136: What To Do When You're Anxious In Dating and How To Regulate Your Nervous System With Jessica Maguire

The Sabrina Zohar Show

Mental Health, Education, Relationships, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Why do you keep spiraling after a date that seemed perfect? Why does your chest tighten when they don’t text back? It’s not just anxiety—it’s your nervous system sounding the alarm. In this eye-opening episode, Sabrina sits down with nervous system educator Jessica Maguire to explore the hidden physiological patterns driving anxious thoughts, emotional dysregulation, and the urge to chase emotionally unavailable partners.

Whether you're constantly scanning for red flags or feel overwhelmed by connection, this conversation breaks down the difference between true intuition and trauma-informed reactions. Jessica shares actionable tools to reconnect with your body, regulate your responses in dating, and stop the cycle of self-abandonment. If you’re tired of your emotions hijacking your love life, this episode will help you get back into the driver's seat—grounded, clear, and calm.

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0:00.0	Well, hello, Jessica. Welcome. Hi, Sabrina. Thanks so much for having me. I am so excited. Again, you came all the way from Australia just to see me. I am just honored. Welcome. I'm super stoked to have you. And I think we have had a few conversations on the podcast about the nervous system, but I'm so excited to have a different thought process, a different perspective and different tools, different experiences. But for
0:24.7	anyone who doesn't know you, could you please share a little bit more about you, your work,
0:27.9	what you do, and just everything about you? Yeah, sure. So I worked in private practice as a physiotherapist
0:34.8	for a decade and was really at that point of like,
0:39.3	hmm, people are coming in with all these symptoms, but I know there's more going on
0:43.0	under the surface.
0:44.5	And so I decided to close up my own clinic and take a year to really dive into all the
0:50.0	neuroscience, the nervous system, the vagus nerve, and then came back to Australia after travelling
0:57.2	around and was working with my patients in a new way, which evolved to doing workshops. And then
1:03.4	I decided that education was really where I wanted to be and teaching people to do so much
1:09.0	of this work themselves. So, you know, people might
1:11.4	still enjoy working one to one with people, but at the same time, they can also do a lot of
1:15.9	this work themselves. So yeah, I have helped now, I think it's over 20,000 students, which
1:22.0	is really exciting. That's amazing. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm curious curious because I think there's so many misconceptions.
1:28.6	Like today, for anyone who's listening, if you want to know what the episode's about, I'll just tell you, we're going to talk about how to stop falling for emotionally and available people and to understand regulating your nervous system.
1:37.2	Right.
1:37.3	Obviously, we're not going to, we can't cure cancer in one conversation.
1:40.3	And that's why there is the nervous system course for you guys if you need more. But I wanted to even just start, what misconceptions have you seen as you've been teaching especially about repairing the nervous system or understanding it, befriending it?
1:52.7	Like, what do you see?
1:53.9	I think a lot of those disconnects that we see that people may not really get about the nervous system.
1:58.0	Yeah.
1:58.5	I love this question.
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