What To Do When World Events Feel Too Much

In today’s episode of the Wildly Wealthy Woman Podcast, tapping practitioner Jackie McDonald breaks down why current world events can feel so heavy in your body — even if you’re not directly affected or constantly watching the news.

Inspired by a powerful explanation from nervous system educator Tori Gordon, Jackie explores how the nervous system scans for safety, danger, and threat — and why headlines involving abuse of power, injustice, and lack of protection can activate collective fight-or-flight, shutdown, or emotional overwhelm.

This episode is especially for highly sensitive people, healers, coaches, and empaths who are feeling exhausted, anxious, numb, angry, or emotionally flooded — and don’t understand why.

Jackie shares:

  • why trauma can be reactivated without a personal experience

  • how nervous systems rely on external stabilizers like institutions and social trust

  • what hypervigilance, cynicism, and collapse really mean

  • a grounding EFT tapping moment to regulate your body

  • and a powerful call for healers to stop hiding and start sharing their work

This is a compassionate, grounding conversation about regulation, purpose, leadership, and how to stay anchored — without bypassing what’s happening in the world.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

  • How global and political events impact the nervous system (even subconsciously)

  • Why your body might feel anxious, heavy, nauseous, angry, or numb lately

  • What it means when old trauma is reactivated through collective events

  • Why nervous systems don’t regulate in isolation

  • The difference between staying informed and becoming emotionally flooded

  • How EFT tapping can help regulate your nervous system during chaotic times

  • Why healers and highly sensitive people feel world events more intensely

  • The ethical responsibility healers carry during collective stress

  • How to show up and help without burning out or overexposing yourself

 

Mentioned in This Episode

  • Insights inspired by nervous system educator Tori Gordon

  • EFT tapping as a tool for nervous system regulation

  • Community, boundaries, and purpose-led leadership

👉 Jackie references a video by Tori Gordon you can watch it HERE

Resources & Next Steps

✨ Jackie will be sharing a live tapping session on Instagram as a free resource to help regulate your nervous system during intense times.
👉 Follow Jackie on Instagram and watch her stories for details.

✨ 21 Days of Tapping & Affirmations
Designed for high achievers with anxiety tendencies who want:

  • more peace

  • more presence

  • more money without burning out

This round focuses on freedom, faith, and finances, so you can feel rich and relaxed, not just productive.

🗓 Starts March 9
🔗 Join here: https://jackie-mcdonald.mykajabi.com/offers/amDQFocw 

 

 

Key Topics 

  • nervous system regulation

  • EFT tapping for anxiety

  • collective trauma and nervous system

  • how news affects mental health

  • empath nervous system overload

  • healer burnout and regulation

  • spiritual warfare and nervous system

  • trauma stored in the body

  • fight flight freeze response

  • highly sensitive person support

  • grounding practices during chaos

  • tapping for emotional overwhelm