In this episode, author of The Fuck It Diet and Tired as Fuck, Caroline Dooner, and I... discuss her first book The Fuck It Diet, fixation with food, perceived food addiction, restrictive diets, and fear-based eating talk about building trust with our bodies and why we live in a culture that rewards an obsession with wellness and thinness but doesn't reward intuition and self-trust share Lindsey's experience with her spontaneous Fuck It Diet, weight gain, and dealing with the mental voice that says, "You can't keep eating whatever you want." share why Caroline intentionally gave herself 2 years of rest, quit pursuing an acting career, and how Marie Kondo's tidying up helped her with her lifestyle talk about lifestyle inflammation: what it is, how it shows up, why we have to reduce it, and the guilt that shows up when we do talk about letting go of health perfectionism and fear-based eating and getting to a place of intuition and care talk about listening to your body and seeking medical help from a grounded, non-urgent place of sovereignty explain why most people won't let themselves heal their relationships with food, intuition, and their bodies discuss the traumatic impact our thoughts have on our bodies and nervous systems share Lindsey's 4 Pillars of Holistic Trauma Healing (first time EVER on a podcast!) Nervous System 101 Info & Tickets Buy The Fuck It Diet Preorder Tired As Fuck (AND get preorder bonuses!!) Read the first chapter of Tired as Fuck Follow Caroline on Instagram

This is the second part of my conversation with Dr. Jennifer Love. Part 1 is Episode 64. In this episode, we... discuss how health paradigm shifts when we look at health through the lens of the nervous system discuss the physiological cascade of symptoms, such as hormone imbalances, autoimmune issues, "mental illness", menstrual irregularities, and other chronic and mysterious health issues that arise as a result of chronic stress and a dysregulated nervous system discuss the potential effects of chronic stress on the brain share briefly about a healing protocol, called the Nemechek Protocol, that has been immensely helpful for Lindsey talk about the dumpster fire of 2020-2021, the anger, division, and politicization of medical choice and the effects that's having on the collective discuss the role of conscious choice to disengage from behaviors, like watching the news, that create more stress and choosing community, family, and joy instead discuss sources of overstimulation that are part of everyday life and how we can choose to disengage from them share some of our own self-motivating tools for de-stressing and getting through hard times talk about self-sovereign choices for developing resiliency Get your Nervous System 101 Workshop Ticket Dr. Love's new book When Crisis Strikes: 5 Steps to Heal Your Brain & Body from Chronic Stress The Nemechek Protocol by Dr. Patrick Nemechek Subscribe!

In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Love and I... discuss why psychiatric medication is a last resort for Dr. Love and her patients, even though she is a psychiatrist talk about the necessity of seeking psychiatric help from a psychiatrist and not your primary care provider discuss Lindsey's journey with benzodiazepenes, tolerance, withdrawal, and benzo tapering validate the necessity of treating patients as unique individuals with unique needs instead of generalized treatment discuss Dr. Love's new book When Crisis Strikes: 5 Steps to Heal Your Brain & Body from Chronic Stress list and briefly explain the 5 steps to healing from chronic stress explain the survival state from the point of view of the brain and how our body's survival response hasn't changed in tens of thousands of years explain the cascade of events — from adrenaline spikes to drops in blood glucose and more — when a stressful moment or situation becomes chronic Subscribe! FREE Training: How to Hack Your Nervous System with Cold Plunges Follow me on Instagram

In this episode, Holistic Pelvic Health practitioner, healer, and midwife Kate Coletti and I... share Lindsey's journey of treating and healing hypertonic pelvic floor dysfunction discuss the chronic disconnection from our pelvic bowls and pelvic floors talk about holding stress, tension, and trauma in the pelvic bowl and pelvic floor share how reconnecting with the pelvic bowl/pelvic floor echoes into the rest of a woman's life and creates more openness and less rigidity talk about the energetics that are stored in the pelvic floor and fascia and why it's important to "clean it out" discuss various manifestations of tension, heaviness and trauma in the pelvic floor such as pelvic floor weakness, displacement of organs, prolapse, and more explain the process of mapping and sweeping the pelvic bowl to clear out stagnancy and nurture the connection to our pelvises discuss releasing tension from the jaw, face, and throat as a way to begin to release tension from the pelvis share the correlation between the state of the pelvic floor and the common state of women who carry so much for everyone and how reclaiming parts of ourselves can increase pelvic health talk about Yoni steaming, self-care bodywork, fascial release, pelvic mapping, breast massage, and other forms of self-care discuss menstruation in a patriarchal culture talk about free bleeding, menstrual cups, disks, organic tampons, and more body-friendly options for our blood and using options that support your pelvic floor/pelvic bowl share about the natural cycle healing that can happen when menstruation is viewed as a powerful spiritual and physical force vs. an inconvenience discuss menstruating on the full moon vs. the new moon talk about how our connection to our pelvic bowls and cycles can heal sisterhood FREE Guide to Heal Your Pelvic Floor Work with Kate Kate's Enlightened Birth 6-Week Course Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit, & Joy in the Female Body by Tami Lynn Kent FREE Training: How to Hack Your Nervous System with Cold Plunges Subscribe! Follow me on Instagram

