Rewired Together

It’s the most wonderful time of the year... and also the most codependent. In today’s episode, we’re going to break down what codependency is, what codependency is not, some of the defining characteristics of codependent relationships and behavior, where codependency lives in the brain, and how to rewire yourself to be increasingly interdependent.

Because you’re listening to this podcast, you’re among the first to know about my upcoming Yoga Nidra Teacher Training that begins online January 17, 2024. Because 1:1 feedback from me and live attendance is such a critical component of this training, space is limited. To learn more + save your spot, you can click this link.  alexnashton.com/nidratraining. 

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Episode Resources:

Other episodes referenced: 

Ep 7: Anatomy of Fear: Amygdala, Autonomic Nervous System, & Overcoming Anxiety

Ep. 12 Yoga Nidra: Healing the Subconscious & NSDR with Mona Anand

Yoga Nidra Teacher Training with Alex starts online January 17th. Click here to learn more and save your spot!

New Year Neuroscience of Manifestation Masterclass is happening online January 12, 2024! Click here to save your spot LIVE or catch the REPLAY for $22

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Today I’m talking nerdy with Dan Carter again and this time we’re diving into the neurophysiology of pain: physical, mental, and emotional. This episode is less of a conversation and more of a masterclass where Dan will teach you about the biopsychosocial factors that influence pain, how our nervous systems and stress perceive pain, the relationship between pain, stress, and trauma, and most importantly how to manage our levels of pain physically and psychologically. 

The last conversation that I had with Dan on Talk Nerdy To Me was about the ripple effects of childhood trauma and this one is a continuation of that in some regards. Because this episode will dive into trauma related concepts, sensitive listeners should be advised. 

Dan Carter has been coaching for 13 years while also running regular education workshops and programs for gyms, studios, personal trainers, and allied health professionals in the areas of strength, functional movement, mindset and nutrition. He has created and facilitated professional development workshops to gyms all over Australia, as well as learning and sharing with industry leaders across the globe. Dan is the founder and Head Coach of Revamp Integrated Health, specializing in combining traditional wisdom with a personalized, evidence-informed approach across the pillars of movement, insight, and nutrition to help you find the capacity to reconnect with and express your authentic self.

Before you dive in, I would love it if you could hit pause and leave us a 5 star review and a written review on whatever platform you’re listening on. In doing so, you help get this podcast into the ears and brains of more people like you. 

Episode Resources:

Other episodes referenced: 

Ep 4.  Exploring the Science & Spirituality of the Nervous System with Kristin Leal

Ep. 12 Yoga Nidra: Healing the Subconscious & NSDR with Mona Anand

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Click here to learn more about Revamp’s “Revitalize Blueprint”: a 16-week integrated health protocol in which he takes a multifactorial approach to help you understand the root cause of your discomfort and create a comprehensive plan to achieve health from every angle. In it, Dan looks at gastrointestinal health, blood analysis (compared with functional ranges for health), environment, lifestyle, myofascial function, nutrition, and hormonal health to understand exactly what might be producing your symptoms. Then he works to help you recalibrate your behaviors, approaches, rituals and perspectives to create the body and life you deserve.

Get 15% off any protocol with the code NERDY at the link above.

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Today I’m talking nerdy with Dr. Peter Staats about all things Vagus Nerve. In this episode we’re diving into what the vagus nerve is, why it’s such a buzz word in the modern wellness community, the role that it plays in regulating physical, mental, and emotional health, how it mediates the mind-body connection, and the differences between stimulating the vagus nerve electrically vs. manually with things like breath work, repetitive movement, and cold water exposure.  

Dr. Staats completed his residency and fellowship training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he also received his MBA. He is internationally recognized for his work developing a unified theory of pain, inventing, developing, and implementing minimally invasive procedures and therapeutics for chronic pain, COVID, as well as other medical disorders.  In 2004 he co founded electroCore, a company devoted to health and wellness benefits of stimulating the vagus nerve. He is currently Founder and Chair of the Vagus Nerve Society.

Dr. Staats has numerous patents, written or co-edited 14 books and over 500 articles, abstracts, monographs, and book chapters on pain medicine and neuromodulation. His work has been highlighted on Good Morning America, CBS Evening News, Newsweek, and CNN. 

Because you’re listening to this podcast, you’re among the first to know about Alex's upcoming Yoga Nidra Teacher Training that begins online January 17, 2024. Because 1:1 feedback from Alex and live attendance is such a critical component of this training, space is limited. To learn more + save your spot, you can click this link

Before you dive in, I would love it if you could hit pause and leave us a 5 star review and a written review on whatever platform you’re listening on. In doing so, you help get this podcast into the ears and brains of more people like you. 

Episode Resources:

Other TNTM episodes referenced: 

Ep. 12 Yoga Nidra: Healing the Subconscious & NSDR with Mona Anand

Get $15 off of a Truvaga Vagus Nerve Stimulator with Promo Code: TalkNerdy

Learn more about the Vagus Nerve with the Vagus Nerve Society

Yoga Nidra Teacher Training with Alex starts online January 17th. Click here to learn more and save your spot!

