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Weekly-ish missives from Heidi Fischbach, a nervous system coach who believes in science, takes most things with a grain of salt (probably Maldon, preferably smoked), and practices joy as resistance.
Something a bit different in your inbox today. I was recently a guest on Phoenix Lessons, a podcast hosted by Amanda Stubbert and Cami Ostman about what it takes to rebuild a life after everything burns down. My episode is called Beyond Belief: Getting Religion Out of My Body, and it’s 51 minutes of conversation I didn’t expect to go quite as deep as it did. (But hey, I’m always here for that!) Near the end, Amanda and Cami asked me a question I still can’t get out of my head. I won’t spoil...
In 2025, I could feel my anxiety increasing. And like that proverbial frog in a pot of water getting hotter, as the year went on it became harder to quit patterns that were actively making things worse. On one hand, I could say my anxiety was about everything happening here in the US, and that would be true. But on the other, it was about how much I was consuming—information, news, stuff—all of which had in common one thing: scrolling on my phone. Basically, I was at the mercy of an algorithm...
I follow Aaron Parnas on Substack, a young independent journalist who's constantly reporting breaking news—usually bad. Except on Sundays when he posts "Good News Only." In my nervous system program, we do something similar. Only we don't limit it to Sundays. Glimmers and Celebrations is how we begin pretty much every meeting or session—private 1:1 coaching, groups, Wednesday Listening and Co-Regulation Labs, Nervous System Playgrounds, masterclasses… This isn't about pretending hard things...