Nita Imanian shares her unfiltered story of going from psychic medium and tarot reader to trauma-informed somatic breathwork facilitator — and asks the hard question the spiritual industry doesn't want you to ask. If you've ever spent money on healing and still felt stuck, this episode is for you.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• The difference between spiritual performance and real nervous system healing

• Why tarot and psychic readings can keep you stuck if used the wrong way

• How Nita transitioned from psychic work to somatic breathwork

• What ethical, embodied spiritual practice actually looks like

KEYWORDS: psychic medium, tarot reading, somatic breathwork, spiritual healing, nervous system, trauma informed, The Spirit World Co, Nita Imanian

🔗 Mentions & Links

IG & TT: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@thebreathworkmedium ⁠& ⁠⁠⁠⁠@thespiritworldco⁠⁠⁠⁠

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• ​Regulate their nervous systems
• ​Strengthen their intuition
• ​Build boundaries
• ​Increase energetic capacity
• ​Serve ethically without burnout

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A lot of “healing advice” online is actually keeping women stuck.

In this episode, I talk honestly about my relationship, pregnancy, nervous system patterns, and how validating relationship advice online fuelled a toxic push // pull dynamic instead of healing it.

We unpack subconscious patterns, emotional regulation, and the simple conversations that stop fights before they explode.

If you’ve ever wondered whether the advice you’re consuming is helping or harming your relationship, this is for you.

🔗 Mentions & Links

IG & TT: ⁠⁠⁠@thebreathworkmedium & ⁠⁠⁠@thespiritworldco⁠⁠⁠

Want support? DM “MELT” for 1:1 / group breathwork.

🆘 Mental Health Resources 

If this episode stirs up emotion or grief — please reach out for support. 

🇦🇺 Australia: 1800RESPECT – 1800 737 732 | Lifeline – 13 11 14 | Beyond Blue – 1300 22 4636

🇬🇧 UK: Samaritans – 116 123

🇺🇸 USA: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline – 988

🇨🇦 Canada: Talk Suicide – 1-833-456-4566 

Or search your local crisis line wherever you are.

This one is raw. It’s for the woman (or man) who had to silence, shrink, or harden parts of themselves just to survive — the one who learned that being soft, emotional, or expressive wasn’t safe.

Nita shares the truth about what happens when we kill off our younger self in the name of growth — and how those “dead” parts never actually die, they just freeze in the body, waiting for safety to return. Through honest storytelling, nervous-system education, and a guided re-connection process, she bridges psychology, spirituality, and embodiment in a way that hits straight to the heart.

You’ll learn how survival responses like fight, flight, and freeze live inside your cells, how mindset work can mask deeper trauma, and what it actually means to regulate without bypassing emotion. This episode invites you to grieve, to soften, and to remember the version of you who once felt everything.

CW / Trigger Warning: Mentions of childhood trauma, emotional abuse, anger, dysregulation, and chronic illness.

🧠 We Cover:

• What it really means to “kill your younger self.” Why we disown our softness and how to bring her home.

• Emotional suppression and the body. How unprocessed pain becomes “frozen memory” and creates dis-ease.

• The nervous system beyond buzzwords. Understanding fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and shutdown in simple human language.

• Real regulation vs. spiritual bypassing. Why “just breathe” isn’t enough — and what regulation actually feels like.

• Honouring anger and truth. How to release emotion safely without hurting yourself or others.

• Why slowing down isn’t failure. Redefining success, rest, and what it means to feel safe in your own skin.

• The birth of the MELT Method. How Nita’s healing led to creating a trauma-informed somatic practice that helps the body unlearn survival and reconnect to intuition.

• A guided reunion with your inner child. A short practice to meet, forgive, and merge with the part of you that’s been waiting to be seen.

  
  

  🌬 One nervous system practice to try today:

  Place your hand on your heart and whisper:

  “I honour every version of me that had to harden to survive. You kept me safe. You can rest now.”

