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16:20

The Mineral Files Part 3: Everything Your Doctor...

The Brain Dump ·

2026/10/08

Everyone told you sodium was the enemy. Your doctor said watch your salt. Every nutrition label flags it like a warning sign. The entire public health conversation has been one long message: too much will kill you. Nobody told you what happens when you don't have enough. Sandy's sodium came in at eight on her HTMA. The optimal range is around twenty-five. She drinks at least sixty ounces of water a day with electrolytes. She does all the things. And her sodium was still at eight. This episode...

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14:38

The Mineral Files Part 2: Everything Your Doctor...

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2026/10/01

You were told to take your calcium. Drink your milk. Protect your bones. What nobody told you is that calcium without its cofactors is calcium without direction. It goes where it goes. And where it goes is not always where you need it — or where you want it. This episode is the calcium conversation that the drink your milk messaging left out for decades. What This Episode Holds What Sandy's own HTMA revealed about her calcium — and why a number that looked elevated on paper was telling a very...

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16:31

The Mineral Files Part 1: Everything Your Doctor...

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2026/09/24

Welcome to the Mineral Files — a new series where Sandy goes through the minerals on a hair tissue mineral analysis one by one, explaining what they do in the body, what it looks like when they're out of range, how they connect to mental health, and where to get more of them. She is starting with magnesium. And she is starting with a mistake she made herself. When Sandy's own HTMA results came back showing elevated magnesium, her first thought was — great, one less supplement to take. So she ...

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10:46

Individual Accountability as Distraction: What the...

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2026/09/17

This week Sandy made a CPS report. In the process, she discovered that a previous report had already been made by someone else — and nothing had happened. Not because anyone was malicious. Not because nobody cared. Because somewhere between two agencies that were supposed to be communicating, the ball sat on the floor and nobody owned the gap. That same week, a trial in Massachusetts has the mental health field watching, waiting, and spiraling in Facebook groups about documentation practices ...

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12:53

The Root Cause Nobody Found: How Black Mold, a...

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2026/09/10

Sandy knew something was wrong before she said it. She reached for a word — a simple, familiar noun — and what came out instead was a description. She called the Navy "the army that's on the ocean." It wasn't the first time. Words were slipping. Her thinking felt foggy and slow and unreliable in a way it never had before. She was developing a low-grade paranoia she couldn't explain. The conventional medical system had no answers. Normal labs. Normal imaging. No explanation for the fever, the ...

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12:13

A Therapist's Reflection on Dolly Parton and Human...

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2026/09/03

Imagine being born in a room with no electricity and becoming the light that no one wanted extinguished. Dolly Parton died on August 25th, 2026, at 80 years old. And in a country that can barely agree on the weather, virtually everyone stopped and grieved her the same way at the same time. This episode is Sandy's honest reflection on what that reveals — about Dolly, about us, and about what we are all quietly hungry for underneath all the noise. What This Episode Holds Who Dolly Parton actual...

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12:16

What Pharmaceutical Research Taught Me About the...

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2026/08/27

Before Sandy was a therapist, she spent 12 years in pharmaceutical research. And it was there — not in graduate school, not in a textbook — that she first witnessed the most powerful healing mechanism she has ever encountered. Not the drug. The relationship. What This Episode Holds How Sandy ended up in pharmaceutical research and what she witnessed there that she has never been able to unlearnWhat a "high placebo rate" actually means — and why what the industry called a confounding variable ...

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13:08

The Neurological Truth About Joy — And Why Burned Out...

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2026/08/20

A little girl decided on her own — in her own time — that she felt safe enough to stay the night. No pressure. No nudging. Just a small, quiet, completely unscheduled moment of genuine connection. Sandy calls that Vitamin J. Vitamin Joy. And this episode is about what burnout actually steals from you — not just your energy, your productivity, or your clinical presence. Your joy. And more specifically, your nervous system's ability to receive it even when it's right in front of you. What This ...

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11:39

Why Talk Therapy Alone Isn't Enough: The...

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2026/08/13

There is a man Sandy knows peripherally who has been to counselor after counselor. In person, telehealth, retreats, multiple modalities, multiple clinicians, multiple genuine attempts to shift something that keeps repeating in his life. And nothing is moving. Not because he's resistant. Not because he isn't trying. He shows up. He does the work. He has more insight into his own patterns than most people will ever have. And he keeps circling the same territory. This episode is about why. And a...

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14:06

Slow Is Fast: What Somatic Experiencing Actually...

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2026/08/06

This week Sandy received her SEP — her somatic experiencing practitioner certification. Four years of training. Hundreds of hours of consultation. Personal work that goes places you don't always expect it to go. She is pausing to name it because she thinks we don't do that enough. We achieve things and move right past them toward the next thing. She earned this. And it matters. And then, in the same week, she sat in a consultation session and felt her own nervous system brace when support was...

