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VIDYA with Verity
by Verity Jo Coonan
Breathwork, somatic healing, and nervous system regulation, real conversations about what it actually takes to transform.VIDYA with Verity is a podcast hosted by Verity Coonan, founder of VIDYA Breathwork™. Each episode goes deep into breathwork facilitation, trauma healing, grief, resilience, and the inner work behind building a life that's genuinely yours.Raw. Real. From the inside out.New episodes every Monday. Subscribe and breathe deep.
Episodes
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The Year You Stopped Being Yourself (And How to Find Your Way Back)
There's a specific age most of us quietly stopped shining, Verity pinpoints it to year four, the moment self-belief starts bending to what other people think is "right." This episode is about the courage it takes to be visible now: online criticism from people too scared to be criticised...
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Why Your First Reaction to Good News Is Doubt (It's Not You, It's a 100-Millisecond Reflex)
You're not more negative than your positive friend, you're running the same hardware. Verity breaks down negativity bias: the fast neural shortcut that flags threats before your conscious brain even registers what happened, and why everyone defaults to worst-case-first, not just some people. The...
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Cortisol Isn't the Enemy: Why I Stopped Fighting My Body's Natural Rhythm
Every wellness podcast has a rule for you, exercise at 3pm, drink water at this time, eat like this. Verity breaks down why she ignored a "best time to exercise" study and trained at 8am instead, why cortisol isn't something to eliminate but to work with (spike it early, wind down by night), and...
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One Breath, Instant Calm: The Science of the Physiological Sigh
There's a breathing pattern your body does involuntarily every five minutes and done on purpose, it beat meditation, box breathing, and cyclic hyperventilation for cutting anxiety in a 2023 Stanford study. Verity breaks down the physiological sigh: why the double inhale re-inflates collapsed...
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Regulate Before You Manifest
Verity breaks down the actual neuroscience behind why goal-setting fails when your nervous system reads threat, even the low-grade, chronic kind (inbox stress, money stress, an overdue hard conversation). When your body allocates resources to survival circuitry, the prefrontal cortex, the part...
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The Ick I Get From Breathwork Facilitators
Verity gets honest about something that's been building for a while: the "ick" she feels watching breathwork facilitators film themselves mid-session for content, and what that says about whether they're actually present with the client in front of them. She breaks down why self-work isn't a box...
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99% of Your Fights Aren't About Them
You're not actually mad at your partner, your kids, or your business. You're mad because you haven't nourished yourself in weeks and you're taking it out on whoever's closest. In this episode from Vidya with Verity, Verity breaks down why almost every blowup traces back to a depleted nervous...
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Stop Outsourcing Your Decisions: What Discernment Actually Looks Like
After a couple of months of changing up her content, Verity returns with a recap, what's actually been happening, and what her clients are bringing her right now as August burnout hits. She unpacks discernment: knowing which thoughts are actually yours versus everyone else's noise, why having...
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Why You Self-Sabotage Income When You're Dysregulated
Why do you sabotage your own income right when things start to work? It's not a character flaw, it's a survival pattern, and this episode opens the money series by tracing it back to the nervous system, not to a lack of discipline or self-belief. Verity looks at how dysregulation shows up as...
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When You've Done the Work and Still Don't Feel Legit
You've done the therapy. The breathwork. The inner work. And the imposter feeling still shows up the moment something bigger is on the line. This episode explains why the work doesn't always reach the feeling, the real gap between intellectual knowing and somatic knowing, and the concept of the...
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The Messy Middle Is the Point, Not the Problem
You're not stuck between two identities by accident, the messy middle is where new patterns actually get built. This episode breaks down why rushing to resolve the ambiguity backfires, and why your nervous system reads "not knowing who you are yet" as danger even when it's just growth in…
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The Identity Collapse That Precedes Every Real Growth Leap
There's a version of falling apart that looks like nothing from the outside, no crisis, no collapse, just a quiet sense that you don't know who you are anymore. This episode names that experience as identity collapse: not a breakdown, but the necessary dissolution that precedes real…
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The Body Holds the Blueprint: How Somatic Work Changes Who You Think You Are
Who you are isn't just in your head, it's in your shoulders, your jaw, your breath pattern, your posture. This episode makes the case that identity is somatic: built and held in the body long before it's built in thought. Verity introduces interoception, the sense that lets you actually feel…
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Why Your Old Friends Don't Fit Anymore When You Heal: The Grief Nobody Warns You About
One of the least talked about costs of healing: the relationships that no longer fit. Not because anyone did anything wrong, because your nervous system changed, and resonance shifted with it. This episode walks through the co-regulation science behind why your system chooses different company as...
