Healing rarely arrives on a timeline our culture celebrates. We want next day delivery for our bodies, yet physiology rewires through repetition, rest, and steady inputs that teach the nervous system it is safe to heal. In this episode of You Are the Answer, Naomi Mills, chiropractor and advocate for the body’s natural intelligence, unpacks the unsexy truth: resilience is earned through consistency, not hacks.

We dig into what resilience really means in real life — the reserve that helps you skate past the office bug, recover from surgery, and enjoy that winter ski trip without falling apart. Naomi shares the ginkgo symbol on her wrist as a reminder of longevity and adaptability, and explains how nervous system care, sleep, nutrition, and movement enlarge your “stress plate” so your body can hold more without tipping into symptoms. If you’ve ever muted pain with a quick fix only to watch it return louder, you’ll learn why those signals matter and how to respond without fear.

From the herb-pot analogy to the reality of 12–18 month timelines for deep change, this conversation offers practical steps to shift from breakdown into balance: trim obvious stressors, build simple daily rituals, and trust your body to decide what heals first. Expect a grounded, hopeful take on why slow healing is not failure but proof your system is learning a safer, stronger pattern. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs patience today, and leave a review to help more people find their way back to their bodies.

What if the life you built was perfect on paper and punishing in your body? Naomi opens up about scaling a successful chiropractic clinic while quietly slipping into chronic fight-or-flight—shallow sleep, IBS, skin flare-ups, and a short fuse that signalled a system stuck in survival. The turning point arrived at an intense retreat in Spain, where breathwork, sweat lodges, firewalking, and deep connection made enough space to feel the honest answer: the blueprint she followed fit someone else’s nervous system, not her own.

From there, everything changed. We talk through the decision to sell the business, move back to Scotland, and rebuild a rhythm that respects physiology—periods of creative work balanced with slow time in nature, family, and community. Along the way, Naomi shares how somatic practices, nervous system education, and compassionate boundaries became the foundation of a new kind of success. Instead of chasing scale, the focus shifted to regulation: better sleep, steadier moods, improved digestion, and the natural return of energy and purpose.

You’ll learn why health truly radiates from the inside out, how to spot early signals of sympathetic overdrive, and what it looks like to design a life that keeps you in a healing state more often. We explore practical tools for nervous system regulation, the myth of being “fixed,” and why patience and consistency are the unsexy truth of lasting change. Whether you’re navigating burnout, rethinking work, or seeking deeper fulfilment, this story offers a clear path: protect your baseline, then build from there.

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What if your health isn’t the space between illnesses but a capacity you can grow? We take a clear, compassionate look at how the nervous system decides whether you feel calm, grounded, and well, or stuck in fight, flight, or freeze. Using a simple Wheel of Health, we map the three stress loads that shape your daily experience—physical, chemical, and emotional—and show how to turn scattered memories into a coherent plan.

We start by challenging the myth that “feeling fine” equals healthy, drawing on a broader definition of well-being that includes body, mind, and social life. Then we guide you through building your own Plate of Health: from birth events, falls, surgeries, and desk posture, to ultra-processed foods, medication use, skincare and cleaning chemicals, and workplace exposures. Finally, we explore emotional stressors—bereavement, breakups, caregiving, stacked life changes—and how even joyful milestones can add strain when they cluster. You’ll learn how unresolved emotional trauma can stall healing, and why capacity-building matters more than chasing quick fixes.

By the end, you’ll know how to identify the biggest loads on your system, choose small actions with outsized impact, and expand your ability to hold life without tipping into overwhelm. Understanding how much you're "carrying on your plate" is the first step to creating better health and the life you desire. Grab the free resource at www.YouAreTheAnswer.co.uk, map your stress history, and start building resilience with simple daily steps.

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