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Jennifer Mann, London (2025)

13/11/2025

Overthinking isn’t just a mental habit, it’s a physiological state. When your nervous system perceives threat, even if the threat is emotional or imagined, your brain becomes hyperactive. It loops through scenarios, searching for a way to feel safe. This is why overthinking feels compulsive, it’s your survival system trying to stay in control.

The Switching practice works because it bypasses thought and speaks directly to the body’s regulation system. By engaging muscles, joints, and spatial awareness, you shift energy from the cognitive parts of the brain into the sensory and motor regions. This physical feedback interrupts the neural loop that fuels overthinking and helps your brain register that the threat has passed.

When you press against a stable surface, your body receives clear, organized signals about position and strength, signals that contradict the chaos of anxious thinking. This sensory information travels up the vagus nerve and into the brainstem, helping your nervous system recalibrate. The result is a state of grounding and physiological safety.

The more consistently you practice, the faster your brain learns this new pathway out of spiraling thoughts.

If your mind tends to race or shut down under stress, this simple body-based tool can help you reconnect and reset.

If you want to go deeper with this kind of nervous system work, join us for HEAL Live this January 2026, a 12-week live coaching program with me and Karden designed to help you retrain your brain and body to end chronic symptoms, anxiety, and exhaustion for good.

💛 You’ll learn how to apply practices like this one to fully rewire your stress response and experience real, lasting calm and energy again.

DM me with any questions about HEAL Live or to see if it’s the right fit for you.

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12/11/2025

High achievement can look like discipline, but for many people it’s really survival.
When the body learns that safety comes from output and control, drive stops being a choice, it becomes protection. You keep going not because you’re inspired, but because slowing down feels dangerous.

At first, that stress chemistry, adrenaline and cortisol, feels like energy. It sharpens focus, fuels deadlines, and gives you a rush of capability. But stress energy was only meant for emergencies, not for everyday life. When it becomes your default fuel, your body pays the price.

True healing isn’t about abandoning ambition. It’s about changing the physiology behind it.
When the brain learns that stillness is safe, stress hormones drop, oxygen and nutrients flow normally again, and your cells start generating real energy instead of crisis fuel. Suddenly the things that used to deplete you start feeling possible again.

You don’t lose your edge when you heal, you gain endurance, clarity, and balance.
Your body was never the problem, it’s been waiting for you to lead it out of survival mode.

That’s exactly what we teach inside HEAL Live.

For the first time in two years, Karden and I are opening the doors for a new live cohort where we’ll personally guide you through the 12-week process of rewiring your nervous system, restoring your energy, and building a body that supports your drive instead of burning out from it. You’ll learn the exact tools we’ve used to help thousands of people recover from chronic fatigue, burnout, anxiety, and stress-related illness.

Early bird registration is now open, and spots are limited for this live round. If you’re ready to shift from running on adrenaline to creating sustainable energy from safety, comment EARLY below and we’ll send you all the details to join the next HEAL Live cohort.

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11/11/2025

High achievement often hides what’s really going on underneath, a nervous system that’s been running on overdrive for years. You may look strong, capable, and in control, but inside, your body has been working overtime to keep up with a pace that was never meant to be sustained long-term.

What feels like motivation is often your biology trying to protect you. The brain has learned that constant motion equals safety, so slowing down feels wrong, even dangerous. But when your body spends too long in that “always on” state, the chemistry that once gave you drive begins to drain you. You stop recovering between efforts, your focus becomes harder to maintain, and your energy feels flat, no matter how much you rest.

The real transformation begins when you stop using pressure as fuel. When your body learns that it can still be productive and safe at the same time, your energy becomes steady, clear, and reliable. You don’t lose your ambition, you finally get to experience it in a body that can support it.

If you’ve been pushing through exhaustion or feeling like your discipline has turned into depletion, this work is for you.

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10/11/2025

What starts as motivation and drive can easily become a survival strategy, a way to prove your worth, stay in control, or avoid discomfort. When your nervous system learns that achievement equals safety, you start running on stress hormones instead of balanced energy. Adrenaline and cortisol keep you sharp and focused, but they also suppress digestion, immunity, and repair. Long-term, the very system that helped you achieve begins to break down. Fatigue, pain, burnout, or chronic symptoms are signs that your body can no longer sustain the pace your mind demands.

