeding-podcastYou've made it to 6 weeks.  Now what?  Today's episode is all about what to expect at the 6-week mark. Is your baby sleeping better?  Are you feeling physically better?  Have you started pumping?  So many things to consider!  Listen in today to learn more! If you are a new listener, we would love to hear from you.  Please consider leaving us a review on iTunes or sending us an email with your suggestions and comments to badassbreastfeedingpodcast@gmail.com.  You can also add your email to our list and have episodes sent right to your inbox! Things we talked about:Winner of the big giveaway [6:00]Indigenous Milk Medicine Week [6:20]Milk supply at 6 weeks [11:43]Growth spurts [14:40]Is your baby sleeping? [18:10]Pumping [26:40]How you feel physically [28:55]  Things we talked about or Episodes we think you should check out!https://badassbreastfeedingpodcast.com/episode/postpartum-mood-disorders/ https://badassbreastfeedingpodcast.com/episode/growth-spurts/ Set up your consultation with Diannehttps://badassbreastfeedingpodcast.com/consultations/  Check out Dianne's blog here:https://diannecassidyconsulting.com/milklytheblog/Follow our Podcast:https://badassbreastfeedingpodcast.comHere is how you can connect with Dianne and Abby:AbbyTheuring ,https://www.thebadassbreastfeeder.comDianne Cassidy @diannecassidyibclc,  http://www.diannecassidyconsulting.com  Music we use:Music: Levels of Greatness from We Used to Paint Stars in the Sky (2012) courtesy of Scott Holmes at freemusicarchive.org/music/ScottHolmes

In this episode your host, Jadyn gives you the perfect guide to embodying a Calm Girl to Anxiety, Overthinking & Stress. From healthy habits to help with a panic of stress or anxiety, to daily routines that set yourself up for success, this is the perfect way to tap into becoming a more calm & confident version of you who can handle Anxiety, Overthinking & Stress. Tune into this episode with a matcha latte as we take a deep breathe and become calm.Follow Jadyn on socialsInstagram: @jadynhaileyyTikTok: @fairyjadynStart and grow your business with my fav Shopify!!Download EarnIn app and type in BusyYetPretty under PODCAST when you sign up (it'll really help the show!)Download Hinge today using the link hin.ge/BusyYetPrettySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Get the 200+ Page Optimal Living Daily Workbook (PDF) - Free. Want to turn today's episode into an actionable plan? Join the Optimal Living Weekly newsletter and I'll send you our 200-page digital workbook immediately. It's packed with the best takeaways from the show, formatted for easy reading and implementation at home. Get your free PDF workbook here: https://oldpodcast.eo.page/join Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3104: Dr. Laura Dabney reveals why the phrase "I love him, but I'm not in love" is often an excuse to avoid the work every marriage requires, and how real intimacy grows when couples put in that work. She also shares four common relationship traps that create stress and offers relationship advice for finding real resolutions with your partner. Read along with the original articles here: https://www.drldabney.com/article/not-in-love-anymore/ and https://www.drldabney.com/article/stress-coping-strategies/ Quotes to ponder: "Laying the groundwork for intimacy and love to grow takes a lot of work." "A marriage is not going to develop unless you put in some work." "Remember, you and your partner are not the same person you were five years ago, five days ago, or even five minutes ago." Optimal Relationships Daily is a daily relationship advice podcast where we narrate the best articles on healthy relationships, dating, marriage, and family, read to you by a professional narrator so you can strengthen your closest connections a little more every day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the fifth episode of the Coach's Corner Series! In this Coach's Corner episode, I sit down with Coach Soraya to unpack one of the most misunderstood topics in wellness: detoxification.  Soraya shares her own journey from years of over-exercising and chronic restriction to discovering that her body needed support, not more discipline, a shift that accelerated after becoming a mom.  We break down what the lymphatic system actually does, why it doesn't have a built-in "pump" like the heart, and why simple daily habits like walking, deep breathing, and hydration matter more than expensive detox gadgets.  We dig into common misconceptions, from detox teas to the "if you have a liver, you don't need a detox" myth, and talk about why foundational habits like sleep, nutrition, and stress management have to come first.  Soraya introduces her "bucket" analogy for toxin load and the "clogged sink" visual for why adding more without addressing the drain doesn't work.  We also walk through what a flush protocol actually involves, why clients often feel worse before they feel better, and how she coaches clients through that discomfort without white-knuckling the process.  Finally, we cover simple, low-cost ways to support the lymphatic system daily, from dry brushing in the shower to gua sha and restorative movement. It's a candid, practical conversation about trusting your body instead of trying to out-supplement it.   Time Stamps:   (1:45) All Things Detoxification (6:00) What Detoxification Really Is (10:02) Adding More vs The Drain (14:05) Where To Start (17:20) The FLUSH Protocol (25:30) Supporting Detoxification On A Daily Basis (28:35) What Is Your Body Trying To Tell You? ------- Learn more about the Vital Spark Coaching Functional Reset Method.  ------- Click Here to apply for 1-on-1 coaching with my team of Metabolism & Hormone Experts. ------- Follow @vanessagfitness on Instagram for daily fitness tips & motivation.  ------- Click Here for my Free Top 3 Labs training to get to the root of bloating & exhaustion. ------- Click Here to download a Free Hormone Healing Blueprint. ------- Check out our YouTube Channel for more free training. ------- Click Here to read our Client Google Reviews.  ------- Enjoyed the podcast? Let us know what you think and leave a 5⭐️ rating and review on iTunes!

