Episodes

  • Signs Your Nervous System Is Healing (Even When You Can’t Tell)

    Signs Your Nervous System Is Healing (Even When You Can’t Tell)
    Jun 29 2026
    If you’ve been doing healing work and wondering whether anything is actually changing, these are the signs your nervous system is healing — even when it doesn’t feel like it. Most people making real progress are missing it entirely. That’s not a motivation problem. It’s a measurement problem. We’ve been taught to look for peak […]
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    25 mins
  • Spiritual Bypassing: When Your Practice Becomes the Problem

    Spiritual Bypassing: When Your Practice Becomes the Problem
    Jun 22 2026
    Spiritual bypassing is one of the most common ways well-intentioned healing work quietly stalls. Most people doing it have no idea it’s happening. In this episode, Dr. Gil breaks down what spiritual bypassing actually looks like in clinical practice. It’s not a failure of sincerity — it’s a nervous system that has gotten very good […]
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    32 mins
  • Spiritual Practice and Healing: What the Managing Mind Can’t Reach

    Spiritual Practice and Healing: What the Managing Mind Can’t Reach
    Jun 15 2026
    When Healing Has a Ceiling: Spirituality, Surrender, and What the Managing Mind Can’t Reach Some people do everything right — the therapy, the somatic work, the self-awareness — and still hit a wall. In this episode, Dr. Gil explores why certain forms of healing require states that effortful self-management can’t consistently produce, and what spiritual […]
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    33 mins
  • Why Anxiety Won’t Go Away: What Your Nervous System Is Actually Trying to Signal

    Why Anxiety Won’t Go Away: What Your Nervous System Is Actually Trying to Signal
    Jun 7 2026
    You’ve tried to think your way out of it. Reminded yourself that things are okay. Maybe done the work — therapy, practices, frameworks. You can describe your patterns with real precision. It’s still there. Why anxiety won’t go away is a question I am often asked. In this episode of AskDrGil, I explain why — […]
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    34 mins
  • How to Heal From Childhood Trauma: Why Your Body Can Actually Finish What It Started

    How to Heal From Childhood Trauma: Why Your Body Can Actually Finish What It Started
    Jun 1 2026
    There is a quiet assumption running through most of contemporary healing culture: that trauma is a permanent condition. That the goal is management, not resolution. That you will always be working with it, never through it. Learn how to heal from childhood trauma. Dr. Gil thinks that assumption has itself become one of the biggest […]
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    34 mins
  • The Root Cause of Recurring Symptoms

    The Root Cause of Recurring Symptoms
    May 25 2026
    You’ve treated the symptom. More than once. Different approaches, different practitioners, different protocols. Things improved. And then the same essential experience came back. Finding the root cause of your symptoms is key. In this episode of AskDrGil, Dr. Gil introduces a framework that explains why — and what to do about it. The root cause […]
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    32 mins
  • How to Reverse Biological Age: Dr. Kavin Mistry on Primal Health

    How to Reverse Biological Age: Dr. Kavin Mistry on Primal Health
    May 18 2026
    Most conversations about how to reverse biological age focus on what to take, what to eat, or what to optimize. This one starts somewhere different. Dr. Kavin Mistry is a board-certified neuroradiologist with 25 years of clinical experience — and someone who spent formative years living with the Hadza tribe in Tanzania, one of the […]
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    45 mins
  • The Wayfarer and the Challenges of the Unknown

    The Wayfarer and the Challenges of the Unknown
    May 11 2026
    Most people get stuck in a healing loop, mistaking ongoing searching for progress. The challenges of the unknown halt their journey. But what if your in-between state isn’t a failure, but a vital phase of transformation that can still shift? In this episode of Ask Dr. Gil, we dive into the elusive “Wayfarer” position—a transitional […]
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    23 mins