Rewire The Podcast: Recent Episodes

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Themes: Brain Retraining, Coaching, Healing from Dysregulation

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Have you tried Vital-Side’s Rewire or Elevate programs? On today’s episode, Bianca Spears, a dear friend, Vital-Side member, and laughter and play coach with over 10 years of experience talks about how Vital-Side helped her heal from chronic anxiety, dermatitis, and sleep issues and elevate her expertise as a brain retraining coach. Bianca and Lindsay have worked together to create programs inside Vital-Side and Bianca uses her methodology known as NeruoPLAYstic to coach clients in their own healing journeys. Listen to this episode to learn how you can find joy in the most mundane moments in life through laughter and brain retraining.

Show Notes:

• How Bianca’s coaching business evolved after using Rewire and becoming a Vital-Side coach

• How Lindsay and Bianca collaborated to create Elevate in Vital-Side

• Applying brain retraining to Bianca’s playfulness coaching

• Using affirmations and state changers as healing tools

• Adding more play into mundane tasks to make life more fun

• Overcoming the “if…then…” mindset

• Regulating yourself throughout the day is normal; you won’t be perfectly regulated all the time

• Slow down to the speed of now

Resources:

• Get more from the Vital-Side Podcast here

• Email podcast@vital-side.com if you’re interested in being a guest or have topic ideas

• Check out the Elevate or Regulation Station programs from Vital-Side

• Schedule a FREE 15 minute call with Bianca

• Schedule a session with a Vital-Side coach

• Listen to episode 9 of the Vital-Side Podcast, The Joy & Science of Laughter with Bianca Spears

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

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Themes: Feelings, Limiting Beliefs, Authentic Self

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Do you find yourself adopting limiting beliefs like imposter syndrome, perfectionism, or self-sabotage? In today’s episode, Dr. Audrey Schnell, who has an M.A. in clinical psychology and a Ph.D in epidemiology and biostatistics explains how it’s not our limiting beliefs that keep us stuck but how our body feels in response to those beliefs. For over 40 years she has enabled clients to eliminate emotional triggers and reach their goals. Listen to this episode to learn how to master your emotions so you can reach your full potential.

Show Notes:

• How self-sabotage and doubt led Audrey to her work

• The importance of a foundation or a routine to help get through hard situations

• The importance of staying grounded in who you are to recognize self-sabotaging behaviors

• Your goals should be outside your comfort zone but the first step should be inside

• Feelings like fight or flight are emotions that you should learn to regulate

• Your feelings are limiting you, not your beliefs

• Habits are hard, focus on who you are instead

• First steps to identifying the core pillars of who you are

Resources:

• Get more from the Vital-Side Podcast here

• Email podcast@vital-side.com if you’re interested in being a guest or have topic ideas

• Check out Audrey's 7 Tips to Emotional Mastery

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

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Themes: Integrative Nutrition, Intuition, Intention

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Do you ever feel let down by your own body? Do you wonder how you can step out of the feeling of being broken? In today’s episode, Ava Nouri, an integrative and functional registered dietitian teaches us how we can trust ourselves and our bodies through the process of healing. Through her Loving Wellness® method, Ava blends science and advanced functional lab testing with intuition and intention to help clients transform into their happiest, healthiest selves. Listen to this episode to hear how you can build trust within your body for your own healing and well-being.

Show Notes:

• Ava’s journey of dealing with her own health issues to becoming a registered dietitian

• Ava’s relationship with food and how it has evolved

• Using intention rather than restriction when it comes to food

• You have to care about your body, no one else will care about your body for you

• Let go of perfection and embrace curiosity

• The importance of intuition in your health journey; what works for someone else might not work for you

• HPA axis and its association to stressors and thyroid function

• Ways to decrease the stress response and begin to trust your body

• Ways to make nutrition fun

Resources:

• Get more from the Vital-Side Podcast here

• Email podcast@vital-side.com if you’re interested in being a guest or have topic ideas

• Visit Ava's Website to sign up for 1:1 functional nutrition coaching programs

• Ava’s Instagram: @avanouriwellness

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

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Themes: Rebrand, Nervous System Regulation, Mind-Body Connection

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Have you noticed some changes in the podcast recently? In today’s episode, Lindsay explains the rebrand from The Rewire Podcast to The Vital Side Podcast. Listen to this episode to hear the details of the change, including what type of guests to expect, what topics will be a focus, and why this is such an important shift right now.

Show Notes:

• Lindsay explains the podcast change and why the focus is shifting to nervous system health

• We can’t control what happens to us, but we can control how to regulate our nervous systems

• The importance of working with someone experienced with nervous system regulation

• Bringing in experts to focus on health and well-being

• The importance of nervous system regulation for new or expecting parents

Resources:

• Get more from the Vital Side Podcast here

• Email podcast@vital-side.com if you’re interested in being a guest or have topic ideas

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

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Themes: Mind-Body Healing, Naturopathic Medicine, Spontaneous Healing

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At what point do you stop symptom tracking and stop seeking a diagnosis and really start to focus on mind-body healing? In today’s episode, Dr. Moshe Daniel Block, ND, VDP, HMC, VNMI, a naturopathic doctor, author, and innovator who overcame his own diagnosis of Myasthenia gravis is here to share his expertise on mind-body healing. He created and teaches the Vis Dialogue, a transformative mind-body healing technique that has helped thousands achieve life-changing results, and offers a full certification program in Holistic Counseling. Listen to today’s episode to learn how you can stop symptom tracking and start healing.

Show Notes:

• Dr. Moshe’s experience with Myasthenia gravis and how it led to his mind-body healing work

• What led to Dr. Moshe’s decision to try mind-body healing instead of traditional medicine

• Chi: what it is and how it feels

• Dr. Moshe’s experience with spontaneous healing

• When to stop seeking a diagnosis and focus on the mind-body

• A diagnosis vs. a prognosis

• A walkthrough of how Dr. Moshe would work with someone on mind-body healing

Resources:

• Visit Dr. Moshe's Website to book a consult

• Enroll in Vis Dialogue Training

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

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Themes: Motherhood, Matrescence, Identity Shift

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What happens to a woman when she becomes a mother? Matrescence, or the transition to motherhood, can involve physical, psychological, and social changes. On this episode, Amy Taylor-Kabbaz, author of Mama Rising and founder of Mama Rising Coaching Certification and the Global Matrescence Foundation shares her expertise on the subject. As a former-journalist and award-winning producer for 15 years with ABC, Amy brings a unique combination of research, story-telling and lived experience to her work. Listen to this episode to learn how Amy educates and inspires other women to transform their process of matrescence and normalize what goes on in a mom’s brain, body, and mind when she becomes a mother.

Show Notes:

• The pivotal moments that brought Amy to doing the work she does today

• Why is being a mother not enough?

• Understanding what matrescence means

• Motherhood is what feminism forgot

• It shouldn’t be up to the mother to do it all; shifting societal beliefs

• Motherhood is a learnt skill, not an instinct

Resources:

• Visit Amy's Website

• Listen to Amy’s Podcast: The Happy Mama Movement

• Amy’s Instagram: @amytaylorkabbaz

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

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Themes: Chronic Stress, Healing, Wellness Systems

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Does stress TRULY impact your health? This is a topic that many people are stumped by because of the lack of knowledge around chronic stress. In today’s episode, Jeffery Moore Williams, a transformation artist immersed in unraveling the human body’s potential, shares his knowledge on traditional and modern wellness systems. Listen to this episode to learn more about his teachings in bodywork, sound, breath, values, and movement to seize control of your health journey, fostering vitality and a life lived to its fullest potential.

Show Notes:

• Pivotal moments that brought Jeffrey to his work with nervous system regulation

• How chronic stress impacted Jeffrey’s health

• Our “life reservoir” and how it’s affected by stress

• Wellness practices Jeffrey implemented to help heal from chronic stress

• The hierarchy of needs and how it affects your nervous system

• Changing the mindset rather than focusing on the symptoms

• First steps to get out of a chronic stress state

Resources:

• Jeffrey’s FREE 75 Minute Workshop to Restore Vitality

• Visit Jeffrey's Website

• Jeffrey’s Instagram: @lifestyles_of_light or Facebook: @Vitalist

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

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Themes: Healing from Trauma, Sleep, Lucid Dreaming

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Have you ever wondered how much sleep impacts your life, more than just getting 8 hours of sleep a night? In this episode, Charlie Morley, a sleep expert, best selling author, and lucid dream teacher, explains how sleep is so personalized for each person which goes beyond just the general act of sleeping. Having been authorized to teach within the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, Charlie uses his experience with lucid dreaming to help those with post traumatic stress symptoms. Listen to this episode to learn more about lucid dreaming and how to move beyond basic sleep hygiene.

Show Notes:

• Charlie’s story from what led him to lucid dreaming to studying Buddhism

• Nightmares from traumatic experiences are not a sign of being broken, but rather a protective response of the mind

• Thank goodness for pain, thank goodness for nightmares

• Lucid dreaming can help relieve symptoms of PTSD

• First steps and the four D’s of lucid dreaming

• Recommendations for better sleep that go beyond basic sleep hygiene

Resources:

• Visit Charlie's Website

• Charlie’s Instagram: @charlie_morley_lucid_dreaming

• Read Wake Up To Sleep and Charlie's Books

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

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Themes: Willpower, Creating Habits, Motivation vs. Momentum

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Do you often feel like you have no willpower and no motivation towards your career, health, or wellness goals? In today’s episode, Jenn Trepeck, an Optimal Health Coach, Podcaster, and Business Consultant described as a “force of nature” in the wellness space expands. In this episode, she talks about her own journey through weight management and how we typically misunderstand our own willpower. Listen to this episode to learn the science behind willpower and how to best use it to feel empowered with renewed energy and actionable steps to live the life you truly want.

Show Notes:

• Jenn’s personal weight loss saga and how it led to her health coaching business

• A look into her 12 week health coaching curriculum

• Why relying on willpower to make healthy choices does not work

• The science of willpower and how to think of it like a refillable cup

• Using willpower to create habits

• Using momentum instead of motivation

• How to replenish your “willpower cup”

Resources:

• Visit Jenn's Website to get a FREE guide: It’s Not What To Eat, But How To Eat

• Jenn’s Instagram: @jenntrepeck or Facebook: @jenntrepeck

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

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Themes: Behaviors, Balance, Creating Space

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Do you ever resonate with any of these four behaviors: Pleasing, Controlling, Isolating, or Distracting? In today’s episode, we unpack these behaviors and discuss how to heal and transcend these old outdated patterns with HeatherAsh Amara, best-selling author, speaker, guide, philanthropist, and land steward. HeatherAsh shares her insights and wisdom on how we can create more space in our lives, an important ingredient for leaders and any human being. Listen to this episode to learn how to live fully in today’s world.

Show Notes:

• HeatherAsh’s sense of disconnection in college led her down a path of spirituality

• Judge & Victim and how not to use the 4 Agreements against ourselves

• Signs to identify if you’re armoring and how to be willing to feel discomfort

• The four behaviors: Pleasing, Controlling, Isolating, Distracting

• Normalizing that changing behavior takes time

• Creating more space in your life using Gap Practice and Tell Practice

• Maid, Mother, and Crone archetypes

Resources:

• HeatherAsh’s Instagram: @heatherashamara and Substack: Out of the Fire

• Buy HeatherAsh’s new book Wild, Willing, and Wise

• Visit HeatherAsh’s website: heatherashamara.com

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

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Themes: Healing, Functional Health, Brain Retraining

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Have you ever wondered what a day in the life of a brain retrainer inside the Rewire Membership looks like? In this episode, Carrie Chavis takes you through her experience inside Vital-Side and how she has used Rewire protocols to make a full recovery from Epstein Barr Virus, Lyme Disease, and fatigue. Carrie, who is now a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner with her own practice, Chavis Health, guides clients through diet and lifestyle changes to help bring their bodies back into balance. Listen to this episode to hear her healing journey through brain retraining and how it can help you on your path to healing.

Show Notes:

• Carrie’s history of chronic illnesses and how it lead her to Vital-Side

• Carrie’s first impressions of nervous system regulation

• A day in the life of a Rewire member

• The changes Carrie started to notice in her chronic symptoms from practicing the tools in Rewire

• The leap from brain retrainer to having her own functional health practice, Chavis Health

• DRESS: Diet, Rest, Exercise, Stress Reduction, Supplements

• HIDDEN: Hormone, Immune, Digestion, Detoxification, Energy Production, Nervous System

Resources:

• Use Code: Carrie10 for 10% off Vital-Side's Rewire or Reboot

• Visit Carrie’s Website chavishealth.com

• Visit Carrie's Instagram

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

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Themes: Presence, Simplicity, Connection

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Do you often feel like you are working for the weekend or counting down the minutes until the day is done? In this episode, we have Palak Dave, also known as the Queen of IRL, an entrepreneur, speaker, and author of Beautiful Everydays: A Guidebook to Living in the Here and Now. Through her community, Embiria, Palak helps others to embrace intentional living, prioritizing real life over digital noise. Listen to this episode to learn ways you can live beautifully, in the here and now.

Show Notes:

• Palak’s journey from a corporate career to founding her company, Embiria

• What a curated event is like with Embiria

• Digital exhaustion and how much people crave real life connection

• Adding micro-moments to enhance your every day rather than waiting for big life moments

• Palak’s personal story about her Dad and how that helped her live in the here and now

• The importance of saying ‘yes’ to social gatherings

• Advice for introverts in regards to experiencing social gatherings

• The impact of businesses implementing these IRL connections for their employees

• Information about Palak’s book, Beautiful Everydays: A Guidebook to Living in the Here and Now

Resources:

• Visit The Embiria Website

• Visit Palak's Instagram

• Buy Palak’s book on Amazon or Barnes & Noble

• Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

• Visit Cait's Website

• Click here for Cait's FREE Masterclass

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

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Themes: Relationships, Curiosity, Connection

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Do you feel you are lacking intimacy or connection in your personal relationships? In today’s episode, relationship coach Karina F. Daves, leverages her experience as a former social worker and adjunct professor of women’s studies to teach women how to strategically evaluate their personal identity, values, and standards so that they can elevate their relationships and themselves. Listen to this episode to learn how you can enjoy more satisfying relationships with yourself and others.

Show Notes:

• Karina’s journey to becoming a relationship coach

• The three W’s: Watch, Worry, and Win

• Using humor to break the ice during an argument

• The importance of cultivating curiosity to learn more about your partner

• The importance of communication and communicating the right things in a relationship

• The Spring Cleaner Relationship Series on Karina’s podcast

• The importance of not parenting your partner while parenting your kids

Resources:

• Use Code RESET2025 for 50% off a month subscription of Reset from 9am CST January 1st to 11:59pm CST January 8th

• Karina’s Instagram

• Visit Karina's Website

• Listen to Karina’s Podcast Relationships. You Understand?

• Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

• Visit Cait's Website

• Click here for Cait's FREE Masterclass

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

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Themes: EFT, Tapping, PTSD, Meditation

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Have you ever wondered about our different brain states? Why does visualization or meditation make you feel better? How can we access our feel-good neurochemicals to actually change body chemistry and heal chronic symptoms like pain? We’re going into the science behind this and more with Dr. Dawson Church. He is a best-selling science writer and the author of three award-winning books and is the founder of the Veterans Stress Solution, which has offered free PTSD treatment to over 22,000 veterans. Listen to today’s episode to learn more about EFT, or Emotionally Focused Therapy, and how to rewire your brain for happiness.

Show Notes:

• Dr. Dawson’s struggles with mental health as a teenager and how it led him to discovering energy psychology

• How stress can affect beta brain waves and cortisol and how that physically affects the body

• How tapping can drastically alter your mood and chronic symptoms

• How to heal from the effects of toxic positivity

• Ways to heal from mental health traumas caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic

• The Bliss Brain and practices to release feel-good neurochemicals

Resources:

• Purchase a Vital-Side Gift Card for a minimum of $15

• Get the FREE meditation and tapping manual from Dr. Dawson Church

• Visit Dr. Dawson Church’s website

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

• Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

• Visit Cait's Website

• Click here for Cait's FREE Masterclass

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Themes: Panic Attacks, PMDD, Burnout

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Have you ever experienced a panic attack or anxiety attack? In this episode, Cait shares her personal journey dealing with panic attacks and PMDD, or Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder. Listen to this episode to learn how she healed from these chronic conditions and ultimately started on her path to becoming a neuro-science backed coach, helping entrepreneurs, business leaders, and high performers to build resilience and unlock their creativity.

Show Notes:

• How Cait’s perfectionist tendencies in her career led to burnout, which led to panic attacks

• PMDD and its symptoms during Cait’s different phases of her menstrual cycle

• Big lifestyle changes helped to ease some of Cait’s chronic symptoms

• Once Cait addressed her nervous system’s needs, her body started to heal

• What are Protector Parts and how they affect our nervous system

Resources:

• Black Friday Vital-Side Sale continuing until 11:59pm December 5th CST for 25% off the first subscription on all Vital-Side programs & 50% off private sessions

• Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

• Visit Cait's Website

• Click here for Cait's FREE Masterclass

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• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

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Themes: PANS, PANDAS, Mold Illness, Homeopathy

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Have you noticed that your kids have had a behavior change? More outbursts? Melt downs? Even OCD like tendencies? It may not be OCD at all… It may be PANS, Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome, often linked to Mold Illness. To Talk about this today, we have Vital-Side Operations Manager, homeopathy student, and mother of 3, Lori Weir.

Lori’s 3 kids have all been affected by mold and chronic illness, specifically PANS & MCAS, ranging over the years since 2018. She has a background in psychology and is currently studying homeopathy after it played a huge part in her and her kids' healing. She is passionate about helping others see their own capability for self-healing. Listen to this episode to hear Lori’s story and learn about the signs and symptoms that may be linked to your child’s chronic illness.

Show Notes:

• Lori’s daughter’s sudden symptoms led to a diagnosis of PANDAS after strep in 2018

• Her son’s appendix infection didn’t present like a typical infection due to PANS

• PANS symptoms can include OCD, anxiety, depression, rage, suicidal thoughts, and uncontrollable bladder which can be misdiagnosed as mentall illnesses

• Mold could be the cause for PANS in your child

• Finding mold in her shower and kitchen

• Having to throw away all their clothes due to mold in the washing machine

• Lori overcoming her fear of mold

• Lori’s sister’s HVAC system was full of mold, causing similar symptoms in her family

• Homeopathy and brain retraining with Vital-Side have helped Lori and her family heal

Resources:

• Black Friday Vital-Side Sale starting 9am November 29th-11:59pm December 5th CST for 25% off the first subscription on all Vital-Side programs & 50% off private sessions

• Schedule a time to talk with Lori inside Vital-Side

• Read A Mold Story blog post Mold in House? The Science, Remediation, and More

• Listen to Rewire Ep. 62 Lori Weir's Wild Healing Journey, Recovering from MCAS, POTS & Rheumatoid Arthritis

• Listen to Rewire Ep. 81 Model Regulation to Your Kids with Vital-Side Facilitator, Lori Weir

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

• Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

• Visit Cait's Website

• Click here for Cait's FREE Masterclass

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Themes: Resistance, Reframing, Overcoming Change

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What do we do when we feel resistance? It’s important to point out that ALL of us experience resistance at some point in our lives, and it seems ALWAYS to be a struggle. That said, we can reframe resistance so we can think about it from a totally new perspective and break free from old judgments or preconceived notions we’ve had about resistance. Lindsay is diving into this topic today and bringing up past personal experience and experience from Vital-Side members to meet you where you are in resistance.

Listen to this episode if you feel stuck and blocked in moving forward, but you’re ready to hear an alternative way of thinking to help combat some of the struggles you’ve experienced to move forward.

Show Notes:

• Your resistance often comes from your Limbic system’s protective mechanism

• Communicating with your Limbic system to overcome resistance

• 5 emotional stages you experience when it comes to change

• Identifying old subconscious beliefs or pathways to combat resistance

• Implementing consistent incremental repetition to overcome change

• Exercises Lindsay uses to set up her environment for success in combating resistance

Resources:

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

• Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co and visit Cait's Website

• Click here for Cait's FREE Masterclass

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Themes: Father Wounds, Familial Relationships, Healing

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How is your relationship with your father? Many people carry with them father wounds, and don’t quite know what to do with them or how to process them. In this episode, Giji Mischel Dennard discusses how to process these wounds.

Giji’s journey began with the pivotal moment of meeting her father at the age of 17. This encounter sparked a life-long passion for understanding and fostering healthy father-child relationships. Her professional journey of over 20 years includes leading roles in multinational corporations and training thousands of professionals. She is the author of four acclaimed books where she explores themes of healing father-child relationships, unleashing personal and professional greatness, and the pursuit of passion. Listen in to hear her story and how you can begin to heal your father-child relationships.

Show Notes:

• Giji’s first contact with her father the night before her high school graduation

• How growing up without her father impacted her childhood

• Identity validation upon meeting her father in person for the first time

• The impacts of meeting her siblings and how each relationship differed

• Writing a manuscript with her father about their first meeting

• Creating a book of similar stories that led to her calling of helping to heal father-child relationships

• The five father archetypes

• Giji’s relationship with her father vs with her mother

Resources:

• 2 Rewire Subscription Giveaway Instructions

• Follow Rewire Podcast on Instagram: @rewirepodcast

• Comment on our pinned Giveaway Post - write down ONE reason you want to start Rewire

• Leave a 5 star review in Apple Podcast (don’t forget to write your name and first initial or we can’t track you!)

• Check out Giji’s workshop and book

• Hear Lindsay’s story about meeting her dad for the first time

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

• Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co and visit Cait's Website

• Click here for Cait's FREE Masterclass

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Themes: Old Belief Systems, Brain Retraining, Resilience

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What would it feel like in the morning to wake up with a smile on your face… despite all the chaos and noise happening around you? What could it look like to surround yourself in a bubble of protection so that life’s situations aren’t dictating how you feel? In this episode, Lindsay dives into her 8 years of expertise in the field of brain retraining and neuroplasticity to offer very tangible steps to break the cycle of old beliefs and old patterns.

After working with thousands of people experiencing chronic stress and perfectionistic tendencies, Lindsay has come up with simple, daily solutions to break the pattern of chronic stress so that Vital-Side members can start to feel connected to themselves and their lives again.

In this episode, you’ll learn to break patterns of old belief systems in a tangible way in order to FEEL positive emotions of happiness, joy, and love… and increase your capacity for resilience.

Show Notes:

• Examples of old belief systems and how they develop

• Protective mechanisms of the fight, flight, freeze or fawn responses

• Using a metacognition practice to pinpoint old belief systems

• Identifying OOPSes or Overused Old Pathways Stopped

• Creating NICEs or New Inner Conscious Expressions

Resources:

• 2 Rewire Subscription Giveaway Instructions:

• Follow Rewire Podcast on Instagram: @rewirepodcast

• Comment on our pinned Giveaway Post - write down ONE reason you want to start Rewire

• Leave a 5 star review in Apple Podcast (don’t forget to write your name and first initial or we can’t track you!)

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

• Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co and visit Cait's Website

• Click here for Cait's FREE Masterclass

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Themes: Gratitude, Self-Discovery, Rewire

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Do you struggle to find positivity in your everyday life? Today’s guest, Sohale Sizar, is the founder of Soul with the mission to illuminate the daily practice of gratitude for his rapidly growing online community. An entrepreneur since the age of nine with 15 years of dedicated practice in meditation and gratitude, Sohale is on a mission to facilitate access to one's inner light through his gratitude teachings. Listen to this episode to hear more about his company, Soul, and how to implement gratitude into your daily life.

Show Notes:

• Sohale’s journey to becoming an entrepreneur

• How sending daily gratitude emails led to the creation of Soul

• There are nuances to gratitude; it doesn’t have to be a state of constant bliss

• Practicing gratitude can increase overall health and positively impact how you view yourself

• Common blocks affecting the habit of gratitude

• Using Soul instead of daily journaling to build a gratitude habit

• Tips for reclaiming your narrative

Resources:

• Sohale’s Instagram: @solightsobright

• Soul's Website & Instagram: @bringonsoul use code REWIRE30 for exclusive 30 day access

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

• Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co and visit Cait's Website

• Click here for Cait's FREE Masterclass

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Themes: CIRS, Mold Illness, Brain Retraining

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Have you dealt with water damage in your house or symptoms related to mold illness? Today’s guest, Katie Nickerson, shares her mold journey and healing tools using the structure of brain retraining. Katie is a brain retraining coach, helping clients access their innate healing wisdom to rewire their brains and thrive. Integrating neuroscience, nervous system regulation, somatic tools, and parts work. After years of mystery illness and multiple diagnoses, including CIRS, CFS/ME, MCAS, chronic pain, and more, Katie's health declined despite rigorous healing protocols. Listen to this episode to hear how her turnaround came with brain retraining, which gave her the tools to rewire her brain and make a full recovery from chronic illness!

Show Notes:

• Feeling stuck with CIRS symptoms and discovering brain retraining as a way to heal

• Brain retraining isn’t just a modality; it’s a process to improve the immune system to set up your body to heal

• Katie’s symptoms going unresolved after years of trying the Shoemaker protocol

• The HLA-DR gene and how it affected Katie’s approach to treatment

• Talking to a stranger at the doctor’s office led Katie to brain retraining

• Katie’s trip to Florida and how it changed her belief system on how to heal

• Healing is not linear

Resources:

-Katie’s Instagram: @abodehealingco

-Katie's Free Guide - Retraining Your Brain Around Mold -Schedule a Free Discovery Call for 1-1 Coaching

-Healing From Mold Sensitivity Course

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay's Website

-Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co and visit Cait's Website

-Click here for Cait's FREE Masterclass

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Themes: Identity, Spirituality, Authentic Expression

Episode:

Have you wondered what role identity plays in unlocking your success? Nora Virginia is an intuitive business coach, podcast host, and meditation & breathwork facilitator. After climbing the ladder for nearly a decade in corporate America, a few spiritual awakenings, and ugly cries in the office bathroom, she did what we’ve all imagined doing at one point - left her cushy, high-paying finance career behind to pursue her dream of being a spiritual coach and thought leader in the personal development space. Nora is obsessed with helping online coaches build six-figure online businesses organically through blending spirituality with simple, proven business strategies. Listen to this episode to learn all about Nora’s expertise.

Show Notes:

• Going off path can lead you onto the path to success

• Your identity is how you see yourself, not how others see you

• Who we believe we are impacts how we think, feel, and what actions we do or don’t take

• Common steps to shift your identity

• Common barriers people face while trying to cultivate their identity

• The key to transforming your identity is self-love and compassion, not self-sabotage or shame

• Social media only shows a part of someone’s reality, not their entire life- don’t compare yourself to them

• You don’t need to seek out things you don’t have yet; appreciate what you have right now

Resources:

• Nora’s Instagram: @iamnoravirginia and visit her website: noravirginia.com

• Listen to Nora’s Podcast: Glow Up to Blow Up

• Elevate 30 Day Trial Use Promo Code: podcast

• Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co and visit Cait's Website

• Click here for Cait's FREE Masterclass

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

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Themes: Insomnia, Sleep Habits, Improve Sleep Naturally

Do you suffer from insomnia? Do you have issues getting to sleep or staying asleep? Today’s guest, Devin Burke, helps exhausted insomniacs stay asleep so they can wake up with more “peace, power, and presence.” He is a bestselling author, TEDx speaker, renowned sleep coach and founder of Sleep Science Academy. Devin was named “One of the Top 10 Coaches of 2023” by USA Today and has studied innovative holistic coaching methods from some of the world’s top health and human performance experts. Hear his tips for identifying and improving your sleep habits.

Show Notes:

• Sleep is one of the most important tools for your health because it affects your entire life

• Your physical, mental, and emotional well-being can decrease the more sleep you lose

• You are not broken; lack of sleep is not a problem, it’s a symptom

• Different types of insomnia and classifications on how extreme each type can be person to person

• The Three “P’s” or patterns people develop that decrease sleep

• Importance of “being” vs “doing” and allowing your body and mind to rest to let sleep happen naturally

Resources:

• Visit Sleep Science Academy: https://sleepscienceacademy.com/

• Instagram: @sleepscienceacademy

• FREE Sleep Support Masterclass

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

-Click here to get the "Release Meditation Series"

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

• Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

• Visit Cait's Website

• Click here for Cait's FREE Masterclass

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Themes: Women’s Health, Menstrual Health, Balancing Hormones

Episode:

Have you come across ALL the misconceptions about menstrual health? In this episode, Lindsay will debunk some of these myths with leading expert, Kate Morton. Kate is a dietician with a masters in human clinical nutrition. She discusses her story about facing hormonal challenges after quitting birth control. Kate’s personal experience fueled her to create Funk It Wellness, a brand dedicated to menstrual health. They provide high quality food based vitamins for hormonal balance as well as help navigate and embrace your menstrual cycle with confidence and ease. Hear her tips and tricks on what to eat and how to better manage your body during your menstrual cycle.

Show Notes:

• Kate’s journey from quitting birth control to learning more about her menstrual cycle and hearing from other people who have had similar struggles

• Normalizing talking about menstrual cycles and women’s health

• Many women grow up not understanding what’s happening with their bodies due to lack of health education

• Top misconceptions about menstrual cycles, including having a “bad” period or painful period

• Different stages of the menstrual cycle and tips for what to eat, how to regulate caffeine intake, and what types of exercise to help balance hormones during the different stages of your cycle

• PMS and the biggest root causes

• Tracking your cycle and Kate’s favorite apps to use

Resources:

-To check out Release Meditation series, click here and use the code “release30” to be one of 30 people to claim for just $10!

• Kate’s Instagram: @carbsandkate

• Use code “rewire” for 20% off on: Funk It Wellness

• Or visit Funk It’s Instagram at: @funk.it.wellness or TikTok @funkitwellness

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay's Website

• Click here for Lindsay’s free brain retraining guide

• Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

• Visit Cait's Website

• Click here for Cait's free masterclass

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Themes: Chronic Illness, Nervous System Regulation, Mind-Body Connection, Neuroplasticity, Brain Retraining

Episode:

Do you still have questions about what brain retraining is, and how it can help alleviate your chronic physical symptoms/illness? Lindsay is joined by health practitioner Ashok Gupta to discuss reframing chronic illness, how to realistically approach brain retraining, and how his neurological research led him to the healing science of brain retraining.

Show Notes:

-Ashok describes his own struggles with chronic symptoms; how he discovered how brain retraining/neuroplasticity can help alleviate pain; setting up his first clinic and publishing a medical hypothesis

-Discussing the nervous system’s effect on chronic symptoms; “centralized sensation”; communicating a new way of being

-How to retrain the brain; communicating to the “generals” in your body that the “fight is over”; the importance of repetition in neuroplasticity

-The Gupta program and how it helps clients find relief from chronic symptoms through focusing on brain retraining

-Lindsay and Ashok explains the science behind brain retraining

-How trauma is stored in the body; brain/body communication

-Finding the balance of physical changes for your health (medications, diet changes, etc) and implementing brain retraining in a serious way

-Relearning how emotions feel in your body; standing witness to what’s going on in the brain

-Why healing and brain retraining are lifelong experiences

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Follow Ashok on Instagram here

-Start the Gupta program with a free trial here

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Mind-Body Connection

Episode:

Do you have a tendency to overthink your decisions, or to ignore the signals your body sends you when you are faced with difficult choices? Cait shares five reasons why you should be consulting with your body more than your mind, and how to begin fostering that connection.

Show Notes:

-Reason one: The 80/20 rule. 80% of your thoughts, feelings, actions and habits are a result of the information that’s being communicated form your body to your brain. Only 20% comes from your brain; yet we are often told that our mindset is the number one important thing. If we’re only using our minds or letting our minds always lead, we are missing 80% of the puzzle as to what’s really happening inside of us.

-Reason two: Story follows state. The thought and ideas we have about what’s possible is the result of the state of our nervous system. Whatever state we’re operating from dictates our thoughts.

-Reason three: The body speaks a different languag ; “felt sense”’; if we only use our mind, we are missing all the important cues and information that our bodies are trying to communicate with us.

-Reason four: Our body is a show system, not a tell system. It must be shown and not simply told what is safe.

-Reason five: The body remembers what the mind forgets.

-Our minds are important, but our bodies and nervous systems must be prioritized in order to achieve our desires in a way that feels easeful, more fulfilling and more sustainable.

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Brain Development, Early Childhood Development, Parenting

Episode:

How can we ensure that our childrens’ brains are developing in a healthy way, especially in a society that is ever-reliant on potentially harmful things like technology? Cait is joined by Dr. Karla Melenbacher, who uses her neurology expertise combined with a functional medicine approach to help her patients. She shares some ways on how to foster healthy brain development in your own children at home.

Dr. Karla Mehlenbacher specializes in helping individuals overcome neurological challenges using Integrative Neurology and Functional Medicine. With a focus on dysautonomia, neurodiversity and developmental disorders, she offers comprehensive care tailored to each person's unique needs, aiming to empower them on their path to wellness.

Show Notes:

-How Dr. Karla got her start in neuroanatomy and what led to her interest in children’s neurodevelopment; how functional neurology is growing; how her own health issues growing up led her towards her career

-How the lack of motor activity/control in children can lead to delays in brain development; discussing the “tree” metaphor

-How integrating with your environment properly as an infant fosters safety in your mind and body, and how modern products are impeding this integration

-Playing “defense” against modern society and its negative effects on the brain development of children

-Why rediscovering and fostering proper sensory motor integration in children is simpler than it sounds

Resources:

-Visit Dr. Karla’s website here

-Contact Dr. Karla at info@takerootcn.com

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation

Episode:

How can we learn to communicate effectively with our nervous systems? Cait explains the language of our “command and control centers”- and how to harness healthy regulation to powerfully manifest our desires.

Show Notes:

-Why our nervous system is our “command and control center”

-Learning the language of our nervous system, which through our felt sense; it’s a “show” system, not a “tell” system

-”Showing” our nervous system by building capacity through cultivating safety

-Why manifestation is an uphill battle without including your nervous system in the process

-Cultivating safety through the practice of orienting; Cait leads listeners through an orienting activity

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Mental Health/Anxiety, Nervous System Regulation, “Busy Brain,” Brain retraining, Neurology

Episode:

Do you struggle with racing thoughts? Do you find it difficult to relax and “shut off” your brain, to the detriment of your mental health and well-being? Physician, author and award-winning speaker Dr. Romie joins Cait to discuss her brainSHIFT programs, how to calm a “Busy Brain,” and more.

