Expanding Your Capacity for Stress and Growth with Karen Canham

Stress isn’t just a badge of honor — it’s a signal. In this powerful conversation, Jeanne Collins sits down with Karen Canham, founder of Karen Ann Wellness, to unpack how chronic stress lives in the body, shapes our behaviors, and quietly impacts our long-term health. From navigating male-dominated corporate environments to launching her own neurosomatic coaching practice, Karen shares how somatic experiencing, parts work therapy, and breathwork can expand our capacity for stress and help us return to a state of flow. This episode is a grounded, science-informed look at nervous system regulation, emotional resilience, and what it really means to “take it down a notch” in a world that glorifies hustle.Karen's Book Recommendation:Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You AreMore about Karen:Karen Canham is a Board-Certified Coach, Specialist in NeuroSomatics and founder of Karen Ann Wellness, where she helps individuals and organizations move from stress and reactivity to regulation. Her path to this work has been a journey in itself. Over the past 18 years, Karen has evolved from fitness and nutrition coaching into yoga, functional medicine, meditation, energy work, and ultimately, somatic and parts work therapy exploring every layer of what it means to truly heal. After years in corporate leadership, including roles within Fortune 50 and tech companies, she began to see a pattern: even the most capable people were living in a state of chronic stress, disconnected from their bodies and their truth. That realization led her to nervous system regulation as the missing link between striving and sustainable well-being.Karen’s approach is both deeply personal and practical. Having recovered from anorexia and years of disconnection from her own body, she understands that healing begins with safety, not self-discipline. Through her coaching, workshops, and trainings, she teaches people how to regulate, reconnect, and rebuild from the inside out leading, communicating, and creating from grounded presence and self-trust rather than survival.www.karenannwellness.com Instagram @karenann_wellness Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenannwellness/🎓 Empowerment Fundamentals Course: Use Code PODCAST15 for a 15% discounthttps://members.houseofjermar.com/empowerment-course📖 Read Jeanne's Book: Two Feet In: Lessons From an All-In Lifehttps://a.co/d/7Hyrc8m🔗 Follow Jeanne!https://houseofjermar.comhttps://instagram.com/houseofjermar/https://youtube.com/@Houseofjermar