I AM | Jen WIlson, The Healing Rebel

I Am | Jen Wilson, The Healing Rebel Podcast
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I'm Jen Wilson, The Healing Rebel. Honest conversations about nervous system regulation, burnout, perimenopause, and the wellness industry I've spent 24+ years in. For firstborn daughters, born leaders, and capable women over 40 who are sick of being the one who holds it all together. We explore lymphatic drainage, fascia release, somatic work, and the lifestyle medicine pillars, while pushing back against the magic pills and quick fixes that don't deliver. Healing isn't linear. Neither is this podcast. RSSVERIFY

  1. 2d ago

    #258 9 Rules 10 Year Anniversary Audiobook Rule 5 Find your flow of masculine and feminine energy

    Rule 5: Find your flow of masculine and feminine energy. This chapter has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with how we move through the world. Doing energy versus being energy. Pushing versus allowing. Giving versus receiving. Ten years ago I was beginning to recognise my own default. I default to masculine. I always have. I like to be in charge. I like to get things done. The work of the last ten years has been learning that doing isn't the only way to be useful. If you're a first-born daughter, a fixer, a capable one, you probably default to masculine too. It's how we got here. It's also why we're burning out. Receiving isn't weakness. It's the missing half. In my 2026 reflections I talk about why the massage table is a feminine space, and why most of the women who come to me haven't received in years. The full audiobook is available on all the audiobook platforms if you want to jump ahead, or you can get the paperback here: https://amzn.to/4Aw5F6w and the workbook that goes with it here: https://amzn.to/4hfqg63. The exercises are where the real work happens. The exercises need to be done, not just listened to. As always, I would love to hear from you, what you get out of each chapter, any insights, any thoughts. www.iamjenwilson.com www.instagram.com/iam.jenwilson www.facebook.com/iamjenwilson www.youtube.com/iamjenwilson

    #258 9 Rules 10 Year Anniversary Audiobook Rule 5 Find your flow of masculine and feminine energy

  2. Oct 23

    #257 9 Rules 10 Year Anniversary Audiobook Rule 4 Breathe

    Rule 4: Breathe. This is the chapter that's aged the best. Ten years ago I wrote a whole chapter about breathing without having the language for nervous system regulation. I didn't know what I was teaching. I just knew it worked. When I wrote this, I was talking about stress, and sharing what had happened in the years after my divorce. I thought I was someone who didn't let things bother me. I told everyone I was fine. What I now know is that I was in the freeze response. I was very good at numbing. Ten years on, this is where I start with every single client who lies on my table. The breath is the doorway. Everything else, the fascia work, the lymphatic drainage, the Reiki, all of it walks you through the door the breath has opened. If you're a first-born daughter carrying decades of holding it together, breath alone isn't going to be enough. But it's where the work begins. In my 2026 reflections at the end, I talk about what's stored in the body when we've been in survival mode for years, and what it takes to release it. The full audiobook is available on all the audiobook platforms if you want to jump ahead, or you can get the paperback here: https://amzn.to/4Aw5F6w and the workbook that goes with it here: https://amzn.to/4hfqg63. The exercises are where the real work happens. The exercises need to be done, not just listened to. As always, I would love to hear from you, what you get out of each chapter, any insights, any thoughts. www.iamjenwilson.com www.instagram.com/iam.jenwilson www.facebook.com/iamjenwilson www.youtube.com/iamjenwilson

    #257 9 Rules 10 Year Anniversary Audiobook Rule 4 Breathe

  3. Oct 16

    #256 9 Rules 10th Anniversary Audiobook. Rule 3: Quit with the excuses.

    This is the chapter about self-sabotage. Ten years ago I wrote it using food and diets as the example because nearly every woman I've ever worked with recognises herself in it. The Monday morning that starts with the best intentions and ends with a bottle of wine and a family bag of crisps by Friday. Ten years on, I'd add this: self-sabotage isn't a character flaw. It's an old protection strategy that's outlived its usefulness. Your body was trying to keep you safe. It just doesn't know the danger has passed. For the first-born daughters, the fixers, the ones who hold everything together, self-sabotage often shows up as running yourself into the ground and then reaching for the quick fix. Food. Wine. A scroll. A shop. Anything to take the edge off. In my 2026 reflections at the end of this chapter, I talk about why you can't think your way out of self-sabotage when your nervous system is in fight-or-flight. Regulation first, then the patterns can shift. The full audiobook is available on all the audiobook platforms if you want to jump ahead, or you can get the paperback here: https://amzn.to/4Aw5F6w and the workbook that goes with it here: https://amzn.to/4hfqg63. The exercises are where the real work happens. The exercises need to be done, not just listened to. As always, I would love to hear from you, what you get out of each chapter, any insights, any thoughts. www.iamjenwilson.com www.instagram.com/iam.jenwilson www.facebook.com/iamjenwilson www.youtube.com/iamjenwilson

    #256 9 Rules 10th Anniversary Audiobook. Rule 3: Quit with the excuses.

