What if healing isn’t something you can think your way through, but something your body has to experience? In this episode of the AWAKEN series, Jeanne explores E for Embodied Healing and why insight and self-awareness, while essential, are not enough to create lasting transformation. We can understand our patterns, know exactly what we “should” be doing, and still find ourselves repeating the same behaviours. That’s because the gap between knowing and doing doesn’t just live in the intellect; it lives in the nervous system.

Jeanne explores the connection between physiology and psychology, including how the body can hold onto patterns of stress, threat, and past experiences long after the conscious mind understands what happened. She also looks at the heart-brain connection, the vagus nerve, nervous system regulation, and why learning to listen to the body can help expand our capacity for emotional regulation, connection, and recovery.

Through simple embodiment practices—including breathwork, humming, movement, grounding, and nervous system awareness—Jeanne shares how we can begin shifting from survival and constriction toward greater safety and regulation. Healing becomes less about collecting more information and more about creating a daily practice of noticing, feeling, and responding to what is alive within us.

Key Moments:

[00:00:06] Revisiting the AWAKEN framework and introducing E for Embodied Healing

[00:01:49] Why insight isn’t enough: understanding how our experiences live in the body

[00:03:22] The knowing-doing gap and why the nervous system doesn’t respond to logic alone

[00:04:51] Why we can’t outrun ourselves and why understanding a pattern doesn’t always change it

[00:06:33] The heart-brain connection, the vagus nerve, and bottom-up communication

[00:08:16] Somatic healing, nervous system regulation, and creating greater capacity for recovery

[00:09:45] Practical embodiment tools: breathwork, humming, singing, movement, shaking, and grounding

[00:11:34] A simple breathing practice and why extending the exhale can support regulation

[00:13:13] How old identities live in the body and using “floor practices” to support change

[00:14:40] Making embodiment part of your daily emotional and spiritual hygiene

[00:16:10] Becoming your future self through the practices you embody today

Resources discussed in this episode:

• Somatic Experiencing
• Safe and Sound Protocol
• Breathwork and vagal toning practices
• Naturally High Exercises
  
  

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In this episode of Naturally High, Jeanne explores something many of us struggle with: why we can know exactly what we need to do and still have such a hard time doing it. We can read the books, listen to the podcasts, understand our triggers, and recognize our patterns, but insight alone doesn’t create transformation. Real change happens when we begin taking what we know and putting it into practice, especially in the moments when falling back into what’s familiar feels so much easier.

Jeanne unpacks why our brains and bodies naturally return to old patterns when we’re stressed, lonely, uncomfortable, or emotionally activated. Every time we choose a different response—taking the walk, holding the boundary, sitting with an uncomfortable feeling, or navigating an experience sober—we begin creating new evidence that another way is possible. These small, repeated choices help us build self-trust, strengthen our resilience, and create new pathways for how we respond to life.

This episode is an invitation to get curious about one simple question: What do I already know that I’m not yet practicing? Jeanne explores how consistent daily practices help us build health and recovery capital, giving us greater reserves when life inevitably gets difficult. Lasting transformation isn’t about changing everything overnight or doing it perfectly. It’s about creating a small bridge between insight and action—learning, practicing, reflecting, and repeating—one intentional choice at a time.

Key Moments

• [00:00] The Knowing-Doing Gap: Why We Get Stuck
• [03:27] Why Knowledge Alone Doesn’t Create Change
• [05:17] Creating New Experiences & Rewiring Old Patterns
• [06:46] Short-Term Discomfort for Long-Term Gain
• [08:15] The Habits We Create Today Shape Our Future
• [09:34] Building Health & Recovery Capital
• [12:36] Moving Through Discomfort Instead of Numbing It
• [14:08] Self-Inquiry & Becoming Your Own Healer
• [17:17] Learn, Practice, Reflect, Repeat
• [20:25] A Practical Self-Inquiry Process for Triggers
• [23:30] Emotional Sobriety & Becoming Your Own Science Experiment
• [25:11] Turning One Insight Into One Action

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In this episode of Naturally High, Jeanne continues the AWAKEN Series by exploring the second A in her proprietary methodology: Affirming. More than positive thinking or repeating affirmations, true affirmation is about emotionally validating your lived experience, so your nervous system can finally stop bracing for the next impact and begin to heal.

Many of us grew up emotionally unseen, dismissed, minimized, or shamed. Over time, this lack of validation can quietly shape our lives, contributing to perfectionism, people-pleasing, addiction, emotional numbness, and the belief that there is something inherently wrong with us. Jeanne explains why one of the most powerful shifts we can make is moving from asking, "What's wrong with me?" to "What happened to me?"