  Breathe slowly into your belly, feel your body soften, and allow one small piece of armour to melt.

  
  

  You can’t think your way into safety. You have to feel your way there.When you regulate, forgive, and reintegrate the parts you abandoned, you don’t just heal — you come home. This is the foundation of intuition, connection, and peace.

  If you’ve ever wondered why you “know better” but still repeat the same cycles, this episode explains why — and shows you how to finally shift it through the body.

  
  

  🔗 Mentions & Links

  IG & TT: @thebreathworkmedium & @thespiritworldcoAnon questions & feedback: @thespiritworldpodWant support? DM “MELT” for 1:1 / group breathwork & somatic healing sessions.

  
  

  If this episode stirs up emotion or grief — please reach out for support.

  
  🆘 Mental Health Resources 🇦🇺 Australia: 1800RESPECT – 1800 737 732 | Lifeline – 13 11 14 | Beyond Blue – 1300 22 4636🇬🇧 UK: Samaritans – 116 123🇺🇸 USA: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline – 988🇨🇦 Canada: Talk Suicide – 1-833-456-4566Or search your local crisis line wherever you are.

  🆘 Mental Health Resources

A deeply vulnerable story about childhood trauma, body shame, emotional shutdown, and the moment everything changed in my marriage.

This is for the woman who holds shame in her body, hides her needs, or freezes during intimacy — and wants to heal.

We Cover:

• ​💔 Sex ≠ Love – how I linked passion, pain, and manipulation with intimacy and carried it into a healthy relationship.
• ​😶‍🌫️ The Silent Years – months of rejection, self-blame, and the insecurity my ex planted that I believed for half a decade.
• ​🗣 The Conversation That Broke the Cycle – how admitting my deepest fear to my husband led to mutual vulnerability and instant closeness.
• ​🧠 Nervous System Healing – why creating safety in your body is essential before you can fully open to pleasure and connection.
• ​💡 Honesty as the Doorway to Intimacy – how facing our hidden fears allowed us to reclaim our sexuality and build a stronger marriage.

This episode is unfiltered, intimate, and practical. It’s not just about sex it’s about breaking patterns, healing the nervous system, and remembering that real connection starts with radical honesty.

🔗 Mentions & Links

IG & TT: ⁠⁠⁠@themfknempress⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠⁠@thespiritworldco⁠⁠⁠

Anon questions & feedback: ⁠⁠⁠@thespiritworldpod

Want support? DM “MELT” for 1:1 / group breathwork.

🆘 Mental Health Resources 

If this episode stirs up emotion or grief — please reach out for support. 

🇦🇺 Australia: 1800RESPECT – 1800 737 732 | Lifeline – 13 11 14 | Beyond Blue – 1300 22 4636

🇬🇧 UK: Samaritans – 116 123

🇺🇸 USA: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline – 988

🇨🇦 Canada: Talk Suicide – 1-833-456-4566 

Or search your local crisis line wherever you are.

Kicking off my bite-size series for busy humans (parents, founders, busy workers — hi 👋🏽). We break down what dysregulation actually is (it’s normal), how your sympathetic vs. parasympathetic systems work, and simple tools you can use in under a minute to come back to yourself — no elaborate rituals required.

If you’ve been stuck in all-or-nothing thinking, this is your permission slip to regulate in micro-moments and drop the mum-guilt/perfectionism while you do it.

🧠 We cover:

This one’s for the parents who feel like they never get a minute. I share the real, messy truth of healing while raising little ones — from postpartum anxiety and rage, to the mirror-moment that snapped me out of self-abandonment, to learning what actual nervous-system safety feels like.

We talk about systems that create space (childcare, family support, gym crèches), co-regulation at home, and why putting yourself first isn’t selfish — it’s how your kids get the most regulated version of you.

If you’re drowning in “I don’t have time,” this is your permission slip and a practical roadmap.