Dr. Romie is a board-certified physician who brings together more than two decades of leadership in neurology, integrative medicine, and mindfulness. She is an award-winning speaker working with Fortune 500 companies, professional athletes, & global associations. Her brainSHIFT programs improve mental well-being and help to build a culture of wellness. Dr. Romie serves as Chief Wellness Officer for Evolution Hospitality, where she scaled a mindfulness & wellness program to over 7,000 employees. Her expertise is featured in the national media, such as NPR, NBC, TED talks, and Forbes. Her first book, "The Busy Brain Cure" published by Harper Collins, released in January 2024.

Show Notes:

-How Dr. Romie transitioned from traditional western medicine into the wellness space she is in today; discovering her intuitive nature, and fighting her inner critic to make the shift into her current career

-What a “busy brain” is and how it presents in our modern everyday lives; the stimulant/sedative cycle and how Dr. Romie found her way out of it; how chronic stress and anxiety affects the body

-Dr. Romie explains her 8 week protocol for the “busy brain” cure

-How Dr. Romie uses her protocols and programs to help high achievers find relief from “busy brain” and chronic stress/anxiety; why her programs are the real deal, the research behind them, and the tremendous success they have had on clients

-Resources

-Click here to take the “Busy Brain” test

-Read “The Busy Brain Cure” here

-Click to follow Dr. Romie on: Instagram and LinkedIn

-Visit Dr. Romie’s website here

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Weight Loss, Brain retraining, Nutrition

Episode:

Trigger warning: Eating disorders

Have you attempted to lose weight with frustrating results? Do you struggle with sticking to a diet plan? Dietician and nutritionist Ilana Muhlstein joins Lindsay to discuss why elimination/fad diets and extreme restrictive eating is not the healthy path towards weight loss. Hear Ilana’s struggles with her weight as a child, how she fixed her negative relationship with food, and how she helps her clients do the same.

Dietitian, nutritionist, bestselling author, and mother of three, Ilana Muhlstein, MS, RD, is a highly sought-after global health and wellness expert. Her rise to fame has been fueled by her relatable weight loss journey and sharp intellect. Her mission is to show people that a healthy lifestyle is easier and much more attainable than they think. She has established a thriving private practice and amassed a huge online following devoted to inspiring her fans and clients to achieve their full health potential. Ilana has developed a bestselling weight loss program called the 2B Mindset and is the author of the Wall Street Journal’s bestselling book, You Can Drop It, and her first cookbook, Love The Food That Loves You Back..

Show Notes:

-Ilana’s experience with weight gain as a kid, and how she broke through traditional toxic weight loss tactics, discovering her own healthy way to lose weight and maintain it; her path to becoming a registered dietitian and helping her own clients

-How Ilana reframed her relationship with the scale

-Tools Ilana learned to use to help her lose weight realistically and in a healthy way; including approaching it two pounds at a time

-Switching one small habit at a time, which compounds into massive change

-Discussing how to approach eating disorders delicately and appropriately

-Why fad diets fail; learning to take a self-directed approach to weight loss, and tailoring your journey personally

-Reshaping your relationship with food and how to connect with Ilana

Resources:

-Follow Ilana on Instagram here

-Visit Ilana's Website

• Use PODCAST10 to get $10 off your first meal- receive an extra 5% off when you subscribe! (www.ilanameals.com)

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Mold/Mold-Induced Illness, Chronic Illness, Nervous System Regulation

Episode:

Have you experienced mold-induced illness/symptoms? Lindsay is joined by indoor environment consultant Brian Karr, who had a harrowing experience with mold in his home that caused frustrating physical symptoms. Brian then made it his life’s work and career to help clients keep their homes safe from toxins and find better regulation through safe indoor surroundings and environments.

Brian Karr, a second-generation indoor environmental consultant, specializes in assisting hypersensitive individuals with complex medical conditions by identifying and addressing mold, mycotoxins, and other indoor pathogens in their homes, leading to significant improvements in their health. As the co-founder of We Inspect and The Dust Test, Brian has become a recognized authority on mold and biotoxin issues for medical professionals nationwide, having assisted over 5,000 hypersensitive individuals in creating healthier living environments. Beyond his consulting role, Brian is dedicated to education within the environmental and health industries and among consumers. He accomplishes this through speaking engagements at international health conferences and industry training symposiums. Additionally, Brian democratizes knowledge through his popular podcast, #moldfinders: RADIO, and comprehensive training programs that empower both consumers and health practitioners to properly navigate mold and biotoxin issues.

Show Notes:

-Brian shares his personal story of mold invading his home environment, and how this lead him to founding his company We Inspect; the symptoms he experienced and how he healed from them

-The connection between environment and health; the research behind it and why it’s important

-Dissipating the fear around mold; working through the trauma that comes from experiencing mold-induced illnesses

-Brian explains “The Dust Test”

-Options and aspects to consider if your home does test positive for mold or other toxins

-The relevance of nervous system regulation to a safe and non toxic home environment

-Discussing the “personal cloud effect”

-How to get in touch with Brian and schedule a free consult with We Inspect

Resources:

-Click here to book a free call with Brian’s company We Inspect

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Pregnancy, Motherhood

Episode:

Are you struggling to stay regulated during your pregnancy? Lindsay talks listeners through her personal experience during her first trimester-how the changes she experienced physically disrupted her regulation, how she coped with these changes, and destigmatizing the ups and downs of the first trimester.

Show Notes:

-Lindsay discusses the “Riding the Waves of Pregnancy” email series

-Battling intrusive thoughts during the first trimester; normalizing the experience of emotional dysregulation during this time

-Lindsay’s mantra that she used during her first trimester: “This experience is temporary, and I trust my body.”

-Learning to surrender to your pregnancy; embracing dissociation; reframing harmful thoughts

-Determining and defining the person and mother you want to be; coming back to your authentic self

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Join the “Riding the Waves of Pregnancy” email series (as mentioned in the episode)

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Trauma Healing, Vibro-Acoustic Therapy

Episode:

Do you struggle with fitting mindfulness into daily life? Relaxation Technologist Craig Goldberg joins Cait and Lindsay to discuss the development of his company inHarmony, in which he uses Vibro-Acoustic technology to help people find more peace and fulfillment in their lives.

Craig Goldberg is a Relaxation Expert and Technologist on a quest to help humanity achieve a deeper sense of inner calmness through the use of sound-and-vibration technology. He is a Vibro-Acoustic Therapy Practitioner, and his work is backed by 40+ years of research showing the many benefits of this type of therapy, based on technical acoustics and vibration technology. He is also a patented inventor, constantly exploring new ways to use sound and vibration to help people reduce stress and anxiety, heal, and transform their lives for the better. Craig is passionate about his work and truly believes in its ability to provide a path toward a more peaceful and fulfilling life.

Show Notes:

-Rewire sale announcement from Vital-Side (use code Memorial20 for 20% off)

-Craig’s story of how he came to be a “relaxation expert”; discovering how trauma affects the body; how his wife’s gluten intolerance led to researching inflammation and the effects of outside factors on our stress

-Battling intrusive thoughts, combating stress and trauma

-Craig dives into the power of sound and vibration frequency and its therapeutic benefits; the slower brainwave state that happens during meditation

-Discussing Craig’s company inHarmony and how the products they develop aid in cultivating mindfulness and helping stressed out customers/clients reach meditative states

-Why sound is such a strong neuroplastic tool that helps combat a dysregulated nervous system

-How to overcome the obstacles of creating a practice that is realistic for you personally

Resources:

-Visit Craig’s company’s website here

-Follow Craig on Instagram here

-Use Memorial20 for 30% off Rewire (as mentioned in the episode)

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Perfectionism, Overcoming Childhood Trauma

Trigger warning: Drug addiction

Episode:

Do you struggle with the debilitating and inevitable burnout that comes along with being a perfectionist? Have you ever considered the idea that you could be addicted to stress? Lindsay and Cait are joined by Balance and Relationship Advisor Naketa Ren Thigpen, a recovering stress addict and reformed perfectionist who coaches high achievers into finding more healthy balance in their lives. Hear about Naketa’s origins from a chaotic upbringing, to how she got into helping her clients learn how to be “intentionally selfish” and rewire their nervous systems.

Naketa Ren Thigpen is on a mission to build stronger families that L.E.A.V.E new multi-generational imprints from their self-actualized wholeness at the intersection of work life balance, sustainable business, mental health, and fulfilling intimate relationships.

Show Notes:

-Mother’s Day gift announcement from Lindsay

-An intro to Naketa, her childhood and early memories of trauma, and being “parentified” at a young age

-Nurturing your inner child and offering yourself forgiveness

-Naketa’s experience being addicted to stress; how her perfectionism and high achieving tendencies affected her; learning to rewire her brain and rewrite her own narrative

-Naketa’s formulas for balance and joy; being a “reformed perfectionist”; learning to set healthy boundaries

-Learning to be “intentionally selfish”; energy management and exploring new tools for nervous system regulation

Resources:

-Click to follow Naketa on: Instagram and LinkedIn

-Visit Naketa’s website here

-Click here for the free Mother’s Day Gift for pregnant moms (as mentioned in the episode)

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Trauma, Mind-body Connection, Somatics

Episode:

Why is it important to consider the nervous system when we are trying to heal our physical bodies? Why does dysregulation present itself in the form of physical symptoms, and how can we address this? Lindsay is joined by Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Karden Rubin, an expert on nervous system related illnesses and psychophysiology. Hear how Kardin helps his clients heal physically by addressing the needs of their nervous systems, how we hold childhood trauma in our bodies, the importance of somatic experiencing, and more.

Karden Rabin is the co-founder of Somia, co-creator of the Heal Program, co-author of the upcoming book The Secret Language of the Body and a Somatic Experiencing practitioner who specializes in treating nervous system related illnesses. As an expert in the field of stress, trauma and psychophysiology, his work is dedicated to helping people recover from nervous system related illnesses so they can live productive and fully expressed lives. Over the past decade, Karden has developed and led programming for The Wounded Warrior Project; Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health; and is a regular contributor to Bessel Van Der Kolk’s Trauma Research Foundation.

Show Notes:

-Karden shares how he got into somatic experiencing, including his own struggles with physical pain

-The importance of finding the root emotional causes behind physical pain; looking beyond the superficial

-Addressing the mind-body connection and the body’s physiological response to stressors; what is being communicated to your body through your stress responses?

-Repressed pain/emotion and your body’s felt experience; how Karden discovered somatic experiencing

-How to go down the “path to feeling”; learning to experience your repressed emotions; Karden leads listeners through a somatic exercise

-The importance of rest

Resources:

-Click here to find Somia’s website and follow Somia on Instagram here

-Follow Karden on Instagram here

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Trauma/Stress Responses, Entrepreneurship

Episode:

How aware are you of the state of your own nervous system? Cait educates listeners on how to recognize symptoms and presentations of these different states, and how to identify which one you (or your clients) are in.

Show Notes:

-The six nervous system states; yellow, red, green, and three hybrid states

-What is “mapping?” ; determining which state you are in (and why this matters)

-Green: grounded and at ease; Yellow: fight or flight state; red: shutdown mode

-Diving into the blended “freeze” state

-Cait shares her checklist for identifying which state you are in

Resources:

-Click here to view Cait’s IG post on mapping (as mentioned in the episode)

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Perfectionism, Anxiety & Stress

Episode:

How can you combat the harmful effects of perfectionist habits? Lindsay shares how to get to the bottom of where perfectionism begins in childhood, and how to to move past these habits so that you can realign your inner self to reflect the life you want to live.

Show Notes:

-Reset sale announcement

-How perfectionism can present itself in your daily life

-Lindsay leads listeners through an activity to bring awareness around how perfectionism could be affecting you; getting to the bottom of where you perfectionism could have started in childhood; how to combat these patterns and rewrite your behaviors/stress responses

-Finding new pathways and coping mechanisms to combat your learned perfectionism behaviors

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Click here and use code BRAINLOVE to get your first month of Reboot for only $5 (as mentioned in the episode)

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: EFT, Nervous System Regulation, Trauma Healing

Episode:

What exactly is EFT tapping and how can it help you regulate your nervous system? Brad Yates joins Lindsay and Cait to discuss the transformative tool of EFT. Hear how Brad discovered the benefits of EFT, why it works, and how you can begin putting it into practice in your own life.

Speaker, teacher, and best-selling author Brad Yates knows that we all have greatness within us, and he’s made it his mission to help people reveal it. Brad is known internationally for his creative and often humorous use of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), also known as Tapping. He combines tapping with positive psychology to help others overcome the fears that hold them back and redefine themselves in a positive light. When Brad isn’t on stage, you can find him on his YouTube channel, which has grown to over 1300 videos, with over 44 million views and 269K subscribers.

Show Notes:

-Reset, A 7-Day Brain Retraining Course Sale Announcement

-Introduction to Brad; where he started and how he came to study EFT; his experience from his first workshop under Gary Craig (the founder of EFT) until now; discussing his popular YouTube channel

-Defining EFT: Emotional Freedom Techniques

-Understanding the stress response and the function of our amygdala in nervous system regulation

-”Rewriting the story” of our own trauma/stress responses; how our bodies try to keep us safe

--Why/how EFT can be used in your daily life; managing stress and anxiety; how EFT helps you regulate your nervous system; why practicing EFT is “energy hygiene”

• Brad leads Lindsay and Cait through an EFT exercise

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Find Brad on Youtube here

-Visit Brad’s website here

-Click here and use code BRAINLOVE to get your first month of Reboot for only $5 (as mentioned in the episode)

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Pregnancy, Nervous System Regulation, Personal Development

Episode:

How can you stay regulated during a time where everything is constantly changing, including your own body? Cait takes listeners through her own experiences during the first trimester of her first pregnancy! Learn practical tools you can use to keep your nervous system regulated during the many phases and changes of pregnancy.

Show Notes:

-”I’m pregnant!” Cait tells us the story of how she found out she was pregnant and how she revealed the happy news to her husband

-Reflecting on the physical symptoms of her first trimester: specifically nausea and difficulty with food

-Cait’s three different approaches to the new symptoms she experienced: implementing “tools” of nervous system regulation, embracing/sitting with the symptoms, and finding healthy distractions

-Learning to flex your “somatic discernment muscle”

-Cait shares the beginning of her birthing plans and medical team

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Mental Health, Nervous System Regulation, Trauma

Trigger warning: This episodes contains themes of suicide, PTSD, and child abuse

If you are in crisis or feeling suicidal, call 988 (Veterans, press 1) or text 838255

Episode:

How do you know when it’s time to seek help for mental health concerns? And where do you even start? Veteran, author, and mental health advocate Doug Paul Fleming joins Cait and Lindsay to tell his story of overcoming a lifetime of trauma, both from childhood and from being a member of the U.S military. Hear the inspiring story of how Doug turned his pain into purpose, and has dedicated his life to helping others with PTSD move through their trauma.

D. Paul Fleming is a retired & disabled US Navy Veteran, Life Coach, Business Consultant, and a published Author. In alignment with his Native American heritage and spiritual gifts he is also a seasoned holy man, spiritual advisor, and healer. Mr. Fleming’s book, 2442 Steps To Crazy, is a true story about personal transformation and overcoming childhood abuse and trauma at the hands of a tyrant family member. His mission is to advocate for Veterans and help others heal from trauma, PTSD, and child abuse. He’s been married for almost 4 decades, raised 6 children, and enjoys 9 grand children.

Show Notes:

-Introduction to Reboot with Vital-side, from Lindsay

-Doug shares his personal story of how he began to address his trauma after years of suppressing his emotions; his process of getting diagnosed with PTSD

-How writing his book, 2442 Steps to Crazy, led Doug to discovering freedom and healing from his childhood trauma

-The four aspects of our existence that we need to work through our trauma with: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual

-Doug walks listeners through some parts of his military experience

-Figuring out how your trauma is truly affecting you, and where to go from there; finding your “starting point”

-Addressing the stigma around mental health

Resources:

If you are in crisis or feeling suicidal, call 988 (Veterans, press 1) or text 838255

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Visit Doug’s website here

-Email Doug at dpaul@blackrockbooks.com

-Click here to find Doug’s first book, 2442 Steps to Crazy

-Click here to follow Doug on: Facebook and Instagram

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Nervous System Health, The Freeze Response, Trauma-Informed Healing

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What does the trauma response of “freeze” look like in daily life? Cait unpacks the reality of how “freeze” manifests, because it’s not only the well known “deer-in-the-headlights” reaction. Find out how you can tell when your body is stuck in “freeze,” and how to make small, manageable changes to bring your body back into a regulated state.

Show Notes:

-Neurosomatics Program announcement - Cait invites you to book an Enrollment call with her & her colleague, Laura Larios, to learn more about their NeuroSomatics Certification program and explore if it’s a fit for you!

-What are the tell-tale signs of living/working from freeze? (inability to say no, overthinking/excessive internal activity, feeling like you are going in circles)

-Acute versus functional freeze states

-How freeze state (or any nervous system response) affects our daily lives; how it spills from one area of our lives to another; bringing awareness to the physical sensations of being in freeze

-Cait’s tips/advice on how to move out of freeze via “titration” : small, slow changes

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Fertility and Pregnancy, Nutrition, Nervous System Regulation

Episode:

How can you tell if you are energetically prepared for pregnancy? Registered dietitian Kaely McDevitt joins Lindsay to discuss less-talked about aspects of pregnancy prep. Learn why being energetically abundant before becoming pregnant is so important. Hear how Kaely helps her clients prepare their minds and bodies for pregnancy.

Kaely McDevitt is a Registered Dietitian specializing in nutrition for women's health. She owns a virtual private practice where she and her team help their clients reclaim their energy, optimize fertility and overcome hormone symptoms through personalized nutrition. Having experienced the pitfalls of a conventional approach to women's health first hand, Kaely is passionate about empowering women to build health from a place of connection: to self, to nature and to community.

Show Notes:

-Kaely’s journey as a registered dietitian who specializes in women’s health; the importance of incorporating nervous system/stress regulation and hormone health into how she helps her clients

-Learning to be intentional with your health and wellness; optimizing your bodys’ functioning when preparing for pregnancy

-Finding a regulated perspective to approach your fertility journey with

-What Kaely recommends to do during a six month period to prepare your body for pregnancy; why “pouring into yourself” before pregnancy is important

-Trusting the process during your journey to pregnancy; “the body doesn’t make mistakes”

-Two tools to start with during pregnancy prep: nourishment and minerals

-Why pregnancy is so energetically depleting; making sure you are “overflowing” with energy before you conceive

-More tips and resources from Kaely on pregnancy prep/nutrition, and more

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Follow Kaely on Instagram here

-Click here for Kaely’s free email series on pregnancy prep

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

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Themes: Womens’ Health, Pelvic Floor Health, Nervous System Regulation

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How important is your pelvic floor health in relation to staying grounded and regulated? Cait and Lindsay have a talk with Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Veronica Rottman. Veronica tells listeners how she helps her clients heal their trauma from where it is rooted in the nervous system, and how our pelvic floor can be directly indicative of the state of our nervous system. Hear Veronica’s advice for kick starting your own pelvic floor health journey.

Show Notes:

-Neurosomatics Program announcement - Cait invites you to book an Enrollment call with her & her colleague, Laura Larios, to learn more about their NeuroSomatics Certification program and explore if it’s a fit for you!

-What led Veronica to pursue a career helping women improve their pelvic floor health

-Defining the pelvic floor and its’ functions in the body; distinguishing it from the pelvic bowl

-Bridging the gap between pelvic floor health and nervous system dysregulation/trauma; connecting to the female body

-Exploring how dysregulation/trauma manifests in physical symptoms felt in the pelvic floor

-How better pelvic floor help can improve chronic symptoms

-Actions you can take to bring more awareness around your pelvic floor health

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Visit Veronica’s website here

-Follow Veronica on Instagram here

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Manifestation, Nervous System Regulation

Episode:

Do you find yourself frustrated because of manifestations not coming to fruition? Lindsay outlines common mistakes and misconceptions associated with manifestation. Learn how to manifest in a way that harnesses positive energy without forcing it, and how to implement a new and aligned manifestation practice.

Show Notes:

-Reboot program announcement

-The crossover between brain retraining (nervous system regulation) and manifestation

-A possible reason that your affirmations aren’t working: Your body needs to be in an optimized state of healing before you use manifestation tools; learning to trust your body and bridge this gap

-The energetic piece of manifestation work; somatic experiencing

-Tips on how to proactively release your emotions

-Creating a manifestation protocol that aligns with your personal core values

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Click here to learn more about Lindsay’s program Reboot, as mentioned in the episode

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Self Worth, Imposter Syndrome, Personal and Professional Development, Nervous System Regulation

Episode:

How do you evaluate your own self worth? Leadership coach Tiffany Houser joins Cait to discuss how important it is to realize that your self worth is simply inherent. Hear how Tiffany helps her clients detach their self worth from their productivity. Learn how you can bring awareness to the roots of your negative ideas around your own worth, and reconstruct those ideas to believe in your own inherent worthiness and value.

Tiffany Houser is an executive & leadership coach and founder of EVOLVE, and is on a mission to create experiences for senior leaders and founders to transform self-worth, authentic leadership style, vision, and purpose. Tiffany believes in cultivating compassionate, responsible, inclusive, and empowered leaders at all levels in your organization. Through her 1:1 coaching, she uncovers hidden self-worth struggles and equips leaders with the tools to create clarity, confidence, trust and impact. Tiffany is also the Creator of Self Worth Advantage® which provides leaders and their people partners with strategies and a framework to leave the imposter feelings behind for good. Tiffany is a Michigan alum, a former SoulCycle Instructor and DJ, and serves on the Board of Becky's Fund. Tiffany fills up her cup with her partner Jay, their dog Coconut, and their adventurous life together.

Show Notes:

-Neurosomatics Program announcement - Cait invites you to book an Enrollment call with her & her colleague, Laura Larios, to learn more about their NeuroSomatics Certification program and explore if it’s a fit for you!

-Intro to Tiffany and her transformational journey; how Tiffany identified self worth as a gap in the needs of her clients

-The meaning of self worth; the inherent value of every human being; the only one who can compromise our self worth is ourselves; deconstructing the things/people we used to place our self worth in

-Dropping the word “syndrome” and approaching it as “imposter feelings” instead; practically applying a healthy sense of self worth in your life

-Finding the root causes of your negative feelings towards yourself and why this is important to Tiffany’s work with her clients

-Our worth is not attached to our productivity

-Evaluating the language you use towards/about yourself and others; “Language Lab”; evaluating how you react/respond to moments of intensity

-More about Tiffany’s Self Worth Advantage® program and how to get connected with her

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Visit Tiffany’s website here

-Follow Tiffany on Instagram here

-Click here to book an enrollment call for Neurosomatics (as mentioned in the episode)

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Trauma Healing, Nervous System Regulation

Episode:

What is the real definition of “trauma?” In this episode, Lindsay and Cait get vulnerable about their personal traumas from childhood and how they manifested in their adult lives. Learn how finding safety in your body and environment can lead to suppressed trauma showing itself in adulthood, and steps to take to bring conscious awareness to the needs of your inner child.

Show Notes:

-Neurosomatics Program announcement. Cait invites you to book an Enrollment call with her & her colleague, Laura Larios, to learn more about their NeuroSomatics Certification program and explore if it’s a fit for you!

-Why trauma can show up in adulthood (your body finally feels safe enough to process it); the wide definition of trauma; little T and big T

-The different types of trauma & what trauma really is; “stored survival stress”

-Cait speaking about her childhood and how trauma came up for her in adulthood

-Lindsay’s experience with repetitive patterns in her adult life that mirror her childhood trauma

-Connecting with your inner self/inner child

-Creating conscious awareness around your trauma and learning how to change your body’s response to it

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Click here to book an enrollment call for Neurosomatics (as mentioned in the episode)

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Personal Growth, Workplace Wellness

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What is the correlation between success in business and a regulated nervous system? Cait is joined on the podcast by Michelle King, NeuroSomatic Executive Coach and a student of Cait’s NeuroSomatics program. Learn why nervous system regulation is the future of business, how it can improve leadership styles, and how it can guide you to access your highest potential through cultivating more radical responsibility.

At the end of the episode, Michelle shares her personal experience being in Cait’s NeuroSomatics nervous system training program, and how it’s supported her to deepen her coaching skills & grow her business.

Michelle Joy King is a seasoned Conscious Leadership Advisor and NeuroSomatic Executive Coach with over 20 years of experience in human resources. Her expertise lies in reshaping corporate cultures through the innovative VitalCore Method™, which integrates nervous system mapping, thinking style assessments, breathwork and customized team-building solutions. Michelle is dedicated to breathing new life into corporate America, by cultivating more conscious leaders & teams.

Show Notes:

-The “burnout gap” in businesses/corporate America; why “the way we have always done it” is not working anymore; how nervous system dysregulation affects the workplace

-The importance of co-regulation between leaders and their people; the importance of people taking responsibility and personal accountability

-How nervous system work can support more vulnerability & transform your leadership style

-Michelle’s personal story of burnout and discovering how important nervous system regulation is to being a successful professional

-Action tips for leaders and entrepreneurs from Michelle; the importance of asking for and giving feedback in a human way

-What led Michelle to join Cait’s NeuroSomatics program; how nervous system work transformed her leadership & coaching skills; the impact that this training has had on both her and her clients; the importance of using and teaching a skill that is backed by science

-How the sense of community elevates Michelle’s experience in NeuroSomatics

-Advice for those who are feeling the nudge towards nervous system work and/or who are seeking formal training

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Visit Michelle’s website here

-Follow Michelle on IG here and LinkedIn here

-Click here to join a free Community Breathwork session with Michelle

-Click here to take Michelle’s “thinking style” quiz

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: The Lymphatic System, Lymphatic massage and drainage, Nervous system regulation

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How often do you give attention to your bodies’ lymphatic system, and what are the true benefits of lymphatic massage and drainage? Cait and Lindsay are joined by Leah Levitan, a licensed massage therapist who specializes in lymphatics. Hear how Leah takes a multidimensional approach to helping her clients feel better, and learn the connection between what Leah says are the two most important systems in the body: the nervous system and the lymphatic system.

Leah Levitan is a licensed massage therapist, certified lymphedema therapist, and lymph literacy advocate. She’s the owner of Align Massage + Lymphatics in Austin Texas, and is the Founder of Lymph Love Club. She helps humans, in person and online, heal beyond what they thought was possible using the power of their lymphatic system.

Show Notes:

-How Leah became educated and interested in the importance of the lymphatic system, and how she began incorporating it into her massage business; her multidimensional approach to help people feel heal

-Leah’s experiences of working with clients who have chronic illness and pain; how she brings joy and softness to the practice of taking care of the lymphatic system

-An overview of the lymph, “our bodies’ waste removal system”

-What to expect during a lymphatic massage; how lymphatic drainage works

-The connection between the lymphatic system and the nervous system

-Leah leads Cait and Lindsay through the “big six” of the lymph system, giving listeners an idea of how a lymphatic drainage session goes

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Visit Leah’s website here

-Follow Leah on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Entrepreneurship, Self Development

Episode:

If you are a loyal listener of Rewire, you have definitely heard Cait and Lindsay speak about nervous system regulation…but have you ever wondered how exactly it can change and improve your everyday life? In this episode, Cait gives us five concrete ways that committing to nervous system work can uplevel your life.

Show Notes:

-Cait invites you to book an Enrollment call with she & her colleague, Laura Larios, to learn more about their Neurosomatics Certification Program and explore if it’s a fit for you!

-The prevalence of living in fight-or-flight in our society

-Number one on Cait’s list: wellbeing and vitality; physical health; overcoming the stress response in our bodies

-Number two: increasing our capacity for creativity; opening up the door to innovation, especially for entrepreneurs; making a “home” in our resting/ventral state instead of our alert/arousal state so that we can access the full spectrum of our creative potential

-Number three: greater resilience for change and uncertainty; being able to function in a healthy way even when you have high loads of stress

-Number four: leadership; “the most powerful and influential person in the room is the one that knows how to regulate their nervous system”

-Number five: financial growth and prosperity; our nervous system will always be most comfortable with what's familiar, even if what we desire is unfamiliar (ex: more money) and so we have to train our nervous system to feel safer with the unfamiliar

Resources

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Click here to book an enrollment call for Neurosomatics (as mentioned in the episode)

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Over-consumption, Social media, Burnout, Self Development

Episode:

How can we stay regulated in a society that makes it so easy to over consume? Lindsay explores the effects of being too heavily influenced by outside things: social media, entertainment such as books/tv, and the many other voices that we are all constantly bombarded with in modern society. Learn three steps to getting in touch with your own voice again and hone in on your “energetic capacity.” Find out how you can avoid over consumption to stay grounded, regulated, and your most authentic self.

Show Notes:

-Intro to the “Reset” program from Vital-Side

-The reality of living in a world that offers a constant flow of information; how a social media detox could benefit you

-Learning to hone in our your own energetic capacity in three steps

-First: become aware of the activities you pay attention to; where is your focus primarily given? How do these activities make you feel?

-Second: Practice conscious consumption; bring awareness to what is draining your energy unnecessarily

-Third: Schedule creative space for time alone where you aren’t consuming or being influenced by anything outside of yourself; start with one minute a day and work your way up to five minutes

Resources:

-Click here to join “Reset” for only $15 (as mentioned in the episode)

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Neuro-tools, The Vagus Nerve

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Do you struggle with implementing nervous system regulation tools into your everyday life? Cait explains how sometimes, tools such as meditation and breathwork are simply not the best way to become more regulated. Learn how to work with your vagus nerve, in small spurts throughout your day. Cait leads listeners in real time through an example exercise of stimulating the vagus nerve for a better regulated nervous system.

Show Notes:

-What is the vagus nerve and why is it important to our autonomic nervous system?

-Vagal tone: the communication between our body and brain

-Measuring HRV or heart rate variability; using it to asses the state of your nervous system

-Vagus nerve work can be done in quick spurts throughout the day; the important differences between traditional tools like meditation/breathwork and vagal toning

-Cait guides listeners through an exercise in real-time that can be used as a vagal toning tool

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Click here to download the Source app (as mentioned in the episode)

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Chronic Illness, Nervous System Regulation, Brain Retraining

Episode:

Are you struggling with how to move forward after a chronic illness diagnosis? Lindsay shares stories about her own experience with Lyme disease, and how brain retraining helped her to get her life back. Learn the science behind brain retraining and how it can heal chronic symptoms.

Show Notes:

-How common chronic illnesses are; they are taboo in modern society; why it's important that we commit to understanding them

-The story of Jessica, a Vital-Side member who is currently in remission from Interstitial Cystitis

-How to differentiate yourself from your chronic illness; Lindsay shares her experience with Lyme Disease

-The bodys’ threat response and how chronic illness sends the body into a permanent state of stress

-How Lindsay created a formal brain retraining practice for herself; how you can do the same and where to start

Resources:

• Listen to Jessica's Testimonial here

• Follow Rewire on Instagram here

• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

• Visit Lindsay’s Website

• Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

• Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Mind-Body Connection, Nervous System Regulation, Entrepreneurship

Episode:

In a society that values the connection we have to our minds the most and often puts the connection we have to our bodies on the back burner, how do you make it a priority in your life to keep that connection healthy and strong? Lindsay and Cait discuss how you can strengthen, or even begin building, the connection you have to your own body. Learn tools on how to make time every day to listen and respond to your body’s unique messages.

Show Notes:

-Cait invites you to book an Enrollment call with her & her colleague, (and past Rewire guest) Laura Larios to learn more about their NeuroSomatics Certification program and explore if it’s a fit for you!

-Creating space, time, and curiosity to explore sensations in your body

-Learning the unique “language” of your body; trusting your intuition and gut instincts

-Recognizing the separation of messages from your mind and your body; they are each their own entity even though they are always communicating

-Our bodies are all about emotions and sensations; they don’t attach meaning to them- that is something our minds do

-Lindsay and Caits’ practical tools to set aside time in your daily life to foster this connection to your body and begin learning how to listen and respond to the messages it sends you

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Click here for more information on The Neurosomatics Certification Program (as mentioned in the episode)

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: New Years’ resolutions/intentions, Nervous System Regulation

Episode:

What would happen if instead of setting resolutions for yourself for the new year, you set intentions? Lindsay walks us through an exercise that she herself has been using for the past few years. Gain perspective on the lessons you learned this year, how you spent your energy, and what intentions you want to set for 2024.

Show Notes:

-Stepping into a introspective space for the end of the year

-Becoming aware of how you have been spending your energy this year

-Lindsay guides listeners through an exercise to help you set intentions for the new year instead of resolutions; the difference between the two and why taking this approach is helpful and important

-What to do once you identify these intentions

-Book recommendations from Lindsay to help you reset for 2024

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Internal Family Systems, Inner Critic

Episode:

Do you struggle with the harshness of your inner critic? Cait gives us insight into where our inner critic comes from and how to build more awareness of how your inner critic shows up in your life, as well as how to become an observer of it instead of overidentifying with it.

Show Notes:

-Where our inner critic comes from; different words/terms that are synonymous with “inner critic”

-Bringing awareness to the fact that our inner critic is there to protect us; it comes online as a result of our nervous system feeling threatened, in danger or in situations that activate old wounds

-Different ways the inner critic shows up in our lives

-Connecting with the “witness” or “observer”; learning to recognize when we are overidentifying with the inner critic

-Finding space & creating distance between you as the observer and your inner critic

-Why the inner critic is a “protector part” (using Internal Family Systems, IFS as a helpful tool & framework)

-Cait leads listeners through an exercise to help you identify where your inner critic lives in your body and how to support yourself when your inner critic becomes loud or disruptive

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Access Cait’s FREE Masterclass to learn how to start or grow your nervous system coaching business

-Click here to purchase a Vital-Side gift card (as mentioned in the episode!)

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Pregnancy and Parenting, Nutrition, Burnout, Nervous System Regulation

Episode:

Are you a parent or aspiring parent who wants to optimize your energy during pregnancy and beyond? Allegra Gast joins Cait & Lindsay to talk about her work in helping moms increase their energy levels during pregnancy and beyond. Learn practical tips on how to navigate the balancing act of work, life, and parenting, and how to address your physical health and nutrition, while balancing the demands of modern day life.