Drawing from trauma-informed, attachment-based, and somatic perspectives, Jeanne explores why healing requires more than understanding our past intellectually. Lasting transformation happens when we create enough safety to reconnect with the parts of ourselves that developed to protect us. As our nervous system begins to trust that healing is possible, shame loosens, self-compassion grows, and our authentic self has room to emerge.

This conversation is an invitation to stop abandoning yourself, honour your lived experience, and begin affirming your own healing from the inside out.

Resources discussed in this episode:

• Nonviolent Communication – Marshall B. Rosenberg
• Internal Family Systems (IFS) – Dr. Richard Schwartz
• Naturally High Exercises
  
  

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When addiction enters a family, it rarely affects just one person. Yet far too often, recovery focuses exclusively on the individual while the entire family system continues to carry the weight of shame, secrecy, anxiety, and generations of unspoken patterns. In this powerful episode of Naturally High, Jeanne Foot sits down with clinician, author, and family recovery expert Jeff Jones, founder of Rethinking Addiction: The Family Recovery Solution, to explore why lasting recovery begins by healing the entire family, not just the person struggling with addiction.

Together, Jeanne and Jeff unpack the hidden dynamics that quietly shape addiction, including intergenerational trauma, family roles, nervous system dysregulation, enabling, and the stories that are passed down through generations. They discuss why families often become trapped in cycles of blame, fear, and black-and-white thinking, and how shifting from reacting to responding creates space for healing.

Through practical wisdom and decades of clinical experience, they explore the importance of boundaries, compassion, emotional regulation, coaching, therapy, and building recovery capital within the family system. This conversation is a compassionate invitation for parents, partners, siblings, clinicians, and anyone affected by addiction to stop asking, "How do I fix my loved one?" and instead ask, "How can our family heal together?" Because when families learn healthier patterns, recovery becomes stronger, relationships become safer, and hope becomes possible.

About Jeff Jones

Jeff Jones is a family recovery coach, author, and founder of Rethinking Addiction: The Family Recovery Solution. With decades of experience as a therapist and coach, Jeff specializes in helping families heal from the impact of addiction by addressing trauma, family systems, and nervous system regulation. His innovative, family-first approach empowers loved ones to become active participants in the recovery process, creating healthier relationships and lasting change, whether someone is in active addiction, treatment, or long-term recovery.

Resources discussed in this episode:

• Rethinking Addiction: The Family Recovery Solution – Jeff Jones
• Brené Brown – The Gifts of Imperfection and her work on boundaries
• Naturally High Exercises
• eatingproteinsaveslives.org
• The Academy for Addiction and Mental Health Nutrition

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• YouTube: The Family Recovery Solution
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In this energizing episode of Naturally High, Jeanne welcomes addiction medicine specialist Dr. Casey Grover for an inspiring conversation about one of addiction recovery's most underutilized tools: exercise.

Drawing on his years of experience in emergency medicine and addiction treatment, Dr. Grover explains why movement is about far more than physical fitness—it is powerful medicine for the recovering brain. Together, Jeanne and Dr. Grover explore how dopamine, movement, and meaningful social connection help restore the brain's natural reward system during addiction recovery, supporting long-term sobriety, resilience, and healing.

From CrossFit communities to walking the dog, they remind us that recovery isn't about finding the "perfect" workout—it's about discovering movement that brings joy, fosters connection, and supports sustainable healing.

Jeanne and Dr. Grover also discuss identity, belonging, post-acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS), and why community-based fitness can become a powerful catalyst for long-term recovery. Whether it's joining a recovery-focused fitness group or simply taking a daily walk, every step can help strengthen both physical and emotional well-being.

Whether you're newly sober, supporting a loved one, or looking for evidence-based strategies to improve your mental well-being, this episode offers practical insights into how exercise, community, and movement can strengthen addiction recovery, promote brain healing, and help you feel naturally high.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• 02:10 – Why exercise naturally restores dopamine and helps heal the brain during addiction recovery.
• 02:10 – How addiction disrupts the brain's reward system—and how movement helps repair it.
• 04:50 – Why positive social connection amplifies the benefits of exercise and boosts the brain's natural dopamine response.
• 06:56 – The role of belonging, community, and "finding your tribe" in building sustainable recovery.
• 09:48 – Why CrossFit is one example of recovery-friendly fitness—and why the best exercise is the one that works for you.
• 11:52 – How to choose movement you genuinely enjoy instead of forcing yourself into exercise.
• 11:52 – Why even 15 minutes of movement can improve your mood, build confidence, and support lasting recovery.
• 13:10 – The relationship between movement, stress reduction, nervous system regulation, and getting out of your head.
• 14:46 – How movement and positive social connection can support healing during post-acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS).
• 27:20 – Why recovery is about creating a life filled with purpose, accountability, achievement, and natural rewards instead of substances.

