The Spiritually Curious Therapist
The Spiritually Curious Therapist is a podcast exploring the intersection of nervous system science, mental health, spirituality, and healing.
Hosted by Jodi Silverman, LCSW, this show is for therapists, healers, and curious humans who sense that true healing happens below the level of insight alone. Through thoughtful conversations and solo reflections, we explore trauma, chronic pain and illness, altered states, regulation, meaning-making, and what it really takes to help the nervous system feel safe enough to change.
This is a space for grounded mysticism, where evidence-based practice meets soul-level wisdom, and where healing is approached with curiosity, compassion, and respect for the body’s innate intelligence.
Whether you’re a clinician expanding beyond talk therapy or someone on your own healing path, this podcast invites you to listen differently — to symptoms, to stories, and to what’s asking to be integrated.
The Spiritually Curious Therapist
Just Because It’s Normal Doesn’t Mean It’s Natural: Ayurveda, Digestion & the Path Back to Balance
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In this conversation, I sit down with therapist and Ayurvedic student Kara Mifflin to explore a powerful idea:
Just because something is common… doesn’t mean it’s natural.
So many of us accept chronic stress, fatigue, digestive issues, anxiety, and disconnection as simply “part of life.” But what if many of the symptoms we’ve normalized are actually signs of imbalance — not our natural state?
In this episode, we explore how Ayurveda, nervous system awareness, and spiritual connection can help us return to a more balanced, energized, and aligned way of living.
Kara shares how small shifts — beginning with something as simple as breakfast — transformed her own health and how she now integrates Ayurvedic principles into her clinical work. Together, we talk about digestion not only as a physical process, but as our capacity to metabolize emotions, stress, and life experiences.
We also explore the connection between energy, mental health, and spirituality — and how reconnecting with something greater than ourselves can support healing, safety, and meaning.
This conversation is an invitation to question what we’ve been taught to accept as “normal”… and to rediscover what it means to feel truly well.
✨ In this episode we explore:
- Why “normal” doesn’t always mean healthy or natural
- Ayurveda as a holistic system for balance and wellbeing
- Digestion as the foundation of physical and emotional health
- How undigested experiences can show up as symptoms
- Simple daily practices that support nervous system regulation
- The role of energy and spiritual connection in healing
- Why we may be meant to feel far better than we think
🌿 Key takeaway
We often adapt to feeling unwell because everyone around us feels the same.
But our natural state is not constant stress and depletion — it’s balance, clarity, and vitality.
When we begin tending to digestion, energy, and self-connection, we don’t just manage symptoms — we start to feel how good we were always meant to feel.🔗
Connect with Kara Mifflin
karamifflin@gmail.com
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