Allegra Gast has a degree in Nutrition and Food Science from Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is certified as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), which is the highest credential for a breastfeeding professional. After she had her first baby in 2019 and saw the huge lack of support for postpartum moms, she decided to become a postpartum doula, where she could better support families in the vulnerable postpartum period.

Show Notes:

-Allegra’s story and her own parenting & pregnancy journey

-How Allegra shifted her nutrition habits between her first pregnancy and her current one, and how this helped her energy levels

-Tips for preparing your body for pregnancy

-Overcoming perfectionism and decreasing stress

-”The three Ds”: Do, Delegate, Delete; Allegra’s advice for avoiding burnout

-Setting boundaries, doing self check-ins, and getting the whole family involved in nervous system regulation

-How Allegra helps her clients have more abundant energy

Resources:

-Check out Allegra’s website

-Follow Allegra on Instagram

-Follow Rewire on Instagram

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Cait’s FREE Masterclass to help you grow your skills & business as a nervous system coach

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-If you’re a new mom or currently pregnant, Lindsay designed Reboot to help you calm your nervous system during this period of stress: https://vital-side.com/pages/rebootmembership

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Brain Retraining, Chronic Illness

Episode:

Do you find yourself feeling skeptical of nervous system regulation as a tool for helping relieve chronic physical symptoms? Lindsay dives into the science behind it all. Learn how regulating your nervous system can actually heal symptoms of chronic illness and pain, for people with a variety of conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Mast Cell Activation, Fibromyalgia, and many more. Hear Lindsay’s real life experiences with clients and even a client testimonial.

Show Notes:

-Lindsay reads a testimonial from one of her clients who has found relief and healing through Vital-Side’s Rewire program for brain retraining/nervous system regulation

-Dysregulation and state of chronic physiological stress; measuring the stress response

-Cortisol production and the effects/ symptoms of stress

-Chronic conditions that Lindsay has helped clients find relief from; how nervous system regulation sets the body up for success

-Communicating “a new way of being” to your body; introducing new neural pathways; being patient with yourself as you introduce these protocols to your mind and body

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Family Dynamics, Found family, Sperm donation

Episode:

How do you define family? Lindsay is joined on the podcast by Mike Syzmanski, a writer, activist, and Lindsay’s biological father through sperm donation. Hear the story of how Lindsay and Mike connected and developed a beautiful relationship as father and daughter, and how family dynamics can shift, change and grow over time. Mike talks about his decision to become a sperm donor, his work as a journalist, his journey with Multiple Sclerosis, and more.

Mike Szymanski is a journalist, writer and activist, based in Hollywood and has a house full of Dachshunds. He has worked and been published in hundreds of publications including Entertainment Weekly, US Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and has covered the crime beat, court and school issues, the homeless problems and the AIDS epidemic. He has had award-winning national columns on movie stars, Dachshunds, local government, bisexuality and Multiple Sclerosis - a disease he has lived with since 2000.

Show Notes:

-An intro to Mike, including his pursuits as a journalist and writer, and how an article he wrote led to him becoming a sperm donor

-The story of Lindsay and Mike connecting and the development of their relationship; finding each other through 23 and me and how they became close enough for her to call him “Dad”; why Mike wanted to find his offspring after getting diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis

-The importance of staying open-minded when you are going through a similar journey as Lindsay and Mike, especially with the complicated nature of some of these situations

-Discussing found family and the importance of knowing that you are the one who can choose the people that you want in your life, and who you want to consider family

Resources:

-Click here to get Rewire, The Vital-Side Membership for 20% off

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Women’s Health, Menstrual Cycle, Burnout, Nervous System Regulation

Sign Up for Cait’s Upcoming Free Masterclass:

Join Cait and her colleague, Laura Larios on Wednesday, November 29 at 1 pm CST for the Neuropreneur Edge Masterclass.

In this Masterclass, we’ll be exploring:

• The 3 big market trends happening right now that are fueling the opportunity for new & seasoned nervous system coaches in 2024
• How to bring nervous system work to new industries (i.e. tech, healthcare, financial services & make) and land higher-paying premium clients
• Leave with 3 tangible action steps you can take to start building or scaling your nervous system-based business online AND offline with more ease & momentum
• PLUS: Learn & experience simple NeuroTools you can use to support nervous system regulation for yourself and your clients — we’ll be teaching these in real-time

Episode:

How familiar are you with the 4 different phases of your menstrual cycle? Cait is joined by Shannon Dolan, a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, whose life’s work is helping high achievers connect to and be aware of all phases of their cycle so that they can optimize their energy and their life. Join this conversation to learn the ins and outs of each phase and gain insight into how you can better plan your calendar & your life to be in sync with your cycle.

Shannon Dolan is a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Nutrition Grad, and Behavioral change specialist with over 13 years of experience supporting people on their health journey. She specializes in helping high achievers connect and support their body so they can do, have, be, and achieve all they want to in life while being nourished vs. depleted. With a root cause approach, Shannon helps people discover the power of their own innate wisdom and helps them flourish using a blend of nutrition, lifestyle changes, and nervous system support for long term results.

Show Notes:

-Shannon’s own struggles growing up with menstrual health issues, and how this led her to the work she does today; how making nutritional and gut health changes made her feel healthy and empowered

-The phases of our menstrual cycle gives us “information” that we can harness and utilize to optimize our health and even find symptom relief from disorders such as PCOS and PMDD

-Diving into “cycle syncing” and how it can drastically improve your life; why Shannon calls cycle syncing the gateway to nervous system regulation

-The follicular phase: Shannon’s suggestions on what to lean into during the phase where you have the most energy

-The ovulation phase; using the emotions you feel to your advantage during this shorter phase

-The luteal phase; giving your body what it is asking for in the phase where we tend to feel the most tired and burnt out

-The menstrual phase; honoring your body and practicing self care

-Shannon’s suggestions for small changes and practices to start implementing that will help you become more familiar with your body as it fluctuates throughout your monthly cycle

Resources:

-Follow Shannon on: Instagram here and Tiktok here

-Check out Shannon’s website here

-Register for a comprehensive assessment with Shannon here

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Nervous system regulation, chronic stress and pain, brain-body connection, trauma

Episode:

How much of your chronic pain is actually neurons in your brain that are misfiring because of stress and nervous system dysregulation? Psychotherapist John Gasiencia joins Lindsay to discuss how trauma affects the physical body and how he helps clients at the Pain Psychology Center to break free from the patterns of pain and stress through Pain Reprocessing Therapy.

John Gasienica is a psychotherapist and coach specializing in the treatment of chronic pain and anxiety using Pain Reprocessing Therapy. He is the Director of Development at the Pain Psychology Center in Los Angeles and a research clinician studying the effects of Pain Reprocessing Therapy with the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine.

Show Notes:

-An intro to John and how he became involved at the Pain Psychology Center where he is now the Director of Development

-Exploring the connection between mental health and physical health

-Neuroplasticity and the connection between chronic pain and the nervous system

-The effect of stress, subconscious beliefs and trauma (big T or little t) has on our physical well being; explaining the process of our brain perceiving danger in everyday things, leading to nervous system dysregulation, which can lead to physical pain that is actually misfiring neurons in the brain

-How stress can show up in the body

-John diving into pain reprocessing therapy, a modality developed by Alan Gordon that they both practice at the Pain Psychology Center

-How those with chronic symptoms have unconsciously developed a hypersensitivity to perceived danger, and how pain reprocessing therapy can help work through that

-John describing tools he personally uses to stay regulated; how he helps clients stay “connected to their internal state”

-What to expect if you are starting pain reprocessing therapy

Resources:

-Follow John on Instagram here

-Visit John’s website here

-Use code Reset5 to get Vital-Side’s Reset Program for $5 (until 11/20)

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: The Feldenkrais Method, Self-Image & Esteem, Nervous System Regulation, Self Awareness

Episode:

What would change in your life if you could cultivate more ease in your day & be kinder towards yourself? Author and teacher Alan Questel joins Cait to discuss the Feldenkrais Method, a practice that helps us cultivate more ease, enhance our self-image & physical function, and improve our life experience through movement and directed awareness. Alan shares how the method was developed, his experience being trained by Dr. Feldenkrais, and how the work has changed not only his own life but the lives of the thousands of people he has supported.

Alan S. Questel is an author, teacher, and a trainer in the Feldenkrais Method. Alan is known for his clarity, creativity, and down-to-earth teaching style. He teaches and directs Feldenkrais Professional Training Programs worldwide, including in the USA, Australia, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, South America, and Canada. Alan is the creator of the video program Pregnant Pauses – Movement for Moms and has authored "Creating Creativity," in addition to 20 Feldenkrais-Awareness Through Movement Audio sets. He also developed a body of work for performers utilizing the Feldenkrais Method and has taught workshops for actors at major universities around the world. His latest book, Practice Intentional Acts of Kindness helps readers to explore & enhance their relationship with themselves and to cultivate more kindness in their daily lives.

Show Notes:

-Intro to Alan and his personal journey, how he discovered Dr. Feldenkrais

-How the Feldenkrais Method was developed

-Cait shares her recent experience with the Feldenkrais Method

-Learn how to “struggle well”

-Improve self image and practice kindness towards oneself & others

-Develop more grounded presence and intention in our everyday lives

-How to prioritize your physical, mental & emotional comfort to cultivate more ease

-How the Feldenkrais Method helps us increase self awareness and strengthen emotional regulation

Resources:

-Visit Alan’s website here

-Click to follow Alan on: Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter/X

-Click here to access Alan’s new book: Practice Intentional Acts of Kindness free sample worksheet for cultivating kindness

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Emotional/Nervous System Regulation, Relationships, Intimacy

Episode:

How do you regulate when you are triggered by the actions of your partner? Occupational therapist and relationship expert Kat Smailis joins Cait and Lindsay for the second time on Rewire, to discuss the significance of nervous system regulation in intimate relationships. Learn about some of the most commonly seen emotional differences between men and women, how stress affects relationships, and how to better intimacy with your partner through emotional regulation.

Show Notes:

-Click here to get Vital Side’s Intro program “Reset” for $5 with code RESET5

-Kat sharing how her practice has grown and evolved since she was last on the podcast (click here to listen to episode 27)

-How Kat’s practice shifted to working with predominantly men; the difference between men and women when it comes to intimacy; how societal pressures affect the emotional intelligence of men

-Learning that any emotional experience you have is trapped energy from a past experience/trauma

-Tools on how to emotionally regulate during difficult situations/fights or disagreements with your partner; noticing the cues of your body and becoming more self aware of when you need space and time to cool off or reflect before engaging

-The importance of co-regulating with a partner

-Lindsay describing the “Buddha bubble,” a regulation tool she uses with her husband

-Kat describing simple ways to start the process of emotional regulation, even if you are completely new to the work

Resources:

-Click here to listen to Kat’s first episode on Rewire (Ep 27)

-Click here for Kat’s free masterclass on stress and intimacy

-Find Kat on: Youtube here and Instagram here

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Click here to get Vital Side’s Intro program “Reset” (as mentioned in the episode) for $5 with code RESET5

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Somatic Healing, Parts Work, Nervous System Regulation, Self Development

Episode:

Do you find yourself comparing yourself to others? Perhaps you have a habit of scrolling social media and you notice yourself feeling jealous, inadequate or frustrated when you compare yourself & your life to someone else’s highlight reel. Cait walks us through the deeper roots of comparison, where this habit comes from and how we can reparent ourselves and heal the part of us that compares ourselves to others so we can experience more peace, satisfaction and wholeness.

Show Notes:

-Normalizing comparison as a natural human behavior

-Getting curious about how comparison shows up in our lives and how it makes us feel

-Cait explains how Parts Work can be an impactful tool in discovering the deeper roots & energy behind why we get caught up in comparison

-Comparison is often a form of protection by the nervous system to keep us safe

-Exploring where your comparer “part” is in or around your body as a way to cultivate more curiosity towards its needs & behaviors

-Underneath all of our “parts” is an unmet emotional need

-Learning to reparent & nourish our comparer “part”; how to use a somatic approach to meet the comparer part’s deeper emotional needs

-It’s never too late to start this inner work; reach out for support & guidance on your journey

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Brain Retraining, Nervous System Regulation, Trauma Healing, Nutrition/Holistic health

trigger warning: discussion of trauma and suicidal ideation

Episode:

What does brain retraining actually look like in the everyday life of someone using it as a tool for healing? Holistic health coach and long time Vital-Side member Christine Myers joins Lindsay to talk about how brain retraining was transformative to her healing journey. Learn what it's like to start from the beginning from someone who has actually been through the program, and hear how Christine now uses what she learned with her own clients.

Christine Myers is a continuous learner, food lover, chef, mom, and wife, and is a Certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Holistic Health Coach specializing in histamine intolerance, oxalate toxicity, and other food sensitivities. She helps her clients dissolve their symptoms and achieve optimal health. She creates individualized protocols for her clients using various approaches, including nutritional therapy, lifestyle changes, targeted supplementation, mindset, homeopathy, and energy medicine. She believes that everyone is different and that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to healing.

Show Notes:

-Christine tells her own story of struggling through chronic illness her entire life; how her journey has evolved and how she “turned her pain into purpose” through helping clients with similar issues as her

-How Christine started in a Vital-Side program for brain retraining; discussing how her core value of freedom led her to start

-The process of feeling stuck, in survival mode, and not dealing with trauma and the ways that brain retraining began to help

-Christine walks us through her thoughts when she began, how/when some of her symptoms began to involve and improve, and how she implements what she learned with her own clients

Resources:

-Follow Christine on Instagram here

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

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Themes: Core Values, Authenticity, Personal Growth, Self Development

Episode:

Do you ever feel disconnected from your sense of self and authenticity? In this episode, Lindsay guides listeners through an exercise to help define your core values, which Lindsay describes as the key to understanding your own uniqueness.

Show Notes:

-”No one is you, and that is your greatest power”-David Grohl; why defining what makes us “us” is important to our well being

-Discovering and embracing our individuality

-The definition of “core values”

-Lindsay guides listeners through a somatic visualization tool to help us define/recognize our own individual core values; how to use what you discover in your daily life

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Click here to join Lindsay’s program “Reboot” (as described in the episode)

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Authenticity, Somatics, Trauma/Stress Response

TW: discussions around various types of trauma/childhood trauma

Episode:

Do you find it easy or difficult to project your authentic self in your everyday life? Trauma informed nervous system practitioner Katie Olderman joins Cait to discuss how she leads her clients into reclaiming their authenticity through nervous system regulation and somatic work. Katie shares how she develops the tools she teaches to her clients, the significant effect of the stress response on our bodies, and how to start practicing regulation no matter where you are in your journey.

Katie Olderman is a trauma informed nervous system practitioner, somatic healer and women's leadership coach and mentor. She supports high achieving women in rewiring their nervous systems so they can rewrite their stories, reclaim their playful, free, authentic self and create a future that truly lights them up. Through a unique blend of nervous system healing, mind body medicine, trauma informed coaching, polyvagal theory and cutting edge neuroscience Katie helps clients understand how to work with their mind, body, heart, and soul so they can truly feel safe, loved, and supported as they build the life of their dreams and play bigger than they ever felt possible.

Show Notes:

-Intro to Katie and her personal journey into becoming a trauma informed nervous system practitioner; realizing that all of stress and burnout is rooted in nervous system dysregulation; moving from helping clients/patients with just their physical bodies to helping them heal their mental, emotional, and energetic bodies as well

-Explaining how the nervous system is the “command center of the body”

-Learning to reclaim what we lose when we are stuck in the stress response

-Finding safety; activating the parasympathetic nervous system

-Accessing creativity when you find safety; how you can only do these through feeling, not thinking

-Katie defining more of what survival response and trauma really are

-How perfectionism affects the nervous system

-Nervous system healing is hard work, and takes time; but if you enter into it with the right intentions, it always works!

Resources:

-Follow Katie on Instagram here

-Click here to join Katie’s free facebook group Reclaiming Her

-Click here to book a 1:1 call with Katie

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass: Grow Your Coaching Business through Nervous System Regulation

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.

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Themes: Feminine & Masculine Dynamics, Nervous System Regulation, Entrepreneurship, Personal Development

Episode:

Do you find yourself stuck in the masculine state of constant “doing”, without being able to tap into your more receptive & intuitive feminine energy? Lindsay and Cait discuss the difficulties of finding balance between the two in a society that highly favors and praises masculine energy over feminine. Learn how to recognize signs that you are stuck in the masculine, and practical tools to experience more regulation as you develop your own version of balance.

Show Notes:

-Masculine and feminine energy dynamics; how it's unrelated to gender, and everyone has the duality of both inside of them

-Why burnout happens when there is a lack of balance between the masculine/feminine

-Lindsay gives an example of how she and her husband find this balance as they’re living life on the road

-How to cultivate a felt sense of safety in your softer feminine side

-Lindsay and Cait share practical tools to use to develop a balance between the masculine/feminine energies

Resources:

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass: Grow Your Coaching Business through Nervous System Regulation

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

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Themes: Autoimmune recovery, Somatic work, Nervous system regulation

Episode:

What does embodiment really look like in the everyday life of people with autoimmune diseases? Soul embodiment coach Rachel Albo joins Cait and Lindsay to discuss her work helping clients reconnect with their bodies after a difficult diagnosis. Rachel shares her own health journey and how it led her to the work she does today through Soul Flow collective, a private app community specifically tailored for women who are living with autoimmune conditions.

Rachel Albo is a soul embodiment coach with a professional background in occupational therapy and personal training and over a decade of combined experience working with diverse clients. She is driven by a strong passion to guide every client in infusing their journey with elements of joy, playfulness, and freedom, all of which provide profound and lasting intuitive healing. Her approach focuses on holistic healing – from embodiment techniques and subconscious reprogramming to specialized workouts and guided meditations. Rachel is the founder of the Soul Flow Collective, a private app community tailored for women navigating autoimmune symptoms. This platform offers a variety of exclusive weekly content, live monthly masterclasses, loving community support, and 100’s of other resources to nurture the mind-body-soul connection.

Show Notes:

-Intro to Rachel; her educational background, the recent expansions in her business, and how/why she recently shifted her title into “soul embodiment coach”

-Rachels health background; getting diagnosed with an autoimmune disease in 2017 and how this affected her everyday life; her healing journey and how it led her to where she is today

-The changes and transformation Rachel has been through in the last three years of her life; how this helped her connect even deeper to self trust and the soul/mind/body connection

-Rachel’s story of how her new title “Soul Embodiment Coach” came to her at a music festival

-Discussing why “embodiment” is important; connecting with our bodies and intuitive minds over mental minds

-People with autoimmune issues/chronic pain and illness usually don’t have any desire to connect with their bodies; how Rachel coaches them towards understanding the importance of embodiment

-Rachel’s discovery of the importance of the nervous system; realizing she had been using regulation tools already in her occupational therapy practices, and how she began transferring these skills into working with clients as she began to understand them better

-Discussing the importance of breaking away from the identity of a diagnosis; how Rachel helps clients connect with who they are rather than the disease(s) they have

-The intuitive ability we all have to heal ourselves; learning to reparent ourselves

-Rachel discussing practical somatic and regulation tools she practices and passes on to her clients so they can experience embodiment

Resources:

-Click here to visit Rachel’s website: use code “REWIRE” for 44% off monthly membership to Soul Flow Collective

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Visit Cait’s Website

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Themes: Perfectionism, Entrepreneurship, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Nervous System Regulation

Introducing The NeuroSomatics Certification Program, with Cait Ross and Laura Larios!

What would become possible for you if you could:

-Learn how to regulate your nervous system using a somatic (body-based) approach and help your clients do the same

-Take your coaching skills to the next level so you can 10x+ your client results

-Have clients that sign with you again and again and again — because there is no limit to how deep you can support them

-Grow your business with a greater sense of ease and flow

-Say goodbye to frustration, overwhelm and burnout

-Bring nervous system work & your own unique expertise to the world in a fulfilling and profitable way

-Join an intimate group of pioneers to shape the future of the coaching & human transformation industries

Cait invites you to book an Enrollment call with her & her colleague, (and past Rewire guest) Laura Larios to learn more about their NeuroSomatics Certification program and explore if it’s a fit for you! The program starts in less than a month and won’t open again until 2024.

Episode:

Are you a high achieving person who struggles to balance the goals you set for yourself, while also prioritizing joy & connection? Do you find yourself expecting perfection in every (or most) area of your life? Cait discusses her own struggles with perfectionism, how these tendencies often develop, and how to break free of this cycle and find more harmony & peace in your life.

Show Notes:

-Cait describes some of the common characteristics of being a high achieving person

-The connection between perfectionism in adulthood and strong protective behaviors that developed in childhood

-Cait’s experience with competitive figure skating as a child; how activities like sports tend to come naturally easy to high achieving people and how this can influence perfectionism tendencies

-The desire of a perfectionist to be in control

-The difference between healthy and unhealthy goal setting; realizing the intentions behind your goals and why you set them

-Celebrating the beauty of these tendencies while also cultivating awareness to ensure they are serving and not hindering you

-How perfectionism can manifest physically in the body and in the external world around you

-Cait introduces and discusses the concept of Internal Family Systems (IFS), developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz: The overall concept being that we are not a mono mind; we don’t just have one self – we have many different “parts”

-Diving deep into how these “parts” develop; Parts work as a healing & growth tool; Cait giving examples of her own parts that developed in her childhood and how she figured out where they tend to live in her body

-What are “protector parts” and why they exist

-How somatic work can help us relate to these “parts” and release the energy they are holding; Cait shares real tools & ways to start doing parts work

Resources:

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Visit Cait’s Website

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

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Themes: Nutrition, Nervous System Regulation, Gut and Digestive Health

Do you struggle with food sensitivity or digestive issues? Have you tried every elimination diet out there but experienced little to no relief? Registered dietician Dr. Heather Finley joins Lindsay and Cait on Rewire to discuss the missing piece of healing digestive symptoms and conditions: using nervous system regulation to heal your gut. Hear Dr. Heather’s story and learn practical tools to help you begin to find safety in your body and around food.

Dr. Heather Finley is a registered dietitian with a doctorate in clinical nutrition. She helps people struggling with bloating, constipation, and IBS find relief from their symptoms and feel excited about food again. Dr. Heather has a doctorate in clinical nutrition from Maryland University of Integrative Health. Her work has been featured on Good Morning Texas and in Mind Body Green, Yahoo! Life, and Very Well Health.

Show Notes:

-Heather telling her personal experiences with digestive issues, and feeling “incurable” for 20 years of her life; her first job out of college in a hospital and how she was inundated with imposter syndrome with her patients because she was still experiencing so many symptoms herself; how she arrived at her “light bulb” moment and realized later that her symptoms were directly related to the state of her nervous system and her level of stress; how this lead her to the nervous system work she does today with her clients

-Why blanket solutions that are widely accepted (certain probiotics, etc) are not always the best thing if your gut is not healthy

-Exploring the mind body connection and how this affects your relationship with food/eating

-Going from seeing food as a source of symptoms to a source of nourishment (steps on how to get there)

-Learning to examine underlying issues to help heal your digestive issues: regulating your nervous system, stress levels, gut health, your environment, and more; what else besides food are you “consuming?”

-Defining a healthy gut: you are able to digest and absorb food adequately; you are able to produce the end products that benefit your entire body

-Why gut health is “north to south”; discussing more of the mind body connection in reference to food

-Recognizing where your gut health stands; recognizing red/green flags

-Heather’s tips for where to start if you are experiencing symptoms; why the biggest key is rewiring your nervous system into feeling safe and joyful around eating

-Practical tools to make your body and mind feel safe when eating

-Food is freedom; it represents culture and love and we all deserve to enjoy it

Resources:

-Visit Dr. Heather’s website here

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Visit Cait’s Website

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Boss Babe Culture, Masculine & Feminine Energetics, Self Development

Introducing The NeuroSomatics Certification Program, with Cait Ross and Laura Larios

What would become possible for you if you could:

• Learn how to regulate your nervous system using a somatic (body-based) approach and help your clients do the same
• Take your coaching skills to the next level so you can 10x+ your client results
• Have clients that sign with you again and again and again — because there is no limit to how deep you can support them
• Grow your business with a greater sense of ease and flow
• Say goodbye to frustration, overwhelm and burnout
• Bring nervous system work & your own unique expertise to the world in a fulfilling and profitable way
• Join an intimate group of pioneers to shape the future of the coaching & human transformation industries

Cait invites you to book an Enrollment call with her & her colleague, (and past Rewire guest) Laura Larios to learn more about their NeuroSomatics Certification program and explore if it’s a fit for you!

Episode:

Have you considered how your nervous system responds to “Boss Babe” culture? Modern day boss babe culture has many women feeling and believing that we have to do it all and be “the boss” in so many areas of life. Laura Larios joins Lindsay and Cait to discuss how common it is for women to get stuck in a cycle of overworking and how this shifts our nervous system to be in a constant state of stress.

Laura is the founder & CEO of The Potent CEO – a highly sought-after consulting & coaching brand that delivers customized world-class nervous system, cortisol, & adrenal support for high-performing women in the corporate, network marketing, entrepreneurial, & coaching industries.

She has a background in counseling psychology, polyvagal theory, nervous system stabilization, somatic practices, brain rewiring, and neuroscience.

Show Notes:

-Laura shares an update on she & Cait’s upcoming NeuroSomatics Program

-Why nervous system work is becoming more mainstream right now

-How Boss Babe culture can lead to nervous system dysregulation

-The issues modern women face and how they contribute to this boss babe culture

-Masculine vs. feminine energy — unrealistic standards placed on women and how this influences women into distorted masculine energetic states that disconnects them from their core feminine essence

-How the nervous system can perceive vulnerability as weakness or a threat

-Tangible tools to rewire the unhealthy patterns that come from “boss babe culture”

-The alternative to the “boss babe”: “the modern renaissance woman”

-What does being a “renaissance woman” mean to you and how to connect with that version of you somatically in your body

Resources:

-Check out Laura’s website here

-Follow Laura on IG here

-Listen to Laura’s other episodes on Rewire: Ep 26, Ep 39

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Visit Cait’s Website

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Themes: Nervous system regulation, Long-term traveling

Episode:

What is it like living “on the road” and how can unconventional living arrangements (or any big life changes) affect how we regulate our nervous system? Lindsay is back with part 2 of discussing her Airstream travels, talking all about how both her and her partner are overcoming obstacles throughout their nomadic year of traveling. Learn real tools Lindsay uses to keep herself regulated, and how you can apply them to changes and difficulties in your own life.

Show Notes:

• Giveaway announcement! 3 winners will be chosen for free entry into Lindsay’s Reboot program, and $500 off of Cait’s NeuroSomatics program. To enter: 1) follow Rewire the podcast on IG 2) leave a five star review for Rewire on Apple Podcasts 3) leave a rave review for the podcast in the comment section and then take a screenshot of your review and email it to rewirethepodcast@gmail.com

-Why Lindsay decided to start traveling; how she felt herself approaching burnout and needed a change

-How being on the road is a “microcosm for life in general”; her and her partner experience real problems just as they would if they weren’t traveling; why it’s more than just a “long vacation”

-How Lindsay and her partner learned to laugh through the challenges and not take life too seriously; the lessons they are both learning through traveling together

-One of Lindsay’s biggest lessons that turned into one of her “life’s trajectories”: “I can do hard things with big love.”

-Why Lindsay’s focus has shifted from “balance” to “harmony”

-Learning to find freedom in your life even when you don’t have the privilege and/or ability to make a drastic change like traveling

-Finding things to ground you when life around you is ever changing

-It is absolutely okay to change, and to embrace that change

Resources:

-Listen to part 1 of Lindsay’s Airstream chronicles here

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

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Themes: Navigating life changes, Nervous system regulation, Personal development

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How do you cope with transition periods and big changes in your life? How can you navigate change while staying regulated? Lindsay and Cait discuss how they navigate change in their own lives and how they honor previous versions of themselves during transitions to new chapters and phases of life. Hear Lindsay and Cait celebrate 100 episodes of Rewire and learn details about an exciting giveaway!

Show Notes:

• Giveaway announcement! 3 winners will be chosen for free entry into Lindsay’s Reboot program, and $500 off of Cait’s NeuroSomatics program. To enter: 1) follow Rewire the podcast on IG 2) leave a five star review for Rewire on Apple Podcasts 3) leave a rave review for the podcast in the comment section and then take a screenshot of your review and email it to rewirethepodcast@gmail.com

-Celebrating 100 episodes of Rewire!

-Normalizing change in our everyday lives

• “Change implies forward movement, and sometimes it also implies loss of what was.”

-Embracing change and transitions as a normal part of life; allowing yourself to feel grief for the loss of different versions of yourself, while also being excited about the future

-Cait discusses how she learned to practice forgiveness towards previous versions of herself

-Lindsay discusses how to embrace the duality of celebrating new seasons of life while grieving the old

• A tangible tool that you can use to put this into practice during change

-The foundational elements to this practice: awareness and acceptance

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Visit Cait’s Website

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

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Themes: Pregnancy, Nutrition, Energetic and Somatic Work, Health and Wellness, Holistic Health

Trigger warning: This episode contains discussion around eating disorders.

Episode:

Can hormones really be our “sidekicks”? How can we achieve optimal hormonal health without traditional methods like the birth control pill? Hormone expert and founder of Peace. Love. Hormones. Maddie Miles talks with Cait and Lindsay about her own journey away from traditional hormone treatment methods and towards holistic and integrative health, and how she helps her clients on their own journeys as well.

Maddie Miles is the founder of Peace. Love. Hormones., a brand that is inspiring and supporting a menstrual health revolution! She is a board-certified integrative health practitioner and clinical herbalist. Peace. Love. Hormones. uplifts and empowers women to take back control of their hormone & menstrual health through our educational platforms (socials and podcast), and through our powerful, organic, science-backed herbal tinctures.

Show Notes:

• Giveaway announcement! 3 winners will be chosen for free entry into Lindsay’s Reboot program, and $500 off of Cait’s NeuroSomatics program. To enter: 1) follow Rewire the podcast on IG 2) leave a five star review for Rewire on Apple Podcasts 3) leave a rave review for the podcast in the comment section and then take a screenshot of your review and email it to rewirethepodcast@gmail.com

-An introduction to Maddie: sharing her struggles with mental health as a child, and how nothing really helped or “stuck” until she was introduced to an integrative health program which finally put her on the path to healing

-Learning the “missing piece” in her healing was hormonal health; how getting off hormonal birth control greatly improved her overall well being; discussing how she started a blog during this journey and was open and candid with her audience about what she was going through

-How Peace. Love. Hormones came together because of this process of Maddie getting off the birth control pill, which gave her the desire to help others who went through similar struggles; Maddie describing her work she does with clients and how she focuses on “education and empowerment” along with an overall integrative look at health

-Learning that healing takes time and is not an overnight or quick-fix process

-Touching on Maddie’s mental health struggles, specifically anxiety; how she truly overcame it and is able to thrive in all areas of her life now; learning to adapt to change and stress in life

-Specific tips from Maddie on preparing for pregnancy; not just nutrition and movement, but energetic and spiritual work; discussing how giving birth to a child means giving birth to a new you as well

-Easy starting points to help you begin feeling better and healthier now, whether you are pregnant/preparing for pregnancy or not ; creating “energy reserves” for yourself

-Discussing hormones during pregnancy; why Maddie thinks hormones are our “sidekicks” and the importance of loving and appreciating what they do for our bodies

Resources:

-Check out Maddie’s website here

-Listen to Maddie’s podcast here

-Follow Maddie on IG here

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Visit Cait’s Website

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Family Dynamics, Gut-Brain Connection, Parenting

Introducing The NeuroSomatics Certification Program, with Cait Ross and Laura Larios

What would become possible for you if you could:

• Learn how to regulate your nervous system using a somatics (body-based) approach and help your clients do the same
• Take your coaching skills to the next level
• Grow your business, practice or platform with more ease and flow
• Bring nervous system work & your own unique expertise to the world in a fulfilling and profitable way
• Bring nervous system work into new and growing industries, such as working with corporate clients
• Join an intimate group of thought leaders to shape the future of the coaching & human transformation industries

Cait invites you to book an Enrollment call with her & her colleague, (and past Rewire guest) Laura Larios to learn more about their NeuroSomatics Certification program and explore if it’s a fit for you!

Episode:

How can the dysregulation of your nervous system affect the regulation of others around you, specifically in your family unit? Dr. BG Manchini joins Lindsay and Cait to discuss the importance of the nervous system when it comes to physical healing not only for yourself, but for your children and loved ones as well. Hear Dr. BG’s story of how her own parents led her to being curious about holistic health, how she discovered the significance of co-regulation in family units, and how she founded the Brain Gut Institute.

Dr. BG Mancini has 25 years of experience as a Functional Medicine Practitioner, Neurodevelopmental Specialist, and Oriental Medicine Physician and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Neurodevelopmental Psychology. She works with children, families, and individuals to help them find balance in an unbalanced world. She is the founder of The Brain & Gut Institute which educates families and practitioners through courses on how to feel better in their brains and bodies so they can more comfortably connect with themselves, each other, and the world around them.

Show Notes:

-BG’s childhood & personal journey of trying different eating patterns and health practices, inspired by her father

-How and why BG founded the Brain Gut Institute; why she thinks practitioners need more awareness of the nervous system and how it affects both the individual and the family unit

-How BG discovered that co-regulation was key in healing both children and their parents

-Detailed explanation of how dysregulation in parents/guardians can affect and even stunt healing in children

-How the Covid-19 pandemic affected nervous systems, changing the way children develop; plus other social changes that affect our nervous systems (such as rapidly developing technology)

-The “survival instinct” state that our bodies can sometimes get stuck in and the gut-brain connection

-BG’s perspective on how nervous system work will change the way practitioners approach the health of patients/clients

-A grounding practice BG guides Lindsay and Cait through that you can use at home to start creating safety in your body today

Resources:

-Click here to visit Dr. BG’s website

-Click here for a free starter course from BG for new parents

• Click here to book an Enrollment call and learn more about the NeuroSomatics Certification Program

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Visit Cait’s Website

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Somatic Work, Navigating Change & Transitions

Reboot is a virtual course designed for people on the verge of burnout to break the chronic stress cycle again & again using structured protocols. If you're finding yourself running on the hamster wheel of life, unable to feel connected because of stress & overwhelm, Reboot will be a resource to you as you re-discover who you are when you press pause & reboot your dysregulated nervous system. Commit to 15 minutes of practice/ day & learn to live more dynamically in your life when dealing with a life transition like a breakup, job change, becoming a parent, or simply adding tools to your toolbox in your self-discovery journey.

