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Sandy Boone
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Welcome to The Brain Dump with Sandy Boone. This is THE podcast for healers who need a space to take care of themselves.

  1. 3일 전

    Watch Your Character: What Doing the Right Thing Actually Costs | Episode 20

    There's a quote hanging in Sandy's therapist's office. Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. She has read it a hundred times. Lately, she keeps landing on the same word — not destiny, not habits. Character. The piece we talk about the least and the one that matters most. This episode is about what character actually costs, told through a story Sandy has carried for over twenty years. What This Episode Holds Why character is not a personality trait or something you're born with — it's what you do when it costs you somethingThe critical difference between staying in your lane as wisdom and staying in your lane as avoidanceWhy critical thinking — slow, nuanced, uncomfortable thinking — has become an endangered skill, and why character depends on itSandy's deeply personal story about bowing out of her closest cousin's wedding and writing him a letter that cost her over twenty years of relationship with a family she lovedThe honest, rarely discussed truth that doing the right thing is often not rewarded, not validated, and not freeA direct and practical conversation for therapists and healers about advocacy, mandatory reporting, and the difference between appropriate professional boundaries and using "staying in your lane" as an excuse to look awayWhy character is built in a thousand small, quiet choices rather than one dramatic momentWho This Episode Is For Anyone who has stayed silent about something that felt wrong and is still carrying the weight of that choiceThe therapist or helper who has made a hard call — a mandatory report, a difficult referral, an uncomfortable conversation — and wondered if it matteredAnyone who did the right thing and lost something significant because of it, and has never quite had language for that griefThe woman who has been told to mind her business, stay in her lane, or not get involved, and is starting to question whether that advice always serves her valuesAnyone trying to figure out who they want to be in the small, costly, unwitnessed moments of their life"Character is not a grand gesture. It's not a dramatic moment where you ride in on a white horse and save the day. Character is built in the small moments, the quiet ones, the ones where nobody is watching and you do the right thing anyway." Sandy doesn't regret the letter. Not because she was right — she prayed she was wrong. But because she loved her cousin enough to say the hard thing, and chose her daughter and her integrity over a bridesmaid's dress and family approval. That is the kind of person she wants to be. And the only way to become that person is to keep making that choice, especially in the moments that cost something. Watch your character. It is becoming your destiny. CONNECT WITH ME Free Guide: 50 Things I Do to Calm My Freaking Nervous System: https://www.sandyboone.com/50-things Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesandyboone/ Learn More About Neurofeedback: https://sandy-boone.mykajabi.com/opt-in The Ethical Exit Course: https://www.sandyboone.com/the-ethical-exit  Work with Sandy privately: https://www.sandyboone.com/store Rooted Calm Collective Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rootedcalmcollective

    16분

  2. 6월 25일

    Why Your Nervous System Work Isn't Working: The Mineral Depletion Nobody's Testing For | Episode 19

    Have you ever felt exhausted in a way that sleep doesn't fix? You're eating reasonably well. You're resting. You're managing your stress as best you can. And you still wake up tired. Still drag through your days. Still feel like your body is working against you instead of with you. If that's you, Sandy has something to share that changed the way she understands her own health — something years of traditional lab work completely missed. What This Episode Holds What HTMA (hair tissue mineral analysis) actually is, and why hair tells a longer biochemical story than blood ever couldWhy Sandy decided to take this test on herself before ever offering it to a client — and what showed up in her own resultsThe concept of a "calcium shell" — what it means when calcium becomes biounavailable, and why it often shows up in people who look composed on the outside while running on empty underneathWhat Sandy's thyroid and adrenal markers revealed about chronic, bone-deep fatigue that doesn't respond to sleepWhy mineral patterns are not just physiological — they are psychological too, and how the calcium shell showed up in Sandy's behavior as well as her bloodworkWhy nervous system regulation work — breathwork, somatic practices, therapy, neurofeedback — can only go so far if your minerals are depletedWhat it actually looks like to order an HTMA, what the process involves, and how Sandy walks clients through their resultsWho This Episode Is For The healer or helping professional who has been running on reserves for years and has the labs to "prove" everything is fine, but doesn't feel fineAnyone whose exhaustion doesn't respond to rest, no matter how much they prioritize sleepThe person who has done all the nervous system work — therapy, breathwork, somatic practices — and still feels like something underneath isn't shiftingAnyone curious about functional or root-cause approaches to fatigue, thyroid sluggishness, or adrenal depletionThe therapist or coach who wants to understand their own biochemistry before they ever consider offering tools like this to clients"Minerals are the spark plugs of life. You can have a great engine — capable, intelligent, well-intentioned — and if the spark plugs aren't firing, nothing works the way it's supposed to. You don't need more discipline. You don't need more willpower. Sometimes you need to know what's actually happening in your body so you can give it what it actually needs." How to Get an HTMA with Sandy Order your kit directly through Sandy Boone: https://www.sandyboone.com/offers/v7AJgJiC The kit ships to your home — you collect a small sample of hair from the back of your head, close to the scalpYou mail your sample to Trace Elements (envelope provided), the lab Sandy uses and trustsResults come back and you and Sandy sit down together for a full hour to walk through your specific numbers, ratios, and patternsInvestment: $300, which covers the test, your one-on-one results session, and two weeks to ask Sandy follow up questions on VoxerCONNECT WITH ME Free Guide: 50 Things I Do to Calm My Freaking Nervous System: https://www.sandyboone.com/50-things Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesandyboone/ Learn More About Neurofeedback: https://sandy-boone.mykajabi.com/opt-in The Ethical Exit Course: https://www.sandyboone.com/the-ethical-exit  Work with Sandy privately: https://www.sandyboone.com/store Rooted Calm Collective Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rootedcalmcollective

