The Breaking Point
Welcome, Love. You made it here, and maybe it's not a small thing. Maybe you're listening because something is unraveling or already has. Maybe your body is tired, your mind is overloaded. Maybe you are standing at the edge of something you can't quite name. But you know, deep down that the old way isn't working anymore.
Welcome to RewirePod, where pleasure is sacred. Softness is power, and slowing down is healing. A podcast about healing, not through fixing or striving, but through savoring through rest. Through science and soul, through storytelling and gentle rebellion. I'm so glad you're here. I want to begin by telling you something I wish someone had told me years ago: you are not broken. You are conditioned by the world you survived.
I want you to hear that not just with your mind, but with your whole body, that exhaustion you feel, the shutdown, the anxiety, the inflammation. Those are not the signs that something is wrong with you. These are the signs that your body have been working overtime. To keep you alive in a world that has asked too much of you for too long. Your body has been protecting you. You are not broken or weak or dramatic or defective. Your nervous system is in survival mode and that's what it's supposed to do when the world does not feel safe. It didn't fail.
And now together we get to start the process of gently teaching your body that it's safe to feel again, that it's safe to slow down. That is safe to rest. Safe to reconnect, and most importantly, it is safe to enjoy. It is safe to celebrate, to laugh, to deeply embody all the bliss that Mother Nature gave us, all the gifts that she showered us with. Because healing isn't about fixing a broken system. It's about returning to the part of you that has been quietly watching, gently waiting, patiently holding the door open.
I suffered from chronic health issues my entire adult life. At one point, doctors told me that I will most likely be on disability, uh, and unable to walk in a few years, and that would've been probably a few years ago. And at that time, I believed that healing was about fixing what was wrong. That if I tried hard enough, detoxed enough, meditated enough, uh, followed enough wellness protocols, or um, took enough supplements or did all the things that everybody in medical and wellness space was were telling me to do, then I'd finally be okay. I would be fixed. But I just kept getting sicker and sicker and sicker.
And at one point I was in so much pain. I was ready to quit, but instead I packed my family up and we went traveling. We went traveling for over two years, almost two and a half years. We sold all our stuff, all our things, our home, our cars, we donated all our possessions and we were nomads for over two years, and you would never guess what happened. I got better and it was kinda weird because, it's not that I just felt relief, but that I didn't take a single supplement. I didn't stick to any strict protocols or an elimination diet or follow anyone's healing checklist, or I simply began living in a way that felt fun and easy.
I slowed down. I watched sunsets, I walked on beaches and through forests with my kids. I enjoyed, I. I did nothing but admired the world around me. I've looked at the sights and I delighted in new experiences and smells and tastes, and I felt so much peace. And somewhere between all the oceans and forests and quiet afternoons and laughs with my children and cuddles and my body began to relax. It started to trust life again. But of course, as soon as I got home, I got sick again, and it took a few months for the pain to return, the exhaustion, the inflammation, the familiar feel of being in a survival mode.
And that's when I knew there's something here, something that I need to pay attention to. I had to understand what happened, and most importantly, why. I started to dig deeper. I started to study not just healing, but the mechanics of it, the biology of stress, the language of the nervous system, the quiet intelligence of the body. I went back to school and got my master's degree in mind-body medicine. I studied psychology, neuroplasticity, trauma theory, uh, stress physiology, psychoneuroimmunology, and much, much, much more. But one of the most important things I discovered through my studies and outside of my studies is the importance of pleasure in healing.
Pleasure is often misconstrued. It's dismissed as indulgent, unproductive, even shameful, and so many times simply misunderstood. But in reality, when used correctly and mindfully, pleasure is medicine. Sacred, ancient, underutilized medicine, and for those of us who have lived in chronic stress, chronic pain, chronic illness, pleasure is often the missing ingredient in the healing process.
And yet at that time, no one talked about it. Pleasure wasn't part of any protocol. There was no prescription for joy, no one told me to savor or to soften or to reconnect with all the things that made me feel joyful and alive. But now the tide is finally turning and incredible amount of scientific research is coming out, validating what so many of us already feel deep in our bones that how we feel emotionally, centrally, relationally is not separate from how we heal. It is central. It's the main part. Research and savoring and awe and connection to nature and community and joyful movement show that the simple act of creating, immersing and extending a positive experience, letting it linger and letting it land truly land can rewire the brain, like truly make brain change, which leads to long list of physiological changes, reduces inflammation, activates parasympathetic nervous system, increases vagal tone, reduces cortisol, boost immunity, supports digestion, balances hormones, improves sleep, many, many, many things, but most importantly, it makes body feel safe again. And all of this is part of what I now see as a new healing paradigm, one that values softness. One that doesn't treat pleasure as a side dish, but as a path. Because healing isn't about controlling more, biohacking your way to perfection or doing more stuff that you don't wanna do. And it's not about the cold plunges or eating things you don't wanna eat.
It's about returning. To what makes you feel human, alive, and safe inside your own body. And that's what this podcast is here to explore. Healing isn't about doing more. It's about doing differently, and often it's about doing less on purpose.
What I want to offer here is not another plan for fixing yourself. What I want to offer is the return.
Return to something radiant, something ancient. A return to joy, not as an indulgence, but as medicine. A return to the body, not as a project to perfect, but as a living sacred animal that knows how to heal. In each episode, we'll explore healing through the lens of neuroscience, somatic wisdom, and soul.
We'll talk about trauma, stress, chronic illness, and the nervous system, but also about pleasure and awe and creativity and mystical experiences, and the deep intelligence of the body. We'll unlearn what the world and the wellness bros told you healing had to look like and slowly, lovingly rewrite the story.
Practice
Before we go, I want to offer you a simple practice. Right now, whatever you are, just pause, take a deep breath in through your nose and a long, slow exhale out through your mouth.
And again, inhale and slow exhale out through your mouth.
And again, and as you exhale, let your shoulders drop. Let your belly soften. Let your jaw unclench. And look around. Is there one thing in your space? Just one. Just one. No matter how small, no matter how insignificant that brings you, even the smallest sense of beauty, of peace, of joy.
Let your eyes rest on that thing. Let yourself savor it. Truly enjoy it. If it's something that feels good on your skin, hopefully you can touch it. If it's something that looks good, maybe you can look at it. If it's something that smells good, maybe smell it. But truly enjoy it.
This is what healing can begin to feel like. Not always dramatic, not always loud, but slow and kind and sweet.
Thank you for being here. Thank you for choosing to listen to something that isn't telling you to hustle or fix or grind, but to come home to yourself, to your breath.
If this spoke to you, I'd love for you to subscribe, leave a review, or share it with someone whose heart needs this too. Until then, breathe, savor, and remember, your healing is not a luxury.
It's a birthright, and it's already began.
