Healing Trauma Through the Nervous System: Emotional Healing, Grief & Expanded States

Healing becomes less about avoiding pain and more about reconnecting to your wholeness.

There are moments in life that completely shift us.

Grief.
Relationship loss.
Identity transitions.
Trauma that changes how safe we feel in our own bodies.

And often, when people are suffering emotionally, they try to think their way out of pain.

But healing doesn’t always happen through logic alone.

In this powerful conversation, Susan Regan sits down with therapist and psychedelic integration guide Jodie Stein to explore what it really means to heal trauma through the nervous system — not just through insight, but through emotional processing, relational safety, body awareness, and expanded states of healing.

Together, they discuss:

• Why trauma and grief are not “problems to solve”
   
• How the nervous system responds to emotional pain
   
• The Polyvagal Theory and nervous system states
   
• EMDR and bilateral stimulation
• Why people-pleasing and collapse become survival patterns
   
• The role of relational healing
• Parts work and expanded states of consciousness
   
• Psychedelic integration and expanded healing work
• Learning to stay present with yourself during emotional intensity

This conversation offers a compassionate and grounded look at what healing can actually feel like — not forced, but supported.

For more information on ceremonial work and training, visit the Congregation for Sacred Practices, where Jodie completed her training and serves as an Associate Minister.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why emotional healing happens through the body and nervous system
• The difference between emotional overwhelm and nervous system dysregulation
• How fight, flight, freeze, and collapse impact relationships
• Why awareness alone doesn’t always create change
• How EMDR helps create new neural pathways
• What “parts work” means in therapy and healing
• Why healing often requires relational safety
• How expanded state work can support trauma healing and identity transformation
• How psychedelic integration can support emotional healing and self-understanding

ABOUT OUR GUEST

About Jodie Stein

Jodie Stein is a therapist, psychedelic integration guide, and practitioner focused on trauma healing, nervous system regulation, identity transformation, and expanded state work. Her work integrates relational healing, somatic awareness, spirituality, mindfulness, psychedelic integration, and therapeutic modalities that help people reconnect with themselves in deeper and more sustainable ways.

Jodie works with individuals navigating grief, trauma, life transitions, relationship challenges, and personal transformation through both traditional therapeutic frameworks and expanded healing approaches.

Jodie completed her ceremonial training through the Congregation for Sacred Practices and is a licensed Associate Minister of the congregation.

Learn more about Jodie Stein and her work here:
Jodie Stein

For more information on ceremonial work and training:
Congregation for Sacred Practices