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The Real Work with 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…
Episodes
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
64 - 6 Things I Thought Were My Personality (But Were Actually Survival Mode)
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. I've been…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
62 - How To Become The Person Without The Problem
Get my nervous system sensitization course If you've dealt with chronic anxiety, chronic pain, or long-term physical or mental symptoms, this one might be hard…
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61 - I Wish I Knew This When My Symptoms Were At Their Worst
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're…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
60 - Does Your Nervous System Need A Digital Detox?
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…
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59 - How Brett Healed His Nervous System (DPDR, POTS, OCD, Anxiety)
Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz. In this…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
58 - 10 Tiny Habits To Heal a Hyper Sensitive Nervous System
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…
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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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
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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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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/…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
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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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
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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…
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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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
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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…
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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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
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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…
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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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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 Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
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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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
06 - How to Stop Letting Other People Ruin Your Day
Discover why your triggers are actually pointing you back to yourself, not at others. Learn the difference between top-down and bottom-up approaches to…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
05 - How I Used Meditation To Change My Life
Are you stuck trying new self-help tools, meditation apps, and personal development programs but seeing zero lasting results? You download the latest…
- The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
04 - Decompressing Without Coping Mechanisms
Do you find yourself automatically reaching for your phone, a snack, or a drink the moment you walk through the door after work? You're not alone - evening…
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03 - Symptom Chasing and How To Actually Heal From Anxiety
Do you find yourself constantly trying to fix your anxiety symptoms, only to feel more frustrated and stuck? You're not alone if you've spent countless hours…