High Capacity – Nervous System Regulation, Stress Management, Burnout Recovery, Somatic Tools, Anxiety, Boundaries, Overwhelm

High Capacity – Nervous System Regulation, Stress Management, Burnout Recovery, Somatic Tools, Anxiety, Boundaries, Overwhelm

Michelle Grosser – Inspired by Mel Robbins, Dr. Andrew Huberman, and Dr. Becky Kennedy

Episodes 469
Avg. Duration 32m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.9 (522)
Since May 2022
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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About This Podcast

You've built a full life. The career, the family, the responsibilities, the goals — all of it. 


And the fuller it gets, the more stretched thin you feel.


Not because you lack the discipline or drive to figure it out.


But because your nervous system was never upgraded to match the life you've built. 


High Capacity is the podcast for ambitious women who are done just managing their stress and are ready to actually expand what they can hold. 


Hosted by trial attorney turned nervous system strategist Michelle Grosser, each episode unpacks the nervous system science behind why you feel maxed out, reactive, and depleted — and gives you real tools to expand your capacity across every area of your life.


This isn't just about doing less. 


It's about becoming someone whose nervous system can hold more — more joy, more presence, more of the life you've worked hard to build, and more of the demands that come with it — without the low-grade stress that's become your new normal.


Here’s what you’ll learn:


- How to expand your emotional, stress, physical, relational, and joy capacity


- Nervous system-based tools that work in real life, in real time


- How to identify your Capacity Pattern — the specific strategy your nervous system defaults to when you're overwhelmed — and what it means for your stress, your relationships, and your daily life


New episodes every Tuesday and Friday.


Tuesdays bring the nervous system science and tools.


Hi-Cap Fridays give you one practical move to expand your capacity in the week ahead.


Take the free "What's Your Capacity Pattern?" quiz: michellegrosser.com/quiz

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462 - The 3-Part Model That Frees Up Hours in Your Week (Without Dropping a Single Ball)

Jun 12, 2026 48m

You do all of it because that's what a good mom does. The schedule, the meals, the work, the everything. But somewhere between holding it all and doing it right, the enjoying part quietly…

461 - Life Feels Overwhelming Because You've Outgrown Your Nervous System. Here's What to Do About It

Jun 09, 2026 26m

You might be burned out. Maybe everything is irritating lately. You might have tried all the hacks to regulate your nervous system and still feel the same. What if the missing piece isn't another…

460 - How to Stop Waiting for Life to Feel Easier and Build the Capacity to Actually Enjoy It

Jun 08, 2026 48m

You keep telling yourself there's a slower season coming. Once the kids are older. After the launch. When work settles down.And somewhere underneath all the waiting, you already know that version of…

459 -The Capacity Audit: The 5-Category Diagnostic That Tells You Exactly Where to Start to Regulate Your Nervous System

Jun 05, 2026 1h 15m

If you've ever felt like you're doing all the right things and still running on empty — this episode is going to explain exactly why.And more importantly, it's going to show you where to actually…

457 - Two Levers That Control Your Overwhelm (And How to Use Them)

Jun 02, 2026 26m

Your nervous system has a finite capacity. When it's full, everything spills over — the reactivity, the exhaustion, the overwhelm that shows up no matter how organized your life looks on paper.There…

457 - How to Use Hypnosis to Improve Sleep and Reduce Stress, Anxiety, and Pain with Stanford’s Dr. David Spiegel

Jun 01, 2026 38m

Every time you've gotten lost in a book, zoned out on a drive, or cried at a movie you've already seen, you’re in a special neurological state. And it turns out, that state is one of the most…

456 - Hi-Cap Friday: The Neuroscience of Getting Your Joy Back

May 29, 2026 14m

There's a version of you who used to love something just for the sake of loving it.Not because it was healthy. Not because it was on the list. Just because it made you feel like yourself. She's still…

