The Nervous System Eats First Podcast
Tune in to conversations on autism, menopause, emotional burnout, and embodied healing — for women 40+ who feel everything.
Now streaming in audio on all major platforms.
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The Nervous System Eats First is a sensory health and lifestyle medicine podcast for neurodivergent, autistic, and high-functioning women navigating menopause, stress, and emotional disconnection.
Hosted by Dr. Stacey Denise — The Neuroaesthetic MD™ — each episode is an invitation to reset your energy, restore your emotional clarity, and reimagine what healing can feel like.
Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, and iHeartRadio — so you can listen wherever you reset best.
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Why This Podcast Is Different
Conversations on menopause, autism, and nervous system repair — for high-functioning, neurodivergent women 40+ who feel everything.
Now streaming in audio on all major platforms.
What We Talk About
Real questions. Rooted answers.
When your nervous system is in a chronic state of alert — even subtly — your body starts treating everyday life like a threat. This “always on” feeling is less about stress and more about lack of safety. In my work, we reset that pattern through rhythm, color, and ritual — because the nervous system speaks the language of sensation, not just logic.
Menopause isn’t just a hormonal shift — it’s a neurological and sensory one too.
As estrogen dips, your brain’s ability to modulate mood, sleep, and stress is impacted.
If you’ve already been masking, people-pleasing, or “performing wellness,” this shift can unravel everything that once worked.
Regulation becomes a necessity, not a luxury — and that’s where nervous system literacy changes everything.
Yes, it often is — and it shows up earlier, deeper, and more invisibly.
Autistic and highly sensitive women process more stimuli per moment, which means their bodies work overtime just to exist in typical environments. Burnout for us isn't laziness or low resilience. It’s a call for recalibration.
That’s where sensory medicine becomes a form of self-trust.
Disconnection often means your nervous system has gone into protective mode — not because you're broken, but because you're tired.
When you’ve spent years managing, fixing, or adapting, your body eventually says “enough.”
Healing begins when we stop asking what’s wrong with me and start listening to what your body is whispering through silence, cravings, and fatigue.
Yes — and that’s the essence of neuroaesthetic medicine.
Color isn’t just decoration. Rhythm isn’t just routine. These are sensory nutrients your nervous system uses to feel safe, stable, and expressive.
When we curate your environment with intention — whether through your space, your wardrobe, or your rituals — healing becomes embodied, not just aspirational.
