Do you ever feel anxious, irritable, or emotionally overwhelmed and have no idea why? What if the problem isn’t your mindset but your connection to your body?

In this episode of the Building Resilience Podcast, Leah Davidson introduces the hidden sixth sense that shapes every emotional experience you have: interoception. This is your brain’s ability to sense what’s happening inside your body, including your heartbeat, breathing, hunger, tension, and fatigue, and interpret those signals as emotions. When this system works well, you can catch stress early and regulate it. When it doesn’t, you snap, spiral, shut down, or melt down before you even know what happened.

Leah explores how trauma, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and autism all influence interoceptive awareness and why strengthening this skill can dramatically improve emotional regulation, nervous system health, and resilience. The good news? Interoception is trainable. And it begins with simply noticing.

We’ll explore:

• Interoception is your brain’s ability to sense and interpret internal bodily signals.

• Emotions are grounded in physical sensations before they become conscious thoughts.

• Ignoring early body signals often leads to emotional overwhelm or shutdown.

• Trauma can either numb body awareness or make you hypervigilant to sensations.

• Anxiety involves hypersensitivity to internal signals, while depression often involves numbness.

• Many neurodivergent individuals experience interoceptive differences.

• Strengthening interoceptive awareness improves emotional clarity and regulation.

• The first step is not fixing. It is noticing.

LINKS AND RESOURCES:

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Join here: https://www.skool.com/midlife-nervous-system-rewire/about?ref=06e003b61b8148ebbafd3a067f3cc2e1

MENTAL HEALTH STATIONERY - RESILIENT BRILLIANCE PRODUCTS:

1) RESILIENCE JOURNAL: A guided journal for emotional well-being and nervous system care

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2) MY SAFE SPACE : AFFIRMATION AND JOURNAL PROMPT SET

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Do you have friends you can disappear from for months and return to without guilt, explanation, or effort? The ones who don’t keep score, don’t require performance, and still feel like home when you reconnect?

In this episode, Leah Davidson explores how women’s friendships change in midlife and why connection becomes not just important, but essential. Drawing from decades-long friendships, life transitions, and nervous system science, Leah unpacks why the friendship rules that worked in our twenties and thirties often stop working later on, and why that’s not a failure, but a natural evolution.

You’ll learn how different seasons of life call for different kinds of friendships, why capacity matters more than consistency, and how safety, not frequency, is the foundation of lasting connection. This episode is a powerful reminder that women don’t heal alone. We regulate together, remember ourselves together, and in midlife especially, we need each other.

We’ll explore:

• Midlife friendships operate by different rules than earlier seasons of life
• Safety, not frequency, is what allows friendships to last over time
• Capacity changes across seasons, and that doesn’t mean commitment is lacking
• Low-pressure friendships support nervous system regulation, not depletion
• Seasonal friendships can be deeply meaningful without needing to last forever
• Women are biologically wired to seek connection during stress, not isolation
• Joy and connection require intention in midlife, not waiting for life to slow down
• Women heal, regulate, and remember who they are through safe relationships

LINKS AND RESOURCES:

COMMUNITY

MIDLIFE NERVOUS SYSTEM REWIRE COMMUNITY 👑: A low pressure, fun community for “Queenagers” to regulate, not fix, their midlife nervous systems.

Join here: https://www.skool.com/midlife-nervous-system-rewire/about?ref=06e003b61b8148ebbafd3a067f3cc2e1

MENTAL HEALTH STATIONERY - RESILIENT BRILLIANCE PRODUCTS:

1) RESILIENCE JOURNAL: A guided journal for emotional well-being and nervous system care

Amazon US - https://a.co/d/7DpuyVj

2) MY SAFE SPACE : AFFIRMATION AND JOURNAL PROMPT SET

Amazon US - https://a.co/d/2mANQs4

LET'S STAY CONNECTED

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/leahdavidsonlifecoaching/

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/leahdavidsonlifecoaching

WEBSITE: wwww.leahdavidsonlifecoaching.com

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Do you ever sit down to do something important and suddenly find yourself reorganising drawers, researching holidays, or staring at a blank screen while silently asking, “Why can’t I just do this?”

In this episode of the Building Resilience Podcast, Leah Davidson reframes procrastination as a nervous system response, not a motivation problem or personal failing. Rather than being about laziness or lack of discipline, procrastination often shows up when your nervous system senses emotional or social risk and moves into protection.

Through a nervous system informed lens, Leah explores why pushing harder rarely works and what actually helps instead. You will learn how awareness, regulation, and small safe steps can create real momentum without shame or pressure.

We’ll explore:

• Procrastination is not a character flaw, it is a nervous system response
• When a task feels emotionally risky, the body will choose delay over action
• Discipline cannot override a nervous system that does not feel safe
• Perfectionism is often protection, not a lack of care or effort
• Overthinking is a way the nervous system tries to create certainty
• Avoidance is information, not failure
• Regulation creates momentum more effectively than pressure
• Small starts teach the nervous system that beginning can be safe
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LINKS AND RESOURCES:

COMMUNITY

MIDLIFE NERVOUS SYSTEM REWIRE COMMUNITY 👑: A low pressure, fun community for “Queenagers” to regulate, not fix, their midlife nervous systems.

Join here: https://www.skool.com/midlife-nervous-system-rewire/about?ref=06e003b61b8148ebbafd3a067f3cc2e1

MENTAL HEALTH STATIONERY - RESILIENT BRILLIANCE PRODUCTS:

1) RESILIENCE JOURNAL: A guided journal for emotional well-being and nervous system care

Amazon US - https://a.co/d/7DpuyVj

2) MY SAFE SPACE : AFFIRMATION AND JOURNAL PROMPT SET

Amazon US - https://a.co/d/2mANQs4

LET'S STAY CONNECTED

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/leahdavidsonlifecoaching/

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/leahdavidsonlifecoaching

WEBSITE: wwww.leahdavidsonlifecoaching.com

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