Healing and growth are not reserved for people on self-discovery retreats. Honestly, most of my healing has come from headbanging in my car. Of course I want to feel more zen - that’s WHY I’m listening to angry music.

Look - if you’re a human person, you have grey matter in your brain and blood in your amygdala. We know enough about the human nervous system to know how to navigate it and have some autonomy over how we feel and how we level up.

We’re done with “That’s just how I am.” Boring.

We’re over “I tried; I can’t.” Eye. Roll.

These tools might be entertaining. They super are - I’m a god damn riot. But they’re more than cathartic silliness. I have been teaching the neuroscience of stress regulation and neuroplasticity for a decade. I know how to trick you into feeling better. Uh oh, you have questions. Down below.

FAQ

1) But, Danielle! Isn’t cursing bad??

No.

. . . Next question.

2) But isn’t healing supposed to be purely positive, feel-goodery experience??

Pffffffffffffhahahahahahahahahahaaaaa… You must be new here.

Toxic positivity ≠ healing. Shit gets real sometimes. These are real tools for real people.

Next question.

3) Wait, whaddya mean you know how to trick me into feeling better? Are you manipulating me??

Umm, not really? I guess so? If you’re like me and you like to know the how behind why you feel better so you can trust it or so you can do it yourself whenever you want throughout the day, I straight up tell you what we’re doing in the Talk Nerdy to Me Library.

It makes you laugh to say “Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck” outloud when you’re meditating, doesn’t it? Perfect combination of cathartic and calming. You know what else it makes you do? Let out a long, full exhale. And when you groan it out? You’re stimulating and soothing your Vagus Nerve with the vibration in your throat, sending a coded message of safety to every vertebrae and organ it touches throughout your entire nervous system.

Not to mention the use of humor bringing blood and oxygen to your Prefrontal Cortex which is letting you access qualities like perspective and problem-solving and creativity and social skills and compassion and motivation.

Not to mention the awareness of the familiar and predictable things in your environment or in your killer body like your breath or gravity that translate to the Limbic System as safety so you can free up and redirect the resources in the stress center to more valuable systems like the social brain or digestive system.

Not to mention the vivid visualization and your option to repeat the meditations as often as you want to strengthen the new neural pathways to make them physically easier to light up later on your own so you can access that feeling in the real world when you need it.

It’s nothing sinister. But that’s part of why you feel better.

You’re welcome to dive into the neuroscience of everything we’re doing in the Talk Nerdy to Me Library or in a Centered AF training. Or just enjoy and repeat the meditations in the Defiant Development Library regularly so those benefits become easier and easier for you to access in your nervous system when you need them.

4) Damn, that sounds amazing! How much does it cost??

$3. A month. Seriously.

I want it to be grossly affordable. Because I 👏 want 👏 you 👏 to 👏 have 👏 it 👏. Good luck saying no to $3 for a new cathartic meditation every month and unlimited access to the Defiant Development Library of non-traditional meditations and access to private live events.

$15 if you also want access to the entire Talk Nerdy to Me Library which has all the neuroscience of stress regulation, personal development, physical tools, whole-ass workshops, half-off on a custom meditation made for you specifically, private chat access to ask Danielle questions during private live events, articles written by Danielle, free shit, a site discount, plus your brand new cathartic or entertaining meditation every month. All kinds of tools to become Centered as Fuck. 🖤