Combative Calm

About Combative Calm

This isn’t your sugary, sweet, diabetes-inducing healing podcast. This is Combative Calm—where nervous system regulation meets rage rituals, somatic releases, and spicy affirmations laced with f-bombs to unfck your trauma responses. Hosted by Sarai Speer—a trauma-informed yoga + meditation teacher, somatic healer, and high-energy bitch who tells it like it is—this show delivers real tools, not toxic positivity. It’s trauma-informed, nervous system-rooted healing for the emotionally constipated, burnout-curious, high-functioning humans who are done pretending they’re fine. It’s time to regulate your shit.

Publisher

Sarai Speer

Category

education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

7 Aug 2025

Latest episode

25 May 2026

Latest episodes

19 of 68 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   25 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   FINAL EPISODE (of the Season)

   Host Sarai shares her raw experience with treatment-resistant depression, distinguishing intrusive thoughts from suicidal plans, offering listeners permission to function while struggling.

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   27 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Coming Home: A Guided Meditation for the Body You Have Been at War With

   Host Sarai guides listeners through a meditation to foster acceptance and presence with their bodies, offering a path to self-compassion.

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   27 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Getting Back Into a Body You Have Been at War With

   This episode contains discussion of body image, body dysmorphia, eating disorders, sexual assault, and addiction. Please take care of yourself as you listen. If you are currently struggling with an eating disorder, please reach out to the National Alliance for Eating Disorders at 1-866-662-1235. Sarai gets completely honest in this one. About being sexually assaulted and what that did to her relationship with her body. About using an eating disorder and addiction to numb out and disconnect. About going to treatment and lying in restorative yoga and feeling the weight of her back on a bolster for the first time and thinking what the actual fuck. This is what it feels like to be in my body. She also gets into what happened last year. Getting sick for a month with no answers. Losing her father in November. And fighting every day to not go back down the spiral she knows so well. This episode also goes deep on the science. What the default mode network actually is and what brain imaging research shows about how it functions differently in people with eating disorders. What interoceptive awareness is and why it gets disrupted. And why understanding the neuroscience of this is not about fixing it. It is about stopping the self-blame long enough to get the right help. The somatic tools in this episode are not a treatment for an eating disorder. They are what Sarai reaches for when the pulling starts. Small moments of contact with a body you have been running from. Nothing more and nothing less than that.

Inside a recent episode

FINAL EPISODE (of the Season)

Published 25 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And I wanna encourage you that if you are struggling Reach out to a safe person, whether it's a friend, whether it's a partner, whether it's a therapist, whether it's me and my DMs, although it is difficult for me to keep up with my DMs sometimes. One thing I do know that has really been a solidifying statement in my life is, and maybe I'm going to share this because maybe you need to borrow it. I am not allowed to make a permanent decision based on a temporary feeling. And one of the things that I know throughout my neuroscience work and work with the brain and the nervous system is an emotion lasts 90 seconds. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

83 ratings

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