Can't stop overthinking, emotional eating, or numbing out? You're not broken—you're disconnected from your body. The Real Work helps women break chronic stress, anxiety, and burnout by addressing root causes, not symptoms. Host Maggie Sterling combines neuroscience and nervous system regulation to help you stop self-abandonment, build self-trust, and feel safe in your skin. No toxic positivity—just practical tools for rewiring your brain, regulating emotions, and coming home to yourself. Deep transformation for women ready to stop escaping and start living.
The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
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Podcast Overview
Can't stop overthinking, emotional eating, or numbing out? You're not broken—you're disconnected from your body. The Real Work helps women break chronic stress, anxiety, and burnout by addressing root causes, not symptoms. Host Maggie Sterling combines neuroscience and nervous system regulation to help you stop self-abandonment, build self-trust, and feel safe in your skin. No toxic positivity—just practical tools for rewiring your brain, regulating emotions, and coming home to yourself. Deep transformation for women ready to stop escaping and start living.
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Recent Episodes
May 26, 2026
44 - What Your Symptoms Are Really Trying To Tell You
Host Maggie Sterling explains how a sensitized nervous system communicates through symptoms, offering a new perspective on understanding your body's signals.
May 26, 2026
45 - What Nobody Tells You About Brain Retraining (When You're Already Sensitized)
Host Maggie Sterling explains why formal brain retraining backfires for hypersensitive nervous systems and reveals what truly retrains the brain for those with a sensitized nervous system.
May 13, 2026
5 Signs Your Nervous System Is Causing Your Pain (and other symptoms)
<p><a href="https://learn.maggiesterling.com/l/podcast-2">Are your symptoms caused by your nervous system? Take the Quiz</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://learn.maggiesterling.com/l/podcast">Get my nervous system sensitization course</a></p> <p><a href="https://learn.maggiesterling.com/l/podcast-1">Take the nervous system sensitization quiz</a></p> <p class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> 5 signs your nervous system is causing your chronic pain, anxiety, gut issues, dizziness, fatigue, and other symptoms doctors can't explain. If your tests keep coming back normal and nothing has worked, this video walks you through the specific signs that point to a sensitized nervous system as the root cause — and what to do about it.</p> <p class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> I spent 20 years dealing with chronic anxiety, panic attacks, and insomnia. Every test came back normal. Every specialist had a different prescription. Nothing actually moved the needle until I learned that my symptoms were being driven by my nervous system. Once I saw the pattern, everything changed.</p> <p> </p>
46 total episodes available with 20 transcripts
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