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Today I’m talking nerdy with Chrissy Constable about the gut-brain axis and microbiome. In this conversation we’re talking about what the microbiome is, how it’s created, grown, and destroyed, the relationship between microbiome and mental health, how the microbiome creates neurotransmitters, and a little dive into gastroenterology and the connection between the gut, HPA axis, vagus nerve, and immune system. 

Chrissy Constable is a yoga teacher, body reader, and gut fanatic. Chrissy has always been fascinated with the inner workings of the body and how diet, movement, and breath can improve your mental and physical health. Her goal is to find and teach emotional, mental, and physical alignment through yoga asana, diet, and guided self discovery, to improve the quality and increase longevity of life.

Because you’re listening to this podcast, you’re among the first to know about Alex's upcoming Yoga Nidra Teacher Training that begins online January 17, 2024. Because 1:1 feedback from Alex and live attendance is such a critical component of this training, space is limited. To learn more + save your spot, you can click this link.

Before you dive in, I would love it if you could hit pause and leave us a 5 star review and a written review on whatever platform you’re listening on. In doing so, you help get this podcast into the ears and brains of more people like you. 

Episode Resources:

Other TNTM episodes referenced: 

Ep. 7: Anatomy of Fear: Amygdala, Autonomic Nervous System, & Overcoming Anxiety

Click here to learn more + save your spot for Alex & Chrissy’s womens retreat to Puglia, Italy June 1-8, 2024

Join Chrissy on Instagram here

Yoga Nidra Teacher Training with Alex starts online January 17th. Click here to learn more and save your spot!

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In this episode with Rebecca Regnier, we’re diving into the neuroscience of gratitude, how your neurochemistry and physiology changes when you’re in the active practice of it, how that sets your nervous system up for greater resilience, and the most potent ways you can begin to weave a gratitude practice into your own life. 

Rebecca Regnier is a global speaker & consultant, certified emotional intelligence & leadership facilitator, certified energy & mindfulness teacher and Founder of True Self Care. Her career didn’t start here! For decades she led sales teams for major corporations, crushing goals and building tight-knit relationships. Rebecca was a total success, but didn't see herself as one. By committing to her growth she learned to shift out of stress and self-sabotage to create a healthy life.

Using her journey as a guide, Rebecca inspires people to utilize self-care tools to measurably increase their wellness leading to happiness and greater productivity and improved professional & personal relationships!

Because you’re listening to this podcast, you’re among the first to know about Alex's upcoming Yoga Nidra Teacher Training that begins online January 17, 2024. 1:1 feedback from Alex and live attendance is such a critical component of this training, because of that, space is limited. To learn more + save your spot, you can click this link.

Before you dive in, I would love it if you could hit pause and leave us a 5 star review and a written review on whatever platform you’re listening on. In doing so, you help get this podcast into the ears and brains of more people like you. 

Episode Resources:

Other TNTM episodes referenced: 

Ep. 12 Yoga Nidra: Healing the Subconscious & NSDR with Mona Anand

Ep. 19: The Neuroscience of Manifestation: Becoming your Future Self

For corporate workshops, 1:1 mentoring, and public speaking with Rebecca, click here!

For inspiration & other shenanigans, join Rebecca on Instagram here.

Yoga Nidra Teacher Training with Alex starts online January 17th. Click here to learn more and save your spot!

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Today we’re talking nerdy about the neuroscience of heartbreak.

In this episode, we'll look at questions such as why you can’t get over your ex, why you can’t stop thinking about your ex, why heartbreak is so painful, where it lives in your brain, and how to heal your broken heart (through healing your broken brain). 

Because you’re listening to this podcast, you’re among the first to know about my upcoming Yoga Nidra Teacher Training that begins online January 17, 2024. Enrollment for this teacher training hasn’t opened anywhere else: not on Instagram, not on my email list. Because 1:1 feedback from me and live attendance is such a critical component of this training, space is limited. To learn more + save your spot, visit alexnashton.com/nidratraining. 

Before you dive in, I would love it if you could hit pause and leave us a 5 star review and a written review on whatever platform you’re listening on. In doing so, you help get this podcast into the ears and brains of more people like you. 

Episode Resources:

Other Talk Nerdy To Me episodes referenced: 

Ep 13. The Neuroscience of Love & Attraction

Ep. 12 Yoga Nidra: Healing the Subconscious & NSDR with Mona Anand

Ep. 4 The Science & Spirituality of the Nervous System with Kristin Leal

Yoga Nidra Teacher Training with Alex starts online January 17th. Click here to learn more and save your spot!

