"You're Not Broken" with Nicole Sachs, LCSW (Episode One)

Episode One: “You’re Not Broken” with Nicole Sachs, LCSW

Welcome to “Behind the Page”- a limited podcast series for my first book Autoimmunity and the Good Girls: How the Permission to Put Ourselves First Has the Power to Keep Us Well. Thank you so much for joining me, I’m your host, documentary filmmaker and author, Sara Hirsh Bordo.

 

Over the last many years in writing and researching for my book, in addition to interviewing other daughters raised to be good as I was, and my own national research across 1000 other autoimmune diagnosed women, I was lucky enough to sit down over zoom with an incredible group of experts spanning from science to soul, across medicine and modalities. Even though my book releases in June, I believe there are so many gems of wisdom, so many slips of permission, that might be in service of you now. 

 

My first episode features highlights from my interview with the incredible Nicole Sachs, LCSW: a best-selling author, psychotherapist, and internationally recognized leader in MindBody medicine. She is the creator of JournalSpeak®, a groundbreaking practice that has transformed the lives of thousands struggling with chronic pain, anxiety, and other conditions. And as the host of the podcast The Cure for Chronic Pain and founder of BreakAwake, Nicole has created a global community for healing.

 

We met for the first time last summer. I asked for her approach on working with women like me, with autoimmune disease- how she explains how we might have arrived at our diagnosis, how empowerment fits into the experience of that diagnosis, and how compassion for where we’ve been can help us make new decisions for how we want to live differently going forward. 

Nicole is such a force and I’m honored to say, a new friend.  Take a breath, this time is for You…and enjoy.

 

FOR MORE ON NICOLE:

Link to Nicole’s bestselling book MIND YOUR BODY 

https://www.yourbreakawake.com/book

 

Link to Nicole’s Membership Community

https://www.yourbreakawake.com/membership

 

Link to Nicole’s Podcast “The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW”

https://www.yourbreakawake.com/podcasts/the-cure-for-chronic-pain-with-nicole-sachs-lcsw-2

 

https://nicolesachs.substack.com/

Instagram @nicolesachslcsw

TikTok @nicolesachslcsw

YouTube @thecureforchronicpain

 

A WOMEN RISING® PRODUCTION

Written, Directed and Produced by Sara Hirsh Bordo

Editor and Consulting Producer, Eric Larner

“Metamorphosis” by MILCK, Licensed courtesy of Resin8 Management

 

"Autoimmunity and the Good Girls: How the Permission to Put Ourselves First Has the Power to Keep Us Well" (HarperOne) is available for pre-order wherever books are sold and will be released June 2, 2026. A percentage of the author's proceeds will be donated to the Society for Women's Health Research. 

www.goodgirlsbook.com