Returning to Us

About Returning to Us

To help people who help people, the organization needs to be healthy and have practices in place that consider the trauma of those they serve. Lauren Spigelmyer and Jessica Doering have helped thousands of people who help people all over the world. Each week they'll explore tools, insights, and stories to help you lead and live with more clarity, calm, and connection. If you’re looking for support as you grow your organization’s capacity for caring for staff and the community, we would love to be part of that journey.

Publisher

Lauren Spigelmyer & Jessica Doering

Category

education · health & fitness · kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Mar 2021

Latest episode

21 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

238 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Apr 2026

   Sound, Rhythm, and a Needed Pause

   Lauren offers a gentle reminder that pausing is not a disruption, but a necessary part of regulation and sustainable leadership. As the podcast takes a short break, she encourages listeners to consider where they, too, might need to slow down and create space for reset. She shares a simple, accessible tool using sound based regulation like binaural beats or isochronic tones to help shift the nervous system from chaos to calm in just a few minutes. With an emphasis on both reactive and prevent...

2. 

   31 Mar 2026

   Repair without Weakening Authority

   Repair is often where leadership breaks down, but it is also where trust is built. In this episode, Lauren walks through why rupture is inevitable in high stress environments and how avoiding it quietly erodes culture, connection, and accountability. Rather than weakening authority, thoughtful repair work signals emotional maturity, steadiness, and self awareness, qualities that strengthen leadership over time. Through a simple, practical framework of naming the moment, owning your part, and ...

3. 

   24 Mar 2026

   Revisiting The Regulated Team: Creating Cultures that Breathe

   This week, we’re revisiting a past episode of the podcast, The Regulated Team: Creating Cultures that Breathe. As recent episodes have explored sustainable authority and the shift away from urgency driven leadership, this conversation feels especially relevant. It expands those ideas beyond the individual, showing how regulation or dysregulation spreads across a team and shapes the culture as a whole. Through the Five Ives framework, this episode reminds us that thriving organizations don’t j...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

12 ratings

Spotify

4.5 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100

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

Quality

90

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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