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If you've been to all the doctors, tried all the things, and your anxiety still won't budge, this one is for you. Maybe the reason nothing has worked is that you've been trying to think your way out of something, but maybe it's not a thinking solution, maybe your body has been holding on to something the whole time, and you need to heal through the body.

About This Episode

I sat down with Jenny Cohen, an author, a speaker, a cancer survivor, and a dancer who believes movement is your birthright to heal. She used dance to stay alive through her cancer treatment, and what she shares in this episode is something I have lived in my own body for years.

Anxiety is not just in your head. It lives in your body. And when you have nowhere to put that energy, it doesn't disappear. It builds.

We talk about why your anxiety is the messenger, not the enemy. We get into why your body will go to extremes to get your attention, the difference between your conscious mind and your subconscious mind, head up versus head down, and what's actually happening when emotion releases as crying, shaking, or going completely still. Jenny also shares the dead simple daily practice that helped her, and the one question she asks her body the second symptoms show up.

If you're a high functioning woman holding it all together while quietly crumbling, this is your permission slip to stop performing and start letting it move.

What You'll Learn

1. Why your anxiety can get worse the moment you stop moving your body
2. Why anxiety is the messenger, and how the more you ignore the whispers, the louder your body has to get
3. How your conscious mind and subconscious mind split, head up versus head down, and why it matters for healing
4. What emotional release actually looks like, and what to do when it happens
5. A simple daily movement practice you can start with no skill and no one watching
6. The one question Jenny asks her body when symptoms show up

Reflection

Where in your life have you stopped moving, and what might be trying to get your attention?

When was the last time you let your body do something just because it felt good, with no goal attached?

Your Next Step

If your anxiety feels stuck in your body and you need something that actually helps tonight, start here.

Grab the free 5 Minute Nervous System Reset

And if you're ready to stop managing your anxiety and start getting to the root of it, this is where one on one work comes in. That is where we rewrite the subconscious patterns underneath, not just talk about them.

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Timestamps

00:00 Welcome and meet Jenny Cohen
01:43 When movement as a birthright to heal first came online for Jenny
03:07 From dance to occupational therapy
05:31 How dance kept Jenny alive through cancer treatment
06:15 What was driving the anxiety underneath
07:46 Overlapping conditions, depression, and unresolved trauma
09:25 Dancing before, during, and after breast cancer treatment
11:01 Sari shares how her own anxiety didn't show up until she stopped dancing
12:26 Movement is for everybody, even after your shower
13:23 Why our life force requires movement
15:18 Why our bodies will go to extremes to give us what we want
16:19 Why anxiety is the messenger, not the enemy
18:30 Fixed movement versus improvisation
22:21 The moment emotion released mid movement
23:20 Why you never touch someone who is emotionally processing
25:18 Conscious mind from the head up, subconscious from the head down
30:55 Why forgiveness is part of healing
36:53 You have the right to move, you were born with it
37:51 The daily practice, five random songs
39:19 Naming three things you liked about what you did
44:26 The question Jenny asks her body when symptoms show up
46:40 Sari's movement challenge
48:32 Are you doing your self care in a present way
49:49 Where to find Jenny Cohen

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Are you feeling emotionally numb and you don't know why? Are you doing all the right things, and feel exhausted? This episode is for you. You're not falling apart. You're not in crisis, but just going through the motions and feeling nothing. That is a subconscious program running the show, and that's not a I need to be doing more problem. And if you're a mom, there's a good chance your kids are running a version of all of this too.

EPISODE SUMMARY: Sari opens with a real life recent story, coming home exhausted, being reactive with her oldest daughter, and the conversation the next morning that changed everything.

Her daughter was doing all the things. Good grades, chores, helping out. And she still was feeling unloved. She believed her younger sister was loved more, because she saw that her sister didn't have to earn it.

Sound familiar?

In this episode, Sari unpacks the subconscious agreement that so many high-functioning, anxious women are looking through life without realizing it: if I do more, I'll be loved more. She breaks down how this belief was formed in early childhood, why it keeps running on autopilot no matter how much you accomplish, and why 95% of your daily thoughts are recycling the same quiet story you made up about yourself when you were small.