Healing isn’t about giving up your ambition, it’s about teaching your body that it can rest and still be safe. When your nervous system learns to generate energy from calm rather than chaos, achievement becomes sustainable. You can still create, perform, and lead, but from regulation instead of survival.

Follow for more on rewiring the patterns that lead to chronic symptoms.

09/11/2025

In my "let them" era.
Let them judge you.
Let them misunderstand you.
Let them find “better.”
Let them gossip about you.
Let them lose you.
Let them.

I saw this by and I see talking about this everyday (loved her recent interview with on her pod!) it really strikes a chord for me because it embodies the freedom of releasing control over others' perceptions and actions. It’s a reminder that true peace comes from honoring your own journey, allowing others to be who they are, and focusing on your growth rather than external validation.

It speaks to self-trust—letting go of the need to explain, defend, or prove yourself. By embracing this idea, you create space for authentic relationships and meaningful connections while protecting your energy from the weight of unnecessary judgment.

It’s about choosing yourself, unapologetically, and letting others' opinions remain their own.

08/11/2025

For many high achievers, success has been powered by survival energy. Adrenaline and cortisol become the body’s main fuel source, keeping you alert, focused, and productive. On the surface, this looks like motivation and drive. But biologically, it’s the stress response, your nervous system mobilizing energy for perceived threat, not sustainable action.

When the stress response never turns off, your system begins to burn through reserves meant for repair and restoration. What once felt like unstoppable drive becomes exhaustion, brain fog, or chronic illness. The same energy that built your success begins to deplete you.

Healing doesn’t mean losing your ambition. It means learning how to generate energy from safety instead of survival. When your nervous system feels safe, your brain shifts from short-term protection to long-term regulation. The body begins producing energy through the parasympathetic system, where digestion, repair, and cellular renewal happen. Your energy becomes steady, creative, and self-sustaining rather than reactive and draining.

This shift is physiological, not motivational. Through nervous system retraining, somatic work, and polyvagal-based practices, you teach your body to access calm, connected states even while being productive. You can still lead, create, and achieve, but your fuel source changes from cortisol to stability, from pressure to presence.

Healing doesn’t ask you to do less, it asks you to do it differently. To build a life your body can support, not just survive.

Follow for more science-based tools to help you retrain your nervous system, restore natural energy production, and achieve from a place of safety, not survival.

07/11/2025

For many high achievers (me included), the hardest part of healing isn’t the symptoms, it’s learning how to stop without feeling like you’re falling behind.

When your nervous system has been wired to equate worth with output, stillness feels unsafe. You’ve spent years perfecting how to push through anything, fatigue, pain, stress, and your body has adapted by running on adrenaline instead of balance. But that same drive that built your success is also what exhausted your system.

You don’t need to give up ambition to heal. You just need to learn a new rhythm, one where effort and recovery coexist. When your nervous system learns safety in rest, your energy becomes sustainable. You can still achieve incredible things, but now your body supports you instead of protecting you from yourself.

This is what true resilience looks like, not pushing harder, but knowing when to pause.
Not losing your edge, but grounding it in safety.

You were never meant to sacrifice your health for your goals. You were meant to build a life your body can keep up with.

Follow for science-based tools to help you rewire your nervous system, heal fatigue and chronic symptoms, and achieve from a place of calm, sustainable energy.

06/11/2025

If you can’t sit still or relax without feeling guilty, it’s not because you lack discipline or can’t slow down. It’s because your nervous system has learned that stillness equals danger.

For so many of us (me included), this conditioning begins in childhood. If moments of rest were met with criticism, chaos, or disapproval, your body learned that safety existed only in movement, effort, and doing. Your brain began to associate stillness with risk(risk of rejection, conflict, or loss of control). So even now, as an adult, when you finally stop, your nervous system panics. It floods you with restlessness, anxiety, or guilt, urging you to get up, fix something, or stay busy.

