Reclamation Radio with Kelly Brogan MD

Kelly Brogan MD
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It hurts to have unmet needs. And it sucks to scurry after crumbs when you’re starving. Join Kelly Brogan MD, as she teaches us how our pain points are portals. She’ll help you discover a world where every seeming challenge is a new chapter in your most audacious story. Plot twists, body symptoms, and heartbreak each represent an opportunity to own ourselves and learn to better wield the power of choice. Kelly will take you on a reclamation journey from the battlefield of victim consciousness to the sovereignty of self-devoted pleasure and expose every surprising place you’ve given your power away. Explore the tools you’ll need to find out what you want, how to ask for it and how to stand in fierce alignment with yourself.Kelly Brogan is a soul alchemist and threshold guardian devoted to the transformation of collective consciousness. As a young know-it-all atheist, candy-addict, straight-A MIT neuroscience major and Ivy-league trained psychiatrist, she specialized in feeding women, herself included, straight into the mouth of the medicated beast. After a Hashimoto’s healing journey inspired her to sound the alarm on the bait-and-switch of big pharma, she became a renegade activist—authoring the New York Times bestseller, A Mind of Your Own, and its follow-up, Own Your Self; co-editing the landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression; and eventually becoming an honorary member of the Disinformation Dozen. She is the creatrix of Vital Mind Reset, the online health reclamation program, and the membership community Vital Life Project. She’s a human, cat, and chicken mom.

  1. 5d ago

    168: How the Masculine-Feminine Polarity Fixes Any Relationship | Alexandra Roxo & Eli Buren

    Get instant access to Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here. Access Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here. Eli and Alexandra say most women's nervous systems will reject a deep, present man on sight. Most of what gets sold as polarity work falls apart the second you bring it home, into a marriage, into parenting, or into a Tuesday night with bills to pay. Eli Buren and Alexandra Roxo are two of the very few teachers in this space I trust to talk about masculine and feminine dynamics as something you live, not perform. Eli has been mentored by David Deida since 2004. Alexandra is the bestselling author of F*ck Like a Goddess and Dare to Feel. I've known Eli for about a decade, and he was the one who first told me to be careful about forcing my relationship into the polished version of these teachings. This conversation goes there. What immature masculine and immature feminine actually look like in a body. Why a deep, present man can feel disarming when your nervous system isn't trained to receive him. How rupture, repair, and trauma show up inside a real partnership with a child in the next room There are red flags they want you to watch for in polarity teachers. We name them. You’ll learn: [0:00] Introduction[10:48] Why men's awareness and presence have become urgent currencies in a virtual world[24:39] Women reject the deep men they say they want, and Alexandra almost did too[29:39] How leaning on your looks, job, or competency exposes your immature feminine[35:23] Translating polarity from the retreat high into paying bills and taking out the trash[40:06] Bank accounts and breasts: the surface level where most couples get stuck[49:35] Words kill the polarity, and trauma imprints require more than practice[1:02:25] What Eli transmits to his daughter through tone, touch, and humming through the belly[1:10:24] Why "emotionally flexible" describes a mother's presence better than "regulated"[1:18:21] The red flags Alexandra and Eli see in other polarity teachers right now[1:23:42] Blending therapeutic somatic work with polarity practice waters both down 👉🏻 Want to start a podcast like this one? Book your free podcast planning call here. Resources Mentioned: Aware Parenting Method | Website Find more from Eli and Alexandra: Eli Buren | Website | InstagramGathering of Forces Men’s Weekend in Topenga, CA, October 2-4 | WebsiteDojo of Awareness Men’s Online Practice Series | Website Alchemy of Love (Eli and Alexandra's three-month online program) | Website Alexandra Roxo | Website | InstagramF*ck Like a Goddess by Alexandra Roxo | Book or AudiobookDare to Feel by Alexandra Roxo | Book or Audiobook Find more from Kelly: YouTube: Reclamation Radio with Kelly Brogan, MDInstagram: @kellybroganmdWebsite: kellybroganmd.comJoin Kelly's monthly membership, Vital Life Project here.Get Kelly’s new book The Reclaimed Woman here.Discover Kelly's Relaxed Woman System here. Learn more about how you can reclaim your financial sovereignty with Infinite Banking here.  Click here to schedule your call with Josh or Ken today.