Episode:

How can we experience moments of awe in the monotony of our everyday lives, and why is this even important to tap into? Lindsay shares the science behind the “art of awe,” how awe can improve our emotional state when we are stuck in a cycle of stress, and some practical tools to start this practice today.

Show Notes:

-The origins of the “art of awe” and how philosophers started researching the powerful impact of awe-inspiring art and nature on human emotions

-How feeling small helps us gain perspective

-Lindsay using surfing as a metaphor for being able to zoom out and focus on something bigger than ourselves instead of the struggles that are right in front of us; why this helps our anxiety and stress levels

-Starting your practice of the art of awe with nature; Lindsay describing “contemplative nature walks”

-Finding a go-to piece of art to help you access awe and illicit positive emotion even if the midst of a hectic point of your day

-Other simple tools and ideas to try on your own that can help you kickstart this practice

Resources:

-Join Reboot here.

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Visit Cait’s Website

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Somatic Work, Navigating Change & Transitions

SIGN UP FOR THE WAITLIST for Vital-Side's newest course, Reboot, launching June 30th.

Reboot is a virtual course designed for people on the verge of burnout to break the chronic stress cycle again & again using structured protocols. If you're finding yourself running on the hamster wheel of life, unable to feel connected because of stress & overwhelm, Reboot will be a resource to you as you re-discover who you are when you press pause & reboot your dysregulated nervous system. Commit to 15 minutes of practice/ day & learn to live more dynamically in your life when dealing with a life transition like a breakup, job change, becoming a parent, or simply adding tools to your toolbox in your self-discovery journey. Sign up for the Reboot Waitlist to snag a deal & gain first access.

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In an ever changing and fast paced society, how have you learned to ride through the ebbs and flows of life? Have you developed coping skills for those high stress moments? Lindsay and Cait discuss tools that they use personally and with their clients that keep them regulated and in balance throughout the inevitable highs and lows of modern life.

Show Notes:

-Cait’s tools: sitting with uncomfortable feelings instead of avoiding them; gaining awareness around emotions; shifting the focus to sensations in her body and getting curious about them

-What is ”parts” work and how it can be a supportive tool

-How Cait utilizes intuitive movement

-How to move through stress dynamically

-Lindsay’s tools: understanding body patterns and accepting protective mechanisms and responses; moving into action

-How social media can cause dysregulation

-A “song” tool that Lindsay uses during moments of dysregulation

-The connection between childhood trauma and how we react to stressors

-The ultimate goal: modeling safety to your body

Resources:

-Click here to sign up for the Reboot Waitlist

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Visit Cait’s Website

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Chronic Illness, Somatic Work, Pregnancy

How can we figure out how to find relief from chronic pain and illness when there are so many complicated pieces to healing, and so many mixed messages about where to start? Holistic wellness specialist and clinical nutritionist Amanda Nova joins Cait and Lindsay to discuss the many different aspects of how we can heal, and how to reconnect with our bodies after trauma and chronic illness. Amanda shares her own journey to finding relief, and how she helps her clients piece together what works for themselves; because everyone’s map to healing is so different.

After struggling with her own chronic pain and illness for several years, Amanda Nova took her health into her own hands by deeply immersing herself into the wellness space. With an unrelenting will to heal herself, she became certified and proficient in several holistic healing modalities including Ayurveda, Herbalism, Applied Kinesiology (muscle testing), Iridology (naturopathic study of the iris), Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupressure, Embodiment/Somatic practices, and Holistic Nutrition. In 2020, she went back to school for Clinical Nutrition to learn evidence-based information on nutrition, herbs, genetics and lifestyle for disease prevention and disease states. Today, she shares her tools and tips with her growing audience from all over the world.

Show Notes:

-Amanda’s personal story with chronic illness: her diagnoses and how Western medicine didn’t seem to be the answer anymore; experiencing frustration and gaslighting with doctors and medical professionals

-Amanda’s holistic background and her path to clinical nutrition, discovering nervous system regulation and other holistic healing methods; describing how she kept herself “hostage” to her pain and how she altered her mindset away from harmful messages she was sending to her body; creating real safety in her body

-”Breaking up” with her diagnoses and separating her identity from being chronically ill

-How Amanda is handling pregnancy; why the tools she taught herself to cope with chronic illness have helped her throughout her pregnancy

-The “divorce” from chronic pain

-Learning to listen to the cues of your body

-Tools Amanda uses for herself and the clients she helps for nervous system regulation and reconnecting with the body

-Figuring out what works for your unique body without placing judgment upon yourself, and Amanda’s advice on where to start

Resources:

-Visit Amanda’s website here

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Visit Cait’s Website

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Themes: Burnout, Self Care, Entrepreneurship, Nervous System Regulation

Introducing The NeuroSomatics Certification Program, with Cait Ross and Laura Larios

What would become possible for you if you could:

• Learn how to regulate your nervous system using a somatics (body-based) approach and help your clients do the same
• Take your coaching skills to the next level so you can 10x+ your client results
• Have clients that sign with you again and again and again — because there is no limit to how deep you can support them
• Grow your business with a greater sense of ease and flow
• Say goodbye to frustration, overwhelm and burnout
• Bring nervous system work & your own unique expertise to the world in a fulfilling and profitable way
• Join an intimate group of changemakers to shape the future of the coaching & human transformation industries

Cait invites you to book an Enrollment call with her & her colleague, (and past Rewire guest) Laura Larios to learn more about their NeuroSomatics Certification program and explore if it’s a fit for you!

Episode details:

How can we navigate the balance between achieving our business, career and financial goals with finding time to slow down and enjoy the present moment? Do you set aside enough time for yourself to do things that bring you joy and connect you to a sense of pleasure? Cait talks about why cultivating this balance is the key to unlocking your next success level and how to slow down without feeling guilty or worried that you’re falling “behind”.

Show Notes:

-Info about Cait’s upcoming NeuroSomatics Certification Program

-Living in a society that promotes hustle culture and how it can affect us and all aspects of our lives

-The significant role our nervous systems play in being able to slow down without feeling guilty or worried that we’re falling behind

-Reasons we choose to slow down: reconnecting with ourselves, family, old hobbies, etc; how certain emotions can stop us from really relaxing and being present in these times

-Creating safety in our systems to slow down & prioritize rest

-Story of Cait’s client, an entrepreneur who was experiencing burnout and nervous system dysregulation; how her client became more fulfilled and abundant by decreasing her financial goal for the year by 50% in order to take more time to slow down — and ended up exceeding her original revenue goal as a result

-Why it takes longer to reach our goals when we are moving too fast

-Reflection prompts: How can you find time to slow down in your own life? What can you do to call in & feel more joy?

Resources:

• Click here to book an Enrollment call and learn more about the NeuroSomatics Certification Program

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

-Visit Cait’s Website

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

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Themes: Eating Disorders/Disordered Eating, Relationships with food, Trauma Healing, Nervous System Regulation

Trigger warning: This episode is an open discussion with a mental health professional that includes the topics of disordered eating, eating disorders, diet culture, and trauma around food.

SIGN UP FOR THE WAITLIST for Vital-Side's newest course, Reboot, launching June 30th.

Reboot is a virtual course designed for people on the verge of burnout to break the chronic stress cycle again & again using structured protocols. If you're finding yourself running on the hamster wheel of life, unable to feel connected because of stress & overwhelm, Reboot will be a resource to you as you re-discover who you are when you press pause & reboot your dysregulated nervous system. Commit to 15 minutes of practice/ day & learn to live more dynamically in your life when dealing with a life transition like a breakup, job change, becoming a parent, or simply adding tools to your toolbox in your self-discovery journey. Sign up for the Reboot Waitlist to snag a deal & gain first access.

Episode details:

How often do you reflect on your relationship with food? Somatic Nutritional Counselor Stephanie Mara Fox joins Lindsay and Cait to discuss the importance of this relationship. Hear Stephanie’s story of working through her own patterns of disordered eating and how that led her to the work she does today. Stephanie gives compassionate insight to how our past traumas can contribute to the development of disordered eating, and how somatic work can help us heal from them.

Stephanie Mara Fox, MA, CMBEC, CHC, CYT, is a Somatic Nutritional Counselor and Mentor with a Master’s Degree in Somatic Psychotherapy. She is the creator of Somatic Eating®, a body-oriented, sensation focused therapeutic approach to eating. She has supported women, coaches, and wellness professionals all over the world, helping them to heal from disordered eating patterns, binge eating, emotional eating, chronic dieting, and body image concerns. She is a teacher at the Institute for the Psychology of Eating and has supervised thousands of mind body eating coaches. Stephanie is on a mission to guide others into a safe and regulated relationship with food so they can go out and create their Satiated Life.

Show Notes:

-Reminder to sign up for the Reboot waitlist

-Meet Stephanie and hear her story; starting at a young age with her desire to heal her digestive pain, and how this turned into learning about somatic work, gut health, nervous system regulation, and a psychotherapeutic approach to healing disordered eating

-Discussing pivotal moments in Stephanie’s healing journey

-The difference between an eating disorder, and disordered eating; examples of disordered eating

-The trauma responses (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) and how they relate to disordered eating

-How trauma and disordered eating are related; how they similar messages to your brain; why you might be more prone to developing disordered eating patterns if you have unprocessed traumas

-Recognizing the signs of disordered eating; specific examples of how they manifest and how you can reflect personally on your own eating behaviors

-Tools to help regulate yourself (and foster safety in your body) before meals

-The importance of the nervous system in relation to eating, and learning to listen to the information your body is trying to tell you

Resources:

-Click here to visit Stephanie’s website

-Click here to receive 50% off Stephanie’s Intro to Somatic Eating® Mini Course

-Click to follow Stephanie on: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Tiktok

-Click here to sign up for the Reboot waitlist

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Visit Cait’s Website

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Themes: Somatic Work, Nervous System Regulation, Mind Body Connection, Personal Development

SIGN UP FOR THE WAITLIST for Vital-Side's newest course, Reboot, launching June 30th.

Reboot is a virtual course designed for people on the verge of burnout to break the chronic stress cycle again & again using structured protocols. If you're finding yourself running on the hamster wheel of life, unable to feel connected because of stress & overwhelm, Reboot will be a resource to you as you re-discover who you are when you press pause & reboot your dysregulated nervous system. Commit to 15 minutes of practice/ day & learn to live more dynamically in your life when dealing with a life transition like a breakup, job change, becoming a parent, or simply adding tools to your toolbox in your self-discovery journey. Sign up for the Reboot Waitlist to snag a deal & gain first access.

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How many times have you heard the words, “Everything happens for a reason”? While this phrase and mantra can support the divinity that exists and is present throughout our human lives; it also can hold us back from processing the very real human sensations and feelings that can arise inside of us during challenging or difficult situations or circumstances. Cait and Lindsay unpack how we can process difficult emotions without needing to assign a purpose or reason to every one of them.

Show Notes:

-Reminder to sign up for the Reboot waitlist

-Cait’s recent experience with her somatic practitioner; connecting with sensations in her stomach first, then accessing the emotion of disappointment, and how she let herself feel and move through the emotion without needing to make meaning of the disappointment

-Learning to give our bodies the chance to send us messages without feeling the need to “fix” or “do” something afterwards, and why this an important skill to learn

-How the phrase “everything happens for a reason” can be invalidating to the experiences your body wants to move through

-Living in a mind-centric society and why the body is just as important for healing, growth & realizing our infinite potential

-Practical tools Cait & Lindsay use to foster intentional connection with their bodies, and how you can start to practice this in your own life

-Resources:

-Click here to sign up for the Reboot waitlist

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Visit Cait’s Website

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Themes: Hormonal Balance, Functional Medicine, Functional Nutrition, Holistic Healing

Introducing The NeuroSomatics Certification Program, with Cait Ross and Laura Larios

What would become possible for you if you could:

• Learn how to regulate your nervous system using a somatics (body-based) approach and help your clients do the same
• Take your coaching skills to the next level
• Grow your business, practice or platform with more ease and flow
• Bring nervous system work & your own unique expertise to the world in a fulfilling and profitable way
• Bring nervous system work into new and growing industries, such as working with corporate clients
• Join an intimate group of thought leaders to shape the future of the coaching & human transformation industries

Cait invites you to book an Enrollment call with her & her colleague, (and past Rewire guest) Laura Larios to learn more about their NeuroSomatics Certification program and explore if it’s a fit for you!

Episode details:

What exactly is the difference between traditional medicine and functional nutrition? How can a functional-based approach elevate your well being? Cait is joined by Lauren Papanos, a registered dietician with her own virtual nutrition practice, to discuss the benefits of functional medicine & functional nutrition, particularly on how we can use these approaches & their tools to balance hormones. Hear Lauren’s story of self discovery through her own health journey, why she was drawn to functional medicine, and learn about some of the processes behind a functional approach to health & well-being.

Lauren Papanos is a Registered Dietician, Published Nutrition Researcher, and the Founder of Functional Fueling Nutrition, a virtual nutrition practice that offers lab testing and individualized nutrition & supplement protocols to help patients go from frustrated to high-functioning. Empowered with a Masters Degree in Integrative Nutrition and more than ten advanced educational trainings on hormone health and root cause medicine, Lauren cuts through the 'wellness' noise and makes data-driven information digestible so you can see what’s actually going on with your hormones - and understand how to heal yourself from within.

Show Notes:

-Intro to the NeuroSomatics Certification Program

-Lauren’s journey to functional medicine and holistic health; from pushing her body to its limits as an athlete to finding balance, healing and realizing how everything in the body/mind is interconnected; her desire to approach the “mysteries of health” in a holistic and big picture way

-The definition of functional medicine and how it differs from “traditional” medicine; traditional is solely focused on how to fix/stop progression of disease, whereas functional views the body as one whole connected system

-How a functional medicine approach works; the process and time it takes

-Discussing hormonal imbalance and Lauren’s two reasons for it (inflammation and nutritional imbalance); how a functional medicine approach looks for the root causes

-Why finding what works for you personally is important when it comes to your health; sustainable habits/changes only come when you are aware of what you really want and an awareness of your own desires and expectations

-The role that stress plays in our healing processes

-How to determine if/where there is infection, imbalance, and inflammation in the body

-Foods/eating practices that can help balance hormones

-Bio-individuality is real; you can’t always follow an exact practice that you find on social media or that worked for someone else you know; it's also important to remember that what works can change over time

-Resources:

-Click here to visit Lauren’s website

-Click here to listen to Lauren’s podcast

-Click here to follow Lauren’s YouTube channel and click here to follow her on IG

• Click here to book an Enrollment call and learn more about the NeuroSomatics Certification Program

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Visit Cait’s Website

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

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Themes: Somatics, Inner Child Healing, Mind-body Connection, Personal Development

Introducing The NeuroSomatics Certification Program, with Cait Ross and Laura Larios

What would become possible for you if you could:

• Learn how to regulate your nervous system using a somatics (body-based) approach and help your clients do the same
• Take your coaching skills to the next level
• Grow your business, practice or platform with more ease and flow
• Bring nervous system work & your own unique expertise to the world in a fulfilling and profitable way
• Join an intimate group of changemakers to shape the future of the coaching & human transformation industries

Cait invites you to book an Enrollment Discovery call with her & her colleague, (and past Rewire guest) Laura Larios to learn more about their NeuroSomatics Certification program and explore if it’s a fit for you!

Episode details:

How can incorporating somatic work into your life change the way you are healing and growing? Cait walks us through what somatic work is, how it works, and why addressing our bodies just as much as our minds is so important when we are upleveling our lives. Cait dives deep into how using various somatic tools, such as Inner Child Work can support us in healing & regulating our nervous systems.

Show Notes:

-Intro to the NeuroSomatics Certification Program

-What is somatics?

-What is keeping you from reaching the next level in life; how something from years ago could still be affecting you today (inner child healing)

-The significance our early years have on our development; how we form a whole preschool of inner children in our mind from our earliest traumas

-80% of what's happening in our reality is partly due to the communication that's happening between our bodies and our brains

-Getting our inner children on board with our deepest desires; creating safety in our bodies; part of somatics is getting intimately acquainted with these inner children

-How our inner children come to be; how we have parts of us that are still operating from a child's perspective

-Meeting and attuning to the emotional needs of our inner child

-Communicating to our nervous system with somatics (sensations; feelings in our body)

-Why mindset tools cannot be successful as they can unless they are paired with somatic tools

-How our inner “protector” or coping mechanisms melt away when we do somatic work & inner child healing

-Connecting our brains and bodies together; attuning our adult selves with our childhood selves; why this can transform your healing and growth

-Resources:

• Click here to book an Enrollment call and learn more about the NeuroSomatics Certification Program

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Visit Cait’s Website

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

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Themes: Limiting Beliefs, Brain Retraining, Trauma Recovery

SIGN UP FOR THE WAITLIST for Vital-Side's newest course, Reboot, launching June 30th.

Reboot is a virtual course designed for people on the verge of burnout to break the chronic stress cycle again & again using structured protocols. If you're finding yourself running on the hamster wheel of life, unable to feel connected because of stress & overwhelm, Reboot will be a resource to you as you re-discover who you are when you press pause & reboot your dysregulated nervous system. Commit to 15 minutes of practice/ day & learn to live more dynamically in your life when dealing with a life transition like a breakup, job change, becoming a parent, or simply adding tools to your toolbox in your self-discovery journey. Sign up for the Reboot Waitlist to snag a deal & gain first access.

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How are your limiting beliefs holding you back? Lindsay gets to the root of where our limiting beliefs about ourselves come from: trauma from early childhood into early adulthood. She explains how these thoughts formed out of negative experiences when our brains are still developing, and how we can follow three simple steps to overcoming and rewriting them so that we can develop the lives we truly want for ourselves.

Show Notes:

-What are limiting beliefs (or as Lindsay calls them, “old/overused pathways”) and why does our brain form them?

-What do limiting beliefs stand in the way of and how do they affect both our physical realities and our subconscious minds?

-Step one: Becoming aware of the belief. “Is my brain trying to protect me?”

-An example of an overused pathway: perfectionism

-The two things (or basics needs) our brains are instinctually trying to accomplish by forming limiting beliefs: survival and protection

-Our limiting beliefs are usually formed in childhood, before our prefrontal cortexes are fully developed and before we can properly access proper reasoning and decision making; they are a survival response

-We can find versions of our current limiting beliefs in our childhood selves. Tools for awareness: “When was one of the first times this survival response showed up in my life?” “How does this limiting belief show up in my life today?”

-Step two: Accepting that you have these limiting beliefs

-Asking yourself if these beliefs align with who you want to become and the life you want to live (the answer will be no!); then, realizing you need to move to step three

-Step three: Modeling a new way of being to yourself

-Resources:

-Click here to sign up for the Reboot Waitlist

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

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Themes: Burnout, Nervous System Health & Regulation, Emotional Regulation, Mental Health

SIGN UP FOR THE WAITLIST for Vital-Side's newest course, Reboot, launching June 30th.

Reboot is a virtual course designed for people on the verge of burnout to break the chronic stress cycle again & again using structured protocols. If you're finding yourself running on the hamster wheel of life, unable to feel connected because of stress & overwhelm, Reboot will be a resource to you as you re-discover who you are when you press pause & reboot your dysregulated nervous system. Commit to 15 minutes of practice/ day & learn to live more dynamically in your life when dealing with a life transition like a breakup, job change, becoming a parent, or simply adding tools to your toolbox in your self-discovery journey. Sign up for the Reboot Waitlist to snag a deal & gain first access.

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Do you experience frequent feelings of physical and/or emotional exhaustion? Do you feel overwhelmed with trying to keep up with lifes’ constant demands? In this solo episode with Lindsay, she addresses the big topic of burnout. Learn what burnout really is, and how to recognize the signs in both your body and your emotional reactions. Lindsay also goes through some easy tips to start coping with your burnout, including tools for nervous system regulation.

Show Notes:

-An intro to Vital-Side’s new upcoming program, Reboot

-Defining burnout: when we feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained and unable to meet constant demands; a combination of stressors that creates a “perfect storm”

-How we reach burnout; specific signs that point to it; energetic, emotional, and mental stress occurs, then our energy starts to change

-Why stress doesn’t have to be labeled as negative; the situations where it DOES become negative and turns to burnout

-Figuring out if you are headed towards or are already in a state of burnout; making a list of everything you pay attention to in a day and the feelings you have towards each of them & searching for negative patterns

-What burnout feels like in the body

-The three steps to tackling burnout; awareness, acceptance, and taking action; examples of simple tools you can use when you are feeling a lot of stress; learning to communicate with our bodies

-The second step: learning to accept how your survival responses show up

-Learning to make changes in your life to avoid and/or tackle burnout and communicate how you are feeling to your loved ones

-The third step: taking action; modeling a new way of being to our bodies

-Becoming aware of what you want your life to look like

-:Learning to move dynamically between peace and stress and therefore move through our lives more effectively

-Resources:

-Click here to sign up for the Reboot waitlist

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Visit Cait’s Website

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Themes: Brain Repatterning, Personal Development, Nervous System Regulation, Emotional Regulation

SMOOTH SAILING MASTERCLASS Announcement:

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"How to Create a Blue Ocean Coaching Business through the Power of Nervous System Regulation"

Join Cait on Tuesday, May 16 at 12 pm CST for an interactive masterclass experience to learn how to provide deeper transformation for your clients,, accelerate your coaching business revenue & reduce stress and burnout for good! Plus: how to shape the future of the coaching industry by leveraging somatic coaching, cutting edge nervous system tools and deeper personal embodiment.

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Do you find yourself checking off your list of “should dos” but still feeling stuck in panic, anxiety, sadness or constant stress? Author and thought leader Adele Spraggon joins Lindsay and Cait to talk about her journey into the personal development and coaching industry-starting off with debilitating anxiety, but eventually reaching peace through developing what she calls “brain repatterning.” Learn about Adele’s four step brain repatterning process, the neuroscience behind why it works, and how it can positively affect both your life and business.

Adele Spraggon is an award winning author, speaker, thought leader, international trainer and fearless speaker. She has been awarded the 2020 Woman of Inspiration Award and in 2021 she was recognized as the Top Behavioural Expert of the year. Her book, “Shift: 4 Steps to Personal Empowerment,” has won three awards and is sweeping the globe, transforming how people are setting and achieving their goals.

Show Notes:

-An intro to Adele and how she discovered brain repatterning; suffering from panic attacks and severe anxiety even while she was life coaching, she sought knowledge about the brain, which led her to developing her four step process of brain repatterning that she teaches today

-Adele’s explanation of what a “pattern” really is in the brain; how the brain is wired; replacing an old, obsolete pattern with a brand new healthy one that serves you; what you can work on/heal through brain repatterning

-Adele’s version of the two hemispheres of the brain

-How thoughts connect with physical sensations and emotional content; Our thoughts are not always true and they can be harmful if we can’t disconnect them from reality

-An example of a thought (“I’m not good enough”) going through the first two steps of Adele’s four step method of brain repatterning

-A short explanation of the four steps: 1) Identify the pattern 2) Own it as a pattern 3) Tease apart the pattern 4) Replace it with a new pattern

-More examples from Adele of how to implement the four steps

-Reconnecting with your body after being in a state of fight or flight; reconnecting with both hemispheres of your brain

-The four ways we can get stuck in a pattern: analyze, justify, catastrophize, or rebel

-Learning to use the stress we are faced with to navigate towards peace

-Instinct vs. intuition

-Methods of addition and subtraction in personal development; addition is goal setting, striving, willpower; subtraction is surrender, letting go of your thoughts

-We can use our neuroplastic, malleable brains for good and to create peace in our lives, optimize patterns, and even hone in and focus on our intuition

-Resources:

-Click here for a FREE copy of Adele’s book and a FREE virtual class about brain “repatterning”

-Click here to visit Adele’s website

-Click here to follow Adele on IG

-Sign up for Cait’s Smooth Sailing Masterclass on May 16

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Business & Personal Development, Entrepreneurship, Stress & Burnout, Future of Business

SMOOTH SAILING MASTERCLASS Announcement:

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Join Cait on Tuesday, May 16 at 12 pm CST for an interactive masterclass experience to learn how to provide deeper transformation for your clients, accelerate your coaching business revenue & reduce stress and burnout for good! Plus: how to shape the future of the coaching & human transformation industries by leveraging somatic coaching, cutting-edge nervous system tools and deeper personal embodiment.

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What is the real significance of the nervous system when it comes to helping your clients access deeper levels of transformation? Are you limiting both your own and your clients' development by only addressing the mindset in your coaching? Cait explains why incorporating nervous system regulation into your business model is a triple win — for you, your clients and the human transformation industry. Learn about how to use both the mind AND the body to help your clients reach their full potential and take their personal development to the next level.

Show Notes:

-The current boom in the coaching industry; statistics on how burnout affects coaches and entrepreneurs

• Cait’s perspective on current market trends and why all industries (not just coaching) will eventually leverage nervous system regulation to activate deeper client transformation

-Differences between therapy and coaching

-Polyvagal theory & the “80/20” rule; the inherent limitations of only addressing the brain and not the body

-Going deeper than just mindset coaching; addressing the root causes of nervous system dysregulation; “The body speaks a different language than the mind does.”

-What becomes possible when you incorporate full nervous system regulation into your life and your business; the positive impacts it can have on both you and your clients

-More details about Cait’s upcoming Smooth Sailing Masterclass

Resources:

-Sign up for the Smooth Sailing Masterclass on May 16

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Visit Cait’s Website

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Click to listen to other episodes with Laura Larios: (as referenced in this episode): “Increase Your Sales & Wealth through a Regulated Nervous System” and “The Power of Voice”

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Themes: Chronic Illness Recovery, Personal Development, Community & Relationships

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Join Cait on Tuesday, May 16 at 12 pm CST for an interactive masterclass experience to learn how to provide deeper transformation for your clients,, accelerate your coaching business revenue & reduce stress and burnout for good! Plus: how to shape the future of the coaching industry by leveraging somatic coaching, cutting edge nervous system tools and deeper personal embodiment.

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How do the dynamics of relationships differ when one person has a chronic illness? Do you struggle with maintaining important relationships because of the complexity of communicating about your chronic condition? Joining Cait & Lindsay is founder of Chroniccon and self love guru Nitika Chopra. Nitika describes her beautiful path of self acceptance and love, from being a lonely child struggling with a chronic condition to the owner of a media and events company that helps people all over the country who live with chronic conditions of their own. Learn more about Nitika’s company, how chronic illness changed the way she approaches relationships, and how to communicate about your own chronic illness with your loved ones.

Nitika Chopra is the founder of Chronicon, a media and events company, dedicated to elevating the lives of those living with a chronic illness. Nitika was diagnosed with psoriasis at the age of 10 and psoriatic arthritis at the age of 19 and lived over 17 years of her life being defined by her conditions. In 2010 she decided to take all of the lessons her health journey had taught her and use it to help others. Since the start of her entrepreneurial journey Nitika has hosted her own TV talk show on Z Living called Naturally Beautiful, hosted over 40 events with hundreds of guests in attendance and has created dynamic partnerships with over 150 brands in the wellness space. Nitika launched Chronicon in the fall of 2019, focused on those living with a chronic illness. Since its launch, Chronicon has expanded online and you can now download the Chronicon app right to your phone and access it any time. This community is an accessible online space with inspiration, advocacy, and empowerment for chronically ill folks across the globe. You can also join Chronicon for its first live event since the pandemic, taking place on May 19th, in Brooklyn New York which can be streamed anywhere in the world.

Show Notes:

-Nitika’s health journey; how hitting rock bottom in her physical health led to a spiritual experience that changed her life and shifted her perspective on healing; Nitika held onto this experience as her anchor throughout her life

-Finding a balance of accepting chronic illness but not letting it become your identity; the importance of having a community when you have a chronic condition

-Discussing Chroniccon, the uplifting and empowering community that Nitika has created to support and empower those with chronic illnesses; a safe space to discuss, heal, and enjoy activities together just the same as others do; “We’re your new best friends!”

-How navigating relationships can feel so different for someone chronically ill; Nitika’s journey of self love and acceptance, and how her approach to relationships has changed over the years as she has healed more and more; why you should keep the focus on yourself and your own role in relationships as you’re trying to break unhealthy patterns

-Deconditioning beliefs around relationships; learning to communicate your needs with your loved ones and express how you are really feeling health wise instead of keeping it hidden

-The complex and nuanced nature of all relationships, including work dynamics; Nitika’s tips and tools for healthy communication and boundaries

Resources:

-Click here to visit Nitika’s website

-Click here to join the Chroniccon community

-Click here to follow Nitika on IG

-Sign up for the Smooth Sailing Masterclass on May 16

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Visit Cait’s Website

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

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Themes: Alternative Medicine, Flower Essence Therapy, Holistic Health & Wellness

What exactly is a “flower essence” and what are its benefits for the mind, body, and spirit? Cait & Lindsay are joined by flower alchemy expert, Katie Hess. Katie shares her nearly lifelong experience with the power of flower medicine, explains how exactly it all works along with long term and short benefits, and even walks us through the specific uses of her own healing flower elixirs that she shares with the world through her company, Lotus Wei.

Katie Hess is an expert of flower alchemy - using the healing power of flowers to awaken to our true potential. She travels the world in search of rare flowers with the healing qualities most needed today. Katie captures the activating lifeforce flowers and translates it into an accessible method to bring more ease, creativity, focus, inspired action, joy & more into our daily lives. Katie and her company Lotus Wei now have over 150 elixirs, used by people in more than 50 countries.

Show Notes:

-An intro to Katie and her company, Lotus Wei

-Katie’s personal journey through “the power of flowers”: from being a kid playing in nature to traveling the globe and developing a deep understanding of plant/flower medicine; the impact Katie knows that flower medicine can have on individuals and therefore the world; starting with 1:1 clients and eventually founding a successful company with zero business training or experience

-What a flower essence actually is, and different ways they can be used; Katie’s explanation of “botanical wifi” and the energy that flowers carry, emit, and amplify within ourselves; the process of how water brings us the healing energies of flowers, and how this helps us bring us back into our natural state of ease and joy

-How flower essences help heal physical ailments and assist in mental and energetic challenges; how they can help you uproot trauma and work through emotional blocks

-Cait’s personal experience with Lotus Wei elixirs

-More details about the benefits of flower medicine, and references to specific elixirs through Lotus Wei; how you find out which elixir to start with through their online quiz; how to match flower elixirs with your current needs & goals

-”The power of flowers” : Flower alchemy is a tool that helps us optimize and empower ourselves physically, energetically, physiologically, and emotionally

Resources:

-Click here to take the “flower quiz”

-Click here to visit Lotus Wei’s website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Visit Cait’s Website

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

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Themes: Energy Healing, Emotional & Spiritual Wellness, Brain Retraining, Self-Care, Personal Development

What kind of energetic vibrations are you sending out into the world that can be affecting your relationships, your career, and your emotional well being? Rewire is joined by Aleya Dao, an energy healer who helps others find empowerment and peace through getting in touch with their higher selves. Learn about how Aleya helps her clients through her healing practices that she has personally developed, her own journey to wellness and healthy regulation, and the intersection of the scientific and spiritual aspects of healing.

Aleya Dao has been an alternative healthcare practitioner for over 30 years. She is a Licensed Acupuncturist, a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, a sound healer, spiritual guide, Reiki Master, and a Craniosacral practitioner. She has over 2,000 meditations online and 9 sound healing albums. Aleya teaches all over the country, inspiring and guiding individuals in groups into greater degrees of empowerment, abundance, and health by using unique concepts she teaches in her best selling book. Aleya’s specialty is helping people release the root causes of their suffering to find greater peace, empowerment, and freedom.

Show Notes:

-An intro to Aleya, and her path of becoming an energetic healer, starting with being a gifted child and how her life experiences helped her develop the system of healing she teaches/uses now

-Empathy, states of awareness and spiritual enlightenment; how Aleya’s spiritual experiences affected her

-Seeing the body as a separate entity from yourself; why your relationship to your body is so important; what can happen if you aren’t communicating with it in a healthy way; Aleya gives examples of how to speak your body lovingly and explains how this brings balance to the different systems (nervous, endocrine, etc)

-How to arrive at the state of knowing that you are NOT your body, starting with a change in perspective; the importance of your own imagination in this process

-”Everything is vibration”; holding energy & how this is related to disease, Aleya’s own personal experiences with autoimmune issues

-What happens to the body and the emotions when you enter into a different level of safety (using Cait’s recent marriage, and an early period in Aleya’s marriage, as examples); why a lot of emotions can surface when you’ve reached your safest state, specifically in relationships

-The three stages of processing emotions; how to hold a safe container for your emotions

-Being aware of our emotional reactions; every emotional wave emits vibrations which affects all aspects of our lives; making small shifts that eventually lead to huge differences

Resources:

-Click here for a FREE MONTH of Aleya’s program “The 7 Cups of Consciousness”

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Visit Cait’s Website

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

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Themes: Communication, Mental Health & Burnout, Workplace Wellness, Transformation

How can our language affect the different areas of our lives like our careers, relationships, and emotional well-being? Cait takes us through an explanation of how the words we use create our world and how this applies to the world of business and leadership. How can we become more intentional with our language so that we are creating & manifesting the best possible outcomes?

Show Notes:

-The importance of communication and the words that we choose to use; how our backgrounds & unique experiences affect the way we speak

-A conversation Cait had with a corporate client about using common phrase “customer-obsessed” in a sales/customer service context; how this type of language can affect the mental health of your team

-The current reality & shifts in the modern workplace, especially for women

-Getting to the root of stress and burnout; how language plays an important role

-The importance of not only thinking about language in relation to customers, but also to your employees; how is your vernacular making them feel? How is it affecting their emotional and mental well being?

-Getting curious about language in the context of all areas of your life - relationships, physical health, business/career, etc.

