This Is How We Rise with Nika Lawrie
This Is How We Rise is a podcast for individuals who know they are meant for more but feel exhausted, overwhelmed, or stuck between who they are and who they aspire to be.
Hosted by Nika Lawrie, this show explores what it actually takes to rise in today’s world. Not just in mindset, but in health, identity, money, work, and purpose. Because real success means nothing if it comes at the cost of your well-being, freedom, or joy.
Episodes take different forms, because rising is not one size fits all.
Some episodes are solo conversations with Nika, breaking down the patterns, shifts, and truths behind real transformation. What actually works, what doesn’t, and why.
Some are live coaching sessions, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the questions, blocks, and breakthroughs people experience as they rebuild clarity, confidence, and momentum.
Others are expert interviews with founders, thought leaders, health experts, and visionaries across wellness, business, mindset, finance, and personal growth.
And some episodes share powerful stories of people who have risen through challenge, change, or crisis, and the lessons we can all take from their journey.
Across every format, the focus is the same. Helping you align who you are with what you are building.
You will learn how to:
- Rewire your mindset for steady, unshakable confidence
- Align your health and energy to support sustainable success
- Build a purpose-driven business or career without burning out
- Show up more boldly, master visibility, and lead with clarity and intention
Whether you are launching something new, scaling toward your next milestone, or simply craving clarity and direction, This Is How We Rise gives you the tools, perspective, and grounded encouragement to take your next step.
This is not about hustle, perfection, or chasing someone else’s version of success.
It is about healing, alignment, courage, and building a life that actually works for you.
If you are ready to RISE without losing yourself, this is where it begins.
This Is How We Rise with Nika Lawrie
Healing Your Body for Mental Clarity
In this conversation, Nika Lawrie discusses the critical connection between physical health and mental well-being. She emphasizes that feelings of exhaustion, anxiety, and burnout may stem from the body's needs rather than a lack of willpower or discipline. By focusing on healing the body, individuals can achieve emotional stability and clarity, ultimately leading to personal growth and success. Nika provides practical steps for regulating the body and improving overall health, highlighting the importance of prioritizing self-care and body awareness.
Takeaways
- If you feel stuck, it might be your body asking for help.
- Many people blame themselves for lack of motivation.
- Your body may be inflamed, dysregulated, or depleted.
- Healing your body creates the foundation for clarity.
- Calming your nervous system is crucial before fixing habits.
- Simple actions like better sleep can change your life.
- Start with one body-based action to support your health.
- Your nervous system drives how you think, feel, and act.
- Starting your nights well improves your next day.
- Body before business leads to overall success.
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Nika Lawrie (00:01.366)
If you feel like life is just heavy or harder than it should be, or if you feel stuck, it might not be your mindset. What it might actually be is your body asking for help. So many people are trying to think their way through exhaustion or depression or anxiety. They try to think their way through burnout and they blame themselves for lack of motivation.
They push harder and harder. They try new routines. They follow all the YouTube videos with the five step or the 17 step or the perfect morning routine. They blame themselves when nothing sticks, when nothing works. But the reality is, is that when you feel this way, it's more likely that your body is inflamed, dysregulated, or depleted. Willpower is and never will be enough.
I spent years believing that if I could just be more disciplined, more positive or more focused, everything would fall into place. But no matter how much self development content I consumed, I still felt tired, foggy and disconnected. The turning point for me was realizing that my body was not broken. It was overwhelmed. And once I started supporting my body first,
everything started to shift for me. Let me give you a quick story. I started my business almost a decade ago. I struggled for years while growing that business because my body and my health were out of alignment. I ended up with an autoimmune disease. I struggled with depression and I just had low poor energy.
And it wasn't until I really started to focus on my health and my wellbeing, that things really started to shift in a positive manner. And I was able to grow my business, improve my life as a whole, and just start to really feel proud about where I'm going in the future. So if you relate to this at all, I want you to understand that your nervous system, your hormones, your gut,
Nika Lawrie (02:22.678)
and your brain drive how you think, how you feel and how you act. Let me read that to you one more time. So it really sits home with you. Your nervous system, your hormones, your gut and your brain drive how you think, how you feel and how you act. the way your body feels, the health of your body is determinative.
to how you show up in the world. When your body feels unsafe or stressed, it stays in survival mode. It stays in fight or flight. Sometimes you'll hear people say things like, if there isn't a fire or if I'm not doing something, I feel uneasy. It feels like something's wrong. That is a telltale sign of your nervous system being out of whack.
That is a sign of you being in continuous constant fight or flight because you're overstimulated overwhelmed dealing with some type of trauma or you have a health issue. could be some of all of them. could be little pieces of all of them overwhelming your body, healing your body creates the foundation for clarity, for emotional stability, for confidence and for real momentum in your life.
Healing your body is the biggest thing and the first step you should take for moving towards your dreams, for creating the life you want. Start with regulation, not perfection. You should focus on calming your nervous system before fixing your habits. Simple things like better sleep, steady meals, gentle movement, and time outside can change how you show up faster than
any motivational content or routine or habit ever will. Let me go through that again with you. Calming your nervous system before fixing your habits will help you get closer to changing your life faster than any other thing that you can do. So today, my action step for you is to choose one body based action.
Nika Lawrie (04:43.726)
One thing to focus on to support your body, to support your health and to support your nervous system. That can be things like eating a real breakfast, high in protein in the morning. Don't start your day with sugar, start your day with protein and healthy fats. Go for a short walk. Even five or 10 minutes can make a huge difference. If you can work in 20 to 30, that's even better.
but schedules can be crazy. Just be proud of yourself for even getting in a five minute walk. That counts towards calming your nervous system. Another thing you can do is turn off your phone or TV just a little bit earlier tonight. Instead of turning it off at 10, turn it off at nine 30 or even better, turn it off at nine and read a book before you go to sleep or just calm yourself and relax and then go to sleep. Starting your nights is what's going to
help your days be even better. So focusing on your nighttime routine and how you fall asleep and getting that good rest will actually improve your next day far more than almost anything else. And it allows you to start the day refreshed and feeling good, which gives you more energy, which in turn gives you more momentum to achieve those goals. One small signal of safety to your body is enough to start that full shift.
If this resonates with you, please subscribe to this podcast and share this episode with someone who feels stuck or exhausted and doesn't know why. If you want to go deeper in this, reach out to me, let me know, send me a message, or if you have questions, check out the link below where you can share a voice message with me and I will answer your questions in a future episode. So remember when you heal your body, you start
Stop fighting your life. When you heal your body, you stop fighting your life. Things start to fall into place. One thing that I always say that helps me remember* this is body before business. And this, when you do this, everything else will start to fall in place. And this is when you'll rise.