    168: How the Masculine-Feminine Polarity Fixes Any Relationship | Alexandra Roxo & Eli Buren

  2. Jul 7

    167: The Lies Around Inflation & How Bitcoin Is The Solution to Our "Broken" Economy | Scott Dedels

    Get instant access to Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here. Access Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here. Bitcoin isn't an investment, it's the first real way to save money through decades. Bitcoin is the most significant invention any of us has seen in our lifetime, and most people still think it's a scam. Scott Dedels, co-founder of Block Rewards, host of The Block Reward Podcast, and author of The Dao of Bitcoin, spent fifteen years in traditional finance before that frame collapsed for him. I've come to notice that the people I tend to align with on medicine, history, and sovereignty often share one thing in common. They understand Bitcoin in a way that goes far past price charts. Scott's turning point came in 2020, when the lockdowns quieted the hustle long enough for him to ask what money actually is. What he found made it impossible to keep advising clients the way he had been. We get into why fiat currency is engineered to lose value, why saving has been replaced by investing, and why he describes Bitcoin as a fixed measuring tool for time and energy. If the math of your life feels heavier than it used to, this conversation explains why. You’ll learn: [0:00] Introduction[4:02] Why the lockdown in Canada became the spiritual inflection point for a finance bro[9:54] The father wound at the threshold of inquiry, and why deconstructing money runs root-chakra deep[16:03] Stockholm syndrome, the coincidence of wants, and the state monopoly on what money is[25:42] Why inflation is state-sponsored theft of your finite time and energy[30:10] Digital scarcity as the most significant invention any of us have been alive for[37:19] Why Bitcoin mining is civilization-level infrastructure, not a climate disaster[45:44] Can the state capture Bitcoin, and what gold confiscation in 1933 tells us[55:20] Why Bitcoin is the first real innovation in timekeeping in seven hundred years[59:51] How the mechanical clock and fiat money commoditized time, and what reversing it feels like 👉🏻 Want to start a podcast like this one? Book your free podcast planning call here. Resources Mentioned: The Price of Tomorrow by Jeff Booth | BookTrezor (Hardware wallet for Bitcoin storage) | WebsiteCoinbase (Cryptocurrency exchange platform) | WebsiteBlock Rewards (Bitcoin payroll software company) | Website Find more from Scott: Scott Dedels | LinkedInLantern Bitcoin | Website | XThe Dao of Bitcoin by Scott Dedels | BookAge of Time by Scott Dedels | Book Find more from Kelly: YouTube: Reclamation Radio with Kelly Brogan, MDInstagram: @kellybroganmdWebsite: kellybroganmd.comJoin Kelly's monthly membership, Vital Life Project here.Get Kelly’s new book The Reclaimed Woman here.Discover Kelly's Relaxed Woman System here. Learn more about how you can reclaim your financial sovereignty with Infinite Banking here.  Click here to schedule your call with Josh or Ken today.

    167: The Lies Around Inflation & How Bitcoin Is The Solution to Our "Broken" Economy | Scott Dedels

  3. Jun 30

    166: If You Always Need to "Be Right" As Woman, You Need to Hear This

    Get instant access to Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here. Being right with your husband might be the single most corrosive thing you do in your marriage. This episode comes out of the audacious questions women in my private containers ask me, and this one cuts straight into the psychology of why so many of us were trained to argue, observe, and keep a mental ledger from childhood. There’s this thing I call litigator-level skills, the kind you develop growing up in a household where being right was how you avoided punishment and stayed loved. The problem is that those exact same skills poison an intimate relationship. The victim triangle keeps people trapped in cycles of blame, defense, and scorekeeping. Intimacy cannot survive a zero-sum game, and real partnership begins where the need to win ends. Finding your husband right is less about agreement and more about releasing the reflex to make him wrong. Beneath the need to be right is often a protector carrying an old job: preventing punishment, rejection, or loss of love. One simple parts work question can reveal what that protector is so afraid would happen if it stopped keeping score. Submission and surrender are not acts of self-abandonment. They are masteries that become available when control is no longer confused with safety. You’ll learn: [0:00] Introduction[2:27] The litigator-level ledger we carry into adulthood as a trauma response[4:13] Submission, surrender, and the sacred technology of the man-woman dyad[6:52] How to disarm conflict by finding him right, even just for the f**k of it[9:35] Why losing respect for your husband begins the end, usually through infidelity 👉🏻 Want to start a podcast like this one? Book your free podcast planning call here. Find more from Kelly: YouTube: Reclamation Radio with Kelly Brogan, MDInstagram: @kellybroganmdWebsite: kellybroganmd.comJoin Kelly's monthly membership, Vital Life Project here.Get Kelly’s new book The Reclaimed Woman here.Discover Kelly's Relaxed Woman System here. Access Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here. Learn how you can reclaim your financial sovereignty with Real Change Financial here. Click here to schedule your call with Josh or Ken today.