In this episode of the Tactical Living Podcast, hosts Coach Ashlie Walton and Sergeant Clint Walton talk about one of the most common and most damaging patterns in first responder marriages — the job coming through the front door uninvited and setting up permanent residence in the relationship. Not the schedule. Not the missed events. Not the financial strain. The emotional residue. The short fuse that was not there ten years ago. The shutdown that happens before a real conversation can start. The distance that neither partner chose but both partners feel. This episode is a direct and practical conversation about how to recognize what the job is bringing into the marriage — and what it actually takes to stop it before it takes more than it already has.

Why can old stress suddenly feel so much heavier during midlife? Hormonal changes, physical symptoms, family responsibilities, work pressures, and years of putting everyone else first can leave women feeling as though their emotional "stress barrel" is overflowing. Sometimes the reactions we experience today are connected to stress patterns that were never fully resolved. In this episode of Living Life Naturally, Lynne talks with traumatic stress recovery expert Dr. Robert Bray about the connection between emotional distress and physical well-being—and how Thought Field Therapy, or TFT, may help calm the body's stress response. Bob explains how TFT differs from Emotional Freedom Techniques, commonly known as EFT or tapping, and how specific tapping patterns may be used to address different forms of distress. He also discusses the role of muscle testing, why learning to listen to the body matters, and how unresolved trauma can affect self-love and our willingness to care for ourselves. You'll also hear Bob guide Lynne through a real-time crisis tapping exercise. Lynne begins with a distress level of approximately six out of ten. After completing the tapping sequence, she reports that the intensity has dropped to about two—and following a gentle eye-movement exercise, she describes feeling peaceful. This isn't about pretending a difficult event didn't happen or changing the reality of the past. It's about being able to remember what happened while remaining more grounded in the safety of the present.   Today's guest, Dr. Robert Bray—or Bob, as he prefers to be called—has worked in traumatic stress recovery for more than 40 years. His career began as a volunteer on a crisis hotline, and he has since helped individuals, families, and communities recover from natural disasters, criminal acts, domestic violence, and other traumatic experiences. Bob has been teaching, writing about, and developing Thought Field Therapy since 1996. He's also the author of Heal Traumatic Stress Now: Complete Recovery with Thought Field Therapy—No Open Wounds, a consumer-friendly guide to understanding and addressing traumatic stress. Today, we're talking about why unresolved stress patterns may become more noticeable during midlife—and how tapping may help create more In This Episode, You'll Discover: ·         Why unresolved stress can become more noticeable during midlife ·         How emotional distress may show up physically in the body ·         What Thought Field Therapy is and how it differs from EFT ·         Why Bob describes stress as accumulating inside a "stress barrel" ·         How previous trauma and hormonal changes may compound one another ·         The connection between self-love and following through with healthy habits ·         How tapping may help reduce the intensity of a stressful memory ·         A real-time demonstration of Bob's crisis tapping pattern ·         How eye movements may be incorporated into the TFT process ·         When professional support may be appropriate ·         Why struggling doesn't mean you've failed or that you're out of options One of the most hopeful messages from this conversation is that you don't have to give up. If you're struggling, there may be more that can be done—and you don't have to navigate the process alone. Free Resource From Robert Bray Trauma Recovery Personal Self-Assessment Are you feeling stuck in your recovery from trauma? This free eight-item personal self-assessment can help you consider where you are in your journey and explore simple tools that may help you move forward with greater ease. Take the assessment here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VLGSZZ2 To watch Bob demonstrate the tapping exercise used during this interview, search "Robert Bray Crisis Tapping" on YouTube. Connect With Robert Bray Website: https://rlbray.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThoughtFieldTherapyCenter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rlbray/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DrRobertBray Connect With Lynne Imagine not having to figure out midlife on your own anymore.