  4. Oct 9

    #255 9 Rules 10 Year Anniversary Audiobook Rule 2 Dreams & goals, know what you want

    Rule 2: Dreams & goals, know what you want. Ten years ago I wrote this chapter from the middle of my own reinvention. I'd just walked away from a 13-year career in the travel industry and was building something new from scratch. I had no idea what I was doing, but I knew what I wanted. Most of the women I work with now have forgotten what they want. They've been wanting things for everyone else for so long that when I ask what THEY want, they can't answer. If that's you, this chapter is for you. This is where goal setting stops being a corporate exercise and starts being an act of coming back to yourself. The dream worksheets in this chapter still work. They're the same ones I use with clients today. At the end I share my 2026 reflections on why dreaming is a nervous system function, and why you can't access what you want when you're stuck in survival mode. The full audiobook is available on all the audiobook platforms if you want to jump ahead, or you can get the paperback here: https://amzn.to/4Aw5F6w and the workbook that goes with it here: https://amzn.to/4hfqg63. The exercises are where the real work happens. The exercises need to be done, not just listened to. As always, I would love to hear from you, what you get out of each chapter, any insights, any thoughts. www.iamjenwilson.com www.instagram.com/iam.jenwilson www.facebook.com/iamjenwilson www.youtube.com/iamjenwilson

    #255 9 Rules 10 Year Anniversary Audiobook Rule 2 Dreams & goals, know what you want

  5. Oct 2

    #254 9 Rules to Sort Your Shit, 10th Anniversary Audiobook: Rule 1: Know who you are.

    Rule 1: Know who you are. I opened this book with a chapter about masks. The work mask. The mum mask. The everything's-fine mask. We wear so many of them that by the time we get to our forties we've forgotten which one is actually us. And "just be yourself" is the worst advice anyone has ever given you, because how are you meant to be yourself when you don't know who that is anymore? This chapter is where we start pulling those masks off. The Wheel of Happiness exercise in here is the one I still use with clients today, and I get my clients to do it monthly, to help guide them for the month ahead. At the end of the chapter I share some 2026 reflections on what I'd add now that I've spent the last decade with my hands on hundreds of women's bodies, watching the nervous system tell the truth that the mind hasn't caught up with yet. The full audiobook is available on all the audiobook platforms if you want to jump ahead, or you can get the paperback here: https://amzn.to/4Aw5F6w and the workbook that goes with it here: https://amzn.to/4hfqg63. The exercises are where the real work happens. The exercises need to be done, not just listened to. As always, I would love to hear from you, what you get out of each chapter, any insights, any thoughts. www.iamjenwilson.com www.instagram.com/iam.jenwilson www.facebook.com/iamjenwilson www.youtube.com/iamjenwilson

    #254 9 Rules to Sort Your Shit, 10th Anniversary Audiobook: Rule 1: Know who you are.

  6. Sep 25

    #253 9 Rules 10 Year anniversary audiobook The Creation Story

    The Creation Story. Before I could write the nine rules, I had to live them. This chapter is the story of how the book came to be. It's the messy, honest version of how a Glasgow girl in her early 30's went from divorced, partying, and pretending she was fine, to writing a book about sorting your shit. 2010 was the year my marriage ended. My husband moved back to Australia. I stayed. I threw myself into work and nights out and told everyone I was absolutely fine. I was very good at fine. I was very good at numbing. Ten years on, I've added some 2026 reflections about what I couldn't see at the time, and what I know now about the body, the nervous system, and the way we survive things before we understand them. If you're standing at the start of your own reinvention, or you're in the middle of it wondering if you'll come out the other side, start here. The full audiobook is available on all the audiobook platforms if you want to jump ahead, or you can get the paperback here: https://amzn.to/4Aw5F6w and the workbook that goes with it here: https://amzn.to/4hfqg63. The exercises are where the real work happens. The exercises need to be done, not just listened to. As always, I would love to hear from you, what you get out of each chapter, any insights, any thoughts. www.iamjenwilson.com www.instagram.com/iam.jenwilson www.facebook.com/iamjenwilson www.youtube.com/iamjenwilson

