Send us a text What if your body is already telling you what matters and your mind keeps talking over it? We dive into a clear, usable map for change that starts with the feeling system—the fast, sensory guidance that marks relevance before you can think a thought. Instead of treating emotions as problems to crush or content to perform, we show how sensations like tightness, heat, or collapse point to concrete needs: repair, protection, rest, or a new role entirely. We take a frank look at s...
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Send us a text What if your body is already telling you what matters and your mind keeps talking over it? We dive into a clear, usable map for change that starts with the feeling system—the fast, sensory guidance that marks relevance before you can think a thought. Instead of treating emotions as problems to crush or content to perform, we show how sensations like tightness, heat, or collapse point to concrete needs: repair, protection, rest, or a new role entirely. We take a frank look at s...
Send us a text What if your body is already telling you what matters and your mind keeps talking over it? We dive into a clear, usable map for change that starts with the feeling system—the fast, sensory guidance that marks relevance before you can think a thought. Instead of treating emotions as problems to crush or content to perform, we show how sensations like tightness, heat, or collapse point to concrete needs: repair, protection, rest, or a new role entirely. We take a frank look at s...
Send us a text What if your most confusing reactions are perfectly logical once you read the weather inside your body? We explore how early climates—those subtle pauses, sighs, and silences—taught your nervous system to predict danger or safety, and how those predictions keep showing up in adult love, shame, and conflict. Instead of pathologizing panic, numbness, or urgency, we trace how a child’s need for control becomes a survival story that hardens into identity, then show how to soften it...
Send us a text What if the most honest storyteller in your life isn’t your mind, but your body? We open the door to an overlooked truth: before words and theories, there is weather—warmth and absence, tension and release—and those early shifts become the first narrative your nervous system learns to trust. That lens reframes Freud’s famous Fort Da moment. Instead of a child practicing control over loss, we see a child rehearsing return. Throw the spool, feel the drop; pull it back, feel the w...
Send us a text What if your emotions are not problems to fix but a precision navigation system that evolved to keep you alive, connected, and learning? We dive into core feelings as the body’s fast meaning-makers, showing how they tag what matters long before your thinking brain catches up. We start with a vivid contrast: plants don’t move, so they don’t need to decide. Animals do, and movement floods life with decisions about safety, energy, and opportunity. That’s where psychologist Silvan...
Send us a text What if your body makes the first move and your mind rushes in to explain it after? We open chapter one of The Weather Within and unpack a practical, humane map for navigating intense moments by separating core feelings from the emotions we build on top of them. Instead of wrestling storms, we learn to read them: how the nervous system sets our capacity, why hunger and sleep can tip us into reactivity, and where that small but powerful pause lives between sensation and story. ...
Send us a text What if peace and happiness aren’t opposites, but two tempos of the same life force? We follow that question from the body’s first language—movement and breath—into the quiet work of integration, where your nervous system learns to trust its own rhythm again. Along the way, we introduce “ladolescence,” a stage beyond performance where joy becomes contribution, peace becomes belonging, and your days feel less like moods to manage and more like music to conduct. We begin with th...
Send us a text What if your body remembers what your mind can’t explain—and those memories quietly script your relationships? We dive into how early imprints shape your nervous system and why real change happens through connection, not just insight. From practical tools you can use today to nuanced stories that mirror real life, this episode is a guide to consciously casting the people in your life so your relationships fuel, not drain, your growth. We start with a clear map: the Relationshi...
Send us a text What shapes your financial decisions more deeply than budgeting apps or investment strategies? Your emotional money story – the unconscious narrative inherited from family, culture, and early experiences that dictates not just how you spend, but how you value yourself. Money isn't merely currency; it's an affective object charged with feelings of security, freedom, shame, and pride. When people say they don't have "enough," they often mean "I don't feel like I'm enough." This ...
Send us a text What secrets might your body be keeping from your conscious mind? Dr. Scott Conkright takes us on a profound journey exploring how our earliest relationships and experiences become encoded in our nervous systems, creating patterns that shape our lives in ways our rational minds can't fully access. At the heart of this exploration lies our relationship with meaning itself. The stories we tell about why we're here aren't abstract philosophical concepts but practical frameworks t...
