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The Brain Dump
Welcome to The Brain Dump with Sandy Boone. This is THE podcast for healers who need a space to take care of themselves.
Episodes
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The Mineral Files Part 6: Everything Your Doctor Didn’t Tell You About Zinc | Episode 37
Flu season is here. The zinc lozenges are on every pharmacy shelf. Your coworker has been taking zinc since 2020 and swears she never gets sick anymore. So you…
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The Mineral Files Part 5: Everything Your Doctor Didn’t Tell You About Copper | Episode 36
Imagine feeling emotionally flat. Not depressed exactly — more like the volume on everything has been turned down. Tired in a way that doesn’t respond to more…
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The Mineral Files Part 4: Everything Your Doctor Didn't Tell You About Potassium | Episode 35
Your TSH looks fine. Your blood work looks normal. And you still feel exhausted, slow, cold, and foggy. Here is what almost nobody tells you. Your thyroid may…
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The Mineral Files Part 3: Everything Your Doctor Didn't Tell You About Sodium | Episode 34
Everyone told you sodium was the enemy. Your doctor said watch your salt. Every nutrition label flags it like a warning sign. The entire public health…
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The Mineral Files Part 2: Everything Your Doctor Didn't Tell You About Calcium | Episode 33
You were told to take your calcium. Drink your milk. Protect your bones. What nobody told you is that calcium without its cofactors is calcium without…
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The Mineral Files Part 1: Everything Your Doctor Didn't Tell You About Magnesium | Episode 32
Welcome to the Mineral Files — a new series where Sandy goes through the minerals on a hair tissue mineral analysis one by one, explaining what they do in the…
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Individual Accountability as Distraction: What the Mental Health System Gets Wrong About Tragedy | Episode 31
This week Sandy made a CPS report. In the process, she discovered that a previous report had already been made by someone else — and nothing had happened. Not…
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The Root Cause Nobody Found: How Black Mold, a Functional Medicine Hour, and One Question Changed Everything | Episode 30
Sandy knew something was wrong before she said it. She reached for a word — a simple, familiar noun — and what came out instead was a description. She called…
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A Therapist's Reflection on Dolly Parton and Human Dignity
Imagine being born in a room with no electricity and becoming the light that no one wanted extinguished. Dolly Parton died on August 25th, 2026, at 80 years…
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What Pharmaceutical Research Taught Me About the Power of the Therapeutic Relationship | Episode 28
Before Sandy was a therapist, she spent 12 years in pharmaceutical research. And it was there — not in graduate school, not in a textbook — that she first…
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The Neurological Truth About Joy — And Why Burned Out Healers Can't Access It | Episode 27
A little girl decided on her own — in her own time — that she felt safe enough to stay the night. No pressure. No nudging. Just a small, quiet, completely…
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Why Talk Therapy Alone Isn't Enough: The Physiological Gap | Episode 26
There is a man Sandy knows peripherally who has been to counselor after counselor. In person, telehealth, retreats, multiple modalities, multiple clinicians…
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Slow Is Fast: What Somatic Experiencing Actually Teaches You About Feeling Safe | Episode 25
This week Sandy received her SEP — her somatic experiencing practitioner certification. Four years of training. Hundreds of hours of consultation. Personal…
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When Life Goes Sideways: What Nervous System Regulation Actually Looks Like in Real Life | Episode 24
This is not the clean version. This is not the Instagram version where someone has a hard week and comes out the other side with a beautiful lesson and a…
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What to Actually Do When Your Nervous System Is Dysregulated — A Practical Guide from a Licensed Therapist | Episode 23
Get your HTMA testing done with Sandy: https://sandyboone.thrivecart.com/htma-testing/ Sandy has spent a lot of episodes telling you why. Why you're burned…
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The Grift vs. The Science: A Trained Clinician's Response to the Wellness Industry Critique | Episode 22
Sandy has been reading. Specifically, she has been reading Matt Hussey at The Brink — two pieces called Sick for Profit: How Wellness Podcasting Sells the Cure…
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I Left Corporate America and Rebuilt It With My Own Hands: What I Wish I'd Known Before Building My Practice | Ep. 21
Sandy left corporate America to build something different. Something meaningful. Something that reflected who she actually was. Something that felt like…
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Watch Your Character: What Doing the Right Thing Actually Costs | Episode 20
There's a quote hanging in Sandy's therapist's office. Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your…
