Calm Your Nervous System
Calm Your Nervous System is a podcast designed to help you not only calm, but more importantly learn to regulate your nervous system!
I’m your host, Jenny Adams, a somatic coach who has recovered from debilitating ME/CFS and trauma.
Each episode, I'll be discussing a different topic and journey (sometimes with a special guest!) about how people are healing their nervous systems. We're here to share tips, stories and debunk jargon (what is somatics anyway?!) about how you can heal your nervous system so you don’t have to live with chronic illness, burnout or debilitating trauma for the rest of your life.
When we learn to regulate our nervous systems, we become better partners, parents, workers, friends and better human beings!
Listen up if you have a chronic illness, burnout, stress, migraines, chronic pain, ADHD or trauma and want to live a joyFULL and balanced life!
Episodes
21 episodes
How Autistic Women Can Overcome Burnout and Live Joyful Lives with Carole Jean Whittington | Episode 21
Neurodivergent burnout is sadly incredibly common in today’s world when you consider the impact that trauma and masking have on a person. My guest today, Carole Jean Whittington of Whittington Well-Being is an expert in autistic burnout in wome...
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Episode 21
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50:13
Sync Your Business with Your Menstrual Cycle: Find More Ease, Flow and Balance with Feminine Leadership Coach Renae Fieck | Episode 20
If you aren’t yet tracking your cycle, today’s episode should be the nudge you’ve been looking for! I’m sitting down with Feminine Leadership Coach Renae Fieck, to talk all about how women can harness the power of their menstrual cycle to achie...
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Episode 20
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48:35
Using Touch to Heal Pain: The Power of Reflexology with Dr. Njideka Olatunde | Episode 19
You might not think you’ve come across reflexology before, but chances are, you have. If your parents ever did “This Little Piggy” on your toes as a child, you experienced the power of reflexology! Today’s guest, Dr. Njideka Olatune has helped ...
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Episode 19
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49:23
Finding Community After a Late ADHD Diagnosis with Meredith Cairns-Palmer | Episode 18
Discovering you have ADHD later in life can totally alter your perspective on yourself and everything you’ve been through in the past, and it can be really difficult feeling like you’re different to everyone else. I met today’s guest, intuition...
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Episode 18
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48:21
Self-Care Routines & Nervous System Regulation for ADHDers with Kate Moryoussef | Episode 17
Today’s guest, Kate Moryoussef, has her own brilliant podcast aimed at women who have been late-diagnosed with ADHD, so I was really excited to speak to her on mine! After her own diagnosis at age 40, she really practices what she preaches when...
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Episode 17
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51:35
Using Your Breath to Heal From Long Covid or ME/CFS with Jackie Baxter | Episode 16
When it feels like life and your health are out of control, there is one thing you can easily control which could actually help you to influence your nervous system and begin to heal from Long Covid or ME/CFS. What is that one thing? Your breat...
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Episode 16
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54:07
Why the Nervous System is the Missing Piece to Managing ADHD & Burnout | Episode 15
Learning to regulate your nervous system will have a big impact on anyone’s life – but it will be particularly huge for those of us with ADHD. In today’s episode, I’m discussing why ADHD can be much harder to handle when we’re dysregulated, how...
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Episode 15
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50:00
Understanding Female Hormones and the Link to Chronic Illness with Jeni Crane from Yum Nutrition | Episode 14
It’s very hard to make decisions about your health without the data – and that’s one of the things that today’s guest, nutritional therapist Jeni Crane, is led by. After being diagnosed with PCOS, determined to understand the “why” behind it an...
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Episode 14
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1:04:51
Get More Done in Less Time: Manage Overwhelm & Procrastination for ADHDers | Episode 13
Whether it’s from friends, clients or just out of my own mouth – ‘overwhelmed’ is a word I hear quite frequently! In today’s episode, I’m answering all your questions on overcoming procrastination, coming out of the freeze response and therefor...
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Episode 13
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45:20
Neurodivergent vs Neurotypical Burnout, The Chronic Illness Link, and What Helps? | Episode 12
Most people have heard of burnout – physical and emotional exhaustion due to prolonged stress – but have you heard of neurodivergent burnout? People with ADHD, autism and other neurodivergencies can experience this when they have been masking f...
