When stress and disruption pile up, burnout isn’t always a personal failure — it’s often a nervous system that’s been holding too much without support.

In this episode of Notes to My Nervous System, Erin Vandermore talks with Leigh Schultes, founder of Wilderness Muse in western North Carolina, about what regulation looks like after crisis. They explore how community, creativity, and clear boundaries can support nervous systems recovering from prolonged stress — especially for small business owners and caregivers.

This is a grounded conversation about pacing, trust, and learning to stop before the body forces it. No fixing. No performance. Just what actually helps people settle and keep going.

This conversation isn’t about heroics or resilience as performance.It’s about what actually helps a nervous system recover after disruption — community, creativity, boundaries, and knowing when to stop.

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Real conversations about your nervous system, mental health, and why you're not broken.

Join Erin, therapist and creator of Mind Circuit App, for honest, science-backed support designed specifically for women navigating stress, anxiety, and overwhelm. Each episode offers nervous system regulation techniques, therapy insights, and practical tools you can use immediately.

What you'll find here:

✨ Nervous system education for everyday life

✨ Women's mental health support without the shame

✨ Real therapy conversations that feel like talking to a friend

✨ Simple regulation exercises (bilateral tapping, breathwork, grounding)

✨ Support for moms, caregivers, and anyone feeling "too much"

Perfect for women who:

• Feel anxious, overwhelmed, or constantly on edge

• Want to understand their stress responses

• Need nervous system tools that actually work

• Are tired of being told to "just relax"

• Want therapy-informed support between sessions

Keywords: women's mental health, nervous system regulation, therapy podcast, anxiety support, stress relief for women, emotional regulation, trauma-informed, self-compassion, mental wellness, therapy tools, women's therapy, nervous system healing, mindfulness for anxiety, somatic therapy, burnout prevention

New episodes weekly. Find the Mind Circuit App on Apple Store & Google Play for guided nervous system resets anytime you need support.

This isn't therapy or a how-toshow—it's two real humans noticing what's showing up and trying to be kinder toourselves. If you're tired of perfectly staged mom content and want authenticconversation about women's health, mental health, and motherhood, this is yourspace. This conversation speaks to women navigating stress, advocacy for theirown health, and the invisible nervous-system load so many carry quietly.

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What if the very thing that makes you gifted is also what makes life feel overwhelming?

In this episode of Notes to My Nervous System, Erin Vandermore sits down with therapist Gordon Smith to explore what it means to live in a gifted nervous system — especially after burnout, crisis, or long-term emotional overwhelm.

Giftedness is often misunderstood as simply high intelligence. As Gordon explains, it is a neurodivergent nervous system that processes the world more intensely — emotionally, cognitively, and sensorially. For many gifted adults, this heightened sensitivity can make life feel louder, heavier, and harder to navigate, particularly in systems that weren’t built for how deeply they experience the world.

Together, Erin and Gordon explore:

• Why gifted people often feel “too much” or misunderstood

• How chronic overwhelm and self-doubt can develop over time

• Why traditional school and work environments often fail gifted nervous systems

• How creativity, imagination, and improv can support regulation and recovery

Gordon shares how storytelling and creative expression can help the nervous system feel safer, expand capacity, and rebuild meaning after stress or trauma — without forcing performance or perfection.

This episode is for anyone who has ever felt different, emotionally intense, overwhelmed by their own mind, or exhausted from trying to fit into systems that don’t quite fit them.

Notes to My Nervous System is hosted by Erin Vandermore, a therapist, mom, and creator of the Mind Circuit app. Erin helps people understand their nervous systems with compassion, science, and real-life tools that support emotional regulation, safety, and self-trust.

Mind Circuit is a mental wellness app designed to help you regulate stress and calm your nervous system using evidence-based practices.

Download Mind Circuit:

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Website: https://mindcircuit.app

Gordon Smith is a therapist who specializes in working with gifted adults and using improv and creative practices in healing. His work focuses on helping gifted individuals feel safe in their full expression and teaching the nervous system that it no longer needs to contract, perform, or mask to survive. Gordon creates critique-free environments where creativity becomes a pathway to regulation, meaning-making, and nervous-system healing.

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Two moms regulating in real time so you don't have to do it alone. Struggling with perimenopause symptoms? Can't sleep? Feeling the pressure of January expectations? You're not alone.