    14분

  3. 6월 18일

    Somatic Experiencing & Chronic Pain: Trauma and the Body | Episode 18

    Sandy was recently asked to speak on a workman's compensation panel about somatic experiencing — and she is bringing that same depth of expertise directly to this episode. If you have ever wondered what somatic experiencing actually is, how it differs from talk therapy, or why chronic pain so often has a nervous system story underneath it, this is the most comprehensive answer Sandy has given on the podcast. What This Episode Holds What somatic experiencing actually is, how Peter Levine developed it, and why it works at the physiological level rather than the cognitive oneThe concept of pendulation — and Sandy's simple, memorable way of explaining it to clientsWhy trauma is stored as unresolved survival energy, not as a memory — and what that means for healingThe animal world's natural discharge response (and why humans rarely get the chance to do what every other mammal does instinctively)How acute pain transitions into chronic pain, and why that shift is often about protection rather than ongoing tissue damageWhat healers and clinicians should actually be watching for when recognizing nervous system dysregulation in themselves or their clientsWhy chronic pain is reversible when the nervous system is addressed — and what that process actually looks likeA powerful personal story from Sandy's clinical research days about connection, placebo effect, and what genuinely helped patients' pain scores improveAn illuminating conversation with rheumatologist Dr. James Fant about fibromyalgia, trauma correlation, and why so many physicians who pursue this connection face professional pushbackWhy shifting from suspicion to safety may be the single most important change in how we approach chronic pain treatmentWho This Episode Is For The therapist or healer curious about body-based modalities and how they differ from traditional talk therapyAnyone living with chronic pain who has felt dismissed, doubted, or told it's "all in their head"The clinician working with workman's compensation, chronic pain, or fibromyalgia populationsHealthcare providers wanting to understand the nervous system science behind why connection and validation measurably improve patient outcomesAnyone curious about the deep, often under-discussed relationship between unresolved trauma and physical pain "Chronic pain often reflects a nervous system that's never received the signal that it's safe again. And that experience has to be felt. It cannot be told." The nervous system is plastic. The brain can relearn safety. And when threat perception decreases and regulation improves, people experience real, measurable reductions in pain — not because the pain was ever imaginary, but because the body has finally been given what it needed to complete the process it was always designed to complete. We were never built for the breakneck pace of the world we live in now. But we are built to heal. Sometimes all it takes is curiosity, safety, and someone willing to notice. CONNECT WITH ME Free Guide: 50 Things I Do to Calm My Freaking Nervous System: https://www.sandyboone.com/50-things Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesandyboone/ Learn More About Neurofeedback: https://sandy-boone.mykajabi.com/opt-in The Ethical Exit Course: https://www.sandyboone.com/the-ethical-exit  Work with Sandy privately: https://www.sandyboone.com/store Rooted Calm Collective Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rootedcalmcollective

