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The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
by Maggie Sterling
Can't stop overthinking, emotional eating, or numbing out? You're not broken—you're disconnected from your body. The Real Work helps women break chronic stress, anxiety, and burnout by addressing root causes, not symptoms. Host Maggie Sterling combines neuroscience and nervous system regulation to help you stop self-abandonment, build self-trust, and feel safe in your skin. No toxic positivity—just practical tools for rewiring your brain, regulating emotions, and coming home to yourself. Deep transformation for women ready to stop escaping and start living.
Episodes
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57 - I'm Over The Self-Help Industry (what im doing instead)
14 day challenge (started 10/12/26): https://softregulationsystem.com/challenge Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If you've read all the self-help books and listened to all the...
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56 - How To Heal Your Nervous System When Nothing Has Worked
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If you've tried everything to heal your nervous system and nothing has worked, this video is for you. I dealt with chronic anxiety for 20 years,...
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55 - Why Your Nervous System Won't Let You Sleep
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If you have chronic insomnia, or you wake up at 3am and can't fall back asleep, there's a good chance your nervous system is sensitized and stuck…
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54 - You've been making your anxiety worse without even knowing it
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If you've had anxiety for a while, there's a good chance you've been making it worse without knowing it. It happens automatically the second a...
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53 - Why Your Nervous System Won't Let You Think Straight
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. Anxious thoughts, intrusive thoughts, and rumination are symptoms of a sensitized nervous system, the same way physical symptoms are. In this video…
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52 - 3 Reasons Your Nervous System Won't Regulate
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. Your nervous system won't regulate, and the tool you picked isn't the reason. Meditation, breathwork, supplements, cold plunges: if you've tried…
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51 - The Biggest Lie About Nervous System Regulation
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. Nervous system regulation doesn't work for everyone, and the reason has nothing to do with how hard you're trying. If you've done the breathing...
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50 - Healing Became Your Whole Personality (And It's Keeping You Stuck)
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. You've spent years trying to heal your nervous system, calm your anxiety, and finally feel better — but you're still waiting to actually live your...
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48 - 3 Things You Don't Realize Are Overstimulating You
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. Three everyday things are overstimulating your nervous system without you even noticing, and they're the ones that feel like relaxing. You can do...
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47 - Why your chronic pain wont go away
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If your chronic pain or symptoms won't go away no matter what you've tried, the answer may be in your nervous system. What keeps chronic pain going...
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46 - How To Finally Heal Your Chronic Pain (and other symptoms) with Dr. Howard Schubiner
Buy the book "Unlearn Your Pain": https://amzn.to/3RFTxho Follow Dr. Schubiner on Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/hschubiner/ https://www.facebook.com/hschubiner/ Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous...
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44 - What Your Symptoms Are Really Trying To Tell You
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. If you've been trying to decode every symptom — chest tightness, flares, intrusive thoughts, dizziness — searching for the hidden meaning your body...
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45 - What Nobody Tells You About Brain Retraining (When You're Already Sensitized)
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. Brain retraining is being prescribed to the people it makes worse. If you have a sensitized nervous system and you've been doing brain retraining —...
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43 - 5 Signs Your Nervous System Is Causing Your Pain (and other symptoms)
Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz 5 signs your nervous system is causing your chronic pain, anxiety, gut issues, dizziness, fatigue, and other symptoms doctors can't explain. If…
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42 - 5 Subtle signs your nervous system is actually healing
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Nervous system healing rarely looks like what you think it should. For 20 years I waited for the day I'd wake up calm, symptom-free, and finally "fixed." That day never came. What did happen was much quieter —…
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41 - I'm Addicted to Being OFF My Phone (It made my symptoms disappear)
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Your phone is sensitizing your nervous system. If you have chronic anxiety, chronic pain, or symptoms that won't shift no matter what you try, your screen time may be the layer of work you haven't addressed yet....
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40 - Can AI Help You Heal Your Nervous System?
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Can AI help you heal your nervous system? ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have become the go-to for people dealing with anxiety, chronic pain, and chronic symptoms — but my honest opinion on whether you should be...
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39 - How to reset a hypersensitive nervous system
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz A hypersensitive nervous system can be reset. But not the way most people are teaching it. In this video, I'm showing you what actually works when your system is so sensitized that every sensation feels like an...