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Your Nervous System Has a Ladder. Here's How to Climb It: Polyvagal Theory in Plain English
You've heard "regulate your nervous system." But do you actually know what state yours is in right now? In this episode, Verity Coonan breaks down polyvagal theory the way it was meant to be understood, felt, not just studied. She maps the three states that determine how safe you feel, how...
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The Neuroscience of Chronic Vigilance: When Your Nervous System Never Turns Off
Most high-achievers don't identify as stressed. They identify as driven, focused, and switched on. But underneath the performance, something else is running, a nervous system locked in chronic activation, quietly accumulating a cost that doesn't show up until it has to. In this episode, Verity...
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Why the most ambitious thing you can do right now is feel safe
In this episode, Verity Coonan challenges the idea that safety is passive and makes the case that it is, in fact, the most ambitious thing you can choose right now. If you're high-achieving, driven, and quietly exhausted, this one is for you. We get into what chronic threat response actually does...
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What Happens in a Millionaire's Body Right Before They Level Up
You've done the work. You've built something real. So why does your body feel like it's shutting down right when the next level is right in front of you? This isn't a mindset problem. It isn't fear of success. It's a nervous system event — and the mechanism is the same whether you're about to…
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The 3 Minutes That Saved My Life: VIDYA App Turns One
One year ago, Verity was on the floor of her bedroom in Darwin. Eleven years a Breathwork facilitator, and frozen out of her own practice. Dorsal shutdown. The oldest survival circuit in the body pulling the plug. In this episode, Verity tells the story of the three minutes that brought her back.…
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Certified But Clueless: The Facilitator Industry Is Broken
The wellness industry has a problem nobody wants to say out loud. People are getting certified to facilitate breathwork in a single weekend, and people are getting hurt. In this episode, Verity walks through what a 14-week trauma-aware certification actually covers versus what a weekend program...
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Why Meditation Doesn't Work (And What Your Nervous System Actually Needs)
Tomorrow is World Meditation Day, and most of what you've been told about meditation is wrong for the state you're actually in. In this episode, Verity breaks down why stillness without regulation can make you feel worse, not better. The polyvagal theory piece your meditation app didn't mention....
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Breathwork Isn't Woo, It's Anatomy
The breath is the only autonomic function you can consciously control which makes it the most direct access point you have to your nervous system. In this episode, I'm talking to the part of you that's a little skeptical. The part that thinks breathwork is just fancy deep breathing with a…
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You're Not Tired Because You're Doing Too Much . You're Carrying Too Much
You had a normal week. You didn't work crazy hours. You slept okay. So why are you bone-deep exhausted by Friday? In this episode of The Dark Side with Verity, we unpack the exhaustion epidemic nobody's naming properly, the one that has almost nothing to do with how much you're doing and…
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When Healing Becomes Content: The Ethics of Vulnerability in the Wellness Industry
There's a version of the wellness industry that genuinely changes lives. And there's a version that quietly exploits the very thing it claims to heal. This episode isn't about fake gurus or obvious over-claiming. It's about something far more subtle and far more common. It's about what happens…
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Imposter Syndrome Is a Nervous System Problem. Here's How to Fix It
If you've ever delivered a great session, got incredible feedback, and still gone home convinced it was a fluke, this episode is for you. Imposter syndrome isn't a mindset problem. It isn't a confidence problem. And no amount of affirmations, credentials, or "fake it till you make it" is going to...
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How Your Nervous System Is Keeping You Broke | Breathwork for Money & Regulation
In this episode of The Dark Side with Verity Coonan, we explore how your nervous system may be the very thing limiting your income, business growth, and ability to receive. Financial blocks aren’t just mindset issues, they’re survival responses stored in the body. Through real-life experiences,...
