{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Nervous System Eats First: Autism Spectrum, Menopause & Beyond","title":"Belonging in Your Own Body: Five Element Medicine & Late-Diagnosed Autism with Dr. Janice Campbell | Ep. 17","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4334,"description":"What if the reason you feel like you don't belong — even in your own body — has nothing to do with what's wrong with you?\nWhen Dr. Janice Campbell's mother heard about her autism diagnosis at age 50, she said something that changed everything: \"Janice has always been a wish. From the moment she was born, she was a wish.\"\nThat moment of being truly seen is what this episode is about.\nDr. Stacey Denise sits down with Dr. Janice Campbell — doctor of acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Five Element practitioner, former theater stage manager, and late-diagnosed autistic woman — for a conversation that is equal parts ancient wisdom and nervous system science. For women who have spent decades performing belonging instead of embodying it, this is your roadmap home.\nWhat You'll Discover:\nFive Element Medicine explained — how Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water reveal your energy patterns and nervous system needsThe Christmas Party Game — a real-time nervous system regulation demonstrationWhy chi follows the mind and how belonging precedes physical safetyHow 15 years as a theater stage manager taught Dr. Janice to read bodies and unspoken patternsLate diagnosis at 50 — how understanding her autism changed everythingWhy late-diagnosed autistic women in menopause need both hormonal support AND nervous system medicineThe phrase \"remember when it was easier\" as a nervous system signal worth listening to\nTimestamps:\n00:00 Cold open — the Wish story\n03:00 Meet Dr. Janice Campbell\n05:00 Theater stage manager to acupuncturist journey\n10:00 Late-diagnosed autism at 50\n15:00 Five Element Medicine — Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water\n22:00 The Christmas Party Game — nervous system demo\n28:00 Chi follows the mind — energy and belonging\n33:00 Verbal needles — language as medicine\n38:00 Back-body awareness practice\n43:00 Autism and menopause intersection\n48:00 Remember when it was easier — as nervous system signal\n52:00 Nourish or numb segment\n58:00 Designing your elder self\nThis Episode Is...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7WeayWOCbdn9Q4IBaHObHaUcPGy5zyY7EzvJyw6OJTE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zY2Qw/Y2I0NjA5ZTE4ZjA2/ODQ2NGE5YjZlYTI2/YTdlNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}