<![CDATA[The Sensory Movement]]>Welcome to The Sensory Movement – your guide to understanding sensory health through embodiment, neurodiversity, and evidence-based practices.

Join us each week as we explore sensory processing and its profound impact on our everyday lives. Hosted by Carrie Schmitt and Robyn Chu, experts in the field, The Sensory Movement offers real-life experiences, research-driven insights, and transformative strategies to help individuals and families navigate sensory differences. Whether you’re a parent, a helping professional, or someone with sensory processing differences, this show celebrates the power of connection, sensation, and regulation.

Tune in as we dive deep into topics like neurodiversity, the neuroscience behind sensory integration, therapeutic practices, and sensory nourishment for the soul. We focus on strengths, encouraging curiosity, exploration, and personal growth through embodiment. Together, we’ll build a more inclusive world where sensory health is celebrated, and lived experiences are at the heart of the conversation.

]]>https://robynchu.com/podcasts/the-sensory-movement/Riverside.fm (https://riverside.com)Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:53:11 GMTThu, 20 Aug 2026 09:43:59 GMT60The Sensory Movement<p><b>Welcome to <i>The Sensory Movement</i> – your guide to understanding sensory health through embodiment, neurodiversity, and evidence-based practices.</b></p><p></p><p>Join us each week as we explore sensory processing and its profound impact on our everyday lives. Hosted by Carrie Schmitt and Robyn Chu, experts in the field, <i>The Sensory Movement</i> offers real-life experiences, research-driven insights, and transformative strategies to help individuals and families navigate sensory differences. Whether you’re a parent, a helping professional, or someone with sensory processing differences, this show celebrates the power of connection, sensation, and regulation.</p><p></p><p>Tune in as we dive deep into topics like neurodiversity, the neuroscience behind sensory integration, therapeutic practices, and sensory nourishment for the soul. We focus on strengths, encouraging curiosity, exploration, and personal growth through embodiment. Together, we’ll build a more inclusive world where sensory health is celebrated, and lived experiences are at the heart of the conversation.</p>episodicThe Sensory Movementmarcom@growinghealthyseasons.comno<![CDATA[Embodiment in Everyday Life: Feeling Safe in Your Body Again]]>Embodiment is not about being present all the time. It's about having access to your body as a place of safety when you need it. Whether you're a parent, a helping professional, or navigating sensory differences yourself, this episode offers language and tools to reconnect with your body without pressure or judgment.

Hosts Carrie Schmitt and Robyn Chu explore what embodiment really means and why safety has to come first. This episode normalizes disconnection as an adaptive response rather than a personal flaw, approaches embodiment through a sensory lens, and explains how sense data becomes nourishment the brain uses to keep you safe.

You'll hear why embodiment fluctuates with context, stress, and connection, what happens in the body when a threat is perceived, and how regulation begins in the body before the thinking brain comes back online. Robyn and Carrie also share simple, approachable ways to notice one neutral sensation and let curiosity, not fixing, lead the way.

]]>d7ed742c-2d73-43c9-8814-044297836ec6Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT<p>Embodiment is not about being present all the time. It's about having access to your body as a place of safety when you need it. Whether you're a parent, a helping professional, or navigating sensory differences yourself, this episode offers language and tools to reconnect with your body without pressure or judgment.</p><p></p><p>Hosts Carrie Schmitt and Robyn Chu explore what embodiment really means and why safety has to come first. This episode normalizes disconnection as an adaptive response rather than a personal flaw, approaches embodiment through a sensory lens, and explains how sense data becomes nourishment the brain uses to keep you safe.</p><p></p><p>You'll hear why embodiment fluctuates with context, stress, and connection, what happens in the body when a threat is perceived, and how regulation begins in the body before the thinking brain comes back online. Robyn and Carrie also share simple, approachable ways to notice one neutral sensation and let curiosity, not fixing, lead the way.</p>no00:55:1214Embodiment in Everyday Life: Feeling Safe in Your Body Againfull<![CDATA[From Overwhelm to Regulation: How Sensory Systems Support Safety]]>Regulation is the nervous system’s experience of safety. Regulation is having all the resources I need to meet the demands of my internal and external worlds.

Whether you're a parent, a helping professional, or navigating sensory differences yourself, this episode offers language and tools to notice overwhelm sooner and build recovery on solid ground.

Hosts Carrie Schmitt and Robyn Chu discuss the journey from overwhelm to regulation and how our sensory systems support a felt sense of safety. This episode explores what overwhelm actually feels like in the body, why it's an adaptive nervous system response rather than a personal failure, and why "just calm down" tends to add stress instead of relieving it.

You'll hear practical ways to turn sensory input up or down to move toward regulation, why auditory, visual, and touch inputs are the most common sources of overwhelm, and how small adaptations make a real difference. Robyn and Carrie also reframe dysregulation as communication, not defiance, and close on the foundation everything rests on: sleep, nutrition, movement, and safety.

