Nervous System Alchemy: Unleash Your Magic and Flow – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Is focusing on your nervous system right now a way of opting out of collective reality, or a powerful way to meet it?

In this episode, Rachel sits down with Dr. Leslie Carr to explore an important question: does regulation simply mean "staying calm," or is it something far deeper? And when the world feels this urgent, is caring for your nervous system a distraction from what really matters – or exactly what this moment is asking of us?

Together, they unpack the difference between true regulation and simply calming down, the impact of doomscrolling and collective stress on the body, how to stay present during challenging times, and why caring for your nervous system is not disengagement – it may be one of the most powerful forms of participation.

• What nervous system regulation actually means and why it's not equivalent to "being calm"

• How to stay engaged without burning out

• Doomscrolling, overwhelm, and the loss of self/other boundaries

• Presence, sensation, and practical tools for real life

• Why joy, pleasure, and wellbeing matter in difficult times

• How caring for yourself can help you better care for others

If this conversation resonates, be sure to follow the podcast and share this episode with someone someone feeling the weight of these times.

Dr. Leslie Carr is a psychologist and an expert in how trauma, stress, culture, and technology impact the mind. She's been active in mental health advocacy and public psychoeducation for over fifteen years, and her work has been featured in The LA Times, ABC News, and Ask Dr. Drew, among many other places.

She hosts the podcast The Nature of Nurture, which explores the mental health challenges inherent to being human in the modern age. Despite the difficult subject matter, the show always endeavors to be uplifting, leaving listeners feeling grounded, informed, and empowered as they move through life in the twenty-first century.

Learn more at TheNatureofNurture.com

Rachel Hardy is a somatic coach and educator who specializes in deep nervous system regulation: the kind that doesn't just shift your state, but actually changes the underlying physiology. Drawing on decades of experience working with the body and the nervous system, training as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), and her studies in depth astrology and the Akashic Records, she works with brilliant, creative, spiritually attuned humans who've done the inner work and are ready for the kind of change that lives in the body.

She hosts the podcast Nervous System Alchemy and is the author of The Shape of Happiness.

Learn more at rachelhardy.com

Ready to build a whole new nervous system that responds to stress differently?  Drop your email here to be notified about the next round of Nervous System Alchemy.

"Grace" written and recorded by Paul Briggs and used by permission.

In this episode, I'm joined by my dear friend and colleague Julia de'Caneva, founder of If It's the Last Thing I Do and co-founder of Elemental. Together, we explore why organizing and decluttering – whether it's your physical space, digital files, or inbox – can feel so much harder than it "should."

We look beneath the surface of clutter and procrastination, through the lens of the nervous system, exploring stored stress, capacity, and freeze – and how unfinished stress responses in the body can show up as avoidance, exhaustion, decision paralysis, or overwhelm.

You'll leave with a new understanding of what's really happening when organizing feels impossible, along with practical ways to meet these tasks with less friction, more flow.

👉 If this resonates, the next step is to move it into real-world action, since nervous system work isn't about mental insight — it's about shifting your body's responses in real time.

Join Julia and me on January 31st for a live workshop where we combine somatic nervous system regulation with a practical, guided walkthrough of your email inbox — so you can release stored stress, shift inner patterns related to organization and clutter, and move forward with clarity and ease.  We'll also explore a key astrological transit this year that's reshaping how action begins — inviting clarity, courage, and movement that's grounded in nervous system readiness. 

A recording is included with your registration so you can return to this work as often as you like — revisiting the tools, tracking how your nervous system responds, and watching your patterns around organization and clutter shift over time.

Join the Workshop

"Grace" written and recorded by Paul Briggs and used by permission.

Emergent Resilience 12 - Embodied Astrology:  Opening the Heart to Abundance and Love with Venus in Retrograde

Retrogrades are a powerful opportunity for re-patterning the deep beliefs, feelings, and energies that unconsciously drive us.

Venus rules the heart center, and opening to receive more love.  Because money is how we give and receive, Venus also rules our finances and money stories.

