Nervous System Healing
A polyvagal and somatic approach to restoring balance.
Your nervous system shapes how you think, feel and respond to the world. When it is calm and regulated, life feels steady, grounded and manageable. When it is dysregulated, everything can feel harder than it should.
Somatic therapy and polyvagal-informed support help you reconnect with your body’s innate wisdom, release stored stress, and feel safe within yourself again.
What is Polyvagal Therapy?
Your mind and body are deeply connected through the vagus nerve, a major part of your parasympathetic nervous system. When this system is functioning well, we are in what is often called the rest and digest state. We feel calm, relaxed and safe. Our digestion, mood, hormones and immune system function as they should.
However, in modern life it is common to get stuck in fight or flight, constantly firing stress hormones even when we are not in danger. Over time this can lead to chronic stress, anxiety, burnout and a range of physical symptoms.
Polyvagal therapy helps you:
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Understand where your nervous system is sitting
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Identify the stressors or traumas that led you there
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Use gentle tools to shift back into safety and regulation
As vagal tone improves, your body becomes better able to handle stress and return to balance.
How the Nervous System Affects Health
The nervous system influences every aspect of our physical and emotional wellbeing.
Many modern health issues are not just psychological or physical. They are nervous system issues. When the body remains in survival mode for too long, stress becomes chronic and can contribute to:
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Hormonal imbalance
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Digestive challenges
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Anxiety and low mood
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Fatigue and burnout
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Immune issues
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Sleep disruption
Traditional healthcare tends to separate mind and body. Polyvagal and somatic approaches bring them back together so that healing becomes more complete, sustainable and empowering.
How Somatic Therapy Helps
Somatic therapy works from the inside out. It prioritises the body’s role in holding stress and trauma, and teaches it how to discharge, soften and feel safe again.
It can help you:
✔ Release stored tension
✔ Calm your stress response
✔ Feel more present in your body
✔ Rebalance the mind–body connection
✔ Build resilience and emotional safety
Each session is tailored to what your body is ready for. There is no “right” or “wrong” way to do this work. You are guided, gently, back into yourself.
What Inner Work Really Looks Like
Inner work is not about fixing yourself. It is learning to stay present with what is real.
It might look like:
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Noticing a familiar pattern and choosing differently
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Allowing yourself to feel instead of pushing it away
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Saying “I need a break” before you reach breaking point
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Naming your truth without judgement
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Taking one small step toward who you want to become
This is the slow and powerful work of returning to yourself.
It is personal. It is relational. It is transformative.