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Can't stop overthinking, emotional eating, or numbing out? You're not broken—you're disconnected from your body. The Real Work helps women break chronic stress, anxiety, and burnout by addressing root causes, not symptoms. Host Maggie Sterling combines neuroscience and nervous system regulation to help you stop self-abandonment, build self-trust, and feel safe in your skin. No toxic positivity—just practical tools for rewiring your brain, regulating emotions, and coming home to yourself. Deep transformation for women ready to stop escaping and start living.
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- 6 days ago8 min
61 - I Wish I Knew This When My Symptoms Were At Their Worst
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If you're living with chronic pain, anxiety, insomnia, or a hypersensitive nervous system and you can't picture a future where you feel better, this video is for you. I share the realization that changed everything for me when I was at my worst, and the one thing I had to stop doing before anything could start to shift. My symptoms were horrific. Burning, stinging, insomnia, anxiety, OCD, anhedonia. I spent every day monitoring my body, trying to fix it, and grieving a future that hadn't even happened yet. If that sounds familiar, I want you to know your future may look very different from what you're imagining today.
- 1 weeks ago11 min
60 - Does Your Nervous System Need A Digital Detox?
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If your nervous system always feels on edge, your phone could be keeping it there. In this video I share my honest answer on whether you need a digital detox, especially if you deal with chronic anxiety, chronic pain, or insomnia. I also talk about why I've never been a fan of detoxes, how I tell the difference between using my phone for work and using it out of hypervigilance, and what finally worked for me after years of making content online.
- 2 weeks ago1h 10m
59 - How Brett Healed His Nervous System (DPDR, POTS, OCD, Anxiety)
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. In this anxiety recovery story, Brett shares how he went from being bedridden for months, believing he was dying every day, to working, working out, and taking care of his family again. Nervous system healing didn't look the way he expected, and he still has some symptoms today. Brett's symptoms started out of nowhere in May 2025. Over the next year he had panic attacks every day, made repeated trips to the ER, saw specialists, and paid for procedures hoping someone could fix him. In this conversation we talk about what got him to that point, the decisions that turned things around, and what his life looks like now.
- 2 weeks ago13 min
58 - 10 Tiny Habits To Heal a Hyper Sensitive Nervous System
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If you have a hypersensitive nervous system, it can feel like your body is on high alert all the time. In this video, I share 10 tiny habits that help calm a hypersensitive nervous system, and none of them add more to your to-do list. Most of these are so small you wouldn't connect them to your nervous system, and some are the opposite of what you've been doing every day. Let me know in the comments which ones you're already good at and which one you want to start with.
- Oct 1, 202625 min
57 - I'm Over The Self-Help Industry (what im doing instead)
14 day challenge (started 10/12/26): https://softregulationsystem.com/challenge Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If you've read all the self-help books and listened to all the podcasts and still feel stuck, this video is for you. Self-improvement burnout is real, and constantly consuming self-help content can turn into a compulsion that keeps you from actually living your life. In this video, I share my own story with self-help, the signs that it's become compulsive for you, and the part of healing most people neglect.
- Oct 1, 202619 min
56 - How To Heal Your Nervous System When Nothing Has Worked
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If you've tried everything to heal your nervous system and nothing has worked, this video is for you. I dealt with chronic anxiety for 20 years, along with insomnia and a whole range of chronic physical symptoms, and I tried everything to make it go away. In this video I explain why nothing has worked for you yet and what I did instead once I figured it out.
- Sep 17, 202620 min
55 - Why Your Nervous System Won't Let You Sleep
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If you have chronic insomnia, or you wake up at 3am and can't fall back asleep, there's a good chance your nervous system is sensitized and stuck on high alert. In my experience this is rarely a sleep problem. In this video I cover how your nervous system gets in the way of something your body already knows how to do on its own, what not to do when you're lying awake in the middle of the night, why I part ways with a lot of what CBT-I teaches, and how medication and medication withdrawal can factor into all of it. I also answer the four questions I get asked most about insomnia: How do I stop fearing not sleeping when the consequences are so real? Is this fear, or is it something physical? What if the thing keeping me up isn't fear? What if I recovered and I'm suddenly back to all nighters, am I at square one?
- Sep 8, 20266 min
54 - You've been making your anxiety worse without even knowing it
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If you've had anxiety for a while, there's a good chance you've been making it worse without knowing it. It happens automatically the second a symptom shows up, and it's the reason your nervous system keeps sounding the alarm no matter what you try. In this video I break down the most common way people respond to anxiety, what that response has actually been doing to your nervous system this whole time, and what to do instead. This applies whether your anxiety shows up as racing thoughts and rumination or as a racing heart and shortness of breath.
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Can't stop overthinking, emotional eating, or numbing out? You're not broken—you're disconnected from your body. The Real Work helps women break chronic stress, anxiety, and burnout by addressing root causes, not symptoms. Host Maggie Sterling combines neuroscience and nervous system regulation to help you stop self-abandonment, build self-trust, and feel safe in your skin. No toxic positivity—just practical tools for rewiring your brain, regulating emotions, and coming home to yourself. Deep transformation for women ready to stop escaping and start living.
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