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From Burnout to Breath: Trauma Healing, Business Growth & Finding Your Style
In this episode of The Dark Side with Verity, we go deep into what it really takes to rebuild yourself from burnout, anxiety, and trauma… to clarity, creativity, and business. Trina from @james_boutique shares her journey of: Starting a boutique and designing her own clothing line Navigating...
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Love, Books & Building Community with Sarah from Book Besties
In this episode of The Dark Side with Verity, Verity sits down with Sarah, founder of Book Besties Darwin, a growing community and lifestyle brand bringing women together through their love of books. What started as a simple love of reading has turned into a powerful community where women…
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Going Slow Is Not Falling Behind
In this episode of The Dark Side with Verity, Verity Jo Coonan explores why going slow is often the most intelligent nervous system strategy available. In a culture that rewards urgency and intensity, she explains how speed can override safety and why true capacity is built through steadiness…
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The Nervous System of the Facilitator
In this episode of The Dark Side with Verity, Verity Jo Coonan explores the often-overlooked foundation of powerful facilitation: the Nervous System of the person leading the room. She explains why technique, scripts, and intensity mean very little if the facilitator’s own body is dysregulated.…
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Regulated Doesn’t Mean Passive
In this episode of The Dark Side with Verity, Verity dismantles the myth that nervous system regulation makes you soft, slow, or less ambitious. She explains how true regulation sharpens leadership, strengthens boundaries, and increases decision-making clarity. A regulated system does not remove...
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Discernment Is the Real Skill
We talk a lot about depth in Breathwork, healing, and facilitation, but far less about discernment. In this episode, Verity explores why knowing when to guide, when to pause, and when to do nothing is one of the most important skills a facilitator can develop. This conversation goes beyond...
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When Healing Becomes a Performance
In this episode of The Dark Side with Verity, Verity Jo Coonan explores what happens when healing stops being private and starts becoming something to perform. In a world where inner work is increasingly documented, filtered, and shared, Verity speaks to the quiet pressure to always appear…
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The Cost of Holding Space
In this episode, Verity Jo Coonan explores the real cost of holding space and how that cost changes as capacity grows. Holding space is one of the most powerful skills a facilitator, coach, therapist, parent, partner, or friend can develop. But when it’s done without nervous system support,...
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Variation Equals Resilience: HRV, Breathwork & Nervous System Health
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) isn’t about how deeply you breathe, it’s about rhythm, regulation, and safety in the body. In this episode, Verity Jo Coonan breaks down what HRV actually measures, why it’s one of the strongest markers of longevity and nervous system health, and how Breathwork…
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Permission to Move On: Grief, Dreams & the Breath That Holds Us
Grief doesn’t end, it expands. In this deeply personal episode, Verity Jo Coonan shares a raw reflection on living with grief fourteen years after the death of her partner. She speaks to what it means to experience life “backwards,” how loss reshapes priorities, and why acceptance isn’t about...
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Safety Over Intensity: Why Regulation Heals More Than Peak Experiences
In this episode, Verity Jo Coonan explores a powerful reframe in healing and Breathwork: intensity does not equal transformation, safety does. In a wellness world that often glorifies peak experiences, emotional release, and catharsis, Verity invites a slower, more honest conversation about what...
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Certification Doesn’t Make You Safe: The Truth About Trauma-Informed Breathwork
In this episode, Verity Jo Coonan speaks openly about one of the most important and often avoided conversations in the breathwork space: safety. - Not safety as a checkbox. - Not safety as a certification. But safety as something that is lived, embodied, and practiced. Drawing from personal...
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The Lighthouse Principle: Why Powerful Leaders Stop Chasing and Start Holding
In this threshold episode of The Dark Side of Verity, Verity Jo Coonan invites you to slow down, breathe, and meet yourself in stillness. Inspired by the Lighthouse Principle, this is not a “how-to” conversation it’s an embodied reflection on leadership, boundaries, nervous system authority, and...
