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You've tried the things. You still feel like garbage. But what if your self care is actually working — and you just don't recognize it because regulated doesn't feel like what you think it does?

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You're not broken. You're burned out, dysregulated, and running without a manual. Creative Self Care with Crystal McLain is a podcast about nervous system literacy, radical self-reclamation, and what it actually looks like to take care of yourself in a world designed to exhaust you.

Crystal McLain is a somatic practitioner and nervous system educator who is passionate about empowering women with stress and trauma education, and practical tools for reclaiming their energy, agency and fucks in life.

She delivers truth, humor, and science without the toxic positivity, spiritual bypassing, or bullshit.

This is self-care as resistance. And you're in the right place.

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What If Regulated Doesn't Feel Like What You Think?

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Never lose your place, on any device