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You Are the Answer
"You are the Answer" is a podcast about returning to your body, regulating your nervous system and remembering your own inner wisdom. Each episode blends storytelling, science and spirituality to help you feel calmer, more connected and more empowered in your everyday life.
Episodes
48 episodes
Family Culture Starts With What You DO, Not What You SAY
Most parents would do anything for their children, yet many of us are quietly drowning in the day-to-day reality of modern family life. I’m reflecting on a line I once read online about parents being willing to die for their kids but not live h...
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Seasonal Rhythms For Nervous System Health
The autumn equinox hits and suddenly the world feels different: darker mornings, cooler air, and a quiet nudge to slow down. I wanted to share a grounded, practical way to think about that shift, without needing it to be mystical. When we notic...
What If Rest Is NOT The Answer
You pick up your phone, put it down, then reach for it again two minutes later. Nothing is “wrong”, yet relaxing feels weirdly impossible. That moment is exactly where body trust gets confusing: the signal is real, but the meaning is not always...
Nervous System Myth Busting
Your brain does not “switch off” in fight or flight, and that tiny difference can change how you handle stress, anxiety, and conflict at home. I’m taking on a set of popular nervous system one liners many of us repeat because they’re memorable ...
How To Tell If You Need Rest Or A Reset
You know that moment when you finally stop, sink into the sofa, and somehow feel more restless than before? That experience is not you failing at rest. It is often your nervous system telling the truth about what state you are actually in.<...
Are You Feeding Joy or Feeding Overwhelm?
Your brain can promise a reward and still leave you feeling underwhelmed. That gap is where so many of our “I know better, but I did it anyway” habits live, from evening scrolling and snacking to wine, shopping, and skipping movement when stres...
When Your Brain Said Yes But Your Body Said No
Your brain can sell you a brilliant story: “This will feel so good.” Then you do the thing, eat the food, pour the wine, hit buy now, scroll a little longer, and your body quietly says something else. That mismatch is not you lacking discipline...
Five Nervous System Takeaways For Parenting Teens
I’m closing out the teen series with my five key takeaways from viewing teen behaviour through a nervous system lens. We start with a real summer story from my own home: my almost 11-year-old changes the PIN on her dumb phone to fe...
The PAUSE Framework For Teen Shutdown
Your teenager’s face goes blank, their arms fold, and every question lands with a flat “no” or “I don’t know”. When that happens, most of us do the same thing: we push harder. We explain, persuade, bargain, shame, bribe, or beg and the more we ...
Practical Ways To Raise Resilient Young People
Most of us say we want confident tweens and teens, but we often try to give them confidence by removing the very moments that create it. I take a bold look at resilience building for young people through the lens of nervous system wiring, every...
An Almost 11-Year-Old’s Guide To Feeling Safe And Calm
If you want to understand your child’s nervous system, start by listening to their ordinary day. I’m joined by my daughter Beatrix, almost 11, for a gentle, honest chat about what it feels like to be her age and why the “small” things adults ov...
Perfection Pressure And The Teenage Nervous System
Perfectionism doesn’t arrive as a neat little personality trait. It arrives as a nervous system that never quite unclenches and a quiet belief that love, safety, and belonging must be earned. I’m back from a short summer break and I’m going dee...
What If Boredom Is The Missing Link To Wellbeing
Rest should feel like relief, so why does it sometimes feel like danger? When we finally stop, many of us reach straight for our phones, food, noise, or “one more” episode, not because we are weak, but because our nervous systems have been trai...
How To Create A Calmer Home (And Feel Better)
Your nervous system is listening to your home long before your mind has an opinion. The light in the hallway, the constant hum of the telly, the buzz of notifications, the piles that never quite get put away all of it adds up to a simple intern...
Co-Regulation: The Secret To Borrowed Calm
You can schedule the board game, line up the film, even promise yourself you will be calm this time, and still end up in a tense, snappy, everyone-is-annoyed mess. There is a reason that has nothing to do with your teenager being “difficult” an...
Why Your Teen Is Not Overreacting: Their Nervous System Is Protecting Them
The moment your child says something cruel about your body can hit like a shock, even when you thought you’d built a kind, shame-free home. We start there: a real family story, a clear boundary, and the baffling aftermath where the child storms...
Teen Overwhelm And The Nervous System
Everybody feels it right now: kids are more emotional, adults are exhausted, and nobody seems able to properly switch off. We look at that collective pressure through a nervous system lens, because once you understand what your body is respondi...
What I Realised In This Mindset Series
Welcome to the final episode in our "mindset arc"! Here I put together everything we covered over the last 10 episodes, including the realisations I've had along the way.So, if your phone is always within reach, your diary is full, your ...
How To Adult Better Through Curiosity And Play
Your nervous system is not only reacting to life, it is reacting to what you expect life to be. Naomi Mills closes out the mindset series by getting practical about how belief, curiosity and playfulness change what your body does under pressure...
Placebo And Nocebo: How Belief Changes Biology
If a sham knee operation once outperformed the real surgery for pain and mobility, it forces a bigger question: what if expectation is not a side note, but a biological input your nervous system is using all the time? I’m Naomi Mills, and I’m d...
What Are We Really Seeking When We Pick Up A Screen?
Your screen time might not be a bad habit at all. It might be your nervous system trying to solve a real problem the fastest way it knows how. I’m Naomi Mills, chiropractor and host of You Are the Answer, and I’m inviting you to look at scrolli...
What Is Your Phone REALLY Doing To Your Nervous System?
Your phone isn’t just a tool in your hand, it can become the background environment your nervous system lives in. When that environment is filled with constant input, rapid topic switching, comparison, and fear-based headlines, your body can st...
4 Cultural Myths About Mindset
Four phrases get repeated like gospel in self-help culture: “fake it till you make it”, “no pain, no gain”, “everything happens for a reason”, and “just think positive”. I’m not here to mock them, because each one holds a kernel of truth. I am ...
What If The World Is Not The Trigger
Projection can make you certain you’re reacting to someone else, when you’re actually meeting your own fear, anger, or unmet need. I’m Naomi Mills, and I’m taking you into a moment from my firewalker instructor training where a trust fall goes ...