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Regulate & Rewire: An Anxiety & Depression Podcast
Millions of people struggle with anxiety & depression every single day. Regulate & Rewire is where Amanda, a nervous system focused and trauma-informed practitioner, teaches you the lessons she learned on her healing journey and the tangible research-based tools she uses with clients everyday to help them regulate their nervous system & rewire their mind – in hopes of helping you do the same. Each episode features specific takeaways for you to apply to your healing journey today. Website: www.riseaswe.com
Episodes
151 episodes
Does This Give More Than It Takes?
Amanda shares the nervous system framework behind a real family decision — getting a puppy with three kids under five — and why saying yes to something stressful can still be the regulated choice.Using the seesaw model (stress bucket on ...
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Season 1
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Episode 150
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18:21
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"You'd Never Know": A Song About What Depression Actually Looks Like
In this episode, I'm breaking down the song "You'd Never Know" by Blu Eyes—a devastatingly honest look at what depression actually feels like from the inside, and why it so often goes unseen from the outside.We talk about what dorsal vag...
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Season 1
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Episode 149
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26:44
"Dear Anxiety": What This Song Gets Right About Healing
In this episode, I'm breaking down the song "Dear Anxiety" by Blu Eyes—and why it might be the most accurate description of anxiety and nervous system regulation I've ever heard set to music.We explore why anxiety isn't a disorder or a m...
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Season 1
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Episode 148
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17:33
Why You Keep Over-Explaining Yourself (And How to Stop)
Do you ever finish a conversation and realize you’ve just given a twenty-minute dissertation to justify a simple "no" or a basic need? In this episode, we’re peeling back the layers on chronic over-explaining. It turns out, this isn't just a qu...
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Season 1
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Episode 147
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35:58
Look for the Helpers
When you witness suffering at scale, your capacity to care can feel like it’s running on empty. In this episode, we’re diving into the biological reality of compassion fatigue and the potent "antidote" found in moral elevation. We discuss why "...
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Season 1
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Episode 146
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28:00
Regulated Activism
When the world feels like it's falling apart, how do we stay connected to ourselves while still showing up for what matters? In this episode, we're talking about collective trauma, what it actually means to be "regulated" (hint: it doesn't mean...
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Season 1
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Episode 145
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25:18
Regulating In A World On Fire (Repost)
New intro, repeat episode of one I published almost exactly a year ago. While the examples I offer are a year old, the suggestions offered apply just as much to some of the chaos we're all experiencing this week as well. Hit play on this episod...
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Season 1
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Episode 144
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29:14
Why 'New Year, New You' Backfires (Nervous System Edition)
Why does “New Year, New You” feel so motivating… and then fall apart just weeks later? In this episode, we explore why New Year’s resolutions often backfire—not because you lack discipline or willpower, but because they ask your nervous system ...
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Season 1
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Episode 143
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24:52
What I'm NOT Taking Into the New Year
In Part 2 of our New Year mini-series, we’re moving beyond the "New Year, New You" hype to have a more honest conversation about what it actually looks like to let go. Following Amanda's annual NYE Circle event, she's sharing the raw, real list...
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Season 1
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Episode 142
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32:37
Completing the Year (A Somatic Closure Practice)
The calendar says the year is over, but has your nervous system caught up? In Part 1 of our New Year’s Mini Series, we’re moving away from high-pressure goal setting and "new year, new you" rhetoric. Instead, we are creating a "pocket of space"...
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Season 1
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Episode 141
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38:00
My Dumpster Fire Day & An Invite to My NYE Circle
Sign up for the NYE Circle – Sunday, December 28th at 8 PM ET - CLICK HEREIn this episode I yap about my dumpster fire da...
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Season 1
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Episode 140
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24:13
How to Manage Seasonal Depression
In this episode (a repeat conversation from 2023), Amanda dives into a common struggle during the winter months: Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), or seasonal depression. She shares listener struggles, the science behind how light impac...
