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Regulate with Amy
Regulate with Amy
Regulate with Amy is a nervous system podcast for midlife women healing from trauma, anxiety, menopause overwhelm, ADHD, and chronic survival mode.
If you’ve done therapy but still feel reactive…
If you feel exhausted, stuck, emotionally overwhelmed, or like something just isn’t shifting…
You are not broken. Your nervous system doesn’t feel safe.
Each week, Amy shares grounded conversations about nervous system regulation, trauma recovery in midlife, emotional regulation skills, building safety in the body, setting boundaries, rebuilding confidence through repetition, and moving out of survival mode.
You’ll also hear about her kitchen-based regulation approach - using everyday rituals like cooking to retrain safety, build tolerance, and restore joy.
No hustle culture. No toxic positivity. No pretending you’re fine.
Just real, steady conversations to help you feel safe enough to be yourself again.
Episodes
10 episodes
Nervous System Shutdown: Why You Feel Exhausted, Disconnected & Stuck in Survival Mode
Have you ever felt so exhausted, disconnected, or overwhelmed that even simple things feel impossible?You might not be lazy or unmotivated. Your nervous system may be in shutdown.In this episode of Regulate with Amy
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I Thought I Was Broken: Survival Mode & Nervous System Regulation for Midlife Women
For years, I thought I was broken.I couldn’t finish things. I felt exhausted but wired. I snapped at people I loved. I avoided simple tasks. And no matter how much personal development or therapy I did, something still felt off.In...
The Midlife Brain Fog Olympics
Welcome to Season 2 of From Mess to Progress — where nothing is fixed, everything is messier, and that’s exactly the point.If you’re looking for tidy tips, five-step solutions, or a worksheet to “optimize your ment...
Stop Apologizing For Who You Are
You ever catch yourself saying “sorry” for just… existing? For taking up space, having an opinion, or breathing too loud? Yeah, same.In this episode, I sit down with my inner wild child, Daisy Mae — the unfiltered, unapologetic ...
Why Worthiness Was Never Something You Had to Earn
We live in a culture that teaches us worthiness is a finish line. I’ll be enough when I lose the weight. I’ll deserve love when I stop messing up. I’ll finally matter when I hit six figures. Sound familiar? It’s the hamster wheel so many of us ...
The Day My Mask Shattered. My Breakdown and Breakthrough.
In this raw and unfiltered episode, I share the darkest chapter of my life — from addiction, jail, and losing my kids, to the devastating deaths of my mom and best friend. I take you inside the spiral of relapse, grief, and eight months o...
Owning Your Truth, Even When it Makes Others Uncomfortable
In this raw, unfiltered episode of From Mess to Progress, Amy dives deep into what it really takes to own your truth — even when it makes other people squirm. From her own powerful story of being silenced at 16, to the psychology...
Confidence Isn't Born, It's Built
In this raw and unfiltered episode of From Mess to Progress, Amy Simms dismantles one of the biggest lies we’ve been told: that confidence is something you’re either born with or you’re not. With a mix of personal storytelling, trauma-informed ...
Why I'm Done Being the Good Girl
You know the type.The one who smiles through the pain. Who plays by the rules. Who never rocks the boat, keeps the peace, gets the grades, says “I’m sorry” even when it’s not her fault. Who silences her truth to make others comfortable....
The Mask is Off: Why I'm Done Pretending and You Should Be Too
Welcome to From Mess to Progress — the unfiltered podcast for women who are tired of pretending everything’s fine when it’s really falling apart.I’m your host, Amy Simms — Navy vet, trauma survivor, confidence coach, and former good gir...