Send us a text What if your body is holding onto emotional memories that your conscious mind can't access? This provocative question opens a fascinating exploration into how our earliest relationships shape not just our memories, but our very nervous systems. Dr. Scott Conkright takes us on a journey through what he calls the "four foundational relationships" that shape our lives, cleverly paralleling them with the filmmaking process. You are simultaneously the lead actor, scriptwriter, prod...
Send us a text What happens when your body remembers what your mind has forgotten? In this deeply resonant exploration, Dr. Scott Conkright unveils the powerful concept of narrative repair—the process through which we heal not by forgetting our trauma, but by returning to it with enough safety to complete the stories that were interrupted. Trauma doesn't just live in our thoughts. It resides in our posture, our breath, our automatic responses to connection and vulnerability. These embodied p...
Send us a text Your body whispers truths your mind has yet to comprehend. The nervous system, with its intricate web of responses, stores experiences that predate our ability to form words—carrying forward relationships, traumas, and joys long after conscious memory has faded. Dr. Scott Conkright takes us on a profound journey through the landscape of emotional integration. We begin by exploring how adulthood marks a pivotal shift from mere emotional reaction to reflection. This threshold is...
Send us a text Have you ever wondered how we transform from reactive infants into reflective adults capable of emotional sophistication? This fascinating journey through human emotional development reveals the remarkable neurobiological revolution that reshapes our inner landscape. Starting as creatures of pure reflex, our earliest emotional systems function like uncalibrated fire alarms—all intensity with little modulation. The infant experiences the world through immediate, unfiltered reac...
Send us a text Your body remembers what your mind may never have known. Deep within muscle and tissue, in the rhythm of your breath and the tension in your shoulders, lies a somatic record of your earliest relationships—created long before you had words to describe them. This profound exploration of embodied memory reveals how our nervous systems develop in relationship with others. From our first moments, our bodies are recording not just what happens, but what to expect. A warm smile becom...
Send us a text What if everything you thought you knew about emotions was backwards? Our journey begins with a startling truth: before you could think, speak, or even know who you were, you existed as a creature of pure affect. We dive deep into the fascinating world of pre-cognitive emotional experience, exploring how babies communicate through their first language—the language of feeling expressed through their bodies. We examine the profound implications of being born with an underdevelop...
Send us a text What if your emotions weren't just random feelings but actually sophisticated firmware—hardwired systems constantly running in your brain's background? This groundbreaking idea forms the foundation of our deep dive into affect theory and its profound implications for authentic happiness. Your emotional operating system isn't infinitely variable. We're all born with nine specific core affects—biological responses that tag experiences as important, dangerous, pleasurable or soci...
Send us a text What drives those who are never quite satisfied, always seeking the next challenge or idea? The concept of "divine discontentment" offers a fascinating lens to understand this psychological phenomenon. Drawing from the mythological figure Theseus, who was cursed/blessed by the gods with an insatiable curiosity, this exploration reveals how certain personalities thrive on constant questioning and learning. At its core, divine discontentment isn't a flaw but a fundamental orient...
Send us a text That persistent ache when everything looks perfect on paper but something still feels missing – it's not ingratitude or failure. It's what I call divine discontentment, a profound developmental signal that your current reality has become too small for your emerging self. Through the story of Patricia, a successful CEO wrestling with this very phenomenon, we explore how this sacred ache serves as a compass pointing toward growth and greater meaning. Drawing on affect theory and...
Send us a text A sleepless night in Washington DC with an aching back became the catalyst for a profound realization: everything we believe about aging might be wrong. As I lay there wrestling with physical discomfort and society's negative scripts about getting older, I experienced a moment of clarity that would transform not just my own perspective, but potentially our collective understanding of adult development. From this awakening emerged the concept of Latalescence – a revolutionary f...
Send us a text Beneath the words we exchange in relationships lies a hidden language—a rhythmic dance between nervous systems that shapes our connections more powerfully than what we say. This episode ventures into the fascinating world of Dynamic Vitality Affects (DVAs), the subtle patterns of timing, pacing, and movement that determine whether we feel safe, connected, or understood with our partners. Have you ever felt instantly disconnected from someone without knowing why? Noticed that c...
Send us a text What if your body is already telling you what matters and your mind keeps talking over it? We dive into a clear, usable map for change that starts with the feeling system—the fast, sensory guidance that marks relevance before you can think a thought. Instead of treating emotions as problems to crush or content to perform, we show how sensations like tightness, heat, or collapse point to concrete needs: repair, protection, rest, or a new role entirely. We take a frank look at s...
