Nervous System Care & Healing

About Nervous System Care & Healing

A podcast about how to take care of our nervous systems while we navigate systems that were designed to keep us dysregulated. Hosted by Liz Zhou, a neurodivergent therapist of color. If you’re a highly sensitive or neurodivergent person — or have always felt different from others, like you belong nowhere — then I hope this podcast will feel like a “welcome home” for you. Here, we approach difference with curiosity, not judgment. We affirm that there is nothing “wrong” with you, that none of us are broken — but the systems around us are. If you’re curious about individual healing & collective liberation, this podcast is for you. Join us as we heal our nervous systems & take good care of ourselves and each other. You are welcome here.

Publisher

Liz Zhou

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Jan 2026

Latest episode

18 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

37 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Oct 2026

   The Link Between Creativity, Healing, & Collective Liberation [Replay]

   What if we saw creativity as not just a nice-to-have extra thing, but as an essential part of the human experience, the healing process, and the work of collective liberation? We are all creative beings (yes, even if you think you’re “bad at art” or “not creative”). In this episode, I’ll explore the link between creativity, healing, & collective liberation. 01:48 Creativity can look so many different ways - from picking an outfit for the day to knitting a sweater to singing a song 04:33 Creativity is a part of healing - individual & collective 06:12 Creativity is a way to connect to Self 07:26 Creativity is a shared experience with community 08:34 Creativity is a means of pattern disruption, allowing the brain to build neuroplasticity 11:24 Creativity is an antidote to toxic perfectionism, challenging capitalistic standards of productivity 13:14 Creativity is a means of hope & world-building 15:48 How do you experience creativity? The intention of this episode is to inspire you to be your most creative Self. Quote: “Creativity is a stepping stone to world-building. It is the ability to look around us, to challenge the parts of the status quo that are not working, and to come up with something different and hopefully better.” 🌿 About the Host Liz Zhou is a neurodivergent therapist of color, coach, & speaker based in Colorado & Oregon (MA, LPC, she/her). She helps highly sensitive, neurodivergent adults & couples heal their nervous systems and connect with their authentic selves. Her specialties include: Brainspotting, EMDR, IFS, Psychedelic Integration, & Nervous System Intensives (deep-dive, accelerated therapy). Liz’s services are available online in CO & worldwide. 🌿 RESOURCE >> Explore art as resistance: www.rebelyellcreative.com/library (https://www.rebelyellcreative.com/library) 🌿 Connect with Liz >> Join my weekly newsletter, where I share insights on how to understand your brain & take care of your nervous system: Liz’s Neurodivergent Letters (http://www.seasonsofgrowthcounseling.com/newsletter) >> Follow on IG: www.instagram.com/liz.holistic.therapist (http://www.instagram.com/liz.holistic.therapist) >> To work 1:1 with Liz: learn about Nervous System Healing Intensives here (https://www.seasonsofgrowthcounseling.com/brainspotting-ifs-nervous-system-intensive) (focused sessions to help you heal deeply & connect with your authentic self) 🌻

2. 