🧠 We cover:

• 🍼 Postpartum reality — anxiety, rage, sleep deprivation, and the turning point that ended the cycle.
• 🫁 Body first, not punishment — shifting from shame-driven “fixing” to safety, breath, and gentle regulation.
• 🧯 Co-regulation at home — why your energy sets the tone; simple breath cues your toddler will copy.
• 🧱 Systems build safety — childcare, family help, partner hand-offs, gym crèche, subsidies; stop white-knuckling it alone.
• 🧷 Letting go of mum-guilt — prioritising you = a calmer household; dishes can wait, regulation can’t.
• 🧭 Partner dynamics — trusting your co-parent to learn (without helicoptering) so you can actually rest.
• 🧾 Calling out self-sabotage — assumptions (“they’ll say no,” “I should do it all”) that keep you stuck.
• 🌬️ Micro-practices that work — the 60-second resets that fit real parent life.

🧩 Try these micro-practices (parent-friendly):

• 1-Minute Box Breath: Inhale 4 • hold 4 • exhale 4 • hold 4 (repeat 3–4 rounds while kiddo plays).

• Shoulder Melt While They Snack: Slow shoulder circles + long sighs out the mouth.

• Carry & Co-Regulate: Hand on your heart, gentle sway, whisper “it’s okay” + long nasal exhale — they’ll mirror you.

• • Nervous System Anchor Phrase: “Dishes can wait. Regulating can’t.” Say it, then take 3 slow breaths.
  • System Swap: One concrete support you’ll add this week (childcare hour, MIL pickup, partner bath time, gym crèche). Put it in the calendar.

  
  

• Your kids don’t need a perfect parent — they need a regulated one. When you build systems that give you space, your nervous system downshifts, and everyone in the house benefits. Prioritising yourself isn’t neglect; it’s leadership.

  
  

  🔗 Mentions & Links

  IG & TT: ⁠@thebreathworkmedium & ⁠@thespiritworldco⁠

  Anon questions & feedback: ⁠@thespiritworldpod⁠

  Want support? DM “MELT” for 1:1 / group breathwork.

  
  

  🆘 Mental Health Resources

  If this episode brings up anything for you — especially postpartum anxiety/depression, rage, or trauma — please reach out. You’re not alone.

  Australia: 1800RESPECT – 1800 737 732 | Lifeline – 13 11 14 | Beyond Blue – 1300 22 4636
  UK: Samaritans – 116 123
  USA: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline – 988
  Canada: Talk Suicide – 1-833-456-4566
  Or search your local crisis line if you’re outside these areas.

In this episode, I share the unfiltered truth about what really happened when I deleted social media for five full days during my somatic breathwork immersion. No posting, no scrolling, no performing. Just me, my body, and real life.

I go deep into the identity crisis that hits creators when you take a break, the withdrawals of a dopamine detox, and the clarity that arrives when you stop outsourcing your nervous system to your phone.

If you’ve been feeling overstimulated, burnt out, anxious, or stuck in survival mode this episode is for you.

Your phone isn’t just stealing your time, it’s hijacking your nervous system. Taking time offline isn’t laziness, it’s leadership. It’s how you reclaim your peace, creativity, and power.

🧠 We cover:

• ​📵 Digital addiction disguised as “connection” — how we reach for our phones before we even open our eyes.
• ​💨 The illusion of rest — why scrolling isn’t relaxation; it’s nervous-system overload.
• ​🌿 Presence as medicine — learning to feel dopamine naturally again through breath, movement, and the world around you.
• ​🔋 Reclaiming energy & creativity — how five days offline gave me back my ideas, clarity, and peace.
• ​🔥 The business trap — how “consistency” and content obsession can become self-abandonment in disguise.
• ​💡 Intentional creation — why quality, embodiment, and lived experience will always outshine algorithm hacks.
• ​🫁 Embodied awareness — what my breathwork immersion revealed about control, safety, and living from the body instead of the mind.

