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The Somatic Frequency

The Somatic Frequency

Hosted by Damian Appleby

Episodes

99

Latest episode

Jul 2026

Language

EN

About the show

The Somatic Frequency isn't about thinking your way to transformation. It's about feeling your way there — through nervous system healing, somatic affirmations, and the law of resonance. Most approaches to personal change work from the top down. Mindset. Belief. Willpower. We work from the ground up. In the body. Where change actually lives. This is a podcast for people who have tried understanding their way forward — and are ready to feel their way there instead. Every episode is a practice. Some will teach you the mechanism. Others will take you straight into it. Your Internal Compass is already calibrated. This is where you learn to listen to it. 🎧 New episodes every week. 🎁 Start your transformation: Three free somatic audios at tranceformations.co/3dayreset

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July 29, 202616 min

Sympathetic Overdrive: The Biology of Being Stuck in 'On'

Why does your nervous system stay in overdrive even when the pressure is gone? Sympathetic overdrive isn't anxiety — it's biology. Your body learned to stay in "on" mode, and it hasn't been shown it's safe to downshift. This video explains the mechanism behind feeling wired, restless, and unable to switch off — and introduces the biological reflex your body already has to come back to safety. This is the first in a two-part series on the sympathetic nervous system. Next week, we'll explore a guided somatic practice using the orienting response to help your body find its way back to regulation. Take the next step to transforming your relationship with your nervous system and download the 3 Day Reset here #SomaticFrequency #NervousSystemRegulation #SympatheticOverdrive #SomaticExperiencing

July 26, 202610 min

Nervous System Release: A Guided Somatic Practice to Finish the Breath You're Still Holding

You held the meeting together. The conversation. The room. The people who needed you to stay steady. And you did.But sometimes the body doesn't know that the moment is over. The room empties, the call ends, the pressure passes — and yet something remains. A held breath. A tight chest. A strange flatness. A tiredness that doesn't quite match the day you've had.This guided somatic session is an invitation to gently notice what your body is still carrying after you've been the calm one. There is nothing to force here.You don't need to take a deeper breath. You don't need to make yourself relax. You don't need to understand why the tension is there.Instead, we will work with small sensations, gentle awareness, and the body's own capacity to complete an unfinished response.You can return to this practice after a difficult conversation, following a demanding day, or whenever you notice that your body is still bracing even though the moment has passed. So, if it's appropriate to do so, settle back and make yourself comfortable.This is a guided somatic practice for nervous system release, somatic healing, emotional regulation, and gently unwinding the tension your body has learned to hold.Listen only when you are somewhere safe to pause, rest, or bring your attention inward. Transform your relationship with your nervous system from enemy to friend by downloading the 3-Day Reset audio course here

July 22, 202611 min

The Hidden Cost of Being The Calm One

You did the meeting, the call, the room full of people who needed you steady — and you were steady. Then it's over, you're alone in the car, and your hands are shaking. Here's what nobody tells you: you never stopped holding your breath. This episode explores the hidden cost of being the calm one — the person who holds the room together while everyone else comes apart. It's about nervous system regulation — not as a concept, but as something your body has been asking for. The steadiness that makes you good at it doesn't switch off when the room empties. The shaking, the flatness after a win, the strange exhaustion from a day where nothing went wrong — it all traces back to one thing: a breath you've been holding, and never got to finish. This is body-first somatic experiencing — not another mindset reframe. You'll try a 30-second version of the fix while you listen, something you can feel in your own body.If you've spent years being the one who stays calm under pressure, this episode is for the part of you that never got to exhale. This isn't about learning to relax. It's about the other half nobody taught you. 🌿 The free 3-Day Reset: Download here

July 19, 202612 min

Unfreezing the Brain: A Somatic Meditation

This is a guided somatic session. Not a concept. Not a teaching. A practice — for your nervous system. When the freeze response hits, your thinking brain goes offline. Words don't help. Understanding doesn't help. What helps is giving the body a different signal. Today's episode guides you through a somatic practice designed to thaw the freeze response in real time. Drawing on the principles of Somatic Experiencing and polyvagal theory, this session works directly with your body's capacity to shift from shutdown to regulation — without forcing, without effort, without "trying to calm down."It's a practice you can return to whenever pressure overwhelms your ability to think clearly. Each time you do it, the pathway gets stronger. If you want to explore a deeper experience with Somatics, then you can download the free 3 Day Reset to transform your relationship with your nervous system. Download it here. And if you noticed something today — something in the body, something that shifted — I'd love to hear about it. Not the insight. The sensation. You can leave a comment below. No names needed. And remember, you don't have to chase anything. You just have to let your body know it's already here. #SomaticFrequency #ThawingTheFreeze #SomaticPractice #NervousSystemRegulation #FreezeResponse

July 15, 202611 min

The Freeze Response: Why Your Brain Goes Offline Under Pressure

Why does your brain go offline when you need it most? You're not broken. You're not weak. Your nervous system is doing exactly what it evolved to do — it's freezing. In this episode of The Somatic Frequency, we explore the freeze response: the biological mechanism that shuts down clear thinking under pressure. Not from a mindset perspective — from the body. We trace what happens in your nervous system when cortisol spikes, why cognitive function collapses, and — most importantly — what you can do about it. You'll learn: • The polyvagal science behind the freeze response • Why "thinking your way out" makes it worse • A real case study of someone who learned to thaw the freeze in real time • A brief guided practice to begin rewiring the response And if you'd like to go deeper — t he 3-Day Reset is yours to download free . T hree audios that build positive somatic momentum. Drop your email. The three audios land in your inbox. No spam. No upsell on day two. Just three audios and a starting point. Next episode: Thawing the Freeze — a guided somatic session for clarity under pressure. And remember, you don't have to chase anything. You just have to let your body know it's already here.

