Mindfully Yours Podcast

About Mindfully Yours Podcast

Welcome to the Aging Fiercely Podcast! 💋 Who says life over 40 means slowing down? We’re here to flip the script on aging! Forget the scale and the “summer body” obsession—it’s about building strength, changing the narrative, and experiencing more wild adventures! Midlife isn't a crisis - it's a comeback! 👊 amcostanzo.substack.com (https://amcostanzo.substack.com/s/aging-fiercely-podcast?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

AM Costanzo

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 May 2023

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

142 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Overthinking and Overfunctioning? Retrain Your Brain and Settle Your Nervous System | Cameron Allen

   What if the brain fog, the overwhelm, and that feeling of "I don't even know who I am anymore" aren't proof that something is wrong with you or that you need fixing? In this episode, I sit down with Cameron Allen, founder of Neuro Progeny, to talk about what's happening in the nervous system when we feel overwhelmed and anxious, and why that dysregulation can intensify during perimenopause and menopause. Cameron's path started with his brother, who struggled with depression after a series of head injuries. When a neurotherapy program brought him back, Cameron spent the next 22 years testing brain-based interventions and built XRegulation, an at-home program that uses virtual reality and heart rate variability biofeedback to help regulate the nervous system. It's designed to reconnect your mind and your body, because when we tune into how our bodies feel, we gain so much more awareness of our thoughts, behaviors, and patterns. We talk about why the nervous system's bigger job is conserving energy by predicting what happens next, how shifting estrogen, oxytocin, and GABA can leave women feeling disconnected from themselves, and why the vagus nerve offers another way back to that connection. What your nervous system wants is flexibility, the ability to bounce back from an emotional moment without it lingering in your body for days. He calls it state fluidity. In this conversation: The moment Cameron's brother came back, and why it became Cameron's life's work Why your nervous system runs on prediction, and what happens when it gets it wrong How the hormonal cycle gives women access to different brain states, and what shifts in perimenopause What heart rate variability is Why an argument can linger in your body for days A simple way to feel oxytocin in your body right now Why feeling slightly frustrated is part of how the brain learns How "I'll slow down when..." turns into a busy identity Asking "How do I want to feel today?" before you get out of bed Finding your three true self words and making decisions from them How the five-week XRegulation program works, from the home headset to weekly coaching with Cameron Why every state you've lived through is an asset as you age Connect with Cameron Allen: Website: neuroprogeny.com (https://neuroprogeny.com/) Instagram: @neuro_cameron (https://www.instagram.com/neuro_cameron/) Book a free 30-minute consultation with Cameron through the website. Connect with AM: Website: amcostanzo.com (https://www.amcostanzo.com/) YouTube: amcostanzowellness (https://www.youtube.com/@amcostanzowellness) Substack: Aging Fiercely (https://amcostanzo.substack.com/) Instagram: aging.fiercely (https://www.instagram.com/aging.fiercely/)

2. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Unresolved Trauma: How It Affects Our Behavior, and How Safety Opens the Door to Healing