🔗 Mentions & Links

IG & TT: ⁠@thebreathworkmedium & ⁠@thespiritworldco⁠

Anon questions & feedback: ⁠@thespiritworldpod⁠⁠

Want support? DM “MELT” for 1:1 / group breathwork.

🆘 Mental Health Resources

If this episode brings up anything for you — especially if you’re navigating burnout, anxiety, or emotional dysregulation — please reach out for proper support.

Australia: 1800 RESPECT – 1800 737 732 | Lifeline – 13 11 14 | Beyond Blue – 1300 22 4636UK: Samaritans – 116 123USA: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline – 988Canada: Talk Suicide – 1-833-456-4566Or search your local crisis line if you’re outside these areas. You don’t have to do it alone.

If you’ve ever felt unsafe in friendships, terrified of being “too much,” or carrying old sisterhood wounds… this conversation will feel like a deep exhale.

Two besties, one couch, and a brutally honest chat about female friendship, emotional maturity, repairing ruptures, and learning to take up space without guilt.

This is for the woman healing her freeze response inside friendships — and rebuilding trust with other women.

🧠 We cover:

• ​The real story of how we met (and the infamous pink hair era).
• ​Friendship repair 101 — giving feedback vs. taking it personally.
• ​Projections and ego stories that sabotage sisterhood.
• ​Taking up space vs. fawning and over-giving.
• ​Nervous system regulation inside friendships.
• ​Grief and friendship breakups — how to process, not perform.
• ​Childhood roots of sisterhood wounds (abandonment, bullying, father wounds).
• ​What healthy repair looks like when both people are healing.
• ​Redefining safety, vulnerability, and capacity.
• ​How to celebrate your sisters — and yourself — in real time.

Friendships are mirrors. Every trigger, withdrawal, or projection is a chance to practice nervous-system safety and learn relational repair. When we heal sisterhood wounds, we stop seeing other women as threats — and start seeing them as reflections.

⚠️ A quick safety noteWe talk about friendship grief, bullying, and emotional regulation. If this brings up memories or sensations in your body, pause, breathe, or journal before continuing. Healing doesn’t have to be rushed — move gently and at your pace.

🔗 Mentions & Links

Find Emily: @emilyvassallo_ & @shineinyourlight @femmeincarne_

Host: @thebreathworkmedium & @thespiritworldco

Anon Qs & feedback: @thespiritworldpod

Want support? DM “MELT” for 1:1 or group breathwork.

🆘 Mental Health ResourcesIf this episode stirs up emotion or grief — please reach out for support.🇦🇺 Australia: 1800RESPECT – 1800 737 732 | Lifeline – 13 11 14 | Beyond Blue – 1300 22 4636

🇬🇧 UK: Samaritans – 116 123

🇺🇸 USA: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline – 988

🇨🇦 Canada: Talk Suicide – 1-833-456-4566Or search your local crisis line wherever you are.

Toxic friendships, friendship breakup, leaving friendships, people pleasing, codependency, trauma bond, attachment style, boundaries, self abandonment, outgrowing friends, nervous system, emotional exhaustion, one sided friendships, female friendships, friendship grief.

If you’re the friend who stayed too long, gave too much, or kept the peace at the cost of yourself… this episode will hit home.

I share the honest truth about outgrowing friendships, emotional exhaustion, and why your nervous system shuts down around people who no longer feel safe.

For the spiritual woman learning to choose herself without guilt.

We cover:

• ​💔 Outgrowing the familiar — why the friendships that once felt like home can start to shrink you.
• ​🧷 Loyalty vs. self-abandonment — carrying everyone, never asking for help, and the fatigue of being “the strong one.”
• ​🧠 Body first, mind second — tight chest, clenched jaw, constant tension: your nervous system knows before you do.
• ​🌪️ The collective pivot — jobs lost, financial hits, values changing; why so many of us are course-correcting in our 30s.
• ​🧭 Healthy friendship in real life — capacity changes, seasons shift, and communication that doesn’t weaponise “boundaries.”
• ​🕊️ Leaving with love — releasing hatred, not making others wrong, honouring different values (the “V drink” story).
• ​🔮 Spiritual contracts — when the lesson is complete, the energy dissolves; how to close with compassion and move on.
• ​🧯 When blocking is the boundary — choosing distance to stop the vacuum pull and create space for healing.

