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High Capacity – Nervous System Regulation, Stress Management, Burnout Recovery, Somatic Tools, Anxiety, Boundaries, Overwhelm

442 — The 5 Nervous System Patterns — Which One Takes Over When You Hit Your Limit?

High Capacity – Nervous System Regulation, Stress Management, Burnout Recovery, Somatic Tools, Anxiety, Boundaries, Overwhelm

Michelle Grosser – Inspired by Mel Robbins, Dr. Andrew Huberman, and Dr. Becky Kennedy

Education, Time Management, Anxiety, Productivity, Nervous System, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Emotional Regulation, Parenting, Somatic Tools, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Overwhelm, Work-life Balance, Burnout, Mindset

4.9538 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

When you're frustrated, overwhelmed, or just done — what do you do? Do you take over — handle it, control it, make sure nobody sees you struggling? Do you go quiet, pull back, and wait for it to pass? Do you pour into everyone around you until there's nothing left for you? Do you zone out, check out, find somewhere else to be in your head? Do you go into fix-it mode — the lists, the plans, the need to have everything done right before you can breathe? One of those probably just made you wince...

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0:00.0

Welcome to high capacity, the podcast that helps you expand your nervous system's capacity so you can have the career and the family and the goals and actually enjoy them.

0:15.4

I'm your host, Michelle Grocer.

0:16.9

I'm a trial attorney turned nervous system strategist.

0:20.4

If your life is full by every measure

0:22.7

and your nervous system is feeling it.

0:25.8

This is your show.

0:27.1

Every Tuesday, I'm here to unpack the nervous system science behind why you feel wired,

0:32.4

overwhelmed and depleted and give you real tools to actually do something about it. Let's dive in.

0:41.8

It's Michelle here and welcome to high capacity. Holy moly, this has been a long time coming.

0:48.8

I'm so excited. Same show, same me, same mission, and just a little name upgrade that finally says what we're

0:56.9

actually doing here. So as we've been talking a lot about expanding our capacity in the last few

1:03.3

months, when you guys are here, we're talking about high capacity and we're not talking about

1:08.4

hustle culture. We're not talking about, you know, going from the moment you wake up until your head hits the pillow at night. I'm not talking about optimizing every hour doing more than, you know, any human reasonably should. If that's what you're looking for, you're in the wrong place and please rest. I'm talking about high capacity. I'm talking about

1:28.6

having a full life, a real, like, demanding, meaningful, sometimes chaotic life. And instead of

1:35.9

constantly trying to shrink that life or constantly feeling overwhelmed by that life,

1:41.7

learning how to expand what your nervous system can hold, right?

1:47.3

Becoming more resilient. That's it. That's the whole mission. And as I've been thinking about this

1:54.3

and the ways in which I want to explain and teach what we do here at high capacity,

2:00.2

it brought me back to like sophomore year in college

2:03.0

and tell me if you guys, if this lands with you too. So I remember having this moment where

2:09.2

I would open my camera app on my phone. And I got that dreaded notification that

2:17.4

there was low storage, right?

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