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Welcome to regulate and rewire an anxiety and depression podcast where we discuss the things I wish someone would have taught me earlier in my healing journey. I'm your host, Amanda Armstrong, and I'll be sharing my steps, my missteps, client experiences and tangible research based tools to help you regulate your nervous system, rewire your mind and reclaim your life. Thanks for being here. Now let's dive in.
Hey friend, welcome back. This is officially the 100th episode of The regulate and rewire podcast, and while I can absolutely believe that I have had this much to say. My dad often jokes that I started talking early and never stopped. It has been truly a sweet surprise that so many of you continue to tune in week after week to listen and not only that, but for the countless emails that I've received the DMS sharing with me the personal difference that this podcast has made in your life, or the number of times that I've heard from somebody that this podcast was recommended by somebody they follow on Instagram, their friend or their therapist. That all also means so so much to me. Every single review that has been written I read, and this is a shameless plug that if you are here listening and haven't rated or left a written review for this podcast, that would be amazing for you to take a couple minutes to do in celebration of the 100th episode, because your words, your shares about the impact of these tools, these messages, these conversations really do help to get them out to even more people who need them.
Now, I've shared this podcast origin story before, I think maybe even recently, in an episode, but in case you missed it, it feels appropriate to share it again here that this podcast was truly born out of me simply being annoyed at the 60 to 92nd time cap on other social media platforms for videos or audios that I could post. I am an educator through and through, and I wanted a place outside of the pay wall of my programs to be able to share and teach the information that I was seeing transform so many of the lives of our clients, so many of their healing journeys, just transformed by understanding, contextualizing and working with anxiety and depression through this nervous system lens. And I still remember turning to my husband, I think it was one evening, and I just looked at him and said, I think I'm gonna start a podcast. To which he was like, okay, yeah. Do you even listen to podcasts to which I laughed and was like, No, not really, and, but I'll figure it out. And that's what I did. I bought a mic and I hired someone to help me with the beginning tech stuff, and here we are 100 weeks later, with almost half a million downloads.
When you go to Spotify podcasts or Apple podcasts, and you type anxiety or depression into the search bar, my face, my podcast, it shows up right there in some of the top shows. And that is because each and every one of you and I am just so grateful, so so grateful.
And really, what I want to do with this conversation today and the rest of it is, first, I want to give you a fun kind of behind the scenes share of the top five most downloaded episodes so far from the podcast, and then offer you a little look forward for what is coming in the next, you know, couple weeks, couple months, and some ideas I have for the show this year. So starting with our top five most downloaded episodes, this first one being the most downloaded episode, which is number 49 how to come out of a shutdown state. This one actually kind of surprised me, because there are a few episodes like the health anxiety episodes or the anxiety exercise induced anxiety episodes. Those are ones I often get messages about from people like, Ooh, I found this episode. Or this was my entryway. This is not an episode that I have heard very often as, like, I found your podcast because of this one, or this was the one, and it had almost double the downloads. So that one's really curious for me, but I love it, because I do think that this is something that is we talk a lot about somatic or regulating from anxiety. I see that in a lot more places online than talking about how to somatically and work with the nervous system in shutdown states, in more depression, disconnection. So I love that I love, love, love, love, love that this is a place where so many of you have found that information. So the most downloaded episode 49 how to come out of a shutdown state.
Next is episode two, understanding anxiety and depression through an. Nervous System lens that makes sense. That's kind of like the first informational episode on the podcast.
Episode Eight, how to build nervous system regulation into your daily life.
Number four is episode four, anxiety through a nervous system lens.
And then the fifth most downloaded episode is number seven, how to stop overthinking that one didn't surprise me, that one was actually number one for a really long time, was how to stop overthinking.
And I am just so glad that these conversations have resonated so deeply and felt so supportive for you.
