Nervana

01/06/2026

The "witch wound" has nothing to do with witches at all and everything to do with body memory.
It’s the fear in your body when you speak the truth.
The instinct to shrink when you’re seen.
The nervous system response of someone who learned that visibility wasn’t safe.
In Salem Witch Trials: Part 3, we explore how women who named corruption, held intuition, and disrupted power were punished and how that trauma still lives in us today.
Salem didn’t end the witch hunt.
It just taught us to silence ourselves.
🎙️ Part 3 now live. 🔥
https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/krTPwKcjIZb

01/05/2026

Something I am not afraid to say as a Somatic & Nervous System Practitioner: You likely don’t have an anxiety disorder.
It's an unhealthy relationship with anger.
Women especially, accounting for over 85% of the autoimmune population. (Because patriarchy taught us that women are supposed to be the soft, submissive and obedient)...
What happens when righteous anger(injustice, severe boundry violation or harm) has nowhere to go?

Here’s how repressed anger lives in the body:
1. Anxiety attacks are trapped fight energy
Panic is your nervous system preparing to defend, while your mind says, “Don’t.”
Heart racing. Chest tight. Shaking. Nausea.
That’s anger with no permission to move.
2. Chronic muscle tension you can’t relax:
Jaw clenching. Fists tight. Pelvic gripping. Shoulders up by your ears.
Your body is literally bracing for impact because you never let yourself push back.
3. Gut issues, nausea, or IBS flares
The gut is deeply tied to anger and boundaries.
When you swallow your “no,” your stomach holds it instead.
4. Throat symptoms and a tight chest
Lump in the throat. Shortness of breath. Pressure in the chest.
That’s unspoken truth meeting fear of conflict.
5. Sudden panic after being too calm for too long.
People who repress anger don’t feel angry often.
They feel anxious, overwhelmed, dizzy, dissociated, until the body forces a release.
Here’s the part we’ve pathologized:
Anxiety are suppressed self-protection, not always fear.
Anger is not dangerous. You were just shown unhealthy anger/conflict/unsafe behaviors from caregivers as a child.
What’s dangerous is never letting yourself feel it.
Healthy anger: creates boundaries, mobilizes action, restores, self-respect, discharges from the body when expressed safely
Repressed anger: turns into anxiety, turns into chronic pain,
turns into autoimmunity, pelvic pain, migraines, and burnout..the list goes on.
Anger is a biological ally.
When you listen to it, the body calms down.

01/04/2026

Be sure to sign up for sound this Friday at 7pm.
✨New: Moon salutations yoga 6pm.
Each class is $20 individually, or $30 for both! 🌙 http://findingnervana.com to sign up!

01/02/2026

01/01/2026

Happy New Year! Lots of upcoming events happening to kick off 2026:
Jan 3rd: Om Yoga Studio hosts annual yogaversary, 8-1pm. Free classes, vendors, speakers and more!
Jan 9th: Bi- weekly sound bath, and NEW- Lunar yoga directly before at 6pm! Come for either, or both!
Also: Sign up for Level 1 Sound Healing is live! Feb 6th-8th.
If you are new to sound or a wellness practitioner, this class is a great opportunity for you to learn the basic fundamentals of sound and vibrational frequency.
Stay tuned for more offerings and pop ups!

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12/30/2025

Parents: this matters more than we realize.

Social rejection, exclusion, and emotional invalidation doesn’t only cause “hurt feelings.”
I work with many teens and see it often.
The juvinile heirarchy can be brutal.
Rejection/exiling activates the same pain circuits in the brain as physical injury.
When a child is ignored, shamed, frozen out, bullied by peers or cast out, the nervous system doesn’t interpret that as a lesson.
It interprets it as danger.
Children don’t have the language yet to say:
“I feel unsafe in my body.”
So instead, their bodies speak for them.
Through:
• stomachaches
• headaches
• anxiety
• shutdown
• anger
• withdrawal
Or numbing behaviors(addiction, gaming, self harm…etc)
These are protective responses.
We are too quick to ask,
“What’s wrong with this child?”
Instead of asking,
“What is this child responding to?”
Not every emotional reaction needs a diagnosis.
Not every nervous system response is a disorder.
Sometimes it’s just a child learning, for the first time,
that emotions can hurt too.
Here’s the call to action:
🖤 Teach children that emotional pain is real
🖤 Help them name emotions without shaming them
🖤 Normalize nervous system responses before pathologizing them
🖤 Create safety before correction
🖤 Stay connected especially when emotions are big
When children feel safe expressing emotions,
their bodies don’t have to scream for help later.
This is how we prevent chronic pain.
This is how we prevent lifelong anxiety.
This is how we raise emotionally resilient humans.
Not by toughening them up.
But by teaching them how to feel, safely.
— Nervana
Link to study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3076808/lnzg em

