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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53 - Why Your Nervous System Won't Let You Think Straight
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Aug 28 8 min
52 - 3 Reasons Your Nervous System Won't Regulate
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Aug 17 6 min
51 - The Biggest Lie About Nervous System Regulation
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Aug 17 9 min
50 - Healing Became Your Whole Personality (And It's Keeping You Stuck)
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Jul 27 6 min
48 - 3 Things You Don't Realize Are Overstimulating You
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Jul 17 6 min
47 - Why your chronic pain wont go away
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Jun 13 11 min
46 - How To Finally Heal Your Chronic Pain (and other symptoms) with Dr. Howard Schubiner
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Jun 5 50 min
44 - What Your Symptoms Are Really Trying To Tell You
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If you've been
May 26 11 min
45 - What Nobody Tells You About Brain Retraining (When You're Already Sensitized)
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May 26 19 min
43 - 5 Signs Your Nervous System Is Causing Your Pain (and other symptoms)
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May 13 10 min
42 - 5 Subtle signs your nervous system is actually healing
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Nervous system healing rarely looks like what you think it should. For 20 years
May 8 17 min
41 - I'm Addicted to Being OFF My Phone (It made my symptoms disappear)
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Your phone is sensitizing your nervous system. If you have chronic anxiety, chro
May 1 21 min
40 - Can AI Help You Heal Your Nervous System?
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Can AI help you heal your nervous system? ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have becom
Apr 28 25 min
39 - How to reset a hypersensitive nervous system
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A hypersensitive nervous system can be reset. But not the way most people are te
Apr 21 17 min
38 - How to Get Your Partner to Support Your Healing (It's Not What They Think)
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If you're in the middle of nervous system healing, you've probably wondered how
Apr 14 41 min
37 - I'm terrified of my symptoms—how to respond differently even when it feels impossible
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Nervous system sensitization makes responding differently feel completely imposs
Apr 7 18 min
36 - Why Is Nervous System Healing So Slow? (the pattern keeping you stuck)
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If you feel like you've been doing everything right and you're still not getting
Mar 30 17 min
35 - I don't have insomnia anymore. Here's the thing I had to change to heal.
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Mar 25 16 min
34 - You're Way Beyond Nervous System Dysregulation | 5 Signs To Look Out For
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If you've tried everything for your anxiety or chronic symptoms and nothing is w
Mar 21 14 min
33 - My anxiety and pain stole my life. This is how I got it back.
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I tried everything. Therapy, EMDR, IFS, ketamine, supplements, psychedelics, hor
Mar 17 11 min
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I came to listen since I am such a big fan of Maggie and the Why We Overeat podcast. I wasn’t ready to have such a breakthrough moment by episode 2. I’ve been going through a cancer journey with my husband, who has terminal stage 4 colon cancer and somehow I didn’t associate all those stressors (on top of the usual work and family stress) with an increase in my migraines, brain fog and dysfunctional calming/coping mechanisms like scrolling and eating. I was attributing it to personal failures and flaws. I am renewed in my gratitude for finding you and your message. I see peace is truly possible in spite of the circumstances. Thank you, Maggie and Ryan.
GudGollyMrsMolly · Sep 2025
Maggie does a great job of pointing out root causes- sometimes tough love, but needed and helpful!
ljh913 · Sep 2025
Take some time to listen to this podcast. You’ll be glad you did! Encouraging, motivating, convicting and inspiring are just a few adjectives to describe the content. Maggie and Ryan have the hearts of a teacher. They care deeply and truly desire to help others.
mousse queen · Sep 2025
I’ve listened to Maggie and Ryan for years on their first podcast, and I’ve also relistened and relistened because of the incredible lessons that they’ve shared. Their first podcast went through many iterations, always with a weight loss theme, but carrying an underlying message so much more powerful and mindset-centered. I’ve cried, I’ve been inspired, and I audibly sighed “thank GOD” when Maggie announced she has a new podcast and wouldn’t be leaving this space entirely. The Real Work feels like we’re finally coming home. Maggie is coming home to her authentic self and her passion for holistic coaching, and her day-one listeners are coming home to the powerful truth that we need to shed our attachment to the simple goal of weight loss and instead partner with our mind, body, and spirit to do THE REAL WORK of falling in love with who we are and rebuilding trust with and connection to ourselves. I can’t wait to see what this podcast reveals about myself as I listen along. Never stop podcasting, Maggie and Ryan. And thank you for everything. 💕
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