The Real Work with Maggie Sterling

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57 - I'm Over The Self-Help Industry (what im doing instead)

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Oct 1
25 min

56 - How To Heal Your Nervous System When Nothing Has Worked

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Oct 1
19 min

55 - Why Your Nervous System Won't Let You Sleep

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Sep 17
20 min

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 had

Sep 8
6 min

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)

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 spent y

Jul 27
6 min

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 everyda

Jul 17
6 min

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 chron

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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May 26
11 min

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 retrai

May 26
19 min

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 your n

May 13
10 min

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 years

May 8
17 min

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 anxiety, chro

May 1
21 min

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 have becom

Apr 28
25 min

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 are te

Apr 21
17 min

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 wondered how

Apr 14
41 min

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 imposs

Apr 7
18 min

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The best part about Maggie’s work is her blend of practical knowledge and application recommendations. She’s willing to say “I feel this is because…” without limitation. Maggie’s been making sense for a long time and she keeps getting better.

ap1437_ · Feb 2026

I found this podcast through YouTube, and I want to show my support here, too. I really love her very practical approach. I especially appreciate that she’s a mom and knows firsthand the demands that caretaking puts on the nervous system. I also love that she doesn’t lean too heavily into scientific data or spiritual concepts. As fascinating as those perspectives are, I’ve found that they take me out of my body and more into my mind and my default overthinking state. Maggie focuses on the real in-the-moment, on-the-ground opportunities - where life actually HAPPENS - to practice acceptance and regulation. I can feel the difference this information has been making in my life.

crazysexycoolhanny · Jan 2026

What a gift from God Maggie is to the nervous- community. I’ve learned things from her that I’ve never been taught in a decade of anxiety and insomnia. From the bottom of my heart, thank you, Maggie. Keep making content.

Mama, party of 7 · Dec 2025

Usually what you need to hear. I really appreciate Maggie’s direct, no nonsense way of talking and explaining things. You can tell she’s empathetic, but she’s not here to coddle you. I think we all need more of that. It’s also refreshing that she’s not trying to sell you anything, offer quick fixes, or cheap hacks. The only minor complaint I have is that she and her husband are Dodgers fans. Sincerely, a sad Brewers fan.

sje0929 · Dec 2025

I appreciate her foundational message. But the constant sales pitch for her overpriced course, is irritating. A lot of redundancies. While purposely obfuscating specific helpful ideas in order to lure hurting individuals into the expensive program. I also find Sterling’s incessant, fast talking, and finger pointing delivery, anxiety inducing!

M.I.WOLF · Jun 2026

I’ve listened to the first two episodes and I have to say I’m not impressed. The second episode was just ranting about a Tick Tock trend and why it wouldn’t work. I don’t disagree with her assessment, but her presentation was awful. Using phrases like “you people do this/that” comes across as judgmental and arrogant. I would have benefited from more discussion about what to do instead rather than how awful this trend was and why. It was like she was having a one sided argument. Although from what she hinted at, perhaps she was responding to an argument that started somewhere else. This response would have been better suited to that platform then. I don’t feel inclined to continue listening even if I feel she might have good info. Someone else will have the same and present it in a much more positive light.

SeekerCons · Dec 2025

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