Fear and relapse after the pink cloud fades are often blamed on a lack of willpower, but this conversation challenges that idea by asking a more important question: what happens when the brain itself is depleted.

In this episode, we sit down with Lori, 29 years sober and author of Born Addict, to explore how unresolved biochemical imbalances can keep people stuck in anxiety, cravings, and emotional flatness even years into sobriety, and how targeted nutrition can change the trajectory of recovery.

We connect personal story with research, from the long depression experienced by Bill Wilson to the work of Abram Hoffer using niacin, and modern findings from Kenneth Blum on Reward Deficiency Syndrome. When dopamine is under-resourced, the brain keeps searching, often swapping alcohol for sugar, nicotine, caffeine, or constant stimulation, unless those neurotransmitter systems are properly supported.

Lori shares a practical and realistic framework that starts with stabilizing blood sugar through food, rebuilding with foundational nutrients like B vitamins, magnesium, zinc, and omega 3s, and using targeted amino acids to support dopamine and serotonin so cravings ease and clarity returns.

If sobriety feels anxious, exhausting, or joyless, this episode offers a grounded reminder that feeding the brain is not optional, it is the foundation that allows therapy, community, and spiritual growth to actually take hold.

✨ About the Host & Ways to Work Together

Melissa-Sue Methven hosts Not Alone with Melissa-Sue Methven, and is an author, speaker, and breathwork facilitator guiding emotional, nervous-system, and spiritual healing. She uses storytelling, expert conversations, and lived experience to help people reconnect with their body, release stored emotions, and return to wholeness.

Available for:

• Speaking engagements & keynotes
• Breathwork & nervous system workshops
• Podcast guest features & collaborations
• Faith-based, wellness, and integrative health events

🔗 Inquiries: https://www.melissagratitude.life

📘 The Truth Behind the Smiles explores grief, emotional suppression, faith, and the journey back to self.

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🎧 Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0DG5ZZN5C

🌱 Coming Soon: The Gut God Connection & Gut God Blueprint Coaching Program, focused on gut health, nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and faith-aligned living.

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Fear blocks healing, and the dental chair makes it obvious.

We sit down with Dr. DeSanti, a biological dentist in Arizona, to explore how a calm nervous system improves outcomes—from extractions and root canals to daily care. He shares a slower, relationship-focused approach that listens first and treats second.

Learn how biological dentistry works in plain terms: CBCT 3D imaging for hidden infections and airway issues, oral microbiome testing for targeted care, and bone readings that reveal unhealed sites.

Discover when a ceramic implant, ozone therapy, or careful root canal evaluation matters, and why immune resilience drives better decisions than X-rays alone.

We cover tools to shift fight-or-flight into rest-and-repair: guided breathwork, weighted blankets, soothing sounds, essential oils, and faith or gratitude practices.

Parents will also hear how birth trauma, tongue ties, and airway health influence kids’ behavior and development.

If dental visits feel stressful, rushed, or dismissive, this conversation gives an evidence-informed, patient-centered path to safer, calmer care.

Share with someone who dreads the dentist, subscribe, and leave a review with the one change you’ll try at your next visit.

✨ About the Host & Ways to Work Together

Melissa-Sue Methven hosts Not Alone with Melissa-Sue Methven, and is an author, speaker, and breathwork facilitator guiding emotional, nervous-system, and spiritual healing. She uses storytelling, expert conversations, and lived experience to help people reconnect with their body, release stored emotions, and return to wholeness.

Available for:

• Speaking engagements & keynotes
• Breathwork & nervous system workshops
• Podcast guest features & collaborations
• Faith-based, wellness, and integrative health events

🔗 Inquiries: https://www.melissagratitude.life

📘 The Truth Behind the Smiles explores grief, emotional suppression, faith, and the journey back to self.

📕 Amazon: https://amzn.to/4mSAcEt

🎧 Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0DG5ZZN5C

🌱 Coming Soon: The Gut God Connection & Gut God Blueprint Coaching Program, focused on gut health, nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and faith-aligned living.

✨ Join the waitlist: https://www.melissagratitude.life

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One word surfaced during breathwork and shifted everything – Boundaries.

This episode traces the move from people pleasing to calm, loving limits that protect your energy and change how you show up with your kids and partner. When access to your time changes, others may react.

That response reveals old patterns. It does not mean you are wrong.

We share practical ways to create an evening buffer so you return regulated and present. Quiet time, prayer, light, movement, breath.

We break down co-regulation, why some kids seek conflict, and how faith keeps you steady when guilt shows up.

Boundaries are love in action. They protect your capacity so you can lead with patience and care.

✨ About the Host & Ways to Work Together

Melissa-Sue Methven hosts Not Alone with Melissa-Sue Methven, and is an author, speaker, and breathwork facilitator guiding emotional, nervous-system, and spiritual healing. She uses storytelling, expert conversations, and lived experience to help people reconnect with their body, release stored emotions, and return to wholeness.

