Heal with Grace
Heal With Grace is a podcast that invites listeners into the world of holistic healing. Hosted by Grace Secker, a trained holistic psychotherapist, yoga therapist, and nervous system coach, each episode delves into the interconnected realms of mental, physical, and spiritual health. The podcast offers a unique blend of personal stories, professional insights, and practical tools for healing.
Episodes
123 episodes
124. 7 Signs of a Dysregulated Nervous System Most People Miss
If you have been chasing test after test and the doctors keep telling you everything looks fine -> this is the episode where you find out why. Today Grace walks you through the 7 signs of a dysregulated nervous system that almost nobody conn...
123. How Your Personality Traits Keep Your Nervous System Stuck
If you've ever caught yourself thinking "that's just me -> I'm an anxious person," or "I've always been a perfectionist, it's just how I am" -> this one's for you.In this episode, I'm walking you through the 6 per...
122. Are You Putting Pressure on Yourself to Get Better? With Lindsay Vine
If you've been doing all the right things and still putting pressure on yourself to heal faster, this conversation might land deeply.Grace sits down with Lindsay Vine, an ME/CFS and long COVID recovery coach who spent seven and a half ye...
121. 6 Ways To Create Safety in Your Nervous System
In this solo episode, Grace breaks down what it actually means to create safety in the nervous system — moving beyond the vague advice of "just feel safe" and into six specific, practical approaches that listeners can start using right away. Sh...
120. How to Recover from Migraines, POTS & GI Issues Through Your Nervous System
Kayla Jacobsen is a licensed clinical social worker and mental health therapist based in Minnesota, where she works at a small group practice supporting individuals navigating anxiety, chronic pain, trauma, and traits associated with being a Hi...
119. How Ellen Healed from Long COVID, MCAS, & POTS
Ellen B. Alden is a Mind/Body Coach who fully recovered from Long COVID after the medical system could not help her. When chronic symptoms took over her life, Ellen discovered that healing was possible through nervous system regulation and brai...
118. The Thing That Was Missing From My Own Healing (And Probably Yours Too)
In this solo episode, Grace Secker opens up about the one thing she was missing during her own healing journey — and why it kept her stuck in flare cycles for years, even after she understood the work. It wasn't more information, more books, or...
117. How your GI Issues are Created by your Nervous System
If you've been diagnosed with IBS, chronic constipation, cyclic vomiting, or another functional GI issue and your doctor can't find anything structurally wrong — that's actually good news. In this episode, Grace sits down with Dr. J...
116. 7 Habits for Successful Nervous System Regulation
If you've been doing the nervous system work but still feel stuck, this episode is for you. Grace Secker dives into the seven habits she consistently sees in people who actually heal — and why how you show up to the process matters ...
115. Your Brain Is Creating Real, Severe Pain ; A Doctor Explains Why and How to Stop It with Dr. Rebecca Kennedy
In this episode, Grace sits down with Dr. Rebecca Kennedy, a family medicine physician with over 20 years of clinical experience and founder of Resilience Health Care in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Kennedy spent 15 years at Kaiser Permanente where sh...
114. How to Know If Your Symptoms Are Caused By Your Nervous System
Are you "doing all the right things" — the medications, the supplements, the diets, the protocols — and still not getting better? What if your symptoms aren't caused by something structurally wrong in your body, but by a nervous system stuck in...
113. How You Can Heal From Chronic Dizziness with Dr. Yonit Arthur
Grace sits down with Dr. Yonit Arthur ("Dr. Yo"), audiologist, vestibular specialist, and creator of The Steady Coach, to explore why chronic dizziness is often a nervous system issue—and why that's actually hopeful news for recovery. Dr. Yo sh...
112. When Your Symptoms are Still Running the Show
You've been doing the work—learning about mind-body healing, practicing the tools, maybe even seeing progress. So why do your symptoms still feel like they're quietly calling the shots?In this solo episode, Grace digs into one of the mo...
111. How Stress Creates Inflammation with Christa Biegler
In this episode, Grace sits down with Christa Biegler, RD—an award-winning dietitian, root cause nutritionist, and host of The Less Stressed Life Podcast—to explore the powerful connection between stress, inflammation, and chronic symptoms....
110. What Recovery Actually Looks Like from Nervous System Based Pain & Illness
There's a myth that recovery means waking up one day and never having symptoms again—that once the nervous system is "healed," pain and discomfort just stop. But holding onto that belief can actually keep the body stuck in vigilance mode.
109. How to Recover from ME/CFS with Rebecca Tolin
Rebecca Tolin recovered from 13 years of ME/CFS after seeing 50 practitioners and trying everything from anti-viral IVs to 30 supplements a day. In this episode, she shares what finally worked—and why the nervous system holds the key to lasting...
108. How I Quietly Dysregulated My Own Nervous System
In this episode, Grace gets honest about something she's been quietly navigating—how being online as a business owner and content creator has kept her nervous system in subtle but constant activation. Not major symptoms, just a low hum of hyper...
107. Healing Digestive Issues & Brain Fog with Alex Eckford
If you're dealing with digestive issues—whether it's IBS, chronic gut problems, or discomfort that's followed you since childhood—or if brain fog has been stealing your clarity and focus, this episode is one you don't want to miss.Alex ...
106. Best Tools You Need To Heal in 2026
What actually helped people heal in 2025—and how can you carry that momentum into the new year? In this episode, Grace reflects on the biggest shifts she's witnessed in her clients and community: from learning to see symptoms as mes...
105. BEST OF 2025: Episode 84. Navigating a Higher Needs Nervous System with Christie Uipi
It's no surprise this is the most played and most downloaded episode of 2025. In this Best of 2025 replay, Grace sits down with Christie Uipi, LCSW—psychotherapist and co-creator of Pain Reprocessing Therapy—to explore what it really means to h...
104. BEST OF 2025: From Spiraling to Soothing
Welcome to our end-of-year tradition! This week, we're re-airing one of the top two episodes of 2025—and it's no surprise this one resonated so deeply.Catastrophizing is one of the most common mental habits keeping people stuck in chron...
103. Healing ME/CFS through Mind-Body Tools with Chris Sykes-Popham
Chris Sykes-Popham went from Royal Marines commando and adventure seeker to completely housebound with ME/CFS. Within weeks of finding the mind-body approach, he saw significant improvement—and within months, he made a full recovery. Now he's t...
101. Why Your Symptoms Spike Around Family (And What To Do When They Do)
The holidays can feel like the Olympics for your nervous system—and if your symptoms tend to spike around family, you're not alone.In this episode, Grace explores why your body might still brace for impact around family, even if you've d...
101. Healing the Gut through Mind-Body Work with Claire Bailey
Grace sits down with somatic psychotherapist Claire Bailey to explore one of the most common—and least talked about—forms of neuroplastic symptoms: gut issues. Claire shares her own decade-long journey with debilitating digestive pa...
100. 100 Episode Celebration: Most Important Lessons So Far
Grace celebrates 100 episodes by revisiting the most powerful healing lessons from the past two years—the ones listeners say changed everything. She unpacks why healing is never linear (and why your brain needs to hear that on repeat), how reco...