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Season 1
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Episode 139
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37:56
Regulation or Avoidance? How to Tell the Difference
We all bump into the blurry line between regulating and avoiding. In this episode, Amanda unpacks the difference between soothing your nervous system and emotionally bypassing—using a real client story to show how even “healthy” t...
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Season 1
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Episode 138
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16:53
Your Invitation to Regulated Living
This week, I’m pulling back the curtain on the Regulated Living Membership—because doors are officially open.If you've been stuck in survival mode, if therapy and mindset work helped you understand the why but didn’t give you a way forw...
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Season 1
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Episode 137
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25:43
When Self-Discipline Is Self-Care
Sometimes, the kindest thing you can do for your nervous system isn’t to rest—it’s to move. This episode is for the ones who don’t relate to overachieving or overfunctioning because they’re on the other end of the spectrum: the stuck, the shut ...
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Season 1
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Episode 136
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24:03
Why You Drop Self-Care When Life Gets Good
Today's conversation is for the Type A, high achieving, often overwhelmed and anxious nervous system folk. Amanda talk about the pattern we often see where we stop our self-care habits when we feel good, but stopping them often puts us back int...
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Season 1
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Episode 135
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24:59
Guided Regulation Practice for Anxiety
Today’s going to be a little bit different, instead of our normal educational chat this is going to be a guided experiential episode that you can come to when you’re feeling activated to find some support in getting more regulated through vario...
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Season 1
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Episode 134
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32:29
dYsReGuLaTiOn & Activation Are Not The Same Thing
I (Amanda) signed up to chaperone my kindergartener's field trip. Then childcare fell through. Suddenly I'm responsible for my feral 2-year-old AND five other 5-year-olds. My nervous system panicked—heart racing, adrenaline spiking, pure chaos ...
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Season 1
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Episode 133
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26:29
My Postpartum Crashout (and the Robot That Talked Me Off the Ledge)
Ever feel like you're failing, no matter how hard you try to organize, optimize, or just push through? In this deeply personal and vulnerable episode, Amanda pulls back the curtain on her own postpartum season—navigating life as a new mom of th...
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Season 1
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Episode 132
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25:42
Eldest Daughter Syndrome
A deeply personal exploration of eldest daughter syndrome—the invisible load that comes with being the responsible one, the second mom, the example. If you're an eldest daughter who learned that being helpful mattered more than being care...
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Season 1
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Episode 131
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34:02
Why We Underestimate Our Ability (Part 3 - Anxiety Equation Series)
In the final episode, Amanda tackles the most empowering part of the equation: the “Underestimation of Ability.” Discover the science behind why we forget our own capacity and resources in the exact moments we need it most and learn how to acti...
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Season 1
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Episode 130
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14:36
Why We Overestimate Threats (Part 2 - Anxiety Equation Series)
Welcome to part two of our series! Today, Amanda’s diving into the first half of the anxiety equation: the “Overestimation of Threat.” Learn why your brain is wired to assume the worst-case scenario and discover three practical tools to help yo...
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Season 1
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Episode 129
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11:17
The Anxiety Equation (Part 1)
Ever wonder why anxiety shows up and feels so overwhelming? In this episode, Amanda kicks off a mini-series by re-introducing a game-changing formula that makes sense of it all, what she calls, “The Anxiety Equation”. Once you see anxiety as a ...
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Season 1
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Episode 128
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9:55
How I Turned a Potentially Really Bad Day Around With Regulation
I woke up anxious today and this conversation is about what I did to not let it ruin my day. 4am kid wake up, a bad dream, excitement, crappy sleep, all had my system wired from the minute I opened my eyes. I'd love to tell you I used this magi...
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Season 1
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Episode 127
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29:06
Traumatizing or Resilience Building? Supporting Children Through Hard Things
When hard things happen to our children (our ourselves), our instinct is often to protect them from discomfort at all costs. But what if the goal isn't to shield them from difficult experiences, but to support them through those experiences in ...
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Season 1
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Episode 126
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28:10