Now, kind of a look forward. I plan to have the next handful of episodes to be ones that reiterate and review some of the basics for understanding and working with anxiety through a nervous system lens. And I want to do this for a couple of reasons. Number one is that repetition is how we learn, and oftentimes when we hear similar teachings, but maybe in just like a little different way something resonates or lands differently than before, or maybe you are in a different place in your healing journey than when you first hit play on some of those initial episodes and hearing some of those basic concepts again. Now, with where you are, something may click, I am not here to just continue to feed you new information, new information, new information, new information. I guess I am in some ways, but really, my hope is that I empower you with this podcast to take that information and put it into action in your healing journey, to reiterate that information in a way that resonates with you uniquely or differently, and I'm seeing this play out in real time inside the membership right now.
We just quick behind the scenes. We just updated our signature healing course and decided to go through it together inside the membership this past month. And after each of the modules, our members were invited to share what impacted them, what resonated with them? And it's been really fun to see how many of our members have shared how the way that I taught it this time in this version of the course, just really clicked for them. And so my question internally has been, did it click for them because of simple repetition of repeated exposure, or because I actually did a better job of teaching it, and where I've landed is it's probably both. There has been 100 weeks. That is almost two years since I released those first introductory batch of episodes, and in that time, I have spent literally 1000s of dollars and 1000s of hours in continuing my education, in updating certifications, meeting with mentors, poring over research heck, since that time I researched, wrote, edited an entire book, and my hope is that I now grasp these concepts and how We are seeing them resonate with our clients in ways that make me a better teacher of the basics now than I was two years ago.
And I am really, really excited to revisit some of those most downloaded episodes as you just heard, those early episodes, to have those conversations again, maybe in a new way that helps you personally apply it in more depth. So that's my plan. That is my plan to spend some time together over the next few weeks or months, laying the foundation again. And I am confident that by tuning in and listening to these familiar concepts, for those of you who've been around for a long time, maybe since the beginning, that you will be able to further apply them to your unique healing.
Or if you're one of the many therapists or coaches who listen to this podcast, recommend it to your clients. Thank you again for that. This can help you to also maybe gain new ways of understanding and therefore a deeper ability to teach your clients these basics or incorporate them into your work in a way that is unique to you, because again, and I know I'm even getting a little repetitive here, I don't want you to simply tune in each week and then check out. I hope that you're able to take little nuggets from each of these episodes to support you in contextualizing your symptoms in a new way, and in this that it allows you to show up, engage with and take action in your healing in a new way.
Over the last few years, I have witnessed hundreds of our clients, people who came in saying, I feel like I've tried everything, but what I've heard on your podcast is something I've never heard before, and for the first time, I feel hope in my healing journey, and that really is what I think comes from understanding anxiety and depression through a nervous system lens, is that we are able to look at our symptoms, understanding our physiology and our psychology in a new way that says, Oh, that makes sense. This makes sense in a new way. Maybe I'm not forever broken. Maybe I didn't come this way. Maybe I've become this way because I needed to to keep myself safe, to get my needs met. My symptoms make sense through this lens.
And what you find on this podcast and in my coaching programs, like I've told you many times, is really the education, the tools, the resources and support that I wish I would have had earlier in my healing, understanding my symptoms, in this way, is what helped me to take radical but compassionate accountability for the habits and the patterns in my life that were keeping me unwell. It helped me to see what was in my control and what wasn't, to learn to control the controllables and to reorient to the things that I couldn't it showed me that I wasn't broken, that all of my symptoms and beliefs made sense given my past lived experiences and current life circumstances, and that I had a choice in many ways, more ways than I ever thought about whether I wanted to stay on the same hamster wheel or start doing some things differently, and I couldn't have gotten there alone.
And my hope with every episode that you tune into, that you feel less alone in getting there in your healing as well. This podcast is really my attempt to make this way of healing accessible to everyone for free. I have not made a single dollar off this podcast since day one. I haven't run ads. I have turned down sponsored content. It's just been me in my basement talking into a microphone, oftentimes late into a Monday night to have the episode ready for you Tuesday morning, recording these episodes in the margins of my life as a mother, a business owner, a wife and all the things that go with it, hoping, just hoping, that it makes a difference somewhere in the world, regulate and rewire has been a labor of love that feels so worth it every single time I hear from one of you that it has made a difference in your lives, your healing, the work that you do as a therapist or Coach, and it has felt like an especially worthwhile endeavor when that's how some of you came to be clients in our one on one coaching program, and the honor it is to be invited into your healing journey in that intimate way is never lost on myself or my team.
