Reset, Regulate, Reclaim: Understanding Your Nervous System
Checking In with Michelle Williams
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
On this powerful episode of Checking In with Michelle Williams, Michelle Williams sits down with nervous system expert Jessica Maguire, author of The Nervous System Reset, to unpack what dysregulation really means — and why it’s not your fault.
Together, they explore how trauma, stress, grief, and everyday life can impact the body, the brain, and emotional health. From understanding the vagus nerve to recognizing signs of burnout, anxiety, or shutdown, this conversation offers science-backed insight with real-life compassion
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.1 | Welcome to checking in with Michelle Williams, a production of IHeart Radio and the Black Effect. |
| 0:14.6 | On this next episode of checking in, we're going to dive into setting the nervous system, resetting the nervous system. |
| 0:24.9 | We've been seeing this word, at least I've been seeing this word a lot on social media. |
| 0:29.1 | The word is dysregulation. |
| 0:33.1 | And a lot of the dysregulation that you're feeling or I'm feeling, guess what? It's not your |
| 0:40.0 | fault. Stay tuned. And as me and my next guest, we talk all things resetting the nervous |
| 0:48.9 | system. Welcome to another episode of checking in. Yes, I love doing the solo episodes, but I love bringing people in who are just masters of various areas that I speak about, people who are licensed and credentials, because sometimes I feel like I'm teetering on the line of being therapeutic, |
| 1:13.2 | but I'm like, nope, let's bring the professionals in. |
| 1:16.0 | And today I have someone who is just amazing at what she does. |
| 1:22.6 | I have her book called The Nervous System Reset, and I have posted about it a few times and could not wait. |
| 1:29.2 | And I would not bring her on until I read it. And so I just wanted to share with y'all |
| 1:36.4 | someone super amazing, Jessica McGuire. She is just awesome. And the book is called The Nervous System Reset. She does have her |
| 1:50.6 | Bachelor of Health Science, a degree, and it's a master of physiotherapy. Now over and outside |
| 1:57.5 | of America, it's called physio, you know, but you all will get to learn in a few minutes |
| 2:03.4 | what all that is. She's also the founder of the nervous system school where she teaches a long-term |
| 2:08.6 | sustainable transformative methodology of nervous system repair. And so I'm happy to have her |
| 2:15.7 | here to talk everything, dysregulation, the nervous system, our |
| 2:20.3 | vagus nerve and everything of girl, boy, calm your nerves. Welcome, Jessica McGuire. |
| 2:27.6 | Thank you so much for the show. What a beautiful welcome. I'm really excited to be here and |
| 2:32.7 | talking to you. Absolutely. I've been on an |
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