The Becoming You Project
The Becoming You Project is a podcast about the process of becoming — about remembering who you are beneath centuries of disconnection, conditioning, and inherited ways of living that were never designed to keep us whole.
Many of us feel it: a quiet sense of misalignment, restlessness, or numbness. Not because something is wrong with us — but because we’re living inside systems and stories that have slowly pulled us away from our bodies, our intuition, our rhythms, and our deeper sense of purpose. This disconnect didn’t happen overnight. It’s been centuries in the making. And right now, we’re living in the tension of that unraveling.
This podcast exists for those who can feel that we’re in the midst of a collective awakening — a paradigm shift where the old ways of operating no longer work, and something more honest, embodied, and humane is asking to be born.
Hosted by Jess Callahan — entrepreneur, purpose alchemist, subconscious guide, and post-graduate student of transpersonal psychology — The Becoming You Project blends psychology, spirituality, and consciousness to explore what it means to come back into relationship with yourself in a world that has taught us to live disconnected.
At its core, this work is rooted in one belief: True transformation happens when the body feels safe, the mind is clear, and the soul is awake.
Becoming yourself isn’t a single moment or destination. It’s a process — one that asks us to understand all the ways we’ve been shaped away from our truth, and to gently return to what’s real. In this space, deeper purpose is explored as a five-part unfolding:
• Nervous system regulation
• Deconditioning the mind
• Reconnecting with intuition
• Self-discovery
• Cycles of integration and embodiment
Through intimate conversations and reflective solo episodes, Jess weaves together somatic awareness, nervous system healing, astrology, intuitive reconnection, and soul-level work to support this journey from the inside out. Because individual healing is never just individual. When we reconnect with ourselves — when we regulate, remember, and live with greater awareness — our healing creates ripples. It changes how we relate, how we lead, how we create, and how we show up in the world.
And that kind of change is something our world is deeply asking for right now.
Each episode is an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and participate consciously in your own becoming — not as an act of self-improvement, but as an act of remembrance.
The Becoming You Project
02. The Truth About Dysregulation: Why You Feel Stuck and Numb
Why does change feel so hard – even when we know something needs to shift? Whether you’re trying to leave a job that drains you, manifest a new chapter, repair a relationship, or finally prioritize you, the process of change often feels impossible. In this solo episode of The Becoming You Project, Jess unpacks the real reason change feels so overwhelming – and it has everything to do with your nervous system.
We’ll explore how chronic stress, burnout, emotional labor, and societal conditioning keep us stuck in a dysregulated state that makes growth feel unsafe. Jess shares insights from her own healing journey with fibromyalgia and nervous system dysfunction, and offers gentle, powerful tools to help you move from survival mode into regulation, clarity, and forward momentum.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- Why your nervous system resists change (even when you want it)
- An overview of dysregulated states including fight, flight, freeze, and fawn
- Signs you may be in nervous system dysregulation or functional freeze
- How emotional and physical symptoms (like fatigue, irritability, disconnection, and indecision) are actually signals from your body
- The hidden connection between chronic stress and loss of creativity, motivation, and joy
- Why regulating your nervous system is the missing link in creating real, lasting change
- Simple, accessible tools to re-regulate and get grounded – starting today
If you've ever wondered why you're doing all the right things but nothing is shifting… this episode is for you.
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