What if your performance wasn’t just about your mindset, but your mitochondria? What if quality of life came down to what’s in— and around—your nervous system? In this episode, Ruth Pearce and Shannon Eastman sit down to explore the lived experience of Nervous System Intelligence through the lens of environment—both visible and invisible. From the fluorescent lights we ignore to the subtle electromagnetic fields that shape our biology, this conversation opens up a rarely-discussed dimension of p...
Jun 17, 2025•37 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Episode 10 will go down as one of my all time favourites. I appreciated the wisdom, insight and opportunity to learn from a business mind who prioritises consciousness as a tool to grow your business into the ultimate exit. There was no effort required in making the invisibile, visible in ways that land, and shift, and compel a new way of seeing. We covered a lot of ground and each had their own pause for relfection - from what is consciousness, focus, perception, their application in business, ...
Jun 10, 2025•57 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Italian sports car. Corner office. Member of the judiciary, Solictor - On paper, Claire Payne had it all - and - Friday evening, 9pm in her office, with her little one at home, she has a moment. In this candid and revealing episode, Claire shares the moment when she realised she was living entirely as a head on a stick with no awareness of a body until it felt like it was failing her. The resignation went in on Monday only for an adventure to take shape in the months after. Today, Claire leads a...
Jun 09, 2025•40 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Dr. Joshua Rosenthal joins me for a game-changing conversation on EMFs, coherence, and the invisible field your nervous system is trying to regulate within—whether you're aware of it or not. Most orf us would be forgiven for feeling tired, foggy, or fried. As a society, life is different than generations before - and - we can do some easy things to shift this a lot. I invited Dr. Rosenthal to help explain the invisible reasons as to why we're more fried, and why no amount of green smoothies or p...
May 22, 2025•56 min•Season 4Ep. 8
This is episode 7, Inspired by some great comments on a linkedin post I made earlier, over here. I got inspired to riff off the comments and speak to something in a bit more depth and specificity as we all get our heads around this nervous system stuff. When we do, this gets to become leverage creating major shifts in the quality of our life - around that entire wheel (as in the wheel of life). ______________________________________________________________________ Shannon Eastman Shannon Eastman...
May 03, 2025•34 min•Season 4Ep. 7
I hit record 3x as I got all choked up at seeing the truth of this headline. The End of Survival Mode is attainable, accessible and I'm committed to sharing what I can with you to get your level of understanding on this high enough that you can see it too. In this episode I start to talk inside the distinction of You, and Your Nervous System. A favourite quote I like to pull out now is that this is not about you. This is about your nervous system. It wants (needs) micro, slow, gentle done a few ...
Apr 30, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Dr. Abrar Hussain is back to help us stand on some foundational concepts as it relates to all things #NervousSystemIntelligence. We cover the 3 nervous system states, why they matter, what creates them and how to navigate each one .I find myself asserting that our nervous system is 80% of the solution. That being stuck in a spin cycle of anxiety, tension, over analysis, scarcity and unhelpful behaviours is repairable. In my experience, long term, sustainable repair is found by working with, and ...
Apr 10, 2025•39 min•Season 4Ep. 5
This episode examines something that happened to me (Shannon Eastman) earlier today. I bombed my podcast and inside that experience I got to see something that feels helpful to share with you. I mention my daily practice in this episode. You'll find that here > When someone taps into an old, unresolved emotional wound — especially one rooted in childhood dysregulation — the nervous system doesn’t recognize it as the past. It often responds as though the threat is happening now. Here’s what ty...
Apr 08, 2025•21 min•Season 4Ep. 4
I would use words like alignment, allowing, and endless access to everything to describe life with a regulated nervous system. It's being able to meet and greet conflict with compassion and self awareness, not the absence of conflict. It's being met with direct confrontation and feeling neutral in your body. The need to defend, retaliate, or set the record straight becomes less important than having compassion for miscommunication, blindspots and stepping on toes that you didn't mean to step on....
Apr 07, 2025•30 min•Season 4Ep. 3
I'm taking an episode (or two) to get real about what life is life 5 years into my own recovery from C-PTSD using nervous system regulation. Kind of like a before and after as I reflect on 10 of the more obvious (for me) insights and distinctions. 1. Survival Mode Can Look Like Success You can be sharp, fast, productive — and still be running entirely on stress hormones. Just because it’s working doesn’t mean it’s well. 2. You’re Not Broken — Your Nervous System is Braced The exhaustion, disconn...