    25분

  4. 6월 11일

    Leaving Insurance Panels as a Therapist | Episode 17

    Do you know how much control your insurance panels actually have over your practice? Not your clinical decisions. Not your treatment approach. Your business — your rates, your caseload, your credentialing data, your evenings lost to prior authorizations and claim denials. The reimbursements that haven't kept up with inflation in years. Most therapists don't know the full picture until they are already in the middle of trying to leave it. This episode is the conversation nobody had with you when you got licensed — and the one Sandy wishes someone had with her. What This Episode Holds The CAQH revelation that stopped Sandy in her tracks — what it means that the credentialing system holding your professional and banking data is now owned by 12 insurance company shareholders, and why every therapist needs to understand this before deciding whether to stay or goWhy the fear of leaving insurance panels is real, valid, and worth naming — especially in an uncertain economy where caseloads are already shiftingThe critical reframe on a decreasing insurance caseload versus a decreasing private pay caseload — and why the math looks very different depending on which side of that line you are onThe five logistics that blindside therapists most often when they try to exit panels — including the one contractual mistake that could put you in ethical violation before you even realize itWhy termination timelines vary wildly across panels — and why assuming they are all the same could cost you monthsWhat an ethical exit actually looks like, step by step — and why integrity in how you leave matters as much as the decision to leaveWhy there is no perfect time — and what the therapists who are thriving in private pay did differently than the ones still waiting for certaintyThe 5 Logistics Nobody Warns You About You cannot simply stop taking new insurance clients — depending on your contracts, this may be an ethical and contractual violationTermination timelines vary wildly — some panels require 60 days, some require six months. Read every contract individuallySend every termination letter certified mail with return receipt requested — and keep every document. No exceptionsBuilding a referral list for transitioning clients is ethically complicated and harder than it sounds — Sandy walks through exactly what your obligation is and what it isn'tInsurance is paying you roughly 40 to 60% of what your service is actually worth — and that number gets lower when you factor in your administrative hoursWho This Episode Is For The therapist who has been thinking about leaving insurance panels but doesn't know where to startThe clinician who is burned out on prior authorizations, claim denials, and reimbursement rates that haven't moved in yearsAnyone who has been quietly phasing out insurance clients without realizing that may not be the legally or ethically sound approachThe therapist who is scared — and wants honest information about what the transition actually involves before she decidesAny healer who is ready to understand who is really running her practice and what it would take to change thatKey Quote "You are not an independent contractor who happens to work with insurance companies. In many ways, you are operating inside a system that was designed by and for them. The question is not whether the conditions are perfect for leaving. The question is whether you have the information, the plan, and the support to make a thoughtful transition." Leaving insurance panels is not simple. It is not fast. It is not without complexity or logistical headaches. And it is absolutely possible. The fear that keeps most therapists stuck is not fear of the process. It is fear of the unknown. And the antidote to that is not certainty — it is information. You now have more of it than you did before you listened to this episode. CONNECT WITH ME Free Guide: 50 Things I Do to Calm My Freaking Nervous System: https://www.sandyboone.com/50-things Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesandyboone/ Learn More About Neurofeedback: https://sandy-boone.mykajabi.com/opt-in The Ethical Exit Course: https://www.sandyboone.com/the-ethical-exit  Work with Sandy privately: https://www.sandyboone.com/store Rooted Calm Collective Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rootedcalmcollective

    13분

  5. 6월 4일

    The Difference Between Regulation and Numbness — And Why It Matters for Healers | Episode 16

