Unhinged But Mindful
Unhinged But Mindful is a nervous system podcast for midlife women healing from trauma, anxiety, menopause overwhelm, ADHD, and chronic survival mode.
If you’ve done therapy but still feel reactive…
If you feel exhausted, stuck, emotionally overwhelmed, or like something just isn’t shifting…
You are not broken. Your nervous system doesn’t feel safe.
Each week, Amy shares grounded conversations about nervous system regulation, trauma recovery in midlife, emotional regulation skills, building safety in the body, setting boundaries, rebuilding confidence through repetition, and moving out of survival mode.
You’ll also hear about her kitchen-based regulation approach - using everyday rituals like cooking to retrain safety, build tolerance, and restore joy.
No hustle culture. No toxic positivity. No pretending you’re fine.
Just real, steady conversations to help you feel safe enough to be yourself again.
Nervous System Shutdown: Why You Feel Exhausted, Disconnected & Stuck in Survival Mode
Have you ever felt so exhausted, disconnected, or overwhelmed that even simple things feel impossible? You might not be lazy or unmotivated. Your nervous system may be in shutdown. In this episode of Regulate with Amy, we talk about what nervous system shutdown actually feels like and why so many women end up stuck in survival mode without realizing what’s happening in their bodies. Amy shares her own experience with nervous system collapse after years of trauma and stress, and explains why i...
24 Feb 2026
I Thought I Was Broken: Survival Mode & Nervous System Regulation for Midlife Women
For years, I thought I was broken. I couldn’t finish things. I felt exhausted but wired. I snapped at people I loved. I avoided simple tasks. And no matter how much personal development or therapy I did, something still felt off. In this first episode of Regulate with Amy, we’re talking about survival mode — what it actually is, how nervous system dysregulation shows up in midlife women, and why you’re not lazy, dramatic, or failing. If you’ve ever wondered why calm feels uncomfortable, why p...
20 Jan 2026
The Midlife Brain Fog Olympics
Welcome to Season 2 of From Mess to Progress — where nothing is fixed, everything is messier, and that’s exactly the point. If you’re looking for tidy tips, five-step solutions, or a worksheet to “optimize your mental health,” this season is not that. Season 2 is about real life — the funny, frustrating, what-the-hell-is-happening moments of midlife when ADHD, anxiety, depression, perimenopause, and plain old exhaustion all collide. In this episode, Amy dives headfirst into the Overlap Zone —...
25 Oct 2025
Stop Apologizing For Who You Are
You ever catch yourself saying “sorry” for just… existing? For taking up space, having an opinion, or breathing too loud? Yeah, same. In this episode, I sit down with my inner wild child, Daisy Mae — the unfiltered, unapologetic voice inside us all — to unpack why women are conditioned to shrink, over-apologize, and play nice even when it hurts. Together, we dive into what’s really behind that constant “sorry,” how to rewire your self-talk, and why letting go of perfectionism and guilt is the...
26 Sept 2025
Why Worthiness Was Never Something You Had to Earn
We live in a culture that teaches us worthiness is a finish line. I’ll be enough when I lose the weight. I’ll deserve love when I stop messing up. I’ll finally matter when I hit six figures. Sound familiar? It’s the hamster wheel so many of us are stuck on — hustling, proving, and performing, only to find the goalposts keep moving. In this episode of From Mess to Progress, Amy Simms — Navy veteran, trauma thriver, and confidence coach — calls BS on the lie that your worth has to be earned. W...
13 Sept 2025
The Day My Mask Shattered. My Breakdown and Breakthrough.
In this raw and unfiltered episode, I share the darkest chapter of my life — from addiction, jail, and losing my kids, to the devastating deaths of my mom and best friend. I take you inside the spiral of relapse, grief, and eight months of isolation, and then into the moment everything changed: the day my mask shattered and I finally chose to fight for my life. This is a story of pain, survival, and the messy road back to healing — proof that no matter how far you fall, there’s always a...
11 Aug 2025
Owning Your Truth, Even When it Makes Others Uncomfortable
In this raw, unfiltered episode of From Mess to Progress, Amy dives deep into what it really takes to own your truth — even when it makes other people squirm. From her own powerful story of being silenced at 16, to the psychology and nervous system science behind why speaking up feels so risky, Amy unpacks the patterns that keep us quiet: attachment styles, polyvagal theory, self-determination, cognitive dissonance, learned helplessness, and gaslighting. You’ll hear relatable real-life ...
26 Jul 2025
Confidence Isn't Born, It's Built
In this raw and unfiltered episode of From Mess to Progress, Amy Simms dismantles one of the biggest lies we’ve been told: that confidence is something you’re either born with or you’re not. With a mix of personal storytelling, trauma-informed insights, and actionable tools, Amy shares how confidence is built — brick by brick, choice by choice — even when life has knocked you down. From her childhood struggles to finding courage in a school play, to joining the Navy and working her butt off ...
18 Jul 2025
Why I'm Done Being the Good Girl
You know the type. The one who smiles through the pain. Who plays by the rules. Who never rocks the boat, keeps the peace, gets the grades, says “I’m sorry” even when it’s not her fault. Who silences her truth to make others comfortable. Yeah… that was me. Until it almost killed me. In this raw and real first episode of From Mess to Progress, I’m laying it all out. No filters. No sugarcoating. Just the honest, gritty truth of what it meant to be the “good girl” growing up in a home full of...
15 Jul 2025
The Mask is Off: Why I'm Done Pretending and You Should Be Too
Welcome to From Mess to Progress — the unfiltered podcast for women who are tired of pretending everything’s fine when it’s really falling apart. I’m your host, Amy Simms — Navy vet, trauma survivor, confidence coach, and former good girl turned truth-teller. This trailer is your official permission slip to drop the mask, ditch the people-pleasing, and say the quiet parts out loud. In this quick preview, I’ll share why I created this podcast, the truth behind my own messy middle (think tra...
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