Resources:

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Visit Cait’s Website

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

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Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Nervous System Retraining, Chronic Illness, Parenting

How affected are children by chronic stress and nervous system dysregulation? Lori Weir, a Vital-Side facilitator and mom of 3, suggests a big truth in this new episode: that kids can only be as regulated as their parents are. Lori shares with us her and her kids journeys with chronic illnesses, how she learned to regulate her own nervous system, and how she guided her kids through regulation as well. Hear real stories, tips and tools for the nervous system regulation of children, from a mom who has gone through all of it herself.

Show Notes:

-Lori’s story how getting started with nervous system retraining and Rewire; how she recognized her own dysregulation and began to heal it; the health issues of both herself and her children that led her to holistic healing methods and dedicating her last 5 years to helping her children heal

-Learning to reframe her children's emotional responses and look at them from the lens of nervous system health

-Why Lori believes that a dysregulated nervous system could actually take the place of many overused “labels” that society puts on children; the influence of harmful societal norms of punishing/shaming children for their emotions; “In their most unlovable moments, that’s when they need the most love.”

-The difference between Lori’s reaction now to emotional meltdowns with her children, and how regulation changed that

-An explanation of PANS and how it affected Lori’s children

-How Lori began modeling regulation to her children; starting with the “foundations” and then learning specific tools

-Story about how one of Lori’s children describes her emotional battery, describing dysregulation as “My ice is getting thin”; why this kind of awareness is important

-The importance of being open and honest about your own emotions with your children, and is a part of modeling regulation

-The explanation of how children are only as regulated as their parents

-Normalizing the need for nervous system regulation (for everyone, not just people who have chronic illnesses) and how easy it is to get started

Resources:

-Read more about Lori and connect with her via Vital-Side here

-Listen to Lori’s other Rewire episode here

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

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Themes: Limbic System Retraining, Brain Retraining, Nervous System Regulation, Chronic Stress & Illness

Is stress a trigger for your chronic pain? Or could it even be the main antagonizer of your physical symptoms? Lindsay explains the stress cycle, how stress hormones affect the body (even if you don’t suffer from chronic illness), and how limbic system retraining can move you out of flight or fight into rest and digest.

Show Notes:

-What happens to the body when we are stressed; learning about the “trauma loop” or the cycle of stress

-The limbic system, and what is responsible for in the body: learning memory, fear, regulating bodily functions, mood/ emotions, survival

-The main agenda for our brains/bodies is to survive; how the survival response affects us

-Perceived danger vs. real danger; why the stress response is the same towards both

-The physiology of the stress cycle; the loop the starts with the autonomic nervous system and ends with the release of cortisol/stress hormones; how staying in this cycle leads to limbic system impairment; the body's physical indicators of this impairment

-Lindsays recommended formula for healing: a team of practitioners to address your physical body, nervous system regulation through brain/limbic system retraining, and eventually trauma processing

-Limbic system regulation helps us to stay dynamic in life and move through stress without staying stuck in it

Resources:

-Click here to schedule a one-on-one Q&A with Lindsay

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

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Themes: Nervous System Health, Gut Health, Gut-Brain Connection/Axis, Brain Retraining, Functional Nutrition

Could your gut-brain axis be affecting how well you are healing from chronic symptoms? In this episode, Cait & Lindsay have a conversation with functional nutritionist Lindsay Christensen about the connection between our guts and our brains- how important it really is, how to know if it’s compromised, and targeted ways to begin balancing it.

Lindsay Christensen has a deep passion for helping clients reclaim their health. Lindsay has her B.S. in Biomedical Science, her M.S. in Human Nutrition, is a Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS), and a Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist. At a young age, Lindsay began her own journey with complex illnesses, including Lyme disease and severe gut health challenges, which ultimately led her to discover the healing power of functional medicine and nutrition. In her functional nutrition practice, Ascent to Health, Lindsay helps clients with Lyme disease, mold illness, autoimmune diseases, and mast cell activation disorder (MCAS) reclaim their health using functional nutrition and lifestyle changes so they can live their lives to the fullest!

Show Notes:

-An introduction to Lindsay: her personal experience with illnesses including lyme, mold illness, and mast cell activation syndrome; how brain retraining helped her when traditional treatments were not working; her path to functional nutrition

-Lindsay’s transformation from being restricted to four foods to reframing food as freedom; why eliminating/restricting food has a time and place, but is only a temporary solution

-What exactly the gut-brain axis is, how it works, and what it affects in the body

-How brain retraining creates safety in your body, and therefore around food, which can help balance out your gut-brain axis; the physiological changes that happen during this process

-Some tangible tools of how you can start repairing your own gut-brain axis now

-Discovering and focusing on your “why”; the life you want to live, and how you want your relationship with food to be

Resources:

-Visit Lindsay Christensen’s website here

-Follow Lindsay Christensen on Facebook here, and on Instagram here

-Click here to check out Lindsay Christensen’s Lyme Disease 101 course

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Visit Cait’s Website

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Sign up for the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

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Themes: Nervous System Health, Entrepreneurship, Well-being, Career, Success

What are the signs that your nervous system health could be impacting your business? In this episode, Cait goes in depth into four different signs that point to dysregulation in the area of our careers and/or business. Nervous system dysregulation is not uncommon, but is often overlooked in the business world. Learn how to gauge your own nervous systems’ health, and to figure out if you need to add more regulation tools into your everyday life.

Show Notes:

-Cait’s experience with the dysregulation she has witnessed in her clients, and why she thinks the nervous system is the “future of work”

-Sign number one of dysregulation: When everything feels urgent, and you constantly feel rushed or in a hurry; the importance of self-compassion when you start noticing these signs

-Number two: Procrastination; the nervous system being in “freeze” mode

-Number three: Talking very fast and feeling frequently out of breath; standing witness to how this might be making others (like clients and/or prospective clients) feel; the nervous system being in “overdrive” mode

-Regulation is not about perfection…dysregulation is common and normal, but not talked about as much as it should when it comes to our businesses and careers. Regulation is about being aware of the state of your nervous system, and finding tools to positively change the state of it when necessary.

-Number four: When you are doing everything right strategically, and your mindset is in a good space, but things still don’t feel right.

-The importance of self-compassion and grace if you recognize these signs in yourself

-A breathing technique that can help you regulate better

-Why nervous system regulation in regards to your career is so important

Resources:

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Visit Cait’s Website

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Sign up for the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

Click to listen to other episodes of Rewire about the nervous system:

1. “The Importance of Regulation the Nervous System”

2. “Increase Your Sales & Wealth through a Regulated Nervous System with Laura Larios”

3. “Intimacy and the Dysregulated Nervous System with Katherine Smailis

4. "Connecting With Your Nervous System to Grow Your Business With Cait Ross"

5. “The Power of Plants on Your Nervous System & Overall Wellbeing with Maria Failla”

6. “The Difference Between Mindset Work & Nervous System Regulation with Cait & Lindsay”

7. “Regulating your Nervous System While Traveling: A Quick How-To Guide With Cait Ross”

8. “Regulate Your Nervous System while Parenting with Dr. Alex Mosley”

9. “The Correlation Between Women's Health & the Nervous System with Jema Lee”

10. “Regulate Your Nervous System with Sexual Intimacy with Dr. Peter Craig”

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Themes: Brain Retraining, Nervous System Regulation

Are you wondering what brain retraining actually looks like, and where you can start? In this episode, Lindsay guides Rewire listeners through a “state changer,” an exercise specifically designed to change the state of your brain and thus begin or contribute to the process of brain retraining. For this episode, find a comfortable spot and put on your headphones to walk through the exercise with Lindsay’s guidance!

Show Notes:

-What brain retraining is, and a glimpse into what the process can look like with Vital-side protocols and tools

-Examples of brain retraining; visualization, movement, breathing and more

-A guided brain retraining protocol by Lindsay; “The Warrior Inside of Us”

Resources:

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Click here to join Regulation Station. Use Code “PODCAST20” at checkout to get 20$ off your first month.

-Click here more information about “Reset” (as mentioned in this episode)

-Sign up for the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

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Themes: Generational Trauma, Trauma Healing, Self compassion, Forgiveness, Family dynamics, Parenting, the Refugee/Immigrant experience

What does your ancestors’ grief and trauma have to do with your own healing? Selma Bacevac, a psychotherapist who specializes in intergenerational trauma, joins Cait & Lindsay to help us unpack this nuanced question and ignite a deeper conversation. Learn about Selma’s early life story growing up during a time of war; how this impacted her; and how the lessons she learned & now teaches others can be applied to all of our healing journeys.

Selma Bacevac is a Bosnian-American woman who has a powerful story of overcoming adversity and who has also dedicated her life to helping others do the same. As a former refugee and mother of two, Selma has a deep understanding of the challenges women face; and she uses her experiences to support her clients - specializing in healing generational and early childhood trauma. Selma's unique perspective and compassionate approach have helped countless women reclaim their power and heal from past traumas. Her story is one of resilience, dedication, and the power of the human spirit to overcome even the toughest of challenges.

Show Notes:

-Selma’s experience living through a time of war in former Yugoslavia, and becoming a refugee; how the trauma from this experiences shaped her future by stoking her interest in psychology and her desire to help others heal; her desire to better understand how parent-child relationships are affected by trauma from war/being refugees

-Generational trauma; as she went through her family tree, Selma began to realize how many attachments she was holding onto as she learned more about how generational trauma works

-Big T and little t trauma: either one can be held in your body as generational trauma

-Selma’s definition of what resiliency really is, and how it can either serve you or limit you

-Trauma is not about what happened to you, it’s about what happened inside of you when you experienced the event or stressor

-Why comparing your trauma to someone else’s is invalidating and limiting

-Defining intergenerational trauma and how it gets passed down

-The significance of being able to break these cycles; how uncovering and working through intergenerational trauma is so powerful

-Real solutions that can help you work through intergenerational trauma: forgiveness, self compassion, somatic work, community connections, inner child work

Resources:

-Visit Selma’s website here

-Click here to follow Selma on Instagram

-Click here to check out the children’s book Selma wrote

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Click here more information about “Reset” (as mentioned in this episode)

-Sign up for the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

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-Visit Cait’s Website

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Themes: Personal Relationships, Sex and Intimacy, Nervous System Regulation, Emotional Intelligence, Romantic Connection, Deconditioning

Do you experience blocks in intimacy with your partner(s)? Have you reached a space where you feel safe in your body, or do you crave to feel more relaxed during intimacy? Lindsay and Cait are joined by couples therapist Dr. Peter Craig to talk about the correlation between a regulated nervous system and a fulfilling sex life, and how to find more connection with your intimate partner(s).

Dr. Peter Craig prides himself in being a warm and empathic therapist who is trained in modern psychology models. He specializes in connection, authenticity, reducing stress and relationships. Peter has studied Dr. Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing approach to therapy and trained in experiential mindfulness with Dr. Tori Olds, both of which he incorporates into his work. Peter is a TEDx speaker on men’s growth, plays guitar and sings for his band Dharma Collective, and is the author of 3 books on poetry, which aim to inspire.

Show Notes:

-An intro to Peter and his path to becoming a couples/sex therapist

-The disconnection we have from our bodies in society today and the reasons behind it; how somatic work helps us get reconnected; the courage it takes to dive into this type of work

-”Savoring” as a neuroscientific concept; how creating a culture of savoring helps you reconnect to your own body

-Advice on how to slow down, savor and experience sensation more richly, especially if you struggle with a keyed up nervous system; some examples being body massage, swimming, activities that focus on the right side of your brain (creative things like music, writing, drawing, etc)

-The starting point of being more intentional around intimacy: Taking sex off the table

-Intentional sexuality: retaining a strong sense of self and individuality, so that you and your partner(s) are always experiencing new things about each other

-Becoming more connected with your partner(s); different types of intimacy other than sexual

-The “3 Minute Game”: a game Peter suggests to his clients to help facilitate safe and open communication around intimacy, and something anyone can try with their own partner(s); the empowerment this game can create not only in the relationship but in the individuals’ lives as well

-Discussing the “quality of connection” and how increasing this can create more safety in relationships

-The importance of having an attitude of curiosity and non-judgement towards your partner(s)

-Deconditioning harmful ideas around masculinity

Resources:

-Watch Peter’s Ted talk here

-Learn more about Peter and his practice here

-Follow Peter on IG here

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Click here more information about “Reset” (as mentioned in this episode)

-Sign up for the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

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-Visit Cait’s Website

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Themes: Travel, Personal Development & Growth, Brain Retraining, Core Values, Nervous System Regulation, Freedom

What are your core values? How do you ensure that your core values remain at the center of the way you are living your life? In this episode, Lindsay describes how her core value of freedom influenced her to embark on a year-long journey of travel. Learn about how to get reacquainted with (or introduced to) your own core values, and how to continuously apply them to your life.

Show Notes:

-Info on Vital Side’s newest Brain Retraining Program, “Reset”

-The importance of being aware of your own core values in life

-Tools and methods to get realigned and acquainted with your own personal core values

-Connecting with freedom, a core value of Lindsay’s , and how wanting more freedom turned into what Lindsay is doing now: traveling with her husband and dog in an airstream around the US for an entire year

-Learning the language of your own body

-How Lindsay still uses the daily regulation tools that she teaches in Vital Side, and the ways in which they have shifted for her

-Giving yourself permission to do things differently and make changes in your life, both big and small

-Connecting with your inner child and how this relates to nervous system regulation and brain retraining

-Stay tuned to the podcast for updates on Lindsay’s adventures!

Resources:

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Click here more information about “Reset” (as mentioned in this episode)

-Sign up for the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Visit Cait’s Website

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Themes: Enneagram, Self Discovery, Self Identity, Personal Growth, Leadership Development, Career & Workplace Advancement, Professional Growth

Have you ever taken a personality test and the results just don’t quite seem to fit? Have you ever struggled to understand and relate to others around you? In this episode of Rewire, Cait and Lindsay are joined by Enneagram expert Amanda Workman, who talks through the intricacies of the Enneagram of Personality. She discusses the real life applications of knowing your Enneagram type and using that knowledge to help you dive deeper into your own personal growth, along with gaining a better understanding of others. Amanda also takes us through how she uses her knowledge of the Enneagram to change the dynamics of workplace environments for the better.

Amanda Workman is an international consultant, corporate trainer and facilitator who is happiest when on an airplane heading towards her next adventure. Her mission is to support and empower global managers and leaders within the ever-changing global workforce. Her consulting company brings a unique perspective to leadership competencies, team interaction, and self-awareness to support people in reaching personal & personal success and fulfillment.

Show Notes:

-Amanda’s first encounter of the Enneagram in college, and how she shifted her studies to incorporate it

-What Enneagram is, its origins, and why it's such a powerful tool in self identity and personal growth

-The inner work that comes along with diving into your Enneagram type

-The most important part of Enneagram; learning the motivation behind behavior

-A description of the nine Enneagram types, specifically what the driving force is for each one

-The groups or “triads” within the nine types

-How to start leveraging the knowledge you gain when you find out your own type, and even the types of people close to you; questions you can start asking yourself, and resources to turn to

-The spirituality of the Enneagram

-Some personal examples from Amanda of her behavior and motivations as a type 2

-How Enneagram can be used to communicate more effectively in personal and professional settings

-The importance of first gaining self awareness before trying to understand others

-Amanda’s advice on where to start if you are wanting to learn about your Enneagram type

-Get 20% off a one-on-one typing session with Amanda through the end of this month if you mention Rewire!

Resources:

-Click here to visit Amanda’s website

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Sign up for the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

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Themes: Food Sensitivities, Brain Retraining, Chronic Illness & Inflammation, Gut Health, Reframing Limiting Beliefs, Nervous System Regulation, Mind-Body Connection, Safetyism

Do food sensitivities limit the joy and freedom you currently feel in your life? Have you struggled to understand why you experience them in the first place? In this episode, Lindsay not only takes us into the science behind food sensitivities, but also dives deeper into how they are directly tied into the stress response of our brains, or the “gut-brain reaction.” She also shares some tools that you can start using today if you experience food sensitivities.

Show Notes:

-Not all food sensitivity tests are created equal- how they differ and what they can tell you about how your body is responding to certain foods

-The Everly test and the IgG immune response

-Why your body starts to see foods as “dangerous”

-Shifting from immediately starting elimination diets into instead starting with the “why”; Why is my body giving an inflammatory response to these foods?

-Explaining the bodys’ chronic stress response to food sensitivities, or the “gut-brain reaction”

-The correlation between stress chemicals such as cortisol and adrenaline, and your bodys’ inflammatory response to certain foods

-Dropping the beliefs of diet culture and practitioners that don’t address your “why”

-Starting to look at food as freedom

-Questions to ask yourself to help you reflect on how food makes you feel and affects your life; When you think about eating food, what does that allow you in your life? What does food represent for you? How can you use food to allow you more freedom in your life?

-Addressing your bodys’ perceived “threats” starting with your outward environment and then looking inward

-Simple ways you can start today to help you reframe your mindset around food to make your body feel safe even with “dangerous” foods

Resources:

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Sign up for the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Visit Cait’s Website

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Have you considered the impact that stress might be having on your body? And how it impacts your work, your health & personal relationships? This week, Cait and Lindsay are joined by “Stress Strategist” Michelle Johnson where they talk about how we can become more resilient through the lens of mental fitness.

Known as “The Stress Strategist,” Michele Johnson is a Duke Trained Physician Associate, CEO of The Pain Free PA Consulting Firm, ICF Certified Life Coach, Positive Intelligence Coach & International Best-Selling Author. Her holistic experiences in China & Cuba inform her unique approach to empowering high performing leaders and teams to foster resilience in times of stress and overwhelm through authentic connection and mental fitness.

Her firm’s framework and training & coaching services have helped Fortune 500, non-profit and healthcare industry leaders reclaim healthcare dollars, execute effective wellness strategies, and weather immense changes and challenges gracefully. Her biggest passion is to truly hear and understand leaders – which is what allows her to take speaking events, trainings & workshops to the next level …and to support building happier and healthier company culture inside of organizations.

Show Notes:

-Michele’s journey of 21 years healing from chronic pain and fibromyalgia

-Words Michele lives by: “You can always pick yourself up, brush yourself off, and start again”

-Michele saw high-achieving executives and leaders struggle with stress, maintaining work-life balance, and chronic issues and symptoms of their own

-Using positive intelligence as an operating system – combines emotional intelligence with nervous system rewiring

-Identify parts of the brain that are wired for survival and those that are wired for authenticity and thriving

-The importance of starting with mental fitness & nervous system rewiring in the workplace (where most people spend most of their time)

-Workplace trends in wellbeing: 1) people are realizing they have choice 2) people are leaving their jobs to pursue their passions 3) people are overwhelmed and overworked 4) there is still a skills gap among leaders (i.e. emotional intelligence, mental fitness)

-Take 5 - hold out your hand and trace your fingers when you’re looking for a moment of reprieve & need to support yourself

-Getting people to experience what it feels like to have a cohesive team is the first step to understanding mental fitness in your company

-The importance of meeting people where they are to drive engagement in the workplace when it comes to wellbeing initiatives

-The Value Shift: creating resilient people in the workplace drives creative risk taking, problem solving, innovation and bigger impact

-“We can’t think our way into solutions when we’re stressed.”

-Building mental fitness inside of teams: 1) know where you are right now to know where you want to go 2) get insights from other leaders in same & different industries 3) attend think tanks and roundtables, such as ones hosted by Michele and her firm

-“Separate yourself from the identity of what you’re going through.”

Resources:

-Click here to visit Michele’s website

-Contact Michele at michele@thepainfreepa.com

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Sign up for the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

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Some of us have experienced hitting a spot in our healing journey where it seems like we are doing all the work, but there is still a piece missing. In this episode, Cait discusses how sometimes, this missing piece is held trauma that wasn’t even ours in the first place. Going into detail about her experiences with plant medicine, Cait describes how shedding this trauma can be instrumental in the healing process, and in bettering your everyday life.

*Disclaimer Cait is not a licensed medical doctor or healthcare professional. The information about plant medicine given in the episode is based purely on her own experience and opinions and is not meant to be medical advice. Cait does not claim that plant medicine is a cure for any symptoms or conditions.*

Show Notes:

-The science behind ancestral/held trauma

-Types of plant medicines: “teacher” vs. “ally” and how they benefit the user in different ways

-Cait’s first experience with plant medicine, taken with her partner and lead by a facilitator

-The importance of setting intentions with this type of practice, and Cait’s intentions before her first experience

-Cait’s second solo experience with plant medicine; how it differed and how it led her to realize she was holding onto ancestral trauma

-The grief Cait found she was storing in her body from her grandmother, and how her body released it during this plant medicine experience

-How to know if you are holding unprocessed trauma, picked up from others around you or passed down ancestrally

-Other ways & tools to help you process and let go of these traumas besides plant medicine

Resources:

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Sign up for the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

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In the health and wellness world, it can be easy to get lost in the overload of information that exists about food- and even easier to get pulled into limiting beliefs surrounding what we eat. In this episode, Lindsay and Cait are joined by Whitney Aronoff, a personal chef who helps challenge these limiting beliefs and helps her clients replace “diet culture” with intuitive eating practices- such as getting acquainted with the vibrations of what we consume, trusting our gut, eating with the seasons, appreciating the pleasure of eating, and more.

Whitney Aronoff is a Health Supportive Personal Chef in Laguna Beach, California. She is passionate about wellness, the vibration of food, and supporting others in living their best life. As a personal chef she prepares custom meals and dinner parties for her clients, and shares her seasonal recipes on Starseed Kitchen. Knowing that a healthy diet is just one layer of being well, in 2021 she launched the podcast High Vibration Living With Chef Whitney Aronoff. She interviews experts on healthy eating, cooking, wellness, beauty, travel and spirituality to help others find the modalities and tips to help them feel their best. Chef Whitney believes the healthiest meal you can eat is the one you make at home, and she aims to invite people into their kitchen, feeling empowered to make healthy choices for themselves and their loved ones and to experience high vibration living.

Show Notes:

-Whitney’s personal journey from leaving a corporate job in PR to attending culinary school and eventually starting the business she owns today

-Learning to appreciate the joy behind eating, and experiencing pleasure in food

-The connection between food and the brain; using what you eat as fuel to steer your mind and life in the direction you desire

-The “balance test”; an example of how to choose food intuitively no matter where you are

-Trusting the wisdom of your own body, and learning how to listen when it is telling you what it needs

-Whitney’s experiences with self-awareness around food, and tuning out the opinions of others (and toxic societal messages as a whole) when it comes to how she nourishes herself

-How food can be grounding and the nervous system component of the digestive process

-Discussing the energy of eating; a different definition of “comfort food”

-Finding the balance of nourishing yourself in a healthy way that works for you, while letting go of the need to be rigid about your eating practices

-Limiting beliefs and mindfulness around food

-The energetic connection between the emotions that you are currently feeling, and the food/drink you are currently craving

-Leaning into eating from an intuitive place

Resources:

-Whitney's personal Instagram: @whitneyaronoff

-Whitney's company Instagram: @starseedkitchen

-Whitney's website: https://starseedkitchen.com/

-Eric Braverman Books

-Louis Hayes: “You Can Heal Your Life”

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Sign up for the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

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We’ve heard about the mind-body connection time and time again, but how does this specifically relate to women’s health? This week, Lindsay and Cait are joined by Australia-based women’s health coach, Jema Lee, who explains all things hormone related. Jema dives into how we can regulate our nervous systems to improve hormone health, how we can support different phases of our cycle, and how we can learn to be adaptable and give ourselves grace as our hormones fluctuate.

Jema Lee is a menstrual cycle expert, qualified Ayurvedic coach, and the creator of Wellsome. For a decade, she’s helped guide women in over 22 countries to embrace their monthly cycles and deepen body awareness through personalized coaching, online courses, retreats & workshops.

Show Notes:

-Jema’s story as a late bloomer; she started menstruating at 15 and describes herself as a tomboy, rejecting her feminine self.

-Jema stayed on contraceptives for 12 years until she started working as a coach. She got the diagnosis of leaky gut, PCOS, and she started learning about embodying the feminine and teaching clients.

-The role of masculine/feminine energetics

-Jema’s journey to understand the role stress & the nervous system play in the state of our hormones

-Leveraging both science & spirituality – Jema’s Ayurvedic approach to women’s health & balancing our hormones

-Our hormones are like an intricate spider web, linking to other hormones in the body - when we reject the menstrual cycle, we are rejecting our natural human capabilities.

-Why do we have menstrual pain? It’s important to look at our entire lifestyle and environment to discover the root of this question.

-Stress impacts our hippocampus, pituitary glands, and gonads, which can lead to a dysregulation of hormones.

-Our bodies often respond in a freeze survival response, which can delay menstruation.

-Cait’s journey with PMDD and going through hormonal healing as a result of burnout

-Phases of feminine evolution: the maiden, the mother: (around the age of 25) – doesn’t always mean giving birth to a child. This can mean nurturing and giving birth to a business, new ideas, etc.

-The biggest contributing factors to your menstrual cycles are stress and your relationship to the feminine.

-How can we connect to safety? We can create a supportive environment for ourselves to effectively menstruate.

-3 health check signs: sex, menstrual cycle and digestion (our bowel movements)

-Everything in life is cyclical (i.e. expansion and contraction) – men & non-menstruators run on a 24-hour cycle. Women & menstruators run on a 4-phase hormonal cycle (~25-35 days / roughly 4 weeks in total).

-We live in a world that is designed for a 24-hour cycle. ½ of the cycle is yang; and the other ½ is yin (i.e. 1 in half and 1 out half).

-The 4 distinct phases of a women’s cycle: menstruation, pre-ovulation, ovulation, post-ovulation

-We can learn to adapt our energy to different times of our cycle to respect our hormones and the cyclical menstruation process.

-During menstruation or “winter time,” keep yourself warm to regulate your nervous system, supporting the natural flow to let go.

-To keep yourself warm, use a heated blanket, take a bath, eat warm foods, and create space for yourself when you need it.

Resources

-Visit Jema’s Website

-Visit Jema’s Facebook and Instagram

-Free Love Your Cycle Tracker to start tracking your cycle here

-20% off Jema’s 5-day Love Your Cycle mini course with Code CYCLELOVE here

-Sign up for the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

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Do you ever feel like life (or at least 1 aspect of your life) seems just a little bit (or maybe even significantly) harder than it really needs to be? This week, Lindsay and Cait are joined by Dani and Paloma, the founders of In the Cortex to talk about brain reorganization and how we can reorganize our brains and unlearn patterns by recreating early movement in our bodies. In today’s episode, Dani and Paloma share their individual journeys that led them to discover brain reorganization and how they help people move from a disorganized brain to an organized one (and what that means). You’ll learn the symptoms of a disorganized brain; why babies crawl & the specific way the human brain develops; why how you move tells the story of your nervous system and how to better support your children’s learning habits to set them up for success as an adult.

Show Notes:

• Paloma’s story: her brother’s childhood journey experiencing a disability in Mexico City & finding brain reorganization to help him in his ADHD challenges, in his relationships, and experiencing a fuller life

• Dani’s story: her brother’s journey, being challenged with developmental issues and recognizing her own developmental issues, which led her family to discover brain reorganization

• Definition of a disorganized brain: the neurological foundation of the brain is not working as optimally as can be

• Definition of primitive reflexes: movement patterns that correlate to parts of the brain that are meant to be automatic (breathing, digestion, regulating heart rate, REM sleep, coordinating left and right hemispheres)

• Kids spend less and less time moving on the floor which can negatively impact their ability to integrate primitive reflexes

• Signs of a disorganized brain: attention challenges like ADHD, low energy levels, crippling anxiety, certain behavioral patterns – such impulsivity, impatience, and procrastination; responding to your environment in a survival-based way

• How to support your child’s brain development: 1) start with yourself & model what you want your kids to do 2) prioritize connection & attachment 3) remember that “less is more”

• You can do everything to aid your children in their development, but many times they need extra assistance in forming primitive reflexes

• “The way you move tells us exactly what’s happening in your brain”

• Simple physical movements can shift and reorganize the brain

• Modeling to children what you want them to do and how to behave is the key step in regulating the nervous systems of your children

• Before one year of age, make sure your baby’s default position is on their tummy (do it on and off as much as possible all day long)

• Anxiety is the #1 sign that you are in survival mode because your brain is processing your life as threatening

• “We all have the power to take charge of our brains.”

• Start with “creeping” and integrating the “fear paralysis reflex” as an adult

• In The Cortex’s brain reorganization program: work on 10 different primitive reflexes and integrate them through basic movements (i.e. creeping and crawling) & rewire any subconscious limiting beliefs

Resources

-Sign up for In the Cortex program in 2022: take advantage of the Dec. sale for 22% discount

-Sign up for In the Cortex program in 2023: use coupon code REWIRE for 20% off

-Book: Reflexes, Learning & Behavior by Sally Goddard

-Free intro to brain reorganization course

-Brain quiz

-In the Cortex Instagram: @inthecortex_us

-In the Cortex Facebook: @inthecortex_us

-In the TikTok: @in_the_cortex

-Visit their website: www.inthecortex.com

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Sign up for the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

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Are you wanting to set intentions rather than resolutions for the new year? With 2023 right around the corner, Lindsay and Cait talk about ways to avoid falling off the New Year’s resolution bandwagon come February by not only setting specific intentions that resonate with your goals, but also by addressing your current environment, distinguishing the difference between instinct and intuition, and tapping into the idea of what you THINK you should have.

Show Notes:

• Resolution vs. Intention: resolution - a firm decision to do something; intention - a determination to act in a certain way to achieve an aim or goal

• How setting intentions (instead of resolutions) can allow us more flexibility and adaptability

• Reflecting & taking inventory on the year you just had

• Ask yourself: “Who do I want to be next year?”

• Lindsay’s process: drawing pictures, visuals, and words to take inventory of her last year to get focus & clarity on who she is and where she’s going

• Every year, our process of reflection can look very different, we can evolve this process as we continue to curate our growth mindset

• Cait’s process: asking herself, “What feels good?” then balancing that with, “What might I be resisting that might serve me?”

• We can be intentional about our end-of-year environment in order to give ourselves the space we need to reflect

• Get clear on core desired feelings - when we use this process daily over the course of a few weeks, we can begin to feel our bodies and ask ourselves, “What does my body want and need?”

• Cait uses Danielle Laporte’s process to identify 3-5 core feelings that allow her to connect to meditate on the word, then see if she has the somatic response to it

• Being able to sit with a word & discover how your body is impacted by the word

• Words are the meaning we give them; if you’re someone that wants to get clear on your core desired feelings, you can give yourself the space to let your body tell you to activate the feelings you want to feel

• The RAS (Reticular Activating System) in our brain and the role it plays in allowing us to focus in on particular themes in our daily lives

• Ideas to connect with reflection: take one page in your journal and make a list of the things that you did, lessons learned, themes, feelings felt, experiences had, etc. over the past year

• Keep it simple – choose 1-3 words that you want to be the theme for the next year of your life

Resources

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Sign up for the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Visit Cait’s Website

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Cait & Lindsay are excited to announce a Rewire Holiday Giveaway happening between Dec. 6 - Dec. 13!

Giveaway details – here are the products & services included in the giveaway bundle:

1. 1 FREE introductory 1 hour coaching or reiki session PLUS 50% off one of Soulfully’s individual packages from Meghan Read, Energy Healing & Life Coach

Check out Ep. 14 to hear more from Meghan

1. Access to Cait's Signature Talk Academy course to help you uplevel your public speaking and storytelling skills from Cait Ross, CEO & Founder of Potential Haus
2. 1 month of free access to Reset from Lindsay Mitchell, CEO of Vital-side
3. 1 free 1:1 Human Design session from Bethany Bubenzer, Brand & Business Mentor

Check out Ep. 20 to hear more from Bethany

1. Signed copy of Growing Joy and a free 1- month membership to Garden Party from Maria Failla

Check out Ep. 47 to hear more from Mari

1. 1 Grounding Bag and 1 Faraday Bag from Justin Frandson

Check out Ep. 28 to hear more from Justin

How to enter the giveaway:

1. Leave a 5 star review on Rewire on Apple podcast
2. Leave a RAVING review in the comment section
3. Take a screenshot of that review and email it over with your name & address to rewirethepodcast@gmail.com
4. One lucky winner will be randomly chosen & emailed with details to claim your goodies!

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Do you ever find yourself wondering how science and spirituality can coexist equally? And how you can use both to manifest the things you want in life? Lindsay and Cait are joined by transformational mentor, Suzanne Adams, to discuss her self-actualization journey and why at a certain point in her life she decided to question everything. Suzanne talks about the inevitable discomfort that can often come when you find yourself on a personal healing journey, how to embody the frequency of what you truly desire, and why certainty is an illusion.

Suzanne is a seasoned speaker who has taken the mic on NBC, The CW, and Fox—as well as on stages ranging from TEDx, Hay House, The American Heart Association, LuluLemon, and many more. Suzanne is also a bestselling author, transformational mentor and strategist with book endorsements from Lewis Howes, Gabby Bernstein, and Lisa Nichols. Her latest book, Quantum Vibes – which was inspired by her groundbreaking Tedx Talk (that has garnered over two million views by the way), is an inspiring read that demonstrates how the combination of the Law of Attraction, spirituality, and science can work brilliantly in your favor to deliver you the contentment and success you’ve long desired.

