Who Turned The Lights On?

Can all the healers getting jobs, thinking about getting jobs or sourcing income from healing-adjacent places please stand up? Over the last several months I have spoken to nearly a hundred coaches, therapists, doctors - all independent solopreneurs who are struggling financially and many feel shame for it. No! The wellbeing industry hit nearly 8 Trillion in 2024 - thanks to tech platforms - not s...

Probably my best iteration yet of how I I found my way out of the dark. I chose to share this information as an article I wrote for my younger self. Recording it and sharing it through audio with an invitation for you to come listen in. This final episode in this 3 part micro series speaks to how those of us from high stress childhoods, ongoing stress careers, now aged 40sih, can find our way out...

In this episode, this audio explores how nervous system adaptations silently shape the way we price, earn, and show up in business. From freezing at bigger ticket opportunities to collapsing under visibility, this recorded audio for my younger self, unpacks how survival logic—not strategy—often drives our decisions. We trace the five-layer Scarcity Code loop and reveal what shifts when pricing, re...

In a Who Turned The Lights On first, I invite you to listen to a reading I recorded for my younger self, and perhaps for yours, too. This is Part 1 of a short series called  The Scarcity Code , exploring how survival, money, and self-limitation are shaped by the nervous system from a time long, long ago.  If you've ever felt stuck in patterns of under-earning, overgiving, or financial fear — even...

The final episode in an 8-part micro series exploring the 70 page book - Successful Outside, Struggling Inside. This final episode summarises the last 7 episodes, before we get stuck into some very helpful distinctions, insights & context as you find your own way out of the dark. I include some more lived experience to bring these ideas to life, and ultimately, give you a clear map and suggestions...

While we don't really need to understand Neuroplasticity or Bioplasticity to recover, it is very helpful to undestand its role. Maybe understanding a bit about this, will make the path out of the dark a bit easier.  Episode 18, is part 7 of our mini series exploring Successful Outside, Struggling Inside - a wee book of 70 pages that is my first attempt at articulating how I found my way out of the...

The area I ignored most, that likely added at least a year or more to my recovery. This is part 6 of our mini series exploring the wee book: Successful Outside, Struggling Inside. Page 45-48 in that free 70 page PDF, examines pace & progress.  We start by putting a few key distinctions on the table, and then examine pace for both your thinking self, and separately for your nervous system.  We look...

This is episode 16, also known as part 5 of our mini series on Successful Outside Struggling Inside . We explore all 8 bio-items that are the building blocks for optimum nervous system health. Those 8 bio items are captured as an acronym: T.H.E. C.L.I.M.B. Each of these 8 will be applied differently pending which run of the nervous system ladder your baseline currently is.  We take a brief tour in...

Episode 15 is also part 4 in this mini series , exploring the 70 pg wee book - Successful Outside, Struggling Inside. This episode recaps the prior 3 episodes, before taking a deep dive into The Rulebook installed in childhood, reinforced into adult years, that hijacks your current reality as it creates all sorts of shenanigans while it is left unchecked.  Quite literally, it is like having your 5...

Episode 14 coincides with a lived experience from this very morning that is used to shape, direct and explain this section of that wee book titled: Successful Outside, Struggling Inside, page 27-35  You can get the pdf in your inbox by going to this page, leaving your email, before hitting submit. Should land within a few minutes. www.nervoussystemeconomy.com/nsi-book This episode examines percept...

Get instant access to the wee book here: Successful Outside, Struggling Inside > We are back with the 2nd of our mini series discussing the wee book - Successful Outside, Struggling Inside, pages 16-25. This episode focuses exlusively on the nervous system, tabling distinctions between dysregulated and depleted, nervous sytem states as our baseline vs the places our nervous system moves in and thr...

Episode 12 marks the beginning of a micro series I am running based on the wee book (70 page free PDF) titled, "Successful Outside, Struggling Inside." I believe the contents of this PDF to be the minimum viable baseline of Nervous System Intelligence any of us should have access to, especially if you struggle with anxiety, mental health, self worth, and have a high stress childhood.  As such, I a...

