Regulate & Rewire: An Anxiety & Depression Podcast

This is part two of the Capacity Series, and it’s a guided walkthrough of the first two pages of Amanda’s free workbook, The Capacity + Support Audit. Amanda opens with a story from when her oldest was under a year old, a phone call to her husband where she realized she couldn’t tell which things on her plate were optional anymore, everything just felt like an obligation. Fro...

This episode kicks off a new 3-part series on capacity and support. Amanda unpacks why so many of us are chronically overfunctioning and under-supported, and why that imbalance, not just the stress itself, is often what drives anxiety and eventual burnout or depression. She shares a personal story about operating at ninety-five percent capacity as her default for over a decad...

Sparked by a real question from a member Q&A, this episode tackles something Amanda hears constantly: weight gain during a season of depression, and the shame that tends to follow it. She walks through why those behaviors, low energy, less movement, food as comfort, made complete sense given the context, and why "getting back to your old body" is the wrong goal to chase. ...

A client's offhand comment about crying through a sad movie sparked something Amanda hasn't been able to stop thinking about: the contained cry. In this episode, Amanda unpacks the real difference between containing an emotion and suppressing it, why giving a feeling boundaries can actually be one of the smartest moves your nervous system makes, and how the concept of titrati...