Show Notes:

• Suzanne’s story: in 2011, she went to a luxury spa retreat in Sedona & dove head-first into shamanic astrology, chakra clearing, and tarot card reading

• Suzanne's journey living “a surface level life” up until 2011

• She has a “soul resonance” moment in this retreat - she felt something in her body when her mind didn’t understand what was going on

• In 2013, she had a “quantum moment” or “dark night of the soul,” where everything in her life started to change

• Feelings she had pushed down for years started to bubble up, and she drank wine to numb the pain of these scary feelings

• Divine intervention: when Suzanne’s clock never changed from 4:59 PM, so she couldn’t drink during her 5 pm daily happy hour. This is when she started to question everything

• She started researching self-help, joy, and happiness. This is when she attended retreats and hired coaches to reconnect with authentic herself

• Suzanne’s first steps: learning to override her logical, rational mind and understanding energy & frequency and how it feels in her body

• Certainty is an illusion, a falsified sense of safety

• There is always going to be discomfort in the healing journey - we can do things like practice self-love, self-care, and find a community to connect with our overall mission

• “I have to believe in me more than I believe in my fear”

• The definition of energetics – the intention of what you say & your actions; who you are being and what you are embodying; it’s a feeling

• Understanding our own triggers, desires, missions, etc. that informs how we tune into our own energy and the frequency of what we want to create

• Science brings understanding to spirituality; when we understand we all have a vibration, we can make the feelings tangible

• Start with small habit changes: changing what you watch on TV or meditating for 10 minutes/ day

• The importance of learning how to balance our masculine (do) with our feminine (be/receive) energies

• Dreaming from the field of what you desire (without needing to know the how) vs. dreaming from what you’ve already seen being done

• Asking yourself, “What is my soul desire?” Then, you start becoming an energetic match to what you desire. Then, do one step at a time

• The importance of marinating in your successes & “pinch me” moments

Resources

-Visit Suzanne’s Website

-Suzanne’s Instagram: @suzanneadamsinc

-Related Podcast Episodes: Ep. 56 - Unbottle Your Truest Potential

-Suzanne’s books: Girl Awakened and Quantum Vibes

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Cait & Lindsay are excited to announce a Rewire Holiday Giveaway happening between Dec. 6 - Dec. 13!

Giveaway details – here are the products & services included in the giveaway bundle:

1. 1 FREE introductory 1 hour coaching or reiki session PLUS 50% off one of Soulfully’s individual packages from Meghan Read, Energy Healing & Life Coach

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1. Access to Cait's Signature Talk Academy course to help you uplevel your public speaking and storytelling skills from Cait Ross, CEO & Founder of Potential Haus

2. 1 month of free access to Reset from Lindsay Mitchell, CEO of Vital-side

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Are you looking to start your own business but are unsure of where to start? Or perhaps you’re already on an entrepreneurial journey and are looking to gain inspiration & momentum by surrounding yourself with other like-minded people on a similar path? Lindsay and Cait are joined by Shark Tank alum, Anthony France, CEO & Founder of M.C. Squares to talk about all of the ingredients that go into running a successful business. Anthony shares his experience & learning lessons of being featured on the popular network show, Shark Tank. He also shares more on why leading with kindness is key in any business, the importance of running your business with sustainability in mind, and how to build & structure your support systems – both your team & your support at home.

Anthony & M.C. Squares have been featured on Good Morning America, Bloomberg, USA Today, BuzzFeed and many more well-known publications for the work they are doing to increase sustainability and reduce waste. Along with founding 6 different successful companies and holding dozens of patents, Anthony has held leadership positions in creative direction, feature film post-production, technological architecture, marketing automation, enterprise product development, and product manufacturing.

Show Notes:

• Anthony’s background as a serial entrepreneur and his background in design thinking & Technology

• Dealing with a 5 year non-compete and pivoting into the physical products space.

• The center of brainstorming: the white board + sticky notes

• Starting M.C. Squares & launching their first product in 2016

• When you organize, you are conquering your chaos - this allows you to calm and clear

• Trying out for Shark Tank 5 different times + Anthony’s desire to be part of the Shark Tank Community

• Being at Shark Tank... “the worst best week of my life”

• The 3 archetypes of people that are casted on Shark Tank: 1) the hero 2) the villain and 3) the fool

• Anthony making a deal with Kevin on Shark Tank

• Anthony’s learning lessons & mistakes made while on Shark Tank.... Overpreparing in an effort to appear as a true company (vs. just a product) made him feel & appear to be less organized

• Anthony’s experience as a founder of multiple startups - cultivating passion is the first thing you need to start a business.

• Reference to the Princess Bride - “What’s your noble cause?” Reconnecting with that cause is a great reminder to be reignited about passion, especially during the days that feel stressful.

• How to cultivate a team with similar values - hiring is the most important thing that founders can do

• There are benefits to working in a startup like building your career path, so hiring is a part of creating that company culture

• Hiring a team that can fill in the gaps with what you aren’t great at as the founder/leader of the business

• Kindness is key - looking for kind team members is key in growing your business

• Leading from a place of servant leadership – you, as the founder is there to serve the employees.

• Kolbe A Index: Assessment that measures the instinctive ways you take action when you strive. Use your custom Kolbe A Index Results to be more productive, less stressed, and unlock joy in your business. Kolbe A can also be used in the hiring process as you bring on new team members.

• “Nothing is sustainable” -- all we can do is try our best based on the value system that we have.

• Building a sustainable business – facility is 100% wind power; helping people stay organized and feel better mentally.

• Our values are unique to us - we do our best as humans to do our best in order to create ripple effects in the world

• Anthony’s current biggest challenge: scaling & finding the capital to scale

• Finding a support system at home + having a team you can rely on is one of the most critical pieces to building a successful business

• Best advice for starting a business - “Don’t do it.” And if this talked you out of starting a business, starting a business is not for you.

Resources

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How do you proactively grieve as a busy person? This week, Lindsay and Cait are joined by licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Mekel Harris, to discuss how you can address grief from a body-mind-spirit perspective. They dive into how understanding grief helps us better pinpoint how it shows up in the body, how grief impacts our personal growth with entrepreneurship, and simple & actionable tools you can use to begin to process grief.

Mekel offers training, consultation, and supervision services to organizations around the world and holds an advanced certification in grief counseling, and has presented at over 30 domestic and international conferences. She focuses on pediatric, family, and community health issues, including grief and loss throughout the past 10 years. She is a TEDx speaker, FOX13 Memphis mental health expert, blogger, magazine and podcast contributor, author, and course creator.

Show Notes:

-Mekel’s story - starting her career in the 90s, working with children in developmental differences, and she started working with parents who were grieving their kids’ physical losses.

-In Dec 2012, her mom died, and she started to make grief and loss her main focus.

-Grief shows up in situations that you don’t anticipate - we can identify it as an emotion like irritability, anger, and sadness.

-Spiritual questions also come along with loss - how do I make sense of this loss in my life? What does this say about me? What does it say about my belief system?

-We associate grief with the physical death of an individual, but there is “hidden grief.” This is the loss of experiencing joyful times, and we can be grieving different routines.

-We can widen our scope when it comes to understanding grief which helps us better pinpoint how grief shows up – both when it’s obvious and when it comes in a more subtle way.

-Steps to take to grieve:

1.) Name it (as to not bypass an emotion)

2.) Claim it - owning your current reality to explore what’s happening around me and within me

3.) Don’t shame it.

-Lindsay shares her experience navigating grief when a good friend & colleague passed away and how it manifested as “buzzing” at nighttime and how it affected her sleep.

-Grief can live within the gap between what we envision for our lives vs. reality.

-Simple tool: Cast a vision for yourself each day. Name and process the reality & tension that exists between the two. Move into action to address any grief and emotions that come up.

-Anticipatory grief: proactive steps we can take to prepare for any future grief, loss or shifts/changes in our businesses

-Set a 5 minute timer & ask yourself these 4 WH questions:

1.) Where are my thoughts taking me?

2.) What do I notice in my body?

3.) What’s happening around me?

4.) What can I do to help myself at this moment?

-We have 50,000 - 80,000 thoughts per day (and most are “negative”).

-We can utilize self-compassion and self-care as tools to address grief and be proactive about processing it.

-As entrepreneurs, we grieve financial losses, expectations around launches, and other losses; we toggle between vision casting and reality.

-Mekel has been an entrepreneur for 3 years, and the reality of ALL the freedom is that we also deal with loss of expectations, and understanding this is a step towards self-care.

-Schedule self-care: Full Focus Planner: offering you quarterly goals that break things down into goals - “What can I do for myself?”

-As entrepreneurs, we may pivot and find that our original passions don’t match the outcome of our vision and we experience great loss as a result - we can allow ourselves to pivot.

-If you have not reached quarterly goals at the end of 2022, look at your calendar, and spend time anchoring into your needs with Mekel’s resources.

Resources:

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-Visit Dr. Harris’ Website

-Visit Dr. Harris’ Facebook

-Dr. Harris’ Instagram: @drmekel

-“What’s Happened To You?” By Dr. Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey

-Find the Full Focus Planner here

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Do you feel lost, overwhelmed, and inundated by ANOTHER detox remedy in your healing journey? Lindsay is joined this week by Vital-Sider, Lori Weir, who discusses what it was like after being diagnosed with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), Post Orthostatic Hypotension (POTS), and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). Lori also details what led her to find the Rewire community and begin brain-retraining. She describes some of her major transformational moments - going from being hospitalized with intense adrenaline surges to today, riding roller coasters at Disneyland with her 3 children and husband.

Lori Weir has a background in psychology, but it wasn’t until she and her children began to suffer from chronic conditions that she discovered just how important the nervous system was to her healing. She has been in the holistic health world for nearly 10 years She credits brain-retraining as being the missing piece to her healing puzzle. She is passionate about sharing her story and helping others see their own capability for self-healing. In 2022, she started partaking in community group sessions in Vital-Side Ed and taking her retraining journey to the next level in Elevate: Brain Retraining 2.0. Lori now works as the Vital-Side Community Manager, and she shares her story of healing with thousands of members on the Vital-Side Network and has reconnected with herself and her health in a massive way.

Show Notes:

-Lori’s story of first dealing with the sickness of her kids 4 years ago and becoming aware of her own need to heal in 2021

-Recognition of how from the darkest times in life come light and joy

-Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) diagnosis of two of her children

-Discovering modalities like homeopathy that helped her children find symptom relief

-Finding Rewire after being in the Lyme community and learning about brain retraining

-When Lori had her eyes dilated and was diagnosed with MCAS… that was the moment she realized this wasn’t about the eyedrops - it was her body’s response to the eyedrops.

-Having 911 called twice during adrenaline surges was Lori’s catalyst for change to start Rewire in July 2021

-After 3 months, she started to notice changes where she was calm and sleeping through the night when her kids were asleep.

-Lori also noticed she was adventurous and confident to take her children out to hike in nature.

-She started asking herself, “Who am I?” after brain retraining for over a year; she went on a journey to rediscover who she was now that she was feeling better.

-Starting Elevate has made her healing journey more fun and filled with purpose.

-Lori recognizes that the Elevate videos are shorter, simpler, and easier than she thought, and she is now recommitting to brain retraining as a result.

-Describing her experience as “wild,” looking back to where she and her children were suffering just 4 years ago to riding roller coasters and road-tripping to Disneyland from Texas today.

Resources:

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-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

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How can we rewire our brains & bodies to experience more ease in our work and in the ways we earn & make money? This week, Lindsay and Cait are joined by the Heal and Hustle CEO, Cara Barone, to discuss how you can use somatic practices to rewire how you work, earn & lead so you can experience more ease and less overwhelm in your daily life. Join us to explore how to rewire your automatic “default” reactions, how our current “do more” culture sets us up for nervous system dysregulation, and how to embrace uncomfortable emotions to build successful careers, businesses, and lives with more ease and joy.

Cara Barone is an international nervous system business coach who has over a decade of experience in international marketing and consulting experience. She specializes in helping 6 + 7 figure CEOs heal the hustle — to rewire how they work, earn and lead from a place of more peace + fun by decreasing anxiety, overwhelm, and the pressure of life and business.

Show Notes:

• Cara’s story: how she went from a high-paced/adrenaline/climbing of the corporate ladder culture to complete burnout & isolation

• During burnout, Cara was reacting to everything, even lettuce. She got certified as a health coach to learn more about healing

• Cara shifted to business coaching, and during that transition, found out she had Mold Illness (CIRS), which was the catalyst for moving from London to Australia

• During 2020, she felt completely alone in her healing journey as a result of complete nervous system overwhelm, and she started the journey to regulate her nervous system

• Cara’s shift and pivot in her business – burning down her original IG account & starting @healthehustle

• Nervous systems mirror nervous systems

• We have to be WILLING to work and earn differently before things can change

• Awareness is the first step to changing how we work, earn & lead

• What is the cost of staying the same / the cost of not working differently?

• Rewiring our beliefs to support what we want and how we want it

• Bringing awareness that there can be a different way that may feel uncomfortable, it doesn’t mean it’s bad, it means that it’s different. Safety can feel different and uncomfortable because it’s unfamiliar to you

• Information on old belief systems that are created from young ages - understanding that we are often believing antiquated statements that are no longer relevant to our lives

• We are often reacting to experiences from our past, rather than situations in front of us. Does your reaction match the circumstance? If not, this may be your inner child reacting & your nervous system responding from their perspective (i.e. “am I making a 2 a 10?”)

• Find the part in your body that is reacting using basic somatic principles

• Get to know the cues and the clues of your body - start to check-in: “What do I need right now?”

• Simple regulation tools: shaking the body, standing in the sun, and body scans to help you attune with your body

Resources:

-Cara’s Instagram: @heal.the.hustle

-Visit Cara’s Website: https://carabarone.com/heal-the-hustle

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Sign up for the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

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Is there something in your life that you feel like is holding you back from reaching your full potential? Lindsay and Cait are joined by trauma-informed somatic coach and mentor, Samantha Johnson, to discuss the practice of Somatics, how to identify ways of being by uncovering who we have been, and how you can learn to take a step back & take a look at how your body experiences life.

Samantha Johnson is the founder of The Alchemy of Truth coaching company where she works as a trauma-informed somatic coach and mentor. She also created the Alchemy of Healing Book Club where people from all over the world come together monthly to heal in connection and dip their toes into somatic practice. She is an immensely gifted leader and coach with the ability to hold space and create safety for those in her presence to come back into contact with the fullness of their being.

Show Notes:

-Sam’s 10-year journey entering and being in the work of nervous system regulation

-Recognizing the patterns of her life, being the child of an alcoholic and addict - how this showed up in her relationships

-Learning to be connected with all the parts of ourselves – not just the parts that feel “good”

-“With awareness comes choice” – Eckart Tolle

-Somatic processing vs. brain retraining and other nervous system regulation processes

-“Soma” – to be with the wholeness of our being

-Somatics is the practice of being with all that is - we can cultivate safety through somatic practices

-Trauma can be a huge lens for why we can’t move forward - being present with life is the ultimate goal in Sam’s work

-“Am I honoring myself, my body, and my needs when I am forced to do a rigid routine?” Getting rid of any stigma around what you SHOULD do

-Living somatically is about doing less. Come back to the question, “Is this what I need or does my nervous system just really need a break right now?”

-“The sky isn’t the limit - the nervous system is.” Sam’s perspective on how our collective and individual nervous systems limit us

-Sam’s journey working through a “wounded space” of the high achiever after owning a hair salon for 16 years

-“Fixing” via mindset work vs. deep root-cause healing

-Burnout can happen a lot quicker when we are further and deeper into our personal growth journeys – our nervous systems can be quicker to attune what isn’t aligned, what doesn’t feel good or what isn’t sustainable

-“Butterflies” in your belly is an example of a red flag in a relationship - when we pay attention to these signs, we can learn that we have the ability to make choices in our external environments

-We can create a distinction of what’s happening inside of us vs what’s happening in our environments

-Learning to sit still and understand how emotions show up in your body can help you to process & reconnect with yourself

-There is a fine line between a coping mechanism & using a tool that allows us to connect with what nurtures us

-Sam’s experience having gone through a recent breakup. In knowing herself better and not being so hung up on the story, she was able to be with the emotion rather than give in to it

-90 seconds is the lifespan of the emotion - allowing ourselves to be with the emotion for a period of time without letting it dictate the rest of our lives

-When we can be with what is – it can move through us

-Neuroception – how we respond to our environment (i.e. the subconscious process that happens all the time by our brains and bodies to determine what is safe vs. unsafe – and is based on our past experiences)

-Instinct vs intuition - it can be difficult to delineate the two, but we can tap into what that full body “yes” looks like (intuition)

-Fear can be coupled with intuition and instinct… we can start paying attention to our own experiences to understand this for ourselves

-Let’s remember that our bodies are smart instead of shaming ourselves for not initially listening to our bodies

Resources:

-Subscribe to the Monthly Somatic Book Club here

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-Samantha’s Instagram: @alchemicallysam

-Dr. Becky Kennedy’s Instagram: @drbeckyatgoodinside

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Are you a new parent wondering how to regulate your nervous system? Lindsay and Cait are joined by Dr. Alex Mosley, a Texas-based chiropractor and a holistic wellness practitioner where they dive into the complexities of managing your nervous system while navigating the world of parenting. Alex discusses why she believes fight or flight isn’t always a “negative” response, why and how we can let go of “Mom-shaming”, and how we can begin to normalize temporary nervous system dysregulation as a new parent.

Show Notes:

-Alex’s personal story of how she discovered nervous system regulation work and her journey with allopathic medicine, leading her to realize the need for a more holistic view on health as a chiropractor

-The difference Alex felt between being in the waiting room of a chiropractor vs. a traditional medical doctor

-Alex’s experience as a new parent -- feeling contradictory emotions all at once, along with the dichotomy of being pregnant and being a new mom

-Alex’s choice to do a home birth

-Alex’s journey with postpartum high-functioning anxiety + weaving in old threads of her life with new threads of being a Mom & parent

-Shifting your mindset away from “How can I decrease or get rid of this stress response?” to “How can I allow myself to be in this stress response effectively because it's a normal part of being a new Mom?”

-Alex’s experience with “Mom rage” when her daughter was ~3 months old -- this is a sign of unmet needs

-Parents need to take a step back and do their own healing work; as a result of mirror neurons, parents condition children to feel what they feel and act how they act

-Being a parent allows you to tap into a whole new level of surrender, which allows parents to learn & grow

-Babies need to securely attach to their caretakers.

-Debunking the myth of babies “sleeping through the night” and how that relates to Attachment Theory

-Relearning as your baby grows & develops – Alex’s experience with a “new baby” every month that her daughter, Georgia grows

-Gaining confidence and alignment in the decisions you are making as a Mom – through collective learning; community & support; and connecting to your own intuition – as anecdotes to “Mom shaming”

-Alex’s advice on regulating your nervous system in a realistic way as a new Mom – get back to basics & release expectations:

1) Make sure your decisions are in alignment with YOU – “if it doesn’t feel right to you, it’s not right for you”

2) Showering more often – let freezing cold water pour over you at the end of your shower

3) Make sure to eat – one-handed foods are helpful for easy eating on-the-go

4) Alex’s adrenal cocktail that is necessary to replenish minerals that are depleted after being in a state of fight-flight

5) Addressing in resources you need like counseling, housekeeping, or Instacart

Resources:

-Visit Alex’s Website

-Alex’s Instagram: @thespecificatx

-Listen to Alex’s Podcast You Crack Me Up: The Chiropractic Show

-Book: “Mama Rising” by Amy Taylor-Kabbaz

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Have you wondered why you want to come home, check out, and just watch Dateline at the end of a long day? Are you simultaneously experiencing insomnia, anxiety, and stress throughout your day? In today’s episode, Lindsay is diving straight into why we’re addicted to drama. It’s not because we are passionate about crime or gore – it’s because we are addicted to chronic stress after being conditioned to live in a do-more culture. She talks about tangible ways to start changing your habits to get that necessary downtime without feeding the “drama loop,” and how to break the habit of feeding chronic stress.

Show Notes:

-We are exposed to drama through technology, news, social media, TV shows & podcasts

-We can be addicted to stress hormones like adrenaline, cortisol, and norepinephrine

-The difference between experiencing a bought of stress naturally and being addicted to stress

-Question to come back to: “What are you in control of throughout your day?”

-Our work environments & day-to-day lifestyle make us addicted to stress through conditioning

-Awareness is the first step to making drastic changes to the stress response

-We can become aware, then understand the incentives and rewards the addiction gives us

-What can we replace this habit with that offers the same reward?

-Understanding and tapping into our natural resilience is our human birthright

-Introduce small state changers throughout the day like vagus nerve stimulation

-How to start creating habit shifts:

Resources:

-Regulation station: 1 Week of Free Access! Click ‘join now.’

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Are you struggling to understand your brain and body’s impulse reactions to certain stressors or triggers in your life? This week, Lindsay shares tangible tools to begin your brain retraining journey, as well as breaking down and identifying what an acute stress response looks like, and the role our stress hormones play in that response, and shares a visualization exercise you can try from the comfort of your home.

Show Notes:

-Identify the goals you have in your life – how & why to use brain retraining

-Going from unconscious brain retraining to intentional brain retraining

-Lindsay’s background in science and medicine & interest in optimizing health

-Understanding and defining our own perfect storm after exposure to toxins or trauma

-Definition of the acute stress response – toggling in and out of fight-flight-freeze

-Example of the stress response in animals

-How the stress response can show up in our lives as physical, mental, or emotional symptoms

-Example of how the brain changes using the example of the stress hormone, cortisol

-Information on Epigenetics with Dr. Bruce Lipton

-What happens when we make intentional changes to our brains using the example of dopamine

-The difference between avoiding stressors and triggers & recognizing your capacity to start to regulate your autonomic nervous system

-A BONUS Nervous System Regulation tool using visualization & breath: go from acute fight-flight-freeze to connect with your own natural resilience

Resources:

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Sign up for the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

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Do you ever find yourself faced with the social pressures of drinking alcohol? Does alcohol no longer align with your higher vibration and the ultimate vision you have for your dream life? Lindsay and Cait are joined by alcohol-free lifestyle expert, Amanda Kuda, who discusses the role alcohol can play in your life, in your social circles, and in manifesting your dreams. Amanda discusses Gray-Area Drinking, how to manage & overcome the social pressures of drinking, and why more and more people are choosing to live an alcohol-free lifestyle.

Amanda Kuda is a writer, intuitive coach, and mentor who helps leaders and entrepreneurs break up with booze so that they can break through to their best lives. Her biggest passion is teaching other high-achieving women how to navigate the stumbling blocks of going alcohol-free so you can step into a life beyond your wildest dreams.

Show Notes:

• Amanda’s story: how she used alcohol as a social lubricant in order to “fit in”

• In her 20s, she started to discover that there was more to life - she started her spiritual & personal development journey...but she still felt like something was off

• Switching the mentality from “doing more” to looking at her lifestyle to see if there was an activity that was misaligned; her inner guide told her it was drinking alcohol

• How to listen to your mind, body, and natural intuition to understand your own needs

• How alcohol can change your brain chemistry and alter your health

• Defining “gray area drinking” — what is is & why/how it causes challenges

• “You don’t need to have a problem with alcohol in order for it to be a problem in your life”

• Archetypes (by Gretchin Rubin) – 1. Moderators and 2. Abstainers

• Tapping into your own ability to create, reprogram your brain, and rewire mental processes when abstaining from alcohol

• Learning more information about what alcohol does to the brain on Andrew Huberman’s Podcast

• Amanda’s recommendation: take a 90-day break from alcohol to reconnect with your intuition without alcohol as a roadblock

• The Cosmic Algorithm: the Universe shows you content that aligns to your personal goals and values, including your social life, friendships, and personal relationships

• When shifting your relationship to alcohol, there may be shifts in your current friendships —this can be a good thing and lead to deeper & more authentic connections

• Curate your own life by shifting your focus (+ the science behind the Reticular Activating System (RAS) in our brains)

• Manifesting and how to shift your relationship with manifesting by breaking up with alcohol

• If you lower your energetic vibration & dilute yourself to a different energetic level, you require a heavier lift to get you back to your desires and highest potential

• Your destiny is closer than you imagine if you get out of your own way

• “Optimize your life by removing obstacles” by James Clear

• There is a paradigm shift occurring —we are becoming more focused on living vibrant lives inside & out; we are approaching an era where alcohol drinking is becoming less seductive

Resources:

-Visit Amanda’s Website

-Amanda’s Instagram: @amandakuda

-Unbottled Potential Podcast

-Gretchen Rubin’s Podcast

-Andrew Huberman Podcast Episode on Alcohol and the Brain

-James Clear’s Book: Atomic Habits

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-Sign up for the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

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Traveling can be taxing on our nervous system, and it can be difficult to find the time and space to check in with yourself while you’re on a plane, in a car, or exploring a new city. This week, Cait shares a detailed how-to guide and offers actionable and proactive steps you can take to ensure your nervous system is well cared for and regulated before and during your travels.

Show Notes:

• Cait shares her recent personal experience with staying regulated while traveling to NYC

• How a woman's monthly cycle can add nuances while traveling

• Nervous system regulation tools while traveling:

• Engage in movement — stretch before your flight / car / bus ride, take a class in your destination city or watch a free class on YouTube, sweat it out for bonus detoxing

• Nature — find a park, put your bare feet in the grass, or lay down to ground yourself

• Music — Cait shares her go-to playlist to listen to when commuting from Point A to Point B (especially on long flights)

• Pack food & nourishing snacks — google health food stores ahead of your trip so you know the distance to/from the closest options from where you’re staying; pack your go-to healthy snacks to minimize airport food when possible

• Take space — engage in intentional breathing, solo time, & make intentional upgrades to your physical space when possible (i.e. seat upgrades for extra space on an airline flight)

• Bonus tip: research ahead of time! Save a google list of all your “saved” and pinned places for healthy food, grocery stores, workout classes & more

• Cait’s final and #1 tip: slow down, ease up on expectations to see and “do it all” while traveling, and be present to your surroundings

Resources:

-Cait’s “Regulate and Elevate” Spotify Playlist

-”Weightless” Song

-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here

-Sign up for the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s website

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What does healing mean to you? This week, we learn to break the typical definition of healing as “being healed” - and re-define it to a definition that makes sense to us. We discuss how healing should be less about “fixing” something and more about reconnecting with your sense of self. We discuss small ways you can anchor into your healing journey, as well as some questions you can ask yourself to recalibrate. In this episode, we talk about the best way to support our brains, bodies, and minds rather than think of ourselves as broken.

Show Notes:

-Healing is a recalibration back to homeostasis - back to our own purposes & missions

-Healing steps - stepping into the sunshine, getting less screen time, or simply tuning into your own body

-An analogy of “healing as a hose” – what setting do you need to put the hose on during this season of your life?

-Focus less on fixing & more on creating a daily practice

-The human experience is full of yin and yang – normalizing the balance that life brings us of having exciting & easy days vs. challenging & more difficult days

-As humans & natural problem solvers, we can have perfectionistic tendencies that can lead to feeling like we are “not enough,” “not doing enough,” or “need to be fixed”

-Asking yourself, “Where am I right now on the pendulum of desire and detachment?” – If the desire/fixing/elevating piece is being experienced too much, then balancing it with detachment can be a gentle way to allow yourself to make mistakes & fail

-If you lean too much into desire, there may be too much masculine energy. You can balance this with more soft, gentle feminine energy to infuse healthy detachment energy into your personal growth process

-Simple tools you can use throughout the day to start to re-define healing: talk to yourself the way you would treat your best friend

Resources:

-Link to the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s website

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Do you find it difficult to give yourself grace during your healing journey and trauma processing experience? We’re talking with Gabrielle Westbrook who shares her journey into believing herself by allowing her mind and body to feel difficult emotions. She discusses ways to develop self-compassion habits, use awareness as the first step of transformation, and traverse your healing journey by allowing yourself to express discomfort in a quiet, healing space with emotional awareness.

Gabrielle is a trauma-informed healing coach whose main passion is to help women come to know and believe that the emotions they want to feel… and the relationships & life they want to have are possible for them. She helps women heal the trauma from self-betrayal or sexual betrayal in their relationship through the body, subconscious mind, nervous system regulation, and the lens of their enneagram type.

Show Notes:

-Gabrielle’s story: a reclamation of what “little Gabrielle” wanted

-The power of getting to the root cause of our challenges, beliefs, and so much more

-Pivotal moments in Gabrielle’s life: her mom asking her what she could have done differently and her husband dealing with a sex & porn addiction

-Gabrielle’s experience with nervous system regulation & dissociation

-Feeling fear, anger, resentful (i.e. sympathetic response) and paralyzed (i.e. freeze mode)

-Recovery always starts with self – even when you feel like you’ve been betrayed in a relationship

-Gabrielle’s motto when working with her clients: “You will be okay regardless of what happens in or to your relationship”

-Gabrielle’s journey & decision to stay in her marriage and build a new foundation → focusing on SELF first

-Pausing & slowing down to connect (or reconnect) with your sense of self-worth

-Allowing yourself to grieve your experiences and loss of self-worth

-The importance of expressing anger in order to learn to value yourself (a reference to polyvagal theory)

-“Who am I when no one else sees what I am doing?” This can be a painful and uncomfortable question to ask - but important to understand who you are

-Enneagram types depict a combination of nature and nurture - you are forever your dominant type but the type that you are is just the mask that you wear

-Your enneagram type is how you get your core needs met

-Integration & disintegration lines – i.e. stress path vs. growth path

-Definition of enneagram & brief history - using it to cultivate own sense of self & how we operate in the world

Resources:

-Afterglow Membership

-Take the Enneagram Quiz

-Gabrielle’s Instagram: @gabriellewestbrook_

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-Link to the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

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Are you wondering why you’re more and more limited in the foods you can eat? Or perhaps you have been diagnosed with IBS, SIBO, or another digestive condition with no known etiology. This week, Lindsay offers a look into the world of our relationship to food, food sensitivities we have, and how we can begin to shift our perspective on foods that can help ease physical symptoms. Lindsay also explains how the topic of food sensitivities is informed by toxic diet culture, some reasons why you might see some foods as “dangerous,” and how to live a life without fearing food.

Show Notes:

-Basic overview of the information food sensitivity tests allow

-Deep diving into IgG – the meaning – and asking the question, “Why is my body responding like this food is dangerous?”

-Toxic diet culture and how that impacts our perception of food

-Why we can be empowered in our own healing journeys, knowing they are unique and individualized

-Information on the stress response and the fluctuating cortisol levels we experience - information on histamine and MAST cells

-Examples on how the brain impacts the body with food – addressing SIBO, Leaky Gut, and food sensitivities

-Why we need to stop always looking at the tests and start looking at how our bodies are responding

-Pausing to ask ourselves, “What does food allow me? What does it represent for me?”

-Using conscious thought to start to change subconscious beliefs and associations to foods - simple tools we can start to use with ourselves & our families

Resources:

-Link to the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s website

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What is the difference between mindset work and nervous system regulation? Are they the same thing or are they different? While the brain (i.e. the mind in action) is part of your nervous system… traditional mindset work can leave a gap that nervous system regulation can fill in helping you to unlock and reach your infinite potential. In this episode, we talk about the power of your nervous system and the role it plays in your everyday life… from what you think, to how you move, what you feel, and everything in between.

Show Notes:

-Lindsay defines the nervous system and shares more about the power it has to affect everything in our body and how we interact with the world around us

• The central nervous system vs the peripheral nervous system

• The nervous system’s role in maintaining homeostasis in our internal & external environments

• Top-down (mind-led) and bottom-up (body-led) approaches to use to regulate our nervous systems

• N.S. regulation can be done at home in simple, enjoyable ways

• We can be so focused on the “doing” rather than connecting with our “inner worlds”

• Traditional mindset work can miss the body side of the equation — we may need less “cognitive” tools and more “embodiment”

• The Pyramid of Potential -- move from doing (tangible strategy) to thinking (mindset work -- reframing beliefs & rewiring habits) to being (the nervous system combined with the mindset work)

• When we use this pyramid, we are able to shift the way that we create & show up for ourselves and in our businesses or careers

• Lindsay shares a visualization tool that combines top-down and bottom-up regulation to feel a sense of accomplishment — try it out with us!

Resources:

-Link to the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s website

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Do you want to use Human Design to create more expansion & success in your life? Or in your business? We’re talking with Kaila O’Connor to discuss how she has implemented Human Design as a foundational strategy to help her achieve her goals and grow into the successful entrepreneur she is. Kaila shares about her personal career journey, debunks common myths related to Human Design, and dives into Cait & Lindsay’s HD profiles as examples of how to use HD to create more growth and expansion in your life.

Kaila O’Connor is the founder of KMO Consulting -- the first agency to offer live Affiliate PR training for industry professionals. Her company has trained more than 80 Condé Nast editors in Affiliate Marketing, all while ensuring she and her team operate in pure energetic alignment. As a certified Human Design reader, Kaila loves sharing how she has personally and professionally embodied her energetic alignment -- from building a successful PR business as a Projector type to continue amplifying the parts of her that were conditioned to feel weird or wrong.

Show Notes:

-Kaila’s story & personal journey: from a young age, she observed animals and how they

instinctively move as a model for how she best operates according to her own Human Design

• Taking PR 101 in college as a catalyst for uncovering her purpose & life’s work

• Kaila’s journey with panic attacks: presenting slides to a team at 3M’s office in one of her first corporate jobs induced her first panic attack

• Kaila’s relationship with her “flight” response to manage anxieties and stressors in her earlier life, including an abusive relationship

• Discovering Human Design and her Projector energy type → feeling equal parts relieved and having an “oh no, I am in the wrong career” moment

• Kaila experienced a major shift when she turned 30 - meeting her wife & getting her first affiliate job

• Debunking a common myth in Human Design.... “There are no limitations.” This is not a system designed to put you in a box or limit you in any way.

• Using Human Design to better connect, collaborate & communicate in our relationships

• Projectors: keep in mind invisible expectations; Generators: keep in mind direct questions

• Thinking about the “authority” type when it comes to communication in our relationships

• Profiles are identities or personalities: look at the “body graph,” and look at the sun top right and top left decimal; the first number is “how you see yourself,” the second number is “how people see you”

• Profile types: 1: natural learners; 2: natural wisdom; 3: lived learner; 4: quality vs quantity when it comes to connections; 5: problem solver; a very social connector; 6: the role model

• Simple steps to let our energetic alignment guide our lives: Know who you’re serving, why they need to be served, and the HOW can be led by human design

• Shifting from being a consumer to being a creator on social media

• On the HD chart, if you have undefined parts of your chart, what you consume impacts how you feel; for example, if you have an undefined heart center, your self-worth can be determined by external factors

• On your HD chart, if you have a defined root, always give yourself a deadline - procrastination can be an attribute

• When it comes to manifestation, it’s important to understand if you’re a non-specific or specific manifestor; leaning into understanding your most important sense to understanding how you feel; understanding how to thrive in certain environments

Resources:

-Curious about your Human Design? Check out these resources here and here

-For an introduction to Human Design, listen to Episode 10 of the Rewire Podcast

-For more information on the 4 arrows of your HD Chart, see here

-Visit Kaila’s website

-Kaila’s Instagram: @kmo.hd

-Link to the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

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Are you wondering how you can establish strong boundaries in today’s fast-paced world? Lindsay and Cait discuss how to set boundaries and cultivate more self-compassion. They also dive into addressing the root of people-pleasing tendencies (i.e. the fawn response), compassion fatigue, and learning how to put on your own oxygen mask first.

