Combative Calm

This one’s for the days your brain won’t shut up about how you’re failing at life, everyone else is sprinting ahead, and you’re crawling in last place.

Spoiler: that’s not truth. 
That’s your nervous system on overdrive.
Comparison makes your amygdala scream “danger,” floods you with cortisol, and then dangles dopamine hits while you scroll yourself into shame. End result? You feel like shit in a race that doesn’t even exist.
In this episode:
  • Why your brain lies about “falling behind.”
  • How comparison hijacks your nervous system.
  • Affirmations that don’t suck — to remind you your pace is not a problem, it’s protection.
  • The truth: nobody’s ahead of you. They’re just on a different path.
💥 Big takeaway: Life isn’t a race. There’s no scoreboard. You are not late to your own life.

What is Combative Calm?

This isn’t your sugary, sweet, diabetes-inducing healing podcast.
This is Combative Calm—where nervous system regulation meets rage rituals, somatic releases, and spicy affirmations laced with f-bombs to unfck your trauma responses.

Hosted by Sarai Speer—a trauma-informed yoga + meditation teacher, somatic healer, and high-energy bitch who tells it like it is—this show delivers real tools, not toxic positivity.

It’s trauma-informed, nervous system-rooted healing for the emotionally constipated, burnout-curious, high-functioning humans who are done pretending they’re fine.

It’s time to regulate your shit.