Adjust: The Conversation

Welcome to Adjust: The Conversation—a podcast where mental health is spoken about honestly, without judgment, and in a way that actually makes sense for real people living real lives. Each week, we dig into the questions, struggles, and stories that shape us, and we explore practical ways to feel a little lighter and a lot more understood.

Adjust: The Conversation is a health podcast hosted by AdjustMentalHealth, with 14 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

AdjustMentalHealth hosts Adjust: The Conversation, a health show with 14 episodes published.

Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.

• 

  Episode #14

  BONUS EPISODE: When Words Aren’t Enough: The Deep Well of Somatic Yoga with Erin Polley and The Hot Room

  Sep 1, 202646 minS1

  What happens when traditional talk therapy meets the deep, physical layers of bodywork? In this episode, Ashley sits down with Erin Polley, Director of Community Engagement at The Hot Room . Erin shares her unexpected 20-year background as a community organizer and how a sudden studio renovation completely shifted her life path onto the yoga mat. We dive deep into the world of trauma-informed somatic healing, exploring why words alone aren't always enough to process heavy emotions. We explore overcoming the fear of walking into a yoga studio for the first time and the hidden intentionality behind how a class gets taught and how studio mirrors can become a tool for deep self-connection. Plus, stick around because Erin drops a few exciting hints about some community projects and new spaces coming down the pipeline. In the Episode: Wait, you did what before yoga?! Splitting from a decades-long career path into something new. Can you actually heal just by moving? Breaking down why talk therapy works wonders for your brain, but your physical body is still keeping score. The "first-class" scaries. Why walking through a studio door for the first time is genuinely terrifying, and why nobody is actually looking at you. Stretching more than just muscles. What the heck is "fascia" anyway, and why does quiet stillness feel so incredibly hard? The hidden secrets behind the teaching. The real, thoughtful reasons why your yoga teacher isn't posing at the front of the room, and why those mirrors aren't just for vanity. A sneak peek into what's next. Subtle hints about new locations and therapeutic community spaces that are currently in the works. Somatic Facilitation & Nervous System Regulation: Explore the structures of continuing education and body-based training frameworks led by seasoned trauma-informed educators via The Hot Room Yin Yoga and Meditation Training Profiles . Cultural Organizing & Peacebuilding: Read up on Erin's extensive prior work using arts, media, and public exhibits as non-traditional tools for social justice and civic engagement with the American Friends Service Committee . Clinical Value of Yoga for Inflammation & Pain: Review recent physiological studies documenting how mindfulness, specialized breathing exercises, and Yoga Nidra target sleep quality and somatic markers in rare conditions on ScienceDirect . Connect with Our Guest Find schedules, locations, and events at The Hot Room Official Website . Follow community updates on The Hot Room Facebook Page . Connect with Adjust: The Conversation Listen and subscribe on Adjust: The Conversation on Spotify or via Adjust: The Conversation on Apple Podcasts . To learn more about holistic mental wellness or book a clinical session, visit the Adjust Mental Health Website . Follow the community on facebook and Instagram at @AdjustMentalHealth and find our unique partnership offer with The Hot Room. Episode Resources & Collaboration Offer Ready to try it for yourself? Our listeners can grab 3 classes for just $30 at any studio location! Access the sign-up page directly by clicking the Adjust the Conversation Collaboration Link. Take this offer to your nearest studio—whether you practice at The Hot Room Downtown Indianapolis , Fishers, Bloomington, or are waiting for the brand-new Zionsville Location .

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  Adjust: The Conversation

  "Stress Isn't the Villain — Here's How to Shut It Off (Part 2)."

