The Work IN to move out of stress, tension & anxiety

Brenda Zane is a family advocate, parent coach, host of the podcast Hopestream, and founder of an online community, The Stream, for moms of kids with substance use disorder. Brenda is the mother of four sons, the oldest of whom struggled with an addiction to a high-risk lifestyle and illicit opioids and benzodiazepines for over 5 years. After nearly losing her son to multiple fentanyl overdoses, Brenda left corporate America to serve other families dealing with the fear, confusion and helplessness parents usually feel when they have a child who's misusing drugs or alcohol.

 Brenda is a Mayo Clinic Certified Health and Wellness Coach, Parent Coach, and Board Member for Sky’s The Limit Fund, a non-profit which transforms the lives of youth in crisis and their families by providing access to wilderness therapy programs and post-treatment coaching services.

I  know Brenda as a health coach and an entrepreneur. I am proud to serve as an advisor member in The Stream Community and have seen first hand what a compassionate heart felt safe space that she has created for the moms who have joined her.

The stigma, shame and guilt that surrounds addiction, substance use and abuse is something that is only compounded by secrecy, uncertainty and isolation. Brenda’s mission is to give parents a place where they can let down their guard, a space without fear of judgement where they can lay down some of that burden and know that they are loved and supported.

Make no mistake, this story is not unique. Addiction comes in many different flavors and it touches every single one of us in some way. Substance use that leads to abuse stripped down is simply external regulation of the nervous system. Because of that every single one of us is susceptible to it in some way. 

Today's episode is part 1 of a 2 part interview, we’re going to pull back the curtain on a family disease. And I do want to warn you parts of this story might be hard to hear.  Brenda shares her story of her son’s struggle with substance abuse from the years that led up to the fentanyl overdose that should have taken his life to the hope that’s come from their recovery. I share some of my own family history with substance abuse.  We talk about how years of stress can become trauma and what those health effects look like. How the accumulation of little t traumas can lead to big T triggers. How long it can take to relearn healthy resilience patterns. 

It’s time to stop working out and start working IN. You found the Work IN podcast for fit-preneurs and their health conscious clients. This podcast is for resilient wellness professionals who want to expand their professional credibility, shake off stress and thrive in a burnout-proof career with conversations on the fitness industry, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindset, nervous system health, yoga, business  and so much more. 

I’m your host Ericka Thomas. I'm a resilience coach and fit-preneur offering an authentic, actionable realistic approach to personal and professional balance for coaches in any format.

The Work IN is brought to you by savage grace coaching, bringing resilience through movement, action and accountability. Private sessions, small groups and corporate presentations are open now. Visit savagegracecoaching.com to schedule a call and get  all the details.

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Everything we come into contact with no matter what it is is going to have some kind of effect on the nervous system, whether we notice it or not. Whatever our state is if we’re awake we’re in constant fluctuation. 

Today we’ll talk about 3 different kinds of external regulation Chemical, Physical and Mental and as you’ll see often there’s some overlap as always when we work with the body it’s never about one thing. Everything is connected and affects everything else in some way.

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It’s time to stop working out and start working IN. You found the Work IN podcast for fit-preneurs and their health conscious clients. This podcast is for resilient wellness professionals who want to expand their professional credibility, shake off stress and thrive in a burnout-proof career with conversations on the fitness industry, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindset, nervous system health, yoga, business  and so much more. 

I’m your host Ericka Thomas. I'm a resilience coach and fit-preneur offering an authentic, actionable realistic approach to personal and professional balance for coaches in any format.

The Work IN is brought to you by savage grace coaching, bringing resilience through movement, action and accountability. Private sessions, small groups and corporate presentations are open now. Visit savagegracecoaching.com to schedule a call and get  all the details.

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Over the next few episodes we’ll be talking about regulation. Specifically how the body regulates itself. Our #1 purpose with any stress relieving exercise or protocol is ( or should be to) to teach safe self regulation. But what exactly does that mean? What does it mean for the body? What are some of the ways that we do it without conscious effort?

That’s what we’ll be exploring in today's episode and then over the next few episodes we’ll go deeper into external regulation and how that can shift into addiction and then we’ll move to specific skills that you can practice to retrain your nervous system to safely self regulate.

Sponsored by Kinetic Grace Resilience

It’s time to stop working out and start working IN. You found the Work IN podcast for fit-preneurs and their health conscious clients. This podcast is for resilient wellness professionals who want to expand their professional credibility, shake off stress and thrive in a burnout-proof career with conversations on the fitness industry, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindset, nervous system health, yoga, business  and so much more. 

