The Nourished Nervous System
An exploration of stress, the nervous system, and resilience through the lenses of Ayurveda, Somatic Practice, Herbs, Neural Plasticity and much more!
Episodes
151 episodes
Oxytocin, Neural Plasticity & the Practices That Change Your Brain
Today we're going somewhere I've been wanting to go for a while — into the neuroscience of oxytocin. Not oxytocin as the cuddle hormone, though it is that too. Oxytocin as a brain-changing, nervous system-healing, plasticity-promoti...
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Reclaiming Radiance: Burnout, Nervous System Healing & Remembering Your Worth with Ms Elizabeth Munoz
Today's guest is Ms Elizabeth Munoz, founder of Soul Haven and creator of the Reclaiming Radiance framework. Elizabeth spent 17 years in corporate — the last 11 in high-stakes technology sales — before her body completely shut down. Two emergen...
Take the Stairs: A Dream, a Teaching & the Medicine of Simple
Here in Maine we're still tiptoeing into spring — warm days that feel like a promise, then snow flurries and the wood stove again. It's been a season of letting go and being with what is, which turns out to be exactly what this episode is about...
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Your Life Is Not the Enemy: Energy Codes and Embodiment with Michelle Walker
Today's guest, Michelle Walker is a life coach, self-healing mentor, and retreat guide devoted to embodied awakening and holistic healing. In this conversation, we explore the Energy Codes — a seven-step system developed by Dr...
Moving Through the Mud: Yamas & Niyamas as Medicine for Kapha Season
This episode is one I've been sitting with for a while — a synthesis of two things that have shaped my whole path: Ayurveda and yoga philosophy.In this episode, I bring those two threads together and look at the yamas and niyamas — yoga'...
Rest is Your Birthright: Yoga Nidra, Ancestral Patterns & Living a Rested Life with Hester Brooks
In this episode I'm joined by Hester Brooks, a certified Daring to Rest coach and Yoga Nidra facilitator based in Lincolnville, Maine. Hester specializes in helping women break the cycle of exhaustion and create a life that truly ho...
Breaking the Breakfast Rules: An Ayurvedic Approach to the Morning Meal
I get this question all the time from clients and listeners: what do I eat for breakfast? So in this episode, I'm finally diving in.I'll start with my own story — because I was not always a breakfast person. It took a bowl of mi...
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Rewiring Reality: Neurofeedback, Spirituality & True Coherence with Dr. Amy Albright
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Amy Albright — Chinese medicine practitioner, neuroscientist, executive coach, and co-founder of Holon — for a conversation that genuinely stopped me in my tracks. Amy bridges neuroscience, business strategy...
Creating Space: An Ayurvedic Approach to Spring for Sensitive Nervous Systems
In this episode, I explore one of my favorite Ayurvedic concepts — langhana, or lightening — and I bring a more nuanced lens to how we can work with this energy in spring without depleting ourselves in the process. Recording from my...
From Burnout to Balance: Ayurveda, Neuroscience & the Power of Ritual with Radhika Mukhija
In this episode, Kristen sits down with Radhika, an integrative wellness mentor, yoga teacher, and meditation guide, to explore how ancient Ayurvedic wisdom and modern neuroscience can work together to help women regulate their nervous systems ...
The Portal Within a Portal: Parenting Young Children in Perimenopause
If you're in perimenopause while actively parenting young children, this episode is for you. You are straddling two completely different life stages at once — and not enough people are talking about it. In this solo episode, I'm getting persona...
The Missing Piece: Breathwork, Ayurveda, and Moving Through Winter with Brett Aldrich
Winter is long. And right now, we're in this unique in-between place: the light is slowly returning, but we still have weeks (or months) of cold, heavy weather ahead.If you're feeling the weight of winter, you're not alone. And more impo...