And my promise from day one here is that there is nothing, there's nothing that I teach behind a pay wall of one of my programs that I will not and have not taught you for free here on this podcast, I do not believe in gatekeeping information that can be helpful for people. The reason people join one of my programs isn't because they're necessarily looking for more information. Maybe it's that they want this information in a more organized way than a podcast allows, but it is because they are looking for support in the implementation. They are looking for community. They are looking for support in applying these concepts to their unique healing journey and circumstances.
And that is an invitation that I want to include and that I want to offer here in this celebratory 100th episode is that if you have been tuning in week after week, learning and learning, but are feeling limited or stuck in how to apply this information to your daily life, maybe you are starting to know different, but you're having a hard time doing differently in your life or your healing, I would love for the opportunity for myself and my team to be able to support you more personally inside the membership, or, even better, within restore our one on one coaching program.
And this new year, our one on one coaching program is now HSA and FSA eligible, we have a payment partner that can stretch out payments for up to 24 months. This also includes now comprehensive blood work to make sure that no stone is left unturned in helping you make sense of your symptoms and take a truly physiology first approach to healing anxiety and depression. And so if you have even been kind of curious about what that looks like for you, I want to offer you an invitation to book a discovery call with me. My promise is that those calls are always pressure free. They're always directly with me. And you'll find that link in the show notes.
And in celebration for this being the 100th episode, I am personally funding three $500 scholarships for restore for three of you podcast listeners who have gotten this far in today's celebratory episode, this isn't something that I'm going to talk about. On Instagram or in a newsletter or even in the show notes. This is for those of you here right now listening who could use some support in making that maybe just a little bit more financially accessible for you, or for this to be the thing that helps you take that leap of faith to book a discovery call with a stranger and share part of your story to share your hope for healing in this new way. So like I said, the link to book that call is in the show notes, if for whatever reason, my availability doesn't match with yours because of work or time zones, send me a DM, send me an email, we will find something that works for both of us.
So thank you. Thank you for being here, for continuing to tune in, for continuing to share, for inviting me into your healing in this way, and for participating in a space where I also have been able to share and process vulnerably with you these last couple years around my own grief and loss and struggles, because the reality is, we need each other.
The name of my mental health coaching practice is Rise As We and that name, those three words, put together in that way, does not make a whole lot of sense from the outside looking in, and as a result, I have considered changing it a million times, especially now that I own the name regulated living as well. But I always land back. I always come back to this embodiment and this concept of we the knowing that none of us can do this alone, none of us can heal alone. None of us are meant to alone. The we represents the you that courageously is stepping into your healing journey and the ripple effect that that has in healing all of us, when you courageously take steps to heal, it heals your family, your friends, your communities, because our nervous systems speak this unspoken language. As you become more regulated, the world becomes a little bit more regulated. We have a saying that's as you rise, we rise as you heal. We heal. And in a world that feels full of pain in so many ways right now, the we feels even more important to lean into. So thank you for being part of my We, of my collective, my village, my community, here on the regulate and rewire podcast, you make my impact bigger and you being here ripples out into more seen and unseen ways than I think you could possibly know. All right, friends, that's really it for today. Thank you for being here to celebrate 100 episodes.
And if you are somebody who is curious about our one on one coaching program, please reach out. Please take advantage of these scholarship opportunities here, I would love, love, love and my team would love, love, love the honor of being invited into your healing journey in a more personalized way. So thanks for being here, and until next week, I am sending so much hope and healing your way.
Thanks for listening to another episode of The regulate and rewire podcast. If you enjoyed what you heard today, please subscribe and leave a five star review to help us get these powerful tools out to even more people who need them. And if you yourself are looking for more personalized support and applying what you've learned today, consider joining me inside rise my monthly mental health membership and nervous system healing space, or apply for our one on one anxiety and depression coaching program, restore. I've shared a link for more information to both in the show notes, again, thanks so much for being here, and I'll see you next time you
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