Are you ready to finally break free from emotional debt and escape the patterns that are keeping you stuck?
Josh Trent welcomes Jonny Miller, Nervous System Expert, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 769, to share why nervous system mastery is the missing key to true healing, how to rewire vagal tone capacity, how trauma gets stored in the body, why emotions travel across generations, and how breathwork and collective healing spaces help you reconnect with your true Self.
Nervous System Mastery
A 5-week live bootcamp to build calm, clarity, and resilience from the inside out.
Most people think stress, burnout, and emotional patterns are “just the way life is.” But what if those patterns were actually shaping your biology and you had the tools to rewrite them?
This training unpacks the science of how emotions, beliefs, and environment can switch genes on or off and shows you practical ways to reprogram them for peace, resilience, and lasting vitality.
It’s not about piling on more self-help. It’s about learning how to create real inner safety, release stored trauma, and finally experience freedom in your body, mind, and spirit.
Enjoy $250 off the next cohort by using the link above or the code LIVEWELL
In This Episode, Jonny Miller Uncovers:
[01:15] Nervous System Mastery
- How the nervous system impacts our predictions.
- What made Jonny realize he was numb in his body.
- Why mastery takes at least 10,000 hours.
- How nervous system mastery means reducing reactivity.
- Why moments of crisis humble us and get us to start learning new ways of being.
Resources:
[06:20] Is Your Therapist Trauma-Informed?
- What it means when a practitioner is trauma-informed.
- How certain healing methods don’t consider trauma.
- Why the wrong therapy can perpetuate trauma.
- How a good practitioner may take several years to become truly skilled at holding space.
[07:55] Allow Yourself to Grieve
- What it was like for Jonny to grieve the loss of his partner.
- Why many people don’t know how to grieve.
- How we resist the waves of grief.
- Why grief became the catalyst for Jonny’s healing.
Resources:
[15:15] Do Emotions Get Stuck in The Body?
- The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk
- How anxiety is a defence strategy against feeling certain emotions.
- Anxiety: The Anxiety Cure for the Anxious Mind by Michael Johnson
- Vasocomputation
- Why the body constricts when it doesn’t feel safe.
- How the body keeps the score.
Resources:
- The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk
- Anxiety: The Anxiety Cure for the Anxious Mind by Michael Johnson
- Vasocomputation
[18:45] How to Create Safety in The Body
- How the body makes prediction about the world.
- Why emotional releases create looseness and range of motion in the body.
- What it means to be safe in the body.
- Why nervous system mastery is about having a secure attachment with reality.
[21:35] What’s Blocking You from Joy
- How the one thing that all Blue Zones have in common is connection to a higher power.
- Why breathwork and plant medicine changed Jonny’s view on life.
- How moving our beliefs out of the way allows us to experience pure joy.
- Why joy doesn’t have to be earned.
[26:30] Don’t Let Fear Stop You from Healing
- How we can feel the emotions of our ancestors.
- What stops us from doing the deep healing work.
- Why protective mechanisms have a purpose in our lives.
Resources:
[30:20] Improving Your Vagal Tone Capacity
- Why the modes of reactivity are based on our vagal tone.
- How we can relax the hyperarousal state.
- Why vagal tone capacity allows us to stay grounded.
- How each of us has different capacity levels for each emotion.
- Why culture influences our capacity to feel and express our emotions.
- The difference between feeling and projecting emotions.
[36:50] Is Your Relationship Toxic?
- Why people pleasing is a reflection of repressed anger.
- How relationships mirror how far we’ve come in the healing work.
- Why conflict has a purpose in a relationship.
- How intimate relationships are a fast track to nervous system mastery.
- When relationships become toxic.
Resources:
- 738 How To Heal Generational Wounds Blocking Your Success + Self-Worth | John Wang
- 744 Debra Silverman | Your Pain Has a Pattern… and Astrology Reveals It All (This Isn’t Random)
- 736 Silvy Khoucasian | Stop Confusing Chemistry for Trauma: Why You’re Attracted to the Wrong People + How to Finally Break the Pattern
[45:40] Outgrowing Your Partner
- What a relaxed nervous system feels like.