   What do you do when what you've always done stops working, and you catch yourself saying, "I don't know who I am anymore"? In this episode, I sit down with Ramona Kossowan, Canada's first certified Gentle Trauma Release practitioner, certified women's empowerment coach, and fitness trainer, to talk about how unresolved trauma affects our behavior in midlife, often without us realizing it, and how safety opens the door to healing. Ramona's answer is that for most of us, the nervous system is driving our behavior, beliefs, relationships, and sense of worth through adaptations we formed in response to trauma. She defines trauma as distress without resolve, and it isn't only the big events. It can be a slow erosion of your sense of self. Because we may not connect what we're feeling to trauma at all, she starts with our symptoms and when they began, often around a period like a falling out with a child or parent, or years of caring for an elderly relative. From there, her work starts with safety, the foundation that opens the door to healing. Subtle nervous system exercises give the body the message that it's safe, and that’s when the body shows what it's ready to release. As the distress comes down, a memory loses its intensity and the way we see things begins to shift on its own. Ramona notes this is a complementary method, not a replacement for medical treatment. We also get into the identities we take on to survive, why she looks at shame before she talks about food, and her advice for anyone who wants to age fiercely: don't accept limits that were pushed on you. We discuss: Why so many women reach a breaking point in midlife Trauma is defined as distress without resolve Why we may not realize our patterns are trauma-based Why safety comes before release How nervous system exercises work The identities we take on to survive: mother energy and daughter energy Why fitness comes later, and movement that feels joyful Advice for aging fiercely: don't accept limits that were pushed on you Connect with Ramona Kossowan: Website: ramonakcoaching.com (https://ramonakcoaching.com/) Gentle Trauma Release: gentletraumacoach.com (https://www.gtrpractitioners.com/ramonakossowan/) Facebook: Ramona K Coaching (https://www.facebook.com/RamonaKCoaching) Instagram: @ramonakcoaching (https://www.instagram.com/ramonakcoaching/) LinkedIn: Ramona Kossowan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramona-kossowan-380ba66a/) YouTube: Ramona K Coaching (https://www.youtube.com/@ramonakcoaching) Free Resource: Is it Trauma? Explore the often overlooked symptoms of trauma: Gentle Trauma Assessment (https://ramonakcoaching.com/gentle-trauma-assessment/) Free Resource: When food feels chaotic, who's running the show? Find your Food Archetype: Food Archetype Opt-in (https://ramonakcoaching.com/Food-Archetype-Opt-in) Connect with AM: Website: amcostanzo.com (https://www.amcostanzo.com/) YouTube: amcostanzowellness (https://www.youtube.com/@amcostanzowellness) Substack: Aging Fiercely (https://substack.com/@amcostanzo) Instagram: aging.fiercely (https://www.instagram.com/aging.fiercely/)

3. 

   15 Sept 2026

   How Somatic Movement Heals What Words Can't with Allison Pagano

   Why don't affirmations work, even when you say them every day? In this episode, I sit down with Allison Pagano, founder of Embodied Dance®, to talk about what happens when you finally let your body back into the conversation — and it comes down to somatic movement. Allison's own path into somatic movement started in her twenties, when she was in what she describes as a depressed, shut-down state and struggling with an eating disorder. A class with an indigenous teacher during a study-abroad year in Australia introduced her to chakras and energy work for the first time, and it cracked open a question she's been chasing ever since: what is my body actually trying to tell me? We get into how to tell a limiting belief apart from your body's genuine no, why affirmations don't work when there's an unresolved belief underneath, and how she uses movement as medicine to help people release what's stuck. She also talks about her own body of work, informed by what she calls the Collard Method, which links specific areas of the body to specific emotional patterns. And she doesn't shy away from the bigger point underneath all of it: why disconnection from your body makes you easier to control, and how reclaiming that connection is its own kind of power. In this conversation: How an eating disorder in her twenties led her to found Embodied Dance How to tell a limiting belief apart from your body's genuine "no" Why affirmations don't work when your body doesn't believe them Why certain body areas hold certain emotional patterns Why disconnection from your body makes you easier to control What a somatic movement session actually looks like Why she works with small groups of five or six people, by design Who the "quiet rebels" are that she mentors into leadership Her one piece of advice for a woman looking to age fiercely Connect with Allison Pagano: FREE TRAINING: The Body as Oracle: Awakening the Teacher Within — a free live class on Oct. 23, 2026  for the "quiet rebels" ready to step into their next chapter. embodied-dance.com/body-as-oracle (http://embodied-dance.com/body-as-oracle) (check website for accurate start time - she’s in Sydney Australia.) Website: embodied-dance.com (http://embodied-dance.com) Instagram: @embodied.dance (https://www.instagram.com/embodied.dance/) Connect with AM: Website: amcostanzo.com (http://amcostanzo.com) YouTube: amcostanzowellness (https://www.youtube.com/@amcostanzowellness) Substack: Aging Fiercely  (https://substack.com/@amcostanzo) Instagram: aging.fiercely (https://www.instagram.com/aging.fiercely/)

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