  Jul 28, 202633 min

  Last episode, we learned stress isn't the villain. It's your body's alarm system, doing exactly what it was built to do. So in Part 2, we get into the actual tools to shut that alarm off. Because here's the catch: your nervous system is still running ancient software, waiting for an "all-clear" signal that modern life never quite sends. The stress just… stays. We walk through the surprisingly simple, occasionally ridiculous ways to send that signal yourself: cold water and the diving reflex, breathwork, the vagus nerve, your window of tolerance, and using your values as home base. Some of it sounds strange. All of it could work. Why your body never gets the "all-clear" — the stress that outlasts the stressor Completing the stress cycle through movement, not just problem-solving Cold water & the diving reflex (a DBT "TIPP" skill) Breathwork, including Wim Hof–style breathing The vagus nerve & the tongue-out trick Yin yoga for down-regulating Your "window of tolerance" and why it shifts day to day Using your values as home base when stress knocks you off center RESOURCES & REFERENCES Books Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle — Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA. The source for the stressor-vs-stress-response distinction and "completing the stress cycle." — https://www.burnoutbook.net/ Assessments Holmes-Rahe Life Stress Inventory (Social Readjustment Rating Scale): classic "stressful life events" self-assessment, hosted by the American Institute of Stress. — https://www.stress.org/self-assessments/holmes-rahe-life-stress-inventory/ (Note: it's a well-known tool but a dated one. Some items are decades old and the exact rankings are debated. Use it as a rough check, not official. This is the STRESS scale ). Techniques mentioned TIPP skills (DBT) Temperature, Intense exercise, Paced breathing, Paired muscle relaxation. The "cold water on the face" trick works via the diving reflex. Wim Hof Method The breathing technique referenced. Vagus nerve / tongue-out trick : Stick out the tongue and sigh like a lion. Window of tolerance The zone where you can handle stress and stay regulated (Dr. Dan Siegel). Too low, shut down. Too high, overwhelmed. Values as "home base" Anchoring to your values when stress pulls you off center. Hosted by Ashley Gallaway, LMHC & Marcella McAree, LMHCA. Produced by Ashley Gallaway. From our brains to yours — this is Adjust the Conversation.

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  Adjust: The Conversation

  Stress Management: Understanding Good Stress vs. Bad Stress (Part 1)

  Jul 2, 202623 min

  Everyone says, "Just relax." Has that ever actually worked? In Part 1 of our stress series, we argue that stress isn't the villain—it's an alarm. We discuss good stress versus bad stress, your window of tolerance, the "smoke detector" in your brain that can't distinguish burnt toast from a house fire, and one genuinely wild fact about what your stress sweat does behind your back. Your challenge: find us on Instagram @adjustmentalhealth and tell us who your stress really is. If your stress were a villain, who would it be? A Voldemort? A slow, polite email? A Loki who swears he's helping? Cast it. We're building a rogues' gallery. RESOURCES & REFERENCES: Cleveland Clinic — Apocrine Sweat Glands — https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/apocrine-glands Seed — The Science of Sweat, Smells, and the Skin Microbiome — https://seed.com/cultured/sweat-and-the-skin-microbiome/ StatPearls (NCBI) — Anatomy, Skin, Sudoriferous Gland — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513244/ Vanderbilt / Lacy Lab — Microbial Origins of Body Odor — https://www.vumc.org/lacy-lab/adventure-travel-guide-microbial-world/microbial-origins-body-odor PLOS One (2009) — Chemosensory Cues to Conspecific Emotional Stress Activate Amygdala in Humans — https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0006415 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Adrian Pimento — "I can be happy?") Loki / the TVA (stress as a villain with a "glorious purpose")

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  Episode #9

  Existential Dread & the Search for Meaning: Where Philosophy Meets Therapy

  Jun 16, 202630 minS1

  Existentialism gets a reputation for being bleak French men in turtlenecks declaring that nothing matters. So we sat down to actually think it through, out loud, in real time. You weren't built for a purpose the way a knife is built to cut. You show up first, and then you decide what you're for. Sartre called it "existence precedes essence," and it sounds freeing right up until 3am, when that same thought wakes you up asking what the point of any of this even is. We get into why that's not nihilism, what Camus meant when he told us to imagine Sisyphus chained forever to his boulder happy , and how all of it shows up in the therapy room. Resources Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning (1946) — Beacon Press. Survived the camps, built logotherapy around meaning as the primary human drive. The warm, human entry point. Irvin Yalom, Existential Psychotherapy (1980) — Basic Books. Names the four "ultimate concerns": death, freedom, isolation, meaninglessness. Philosophy turned into therapy. Rollo May, The Discovery of Being (1983) — W.W. Norton. Reframes anxiety not as a symptom to kill but as a signal of being alive and facing real choices.

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  Adjust: The Conversation

  "How to Actually Cope With Grief: Personal Stories, Crisis Resources & the Dual Process Model"

  Jun 4, 202632 minS0

  <p>Grief part two is here, and this time it's personal. Ashley and Marcella pull back the curtain and share their own grief experiences — from sudden loss and unresolved anger to suicide loss and the grief nobody talks about. They break down the dual process model, explore what community grieving actually looks like, and discuss the kinds of loss society still doesn't take seriously—including body grief, disenfranchised grief, and the grief that comes with loving someone through a crisis. If you've ever felt stuck, ashamed of how you're grieving, or like you should be over it by now—this one's...

  ListenShow Notes

Based on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:

Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.