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38 - How to Get Your Partner to Support Your Healing (It's Not What They Think)
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz If you're in the middle of nervous system healing, you've probably wondered how to get your partner to actually understand what you're going through — and what real support looks like when nothing they do seems…
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37 - I'm terrified of my symptoms—how to respond differently even when it feels impossible
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Nervous system sensitization makes responding differently feel completely impossible — and that feeling is lying to you. If you know what you're supposed to do but can't make yourself do it when symptoms are…
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36 - Why Is Nervous System Healing So Slow? (the pattern keeping you stuck)
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz If you feel like you've been doing everything right and you're still not getting better, this episode is for you. Maggie spent over a decade stuck in nervous system sensitization — and a lot of that time was…
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35 - I don't have insomnia anymore. Here's the thing I had to change to heal.
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz If you've tried every sleep hack, supplement, and routine and you're still not sleeping — this is the video you've been looking for. I struggled with chronic insomnia for 20 years. It got so bad in 2023 that I...
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34 - You're Way Beyond Nervous System Dysregulation | 5 Signs To Look Out For
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz If you've tried everything for your anxiety or chronic symptoms and nothing is working, your nervous system might be sensitized — not dysregulated. These are two very different things. Most nervous system…
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33 - My anxiety and pain stole my life. This is how I got it back.
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz I tried everything. Therapy, EMDR, IFS, ketamine, supplements, psychedelics, hormone testing — 20 years of effort, and my anxiety kept getting worse. Then a dental injury led to chronic nerve pain, health OCD,...
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32 - Deep Breathing Is Making Your Anxiety Worse
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz If you have chronic anxiety or physical symptoms that won't go away, you've probably been told to breathe through it. Box breathing, the physiological sigh, meditation — and maybe it helps for a minute, or maybe...
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31 - The Scariest Anxiety Symptom Nobody Talks About
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Most anxiety symptoms are scary. But there's one that's different — and almost nobody talks about it. It doesn't just feel like fear. It feels like certainty. Like something is genuinely, seriously wrong with…
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30 - You'll Never Rewire Beliefs Until You Do This First
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz If you've been doing thought work, journaling, affirmations, or mindset shifts and your nervous system isn't changing — this video explains why. When your nervous system is sensitized, the part of your brain...
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29 - Medication, Withdrawal, and Nervous System Desensitization (What's Actually Happening)
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz If you're dealing with nervous system sensitization and medication is part of your story — whether you're currently on it, actively tapering, or in full withdrawal — this video is for you. Maggie breaks down the...
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28 - 3 Things I Stopped Telling Myself to Heal
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Everyone asks me what they should be saying to themselves when anxiety hits. After years of chronic anxiety and nervous system sensitization — and hitting rock bottom in a psychiatric hospitalization — I…
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27 - 20 Years Of Anxiety Ended When I Did This
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz I dealt with anxiety for 20 years. I tried every modality, every therapist, every supplement, every hack. Nothing worked long-term. In this video, I'm sharing what finally healed my anxiety — and why it was the...
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26 - 5 Things You Shouldn't Do If Your Nervous System Is Sensitized
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz If your nervous system is sensitized, the things you instinctively want to do are probably making it worse.In this video, I'm sharing 5 things I would stop doing immediately if I were in the thick of…
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25 - Why You're Always Exhausted (And Rest Doesn't Help)
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Your exhaustion isn't laziness—it's your nervous system running survival operations 24/7. In this video, I explain the two hidden energy drains keeping you depleted and why the beginning of healing feels the...
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24 - Why Your Nervous System Got Stuck In Survival Mode (And Won't Turn Off)
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz You didn't develop chronic anxiety from one traumatic event. You got stuck in a sensitization loop—where your nervous system learned to stay vigilant even when the threat was gone. In this episode, I break down...
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23 - Dr. Brad Fanestil, MD | This Is How You Heal Anxiety and Chronic Pain
In this episode, Dr. Brad Fanestil—a medical doctor with 30 years of experience—explains how chronic pain and anxiety can actually be healed, not just managed. If you've been told you just need to "learn to live with it," this conversation will challenge everything you thought you knew about...
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22 - The Missing Step in Nervous System Work
Most nervous system advice is missing something critical — and it kept me stuck for years. If you've tried everything (the breathing exercises, the tapping, the vagus nerve resets, the meditation) and nothing seems to work… you're not broken. You might just be using the wrong tools for where your...
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21 - 3 Things to Avoid When Healing Your Nervous System
Get my nervous system sensitization course You're doing all the "right" things — the breathing exercises, the meditation apps, the journaling — and you're still anxious. Still wired. Still can't relax. Here's the thing: some of the habits you think are helping are actually keeping your nervous...