While Venus is retrograde in the passionate, fiery sign of Leo, you have a unique opportunity to dive into the hidden blocks around money and love... so you can release unconcsious blocks to attracting the love and abundance that you're here to experience. 

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"Grace" written and recorded by Paul Briggs and used by permission.  paulbriggs.bandcamp.com/

Emergent Resilience 11 - When the Mind Doesn't Want to Calm - 4 Keys to Connecting to Your Higher Wisdom

In this episode, I share about a personal healing journey that's happened recently,  what I learned through working in my Akashic Records about my over-attachment to the mind, and the key practices that helped me shift out of being driven by the mind and into deeper connection with my spiritual gifts. 

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"Grace" written and recorded by Paul Briggs and used by permission.  paulbriggs.bandcamp.com/

• how nervous system healing and strength training support each other
• why slowing down changes the game
• what happens in the nervous system when you safely meet and push past limits
•  strength training as a part of a healing path

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Ready to move through your Upper Limits by Regulating Your Nervous System?  

Grab my three part video series, here.

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"Grace" written and recorded by Paul Briggs and used by permission.  paulbriggs.bandcamp.com/

Episode 09:  In this Somatic Astrology Episode, we're taking a dive into the heart space.  What happens when the deepest places in our heart are opened up, excavated, and exposed?  And what's on the other side?

In this episode, I'll walk you through the meaning of this transit while safely and gently opening the heart space.  We'll explore the important lessons of this Venus/ Pluto conjunction, as well as the upcoming Venus Retrograde and the powerful heart-journey that's in store over the upcoming weeks.

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Discover your North Node Placement and how it describes your Soul's Mission. Download your complimentary guide here: https://bit.ly/SoulMission-guide

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"Grace" written and recorded by Paul Briggs and used by permission.  paulbriggs.bandcamp.com/

Episode 08: In this Somatic Astrology episode, we'll explore Mercury Retrograde as a powerful period of renewal and release. We'll look at how to work with the "inward turned" energy, rather than fighting it- so that we can move with ease and empowerment through this time of excavation and recalibration.

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Discover your North Node Placement and how it describes your Soul's Mission. Download your complimentary guide here: https://bit.ly/SoulMission-guide

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"Grace" written and recorded by Paul Briggs and used by permission.  paulbriggs.bandcamp.com/

Episode 7:  In this episode  I talk about the paradox of healing, the polarities of masculine / feminine energy in the transformation process, and how to be with the balance of patience and expectation while on a healing path.  

I also share two examples from my own journey of when big shifts came in suddenly and how to be with the process while staying open to rapid transformation.

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"Grace" written and recorded by Paul Briggs and used by permission.  paulbriggs.bandcamp.com/

Episode 6:  This is the first in a series of mini-episodes exploring Somatic Astrology.  

We dive into what it means to have Venus (our heart center) in an inconjunct (choice point) with Jupiter (our expansion and goodness).

Drop into the body and feel where you hold this particular challenge, how it's showing up for you, and what your highest consciousness is urging you to shift or release to allow in your greater expansion and goodness.

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Discover your North Node Placement and how it describes your Soul's Mission. Download your complimentary guide here: https://bit.ly/SoulMission-guide

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"Grace" written and recorded by Paul Briggs and used by permission.  paulbriggs.bandcamp.com/

Episode 5:  In this episode, I chat with Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and SE Legacy Faculty member Efu Nyaki.  We talk about her traditional upbringing, the "ways of knowing" learned from her Nyaki clan, and how connecting to the body and to nature is key to accessing our innate capacity for healing and wellness.

Reach Efu here: https://directory.traumahealing.org/practitioner/efu-nyaki/

Follow Efu on IG:  @efunyaki

Contact AFYA Healing Center or make a donation:  afya@afya.org.br

Follow AFYA on IG:  @afyaorg

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Ready to Dissolve your Upper Limits? Grab my three-part video series here: https://bit.ly/Upper-Limits

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"Grace" written and recorded by Paul Briggs and used by permission.  paulbriggs.bandcamp.com/