Reclamation Radio with Kelly Brogan MD

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There are specific tools that you can use to become embodied... and I’m about to show them to you.
I want to talk about why the work of embodiment isn't softness, rose-petal baths, and endless fixation on your trauma. Most women I know are incredibly functional. They get the to-do list done, hold everything together, and then spend the rest of their lives subtly avoiding themselves through scrolling, numbing, resentment, overthinking, or exhaustion.

It’s something I’ve been circling for years through my training with David Deida, Sheila Kelley’s S Factor, and Wendy’s pole work, and it’s the most honest path I’ve found for women who are tired of living disconnected from their own bodies.

I walk you through the framework I use, which I call “the P’s,” and unpack the moment another woman gave me permission to stop shaming myself. Within a single weekend, the chronic tension and self-surveillance I had been carrying for years started dissolving in a way that felt almost biochemical.

There’s also a short breath and movement practice you can follow along with, plus the three inquiry questions I keep returning to, including the one about your own mother that almost nobody wants to answer honestly.

If you’ve been settling, ignoring the little “no,” or numbing through scrolling, this one is for you.
You’ll learn:
[0:00] Introduction
[4:34] How functional freeze, snacking, and scrolling become socially acceptable avoidance patterns
[7:03] Why chronic resentment shows up as bloating, hair loss, and fatigue
[12:27] Permission from another woman can shift your physiology in a weekend
[15:00] What Wendy, the pole teacher, taught me about the whore archetype
[18:36] How orienting your whole day around sensual pleasure rewires your life
[21:43] Why ignoring the little no is the root of our greatest suffering
[24:11] A guided breathwork practice for tracking pleasure and sexual energy
[36:57] Wearing the villain crown and what your judgment of other women reveals
[42:20] The regrettable impulse, the damaged story, and what would ruin you as a woman
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Resources mentioned:
Dr. Tom Cowan | Website
David Deida | Website
Sheila Kelley | Website
S Factor | Website
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Most of what gets labeled psychosis isn't psychosis at all.
My guest, Anneke Sips, spent over 25 years inside Dutch psychiatry as a psychiatric nurse, crisis worker, and trauma therapist before founding Network Yoga Therapy and writing Wisdom of Psychosis. She knows the isolation rooms, the forced injections, and the court proceedings from the inside. She also knows what happens when you stop reaching for restraints and start actually listening.

We talk about the day-to-day reality of psychiatric wards that most people will never see, the choreography of medication compliance, the way fear in the provider creates the danger they claim to be managing, and the deep fear, especially in women, of being found crazy.

If you've ever wondered what would happen if the person across from you didn't flinch when you described your inner world, this is that conversation.
You’ll learn:
[00:00] Introduction
[07:32] Psychiatric systems can train people to identify with illness instead of healing
[12:48] Medication becomes the default response before deeper causes are explored
[18:55] Experiences labeled psychosis may reflect profound inner shifts
[24:04] The mainstream definition of psychosis shapes personal identity
[29:51] Mystical experiences overlap with psychiatric diagnosis more than most realize
[36:11] Stigma keeps people silent about experiences outside the norm
[41:48] Supporting someone in crisis without forcing a clinical narrative
[48:10] Years inside institutional systems can erode self-trust
[01:00:01] Caregiving reveals the emotional cost of carrying too much alone
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Resources mentioned:
LEAP Institute, Dr. Xavier Amador | Website
Internal Family Systems | Website
Polyvagal Theory | Website
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Find more from Anneke:
Anneke Sips | Instagram | Website
Wisdom of Psychosis by Anneke Sips | Book
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Matrimony and weddings are not what society made us believe.
Stephen Jenkinson is a Harvard-trained theologian, author, and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School, whose work has spanned dying, elderhood, storytelling, and now matrimony.

