Untamed & Unfiltered Wellness
When stress, sleep, focus, or energy start shifting—and the strategies you used to rely on stop working—this podcast helps you understand why and shows you what to do next without spinning your wheels.
Untamed and Unfiltered Wellness is a grounded, no-nonsense podcast for people who want to live well in the real world, busy schedules, demanding jobs, aging bodies and all.
Each episode explores the foundations of holistic living, including:
-Nervous system regulation and stress resilience
-Sleep patterns, recovery, and daily rhythms
-Blood sugar, hydration, and energy stability
-Environmental and lifestyle stressors most people overlook
-Herbal support and somatic practices for sustainable change
This is practical, integrative wellness for real lif, not trends, not hacks and not one-size-fits-all advice.
You’ll walk away with clear insights, usable tools, and realistic shifts you can apply immediately—so your body and mind feel steadier, more supported, and easier to live in.
Hosted by Jo Swensson, Herbalist and Founder of Olivia Bell.
Olivia Bell Co., where education, herbal support and somatic practices meet everyday life.
Untamed & Unfiltered Wellness
Having the Capacity to Live Well
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Episode #48: Having the Capacity to Live Well
We’ve built a life where almost everything is easier and yet, we’re more stressed, overwhelmed, and disconnected than ever.
In this episode, I’m breaking down what actually happened. It’s not that stress disappeared. It changed.
We traded short-term, physical stress, the kind that builds strength, for constant mental and emotional stress that never fully resolves. And at the same time, we removed the everyday challenges that build resilience, awareness, and real-life capacity.
But this isn’t just about your health. This is about how you show up in your life. From autopilot decisions to surface-level relationships, convenience is quietly lowering your ability to engage, connect, and handle what life throws at you.
If you’ve ever felt like your life is “easy” on paper but still exhausting or unfulfilling, this episode will make it make sense and give you a different way to think about what it actually means to live well.
If you’d love to keep the conversation going, I’ve written a companion piece over on my Substack where we’ll explore this idea a little further and continue the discussion about what living well actually looks like in modern life.
And if you want to sit with the questions we talked about today, that’s also where you’ll find the journal prompts from this episode.
You can find the link here: Substack article
Have a specific topic you want me to cover? Send me a text!
Substack blog: https://oliviabellco.substack.com
Website: https://oliviabell.co
I hope you find some time today for some peace, some plants and some paws!
☮️🌿🐾
Jo
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