The Nourished Nervous System

Send us Fan Mail Today's guest is Tabatha DeBruyn — a transformational breath master, certified 9D Breathwork facilitator, rapid transformational hypnotic therapist, and author of Ordinary to Extraordinary . Tabatha has spent years weaving together neuroscience, breathwork, hypnotherapy, NLP, and somatic healing into a body-first approach to transformation that is producing results people des...

Send us Fan Mail This episode started with an accident — or what felt like one. I went to the eye doctor, had my eyes dilated, and sat down to write my newsletter only to find I couldn't see my computer screen. So I closed my eyes, started voice-dictating, and something unexpected happened: I dropped inward in a way I rarely do during a regular workday. The forced pause became a teaching. Tha...

Send us Fan Mail Today's guest is Chelsea Horton — a board-certified dance and movement therapist, somatic practitioner, educator, and founder of Healing Embodied, where she trains wellness professionals and leaders to integrate somatics, creativity, and emotional healing into their work. Chelsea has a master's degree in dance and movement therapy and has worked with over 2,000 clients,...

Send us Fan Mail This episode comes from two threads that have been weaving together in my practice lately: training in Polarity Champissage — a beautiful Ayurvedic marma-based body therapy developed by my friend and mentor Caroline Crichton — and developing Somatic Stretch and Shake , the movement class I've been teaching at Soma in Belfast, Maine. I want to be upfront: these ideas are still...

Send us Fan Mail Today I'm sitting down with Charlie Baldwin — a breathwork and meditation teacher with the Art of Living Foundation, over 1,000 hours of teaching experience, and a real gift for bringing these practices to people who never thought they'd be interested. He's taught in prisons, firehouses, universities, and retreat centers in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and he has a way...

Send us Fan Mail "Can't we just lie down in our power? Do we have to step into it?" That question, offered by Ayurvedic teacher Claudia Welch, sparked everything in this episode. Because when we talk about stepping into our power, we are implying that power is somewhere outside of us — something to reach for, to put on, to earn. But what if that image is wrong? What if our power is...

Send us Fan Mail What if everything you've been told about change, motivation, and stress is missing the most important piece — your brain? This week I'm joined by Lisa Riegel, educator by training, strategist by practice, and someone who has dedicated her career to translating brain science into language and tools that actually help people feel more self-aware, regulated, and in control...

Send us Fan Mail There's a moment every late spring where you can feel it — that internal pace starting to pick up with the heat, the to-do list for the garden suddenly feeling urgent, the rollercoaster of summer starting to pull you toward it before you're quite ready. This week's episode is for that moment. In this solo episode, I'm sharing what I've been working with pe...

Send us Fan Mail Today's guest is Lori Montry — somatic healing practitioner, author of You're Not the Problem , and creator of The Freedom Formula, a nervous system-based roadmap for sustainable behavior change. Lori helps people who feel stuck in stress, overwhelm, or self-sabotage understand the survival patterns driving their choices so they can build the safety, capacity, and clarit...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're going somewhere I've been wanting to go for a while — into the neuroscience of oxytocin. Not oxytocin as the cuddle hormone, though it is that too.  Oxytocin as a brain-changing, nervous system-healing, plasticity-promoting substance that you can actually learn to stimulate intentionally through your daily practices. What we cover: What oxytocin actually is —...

Send us Fan Mail Today's guest is Ms Elizabeth Munoz, founder of Soul Haven and creator of the Reclaiming Radiance framework. Elizabeth spent 17 years in corporate — the last 11 in high-stakes technology sales — before her body completely shut down. Two emergency C-sections, a fibromyalgia diagnosis, and the moment her legs gave out walking to an airport when her daughter was three months old...

Send us Fan Mail Here in Maine we're still tiptoeing into spring — warm days that feel like a promise, then snow flurries and the wood stove again. It's been a season of letting go and being with what is, which turns out to be exactly what this episode is about. A few weeks ago I had a dream. In it, I was on top of a crumbling Lego platform, trying to hold everything together, piece by p...

