This isn’t your sugary, sweet, diabetes-inducing healing podcast. This is Combative Calm—where nervous system regulation meets rage rituals, somatic releases, and spicy affirmations laced with f-bombs to unfck your trauma responses. Hosted by Sarai Speer—a trauma-informed yoga + meditation teacher, somatic healer, and high-energy bitch who tells it like it is—this show delivers real tools, not toxic positivity. It’s trauma-informed, nervous system-rooted healing for the emotionally constipat ...
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Rage Release Techniques Podcasts
This one’s for the days when your brain won’t shut the fuck up about how you’re behind, failing, or the world’s biggest screw-up. We’ll ground, gather all that comparison bullshit into a ball, spin it fast, and launch it into the cosmos where it can’t touch you. Then we’ll call in what you actually need—compassion, safety, power—and anchor it into …
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Nervous System Resets: When Your Brain Says Everyone Hates You
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10:45Ever spiral so hard you’re sure everyone hates you and you’re failing at life? Yeah. Been there. Last week my nervous system flipped the “everything is fucked” switch, and logic wasn’t gonna save me. This episode is all about nervous system resets you can use when your brain won’t shut the fuck up: Verbal Purge → trauma dump into a voice memo. Get …
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This one’s for the days your brain won’t shut up about how you’re failing at life, everyone else is sprinting ahead, and you’re crawling in last place. Spoiler: that’s not truth. That’s your nervous system on overdrive. Comparison makes your amygdala scream “danger,” floods you with cortisol, and then dangles dopamine hits while you scroll yourself…
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Big Takeaway: You can feel anger, survive it, and walk out stronger. You don’t have to shove it down or let it explode — you can make it your ally. This isn’t a chill, floaty meditation. It’s about walking straight into the room with your Anger, looking it in the eye, and saying: Thank you. I see you. You’ve kept me alive. Now let’s do this differe…
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Somatic Exercises-Anger is Allowed in Healing
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15:15Sarai shares a raw story about a blow-up with her parents after years of swallowing anger — and how her body went full fight mode. She breaks down the science of what happens in your nervous system when anger has nowhere to go and guides you through four somatic exercises to give it a safe exit. Quick Episode Map: Story: Confronting family over rac…
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Anger is Allowed in Healing (Affirmations)
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10:41Sarai gets real about her long history with anger — the one emotion she grew up “allowed” to feel and express. For decades, it was her fuel, her armor, and sometimes her identity. Now, after years of using it to get ahead (and burning out from it), she reframes anger as a protective messenger, not a flaw. This episode dives into: Why anger gets a b…
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Sarai leads a gentle but powerful guided meditation to help listeners reconnect with every version of themselves—past, present, and future—without judgment or conditions. It’s not about instant self-love, but about ending the constant war and letting your body exist in peace. The journey: Entering the Hallway — Visualize a warm, safe hallway lined …
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Sarai leads an unapologetic, eight-minute somatic release for anyone taught their body is wrong. It’s not a mirror pep talk—it’s a way to drop the fight and land back in your skin. The flow: Shake — Stand up, loosen every joint, and shake like you’re flinging off years of judgment. Feel every ripple as proof you’re alive. Sound — Growl, curse, scre…
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Body Acceptance Affirmations That Don't SUCK
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6:48Sarai delivers a straight-talking, no-sugarcoating mini-episode on body acceptance affirmations for people who are done with self-hate but can’t force the “love every inch” mantra. Drawing from her own three-decade battle with an eating disorder, she explains that for her, body love began with acceptance—allowing her body to exist without punishmen…
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This simple grounding technique takes you out of "time-travel brain", where you're future tripping or reliving the past and brings you into your body and the present moment.By Sarai Speer
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We all have moments where our brain lies to us, tries to tell us we're pieces of shit. Well, this is a 5 min spicy guided meditation for those moments. Download this and come back to it as often as you need. REMEMBER: Just because you think it doe NOT make it true.By Sarai Speer
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For The MF'er Who's Doing TOO MUCH (Affirmations)
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7:00If you’re doing way too much, running on caffeine and chaos, and low-key spiraling while pretending everything’s fine—this one’s for you. In this fiery kickoff to Combative Calm, Sarai Speer serves you trauma-informed, nervous-system-soothing affirmations that go way deeper than the fluffy Pinterest bullshit. These affirmations are built for the hi…
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In this raw-as-fck intro episode, trauma-informed somatic& nervous system coach Sarai Speer breaks down exactly what Combative Calm is—and why traditional healing content hasn’t worked for you. If you've ever wanted to scream during a meditation or felt like affirmations were a lie, you're in the right fucking place. Sarai shares her journey from b…
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