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Episode 12
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18:33
Healing from Trauma Through Somatic EMDR with Cara Hooper | Episode 11
A lot of people think that because they had food on the table growing up, they didn’t live in a war zone or have any major negative experiences, they don’t have trauma. However, it’s not just the big things that can cause trauma and a lot of it...
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Episode 11
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57:34
Q&A: Balancing Work and Money with a Chronic Illness, Managing Setbacks & Handling Procrastination and the Freeze Response | Episode 10
I get asked a lot of questions on social media about managing setbacks, keeping hopeful, and balancing work and money when having a chronic illness. Today I'm answering them! This is my first shorter episode, and I'm hoping that including these...
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Episode 10
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16:55
Why Mindset is So Important in Healing Chronic Illnesses with Love and Life Coach Katharine Morgan | Episode 9
When today's guest, Love and Life Coach Katharine Morgan was diagnosed with malrotation of the intestine as a teenager, she never thought that it would be a lifelong process to recovery. Through a combination of visualisation, EFT tapping and s...
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Episode 9
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46:54
Why Undiagnosed ADHD Leads to Burnout and Chronic Illness | Episode 8
Once I’d noticed that the vast majority of my 1:1 clients have either diagnosed or undiagnosed ADHD, I knew I needed to create a podcast episode about the link between ADHD and chronic illness. I’ve done so much research on this, and I’m excite...
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Episode 8
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47:00
Turning Our House into an Airbnb: Tips for Getting Through Busy Life Periods for People with Chronic Illnesses | Episode 7
How many times have you prioritised your work, a project or any other stressful life event over yourself? I’m willing to bet quite a few times – if not every time. Over the last few months, we’ve been turning our house into an Airbnb so there’s...
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Episode 7
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46:55
How Sayeeda Alam Used Yoga and Ayurvedic Principles to Heal from CFS | Episode 6
At one point, I was so sick of being asked if I’d tried yoga that I got a sticker for my mobility scooter that said “Yes, I have tried yoga. No, it didn’t work”. If I had known then that some types of yoga aren’t even physical, maybe I might no...
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Episode 6
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44:06
How Mike Watts Overcame Years of Chronic Skin Issues and Found Balance in His Life | Episode 5
Men can often find it much harder to open up and be vulnerable with others than women do, but have you ever considered how this could impact them when they find themselves struggling with a chronic illness? Diving into this topic and so much mo...
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Episode 5
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1:13:33
Using Psychedelics to Heal Trauma and Chronic Illness: A Doctor’s Perspective with Dr Aisling Quiery | Episode 4
In this first ever guest episode, I’m joined by Dr Aisling Quiery, an NHS GP with a background in addictions work who also works as a Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner, Maturation Coach, and psychedelic guide at Imperial College London. Throug...
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Episode 4
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57:59
Everything You Need to Know About the Nervous System: Polyvagal Theory, Dysregulation and Techniques You Can Use to Regulate | Episode 3
I’ve got a bumper episode for you today and it will definitely be one you’ll want to grab your notebook for! If you’ve had a question about the nervous system or regulation - I probably answer it here. I’m giving you an overview of the nervous ...
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Episode 3
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45:54
My Story: How I Used Nervous System Regulation to Heal My ME/CFS | Episode 2
Trying to recover from ME/CFS when you have no idea what works is not an easy thing to do - I’ve been there! Whether it’s acupuncture, the Perrin technique, veganism, pilates or therapy, I’ve tried it all. In today’s episode, I’m diving into wh...
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Episode 2
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29:56
From Glandular Fever to Being Diagnosed with ME/CFS: My Story of Chronic Illness, Trauma and Nervous System Dysregulation | Episode 1
I’m so glad you’ve clicked on the first episode of the “Calm Your Nervous System” podcast! I really don’t hold back while sharing my story in this one, and I just know you’re likely to see yourself in my story. Whether it’s missing my GCSE mock...
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Episode 1
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