Choose Life with Lauren Starnes

One sentence can split your life into before and after: “If you keep doing what you’re doing, you will die.” That’s the moment Amy Watson remembers from a visit with Lauren Starns, a medically trained physician assistant turned nervous system specialist, and it becomes the doorway into a deeper conversation about trauma, the body, and what it really takes to get free.

We talk about why so many high-functioning people with PTSD, chronic stress, and burnout live in their heads while their bodies carry the cost. Lauren explains how the nervous system holds what we were not resourced to process, and why healing often works better when we stop obsessing over the trauma narrative and start listening to what is happening in the present. Amy connects that to trauma science, the window of tolerance, and what it looks like when the thinking brain goes offline and survival takes over.

We also dig into co-regulation and why humans cannot heal in isolation. Connection is not a bonus feature, it is biology. When someone else’s steady presence helps your system settle, you can finally access choice, build resources, and decide what comes next with clarity. If you want practical language for the mind-body connection, nervous system regulation that doesn’t feel like a trend, and a path toward a healthier, abundant, free life, press play.

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