Calm Your Nervous System: Simple Daily Practices for When You're Wired, Hangry, or Too Busy to Rest | Nadia Narain & Katia Narain Phillips
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Calm Your Nervous System: Simple Daily Practices for When You're Wired, Hangry, or Too Busy to Rest | Nadia Narain & Katia Narain Phillips

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 9, 202655 min
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  • Health

A tongue-in-cheek jaw release, a 30-second shake-off, and a two-finger trick that tells your body it's safe. Plus: why scrolling feels relaxing but isn't. Nadia Narain and Katia Narain Phillips are the authors of the international bestsellers Self-Care for The Real World and Rituals for Every Day. Their most recent book, Glimmers: Tiny Moments to Transform Your Life, was published in January 2026. In this episode we talk about: Why staying calm all the time isn't actually the goal The sneaky state that masquerades as rest How to find glimmers in even the most...

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Hello everybody, welcome to the 10% Happier podcast. I'm your host Dan Harris. As somebody who walks around with a hair-trigger nervous system, constantly scanning for threats, anxious since sentience, I was very, very, very interested when I heard about these guests who you'll be hearing from today. We're going to talk about simple ways to regulate your nervous

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system that you can integrate into your daily life. And said guests are Nadia Narain and Katya Narain-Phillips. Nadia is a personal friend of mine. She's a longtime yoga and breath work teacher.

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Her sister, who I'm meeting for the first time, and I'm delighted about that, is a body worker and somatic practitioner. They have a new book, which is called

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