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The Dark Side with Verity is a raw, real podcast about healing, transformation, and the moments that change everything. Hosted by Verity Coonan, founder of VIDYA Breathwork™, this show dives deep into Breathwork, somatics, and Nervous System healing.
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- Sep 27, 2026
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Why Your First Reaction to Good News Is Doubt (It's Not You, It's a 100-Millisecond Reflex) (opens the original)
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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 real variable isn't which emotion fires first, it's how fast you can train the override and why that matters every time someone you love shares big news and your first instinct is to list the risks. Prac
Cortisol Isn't the Enemy: Why I Stopped Fighting My Body's Natural Rhythm (opens the original)
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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 what actually changed when she stopped outsourcing her routine to other people's protocols. Plus: the trap of healing becoming your whole identity, why isolating yourself in the name of wellness backfire
One Breath, Instant Calm: The Science of the Physiological Sigh (opens the original)
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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 alveoli, how the long exhale triggers your vagal brake, and three ways to use it, daily practice, real-time reset before a hard conversation, and sleep onset. Five minutes, no equipment, works before you fin
Regulate Before You Manifest (opens the original)
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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 responsible for planning, follow-through, and goal pursuit , goes offline. Not metaphorically: measurably. She walks through why regulating your nervous system has to come before you chase a goal, not as d
The Ick I Get From Breathwork Facilitators (opens the original)
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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 you check once, it's an ongoing practice that has to happen before you ever hold space for someone else's nervous system and why "elite," not "perfect," is the standard she trains facilitators to. Topics
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