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This week we are re-releasing a Substack Live from our Breaker community! Mayim and Jonathan are joined by Nicole Sachs, LCSW, a renowned psychotherapist, author, and speaker who has become an internationally recognized pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine. As the architect of the “JournalSpeak” method and host of The Cure for Chronic Pain podcast, Sachs has dedicated her career to treating patients suffering from chronic pain, autoimmune conditions, and fatigue by addressing the underlying emotional components of physical symptoms.

Nicole explains that our brains often use physical pain as a “protective” distraction to keep us from feeling overwhelming emotions like rage, shame, or grief. Think of it like an emotional reservoir—when it gets too full, the pressure has to go somewhere, and often, it manifests as a backache, a migraine, or digestive issues.

Nicole’s story is as relatable as it is miraculous. After a year of being so locked up in pain that she couldn’t even put her toddlers in their car seats, she had a spiritual and psychological breakthrough. By getting brutally honest with herself through a specific type of journaling, her chronic back pain was 80% gone by the next morning.

Nicole breaks down her healing method into three simple parts that anyone can start today:

- Knowledge: Understanding that your brain and body are constantly communicating.

- The Work (Journal Speak): A specific, 20-minute daily practice of “unbridled rants” to get the hidden stress out of your system.

- Self-Compassion: Learning to change the way you talk to yourself to help your nervous system feel safe.

This approach has helped people struggling with fibromyalgia, IBS, migraines, anxiety, PTSD and addiction.

As Nicole puts it, pain isn’t a “broken” part of you—it’s information. Once you learn how to listen to what your body is trying to say, the possibilities for your life are endless.

Learn more about Nicole Sachs and her coaching: www.nicolesachs.com

Nicole Sachs’ Book, Mind Your Body: https://www.yourbreakawake.com/book

Nicole Sachs’ Podcast, The Cure for Chronic Pain: https://www.yourbreakawake.com/podcasts/the-cure-for-chronic-pain-with-nicole-sachs-lcsw-2

Nicole Sachs’ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolesachslcsw/

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In honor of Autism Month, we’re revisiting one of our popular episodes from 2024 with former Playboy Playmate, Holly Madison. She reveals SHOCKING truths about her life in the Playboy Mansion....from her relationship with Hugh Hefner (who was 54 years her senior) to LOVE BOMBING, the dark side of STOCKHOLM SYNDROME, and BREAKING FREE and discovering herself.

Holly (bestselling author, podcaster, THE PLAYBOY MURDERS host & EP) opens up about how being diagnosed with autism recently affected her entire outlook on life and shares important signs that you might be in a manipulative relationship.

She discusses everything you’ve ever wondered about Playboy life, including:

- What enticed her about the Playboy mansion experience, how she came to live there, and how she became Hugh Hefner’s “Main girlfriend”

- Why she thinks she was an easy target for Hefner

- Tactics Hefner employed to keep women from leaving the mansion

- How she numbed herself through substance use to get through day-to-day life

- How interpersonal dynamics & intense sense of competition within the playboy mansion contributed to her body dysmorphia

- HEALING & EMPOWERMENT: What was Hefner really like behind closed doors? And how did she FINALLY break free from his grip?

- What led her to break her silence on the trauma she suffered during her time at the mansion

We’re unpacking her fascinating autism diagnosis, from the benefits of finally being diagnosed and how it negatively influenced her decision-making process, to how it informed her parenting style.

Holly breaks down:

- The real cost of giving up yourself in a harmful relationship

- Why people stay in harmful relationships, from fear of judgment to lack of financial stability

- Finding spirituality in storytelling & the places she lets her intuition guide her

- Her new mission as a free speech advocate!

- What she does to maintain positive mental health, including her superstitious vision board process

Mayim and Holly also bond over their love of true crime as Holly explains “The Playboy Curse”!

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What if everything you’ve been told about Spirit is only half the truth?

In this episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Suzanne Giesemann—evidential medium, spiritual teacher, and author of Always Connected: How to Find Comfort, Clarity, and Direction from the Spirit Within—returns to reveal what really happens when you try to connect with Spirit, and why so many people are getting it wrong.

After facing her own recent health challenges, Suzanne shares how Spirit taught her to flow with life’s ups and downs, and why your connection can feel completely blocked when you’re overwhelmed, stressed, or dealing with physical and emotional struggles.

But here’s the twist: you don’t have to be fully healed to connect.

If you’ve ever wondered…

- Can psychics win the lottery?

- Can they really find missing people?

Suzanne answers both—and shares a remarkable real-life story of working on a missing person’s case, including the astonishing details she received from Spirit.

