NeuroAlchemy: The Brain-Body Healing podcast

When We Cannot Save Them: Grief, Horses, and the Courage to Heal What happens when love cannot fix what is happening to someone we care about? For many of us, helping becomes part of how we love. We research, advocate, anticipate, and try to make things better. But sometimes healing asks us to confront something harder: There is a difference between helping someone and believing we are responsible...

What if your body has been telling your story long before you had the words to explain it? The way we breathe, move, stand, and hold tension can reflect how the nervous system has learned to respond to stress, emotion, relationships, and the world around us. In this episode of NeuroAlchemy: The Brain-Body Healing Podcast , Dr. Sarah Young welcomes Feldenkrais® practitioner, movement educator, auth...

In this episode of NeuroAlchemy , Dr. Sarah Young sits down with Mike Woods for a powerful conversation about the subconscious mind, emotional healing, self-worth, and why so many people mistakenly believe they are broken. Mike shares his deeply personal journey of growing up with an undiagnosed form of dyslexia, graduating with a second-grade reading level, and carrying years of anxiety, shame, a...

In this episode of NeuroAlchemy, Dr. Sarah Young sits down with Miguel Hernandez for a grounded conversation exploring nervous system regulation, embodiment, emotional awareness, self-trust, and reconnecting with ourselves in a world that often keeps people disconnected from their bodies. Miguel is a therapist-turned mind-body coach and creator of the Sovereign Flow methodology, a framework design...

In this episode of NeuroAlchemy, Dr. Sarah Young sits down with internationally acclaimed jazz artist and Jazz for Peace founder Rick DellaRatta for a conversation exploring music, creativity, consciousness, healing, and human connection. Following the events of September 11, 2001, Rick's life took an unexpected turn that eventually led to the creation of Jazz for Peace, a global initiative suppor...

In this episode of NeuroAlchemy, Dr. Sarah Young sits down with Naomi Katz for a grounding conversation about ritual, collective healing, earth wisdom, grief, belonging, and our need for connection in an increasingly fragmented world. Naomi is an ordained ritualist, lineage holder in the tradition of Carmen Vicente, and guide whose work explores how ancient ceremonial practices can be renewed with...

In this episode of NeuroAlchemy, Dr. Sarah Young sits down with Katie Asmus, founder of Somatic Nature Therapy, for a grounded and deeply human conversation about authenticity, self-trust, inner wisdom, and the healing relationship between people and the natural world. Rather than approaching healing as something to force or fix, Katie invites listeners into a different relationship with themselve...

In this episode of NeuroAlchemy, Dr. Sarah Young sits down with Vanina Grisoni for a profound conversation exploring the intersections of women’s health, cyclical intelligence, nervous system regulation, trauma, lineage healing, and feminine embodiment. Together, Sarah and Vanina examine the possibility that many symptoms women experience are not isolated malfunctions to suppress, but meaningful s...

In this episode of NeuroAlchemy, Dr. Sarah Young sits down with Erin Carol Manning for a thoughtful and deeply important conversation exploring newborn nervous system development, co-regulation, attachment, and the ways early experiences shape lifelong emotional and neurological patterns. Erin is a master newborn care specialist whose work focuses on helping families move beyond survival mode and...

In this episode of NeuroAlchemy, Dr. Sarah Young sits down with Suzanne Wells for a grounded and compassionate conversation about nervous system regulation, embodied safety, intuition, and reconnecting with yourself after chronic stress, overwhelm, or survival mode. Suzanne is a somatic, trauma-informed coach whose work blends nervous system science, intuitive awareness, and emotional healing to h...

In this episode of NeuroSynergy – The Brain-Body Healing Podcast , Dr. Sarah Young sits down with Kerry Blaser to explore the intersection of neuroscience, emotional healing, and spiritual awakening. This conversation gently bridges science and lived experience, offering a grounded look at what happens when identity, the nervous system, and consciousness begin to shift at the same time. Kerry shar...

In this episode of NeuroAlchemy, Dr. Sarah Young sits down with Ela Szilvassy for a grounded and compassionate conversation about safety, embodiment, emotional healing, and reconnecting with the body after trauma, disconnection, or chronic self-abandonment. Together, Sarah and Ela explore how many people learn to stay small, overgive, or constantly “read the room” in order to feel safe — and how t...

In this episode of NeuroAlchemy, Dr. Sarah Young sits down with licensed psychotherapist Beatriz Martinez-Peñalver for a hopeful and empowering conversation about neuroplasticity, emotional resilience, and the idea that we actively participate in shaping our future wiring. After more than three decades working in community mental health, Beatriz began asking an important question: What if emotiona...