Available for:

• Speaking engagements & keynotes
• Breathwork & nervous system workshops
• Podcast guest features & collaborations
• Faith-based, wellness, and integrative health events

🔗 Inquiries: https://www.melissagratitude.life

📘 The Truth Behind the Smiles explores grief, emotional suppression, faith, and the journey back to self.

📕 Amazon: https://amzn.to/4mSAcEt

🎧 Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0DG5ZZN5C

🌱 Coming Soon: The Gut God Connection & Gut God Blueprint Coaching Program, focused on gut health, nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and faith-aligned living.

✨ Join the waitlist: https://www.melissagratitude.life

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What if your body is not working against you, but trying to tell you the truth?

In this episode, healer and author Joyce Brinton explains how stored stress, negative self-talk, and limiting labels can shape physical symptoms over time.

She reframes illness as feedback, not failure, and introduces energy as the space around the body that absorbs emotional and mental patterns. When fear and shame repeat, the body carries the load.

When language and awareness change, healing can begin.

Joyce shares practical tools you can use right away. She walks through ABC therapy to separate what happened from the meaning you assigned to it, forgiveness as a way to calm the nervous system, and daily energy hygiene to clear emotional residue.

The conversation also explores muscle testing as a fast way to access truth, cut through mental loops, and reconnect with purpose.

Whether you come from faith, curiosity, or skepticism, this episode meets you where you are. You do not need a belief system to heal, only a reason that matters to you.

If you feel stuck, drained, or disconnected from your body, this conversation offers a grounded path back to clarity, energy, and health.

✨ About the Host & Ways to Work Together

Melissa-Sue Methven hosts Not Alone with Melissa-Sue Methven, and is an author, speaker, and breathwork facilitator guiding emotional, nervous-system, and spiritual healing. She uses storytelling, expert conversations, and lived experience to help people reconnect with their body, release stored emotions, and return to wholeness.

Available for:

• Speaking engagements & keynotes
• Breathwork & nervous system workshops
• Podcast guest features & collaborations
• Faith-based, wellness, and integrative health events

🔗 Inquiries: https://www.melissagratitude.life

📘 The Truth Behind the Smiles explores grief, emotional suppression, faith, and the journey back to self.

📕 Amazon: https://amzn.to/4mSAcEt

🎧 Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0DG5ZZN5C

🌱 Coming Soon: The Gut God Connection & Gut God Blueprint Coaching Program, focused on gut health, nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and faith-aligned living.

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In this deeply honest and powerful episode, I sit down with Steve Polski to explore what happens when life keeps knocking — and we finally answer.

Steve shares his personal journey through alcohol addiction, divorce, and the moment everything changed. He opens up about how God kept calling him back to alignment — and how faith, family, and fitness became the foundation that rebuilt his life from the inside out.

We also dive into Steve’s work in regenerative agriculture and the beef industry, uncovering how healing doesn’t just happen in the body — it begins in the soil. We talk about why nutrient-dense food matters, how healthy soil produces food that truly nourishes us, and how regenerative farming can restore land, ecosystems, and human health.

This episode weaves together faith, resilience, stewardship, and responsibility — reminding us that regeneration is possible in our lives, our families, and the systems that feed us.

If you care about healing at the root, living by Faith–Family–Fitness values, and understanding how the food we eat connects to the land beneath our feet, this conversation is for you.

🎧 Listen now, subscribe, and share this episode to help bring awareness to regenerative farming and the power of choosing nourishment — physically and spiritually.

✨ About the Host & Ways to Work Together

Melissa-Sue Methven hosts Not Alone with Melissa-Sue Methven, and is an author, speaker, and breathwork facilitator guiding emotional, nervous-system, and spiritual healing. She uses storytelling, expert conversations, and lived experience to help people reconnect with their body, release stored emotions, and return to wholeness.

Available for:

• Speaking engagements & keynotes
• Breathwork & nervous system workshops
• Podcast guest features & collaborations
• Faith-based, wellness, and integrative health events

🔗 Inquiries: https://www.melissagratitude.life

📘 The Truth Behind the Smiles explores grief, emotional suppression, faith, and the journey back to self.

📕 Amazon: https://amzn.to/4mSAcEt

🎧 Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0DG5ZZN5C

🌱 Coming Soon: The Gut God Connection & Gut God Blueprint Coaching Program, focused on gut health, nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and faith-aligned living.

✨ Join the waitlist: https://www.melissagratitude.life

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Tyler Copenhaver Heath turned a childhood of foster care, a father in prison, and societal labels into a life of service, entrepreneurship, and storytelling. He shows how adversity can forge the strengths that drive impact and why sharing your work isn’t bragging, it’s multiplying good.

In this conversation, Tyler explores using visibility to support children’s homes, animal shelters, and global programs, turning personal challenges into practical tools for presence, mindfulness, and grounded routines.

