Reset Your Nervous System: Actionable Advice for Stress, Burnout, and Trauma | Linda Thai
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
An expert trauma therapist offers a master class in resilience.
 Linda Thai LMSW is a trauma therapist specializing in cutting-edge brain-and body-based modalities for complex developmental trauma. As an educator, she adeptly communicates on trauma, attachment, and the impact of oppressive systems. Passionate about healing trauma, Linda is redefining what it means to be wounded and whole and a healer.
In this episode we talk about:
- A primer on your nervous systemÂ
- Sstress, distress, traumatic stress and burnoutÂ
- The relationship between stress and digestionÂ
- How to figure out if you’re stressed, burned out or traumatized
- Practical tools for resetting your nervous system
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:18.3 | Hello, party people. How we doing? So here's something I know from looking at the download numbers, looking at which episodes perform the best for us. You guys seem to really like episodes about how to regulate your nervous system, which I take as a sign that many of you feel fried and frazzled and stressed and burned out and anxious and even traumatized. And moreover, |
| 0:38.1 | that you realize that your body is carrying all of this stuff. The good news, and you really can't |
| 0:42.7 | hear this enough, is that there are ways to work with all of this and maybe even release it. And my |
| 0:47.8 | guest today is a maestro in this regard. Linda Tai is a therapist and educator. She has a |
| 0:53.4 | master's in social work with an emphasis on the neurobiology a therapist and educator. She has a master's in social work with an |
| 0:54.7 | emphasis on the neurobiology of attachment and trauma. She has personally studied a whole |
| 0:59.6 | bunch of modalities, many of which we've talked about on the show, including somatic experiencing, |
| 1:04.4 | brain spotting, internal family systems, and much, much more in this conversation. We start |
| 1:09.4 | with a primer on your nervous system. Then we talk |
| 1:11.9 | about stress, traumatic stress, and burnout. We disambiguate those terms. We talk about the relationship |
| 1:17.4 | between stress and digestion, which I found really interesting, how to figure out if you're |
| 1:22.2 | stressed or burned out or traumatized. And then she walks us through a ton of practical tools for resetting your nervous |
| 1:30.0 | system. Speaking of resetting, this is episode two in an ambitious month-long series we're running |
| 1:35.7 | called The Reset. Labor Day, as you know, can often function as a sort of mini New Year's. |
| 1:40.9 | Summer's winding down. We're going back to school, literally or metaphorically, back to |
| 1:44.5 | the routine. So every week this month, we're going to talk about how to reset one crucial |
| 1:48.8 | aspect of your life. This week, it's your nervous system. We've got three episodes on that. |
| 1:53.0 | After that, we'll hit career relationships, including crucially, your relationship to yourself. |
| 1:58.0 | Finally, we're going to do some episodes on how to reset your |
| 2:00.9 | relationship to uncertainty and change and the future, something that many of us really struggle |
| 2:05.6 | with. Anyway, back to today's episode. It comes with a bespoke guided meditation only for |
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