Sensory Sensitivity, Neuroplasticity, and Learning to Trust Yourself | Joey RemenyiSensory Sensitivity, Neuroplasticity, and Learning to Trust Yourself | Joey Remenyi
Eggshell Transformations with Imi Lo
Psychotherapist Imi Lo talks with vestibular audiologist and neuroplasticity therapist Joey Remenyi about sensory overwhelm, fear loops in the nervous system and how highly sensitive people can learn to trust their bodies. The conversation covers labels, identity, daily nourishment and seeing sensitivity as an advantage rather than a flaw.
1:11:59•22 May 2026
Sensory Vanguard: Trusting Your Body When the World Feels Too Loud
Episode Overview
- Sensory symptoms like tinnitus, vertigo and sound sensitivity can reflect fear loops in the nervous system rather than permanent damage.
- Strengthening the pathway between amygdala, insula and prefrontal cortex helps shift the body from danger responses into grounded, adult pattern recognition.
- Highly sensitive people can become a "sensory vanguard" when they learn to read sensations accurately instead of drowning in them.
- Small, concrete acts of nourishment and ritual (such as cooking bone broth) can gently rebuild self-trust and a sense of being a resourced adult.
- Labels and diagnoses may be useful stepping stones, but Joey encourages people to prioritise their lived experience over any fixed identity box.
“I believe the body itself is the physical expression of the soul.”
What makes a recovery story truly inspiring? For many highly sensitive people, it starts with realising their "too much" nervous system might actually be their greatest strength. This conversation brings together psychotherapist and host Imi Lo with vestibular audiologist and neuroplasticity therapist Joey Remenyi, whose background bridges hard science and thousands of hours of yoga and somatic practice.
Joey shares how working in a top Australian vestibular clinic led her to ask a simple question the medical system wasn’t asking: "Why is no one teaching them how to be in their bodies?" That question eventually became her Rock Steady and Sensing Ground approaches. You’ll hear Joey unpack what’s happening in the brain when sound, light, or other sensations feel like an attack.
She explains the amygdala–insula–prefrontal cortex "superhighway" and how fear loops keep sensations stuck, while safety signals and curiosity can help the nervous system reorganise. Her take is clear: "The body is incredibly intelligent… if it's giving you these signals, it's for a reason." Joey and Imi talk about misophonia, hyperacusis, tinnitus and other "weird" body sensations that are hard to explain and easy to dismiss.
They link these experiences to early invalidation, chronic people-pleasing, and what Joey calls psychological erasure – those moments when someone learns to stop trusting their own senses. There’s plenty here for anyone who’s ever used food, scrolling, drinking or busyness to outrun discomfort. Joey stresses tiny, tangible acts of nourishment – like her weekly bone broth ritual – as ways to rebuild self-trust as an adult, instead of waiting for a miracle retreat to fix everything.
The episode also tackles labels such as autism and "giftedness", sensitive nervous systems as a "sensory vanguard", and the difference between toxic people-pleasing and showing up for others from a centred place. If your body feels like the enemy, this conversation might gently ask: what if it’s actually fighting for you, and wants you on its side?
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