I’m your host Ericka Thomas. I'm a resilience coach and fit-preneur offering an authentic, actionable realistic approach to personal and professional balance for coaches in any format.

The Work IN is brought to you by savage grace coaching, bringing resilience through movement, action and accountability. Private sessions, small groups and corporate presentations are open now. Visit savagegracecoaching.com to schedule a call and get  all the details.

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Everyone one knows it's important to keep the body physically fit but it's just as important to keep the nervous system fit as well.  In this solo episode I discuss the definition of resilience, what it is and why training the nervous system is as important to our physical, mental and emotional well being and health as physical fitness. 

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It’s time to stop working out and start working IN. You found the Work IN podcast for fit-preneurs and their health conscious clients. This podcast is for resilient wellness professionals who want to expand their professional credibility, shake off stress and thrive in a burnout-proof career with conversations on the fitness industry, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindset, nervous system health, yoga, business  and so much more. 

I’m your host Ericka Thomas. I'm a resilience coach and fit-preneur offering an authentic, actionable realistic approach to personal and professional balance for coaches in any format.

The Work IN is brought to you by savage grace coaching, bringing resilience through movement, action and accountability. Private sessions, small groups and corporate presentations are open now. Visit savagegracecoaching.com to schedule a call and get  all the details.

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Coaches have a powerful influence on the young athlete not just during competition but for years after. Sarah Neal, the Skating Yogi, is using her love of transformational yoga and figure skating to become a positive influence on young skaters in the skating world and beyond. Helping current and former athletes detrain body, mind and spirit from the stress of elite competition.

Sarah Neal, M.A., RYT-200, is a Master-rated coach and Learn-to-Skate Director at Louisville Skating Academy in Louisville, KY. She runs an online space that helps athletes and former athletes decondition and  reframe their relationship with sports to improve mental health and heal, using self-care practices like mindfulness, yoga, and community. To learn more, visit Sarah on IG @the_skating_yogi or e-mail [email protected]. 

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It’s time to stop working out and start working IN. You found the Work IN podcast for fit-preneurs and their health conscious clients. This podcast is for resilient wellness professionals who want to expand their professional credibility, shake off stress and thrive in a burnout-proof career with conversations on the fitness industry, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindset, nervous system health, yoga, business  and so much more. 

I’m your host Ericka Thomas. I'm a resilience coach and fit-preneur offering an authentic, actionable realistic approach to personal and professional balance for coaches in any format.

The Work IN is brought to you by savage grace coaching, bringing resilience through movement, action and accountability. Private sessions, small groups and corporate presentations are open now. Visit savagegracecoaching.com to schedule a call and get  all the details.

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When we talk about trauma, ptsd recovery or resilience and stress management and in mind body modalities like yoga & Pilates we often encourage people to “listen to their bodies”. To do this there are a lot of vague instructions thrown around about mindfulness, presence and trying to notice things in the body but not a lot of direction on what to do with that information. 

So today I want to talk first about the ways that the body communicates and then give you some tools that you can use in real time that can help interrupt those very real physiologic responses to stress.

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Kinetic Grace Resilience
elementalkinetics.com

It’s time to stop working out and start working IN. You found the Work IN podcast for fit-preneurs and their health conscious clients. This podcast is for resilient wellness professionals who want to expand their professional credibility, shake off stress and thrive in a burnout-proof career with conversations on the fitness industry, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindset, nervous system health, yoga, business  and so much more. 

I’m your host Ericka Thomas. I'm a resilience coach and fit-preneur offering an authentic, actionable realistic approach to personal and professional balance for coaches in any format.

The Work IN is brought to you by savage grace coaching, bringing resilience through movement, action and accountability. Private sessions, small groups and corporate presentations are open now. Visit savagegracecoaching.com to schedule a call and get  all the details.

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In part 4 of our 4 part series connecting chronic pain and the nervous system, Collen and I discuss the invisible nature of living with chronic pain while at the same time having it affect every aspect of life. The difficulty relating to people around us and how important it is as a patient to be heard. 

Dr.  Arielle Schwartz:

Welcome | Dr. Arielle Schwartz

Neil Pearson's Pain Care Aware (and other)

Pain Care Yoga – Pain Care U

My free pain care ebook:

FREE pain care tools | Mysite (colleenjorgensen.org)

Info on Discover to Recover 6 week online pain care program:

FREE pain care tools | Mysite (colleenjorgensen.org)

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It’s time to stop working out and start working IN. You found the Work IN podcast for fit-preneurs and their health conscious clients. This podcast is for resilient wellness professionals who want to expand their professional credibility, shake off stress and thrive in a burnout-proof career with conversations on the fitness industry, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindset, nervous system health, yoga, business  and so much more. 