He shares the pivot from physical volunteering to media, the backstory behind Content for Good, and building a ranch that blends animal refuge, media education, and career pathways for foster youth.

If you’re ready to rethink success, courage, and how your story can change someone’s tomorrow, listen, share, and leave a review to help more people find these insights.

✨ About the Host & Ways to Work Together

Melissa-Sue Methven hosts Not Alone with Melissa-Sue Methven, and is an author, speaker, and breathwork facilitator guiding emotional, nervous-system, and spiritual healing. She uses storytelling, expert conversations, and lived experience to help people reconnect with their body, release stored emotions, and return to wholeness.

Available for:

• Speaking engagements & keynotes
• Breathwork & nervous system workshops
• Podcast guest features & collaborations
• Faith-based, wellness, and integrative health events

🔗 Inquiries: https://www.melissagratitude.life

📘 The Truth Behind the Smiles explores grief, emotional suppression, faith, and the journey back to self.

📕 Amazon: https://amzn.to/4mSAcEt

🎧 Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0DG5ZZN5C

🌱 Coming Soon: The Gut God Connection & Gut God Blueprint Coaching Program, focused on gut health, nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and faith-aligned living.

✨ Join the waitlist: https://www.melissagratitude.life

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Feeling stuck despite doing all the “right” things? Neuroscientist and biochemist Zineea Ahmed Khan breaks down why healing stalls and how safety, belief, and biology must align.

She maps four layers: physical, chemical, energetic, and emotional—and shows how suppressed feelings in fascia impact posture, breath, and the nervous system.

Learn practical tools to create somatic safety: slow exhales, sighs, midline twists, and coherence techniques that help your body reset. Zineea connects oral health to whole-body wellness, shares client breakthroughs, and offers actionable steps like blessing food, gentle detox with zeolite and cilantro, and setting small, focused goals.

This episode gives a grounded path to move from “I’m broken” to “I’m safe and worthy of healing.”

Follow, share, and leave a review to help others find these insights.

✨ About the Host & Ways to Work Together

Melissa-Sue Methven hosts Not Alone with Melissa-Sue Methven, and is an author, speaker, and breathwork facilitator guiding emotional, nervous-system, and spiritual healing. She uses storytelling, expert conversations, and lived experience to help people reconnect with their body, release stored emotions, and return to wholeness.

Available for:

• Speaking engagements & keynotes
• Breathwork & nervous system workshops
• Podcast guest features & collaborations
• Faith-based, wellness, and integrative health events

🔗 Inquiries: https://www.melissagratitude.life

📘 The Truth Behind the Smiles explores grief, emotional suppression, faith, and the journey back to self.

📕 Amazon: https://amzn.to/4mSAcEt

🎧 Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0DG5ZZN5C

🌱 Coming Soon: The Gut God Connection & Gut God Blueprint Coaching Program, focused on gut health, nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and faith-aligned living.

✨ Join the waitlist: https://www.melissagratitude.life

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Your body speaks before your mind catches up.

Melissa shares how illness became a compass, turning fatigue, gut flares, and sleepless nights into signals about stress, overgiving, and cellular overload.

Using faith, breathwork, and practical protocols like sauna, minerals, and hyperbaric oxygen, she restored energy and uncovered patterns for balance.

Learn to read your body like a baby’s cues, track patterns with journaling, and use simple habits—timing coffee, cutting sugar, mineral-rich morning elixirs, sunlight, and red light therapy—to support mood, immunity, and focus.

Melissa also explores how suppressed emotions impact energy and how breathwork, observation, and faith help release tension and restore calm.

If you’re exhausted, relying on coffee, or sensing your body is sending messages, this episode offers practical, grounded tools to reclaim energy and clarity.

Share, subscribe, and leave a review to help others tune into their bodies.

✨ About the Host & Ways to Work Together

Melissa-Sue Methven hosts Not Alone with Melissa-Sue Methven, and is an author, speaker, and breathwork facilitator guiding emotional, nervous-system, and spiritual healing. She uses storytelling, expert conversations, and lived experience to help people reconnect with their body, release stored emotions, and return to wholeness.

Available for:

• Speaking engagements & keynotes
• Breathwork & nervous system workshops
• Podcast guest features & collaborations
• Faith-based, wellness, and integrative health events

🔗 Inquiries: https://www.melissagratitude.life

📘 The Truth Behind the Smiles explores grief, emotional suppression, faith, and the journey back to self.

📕 Amazon: https://amzn.to/4mSAcEt

🎧 Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0DG5ZZN5C

🌱 Coming Soon: The Gut God Connection & Gut God Blueprint Coaching Program, focused on gut health, nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and faith-aligned living.

✨ Join the waitlist: https://www.melissagratitude.life

🎧 Subscribe to Not Alone, share episodes, and leave a review.

You are not alone 🤍