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 JS Worldbridger and 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
The Body Leads
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The Body Leads is a listening-based podcast rooted in lived experience of complex PTSD, chronic pain, autoimmune illness, grief, and the decision to stop overriding the body in service of obligation, caregiving, or compliance.
This podcast does not guide, fix, regulate, or require emotional performance. It offers sound as presence, permission, and containment—allowing listeners to engage fully, peripherally, or not at all.
Episodes move through body-led arcs that center nervous system safety, boundary formation, pain as information, self-loyalty, and the restoration of inner authority. These are not aspirational journeys. They are accurate ones.
Featured listening pieces across this podcast include:
- I Was There
- Peripheral Listening
- Nervous System Safety
- Not a Crisis
- The Knee Knows
- It Starts in the Stomach
- Still Here in Pieces
- I’m Not a Caregiver (Never Will Be Again)
- What My Immune System Learned
- I Chose My Body Now
- I Don’t Override Anymore
- The Body Leads
- Nothing Needs to Be Carried Forward
- No One Came So I Won’t
- I Did What I Had To
- I Am Still Here, and That Is Enough
Additional episodes may include restorative and integrative listening such as:
- To Self Be Kind
- Serenity
- Relaxation
- A Calm Surrender
- Just Let It Go
- A Gentle Journey
- Wisdom of the Heart
- Harmony
- Transformation
This podcast is for those whose bodies learned through harm, adapted through pain, and now lead without apology.
Nothing is required.
Nothing is overridden.
The body sets the pace.
Individual tracks available to purchase on my website www.juliejulessmootsoundalchemist.com
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.