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Nervous-system informed facilitation offering workshops, circles and 1:1 support

17/03/2026

Not everything needs to be turned into a funnel.

Not every story needs a call to action.

Not every conversation needs to lead somewhere profitable.

Some of us are speaking because we’ve lived it.
Because we know what it’s like to feel broken -
when it was actually a nervous system doing its job.

Because we’ve seen what happens when trauma gets reduced to mindset or discipline.

I’m not here to package pain into something more palatable.

I’m not here to optimise suffering for engagement.
I’m here to do this work in a way that actually honours people.

If that resonates, you’ll feel it.

16/03/2026

Healing isn’t about forcing yourself to feel it all at once.

It’s about tiny, steady doses of feeling - titration.

Pendulate between safety and sensation.
Dip a toe. Come back. Repeat.

Slowly, your nervous system learns -
I can feel this… and survive.

14/03/2026

Healing changes your tolerance levels.

You stop carrying things that were never yours to begin with.

Projection is everywhere - blame, judgement, gossip, emotional dumping.

For years I absorbed it.

Now I practice emotional Aikido.
I don’t fight it.
I don’t absorb it.
I simply let it return to its rightful owner.

I’ll meet people with honesty and respect. But I won’t abandon myself to make others comfortable.

Do the work - because nobody else can do it for you 🖤

13/03/2026

Extraction is not just an economic model.

It’s a worldview.

A belief that the earth is here for us to take from.
That bodies are machines to push harder.
That value can be taken without tending the source.
Over time, this logic shaped our systems - hierarchy, domination, patriarchy.

But both the land and the nervous system teach a different rhythm.

Growth comes from sowing, not extracting. From patience, care, relationship, and reciprocity.

The more regulated and resourced my nervous system becomes, the more naturally my circle of care widens - to other people, to the land, and to the future we are shaping together.

🌱 Healing doesn’t just change how we feel - it changes how we live.

Where in your life are you planting seeds instead of taking from the soil?

12/03/2026

Yesterday reminded me how hungry people are for spaces where they can be real.

When insight lands, emotions move, and people support each other - something powerful happens in the nervous system.

My hope? That spaces like this keep growing everywhere.

09/03/2026

Content note: su***de

As someone working in trauma-informed spaces and recovery communities, this training felt deeply important.

Because su***de isn’t some distant topic. It touches families, communities, friendship groups and recovery circles.

And for some of us - myself included - there have been times where life has felt unbearable.

One of the most powerful things I learned:
It is OK to ask someone directly if they are thinking about su***de. Talking about su***de does not put the idea into someone's head. What it can do is break the isolation.

Let’s keep making it safer to say "I'm not okay."

If this topic touches something for you, please reach out to someone you trust or one of the support lines listed.

You don’t have to carry it alone.

***deprevention

08/03/2026

Something is shifting.

Women are reclaiming their bodies, their voices, and their connection to the Earth.

Healing our nervous systems is resistance.

Reclaiming our bodies is radical.

And the quiet rising of women is already changing everything.

❤️
🌍

06/03/2026

I used to think healing meant pushing harder.
More discipline.
More willpower.
More “sort your s**t out”.

Somatic work introduced me to something radically different - titration.
Small, manageable doses of discomfort.
Touch the edge. Come back to safety. Let the body integrate.

Over time the nervous system adapts. Capacity grows. Life expands.
Not because we forced it - but because we respected the body’s pace.

In a world that constantly pushes us past our limits, learning your tender edge might be one of the most radical things you can do.

I'm curious - where do you notice your edge these days?

04/03/2026

I’m not here to offer quick fixes.
I’m here to help build capacity.

Your nervous system is not a trend.
It is your inheritance.
And when you tend to it, the ripple is real.

If this speaks to you, tell me:-
What helps your body feel safe?

02/03/2026

The polyvagal controversy is exposing something useful.

Some people are defending it like a religion.
Some are trying to burn it down entirely.

I’m not interested in either extreme.

Models are maps.
Maps are not the territory.

As a woman in recovery, as someone who has lived hypervigilance in her bones, I care about what actually shifts physiology.

- If a framework helps someone come out of
collapse? Use it.
- If new research refines it? Good.
- If parts of it fall apart? Adapt.

That’s nervous system flexibility in action.

We don’t heal by clinging - we heal by integrating.

And no single theory is bigger than the human body 🖤

21/02/2026

Sovereignty without domination.
Humility without disappearance.
If you can’t hold both, it isn’t intimacy -
it’s strategy.

19/02/2026

Fawning kept you safe.
Now it’s keeping you small.

If connection costs you yourself,
it’s not connection.

Hyper or hypo — which one are you?

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+447591178509

Website

http://www.nervanasomatics.org/

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