In this episode of the Animal Training Academy podcast, host Ryan Cartlidge is joined by special guests Irith Bloom and Dr. Kristina Spaulding to discuss their mentorship and certification program, Carefree Companion. Together, Ryan, Irith, and Dr. Spaulding explore how the program bridges the gap between technical training plans and a human owner's ability to successfully implement them. Dr. Spaulding brings her expertise as a scientist and behaviorist with a PhD in biopsychology, specializing in the neurobiology of stress, while Irith brings over 40 years of animal training experience and a deep focus on agency and the science of learning. The guests share the origins of their professional partnership, which blossomed from working together on education committees and through shared interests in science, stress, and behavioral choice. The conversation dives deep into the concept of dialectics—embracing "andness" instead of an "either/or" mentality—and how both contradictory emotions and complex problem-solving are a normal part of the human experience when living with companion animals. They also unpack the power of motivational interviewing, explaining how trainers can move away from imposing rigid expectations and instead use open-ended questions and curiosity to understand human resistance, build better collaboration, and help clients find their own path forward. Finally, they break down the structure of the 28-week Carefree Companion program, highlighting its blend of synchronous live calls, structured asynchronous discussion forums, and individualized monthly mentorship. Throughout this episode, we discuss: ✅ The origin of the partnership between Irith Bloom and Dr. Kristina Spaulding  ✅ What dialectics are and why embracing "andness" helps both pet owners and trainers navigate conflicting feelings ✅ How the Carefree Companion program evolved to focus heavily on coaching skills and human pedagogy ✅ The application of scaffolding in human learning—providing temporary support and gradually pulling back to foster client independence ✅ How motivational interviewing helps professionals uncover client motivations and navigate resistance without judgment ✅ The 28-week structure of the Carefree Companion certification, featuring live group discussions, forums, and one-on-one mentorship ✅ Creating a safe, collaborative space where respectful disagreement and diverse viewpoints lead to transformative learning Whether you are an experienced trainer or a behavior consultant looking to deepen your coaching toolkit, this episode offers a refreshing and practical roadmap for bridging the gap between animal behavior science and effective human collaboration. Links Website: https://carefreecompanion.com/ Mailing List: https://tinyurl.com/CarefreeCompanionMailingList Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarefreeCompanion/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carefreecompanion/

Wherever you are today, this biblical meditation, narrated by James Seawood, offers a quiet space to pause and reconnect with God. Wishing you were stronger? Meditate on 2 Corinthians 12:9. Abide is a Christian meditation app that helps you experience peace and grow in your relationship with Christ through Scripture, prayer, and reflection. Try Abide free for 30 days and explore our premium, ad-free meditations here: https://abide.com/peace Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

About a year ago in one of my PhD classes, I voiced a huge gripe I had about somatic and nervous system practices. I shared that my friction with them was that they have been stripped down and depersonalized into these practices that anyone can do at any time and will support everyone in any moment to feel calmer or more grounded or safer or more regulated. My teacher replied with, "Well everyone still needs to start somewhere." This gave me a pause to reflect that even if you choose a somatic or nervous system practice that doesn't resonate with your body and is just some blanket suggestion, it can still teach you about what doesn't work for you based on your emotions, sensations, and nervous system states. And then, sometimes you're going to nail it. You're going to choose the exact bodily movement that you needed that brings your body into a place of safety and connection and brings greater ease and breath. So I've updated my perspective that all practices in all moments can be supportive and will be a discovery of yourself and for yourself to know what works for your body and nervous system. I had an amazing experience in this episode being guided through a nervous system practice that quickly changed how I felt.In this week's episode, I chat with Alyssa Chang, neuroscience health coach and the creator of The Regulation Method™, about: The impact of neuroscience on healingInteroceptionTailoring nervous system practices to your individual needsPractical exercises for enhancing awareness of the felt sense of your bodyNavigating sensory overloadThe role of predictability in healingCreating tiny moments of changeYou can also read the transcript to this week's episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/interoception-get-to-know-your-bodys-internal-dashboardThis episode was chock full of nervous system practices so you'll definitely walk away with practices you can incorporate into your day.With Compassion and Empathy, Stephanie Mara FoxKeep in touch with Alyssa: Website: https://www.coachalyssachang.com/Email: hello@coachalyssachang.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachalyssachang/Free 45- minute masterclass: https://www.coachalyssachang.com/masterclassoptinSupport the showKeep in touch with Stephanie Mara:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stephaniemara/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephaniemarafoxWebsite: https://www.stephaniemara.com/https://www.somaticeating.com/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephmara/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stephaniemarafoxContact: support@stephaniemara.comSupport the show:Become a supporter: https://www.buzzsprout.com/809987/supportAll affiliate links: https://www.stephaniemara.com/resourcesReceive 15% off my fave protein powder with code STEPHANIEMARA at checkout here: https://www.equipfoods.com/STEPHANIEMARAUse my Amazon Affiliate link when shopping on Amazon: https://amzn.to/448IyPlSpecial thanks to Bendsound for the music in this episode. www.bensou...