Suzanne also breaks down:

- Why your focus narrows during hard times, and how that disconnects you from Spirit

- Simple, practical ways to strengthen your intuition in just 1–3 minutes a day

- How she clearly distinguishes between messages from spirit guides, angels, deceased loved ones, & her own intuition

- What spirit guides actually are, and how they “match your frequency” to influence your life

- Top 5 misconceptions about connecting with Spirit (including what it can’t do for you)

She also dives into the deeper truths most people aren’t ready to hear…

- Why spirit guides won’t protect you from every challenge

- Why humanity is still in its “adolescent” stage of evolution

- How nervous system disregulation can completely block your spiritual connection

- Why questioning your challenges might be the key to your growth

- How psychics connect to deceased loved ones through energetic resonance

- Why readings often come through as feelings, symbols, and imagery

- What truly happens to “evil” people after they die

- Why “Hell isn’t a place, but a state of consciousness”

- How love dissolves internal barriers & accelerates healing

- Powerful question to ask a higher power: “What do I need to know that I don’t know?”

- Top 5 signs you’re being guided by Spirit right now

If you’ve ever felt disconnected, confused, or skeptical about spirituality, this conversation will challenge your assumptions and open a door you didn’t even know was there.

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Suzanne Giesemann’s Why We Can’t Find Them Course: ⁠https://suzanne-giesemann.teachable.com/l/pdp/why-we-can-t-find-them⁠

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What if everything you’ve been told about Spirit is only half the truth?

In this episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Suzanne Giesemann—evidential medium, spiritual teacher, and author of Always Connected: How to Find Comfort, Clarity, and Direction from the Spirit Within—returns to reveal what really happens when you try to connect with Spirit, and why so many people are getting it wrong.

After facing her own recent health challenges, Suzanne shares how Spirit taught her to flow with life’s ups and downs, and why your connection can feel completely blocked when you’re overwhelmed, stressed, or dealing with physical and emotional struggles.

But here’s the twist: you don’t have to be fully healed to connect.

If you’ve ever wondered…

- Can psychics win the lottery?

- Can they really find missing people?

Suzanne answers both—and shares a remarkable real-life story of working on a missing person’s case, including the astonishing details she received from Spirit.

Suzanne also breaks down:

- Why your focus narrows during hard times, and how that disconnects you from Spirit

- Simple, practical ways to strengthen your intuition in just 1–3 minutes a day

- How she clearly distinguishes between messages from spirit guides, angels, deceased loved ones, & her own intuition

- What spirit guides actually are, and how they “match your frequency” to influence your life

- Top 5 misconceptions about connecting with Spirit (including what it can’t do for you)

She also dives into the deeper truths most people aren’t ready to hear…

- Why spirit guides won’t protect you from every challenge

- Why humanity is still in its “adolescent” stage of evolution

- How nervous system disregulation can completely block your spiritual connection

- Why questioning your challenges might be the key to your growth

- How psychics connect to deceased loved ones through energetic resonance

- Why readings often come through as feelings, symbols, and imagery

- What truly happens to “evil” people after they die

- Why “Hell isn’t a place, but a state of consciousness”

- How love dissolves internal barriers & accelerates healing

- Powerful question to ask a higher power: “What do I need to know that I don’t know?”

- Top 5 signs you’re being guided by Spirit right now

If you’ve ever felt disconnected, confused, or skeptical about spirituality, this conversation will challenge your assumptions and open a door you didn’t even know was there.

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We’re sharing something special that was previously only for the breaker community on our Substack page: a chat Jonathan and I did with our special Substack community about what happens when we stop defining ourselves by what we do and start looking at who we actually are.  We explore the profound connection between our unique souls, our internal states, and our physical health.

Building on our recent conversation with Simon Sinek (world-renowned author of Start with Why and The Infinite Game), we discuss how to find your purpose by reconnecting to your “soul traits”—those inherent qualities you’ve carried since childhood.

Mayim breaks down the neurophysiology of optimism, explaining how the state of our nervous system acts as the ultimate gatekeeper for our capacity to heal. In a world that often feels increasingly cynical and designed to polarize, maintaining a state of openness is a biological necessity.

Jonathan explores how to find our unique purpose, highlighting how we often box ourselves into perceived limits that leave us feeling constrained and disconnected from our potential. To get more on rewriting these narratives, check out the recent Live with Mayim on Jonathan’s Practical Spirituality page.

Drawing on the wisdom of Michael Singer (The Untethered Soul), we also discuss the importance of “not fighting the universe”—dropping the internal resistance to what is happening so we can trigger biological responses that facilitate healing, even on a global scale.

“Optimism is believing that even in a dark tunnel, there’s light at the end.”

It is about holding space for the belief that peace and reconciliation are possible, regardless of current suffering.

This Live also covers:

- The “Junk Room” Metaphor: How to identify the mental clutter and limiting stories that keep you feeling disconnected from your true potential.

- Biology vs. Belief: How to clear the “energetic residue” of stress to allow your body to move from survival mode into recovery.

- Finding Beauty in the Mundane: The power in finding the awe and wonder hidden in your daily routine.

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