    166: If You Always Need to "Be Right" As Woman, You Need to Hear This

  4. Jun 23

    165: The Trap of Trying to Fix Yourself

    Get instant access to Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here. Access Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here. Can you really “improve” yourself? I spent years convinced I could save the world from the bad guys, then years convinced I could save myself through deep inner work, coaching, and retreats. What I found on the other side wasn't a better me. It was a different relationship to my own badness and wrongness, and a suspicion that progress itself might be an illusion. It’s time we unpack a few things… the good-bad split, why rejecting one pole pulls you straight toward it, and why my sovereign lawfulness journey exposed the same extractive shadow I'd assigned to the IRS. I'll share what my daughter said that cracked my activist armor, why I now prize awareness and relaxation over certainty, and what it means to live by spontaneity, curiosity, and the principle of maybe. If you've ever invested in fixing yourself and still touched the nihilistic question of "is this it", I made this for you. You’ll learn: [0:00] Introduction [2:06] From saving the world to turning the activist lens inward [5:54] The self-improvement double bind nobody in the wellness industry will name [8:02] The good-bad split and why we keep attracting what we reject [11:00] "Mama, you're afraid of so many things", the day my daughter broke the spell [14:16] Why the IRS and the sovereignty movement carry the same vampiric energy [18:27] What if you're not actually better than your mom? [20:58] The villain crown practice and the power of holding "maybe" [24:39] Why trusting your impulses matters more when money removes every constraint [28:38] Surrender, the cosmic wink, and trading progress for presence [33:33] Professional patients, functional medicine, and the loop that leads nowhere 👉🏻 Want to start a podcast like this one? Book your free podcast planning call here. Resources mentioned: Take a deeper dive with Kelly's Awakened Activism Masterclass. Find more from Kelly: YouTube: Reclamation Radio with Kelly Brogan, MDInstagram: @kellybroganmdWebsite: kellybroganmd.comJoin Kelly's monthly membership, Vital Life Project here.Get Kelly’s new book The Reclaimed Woman here. Learn how you can reclaim your financial sovereignty with Real Change Financial here. Click here to schedule your call with Josh or Ken today.

    165: The Trap of Trying to Fix Yourself

  5. Jun 16

    164: The Embodied Woman Guide: Spiritual Paths, Chronic Illness & The 3 Ps

    Get instant access to Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here. Get instant recorded access to Kelly's Audacious Embodiment 2 weekend here. Access Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here. There are specific tools that you can use to become embodied... and I’m about to show them to you. I want to talk about why the work of embodiment isn't softness, rose-petal baths, and endless fixation on your trauma. Most women I know are incredibly functional. They get the to-do list done, hold everything together, and then spend the rest of their lives subtly avoiding themselves through scrolling, numbing, resentment, overthinking, or exhaustion. It’s something I’ve been circling for years through my training with David Deida, Sheila Kelley’s S Factor, and Wendy’s pole work, and it’s the most honest path I’ve found for women who are tired of living disconnected from their own bodies. I walk you through the framework I use, which I call “the P’s,” and unpack the moment another woman gave me permission to stop shaming myself. Within a single weekend, the chronic tension and self-surveillance I had been carrying for years started dissolving in a way that felt almost biochemical. There’s also a short breath and movement practice you can follow along with, plus the three inquiry questions I keep returning to, including the one about your own mother that almost nobody wants to answer honestly. If you’ve been settling, ignoring the little “no,” or numbing through scrolling, this one is for you. You’ll learn: [0:00] Introduction[4:34] How functional freeze, snacking, and scrolling become socially acceptable avoidance patterns[7:03] Why chronic resentment shows up as bloating, hair loss, and fatigue[12:27] Permission from another woman can shift your physiology in a weekend[15:00] What Wendy, the pole teacher, taught me about the whore archetype[18:36] How orienting your whole day around sensual pleasure rewires your life[21:43] Why ignoring the little no is the root of our greatest suffering[24:11] A guided breathwork practice for tracking pleasure and sexual energy[36:57] Wearing the villain crown and what your judgment of other women reveals[42:20] The regrettable impulse, the damaged story, and what would ruin you as a woman 👉🏻 Want to start a podcast like this one? Book your free podcast planning call here. Resources mentioned: Dr. Tom Cowan | WebsiteDavid Deida | WebsiteSheila Kelley | WebsiteS Factor | Website Find more from Kelly: YouTube: Reclamation Radio with Kelly Brogan, MDInstagram: @kellybroganmdWebsite: kellybroganmd.comJoin Kelly's monthly membership, Vital Life Project here.Get Kelly’s new book The Reclaimed Woman here. Get instant recorded access to Kelly's Audacious Embodiment 2 weekend here.

