Nervous System Healing, Trauma, and Faith | Why You Keep Getting Stuck and How to Break Free with Heather Shriver Burns

Nervous System Healing, Trauma, and Faith | Why You Keep Getting Stuck and How to Break Free with Heather Shriver Burns

You have a good prayer life.

You are doing all the right things.

And you are still stuck.

You keep finding yourself in the same patterns. The same cycles. The same places you have been a hundred times before. And you cannot figure out why.

It is not your faith that is the problem. It is your nervous system.

In this episode of the Cortisol Coach Podcast, Christine Marie sits down with someone who has had a profound and deeply personal impact on her life. Heather Shriver Burns is a master coach, spiritual director, and founder of Seek First Sisterhood. For the past decade she has coached ambitious women of faith from stay at home moms to eight figure business owners helping them break the internal patterns keeping them from freedom, peace, and joy. Her work blends neuroscience, nervous system restoration, story work, and Kingdom principles to help women align their body, soul, and spirit and build a life that feels as good as it looks.

But Heather is not just a guest on this show.

She was Christine's personal coach for many years. Christine earned one of her certifications through Heather. And she is the coach who helped Christine step into healing her nervous system and trauma.

Heather's own story is extraordinary. A teacher turned corporate executive who stumbled into network marketing and built an eight figure business — only to lose it overnight at 27 weeks pregnant with her third child. That experience sent her searching. Not just for mindset tools but for something deeper. She discovered neuroscience. Then nervous system work. Then trauma healing. And the Holy Spirit connected every single piece to Scripture in a way that no pastor had ever shown her before.

Today she helps women understand that science and Scripture have always been saying the same thing. They just speak different languages.

This episode is for the woman who has read every book, done the work, knows the Word — and still cannot figure out why she keeps ending up in the same place.

You do not need more information. You need to understand why what you already know does not feel true for you.

In this episode you will hear:

Why nervous system dysregulation keeps women stuck no matter how much mindset work they do

The connection between trauma, cortisol, and the patterns that keep repeating in your life

Why healing happens in layers and why God in His kindness does not show us everything at once

How neuroscience and Scripture are saying the exact same thing in different languages

What Heather lost overnight at 27 weeks pregnant and how that loss became her calling

Why you do not need another Bible verse — you need to understand why the ones you already know do not feel true for you

What nervous system restoration actually looks like in practice

How Christine's own healing journey led to everything the Cortisol Coach Podcast stands for today

Work with Heather Shriver Burns:

Seek First CEO Academy for entrepreneurs ready to go deep into brain science, nervous system healing, and Kingdom principles

One on one coaching for the woman ready for intimate transformational work

Connect with Heather Shriver Burns:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heathershriverburns
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heather.shriver
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/seek-first-ceo-neuroscience-scripture-spirit-led-strategy/id1527176273

Connect with Christine:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cortisol_coach
To be a guest on the Cortisol Coach Podcast: https://podcast.itschristinemarie.com/

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