Heal Yourself Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Fear doesn’t always show up as panic. Sometimes it shows up as “I should,” a packed schedule, a need to control every outcome, or that looping thought that you’re one wrong move away from failing. This week we dive into what happens when fear gets in the driver’s seat of your life. We talk about the sneaky ways fear hides inside perfectionism, people pleasing, overthinking, and the constant chase for certainty. Then we get practical about a question we hear all the time: how...

Send us Fan Mail Your ego is not just arrogance or being self-absorbed. The way we see it, ego is the identity you’ve constructed out of what you have, what you do, how you look, what you’ve survived, and what other people say about you. And while it can protect you and push you to grow, it can also keep you stuck in control, comparison, and constant self-evaluation. So Denise and I slow it down and get practical about what ego is actually doing in your day-to-day life, and how it shows up in...

Send us Fan Mail The most tempting form of avoidance is the kind that looks like self-improvement. When you’re stressed, symptomatic, or stuck in old patterns, it feels responsible to search for the next root cause: another lab, another supplement, another therapy modality, another round of shadow work, another nervous system practice. But what if all that “digging” is keeping you in limbo because it gives you answers without asking you to change your life? We get real about the difference b...

Send us Fan Mail Your body isn’t “breaking” in midlife. It’s asking for a new strategy. In today's episode, Kira is joined by Kelly Lupshaw for a grounded conversation on how women can stop chasing symptoms and start rebuilding the systems that drive real energy, calm, and longevity. We dig into what “systems over symptoms” actually looks like in everyday life: why swapping a pharmaceutical for a natural supplement can still keep you stuck, and why ownership is the missing piece for so many ...

Send us Fan Mail Your attention is being trained every day, and it’s rarely training you toward peace. We’re talking about “living in the matrix” not as a movie concept, but as the real-life box of 3D distractions that hijack your nervous system: social media spirals, email stress, traffic rage, political outrage, and the endless feeling that something is always wrong. When we live there, we don’t just feel anxious, we lose touch with the bigger story of why we’re here and what our bodies are...