The Body Talks Podcast

Nervous system-conscious strength, movement and longevity coach Sean Jacobs shares his story of rebuilding from body-led forced surrender as an athlete, and how this experience led him to approach training and life differently.

He works with people who have built their lives around movement but have hit a wall they can't train through, guiding them through the process of rebuilding a resilient body capable of accessing maximal strength.

Honoring your nervous system isn't about choosing between training intensity and regulation. It's about learning to approach things differently so we can rebuild a system with the capacity to hold load and intensity more efficiently.

A deep dive with my friend, former client, and brain retraining coach, Alex Wetz, into her experience with chronic pain and illness, what it means to have a "highly sensitive" system, the identity shifts that can emerge from seasons spent obsessing over root cause, and the neuroplasticity of pain and symptoms.

References:

1. The Way Out — Alan Gordon & Alon Ziv
Pain Reprocessing Therapy and a very accessible explanation of how learned/neuroplastic pain can be reversed.

2. Unlearn Your Pain — Howard Schubiner
A structured mind-body approach to chronic pain, combining pain neuroscience, emotional processing, and techniques for retraining learned pain responses.

3. Explain Pain — David S. Butler & G. Lorimer Moseley
A foundational pain-science book explaining pain as a protective output influenced by far more than tissue damage.

4. Pain Is Strange — Steve Haines, illustrated by Sophie Standing
A short, beautifully illustrated introduction to modern pain science: why pain can persist after tissues have healed and how understanding pain can help change the experience.

5. Pain and Perception — Daniel S. Harvie & G. Lorimer Moseley
A highly visual exploration of how context, expectations, learning, and sensory information shape pain.

6. The Mindbody Prescription — John E. Sarno
An influential early mind-body account of persistent pain, emphasizing the relationship between pain, emotions, and the brain.

Why is it so hard to stay "disciplined?" Why are our health routines things we keeping falling on & off of?

...and why are the things that we desire the deepest for ourselves, often the hardest to consistently commit to?

In this podcast, we'll deconstruct our culturally defined concepts of discipline from a developmental psychology and nervous system lens, providing an actionable process for working with your physiology to create the real thing.

An exploration of ribcage & diaphragm mechanics, and why training the intra-abdominal pressure system is essential for full body strength, mobility & Nervous System health.

A more in-depth introduction to the concept of Body-Led Forced Surrender, and how the Body Talks Podcast will share these stories of body dialogue.

My season of body-led forced surrender, and the birth of Body Talks.