Apr 07, 2025•41 min
We're back with Dr. Abrar Hussain to kick off Series 4, Episode 1 as we bring another lens on all things " 40+ professional, highly functioning, not-always-ok " with an emphasis on all things relational. Here's a brief summary of what Dr. Hussain covers in this podcast: We Exist Within Systems — Not in Isolation We are not isolated beings; we exist within a complex web of systems. Internally, we have biological systems like the nervous system. Externally, we are embedded in relational systems — ...
Apr 07, 2025•30 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Roseanne Reilly joins me ( Shannon Eastman ) for episode 5 of our 6 part series - A #NervousSystemInformed approach to finding your way out of the dark. We do a brief recap on the #NervousSystemContinuum and its 4 states: Survival Mode, Dysregulation, Self-Regulation and Co-Regulation. We revisit how each state determines your inner world... we used me as an example so words like 'fear-soaked' insides, that impacts your outer world, which looked a lot like the need to 'defend', 'protect', 'ghost...
Feb 22, 2025•27 min•Season 3Ep. 15
We are in part 4 of a 6 part series as we unpack Roseanne's Nervous System Informed Approach to finding stable ground in ways that are long lasting. So ways that engage neuroplasticity, bioplasticity and easily accessible to you, when you know what's what. In this episode we do a quick recap on the 6 dynamic stages of the Nervous System Informed Approach, we revisit the Nervous System Continuum and its 4 key states: survival mode, dysregulation, self-regulation, and co-regulation. We recap the I...
Feb 05, 2025•37 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Part 3 of a 6 Part Series, Roseanne Reilly sharing her Nervous System Informed Framework To Finding Your Way Out Of The Dark. The recap that gets us here starts with episode 1: An Introduction to the Framework and the 6 dynamic states: The Nervous System Continuum Inner World Outer World, Environment Knowing It Living It Episode 2 focuses on the Nervous System Continuum mapping its 4 key states: Survival Mode, Dysregulation, Self-Regulation and Co-Regulation. And this episode... Explores what yo...
Feb 02, 2025•51 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Roseanne Reilly joins me for part 2 of a 6 part series sharing her framework on a Nervous System Informed approach to finding your way out of the dark. The Nervous System Continuum is covered as a critical first piece to this puzzle. We cover why and how we can find our nervous system inside these states, and take a closer look at the two forms of Survival Mode; the one that has you locked in and requires a nervous system restoration practice to unlock, and the Survival Mode we can find ourself ...
Jan 28, 2025•21 min•Season 3Ep. 12
I'm all for a self-guided, DIY it till something changes kind of approach to finding your way out of the dark. I did exactly that for the first 3.5 to 4 years years of my recovery. Actually, a friend recently pointed out that my MSc I'm doing is kind of like my version of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) - she's not wrong. But one day, by chance, I find myself in a conversation with someone who clearly articulted the pathway out of the dark for folks like me, inside 12 weeks. I don't know if ...
Jan 28, 2025•33 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Roseanne Reilly, Nervous System Practitioner over at Hands Of Time Healing Dot Com shares the what, why and how of boundaries mapping what they look like when you are in survival mode, how they shift form when you are dysregulated, and what having boundaries in a self-regualted state looks like. A lot of firsts for me on a subject I had not taken to heart until recently. Roseanne delivers quality insights, connects dots and seamlessly ties the idea of healthy boundaries to your neurobiological m...
Jan 22, 2025•35 min•Season 3Ep. 10
It started offline as a challenge about using the word 'toxic' to describe workplaces, cultures, teams that were being made sick by dysregulated leaders. 3 minutes in to this debate and Roseanne and I hit record. This felt like one for the library. Roseanne Reilly , joins this series as a master practitioner of nervous system restoration. She speaks fluently on the topic of trauma, stress, body, and behaviour joining me ( Shannon Eastman ) for deep dives into the practical application of this sc...
Jan 13, 2025•49 min•Season 3Ep. 9
A Behind-The-Scenes conversation with Roseanne Reilly as we resolve how best to incorporate feedback we've received on our 2025 content plans. We have been exploring how best to communicate why the nervous system is so important to you personally and professionally. As it goes, this podcast left me (Shannon Eastman) with new take aways, new perspectives and a bit more clarity on how to package, prioritise and present what Roseanne calls, a nervous system informed approach to living a life that f...
Jan 07, 2025•46 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Resilience is a common word that can feel hard to pin down. Particularly when we find there is cheap brassy imitation Resilience, and Authentic Resilience, the kind that feels more like cashmere. But what is it? Where does it come from? How do we get more of it? What zaps it? What does it do and why do we need it? Basic questions about a big topic that is mission critical to the 40+ professionals, the ones who are over achieving, super competent and - can't help but notice that life feels harder...