   12 Oct 2026

   How to Access Your Intuition (to Live a More Joyful Life), w/ Nanae Ito

   What is intuition, how does it work, and how can accessing our intuition help us live more joyful & fulling lives? Join me & Nanae as we unpack these questions - with thoughtfulness & nuance. Nanae shares about her journey as a therapist & social worker who was completely skeptical about things like intuition, souls, & higher self - to actually becoming an intuitive & energy healer herself. If you’ve ever struggled with feeling stuck, in despair, or depressed - like something is off in your energy or in your life, but you can’t figure out why or where to go from here - I invite you to listen to this episode. You might enjoy the practical & insightful reflections that come up in this conversation. Topics covered: How do you define intuition? 04:50 What’s the difference between intuition & a conditioned bias toward something? 08:14 Personal experiences that helped Nanae understand how intuition works 11:13 Why listening to your intuition is not the same thing as feeling your emotions (& why it’s easy to mix up these two experiences) 17:37 How intuition can help you live the life that you’re uniquely designed to live (aka: what we lose if we don’t use our intuition) 19:20 What if someone doesn't believe in intuition, higher self, or the soul? Would intuition still “work” for them? 23:23 How intuition can help us move through despair & depression 27:34 What’s the difference between mental health counseling & intuitive healing? What happens if we bring these two different paradigms in conversation with each other? 30:45 Practical ways to access your intuition - so you can live a more joyful & fulling life 36:39 How Nanae takes care of her nervous system as an intuitive healer: the power of breath 41:54 🌿 About the Guest Nanae Ito (she/her) is a trained intuitive and energy healer with a background in social work and mental health therapy. At the heart of it, she is a teacher that makes spiritual truths about the Universe digestible and understandable to the every day person. She sees this knowledge as the key to reclaiming their inherent ability to resolve life's problems and create a life that they were uniquely designed for, on a soul level. She works mainly with people who are in states of despair, like depression and overwhelm, to direct them back to their own brilliance, power, and intuitive gifts. 🌿 Connect with Nanae >> Visit Nanae’s website to sign up for her newsletter: www.kokokaratherapy.com (http://www.kokokaratherapy.com/) >> Nanae offers complimentary webinar Q&As to dive deeper into topics like intuition, creation and manifestation. Registration links are shared through her newsletter. 🌿 About the Host Liz Zhou is a neurodivergent therapist of color, coach, & speaker based in Colorado & Oregon (MA, LPC, she/her). She helps highly sensitive, neurodivergent adults & couples heal their nervous systems and connect with their authentic selves. 🌿 Connect with Liz >> Join my email newsletter: Liz’s Neurodivergent Letters (http://www.seasonsofgrowthcounseling.com/newsletter) >> IG: www.instagram.com/liz.holistic.therapist (http://www.instagram.com/liz.holistic.therapist)

3. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Embracing Cycles & Seasons to Deconstruct from Capitalism

   If you’ve ever criticized yourself for being “lazy,” “unproductive,” or “not trying hard enough”, you may be struggling to conform to capitalistic standards of productivity. But that doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with YOU - it means you’re navigating a system that wasn’t built to account for your full humanity (like your body’s need for rest). Under capitalism, we’re taught to base our worth on our productivity. Any hour spent resting, playing, or otherwise not working, is considered an hour “wasted.” This is an exhausting way to live - especially if you’re also navigating disabilities, neurodivergence, chronic illness, or anything that makes it harder for you to keep up with the (unsustainable) pace of capitalism. In this episode, I share how embracing cycles, seasons, and a nonlinear relationship to time can help us deconstruct from capitalism & live more fully. We’ll explore: how capitalism runs on linear time, while nature runs on cyclical time why it’s not realistic to expect ourselves to be constantly productive - we are humans, not machines why it’s important to honor cycles in nature & in our bodies examples of cycles that appear in nature & in cultural traditions: the 4 seasons (fall, winter, spring, summer); the phases of the lunar cycle; and the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac Let this episode remind you: your life is not a productivity project. You deserve to live fully and freely, and in collaboration with your true nature - not against it. 🌿 Resources Related to Episode Topic >> How Indigenous ideas about non‑linear time can help us navigate ecological crises (https://theconversation.com/how-indigenous-ideas-about-non-linear-time-can-help-us-navigate-ecological-crises-273231) >> A Brief Economic History of Time (https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/12/a-brief-economic-history-of-time/510566/) >> A brief history of (linear) time (https://bigthink.com/thinking/a-brief-history-of-linear-time/) 🌿 About the Host Liz Zhou is a neurodivergent therapist of color, coach, & speaker based in Colorado & Oregon (MA, LPC, she/her). She helps highly sensitive, neurodivergent adults & couples heal their nervous systems and connect with their authentic selves. Her specialties include: Brainspotting, EMDR, IFS, Psychedelic Integration, & Nervous System Intensives (deep-dive, accelerated therapy). 🌿 Connect with Liz >> Join my email newsletter, where I share insights on how to understand your brain & take care of your nervous system: Liz’s Neurodivergent Letters (http://www.seasonsofgrowthcounseling.com/newsletter) >> Follow on IG: www.instagram.com/liz.holistic.therapist (http://www.instagram.com/liz.holistic.therapist) >> To work 1:1 with Liz: learn about Nervous System Healing Intensives here (https://www.seasonsofgrowthcounseling.com/brainspotting-ifs-nervous-system-intensive) (focused sessions, using Brainspotting & Internal Family Systems, to help you heal deeply & connect with your authentic self) 🌻

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