I’m your host Ericka Thomas. I'm a resilience coach and fit-preneur offering an authentic, actionable realistic approach to personal and professional balance for coaches in any format.

The Work IN is brought to you by savage grace coaching, bringing resilience through movement, action and accountability. Private sessions, small groups and corporate presentations are open now. Visit savagegracecoaching.com to schedule a call and get  all the details.

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In Part 3 of our series with Colleen Jorgensen we begin with the connections between the breath and the nervous system and how we can quickly activate or calm the nervous system using the breath. We discuss how important it is to give yourself the space and grace to rest and allow the body to do the work to repair and heal. We talk about bringing more awareness to the language around pain care and trauma in ways that help people become more comfortable in their own skin rather than teaching more fear of the pain sensation.

Dr.  Arielle Schwartz:

Welcome | Dr. Arielle Schwartz

Neil Pearson's Pain Care Aware (and other)

Pain Care Yoga – Pain Care U

My free pain care ebook:

FREE pain care tools | Mysite (colleenjorgensen.org)

Info on Discover to Recover 6 week online pain care program:

FREE pain care tools | Mysite (colleenjorgensen.org)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/stillnessinmotionwithcolleen/

https://www.instagram.com/_stillnessinmotion/?hl=en

[email protected]

It’s time to stop working out and start working IN. You found the Work IN podcast for fit-preneurs and their health conscious clients. This podcast is for resilient wellness professionals who want to expand their professional credibility, shake off stress and thrive in a burnout-proof career with conversations on the fitness industry, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindset, nervous system health, yoga, business  and so much more. 

I’m your host Ericka Thomas. I'm a resilience coach and fit-preneur offering an authentic, actionable realistic approach to personal and professional balance for coaches in any format.

The Work IN is brought to you by savage grace coaching, bringing resilience through movement, action and accountability. Private sessions, small groups and corporate presentations are open now. Visit savagegracecoaching.com to schedule a call and get  all the details.

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Part 2 of 4 part Connections series entitled Stressed states.

Part 2 of this brilliant interview with Osteopath & pain care specialist Colleen Jorgensen @_stillnessinmotion
This time on The Work IN...
Colleen explains 3 hierarchical stress states + to hybrid states of the nervous system and why we need them for balance. Then we explore simple ways that we can get back to our social engagement system when we're feeling too activated and how to energize ourselves when we feel too calm.

"So let me start by saying that I think the sympathetic nervous system response has gotten a bit of a bad wrap in the last decade or so, I think there's a bit of a misconception that if you're in your stress response that's a horrible thing, and you need to only do parasympathetic work and always be calm, and that's not quite right, we want to have a range of responses, so that we appropriately respond to what's happening in life and sometimes life requires a little bit of sympathetic activation."

It’s time to stop working out and start working IN. You found the Work IN podcast for fit-preneurs and their health conscious clients. This podcast is for resilient wellness professionals who want to expand their professional credibility, shake off stress and thrive in a burnout-proof career with conversations on the fitness industry, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindset, nervous system health, yoga, business  and so much more. 

I’m your host Ericka Thomas. I'm a resilience coach and fit-preneur offering an authentic, actionable realistic approach to personal and professional balance for coaches in any format.

The Work IN is brought to you by savage grace coaching, bringing resilience through movement, action and accountability. Private sessions, small groups and corporate presentations are open now. Visit savagegracecoaching.com to schedule a call and get  all the details.

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Perfectionism can be paralyzing.  In this present moment messy question of the day we take a quick look at the contradictions between success coaching and healing from destructive perfectionist tendencies. 

PM2QOD episodes are short bite sized snacks of perspective to de-stress everyday culture.

It’s time to stop working out and start working IN. You found the Work IN podcast for fit-preneurs and their health conscious clients. This podcast is for resilient wellness professionals who want to expand their professional credibility, shake off stress and thrive in a burnout-proof career with conversations on the fitness industry, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindset, nervous system health, yoga, business  and so much more. 

I’m your host Ericka Thomas. I'm a resilience coach and fit-preneur offering an authentic, actionable realistic approach to personal and professional balance for coaches in any format.

The Work IN is brought to you by savage grace coaching, bringing resilience through movement, action and accountability. Private sessions, small groups and corporate presentations are open now. Visit savagegracecoaching.com to schedule a call and get  all the details.

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