Simple Somatic Healing, Nervous System Regulation, and Stress Management Using Creative Self Care
You're not broken. You're burned out, dysregulated, and running without a manual. Creative Self Care with Crystal McLain is a podcast about nervous system literacy, radical self-reclamation, and what it actually looks like to take care of yourself in a world designed to exhaust you.
Crystal McLain is a somatic practitioner and nervous system educator who is passionate about empowering women with stress and trauma education, and practical tools for reclaiming their energy, agency and fucks in life.
She delivers truth, humor, and science without the toxic positivity, spiritual bypassing, or bullshit.
This is self-care as resistance. And you're in the right place.
Simple Somatic Healing, Nervous System Regulation, and Stress Management Using Creative Self Care
Latest Episodes
SACRED RAGE- Why Your Anger Isn't a Problem, But a Resource
We name the full-body experience of rage and treat it as a protective signal from the nervous system rather than a personal failure. We unpack why anger can feel terrifying, what it costs to stay “polite,” and how to process rage in ways that c...
Compassion Fatigue Isn't Just for Helpers Anymore: What Doomscrolling Is Doing to Your Nervous System
Doomscrolling can trap us in guilt because looking away feels like betrayal, even as our bodies buckle under constant crisis. We name this as compassion fatigue spreading beyond helping professions and share a path to care sustainably without c...
A Polite Body Is Not A Liberated Body. But A Creative One Is.
We name the “polite body” and how it trains us to clamp down on breath, needs, anger, and joy until we feel burnt out, anxious, or numb. We connect the dots between nervous system imprinting and creative self-care, then offer simple private pra...
Meet Little Amy — Understanding Your Amygdala and Stress Response
Your amygdala — Little Amy — has been keeping humans alive for hundreds of thousands of years. Nervous system educator Crystal McLain explains why you can't calm down on command, what actually works, and how resilience is really built.Ge...