Send us Fan Mail Today's guest,  Michelle Walker is a life coach, self-healing mentor, and retreat guide devoted to embodied awakening and holistic healing.  In this conversation, we explore the Energy Codes — a seven-step system developed by Dr. Sue Morter — and the profound philosophical reframe at its heart: that our challenges, our symptoms, our struggles are not separate from us or happe...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is one I've been sitting with for a while — a synthesis of two things that have shaped my whole path: Ayurveda and yoga philosophy. In this episode, I bring those two threads together and look at the yamas and niyamas — yoga's ethical and personal observances — through the lens of kapha season. What we cover: Kapha dosha is made up of earth and water. It&apo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I'm joined by Hester Brooks, a certified Daring to Rest coach and Yoga Nidra facilitator based in Lincolnville, Maine.  Hester specializes in helping women break the cycle of exhaustion and create a life that truly honors their capacity — and this conversation could not have come at a better time. We talk about what it really means to rest (hint: it's not...

Send us Fan Mail I get this question all the time from clients and listeners: what do I eat for breakfast? So in this episode, I'm finally diving in. I'll start with my own story — because I was not always a breakfast person. It took a bowl of miso soup at Kripalu in my twenties to crack open my idea of what breakfast could even be. And once I realized I could eat anything for breakfast...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Amy Albright — Chinese medicine practitioner, neuroscientist, executive coach, and co-founder of Holon — for a conversation that genuinely stopped me in my tracks. Amy bridges neuroscience, business strategy, ancient medicine, and spirituality in a way that doesn't feel like it should work — and yet feels completely inevitable. We dive int...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I explore one of my favorite Ayurvedic concepts — langhana, or lightening — and I bring a more nuanced lens to how we can work with this energy in spring without depleting ourselves in the process.  Recording from my kitchen in Maine while watching the snow melt, I reflect on the signs of kapha accumulation I'm noticing in my own body and life, and share why...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Kristen sits down with Radhika, an integrative wellness mentor, yoga teacher, and meditation guide, to explore how ancient Ayurvedic wisdom and modern neuroscience can work together to help women regulate their nervous systems and come back to themselves.  Radhika shares how growing up in India immersed in yoga philosophy and seasonal living shaped her approach, a...

Send us Fan Mail If you're in perimenopause while actively parenting young children, this episode is for you. You are straddling two completely different life stages at once — and not enough people are talking about it. In this solo episode, I'm getting personal about my own experience navigating early motherhood and perimenopause simultaneously, why it's so much harder than it look...

Send us Fan Mail Winter is long. And right now, we're in this unique in-between place: the light is slowly returning, but we still have weeks (or months) of cold, heavy weather ahead. If you're feeling the weight of winter, you're not alone. And more importantly, you're not supposed to be producing at summer's pace right now. In this conversation, I sit down with Brett Ald...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when the very tools meant to heal you—breathwork, yoga, mindfulness—become ways to silence your inner wisdom? In this deeply vulnerable conversation, I sit down with Devin Scott, founder of Find Your Meaning, a body-based coach, who shares his recent experience of ignoring his body's signals in a relationship—and what he has learned about "healing" from...

Send us Fan Mail In times of collective overwhelm, how do we cultivate resilience and find ease in our bodies? In this conversation, I sit down with Dr. Alexandra Johnson, a family physician who integrates Breema body work and functional medicine into primary care, to explore how fear manifests in the body—and what we can do about it. What You'll Learn: Why anxiety and fear aren't just &...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Nourish Nervous System , I explore the vagus nerve — what it actually is, why it plays such a vital role in healing and resilience, and how Ayurveda has been supporting vagal regulation for thousands of years. We hear a lot about the vagus nerve in modern wellness spaces, but often without context or clarity.  I share a simple, grounded explanation of the vagus...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Nourish Nervous System , I’m joined by Dr. Karen Parker , founder of Quantum Human Design , for a powerful conversation about the stories we carry—and how they shape our nervous system, health, and sense of purpose, especially during times of burnout and uncertainty. Dr. Karen shares her unique approach to Human Design, blending science and spirituality , includ...