The Science of How We Really Feel: Mind, Body, and Health
How We Really Feel examines the interplay between your biology, your psychology and the social experiences that shape your health.
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Not another health hack podcast.
How We Really Feel is a podcast that explores the fascinating relationship between your mind and body and the ‘psychobiological’ changes that happen when you experience health issues, medical challenges or chronic illness. Each episode is rigorously researched and fact-checked, sharing conversations with experts and inspirational people navigating health journeys.
How We Really Feel aims to present evidence-based insights in a way that translates complex research into practical understanding. You’ll hear what the data actually shows, not sensationalised claims or unproven interventions, but the legitimate science of psychobiology, health psychology, and multidisciplinary insights.
Conversations explore the elements of health that often go unspoken: the identity shifts, the grief, the resilience, the small victories, what healing trajectories actually look like and the systemic gaps in care. Always with scientific integrity and compassionate honestly.
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About the host
Hosted by Dr Sula Windgassen, a leading health psychologist and psychotherapist specialising in supporting people with chronic illness, burnout and trauma recovery, each episode explores the biological, psychological and social factors that interact to shape physical and emotional experiences of health. This question explores an under-examined aspect of health – how does the human experience of health issues, affect health outcomes?
An academic by background, Dr Sula is dedicated to bringing credible and trustworthy research you can trust. Guests are chosen for their qualifications, clinical expertise and unique insight with lived experience not social media metrics or clout. Every episode is thoroughly researched, fact-checked and study references are resources mentioned in episodes are linked in show notes.
Season One
Season One deep dives into bladder and pelvic health experiences, inspired by Dr Sula’s own lived and professional experience of complex bladder issues, which she details in her debut book “It’s All In Your Body” (Pan Macmillan, 2026). From continence challenges, to overactive bladder and pelvic pain. We explore how these deeply personal, often stigamatised health experiences affect self-esteem, relationships and daily life as well as what actually helps people to adjust, improve and thrive. You’ll hear from specialist nurses, pelvic physiotherapists, urologists, dietitians, psychologists and people living with these conditions who share what no one tells you about the emotional journey and the ins and outs of navigating the physical fluctuations.
Future seasons will explore other health experiences through the same biopsychosocial lens; always asking how are mind and body communicating and how can we work with our biology rather than against it.
Brought to you in partnership with Convatec
This podcast series is brought to you in partnership with Convatec Continence Care and their me+ support program to support education, understanding and compassionate care for people navigating continence related health challenges. Click here to learn more.