    164: The Embodied Woman Guide: Spiritual Paths, Chronic Illness & The 3 Ps

  6. Jun 9

    163: The Hidden Trauma Created By The Psychiatry System (It's Making People Worse) | Anneke Sips

    Get instant access to Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here. Learn more about Kelly's Relaxed Woman System here. Most of what gets labeled psychosis isn't psychosis at all. My guest, Anneke Sips, spent over 25 years inside Dutch psychiatry as a psychiatric nurse, crisis worker, and trauma therapist before founding Network Yoga Therapy and writing Wisdom of Psychosis. She knows the isolation rooms, the forced injections, and the court proceedings from the inside. She also knows what happens when you stop reaching for restraints and start actually listening. We talk about the day-to-day reality of psychiatric wards that most people will never see, the choreography of medication compliance, the way fear in the provider creates the danger they claim to be managing, and the deep fear, especially in women, of being found crazy. If you've ever wondered what would happen if the person across from you didn't flinch when you described your inner world, this is that conversation. You’ll learn: [00:00] Introduction[07:32] Psychiatric systems can train people to identify with illness instead of healing[12:48] Medication becomes the default response before deeper causes are explored[18:55] Experiences labeled psychosis may reflect profound inner shifts[24:04] The mainstream definition of psychosis shapes personal identity[29:51] Mystical experiences overlap with psychiatric diagnosis more than most realize[36:11] Stigma keeps people silent about experiences outside the norm[41:48] Supporting someone in crisis without forcing a clinical narrative[48:10] Years inside institutional systems can erode self-trust[01:00:01] Caregiving reveals the emotional cost of carrying too much alone 👉🏻 Want to start a podcast like this one? Book your free podcast planning call here. Resources mentioned: LEAP Institute, Dr. Xavier Amador | WebsiteInternal Family Systems | WebsitePolyvagal Theory | Website Book a session with Anneke here and use the discount code BROGAN75. Find more from Anneke: Anneke Sips | Instagram | WebsiteWisdom of Psychosis by Anneke Sips | Book Find more from Kelly: YouTube: Reclamation Radio with Kelly Brogan, MDInstagram: @kellybroganmdWebsite: kellybroganmd.comJoin Kelly's monthly membership, Vital Life Project here.Get Kelly’s new book The Reclaimed Woman here. Get instant access to Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here. You can head to LOTUSWEI and use Kelly15 for 15% off. Learn more about how you can reclaim your financial sovereignty with Infinite Banking. Click here to schedule your call with Josh or Ken today.

    163: The Hidden Trauma Created By The Psychiatry System (It's Making People Worse) | Anneke Sips

