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True Nature Coaching & Education

🌿 Trauma-informed coach | 🌿 Psych PhD |
🌿 Supporting sensitive, introverted, neurodiverse souls to flourish through nervous system regulation

I support people to reclaim energy, calm, and wellbeing through teaching emotional literacy, healthy relating, and nervous system regulation. Drawing on PhD-level studies in psychology, lived experience of healing from complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) plus 20 year personal growth journey, I support you to heal and live the life you desire.

28/08/2025

The trauma I experienced as a highly sensitive child growing up in an environment of emotional neglect could have left me debilitated to the point of disability. It’s possible it could also have turned me to drugs as a way to numb the pain, and to a life of disabling addiction.

Something that I am forever grateful for is that I didn’t stay on that path.

Something within; a determination; a hope; a knowing that healing must be possible, that there must be answers to suffering, that there must be another way has guided me. I was guided onto another path; a path of seeking answers, of discovering what knowledge humanity holds about healing and the psyche.

In my work I've met many people whose suffering is so great that it has them caught up in the revolving door of health services; people who carry such a heavy load and are debilitated by their mental and emotional pain.

I share this because I also carried an incredibly heavy load and want to offer hope that healing is possible. There are answers. There is knowledge that we can learn from to support us in moving out of suffering and reclaim our true selves; the part of us that is untouched by trauma. That is whole. That is well. That is wise. It is possible.

There is a requirement. The requirement is that you must be willing to take the journey, something that takes action and courage. The good news is that we all possess the innate qualities of will and courage.

19/08/2025

I believe that to survive in the future we’re going to need strong emotional and relational intelligence.

Just accumulating more money and stuff isn’t going to keep us safe.

Our security will be built on our capacity to create mutually supportive relationships and live in community with others.

I feel this in my bones.

We’ll need to understand our relational triggers, childhood trauma, and attachment patterns.

When triggers arise, we’ll need to be able to discern how our past is showing up in the present and how to respond intelligently to these.

The nervous system is a map to making sense of this.

It provides guidance on what our individual needs are that we can then bring to relationships to nurture healthy interdependence.

It reveals what our attachment wounds are through the fight/flight/freeze responses that show up in the presence of others.

It also holds the information about what it needs to settle and return to a sense of safety.

I believe that nervous system education is going to be essential for creating the kind of strong, healthy community we need to navigate an uncertain future.

I love guiding people in learning the language of the nervous system and how it can be used to strengthen emotional and relational intelligence.

If you’d like to learn more and explore how we could work together, send me a DM or visit my website (link in bio). I’d love to hear from you 🌸

18/08/2025

Just one spot left for the Nurture Your Nervous System 5-Week Class! 🌱🌱

🧠 Curious about your nervous system and how it relates to stress, anxiety, overwhelm, getting triggered?

🔥 Empower yourself with knowledge and practices to support your body to move out of stress and find more ease.

📖 5-Week Class
In a relaxed and welcoming environment, we’ll meet for five weeks to learn about the autonomic nervous system and practice basic neurosensory exercises to support regulation.

Learn to:
* Recognise the different nervous system states (fight, flight, freeze)
* Attune to what your body needs at the nervous system level
* Help your system settle and find more ease
* Build capacity to more easily be with challenging emotions

👉🏻 When: 10:30am - 12:00pm on Fridays, 22 Aug - 19 Sep
👉🏻 Where: Goodwood (location confirmed on booking)
👉🏻 Cost: $85

📩 To find out more or book your spot, contact me via DM or email at sophie@truenatureocoaching.com.au

Visit https://truenaturecoaching.com.au/ to learn more about my work.

14/08/2025

I was thinking recently about how the regulated life is kinda the boring life, but in a good, I’d-choose-this-any-day-over-survival kinda way 😉

As I grow more and more nervous system regulation, the things that are important become clearer. And simpler.

The things that matter to me these days are:

✔️ preparing nourishing meals
✔️ moving my body in ways that are fun and keep me strong
✔️ connecting with myself, nature, people, God
✔️ continuing to heal trauma and engage in personal development
✔️ engaging in meaningful, soul-aligned work
✔️ learning about subjects that interest me
✔️ creative expression
✔️ experiencing beauty
✔️ keeping up with house work and life admin

Living in survival (aka nervous system dysregulation, aka trauma) was like living on a constant roller coaster of adrenalised emotions. It was exhausting and I didn’t know how to get off.

Gradually, as I continue the nervous system work to build regulation, my system is moving out of addiction to adrenaline.

More and more, I am in the driver’s seat and able to take control of the speed and direction of the roller coaster.

There are still some hairy corners but it doesn’t reach the same heights and goes at a lot slower speed.

More often these days, it’s a fun ride.

From the perspective of adrenaline addiction, the regulated life might seem like a boring life.

But the truth is that a regulated life has finally allowed me to feel human; to feel connected to and flow with life instead of simply hanging on to survive.

The regulated life isn’t big and fancy.

It’s slowed down and uncomplicated.

It’s about simple pleasures.

It’s sustainable.

If you’re curious to explore what a regulated life could look like for you, I offer a free 30-minute connection call. Link to my website is in bio.

I’d love to connect!

31/07/2025

There are a few new faces around here so I though I’d take a moment to re-introduce myself and say hi.

Hi, I’m Sophie 👋

If you’ve recently started following me, thank you and welcome!

I’m a coach with a psychology PhD who supports the Deep Feelers of the world to reclaim their personal power through redefining their relationship with emotions and the body.

I would have been a psychologist if the system wasn’t so broken and my own healing journey hadn’t taken me way deeper than what is possible through mainstream psychology training.

I live close to the beach in Adelaide, South Australia, and share my home with a housemate and resident feline, Biscuit.

When I’m not working in my business, I’m reading, walking, connecting with people I care about, cooking, and pondering what it means to be human.

Instagram is a funny place to hang out. It’s not a natural home for me, that’s for sure.

You won’t find polished, on-trend reels here but you will find me showing up authentically in my humanness sharing real life experiences that support you to feel seen and validated.

I offer 1:1 and group sessions in person and online.

If you’re keen to learn more about my work, check out my website where you can sign up to my newsletter and receive a free audio for soothing overwhelm. Link in bio.

20/07/2025

The other day I took myself on a drive and visited a wildlife park about an hour from home.

I love animals and it was really special to spend some time up close with native wildlife (the ethics of caged animals is another discussion).

Going on drives to explore new places is one of the things I discovered I like to do since starting to heal my nervous system.

There has been so much I’ve learned about myself as I’ve come out of living in survival and begun to experience nervous system regulation.

It’s as though I hardly knew myself before starting this journey.

Through a slow but steady process of self-attunement and building nervous system capacity, life has shifted to one of fear-based survival to one of empowered choice and action.

Discovering the simple things that bring a sense of joy and meaning is one of the gifts of healing at this level.

After years of feeling empty, it’s such a blessing to connect with a sense of self and aliveness.

If you would like to chat about how nervous system work could support you to connect with your aliveness, type ‘ALIVE’ in the comments below.

To making the most of this one precious life 🌹

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