Ending a friendship that is no longer aligned isn’t failure. It’s an act of self-respect. Your body can’t keep carrying dynamics that keep you small — and your 30s will expose what your nervous system can no longer hide.

🔗 Mentions & Links

IG & TT: ⁠⁠@themfknempress⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠@thespiritworldco⁠⁠

Anon questions & feedback: @thespiritworldpod⁠⁠⁠

Want support? DM “MELT” for 1:1 / group breathwork.

🆘 Mental Health Resources 

If this episode stirs up emotion or grief — please reach out for support. 

🇦🇺 Australia: 1800RESPECT – 1800 737 732 | Lifeline – 13 11 14 | Beyond Blue – 1300 22 4636

🇬🇧 UK: Samaritans – 116 123

🇺🇸 USA: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline – 988

🇨🇦 Canada: Talk Suicide – 1-833-456-4566 

Or search your local crisis line wherever you are.

high functioning anxiety, high functioning burnout, nervous system regulation, survival mode, people pleasing, freeze response, feminine energy, overwhelm, emotional burnout, somatic healing.

If you’re burnt out from holding everything together, stuck in freeze, or terrified to rest because it feels unsafe — this episode is your permission slip.

I unpack why your body shuts down, why “being strong” became your identity, and how slowing down is actually how you reconnect to your intuition.

Trigger Warning / Disclaimer:This episode contains candid reflections on burnout, resentment, and nervous system dysregulation. It is not medical advice and is based on my lived experience. If you find yourself activated or overwhelmed, pause, breathe, and return when you feel safe.

We Covered:

• ​🪞 The hidden cost of always being “the strong one” – why hyperfixation, people-pleasing, and guilt keep you in burnout.
• ​💔 Resentment & avoidance patterns – saying yes when you mean no, crying in the shower, collapsing into bed wired but exhausted.
• ​⚡ The lie we’re sold: slowing down = lazy. How hustle culture and conditioning convince women to abandon themselves.
• ​🌙 The nervous system truth: when your body doesn’t feel safe, you can’t rest, soften, or receive.
• ​✨ The flip: asking, “What’s the best that could happen if I slow down?” and beginning to build new evidence that safety is possible.

💡 Daily Practices to regulate your nervous system:

• ​Daily silence (even 5 mins).
• ​One conscious deep breath
• ​Scanning the body for tension (the spirit world hub has a guided audio for this)
• ​Curating transitions between roles (business owner → mum → partner → self).
• ​Learning to let some things wait (the dishes, the washing) without shame.

🔥 The Spirit World plug – a co-healing space, a nervous system gym, for women who’ve been stuck in survival mode and want to learn how to melt. “It’s your turn now. You’ve put everyone else first for too long. This is your permission slip to slow down, soften, and finally come home to yourself.”

🔗 Mentions & Links

IG & TT: ⁠⁠@themfknempress⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠@thespiritworldco⁠⁠

Anon questions & feedback: ⁠⁠@thespiritworldpod⁠⁠⁠

Want support? DM “MELT” for 1:1 / group breathwork.

🆘 Mental Health Resources 

If this episode stirs up emotion or grief — please reach out for support. 

🇦🇺 Australia: 1800RESPECT – 1800 737 732 | Lifeline – 13 11 14 | Beyond Blue – 1300 22 4636

🇬🇧 UK: Samaritans – 116 123

🇺🇸 USA: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline – 988

🇨🇦 Canada: Talk Suicide – 1-833-456-4566 

Or search your local crisis line wherever you are.