The Nourished Nervous System
An exploration of stress, the nervous system, and resilience through the lenses of Ayurveda, Somatic Practice, Herbs, Neural Plasticity and much more!
Episodes
165 episodes
It Was Never About the Food: On the Path of Healing Disordered Eating from the Inside Out with Amber Caudle
Today's guest is Amber Caudle — chef, author, speaker, and coach devoted to helping women heal their relationship with food, their bodies, and themselves. She is the founder of The Source Cafe, a health-focused restaurant in Souther...
Shedding the Skin: Who You Are Becoming in Perimenopause
We are at the height of summer here in Maine — that peak of the pendulum swing before it begins its long arc back toward the quiet of winter. And I've been feeling that shift in my own body, that sense of the tide beginning to turn. It felt lik...
The Hidden Cost of Masking: Neurodiversity, the Nervous System & Energy Healing with Nicole Theron Parks
"You're so successful — you must be fine." But what did it cost to get there? In this conversation, psychologist and energy healing coach Nicole Theron Parks shares her journey to being diagnosed with autism, ADHD, and O...
Not All Yoga Is Medicine: Nervous System-Centered Yoga Therapy with Liz Albanis
Today I'm sitting down with Liz Albanis — a senior yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and personal trainer based in Canberra, Australia, who has spent over 14 years exploring one of the most important questions in the wellness space: when does yoga ...
Tending the Fire: Yamas & Niyamas to Balance Pitta Dosha This Summer
This is the summer edition of something we explored earlier this year with kapha dosha — bringing the yamas and niyamas, yoga's ethical and personal observances, into conversation with the season we're actually in. And right now, we are in pitt...
Your Breath Is a Superpower: 9D Breathwork, the Subconscious Mind & Rapid Transformation with Tabatha DeBruyn
Today's guest is Tabatha DeBruyn — a transformational breath master, certified 9D Breathwork facilitator, rapid transformational hypnotic therapist, and author of Ordinary to Extraordinary. Tabatha has spent years weaving together neur...
Rest Your Gaze: Pitta Dosha, Eye Care & the Practice of Turning Inward
This episode started with an accident — or what felt like one.I went to the eye doctor, had my eyes dilated, and sat down to write my newsletter only to find I couldn't see my computer screen. So I closed my eyes, started voice-dictating...
What "Feel Your Feelings" Actually Means — and Why Most of Us Are Getting It Wrong with Chelsea Horton
Today's guest is Chelsea Horton — a board-certified dance and movement therapist, somatic practitioner, educator, and founder of Healing Embodied, where she trains wellness professionals and leaders to integrate somatics, creativity, and emotio...
The Body Already Knows: Shaking, Fascia & the Interstitium
This episode comes from two threads that have been weaving together in my practice lately: training in Polarity Champissage — a beautiful Ayurvedic marma-based body thera...
Breathing as a Reset: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Life & Making Practice Stick with Charlie Baldwin
Today I'm sitting down with Charlie Baldwin — a breathwork and meditation teacher with the Art of Living Foundation, over 1,000 hours of teaching experience, and a real gift for bringing these practices to people who never thought they'd be int...
What If You Don't Need to Step Into Your Power — Reflections on Feminine Power in Midlife
"Can't we just lie down in our power? Do we have to step into it?"That question, offered by Ayurvedic teacher Claudia Welch, sparked everything in this episode. Because when we talk about stepping into our power, we are implying...
Real Change Starts in the Brain: Neuroscience, Burnout & Why You're Not Broken with Lisa Riegel
What if everything you've been told about change, motivation, and stress is missing the most important piece — your brain?This week I'm joined by Lisa Riegel, educator by training, strategist by practice, and someone who has dedicated he...
Don't Skip the Transition: Finding Stability in Late Spring's Liminal Space
There's a moment every late spring where you can feel it — that internal pace starting to pick up with the heat, the to-do list for the garden suddenly feeling urgent, the rollercoaster of summer starting to pull you toward it before you're qui...
You're Not the Problem: Adaptations, Nervous System Safety & the Conditions for Change with Lori Montry
Today's guest is Lori Montry — somatic healing practitioner, author of You're Not the Problem, and creator of The Freedom Formula, a nervous system-based roadmap for sustainable behavior change. Lori helps people who feel stuck in stre...
Oxytocin, Neural Plasticity & the Practices That Change Your Brain
Today we're going somewhere I've been wanting to go for a while — into the neuroscience of oxytocin. Not oxytocin as the cuddle hormone, though it is that too. Oxytocin as a brain-changing, nervous system-healing, plasticity-promoti...
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Reclaiming Radiance: Burnout, Nervous System Healing & Remembering Your Worth with Ms Elizabeth Munoz
Today's guest is Ms Elizabeth Munoz, founder of Soul Haven and creator of the Reclaiming Radiance framework. Elizabeth spent 17 years in corporate — the last 11 in high-stakes technology sales — before her body completely shut down. Two emergen...
Take the Stairs: A Dream, a Teaching & the Medicine of Simple
Here in Maine we're still tiptoeing into spring — warm days that feel like a promise, then snow flurries and the wood stove again. It's been a season of letting go and being with what is, which turns out to be exactly what this episode is about...
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Your Life Is Not the Enemy: Energy Codes and Embodiment with Michelle Walker
Today's guest, Michelle Walker is a life coach, self-healing mentor, and retreat guide devoted to embodied awakening and holistic healing. In this conversation, we explore the Energy Codes — a seven-step system developed by Dr...
Moving Through the Mud: Yamas & Niyamas as Medicine for Kapha Season
This episode is one I've been sitting with for a while — a synthesis of two things that have shaped my whole path: Ayurveda and yoga philosophy.In this episode, I bring those two threads together and look at the yamas and niyamas — yoga'...
Rest is Your Birthright: Yoga Nidra, Ancestral Patterns & Living a Rested Life with Hester Brooks
In this episode I'm joined by Hester Brooks, a certified Daring to Rest coach and Yoga Nidra facilitator based in Lincolnville, Maine. Hester specializes in helping women break the cycle of exhaustion and create a life that truly ho...
Breaking the Breakfast Rules: An Ayurvedic Approach to the Morning Meal
I get this question all the time from clients and listeners: what do I eat for breakfast? So in this episode, I'm finally diving in.I'll start with my own story — because I was not always a breakfast person. It took a bowl of mi...
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Rewiring Reality: Neurofeedback, Spirituality & True Coherence with Dr. Amy Albright
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Amy Albright — Chinese medicine practitioner, neuroscientist, executive coach, and co-founder of Holon — for a conversation that genuinely stopped me in my tracks. Amy bridges neuroscience, business strategy...
Creating Space: An Ayurvedic Approach to Spring for Sensitive Nervous Systems
In this episode, I explore one of my favorite Ayurvedic concepts — langhana, or lightening — and I bring a more nuanced lens to how we can work with this energy in spring without depleting ourselves in the process. Recording from my...
From Burnout to Balance: Ayurveda, Neuroscience & the Power of Ritual with Radhika Mukhija
In this episode, Kristen sits down with Radhika, an integrative wellness mentor, yoga teacher, and meditation guide, to explore how ancient Ayurvedic wisdom and modern neuroscience can work together to help women regulate their nervous systems ...
The Portal Within a Portal: Parenting Young Children in Perimenopause
If you're in perimenopause while actively parenting young children, this episode is for you. You are straddling two completely different life stages at once — and not enough people are talking about it. In this solo episode, I'm getting persona...