Show Notes:

• Lindsay’s perspective on self-compassion

• Self-awareness, kindness, and common humanity as the main ingredients of compassion

• The “oxygen mask” analogy in giving ourselves compassion before we can give it to others

• Cultivating healthy boundaries as a tool to cultivate self-compassion (especially for caregivers)

• The power of saying “no”

• Regular check-in’s to ensure there is alignment with your daily activities & to-do’s and your core values

• Cait’s experience using self-compassion in her life

• Empathy + action: this creates a forward-moving trajectory in our lives to cultivate the habit of self-compassion

• Allow yourself space to feel all your feelings – give yourself a container to do this on a regular basis

• Stepping away from the “people pleasing” nature or the “fawn response”

• In order to set a boundary, we have to start small. Find one area where saying “no” feels accessible to start. The more frequently you do this, the easier it becomes.

• Recognize your personal body cues that feel like an aligned ‘yes’ or an aligned ‘no’

• Ask yourself: “What need is being met by shifting my focus towards others and away from myself?”

• Compassion fatigue is common among founders, leaders or teams who feel like they are focused on others more consistently. This is an invitation to turn inwards & prioritize your own needs.

• The fawn response: a stress or trauma response that includes people-pleasing behaviors; feeling challenged by self-expression; stifling your own desires or needs; having trouble setting boundaries; being overly apologetic; assuming responsibilities for the emotional reactions of others

• Through self-awareness, ask yourself: “Is it kindness or am I fawning?”

• Remember: compassion is an innate skill that exists within all of us

Resources:

-Link to the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s website

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Are you wondering how you can improve your relationship with your food? Physician assistant and food lover, Kate Martino, joins us to explain all the ways we can re-establish a better relationship with the food we eat. With so much information on food, it can create overwhelm. Kate outlines how you can reconnect with your own intuition, choosing foods that better align with what you need, and why you shouldn’t have to sacrifice loving what you eat in order to be happy.

Kate is a physician assistant, who educates and empowers others to improve their health through diet, lifestyle, and mindset shifts. She's passionate about helping people have a healthier relationship with food and believes everyone can access their own unique relationship with food in a positive way. On her blog, Kate shares simple, healthy, and balanced recipes as well as health and wellness tips. She also hosts workshops that dive deeper into healthy eating and living.

Show Notes:

-Kate’s early experience with food – carrying extra weight, acid reflux – and treating patients with chronic conditions

-Mindfulness as the first step in shifting Kate’s relationship with food

-Weight loss as a side effect vs. a goal

-How you can make a more conscious choice on what to eat as a form of self-care

-Shifting from restriction to freedom & adventure with our food choices

-Connecting with worthiness in choosing the foods that nourish your unique self

-Knowing that there is a balance you can create with the foods that we eat

-Stress can impact blood sugar balance - when you experience ravenous hunger throughout the day, it’s harder to make better food choices

-Explanation of hypoglycemia - sugar lows and spikes

-Food freedom means losing stress around food, choosing what you want, when you want it without experiencing a sense of guilt

-Taking inventory of the foods that you eat, then creating a plan - how do those foods make you feel? Set yourself up to succeed for the week

-Checking in with your body after you eat - are you feeling nourished?

-The Hunger Scale - eat until about a 7 if 10 is the fullest you can feel

-Connect back to your bigger intention and your personal “why” (i.e. your vision, goals, etc.) as a catalyst to drive more conscious decisions around your food choices

-If “healthy eating” causes a lot of stress in your life, prepare yourself with a plan of action to help you enjoy the meal more

-Start to connect with an enjoyable process of making food: put on music, a podcast, and connect with activities that are fun during this experience

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-Sign up here to receive an exclusive healthy copycat Reese's Balls!

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-Kate’s Instagram: @kate.martino

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Do you feel the craving to spend more time outside with nature? We’re talking with Maria Failla to discuss the power of plants and connecting with nature. Maria explains how our connection with nature relates to the nervous system, as well as how you can use plants as an alternative to other tools like meditation, how to engage all of your senses, and how you can use one simple daily tool to improve your connection with nature.

Maria is a “Plant Killer Turned Plant Lady” on a mission to help people successfully care for plants and make the world a kinder and greener place. After learning to care for plants successfully and experiencing the exponential joy caring for plants brought to her life, she founded the Bloom and Grow Radio Podcast. Since the launch of her podcast, she also launched the Bloom & Grow [Virtual] GardenSociety and authored Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness (and Plants).

Show Notes:

• Going from being an avid plant killer to connecting with the natural world

• Moving from overstimulated millennial to living more intentionally and mindfully through the power of plants

• Maria’s journey into entrepreneurship – starting one of the first plant podcasts, Bloom & Grow Radio

• Using plants to create space & regulate your nervous system

• Engaging in nervous system regulation as a lifestyle

• Caring for something else as a way to disconnect from your own problems or challenges

• Tuning yourself into the frequency of plants

• Pruning a plant as an analogy for healing & personal growth in us humans

• The science + research behind using house plants for nervous system regulation and for overall wellness

• Biophilia Theory – humans evolved in nature amongst trees, hard wiring us for connection to something bigger than ourselves

• “Plant Bias” (Plant Blindness) – not recognizing nature as a living & breathing ecosystem

• Forest Bathing (a book by Qing Li) + its benefits for our wellbeing

• Going from a busy city to a silent relaxation in the middle of the forest, we can drop into an overall state of calm

• When we step away from fast-paced life, we can feel initially anxious, then step into a more regulated way of life that benefits our health

• Rewiring the “perfection” mentality & how to integrate wellness & regulation practices into your life using your intuition

• One simple daily tool: look at a plant before you look at a screen

• Using a traditional alarm clock instead of using your phone in the morning

• Grounding & earthing first thing in the morning before you start your day to regulate your nervous system

• Maria’s Plant Course – link here

• How to take care of houseplants – 1) assess your current lighting environment & window direction 2) choose plants based on that lighting 3) put your plants in pots with holes at the bottom

• The same plant can require different conditions - and the same goes for people!

Resources:

-Read Maria’s Book “Growing Joy”

-Read Qing Li’s “Forest Bathing”

-Listen to Maria’s Podcast Bloom and Grow Radio

-Take Maria’s Plant Personality Quiz!

-Visit Maria’s Website

-Maria’s Instagram: @bloomandgrowmaria

-Maria’s TikTok

-Maria’s Pinterest

-Link to the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

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Are you feeling that your healing journey is at a standstill? This week, Lindsay discusses how the relationship between our brains and bodies can impact our physical symptoms. Lindsay also dives into how she coaches people with chronic illness at Vital-Side and the individualized approach she takes to get you started on your nervous system regulation journey.

Lindsay Mitchell is the founder of Vital-Side, a membership program that empowers those with chronic illness and limbic system impairment (LSI) to retrain their brains out of the chronic stress response. When we’re operating from the parasympathetic growth-and-repair response, we can start connecting with our innate healing properties… but we need simple & structured tools to access these. That’s the information she gives you in Vital-Side; she uses her training in medicine as a physician assistant, work as an NLP practitioner, and experience having recovered from Lyme disease to assist others in learning how to shift out of a state of stress and into a state of resilience and balance within their nervous systems.

Show Notes:

-Lindsay’s story of overcoming Lyme disease

-Addressing chronic symptoms of fatigue, pain, brain fog, anxiety, dizziness, and more

-3 pillars to healing: physical body, nervous system, trauma processing/ subconscious beliefs

-Each pillar of healing is not exclusive to one another - the brain and body are always communicating

-We cannot treat each pillar separately & expect results

• Using the body as a vehicle- reframing chronic symptoms & chronic illness in a way that benefits our own physiology

-Addressing the nervous system does not mean we need to start processing immediately

-We can use understanding of our limbic brains to shift & change the way we feel - more information on chronic inflammation & Limbic System Impairment (LSI)

-Receiving information from our internal and external environments through our 5 senses always occurs, and then we ask the question, “Is this something that I need to be afraid of?”

-We can get clear on WHY we are using a more holistic approach & connect with our own self-worth

Resources:

-Link to the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership

-YouTube Video: Uncover your natural resilience in Vital-Side

• Omar Akther's Episode 43 Rewire Podcast

• Lindsay Mitchell interviews Dr. Daniel Amen

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Are you wondering what possible benefits anxiety could provide you? Do you struggle with anxiety and want to learn how to begin to understand it? This week, Lindsay and Cait discuss anything and everything to do with anxiety from the different ways it can manifest in the body to how we can begin to normalize acute anxiety and associated symptoms. They also discuss the chronic stress response & how to acknowledge it, then begin to make small shifts to transform your life.

Show Notes:

-Lindsay’s free 7-day RESET program in Vital Side for somatic & mental tools

-Acute anxiety can be a normal part of life & show up in different phases of the menstrual cycle & different situations

-The definition of “good anxiety” - normalizing a fun, challenging situation that can help you feel connected to your purpose when it's over

-Cait shares an example of how anxiety shows up for her before a speaking engagement

-When good anxiety occurs, it’s likely because something is at stake that is connected to your core values

-When experiencing acute “good” anxiety - connect with greater/future vision; locate sensations in the physical body that you’re feeling; move energy through shaking, dancing, or stretching; reframe what is going on in the moment even if it’s uncomfortable

-Anxiety and excitement can feel very similar and are similar physiological responses

-Chronic anxiety and the differences between acute & chronic anxiety

-The science behind what happens in the brain and body when we experience about anxiety

-Fight / flight / freeze responses and their associated signs & sensations

-When acute anxiety becomes chronic, we can get stuck in a negative feedback loop

-We can be open, understanding, and gentle with ourselves when we experience anxiety

-Emotions shift and change

Resources:

-Link to Lindsay’s 7-day RESET Program

-An Unspoken Voice By Dr. Peter Levine

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

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Are you overwhelmed by the daily inundation of crises happening around our world? We’re talking with renowned international teacher of Kundalini yoga and Ayurveda, Jai Dev Singh, to discuss how we can connect with our own happiness and what that looks like in our everyday lives. Jai also discusses what makes Kundalini different from other yogas, the values of interconnectedness, moving away from conditional happiness, and moving through change by practicing self-compassion.

Jai Dev Sing is the founder of Life- Force Academy (LFA), a global training academy for the yogic arts and sciences with members in over 60 countries around the world. LFA offers (virtual and in-person) courses and workshops on Kundalini yoga, Ayurveda, and meditation. The courses are designed to improve your health, mental wellness, inner confidence, increase prosperity, and so much more.

Show Notes:

-Jai’s childhood journey with food health struggles which led him to Ayurveda

-Real health is intertwined with real happiness

-Dharma practice - an exercise system regulating the nervous system, balancing the glandular system, and connecting with your resilient physiology in order to connect with your prana, the life force

-Definition of Kundalini Yoga - adjusting the body, the mind, and the nervous system; anyone can do it!

-Intuition is natural and available to everyone

-Ayurvedic Medicine (‘life wisdom’) - a modality used for healing & health and how it supports bio-individuality

-The 5 element system: earth, water, fire, air & space

-The key to happiness is prioritizing it and having patience with the process

-Jai’s relationship with his priorities: put it on the calendar

-When dealing with a chronic condition or symptoms, this is an opportunity to prioritize happiness & connect with health

-Moving through any change by practicing self-compassion

-Being an investigator of our minds

-Subconscious beliefs can cause us expansiveness & suffering

-How to operate in a society of interconnectedness to all events - positive & traumatic ones alike

-The hypnotizing nature of social media and the news & how to have discipline in our relationship to these information platforms and sources

-Engaging in information & the dialogue happening around world events without so much polarization

-Being of service to others and seeing our shared collective happiness as an important tool to support ourselves and others

-Accessing unconditional happiness and joy in spite of what’s happening in our lives

-The dance between desire and detachment

-If we have self-compassion, we won’t be scared to be real with ourselves in order to be loving to ourselves

-A quick breathwork tool to use when feeling overwhelmed & in need of self-compassion

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-Visit Jai’s Website to learn more

-Jai’s Instagram: @jaidev108

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Are you overwhelmed by the all-or-nothing approach in functional medicine?? Lindsay is joined by board-certified internist, Dr. Omar Akther, who explains his approach to functional medicine, integrating the best aspects of western medicine combined with a more lifestyle approach. He explains that this is the best approach we can take when dealing with a chronic illness or chronic symptoms & how it differs from other fields of medicine.

Omar also explains how he broke free from the mindset of traditional western medicine and transitioned into a root cause approach, how he balances earning a living while being aware of a client’s financial limitations, and how you should advocate for yourself in a hospital setting. If you have had a negative experience with functional medicine and you’re wanting to truly understand its importance, this episode is for you!

Show Notes:

-Prescription and procedure (P&P) care is great for acute problems

-Chronic disease requires a unique approach to healing - lifestyle medicine is necessary to thrive

-“Localization” no longer exists - the body and brain are always communicating & change with injuries, traumas, and life experiences

-Integrative vs. holistic vs. functional medicine approaches

-Omar’s story & why he feels passionate about functional medicine

-Going beyond the role of a physician - connecting with a deep desire to allow people to heal on a larger scale

-Practicing what you preach - as a practitioner, being able to model health & wellness in your own life & hold yourself accountable

-Many patients can feel disempowered in their healing journeys as a result of an all-or-nothing approach

-Story of a woman in her mid 30’s who suffered from hormonal headaches who was recommended a hysterectomy & didn’t recover from hormonal symptoms

-What to do to advocate for yourself before going into a practitioner’s office - 1. Educate yourself & connect with a deeper-knowing 2. Find a practitioner that takes the time to listen to you & takes one step at a time 3. Building confidence in your own self-worth to ask the hard questions

-Why functional medicine practitioners throw so many supplements, IV therapies, and modalities at someone with chronic symptoms. The reason? More = better in our society.

-Taking a gentler approach & 1% approach to healing, introducing lifestyle medicine

-Adding 1-2 lifestyle changes at a time.

-When it comes to labs and diagnostic testing, pay attention to your body prior to testing.

-More information does not lead to better care.

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-Visit Omar’s Website

-Visit Omar’s Facebook

-Visit Omar’s LinkedIn

-Omar’s Instagram: @dromarakhter

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Are you asking yourself how to maintain and connect with your personal freedom during uncertain times? The overturning of Roe v. Wade has left many women and people feeling like their freedom has been taken away from them. Lindsay and Cait discuss ways you can still connect with that innate sense of autonomy in the face of societal turmoil.

Lindsay and Cait talk about how to maintain your resilience, the way our unique experiences inform how we deal with challenging times, and clear-cut ways we can practice self-compassion to take action for ourselves.

Show Notes:

-As women in America, we have felt like there is a big freedom that was taken away from us

-We can feel like life situations, health situations, or political situations can take away our personal freedoms

-Come back to the question, “What is my personal limit today?”

-Connect with your body, “How is my body reacting to this situation?”

-Allow yourself the ability to talk about an acute emotion

-Give your body a break when it needs one

-Taking action looks different for everyone & can simply be processing your challenging emotions

-How we experience a life event: we have a thought, emotion, reaction, and outcome

-We can take action from an intentional, clear, and regulated place

-Practicing self-compassion is one of the biggest ways we can take action

-Coming back to your body by asking yourself, “What do I need right now?”

Resources:

-Listen to Rewire Episode 40: Using Your Intuition to Create Alignment In Your Decisions

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Information on Vital-Side programs and private sessions here

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Are you wondering how you can make a career out of your healing journey? Lindsay and Cait are joined by Jennifer Mann to discuss how leaving traditional medicine led to her current career as a mind-body practitioner. Jennifer details her personal journey with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), using brain retraining & somatic work to find relief from chronic symptoms, working with Lindsay in private sessions, and ultimately, forming a business around chronically healing.

Jennifer is a certified mind-body practitioner and has worked in the health and wellness industry for 10 years as a functional movement therapist, holistic bodyworker, yoga teacher, pilates instructor, and performance coach. After her CFS diagnosis, Jen went on to fully recover and co-founded a trauma-informed healing course called CFS School, where she now helps people thrive in their wellness.

Show Notes:

-Jen’s journey & personal story – her background in traditional western medicine, her experience as a ballet dancer, and experience in the biomedical space

-Jen’s experience working in a traditional hospital setting before her own chronic symptoms started

-The beginning of Jen’s journey with CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) using western medicine approaches – seeing many doctors & specialists, getting many tests, trying antibiotics + antivirals – and her health was only getting worse

-Getting diagnosed with POTS & having no energy

-Jen’s decision to leave her traditional work in physiotherapy and her desire to focus on whole mind + body healing > simply managing her symptoms

-Jen’s experience working with Lindsay in Vital-Side and learning how to change her state

-Learning about the vagus nerve, Polyvagal Theory and the role of movement & physical touch in healing

-Using somatic experiencing as the missing piece in Jen’s healing journey

-Finding Human Design and receiving the permission to show up as her most authentic self (i.e receiving vs. pushing)

-Early signs of Jen’s purpose to help others heal when she was a ballet dancer and helping others with physical pain

-Tuning into her gut feelings and intuition to make decisions to start her business, CFS School

-The early days of Jen’s business – experimenting, taking a slow & steady pace allowed her new business to flow with ease

-Jen’s story of pregnancy - how she was able to defy the prognosis given to her by fertility doctors

-Using visualization on her uterus to get her body ready to bring life into the world

-Getting pregnant after 1 “try”, despite what the labs said

Resources:

-Jenn’s Instagram: @jcamylee

-Discover your Human Design here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Information on Vital-Side programs and private sessions here

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Are you wondering how you can better connect with & use your intuition to make everyday decisions? Whether it’s the next healing modality, the next investment in your business, or just simply the next activity you want to do that day, Cait & Lindsay discuss how you can connect to your intuition in a way that aligns with your greater purpose.

They share how connecting with your intuition can give you clarity on your core desires and feelings and create intentional space each day. Cait shares more on how Human Design has helped her stay aligned with how she best makes decisions & how you can use the framework to connect with your own personal intuition.

Show Notes:

-Cait shares how she tunes in & connects with her intuition

-The importance of taking space – small micro breaks each day, wellness sabbaticals, etc.

-Tuning into your body to listen to the cues its giving you to identify if something is a yes or no

-How Cait uses Human Design & her sacral authority to tune into what is a yes and what is a no and tuning into when the timing is right

-Our modern culture’s emphasis on “doing more” and how Lindsay shifts into “being” mode

-Creating more space for creativity, new ideas, reading & just being with ourselves

-Inactivity & doing “nothing” as a tool to cultivate more creativity in our businesses and in our lives

-Lindsay’s go-to tools: getting outside every morning, connecting with movement & exercise, micro-breaks throughout the day

-The power of simplifying

Resources:

-Discover your Human Design: https://www.myhumandesign.com/

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Join Lindsay in her community: The Vital-Side Membership

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Have you wondered how the voice relates to the regulation of your nervous system? We’re joined (for the second time!) by nervous system expert, Laura Larios. She helps us understand the power of our voices and our nervous systems to create more impactful marketing in our businesses. Laura discusses the difference between voice messaging vs. text messaging, the link between voice marketing as a tool for conscious connection, and how we can use our nervous system as our superpower.

Laura is the founder & CEO of The Potent CEO – a highly sought-after consulting & coaching brand that delivers customized world-class nervous system, cortisol, & adrenal support for high-performing women in the corporate, network marketing, entrepreneurial, & coaching industries.

She has a background in counseling psychology, polyvagal theory, nervous system stabilization, somatic practices, brain rewiring, and neuroscience.

Show Notes:

-Fight-Flight, Freeze, and Fawn are all necessary to our survival

-We can recognize our stress responses in order to help other parts of our brains to work effectively (like the prefrontal cortex, necessary in making decisions)

-Using neuroception to detect safety or danger

-Hearing is the fastest of our senses - it takes less energy to use hearing than it does to write something out (we can process up to 400 words/minute)

-Using voice messaging more frequently vs. text messaging

-With audition, we’re able to interpret emotion and can have more access to oxytocin

-Texting leaves room for interpretation and your own perspective. It can also heighten your cortisol levels

-Businesses using voice marketing as a tool for conscious connection

-Becoming aware of voice in fight-flight and freeze: biological acknowledgment

-The power of the pause: how this can impact the nervous system

-Vagal toning exercises to downregulate the nervous system

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-Visit Laura’s Website

-Apply for Rewire Results here

-Laura’s Instagram: @lauralisalarios

-Listen to Episode 26 of the podcast with Laura

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Join Lindsay in her community: The Vital-Side Membership

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Have you wondered when you should start trauma work, brain retraining, or somatic experiencing? We live in a world where we are inundated by ALL kinds of healing modalities, and it can be hard to know where to start. This week, Lindsay is answering some of the most commonly asked questions she gets in Vital-Side, specifically around healing modalities.

Lindsay uses her past 5 years working with clients who have experienced trauma & chronic illnesses to create a structure to the healing journey. Disclaimer: this process does not apply to everyone. Please always consult with your medical provider and/or mental health practitioner for medical advice.

Show Notes:

-The difference between somatic work and brain retraining

-Identifying your nervous system response when purchasing a product or course is critical to starting the course or using the product

-If you’re showing up in a sympathetic dominant response to purchase, you’ll begin that course in a sympathetic dominant response

-The 3 Buckets of Healing: physical body, nervous system, and trauma processing

-Choosing one modality for each category to decrease overwhelm & increase satisfaction

-Normalizing “trauma”: trauma processing is a lifelong journey because we experience big T and little T traumas throughout our human experience

-Lindsay’s story: tickboot camp episode

-The definition of somatic work: a body-centric approach to healing

-How trauma processing and somatic experiencing compare

-Top-down and bottom-up approaches to nervous system regulation

-Trauma processing can come later in your healing journey – pay attention to your physical body when you gain confidence & evidence for change

Resources:

-Join the Vital-Side community for FREE: https://myvitalside.mn.co/feed

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Join Lindsay in her community: The Vital-Side Membership

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How can your personal development impact the strength of your brand? This week, Lindsay and Cait are joined by personal brand expert, Ushi Patel, to discuss why doing your inner work informs how you function within your business. Ushi also explains the ways you can set personal boundaries with social media, how you can connect to joy in work & life, and how your business can reflect your personal strengths.

Ushi is not only a personal brand expert but a creative consultant and an award-winning designer. Her work in business mentorship has a collective reach of millions globally, including the visual direction of campaigns for the empowerment of more than 300,000 women in India and Africa. Ushi’s multicultural approach and heartfelt visual storytelling has also inspired her clients to utilize her design talent and eye for their incredible homes, events, and weddings worldwide.

Show Notes:

-Ushi’s story of growing up in an Indian family and what inspired her to the world of branding

-Why the inner work is vital to starting a business

-Ushi’s search for a calm and an energetic approach to creating her business

-Slowing down and getting into her body is how Ushi approaches her work with clients

-Your business is a mirror of who you are

-Spark of Genius™ methodology definition - a step-by-step approach on recalibrating and realigning your brand

-Your personal brand is the most valuable asset you have

-Creating awareness within your your business & personal life

-Ushi’s current inner work routine: movement, breathing, and baths

-Creating your Book of Awesome

-Connecting with joy - having this be the common denominator of your life

-Becoming aware of how stress response shows up in your body

-One of the things that will kill a brand is incongruence

-Ushi’s boundaries with social media & how it can help & hurt your brand

-The benefit of naps during the workday, burgers, and beer!

-The answer to presence lives in the body

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-Learn more about Ushi on her website & schedule a free consultation

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Visit Cait’s Website

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Are you wondering how your nervous system affects the growth and success of your business? This week, Cait discusses what it means to take control of your life and business by taking inventory of the elements of your life that are not serving you. Cait shares more on how the nervous systems of your clients and employees impact the growth of your business, how we can “turn down the noise”, and how you can personally connect with your nervous system through a few practical tools.

Show Notes:

• Why strategy alone is not enough to create success in business and life

• The “Pyramid of Potential” as a framework for the ingredients found in the recipe for creating success

• Nervous system 101: what is it and what role does it play in business success?

• 3 practical tools to use as a busy business owner or leader looking to integrate more nervous system support & regulation into your daily life

• The tools: turning down the noise; physical touch techniques; and sensory snapshots

• Tips on how to incorporate these tools

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-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Cait’s Website

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Do you have a big, bold message you are ready to share with the world? Are you craving a new, more fun, and effective way to reach more people to grow your business or personal brand? Look no further than…your “Signature Talk”. This week, Cait dives deep into how you can share your message (you know, the one you are so passionate and lit up by). She dives deep into sharing one of the most effective and powerful strategies for connecting with your future clients, partners & communities. Cait shares her personal story of how she sourced, created & delivered her first PAID keynote opportunity in 2017. By tuning in, you’ll learn the core components of a magnetic Signature Talk that leaves your audience, clients, or community wanting much more from you.

Show Notes:

-Cait’s journey and experience with burnout as the catalyst to start her business and begin her expert speaking career

-Leveraging your relationships and how to uncover the 1 opportunity that will change your business & life

-How Cait delivered her message and shared her personal story of navigating burnout in her first keynote talk in 2017

-What is a “Signature Talk”? + how to use a Signature Talk to propel you forward in your business & entrepreneurship journey

-The importance of using non-verbal communication to make your message more impactful (hint: 93% of communication is non-verbal)

-Why the first ten seconds of your talk are the most important part of your entire talk

-The recipe for creating lasting emotional & mental connection with your audience: connect with their hearts first through storytelling, then their minds through powerful & action-oriented education, and finish by connecting with their hearts once again

-How to use SPARQ to start and end your talk

-The power of the pause and honing your delivery skills

-Tips for to designing & using the visual components of your Signature Talk

-Get on the waitlist for Cait’s June announcement – where she will announce a new way to support you in sourcing, creating & delivering opportunities to deliver your very own Signature Talk and to help you become a more powerful speaker

Resources:

-Speak On Stages - Announcement Waitlist

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Cait’s Website

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Have you ever wondered why your body reacts to certain environments and situations in a hyper-inflammatory way? In this episode, Lindsay discusses how physical symptoms can be a result of a dysregulated nervous system, using the examples of food sensitivities, anxiety, and other chronic symptoms. Lindsay talks about how we can identify the fight-or-flight response in the body and how to combine somatic, bottom-up approaches, & top-down regulation to create a balanced autonomic nervous system

Show Notes:

-Acute stress response definition: fight-or-flight

-Traffic light symbol: Red: freeze; Yellow: fight-flight; Green: growth-repair

-The goal is to signal safety to your body more often than note; this is your autonomic nervous system in balance

-How “danger” gets communicated when we eat something “healthy” like a salad – how this can show up as inflammation, pain, anxiety, bloating, etc.

-We are communicating with our environments (internal and external)

-Cellular communication of stress broken down

-The concept of Epigenetics

-Simple exercises you can use before you eat

Resources:

-Free Wired for More Video series and community

-Join the Wired for More FREE community & video series

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Cait’s Website

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Have you ever wondered what is holding you back from healing? Often, old belief systems and limiting subconscious beliefs stand in the way of where we are today and where we want to be. This even applies to your healing journey. In this episode, Lindsay uses her expertise having worked in the medical field for 10 years and in neuroplasticity for 5, giving information on how to identify outdated subconscious belief systems & start embodying a new way of being that supports healing.

Show Notes:

-The importance of identifying old belief systems & accessing the subconscious brain

-The 3 Level Mind Model: The definition of the conscious, subconscious, & unconscious minds

-Theta brain wave as a child allows us to soak up information in our environment and believe it to be true

-The conscious mind is the gardener and the subconscious mind is the garden

-Old belief systems can keep us held back from healing & success in our lives

-How you see yourself is the biggest determinant of what your life becomes

-We can connect with higher purpose, identity, values, and beliefs in order to see change to our physical reality

-Butterfly hug for bilateral stimulation & processing stuck subconscious beliefs

-The importance of trauma processing: EMDR and brainspotting

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-Robert Dilt’s Pyramid of Change

-Free Wired for More Video series and community

-Join the Wired for More FREE community & video series

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Cait’s Website

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How can you rewire your brain to create and mold your personal reality? This week, we’re speaking with Neuroplasticity Coach, Bob Doyle, to discuss how to find your own authenticity and the steps you can take to create a life you love. Bob also explains the differences and similarities between rewiring and manifesting, how to shift from “doing” to “becoming,” and why discomfort is a natural and normal part of the personal growth process.

Bob Doyle is best known as a featured expert in the film and book, “The Secret,” and he now focuses his coaching and training on Neuroplasticity and your ability to rewire your brain so that you literally become the person who creates the results you want to see in your life...

Bob has been teaching these principles through programs, live events, podcasts, coaching, and writing since 1998. He is driven by his passion for creative self-expression and his work is heavily focused on helping people become happy, healthy, wealthy, and authentically themselves.

Show Notes:

-Bob’s journey to find career satisfaction as the catalyst to discover the Law of Attraction and Neuroplasticity

-The quantum physics aspect of attracting what you want in life

-Bob’s experience and thought leadership in the world-renowned movie “The Secret”

-When is your personal reality created? Every moment you give meaning.

-Change your wiring. Change your results. Change your life.

-Putting your attention in the right place. Who do you want to BE?

-Failure is a normal part of rewiring and changing your life.

-Anyone’s brain can change!

-Ages 0-7: the “ready to learn” autopilot phase of childhood development + developing our very first belief systems

• Using Neuroplasticity concepts in the process of healing

-Becoming aware of your autopilot wiring – you can’t change what you can’t see

-Being comfortable with the concept that discomfort is normal and non-negotiable

-Everything you’re manifesting is the result of some action you’re taking in the world

-To invoke clarity: Who inspires you? What are the traits of this person that you admire? When you feel disempowered, how can we replace that response?

-Steps to rewiring your brain: First, become aware of your vision. Second, connect with your vision emotionally every single day, despite how you’re feeling at any given moment.

-Definition of the 4 archetypes: seeker, skeptic, wizard, and people-pleaser

-Effort is a state of mind

-“You’ll get questions to the answers you ask”

-Going from being a seeker to a doer: our brains love basic rewards systems and bite size pieces of information

-Brain rewiring vs. manifesting: the similarities & the differences

Resources:

-Bob’s Transformational Quiz

-Bob’s Website

-Facebook: Boundless Living | The Bob Doyle Show

-Twitter: @bobdoyle

-Bob’s Instagram: @bobdoyleshow

-Book Reference: The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles

-Book Reference: The Secret by Rhonda Dyrne

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-Cait’s Website

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Are you wondering how you can independently access your emotional freedom? We’re talking with Jesse Finkelstein, founder & creator of The Game of Real Life, to discuss how to practice vulnerability, cultivate more self-compassion & build your emotional regulation toolkit. Jesse dives into dialectical behavioral therapy, how emotional attachments and blocks can get in the way of success, and the importance of cultivating the right community and being present.

Jesse is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Rutgers University and a DBT Therapist and the creator of the upcoming The Game of Real Life, a one-of-a-kind card game rooted in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). He is also a researcher and clinician at the Dialectical Behavior Therapy clinic at Rutgers University, where his main areas of research include the use of technology and new media to deliver effective psychotherapeutic interventions.

Show Notes:

-Going from designer to therapist: how Jesse made this transition

-Recognizing purpose in life: one decision that changes everything

-The difference between cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)

-Practices of acceptance & emotional regulation in DBT

-Having compassion for one’s emotional experience

-Navigating the balance between acceptance & change

-The complex emotion of shame and how it gets in the way of us finding emotional freedom

-Thinking in extremes and its role in creating dysregulation & disconnection

-Holding the belief that multiple truths can co-exist

-Metabolic energy and its role in learning, creating & building something new

-Emotional avoidance is one of the greatest ways we suffer & is counterproductive to processing our emotions

-Compassion means validating our experience & accepting our emotions

-Cait shares a quote from Jesse’s Instagram: the science of how we are all connected

-Loving Kindness and practicing vulnerability as tools to help us accept that we are all connected

-ABC please: accumulate positive experiences, Build mastery by doing things we enjoy, and Cope ahead by rehearsing a plan ahead of time

-Shifting the belief, “The world is a dangerous place” by having new experiences via exposure therapy

-The 4 components of DBT: Interpersonal effectiveness (getting what you want & setting limits); mindfulness; tolerating distress; and emotional regulation

-Jesse shares more details on his game, “The Game of Real Life” and how it can support people build & grow their emotional toolkit

Resources:

-Check out the website for “The Game of Real Life”

-DBT-RU YouTube Video Series

-TheraHive (DBT Online Skill Courses)

-Brene Brown, “Atlas of the Heart”

-Jesse’s Instagram: @talkisgood

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Cait’s Website

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How can aligning authentically to what you want to create success in your life? We’re talking with Ryan Haddon about subconscious reprogramming and how it can impact our relationship to past traumatic experiences, childhood memories, and future success in our careers & lives. Ryan discusses what surrendering looks like, the small steps you can take to establish new routines and leave strong habits behind, and the joy of engaged attachment from your goals.

Ryan is a certified life and spiritual coach, clinical hypnotherapist, and certified meditation teacher with over 16 years of experience with clients around the world. She also does private workshops such as “Stepping Into Your Purpose,” “The Work/Life Balance,” and “Finding Your Center.” Ryan has been featured in a variety of top media outlets including Parents Magazine, Oprah Daily, Bustle, MindBodyGreen, & more.

Show Notes:

-Ryan’s personal journey & her spiritual awakening at the age of 17

-The subconscious mind + the role it played in Ryan’s experiences

-Understanding our thought & behavior patterns to come back to wholeness

-Surrendering - what does that look like? How can we do this?

-The importance of self-talk

-Turning the attention back to you - identifying thoughts & feelings

-Small steps to use to break strong patterns & habits

-What is hypnotherapy? How can we use it as a tool?

