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The Somatic Frequency

Damian Appleby

The Somatic Frequency isn't about thinking your way to transformation.
It's about feeling your way there — through nervous system healing, somatic affirmations, and the law of resonance.

Most approaches to personal change work from the top down. Mindset. Belief. Willpower. We work from the ground up. In the body. Where change actually lives.

This is a podcast for people who have tried understanding their way forward — and are ready to feel their way there instead.

Every episode is a practice. Some will teach you the mechanism. Others will take you straight into it.

Your Internal Compass is already calibrated. This is where you learn to listen to it.
🎧 New episodes every week.
🎁 Start your transformation: Three free somatic audios at tranceformations.co/3dayreset
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  • 20 episodes
  • Avg 12 min
  • English
  • July 29 · 16 min

    Sympathetic Overdrive: The Biology of Being Stuck in 'On'

    Why does your nervous system stay in overdrive even when the pressure is gone? Sympathetic overdrive isn't anxiety — it's biology. Your body learned to stay in "on" mode, and it hasn't been shown it's safe to downshift. This video explains the...

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  • July 22 · 11 min

    The Hidden Cost of Being The Calm One

    You did the meeting, the call, the room full of people who needed you steady — and you were steady. Then it's over, you're alone in the car, and your hands are shaking. Here's what nobody tells you: you never stopped holding your breath. This...

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  • July 19 · 12 min

    Unfreezing the Brain: A Somatic Meditation

    This is a guided somatic session. Not a concept. Not a teaching. A practice — for your nervous system. When the freeze response hits, your thinking brain goes offline. Words don't help. Understanding doesn't help. What helps is giving the body a...

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  • July 15 · 11 min

    The Freeze Response: Why Your Brain Goes Offline Under Pressure

    Why does your brain go offline when you need it most? You're not broken. You're not weak. Your nervous system is doing exactly what it evolved to do — it's freezing. In this episode of The Somatic Frequency, we explore the freeze response: the...

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  • July 8 · 9 min

    How to Switch Off After Work: The Door You Never Learned to Close

    Download the free 3-Day Reset: Three guided audios to help your nervous system close the door — somatic unwinding, boundary anchoring, and a sleep-state recalibration. Yours to download. Yours to keep. Free. -> https://tranceformations.co/3dayreset...

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  • July 1 · 10 min

    Emotional Hangover: When a Right Call Leaves You Heavy

    For more support, download the free https://tranceformations.co/beyond-boardroom/. Three audios designed to create positive somatic momentum. Yours to keep. You made the right call. You'd make it again.  So why is your body still holding it? This...

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  • June 28 · 9 min

    Letting the Echo Fade: A Guided Practice To Stop Overthinking

    The mistake took ten seconds. It's the replay that's lasted all week. This is the somatic session — the practice half of the pair that began with the explainer, When One Bad Moment Turns Your Whole Week to Trash. There we looked at why a single bad...

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  • June 25 · 9 min

    When One Bad Moment Turns Your Whole Week to Trash

    https://tranceformations.co/beyond-boardroom/ One bad Tuesday morning.  One brutal email. One mistake in a meeting. And suddenly your entire week is off the rails. Most professionals know this feeling. You walk into work on a Tuesday, something...

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  • June 24 · 12 min

    Emotional Numbness: A Somatic Practice for When Work Feels Empty

    https://tranceformations.co/beyond-boardroom/ So, if it's appropriate to do so, just go ahead and settle back and make yourself comfortable. This is an Experience episode. A full guided somatic practice.  Not a teaching. Not a concept. A direct,...

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  • June 10 · 12 min

    Emotional Exhaustion: When You're Not Burnt Out — You're Fried

    There's a difference — and it matters. Burnout is what happens when you've been pushing too hard for too long. Fried is what happens when your nervous system has been holding position for years. Against threat. Against collapse. Against the next...

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  • June 3 · 13 min

    Cortisol Reset: When Your Nervous System Finally Stops Tensing

    If your body feels like it's permanently on alert — tight shoulders, restless nights, a mind that won't slow down — that's your nervous system, not your circumstances. High cortisol is the biological marker of a system that hasn't received the signal...

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  • May 31 · 15 min

    Find Your Off Switch — A Somatic Practice for Overthinking at Night

    You can't think your way through overthinking. You need a different solution. All day your nervous system has been dealing with the storm. It doesn't know that storm is over. No-one told it. It's just doing its job, on an outdated weather forecast....

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  • May 28 · 15 min

    Overthinking at Night? Here's How to Finally Switch Off

    You started this morning early. Now it's late — and your mind still hasn't stopped. This isn't a sleep anxiety problem. Your nervous system is still at work. Most solutions for overthinking at night start in the mind. Journal. Meditate. Count your...

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  • May 24 · 12 min

    A Guided Somatic Practice to Reset Your Nervous System After Burnout

    https://tranceformations.co/beyond-boardroom/ The Extended Exhale — A Somatic Practice for Nervous System Reset You've been running on reserves for longer than you'd like to admit. The meetings, the decisions, the weight of holding it together — it...

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  • May 18 · 7 min

    When Quiet Burnout Takes Over — A Somatic Practice to Reset

    When Quiet Burnout Takes Over — A Somatic Practice to Reset https://tranceformations.co/beyond-boardroom/ You're the one everyone relies on. The one who holds it together, keeps the plates spinning, makes the call when there's no clear answer. And...

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