455 - Why You Feel Emotionally Flat Even When Life Is Good

May 26, 2026 19m

You’ve built the life you prayed for. The career, the family, the house, the vacations. And sometimes you look at all of it and feel… almost nothing.Not ungrateful. Not depressed. Just flat. This…

454 — Hi-Cap Friday: Growing the Gap Between Stimulus and Response

May 22, 2026 18m

You know that moment when you completely overreact to something small — and even as it’s happening, part of you is watching and thinking, why am I like this?That reaction has a name. And…

453 - Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn: The Real Reason You Snap, Shut Down, or Over-Accommodate

May 19, 2026 27m

Too reactive. Too sensitive. Not resilient enough. If that's the story you've been telling yourself, this episode is going to rewrite it.Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn are just adaptive responses…

452 - Connection-Based Parenting for Raising Strong-Willed Kids with Wendy Snyder of Fresh Start Family

May 18, 2026 1h 8m

What if the version of you that shows up at 6pm — snapping, threatening the iPad, locking herself in the bathroom for 30 seconds of peace — isn't a parenting problem at all? What if it’s a nervous…

451 - Hi-Cap Friday: How to Stop Other People's Energy From Hijacking Yours

May 15, 2026 20m

Do you have a person or place you dread being around?What if you had tools to prepare your nervous system before you walked in, so that person's energy didn't hijack yours and you could actually stay…

450 - Why Certain People Drain Your Energy - The Science (And What To Do About It)

May 12, 2026 24m

You know the person. The one whose name on your phone makes your whole body tighten before you even pick up. The one who can walk into a room and somehow take all the air out of it.That's not you…

449 - Hi-Cap Friday: 5 Low-Stimulation Practices for an Overstimulated Nervous System

May 08, 2026 17m

Touched out. Noise-sensitive. Irritable for no clear reason you can point to.By the time most working moms hit 6pm, our nervous system has been processing input since the moment we woke up. There's a…

448 - Rest That Restores: 7 Types of Rest Working Moms Actually Need

May 05, 2026 35m

Ever melted into the couch after a long day, scrolled for thirty minutes, and somehow felt even worse when you got up?It's not that rest isn't working. It's that there are actually seven different…

447 - Hi-Cap Friday: The Self-Compassion Reset

May 01, 2026 14m

Does being hard on yourself make you perform better? The inner critic feels like accountability. But it's actually doing the opposite.Research shows that self-criticism keeps your nervous system in…

446 - The Two Types of Mom Guilt (And Why One of Them Is Actually Good for You)

Apr 28, 2026 24m

Mom guilt is productive. Not all of it, but more than you think — and knowing which kind of guilt you’re experiencing changes everything about how you respond to it.Some guilt is a real signal worth…

445 - Hi-Cap Friday: The Values vs. Time Audit

Apr 24, 2026 14m

If I asked you to name your top values right now, I'd probably hear things like family, health, joy, faith, presence.Now if I opened your calendar from last week, would I actually see those…

444 - What It Actually Means to Have It All — and How to Build the Life You Want

Apr 21, 2026 45m

You already know how to do more. The question nobody asks is whether more is actually what you want.Carol Enneking spent decades doing it all — corporate leadership, entrepreneurship, working…

443 - Hi-Cap Friday: Close the Open Mental Tabs

Apr 17, 2026 13m

Welcome to our first Hi-Cap Friday — one concept & one capacity-expanding move for the week ahead.Be real - how many Post-it notes are stuck to your desk right now? How many tasks on your to-do…

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High Capacity – Nervous System Regulation, Stress Management, Burnout Recovery, Somatic Tools, Anxiety, Boundaries, Overwhelm has published 469 episodes since May 2022, covering topics in Education, Health & Fitness.

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High Capacity – Nervous System Regulation, Stress Management, Burnout Recovery, Somatic Tools, Anxiety, Boundaries, Overwhelm is currently highly active with new episodes every few days. Average episode length is 32m.

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