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Mum Rage, Shame & Nervous System Healing: The Truth About Modern Motherhood
Motherhood, mum rage, guilt, grief and… Breathwork. In this episode, Verity sits down with shadow work + Breathwork coach Steph Beers, mum of three, to talk honestly about what really happens behind closed doors in modern motherhood. They dive into: Mum rage, shame and yelling (and why you’re not…
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End-of-Year Clearing: Rage, Reflection & Rewriting Your Future
In this episode, Verity guides listeners through her end-of-year ritual, a powerful process of releasing, reflecting, and preparing the body for what’s next. As 2025 comes to a close, she shares the mixed feelings that come with looking back on a rollercoaster year while craving new energy and a...
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Why Nothing Actually Triggers You: The Mirror Episode
In this episode of Dark Side of the Verity, we dive deep into one of the most powerful teachings you can integrate into your life:Nothing actually triggers you, everything simply reflects what’s asking to be healed.As we move through the chaos, closeness, and emotional charge of the holiday…
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Attachment, Attraction & The Energetics of Who We Choose
In this episode, Verity reflects on what turning 41 has opened in her, the honesty, the softness, the truths she can’t avoid anymore. She shares how this year pushed her to close loops in her business, prepare for the future she wants, and finally get real about love, relationships, and the...
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If You Don’t Go In, You Go Without: Hannah’s Journey from Panic to Purpose with Breathwork
Verity sits down with VIDYA Facilitator Graduate, Hannah, a former corporate high-achiever who stumbled into a Breathwork class after a panic attack and walked out with a new path. They unpack Nervous System safety, why so many of us “hide” in our 30s, the power of community in healing, and the...
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Pregnant, Brave and Building: Shauna on Breathwork, Grief and Creating a Business That Grows With You
Verity drops in with three grounding breaths and welcomes Shauna, VIDYA Facilitator graduate, an Irish Breathwork + mindset coach based in Perth, who casually reveals she’s 24 weeks pregnant. They unpack how Breathwork helped Shauna process lifelong grief, open a spiritual side she didn’t know…
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4·7·8 Breath - Calm in Under 3 Minutes
Exhale the noise, inhale your Nervous System reset. This guided 4·7·8 practice slows your heart rate, softens tension, and signals safety to your body in under three minutes. Perfect before bed, between meetings, or anytime your mind is racing. A gentle drop-in to orient your body to safety 4·7·8...
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VIDYA Daily: 5-Min Nervous System Resilience Reset
This practice isn’t just breathing, it’s Nervous System training. When we use structured Breathwork daily, especially in short intentional bursts like this, we’re teaching the body how to move between sympathetic activation (stress response) and parasympathetic regulation (rest, repair, clarity)...
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Letting Go of the Good Girl
In this episode of The Dark Side with Verity, Verity Jo Coonan explores what it really means to let go of the “good girl” conditioning so many of us carry. From school systems that reward compliance, to the pressure of being perfect in every role, mother, partner, business owner, this ingrained...
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The Nervous System of Your Business
In this episode of The Dark Side with Verity, Verity explores the often-overlooked connection between your Nervous System and the way you run your business. From launching offers to responding to clients, your energy speaks louder than your words. Verity shares how regulation, resilience, and…
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When Breath Isn’t Enough: The Layers of True Healing
In this episode of The Dark Side with Verity, host Verity Jo Coonan shares why Breathwork, though powerful, is only the beginning of a layered healing journey. She explores the importance of safety in the body, the role of tools like journaling, tapping, toning, and community, and why integrating...
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Breathwork, somatic healing, and nervous system regulation, real conversations about what it actually takes to transform.VIDYA with Verity is a podcast hosted by Verity Coonan, founder of VIDYA Breathwork™. Each episode goes deep into breathwork facilitation, trauma healing, grief, resilience, and the inner work behind building a life that's genuinely yours.Raw. Real. From the inside out.New episodes every Monday. Subscribe and breathe deep.
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Breathwork, somatic healing, and nervous system regulation, real conversations about what it actually takes to transform.VIDYA with Verity is a podcast hosted by Verity Coonan, founder of VIDYA Breathwork™. Each episode goes deep into breathwork facilitation, trauma healing, grief, resilience, and...
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