Healing Is My Hobby27 Okt 2025

From Stress to Stillness

Can five sensory cues really help calm your nervous system in under a minute?

In this closing episode of the October Stress Series, Jessica Colarco, LCSW, reflects on what we’ve learned about stress and how to tend to it with compassion. She guides listeners through the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique — a quick, sensory-based reset that helps shift the nervous system from stress to safety.

Jessica reminds us that healing isn’t about eliminating stress or being perfectly calm; it’s about practicing presence, one breath at a time. She also offers a preview of November’s Burnout Series, where she’ll explore what happens when stress lingers too long and how we can reignite purpose and joy.

Key Takeaways

Understanding stress as the body’s natural response to danger or demand
How chronic stress impacts mood, sleep, digestion, and relationships
Healing through awareness and small, consistent practices
Guided 5-4-3-2-1 grounding exercise to calm the body
Preparing for the upcoming Burnout Series: recognizing signs of burnout and rebuilding balance

Healing Practice of the Week

Try the 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Reset

Notice 5 things you can see

Notice 4 things you can touch

Notice 3 things you can hear

Notice 2 things you can smell

Notice 1 thing you can taste

Keep small sensory items around — like essential oils, gum, or a fidget — to make this practice easier anytime stress arises.

Connect & Reflect

Take a few moments to journal:

What helped you stress a little less this month?

How can you bring more calm into your daily routine next week?

Stay Connected

Follow Healing Is My Hobby wherever you listen to podcasts, and share this episode with someone who could use a little more calm today.

Want to stay in the know? Subscribe to our newsletter here.

Contact Jessica here.

Let's connect:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healingismyhobby/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@healingismyhobby

Next month: The Burnout Series — how to notice the signs, restore your energy, and rekindle your spark.

Det här avsnittet är hämtat från ett öppet RSS-flöde och publiceras inte av Podme. Det kan innehålla reklam.

Avsnitt(45)

A Year of Healing: Season One Finale

It's the Season One finale of Healing Is My Hobby! Jessica takes you on a month-by-month journey through everything we explored together this year — from grounding in October to identity in June. She ...

29 Juni 12min

The Healing Lab: Auditing Your Labels

Are the stories you tell about yourself actually true — or are they ones you inherited, adapted, or took on to survive? This month's Healing Lab experiment is deceptively simple: spend seven days noti...

22 Juni 5min

This Might Be a Trauma Response: Identity Disruption and the Path to Integration

You've been going through your life and somewhere along the way, you stopped recognizing yourself. Maybe you feel like you're watching from the outside. Maybe you wake up and wonder if this is actuall...

16 Juni 6min

Therapy Is My Cardio — Who Are You Without Your Roles?

A guided identity workout to help you sort the roles you've chosen from the ones you've just been carrying.Episode OverviewThis episode is part of the June identity series and follows Episode 1's expl...

8 Juni 7min

Your Identity Was Never Just Yours

Have you ever done the work — named the trauma, grieved the losses, started releasing the shame — and then looked up and thought… who am I? That disorientation isn't a problem. It's actually the begin...

4 Juni 6min

The Shame That Lives in Your Body

We close out May with the deepest layer of shame work yet. In this final episode of our shame and self-worth series, Jessica reframes shame not as a character flaw or a belief system — but as a trauma...

25 Maj 14min

Building a Self-Worth That Isn't Conditional

Welcome to the Healing Lab — the episode where we stop talking about the work and actually start doing it. This month’s theme is shame and self-worth, and these experiments are rooted in something dee...

18 Maj 16min

When You're Ashamed of Your Own Feelings

This is the Therapy Is My Cardio episode for May — which means we're not just talking about emotional shame today, we're doing the reps. If last week's episode gave you the clinical foundation (what s...

11 Maj 13min