Nelli Gnestadius Podcast
In this podcast, Nelli Gnestadius explores the connection between fear, patterns, responsibility, and the nervous system, and how they shape the way you live your life.
Through reflections, real-life insights, and honest conversations, you’re invited to see yourself more clearly and begin leading your life from a place of inner safety.
Episodes
29 episodes
Reflection: What have you labeled as a problem?
The biggest obstacle in your life isn't the experience itself, but the meaning you've given it.In this reflection, I explore how the same event can be experienced in completely different ways depending on the relationship we have to it. ...
Insight: The old brain and the new brain
The hardest part of change isn't knowing what to do.It's recognizing which part of you is speaking. In this Insight, we explore the tension between the old brain and the new brain, and why awareness alone isn't always enough to cre...
Reflection: The art of sitting down in the boat
What happens when the mind wants you to keep moving forward, but the body is asking you to slow down?In this episode, we reflect on rest, resistance, and why continuously ignoring ourselves is the very thing that keeps you stuck. And wh...
Reflection: Become a builder instead of a survivor
You spend years reacting, preparing for the next problem, and waiting to feel ready.In this episode, we explore the difference between surviving and building, why awareness alone doesn't create change, and how the smallest actions can be...
Insight: The Vision and the Vehicle
The vehicle can change. The vision remains.In this episode, we explore why we become attached to specific people, outcomes, paths and how life begins to move again when we remember what we're truly longing for underneath them.
Insight: The information inside the trigger
What if the criticism you feel, the trigger in your body, or the reaction you have towards another person isn't the problem?In this insight, we explore the idea that triggers can contain information. Information about patterns, beliefs, ...
Reflection: Start seeing your life in layers
Chapters in life don’t disappear all at once. They return in layers.In this reflection, we speak about grief, identity, awareness, emotional patterns, and what happens when we suppress the parts of ourselves that are trying to be seen.
Insight: Love is not enough without emotional safety
Love is not the problem.The connection can be real.The chemistry can be real.The care can be real.In this episode, we talk about emotional inconsistency, attachment, familiarity, emotional safety, and what happens wh...
Stories: Learning safety after survival
What happens when survival becomes so familiar that you no longer notice you’re living in it?In this episode we talk about survival patterns, emotional safety, creativity, the nervous system, and what it can look like to slowly rebuild a...
Reflection: Why you don't trust yourself even when you should
Why do you feel like there are two voices in your head?One that just knows, and one that questions everything.In this episode, we go into why you don't trust yourself even when something in you is already clear.And to know ...
Insight: You're not stuck - You're still saying maybe
An insight for you who keeps saying "maybe" in places where you already know the answer, but still haven't decided.
Reflection: The space between your old life and what comes next
There’s a space where your old life no longer fits, but what comes next hasn’t fully arrived yet.It can feel unclear, frustrating, even like you’re doing something wrong.In this episode, we explore that in-between.Not as so...
Stories: What 4 years of changing your life actually looks like
A real glimpse of what it actually takes to change your life, beyond the surface.Facing yourself.Feeling what you’ve avoided.Breaking patterns.Rebuilding how you see yourself and your life.Especially when ther...
Insight: you keep repeating the same patterns (and how to start seeing them)
Have you ever felt like you end up in the same place, just in different situations?The same type of dynamic, the same feeling, even when things look completely different on the surface.That’s not random. It’s patterns.In th...
Reflection: control vs listening to yourself
There’s a difference between trying to control everything and actually listening to yourself.In this episode, I talk about what control can look like in everyday life, like overthinking, needing answers, or trying to make the “right” dec...
Guest: what you avoid is the way - with Fernando ENArmony
What if the thing you’ve been avoiding is actually the way forward?What if your wake-up calls aren’t here to break you - but to guide you?In this episode, we talk about what it really means to open up spiritually - not as so...
Reflection: fear is not the problem
Have you ever noticed how fear often appears exactly when something important is about to happen?Most people believe fear is a signal to stop, to wait, or to turn away.But what if fear is not the problem?In this episode, we...
Sluta fly – förstå dina flyktimpulser och bryt mönstret
I det här avsnittet pratar jag om något många känner igen – impulsen att fly.Fly från en känsla.Fly från en konversation.Fly tillbaka till något som egentligen inte är bra för dig.När det börjar bli obekvämt i kroppe...
Mellanrummet - varför du fastnar där och hur du tar dig vidare
Det svåraste är inte alltid att lämna det gamla.Det svåraste är att stå kvar i tomrummet som uppstår efteråt.I det här avsnittet pratar jag om mellanrummet – fasen där du har lämnat en gammal identitet, ett mönster eller en relati...
När en relation tar slut - hur går man vidare?
Vad händer egentligen i oss när en relation tar slut?Varför kan det kännas fel i kroppen även när vi vet att beslutet var rätt?I det här avsnittet pratar jag om vad som händer i kroppen, sinnet och identiteten när vi lämnar en rel...
Därför gör du inte det du säger att du vill.
Vi tror ofta att vi saknar motivation. Att vi är lata. Att vi inte vill tillräckligt mycket.Men sanningen är mer komplex.I det här avsnittet pratar jag om hur ditt nervsystem söker trygghet i det som är bekant – även när det bekan...
Att hitta hem
Det här avsnittet handlar inte om inredning. Det handlar om trygghet.Om att leva i överlevnad. Om att alltid vara på väg. Om att anpassa sig, flytta vidare, klara sig – men aldrig riktigt landa.Jag pratar om hur det är att inte ha...
Att bli vuxen för tidigt - att växa upp utan en närvarande fadersfigur
Vad händer när ett barn får bära ansvar som egentligen tillhör en vuxen?I det här avsnittet delar jag delar av min historia om att växa upp utan en närvarande pappa.Om hur brist på trygghet, ansvarsförskjutning och outtalade rolle...
Tomrummet mellan det som var och det som blir
Det finns en fas som sällan pratas om.När ett mönster är avslutat, men inget nytt har landat.När sinnet har släppt taget – men nervsystemet inte vet vem det är utan det gamla.I det här avsnittet pratar jag om tomrummet mell...
50 kilo och priset kroppen fick betala - Del 1
Jag gick ner 50 kilo i överlevnad.Inte för att kroppen – eller nervsystemet – var tryggt, utan för att jag hittade en riktning bort från ett liv jag inte överlevde. Det här avsnittet handlar om vilja, nervsystem och priset kroppen fick b...