The Wild Grace Podcast

Can you create your own reality? Its not as woo-woo as you think! Its not even a mindset thing...

Mallika Foord

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Your Life Isn’t a Mindset Problem — It’s Your Nervous System | Wild Grace Podcast

Malika introduces the Wild Grace Podcast episode on nervous system regulation, arguing that many struggles blamed on mindset are rooted in dysregulation and fight-or-flight, which drives impulsive dopamine-seeking behaviors, poor digestion, and overreactivity. She connects stress to widespread mental health challenges and to physical inflammation linked with issues like IBS, depression, and heart disease, and reframes procrastination as a freeze response rather than laziness. She shares her own pattern of associating love with anxiety and becoming “addicted to chaos,” explaining how cortisol, adrenaline, and dopamine reinforce trauma cycles. Practical tools include daily ritual for predictability and performance, breathwork (4-second inhale, 8-second exhale), emotional release for caregivers, aligning productivity with menstrual cycle phases, improving environment and sleep, and viewing pleasure as a regulatory nervous system state. She closes with grounding and breath awareness, emphasizing neuroplasticity and healing as returning to self.

00:00 Welcome to Wild Grace
00:22 Mindset vs Nervous System
01:06 Fight or Flight Habits
02:57 Addicted to Chaos
05:00 Rituals to Regulate
07:14 Body Keeps the Score
08:30 Not Lazy Just Stressed
09:19 Hormone Cycle Power
10:30 Breathwork Fast Reset
11:35 Strong One Burnout
13:13 Modern Life Overload
14:59 Pleasure as Regulation
16:34 Environment Shapes State
18:04 Healing and Closing Practice
20:02 Outro and Subscribe

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