Episode 119. Nervous System Rewiring with Danielle Pashko
What happens when all your supplements, clean eating, and protocols stop working—and you just keep getting sicker?
Danielle Pashko had built her career in functional medicine, doing everything “right.” But after thyroid cancer, Lyme disease, and long COVID wrecked her health, she hit a wall. Nothing worked—until she stopped chasing fixes and started going inward.
In this episode, Danielle shares how she finally started healing by rewiring her nervous system, using Qigong, martial arts, and visualization. She breaks down why most chronic illness approaches miss the mark, why emotions and stress regulation matter more than you think, and how she created a daily routine that actually stuck.
If you’re stuck in a healing rut, frustrated with endless protocols, or just want to feel like yourself again—this one’s for yo
What happens when all your supplements, clean eating, and protocols stop working—and you just keep getting sicker?
Danielle Pashko had built her career in functional medicine, doing everything “right.” But after thyroid cancer, Lyme disease, and long COVID wrecked her health, she hit a wall. Nothing worked—until she stopped chasing fixes and started going inward.
In this episode, Danielle shares how she finally started healing by rewiring her nervous system, using Qigong, martial arts, and visualization. She breaks down why most chronic illness approaches miss the mark, why emotions and stress regulation matter more than you think, and how she created a daily routine that actually stuck.
If you’re stuck in a healing rut, frustrated with endless protocols, or just want to feel like yourself again—this one’s for you.
Timestamps:
00:00:00 – Intro + Sponsor
00:01:05 – Meet Danielle & her health crash
00:03:22 – From teenage loss to holistic health
00:05:14 – Cancer at 30 despite doing it all right
00:06:57 – Why functional medicine didn’t cut it
00:08:42 – The role of nervous system dysregulation
00:10:47 – Visualization + martial arts: weird but it worked
00:13:15 – Lessons from her mother’s spiritual approach
00:17:45 – Pleading with the universe—and finding help
00:22:32 – When the body shifts before the mind
00:26:15 – Wing Chun, Qigong, and brain rewiring
00:29:34 – The daily stuff that actually made a difference
00:33:42 – Carnivore diet, CGMs, and getting real about food
00:38:16 – How nature helped heal when nothing else did
00:42:50 – Making healing sustainable (not another to-do list)
00:46:41 – What “Soul Hacker” really means
00:49:28 – The soul work behind real healing
00:50:09 – Connect with Danielle
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Danielle Pashko
Functional Nutritionist/ Chronic Ilness Coach
Danielle Pashko is a Functional Nutritionist, Certified Health Coach, author, and the visionary behind Soulhakker™—a cutting-edge wellness platform that merges ancient energetic practices with modern science to catalyze healing from the inside out.
With over two decades at the forefront of New York City’s elite wellness scene, Danielle has collaborated with leading physicians, developed custom supplement lines, and helped thousands transform their health through detoxification, nutrition, and mind-body integration. Her training spans functional medicine, yoga, massage therapy, somatic healing, and internal martial arts. But her true authority comes from what she’s lived through.
After losing her mother to cancer at 13, Danielle became fiercely committed to health—by the time she was 16, she was living alone in Manhattan, working multiple jobs while pursuing a vision of invincibility through wellness. By her early 30s, she had become a trusted expert in the field—but her own cancer diagnosis, followed by chronic Lyme and post-COVID complications, shattered the illusion of control.
Despite doing everything “right,” she got sick. That reckoning became her awakening.
What healed her wasn’t more optimization—it was nervous system regulation, unprocessed grief, and ancient practices like Qigong and Tai Chi. Danielle now teaches what she had to learn the hard way: true healing is not about perfecting your health—it’s about reconnecting with yourself.
Through Soulhakker, Danielle now offers an integrative model of healing that combines cl… Read More
