The Wired for Well-Being Podcast

Get Jeffrey's free 20-minute video, "Why Do I Feel Stuck?" at drjeffreyrutstein.com/links . What if being hard on yourself has never once made you better at anything? In this episode, Jeffrey and Steve get into self-compassion. Steve brought the question himself. Editing the last few episodes, he kept hearing the same answer sitting underneath Jeffrey's other answers, and he wanted to know what's...

Get Jeffrey's free 20-minute video, "Why Do I Feel Stuck?" at drjeffreyrutstein.com/links . Have you ever tried to talk yourself out of worrying, and ended up worrying about why you can't stop? In this episode, Jeffrey and Steve answer a voicemail from Jasmine. She's losing her housing, may lose her small business, and is living with long COVID. She ruminates day and night, even during guided medi...

Get your free gift on the nervous system at drjeffreyrutstein.com/links Want to leave a question? Call 866-357-5156 You already know what would help. Move your body. Get outside. Do the practice. But when you're deep in nervous system shutdown, the energy all of that requires is exactly the thing you don't have — and pushing harder only drives you further down. That's the trap of dorsal collapse:...

Get Jeffrey's free 20-minute video, "Why Do I Feel Stuck?" at drjeffreyrutstein.com/links . In this episode, Jeffrey and Steve answer a voicemail from Peter, who's lived with chronic low-level depression most of his life. He's found something that works — a slow breathing practice that shifts his whole state in under two minutes. But, somehow it never lasts. Jeffrey and Steve get into what's actua...

Get Jeffrey's free 20-minute video, "Why Do I Feel Stuck?" at drjeffreyrutstein.com/links . What do you do when you can see exactly what your resentment is costing you — and still can't put it down? In this episode, Jeffrey and Steve answer a voicemail about resentment. The caller is in her 70s, the oldest of eleven. The younger kids got what she didn't. Fifty years later she still resents them, a...

Get Jeffrey's free 20-minute video, "Why Do I Feel Stuck?" at drjeffreyrutstein.com/links . Is your anger trying to tell you something you keep talking yourself out of? In this episode, Jeffrey and Steve get into anger — where it actually comes from, why it can sit in you for days or weeks after the moment has passed, and why the hardest anger to deal with is often the anger you're not sure you ha...

Grab Jeffrey's free 20-minute video, "Why Do I Feel Stuck?" at drjeffreyrutstein.com/links . What if the guilt that floods in after you finally draw a line isn't proof you did something wrong — but proof of how you learned to survive? In this episode of Wired for Well-Being, Steve brings his own question to Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein: why is setting boundaries so hard, why do so many of us get it wrong,...

Want tools to help you move from dysregulation toward regulation? Grab Jeffrey's free 20-minute video, "Why Do I Feel Stuck?" at drjeffreyrutstein.com/links . What happens when you stop trusting your own feelings — and start monitoring your partner's instead? In this episode, Jeffrey and Steve answer a voicemail from Chris, who married a partner who also came from a difficult family background, an...

What do you do when your own grief keeps getting pushed aside by someone else's pain? In this episode, Jeffrey and Steve answer a listener whose husband spent years as a functional alcoholic before crashing completely — burnout, depression, car accidents, hospital visits, unpaid bills, lost jobs — and eventually left her to single-parent their three teenage sons. She's not struggling to understand...

Discover your free gift from Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein at drjeffreyrutstein.com/links — a 20-minute video on nervous system states and the practices that can help you find regulation. Want to leave a question? Call 866-357-5156 There's a voice that shows up the moment things get quiet — the one that says you're behind, or worse, that you've lost ground you already fought for in your healing journey. Ol...

Discover your free gift from Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein at drjeffreyrutstein.com/links — a 20-minute video on nervous system states and the practices that can help you find regulation. Want to leave a question? Call 866-357-5156 Most of us are chasing one of two things when we talk about healing: getting back to who we were before, or building the calmest, safest version of ourselves we can. Both feel l...

Discover your free gift from Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein at drjeffreyrutstein.com/links — a 20-minute video on nervous system states and the practices that can help you find regulation. Want to leave a question? Call 866-357-5156 You fight the diagnosis. You fight the fall. You fight the friend who died too soon, the body that won't cooperate, the years slipping by faster than you can hold onto them. Eve...

