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Nicholas Wade Kimps
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Modern life is overwhelming, disorienting, and moving faster than most of us can process. This show is for people who are tired of just pushing through it. Each episode blends ancient wisdom with the realities of everyday life to help you slow down, see more clearly, and find your footing again. Less noise. More clarity. A steadier way to live in your body and your mind. I'm Nicholas Kimps, founder of DIVO Wellness in Greensboro NC, and I've spent years helping people restore harmony in their bodies and their lives. This is where I think out loud. New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday

  1. 21H AGO

    You Heal Yourself: The Truth About Self-Healing | DIVO- Ted Talks

    It can feel so powerless when you think only doctors or experts can fix what's going on in your body. ⸻ Quote from the Episode "The body heals itself. You heal yourself. Healers don't do it for you. They just take away the impediments that are preventing the body from doing itself." ⸻ Description Sometimes we forget that healing is not something handed to us from the outside. We can receive support, guidance, treatment, even surgery. But after all of that, the real healing still has to happen within us. The body remembers. The wisdom of nature remembers. And when we remove what is getting in the way, that wisdom can start doing what it already knows how to do. The whole point is to get back into harmony so your own intuition can take over again. You already know to drink water. You already know which foods pull you down when you are feeling a certain way. Sometimes you cannot hear it because there is too much noise. My hope is that this one gives you enough confidence to start listening again, and to work with a professional when you need to, without handing your power over to them. ⸻ A Map of Wisdom Here are some of the places we go together in this talk: ✦ When Homeostasis Starts Protecting the Disease ✦ The Innate Intuition You Already Have ✦ The Real Healer Is Within You ✦ Your Body's Natural Detection System ✦ Working With Healers the Right Way ⸻ Markers on the Path (00:00) The Book That Started This Whole Thing (01:30) The Six Stages and Where the Turn Back Points Live (02:27) When Your Body Starts Defending the Disease (03:30) How Cancer Learns to Hide (05:00) Why the Healer Only Removes the Impediments (06:01) Taking Charge Without Taking Drastic Measures ⸻ Something to Sit With You heal yourself. Doctors do procedures but after that it is still you and the wisdom inside your body that puts everything back together. This talk is a gentle reminder that self healing is actually the way of everything. ⸻ A Restorative Step: You heal yourself. Doctors do procedures but your body does the real work. Come back to harmony and take charge. | DIVO- Ted Talks Podcast __________ Stay Connected: 🌐 DIVOWellness.com 📬 Subscribe to Newsletter 📍 DIVO Wellness — Greensboro, NC — 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way

    8 min

  2. 2D AGO

    When Life Disturbs Your Peace, Come Back to Yourself | DIVO- Ted Talks

    You felt the flood of emotion and then judged yourself for not being above it, and that judgment might be the real thing keeping you stuck. ⸻ Quote from the Episode "You are not what happens to you. You are who you know yourself to be." ⸻ Description I've been sitting with this idea of disturbance lately. Disturbance in the sense of your inner flame being moved by outside forces. Wind comes through, the oxygen shifts, the flame flickers. That doesn't make it less of a flame. It's still burning. And I think most of us forget that when we're in the middle of it. We think the flickering is the failure. It's not. I landed on this image that just felt right. Rumble strips. You know the ones on the highway that shake you awake when you drift? They're there to redirect your attention. Maybe the hard moments in our lives are doing the same thing. Shaking us enough to notice where we've drifted so we can recalibrate and come back to what we actually want and need. That's awareness. That's the beginning of something real. ⸻ A Map of Wisdom Here are some of the places we go together in this talk: ✦ Feeling it does not mean I failed ✦ I can be shaken and still be myself ✦ Disturbance can bring me back ✦ I am more than what happened to me ✦ What I can do now still matters ⸻ Markers on the Path (00:00) The Morning After the Emotional Flood (01:15) Why Judging Yourself for Feeling Is Faulty Logic (03:00) Your Inner Light and What Disturbs It (04:15) Rumble Strips and the Gift of Redirection (05:54) The Puzzle Piece You Were Always Meant to Work On ⸻ Something to Sit With What if the next disturbance you feel is actually a rumble strip meant to help you see what you truly need right now? ⸻ A Restorative Step: Next time you notice yourself getting disturbed pause for sixty seconds breathe and ask what this moment is redirecting your attention toward. __________ Stay Connected: 🌐 DIVOWellness.com 📬 Subscribe to Newsletter 📍 DIVO Wellness — Greensboro, NC — 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way