- Why we worship self-development.
- What happens when we outgrow our partner.
[50:40] The Power of Breath
- Why most people breathe into the chest.
- How our breathing can cause a panic attack.
- Why we need to breathe into the lower diaphragm to feel more relaxed.
- How jaw tension is linked to lower body tension.
- Why we can change our state through our physiology.
- How we get out of tune as humans.
Resources:
[56:55] How to Create a Space for Mastery
- How we can create an intentional space for mastery.
- Why we should avoid blue light in our space.
- Creativity is a blend of the ventral state and sympathetic state.
- How we can create a flow state.
[01:00:25] Release Your Emotional Debt
- How Jonny helps his clients open their breathing.
- Why we need a dynamic range of breathing.
- How we can let emotions out through breathwork.
- Why emotional debt can kill us.
- How it becomes inefficient for the body to have many protective systems.
Resources:
[01:06:25] Collective Spaces for Healing
- How we’re living in a sick culture that requires us to work towards health.
- Why we need collective spaces for emotional and ancestral healing.
- How men in Eastern Europe used to process their emotions in a sauna.
[01:10:15] Your Money Starts with Your Body
- How tuning into our body helps us improve our relationship with our body.
- Why money is a mirror to our inner state.
- How we create stories around money.
- Why we can be scared to receive.
[01:15:20] Are You Ready to Go on an Inner Adventure?
- How we’re just understanding how our body work.
- Why the healing journey is an inner adventure.
- How we can achieve altered states through meditation.
- Why nervous system mastery is helping us remember and feel alive.
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All Resources From This Episode
- Jonny Miller
- Nervous System Mastery: $250 off using this link or with code LIVEWELL
- The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk
- Anxiety: The Anxiety Cure for the Anxious Mind by Michael Johnson
- Vasocomputation
- Parental olfactory experience influences behavior and neural structure in subsequent generations
- 738 How To Heal Generational Wounds Blocking Your Success + Self-Worth | John Wang
- 744 Debra Silverman | Your Pain Has a Pattern… and Astrology Reveals It All (This Isn’t Random)
- 736 Silvy Khoucasian | Stop Confusing Chemistry for Trauma: Why You’re Attracted to the Wrong People + How to Finally Break the Pattern
- Breath by James Nestor
- 410 Mark Divine | Positive Neurodiversity: Kokoro Spirit, The 5 Mountains For Inner Peace, & How To Fulfill Your Potential
Power Quotes From Jonny Miller
“The nervous system is the lens through which we experience our life. The state of our nervous system impacts the predictions that we’re making about the people and the world around us. And the work lies in identifying all of the ways in which we don’t trust in ourselves or trust in life and then bring courageous curiosity towards those areas.” — Jonny Miller
“Any conflict is a potential edge to grow from. There’s always going to be rupture in relationships. It’s about how lovingly can you repair? How quickly can you go from conflict back to connection?” — Jonny Miller
“We are in a world which worships self development. But there’s a great distinction in self-development and self-unfoldment. When you’re approaching inner work through the lens of self-developemnt, it often has this premise of part of me is broken and I need to fix it. Self-unfoldment, ot the other hand, starts with the premise of I am already whole and worthy of love.” — Jonny Miller
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About Jonny Miller
Jonny Miller is the founder of Nervous System Mastery, a five-week training for leaders and high-performers to expand resilience, emotional capacity, and inner calm.
Drawing on interoception, breathwork, and his signature A.P.E. framework, Jonny equips students with practical tools to regulate stress, release “emotional debt,” and unlock deeper presence and performance.
A TEDx speaker and host of the Inner Frontier podcast, he has co-created the Stateshift App and Calm Cards Deck, and his work has supported professionals at Google, Slack, Salesforce, and Harvard Business School.
Rooted in both science and lived experience, Jonny’s mission is to help people reconnect with their bodies, master their nervous systems, and live with greater aliveness.
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