September 11, 2025

#226 Healing Trauma & Boosting Longevity Through Nervous System Health | Mitch Webb

1 hour 8 minutes

Ever wonder why healthy habits don’t always stick?

Mitch Webb explains how trauma, chronic stress, and early life patterns keep your body in survival mode, and how nervous system regulation helps you finally benefit from biohacks and lifestyle upgrades.

Meet our guest

Mitch Webb is a health coach & nervous system expert who helps clients heal from the inside out, addressing gut issues, anxiety, autoimmune symptoms, fatigue, burnout & other chronic conditions. He combines functional health principles with trauma-informed, body-based practices to create sustainable results tailored to each individual. Through his work, Mitch guides people back to feeling like themselves again.

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Key takeaways

Being busy or stressed is not the same as being successful or healthy Society often mixes these up

Burnout usually sneaks up slowly Small repeated trades in self care for work lead to long term problems

We get hooked on stress & adrenaline, similar to an addiction, especially when we link it to our identity

Ignoring recovery leads to lower creativity & productivity Recovery is as important as hard work for true performance

Chronic stress causes changes in the brain like thinning of the prefrontal cortex & shrinking hippocampus which harms memory & decision making

Changes like more coffee, poor eating, snapping at loved ones, & losing motivation are early symptoms of burnout

Our work, stresses, & environment lead to misdiagnosed issues like depression when the real issue is burnout

Work is as addictive as drugs, causing harmful behavior patterns & hurting relationships if left unchecked

The subconscious mind carries stories & beliefs from childhood that shape our habits—even sabotaging sleep & health

Clinical hypnotherapy helps access & change subconscious patterns, enabling lasting recovery from burnout & related issues

Episode highlights

0:00 Introduction

8:07 Why your nervous system runs your health

13:38 Spot dysregulation before it becomes disease

34:55 Reframe symptoms to accelerate healing

47:44 Build capacity then do the deeper work

53:47 Low-effort practices that regulate daily

1:06:42 Your first steps this week

Links

Watch it on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=0uMzElpRjQU

Full episode show notes: outliyr.com/226

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