Most modern weddings last fifteen minutes. He spent close to a year preparing each one he officiated, and the ceremony itself ran six to eight hours.
He didn't set out to study marriage. Young people came to him asking for something they couldn't name… nothing that sounded like a top-40 song or looked like a fairy tale. He started paying attention to the strange shards still left in the standard wedding: the aisle no one sits in, the procession, the throwing of food, the giving away.
What he found changes the conversation. Matrimony, he argues, has nothing to do with celebrating love between two people. It's about mothering culture, and patrimony is its structural counterpart. One builds the house, the other moves in and makes it a home for the wider world.
This episode goes into what a real wedding looks like when guests become witnesses, why the personal vow may be the weakest part of the ceremony, what patriarchy actually means before it became a slur, and why "celebration of love" may be the phrase that hollowed the whole thing out.
You’ll learn:
[00:00] Introduction
[02:10] How young people pleading for a real wedding pulled Stephen into matrimony work
[09:23] Treating wedding traditions like archaeological shards reveals what we've lost
[18:40] The nuclear family became the default after Christianity dismantled elders and kinship
[28:12] The difference between wedding, marriage, and matrimony… and why patrimony has no holy state
[38:59] Reclaiming the word patriarchy from sloth and virtue signalling
[48:38] Why "celebration of love" turns guests into spectators instead of witnesses
[59:36] What a six to eight hour ceremony with reversed seating and real petitions looks like
[1:22:23] What a couple planning a wedding should consider before the big day
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Resources mentioned:
Once in Europa by John Berger | Book
Get Stephen's book Matrimony: Ritual, Culture, and the Heart’s Work here.
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Orphan Wisdom | Website | Instagram | Facebook
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How can you learn to handle physical pain with a holistic approach?

Most people treat physical pain like an enemy to silence as fast as possible. I used to think the same way, until three rib injuries forced me to spend entire nights with the sensation.

What I found challenges the assumption that pain is a constant, unending stream. It actually moves in micro-undulations, and there's a specific somatic practice that lets you feel that.

This episode walks through pendulation, a somatic experiencing technique I practice with my coach, Whitney. It's a tool for staying with sensation instead of running from it.

I'm drawn to this method over natural pain remedies, CBD, or other supports I could reach for. The interest isn't in eliminating sensation. It's in learning what's actually happening inside my body.

You’ll learn:

[00:00] Introduction
[00:07] What to do when you'd normally reach for a pill
[00:22] Why I avoided chronic pain until this past year
[00:47] The somatic experiencing practice called pendulation
[01:24] Why pain is not a constant stream of torture
[02:08] What changes when you stop resisting physical sensation
[02:31] Step-by-step: how to pendulate through physical pain
[03:26] Why a born skeptic was surprised this worked
[03:43] Why I skip CBD, DMSO, and other natural options 

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Resources mentioned:

Healing with DMSO by Amandha Dawn Vollmer | Book or Audiobook

Find more from Kelly:

YouTube: Reclamation Radio with Kelly Brogan, MD
Instagram: @kellybroganmd
Website: kellybroganmd.com
Join Kelly's monthly membership, Vital Life Project here.
Get Kelly’s new book The Reclaimed Woman here.

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How can you learn to handle physical pain with a holistic approach?

Most people treat physical pain like an enemy to silence as fast as possible. I used to think the same way, until three rib injuries forced me to spend entire nights with the sensation.

What I found challenges the assumption that pain is a constant, unending stream. It actually moves in micro-undulations, and there's a specific somatic practice that lets you feel that.

This episode walks through pendulation, a somatic experiencing technique I practice with my coach, Whitney. It's a tool for staying with sensation instead of running from it.

I'm drawn to this method over natural pain remedies, CBD, or other supports I could reach for. The interest isn't in eliminating sensation. It's in learning what's actually happening inside my body.

You’ll learn:

[00:00] Introduction
[00:07] What to do when you'd normally reach for a pill
[00:22] Why I avoided chronic pain until this past year
[00:47] The somatic experiencing practice called pendulation
[01:24] Why pain is not a constant stream of torture
[02:08] What changes when you stop resisting physical sensation
[02:31] Step-by-step: how to pendulate through physical pain
[03:26] Why a born skeptic was surprised this worked
[03:43] Why I skip CBD, DMSO, and other natural options

👉🏻 Want to start a podcast like this one? Book your free podcast planning call here.

Resources mentioned:

Healing with DMSO by Amandha Dawn Vollmer | Book or Audiobook

Find more from Kelly:

YouTube: Reclamation Radio with Kelly Brogan, MD
Instagram: @kellybroganmd
Website: kellybroganmd.com
Join Kelly's monthly membership, Vital Life Project here.
Get Kelly’s new book The Reclaimed Woman here.