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On paper? You’re crushing it.
But your body’s telling a different story: fatigue, anxiety, brain fog, and a burnout you just can’t seem to shake.
Welcome to Alive & Well—the podcast for high-achieving women ready to burnout-proof their lives by rewiring their nervous system for clarity, energy, productivity, and ease.
I’m your host, Michelle Grosser, Esq.—trial attorney turned nervous system strategist, wife, mom, and entrepreneur (x3).
After burning out hard trying to do it all, I discovered the missing piece: nervous system regulation.
Now I help ambitious, high-capacity women like you build a life that’s sustainable and successful—where your nervous system becomes your superpower, not your saboteur.
Around here, you’ll learn:
✔️ Burnout-proof systems for time management and productivity
✔️ Science-backed tools for nervous system and emotional regulation
✔️ Somatic practices that help you stay grounded & calm under pressure
✔️ Faith-rooted wisdom for leading from overflow—not overdrive
✔️ Boundaries that protect your purpose—not just your calendar
✔️ Sustainable strategies for stress management, presence, and work-life balance
It’s time to break the burnout cycle, reclaim your well-being, and lead with the kind of peace that doesn’t cost your ambition.
Hit follow and start your path to living Alive & Well. New episodes every Tuesday and Friday.
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(Free Somatic Workshop Jan. 8 & 9) - Experience the Shift >> REGISTER HERE <<) In this final episode of 2025, we’re talking about the soft work rituals that actually hold your life together — the small, nervous-system–aligned practices that protect your energy, clarity, and capacity when everything else gets busy. These aren’t luxuries. They aren’t “nice to have.” They’re foundational. In this episode, you’ll discover: ✔️ Why soft work rituals are the missing link for sustai...
Stress isn’t just something you think about. It’s something your body carries. Every interruption. Every transition. Every responsibility and unspoken emotional load. Your nervous system responds to all of it — and if stress never gets discharged, it doesn’t disappear. It settles. It accumulates. In this episode, we’re talking about why releasing stress from the body is non-negotiable — and how to do it in ways that are fast, practical, and deeply regulating. You’ll learn: ✔️ Why unreso...
“Why can’t I just feel happier… when my life is actually good?” If you’ve asked yourself some version of this question - it isn’t a gratitude problem, it’s not a mindset failure, and it’s not that you’re “bad at joy.” It's what's happening in your physiology. Chronically elevated cortisol can quietly shift your nervous system into survival mode — and when that happens, joy becomes neurologically inaccessible, even when good things are happening. In this episode, we unpack: ✔️ The ...
If you’ve ever been told you or your child has anxiety, ADHD, or both—but it never fully explained what was actually happening—this conversation will feel like a breath of fresh air. In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Giancarlo Licata, director of Vital Brain Health, to unpack what’s really going on in the brain beneath these labels—and why understanding how the brain is firing matters more than the diagnosis itself. We talk about anxiety, attention, and regulation through a neuroscience lens...
If I were starting my career over today — with everything I now know about ambition, the nervous system, and sustainable success — I would do it very differently. Not because I regret being driven or capable. But because I misunderstood what actually creates long-term performance, clarity, and well-being. In this episode, I’m sharing the five shifts I wish I had made earlier in my career — back when I was running a law practice, raising babies, and equating success with doing more, faster, an...
If you open your eyes and instantly feel mentally crowded, emotionally tense, or already behind, this 15-minute morning practice is going to change everything about how your day begins. In today’s episode, I’m sharing the exact 15-minute sequence I use on mornings when I wake up anxious, wired, or overwhelmed — and the neuroscience behind why it works. Morning anxiety isn’t a mindset issue. It’s a physiological pattern driven by cortisol rhythms, overstimulation, and a nervous sys...
You’re not overwhelmed because you’re doing too much — you’re overwhelmed because you’re committing to things that aren’t truly aligned. The 90% Rule is a deceptively simple framework that will help you stop overthinking, stop people-pleasing, and stop tolerating the 60–70% decisions that drain your bandwidth. When you learn to choose only what is deeply aligned — and release the rest — your entire life gets quieter, clearer, and more intentional. In this episode, I break down the neuro...
You know that moment where your kid says or does something, your nervous system spikes, and every parenting thing you’ve ever learned disappears from your brain… Today we’re talking about the huge gap between what we know about calm parenting and what actually comes out when we’re tired, stressed, and triggered. I’m joined by Dr. Alissa Jerud—clinical psychologist, DBT expert, and author of Emotion-Savvy Parenting. Dr. Jerud blends gold-standard, evidence-based tools with respectf...
What if the real reason you’re exhausted isn’t your schedule… but the boundaries you don’t even realize you’re breaking? If you’ve been feeling overstimulated, stretched thin, reactive, or like you’re carrying more than your share (mentally, emotionally, logistically)… this episode is the missing piece. Because high-capacity women don’t burn out from weakness. They burn out from misaligned boundaries — the subtle, invisible ones you don’t see until your energy is already leaking everywhere. A...