In this bonus episode Andrea Samadi introduces the Predictable Performance System, a practical roadmap from her Brain's Operating System. She shows how measuring patterns—not chasing daily scores—plus consistent movement and targeted recovery behaviors create reliable adaptations and better performance over time. Andrea shares two real-world experiments (including a nine-day green recovery streak), five clear steps—measure, move, recover, adapt, perform—and a simple 7-day challenge to help you discover the single habit that unlocks more consistent results. On BONUS EPISODE 2, we will cover: Why high performance isn't about being “green” every day (using a wearable device) What nearly 2,000 recovery scores taught me about consistency and performance Why your daily inputs matter more than any single recovery score How I reached a personal best of 9 green recoveries in a row What happened when hard training caused my recovery to drop—and why that wasn't failure How another WHOOP user improved his recovery by identifying one key gap: hydration How to find your own gap in sleep, hydration, stress, movement, training load, or recovery The Predictable Performance System™: Measure → Move → Recover → Adapt → Perform → Repeat Why recovery is the bridge between today's effort and tomorrow's capacity How to create your own 7-Day Predictable Performance Experiment The key question to ask yourself: “What is the one missing input that could unlock my next level of performance?” The goal: Find your gap. Uncover your recipe. Build the system that works for you. BONUS EPISODE 2 The Predictable Performance System™ How Small Daily Inputs Create Better Recovery, Adaptation and More Consistent Results WELCOME BACK Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, where we explore how understanding the brain can help us create measurable improvements in our well-being, achievement, leadership, productivity, and results. I'm Andrea Samadi, and over the past several months, we've been building something much bigger than a collection of interviews. We've been building what I call The Brain's Operating System—a roadmap for understanding how our brain and body work together to create optimal human performance. Before we jump into today's second Bonus Episode, let's quickly remember where we've been. PHASE 1 — REGULATION & SAFETY Everything begins with regulation. Before the brain can learn, perform, or grow, it first needs the biological conditions that support safety and stability. In Phase 1, we explored sleep, stress regulation, trauma, resilience and the nervous system. The lesson was simple: Regulation creates the conditions for growth. PHASE 2 — NEUROCHEMISTRY & MOTIVATION Then we asked: What moves us into action? We explored dopamine, beliefs, motivation, habits, attention and sustained effort. We learned that motivation isn't simply about willpower. Our brain is continually learning: What's worth pursuing? What should I repeat? Where should I invest my energy with? Phase 2 gave us some direction. PHASE 3 — MOVEMENT, LEARNING & COGNITION And now we're deep inside Phase 3. This is where movement becomes much more than exercise. Movement activates the brain. It supports attention. Learning. Memory. Metabolism. And when movement is paired with adequate recovery, something important happens: Adaptation. That's where our system begins to change. So the basic sequence we've been studying is: Movement → Recovery → Adaptation → Performance. But while studying this process, another question kept coming back to me. Why do some people consistently improve...while others feel like they're starting over every Monday and they are searching for the right formula. That question led me to today's framework: THE PREDICTABLE PERFORMANCE SYSTEM™ And this Bonus Episode is where I want to put the science into action. Throughout The Brain's Operating System, these Bonus Episodes will give me an opportunity to step away from the interviews and show you what happens when I apply what we're learning to my own life. I'll share the experiments. The data. What worked. What didn't. And most importantly... what we can learn from it, so we can ALL apply this information to our own lives. Because neuroscience becomes much more useful when we can turn what we know into something we can actually do. THE QUESTION THAT STARTED THIS EXPERIMENT Over the past five years, I've tracked close to 2,000 recovery scores using WHOOP (wearable device). And recently something happened that surprised me. I recorded nine green recoveries in a row (which meant for 9 days in a row, I had mastered recovery (my body's ability to take on strain and perform). This recovery score is calculated overnight using my RHR, HRV, RR, SpO2 (blood O2) and skin temperature. Factors like strain, stress and lifestyle choices affect this Recovery Score. That was a personal record. For years, I could put together a few strong days. Sometimes even a strong week. My record for years was 7 days in a row. But eventually something would interrupt the pattern. I'd train too hard. Sleep poorly. Travel. Get busy. Or simply fail to give myself enough time to recover. So when I reached nine consecutive green recoveries, instead of just celebrating the streak, I became curious. I asked: What changed? Because I wasn't on vacation. My work hadn't disappeared. I was still recording the podcast. Still exercising. Still traveling. Waking up early. Eating the same diet. In those green days most of the days I avoided alcohol (something I have learned from measuring everything I ingest—this will automatically tank my recovery score) but I did have one drink a couple of these days and still managed to keep a green score. Something that was highly unusual. I kept wondering what was I doing differently. Life hadn't suddenly become easy. So what was different? I went back through my data. And I stopped looking at individual scores. Instead, I started looking for patterns. That distinction changed everything. DON'T CHASE THE SCORE. STUDY THE PATTERN. When I first started tracking recovery, I'd look at each morning individually. Green? Great. Yellow? What did I do wrong? Red? I must have done something terribly wrong!   