Creative Self Care With Crystal McLain

About Creative Self Care With Crystal McLain

You're not broken. You're burned out, dysregulated, and running without a manual. Creative Self Care with Crystal McLain is a podcast about nervous system literacy, radical self-reclamation, and what it actually looks like to take care of yourself in a world designed to exhaust you. Crystal McLain is a somatic practitioner and nervous system educator who is passionate about empowering women with stress and trauma education, and practical tools for reclaiming their energy, agency and fucks in life. She delivers truth, humor, and science without the toxic positivity, spiritual bypassing, or bullshit. This is self-care as resistance. And you're in the right place.

Publisher

Crystal McLain

Category

education · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

3 Nov 2021

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

55 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   LESSON 2 -Self-Care Myths, Turning Stress Into Strength

   Send us Fan Mail You know, life... It sure does have a way of throwing us curveballs. So, Amy and I had this immaculate plan to meet weekly-ish to recap our experiences as we made our way through each lesson of the course Turn Stress Into Strength. Then, more than three weeks passed before we could meet again. Zoinks. In short, Amy was trying to beat the clock, and deal with bots while trying to secure an unstable housing situation. And I was navigating the grief and loss of my beloved fur ba...

2. 

   6 Sept 2026

   Ready or Not, Here I Go. Turning Stress Into Strength

   Send us Fan Mail We’re worn down by perimenopause-level tired, broken sleep, pet caregiving, and the relentless stress of living right now, so we decide to stop guessing and start testing a real framework. We kick off a 23-lesson journey to turn stress into strength by building body literacy, deeper self-awareness, and simple tools we can actually use when our nervous systems are shutting down. • naming the stacked causes of exhaustion and burnout • recognising nervous system shutdown and w...

3. 

   15 Aug 2026

   Numbness + Shutdown Reclaiming your energy & agency after chronic stress & trauma

   Send us Fan Mail We talk about numbness, shutdown, and functional freeze as a nervous system state of hypoarousal that can make life feel flat and hard to engage with. We challenge the “I’m lazy” story and share a practical reframe that helps you start getting back online in your body. • defining numbness, shutdown, functional freeze, and hypoarousal • why the brain avoids effort, change, and challenge even when they seem “good” • how loss of follow-through blocks walks, hob...

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

530

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

56

Social presence

0

YouTube

66

Engagement

60

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