What if your performance wasn't just about your mindset, but your mitochondria? What if quality of life came down to what's in— and around—your nervous system? In this episode, Ruth Pearce and Shannon Eastman sit down to explore the lived experience of Nervous System Intelligence through the lens of environment—both visible and invisible. From the fluorescent lights we ignore to the subtle electro...

Episode 10 will go down as one of my all time favourites. I appreciated the wisdom, insight and opportunity to learn from a business mind who prioritises consciousness as a tool to grow your business into the ultimate exit.  There was no effort required in making the invisibile, visible in ways that land, and shift, and compel a new way of seeing.  We covered a lot of ground and each had their own...

Italian sports car. Corner office. Member of the judiciary, Solictor - On paper, Claire Payne had it all - and - Friday evening, 9pm in her office, with her little one at home, she has a moment.  In this candid and revealing episode, Claire shares the moment when she realised she was living entirely as a head on a stick with no awareness of a body until it felt like it was failing her. The resigna...

Dr. Joshua Rosenthal joins me for a game-changing conversation on EMFs, coherence, and the invisible field your nervous system is trying to regulate within—whether you're aware of it or not. Most orf us would be forgiven for feeling tired, foggy, or fried. As a society, life is different than generations before - and - we can do some easy things to shift this a lot. I invited Dr. Rosenthal to help...

This is episode 7, Inspired by some great comments on a linkedin post I made earlier, over here.  I got inspired to riff off the comments and speak to something in a bit more depth and specificity as we all get our heads around this nervous system stuff. When we do, this gets to become leverage creating major shifts in the quality of our life - around that entire wheel (as in the wheel of life). ...

I hit record 3x as I got all choked up at seeing the truth of this headline. The End of Survival Mode is attainable, accessible and I'm committed to sharing what I can with you to get your level of understanding on this high enough that you can see it too.   In this episode I start to talk inside the distinction of You, and Your Nervous System. A favourite quote I like to pull out now is that this...

Dr. Abrar Hussain is back to help us stand on some foundational concepts as it relates to all things #NervousSystemIntelligence. We cover the 3 nervous system states, why they matter, what creates them and how to navigate each one .I find myself asserting that our nervous system is 80% of the solution. That being stuck in a spin cycle of anxiety, tension, over analysis, scarcity and unhelpful beha...

This episode examines something that happened to me (Shannon Eastman) earlier today.  I bombed my podcast and inside that experience I got to see something that feels helpful to share with you. I mention my daily practice in this episode. You'll find that here >  When someone taps into an old, unresolved emotional wound — especially one rooted in childhood dysregulation — the nervous system doesn'...

I would use words like alignment, allowing, and endless access to everything to describe life with a regulated nervous system.  It's being able to meet and greet conflict with compassion and self awareness, not the absence of conflict. It's being met with direct confrontation and feeling neutral in your body. The need to defend, retaliate, or set the record straight becomes less important than hav...

I'm taking an episode (or two) to get real about what life is life 5 years into my own recovery from C-PTSD using nervous system regulation.  Kind of like a before and after as I reflect on 10 of the more obvious (for me) insights and distinctions.   1. Survival Mode Can Look Like Success You can be sharp, fast, productive — and still be running entirely on stress hormones. Just because it's worki...

We're back with Dr. Abrar Hussain to kick off Series 4, Episode 1 as we bring another lens on all things " 40+ professional, highly functioning, not-always-ok " with an emphasis on all things relational. Here's a brief summary of what Dr. Hussain covers in this podcast:  We Exist Within Systems — Not in Isolation We are not isolated beings; we exist within a complex web of systems. Internally, we...

Roseanne Reilly joins me ( Shannon Eastman ) for episode 5 of our 6 part series - A #NervousSystemInformed approach to finding your way out of the dark. We do a brief recap on the #NervousSystemContinuum and its 4 states: Survival Mode, Dysregulation, Self-Regulation and Co-Regulation. We revisit how each state determines your inner world... we used me as an example so words like 'fear-soaked' ins...

We are in part 4 of a 6 part series as we unpack Roseanne's Nervous System Informed Approach to finding stable ground in ways that are long lasting.  So ways that engage neuroplasticity, bioplasticity and easily accessible to you, when you know what's what.  In this episode we do a quick recap on the 6 dynamic stages of the Nervous System Informed Approach, we revisit the Nervous System Continuum...