About Dr. Casey Grover

Dr. Casey Grover is an emergency physician, addiction medicine specialist, and host of the Addiction Medicine Made Easy podcast. Working daily on the front lines of overdose, withdrawal, and addiction treatment, he is committed to modernizing addiction medicine through education, compassionate care, and reducing stigma for patients and families alike.

Resources discussed in this episode:

• Addiction Medicine Made Easy Podcast
• Central Coast Overdose Prevention
• First City Fitness (Monterey)
• Naturally High Exercises

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• addictionmedicinemadeeasy.com

What if the very thing you're resisting is actually the doorway to your next breakthrough? In this inspiring episode of Naturally High, Jeanne welcomes Sylvia Holtslag, founder of the State Shift Institute and creator of the State Shift Method—a practical coaching framework designed to help people move beyond insight and into meaningful action.

Drawing inspiration from Phil Stutz and Barry Michels' The Tools, Jungian shadow work, Michael Singer's teachings on surrender, and Heroic principles of discipline and accountability, Sylvia shares how she transformed what looked like "normal" habits, including grey-area drinking, smoking, shopping, scrolling, and constant distraction, into a life of purpose, freedom, and service.

Together, Jeanne and Sylvia explore why knowing what to do is rarely enough, how our inner saboteur keeps us stuck, and why real transformation begins when we're willing to lean into discomfort rather than avoid it. Sylvia also guides Jeanne through a live demonstration of the State Shift Method using her coaching cards, offering listeners a practical exercise they can immediately apply to their own lives. Whether you're recovering from addiction, perfectionism, procrastination, trauma, or simply feeling stuck, this conversation offers powerful tools for moving from resistance to resilience.

About Sylvia Holtslag

Sylvia Holtslag is the founder of the State Shift Institute in the Netherlands and creator of the State Shift Method. After discovering Phil Stutz's practical tools for transformation, Sylvia developed a coaching framework that combines The Tools, Jungian shadow work, Michael Singer's teachings on surrender, and Heroic principles into a simple, actionable daily practice.

Through one-on-one coaching, group programs, published books, training, and her State Shift card decks, Sylvia has helped more than 10,000 people overcome self-sabotage, build emotional resilience, and create meaningful, lasting change. She also hosts the Dutch podcast Onthecht ("Unhooked"), where she explores self-awareness, radical honesty, shadow work, and personal growth.

Resources discussed in this episode:

• The State Shift Method
• The State Shift Card Deck
• The Tools by Phil Stutz & Barry Michels
• Stutz (Netflix Documentary)
• Michael Singer
• Byron Katie
• Heroic by Brian Johnson

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What if the biggest thing standing between you and the life you want isn't your circumstances, but the story you've been telling yourself about your worth?

In this episode of Naturally High, Jeanne Foot continues exploring the AWAKEN Method, building on the foundation of awareness by diving into one of the most influential forces shaping our lives: worthiness. Jeanne explains how our earliest experiences and subconscious conditioning create the internal narratives that quietly determine our relationships, confidence, health, happiness, and ability to pursue our dreams.

Jeanne explores why so many of us unknowingly trade authenticity for acceptance, struggle to ask for what we truly want, and remain trapped in repetitive patterns driven by fear, self-criticism, and outdated beliefs. She explains why most of our daily thoughts are simply recycled from the day before, making conscious awareness the first step toward lasting transformation. Through thoughtful self-inquiry, listeners are invited to question the stories they've always believed and begin separating fact from the fiction of the inner critic.

Finally, Jeanne examines the connection between self-worth, addiction, perfectionism, control, and personal responsibility. She reminds us that no amount of external success can heal an internal wound, and that lasting freedom comes from awakening the inner healer, embracing radical responsibility, and recognizing that each of us has a unique spiritual curriculum designed for growth. This episode is a powerful invitation to reclaim your inherent worth, reconnect with your authentic self, and begin creating a life guided by purpose rather than fear.

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