    What if your nervous system isn't fragile? What if you are not too sensitive — you are just living in a time where the input never stops? The world is loud right now. War, politics, climate, economic strain, cultural fragmentation — and that is before we even get to what is happening in our personal lives. So when someone tells you to just regulate your nervous system, it can feel almost insulting. This episode is not about calming down so you stop caring. It is about caring without the collapse. What This Episode Holds Why your nervous system is not malfunctioning — it is responding accurately to real stimuli it was never designed to handle at this scaleThe critical difference between activation and engagement — and why one depletes you while the other sustains youWhy numbness is not regulation — it is collapse — and how to tell the difference in your own bodyWhat chronic exposure without resolution is doing to helpers, therapists, and healers specificallySandy's personal account of recent sleep disruption, dysregulation, and the specific things she did to course-correct — including what actually workedPractical containment strategies for managing input without disconnecting from what mattersWhat it looks like to complete the stress cycle after consuming activating contentHow to distinguish between what you can influence and what you cannot — and why that distinction is essential right nowWho This Episode Is For The therapist or healer who absorbs client trauma, societal grief, and global instability and has nowhere to put it allThe helper who has been functioning but quietly detaching — from work, from people they love, from themselvesAnyone who has confused numbness with peace and is starting to feel the cost of thatThe person who is deeply engaged in the world and does not want to stop caring — but needs a more sustainable way to stay in itAnyone whose sleep, body, or relationships are starting to show the signs of chronic activation without resolutionLinks Mentioned in This Episode Cortisol support supplement — Charlotte's Web mushroom blend she added to her nighttime routine: https://www.trycharlottesweb.com/products/stress-support-mushroom-gummies?_pos=4&_sid=6430be76f&_ss=r Bilateral music Spotify playlist — the binaural music she listened to through the night for nervous system support: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7b6A0HJnY7uWErBnmcNs8h?si=OONzfZK6Rhez0tyY73UgFA Sleep headphones — the headphones she uses when listening to music overnight: https://a.co/d/01bvyVbw1440 Newsletter — the daily email digest that gives a one-line summary of world news, helping contain news consumption and regulate exposure: https://join1440.com/ "The goal is not to calm down so you stop caring. The goal is to increase the capacity so that you can stay engaged longer. Regulation allows you to care longer. A regulated nervous system is sustainable." Sandy closes this episode with three questions worth sitting with: What have you been trying to metabolize that was never yours to carry alone? Where are you consuming input without completion? What would it look like to care deeply without living in chronic activation? You are not weak for feeling overwhelmed. You are human. And the work of regulation is not about becoming someone who feels less — it is about becoming someone who can stay present for longer. That is the whole point. CONNECT WITH ME Free Guide: 50 Things I Do to Calm My Freaking Nervous System: https://www.sandyboone.com/50-things Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesandyboone/ Learn More About Neurofeedback: https://sandy-boone.mykajabi.com/opt-in The Ethical Exit Course: https://www.sandyboone.com/the-ethical-exit  Work with Sandy privately: https://www.sandyboone.com/store Rooted Calm Collective Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rootedcalmcollective

    9분

  6. 5월 28일

    The Door I Stopped Holding Open: An Honest Conversation About Family Estrangement | Episode 15

    My father came to my son's graduation. I didn't call him after. And I never heard from him again. That is not a dramatic story. There was no explosion, no ultimatum, no final conversation. There was just a door I quietly stopped holding open. And the silence that followed told me everything I needed to know. This episode is about that. And it is about so much more than that. What This Episode Holds Sandy's personal story of estrangement — told not to assign blame, but to illuminate something true about how these ruptures actually happen and what they actually feel likeWhy estrangement is one of the most common and least talked about losses we carry — and what the research actually says about how widespread family fracture has becomeThe particular damage of inconsistency — why someone who shows up perfectly sometimes is harder to let go of than someone who never showed up at allWhy the fault question is almost never the right place to start — and what to ask insteadA full and honest look at both sides of the door — the person who left and the person who was left — and why both griefs are legitimate and both deserve spaceWhat disenfranchised grief is, why estrangement creates it, and why the absence of social ritual makes this loss so hard to carryFive things worth sitting with if you are standing at the door right now, trying to decideWho This Episode Is For Anyone carrying an estrangement — on either side of the door — who has never quite had language for what they are holdingThe person who left and wonders if they are allowed to grieve the relationship they wished they'd hadThe person who was left and feels like acknowledging their pain means invalidating the person who wentThe woman standing in the middle right now, not yet decided, carrying a relationship that is costing more than it is givingAnyone who has restructured holidays around a silence they don't quite know how to explain to the people at the tableThe therapist or helper who holds this question in their own life and in the lives of the people they serveKey Quote "The silence wasn't the wound. The silence was the answer. It confirmed what I already knew but hadn't fully let myself accept — that I had been the only one holding the door open. And when I stopped, it stopped." Estrangement does not come with a casserole or a card or a socially sanctioned period of mourning. It comes with a silence that doesn't explain itself, a loss that technically could still change, and a grief that most people around you don't quite know how to hold. You are allowed to grieve it. Whatever side of the door you are on. Whatever you decide. The door belongs to you. CONNECT WITH ME Free Guide: 50 Things I Do to Calm My Freaking Nervous System: https://www.sandyboone.com/50-things Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesandyboone/ Learn More About Neurofeedback: https://sandy-boone.mykajabi.com/opt-in The Ethical Exit Course: https://www.sandyboone.com/the-ethical-exit  Work with Sandy privately: https://www.sandyboone.com/store Rooted Calm Collective Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rootedcalmcollective

    17분

  7. 5월 21일

    The Patterns Keeping Therapists Burned Out and Clients Stuck — And How to Do Better | Episode 14

