Nothing is Required: Trauma-Informed Gong Listening
Nothing Is Required is a trauma-informed sound podcast designed for nervous systems that live in brace mode.
Hosted by Navy Veteran and Sound Alchemist Julie Jules Smoot, this podcast offers structured gong listening sessions created to support regulation, grounding, and reduced overwhelm. Each episode is paced intentionally — with gradual entry, predictable resonance, and space to soften without pressure.
These are not performance-based meditations.
There is no emotional outcome to achieve.
There is nothing to fix.
Through Chiron Gong, planetary gong sessions, and steady vibrational sound fields, listeners are invited to practice un-bracing — gently and at their own pace.
This podcast is designed for individuals living with trauma histories, CPTSD, chronic stress, sensory sensitivity, and nervous system dysregulation who are seeking contained, non-verbal support between therapy sessions.
Nothing is required of you here.
You are not asked to go deeper than your body wants to go.
You are simply invited to listen.
Nothing is Required: Trauma-Informed Gong Listening
Still Here Without Effort
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Still Here Without Effort is a listening episode centered on presence without performance. The sound does not ask for focus, insight, or change. It offers steadiness for moments when doing anything at all feels like too much.
This episode includes the following pieces, arranged to reduce demand over time:
- I Leave Without Explaining — sound that affirms exit without justification
- After Everything — a sustained field for the aftermath, without resolution
- Nothing Needs to Happen — open, non-directed sound that remains without expectation
Together, these tracks create a quiet arc from boundary, to continuation, to rest. There is no instruction and no required way to listen. You are welcome to engage closely, let the sound remain in the background, or stop at any point.
This episode does not guide or resolve.
It accompanies.
Individual tracks are available to purchase at www.juliejulessmootsoundalchemist.com
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Nothing needs to happen for this listening to be enough.
The opening moments of this episode include a short excerpt from Regulation Before Release.
This excerpt is offered as orientation and stabilization before the main content begins. It is not an exercise and does not ask the listener to relax, process, or change anything. The sound is shared as structure—something steady that can be present while the nervous system settles at its own pace.
Regulation Before Release was created for moments when grounding and co
The opening minutes of this episode feature an excerpt from Nothing Is Required of You, a listening piece that anchors the tone and ethics of this podcast.
This excerpt is offered as orientation—not instruction. There is no exercise to follow, no breath to control, and no expectation to relax, heal, or change. The sound is shared as presence—something that can be nearby without asking anything of the listener.
Nothing Is Required of You was created for nervou
You’re free to listen for any portion of this episode.
You’re free to drift, rest, or stop at any time.
Nothing is required of you here.