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12:55

When Life Goes Sideways: What Nervous System...

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2026/07/30

This is not the clean version. This is not the Instagram version where someone has a hard week and comes out the other side with a beautiful lesson and a five-step framework wrapped up in a bow. This is Sandy recording in the middle of it. Still tired. Still not fully back. Still going. On Monday night, Sandy and her husband spent the night at the doggy emergency room with their dog Rudy. They didn't get home until five in the morning. Sleep since then has been interrupted. And she still had ...

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16:24

What to Actually Do When Your Nervous System Is...

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2026/07/23

Get your HTMA testing done with Sandy: https://sandyboone.thrivecart.com/htma-testing/ Sandy has spent a lot of episodes telling you why. Why you're burned out. Why insight isn't enough. Why you can't think your way out of a dysregulated nervous system. This episode is the how. No theory for the sake of theory. No 14-step protocol you'll abandon by Thursday. Just the tools Sandy actually uses, the ones she actually hands her clients, and the honest truth about how to use them so they actually...

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14:22

The Grift vs. The Science: A Trained Clinician's...

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2026/07/16

Sandy has been reading. Specifically, she has been reading Matt Hussey at The Brink — two pieces called Sick for Profit: How Wellness Podcasting Sells the Cure It Can't Afford to Give You and Griftonomics: How Wellness Became the Perfect Con and Then Got Elected. Her honest reaction after reading both? He's not wrong. And he's painting with too broad a brush. And when that brush sweeps across functional medicine and everyone practicing it, we have a problem. This episode is Sandy's response —...

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15:36

I Left Corporate America and Rebuilt It With My Own...

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2026/07/09

Sandy left corporate America to build something different. Something meaningful. Something that reflected who she actually was. Something that felt like freedom after years of bureaucracy and grind. And then, without ever deciding to, she rebuilt corporate America inside her own practice — with her own hands. This episode is the honest retrospective she wishes someone had given her before she started. The decisions that cost her years she didn't need to lose. The ones she got right. And the m...

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16:02

Watch Your Character: What Doing the Right Thing...

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2026/07/02

There's a quote hanging in Sandy's therapist's office. Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. She has read it a hundred times. Lately, she keeps landing on the same word — not destiny, not habits. Character. The piece we talk about the least and the one that matters most. This episode is about what char...

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14:23

Why Your Nervous System Work Isn't Working: The...

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2026/06/25

Have you ever felt exhausted in a way that sleep doesn't fix? You're eating reasonably well. You're resting. You're managing your stress as best you can. And you still wake up tired. Still drag through your days. Still feel like your body is working against you instead of with you. If that's you, Sandy has something to share that changed the way she understands her own health — something years of traditional lab work completely missed. What This Episode Holds What HTMA (hair tissue mineral an...

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25:04

Somatic Experiencing & Chronic Pain: Trauma and the Body

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2026/06/18

Sandy was recently asked to speak on a workman's compensation panel about somatic experiencing — and she is bringing that same depth of expertise directly to this episode. If you have ever wondered what somatic experiencing actually is, how it differs from talk therapy, or why chronic pain so often has a nervous system story underneath it, this is the most comprehensive answer Sandy has given on the podcast. What This Episode Holds What somatic experiencing actually is, how Peter Levine devel...

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12:35

Leaving Insurance Panels as a Therapist | Episode 17

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2026/06/11

Do you know how much control your insurance panels actually have over your practice? Not your clinical decisions. Not your treatment approach. Your business — your rates, your caseload, your credentialing data, your evenings lost to prior authorizations and claim denials. The reimbursements that haven't kept up with inflation in years. Most therapists don't know the full picture until they are already in the middle of trying to leave it. This episode is the conversation nobody had with you wh...

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9:18

The Difference Between Regulation and Numbness — And...

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2026/06/04

What if your nervous system isn't fragile? What if you are not too sensitive — you are just living in a time where the input never stops? The world is loud right now. War, politics, climate, economic strain, cultural fragmentation — and that is before we even get to what is happening in our personal lives. So when someone tells you to just regulate your nervous system, it can feel almost insulting. This episode is not about calming down so you stop caring. It is about caring without the colla...

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16:47

The Door I Stopped Holding Open: An Honest...

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2026/05/28

My father came to my son's graduation. I didn't call him after. And I never heard from him again. That is not a dramatic story. There was no explosion, no ultimatum, no final conversation. There was just a door I quietly stopped holding open. And the silence that followed told me everything I needed to know. This episode is about that. And it is about so much more than that. What This Episode Holds Sandy's personal story of estrangement — told not to assign blame, but to illuminate something ...

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