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20 - What Acceptance Actually Looks Like (It's Not What You Think)
Get my nervous system sensitization course You've heard that acceptance is the key to healing. But when you try to "accept" your symptoms, nothing changes. That's because acceptance isn't something you do—it's what happens when you stop doing. In this episode, I'm breaking down what acceptance...
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19 - How I Quiet My Anxious Mind in 7 Seconds
Get my nervous system sensitization course I used to have one anxious thought hijack my entire day. Now it passes in about 7 seconds. In this episode, I'm sharing the shift that made this possible—and it's not a breathing technique or a hack. It's understanding the difference between being…
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18 - Why Therapy Wasn't Enough (What No One Told Me)
Get my nervous system sensitization course For years, I was doing everything therapy told me to do… and somehow, I was still getting worse. More panic. More symptoms. More fear. More confusion. It didn't make sense. Until it finally did. In this episode, I'm sharing the part of healing that talk...
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17 - You're Not Lazy, You're Overstimulated
Feeling lazy, exhausted, and overstimulated? You're not lazy—your nervous system is maxed out. Learn why you're tired all the time even when you "haven't done anything" and how to rebuild capacity. If you've been calling yourself lazy because you can't seem to make yourself do anything, this...
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16 - 20 Years of Insomnia Healed. Why Didn't Anyone Tell Me This?
Do you dread nighttime? Does your heart race the moment the sun goes down because you're terrified you won't sleep again? In this episode, I'm sharing my personal journey with insomnia — a battle that started when I was 15 years old and consumed my life for over two decades. I'll walk you through...
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15 - Is Your Nervous System On Overdrive Without You Knowing?
If you're constantly moving like your house is on fire, bracing for impact, or collapsing exhausted every evening - your nervous system is running on overdrive. This episode breaks down why childhood conditioning, unresolved trauma, and urgency addiction keep you in chronic stress mode, plus...
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14 - Radical Acceptance: What Finally Worked for My Chronic Anxiety
Radical acceptance is the missing piece in healing chronic anxiety and nervous system dysregulation. After 20 years of struggling with anxiety, trying therapy, EMDR, brain scans, and every treatment available, acceptance became the breakthrough that changed everything. In this episode, Maggie...
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13 - How to Rewire Your Brain When You Feel Stuck
Do you feel completely stuck in your thinking patterns and emotional reactions? You wake up every day knowing you want to change, but somehow you keep ending up in the same stress loops, the same autopilot behaviors, and the same survival mode responses. Here's what most people don't understand:...
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12 - Stop Healing. Start Living.
You've been journaling, meditating, researching, and trying everything to feel better—but somehow you're more exhausted than ever. If healing has started to feel like a full-time job, you're not alone. In this episode, we break down why the constant focus on "fixing" yourself might be the exact...
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11 - How to Change Before You Hit Rock Bottom
Most people wait until they're desperate to make a change - until the health scare, the rock bottom moment, or the crisis that forces their hand. But here's what nobody talks about: changing from desperation is so much harder than changing from inspiration. In this episode, we're exploring the…
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10 - Why You Keep Quitting Your Habits (And How to Make Them Stick)
Struggling to stick to your habits? It's not about discipline or willpower. Here's why you keep quitting habits and the one mindset shift that makes following through effortless. Most people approach habits wrong - chasing streaks, perfection, and arrival points. But habits aren't about...
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09 - How To Actually Heal Your Nervous System
You've been trying to calm down by talking to yourself, using logic, and telling yourself you're safe. But no matter how much you reason with yourself, your body stays stuck in stress mode. That's because your nervous system doesn't speak the language of words and thinking—it speaks through...
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08 - 4 Ways To Challenge Your Negative Self-Talk
Do you ever catch yourself saying cruel things in your head that you'd never say to anyone else? That harsh inner voice might feel automatic, but it's costing you more than you realize. In this episode, we break down why negative self-talk keeps you stuck and how it's directly connected to your...
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07 - The Real Secret to Self-Confidence
Why do some people seem naturally confident while others struggle despite achieving everything they thought would make them feel secure? This episode breaks down the hidden blocks that keep you stuck in self-doubt, even when you've "made it" on paper. We explore how overthinking, people-pleasing,...
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Can't stop overthinking, emotional eating, or numbing out? You're not broken—you're disconnected from your body. The Real Work helps women break chronic stress, anxiety, and burnout by addressing root causes, not symptoms. Host Maggie Sterling combines neuroscience and nervous system regulation to help you stop self-abandonment, build self-trust, and feel safe in your skin. No toxic positivity—just practical tools for rewiring your brain, regulating emotions, and coming home to yourself. Deep transformation for women ready to stop escaping and start living.
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