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
35 episodes
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 ...
Rethinking Productivity
Productivity sounds like a compliment until you notice what it is taking from you. I am Naomi Mills, chiropractor and healthcare professional, and I want to ask a sharper question than “What have you done today?”: is your health paying the pric...
Boundaries As Medicine
Today I’m making the case that boundaries are not a personality preference, they’re medicine. When we say "yes" while our body feels tight or heavy, we override the very signals designed to keep us well. That pattern doesn’t stay “mental” for l...
Why I HATE "Keep Calm And Carry On"
“Keep calm and carry on” can sound like strength, but what happens when your body never gets the second half of the story: the part where you finally get to feel, process, and come back to safety? I’m Naomi Mills, chiropractor and healthcare pr...
From Overthinking To Embodiment: How Consistency Rewires Your Nervous System
Today we celebrate being 20 weeks into the podcast!Now feels like the right time to zoom out on the embodiment arc and reveal a pattern many of us miss: lasting change is built from small, repeated acts that teach the body it is safe. We...
Reframing Self-Care As Nervous System Stewardship
What if self-care wasn’t about pampering at all, but about learning to steer your nervous system so you feel safer, clearer, and more present? We explore how to reclaim self-care from clichés and make it a grounded, daily practice that builds r...
Listening To Your Body: From Stress To Safety
Are you feeling tired but wired, stuck in overthinking, or cut off from your own signals? In this episode, we dive into a body-led path to calm that starts with the spine and ripples through your mood, focus, and energy. As a chirop...
When Safety Comes From Within
Anxiety screams; your body often whispers the truth. We dive into what self-trust actually feels like and how to build it, not with slogans, but with embodied proof. From navigating doom-laden news cycles to parenting without over-rescuing, we ...
Understanding A Healing Crisis Can Change How You Heal
Ever made a healthy change and felt worse before you felt better? We dive straight into that unnerving moment and explain what a healing crisis really is: a short, intense recalibration as your nervous system responds to new inputs and starts t...
Five Nervous System Habits That Slow Ageing
What if feeling “older than your age” has less to do with birthdays and more to do with your nervous system? We dig into why some people in their forties feel light and strong while others feel decades older, and how long stretches of stress ch...
What Is Self-Empowerment And How Will It REALLY Change My Life?
Fear may be loud, but your body’s wisdom is louder when you learn how to listen. We explore how nervous system regulation becomes the core of real self‑empowerment—shifting you from constant fight‑or‑flight into the parasympathetic state where ...
From Fear To Presence: What If Safety Is A Sensation, Not A Story?
Fear can train a nervous system to chase shadows. We’ve all felt it: the mind spins, the body tightens, and suddenly a harmless cue feels like danger. In this episode of You Are the Answer, Naomi Mills shares a vivid parable about “snakes” that...
Firewalking And The Nervous System
Your body isn’t the obstacle—your state is the key. We take you into the fiery heart of resilience, exploring how a few focused steps across hot coals can reset what you believe is possible and mirror the same nervous system shifts Naomi create...
How Conscious Breathing Helped Me Rewrite My Nervous System
What if your body already holds the map to the healing you’ve been chasing? We dive into the living dialogue between physiology and perception—how tight muscles, busy thoughts, and broken sleep are not flaws to fix but signals pointing toward c...