In this episode of NeuroAlchemy, Dr. Sarah Young sits down with psychologist Dr. Gloria K. Vanderhorst for a thoughtful conversation exploring emotional healing, Internal Family Systems, Emotion Focused Therapy, and the lifelong process of reconnecting with parts of ourselves that may have been suppressed or disconnected over time. Drawing from nearly five decades of clinical experience working wi...

In this episode of NeuroAlchemy, Dr. Sarah Young sits down with researcher Scott Bukow for a conversation exploring traumatic brain injury, long-haul COVID, neuroinflammation, and the often-overlooked mechanisms involved in neurological recovery. Many people navigating brain injury or post-viral symptoms are told their scans look normal, yet they continue experiencing brain fog, fatigue, cognitive...

In this episode of NeuroAlchemy, Dr. Sarah Young sits down with Tracy Fance for a grounded conversation exploring intuition, somatic healing, nervous system regulation, and reconnecting with inner wisdom. Together, Sarah and Tracy discuss how healing is not only mental, but deeply embodied. They explore how stress and trauma shape the nervous system, how intuitive signals are often quieted by over...

In this episode of NeuroAlchemy, Dr. Sarah Young sits down with Phil Kobald, author of Spiritual Parenting and host of the Holistic Circle platform, for a thoughtful conversation about parenting, authenticity, spirituality, and raising children in an increasingly artificial world. Together, Sarah and Phil explore what it means to cultivate inner alignment before trying to shape outward behavior, w...

In this episode of NeuroAlchemy, Dr. Sarah Young sits down with Mark Burnett to explore brain health, neuroprotection, environmental toxicity, and what becomes possible when someone refuses to let a diagnosis define their future. After experiencing toxic exposure and neurological symptoms, Mark was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and early Alzheimer’s. Rather than accepting decline as inevitabl...

In this episode of NeuroAlchemy, Dr. Sarah Young sits down with Jennifer Day for a thoughtful conversation about nonlinear healing, nervous system regulation, creativity, and rebuilding self-trust after overwhelm. Together, Sarah and Jennifer explore why healing often happens in spirals instead of straight lines, how the nervous system revisits layers of experience, and why creativity, ritual, and...

In this episode of NeuroAlchemy, Dr. Sarah Young sits down with psychotherapist and theoretical physicist Lincoln Stoller for a thoughtful conversation exploring the intersection of neuroscience, neurofeedback, consciousness, and personal transformation. What is consciousness in everyday language? How do brain waves shape mood, focus, and emotional patterns? And why is insight alone often not enou...

In this episode of NeuroAlchemy, Dr. Sarah Young sits down with Cori Myka, founder of Calm Within Adult Swim, for a deeply human conversation about fear, trust, nervous system safety, and what it truly means to learn again as an adult. Although Cori teaches adults how to swim, this conversation reaches far beyond the water. Together, Sarah and Cori explore how fear lives in the body, why adults of...

In this episode of NeuroSynergy – The Brain-Body Healing Podcast , Dr. Sarah Young sits down with Sarah Dawkins, holistic health coach and former registered nurse, to explore the connection between core beliefs, the subconscious mind, and the body’s natural ability to heal. Drawing from her own journey through chronic health challenges, Sarah shares how symptoms can be understood as meaningful mes...

In this episode of NeuroSynergy – The Brain-Body Healing Podcast , Dr. Sarah Young sits down with Anik Malenfant, an inner work strategist, to explore the journey from survival mode into self-alignment, clarity, and personal sovereignty. This conversation bridges neuroscience, emotional healing, and lived transformation. Together, they explore how trauma, chronic stress, and long-term misalignment...

In this episode of NeuroSynergy – The Brain-Body Healing Podcast , Dr. Sarah Young sits down with Patrick Boylan, professional pianist and co-founder of MuseFlow, to explore how learning, creativity, and the nervous system are deeply connected. This conversation reframes what it means to struggle, fail, and grow. Together, they explore how traditional learning environments often create pressure an...

In this episode of NeuroSynergy – The Brain-Body Healing Podcast , Dr. Sarah Young sits down with Daniel Esposito, former NFL player and chronic pain survivor, to explore the deeper layers of healing beyond diagnosis. This conversation moves beyond symptom management and into understanding the relationship between the nervous system, inflammation, identity, and recovery. Daniel shares his personal...