Chronic Stress and Your Body: What's Actually Happening
Chronic stress is a physiological state that affects your hormones, digestion, immune function, sleep, and fertility. Here's what's actually happening in your body.
The Vagus Nerve: Why It Matters for Your Health
The vagus nerve is the main communication line between your brain and your body. When it functions well, you can digest, rest, and recover. When it doesn't, everything suffers.
How to Regulate Your Nervous System: A Beginner's Guide
If you've realized your nervous system is dysregulated, the next question is: what do you actually do about it? The internet is full of vagus nerve hacks, but most are missing the bigger picture. Here's where to actually start.
Somatic Healing: What It Is and How It Works
Somatic healing works with the body directly, helping resolve patterns that talk therapy and thinking alone can't shift. Here's what it is and how it actually works.
Burnout and Your Nervous System: The Road Back to Yourself
Burnout isn't just being tired. It's a bone-deep exhaustion that doesn't lift no matter how much you rest. If you're also in perimenopause, these symptoms overlap and amplify each other. Recovery requires addressing your nervous system, not just your hormones.
Trauma and the Body: How Unresolved Stress Affects Your Health
Many people carry unresolved stress in their bodies without realizing it. They come to us with physical symptoms that don’t have clear medical explanations: chronic pain, digestive issues, hormonal imbalances, difficulty conceiving. They’ve had tests, everything comes back normal, but they don’t feel normal. Often, the missing piece is the nervous system, and often, the nervous system is holding something it hasn’t been able to let go of.
Co-Regulation: Why We Heal in Connection
Co-regulation is the process of one nervous system helping another find calm. It explains why isolation makes stress worse and why healing often happens in relationships.
Reproductive Trauma: What It Is and How It Affects Your Body
When reproductive experiences are painful, frightening, or marked by loss, it can be hard to name what you’re carrying. You might not think of it as trauma, might think you should be over it by now. But your body knows, and your body is keeping score. What makes something traumatic isn’t the event itself, but how your nervous system responded and whether it was able to recover.
Sleep and Your Nervous System: Why Rest Is the Foundation
You've tried the apps, the supplements, the bedtime routines, and still, sleep eludes you. If this sounds familiar, your sleep problem may actually be a nervous system problem. Until you address that, no amount of sleep hygiene will fix it.
Fight, Flight, Freeze: What's Happening in Your Body
Fight, flight, and freeze are your body's survival responses. Learning to recognize what each feels like in your body is the first step toward regulating your nervous system.