26/02/2026
Why do I talk so much about the nervous system???
Because mine didn’t just become “a bit dysregulated.” It crashed. HARD.
My body was having multiple functional seizures a day. Dissociation would take me offline mid-conversation.
My speech would falter, because words were lost somewhere between brain and mouth. My was balance unreliable where was walking like I was tipsy drunk some days. Tics & tremors moved through my body causing all manner of fine motor handling issues.
I had to leave a job I loved, caring for the dying, holding space at the edge of life.
I could no longer drive.
Exercise disappeared.
Independence shifted.
My world grew smaller, more quieter, more fragile than I had ever known.
Since 2021, my life has looked very different behind the scenes…
Neurophysio.
Speech pathology.
Trauma therapy that went far deeper than talking. Layers of somatic work, nervous system repair, and learning how to live inside a body that no longer felt predictable.
And I’m still in it.
Still healing.
Still rebuilding trust with my own system.
So when I speak about the nervous system, it isn’t theory.
It isn’t a trend.
It isn’t content.
It isn’t from a little course I did on Udemy.
It’s LIVED.
It’s FOUGHT for.
It’s the reason I can do what I do today at all.
Do I know all there is to know about the nervous system? No….There’s no possible way. A lot of the nervous system is still uncharted territory - just look at the polyvagal community up in arms rn about recent new findings.
Regardless, I didn’t choose this path as a niche. My body forced me to learn it to survive.
And now I share it so others don’t have to crash as hard as I did to finally listen to what their nervous system has been trying to say all along.
This is why I do the work the way I do.
And I will never shut up about it.
Chrissie xox