-Tools to use to connect with success in your life

Resources:

-The Power of the Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy

-How to quit smoking by Allen Carr

-Visit Ryan’s Website

-Visit Ryan’s Instagram: @ryan.haddon

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Cait’s Website

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What does healing your trauma have to do with cultivating more wealth? We’re joined by Laura Guzman to discuss the ways in which your body stores trauma and how to approach it with a body-based psychotherapeutic modality. Laura shares her past experiences with clients and how different traumas manifest, how unresolved trauma can prevent you from being present, as well as what it really takes to build wealth and stability in your business.

Laura Guzman is a Somatic Psychotherapist & LMFT for entrepreneurs and the founder of Soma Vida – the world's first Wellness Coworking Community, the global community Women Who Cowork, and her own therapy practice. Laura also sits on the board of Econa, the global center for excellence for entrepreneur mental wellness and she is passionate about supporting the emotional health and well-being of purpose-driven, audaciously ambitious entrepreneurs.

Show Notes:

-Laura’s personal journey navigating burnout and entrepreneurship

• How Laura solved the challenge of isolation for entrepreneurs by finding Soma Vida, a wellness co-working community

• Learning lessons of launching 2 businesses at the same time

• Definition of somatic therapy - what makes it different from cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)

• Hakomi, somatic experiencing, mindfulness-based therapy, presence-based therapy, & other bottom-up experiencing

• Unresolved trauma is the inability to stay present

• Bringing protective responses into the present in order to process fear and trauma

• Dropping the “need to know” when we don’t have language around past traumatic experiences

• Shifting from a solely masculine approach to building a business to a more feminine-based business model (i.e. shifting focus from external to the internal)

• Laura’s personal journey with experiencing her fear responses as an entrepreneur

• “Embodiment” and what it looks like to return to your body

• Inner work as the foundation for building a healthy business & work-life balance

• Simple tips to lead a more feminine-based business model

• Dan Segal’s S.I.F.T Approach

• Laura shares client success stories of entrepreneurs who had business breakthroughs after using a body-led approach

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-Visit Laura’s Website

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Are you wondering how you can live in a plugged-in world while minimizing harmful effects from EMFs? Lindsay and Cait are joined by Athleticism Performance Coach and founder of EMFRocks.com, Justin Frandson, who discusses the little-known impacts that EMFs and 5G wireless devices can have on us and our bodies. Justin also gives us simple ways to shift away from the “always-on” culture, the fear swirling around EMFs and the profound benefits of taking time out of your day to ground yourself.

Justin is the founder of Athleticism – a health & performance clinic, author of Athleticism: Whole Body + Whole Brain = Performance, and has founded multiple successful businesses and sold one of them to a national chain. Justin looked to nature to solve the EMF challenges and created EMFRocks.com, where they sell incredible Grounding Bags to help people repel EMF, recharge, and get a better night’s sleep.

Show Notes:

• Justin’s start as an amateur athlete and wanting to work with other athletes

• What are EMFs? And why are they important to us?

• The introduction of a man-made waveform and how that impacts our bodies

• A deeper dive into various waveforms & the impact 5G has on humans

• Tangible tools to decrease radiation exposure

• Dispelling the “always-on” culture

• Other companies that help to counteract EMFs

• How to reground yourself if you’re around wireless technology

• How to address the fear around EMFs and more on emotional clearing

• The importance of clearing your biofield

• Electric cars, solar grids, and cell tours -- there is no regulation

• Best options to drive a fuel-efficient car

• The benefits of getting grounded and regulating your nervous system

Resources:

-Learn more about Justin’s companies Athleticism and EMF Rocks

-Organizations that are helping to counteract EMFs

• Robert Kennedy Jr. Children’s Health Defense
• Cell Phone Task Force
• bioinitiative.org

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Cait’s Website

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-The Vital-Side Membership

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Is your ability to be intimate with yourself or your partner impacted by a dysregulated nervous system? We’re talking with intimacy expert Katherine Smailis, to discuss different ways you can co-regulate with your partner. Kat defines what intimacy means, the “accelerators” and “brakes” of your sex life, and the effects a dysregulated nervous system can have on your relationship dynamics with other people.

Kat is an Occupational Therapist, specializing in Relational Energetics and Intimacy, and her mission within her company, TRĒ Wellness Consulting, is to strengthen the foundation of the family unit. Her approach also encompasses the mind, body, and spirit thus supporting an integrative approach to wellness.

Show Notes:

-Kat’s personal background in western medicine & her journey to find a deeper, more holistic approach to supporting her clients

-Kat’s perspective on what’s missing from the traditional western medical model

-Defining intimacy with self and in a partnership

-How a dysregulated nervous system impacts intimacy

-“Accelerators” & “brakes” - how do we get clear on what turns us on and off

-What happens when we have experienced trauma that impacts our intimate relationships and family dynamic

-Self-regulation and co-regulation to anchor into calm, peace, joy, acceptance, & love

-Familiarizing ourselves with our different animal brains

-The ripple effect a dysregulated nervous system plays in family dynamics

-How parents can put on their own oxygen masks first to further support their children’s development

-How you can support a loved one who might be experiencing nervous dysregulation

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-Kat’s Website - use code REWIRE for $200 off her 1:1 package!

-Kat’s Instagram

-Kat’s TikTok

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Cait’s Website

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

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How can you regulate your nervous system to pursue your business & growth goals? We’re joined by the founder of The Potent CEO, Laura Larios, as we dive into the importance of the nervous system and the role it plays in growing a sustainable business. We talk about how business owners can regulate themselves during periods of change. Laura also discusses “mindset culture” and the differences between mindset work and nervous system regulation. Laura gives us guidance on how you can shift away from an adrenaline-based business model to a nervous system-conscious model – that ultimately results in increased sales, innovation, client & team retention, and overall wealth abundance.

Laura Larios is the founder and CEO of The Potent CEO, a highly sought-after consulting and coaching brand that delivers customized world-class nervous system, cortisol, and adrenal support for high-performing women in the corporate, network marketing, entrepreneurial, & coaching industries. Her training is in counseling psychology, Polyvagal Theory, Somatic Experiencing, Sales Psychology, Trauma, and Neuroscience.

Show Notes:

-Laura’s journey, going from studying psychology to forensic psychology to the hospitality industry and her experience in somatics & polyvagal theory

-How Laura has taken a unique approach in helping clients to use nervous system regulation to grow their business & increase sales

-The nervous system explained

-How regulating the nervous system leads to better business decisions

-Conscious sales marketing and sales psychology

-The service industry and “the fawn response” explained

-Cait shares about her journey with “people pleasing” in her prior career & role in the banking industry

-Why nervous system work should come before mindset work

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-Laura’s Website

-Laura’s Instagram: @lauralarios

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Cait’s Website

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

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What happens when trauma you have already processed shows up in your life… again? We can’t ALWAYS know how trauma will impact us throughout our lives. It’s important to know & understand - that’s OK. It’s part of life. In this episode, Lindsay shares her story of childhood trauma and how it showed up in her body later on in life. We also discuss the ways that trauma can be processed mentally and physically and how reprocessing trauma is a part of everyday life.

Show Notes:

-Lindsay’s story of trauma and how she continues to process it

-How the physical body processes trauma

-The ways that later traumatic events can reawaken earlier trauma and symptoms

-How micro-experiences can build up over time

-Why connecting with the present is essential in processing trauma

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-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Cait’s Website

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

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Have you been feeling discouraged by a chronic illness diagnosis? We’re talking to rehabilitation clinician Jonathan Parr about his work as an EDS and Dysautonomia specialist, and working with people who have received a chronic illness diagnosis to help them get their lives back. Jonathan discusses how you can holistically reframe the way you look at your diagnosis, make the mindset shift away from the “quick fix” mentality, and how to begin addressing the nervous system to help you heal from the inside out.

Jonathan began working as an exercise physiologist for cardiac and metabolic conditions while also working as a strength and conditioning coach training high-school, collegiate, and professional athletes. After graduating with a Master's in Physical Therapy, he began working with people with some of the most traumatic injuries and rarest disorders worldwide. Additionally, he’s currently one of a few rehabilitation clinicians nationwide who currently specializes in the treatment of EDS and Dysautonomia using his “3-systems” approach.

Show Notes:

-Jonathan’s story on how he became interested in this specific niche of physical therapy

-Jonathan’s specific method and 3-step holistic approach to supporting people in his practice

-How to focus more on holistic healing instead of a diagnosis or prognosis

-How chronic illness can affect athletes or high performers

-Addressing the nervous system and the mind-body connection

-Simple exercises you can use to practice injury prevention in your own life

Resources:

-Jonathan’s Instagram: @jparr_fs

-Visit Jonathan’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Cait’s Website

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Are you feeling uninspired in your routines? Do you have trouble striking that balance between a consistent routine and introducing new, exciting adventures? This week, we are discussing how you can implement healthy and balanced routines in your everyday life. By delving into the neuroscience of what happens in our brains when we adopt routines, we talk about the benefits of finding the balance of stability and spontaneity, how we can find anchors in our daily routines, and building those routines from our core values.

Show Notes:

-Establishing anchors in your routines

-Crafting and maintaining balanced routines to avoid burnout

-How “checking out” can be a coping mechanism

-Structuring our routines from our core values

-A quick exercise to use to craft a new routine

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Have you ever felt held back by burnout or experienced symptoms of burnout and didn’t know how to move forward? We’re speaking with burnout expert & past corporate HR leader, Allessadria Polizzi, to discuss how burnout can affect your everyday life and how it can manifest in the workplace. Al also shares insights on how you can break old habits that fuel burnout, common causes of burnout, and ways you can create resilience in your own life.

Al has 20 years of experience leading teams across multiple industries and has been named a top 100 HR professional of 2020. Following her own recovery from burnout in 2021, she left her Head of People position to start her own corporate training & coaching business. In her work, Al implements the latest resiliency, burnout prevention, and psychological safety research and teaches practical simple skills to help teams in the workplace flourish. Al is also the co-founder of the Kite HR wellbeing app designed for HR teams, and she shares the latest discoveries on these topics on the Be Verdant Podcast.

Show Notes:

-The pivotal moment that brought Al to where she is today

-How burnout is affecting the workplace & employee dynamics

-The main causes of burnout

-The biggest barriers companies face to address burnout

-Simple tools to increase your emotional intelligence and agility

-Finding realistic ways to be present through mindfulness

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-Al’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Cait’s Website

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What do you do when things don’t go according to plan? Today we're discussing what to do when your expectations aren’t met and how you can rewire your brain to see every experience, good or bad, as a hidden opportunity. There is a lot of pressure to do more & work towards your purpose at the beginning of the year. But what happens when we can’t do that?

Through the lens of Cait’s recovery from lasting symptoms of COVID-19, we take a look at how you can take those intuitive actions steps to get the support you need, how vulnerability plays a part in building your resilience, and how you can collect evidence every day that your body is working for you.

Show Notes:

-Cait’s ongoing healing journey with lasting symptoms of COVID-19

-Taking action and problem solving when things go wrong

-Connecting to your purpose during tough times

-Why limitations can elicit heightened emotional reactions

-The cycles of the human experience

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How can you connect with the divine feminine within you? What is the divine feminine anyway? And how can it help you in living a more authentic, connected & expanded life? This week, we are talking with Bethany Bubenzer to discuss how to prioritize space and time for yourself. Bethany explains how being attuned to your unique frequency requires establishing fundamental self-connection practices, as well as setting work and life boundaries.

Bethany is a Business & Spiritual Mentor for visionary women on a mission to positively impact the world. Her mission in life is to help intuitive women elevate their success without losing their magic. She does this through human design, intuitive and intelligent business coaching, and (soon) sacred breathwork.

Show Notes:

-Bethany’s personal story & journey of grief

-What is channeling and the veil?

-Balancing soul and strategy

-Embodying your authentic self and becoming the person you want to be

-Connecting with your intuitive energy

Resources:

-Visit Bethany’s Website and attend her MasterClass

-Bethany’s Instagram: @bethanybubenzer

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Are you wondering how you can reframe your perspective around food? We’re talking with Lahana Vigliano, founder and CEO of Nuvitru Wellness. We are discussing the ways that food and eating habits can impact our health and well-being, as well as how to rewire our taste buds, unpacking what we define as “healthy” and reframing what healthy looks like based on our individual needs.

Lahana Vigliano is the CEO of Nuvitru Wellness and a board-certified clinical nutritionist. She is passionate about women's health, specifically gut health + hormones! She is obsessed with natural remedies, research, reading, weight lifting, and cooking. Outside of work, she is a mother of two and a wife. Her family is the inspiration behind Nuvitru and continues to encourage her through everything.

Show Notes:

-Lahana’s journey that sparked a curiosity about foods

-Lahana’s advice to parents wanting to start a business

-What does being healthy even mean?

-Conditioning our own brains to get rid of rigidity with strict diets

-How can you get your family involved in changing food habits?

-Mindset shifts you can incorporate as you rewire your taste buds

-How to shape new eating habits with a chronic illness

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-Follow Lahana on Instagram and Facebook

-Visit Lahana’s Website to learn more

-Freebie link to a Guide to Hormone Balance

-Listen to her podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

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Have you experienced chronic symptoms like brain fog, fatigue, or increased anxiety? We’re talking with bio-hacking expert, Faith Ashenden to dive deeper into the mind-body connection, the role our beliefs play in our wellness journeys, and how to find the right practitioner to support you. Throughout her healing journey, Faith has helped people with chronic illnesses optimize their time and be proactive about their health. She explains how to develop healthy belief systems that can reshape your reality and why quantum leaps are just baby steps in disguise.

Faith is a global empowerment coach and the Founder and CEO of That Healing Feeling. Her goal is to help women get their health back, empower them to ask the right questions, bust through limiting beliefs, detox their environments and bodies, and start using food as medicine.

Episode Show Notes:

-Faith’s experience with chronic illness and the traditional healthcare system

-How to find the right health practitioner for you

-Your belief system creates your reality

-How to invest in your healing journey daily

-Finding a team of people that empower you

-Adopting the “healing is not linear” mindset

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-Visit Faith’s Website

-Follow Faith on Instagram

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How can you rewire your brain for health, happiness, success, and purpose? In this week’s episode, we deep dive into how to navigate healing and grieving while navigating workplace culture and responsibilities. We spoke with Mindy Corporon, co-founder of Workplace Healing, LLC and founder of Faith Always Wins Foundation to discuss how grief manifests & expresses itself in the workplace and what organizations can do to prioritize their employee’s well-being and mental health.

Mindy’s life purpose changed from guiding people financially as the CEO of a successful wealth management firm to making it her mission to gather people to shine a light on peace. In this episode, Mindy discusses ways to address challenging emotions, such as grief that you or a coworker may experience and how to turn that pain into safety and purpose. We also discuss some examples of how corporate & workplace cultures are becoming more attuned with the needs employees have related to their wellbeing & personal development, plus how companies are taking action to support their people in deeper and more meaningful ways.

Episode Show Notes:

-Mindy’s personal story of loss and grief

-Tips on what to say and what not to say when someone is grieving

-Balancing the head and the heart in the workplace or corporate environments

-How to manage your expectations when grieving

-Shifts and evolutions that organizations are making in employee well-being and growth

-How to connect with safety and purpose

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-Visit Mindy’s Website

-Purchase her book: Healing A Shattered Soul

-Follow Mindy on Facebook and Instagram

-Listen to Mindy’s Podcast: Real Grief - Real Healing

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How can you find your inner authentic voice? We’re talking to Nathaniel Solace to discuss the power of choice, achieving self-mastery, and how you can utilize your subconscious to your own advantage. Nathaniel explains his process on how he helps his clients achieve their personal goals & accomplishments and his experience with lucid dreaming and developing unique leadership strategies. He also dives deep into his story of being adopted and how he utilized the tools he teaches today to address his traumatic experiences.

Nathaniel serves as a strategic and therapeutic wizard for leaders all over the world. For the last ten years, he has worked as a coach, advisor, and transformational facilitator. Nathaniel has been helping entrepreneurs and executives break through to new levels of achievement and fulfillment through custom mind body training, internal programming protocols and lucid leadership strategies.

Show Notes:

-How Nathaniel got started in the self-mastery world

-The subconscious and the different layers of lucid dreaming

-How you can find your inner authentic voice

-What it means to have the power to choose

-Maintaining a balance of personal choice and being united within a community

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-Visit Nathaniel’s Website

-Nathaniel’s Instagram: @nathaniel_solace

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

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How do you find the answers within yourself to heal & evolve? We spoke with life and leadership coach, Elizabeth Perry, about how you can adopt a “healing is a lifestyle” mindset. Elizabeth shares the ways that you can curb limiting beliefs by cultivating curiosity, setting effective intentions, and savoring moments of personal growth (even the “small” ones).

Elizabeth is a trans-personal life and leadership coach whose mission is to empower people to transcend limiting beliefs by uncovering within themselves the capabilities needed to rise above. Over the last 5 years, Elizabeth has also helped mission-driven companies to build and expand a sustainable revenue pipeline through marketing and sales strategy.

She is the host of the podcast Elevate Potential where she is creating a community of people who are working to escape patterns, embrace passion, and elevate their potential.

Show Notes:

• Elizabeth’s story about overcoming and elevating through trauma

• Incorporating and adopting a “healing is a lifestyle” mindset

• Savoring moments of growth and cultivating curiosity

• How to identify limiting beliefs

• Learn how setting intentions can help you heal and grow

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-Visit Elizabeth’s Website

-Listen and Subscribe to Elizabeth’s Podcast Elevate Potential

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This week, we speak to Meghan Read, a certified Reiki Healer, and Practitioner, to discuss the power of manifestation and energy work., Meghan explains how the Chakra System relates to manifesting and energy work, how to manifest our desires without getting caught up in the process, and the role our brains play in all of this!

Meghan has been a certified coach and holistic healer for over a decade and has been passionate about coaching and alternative healing since she was a young child. She has dedicated her entire life to living with purpose, authenticity, and joy with the intention of living life to the fullest and sharing what she has discovered along the way.

Meghan’s corporate background spans across human development, brain development, peak performance, sales, positive psychology, and employee wellbeing. Meghan is a certified Reiki Master, crystal healer, sound healer, meditation & mindfulness facilitator, and transformative life coach. She couples her corporate experience with her expertise in Complementary & Alternative Healing to empower people and organizations to achieve their full potential and thrive in every capacity.

Show Notes:

-What is the Chakra System and why is it such an important tool in healing?

-Breaking down how the liberating and manifesting channels work in harmony

-Easy, accessible ways to balance your own chakras

-How to avoid getting caught up in results and learning to let go

-The correlation between our brain’s concept of memory and manifestation

-How we can use the connection between the left and right brain to alleviate chronic symptoms

Resources:

-Learn more about Meghan and her work here

-Meghan’s LinkedIn

-Earn 15% off your first purchase from Meghan’s website by using Code REWIRE21 when booking. Valid through 12/31/21.

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Lindsay and Cait speak to Riji Raja, an actor and small business owner who utilized the power of positive thinking to overcome homelessness and adversity when she moved to the United States. In today’s episode, Riji talks to Lindsay and Cait about the power of the heart and mind, small ways to reframe negative thoughts, and shares her story & journey of starting her business, Affirmation Darling.

Riji went from being homeless in LA to creating an empowering woman-owned business, Affirmation Darling. As the founder, she helps advocate for young adults from underserved and disadvantaged communities facing homelessness and mental health issues.

Show Notes:

-Riji’s story of surviving homelessness and adversity in America

-First steps you can take to reverse negative thoughts and take action

-Refraining from word choices that reinforce negative thoughts

-Riji’s personal story of overcoming adversity & the catalyst for her to start Affirmation Darling

-Reframing your brain for positive thoughts

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-Visit Riji’s Website Here

-Riji’s Instagram: @affirmationdarling

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

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Neurologist, Dr. Philippe Douyon, dives into the complex and sometimes elusive concept of Neuroplasticity. He also goes through his personal journey of healing and exploring the mind-body connection. Through the lens of resiliency, we explore the ways we can use the power of Neuroplasticity to believe and shape our reality, discover how past traumas are affecting our current healing journey, and take on a more proactive mindset to better our health.

Dr. Philippe Douyon, MD is a board-certified Neurologist and has improved people’s health and life by teaching them how to become the leaders their brains need them to be. Through resiliency and tapping into the mind-body connection, Dr. Douyon was able to overcome and heal from kidney failure, COVID, dialysis, and a kidney transplant. He is also the author of “Neuroplasticity: Your Brain’s Superpower” and the creator of the online course, “Take Charge of Your Brain, a Guide to Making a Profound Difference In Your Health and Your Life.”

Show Notes:

-Dr. Douyon’s journey of overcoming COVID and kidney failure and what resilience means to him

-Practical tools to further those big picture goals in times of struggle

-What if people had tools at their fingertips to believe in what they’re feeling and to shape their reality?

-Expanding on the science of Western Medicine through Neuroplasticity

-How trauma informs healing through the mind-body connection

-Embodying a proactive mindset and maintaining habits to build resiliency

-The benefits of a supportive community

-How foods can impact our brain, and therefore our ability to heal

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-Dr. Philippe Douyon’s Book

-Dr. Philippe Douyon’s Online Course

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This week, Cait and Lindsay chat with Adriana Bucci to discuss how someone on their healing journey can recognize the signs of narcissist abuse in their lives. In this episode, we learn how to set boundaries with others and live life on our own terms. We also talk about some of the hard truths that happen when someone close to us is a narcissist and how to learn to accept that a narcissist may never do the necessary inner work to change who they are.

Adriana is a narcissistic abuse recovery life coach based in Toronto, Canada. She empowers her clients worldwide to heal from narcissistic abuse, set boundaries, and live life on their own terms. After her own 4-year struggle with physical chronic pain, she learned about the mind-body connection and the work of Dr. John Sarno. In a nutshell, chronic pain can be linked to repressed emotions from childhood trauma. After doing the inner work around her childhood and having been raised by a narcissistic mother, her chronic pain went away. Her own journey & experiences inspired her to become a life coach and help others who are facing similar issues.

Show Notes:

-How to identify narcissism and narcissistic abuse

-The cycle of narcissistic abuse

-How setting boundaries can identify the narcissists in your life

-Exploring the mind-body connection in a relationship with a narcissist

-Using Gray-Rocking as a tool deal with a narcissist in your day-to-day life

-Can narcissists ever heal or change?

-How can empaths reconcile their love for the narcissistic person in their life?

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-Adriana’s Website

-Adriana’s Instagram

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This week, we sat down with Human Design Specialist, Krystal Woods, to discuss the complex framework of Human Design. We also explore the concept of passive consciousness, how Human Design can help with self-awareness and de-conditioning, and how we can learn to teach ourselves that it’s not about the doing, it’s about the being.

Krystal works with high achievers, thought leaders, and founders of companies to leverage their unique energetic blueprint, and express their deepest passions and purpose. She is also the creator of Embodied By Design Practitioner Certification, where she teaches other coaches and healers how to apply human design to their practice.

Show Notes:

-What is Human Design?

-What led Crystal to teach and coach others in Human Design?

-The different categories: energy and profile types

-Debunking the misconceptions around Human Design

-The one easy step you can take to begin integrating Human Design into your life

-The 2027 Shift in Human Design and what we can expect

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-Krystal’s Website

-Krystal’s Instagram: @krystalewoods

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This week, we sat down with international laughter coach, Bianca Spears, also known as “that laughter lady”. We discussed the incredible ways laughter and brain retraining work together to lower our body’s stress chemicals and how we can use breathing techniques and positive reinforcement to enjoy the benefits of laughter wellness.

In 2013, Bianca shifted from the corporate world into entrepreneurship and met anxiety, stress, and chronic fatigue along the way. As a result, she incorporated holistic wellness into her work and helped people step up their lives to embrace more ease, fun and flow.

Episode Show Notes:

-What exactly is laughter wellness?

-Why does intentional laughter feel uncomfortable at first and how do we embrace it?

-What we can do to combat the ‘high achiever mentality’ when learning how to embrace laughter as a wellness tool

-How does laughter wellness fit into the process of brain training?

-The infinite ways laughter can help with healing & support you in reducing stress and avoiding burnout

-Laughter is a natural pain reliever and anesthetic

-Simple exercises to incorporate laughter into your normal routine

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-Bianca’s Website

-Bianca’s Instagram: @bianca.spears

-Bianca’s Youtube Channel

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Cait’s Website

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-The Vital-Side Membership

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This week, we spoke with sustainability expert and yoga instructor, Jason Harris. Over the last few years, Jason has helped people feel grounded through simple mental, physical, and earth-based practices. In this episode, we discuss how people can help build a clean, healthy future by connecting with the environment, taking care of nature, and making sustainable living simple and accessible.

Episode Show Notes:

-How Jason got interested in becoming an urban farmer

-How his background in fitness and growing tomatoes with his grandfather in Queens fueled Jason’s passion for sustainable living

-What is Hydroponics, and how can we grow our own food in the city?

-Using sustainability to reconnect with Mother Nature and the Earth

-Why is eco-sustainability so important?

-Finding local community gardens and living in sustainable housing

-Being carbon positive and what it means

-How sustainable living can impact our mental health

-Actionable tools to be more earth-friendly day-to-day

Resources:

-Jason’s Website

-Free, downloadable PDF for 30 days of health: earthtrainer.com\rewire

-Jason’s Instagram: @earthtrainer

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco

-Cait’s Website

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-The Vital-Side Membership

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This week, we discuss what resilience as an entrepreneur means to us and how we navigate the emotional rollercoaster of running small businesses. We dive deep into the six areas that define your own resilience as an entrepreneur, the concept of abundance over infinite potential, and how we say goodbye to old visions regarding our businesses to say hello to new ones.

Episode Show Notes:

• What is resilience? What does it mean to us?
• Crafting the vision for your small business
• Cait’s 6 pillars of how to increase your own resilience Abundance over infinite potential; what’s the difference?
• Staying anchored in your vision as an entrepreneur
• Experimenting with different visions based on emotional connection
• Reconciling old visions with new ones

Resources:

• Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco
• Cait’s Website
• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside
• Vital-Side

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In this week’s episode, we spoke with Katie Jones on how breathwork fuels manifestation, how Katie helps instill autonomy and control in her client’s healing journey, and how breathing helps you connect to your inner self. Katie is a spiritual life coach, manifestation expert, and certified breathwork facilitator. Her mission is to help the world heal through the power of aligned intentional manifestation, and she does this by holding space for growth and transformation through a spiritual yet practical coaching style for groups and private clients.

Show Notes:

• Katie’s journey and how breathwork impacted her life
• What are the different types of breathwork? Definition of Holotropic/Revelation breathwork
• How breath is a catalyst and tool in manifesting
• Establishing a clear goal in manifesting
• Listening to your body while practicing breathwork
• Supplements and the power of the mind -Breathing exercises to practice in the comfort of your home
• The Vagus Nerve and diaphragmatic breathing

Resources:

• Find Katie on Instagram @womanifester
• Visit Katie’s Website
• Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco
• Cait’s Website
• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside
• Lindsay’s Website: Vital-Side

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Chrissy Papetti is an Occupational Therapist turned Self-Mastery Coach and speaker, whose expertise is deeply informed by the Gene Keys system. She teaches leaders and high-achievers to override the limiting patterns that hold them back from their potential.

Chrissy overcame chronic pain after dancing her whole life, and she made a full recovery through rewiring her mind-body connection. She now lives a full life, helping her clients fuse the art and science of retraining their brains for optimal health through modalities like the Gene Keys.

This episode describes the intricacies of The Gene Keys, looking at it through the lens of the survival responses in our nervous systems & understanding our own fears. Tune in to learn more about defining your own self-limiting beliefs, and once you learn those beliefs, you can learn to shift & change them to connect with your most expanded self.

Episode 5 Show Notes:

• Chrissy defines what the Gene Keys are, fusing spiritual ancient wisdom & modern science to unlock your highest potential
• The importance of understanding your autonomic nervous system responses- fight-or-flight and freeze
• Understanding 64 ways that fear manifests within us (anxiety, desire, superficiality, etc.)
• Chrissy talks about giving structure to the limiting beliefs you have to shift your state
• Chrissy describes her journey with chronic pain after being a collegiate dancer and having an a labrum tear & dealing with a chronic injury
• The psychological ramifications of dealing with chronic pain
• Pain as repressed emotions, learning to understand it through the lens of learning pain from a new perspective
• The concept of shadow work and learning your limiting beliefs
• Description of gene tiers & Chrissy goes through an example on how to connect with who you are using Gene Keys
• Description of epigenetics- how our genetic expression changes based on our internal & external environments
• Turning “force” into strength- learning what makes you the most vibrant version of yourself

Resources:

• www.chrissypapetti.com and @chrissypapetti on Instagram
• SNAG your 10% off a Genius Session with the code REWIRE10!
• Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco
• Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside
• The Vital-Side Membership
• Cait’s Website

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Best-selling author, coach, mentor, and educator, Michael Anthony, speaks about the importance of ending generational trauma to maintain physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing.

Growing up with the odds against him, Michael works as a coach to encourage people to be the hero of their own lives. We CAN end generational trauma, but it takes breaking through social norms, accepting yourself as you are, and learning to uplevel, even amidst chaos. Michael is the author of the best-selling book “Think Unbroken” and is an educator for adult survivors of child abuse.

This episode includes broad explanations of generational trauma and tangible takeaway tips on how to become the hero of your life. It’s a fascinating deep dive into understanding your trauma and taking steps forward, to see your life from a new & empowering perspective.

Episode 4 Show Notes:

• Michael’s story of growing up in an abusive environment
• Overcoming adversity growing up experiencing poverty, homelessness, & abuse
• Shifting mindset, landing a fortune 10 company,then Michael hits rock bottom
• Michael defines generational trauma
• Taking responsibility for your life- what that means & how to move forward after “bad things happen”
• Using your thoughts to create action & change in your life
• Michael gives words of advice to people who feel stuck & fearful from past trauma
• The importance of community in the health & business space
• Healing as a lifestyle, learning to recognize the tools & the support you need
• Michael deep dives into his story living with POTS & having chronic symptoms daily, then making a recovery
• Michael gives a tip on how to redefine your current reality to choose the person you want to be through self-talk
• The brain & the body’s connection- how we can make positive changes daily
• Practicing kindness as a way to evolve & go where you want to go

Resources:

• https://www.thinkunbroken.com/ and @michaelunbroken on instagram
• Claim your free copy of “Unbroken”
• Cait’s instagram: @caitrossco
• Lindsay’s instagram: @myvitalside
• The Vital-Side Membership
• Cait’s Website

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Cait & Lindsay deep dive into the science behind shifting, changing, & regulating the nervous system. The nervous system can be impacted when we have experienced traumatic situations, have had a chronic illness, or are living in a stressful environment.

Lindsay uses her background as a medical practitioner to give you the science behind how the brain changes & how we can use simple techniques to improve our nervous system health.

This episode includes explanation of basic anatomy of the nervous system & reviews the intricacies of the autonomic nervous system. Cait & Lindsay give you tangible tools on how to shift out of a chronic state of fight-or-flight and communicate a new reality to your body- one of safety & ease.

Episode 3 Show Notes:

• Basic anatomy of the nervous system
• Lindsay describes the various parts of the nervous system & how it impacts our bodies
• When we experience mental, emotional, or physical traumas (like a chronic illness or symptoms), our brains can impact the body to tell us we are in danger
• The fight-or-flight response can turn on as a result of perceived danger- it’s a protective mechanism
• Lindsay shows us how we can shift our nervous systems, which benefits our health & wellbeing
• Cait gives a tip on how to make positive changes to her autonomic nervous system
• The importance of breath & how we can use breath to get out of survival mode
• How to positively impact the autonomic nervous system when running a business from home
• Lindsay describes the negative feedback loop of stress & walks through a mental exercise you can use at home to shift out of the chronic stress response

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• Cait’s instagram: @caitrossco
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Entrepreneur, Speaker, & Forbes Next 1000 Leader, Heather Emerson shares more about overcoming adversity and trauma to build an impact-driven, plant-based, zero-waste food business impacting thousands of people.

This episode includes Heather’s story of how she turned her pain to purpose, co-leading a team of 25 people to provide organic, plant- based meals to hard-working Texans, all with a zero-waste mission. After rebuilding her life after being incarcerated 15 years ago, she has made a choice to turn her challenging experiences into doing good for the community. To date, Prep To Your Door has saved over a million pieces of plastic from the landfills and oceans, and sourced over 100,000 pounds of Texas-grown produce.

Episode 2 Show Notes: Heather's mission is to change food through strengthening local food systems so that everybody wins: the community, our health, our planet. In 2016, she founded Prep To Your Door in an effort to make that a reality.

• Heather’s personal story in the justice system
• Overcoming adversity & childhood trauma to take the next step towards entrepreneurship
• Leaving NYC to backpack around the world before starting Prep to Your Door
• The role that food has in our individual & collective healing journeys
• Heather’s advice for aspiring entrepreneurs
• Building a world-class employee culture; a sneak peek inside of the Prep to Your Door culture

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• https://www.heatheremerson.com/ and @theheatheremerson on instagram
• https://preptoyourdoor.com/ and @preptoyourdoor
• Cait’s instagram: @caitrossco
• Lindsay’s instagram: @myvitalside
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• Cait’s Website

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Cait & Lindsay introduce you to the Rewire the Podcast. In this episode, they share insights into their own personal healing from chronic illness & life journeys that brought them to a place of bringing health, self development, & business mentorship to their clients and communities. This episode deep dives into the one moment in each of Cait & Lindsay’s lives when they decided to make a big & monumental change. Every passionate person has a story that depicts their motivation for change. Discover why Cait & Lindsay got started on their journeys of healing & what the stories behind why they started this podcast. Episode 1 Show Notes: Welcome to the first episode of Rewire the Podcast! Today, Cait and Lindsay discuss their personal stories & journeys... and what it looks like to reach that moment when you become ready & motivated to change your circumstances.

• Cait’s personal story + motivation for change
• Lessons from hitting rock bottom
• Take one step, and the next step appears
• The neuroscience behind taking little steps to create big change
• Lindsay’s personal story + motivation for change
• Addressing the brain & the chronic stress response to activate healing
• The power to heal yourself through the nervous system to support your larger life goals
• A tangible evidence-based tool to support you in taking the next step in your journey of change

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• The Vital-Side Membership
• Cait’s Website
• Cait’s instagram: @caitrossco
• Lindsay’s instagram: @myvitalside

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