This isn’t a personality flaw, it’s a physiological pattern. Your sympathetic nervous system, the part responsible for action and mobilization, has become dominant, while your parasympathetic system, responsible for rest and repair, struggles to engage. The result is a body that never feels safe enough to slow down.

Healing this pattern starts with helping your body relearn that stillness can be safe. Through brain retraining, somatic experiencing, polyvagal work and inner child work you can begin to teach your system that rest isn’t a threat, it’s recovery.

When your body finally trusts that safety exists even in stillness, the need to constantly prove, move, or achieve softens. Your body no longer forces you to run from rest, it begins to rest on its own.

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05/11/2025

We are thrilled to share that The Secret Language of the Body is now available in German, published by Kösel Verlag!

This book began as a way to bridge the gap between the language of the mind and the language of the body, to help people understand that symptoms aren’t random, and that what we feel physically is a direct reflection of our nervous system’s state. To see that message now reaching readers in another language, through such an incredible publisher, is deeply meaningful.

For years, we have watched people’s lives transform when they finally understand that their symptoms are not their enemy, they’re communication. They’re the body’s way of saying, “something here needs safety, attention, and change.” To know that this understanding will now reach people across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland is both humbling and exciting.

A huge thank you to for believing in this work and for translating it with such care and precision. You’ve helped make this message accessible to thousands more people who are searching for a different way to understand health, healing, and the human experience.

To everyone who has read, shared, and lived this work, thank you for being part of this movement toward nervous system literacy and embodied healing.

Die geheime Sprache unseres Körpers is now available wherever books are sold in Germany.

PS - Our book has also been translated into Dutch, Czech and Spanish, and will be coming soon in Arabic, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Estonian and Romanian!

05/11/2025

Sound is one of the most direct ways to activate the vagus nerve, the pathway that links your brain to your organs and helps regulate your emotional and physiological state. When you use your voice intentionally through humming, chanting, or making vowel sounds, you send rhythmic, soothing signals that tell your body it’s safe to come out of protection and back into connection.

Adding gentle touch, like tapping or placing a hand on your chest, amplifies that effect. It engages the body’s sensory system, grounding you in the present moment while calming the stress response. Over time, this simple pairing of sound and touch helps retrain your nervous system to recognize safety more quickly and release the tension it’s been holding.

Your body knows how to find its way back to balance. You just have to give it the chance.

Let me know how this felt for you!

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04/11/2025

Pain isn’t just a signal from your body, it’s a protective output from your brain. When you experience an injury, the brain uses pain to warn you and change your behavior. It’s designed to keep you from making things worse while your body heals. But sometimes, after the injury has resolved, the brain continues to perceive danger. It keeps those pain pathways active, even though the tissue is no longer damaged.

This happens because pain is a learned pattern, an association between movement and threat. The more your brain believes that moving might cause harm, the more it amplifies pain to protect you. Over time, pain becomes less about what’s happening in the body and more about what the brain expects.

Healing chronic pain asks us to retrain the brain to update its understanding of safety. Through gentle, graded movement and brain retraining, you can teach your brain that activity no longer equals danger. As this new information integrates, the brain begins to deactivate old pain pathways and restore normal movement patterns.

This is neuroplasticity in action, the brain’s ability to rewire itself.

Real relief doesn’t come from suppressing symptoms. It comes from communication between your body and brain being restored.

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03/11/2025

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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a protective mechanism that has gone too far. Your body is trying to protect you from years of stress and overactivation. The real issue isn’t the amount of energy you have, but the fact that your brain and body have learned to restrict it in an effort to keep you safe.

This is why supplements, diets, and rest alone often don’t work. They address the body’s surface symptoms, but not the underlying cause, the brain’s perception of threat. Until your nervous system learns that it’s safe to produce and use energy again, your body will continue to operate in energy conservation mode.

Using a combination of brain retraining, somatic work, inner child work and parts work, HEAL helps you interrupt the protective loops that keep your system stuck in defense. You’ll learn how to calm the signals of danger, rewire the brain’s stress pathways, and help your body shift back into repair, regeneration, and energy production.

When your nervous system feels safe again, your cells begin to release the energy they’ve been holding back.

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