    This is not a therapist-bashing episode. Sandy is a therapist. She cares deeply about this field. Which is exactly why she is saying something. Because when patterns get passed down as "this is just how it's done" without anyone questioning them, nothing changes. And change — in the therapy room and in the field itself — is exactly what we are here for. This one is an invitation, not a callout. But it is honest. And it is overdue. What This Episode Holds Why insight without embodied change means something critical is being missed in the therapy room — and what to do insteadThe problem with treating coping skills as the destination rather than the doorwayWhy ignoring the body means working with half the picture — and how sleep, blood sugar, hormones, and nervous system states are not optional parts of the conversationThe nuanced and necessary distinction between trauma and poor lifestyle support — and why collapsing the two keeps clients stuckWhy normalizing therapist burnout and calling it dedication is one of the most damaging things happening in the field right nowA candid and unflinching look at therapist group culture online — what happens when venting becomes a shared identity and support spaces become echo chambersThe real reason therapists keep asking "can I really leave insurance panels?" — and why the answer has very little to do with logisticsWho This Episode Is For The therapist who suspects something in her practice isn't working but hasn't had language for it yetThe clinician who is overbooked, under-resourced, and quietly wondering if this is just what the job requiresThe therapist curious about building a sustainable private pay practice but stuck in fear and waiting for permissionAnyone in therapy who has worked hard, gained insight, and still doesn't feel different — and wonders if they are allowed to want moreThe healer who knows she cannot keep modeling depletion and calling it dedicationKey Quote "We've created systems and conversations that prioritize endurance over sustainability, normalize struggle instead of questioning it, and reward over-functioning instead of regulation. And that impacts both therapists and the people they're trying to help." Getting it perfect is not the point. Being willing to see what is not working — and having the courage to do something different — is. This field is worth fighting for. So are the people in it. Both the ones sitting across the room and the ones behind the desk. Join the community Sandy is building differently here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rootedcalmcollective CONNECT WITH ME Free Guide: 50 Things I Do to Calm My Freaking Nervous System: https://www.sandyboone.com/50-things Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesandyboone/ Learn More About Neurofeedback: https://sandy-boone.mykajabi.com/opt-in The Ethical Exit Course: https://www.sandyboone.com/the-ethical-exit  Work with Sandy privately: https://www.sandyboone.com/store Rooted Calm Collective Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rootedcalmcollective

    11분

  8. 5월 14일

    Grandmama: The Rage She Held and the Voice She Gave Me | Episode 13

    Sandy was born screaming. Her mother looked across the delivery room and said — she has your mother's temper. She wasn't wrong about what she saw. She just didn't have the right word for it yet. None of us did. This episode is about what that rage actually was, where it came from, what it cost the women who came before Sandy, and what she finally learned to do with it. What This Episode Holds The story of Grandmama — a woman who graduated at the top of her class, never got to go to college, and spent a lifetime folding her brilliance into the shape the world would acceptWhat actually lives underneath the low-grade fury so many midlife women are carrying right now — and why it is not irrational, hormonal, or too muchThe Gen X inheritance: how a generation of women was told the rules had changed, handed a career, and still never saw the list get shorterA personal story Sandy has never told publicly — about a system that failed someone she loves, the fight that followed, and the moment everything clarifiedWhat intergenerational rage is actually protecting — and how to find the fight it is asking you to take upWhy rage aimed at the right target, in service of something that matters, is one of the most powerful forces there isWho This Episode Is For The woman in midlife carrying a fury she can't entirely name and doesn't know what to do withThe therapist or helper who has spent decades navigating systems that were never designed with her in mindAnyone who followed every rule, did everything right, and watched the system fail them anywayThe woman who was told she was too much, too intense, too difficult — and is starting to wonder if that was ever actually trueAnyone who has felt the weight of what the women before them held — and wonders what they were meant to do with what got passed downKey Quote "Rage aimed at the right target, in service of someone or something that matters, is one of the most powerful forces there is." Grandmama never got to find out the full measure of what she was capable of. Not in the way the world might have recognized. But she passed something down — something that moved through generations quietly, looking for somewhere to land. This episode is an invitation to stop calling it temper. To stop managing it away. To find what your rage is protecting, whose voice it is trying to restore, and what fight it is asking you to take up. Not quietly. CONNECT WITH ME Free Guide: 50 Things I Do to Calm My Freaking Nervous System: https://www.sandyboone.com/50-things Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesandyboone/ Learn More About Neurofeedback: https://sandy-boone.mykajabi.com/opt-in The Ethical Exit Course: https://www.sandyboone.com/the-ethical-exit  Work with Sandy privately: https://www.sandyboone.com/store Rooted Calm Collective Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rootedcalmcollective

    15분
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