Episode 28: Embodied Deconditioning - Learning to work WITH the nervous system to make magic
Release Date: 03/18/2023
Episode 49: When Healing Means Letting Go: Gut Health, Nervous System Safety, and Reclaiming Your Power with Sarah Greenfield
The Imaginal Change Podcast
Sarah Greenfield—functional medicine practitioner, nervous system guide, and creator of the Gut Archetypes framework—joins me for a rich, deeply human conversation about what it really means to heal from the inside out. Sarah shares her evolution from a heavily lab-based, certainty-driven practice to one rooted in nervous system wisdom, emotional honesty, and returning power to the people she works with. We explore what happens when we stop treating the body as broken and start listening to it as the wisest guide we have. In this episode, we explore: Why your gut symptoms aren't a...
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Episode 48: Becoming the Message: How My TEDx Journey Asked Me to Live Into It — Over and Over Again
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I've pressed pause on our guest series this week for a solo episode — a behind-the-scenes look at my recent TEDx journey. The real one. Sweaty palms, nervous system stretches, and all. We're so used to seeing the polished final talk that we forget what it requires of a human being to actually get there. This is my way of pulling back the curtain on the messy, deeply human process of saying yes to a big calling. . . even when (especially when) it requires you to live beyond your comfort zone over and over again. From my first application years ago (when I was unconsciously chasing...
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Episode 47: The Men We Need Now: Grief, Community, and Full-Spectrum Emotion with Jonathan Greenfield
The Imaginal Change Podcast
Jonathan Greenfield (a.k.a. Jonathan Chase in the acting realm)—men's coach, grief guide, longtime actor, and devotee of "sacred play"—joins me for a raw, tender, and grounded conversation about men's work, heartbreak, and becoming more fully human in a culture obsessed with productivity and performance. We explore what it means for men to feel again—fully—and how grief, vulnerability, and community can alchemize old wounds into soft strength, relational integrity, and a more compassionate world. In this episode, we explore: What happens when a father dies, a marriage implodes, and...
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Episode 46: Social Justice, Youth Leadership and the Courage to Have Life-Changing Conversations with Imani Mitchell
The Imaginal Change Podcast
Imani Mitchell—educator, youth advocate, and imaginal change-maker at NCCJ (North Carolina for Community and Justice) of the Piedmont Triad—joins me for a tender, grounded, and quietly revolutionary conversation about what it means to grow humans who can move through the world with courage and compassion. This episode is especially personal for me. I went to Camp AnyTown over 30 years ago, and talking with Imani brought back just how formative that week was—and how much it matters that this work is still happening, still evolving, and still changing lives. We also pull Imani's human...
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Episode 45: Sacred Craft, Wild Nature, and the Body as an Oracle with Nina Everflow
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Nina Everflow—course whisperer, social activist, and self-described wild woman "still decolonizing her inner librarian"—joins me for a tender, honest, and deeply practical conversation about reclaiming our wild nature and learning to trust ourselves in a world shaped by colonialism, capitalism, and extraction. We explore what it really means to listen to the body, source power from within, and orient your life around the frequency you actually want to embody—not the one you were conditioned to perform. In this episode, we explore: Why rest, boundaries, and nervous system regulation are...
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Episode 44: Welcome to "The Imaginal Change Podcast": A podcast makeover!
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Welcome to The Imaginal Change Podcast: A podcast makeover! Welcome to the rebirth of this podcast. What was once Magical Humaning is now The Imaginal Change Podcast—a shift that reflects a deeper clarification of my purpose and service. In this episode, I share the journey that led here: from farm worker activist to therapist to coach to imaginal guide. It's a story of gathering tools and wisdom, and feeling the growing urgency to share them more widely as we reimagine our lives and our world. In this episode, we explore: What "imaginal change" means and why it matters The space between...
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Episode 43: Wintering and the Natural Process of Creative Surrender
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In this episode, I’m inviting you into the quiet, often uncomfortable space of wintering—the season where clarity doesn’t come from pushing forward, but from slowing down enough to listen. We explore why the New Year’s pressure to plan, produce, and “figure it all out” can actually pull us out of alignment, and how our nervous systems cling to certainty—even when what’s familiar is no longer working. I share personal reflections on choosing stillness, releasing over-availability, and allowing old identities and patterns to gently die so something truer can emerge. This...
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Episode 42: Relational Burnout: The Hidden Patterns Beneath Doing Too Much
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In this episode, I’m inviting you beneath the surface of burnout to explore what I call relational burnout—the deeper energetic and emotional patterns that quietly drain us long before we officially “hit the wall.” Together, we’ll trace burnout back to its true roots: the relationships that shape how we give, receive, and restore our energy. You’ll hear how this exploration unfolded for me while writing —and how it revealed not just my habits of overdoing, but the subtle ways I’d disconnected from myself in the name of being good, helpful, or strong. This conversation is an...
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Episode 41: Everyday Activism (Embodied Ripples of Revolution)
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When you think of activism, what comes to mind? Protests? Petitions? Big, bold gestures of resistance? While those forms of activism are vital, there’s another revolution happening in quieter ways — in how we show up in our everyday lives. In this episode, we explore embodied activism — the idea that our healing, our relationships, and the way we move through the world can be one of the most powerful forms of collective change. Together, we’ll dive into: Why personal transformation isn’t selfish, but a ripple of impact that changes the collective. How the energy we carry in our...
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Episode 40: Catching up: Life in Dog Years
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Sometimes life moves in dog years—fast, wild, and packed with initiations. After a two-year pause, Magical Humaning is returning with a tender, truthy, all-the-feels catch-up on what’s unfolded, what cracked open, and what’s being created now. This episode is an honest look at living the “both/and”: seasons that were devastating and liberating, griefy and grace-filled—where endings and beginnings braided together. I share how I navigated a stretch that felt like a life-quake (think: relationship transitions, a scary car accident, unexpected opportunities, and the ongoing practice...
info_outlineEpisode 28: Embodied Deconditioning - Learning to work WITH the nervous system to make magic
We live in a culture of mental focus, but SO much deconditioning work happens in the BODY, so this episode is all about exploring how to embrace the nervous system as a guide and partner in the process.
When we talk about partnering with the nervous system, we’re actually entraining our body to build capacity in some way. We build capacity for things that we decide matter - for our well-being, for our future, to move toward our greatest visions in life.
In this episode, I talk about. . .
*Expanding capacity for pleasure and ease
*Teaching the nervous system to be with “necessary discomfort”
*How to expand our ability to be in states of both stillness and “not knowing”
*And the tricky dance between protective independence and co-creative interdependence and connection
When we learn to partner with the body, to honor where it is and lovingly guide it toward when we want to go. . . aligned magic begins to unfold.
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