Looking at the patterns, I did learn that after a 4-hour hike, even one alcoholic drink will kick my recovery score into the red unrecovered zone. When you push your body hard, it's just not worth it to ingest a neuro-toxin. At least for me, it's not worth it. We are all different, and that's why measuring your own data is a valuable activity. What tanks my score, might not tank yours. Now I'm wondering what happens repeatedly? What tends to happen before my strongest recoveries? What happens before my worst ones? (the recipe was beyond clear here). What habits disappear when my recovery starts declining? And which habits consistently appear when it improves? That's where the story became much clearer. It wasn't one workout. It wasn't one supplement. It wasn't one perfect night's sleep. And it definitely wasn't motivation. It was the accumulation of small behaviors being repeated consistently. And that led me to one of the most important lessons from this entire experiment: The recovery score doesn't create the result. The behaviors that happened before the recovery score create the conditions for the result. I learned my recipe to create a RED recovery, and how to create a GREEN. The wearable device simply gives us feedback on how well we are doing with our recipe for success. THE DATA TELLS TWO STORIES When I looked at the data, I realized I actually had two experiments happening. The first was mine. I had the recipe for how to recover, and how to tank my score. The second belonged to another WHOOP user. And together, they revealed something much more interesting than either story alone. STORY ONE — MY DATA When I zoomed out across 6 months, my average recovery was around 58%. That's real life. There were excellent weeks. There were difficult weeks. Travel. When I was away internationally, sometimes without internet, the data didn't record correctly, but this is a good picture of what my scores look like. Work. Training. Stress. Vacations. Life happens. But recently that monthly average climbed to approximately 63%—an 11% improvement over the month before. For me, that mattered. Historically, when my monthly recovery averages climbed substantially, it was often because I had removed myself from normal life. Maybe I was on vacation. Maybe I was completely unplugged. But this time I wasn't. I was working. Training. Recording. Traveling. Living normal life. Life didn't become easier. My daily system became more consistent. And eventually that consistency produced something I'd never seen before: Nine green recoveries in a row. But here's what happened next. If you look at the graph…I just went about life as usual. I trained hard. My recovery dropped. And that became perhaps an even more important part of the experiment. Because this time I didn't panic. I didn't interpret one lower score as failure. I simply returned to the consistent behaviors that had been working in my GREEN streak. Sleep. Hydration. Movement. Stress management. Recovery time. And within a few days, the stronger recovery scores returned. That taught me something important: Predictable performance does NOT mean perfect performance. It means that you've got to find a system you know how to return to. My GREEN scores are now predictable. STORY TWO — FIND THE LEVER Around the same time, another WHOOP user turned to me and asked “why am I stuck in RED (unrecovered) everyday?” His pattern looked completely different. His monthly recovery average was around 41%. Lots of yellow. Lots of red. And very little improvement. Instead of randomly changing everything, we looked at the inputs. Sleep. Stress. Training load. Recovery time. Hydration. And one variable stood out to me. Hydration. So rather than redesigning his entire life, we focused on consistently improving that one behavior. When I say he improved hydration, we increased not just water, but we added an electrolyte drink (Liquid IV sugar free[i]) to his water to replenish minerals like sodium and potassium that he was losing from sweating in the 115 degree weather we are experiencing at the moment in AZ. Then we watched the data. His recovery pattern improved. More yellows appeared. His averages increased. And his recovery became more consistent. Today I asked him what he's noticed with this one change, and he let me know that his scores have been creeping up slowly. No green scores yet, but he's high yellow, which shows me that he's cracking his recovery recipe. Now, that doesn't mean hydration is the magic answer for everyone. That's not the lesson. The lesson is: Find YOUR lever. For one person, it might be hydration. For someone else, it might be sleep. Alcohol. Stress. Training volume. Late-night eating. Travel. Or simply not allowing enough recovery between difficult training sessions. Your job isn't to copy someone else's system perfectly. Your job is to use feedback to discover what matters most for you. Find your gap in your recovery system and you unlock more consistent, predictable performance. TAKEAWAY #1 STOP GUESSING. START MEASURING. You cannot recognize a pattern you aren't observing. And you don't need WHOOP to do this. Just find what tool works best for you. You could track five simple things each morning: Sleep How well did I sleep? Energy How energetic do I feel? Stress How stressed or regulated do I feel? Movement What did I do yesterday? Recovery behaviors Did I hydrate, recover and give my body what it needed? Give each category a simple score out of 10. Then look at the entire week. Not  just one day. TIP TO IMPLEMENT: For the next seven days, spend 30 seconds each morning recording: Hours of sleep Energy from 1–10 Stress from 1–10 Yesterday's movement One recovery behavior Don't change anything yet. First, collect information. Look for patterns before looking for the solution. THE BIG REALIZATION As I studied both experiments, the framework became obvious. Recovery isn't something that simply happens to us. There are many things we can't control. But every day we can influence the probability of recovering well. Our choices create patterns. Patterns create trends. Trends influence adaptation. And over enough time... those adaptations influence performance. Which brings us to the system. THE PREDICTABLE PERFORMANCE SYSTEM™ There are five steps. STEP 1 — MEASURE Awareness comes first. Track enough information to recognize trends. But remember: The goal isn't to become obsessed with data. (I'm borderline obsessed with mine). The goal is to use data to make better decisions. ASK YOURSELF: What's improving? What did I do to get this improvement? Write it down. What's declining? What did I do to tank my score? Write it down. And what repeatedly happens before each pattern? Learn your recovery recipe. What works for you? What does not work? TIP: Look at your weekly average instead of judging yourself by one day. One bad night doesn't define your health. One hard workout doesn't destroy your fitness. One red recovery doesn't erase your progress. Look for the trend. Learn what your personal recipe for success is. STEP 2 — MOVE Movement is the input. This is where Phase 3 begins. Movement challenges the system. We don't want to