Discover your free gift from Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein at drjeffreyrutstein.com/links — a 20-minute video on nervous system states and the practices that can help you find regulation. Want to leave a question? Call 866-357-5156 You've done the work. The therapy, the nervous system education, the healing. And still — when your gut speaks, you're not sure you can believe it. Is this my gut, or is it fear...

Discover your free gift from Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein at drjeffreyrutstein.com/links — a 20-minute video on nervous system states and the practices that can help you find regulation. Want to leave a question? Call 866-357-5156 You know this feeling. You're in — connected, engaged, fully yourself. And then something shifts. The energy drains, the walls go up, and you can't find your way back. The judgm...

Discover your free gift from Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein at drjeffreyrutstein.com/links — a 20-minute video on nervous system states and the practices that can help you find regulation. Want to leave a question? Call 866-357-5156 You know the person. Every conversation circles back to everything that's gone wrong for them, and somehow, you leave drained instead of closer. You want to be a good friend, a...

Discover your free gift from Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein at drjeffreyrutstein.com/links — a 20-minute video on nervous system states and the practices that can help you find regulation. Want to leave a question? Call 866-357-5156 There's a crisis you can't stop bracing against. The bill you can't cover, the call you're dreading, the disaster you're certain is coming. You can already see the connection to...

Discover your free gift from Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein at drjeffreyrutstein.com/links — a 20-minute video on nervous system states and the practices that can help you find regulation. Want to leave a question? Call 866-357-5156 There's a decision you keep replaying. The turn you took, the path you walked away from, the version of yourself you left behind. It feels like proof you made the wrong call — a...

Discover your free gift from Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein at drjeffreyrutstein.com/links Want to leave a question? Call 866-357-5156 Most of us have spent years trying to think our way to peace — through therapy, reflection, emotional healing work. And still we find ourselves circling the same stuck places, the same invisible ceiling on how much ease, love, or freedom we seem to be allowed to have. For tr...

Get your free gift on the nervous system at drjeffreyrutstein.com/links Want to leave a question? Call 866-357-5156 You want to raise a child whose nervous system is a resource, not a battlefield. A child who recognizes their own dysregulation, reaches for regulation instead of shame, and learns emotional healing from the inside out. But children's nervous system development doesn't come with a ma...

Get your free gift from Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein — visit drjeffreyrutstein.com/links Want to leave a question? Call 866-357-5156 Most of us have been running on exhaustion for so long, we've stopped asking if there's another way. We get home, we put on something to watch, we scroll, we call it rest. But your nervous system knows the difference. And somewhere in the gap between what we think we're doin...

Interested in the Professional Presence Masterclass? Visit drjeffreyrutstein.com/links  Want to leave a question? Call 866-357-5156  After a major trigger, the trauma survivor's nervous system doesn't just reset. It can cycle through fight/flight and collapse. And inside that state of nervous system dysregulation, something insidious happens: shame moves in and blocks access to the very thing that...

Learn more about Dr. Rutstein’s Professional Program; visit drjeffreyrutstein.com/links Want to leave a question? Call 866-357-5156 What do you do when someone you care about is struggling — a child, a partner, a friend, or a client — and nothing you try seems to help? In this episode of Wired for Well-Being, Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein explores why helping others can get so complicated, especially when...

Learn more about Dr. Rutstein’s Professional Program; visit drjeffreyrutstein.com/links   Want to leave a question? Call 866-357-5156 If you've ever typed out a text, deleted it, rewritten it, and deleted it again — just to avoid saying no — you already know what people pleasing feels like from the inside. But what's actually happening beneath that impulse? And why is it so hard to stop, even when...

Learn more about Dr. Rutstein’s Professional Program; visit drjeffreyrutstein.com/links Want to leave a question? Call 866-357-5156 What happens when a job feels exciting and terrifying at the same time? When part of you wants growth, challenge, and a bigger life — but another part just wants to stay safe? In this episode of Wired for Well-Being, Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein explores how complex PTSD, tra...

Learn more about Dr. Rutstein’s Professional Program visit: drjeffreyrutstein.com/links Want to leave a question? Call 866-357-5156 What if the voice in your head isn't actually you? For anyone on a nervous system healing journey, understanding the relationship between your thoughts and your identity may be one of the most liberating shifts you can make. If you've ever felt imprisoned by your own...