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The Real Work with Maggie Sterling

The Real Work with Maggie Sterling

Written by: Maggie Sterling
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Can't stop overthinking, emotional eating, or numbing out? You're not broken—you're disconnected from your body. The Real Work helps women break chronic stress, anxiety, and burnout by addressing root causes, not symptoms. Host Maggie Sterling combines neuroscience and nervous system regulation to help you stop self-abandonment, build self-trust, and feel safe in your skin. No toxic positivity—just practical tools for rewiring your brain, regulating emotions, and coming home to yourself. Deep transformation for women ready to stop escaping and start living.2025 Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Self-Help Success
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  • 28 - 3 Things I Stopped Telling Myself to Heal
    Feb 23 2026

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    Everyone asks me what they should be saying to themselves when anxiety hits. After years of chronic anxiety and nervous system sensitization — and hitting rock bottom in a psychiatric hospitalization — I realized the question wasn't what to say. It was what to stop saying.

    In this video, I'm sharing the 3 sentences that kept my nervous system in full alarm mode, why affirmations and positive self-talk made things worse, and the shift toward unconditional acceptance that actually freed me.

    If you're looping on thoughts like "I can't live like this" or "my life is over if this doesn't stop" — this one is for you.

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    21 mins
  • 27 - 20 Years Of Anxiety Ended When I Did This
    Feb 16 2026

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    I dealt with anxiety for 20 years. I tried every modality, every therapist, every supplement, every hack. Nothing worked long-term. In this video, I'm sharing what finally healed my anxiety — and why it was the scariest, most counterintuitive option I could have chosen.

    I talk about what sensitization actually is (and how it's different from regular anxiety), why the "fix it" approach kept me stuck for two decades, and how letting go — slowly, imperfectly — gave me my life back.

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    26 mins
  • 26 - 5 Things You Shouldn't Do If Your Nervous System Is Sensitized
    Feb 11 2026

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    If your nervous system is sensitized, the things you instinctively want to do are probably making it worse.In this video, I'm sharing 5 things I would stop doing immediately if I were in the thick of sensitization — and I know because I did all of them for years. This is stabilization work. The goal isn't optimization — it's to stop making things worse so your system can do what it already knows how to do.

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    25 mins
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