When Healing Becomes Another Form of Perfectionism: Body Wisdom, Emotions, and the Game of Lila with Devin Scott
What happens when the very tools meant to heal you—breathwork, yoga, mindfulness—become ways to silence your inner wisdom?In this deeply vulnerable conversation, I sit down with Devin Scott, founder of Find Your Meaning, a body-based coa...
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You're Not Broken, You're Disconnected: Finding Comfort in Your Body with Dr. Alexandra Johnson
In times of collective overwhelm, how do we cultivate resilience and find ease in our bodies? In this conversation, I sit down with Dr. Alexandra Johnson, a family physician who integrates Breema body work and functional medicine into primary c...
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The Vagus Nerve & Ayurveda: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Nervous System
In this episode of Nourish Nervous System, I explore the vagus nerve — what it actually is, why it plays such a vital role in healing and resilience, and how Ayurveda has been supporting vagal regulation for thousands of years.W...
Rewriting Your Story: Quantum Human Design and the Hero’s Journey with Dr. Karen Parker
In this episode of Nourish Nervous System, I’m joined by Dr. Karen Parker, founder of Quantum Human Design, for a powerful conversation about the stories we carry—and how they shape our nervous system, health, and sense o...
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From Reactivity to Regulation: Somatic Healing, Parts Work, True Resilience & Authentic Leadership with Karen Canham
In this episode of The Nourish Nervous System, I am joined by Karen Canham, board-certified wellness practitioner and founder of Karen Ann Wellness, for a deep and grounded conversation on nervous system regulation, somatic...
Sukshma: Listening to the Subtle in the Deep of Winter
In this New Year episode of Nourish the Nervous System, we explore winter not as a time for pushing forward or reinventing ourselves, but as a season of subtlety, listening, and inward refinement.Rather than loud resolutions or ...
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People Pleasing, Trauma Bonds & Elegant Boundaries: A Somatic Conversation with Nima Rahmany
In this episode of The Nourished Nervous System, I’m joined by Nima Rahmany, chiropractor, educator, and creator of the Becoming Trigger-Proof methodology, for a deep and illuminating conversation about people pleasing,...
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Ojas and the Perimenopause Portal: Tending Vitality, Resilience, and the Sacred Nectar (part 3 of a 3 part series)
In this episode, I’m concluding our three-part series on Ayurveda and perimenopause with a deep dive into ojas — the subtle essence that governs vitality, immunity, resilience, and emotional steadiness.We’re recording in the dark ...
Perimenopause, Cycles & Sovereignty: Reclaiming the Feminine Rhythm with Alyx Coble-Frakes
In today’s episode of The Nourished Nervous System, I’m joined by Alyx Coble-Frakes, founder of The Agenda, for a powerful and wide-ranging conversation about menstrual cycles, perimenopause, and what happens when women sto...
Agni and the Perimenopause Portal: Tending Your Inner Fire (part 2 of a 3 part series)
In this second episode of my perimenopause series, we explore Agni — your digestive and metabolic fire — and why it plays such a central role in the perimenopause transition. Ayurveda teaches that perimenopause isn’t just a hormonal...
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You Are Enough: Embracing Self-Compassion Through Internal Family Systems and Polyvagal Theory with Soulla Demetriou
In this episode, I sit down with self-compassion teacher, somatic coach, IFS practitioner, and soon-to-be author Soulla Demetriou. We explore what it really means to come home to yourself, befriend your inner world, and m...
Rasa & the Perimenopause Portal: Nourishing Yourself Through Change (part 1 of a 3 part series)
In today’s episode, we step into the tender, powerful transition of perimenopause through the Ayurvedic lens—exploring rasa datu, the first and most foundational tissue of the body.I share how Ayurveda views perimenopause not as...
Reclaiming Eroticism: Connecting to Life Force Through Nervous System Healing with Darshana Avila
In this episode of the Nourished Nervous System, I welcome the insightful Darshana Avila, a trauma-informed somatic educator, practitioner, sexological bodyworker and international speaker. Darshana takes us through her transformati...
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