What if those moments where you’re convinced you’re a horrible person who “shouldn’t even be here” aren’t proof that you’re broken… but that you’re in what my guest calls a shame storm?
In this episode I’m joined by Melinda Delisle, MS LCCE – clinical nutritionist, former childbirth educator, and someone who has spent years navigating intense emotional dysregulation herself. We talk honestly about what it actually feels like inside a shame storm, why some of the most popular “healing tools” can make it worse, and how food, supplements and nervous system health quietly drive so much of our emotional world.
We get into:
- The difference between a shame swamp, a shame spiral and a full-blown shame storm
- Why gratitude lists, mindfulness and “just be present” advice can feel like gaslighting when you’re in survival mode
- How trauma, high sensitivity and people-pleasing set us up for chronic hypervigilance
- The link between nutrition, B vitamins, SSRIs and emotional dysregulation
-- Mistaking familiarity for safety – and why so many of us feel unsafe even with “nice” people
- Self-parenting, accountability and facing the ways our own dysregulation can make us the “toxic” one at home
Melinda also shares a free upcoming 4-week program she’s creating to help people build awareness, have better conversations around triggers and start finding their way out of constant dysregulation.
Substack: https://melindadelisle.substack.com/
Free 4-week program: https://melindadelisle.com/foundation/
Instagram: @melindadelisle
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melinda-delisle/
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