What if the most powerful version of you isn’t the one who does more — but the one who gets crystal clear on what truly matters… and stops leaking energy on everything that doesn’t? Today’s episode is a grounded, science-backed reframe of overwhelm — not as a time problem, but as a capacity problem. When you understand what’s actually happening inside your nervous system, everything shifts: your clarity, your presence, your patience, your ability to breathe again. Inside, we’ll cover: ✔...
There are three things silently draining your energy this week — and they have nothing to do with your schedule. They’re happening inside your nervous system. And once you learn to spot them, you can interrupt them in seconds. Holiday overwhelm isn’t random. It’s patterned. In today’s episode, we’re breaking down the exact mechanisms behind each pattern, why they intensify during the holidays, and how to use simple, science-backed somatic interrupters to reclaim your capacity in real time. ✨ ...
Ever notice how you can know what you need… yet still feel unable to follow through? That gap — between what you know and what you do — is almost never a mindset problem. It’s a nervous system pattern. And as we head into the holidays — a time that amplifies emotional labor, invisible load, family dynamics, and patterned responsibility — your body’s old beliefs tend to get louder, not quieter. Today’s episode uncovers five core beliefs that keep high-achieving women stuck, not because you’r...
Most high-achieving women don’t burn out because they’re incapable… they burn out because they’ve been conditioned to ignore their human capacity. Today’s episode is a look at what happens when you live beyond your limits for too long — the subtle, everyday ways your nervous system tries to warn you, and the clarity that emerges when you finally start honoring the margins built into your design. Inside this conversation, we explore: ✔️ The neuroscience of capacity — how allostatic...
If you’ve been feeling stretched thin, constantly “on,” or quietly resentful even while doing everything “right”… this episode is going to land. Because here’s the truth most high-capacity women were never taught: You can’t honor your energy without boundaries — and every time you override your limits, your nervous system pays the price. We’re dismantling the modern myth that energy is a mindset problem… and revealing the real reason you feel depleted, overwhelmed, or numb: nervous-system-bas...
What if the thing you’re missing isn’t more discipline — it’s more play? Not structured play. Not “fun time” on your calendar. Not something productive or Pinterest-worthy. Real play. Pointless, joyful, silly, inefficient play. In this episode, we unpack: ✔️ Why a lack of play quietly fuels anxiety, irritability, and burnout ✔️ The neuroscience of how play expands creativity, resilience, and emotional regulation ✔️ How play restores executive function — the part of your brain responsible for ...
If motherhood ever cracked you open in ways you didn’t expect—old grief surfacing, worthiness wobbling, “Who even am I now?”—this conversation will feel like oxygen. I’m joined by Anna Seewald—Armenian-born educator, psychologist, and parenting & co-parenting specialist. After surviving the 1988 Spitak earthquake at 13 (losing her mother, home, friends, and community), Anna built a life and practice in the U.S. For the last 17 years she’s worked with parents in New Jersey as a...
The next cohort of Burnout Recovery Blueprint opens January 2026. Join the waitlist HERE for early access, exclusive bonuses, and Black Friday savings. __ You’ve mastered your calendar. You’ve optimized your mornings. You’ve checked every box. So why do you still feel anxious, rushed, and never quite caught up? In this episode, we’re pulling back the curtain on one of the biggest modern myths — the illusion that productivity leads to peace. Because what if all your effort to “manage time” has...
Have you ever noticed that the things quietly wearing you down aren’t the big crises—but the tiny, constant ones? The ones that slip through your calendar, your habits, your pace? In this episode, we’re unpacking seven small but powerful habits that keep your nervous system stuck in quiet survival mode—and what to do instead. Because it’s not always the obvious stressors that lead to burnout; it’s the micro-stressors you’ve normalized. You’ll learn: ✔️ How habits like overthinking, rush...
Do you ever feel like you’re holding it all together on the outside—but underneath, you’re simmering? You’re not losing your mind. You’re likely holding unprocessed anger. In this episode, we’re diving into one of the most misunderstood emotions—especially for women: anger. For years, I didn’t even realize I was angry. I told myself I was “fine,” “chill,” “rational.” But under all that composure was a nervous system running on tension and suppressed emotion. And here’s the truth: when a...
If you’ve ever wondered why you over-give to keep the peace, shut down to stay “strong,” or feel that push-pull of wanting closeness but fearing it—your attachment style is likely running the show behind the scenes. In this episode, I’m joined by Jessica Baum, therapist and author of Anxiously Attached and Safe. We break down attachment theory in real, everyday terms—how early experiences shape the way you love, what “secure” actually feels like in your body, and how to move from surviv...
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