When the Alarm Won't Stop - Guest Episode with Nikki Anderssen

Nikki Anderssen spent fifteen years running live international news, thriving on exactly the kind of pressure most people spend their careers trying to avoid. Then, without warning, her body started failing her in ways that made no sense. She followed every protocol, eliminated every trigger, saw every specialist. And got smaller, not better, until the day she reacted to a handful of blueberries, and understood, all at once, that this was never about the food.

This episode is about what happens when the brain's alarm system gets stuck in the on position, and what it actually takes to rewire it.

In this episode:

• Why a nervous system built for pressure can stop telling the difference between real danger and no danger at all
• The blueberry moment, and why it was never really about blueberries
• What neuroplasticity actually requires: not willpower, but repetition under conditions of safety
• Why the people who look most "fine" under stress are often carrying the most of it
• What comes back, cognitively, once the nervous system stops rationing everything for survival

About Nikki: Nikki Anderssen is an international broadcast journalist and communications specialist with nearly twenty years across radio, TV, and digital media. After years of unexplained physical decline, she used neuroplasticity to rewire her nervous system out of chronic dysregulation, and went on to co-found Repair Circle EU, recognized among Berlin's leading social enterprises, where she's now building the digital backbone for Germany's circular economy in electronics repair.

It's Me. Your Brain. - the mind behind your decisions.

Find Nikki:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikki-anderssen
• Repair Circle EU: https://repaircircle.eu/en
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/repair.circle/