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Emotionally UnavailablePath Home: Recovery, Embodiment, and the Power of Human ConnectionTherapist and host, Malisa Hepner, sits down with Michael Nolan and Greg Vorst for a powerful exploration of recovery, vulnerability, and the path to emotional freedom. Together, they dive deep into the human side of healing—where accountability meets compassion and breath becomes a bridge to peace. Through stories of friendship, embodiment, and community, they reveal how emotional safety and shared experience form the foundation for lasting transformation. Healing happens in the spaces where honesty meets love—where breath softens the armor and connection reminds us we were never meant to do it alone. Greg & Mich...
2025-11-121h 04
New Normal Big LifeThe Secret to Recovery: Letting Go of Pain Creates a New YouSend us a textWhat if recovery isn’t about gripping harder, but about becoming someone new? Greg Vorst and Michael Nolan, co-founders of Embodied Recovery, join us to reframe suffering as a portal to soul growth and show how accountability and honesty can reset a life. Their message doesn’t romanticize pain; it transforms it. By shifting from abstinence-only goals to embodied practices, they reveal a path where peace, purpose, and joy are the outcome of daily choices lived in the body.We dig into practical markers that you’re out of accountability — like chronic...
2025-10-2444 min
Couple O' NukesEmbodied Recovery: Reconnecting Addicts To Their Truest SelvesSend us a textToday, I sit down with Michael Nolan, co-founder of Embodied Recovery (with Greg Vorst, who was unable to make it today) and a man who has spent over a decade helping others break free from addiction by reconnecting to their truest selves. Mr. Nolan shares his personal journey from early substance use at age fourteen to finding lasting sobriety through rigorous honesty, self-awareness, and spiritual healing. Together, we explore how his experiences shaped his mission to change how people approach recovery — not just as a process of abstinence, but as a journey of em...
2025-10-2138 min
Broken Beautiful Me - Stories of Hope, Gratitude & ResilienceFrom Denial to Awakening | Greg Vorst & Michael Nolan on Rethinking RecoveryWhat if addiction isn't something to fix… but a portal to awakening? This week on Broken Beautiful Me, Kelly Buckley sits down with Greg Vorst and Michael Nolan — co-founders of Embodied Recovery, a pioneering treatment centre in Silicon Valley helping people transform addiction and mental health struggles into soul growth and empowered living. Greg and Michael are doing recovery differently. Their Empowered Living Teachings weave together psychology, ancient wisdom, and embodied practices. Drawing from therapy, 12-Step recovery, and Sundo — Korean Taoist breathwork, they guide clients back to their inner wisdom, creating spaces where spirit...
2025-10-131h 13
Healthy Mind, Healthy LifeHealing Beyond Diagnosis: Transforming Personality, Recovery, and Empowered Living with Greg Vorst & Michael NolanIn this episode of Healthy Waves, host Avik Chakraborty sits down with Greg Vorst and Michael Nolan, co-founders of Embodied Recovery, to explore the deeper roots of addiction and mental health struggles. Together, they unpack the powerful idea that “the illness is often in the personality,” and how true recovery requires more than abstinence—it demands transformation of how we live, breathe, and relate to ourselves and others.
The conversation covers the role of learned helplessness, how body-based practices like Sundo breathing can loosen ingrained patterns, and why recovery is not just coping but awakening into aliveness, peace...
2025-09-1642 minHealthy Mind, Healthy LifeHealing Beyond Diagnosis: Transforming Personality, Recovery, and Empowered Living with Greg Vorst & Michael NolanIn this episode of Healthy Waves, host Avik Chakraborty sits down with Greg Vorst and Michael Nolan, co-founders of Embodied Recovery, to explore the deeper roots of addiction and mental health struggles. Together, they unpack the powerful idea that “the illness is often in the personality,” and how true recovery requires more than abstinence—it demands transformation of how we live, breathe, and relate to ourselves and others.
