513: BioEmotional Healing and Rewiring the Nervous System | Ashleigh DiLello
The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
Michelle Chalfant
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I'm joined by Ashleigh DiLello, the founder and creator of BioEmotional Healing, for a powerful conversation about the brain, body, nervous system, chronic pain, trauma, and what it really takes to heal.
Ashleigh shares her incredible story of becoming severely ill at just 13 years old, living between life and death for years, and eventually finding her way back to health, dance, and life. After building a successful career as a professional dancer, TV and Broadway performer, wife, and mother, she faced another life-altering health crisis after a failed hip surgery launched her body into chronic pain.
We talk about how the nervous system stores our life experiences, why stress responses can show up as anxiety, perfectionism, chronic pain, autoimmune issues, gut issues, and other symptoms, and why regulating the nervous system is only part of the healing process.
Key Takeaways
- The brain-body connection plays a major role in chronic pain, trauma, anxiety, and healing
- Long-term survival mode can become familiar to the nervous system, even after the original threat is gone
- Stress responses can show up in many ways, including pain, anxiety, perfectionism, depression, OCD behaviors, autoimmune symptoms, gut issues, and more
- Regulation helps calm the nervous system in the moment, but rewiring changes the deeper patterns that keep the stress response active
- Self-compassion is essential for nervous system rewiring because harsh self-criticism keeps the brain in a protective state
- Healing requires rebuilding trust with yourself, your body, and your ability to create a new identity
- We can honor what we have been through without allowing it to define the rest of our lives
Resources from this Episode:
Ashleigh DiLello's Website
Instagram: @ashleighdilello
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Michelle Shelfand show. |
| 0:10.6 | It is so good to be here with you today. |
| 0:13.4 | Ooh, I've got a guest on for you today. |
| 0:15.3 | Her name is Ashley DeLello. |
| 0:17.9 | And she's the founder and creator of bioemotional healing. |
| 0:23.7 | Think nervous system, brain, body, and how it's all connected. |
| 0:31.3 | Boy, this woman went through incredible illnesses, chronic pain, surgeries that went wrong, you name it for years |
| 0:43.4 | and years and years that led her to creating this incredible method. So she gets into it. |
| 0:51.7 | And this is, you know, as I say that, this always brings me back to, you know, why do we go through these difficult things in life? |
| 0:59.7 | Perhaps our soul planned this all along in order for us to do something at the end of whatever that horrible thing was that we went through. |
| 1:10.0 | I see this and hear about it all the time. |
| 1:13.7 | So just as a side note, remember, |
| 1:15.9 | when you're in something that might not feel great, |
| 1:20.0 | that does not feel good at all, |
| 1:22.4 | just know that maybe on the other end of that, |
| 1:25.0 | there's a lesson for you, there's a teaching, |
| 1:26.7 | there's an experience, there's something that you will take from this experience and create goodness from. |
| 1:35.4 | Think about that. Think about that. And when we're in the middle of it, we can't see it, |
| 1:41.2 | which is exactly what we're going to talk about today with Ashley. So this bioemotional |
| 1:47.7 | healing is a revolutionary method based on neuroscience. And she helps her clients around the world |
| 1:53.8 | finally break free from emotional trauma, limiting beliefs, anxiety, and the effects of chronic |
| 1:59.7 | pain and illness. So despite being told by |
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