Heal This

About Heal This

Welcome to Heal This – the podcast for anyone ready to stop merely surviving and start transforming. I'm Brooks Ann Ruff, Holistic Transformation Guide, and I believe healing isn't about fixing what's broken. It's about reconnecting with who you truly are. Each episode blends psychology, body-based healing, energy medicine, intuition, mindfulness, and honest conversations to help you move beyond stress, trauma, limiting beliefs, and emotional pain. Together, we'll explore the connection between mind, body, and spirit while giving you practical tools you can use in everyday life.

Publisher

Brooks Ann Ruff

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Feb 2024

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

60 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026

   You Matter: 9 Keys to Deep Vitality with Dr. Deborah Zucker

   What if taking care of yourself wasn’t another thing to add to your to-do list? In this episode of Heal This, I sit down with Dr. Deborah Zucker, naturopathic physician, therapist, health coach, and award-winning author of The Vitality Map, to talk about what it really means to create a life of deep vitality. We explore Deborah’s Nine Keys to Deep Vitality, including honoring your unique life, facing your shadows, strengthening self-awareness, cultivating resilience, aligning with your YES, creating boundaries, allowing yourself to receive support, and ultimately learning to live like you matter. And that last one really got me. Because self-love isn’t just saying, “I love myself.” It’s how we live. It’s what we say yes to. It’s what we say no to. It’s allowing ourselves to rest. It’s listening when our body, emotions, and intuition are trying to tell us something. Sometimes healing isn’t about doing more. Sometimes it’s about slowing down enough to hear yourself again. We also talk about burnout, nervous-system regulation, community, self-care, comparison, letting go of expectations, and having the courage to prune away what is draining our life energy so we can make room for what actually belongs. If you’ve been feeling depleted, stuck, overwhelmed, or simply disconnected from yourself, I hope this conversation reminds you: You matter. Your energy matters. Your needs matter. Your life matters. And maybe your next step isn’t to push harder. Maybe it’s to come back to yourself. ***In the episode I reference someone I was listening to that talked about group therapy and how much it help her. It was Sarah Snow. IG @iamsarahsnow - when self work doesn't work I just signed up for her bootcamp. So helpful! More Information about Dr. Deborah Zucker, please go check her out, she is amazing!!! https://vitalmedicine.com/ 🎙️ Listen now to Heal This: You Matter — 9 Keys to Deep Vitality with Dr. Deborah Zucker. Music licensed through Soundstripe. Code: BDVTKFXZMZDHJN4I

2. 

   30 Sept 2026

   You Can’t Thrive While You’re Trying to Survive: Your Nervous System, Intuition & the Power of the Pause

   You cannot thrive if you are just trying to survive. Let’s talk about your nervous system. And don’t worry, I’m going to “Basic Brooks” it. The nervous system can get complicated FAST. Sympathetic. Parasympathetic. Vagus nerve. Enteric nervous system. Neural pathways. Fight, flight, freeze, fawn... But what if we brought it back to something much simpler? Do I feel safe right now? Your nervous system is constantly taking in information from the world around you. It is sensing, scanning, responding and trying to protect you. And when we spend too much time in fight or flight, that state can start to feel normal. We react instead of pause. We repeat old patterns. We cope instead of process. We stay in survival mode without even realizing we're there. And this matters for more than stress. I believe our nervous system, subconscious mind and intuition are constantly communicating. When we can slow down, ground ourselves, breathe, reconnect with our bodies and create a sense of safety, we make space to hear ourselves more clearly. In this episode of Heal This, I'm breaking down the nervous system in the simplest way I can. We talk about fight, flight, freeze and fawn, the power of the pause, why our brains keep taking familiar paths, what regulation can look like, and some simple tools you can actually use when your system feels overwhelmed. And yes, I bring back my tall-grass story, because sometimes healing is exactly like creating a new path through a field where you've never walked before. The first few times may feel uncomfortable. But every time you choose differently, you begin creating a new path. Practice becomes your practice. And eventually, survival doesn't have to be the path you automatically take. You can pause. You can regulate. You can listen. You can receive. You can choose differently. Because we're not here just to survive. We're here to thrive. 🎧 Listen to the newest episode of Heal This and tell me: What helps your nervous system remember, “I'm safe. I'm okay”?

3. 

   9 Sept 2026

   From Passion to Purpose: Pets, entrepreneurship and Healing with Toni Shelaske

   Host interviews entrepreneur Toni Shelaske about her journey from pet care passion to building successful businesses and embracing reinvention.

Who has been a guest on Heal This

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• Toni Shelaske
• Dr Ebru Karpuzoglu
• Dr Ebru
• Kim Rose
• Kristen Bauer

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

4,302

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 70 / 100

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Quality

89

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

60

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