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
116 episodes
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...
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Episode 117
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39:32
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 ...
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Episode 116
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31:29
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...
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Episode 115
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52:42
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...
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Episode 114
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22:28
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...
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Episode 113
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47:46
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...
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Episode 112
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22:36
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....
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Episode 111
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36:51
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.
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Season 1
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Episode 110
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21:34
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 109
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43:05
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 108
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22:49
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 107
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33:09
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...
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Episode 106
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23:28
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...
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Episode 105
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44:49
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 104
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27:27
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 103
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1:05:44
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 102
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24:37
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 101
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38:13
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 100
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31:53
99. Healing Lyme, EOE, and Back Pain through the Mind-Body Healing Method with Kelly Goode
Grace is joined by Kelly Goode, who shares her journey from barely being able to walk up stairs and living with 30+ food sensitivities to reclaiming her life in just three months through nervous system work.Kelly opens up about spending ...
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Season 1
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Episode 99
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37:05
98. Healing IBS & Hip Pain with Mind-body Work
If you've tried everything for your chronic symptoms and nothing has worked—physical therapy, doctors, diets, supplements—this conversation might be exactly what you need to hear.Sean Hershey is a licensed psychotherapist who completely ...
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Season 1
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Episode 98
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51:38
97. How Your Nervous System Affects Long Covid, POTS, CFS, Lyme, Mold
In this episode, Grace explores why conditions like long COVID, POTS, chronic fatigue, Lyme disease, and mold illness often persist—not because of the virus or toxin itself, but because the nervous system remains stuck in survival mode. She unp...
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Episode 97
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32:41
96. Do We Predict Our Symptoms with Dr. Michael Dow
Grace is joined by Dr. Michael Dow, a clinical psychologist and lead therapist for Pain Reprocessing Therapy, to explore how our brains can learn to predict symptoms—and why that's actually good news for healing. Michael shares his personal jou...
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Season 1
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Episode 96
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48:43
95. When to Rest and When to Push Through Fatigue
Ever wonder if you should rest when fatigue hits—or keep going? Grace tackles one of the most common (and confusing) questions in chronic fatigue recovery: how to know when your body needs rest versus when your nervous system just needs r...
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Season 1
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Episode 95
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16:36
94. The Healing Power of Heart Rate Variability with Jessica Corbin
Ever feel like you're "doing all the right things" but still running on empty?This conversation with Jessica Corbin lit me up. Jessica is a somatic educator and founder of SORCE, and she brings such a beautiful perspective on what it act...
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Season 1
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Episode 94
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40:03