Melanie Weller

Melanie Weller The Fastest Path to Resilience Is Not Hard Work, Long Hours, or More Therapies. It's Spirituality, Scientifically Applied.

We should not be surprised this happens and keeps happening. Repeated violence reshapes collective nervous systems. We a...
08/27/2025

We should not be surprised this happens and keeps happening. Repeated violence reshapes collective nervous systems. We are living in a culture where hyper-vigilance has become the baseline, and children absorb that stress into their developing brains and bodies.

Religious trauma creates and compounds it. When the very institutions that promise safety become sites of danger, the nervous system doesn’t just lose trust in the present moment — it loses trust in time itself.

To the survivors, families, and faith communities: your nervous systems are not broken. They are responding exactly as they must to overwhelming betrayal. Healing is possible, and it begins with the body. Thoughts and prayers will not regulate a system in chaos. Action, reform, and support will.



How big do you love? Still floating from a weekend where the veil between heaven and earth felt delightfully optional.I ...
07/03/2025

How big do you love?

Still floating from a weekend where the veil between heaven and earth felt delightfully optional.

I had the honor of witnessing a drag wedding—a riot of rhinestones, roses, and radical acceptance—where love showed up loud, layered, and unapologetically alive. There was glitter in the vows, gospel in the laughter, and something holy in the heels.

This wasn’t just a celebration. It was a sermon. On what it means to be fully seen and still fully loved. On chosen family, fearless expression, and how beauty is a birthright—not a binary.

There was more love palpable here than in any church or other space I have ever experienced.

I came home changed. Expanded. Reminded that the real sacred spaces aren’t always found in temples or cathedrals—but in rooms where people dare to be divinely themselves.

Big thanks to and for inviting me into this magic.

Big love is real. And it wears lashes.

And there’s a whole lot of brain science to back this up.

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This is 54 - it’s the best age I’ve ever experienced.I am in my happy place with an amazing circle of friends, old and n...
03/26/2025

This is 54 - it’s the best age I’ve ever experienced.

I am in my happy place with an amazing circle of friends, old and new, near and far.

As someone who spent decades in su***de ideation, I now highly recommend getting older.

Thanks for witnessing me here. I’ll be relaunching my podcast and new material to celebrate 🎉

Today, off to spend the day with friends and my amazing husband of 33 years who shares the same birthday 🎂

I so appreciate everyone who has joined on my journey of treating the vagus nerve recently and from when it started, long before social media existed.

Ready to integrate ancient and modern science via time for nervous system to solar system alignment?❤️ ⏰ 💫

Attempting to post more this year. With my healing has come a lot of letting go - my drive for social media has fallen away - and I still want to share so much with you. It just might not be here as much as other people post things.

How much time have you spent scrolling through IG just to get to this post?Ever wish you could turn back the clock?Sara ...
03/07/2025

How much time have you spent scrolling through IG just to get to this post?

Ever wish you could turn back the clock?

Sara L Allen and I had a powerful conversation about time.

This isn’t your typical summit.

Instead of blocking off hours to sit through long sessions, Make Every Day Extraordinary is delivered in podcast form—so you can listen while doing something else. It’s the perfect way to transform “never enough” time into a boundless resource for living your best life.

Join us as we share practical tips and inspiring insights to help you rewrite your daily rhythm.

Launching March 9, 2025, and available in daily audio interviews.

Tap the link in my bio to reserve your seat now!


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02/28/2025

Join us!!

🔥 When Healing Advice Feels Like Gaslighting 🔥This image by  captures religious trauma so well.If you’ve ever been told ...
02/23/2025

🔥 When Healing Advice Feels Like Gaslighting 🔥

This image by captures religious trauma so well.

If you’ve ever been told to “just meditate,” “pray harder,” or “try yoga” while drowning in religious trauma, you’re not alone.

Spiritual bypassing doesn’t heal wounds—it just politely asks them to stop bleeding in public.

Religious trauma runs deep. It rewires your nervous system, warps your sense of time, and leaves you stuck between past fears and an uncertain future.

True healing and resilience are about rewiring your body, your story, and your time — not just coping.

Join me and for Rewiring Religion, a free monthly event where we break down the science, spirituality, and somatics of religious trauma recovery. Our next gathering is Sunday, March 2. Let’s move beyond the burn and into transformation.

🔥 Sign up at link in bio 🔥




Aside from a zoom link crisis, we had an amazing time. The next meeting might happen from the Mardi Gras parades that wi...
02/05/2025

Aside from a zoom link crisis, we had an amazing time. The next meeting might happen from the Mardi Gras parades that will be going by very close to my house during the schedule time 😂

Stephanie Drury and Melanie Weller host a free class on how to transform religious trauma - a fusion of ancient and modern science.Religious trauma creates u...

I am just over the moon to be collaborating with Stephanie!
01/30/2025

I am just over the moon to be collaborating with Stephanie!

🚨 What does it mean to be therapeutically heretical? 🚨It means challenging the status quo of healing. It’s daring to que...
01/28/2025

🚨 What does it mean to be therapeutically heretical? 🚨

It means challenging the status quo of healing. It’s daring to question the “rules” and ask, What’s missing? What else is possible?

✨ Heretical Healing is where ancient wisdom meets modern science. It’s where trauma becomes a portal, not a problem. It’s seeing the body as a storyteller, not a machine.

It’s for the rebels who know healing isn’t about fitting into a box—it’s about breaking free. 🦋

Are you ready to disrupt the old and step into something revolutionary? Let’s heal outside the lines. 💥

If you want to be the first one to know when the doors of Heretical Healing open, sign up for Rewiring Religion ⬆️

🦶 Breaking my foot in France , on the way to India wasn’t just bad timing—it was the planets in action affecting my body...
01/24/2025

🦶 Breaking my foot in France , on the way to India wasn’t just bad timing—it was the planets in action affecting my body.

When your body is literally a clock made of sacred mathematics, and time perception and processing is at the root of the vast majority of diagnoses that we know, be careful where you visit when so you don’t get caught in the gears. Pluto might push you off the edge of a cliff when you walk on his line.

Crutching through ancient temples taught me more about nervous system regulation and being present than decades of clinical practice. Sometimes your greatest “setback” is actually sacred mathematics breaking old patterns.

That’s the thing about religious trauma—it makes you see divine (ahem, planetary) intervention as punishment rather than revelation. But your body’s sacred geometry speaks a different language.

Ready to get on the Revolution Trains to Transceend Religious Authoritarian and Institutional Neural Systems? Decode your own divine design and connect with your deepest inner authority?

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Science is coded into mythology. Mythology is coded into you.

What Is Healing?

I have I have been so depressed that I wanted to die, and so connected that I see dead people. I have experienced the anxiety of my body falling apart, and the joy of putting it back together. I have felt so powerless that I went into hiding, and so confident that I could walk into a room and be the thermostat, instead of the thermometer.

These experiences made me ask:

– Is healing a physical thing? – Are there also psychological and spiritual aspects to healing? – Is physical healing the path to psychological health, or is spiritual healing the path to physical health?