    7 min

  3. 4D AGO

    Distraction, Focus, and Finding the Middle | DIVO- Ted Talks

    If every little thing pulls you out of yourself, the real struggle may not be distraction, but forgetting how to return. ⸻ Quote from the Episode “Purpose isn’t to be perfect. The purpose is to be conditioned for the fluctuations of life.” ⸻ Description Life is full of distractions, and I don't think the goal is to avoid them completely. The real practice is learning how to come back. In this talk, I reflect on how even small interruptions can pull us out of the moment, and how practices like hot yoga can teach us to notice that and return with more awareness. Stress, adaptation, and wisdom are all part of this conversation. The purpose is not perfection, but becoming more steady through the natural fluctuations of life. Self care is often simpler than we make it, and yoga and Ayurveda can remind us how to stay present, grounded, and more connected to ourselves. ⸻ A Map of Wisdom Here are some of the places we go together in this talk: ✦ The gift hidden in distractions ✦ Practicing with challenge builds resilience ✦ Tapas and burning away what holds you back ✦ Self care in its quiet everyday forms ✦ Harmony between focus and distraction ⸻ Markers on the Path (00:00) When Something Small Breaks Your Focus (01:03) What Hot Yoga Taught Me About Attention (02:14) Why Hard Moments Can Refine You (03:00) Self Care Is Often More Ordinary Than We Think (05:52) Adaptation, Wisdom, and the Fluctuations of Life (06:46) Maybe You Are Not Broken, Maybe You Just Got Distracted ⸻ Something to Sit With What if your next distraction is exactly what you need to practice coming back into the moment? ⸻ A Restorative Step: For the next 60 seconds, notice one thing that is pulling at your attention, take one slow breath, and gently bring your awareness back to where your body is right now. __________ Stay Connected: 🌐 DIVOWellness.com 📬 Subscribe to Newsletter 📍 DIVO Wellness — Greensboro, NC — 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way

    8 min

  4. APR 10

    How to Stay Centered in the Political Divide | DIVO- Ted Talks

    Feeling completely caught in the political divide and like nothing makes sense anymore? ⸻ Quote from the Episode "It's not your job to make other people see. It is your job to be you. That's it. I am. I am that I am. Period." ⸻ Description When I sat with a client conversation about the political divide, what really stood out to me was how often both sides are feeling the same things, even when the details are different. That’s part of what makes this moment feel so tense, so reactive, and so hard to sort through. What I keep coming back to is, when the world gets louder, the practice is to return to center. Yoga, meditation, prayer, and anything that brings you back to yourself can remind you that you are not the fluctuation. You are the awareness behind it. And sometimes that is the only place real clarity begins. ⸻ A Map of Wisdom Here are some of the places we go together in this talk: ✦ Why morality is not as universally agreed upon as people think ✦ What political polarization reveals about shared emotional patterns ✦ How a two party system keeps amplifying the swing ✦ Why practices like yoga and meditation create perspective ✦ What it means to remember that your essence is already well and free ⸻ Markers on the Path (00:00) When proximity shapes perception (02:18) Why morality is not actually universal (04:58) The same arguments wearing different clothes (07:00) You are not the fluctuation (09:30) Your job is to be you (10:35) What remains when the details fall away ⸻ Something to Sit With If you stripped away the noise, the labels, and the arguments, who would you still be? ⸻ A Restorative Step: Find sixty seconds today where you close your eyes and say to yourself, slowly: I am not these things. I am well. I am free. Don't try to believe it. Just let the words land. Notice what happens in your body when you stop gripping the story and come back to the feeling of being here. __________ Stay Connected: 🌐 DIVOWellness.com 📬 Subscribe to Newsletter 📍 DIVO Wellness — Greensboro, NC — 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way