July 14, 20268 min

How to Switch Off After Work: A Somatic Ritual to Finally Leave the Office

Download the 3 Day Reset. Y ours to keep. Free. Download Now This is a guided somatic session. No teaching. No concepts. Just practice. You've spent years training your body to stay in work mode — checking notifications, holding tension in your shoulders, scanning for the next email. Your nervous system learned that the workday never ends, because for a long time, it didn't. This session is a door. You'll be guided through a somatic ritual designed to signal to your body — not your mind — that the workday is complete. No visualisation. No affirmations. Just your nervous system, remembering how to close. Find somewhere you can settle without being disturbed. Headphones recommended. RESOURCES & LINKS🎧 Download the free 3-Day Reset: Three guided audios to help your nervous system close the door — somatic unwinding, boundary anchoring, and a sleep-state recalibration. Yours to download. Yours to keep. Free. Download Here 🔔 If you haven't already, go ahead and hit the subscribe button — you really don't want to miss a single episode of this.

July 8, 20269 min

How to Switch Off After Work: The Door You Never Learned to Close

Download the free 3-Day Reset: Three guided audios to help your nervous system close the door — somatic unwinding, boundary anchoring, and a sleep-state recalibration. Yours to download. Yours to keep. Free. -> Download here You finish work. You close the laptop. And yet — somehow — you're still working.The email you check at dinner. The Slack notification you glance at at 10pm. The Sunday evening dread that starts creeping in around 4pm because Monday is already waiting. Working from home didn't just move your office into your living room. It removed the one thing that told your nervous system the workday was over: the door.In this episode, we're going to explore why your body never learned to clock out — and what happens when the office has no walls. We'll look at the nervous system science behind the "always-on" state, walk through a case history of someone who broke the cycle, and end with a short guided practice to begin building a door your body can actually feel. RESOURCES & LINKS🎧 Download the free 3-Day Reset: Three guided audios to help your nervous system close the door — somatic unwinding, boundary anchoring, and a sleep-state recalibration. Yours to download. Yours to keep. Free. → Download Here 🔔 If you haven't already, go ahead and hit the subscribe button — you really don't want to miss a single episode of this.

July 5, 202610 min

Emotional Hangover: A Guided Somatic Session to Release the Decision Your Body Still Holds

Begin to transform your nervous energy with the 3-day reset programme - it's free, just sign up here. You keep replaying it. You feel like you should be over it by now. And just sitting with it feels wrong, because there's nothing to do with it. None of that means you got the decision wrong. It means the body's still holding what the mind already decided — the termination, the call you'd make again tomorrow and still can't put down. This is a guided somatic session, not a teaching episode. Just a few quiet minutes to let the nervous system set down what logic alone can't reach. Find somewhere you won't be disturbed. Sit or lie down. Soften your gaze if you're moving. If you haven't already, go ahead and hit subscribe — you don't want to miss a single episode. #emotionalhangover #somatichealing #nervoussystemregulation #leadershipstress #somaticrelease

July 1, 202610 min

Emotional Hangover: When a Right Call Leaves You Heavy

For more support, download the free 3-Day Reset audio sequence here . Three audios designed to create positive somatic momentum. Yours to keep. You made the right call. You'd make it again. So why is your body still holding it? This isn't guilt — you're not second-guessing the decision. It's something quieter. A heaviness in the chest. Replaying at 2am. A nagging sense you should be over this by now.In this episode, we name what the decision actually cost — not whether it was right. Then we move into a short guided practice to help the body set down what your mind already decided.Because the nervous system doesn't process decisions through logic. It processes them through sensation. And when the body keeps the score, the body needs to be part of the release. If you haven't already, go ahead and hit subscribe — you don't want to miss a single episode. For more support, download the free 3-Day Reset audio sequence here . Three audios designed to create positive somatic momentum. Yours to keep.

June 28, 20269 min

Letting the Echo Fade: A Guided Practice To Stop Overthinking

The mistake took ten seconds. It's the replay that's lasted all week. This is the somatic session — the practice half of the pair that began with the explainer, When One Bad Moment Turns Your Whole Week to Trash. There we looked at why a single bad moment can hijack days at a time: the good stuff fades fast, the one thing you got wrong stays vivid, and the body keeps broadcasting the threat long after it's actually passed. This session is where we quiet it — a guided practice to stop overthinking that one moment your brain won't let go of. Nothing to work out here, no notebook — this is a full somatic practice. Audio only, somewhere you won't be interrupted, eyes free to close. We're not going to argue you out of the replay; the loop isn't really living in your thoughts, it's lower down, in the body. So that's where we go. Using the principles of somatic experiencing, we'll find where the moment is still being held, let the charge it's carrying begin to move and settle, and give your system the one signal it's been waiting for: it's over, you can come down now.When you stand up, the moment will still have happened. It'll just have stopped echoing — left where it belongs, in the ten seconds it actually took, instead of carried into Monday. Come to this one whenever a week's been hijacked by something that lasted seconds — a body scan meditation approach for the professional who can't stop replaying. Headphones on. Let the rest of it land. 🔔 Subscribe for more frameworks to reset your nervous system. If this episode brings the relief, the 3-Day Reset is where you go beyond it. It's a free three-part somatic sequence that takes you from settling the system to reading its signals and prototyping what's next — the bridge from putting out fires to actually changing how you meet the week. Download it for free here

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