Simple Stress Management, Nervous System Regulation, Burnout Recovery, and Regaining Agency Through Creative Self Care With Crystal McLain
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 Stress Management, Nervous System Regulation, Burnout Recovery, and Regaining Agency Through Creative Self Care With Crystal McLain
Latest Episodes
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...
What If Regulated Doesn't Feel Like What You Think?
You've tried the things. You still feel like garbage. But what if your self care is actually working — and you just don't recognize it because regulated doesn't feel like what you think it does?
You're Not Lazy. You're Frozen. Understanding the Difference.
Exhausted but can't rest? Foggy, numb, going through the motions? That's not laziness — that's functional freeze. Nervous system educator Crystal McLain explains what's actually happening and what to do about it.Get your bonus magic:
You're Allowed to Feel Alive Again
The other night someone in my workshop said: "I'm just so tired of everything feeling heavy. I want to feel alive again."That moment is why this podcast exists.This is the relaunch of Creative Self Care with Crystal McLain — somat...
Paralysis to Power: Nervous System Regulation for Resistance
We name the paralysis many feel in the face of systemic harm and show how shutdown is a nervous system response, not a personal flaw. We share simple practices to move from freeze to small, collective actions that matter over time.• dor...