Janella Purcell

19/12/2025

19/12/2025

'Audible Digestion' — the mind metabolising emotion the way the body digests food.

Don't you love it when modern scientific research proves what we've been saying and known for eons! The researcher found that when people voiced their thoughts, their stress hormones decreased by 35%. 😳

This new research shows that speaking our stress out loud isn’t just emotional relief — it’s biological regulation.

People who suppress emotion and “hold it together” tend to carry higher cortisol and greater immune suppression. One researcher described unexpressed emotion as “a toxin the body cannot eliminate.”

When we give stress a voice, the nervous system responds.
Sound stimulates the vagus nerve.
The body receives the message: you are not under attack.

In one study, participants who narrated their stress out loud showed reduced inflammation within a week. A scientist called this “audible digestion” — the mind metabolising emotion the way the body digests food.

Voice isn’t weakness.
Silence isn’t strength.

Your body needs sound to complete the healing cycle.

On my podcast Toxic Silence, we explore how to use your voice as medicine — and how to gently unwind the scars the body carries from silence.

17/12/2025

17/12/2025

NEW EP': HUMAN DESIGN AND GENE KEYS.
What if nothing about you is broken — only misunderstood?

In this powerful episode of Toxic Silence, I sit down with Emma Dunwoody - Emma is an Human Design expert and host of the globally recognised Human Design Podcast, to talk about the patterns that shape our lives — and how they can become portals back to our true nature.

We explore Human Design and the Gene Keys not as abstract systems, but as living maps for emotional healing, aligned decision-making, and embodied self-trust.

This conversation goes beyond self-improvement.
It’s about shedding conditioning, reclaiming your inner authority, and remembering who you were before the world told you who to be. Who's up for that? I know I am...
I hope you enjoy this last episode of for the year, and Season.
I'll be recording (and filming going forward) Season 3 from January '26.

🎧 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/3zxMWQ4To5XlUDPf2owYex?si=MuP4LnE2SROdIAMVkC8NmA
🎧 iTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/toxic-silence-finding-health-through-authenticity/id1741905673?i=1000741534824
🔗 Show Link in bio

13/12/2025

13/12/2025

Toxic Silence is ranking higher this season. It’s now in the top 2% of the 4mil + podcast globally. 😆🍥
Thank you to my wonderful guests this year. One more ep’ for S2 - airing this Wednesday

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09/12/2025

🌿 NEW EPISODE — Toxic Silence 🎙️Season 2 Episodes 12.

'Your Heart Has Taste Buds' (and Your Tongue Has Been Speaking Its Truth All Along)

In this episode, we explore one of the most surprising relationships in the body:
✨ the energetic connection between the Heart and the tongue.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Heart opens to the tongue — shaping how we speak, what we express, and how our Shen (spirit) shines through.
And modern science is finally catching up: it's been recently discovered that nearly half of the body’s bitter taste receptors aren’t on the tongue…but on the human heart. 😳

Together we dive into:
💔 Why bitter is the flavour of the Heart
👅 How the tongue reveals the emotional state of the Shen
🔊 How grief, joy, anxiety & suppression change our voice
🩶 Why patients are stunned when they realise their tongue has been telling their heart’s story
🧬 How modern genetics is validating ancient Chinese wisdom

This conversation bridges lineage and science to reveal something profound:
your Heart has been speaking through your tongue all along.

My guest is Dr. Maz Roginski — Doctor of Chinese Medicine and expert in Qi, the life-force energy that animates every system of the body. With 13 years of clinical experience and her own healing journey as lived proof, Maz guides people back to vitality, resilience and inner aliveness through precise, embodied Qi rituals. .qi

🎧 Listen now https://open.spotify.com/episode/7mubWB3ieDlHcEcCH69i8l?si=v6F2HY9oTIKsV7LdXKKSxQ

⁠http://drmaz.earth

03/12/2025

✨ New Episode Out Now — 'The Original You: Trauma Healing & De-conditioning Through Hypnotherapy.'

Today’s episode dives into a modality that’s been misunderstood for centuries — yet has the power to gently transform the patterns we’ve carried for far too long.
Hypnotherapy isn’t about losing control. It’s about reclaiming it.

We explore its ancient roots, its modern neuroscience, and how this deeply restorative state helps us access the subconscious — the place where trauma, conditioning and old narratives quietly shape our lives.

If you’re seeking nervous system repair, emotional rewiring, or a pathway back to your original, unconditioned self… this one’s for you.

Featuring trauma-informed hypnotherapist Lucas Olmos of

🎧 Listen now: link in Bio, and here - https://open.spotify.com/episode/1nrKJB0mgXUd1MwUAoYvUg?si=678dbcb1cc174069
📺 Guest’s YouTube:
🌐 awakeningpurpose.com.au