Amanda Armstrong
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Millions of people struggle with anxiety & depression every single day. Regulate & Rewire is where Amanda, a nervous system focused and trauma-informed practitioner, teaches you the lessons she learned on her healing journey and the tangible research-based tools she uses with clients everyday to help them regulate their nervous system & rewire their mind – in hopes of helping you do the same. Each episode features specific takeaways for you to apply to your healing journey today. Website: www.riseaswe.com
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Amanda Armstrong connects nervous-system concepts to recognizable patterns in mood, boundaries, grief, chronic illness, and everyday over-functioning.
Amanda Armstrong treats anxiety and depression as experiences that show up in the body, daily habits, and relationships. Her solo, teaching-led episodes pair nervous-system explanations with personal stories and practical ways to recognize patterns, giving the material a steady…
Amanda Armstrong asks why your 'no' needs a dissertation, then traces the urge to explain.
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A gentle New Year's reset that makes room for reflection, completion, and small wins.
Amanda Armstrong opens the year with a guided somatic closure practice that asks listeners to finish the year with intention instead of dragging it unchanged into the next one.
A rough Tuesday becomes a practical case for regulated living.
Amanda Armstrong turns a rough Tuesday into a grounded lesson in regulated living, drawing on childcare chaos, lost gifts, and a fish tank crash to show what nervous-system work can look like when life is not cooperating.
A grounded reminder that staying engaged has to fit real capacity.
Regulated Activism treats a heavy subject through the body first. Amanda Armstrong starts with jaw tension, a stress headache, raised shoulders, and clenched glutes, then uses that check-in to ask what sustainable action actually looks like.
A steady case for putting the phone down before the nervous system stays on alert.
It opens in a noisy home setting, then widens into a clear case for how constant exposure to threat, catastrophe, and fast-moving news can keep the body on alert.
A grounded wrap-up that makes nervous-system ideas usable in everyday life.
Amanda Armstrong closes by bringing nervous system teaching back down to everyday life, where practical support, medication questions, and a growing sense of confidence can all sit together.
A calm, practical take on helping without overrunning your own capacity.
Amanda Armstrong uses the idea of "looking for the helpers" to examine collective trauma, helplessness, and the need to stay personally resourced.
A grounded look at stress as context, recovery, and nervous-system load.
Amanda Armstrong treats stress as a nervous-system problem shaped by habits and by an environment that keeps people switched on. She moves from phones, notifications, and algorithm-driven agitation to what sits underneath: less recovery, fewer supporters, and a daily burden…
A body-led nervous system reset that keeps the response simple and usable.
Regulate & Rewire steps outside its usual educational lane and into a guided nervous system regulation practice for moments of activation. Amanda Armstrong keeps the entry point simple: settle into a supported seated position, notice what the body is doing, and name whether the…
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Three hosts and psychologist Dr Emily talk vulnerability, therapy, and imperfection with guests.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
Amanda Armstrong uses a chaotic Halloween-week morning and a kindergarten pumpkin patch field trip to separate “activation” from dysregulation.
Amanda announces a 48-hour flash sale for her regulated living membership, describing the chaotic launch due to website issues and email mix-ups during a busy travel week.
The host shares a personal story about getting a puppy and introduces a practical nervous system filter for decision-making in the context of managing anxiety and depression.
The host introduces and discusses the song 'Dear Anxiety' by Blue Eyes, highlighting its approach to addressing anxiety through a compassionate letter rather than rejection.
Amanda Armstrong takes the idea of looking for the helpers a step further as a response to collective trauma and helplessness.
Amanda Armstrong opens a three-part New Year's-ish miniseries with a guided practice to complete your year.
Amanda Armstrong opens by naming the heaviness in the world and the tight jaw, headache, raised shoulders, and clenched glutes that signal her body is carrying too much.
Amanda Armstrong opens by welcoming listeners into a long-running teaching project built around anxiety, depression, and nervous-system regulation.
Amanda Armstrong pauses the usual teaching format for a guided regulation practice aimed at anxious, angry, or spiraling states.
Amanda Armstrong uses a New Year's Eve mini-series episode on Regulate & Rewire to list what she is "not taking into the new year," starting with urgency, productivity-based self-worth, grief, body shame, and phone addiction.
Amanda Armstrong uses this Regulate & Rewire episode to explain what the Regulated Living membership actually includes, from five-week Course Club onboarding to weekly live calls and quarterly workshops.
Amanda Armstrong uses Regulate & Rewire: An Anxiety & Depression Podcast to explain why over-explaining often shows up when asking for help, setting boundaries, or fearing misunderstanding.
Amanda Armstrong closes the series by bringing nervous-system theory back into ordinary life.
Amanda Armstrong opens Regulate & Rewire with a no-notes account of a day that included no childcare, a live Q&A with her 4-month-old on her hip, and a 2-year-old with "47 meltdowns." She uses that chaos to illustrate her nervous-system framework, saying activation is expected, choice matters, and "stress is either processed or stored period." The episode then turns into a direct invitation to her free New Year's Eve circle on Sunday, December 28th, scheduled for about 8:00 to 9:30 p.m.
Amanda Armstrong opens by noting how fast December shows up and how winter can bring both comfort and strain.
Amanda Armstrong starts with a frightening moment from a recent weekend.
Amanda Armstrong frames Regulate & Rewire: An Anxiety & Depression Podcast around the link between anxiety, depression, and chronic physical illness, arguing that mental health and physical health are “part of the same system.” She says chronic activation and chronic shutdown can change immune activity, digestion, hormones, inflammation, and pain perception, and she names conditions like IBS, autoimmune disease, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and chronic pain as common overlaps.
Amanda Armstrong replays “Regulating In A World On Fire” while sitting upstairs in her house recording a voice note, with her boys wrestling in the next room and a California wildfire update still on her mind.
Amanda Armstrong says the real problem is often not weak discipline but an overcommitted life that pushes out the habits that helped anxiety and depression improve.
Amanda Armstrong uses "You'd Never Know" by the same artist from last week's "Blue Eyes" episode to show what depression can look like when it is hidden behind functioning.
Amanda Armstrong uses Regulate & Rewire: An Anxiety & Depression Podcast to argue that 'New Year, New You' backfires because the nervous system treats rapid change as a threat.
Amanda Armstrong frames Regulate & Rewire: An Anxiety & Depression Podcast episode “When Self-Discipline Is Self-Care” around people who feel frozen, exhausted, or ashamed that they cannot do basic tasks.
Amanda Armstrong says Regulate & Rewire is now a top 0.5% podcast and number one on major platforms for “depression,” then uses a postpartum work-and-childcare spiral to explain why that praise mattered.
Amanda Armstrong ties Taylor Swift’s “Eldest Daughter” moment to a research-backed pattern she calls “eldest daughter syndrome,” linking firstborn pressure, parentification, and high-functioning anxiety.
This episode is part four of a stress management series, focusing on editing your stress bucket by changing life conditions.
This episode explores the nervous system's shutdown state, describing its symptoms and offering tools for regulation.
The host shares her personal experience of grief after losing her dog and discusses how to navigate grief for both adults and children.
A guided practice on resourcing, titration, and pendulation for nervous system regulation and trauma healing.
Amanda explains pendulation, resourcing, and titration techniques from somatic experiencing for trauma healing.