  7. Jun 2

    162: Birth, Death & Marriage: The Rituals We've Forgotten | Stephen Jenkinson

    Get instant access to Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here. Matrimony and weddings are not what society made us believe. Stephen Jenkinson is a Harvard-trained theologian, author, and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School, whose work has spanned dying, elderhood, storytelling, and now matrimony. Most modern weddings last fifteen minutes. He spent close to a year preparing each one he officiated, and the ceremony itself ran six to eight hours. He didn't set out to study marriage. Young people came to him asking for something they couldn't name… nothing that sounded like a top-40 song or looked like a fairy tale. He started paying attention to the strange shards still left in the standard wedding: the aisle no one sits in, the procession, the throwing of food, the giving away. What he found changes the conversation. Matrimony, he argues, has nothing to do with celebrating love between two people. It's about mothering culture, and patrimony is its structural counterpart. One builds the house, the other moves in and makes it a home for the wider world. This episode goes into what a real wedding looks like when guests become witnesses, why the personal vow may be the weakest part of the ceremony, what patriarchy actually means before it became a slur, and why "celebration of love" may be the phrase that hollowed the whole thing out. You’ll learn: [00:00] Introduction[02:10] How young people pleading for a real wedding pulled Stephen into matrimony work [09:23] Treating wedding traditions like archaeological shards reveals what we've lost [18:40] The nuclear family became the default after Christianity dismantled elders and kinship [28:12] The difference between wedding, marriage, and matrimony… and why patrimony has no holy state [38:59] Reclaiming the word patriarchy from sloth and virtue signalling [48:38] Why "celebration of love" turns guests into spectators instead of witnesses [59:36] What a six to eight hour ceremony with reversed seating and real petitions looks like [1:22:23] What a couple planning a wedding should consider before the big day 👉🏻 Want to start a podcast like this one? Book your free podcast planning call here. Resources mentioned: Once in Europa by John Berger | Book Get Stephen's book Matrimony: Ritual, Culture, and the Heart’s Work here. Find more from Stephen: Orphan Wisdom | Website | Instagram | Facebook Find more from Kelly: YouTube: Reclamation Radio with Kelly Brogan, MDInstagram: @kellybroganmdWebsite: kellybroganmd.comJoin Kelly's monthly membership, Vital Life Project here.Get Kelly’s new book The Reclaimed Woman here. Click here to schedule your call with Josh or Ken today.

    162: Birth, Death & Marriage: The Rituals We've Forgotten | Stephen Jenkinson

  8. May 26

    161: How to Handle Physical Pain without Medications

    Get instant access to Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here. Get instant access to Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here.  How can you learn to handle physical pain with a holistic approach? Most people treat physical pain like an enemy to silence as fast as possible. I used to think the same way, until three rib injuries forced me to spend entire nights with the sensation. What I found challenges the assumption that pain is a constant, unending stream. It actually moves in micro-undulations, and there's a specific somatic practice that lets you feel that. This episode walks through pendulation, a somatic experiencing technique I practice with my coach, Whitney. It's a tool for staying with sensation instead of running from it. I'm drawn to this method over natural pain remedies, CBD, or other supports I could reach for. The interest isn't in eliminating sensation. It's in learning what's actually happening inside my body. You’ll learn: [00:00] Introduction [00:07] What to do when you'd normally reach for a pill [00:22] Why I avoided chronic pain until this past year [00:47] The somatic experiencing practice called pendulation [01:24] Why pain is not a constant stream of torture [02:08] What changes when you stop resisting physical sensation [02:31] Step-by-step: how to pendulate through physical pain [03:26] Why a born skeptic was surprised this worked [03:43] Why I skip CBD, DMSO, and other natural options  👉🏻 Want to start a podcast like this one? Book your free podcast planning call here. Resources mentioned: Healing with DMSO by Amandha Dawn Vollmer | Book or Audiobook Find more from Kelly: YouTube: Reclamation Radio with Kelly Brogan, MD Instagram: @kellybroganmd Website: kellybroganmd.com Join Kelly's monthly membership, Vital Life Project here. Get Kelly’s new book The Reclaimed Woman here. Click here to schedule your call with Josh or Ken today.

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It hurts to have unmet needs. And it sucks to scurry after crumbs when you’re starving. Join Kelly Brogan MD, as she teaches us how our pain points are portals. She’ll help you discover a world where every seeming challenge is a new chapter in your most audacious story. Plot twists, body symptoms, and heartbreak each represent an opportunity to own ourselves and learn to better wield the power of choice. Kelly will take you on a reclamation journey from the battlefield of victim consciousness to the sovereignty of self-devoted pleasure and expose every surprising place you’ve given your power away. Explore the tools you’ll need to find out what you want, how to ask for it and how to stand in fierce alignment with yourself.Kelly Brogan is a soul alchemist and threshold guardian devoted to the transformation of collective consciousness. As a young know-it-all atheist, candy-addict, straight-A MIT neuroscience major and Ivy-league trained psychiatrist, she specialized in feeding women, herself included, straight into the mouth of the medicated beast. After a Hashimoto’s healing journey inspired her to sound the alarm on the bait-and-switch of big pharma, she became a renegade activist—authoring the New York Times bestseller, A Mind of Your Own, and its follow-up, Own Your Self; co-editing the landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression; and eventually becoming an honorary member of the Disinformation Dozen. She is the creatrix of Vital Mind Reset, the online health reclamation program, and the membership community Vital Life Project. She’s a human, cat, and chicken mom.

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