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BACK TO CALM

Ways to Settle an Overwhelmed Nervous System

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FEELING FRAYED or FRAZZLED?  OR LOOKING TO DEVELOP A BIT MORE CHILL?

If your mind won’t slow down…
your body feels tense or restless…
or you just can’t seem to fully relax—

 

 This free resource will help you:

  • Learn 25 gentle ways to support an overwhelmed nervous system.
  • Discover the difference between top-down and bottom-up calming practices
  • Find supportive tools for different kinds of overwhelm.
  • Build a calmer, more compassionate response to stress.
  • Gain a sense of the main nervous systems states using an overview.

WONDERING WHAT’S INSIDE?

Inside this Free Guide:

  • 25 simple, effective practices to help you calm your nervous system.
  • A mix of body-based (bottom-up) and mind-based (top-down) tools.
  • Options you can use whether you feel anxious, overwhelmed, or shut down.
  • A one-page overview of the 6 core nervous system states to help you understand what’s happening in your brain and body.

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WONDERING IF THIS IS FOR YOU?

This Is For You If:

  • You feel overwhelmed and don’t know what will actually help.
  • You’ve tried to “calm down” but nothing sticks.
  • You want simple tools you can use in real life—not theory.
  • You want to better understand your nervous system without getting overwhelmed.

No pressure. No complexity.

You don’t have to do all 25.

Just find one or two that work for you—and start there.

Imagine having something to reach for…

Instead of pushing through
or trying to “figure it out” in the moment.

You’ll have simple, supportive tools ready when you need them.

Get the Guide.

It’s Free. It’s Instant Access. It’s a Downloadable Sent to Your Email So It’s Yours to Keep.

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A Peek Inside:

WANT A CLOSER LOOK?

The Practices were compiled through various trainings, while working to support healthcare staff, managers and executives as they weathered the prolonged stress throughout the COVID 19 pandemic and in counselling individuals with dysregulated nervous systems who are recovering from toxic stress, trauma or complex trauma. 

The 12 page Guide includes:

 

Some simple things to keep in mind. 

 

25 Practices for Finding Your Way to Calm.  Includes top down and bottom up practices. 

 

A 1 page overview of the Main Nervous System States.  If you want to better understand what’s happening in your brain and body. 

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Sample pages.

WHY THE NERVOUS SYSTEM MATTERS?

The Impact Of Our STATE

Most of us have some sense about stress, and how too much of it, for too long, can impact us negatively.

In reality, our nervous system STATE has a considerable and global impact on all aspects of our functioning. 

When we have too much stress in our system, it impacts our:

  • self-awareness
  • flexible thinking
  • problem solving
  • attention
  • memory
  • judgement
  • learning
  • growing through mistakes
  • creativity
  • empathy
  • compassion
  • perspective taking
  • communication
  • connection to others
  • moods
  • knowing own feelings and being able to move through them
  • coping
  • self-talk
  • locus on control
  • outlook on life
  • motivation
  • sense of empowerment
  • energy levels
  • sleep quality
  • body tension
  • digestion

The point is that being too stressed doesn’t feel good, and it impacts pretty much everything. These are good reasons we want to be able to bring ourselves back to CALM.  

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More Ways Back to CALM

 With 25 simple ways to help you calm your nervous system— you’ll have a toolkit of real options so you can feel more grounded, steady, and in control again. 

When we have a TOOLKIT of practices…

We can find practices that:

  • work well when we need them.
  • we actually like doing.

 

We can stack practices if we’re really stressed.

 

We can also use them to: 

  • increase our overall coping.
  • improve our interoception (internal awareness of  nervous system state). 
  • slowly recover a frayed nervous system.
  • increase our overall window of tolerance, so we can handle more stress before becoming stressed out. 

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WONDERING WHO DEVELOPED THE GUIDE?

About Carole:

I help people become better selves, create better lives and contribute to a better world. As part of this, I facilitate recovery from nervous system patterns such as being stuck in survival mode all the way to serious psychological injuries like complex trauma because these  compromise being our best and living well. I use various approaches coupled with simple, grounded practices to support nervous system awareness and recovery. Find out more about me here.

This guide is makes things more manageable, one practice at a time.