    #253 9 Rules 10 Year anniversary audiobook The Creation Story

  7. Sep 24

    #252 9 Rules to Sort Your Shit 10 year anniversary Audiobook trailer

    I can't believe it's been 10 years since my book 9 Rules To Sort Your Shit came out, and to celebrate, over the coming weeks I'm releasing 1 chapter per week of the audiobook along with exclusive 2026 thoughts and updates. I didn't realise when I wrote this book, that it was written for the women who've spent decades holding it all together for everyone else. I hadn't yet identified those habits in myself, I just knew I was on a path of healing (although back then, I identified as a warrior, not a healing rebel. We are the fixers, the capable ones, the first-born daughters who are wondering how this is the life we are living. If that's you, you're in the right place. One reader recently messaged me to say she'd been "GLUED" to it for two hours straight when it arrived, and by page 137 she realised she actually IS the warrior woman. That's the kind of thing that makes ten years of this feel worth it. M, if you're listening, thank you. The full audiobook is available on all the audiobook platforms if you want to jump ahead, or you can get the paperback here: https://amzn.to/4Aw5F6w and the workbook that goes with it here: https://amzn.to/4hfqg63. The exercises are where the real work happens. The exercises need to be done, not just listened to. As always, I would love to hear from you, what you get out of each chapter, any insights, any thoughts. www.iamjenwilson.com www.instagram.com/iam.jenwilson www.facebook.com/iamjenwilson www.youtube.com/iamjenwilson

    #252 9 Rules to Sort Your Shit 10 year anniversary Audiobook trailer

  8. Sep 1

    Building a Rich Life: Business, Burnout and Boundaries with Jules Duncan

    "You cannot set yourself on fire to keep other people warm." That's the quote from this week's guest, Jules Duncan, and it captures the whole conversation. Because both of us have done it. Both of us have paid the price. And both of us want you to not do the same. I'm Jen Wilson, The Healing Rebel, and I'm delighted to have Jules back on the podcast. Jules runs The Badass Business Club, she's been coaching business owners for a decade, and we've known each other pretty much the whole time she's been in business. This conversation goes into the reality of running a business without wrecking your health, and how to build what she calls a "rich life", which has nothing to do with money. What we cover: What a "rich life" actually means (and why it's more about your Tuesdays than your holidays)Why gratitude gets a bad rap and what to reach for insteadWhy every task, decision, and commitment needs to go in Google CalendarHow to schedule your rest, holidays, and downtime months in advanceThe advantages of business ownership that most business owners never takeWhy you don't have to respond to messages within 20 minutesBusiness WhatsApp: what it is, why you need it, and how to set it up properlyThe two-phone system I use to protect my downtimeWhy fit isn't the same as healthy (and why fitness professionals often burn out first)The moment Jules realised she was so fatigued she was burning her own neck with a hair straightenerThe Crohn's flare that finally forced me to change how I ran my businessWhy "you can't set yourself on fire to keep other people warm" needs to be tattooed on every coachWhether hormones and perimenopause are part of why women in their 40s stop caring what people thinkWhy every business is a service (and it's okay to think of it that way)Why failure is necessary, not shameful, in building a businessA few questions we answer: What is a "rich life" and how do you build one?How do you protect your time and energy as a self-employed business owner?Why do so many fitness and wellness professionals burn out?Should you offer 24/7 support to clients?How do you know when your business is costing you too much?Why is failure necessary for building a successful business?Find Jules: Instagram: @thebadassbusinessclub For book recommendations: @badassbooksandbarbells Free download: my Lymphatic Drainage Self-Care Routine. A gentle, daily practice you can do in as little as one minute a day. Download here https://iamjenwilson.thrivecart.com/lymph/ If you're in or around Glasgow and you'd like to come in for a treatment, my Reset (90 minutes) and Recalibration (3 hours) sessions are designed for exactly this kind of nervous system exhaustion www.iamjenwilson.com/relax About Jen: Jen Wilson is The Healing Rebel, a holistic wellness practitioner with over 17 years in practice, supporting capable, first born daughters who give to everyone and struggle to receive. Working from her private home studio in Springburn, North Glasgow, Jen offers The Reset, The Recalibration, Manual Lymphatic Drainage, Therapeutic Fascia Massage, Closing the Bones, Menopause Massage, Reiki, Reiki Drumming, and Sound Healing, plus online movement classes and an on-demand subscription library. Find out more at iamjenwilson.com

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I'm Jen Wilson, The Healing Rebel. Honest conversations about nervous system regulation, burnout, perimenopause, and the wellness industry I've spent 24+ years in. For firstborn daughters, born leaders, and capable women over 40 who are sick of being the one who holds it all together. We explore lymphatic drainage, fascia release, somatic work, and the lifestyle medicine pillars, while pushing back against the magic pills and quick fixes that don't deliver. Healing isn't linear. Neither is this podcast. RSSVERIFY

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    I Am | Jen Wilson, The Healing Rebel Podcast
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    2017 - 2026
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