Welcome to Calm & Brave in a Chaotic World.
I'm Bella Dodds, and I'm going to be sharing the best of what I've learned after being in the healing arts for the past 20 years. I'll be teaching you different coaching exercises on how you can balance your perspective if you're going through a challenging time, and how to use your adversity to bring out the best in you and change your life for the better. You'll also learn different breathing exercises and guided meditations to calm your nervous system down and activate your inner healer. There's so much to dive into, so let's get to it!
Bella xo
Overview: Fierce Love for Self Series + Bonus Exercise
Today’s episode offers an overview of the Fierce Love for Self series—bringing clarity around when and how to use the different tools you’ve learned. A key question to ask yourself when you are emotionally flooded is: What do I need right now? Asking this question strengthens your intuition and directs you to the most effective tool to help you regulate your nervous system and connect to love. There is also a bonus exercise teaching how to stay with difficult emotions for longer periods...
19 Dec 2025
Cortisol vs Dopamine Stress Response
This episode offers a different angle in our Fierce Love for Self series—and it’s an important one. Every challenge you face triggers one of two dominant biological responses: cortisol or dopamine. And the difference isn’t the challenge itself—it’s how you perceive it. When a challenge is perceived as stressful, the body shifts into a cortisol-dominant stress response. This shows up as anxiety, overwhelm, catastrophic thinking, procrastination, or shutdown. Energy drops. Clarity disappears. T...
20 Nov 2025
Fierce Love for Self: Part 3
In Part 3 of this series, we will explore Conditional Love vs Unconditional Love for yourself. If you love yourself conditionally, your inner foundation becomes shaky. Instead of having love at your core (the feeling that you have your own back no matter what), your inner-critic steps in and makes every challenge far more painful than it needs to be. In today’s episode, we explore the transformative power of Fierce Unconditional Love — the kind of love that loves you through your fear, pain a...
6 Nov 2025
Fierce Love for Self: Part 2
In our chaotic and challenging world, being able to have a safe, secure place within yourself is life-changing. A core foundation of this is having a fierce, unconditional love for yourself on the deepest level. (And not in an airy-fairy way. I’m speaking of an unconditional love for yourself on the deepest level—including the parts you like and the parts you don’t like about yourself.) In this 3-part series, we begin with how to connect to the state of Unconditional Love that is always withi...
17 Jul 2025
Fierce Love for Self: Part 1
In our chaotic and challenging world, being able to have a safe, secure place within yourself is life-changing. A core foundation of this is having a fierce, unconditional love for yourself on the deepest level. (And not in an airy-fairy way. I’m speaking of an unconditional love for yourself on the deepest level—including the parts you like and the parts you don’t like about yourself.) In this 3-part series, we begin with how to connect to the state of Unconditional Love that is always withi...
19 Jun 2025
1. I Am Calm: 5-Minute Exercise
The host leads listeners through a brief guided meditation, utilizing breath and thought to achieve calmness and activate inner healing.
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