aim for a month of all green or high recoveries, because then we aren't challenging our system. Movement activates the brain and body and provides the stimulus from which adaptation can occur. But movement doesn't always mean crushing yourself in the gym. It might mean: Walking. Strength training. Hiking. Mobility. Cycling. Running. Playing a sport. Or simply interrupting long periods of sitting. TIP TO IMPLEMENT: Ask yourself each morning: "How will I move today?" Don't leave movement to chance. Put something on the calendar. Even a 20-minute walk counts. Consistency matters. STEP 3 — RECOVER This is the step I underestimated for years. I understood effort. I understood discipline. I understood training. But I didn't fully appreciate that the work isn't complete when the workout ends. The brain and body still have to process the stimulus. So recovery becomes an active part of the performance system. Protect sleep. Hydrate. Manage stress. Build recovery into the schedule. And learn when not to push. TIP TO IMPLEMENT: Create what I call your Recovery Minimums. Choose three behaviors that you protect even during busy weeks. For example: My Recovery Minimums ✓ Consistent sleep (going to bed and waking up at the same time) ✓ Daily hydration (I use liquid IV in the day and LMNT hot chocolate at night) ✓ Daily movement (I walk every morning, hike on the weekends, fit in gym workouts and strength training) to keep movement going. ✓ Stress regulation (always a work in progress, but breath work is my current way to manage stress) ✓ Time for recovery (I stack meditation and infrared sauna use together to save time). Your list may look different. But decide what your minimums are before life gets busy and you aren't putting time into recovery. STEP 4 — ADAPT This is the part we usually can't see. And it's one of the reasons people quit too early. Adaptation happens behind the scenes. You train. You recover. And your system responds. Over time, movement becomes easier. Your capacity expands. Your cardiovascular system becomes more efficient. Skills become more automatic. Your tolerance for challenge increases. Then one day... something that once felt difficult feels normal. TIP TO IMPLEMENT: Don't only measure outcomes. Look for evidence of adaptation. Ask: Is this workout getting easier? Am I recovering faster? Is my resting heart rate trending differently? Am I sleeping better? Look for how many wakes you have each night. Can I handle more work without feeling depleted? Is my concentration improving? Am I stronger? Do I have more energy? Those are clues that the system is adapting.   STEP 5 — PERFORM This is where most people want to start. Results. Achievement. The High Performance. But performance isn't Step One. It's Step Five. First we provide the stimulus. We move. Then we recover. Then we adapt. And eventually... performance becomes evidence that the earlier steps worked. You will notice you can sit longer, stay focused on one task, and see tasks through to completion. This changes the question from: "How can I perform better today?" to: "What can I do today that makes better performance more likely tomorrow?" That's a very different way of thinking. TAKEAWAY #2 DON'T TRY TO FIX EVERYTHING. One of the most useful things we learned from the second recovery experiment was that sometimes one behavior acts as a bottleneck. For the person with the low recovery score, hydration appeared to be an important lever. Stick to changing ONE thing at a time. When I first saw his HRV, I wanted to go there, but we started with hydration. So here's something you can try. Look at your own patterns and ask: "What is the ONE behavior that would make everything else work better?" Maybe it's getting to bed earlier. Maybe it's drinking more water. Maybe it's moving every day. Maybe it's reducing alcohol. Maybe it's taking a recovery day. Maybe it's managing evening stress. Start there. TIP: Run a seven-day experiment. Change one variable. Keep everything else reasonably consistent. Track what happens. Then evaluate. Don't guess. Test. This has been the most eye-opening part of finding my own personal recipe for high performance. Once you uncover yours, you can create your own predictable formula for high performance.   TAKEAWAY #3 CREATE A BASELINE YOU CAN RETURN TO. One of the biggest changes in my thinking came after the nine-green streak ended. My recovery dropped after hard training. But I knew what to do. I returned to the system. That's resilience. Not maintaining perfect conditions forever. But knowing how to return to your baseline when life knocks you away from it. Ask yourself: "When everything gets busy, what behaviors bring me back?" Write them down. That becomes your reset protocol. That's how I was able to create high recoveries the past few days making my monthly recovery a 16% increase over last month. TAKEAWAY #4 RECOVERY IS THE BRIDGE While developing this framework, I kept seeing the same image in my mind. A bridge. On one side is today's effort. On the other side is tomorrow's capability. Recovery is the bridge connecting the two. Without sufficient recovery, today's effort may never fully become tomorrow's capacity. With recovery, we give the brain and body an opportunity to adapt. Today's habits create the conditions for today's recovery. Recovery supports tomorrow's adaptation. Adaptation creates future capacity. And expanded capacity improves performance. That's the system. YOUR 7-DAY PREDICTABLE PERFORMANCE EXPERIMENT Here's your action step from today's episode. For the next seven days: MEASURE Track sleep, energy, stress and how overall recovered you feel each day. If you don't have a device to do this, just rank yourself on a scale of 0-10. MOVE Do something intentional every day. RECOVER Protect the recovery behaviors you've identified as most important. Mine are daily meditation, journaling, hydration, breath work and sauna use. LOOK FOR ADAPTATION Notice what begins becoming easier or more consistent. Where do you feel stronger? REVIEW YOUR PERFORMANCE At the end of seven days, ask: What improved? What got worse? What behavior had the biggest effect? What should I repeat next week? That's it. You're not trying to create a perfect week. You're trying to learn how your own system works. I don't know what your recipe for high performance will look like, but once you've got this recipe, your life will never be the same. THE BIG TAKEAWAY After nearly 2,000 recovery scores, here's what I believe matters most. Don't chase the score. Chase the behaviors that create the score. (Notice what they are—write them down). Don't chase one perfect workout. Build consistency. Don't panic when the