    10 min

  5. APR 8

    When You Feel Hurt by What Loved Ones Say | DIVO- Ted Talks

    If you cannot shake what someone said, it may be because some part of you is still deciding what is true. ⸻ Quote from the Episode "The only opinion that has ever mattered about who you are is yours." ⸻ Description A lot of conflict doesn't end when it ends. It keeps going in your head. In your body. In the stories you tell yourself afterward. And when the people involved are family or people you care about, their words can carry a kind of weight that is hard to shake. That is where this talk begins. With the question of what to do when something feels unresolved, when you are still carrying the past, and when the instinct is either to fix it, control it, or cut somebody off. I talk through why that is not always the real answer, and why it matters to ask what their words are actually touching in you. From there, it comes back to boundaries, self awareness, and truth. Just being honest about what you know, what you can hold, and what no one else has the right to define. That is where more freedom starts. ⸻ A Map of Wisdom Here are some of the places we go together in this talk: ✦ Why unresolved conflict keeps echoing inside you ✦ How expectations turn into suffering ✦ Why loved ones' opinions can hit harder than strangers' ✦ The difference between a boundary and an attempt to control ✦ What freedom looks like when you stop letting other stories define you ⸻ Markers on the Path (00:00) When conflict from the past is still running your life (02:23) The hidden ways control tries to keep you safe (03:32) Why somebody else's words only stick if you accept them (05:46) What it means to reflect honestly instead of react (08:08) Boundaries that protect your peace without punishing anyone (10:09) Remembering that being well and being free is already yours ⸻ Something to Sit With Where in my life am I still giving someone else the power to tell me who I am? ⸻ A Restorative Step: Close your eyes for 60 seconds. Think of the last thing someone said that really got under your skin. Now ask yourself, honestly: is what they said true? If the answer is no, let yourself feel the relief of that. Breathe into that space. That's what self-trust feels like. __________ Stay Connected: 🌐 DIVOWellness.com 📬 Subscribe to Newsletter 📍 DIVO Wellness — Greensboro, NC — 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way

    11 min

  6. APR 6

    Boundaries Are Not a Tug of War | DIVO- Ted Talks

    You're carrying other people's chaos in your body and wondering why you can't find steady ground. ⸻ Quote from the Episode "Boundaries aren't meant to be a tug of war. They're meant to be the place that I'm willing to walk up to and then we can see each other from that boundary." ⸻ Description Some days the world feels so loud and so contradictory that it gets hard to tell what is actually happening and what your nervous system is doing with it. I sat with that here. The pressure of trying to live your life while everything around you feels tense, divided, and emotionally loaded. That kind of stress does not just stay in your thoughts. It lands in your body, your mood, and your spirit too. What I kept coming back to is perception. If I do not clean the windows of perception, then every interaction gets filtered through old beliefs, fear, exhaustion, and familiarity. Then I start reacting to the story I am telling myself instead of what is actually true. I talk about anger, emotional manipulation, homeostasis, and why boundaries are not supposed to become a wall or a power struggle. ⸻ A Map of Wisdom Here are some of the places we go together in this talk: ✦ Why stress from the world does not stay in the world ✦ How beliefs shape the feelings that hit the body ✦ What it means to clean the windows of perception ✦ Why boundaries are about conserving energy, not control ✦ How quiet and solitude bring you back to your own set point ✦ The difference between authentic feeling and outsourced emotion ⸻ Markers on the Path (00:00) - When the world feels heavy (02:03) - The story does not line up (03:12) - Anger poisons the one holding it (05:06) - Clean the windows of perception (06:29) - Boundaries are not a tug of war (08:49) - Quiet is how you find your set point ⸻ Something to Sit With Where in my life am I asking other people or outside circumstances to decide how I feel? ⸻ A Restorative Step: Take sixty seconds and sit still without fixing anything. Notice one feeling in your body. Then ask, “What would actually have to be true for this feeling to make sense right now?” Let the question open the window a little. __________ Stay Connected: 🌐 https://divowellness.com 📬 DIVOted Newsletter: https://divowellness.com/newsletter-signup/ 📍 DIVO Wellness — Greensboro, NC — 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way