Dec 10, 2024•30 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Roseanne and I round up 7 of the bigger insights we've covered to date sharing our respective take on each. This podcast debates, explores and maps the way out of the dark. We look at all of this through the lens of the 40+ professional from a high stress childhood and an ongoing stress career. Typically these are the overachievers, the super competent, and the very confident - but for the most part, only when they are at work. Those 7 Insights include: 1. Loved correctly, means you love correct...
Dec 10, 2024•39 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Roseanne Reilly and I (Shannon Eastman) meet in this episode to specifically map out the Nervous System and its 4 unique states. Survival Mode / Dysregulated / Self-Regulated / Co-Regulated and how we express inside each one. For example, you know someone is in Survival Mode when they are over the top about almost everything. Overreacting, Oversharing, Urgency, Hypervigilant etc. We do our best to present WHY the nervous system is the holy grail of recovery... for the 40+ professional with a hig...
Dec 09, 2024•49 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Your Nervous System matters, a lot. How it works, arguably, matters more. For example, as an infant, your nervous system requires the nervous systems of your caregivers to provide for it, train it, support its development and maturity. (It's called co-regulation) - in its absence your nervous system gets stuck and disrupts all sorts, through adulthood, well into your 40s, until you deliberately invest in Nervous System Restoration efforts to repair and resolve. Your nervous system communicates t...
Dec 06, 2024•42 min•Season 3Ep. 4
In this episode Roseanne and I share the backstory about how we met, why we stayed connected all this time, and what we are planning in the coming months. Of course, we will ebb and flow as required. Roseanne will be joining as a special guest for standalone episodes, and her and I working in the background to cultivate a track of episodes specifically about nervous system restoration and the 40+ professional. We each share our perspective on how this new joint (ad)venture came to be and our res...
Dec 05, 2024•31 min•Season 3Ep. 3
This is the query that once haunted me for more than a decade "I know what I am supposted to do, but I just can't do it!" I have invested 6 figures over my lifetime, (desperately) trying to make myself feel normal. I poured tirelessly over teachings - ancient through modern - studied with some brilliant minds - including one of my all time favourites ever, Dr. John Demartini - and yet, I still found myself falling down in the dark saying to myself, "I KNOW better. I know what to do.. why can't I...
Dec 05, 2024•37 min•Season 3Ep. 2
It's a new dawn, a new day, a new podcast, a new brand. And in this behind-the-scenes-style episode I fill you in on what happened since the summer of 24 until recently that tanspired in the name change, a new line up of guests and a refined focus. What's staying the same? Conversations about wellbeing and work for the 40+ professional who had a high stress childhood, ongoing stress lifestyle and now acutely aware that the coping strategies of late are no longer working. The need for sustainable...
Dec 05, 2024•23 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Dr. Andy Hahn joins me for this episode on suffering. What is it, where does it come from, why is it here and how can we work with it. A conversation inspired by the contents of his book, the 1-Hour Miracle, 5 steps to healing your life and changing the story; a mix of East and West that pulls in kinesiology, energy work, and another lens on PTSD. You can purchase the book on Amazon Worldwide in several formats including: paperback, audible and kindle versions. You will find Dr. Hahn on LinkedIn...
Jun 11, 2024•32 min•Season 2Ep. 27
A new kind of episode as I agree to be faciltiated, live in a 1-to-1 trauma release session with you listening in. heh. In my first ever, I hit record as Dr. Louise Swartswalter, a Dr of Naturaopathy, Kinesiology, Energy Worker and transformative coach takes the lead. We hear her story about how she arrived in this type of work before she gives you a live demo, with me in the hot seat. Find out more about Dr. Louise here: www.brainsoulsuccess.com Her 3-day retreat with Dr. Shamini Jain happening...
Jun 05, 2024•50 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Jane Evans joins me to discuss one of my favourite topics - Trauma & Money. When it comes to answering some version of the question, "How much" or when we have to put a price on our value, or generate and maintain cashflow, the situation tends to be more white knuckles, than signed on the dotted line. Why? More importantly, What can we do about it? Jane brings a level of skill, mastery and experience in this exactly subject as we explore what is going on, what we can do about it and what cha...
May 27, 2024•45 min•Season 2Ep. 25
In this episode, Richard F. Adams, shares his experience of navigating challenge, mental health, and what happened in 2019 that changed everything. Richard's hindsight presented through his own unique lens, offers rich insights and practical advice alongside a fascinating look at how one comes back from C-PTSD in ways that could be described as being somewhat mental health adjacent. ; Richard is a father, husband, enterprise technologist, educator, artist, musician, polyglot, a polymath, and ori...
Apr 12, 2024•56 min•Season 2Ep. 24