data drops. Investigate. Don't change ten things at once. Find the lever. And above all... don't confuse effort with adaptation. Sometimes the thing that moves us forward isn't doing more. It's allowing the work we've already done to become part of us. The goal isn't perfect recovery. The goal isn't nine green days (while I've got my eye on how I can make this 10)… The goal isn't controlling every variable in our lives. The goal is to create a system that makes better outcomes more likely. Better days become better weeks. Better weeks become better months. And over enough time... what once felt difficult can become your new normal. REVIEW AND CONCLUSION To review and conclude BONUS EPISODE 2: Find the Gap—How Recovery Unlocks Predictable Performance, here's where we are in The Brain's Operating System. Phase 1 taught us to regulate. Before we can learn, perform, or grow, we need the biological conditions that support safety and stability. Phase 2 taught us what drives us to act. We explored motivation, dopamine, beliefs, attention, and the internal chemistry that moves us toward a goal. And now... Phase 3 is teaching us how we change. We move. We create a stimulus. We recover. The brain and body adapt. Our capacity expands. And eventually, that adaptation shows up as better performance. That's why today's framework matters. Because when performance feels inconsistent, the answer isn't always to work harder. Sometimes we need to ask: Where is the gap in my system? Is it movement? Sleep? Hydration? Stress? Recovery time? Consistency? Because when we can identify the gap, we can begin to change the input. And when we change the input consistently... we create new conditions for adaptation. That's how performance begins to change. So remember the sequence: Measure. Move. Recover. Adapt. Perform. And then repeat. Because performance isn't a finish line. It's feedback from the system you're building.   When we complete Phase 3, we'll soon move into Phase 4—Connection, Emotion & Social Intelligence, where another layer enters the system: Other people. Relationships. Emotion. Trust. Communication. Empathy. Leadership. And then in Phase 5—Integration & Human Performance, we'll bring everything together: Regulation. Motivation. Movement. Recovery. Emotion. Relationships. Learning. Purpose. And performance. Because ultimately, no system works in isolation. Human performance is the result of all of these systems working together. FINAL TAKEAWAY If there's one idea I hope you remember from today's episode, it's this: Don't just chase the outcome. Study the system producing it. If your results aren't where you want them to be... find the gap. Because the gap may not be in your effort. It may be in your recovery. And when you find the gap in your recovery system... you unlock your next level of adaptation, capacity, and performance. Thank you for joining me for this second Bonus Episode. If today's framework helped connect the dots for you, I'd love to hear what you discover. What's the one habit that has the greatest impact on your recovery and performance? Sleep? Movement? Hydration? Stress management? Recovery time? And if you try the 7-Day Predictable Performance Experiment, pay attention to what your own data teaches you. Not whether every day is perfect. But what patterns begin to emerge. Until next time... Keep measuring. Keep moving. Keep recovering. Give your brain and body time to adapt. And keep building the systems that make better performance more predictable. Have an incredible week and we'll see you on EP 405 where we revisit Dr. Kristen Holmes and dive deep into more ways to improve our recovery., RESOURCES:   Phase 1: Regulation & Safety The Foundation Core Question: Is the nervous system safe enough to learn? Everything begins with regulation. Before we can focus, learn, lead, or perform, the brain first asks one fundamental question: Am I safe? Throughout Phase 1, our guests showed us that regulation isn't simply about reducing stress—it's about creating the biological conditions that allow the brain to learn, adapt, and thrive. Together we explored: Baland Jalal – how sleep, curiosity, imagination, and creativity prepare the brain for learning. https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/hypnagogic-genius-capture-your-best-ideas-at-the-edge-of-sleep/ Dr. Bruce Perry – why regulation, rhythm, and relationships form the foundation of every healthy nervous system.  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/safety-first-why-a-regulated-brain-is-the-key-to-learning/ Dr. Sui Wong – how lifestyle medicine and autonomic balance build lifelong brain resilience. https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/your-eyes-the-brain-s-early-warning-system/ Rohan Dixit – how heart rate variability gives us real-time feedback on our ability to regulate stress. https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/breathe-to-reset-how-hrv-tech-reveals-hidden-stress/ Dr. Kristen Holmes – how recovery metrics reveal our physiological readiness to perform. https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/kristen-holmes-from-whoopcom-on-unlocking-a-better-you-measuring-sleep-recovery-and-strain/ Dr. Antonio Zadra – how sleep and dreaming consolidate memories, regulate emotions, and generate insight. https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/when-brains-dream-how-sleep-integrates-emotion-insight-and-creativity/ Together these conversations taught us that sleep and stress regulation aren't optional—they're the operating system that allows every higher brain function to work. Phase 2: Motivation & Neurochemistry The Direction Core Question: What moves us into action? Once the brain feels safe, it becomes ready to pursue goals. In Phase 2, we explored the internal chemistry that transforms intention into action. Our experts helped us understand that sustainable motivation isn't about willpower—it's about aligning our beliefs, thoughts, attention, energy, and movement. Together we discovered: Bob Proctor — our beliefs determine the direction of our lives. https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/belief-first-the-neuroscience-of-motivation/ Dr. Carolyn Leaf — our thinking literally changes our brain chemistry. https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/thoughts-as-biology-how-your-mind-shapes-neurochemistry/ Dr. John Medina — attention determines what the brain encodes and remembers. https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/theory-of-mind-the-missing-link-between-attention-reward-and-motivation Dr. Anna Lembke- Dopamine, Motivation and Why the Brain Repeats Behavior