Why You Feel So Dysregulated (And How to Feel Grounded Again)

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of listening to the body for healing, featuring insights on trauma, nervous system regulation, and holistic care from guest Nicole Lange.

What if healing wasn't about doing more, but about listening more closely to what your body has been trying to say all along? In this episode, we sit down with Nicole Lange, founder of Life Healing Life, acupuncturist, and women's health practitioner, for a deeply grounding conversation about fertility, trauma, nervous system regulation, and what truly holistic care can look like. Nicole originally thought she'd become a geneticist, studying the smallest units of human life. But after surviving profound personal trauma, her path shifted toward Chinese medicine, where she found a more expansive understanding of healing — one that honors the connection between mind, body, grief, stress, identity, and the stories we carry. With more than 20 years of experience supporting women through infertility, pregnancy loss, IVF, perimenopause, and major life transitions, Nicole brings both science and soul to this conversation. She's also refreshingly honest about the kind of care women actually deserve: care that is personal, patient-centered, trauma-informed, and never one-size-fits-all. Together, we talk candidly about: How chronic stress, grief, and unresolved trauma can leave women…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jenn Cohen, Laura Demuth

Guest: Nicole Lange

Topics covered

• nervous system regulation
• holistic care
• trauma
• fertility
• acupuncture
• women's health

Keywords

• dysregulation
• healing
• Chinese medicine
• emotional health
• reproductive health
• chronic stress
• trauma-informed care

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Life Healing Life

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