This is the second half of my IRL conversation with community organizer and BF Honor Schauland. We're zooming in on our discussion about community to focus on cultivating close friendships. In this episode Honor and I... share more about the importance and necessity of community during the Apocalypse (hint: we're already in it!) give listeners a glimpse into our own trauma-informed, real-life friendship  talk about navigating conflict, establishing safety, and moving past our differences share why, on paper, our friendship doesn't make much sense explain how our shared understanding of trauma has given us the ability to custom-design a close, intimate friendship share how we've thrown out the checkboxes of identity when it comes to cultivating close friendships explain why shared experiences isn't necessarily the main ingredient in a healthy, thriving relationship FREE Training: How to Hack Your Nervous System with Cold Plunges Subscribe! Follow me on Instagram The Long Descent by John Michael Greer The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles Eisenstein

In this episode — the first ever recorded in person! — community organizer Honor Schauland and I... discuss broader community and work our way down to inner circle community talk about the importance and necessity of embracing differences in our very rural community share that humans do not have a monopoly on community and that other-than-human beings do community quite well, often better than we do discuss the "checkboxes" we humans like to use to categorize people, which isn't very effective contrast "fitting in" with true belonging contrast Lindsey's former life as an evangelical Christian with built-in church community to building a truer sense of community outside the church discuss the Apocalypse at length — why it's not at all like Hollywood, why we're already in it, and why community matters FREE Training: How to Hack Your Nervous System with Cold Plunges Subscribe! Follow me on Instagram The Long Descent by John Michael Greer The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles Eisenstein

In this solo episode, I... discuss why the health of our nervous systems is one of the most overlooked aspects of healthcare and mental healthcare share how I chased chronic and mysterious symptoms with supplements, restricted diets, celery juice, designer probiotics, gut health, and more... and got nowhere discuss why I believe the brain and Autonomic Nervous System are the "Holy Grail" of health, not just the gut talk about unlocking our medical mysteries by understanding and healing our nervous systems explain what the Autonomic Nervous System is, what it does, and how our bodies let us know when it's not functioning properly discuss why my diagnoses (GAD, PTSD, Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, and Chronic Insomnia) are completely meaningless when viewed through the lens of the nervous system explain why "mental health" should be renamed to "nervous system health" share why talk therapy and CBT aren't effective at regulating the nervous system and reducing the chronic and mysterious symptoms of a dysregulated nervous system explain why our bodies do not need us to micromanage them tell listeners why I threw away over $1,000 in supplements in August of 2020 share why nervous system work is actually faster, safer, cheaper, and easier than taking medications or supplements Get Your Ticket to Nervous System 101: the one-stop workshop for discovering the root cause of chronic and mysterious symptoms, how trauma impairs the nervous system and brain, and what to do about it FREE Training: How to Hack Your Nervous System with Cold Plunges Subscribe! Follow me on Instagram

This is the one-year anniversary episode of the Holistic Trauma Healing Podcast! In this solo episode, Lindsey... shares the 3 ways in which we are triggered shares why she doesn't do trigger warnings or content warnings on any of her content talks about why avoiding triggers isn't how we heal and why avoidance is a sign of victim consciousness shares some practical steps listeners can take when they feel triggered discusses the role of personal responsibility in facing and healing triggers explains the unfair and unnecessary expectations a triggered person often places on others to accommodate them talks about why it's important to process triggers in the safety of trusted community rather than online discusses the wisdom of discomfort and why feeling triggered is an amazing healing opportunity Subscribe! Follow Lindsey on Instagram FREE Training: How to Hack Your Nervous System with Cold Plunges

In this episode, author of The Healed Empath, Kristen Schwartz and I... explain what it means to be an empath and/or a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) discuss how empaths can navigate and maintain energetic and emotional boundaries discuss the paradox that HSPs and empaths feel feel when they're in their bodies, yet coming back to the body is the only way to heal discuss the marked differences in the brains of HSPs and non-HSPs (mirror neurons, dopamine, brain activation, & more) discuss the role of trauma in a person becoming highly sensitive discuss the overwhelm HSPs feel that can potentially lead to being more easily traumatized talk about the labels of "Highly Sensitive Person" and "Empath" and how those labels can lead to victim consciousness explain how HSPs and empaths can widen their windows of tolerance discuss the language of victimhood, limitation in choice, and becoming empowered to use choice and live sovereign talk about the physical changes in the brains of trauma survivors discuss maintaining boundaries so others aren't changing themselves or their environments to make HSPs comfortable Subscribe! Starseed Oracle Deck Work with Kristen Follow Kristen on Instagram The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron Follow me on Instagram FREE Training: How to Hack Your Nervous System with Cold Plunges

In this episode, hypnotherapist and money mindset coach Rebecca Wiener McGregor and I... explain what hypnosis is and what it isn't and share that each of us is in a hypnotic state multiple times a day discuss how hypnosis helps to re-program brain and body talk about how our language perpetuates trauma and triggers discuss identity as the single most important factor in healing (or not) explain how hypnosis can heal triggers discuss the concept of secondary gain talk about using hypnosis to transform self-punishment and shame into the embodiment of your Highest Self discuss hypnosis as an invaluable tool for Inner Child healing Subscribe! Angel Guide Oracle Deck Work with Rebecca Follow me on Instagram FREE Training: How to Hack Your Nervous System with Cold Plunges