38 - Your Smile Is Medicine: How Facial Expression Regulates Your Nervous System & Energy
Collective Guidance with Charla Goodnight
Release Date: 01/28/2026
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38 - Your Smile Is Medicine: How Facial Expression Regulates Your Nervous System & Energy
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Collective Guidance with Charla Goodnight
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info_outlineEpisode 38 – Your Smile Is Medicine: How Facial Expression Regulates Your Nervous System & Energy
In this episode, Charla Goodnight unpacks the deeper truth behind smiling—not as forced positivity, but as a powerful nervous system and energetic regulation tool.
Emotion is frequency, and your body is constantly broadcasting signals of safety or threat through posture, breath, facial expression, and tone. This conversation bridges science and soul, helping listeners understand how small shifts in the body—especially the face—can create real emotional and physiological change.
In this episode, you’ll explore:
- Why emotion is a frequency—and how it lives in the body
- How facial tension keeps the nervous system in vigilance
- The difference between forced positivity and embodied softening
- Why smiling can help with stress recovery, digestion, sleep, and resilience
- How one regulated nervous system can shift the energy of a room
- Why many of us aren’t “aging”—we’re holding tension as identity
Practical tools shared:
- A gentle smile practice for nervous system downshifting
- A 3-step process for softening without bypassing emotions
- A 60-second frequency reset you can use before conversations, meetings, or transitions
- Simple check-ins to release jaw, eye, and facial tension
This episode is especially supportive for women who’ve spent years in survival mode while still showing up for everyone else—and are ready to reclaim their energy without abandoning their truth.
✨ Your smile is not a requirement. Your regulated presence is a gift.
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