Melanie Weller

04/07/2026

The world is at war. Your nervous system knows it, even if you haven’t said it out loud.

That numbness you’re feeling? That’s not weakness. That’s your body doing its job.

But your body was not built to run on threat forever.

Pleasure isn’t indulgence right now. It is the most radical act of biological intelligence available to you.

Dr. Karolina Ågren and I recorded one of the best conversations I’ve ever had at Rewire With Pleasure — and it’s the last chance you’ll have to get my Pleasure Consciousness workbook for free.

This is not as escape, it remembering what we’re fighting for.

💫 Your body. Your truth. Your aliveness.
🌹 Follow the small yes. Link in bio.

04/05/2026

Why does the crucifixion maps almost perfectly onto the default mode network, the region of the brain where we narrate and crucify ourselves?

The body has always known what the mind is only now catching up to.

I went back to church this Easter. As a neurotheologist and religious trauma experiencer, I went like a scientist returning to a field site. Curious. Cautious.

I still knew every word. The loneliness arrived when no one offered to shake my hand during the passing of the peace. I walked to the other end of the pew to connect with a man who was most definitely in his 90s. No one else had come up to him either.

What I found today was the ritual, and the loneliness, and a reminder of how extraordinary it is to be loved by people who chose you outside of church. All three at once, in a gorgeous church, on Easter Sunday, with cleavage.

Which is maybe exactly what resurrection looks like.

I wrote a longer version of this in a note on my Substack. Link in bio.

02/21/2026

An orthopedic surgeon asked me what I did with his patient.

She came in with chronic neck pain. She left pain-free — in one session.

I told him magic.

What I meant was I treated her highest need after food, shelter, and clothing: meaning

I treated her where she was actually stuck — in her occult anatomy. The secret architecture every body carries. The part that gets out of alignment, gets injured, and creates real, measurable limitations — and that almost nobody is treating.

In thirty years of practice, I’ve learned one thing above almost everything else: treat the meaning, and the body follows. Read my blog to find out why this works.

02/02/2026

Honored to be training Minneapolis psychotherapists today in Critical Incident Stress Management alongside
Melissa E. Crim, MEd, LPC, MHSP.

This work matters—especially for clinicians, leaders, and teams navigating high-stakes environments, cumulative stress, and crisis response.

If you’re interested in bringing this training to your executive team or for professional development, DM me.


 
 
 


01/29/2026

How has your ability to experience pleasure changed with time?

more pleasure is one of the happy side effects of my Vagus Nerve work in aligning people nervous system to solar system that I’ve seen over and over with my patients and with myself.

I’m about to turn 55, and I experience more pleasure now than I did in my 30s.

While friends my age talk about low libido, painful in*******se, or feeling “done”I am experiencing more pleasure, more presence, more capacity to receive.

The difference? The energy in my body learned to move UP instead of OUT.

The difference between a lackluster s*x life and an amazing one isn’t technique, frequency, or even your partner.

It’s about where pleasure GOES once it enters your system.

When your nervous system is regulated—when the vagus nerve conducts efficiently, when your pelvic floor is awake—pleasure doesn’t just discharge. It ASCENDS.

For most women, the pathway closes gradually or suddenly.

Trauma, childbirth, perimenopause, religious and cultural shame, us vs them politics, and displacement all fracture your body’s ability to conduct pleasure upward.

I’m teaching this with .storm
Feb 4-8 • I’m speaking at the SHAMELESS Summit (FREE online event) about “Pleasure Consciousness” and you will get free access to my workbook.

Your body isn’t done. Your pleasure isn’t gone. The pathway just needs to be cleared.

Register free at link in bio 🌹

VagusNerve WomenOver50 Perimenopause

10/21/2025

Are you stuck in the past? Or anxiously reaching for the future? ⏰✨

Your body is a clock—made in the image of the great clock of the zodiac. When pain, stress, or anxiety linger, they’re often signals of stuck time, asking you to realign with the natural rhythms of the universe.

This Samhain, the veil is thin and the timing is perfect to reset your inner clock. 🌙

Join us for the 4th Annual SAMHAIN SPIRIT FAIR

📅 Sunday, October 26th | 10am-6pm
📍 King Murphy’s Retreat, Goodlettsville, TN

Experience:
🔮 15 practitioners offering tarot, astrology, reiki, human design, sound baths & more
✨ Chakra balancing, fascia massage, shamanic rattling
🌿 Self-guided meditations on our Chakra Trail & Medicine Wheel Garden
🔥 Drum circle & fire ceremony to close the day
🛍️ Vendors with crystals, jewelry, tinctures, teas, candles & oddities

Honor the ancient Celtic tradition of Samhain—a time of deep reflection, spiritual growth, and connection with the divine. Let go of stuck time and step into alignment with your highest self.

$10 entry (includes $5 token toward King Murphy’s Stones)

Link in bio for full details! Questions? Email hello@kingmurphys.com

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.

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.

👠💒❤️‍🔥

04/03/2025

Stuff Christian Culture Likes and I have some powerful conversations. Listen in. 💫

Melanie Weller and I try to get at whatever is under buzzwords like generational trauma, inner child, and somatic bypassing. Forgiveness is also a buzzword that's been weaponized but if you do it right it's super healing. 💚

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stuff-christian-culture-likes-with-stephanie-drury/id1794842276?i=1000701983753

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.

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!