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S1 Ep143: Episode 143 - Grief and Self-Care
When grief hits, no matter how "prepared" you may be, it can feel like an attack to the Nervous System. For me, in these past few weeks following the Surfside, Miami building collapse and the loss of my dear friend...
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S1 Ep142: Episode 142 - Plantar Fasciitis, Chronic Fatigue, and Elimination Diets with Ruthie
Ruthie's story typifies my strongest feeling about this work: Chronic pain is an epidemic of fear. Her foot pain, which started in one localized place, soon ballooned into pain in 11 places in her body. Fear begot...
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S1 Ep141: EPISODE 141 - The Battle Between Self-Regulation and Emotional Expression
From an early age we are stuck in an impossible conflict: Do we express ourselves fully and with reckless abandon, or self-regulate per society's wishes and repress hella emotions in the process. Today on the pod we...
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S1 Ep140: Episode 140 - Childhood Trauma, Highly Sensitive People, and JournalSpeak with Dani
Dani is my best friend and trusted sister, and also - as life would have it - a person who needed JournalSpeak really badly. Born highly sensitive and raised with a great deal of childhood trauma, Dani found herself...
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S1 Ep139: EPISODE 139 - How To Accept Yourself More
So often I am asked about self-love. "How can I love myself, Nicole? It feels so hard." I get it. Self-love can seem so elusive. In my opinion, the route to self-love runs through the river of self-acceptance. There...
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S1 Ep138: Episode 138 - REAL TIME HEAL: Anxiety, OCD, and the Mother Wound with Crystal
Trigger Warning: THIS REAL TIME HEAL WILL DISCUSS CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE. Crystal is an incredible, brave, and insightful soul. When she was five, she suffered abuse at the hand of a friend's father and her life was...
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S1 Ep137: Episode 137 - You Are Not Your Trauma Responses
So often we walk through life reacting and responding to situations, with no idea that it's not just "the way we are". Trauma responses are ways of behaving that are created and informed by the trauma we experienced...
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S1 Ep136: Episode 16 - Pelvic Pain Recovery and Bladder Urgency with Hannah Matluck
I met Hannah Matluck of The V Hive (formerly The Women's Pelvic Pain Podcast) somewhat randomly a couple years ago when she wanted me to speak as an expert on her podcast. Little did either of us know how much that...
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S1 Ep135: EPISODE 13 - Our Addiction to Control
I have been in the grips of physical and mental "control addiction" for a lifetime. Well, for most of a lifetime. Through loving, patient, and consistent work on myself, I have been able to let it go to a large...
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S1 Ep134: Episode 134 - Janette Barber, Dr. Sarno & Me: The Beginning of Everything
Anyone who knows my story from the beginning has heard the name Janette Barber. Janette was Rosie O'Donnell's producer in the 90's, when Rosie's show was topping the ratings. She was also in a motorized wheelchair as...
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S1 Ep133: Episode 133 - The Power of "Miracle" Stories (and ocular migraines)
I have a complicated relationship with the word "miracle". Although I balk at any religious connotation, or implication that a "miracle" implies something bestowed upon us (rather than created BY us), I can't deny the...
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S1 Ep132: EPISODE 132 - REAL TIME HEAL: Tinnitus, Inner Child Work, and Overcoming Our Upbringing with Liz
Liz grew up in a religious home with very few choices on what she could think, feel, or do. Her journey led her to uncover some deception which opened her to a new path, and also a lot of chronic conditions....
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