She also speaks directly to moms: your children often mirror the subconscious program you modeled during their earliest years. Learning to see the agreement in them, and ask the right question instead of reacting to the behavior, is one of the most powerful things you can do for yourself and for them.

She closes with a guided breathing and visualization exercise to help you meet the younger version of yourself who first made that agreement — and begin to choose something different.

This is not about doing more. It is about finally seeing the lens you have been looking through.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

• Why you feel emotionally numb even when you're doing everything right — and the subconscious program driving it
• What the agreement or belief you're looking through life actually is — and how to identify yours
• How subconscious programs get formed between birth and age eight and why they keep running without you knowing
• Why your children often mirror the agreements you modeled during your most anxious years — and how witnessing theirs can heal both of you
• The difference between conditional love (earned) and unconditional love (already yours)
• Why self awareness is the first crack of light — and why it is not enough on its own
• Why hypnosis and subconscious work reaches what conscious effort and surface-level tools cannot
• A simple breathing and visualization practice to meet the younger version of yourself who made the agreement

REFLECTION:

1. What is the agreement or belief you are looking through life right now? What lens are you seeing everything through?
2. When did that agreement start? How old was the version of you who made it?
3. If you replaced that lens with unconditional love, how would you move through your day differently?
4. For the moms: what subconscious belief might you be watching play out in your child that you recognize from your own story?

If anxiety feels like a constant hum of "not enough no matter what I do,"

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It's just a conversation. No pressure.

You're not broken. You're not behind. And you're not alone. If you made it here, that means something.

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If you've got so much on your plate that part of you secretly wants to burn it all down and quit everything, this episode is for you. You're not falling apart. Your anxiety just found a new way to talk to you. And once you learn the language, you get your power back.

EPISODE SUMMARY This week Sari shares a real time story of anxiety showing up in a way she'd never felt before. After years of chronic panic attacks, she thought she knew her pattern, the fight response. Then she overcommitted herself into the ground, PTA, a leadership role, clients, the podcast, managing mom life and hit a wall where the only answer her body could find was quit it all.

In this episode she breaks down the four survival responses, fight, flight, freeze, and fawn, and how anxiety presents differently depending on which one is running. She talks about why high functioning women keep filling the void, where control sneaks in, and why honoring your no is the most regulating thing you can do for your nervous system. Anxiety is the messenger. This is how you start listening before it becomes a Mack truck.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

• Why your anxiety can show up completely differently than it used to, even years into healing
• The four survival responses (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) and how to spot which one is yours
• Why high functioning women overcommit, and the real question underneath the busyness
• How control shows up when you believe you have to carry everything alone
• Why awareness alone doesn't change you, but choice does
• How honoring your no actually settles your nervous system
• What happens in the subconscious mind when we sit down and have a conversation with the pattern instead of fighting it

REFLECTION When your anxiety gets loud, which response do you reach for first, fight, flight, freeze, or fawn? And what would change if you treated it as a messenger instead of an enemy?

Free 5 Minute Nervous System Reset If your nervous system feels strung out and you need something that actually helps right now, grab the Free 5 Minute Nervous System Reset. Something you can use tonight.

And if you're ready to stop white knuckling your way through and have someone help you talk to the pattern underneath it all, book a Freedom Roadmap Session. This is the work that gives you freedom from the very thing keeping you stuck.

You're not broken. You're not behind. And you're not alone. If you made it here, that means something.

TIMESTAMPS

00:02 Welcome in, and why anxiety shows up in so many different ways

02:24 The real question underneath overcommitting: what void are you trying to fill

04:47 Carrying it all alone, and where control actually comes from

07:10 The week it all caught up: Warrior Women, the missed episode, freeze and flight

09:35 The four survival responses explained: fight, flight, freeze, fawn

11:14 When the answer becomes "I quit everything, burn it all down"

12:47 Sitting in your emotions, and anxiety as the messenger

15:03 Your power and your choice: how long do you actually need to feel it

17:31 Giving yourself space, and why the coaching call landed so differently

19:52 Honoring your no, the Oracle card, and finding your own pattern

22:00 Hypnosis: having a real conversation with the program that's been protecting you

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