Transform your Mind
Transform Your Mind is a health and longevity podcast at the intersection of mental health, trauma recovery, and physical vitality. We explore how your thoughts, emotions, and nervous system shape your biology, aging process, and long-term wellness—because true longevity begins in the mind and lives in the body.
Through expert interviews and solo episodes, we dive into nervous system regulation, emotional healing, epigenetics, addiction recovery, and performance optimization to help you live longer, stronger, and more fully alive.
Hosted by Myrna Young, trauma recovery expert, the show features functional medicine doctors, researchers, and wellness experts sharing insights on longevity science, nervous system regulation, metabolic health, emotional healing, and regenerative approaches to aging well.
If you’re seeking practical strategies for living longer, improving vitality, and optimizing mind-body health, Transform Your Mind delivers conversations that help you transform both your mind and biology, relationships and your mental health.
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Transform your Mind
The Secret to Lasting Change: Regulating Your Nervous System
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In this enlightening solo episode of Coach Myrna Young takes listeners on a journey to understand the complex interplay between our nervous system and past experiences. She dives deep into how our nervous system learns to survive by recording stories based on past traumas and experiences, often replaying them in ways that sabotage our adult relationships and success. This episode is a profound exploration of how one's childhood experiences can influence adult behaviors, often beyond conscious awareness.
Myrna explains that the stories our nervous systems have recorded are not indicative of personal failings but are adaptive measures designed to keep us safe. These stories can lead to self-sabotage in areas like love, success, peace, and personal fulfillment. By becoming aware of these patterns and engaging in practices like breathwork, somatic healing, and nervous system regulation, listeners can begin to rewrite these narratives and foster an internal environment that promotes safety and growth. Myrna emphasizes the importance of understanding and compassionately addressing these survival patterns to transition from merely surviving to truly thriving.
Key Takeaways:
- Childhood experiences significantly influence adult behaviors due to the stories our nervous system adopts for survival.
- Rewriting these narratives requires awareness and deliberate practices like breathwork and somatic healing to regulate the nervous system.
- Our survival responses, although brilliant for past challenges, can hinder current success and relationships if not addressed.
- Reprogramming the nervous system involves teaching it that it's safe to thrive, transitioning from survival mode to a living mode.
- Taking small, consistent steps toward creating a feeling of safety can gradually update and transform these ingrained stories.
Timestamp Summary
0:02 Rewriting Your Nervous System's Survival Stories for Freedom
4:43 Overcoming Childhood Trauma Through Confrontation and Communication
7:10 Healing Trauma Through Somatic Practices and Nervous System Regulation
10:11 Strategies for People Pleasers to Politely Decline Requests
10:42 Rewiring Your Nervous System for Safety and Healing
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