12/29/2025

People are becoming starved for what is real.
We are living in an age of hyper-simulation where images are curated, emotions are performative, relationships are transactional, and even creativity is increasingly automated. Everything is optimized, branded, monetized, and replicated until meaning itself begins to feel diluted. The nervous system was never designed to metabolize this level of artificiality.
So people scroll. Consume. Chase dopamine. Attach to chaos. Numb out. Lash out. Burn out.
And this is largely because we have such a disconnect with our ROOT. Our culture is obsessed with chasing higher consciousness and spirituality, but you become like a kite without a string if you are not grounded in your human skin.
What you are witnessing as anxiety, dissociation, addiction, rage, or despair is the psyche’s desperate attempt to feel something authentic in a world that feels increasingly hollow and unreal.
When the external world becomes incoherent, the body loses its sense of orientation. When nothing feels stable, the mind fragments. And when the nervous system cannot find safety, it will seek intensity instead.
This is why grounding is no longer optional.
It is existentially necessary.
To ground into your root is to return to what is ancient, embodied, and non-negotiably real. It is to anchor yourself in the body when the collective psyche feels unmoored.
Actionable ways to ground:
• Get out of abstraction and into sensation. Touch Mother Earth. Walk barefoot. Feel temperature. Smell something strong. The body remembers reality when the mind cannot.
• Regulate before you intellectualize. Slow your breathing. Lengthen the exhale. Let your nervous system settle before you try to “figure anything out.”
• Consume less. Create more. Even if what you create is messy, private, or unseen. Creation reconnects you to agency and aliveness.
• Reduce synthetic input. Less screens. Less noise. Less outrage. Your psyche needs spaciousness to reorganize.
• Strengthen your root. Nourish yourself with real food. Rest deeply. Move your body with intention. Stability in the physical realm creates safety in the psychological one.
• Tell the truth, especially to yourself. Authenticity is grounding. Performative living is destabilizing.
The world may feel like it’s unraveling, but you do not have to unravel with it.
Grounding is how you stay sane in an insane system.
Embodiment is how you remain human in an increasingly artificial age.
And returning to your root is how you remember who you are when everything else feels false.
This work matters now more than ever.

12/27/2025

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12/23/2025

Pelvic pain is one of the most misunderstood forms of chronic pain. It is the reality of many women, but also men.
So let's unpack this...
Interstitial cystitis.
Vulvodynia.
Chronic yeast or bacterial infections.
IBS-like symptoms.
Pain with s*x.
Frequent urination.
Pudendal neuralgia.
The list goes on.
In many cases, chronic pelvic issues are not the result of a “broken” body, but a vigilant nervous system.
When the brain perceives danger (real or remembered), it sends signals down the spinal cord to the pelvic floor to stay on guard. Muscles tighten. Blood flow changes. Nerves become sensitized. Pain becomes real.
And here’s where it often becomes chronic:
Someone goes to the doctor.
They’re given a diagnosis or a label.
They’re told something is “wrong” with their pelvic floor.
Even when nothing structurally dangerous is happening, the diagnosis itself can reinforce the danger signal, over and over again.
The brain hears: This is serious. This is fragile. This might not go away.
The body responds: Stay tense. Stay alert. Stay protected.
Fear of the pain…
Fear that it won’t resolve…
Hyper-focus on symptoms…
These are powerful drivers of persistent tension and pain, especially in such a sensitive, intimate area of the body.
So what kinds of stress and tension can contribute?
For some, it may be:
• Sexual assault or boundary violations
• Relationship trauma
• Chronic anxiety or hyper-vigilance
• Suppressed anger or grief
• An inability to let go of the past
• Feeling unsafe being fully s*xually expressive
• Living in fight-or-flight for too long
Short-term, tension is the body doing its job—preparing for threat.
Long-term, that same response can become stuck.
Your pelvic floor muscles are responding to signals from your nervous system, signals shaped by fear, stress, memory, and emotion.
Healing begins not with more force, fixing, or fear…
…but with safety.
Safety in the body.
Safety in the nervous system.
Safety to relax, soften, and let go.
Nothing about this means your pain isn’t real.
It means your body has been trying to protect you.
And it can learn that it’s safe again.

12/22/2025

We’ve quietly evolved from “take a pill” society into “take this supplement” society.
The fact is that vitamins can be wonderful.
They are incredibly supportive when there is a true depletion.
But here’s the question we rarely ask:
Why are you depleted in the first place?
Adrenals don’t just “fatigue”.
Your fertility issues didn't happen just because.
You're not in pain, or having skin issues, or gut issues, or hormonal issues, or sleep problems or whatever else is the chronic issue, simply because of bad luck.
Nervous systems don’t dysregulate out of nowhere.
Bodies don’t burn through minerals, B-vitamins, and magnesium as a result of a quick metabolism.
Often, they’re responding to chronic stress, unresolved emotional load, people-pleasing, hyper-vigilance, unprocessed grief, trauma, or a life lived in constant override.
Supplements CAN help.
But if you’ve ever taken them, felt better for a short time, and then slid right back to where you were… we need to go deeper.
It’s the body saying:
“Thank you for the support… but the root cause is still running the show.”
When the psyche is under siege, the body will continue to manifest the message.
This isn’t anti-medicine.
This isn’t anti-supplement.
This is pro-curiosity.
Pro-root cause.
Pro-listening instead of silencing.
Healing is about asking what needs to be seen, felt, processed, or changed.
The body is not broken.
It’s communicating.
Are you listening?

12/21/2025

I’ve witnessed soul crushing pain. I’ve bled out in the same pain…held others while they did.
Pain is my job. I’ve studied it inside and out with some of the best doctors there are on the topic.
It is a danger signal, not a judgment, not a curse. It says: “Notice me. Listen. Pay attention.”
But pain only becomes trauma, suffering, or obsession when we assign it meaning that doesn’t serve us.
When we label it unfair, permanent, shameful, or hopeless, we carry it like a weight that crushes our spirit.
The truth: pain is neutral.
Its power comes from the story we give it.
Assign it wisdom, growth, insight, or release, and it becomes medicine instead of a prison.
The alchemy of pain is not in avoiding it, it’s in transforming it.
Notice it. Feel it. Hear it. And then decide: what will this pain teach me?
Because once meaning is assigned consciously, pain stops being a threat and starts being a guide.