https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/dopamine-nation-the-pleasure%e2%80%93pain-balance-that-drives-motivation/ Dr. Friederike Fabritius — managing our energy allows high performance to become sustainable. https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/fun-fear-focus-closing-the-motivation-loop/ Dr. Chuck Hillman & Paul Zientarski — movement activates the brain, preparing it to learn. https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/move-to-learn-how-movement-activates-the-brain-and-fuels-motivation/ By the end of Phase 2, we introduced what became The Motivation Loop, showing how beliefs influence thoughts, thoughts influence actions, actions create results, and results reinforce future beliefs. Phase 3: Movement, Learning & Human Performance The Transformation Core Question: How does movement change the brain—and how does recovery transform that change into performance? Now we're taking the next step. Phase 3 builds on everything we've learned so far. If Phase 1 created a regulated nervous system... If Phase 2 created motivation and direction... Phase 3 explains how the brain and body actually become stronger. Together we've explored this process through conversations with: Dr. Chuck Hillman & Paul Zientarski — why movement activates the brain before learning. https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/movement-first-how-a-20%e2%80%91minute-walk-lights-up-the-brain/ Dr. John Ratey — how exercise builds a healthier, younger brain. https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/movement-matters-how-every-move-rewires-the-brain/ Dr. Kristen Holmes — why recovery determines adaptation and readiness. Dr. John Medina — how attention transforms movement into lasting learning. Jason Whitrock — how metabolism and cellular energy fuel long-term performance. WHERE WE ARE GOING NEXT Phase 4 — Connection, Emotion & Social Intelligence The Human System Core Question: How do we thrive with other people? The brain didn't evolve in isolation—it evolved through relationships. In Phase 4, we'll explore emotional intelligence, empathy, communication, trust, leadership, and psychological safety to understand how our relationships shape learning, well-being, and performance. Phase 5 — Integration & Human Performance The Complete System Core Question: How do all the systems work together? In our final phase, we'll bring everything together—regulation, motivation, movement, emotion, relationships, learning, and recovery—into one integrated framework. We'll discover how these systems work together to create measurable improvements in our well-being, achievement, leadership, productivity, and results. REFERENCES: [i] Liquid IV https://www.liquid-iv.com/collections/hydration-multiplier-sugar-free    

Every new day arrives carrying the potential for disruption. A single phone call, an unexpected diagnosis, a notice at work, an accident — and a carefully laid plan can unravel before noon. Life will never be worry-free or perfectly manageable, and Jesus never promised it would be. What He did promise, on the night before His own crucifixion, is something far more durable than smooth circumstances: In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. John 16:33 is bookended by two gifts. An offer of peace opens it, and an encouragement to take heart closes it. Between them sits the most honest acknowledgment in Scripture that trouble is simply part of life on earth. The messy parts, the stressors, the outcomes of illness and lack and worry and danger — these are ultimately in God's hands, not ours. Philippians 4:6-7 shows us the practical path from anxiety to that peace: prayer, petition, and thanksgiving, bringing our actual concerns before God rather than carrying them silently. Isaiah adds that the minds steadfastly fixed on God will be kept in perfect peace, because they trust in Him. Prayer does not instantly erase circumstances. But it casts our cares at the feet of Jesus, reframes our perspective, and makes room to receive the rest He has been offering all along: Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Today's Bible Verse "I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."— John 16:33, NIV Ponder Today Jesus was honest about trouble before He offered peace. He did not promise a worry-free life. He promised that His peace would be available within the trouble, and that He has already overcome whatever we are currently facing. The peace of God is accessed through prayer and thanksgiving, not through problem-solving. Philippians 4:6-7 does not tell us to figure out our anxious situations — it tells us to bring them to God. The peace that follows transcends our ability to understand or engineer it. A steadfast mind is a protected mind. Isaiah 26:3 connects perfect peace directly to a mind that is fixed on God and trusting in Him. Where we anchor our attention during stressful seasons determines what we experience in them. Prayer reframes perspective even when it does not change circumstances. Casting our cares at the feet of Jesus does not necessarily resolve the situation, but it unbundens the heart and restores the hope and clarity needed to keep walking in His will. A Prayer for You Today Dear Lord, I am feeling a lot of stress lately. There is always so much on my mind, more than I can handle on my own, and too many demands pulling at me from every direction. I know I am putting too much pressure on myself, but it is hard to juggle caring for my own health, loving the people in my life well, and meeting all my responsibilities at work and home. I know You have given me this one earthly life, and I want to live it gratefully, not begrudgingly. Please help me unload the worries that stress me out, and help me rest amid uncertainty, because I am certain You can work all things for good. Show me what You desire for my path. Give me the strength to do what You desire rather than what overloads and tears me down. Fill me with the reassurance of Your inexplicable peace. I give it all to You, Lord, with a thankful heart. I love You. Amen. Don't Miss an Episode If today's prayer helped you release what you have been carrying and receive the peace only God can give, we'd love to stay connected. Subscribe to the LifeAudio newsletter at LifeAudio.com for daily prayers, devotionals, and more content to untangle your heart from worry and root it in the peace of Christ every day. If you like this podcast, be sure to check out our sister podcast, Your Nightly Prayer - an evening Christian prayer podcast to help you end your day in conversation with God. https://www.lifeaudio.com/your-nightly-prayer/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.