In this episode of Regulated-ish, two moms share their unfiltered experiences with:

✨ Perimenopause sleep problems and hormone solutions

✨ Managing January burnout and unrealistic resolutions✨ Women's health advocacy and asking for help

✨ Nervous system regulation for overwhelmed moms

✨ Finding intentional calm in parenting chaos

What You'll Learn:

• Real perimenopause solutions (including estrogen supplements that actually work)

• Why January pressure is unrealistic and how to reset expectations

• Practical nervous system regulation techniques for busy moms

• Permission to put yourself on the "middle burner" instead of the back burner

This isn't therapy or a how-to show—it's two real humans noticing what's showing up and trying to be kinder to ourselves. If you're tired of perfectly staged mom content and want authentic conversation about women's health, mental health, and motherhood, this is your space. This conversation speaks to women navigating stress, advocacy for their own health, and the invisible nervous-system load so many carry quietly.

🌐 Website: mindcircuit.org📸 Instagram: @mindcircuitapp👤 Facebook: @mindcircuitapp

Support the Show:If this episode helped you understand your wiring a little better, please follow the show and leave a 5-star review. It helps us reach more people looking for their own "Aha!" moments.

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Join the Regulated-ish Facebook group — real conversations, no fixing.

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Are you tired of feeling "too much" or blaming yourself for relationship patterns? In this powerful episode, we challenge the idea that codependency and boundary struggles are character flaws. Join Dr. Jennifer Dragonette, a psychologist specializing in relationships and the nervous system, for a conversation that reframes your deepest struggles as adaptive, protective responses.

You'll discover:

• Codependency as Protection: It often stems from an early-life belief that safety requires "make sureing"—controlling outcomes to prevent rupture. We explore how this unintentional control can undermine the other partner's competence, rupturing secure attachment.

• Boundaries as Regulation: Why setting boundaries feels so difficult. It's not a lack of willpower, but a sign your nervous system associates the boundary with risk. You'll learn how awareness of a "flooded" state is the key to pausing and setting a boundary as a "trust gesture."

• The Power of Asking: The essential shift from a guessing culture to an asking culture in relationships. Learning to ask brave questions instead of making assumptions is the foundation for building the two criteria for secure attachment: feeling known and feeling competent.

• Glimmers of Safety: How focusing on "glimmers"—moments when you feel safe and connected—helps your nervous system build internal evidence that the world is not "only danger."

If you want to move beyond shame and into safety, this episode is your gentle reframe.

⁠⁠👉 Mind Circuit⁠⁠is your pocket-sized support system for emotional balance and stress relief. With guided breathing, mood tracking, bilateral stimulation, and affirmations backed by neuroscience, it helps you calm your mind and reconnect with your body anytime you need it

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Ever feel like you’re stuck in a loop of "bad choices" in your love life? What if the problem isn’t your judgment, but your nervous system? This conversation speaks to women navigating stress, advocacy for their own health, and the invisible nervous-system load so many carry quietly.In this episode of Notes to My Nervous System, host Erin (therapist and creator of the Mind Circuit app) sits down with matchmaker and love coach Leah Mitchell, host of the Goddess of Love podcast. Together, they pull back the curtain on the biological blueprint of attraction.

• Dating in Survival Mode: How fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses dictate who you find "exciting" vs. "boring."

• The Chemistry of Cortisol: Why high-stress attraction is often mistaken for soulmate chemistry.

• The Science of Scent: How your nervous system state actually changes your pheromones and the subconscious signals you send to potential partners.

• Breaking the Cycle: How regulating your nervous system shifts your "attachment set point" to attract emotionally available partners.

• Trauma Patterns vs. Authentic Self: Learning to date from a place of safety rather than a place of lack.

If you’re tired of the same dating cycles and want to understand the science of healing and attraction, this conversation is for you. It’s time to stop blaming your heart and start healing your nerves.

• Leah Mitchell: Host of the Goddess of Love podcast.

Take the science of this episode into your daily life. Download the Mind Circuit app to start rewiring your patterns:

• Download on the App Store

• Get it on Google Play

Ever been told "it's all in your head" by a doctor?

Yeah, us too. In this episode, we're getting real about medical gaslighting, perimenopause symptoms that get dismissed, and why we're done apologizing for taking care of ourselves.

We talk about:

• Why doctors still don't take women's health seriously (and what to do about it)

• Perimenopause, hormones, and the tests that don't exist

• Teaching our ADHD kids to advocate for themselves in school

• Secret naps, productivity guilt, and why your worth isn't tied to your to-do list

• ADHD hacks that actually work (spoiler: keep your shoes on)

This is two moms, two cities, same frequency—navigating ADHD, burnout, and a healthcare system that wasn't built for us. No filter, no apologies.

Resources:

Mind Circuit App - tiny moments of calm when your nervous system needs support

Available in App Store & Google Play

Hosts: Erin Vandermore & Meghan Samaras

Part of: Notes to My Nervous System podcast

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