    11 min

  7. APR 3

    Stop Trying to End Stress and Start Learning From It | DIVO- Ted Talks

    You keep trying to eliminate stress from your life, and it keeps showing up anyway, because it was never the thing working against you. ⸻ Quote from the Episode “Be well and be free. But just remember that you’re already that.” ⸻ Description Life has this way of fluctuating doesn't it. One minute things feel steady and the next you're in the trough wondering how to get your feet back under you. I felt that truth come through strong this morning after teaching a class to just one student. We talked about how stress isn't something to end it's what pushes us to adapt and build real wisdom over time if we let it. I keep seeing it in my own ups and downs lately. The work isn't about making everything easier or stopping the waves. It's about showing up getting quiet and reminding myself I'm in the world but not of it. Yoga and Ayurveda help with that because they're not just shapes or stretches they're the essence of how we move through life with more steadiness. ⸻ A Map of Wisdom Here are some of the places we go together in this talk: ✦ Stress creates adaptation, and adaptation becomes wisdom ✦ Weakness grows when we spend our lives trying to remove all challenge ✦ Yoga is more than shapes, stretching, or a fitness rebrand ✦ Fluctuations are part of life, but they do not define who you are ✦ Freedom begins when you remember what is underneath the waves ⸻ Markers on the Path (00:00) When Showing Up for One Person Changes Everything (02:23) Stress Builds Adaptation and Adaptation Builds Wisdom (04:41) Why I Will Never Again Diminish What Yoga Actually Is (06:41) The Fluctuations of Life and the Freedom Already Inside You (09:04) Getting Your Sea Legs So the Storms Don't Break You ⸻ Something to Sit With What if the stress you're trying to escape is the exact thing building the wisdom you've been asking for? ⸻ A Restorative Step: Take one minute today and sit still. Feel your feet on the ground. Breathe slowly in through the nose and out through the nose. Then say quietly to yourself, “I am already well. I am already free.” Let your body hear it before your mind argues with it. __________ Stay Connected: 🌐 DIVOWellness.com 📬 Subscribe to Newsletter 📍 DIVO Wellness — Greensboro, NC — 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way

    11 min

  8. APR 1

    April Fools Is Every Day When We Prank Ourselves | DIVO- Ted Talks

    What if the biggest April Fools prank is the one we keep playing on ourselves every single day? ⸻ Quote from the Episode “We don't need April Fool's Day to pay attention to the things in our lives that we have fooled ourselves about.” ⸻ Description I was thinking about April Fools this morning and it struck me how much we don’t actually need a special day for pranks. We do a pretty good job of fooling ourselves already. We buy into stories, cling to old frameworks, and live in alternate realities without even realizing it. It feels absurd sometimes when I catch myself doing it, and I see it in the world around us too. Yoga and Ayurveda aren’t about pretending everything is peaceful and perfect. They’re about gently bringing us back to what is real, back to discernment, back to the power source so we can actually shine instead of staying stuck in illusion. ⸻ A Map of Wisdom Here are some of the places we go together in this talk: ✦ The prank of self deception ✦ Maya, stories, and emotional entanglement ✦ Trust, discernment, and the need for practice ✦ Prepared without living on guard ✦ Staying connected to your real power source ✦ Knowing what is for you, and what is not for you ⸻ Markers on the Path (00:00) The real prank behind April Fool's Day (01:51) Living in illusion without knowing it (03:00) Why feelings do not disappear on command (05:22) The ways we fool ourselves every day (07:17) Connection, purpose, and discernment ⸻ Something to Sit With Where in your life are you still pranking yourself with a story that no longer feels true? ⸻ A Restorative Step: Take sixty seconds today to sit quietly and ask yourself one simple question: “What story am I still believing that might not be the full truth?” Just notice what comes up, no judgment. __________ Stay Connected: 🌐 DIVOWellness.com 📬 Subscribe to Newsletter 📍 DIVO Wellness — Greensboro, NC — 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way

    10 min
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Modern life is overwhelming, disorienting, and moving faster than most of us can process. This show is for people who are tired of just pushing through it. Each episode blends ancient wisdom with the realities of everyday life to help you slow down, see more clearly, and find your footing again. Less noise. More clarity. A steadier way to live in your body and your mind. I'm Nicholas Kimps, founder of DIVO Wellness in Greensboro NC, and I've spent years helping people restore harmony in their bodies and their lives. This is where I think out loud. New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday

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  • Creator
    Nicholas Wade Kimps
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    161
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Nicholas Wade Kimps
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    DIVO- TED Talks