Apply for a 1:1 Coaching Conversation with Alex here

Rewiring Relationships: The Neuroscience of Love, Attraction, Heartbreak, & Healing ($27 Masterclass)

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Today I’m talking nerdy with Georgie Collinson about narcissism and how to recover from a relationship with someone who has highly narcissistic traits or Narcissistic Personality Disorder. In this conversation we’re diving into what narcissism actually is and isn’t given how much that word is thrown around online, how to become more adept at identifying narcissistic people in your life or in your past relationships, how NPD develops, the types of individuals who are particularly vulnerable to relationships with narcissists, and how to recover from relationships with them. 

Georgie Collinson is Australia’s leading anxiety therapist, specializing in high-functioning anxiety. She’s known for her entirely holistic mind-body-soul approach, drawing upon her experience and skills as an anxiety mindset coach, clinical hypnotherapist, naturopath and nutritionist. She's deeply committed to helping high-achieving, type-A perfectionists stop struggling with anxiety and crippling self doubt using The Anxiety Reset® Method, so they can create the resilience they need to thrive with confidence and awaken their inner calm.

Before you dive in, I would love it if you could hit pause and leave us a 5 star review and a written review on whatever platform you’re listening on. In doing so, you help get this podcast into the ears and brains of more people like you. 

Episode Resources:

Follow Georgie on Instagram

Grab her book The Anxiety Reset Method here

Listen to the Anxiety Reset Podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts

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This conversation with Julia de’Caneva might just be the most uncomfortable and confronting episode of this podcast yet. In this conversation we’re diving into fear of death and dying, why as a society we struggle so much with even having conversations about death, how to live more intentionally, and what facing your fear of death can teach you about how you want to experience being alive. 

I’m gonna shoot straight with all of you- this conversation is triggering, but something that I’m a firm believer in is that I don’t just want to be having the same conversations in my personal life that reinforce the same patterns of thinking. I want to be surrounding myself with people who offer me very different perspectives and challenge me. One of my goals in creating this podcast is to help you stretch yourself beyond your comfort zone too. 

Julia is an ever-curious, highly sensitive, nonconformist, and lover of life. She is a UCLA Trained Mindfulness Facilitator, and holds additional certifications in yoga [nidra] and reiki. She is also a Gallup Certified CliftonStrengths Coaching, and most recently a Going With Grace trained death doula. To put it simply, Julia is a life + death coach. 

 Her work as a coach is rooted in understanding how bio individuality, unique strengths, and unhelpful habits of the body and mind influence our ability to navigate transitions and make changes.

Julia is also a former student and client of mine and I am extremely honored and so grateful to now call her a dear friend. 

Before you dive in, I would love it if you could hit pause and leave us a 5 star review and a written review on whatever platform you’re listening on. In doing so, you help get this podcast into the ears and brains of more people like you. 

Episode Resources:

Follow Julia on Instagram here

End of Life Planning + Support for Young People/AYA Cancer

Learn more about Life + Death Coaching with Julia

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Today I’m talking nerdy with Courtney Durr about all things self-worth. In this conversation we’re diving into why women struggle in their relationships with themselves, the societal messages that lead us to distrust ourselves, and how to begin fostering a more emotionally nurturing relationship with yourself to grow your level of self-worth. 

Courtney Durr is a self-worth coach who helps women cultivate a loving relationship with themselves and build a life that feels genuinely fulfilling to them. Over 10 years ago, Courtney started her career in personal training. Working with predominantly women, she got an intimate view into the everyday struggles many of her clients were silently facing. Whilst they portrayed a confident and happy demeanor, on the inside she saw just how critical they were to themselves. Courtney’s passion for self-development and creating safe spaces for women to come together, grew rapidly- and so she created Worthwild. 

Worthwild is a business and a community that has helped hundreds of women begin the journey of self-discovery and not feel so alone in this messy, uncertain thing we call life.

Before you dive in, I would love it if you could hit pause and leave us a 5 star review and a written review on whatever platform you’re listening on. In doing so, you help get this podcast into the ears and brains of more people like you. 

Episode Resources:

Listen to Worthwild Podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcast

Follow Courts on Instagram by clicking here

Ep 3: Leading with Vulnerability: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome & Mental Health Stigma with China McCarney

Ep 6: The Science of Secure Attachment: How to Cultivate Healthier Relationships with Ashley Weller

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Today we’re talking nerdy about the neuroscience of lying and telling the truth. In this solo episode, Alex is diving into why lying evolved from an evolutionary perspective, what is happening in your brain when you lie to yourself or others versus telling the truth, the psychological value of self-deception, and how to get better at detecting when others are lying to you. 

Alex is also going to share more about the vow of honesty she took 7 years ago and how it dramatically changed her relationship with others and herself.

Before you dive in, I would love it if you could hit pause and leave us a 5 star review and a written review on whatever platform you’re listening on. In doing so, you help get this podcast into the ears and brains of more people like you. 

Episode Resources:

Make sure you check out the other episodes of Talk Nerdy To Me referenced in this episode such as: 

Ep 1: Neuroplasticity: How to Rewire Your Brain

Ep 20: The Science of Confidence: Rewiring Your Brain For Success

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