The conversation covers the role of learned helplessness, how body-based practices like Sundo breathing can loosen ingrained patterns, and why recovery is not just coping but awakening into aliveness, peace...
2025-09-1642 min
Book 101 ReviewBook 101 Review, in its fifth season, features Greg and Michael Co-Founders of Embodied Recovery, as my guest.Greg Vorst and Michael NolanCo-Founders of Embodied Recovery, a holistic mental health & addiction treatment center blending science and ancient wisdom teachings.Greg Vorst and Michael Nolan aren’t just co-founders of Embodied Recovery, a transformational treatment center in Silicon Valley—they’re guides for anyone seeking a deeper, more embodied way to live and heal. Together they bring a rare blend of professional expertise, lived experience, and ancient wisdom to conversations about addiction, mental health, and the human journey toward wholeness and awakening.Greg, a licensed therapist, combines depth and humanistic psycho...
2025-09-1636 min
Sacred HarmonyAwakening to Love’s Melody: Addiction, Resistance, and Radical Recovery with Greg Vorst & Michael Nolan of Embodied Recovery In this transformative episode of Sacred Harmony, Greg Vorst and Michael Nolan of Embodied Recovery share a deeply integrative approach to healing—where ancient Sundo practice meets modern recovery psychology. Together, we explore how addiction and resistance are not enemies but portals to awakening, and how the “melody” of love is always present, even when drowned out by ego, fear, or life’s noise. They reveal why recovery is less about “fixing” and more about undoing resistance, embodying presence, and reconnecting to a steady inner rhythm. From breathwork that rewires the nervous system to reframing addiction as a spiritual invitation, t...
2025-09-1431 min
Brainwaves by OpusThe Power of Breathwork in Addiction Recovery | With Greg Vorst and Michael Nolan, Co-Founders of Embodied RecoveryIn this episode of Brainwaves by Opus, Humberto sits down with Greg Vorst (therapist) and Michael Nolan (certified addiction counselor in long-term recovery), co-founders of Embodied Recovery in California.Greg and Michael share how their personal experiences in recovery, one through addiction, one through spiritual seeking, shaped their mission to build a treatment center that treats the whole person. Their model blends trauma-informed therapy, mindfulness, body-based healing, and breathwork (Sundo) to help clients create lasting change.Topics include:Why chronic relapsers often thrive with embodied approachesHow daily breathwork builds safety...
2025-09-1255 min
The Mindful JourneyMindfulness, Embodiment, and Real Recovery: Healing Beyond Abstinence with Greg Vorst and Michael NolanIn this powerful episode of The Mindful Journey, host Sana sits down with Greg Vorst and Michael Nolan, co-founders of Embodied Recovery, a transformative treatment center based in Silicon Valley. Together, they explore how mindfulness and embodiment serve as vital tools for healing addiction, trauma, and chronic dysregulation—not just as coping strategies, but as life-changing daily practices.
From discussing how nervous system regulation creates emotional safety to demystifying the ancient Korean practice of Sundo, Greg and Michael share a grounded, integrative approach to recovery rooted in presence, practice, and purpose. Whether you're navigating sobriety, seeking emotional re...
2025-08-0535 min
Embodied Recovery - Empowered Living SeriesExplaining Ancestral Healing - 3Founders of Embodied Recovery Greg Vorst & Michael Nolan present an exploration into the process of ancestral healing, as the 3rd episode of the Empowered Living Teaching Series. How learning the past can empower our future. About Embodied Recovery
2025-04-2357 min
Positive Sobriety PodcastEpisode 124 • Embodied Recovery with Michael Nolan and Greg VorstIs it possible to calm the feelings that drive addiction by activating your own parasympathetic nervous system? Can disciplines of body awareness amplify the effectiveness of other modes of recovery, such as 12-step work? These two veterans of addiction treatment explain their pioneering practice focused on emotional sobriety. For more information, check out embodiedrecovery.co.
2022-04-0757 min