HeyJaredThe Wired for Well-Being Podcast
Wired for Well-Being is a podcast devoted to viewing our lives through a nervous system perspective—so we can better understand what’s really happening inside us and how to shift it.Hosted by Dr.
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Get Out of the Worry Loop by Getting Into Your Body (opens the original)
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When the problems are real — a home slipping away, a business at risk, a chronic illness — the mind can loop on them day and night, even through meditation. Jeffrey explains why rumination is driven by an activated nervous system rather than the size of the problem, and why trying to stop the thoughts or force positive thinking tends to make them louder. A conversation about quieting the loop through felt safety and self-compassion, and why what helps most may not be a stronger technique but a g
The Way Out When You Just Can't Move Forward (opens the original)
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In this episode of Wired for Well-Being, Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein takes on a paradox at the center of nervous system healing: the practices that lift us out of shutdown all require energy, and shutdown is the state that takes energy away. A listener navigating complex PTSD describes episodes of severe fatigue that flatten him for weeks at a time and asks how to mobilize. Jeffrey begins where few would — suggesting the fatigue itself may deserve a medical look, since chronic illness runs high among t
Your Burdens Are Stealing Your Joy — Here's Why (opens the original)
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Peter has lived with chronic low-level depression most of his life, and he’s found a breathing practice that shifts his mood in minutes — it just never lasts. Jeffrey looks at why the relief keeps slipping and what feeling burdened is actually protecting him from, tracing it back to the nervous-system roles many of us learned early in life. A conversation about the difference between finding a tool that works and building a nervous system that can hold onto it.
Moving from Resentment to the Grief Underneath (opens the original)
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Resentment can last fifty years and still feel justified. Responding to a listener in her 70s who has resented her ten younger siblings since childhood, Jeffrey looks at what resentment protects us from feeling, and why a closed heart shuts us out of ourselves as much as it shuts out everyone else. A conversation about the difference between holding someone responsible and staying angry at them — and how little regulation it takes to start looking underneath.
Moving from Fighting Your Anger to Working With It (opens the original)
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Anger rarely arrives alone, and it’s almost never the whole story. Using Steve’s recent experience of betrayal by a friend, Jeffrey walks through his four pillars of anger — disappointment, hurt, unfairness, and injustice — and explains why shame so often turns anger inward before it can be understood. A conversation about what actually sits underneath anger, and how little regulation it takes to begin working with it.
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