]]>ee523519-b496-42fe-af19-d54590ddcc44Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT<p>Regulation is the nervous system’s experience of safety. Regulation is having all the resources I need to meet the demands of my internal and external worlds. </p><p></p><p>Whether you're a parent, a helping professional, or navigating sensory differences yourself, this episode offers language and tools to notice overwhelm sooner and build recovery on solid ground.</p><p>Hosts Carrie Schmitt and Robyn Chu discuss the journey from overwhelm to regulation and how our sensory systems support a felt sense of safety. This episode explores what overwhelm actually feels like in the body, why it's an adaptive nervous system response rather than a personal failure, and why "just calm down" tends to add stress instead of relieving it. <br /><br />You'll hear practical ways to turn sensory input up or down to move toward regulation, why auditory, visual, and touch inputs are the most common sources of overwhelm, and how small adaptations make a real difference. Robyn and Carrie also reframe dysregulation as communication, not defiance, and close on the foundation everything rests on: sleep, nutrition, movement, and safety.</p>no00:37:1613From Overwhelm to Regulation: How Sensory Systems Support Safetyfull<![CDATA[Sensation as the Source of Wisdom in the Body]]>Sensation as the Source of Wisdom in the Body

With Hosts: Carrie Schmitt and Robyn Chu

Episode: 2

 

Show Description

Interoception is the wisdom inside of our bodies.

Chapters

 

00:12 Introduction to Sensory Wellness

01:13 The Mind-Body Connection

09:14 Understanding Interoception

17:35 Interoception and Wellness

20:53 Regulation and Decision Making

29:09 Navigating Overlap in Episodes

29:09 Understanding Interoception and Its Impact

32:49 The Role of Trauma in Body Awareness

36:42 Adaptive Responses to Body Signals

39:10 Curiosity and Self-Discovery in Sensation

43:03 Practicing Interoception: A Guided Moment

]]>bfab37f9-4e60-4c72-8e6f-a21b66f19b1aWed, 26 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT<p><b>Sensation as the Source of Wisdom in the Body</b></p><p><b>With Hosts:</b> Carrie Schmitt and Robyn Chu</p><p><b>Episode:</b> 2</p><p> </p><p><b>Show Description</b></p><p>Interoception is the wisdom inside of our bodies.</p><p></p><p><b>Chapters</b></p><p> </p><p>00:12 Introduction to Sensory Wellness</p><p>01:13 The Mind-Body Connection</p><p>09:14 Understanding Interoception</p><p>17:35 Interoception and Wellness</p><p>20:53 Regulation and Decision Making</p><p>29:09 Navigating Overlap in Episodes</p><p>29:09 Understanding Interoception and Its Impact</p><p>32:49 The Role of Trauma in Body Awareness</p><p>36:42 Adaptive Responses to Body Signals</p><p>39:10 Curiosity and Self-Discovery in Sensation</p><p>43:03 Practicing Interoception: A Guided Moment</p>no00:45:5512Sensation as the Source of Wisdom in the Bodyfull<![CDATA[Sensory Health Is Human Health: Why Our Nervous Systems Matter.]]>Sensory Health Is Human Health: Why Our Nervous Systems Matter.

With Hosts: Carrie Schmitt and Robyn Chu

Episode: 1

Show Description

We are sensory beings. Learn what sensory health means, the neuroscience behind it, and small ways to support it daily.

Chapters

 

00:00 Introduction to Sensory Health

06:13 Understanding Sensory Processing and Integration

14:14 The Neuroscience of Sensory Processing

20:26 The Continuum of Sensory Processing

31:23 Sensory Health Across the Lifespan

39:32 Practical Applications of Sensory Awareness

]]>7d99c964-223c-4d0e-8d73-18298e60b886Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:47:26 GMT<p><b>Sensory Health Is Human Health: Why Our Nervous Systems Matter.</b></p><p><b>With Hosts:</b> Carrie Schmitt and Robyn Chu</p><p><b>Episode:</b> 1<br /><br /><b>Show Description</b></p><p>We are sensory beings. Learn what sensory health means, the neuroscience behind it, and small ways to support it daily.</p><p></p><p><b>Chapters</b></p><p> </p><p>00:00 Introduction to Sensory Health</p><p>06:13 Understanding Sensory Processing and Integration</p><p>14:14 The Neuroscience of Sensory Processing</p><p>20:26 The Continuum of Sensory Processing</p><p>31:23 Sensory Health Across the Lifespan</p><p>39:32 Practical Applications of Sensory Awareness</p><p></p><p></p>no00:46:3511Sensory Health Is Human Health: Why Our Nervous Systems Matter.full