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Why Your Nervous System Work Isn't Working: The Mineral Depletion Nobody's Testing For | Episode 19
Have you ever felt exhausted in a way that sleep doesn't fix? You're eating reasonably well. You're resting. You're managing your stress as best you can. And…
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Somatic Experiencing & Chronic Pain: Trauma and the Body | Episode 18
Sandy was recently asked to speak on a workman's compensation panel about somatic experiencing — and she is bringing that same depth of expertise directly to…
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Leaving Insurance Panels as a Therapist | Episode 17
Do you know how much control your insurance panels actually have over your practice? Not your clinical decisions. Not your treatment approach. Your business —…
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The Difference Between Regulation and Numbness — And Why It Matters for Healers | Episode 16
What if your nervous system isn't fragile? What if you are not too sensitive — you are just living in a time where the input never stops? The world is loud…
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The Door I Stopped Holding Open: An Honest Conversation About Family Estrangement | Episode 15
My father came to my son's graduation. I didn't call him after. And I never heard from him again. That is not a dramatic story. There was no explosion, no…
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The Patterns Keeping Therapists Burned Out and Clients Stuck — And How to Do Better | Episode 14
This is not a therapist-bashing episode. Sandy is a therapist. She cares deeply about this field. Which is exactly why she is saying something. Because when…
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Grandmama: The Rage She Held and the Voice She Gave Me | Episode 13
Sandy was born screaming. Her mother looked across the delivery room and said — she has your mother's temper. She wasn't wrong about what she saw. She just…
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The Hunger to Be Seen: Human Connection, AI Intimacy & What We're Trading Away | Episode 12
When was the last time you felt truly seen? Not complimented. Not heard in the surface-level way where someone nods while thinking about what they want to say…
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Therapist Burnout, Invisible Wins, and the One Thing That Keeps You in This Field | Episode 11
Nobody told you it would feel this invisible. You went into this work because it mattered. And it still does. But somewhere between the hard cases, the…
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Why You Can't Turn Your Brain Off: The Truth About Overthinking & Nervous System Safety | Episode 10
If you've ever said "I'm just an overthinker" like it's a personality trait you were born with — this episode is going to reframe everything. Sandy Boone…
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Raw Dogging Life: Why You're Exhausted and What Your Nervous System Actually Needs | Episode 9
Have you been "raw dogging it" — pushing through life with no real support, no nervous system tools, and sheer willpower as your only fuel? You're not alone…
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You're Not Too Much — You've Just Been in the Wrong Rooms | Episode 8
Have you ever been told you're too much — too emotional, too intense, too sensitive? Or maybe no one said it directly, but you learned it anyway through…
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The Wellness Trap: When Healing Feels Like a Full-Time Job You're Bad At | Episode 7
Have you ever tried to do everything right for your health — and somehow ended up more stressed than when you started? In this episode, Sandy talks about what…
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What Is Neurofeedback? How Brain Training Helps Healers Regulate Their Nervous System | Episode 6
If you've ever said "I know better, but I still can't do better" — this episode is for you. In this episode of the Brain Dump, Sandy Boone breaks down…
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What Regulation Actually Feels Like (And Why High Achievers Miss It) - Episode 5
Most of us have never actually felt regulated — and that's exactly the problem. In this episode of the Brain Dump, Sandy breaks down what nervous system…
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Medical Mistrust, ADHD, and the Nervous System Response | Episode 4
Before we begin, I want to be clear: this episode is not medical advice, and it’s not about bypassing safety protocols. This is a nervous system–informed…
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Insight Isn’t Enough: Why Self-Aware Therapists Still Struggle | Episode 3
If insight were enough, the smartest and most self-aware people wouldn’t be struggling this much. That’s the anchor for today’s episode. I tend to surround…
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Healer Burnout, Neurodivergence & the Nervous System | Episode 2
Are you actually burned out… or is your nervous system doing exactly what it was designed to do? In this episode of The Brain Dump Podcast, I share a simple…
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From Medical Field to Mental Health: A Therapist’s Journey into Root-Cause Healing | Episode 1
Welcome to the very first episode of The Brain Dump. I wanted to start this podcast by telling you who I am, where I came from, and why this space…